The Legacy of Namikaze Uzumaki
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Summary: Naruto at the age of 8 discovers the Hirashin. How would this impact his life? Follow Naruto through his love, burden, and future as he climbs the steps towards the seat of Hokage. NarutoxTenten.
Konohagakure No Sato, or the Village Hidden Among Tree Leaves. A village of vast power, grace, wealth and prosperity. Even the trees around this village was more beautiful than any other trees in the world. One word can only describe this village... BULLSHIT. The community in Konohagakure sucks, the majority of the population treats their hero as garbage. Which is to say, very sad. The only merits that this village has to even boast about is their shinobi and kunoichi. Everything else can just go out the window. Of course, if someone looks from OUTSIDE, this village seems good. Graceful. Prospering nicely. Whatever.
Kyuubi No Kitsune, or the Nine-tailed Demon Fox. In ancient legend, this powerful demon protected the Lands of Fire but as time and time goes by, the legend of this guardian has been merely reduced to whispers among the winds with barely much people knowing about this beast. However, on October 10, XXX, this beast is in an outrage and no one knows why. The target of this beast is Konohagakure. The Yondaime Hokage did the most INTELLIGENT thing and instead of KILLING the fox, he sealed the fox in a tiny, crying, annoying, naked baby.
Iruka: You're kidding right?
Hiruzen: Eh, that's just the way we do things around here. Sealing giant demons into little children and screwing up their childhood.
Konoha was just recovering from the war against Iwagakure and news of the greatest demon alive ever in history attacking this village isn't helping much. Namikaze Minato everyday spends all his time researching on a way to stop this beast. He found only one way and that is to seal this beast into a living vessel. However, to do so, he would need to use Kami Fuujin Jutsu, or God Sealing Technique, and this skill would require the life of the user so this would be useless seeing as it would be meaningless to seal away the beast just to have it come back out a few seconds later. Minato plunged further into the studies and found another way out. By using a special seal, he would be able to use Kami Fuujin Jutsu while sealing the demon into another body.
Minato now is stuck. He does not know what to do since he would require a newborn that was born within this year and he couldn't possibly ask another villager's child to bear this heavy burden. Just as he was thinking about what to do, a ANBU appeared and informed the Hokage that his wife is in labor. He quickly dashed to the hospital, entered the emergency room and knelt by his wife's side. Uzumaki Kushina was in bad condition, she was already under heavy stress during the Iwa war and now with Kyuubi's great killing intent, she couldn't handle the stress anymore. But for the sake of her son, she will persevere.
What seems to be an eternity later, Naruto was born. Currently Kushina was breast feeding her son while listening to what Minato has found. She had a bad feeling about it and was true when she heard of what it was. But she knew there was no choice. It was either to place a burden upon their child or someone else or have the village wiped off the map. Kushina looked at her husband in the eyes and the message was sent. Minato nodded and picked up Naruto with a solemn look on his face. He kissed his wife good-bye and said, "See you later Kushina-chan." And off Minato went to do what he set out to do.
On Gamabunta's head, he called out for his last and only pupil, Hatake Kakashi who jumped next to Minato with the Sharingan active, clearly tired. "Kakashi, Kushina and I have predicted that the village will not be taking the news about Naruto lightly. Kakashi, look after Naruto for me when time arises." Kakashi nodded and looked at the baby in his sensei's hand. "Another thing Kakashi, in ancient legends it says that the Kyuubi No Kitsune is the guardian of the Lands of Fire. And no, I don't know why the Kyuubi is attacking us, hopefully with time, light would shed upon this mystery. Kakashi, I'm counting on you." And with that being said, the Yondaime Hokage would perform his final duty as Hokage. Kakashi jumped off to a nearby tree.
Kami Fuujin Jutsu! The shinigami appeared behind Minato, cringing at the sight of the the death god, Minato went ahead and drew the seal needed that would seal the Kyuubi in his son. 'Naruto, I'm sorry. Please know that your mother and I love you. I hope you'll become a successful person. Good bye my son.' With that, Minato charged in and a bright light flashed.
Sarutobi Hiruzen is having a huge headache. The village had not taken idea of Naruto being the hero well. They were too blinded and deaf to listen to anything, as Hiruzen told the village about Naruto being the container, most if not almost everyone of the village bended what Hiruzen said. Instead of being the Kyuubi's container, they saw Naruto as the Kyuubi incarnate and demanded his death for revenge. The villagers tried storming the Hokage tower to reach the baby as the other shinobi and kunoichi doing the same thing only to be stopped by the ANBU forces. The ANBU were eternally loyal to the Hokage and they were not as blind as the others were. The saw Naruto for who he is and decided to protect the legacy of their Yondaime Hokage.
Hiruzen debated on telling the people the heritage of Uzumaki Naruto but that would only accomplish the death of Naruto faster. Konoha is in shambles, the only thing that's keeping it safe is Jiraiya who is working behind the front lines and the ANBU with him working to halt any skirmishes from other countries not allied with Konoha. The council too was in shambles, 8/11 wanted to kill Naruto as they were blind as well. 1/11 wanted to train Naruto as a human weapon he should be. Only two of them saw Naruto for who he is and they were of the Nara clan and the Hyuga clan, surprisingly.
Due to the power presented by the Sandaime Hokage and the two clans, the council could only compromise with them and that was; Naruto will be sent to the orphanage. No major clans can adopt the child and he will be inspected monthly to make sure that the seal made by the Yondaime is securing the demon within the child. Although it is saddening to those in support of Naruto they cannot adopt the child, at least the monthly inspection would insure the safety and health of the boy.
Thankfully, Hiruzen would be able to watch over the boy until he was 3-years-old in which would be the time when he would have to go to the orphanage. He hoped nothing would go wrong with this.
Nine years later...
Uzumaki Naruto was a secret training ground of his. He was reading books about chakra to learn how to use a technique he found not too long ago, during his birthday.
Naruto learned in the past few years was to never ever stay anywhere near in public sight during his birthday and on his eight birthday, he chose to stay on top of the Hokage Mountain, sitting on top of his idol, the Yondaime Hokage. He read books about the history of Hokages but for some reason, the Yondaime Hokage made Naruto very excited. The youngest and probably the strongest Hokage to date in the Lands of Fire and Naruto wanted to be like him. Not only that, he would also gain respect since most of the village if not all were very mean to him and he doesn't know why. He figured if he could become as great as oji-san (Hiruzen), he would be able to stop those cold glares and all.
When the day was almost over at his eight birthday, he was about to head down when he saw two shinobi standing there right behind him with killing intent. Naruto got scared and slipped down the Yondaime's head and fell and he desperately flailed his arms in hopes of grabbing something and he did. His hand caught a lever and opened a secret compartment in the Yondaime's forehead where Naruto fell in and the door closed behind him. Candles lit up when the door closed showing Naruto he was in a small chamber with tons of notes scattered around. On the table, which was the only part that was neat, he saw an intriguing kunai along with some notes next to it.
The kunai was a three-pronged kunai and Naruto was very interested in it. So he read the notes next to the kunai and from what he made out was that this kunai allows the user to summon himself to where the kunai is but in order to use it, he would need a blood seal. He had no idea what a blood seal was but he figured it had to do something with blood so he used the kunai to prick his finger. The kunai in response to Naruto's blood which had the blood of the Namikaze flowing within responded to Naruto, glowed a bit and went back to normal. Naruto read the name of the jutsu used along with this kunai, Hirashin No Jutsu, Flying Thunder God Technique.
So here Naruto is, reading up on chakra. Apparently he has to feel a connection with the kunai like having a thread of chakra connected to it but every time he throws it more than ten feet away, he loses the connection to the kunai, which was better than when he first started out which was only five feet. Naruto noticed the sun was setting and decided to go back home. He learned that he also shouldn't stay out too late lest there be mobs chasing him again. Of course, most of the time when that happens, either a ANBU with a dog mask appears to save him or it was the Hokage himself. He was very grateful of his two saviors.
When Naruto was six, he left the orphanage and pleaded the Hiruzen for an apartment. He said that the orphanage sucked since no one wanted to play with him and the food sucked. Hiruzen had an inkling that the caretaker wasn't giving Naruto exactly what he should be getting so Hiruzen agreed to Naruto's request. He sends monthly stipends of ryo so that Naruto can pay for his lunch and necessities. Naruto's apartment unit was specially reinforced by the courtesy of Hiruzen; the windows were steel grated which could be opened only from the inside. The door was enhanced with ninjutsu and genjutsu, anyone who tries to break in would have to push a door that feels like a ton and when they do open the door w/o using a specially made key, they would get blasted by a giant fireball. Also the door to the balcony had the same effects so Naruto was 100% safe in his apartment unit. It would take a unit of ANBU to break through this fort.
Naruto ate his dinner of ramen and fish (gotta eat healthy ya know?) and went back to studying. Naruto was already beginning to train himself with tree walking and it proved helpful. He read a bit more and went to sleep, he had classes tomorrow and he can't bear to be late. He loved the academy to a certain extent. It was fun sometimes whereas other times, he'd fall asleep like a certain lazy Nara in there. He vowed he would master the Hirashin no Jutsu so he would be one step closer to the title of Hokage. After all, having the Hirashin would prove he's as good as the Yondaime to an extent. Smiling, Naruto let the darkness take him to slumber.
legojoe: Well... the first chapter is done... Can't believe I had to type this up FOUR times because of some stupid circumstances. And had to revise it two times because of conflicting ideas and events and plans. Whatever. Read and review...
Naruto: Will I become very over-powered in the future? I mean the Hirashin is like a S-Rank jutsu you know.
legojoe: Don't worry, I'll make sure you won't be. Because Hiruzen will ban you from using it in the future. Bwahahaha. Of course, there will be circumstances. ;)
Tenten: What about me? -3-
legojoe: You will... most likely be over-powered. After all, the Hokage's wife gotta be strong eh? xD
Naruto & Tenten blushes. (=-w-=)
Sakura: What about me?
legojoe: You're useless. You suck. You have no skills whatsoever. GET OUTTA HERE!
Sakure: Awww. ._.
