AN: This is my first attempt at a Fanfiction.. So please be constructive in your critiques and suggestions. I have read many stories though so I hope to not touch on one to similarly. Redone.. I hated some of it.. so I re-did this chapter before I got to far into it.. Super Kid Naruto.. is soo cheezy.. sorry guys.. I hope tis flows better now.. plus it should help keep Jiraiya more IC..

Winds of Change

Many things alter the way we view the world, and as such the way the world views us. This is even more true for the young blond laying beneath two statues blood soaking his torn clothes. The storm raging overhead revealing in a burst of lightning the gapping wound where his heart should be, yet seems to have been blown away by some strange force.

A few yards away a young man, nearly the same age stood bent over in exhaustion, his red and black coma eyes staring at the dieing blond. "You're still a Dobe, and you will never live to see your dream..." Before he stumbled away before others would arrive.

The young blond choked on the rain and his own blood, as his eyes rolled into the back of his head. Only to reveal him still alive but now unconscious.

~Within the Seal~

The dank sewer led to the cage of the greatest of all the living demons, Kyuubi no Kitsune. Which is where Naruto stood, looking at the strange piece of paper on the demons cage. "I'm sorry..." he said as he placed his hand on the paper, not speaking to the demon but to all those he had failed. "You've spent my entire life keeping me alive... even helping me in your own twisted way...You're free." He spoke softly as he ripped the seal from the bars.

As it was said many things alter our views, the seal released in bright burst of lights, blue, red and white. This all happened to reveal a woman holding a nine tailed fox, "You are the only one to show compassion to the Kyuubi, yet even we do not have the power to over rule the God of Death." the woman spoke as her red hair seemed to dance in a forgotten wind. "I am Inari goddess of the Kitsune and other things..." She laughed, as Naruto felt his life leaving him. "I can only interfere a little, but as you have a destiny to still achieve or this world shall fall I will take us back to the point of your sealing."

The woman sent out a throbbing amount of energy, enough to make every tooth in the boys head ache from the power. Before they stood in exactly the same place. The seal was once more returned, yet the woman stood before it. She still held her kitsune as she eyed the seal and the Demon within. "Kyuubi, come." She commanded, as the great demon trembled and fell on his paws before her.

He did not speak nor did he make any noise. She stretched out her hand and placed it within the violent Chakra of the demon, sending waves of her own. "I see, I release you from his hold and the hold of any of his blood. You may be a demon yet you are one of my children as a Kitsune. Sleep and rest my kit..." The demon blinked and fought her hold but soon succumbed to the command.

She turned with a sad smile, "Naruto, sadly your knowledge and skills may not remain behind. Yet I will help you for your kindness." She waved her hand, and the air rippled, changing the sewer-esque mind into a verdant field surrounded by a forest a river flowing between them and the slumbering demon. The water shimmered with a holy light. "No child should have a mind like that, and my gift to you shall be this..." She dipped her hand into the flowing waters, pulling something from the water. "Humans will never truly understand the power that lays within them. No longer will his chakra pour into yours. Instead it will divide itself into it's purest forms. Of Spiritual energy and physical energies." She twisted what she held in her hand, causing the world to shimmer for a moment.

Naruto looked at her still speechless, and reeling from her pure essence that seemed to invade his every being. "What will that do?" Was truly all he could manage to think of.

She giggled, "My dear child, it will allow you to control your chakra much better, but it will also still grant you your immortal reserves of chakra. As well you will never be able to draw his chakra, into you as it will just become your own. No cloak, no fear of him taking your mind." She sighed, seeing the sad yet confused look of happiness on the young blond. "I will leave three abilities behind in it's place. They must be conservative."

He blinked, the formerly living boy of fifteen was far from stupid, he just lacked common sense and tact. "Well.. since I won't have his chakra in my system that means I won't heal like I did before..." he thought of the lessons that Jiraiya had given him about being a container. "Would you let me have a healing bloodline or something like I used too? Since I'm going to need it a lot." He rubbed the back of his head nervously.

The Goddess smiled sadly, "I will make it so, though it will pull on your Spiritual energy instead of your chakra." Her eyes twinkled with a touch of mischief. "You will also be able to push this energy into others to heal them once you learn how to control it." The small kitsune in her arms jumped down and ran to Naruto curling around his legs.

This caused them both to chuckle a little bit, "Okay, that will be useful and I can save a few people that need it too." He reached down and let his fingers run through the soft fur of the kit. "This is really hard.. " he muttered to himself. Not really knowing what to ask for, he wanted to work for it not have it handed to him like Sasuke did. "I don't like just having things given to me... It feels weird."

The woman looked on as he spoke out loud. "Your mother was the same way, though she never met me I knew her well." This seemed to get his attention, and the small spark of light in his eyes as plans started to form and spin.

"How did you know my mother?"

Inari looked him in the eyes, "She was the previous container of Kyuubi, though it seems none knew of her status unlike you." She told him, as the small kit yipped at him until he picked him up.

"Can I summon Kitsune?" He asked quietly as he thought of the fact his mother was just like him, and his father was the one to do it.

She smiled, it had been a long time since there was one blessed by her to do so." As you are part Kitsune yourself, as you were birthed by a container, I see no reason to not let you have their contract as it's your's by birth technically." She watched him pet the kit that was now in his arms. "When you summon for the first time they will bring you the contract to sign."

"Thanks, but about my mother.. I look so much like my father.. and that's all anyone sees in me... is there anything..." He didn't finish, simply because he didn't know how to ask.

"Is there anything of her I can bring out in you?" She finished for him. "Certainly it's all inside you already, just with your father placing part of himself in the seal it buried it as the chakra that fed the seal strengthened him." She reached into the water, "There was a reason there was water in your mind before and now again. It's your true element, and it is something that I will not need to make a gift for you." She smiled.

"But what I can do if you wish is to bring out your Kitsune abilities. You already tap into them, how else do you think you could evade the ANBU in that orange jump suit? Or have uncanny luck, even come up with even more cunning plans?" She relished a bit in the stunned expression on the boys face as she pointed out that those were kitsune talents and traits.

"As long as I don't end up with a tails or Fox ears I think that would be pretty neat, plus it might actually help me when I kept trying to sneak into the library to read stuff." He thought of all the times he got caught and sent away from the library, or really any place that he would have learned something useful that wouldn't have left him as a dead last.

Walking from the water Inari cane to stand in front of him and bent over to look into his eyes, "I think I can manage that, now a good lesson for any Kitsune is to have a secret Den, one that no one knows about...Your mother had such a place and I will make sure that you find it when you are ready." She placed a kiss on his fore head, as energy surged from her and into him. Causing these changes and slowly taking all of his memories.

It was with a slight smirk to her lips, as she thought that some of the things he did were instinctual even if they were from forced training or hard learned lessons. Those would remain, and it was there that she hid certain bits of information. Nothing vital but once he started using those talents he would 'learn' something more about them.

The last push of energy from her, left her alone with an infant version of Naruto in her arms, a small kitsune resting on his belly. "Karyu will stay with you, in your mind to minimize the damage they will do to you here. As well as help you in other ways." She sat the two of them down, with a wink to the kitsune kit and vanished.

~Real World ~

Mere moments after the sealing, Minato lay next to his son, feeling his life leave him. "I'm sorry Naru-kun..." He reached out to place a final seal that would store part of himself in the seal in case it ever broke, as he pushed the last bit of himself into it he felt the seal burn and twist as it faded and left him still in his body only to be taken by the Death God.

The light faded from his eyes as his arm still curled around the nearly hours old infant. Whom was quiet and looking around as an energy seemed to engulf him, before it receded into his body. The only visible change to note was that his eyes had two rings of green in them, one on the outer edge the other around his pupil. The whisker marks remained, and his blond hair resembled that of the now dead man holding him.

….. Several years had passed since that day and the now six year old blond was seen running from a mob of villagers. It was the Sixth anniversary of the Demons defeat, and the sad drunken tradition of Naruto bashing was underway. They gave chase as the tried to herd him into a corner, but what they were to belligerent to understand was that cornering a fox was something not easily done. The few gashes and bruises on him were already healing and fading as he slipped through a slot in an old fence that surrounded a forest within the village. They didn't follow him, and hoped that whatever wild creatures within would finish him off.

He kept running until he tripped over a root that sent him tumbling over a small ledge. Landing with a thud, he laid there waiting for the stars to clear from his eyes. A few moments and some sobbing breathes later they did, to reveal to him that he fell into a ravine and right outside a small cavern entrance. He crawled inside, something about it just felt safe compared to being outside.

Going further and further into the entrance he noticed it was no longer loose rocks or dirt under his hands, but something that felt more like tiles from a floor. From somewhere in the roof of this place rays of silvery moon light filtered in and showed a lantern and some matches sitting on a table of some sort.

He ran to the table and started fumbling with the matches until he got the third one to light and stuck it into the lantern. Light filled the small room, that it turned out to be. A Small desk, several shelves and a few cabinets lined the walls, even a few scrolls laying on the desk. Curious he looked at the open one, seeing that the handwriting was very small and pretty. One scroll seemed to be a list of every thing that was here, or was suppose to be here. The other held a long list of names, several scratched out, leaving only one circled with a star next to it. 'Naruto'.

This of course only added to the small child's confusion, he may be six years old. But, having lived on his own since three, learning to scavenge for food, clothing and anything else he might need cause him to mature in a few certain ways leaving him under educated in several others. Naruto however knew enough to put a few things together, His name was the only one on that list so that in his mind made everything her his.

Looking over the other list, he saw it had weapons, and scrolls that had his last name on it. Clan scrolls, and then several on different jutsu types and even some that were storage scrolls of food, money, and clothes. All of which made him happy when his stomach protested loudly that he wasn't already eating from them. Which he of course had to find the scroll on sealing which took him a while, to find, then read so he knew how to use the food ones. Then he had to read several on something called chakra, which had confused him until he read on it.

Which led him to about six hours later working on a very basic control exercise, so that he could use his chakra to open the scroll with the food. But after Nearly seven hours he managed to push enough out to cause the scroll to release one of the small seals on it with food that was still warm. Digging into it he quickly fell asleep from exhaustion and a full belly.

The next day he woke up remembering where he was after a few moments and smiled. He had a place that now that there was sunlight streaming in through different places as well as the lantern, showed that no one had been here in a long time. Which in his mind meant finders keepers, and that was a game he was very good at.

The stuff about chakra was pretty cool in his mind, as well as it mentioned shinobi and ninja a lot. Which he wanted to be one. So he opened another of the seals and at the meal inside as he started looking over the other stuff in the hideaway. The list scroll helped him quite a bit as he found there were basic jutsu and elementals ones, History of the Uzumaki Clan, different fighting styles and and tons of stuff on sealing and history. Then there were what he had learned were storage scrolls with stuff for making traps, seals, different small things that might be useful for other things he couldn't even think of yet.

The one scroll on the list that made him giggle was one labeled 'Being a Ninja for Dobe'. Which he figured was a good place to start reading and maybe working on the chakra stuff too since he knew he would need that to be a ninja. So the small blond sat down at the bigger desk and started reading through the two scrolls.

Days passed into weeks as he stayed in this place, and several failed attempts with some of the things he found here. Naruto finally found clothes that one fit him, and two in his mind looked awesome. The tighter fitting pants, and shirt done in mostly black with the Uzu swirl on them. Along with a high collared black trench made him feel important and he thought he looked like some of the older ninja too.

It was after nearly three weeks of eating from the scroll of Heavenly Food, as he had started to call it, and hours of reading and working on his own writing as he wanted it to look just like the person who left all of this for him. That he realized that the old man might actually be worried about him. So sadly but feeling better about his super awesome hide out, he put everything away and cleaned himself up in the stream before he headed back into the village and straight to the Old mans office.

The small blond boy raced up the stairs of the tower, and slipped passed the secretary, she hated him anyways. Before he pushed open one of the wooden doors and slipped into the office, "Hi Jiji!"

The old man at the desk, snapped his head up from what appeared to be a small glass ball on his desk, "Naruto-kun.. I'm glad you are alright." He paused having watched him since the night he ran into the forest with the aide of his scrying ball. "You had me worried."

Naruto rubbed the back of his head, "Yea.. I kinda stayed in the forest longer than I thought. I'm sorry Jiji... But uhm.. can I be a ninja?" He asked with the dreaded puppy-eyes that all children seem to have when they truly want something.

The old man, also known as Sarutobi Hiruzen the Third Hokage, sighed. " If that's really what you want to do, I will take you to the Academy and register you after lunch." He braced himself for the hyperactive reaction that usually followed from Naruto when something he liked happened yet it didn't come. Just a happy smile and a few nervous jitters of his hands and fingers.

Naruto was struggling to not show how excited he was, since the scroll he read said that real ninja don't show their emotions. He was trying but it was so HARD."Ok Jiji.. Uhm.. yea.." He decided not to tell him about his secret place. He didn't want anyone to know about it, since they might take it away from him.

Knowing somewhat of what Naruto was going to say, it didn't really surprise him the boy decided to keep it a secret. He may be the Hokage but the council kept his hands tied as much as they could when it dealt with Naruto. They didn't understand, or they did but refused to see him as just a child. He did what he could but he knew and felt it was never enough seeing what this young boy had gone through."Well let's go and have some ramen and then we can go to the academy. This office is getting to stuffy anyways." He chuckled, aside from that he would be getting away from the Paperwork 'Shudders'.

It was a small fight once they reached the academy, had he not been the Hokage he doubted Naruto would have been registered. It only made him slightly glad that Naruto had Kushina's study to learn from. It had taken a few threats and a dose of his killing intent to get the small boy enrolled in the academy. He would explain to the Council once they heard of this, or rather once they called him into their meeting, that it was the only way to ensure that the demon remained sealed inside the boy. Since it was his chakra that powered the seal.

Though no one remembered or knew that things had changed hopefully for the better. But now they were back in his office, "Naruto. I know you can tell that you probably won't be treated fairly at the academy. This will be a hard lesson, but look underneath the underneath," he said locking eyes with the boy. "Also, a true Shinobi never brags or reveals his true skills. He only shows them when they are needed or when myself asks or gives you permission to show them alright?"

Naruto felt there was more to what the old man was saying, but it made sense with what he had read so far. "Sure thing Jiji." Besides, that would go to close to telling anyone about where he learned it, and that would get them all taken away. Both were thinking close to the same lines, though the Hokage was more in depth, as he wasn't prepared yet. Naruto was the Uzumaki Heir, and as the clan had an alliance with the village Naruto wasn't bound to stay there since they were mistreating him. But perhaps he might make friends in the academy, it was one of the reasons he made the law against speaking about what the boy contained. He hoped in time that it would be forgotten since they couldn't speak of it. He also cursed the fact that Jiraiya wasn't here to protect the boy as his godfather.