The Iron Puppeteer

Chapter 0: Prologue

Hey guys and girls, This is my first fic so don't judge me too harshly, also criticism is both welcome and wanted. However flaming, for the purpose of flaming is not, also most of the jutsu will be in English so please don't whinge about that. This is a Puppeteer! and Iron Sand! Naruto fic. Only Naruto will be different and the intro to the story line, I will keep most of the missions the same. Please R&R

(Kyuubi Attack- Hokage Mansion)

"It's a boy" a nurse said as she passed the newborn baby onto Minato, as he looked at the child its dark red hair slowly turned to black with red streaks, Minato looked on in shock as its amber eyes locked onto his and the baby giggled "Kushina, what's going on, I don't understand, he looks nothing like us." Kushina looked up weakly as blood trickled out of her mouth "I haven't told you everything Minato, speak to Sarutobi he can tell you what you need to know, I don't have much longer but I want you to know that I love you and I want you to name the boy Kirai (Hate), he should not be named Naruto, I hate him with every part of my body." Suddenly a man in a black cloak and a spiral mask with three tomoe holes in it appeared and grabbed the red-haired Jinchūriki before Minato could react and disappeared similarly to the way he had appeared. Minato quickly Hiraishined to Kushina after placing the baby on the bed, he arrived at the unsealing of the Kyuubi only to be hit by a wave of killer intent as the Kyuubi roared at its release from the seal. Minato dropped to his knees as Kushina's now lifeless body dropped to the floor. "No, I failed her, the village and myself" he whispered to himself as a three tomoe'd sharingan appeared in the eyes of the Kyuubi.

The Kyuubi began its walk towards Konoha, its nine tails swinging majestically behind it. The Yondaime staggered in shock towards Kushina as Sarutobi appeared on the scene "Minato, what happened? Is the baby okay?" he asked before noticing Kushina's body "oh Kami, no, Minato snap out of it you need to protect the village and seal the Kyuubi again, you are the only one who is good enough to do it." Seeing no response to his words he quickly organised the ANBU squad to get the village into a defensive state as he ran towards the Hokage Mansion and the newborn baby. As he arrived at the Mansion the entire ground shook with the force of the Kyuubi's attack, the ex-Hokage hurried to the baby's room and saw the child and knew straight away that it wasn't Minato's, if the black hair was anything to go by. He cursed as he realised what this meant, without wasting any time he grabbed the child and Shunshined to Minato only to find an altar with seals painted on it, 'surely he isn't going to seal it into the child… but he is the Hokage and I am but an old shinobi' he placed the baby on the altar and rushed to the location of most of the explosions, no doubt that was where both the Kyuubi and the Hokage were located.

Forest (1 kilometre from Konoha)

"Dammit"

"How can we defeat this thing?"

"We're all going to die"

"Yondaime, the Hokage has arrived!"

A chorus of cheers followed the arrival of the Hokage and the chief toad, Gamabunta, accompanied by the trademark puff of smoke. "Ah, Minato, it's good to see you, what is the cause the summons?" Gamabunta enquired, as Minato stared at the fox and the figure on top of it, he replied in a blank voice, "I need you to hold down the Kyuubi while I seal it into the child". Gamabunta sighed as he jumped towards the Kyuubi "as you wish summoner". For the first time in their life the summoner and their familiar were out of synchronicity as two voices yelled out "Lightning Style: Lightning Arc Annihilation" "Toad Style: Toad Oil Bullet". As the two jutsu collided they wiped each other out mid-air, Minato cursed and said "just hold it down while I seal it, chief". As they ran towards the Kyuubi, Minato started a hand seal sequence, as he finished he shouted out, "Dead Demon Summoning: Death Reaper Seal", as the jutsu ended the battlefield chilled as a unearthly presence fell over the battlefield, "Why have you summoned me mortal?" the Shinigami asked, Minato replied with "I wish to seal the Kyuubi into the child to save the village", "The price is your soul, do you still wish to proceed?", Minato nodded and the Shinigami ripped the Kyuubi's soul out and held its hands inside of Minato's stomach, "Carry on mortal, time is wasting" as the god of death finished speaking the Hokage started the sealing, one minute later he yelled out, "Eight Trigrams Four Element Sealing Technique, Seal", and pressed his hands onto the child's stomach. As he died he realised that he sealed the entire Kyuubi into the child and that it couldn't possibly control and hold back the demon, while this was happening the baby started screaming as the chakra forced its way into his chakra coils and modified them as much as possible, after a few minutes the boy stopped screaming as he fell unconscious due to the extreme pressure placed on his body.

Magical Ninja Time Skip-(Three Days)

Hokage's Office

'So, I'm back to this abysmal job once again, why me Minato, oh kami here's the paperwork, need to hide, need to hide!' were the thoughts of the newly reinstated Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, as the door opened. Only to reveal a nurse coming in with a small bundle, "Oh hello Nina, has he woken up?" Sarutobi asked, "Yes Hokage-Sama, just a few minutes ago, in fact", the nurse replied. "Good, good just place him in the cot would you, thank you Nina" he said as she complied with his wish. As she left he strode over to where the baby lay, he observed several things at first glance, first was the babies sharp eyes with bright amber irises seemingly studying him, second the untamed red-streaked black hair that was still only very thin and thirdly the seal on his stomach that appeared at odd intervals, seemingly whenever the baby was sad or unhappy. As he left the baby he called out to the ANBU in his office "Neko-chan, go to the orphanage and tell them they have a new charge to take care of, bring the headmistress here if you could, thank you" as he finished talking a feminine voice replied "Hai, Hokage-Sama" as the person left in a Shunshin. He sighed at the prospect of the council meeting that they would have to hold, 'Kami why me, never should have accepted the job in the first place' he thought before arranging a council meeting in an hour.

Magical Ninja Time Skip-(1 Hour)

"Thank you for attending this meeting, I hope that you are all well" Hiruzen started before one of the elders interrupted "Cut the crap Hiruzen, what's this about?" Koharu interrupted (Rudely, if I may add), clearing his throat, the aged Hokage continued "I was getting to that Koharu, now the reason for this meeting is about the wellbeing and status of the new Kyuubi Jinchūriki, according to the information given to us by the nurse before the parents deaths, they wished him to be called San'nan, though I can't, for the life of me, think why they would call him Hate". As the council was wondering about this, a civilian spoke up "I think we should kill the new demon, do us all a favour you know", at this the civilian council cheered and another shouted "Let us vote, all in favour of killing the demon!" as the council started up a vote they suddenly cowered at the large amount of Killing Intent radiating off of the Third Hokage as he shouted "YOU WILL DO NO SUCH THING, YOU FOOLS!, I have placed Naruto in the orphanage and I am creating a law that will prevent anyone in the future from mentioning to anyone that the boy holds the Kyuubi, this will be a crime punishable by death, good day". As he walked off the council erupted into shouting and yelling except for one person, said person was covered mostly in bandages and was secretly scheming ways as to how he would acquire the Jinchūriki for his own personal forces.

Magical Ninja Time Skip-(4 years, 361 days)

"Get out of here, you damn brat, you're not welcome here!" shouted a shopkeeper as he chased a young five year old boy out of his store. "I hate you too, Baka!" the boy yelled back as he ran through the door and into the crowd when he slowed down and walked dejectedly through the bustling mass of colour that was the marketplace, as he reached the alleyway he called home and yelled "I can't wait for tomorrow I'll be turning five, yippee", as he yelled out the people that saw and heard him scowled and walked off as fast as they could, while avoiding the boy as much as possible. What they didn't realise was that the boy noticed nearly everything that went on around him, he had a very attentive mind *sigh* 'I wish I knew why they all hated me, it would make such a large difference in how I saw them, if only I knew, DAMMIT' were just some of the thoughts that were running through the boy's mind.

Magical Ninja Time Skip-(1 Day)

Today, the 10th of October, was three things, for the majority of the village it was a festival to celebrate the defeat of the demon fox, for others it was a time when they could initiate the "Demon Hunt" or the "Fox Hunt", for one person it was something special, it was his birthday. Late at night a small black and red headed boy was running through the festival of Konoha with several drunk and angry villagers on his tail, so to speak. While this was occurring, in an adjoining street, a young looking red head was walking towards the Hokage Tower; he had clean and unruly red hair, with a black cloak that had red clouds emblazoned on it. As the teenager walked down the road he saw a young boy no more than 5 years old running from an angry mob, while he looked on in disinterest the boy tripped in an alleyway, that mistake allowed the mod to catch up. When the teenager walked past he heard a few words that made him stop and look at the event.

"Demon"

"Monster"

"We'll finish what the fourth started"

"Kill the fox brat"

As they rounded upon the boy the redhead saw something that was supposed to have been wiped out, he should know as he was the one that wiped it out. As the chūnin attempted to impale the boy with an elongated kunai the weapon stopped, mere centimetres from the boy's stomach, as everyone bar the redhead froze in shock the man dropped the kunai and proceeded to kick the shit out of the boy. When the man was convinced that the boy was either dead or close to that area he and the group he was with, leaving only the boy and the redhead in the alleyway as the now cheering mob left to go and get piss drunk.
Mindscape Drip, drip, drip
As the boy woke up the first thing he noticed was the steady dripping of water and hi first thought was 'well, shit, I mean they could have dumped me anywhere but they had to dump me in the bloody sewers' as the thought crossed his mind a voice that was both deep and high at the same time rang through the sewer "HAHAHA, you are in no sewer Kit, this is what is commonly known as the mindscape, to dumb it down we're in your head" "If we're in my head that could only mean that you are the Kyuubi yes?" the boy both stated and asked at the same time. "Yes Kit, I am the Mighty Kyuubi No Kitsune, I have been here since not long after you were born, and I will be here for many years to come." "If you've been here for that long, then do you know what my name is?" the boy asked the 50ft tall fox. "Yes Kit, I know what your name is, originally your parents were going to call you Naruto, but as you left the womb of your mother she cursed you with your new name", "Well, please tell me already, I just wanna know okay", The demon let out a huge sigh as its shoulders shook with the pressure "Kirai, your parents called you hate." As the Kyuubi finished speaking Kirai was yanked out of the Mindscape and back into reality, the Kyuubi noticed a partially open door. It transformed the cage into a collar and padded slowly towards the door, as it reached the door it could finally make out the writing on it "Kekkei Genkai: Magnet Release, huh, this could get interesting", as the giant fox touched the door it disappeared and merged with her collar, "Oops, my bad, that kid owes me big time".
Reality
"Do you ever plan on waking up?" the redhead asked, when he received no answer he spoke again "Wake up kid" this demand was met with a very noncommittal kick to the kid's chest. As soon as he made contact the kid woke up and scooted backwards "W- w- who a- a- are you?" the black haired boy managed to stutter out. "Me? Oh, I am just a unimportant artist that has taken an interest in a little boy", as he was talking the boy had stood up to face him "Um, Mr. Ninja, can you take me with you", the redhead narrowed his eyes at the question and spoke once more "Firstly, my name is not 'Mr. Ninja' it is Sasori, secondly, how did you know that I'm a ninja?". The boy looked perplexed at the question as if he didn't know the answer himself "Um, you carry yourself like some of the ninja I've seen and you have a lot of knives on you and there is something about you that I recognise before but I can't remember what". Sasori let out a little sigh as he realised that the boy wasn't going to leave him alone until he said yes so he replied with "Okay, but if you can't keep up I'm going to leave you behind, got it?" The boy nodded slowly and picked himself up before standing behind Sasori who just said "Better get going then" as the two were walking out of Konoha, Sasori remembered why he decided to come in the first place, "God dammit!" he yelled out in a rare display of emotion.

Okay, that's a wrap, I won't post another chapter for a while, but I will write it up and await review and see how it turns out. Seeya