A/N: This fanfic will be great if you have faith and stick to it. It will maintain some elements of the series but will go down its own path. Follow Favorite and leave a review, it'll motivate me to continue writing this. Also the Uchiha massacre occurred three years later than original plot. And Assume every character is wearing their normal outfits if I don't describe it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden. I however own the few OC's placed in here.
Chapter 1
"I-I c-can't move!" a blond spiky haired blue eyed child yelled out in anguish. His body had felt ablaze, the pain permeated through his body was the only thing he could feel.
His body was covered with cuts and bruises. This seemed like the only thing he ever really get from the villagers. Pain and loathing.
The villagers standing over him all looked at him with crazed smirks and glares. They had been planning this out for a while now. They stayed patient and learned his schedule, today was the day they chose to make their plan come to fruition.
They had someone following him the entire day. Watching, making sure that he followed his routine of going to the academy, the ramen stand, and hanging out with his only friend.
They had finally caught him where they want him, in one of the leaf's village many alleyways alone on the way home for the day. One female villager suddenly stepped up out of the group, brandishing two kunai from her coat pocket.
"Your time has come Demon!" the lady spat in disgust getting ready to give the finishing blow. They had been beating him for 30 minutes now and it finally seemed like they broke the monster's spirits as it stopped begging them to stop. The remainder of the mob applauded as the chosen woman to finish the demon got ready to give the final blow.
She would finally be able to rid the world of the demon that killed her daughter and plagued Konoha!
"Naruto!" there was a loud shout at the front of the alleyway that caught the attention of Naruto and the mob as a girl who looked to be around the boy's age ran right towards them.
Her voice was laced with the sound of fear mixed with confusion. She had pure black hair in twin pig tails with black eyes. She wore a black dress with black shorts under them with blue ninja sandals.
Naruto's eyes widened at the familiar voice! "Y-Yuki-chan stay away!" Naruto hated for her to see him like this, she was his only friend and no matter how much they hurt him, he wouldn't be able to bear it if they hurt her.
Yuki ignored her friends warning without a doubt as she continued running until she skidded in between Naruto himself and the mob. She spread out her small arms to protect Naruto as she gave a seething glare at the mob. She didn't know why people hated her best friend, but one thing she knew was that it was wrong and she wouldn't let them do it when she was around!
Her and Naruto had been friends since they joined the academy when they were six, they were ten now. Today, they had recently finished playing after leaving Ichiraku and as she was heading home, she noticed he had dropped his frog wallet, so decided to drop it off. That's when she stumbled across him and the mob.
"What's going on!? Why are you attacking my friend?" the young girl asked as the mob immediately frowned looking at one another immediately muttering. "Does the demon has her under hypnosis?" "Maybe it's threatening her". Yuki gritted her teeth in anger listening to the stupid villagers.
"NO. NARUTO IS MY BESTFRIEND, HE DOESN'T BOTHER ANYONE WHY ARE YOU ALL SO MEAN?" Yuki yelled in frustration.
"This THING is NOT your friend little girl, I think you should go home and forget this entire night" one man from the mob stated with the others agreeing.
Yuki immediately shook her head in refusal. Ever since she had met the Uzumaki she noticed he had no friends and the villagers glared at him. She didn't know why everyone hated her best friend but she wouldn't allow them to hurt him any longer!
"NO! Naruto-kun's my best friend, I wont allow you evil people to hurt him, he hasn't done anything to anyone!" Yuki shouted dropping into a sloppy version of the famous Uchiha fighting Stance.
Maybe if they could've recognized it, they would've knew she was a child of the noble Uchiha clan and there next move would've been different, but seeing as they were just villagers and not ninja they wouldn't.
Naruto looked up at Yuki with fear as he tried to force his body to move out of his downed position. "Y-Yuki-chan n-no! G-Go away! Its too dangerous!" Naruto struggled out coughing out the blood that came up from his fractured lungs.
Yuki turned her glare towards Naruto. "I won't! You're my best friend! I refuse to leave you alone!" she shouted at the boy causing him to tear up. He never had anyone to care so much for him. The villagers immediately began muttering between one another.
"The demon must've corrupted this poor child." one muttered. "Yes it's sad really" another muttered, "Maybe it's a trick from the demon" another said as the woman with the kunai shrugged. "it matters not! The Demon's whore will just die alongside its mate!" the woman shouted as she ran towards the two children with the weapons.
Naruto's eyes widened as Yuki fully stood in front of him with her stance, ready to take on the lady. "YUKI-CHAN NOOO!" Naruto shouted in fear and worry for his friends life as he tried to force his body to get up but the most he could do was a sitting position. Yuki looked at him with a smile, "I'll always protect you"
"-eam 7..Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha. Jonin instructor Kakashi Hatake. Team 8-" Iruka was saying as Naruto snapped out of his thoughts. The blonde was two years older. His hair was the same spiky blonde that it was but his blue eyes lacked the warmth that they once held.
He wore a black trench coat, under the trench coat was a skin tight black shirt with dark blue cargo pants with many pockets and black ninja sandals. He also had the leaf headband tied around his forehead.
Naruto's mind couldn't help but to go back to that fateful day. Him and his friend Yuki always dreamt of the day they would become ninjas. He couldn't help but to think of her now that he was finally able to live out their dream.
"Yuki-chan, I've done it" Naruto thought, out of his peripheral he could see his new teammate Sakura sit next to Sasuke as she immediately began to bother the preteen. This cause Naruto to frown, "..Although I could've done without the fangirl" he thought as he got up, deciding to join his team.
Sakura, who saw the blonde walking towards them couldn't help but to have mixed feelings. When she first met the blond five years ago, he was a kind idiot child who was always happy. He was dead last in the academy, but he never gave up.
This was the case for three straight years as everything changed over two years ago. He grew cold, distant, and quiet. He even improved so much in the two year time span that he was able to graduate in the top ten percent of the class.
Naruto nodded at the two as he sat next to them with the Uchiha nodding back. To Sasuke, Naruto's always been an interesting person. The blond was probably the only other person in the academy to understand his pain, plus he respected the blonde's new found strength.
Naruto must've worked hard to be able to catch up and surpass the majority of the class in such a short time frame.
As Iruka finished up teams, the jonin instructors one by one began picking up their genin. Two hours later, team 7 was the only team left in the academy.
Sakura groaned, "where is this guy? Did he forget or something?" she asked only to be met with the silence of Naruto and Sasuke.
Naruto observed both his teammates. He watched as Sakura paced back and forth in frustration, he could also see the small furrow in Sasuke's brow that gave off that he was getting agitated with the man's tardiness.
Naruto sighed, his teammates were right to be mad, there jonin sensei must was a joke, what leader in their right mind would ditch on his own genin team. It was unprofessional.
The door to the room immediately opened as a gravity defying silver haired man with a jonin flak jacket walked in the room. Sakura immediately pointed an accusing finger at the man "You're late!" she shouted as the man looked embarrassed.
"Whoa hey I'm sorry I'm late. I just got caught on the road of life trying to get here" the man stated giving a light chuckle as he scratched his head. It was an embarrassing silence, the genin members of team 7 all gave him deadpanned unbelieving looks.
"tsk he comes two hours late and the best he could come up with was a lame excuse like that" Naruto thought frowning disapproving of the man. He didn't seem competent at all. "You're lying!" Sakura shouted. Kakashi, who was identified by Iruka as their jonin instructor just chuckled as he analyzed his team.
"okay lets see, the pink haired girl is loud and her muscle definition seems to be lacking severely, but from reports that's not surprising seeing as she's in her fangirl phase, the Uchiha's a lot more subdued, that's most likely due to what happened with the Uchiha clan but I hear he's the prodigy of this generation, and finally…the blond, reports says he use to be a loud brat, but the death of his best friend changed him into this serious calculative person, interesting bunch if I do say so myself" Kakashi surmised.
"First thoughts of this team is, I don't really like you" he eye-smiled. "Meet me on the rooftop" he stated before he body flickered. "What an odd man" Naruto thought as he and Sasuke immediately got up, walking to the stairs that lead to the roof entrance.
"Wait for me!" Sakura shouted as she scrambled to follow her team mates.
Five minutes later, the entire team 7 was on the roof top. The genin were sitting out in front of Kakashi who had his face inside of a little book titled "Make-out Paradise".
"Okay, now that we're a team, we need to get to know each other a little. Let's start off with your name, likes, dislikes, and dreams for the future" Kakashi stated as Sakura raised her hand.
Kakashi eye-smiled. "Yes pinky?" Kakashi asked as Sakura's eye twitched. "Why won't you go first sensei? You know as an example." Sakura asked as Kakashi closed his book. "For supposedly having brains, she shouldn't need an example for such clear instructions. "Kakashi thought.
"Hmm…well okay. My name is Kakashi Hatake,..I guess I never really thought about what I like..and I don't really dislike anything in particular. Dreams for the future? I guess it's safe to say I don't really have one" Kakashi eye-smiled.
Sakura sweat-dropped as the entire team looked at Kakashi bewildered. "All we've learned was his name" Sasuke thought alongside Naruto who had the exact thoughts. "Your turn Pinky" Kakashi spoke bringing his book back out as Sakura huffed.
"First off, My name's Sakura Haruno, not pinky" she started with another huff as Kakashi gave a light chuckle much to the girl's ire. "My likes include.."*looks at Sasuke* Sakura blushed "umm m-my dislikes are Ino-pig!" she spat the name in disgust. "and those who bully the weak, my dream for the future is.."*looks at Sasuke and immediately starts to blush and stare at him dreamily.
"..Yep she's got it bad" Kakashi thought. "alright you're up next brooder" Kakashi stated pointing at Sasuke who glared at the man.
"..The name's Sasuke Uchiha and I don't really like anything in particular. What I hate however is a lot of things, and dreams? I don't have a dream because what I have will become a reality. I'm going to hunt down and kill a certain someone and then restore the Uchiha clan to it's former glory" Sasuke spoke coolly as Sakura looked at him in awe.
"Sasuke-kun's So cool!" Sakura thought as Naruto raised a brow at the Uchiha.
Kakashi internally sighed, "it's going to take a lot to try to stir this one down the right path". "Okay and finally you blondie" Kakashi said nodding to Naruto.
"My name's Naruto Uzumaki..I don't in particular like anyone or anything besides training..my dislikes are those who are weak and those who prey on the weak, and my goal was to become a ninja. Now that it's reach, I have nothing" the genin spoke in a voice void of emotion.
Sasuke looked at the blond with interest. It seemed that he valued training as much as him, maybe he'd serve to be useful and not dead weight as a teammate unlike Sakura.
Kakashi only internally sighed again. "Hokage-sama really must've had it out for me. He gave me a fangirl and two emotionally unstable kids. I've got my work cut out for me" Kakashi thought crying out tears on the inside.
Inside the outskirts of a small village near Rain Village
Heavy rain fell down in loud splashes as it came upon impact with the ground. The only sound that seemed to overpower the deafening pitter patter of the rain was the sound of three kids laughing joyously.
There were three boys, just turned preteens all in a field playing catch with a small red ball.
"Pass it to me!" the first boy shouted with his hands out stretched. He had spiky white hair that gave off a light blue hue with grey eyes.
He wore a dark grey collar shirt with purple sleeves and black cargos. The second boy smiled excitedly, "ha-ha, here it go Tsezuma(seh-zoom-ay)!" he shouted throwing the ball.
He had black hair in a single ponytail with two bangs framing his face. His eyes were a dough brown color. He wore a navy blue slim fit short sleeved shirt with durable khaki shorts.
Tsezuma caught the ball as it hit his chest with a hard impact. Hey not so hard Azume(ah-zah-me)!" Tsezuma spoke as the third boy chuckled, speaking up.
"Tsk stop whining, it couldn't have hurt", the boy had dark blue almost black wavy hair that went to his shoulders with black eyes. He wore a dark blue thin long sleeved shirt with black cargo shorts.
Tsezuma pouted playfully, "Miaku(me-ah-coo) you don't know how hard that ball hit!" he shouted playfully pointing at the boy as the three all laughed.
They continued to have a good time for a few more minutes before deciding to wrap it up and head back into the village. They walked for a couple of minutes before Tsezuma sniffed the air.
"..Hey, you guys smell that?" He asked with a confused look. He could distinctly smell something burning, Azume and Miaku both looked confused as they started to sniff too, that's when they picked up the smell themselves.
"Come on, let's go" Azume spoke seriously as he immediately began running along with Miaku and Tsezuma. With them running full speed, it only took them a couple of minutes to reach their village. What awaited them left them all in a state of shock.
Everything was engulfed in flames, building after building was crumbled to the ground in debris and ash. The air was permeated with a disgusting smell of burnt flesh and iron the deeper you go into the village.
Miaku frowned looking in a state of shock, "no no no!" he shouted in disbelief. "Come on, let's check for survivors, we have to get to the bottom of this!" Tsezuma shouted running off in the village with his two friends following behind him.
The three ran past building after building searching everywhere, on the ground littered bodies with attack wounds and bodies lit on fire. It was total bloodshed.
Tsezuma couldn't keep the tears out of his eyes. "Who would do this?" he thought in total despair as they continued their search.
"Hey! I got one!" Azume shouted so Miaku and Tsezuma could come to him. Azume was kneeling over a man who had a stab wound through his stomach with burn marks littered across his self, he seemed to be on the verge of death.
"What happened here?" Azume asked the man who immediately began coughing up blood. Azume lifted his head to make sure he didn't choke on his own blood.
"S-Some ninja attacked, *cough* t-they started a slaughter and ransacked the village for it's resources" the man choked out.
Miaku stepped up, "What village were they from?" he asked balling his fists in anger and sadness.
"I-I don't know. They had blank headbands" the man said immediately going into a coughing fit afterwards. His wounds started to catch up to him as his breath quickly shortened.
The three couldn't help but to watch in silence as the man took one last gasp before he went silent. The most they could do was allow him not to die alone.
Miaku immediately began shaking, tears cascaded down his eyes, all he felt was anger and sadness.
"When we was younger in the orphanage, it had a surplus of kids because we were so close to the zones where all the fighting takes place…Those ninjas from those villages always come to our village for whatever reason they have and cause destruction! Be it our resources or using our home as another battlefield...they've done it this time...They must pay!" he shouted out in pure rage.
Tsezuma frowned, "Miaku..you need to calm down, if we think irrational it'll only lead to our deaths, we don't even know what village the ninja are aligned with we can't go off attacking every ninja we see, plus we have little to no experience in the ninja arts right now." Tsezuma said as Azume nodded.
"He's right, we'll be asking for our deaths" Azume stated as Miaku growled balling his fist, "I'm tired of having to be a scapegoat for others, they've beaten and used us for too long! There has to be something we could do!" he shouted as Tsezuma and Azuma nodded agreeing.
"The question is what to do?" Azume asked, there was a couple seconds of silence as Tsezuma spoke up. "Let's start training in the ninja arts. We've always talked about training in the arts and we've always had bigger chakra then everyone else in our village. As we are, If we were in the village while it was getting attacked, we would've died too, but if we were training, we could've possibly put a stop to it. We could've protected our home and all of these people wouldn't have had to lose their life for nothing. I'm tired of being weak and scared" he spoke tearing up.
"Yes..I refuse to stay this weak..I refuse to be this vulnerable ever again" Miaku stated balling his fist promising to himself. "We will get stronger together, we won't ever have to be so helpless again" Azume said as the three nodded to one another, silently promising.
*clap clap clap* The three immediately whipped their heads to the sound of someone clapping. "ha-ha-ha, great little speech kids, you moved me."
They saw a small battalion compromised of 5 blank headband wearing ninja as one spoke out. "Yeah, too bad you guys won't live to see your dreams come to fruition" one said as they all whipped out kunai knives. "DIE!" the first one to speak shouted.
Kunai whipped through the air fast as over a dozen rained upon them.