A/N: Posted 9/5/2018
Students of the Sage Chapter One
What makes a someone right to power? Is it might? No, if that were true the Uchiha and Senju would've ruled the elemental nations. Is it ethics? no, then the warrior monks should be the ones ruling in the elemental nations. No, someone earns the true right to power through a set of precepts; some of these precepts are inherent to a person and can't be replicated in other individuals, however generally these conditions exist as such: firstly a strong moral compass that encompasses a good will, a realist view of the world, and a humble attitude at heart. Secondly the will and potential to grow in strength to ensure their morals don't have to be swayed, and finally the right circumstances to have the power thrust upon them.
Right now we find Naruto Uzumaki running on the outskirts of Konohagakure, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, from two chunin who are hailing weapons at him. The scent of the forest permeated the area as it had been converted into a park after a travesty that occured six years on the young blonde's birthday, the tragedy had separated many parents from children through the impenetrable veil of death and coincidentally Naruto's own parentage sacrificed themselves to end it, finally since then he was in the orphanage and was kicked out at the age of five. Neither of the chunin, or medium ranked ninja, had anyone close to them die in the tragedy, but were bloodthirsty people who wanted to satiate their thirst by also quenching the villagers hate of the boy.
It had felt like he had been running forever when one of the senbon that the taller of the two threw connected with a vacant area on his back causing him to scream in pain as blood began to leak from the wound staining his one size too big white t-shirt that was emblazoned with the crest of the Uzumaki clan. In the bright yellow blonde screamed in pain yelled "Why are you chasing me I didn't do anything to you!"
The taller of the two, a light blue haired man who wore the standard attire of the Konoha shinobi with the headband tied like a bandana, he spoke "You know exactly what you did demon!"
Just as the man detached the fuma shuriken the blonde cleared the trees of the forest and realized where he was, on top of a large monument known as the Hokage Monument which displayed the four heads of the previous leaders. Although his thought of the leaders was broken when he saw a mysterious gap in the hill, deciding he had little other options he entered the cavern soon after he could hear the two chunin enter behind him. As his eyes adjusted to the light he saw a man standing in the dimly lit cavern who suddenly lunged forward, past Naruto and simply whispered "Shinra tensei"
A blast threw the pair of nin back into the forest the shorter of the two slammed into a tree and the taller landed on the ground. Naruto stunned at what the man just did asked "Hey thanks mister, could you teach me that?"
"All in good time my child, but in the meantime I believe there is a young girl who was following you… You can come out." The strange man said and sure enough a small, blue haired girl who had pale lavender, pupiless eyes slowly crept out from the woods and approached the entrance where the pair were standing.
"H-hello… w-who are you?" The young bluenette asked scared that she was found out by the visibly aged man.
The man smiled "I will tell you, but first I want to know why you've been favoring your left side heavily."
"W-well I-I have bruises from a taijutsu spar with my father." The young girl said the focus of her fear changing to why the man wanted to know. The man's anger flared I knew this through Kankaku, but why does it make me so angry hearing it from the child herself? How could a father expect a girl so young to even compete with him? It is nothing short of child abuse. Nevermind that I've got to make my move now.
The man moved forward and squatted in front of both children before speaking "Children, sit down and listen carefully, I am a man known as the Sage of Six Paths, I am going to train you so that you may bring this world back to peace. You will be powerful enough to fix the ills of this world."
"Wow mister I can't wait to be strong like Hiruzen-jiji or those Anbu that sometimes protect me!" Naruto shouted remembering a weasel masked Anbu who called him otouto.
The Sage seeing his memories thought Only if he knew how true that nin's words were.
He shook those thoughts away and went to talk with them when Hinata spoke up "Ano w-why do y-you want me… I'm very wea-"
The Ootsutsuki clan member cut the Hyuuga off "I will not stand for you calling yourself weak! Your clan us the one to blame for your weakness! This is why you will be coming with me, I will make you two strong and teach you to reform this world for peace."
"Hinata, don't call yourself weak, you've got more potential than any of those other girls who fawn over Sasuke, heck I bet you could beat that pink banshee."
The bluenette blushed a bright crimson that would challenge a tomato, her crush was complimenting her, he was calling her strong, finally she had to tell herself Don't Faint, Don't faint.
"Th-tha-thank N-N-Naruto-kun." Hinata managed to get out.
The man spoke up again "Well with all that in order why don't we get going, Kankaku go into plan A we are leaving immediately"
As he finished a swirl of leaves was visible in the back of the cave as a man apparently left to do as the Sage ordered. In a split second both Naruto and Hinata fell down towards the ground, before they hit the dirt the old man caught them both. As he set them down he looked at them with his tomoed rinnegan active he looked at them both and smiled, he thought to himself these to children they will change this world, whether they like it or not they will have power thrust upon them, this world needs them more than they think.
Finishing his thoughts bronze chakra started spiralling around the three before it moved upwards and whisked the three of them away to their new lives, the lives of training to change the world.
A/N: In this fic the Hagoromo's Rinnegan is bronze and not purple, only Madara's is purple.
A/N: The General premise is that the Sage of Six Paths is going to train Naruto and Hinata and they will one day return, I'm not sure how the other characters will play out, I have some interesting ideas for Naruto's lineage and his powers that would be regardless of what the Sage gives him (This is gonna be a Sharingan Naruto Fic, He'll get the Rinnegan later, and Hinata will eventually get the Tenseigan, but all of those will be part of what the Sage does and Naruto will already have a Strong Kekkei genkai, if you've read One Glorious Mistake by Jiraiya's Lost Student then you already know what it is)