A Different Beginning

"Die demon!"

"You killed my son!"

"How dare you show your face here!"

These were all the things young Naruto heard as he felt yet another jolt of pain from one of their kicks.

He always hated when this happened;why was it all ways him? What did he do?

CRACK! was the noise heard when someone slammed a stick on the blonde hard enough to snap it in half.

All he wanted to was live a peaceful life; with friends and family, a place to call home, food on his plate, clothes to keep him warm when it got cold. He was a nice boy. What had he done wrong? What had he done to deserve this punishment?

"DIE!" he heard as time seemed to slow as he again heard a whooshing noise and a feeling of sadness and anger, the thought seemed impossible, yet possible at the same time; The thought of dying, the thought of disappearing and never appearing again, the thought angered him, he could live peacefully, somewhere, in a better place.

But he couldn't let them have what they wanted. They wanted him dead, and sometimes so did he. Naruto couldn't get what he wanted, so why should people such as these get what they desire? Yet he who had done nothing wrong, have to suffer through this?

Soon the pain stopped; he uncurled from his fetal position, memories of the thoughts he had already dissipating and vanishing just like the people. He looked around, didn't see anyone, and wondered why they had suddenly just left him alone.

He slowly got up and headed for the forest in the surrounding area of the Hidden Leaf Village. He had nowhere else to go, the orphanage had treated him like crap and when he was old enough to walk he was kicked out! Like he wanted to be with those bastards anyway.

But just as he neared the edge of the area where he had been beaten, he could have sworn he saw something out of the corner of his eye disappear into the shadows. He ignored it as a illusion his brain was making because of the pain and continued on his path.

Naruto maneuvered through the foliage of the forest and headed for the camp he had made thanks to a book on survival he had found in the trash can. Thanks to Kami, he had secretly learned to read and write by spying on the classes that all the kids, except for him obviously, took to learn to read and write.

At just the age of five Naruto had known more than most kids his age and would probably survive longer than any of them if they were left to die on an island or something.

He sat down on a tree stump he called a chair and compensated what to do next when he heard his stomach growl and quickly decided to get some food. The village was out of the question as he was probably going to get beaten for even getting near someone let alone asking for food. Could he try to steal some?

No; if he was caught he couldn't imagine what they would do to him, then that left looking for something in the wild. He got up and walked around the forest , looking for anything that might be considered food.

While continuing his search for food he had stumbled upon what looked like a secret entrance to something and being the curious boy he was, he jumped into the hole.

He could have landed better considering landing face first isn't exactly what someone would like.

Naruto stood up and wiped dust off of his knees and looked around the large room he appeared to be in.

He walked around and looked at the things in here and noticed a door, so he decided to continue to look for more stuff that was probably in the other side of the door.

He opened the door, causing a loud creaking noise to echo throughout the room, which made him wince but he continued until the door was fully opened.

As soon as he stepped in through the door many torches aligning the wall began igniting, making it easier for Naruto to see.

He walked down the hallway and into a room which contained many books and scrolls. He skimmed through the many books and noticed one that stood out.

It was relatively small, easily smaller than any of the other books that were in the room. He pulled out the book and opened to see a diary like book.

He read through it with the knowledge he had. It talked about this new Kekkei Genkai that allowed the user to have complete control of candy.

"Well that's lame, control over candy, like that would be useful for a ninja, anyways let's keep reading maybe there would be something interesting in here; let's see, to confirm you have this speak aloud these three words, "Rocky Mint Chocolate". If the speaker of these words begins to have a sudden craving for candy and begins eating a chocolate that appears out of nowhere then that person has this Kekkei Genkai."

Naruto chuckled slightly, "Hah, this is stupid." Naruto said as he took a bite from a chocolate bar that appeared out of nowhere in his hands.

Naruto looked at his hands in shock, and then continued to read the diary.

"We have found a user of this Kekkei Genkai and now have many jutsu for this Kekkei Genkai; signed, Orochimaru. Huh, wonder who this Orochimaru guy is, he was talking about those jutsu that are used for this Kekkei Genkai."

Naruto looked around through the many jutsu scrolls and found the jutsu scroll with label reading "Candy Style", and unrolled the scroll to found many jutsu.

"Candy Style: Rock Candy Shuriken Barrage Jutsu" as he finished that sentence one shuriken made of rock candy appeared out of nowhere and dug into the wall.

He got up and touched one of them and it seemed rather harmless. He then saw a rat running around and threw it at the unsuspecting rat and was surprised when the shuriken embedded itself into the rat, ending its life instantly.

"Whoa, that's awesome, it doesn't hurt me because I'm the controller but anything else practically can't touch it without hurting themselves. Let's see some more jutsu" Naruto said as he ran to the scroll.

"DO NOT CONTINUE UNTIL UNDERSTANDING OF CHAKRA CONTROL" was what Naruto read in bold letters as he looked at the other Jutsu.

"Huh what's chakra? Maybe one of these scrolls has any info about it."Naruto said as he read the different titles for the scrolls until he stumbled upon a scroll that read: "Chakra Control for Beginners."

He opened the scroll and began to read what it said. "Chakra is a requirement for ninjas to perform jutsu. Chakra is the result of molding spiritual energy and physical energy in the body forming chakra."

"Hmm, that's interesting, what's next?" Naruto said as he continued to read.

"Molding chakra involves the extraction of energies from both the body's cells and the mind's consciousness, then mixing them together within the individual. The amount of each energy will differ based on the type of technique the ninja wishes to execute."

"In other words, a ninja could create too much or too little chakra for a given technique, resulting in the chakra being used inefficiently. In addition, even if a ninja is able to mold the correct amount of chakra, if they cannot manipulate the chakra properly, the desired technique will not be as effective or will not execute at all."

"Wasting energy will also create weaknesses like early exhaustion, which would hinder the ninja's capacity to fight long-term battles. General training methods for improving one's molding and manipulation of chakra are the Leaf Concentration, Tree Climbing, and Water Walking exercises.

"That's a lot to take in, but I should get started. I'll become a ninja, become strong to protect myself and those I care about, that'll show them!" Naruto shouted confidently as he began the leaf concentration technique by going outside, gathering leaves, and going back inside.

"Focus your spiritual and physical energies, mold them together and concentrate the chakra to my forehead. Then put a leaf on my forehead and stick it by focusing. Okay, got it, now let's get started."

Naruto began the exercise completely forgetting about his hunger and also forgetting that he can't really make chakra. Hey, it looked easier on paper!

He then continued this for about an hour when he completely mastered the exercise; letting him stick leaves to his body on instinct and not focusing on it as much.

Now that he could properly use chakra and planned on controlling even more with the other exercises until it was perfect, he didn't want to stop learning jutsu from the scroll. So with complete mastery over chakra, he wouldn't have to stop for the warnings.

He tried tree climbing, but had to try for about two hours because he kept blasting himself off the tree. But soon he got the hang off it and in a couple more minutes, he could climb trees without even having to think about.

Then it struck him; hunger and fatigue. He had worked himself to hard. He needed food and some rest, so he decided to try and catch some fish, which luckily, he manages to get four off and cooked them over a fire, then eating them in satisfaction.

The blonde looked at the hole, and decided to keep it hidden; It would be a new place for him, maybe something he could call home.

He covered it up with some twigs and leaves, remembering the path there, and went to his little camp to fall asleep.

8 Hours Later

Naruto woke up with a groan and got up slowly. He remembered what happened yesterday but forgot where it was, so he ran up the tree and stood atop before spotting a bundle of leaves and twigs and jumped from tree branch to tree branch until he reached the area of his new base.

Jumping off the tree,he removed the twigs and leaves before going inside. He passed by a room he hadn't noticed on his way to the one with the books and scrolls.

He went inside and saw many weapons ranging from a tanto, all the way to a ninjato. He inspected the weapons until he stumbled upon a candy cane like staff (A/N: Just imagine Yagura's staff but with candy cane colors and no flower.)

He picked up the staff and found it surprisingly light despite its large appearance. He decided to try and use this; it could help him as a ninja.

He looked around some more and spotted some items that looked to be of interest.

Picking up a piece of paper by them, he read aloud: "Ninja Weights". "Well that's cool but these look lig-.." Naruto never finished his sentence as he dropped the weights in a giant crash as soon as he tried to pick them up.

He read the letter some more. "Although these weights may look light they are extremely heavy, used mainly for training to increase speed and power."

"First pour chakra into weights, decreasing the weight, then strap on to legs and wrists and stop flow of chakra increasing weight."

"Well, it's worth a shot." Naruto said leaning the staff against the wall and pouring chakra into them before strapping them onto his arms and legs and stopping the flow of chakra and bracing himself.

CRASH!

Naruto laid on the floor and groaned as he forced his muscles to move until he stood up; however it was taking all of his willpower to keep himself standing.

He poured a little chakra into the weights, decreasing slightly but enough for him to stand up without much of a struggle.

He grabbed the staff and slowly made his way over to the scrolls and book room to grab the chakra control scroll and climb out the hole with quite a struggle.

When he stood outside, he decided to try to run and get accustomed with the weights. He decided to stop the flow to the weights, bringing him down to his knees, but his willpower to become strong and be able to protect himself kept him from staying down and he began training.

He started by pacing around; which then turned into a light jog, a normal jog, a sprint and then a full out run. What he didn't know was that a certain fox was having a hard time keeping Naruto's bones from breaking and dissolving from all the pressure. Oh how pissed he was right now.

Naruto finally stopped,exhausted. He was proud of himself; barely five years old and looked what he had accomplished! Although it was thanks to a certain fox.

He got hungry and saw a bunny in the distance and decided to try out one jutsu he was sure he could do.

"Candy Style: Rock Candy Shuriken Barrage Jutsu!" Naruto shouted and now instead of just one shuriken, four appeared this time and shot at the bunny which died instantly.

He picked up the rabbit and took it into the hole and went to what he nicknamed, 'the weapons room', and took a knife to an empty table.

Now, if he remembered correctly form what that guy did, you skin the rabbit by taking off the fur and skin then cook the meat. At least he was pretty sure that's how he did.

For the next thirty minutes Naruto had skinned and cooked the rabbit which he ate delightfully. It tasted weird at first, probably because he didn't clean the blood, but after he got used to it. It tasted quite good if he said so himself, he thought with a smile.

He was a little bit drowsy and ended up sleeping while cleaning up the mess right on the floor.

Nine hours Later

Naruto awoke and looked at his surroundings, only to see he was still in his new base.

He decided to finally try the water walking exercise but opted to keep the weights off, which made him feel lighter and more faster then before. It also made his wrists and arms feel lighter as well and when he tried punching his arm moved swiftly, instead of weighed down. It took him a while to get accustomed to his new speed and the strength of his arms, but when he did he left the hole and headed for the nearest lake.

The blonde reached in his pocket for the scroll in his pocket and began reading the instructions. "This exercise is similar to the tree climbing exercise, although a bit harder since the water is constantly moving making you have to keep a steady stream but make sure to go with the flow of the water."

"Sounds easy enough." Naruto said as he began to push chakra to his feet and walking towards the water.

SPLASH!

Naruto ran out of the water drenched, his old white t-shirt and old black shorts soaking from the splash.

"Ah man! I forgot, I'm gonna need more clothes for when I become a ninja. But I guess for now I'll deal with this." Naruto said as he took off his shorts and shirt, leaving him in only his boxers and continued the exercise.

After a gruesome five hours of falling into the lake, Naruto put his slightly wet clothes on and decided to take a lunch break by doing the same as yesterday, except this time he got a deer with the rock candy shuriken, resulting in a large feast which he gladly enjoyed.

After his plentiful meal, he put his weights back on and grabbed his staff, which he had left next to the hole and jumped into the hall to exploring the base some more.

Naruto went into the library and out of boredom, began to look through the books until he found one that interested him.

"Stealth and Assassination." Naruto thought about it and decided to read the book since from what he knew, ninjas were usually stealthy and he never knew when and if he had to assassinate someone.

"One of the basic forms of stealth involve minimizing someone's chakra to a level where sensors cannot detect you by your chakra. Well that's a good start, okay minimize my chakra, got it." Naruto said as he began to try and control his chakra and minimize it.

Coincidentally, he didn't concentrate enough, resulting in a large explosion of chakra and sent him flying towards the wall and crashing right through the cement. His weights didn't help one bit as he fell onto the floor unconscious.

Naruto's Mind

Naruto woke up and looked around his surroundings, only to finally notice that he was in a dark sewer, which surprisingly didn't smell horrible like he expected a sewer would smell.

He stood up and began to walk around; had someone thrown him in here? But that would mean someone must have found his new base! Crap, that wasn't good! He needed to get out of here! He finally found somewhere he could consider a home and he wasn't going to let someone take it!

He started running around the sewer and surprisingly felt lighter; did they take off his weights too?

Naruto stopped running and began to walk in a random direction. But it wasn't him moving his body, his body was moving on its own.

His body stopped in front of what looked like a giant cage.

Suddenly, a giant red slit eye appeared looking directly at Naruto, causing him to jump back in surprise.

"Naruto, we finally meet, has the jailer decided to visit the prisoner?"

"W-what w-who are y-you?-" Naruto asked, afraid of the amounts of hate, anger, and killing intent. (A/N: Naruto doesn't know what KI is yet.)

"Who am I, why I am the mighty nine tailed demon fox Kurama! Shit, I said my real name didn't I? Forget you heard! I have something to discuss with you, Naruto."

"W-what but I t-thought the Fourth H-Hokage killed you!" Naruto gasped with wide eyes. Had the information he had gotten from the Third Hokage been wrong?!No, the old man wouldn't lie to him... right?

"Anyway, I want to help you on your quest to become a ninja" Kurama said staring at Naruto intently.

"Why would you help me on my quest to become the strongest ninja?..."

"Well I never said it was going to be free! I propose a deal; I'll help you become strong and unbeatable, and in return you let me out of this cage."

"Huh, I would never do that, I hate a lot of the people here but I still have some people that I like! The old man and the Ichirakus that care about me."

"Well I guess it was worth a shot... well then how about you let me see and hear what you do, as well as change this fucking dump you call a mind-scape? Oh, and one more thing; if you get the chance to and run into one, you will let me posses a fox and have complete control of it and let me live life outside for a while! Deal?"

"That sounds easy enough. Okay, deal." Naruto said staring directly at the eye.

Soon the darkness of the cage disappeared and revealed a giant nine tailed fox behind the bars.

"Now, first things first; change this landscape into a nice peaceful forest and then leave go to sleep. Although you're still young, I'm going to be readjusting your bones and body to make them strong enough and durable for the training that is to come."

"Alright, but how do I change my mind-scape?" Naruto asked looking at Kurama in confusion.

"Just focus on it. Should be easy enough if you concentrate hard." Kurama said, waving its paw in a nonchalant manner.

Naruto nodded and focused; soon enough he was standing in a large forest with large trees and a lake in the middle.

He heard loud rumbling and saw what he thought he would never see: in front of him Kurama was running around and beginning to destroy the forest, but every time something would be destroyed it would just rebuild itself.

"This is acceptable, now leave and prepare yourself for tomorrow." Kurama said as it fired a large red beam of destruction destroying part of the forest but pouted when it rebuilt itself, then with a smirk it began firing more and more until Naruto decided to leave his mind by forcing himself to awaken.

Naruto's New Base

Naruto stood up slightly with a little pain on his body but got up using the candy cane staff as support and took himself to the corner of the room to sit down, deciding to sleep here today instead of the other base and let his eyes shut before his mind wandered.

Soon, Naruto woke up and looked around before standing up and grabbing his staff from the ground, only to notice his muscles and bones felt different.

He felt stronger, he felt more powerful. He liked this feeling! He would have enjoyed this feeling all day, emphasis on would have since he was interrupted by the mighty Kurama himself.

"Get up brat, it's time for the training to begin and I'm telling you now, your gonna regret making a deal with a demon." Kurama spoke in a cocky tone.

"Don't worry about me, I can take anything you throw at me and become strong and soon I will be able to protect myself from anyone!" Naruto said in a cocky tone as well, making the mighty Kurama smile which Naruto couldn't see because he was in his mind.

"Sure brat, let's see if you can make it out alive. If you do, your going to be stronger than any other person and demon in this world! Well, except me of course." Kurama said with a smirk and an air of confidence.

"Alright, let's get started Kurama!"

Well people that was chapter one of my new Naruto story "A Different Beginning".

Now if you couldn't tell by the hints in the story Naruto is going to be extremely powerful more powerful than a Kage but not as powerful as some of the Akatsuki.

Well if you enjoyed Favorite/Follow, Rate/Review and I will see you guys and gals in chapter 2.

SEEYA!