Konoha's Red Fox

by BeTheRevolution

Adopted by Kakashi after a brutal attack in his childhood, Naruto is raised by ANBU. Suddenly the Third Hokage gives Naruto a secret mission forcing his resignation from ANBU. The Mission Prerogatives- 1. Become a Genin with his class from the academy 2. Ensure Sasuke's loyalty to the Village Hidden in the Leaves 3. Protect Konoha from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

1. The Day That Changed It All

Alright you guys, here it is. The final redo on my first and only story, Konoha's Red Fox. I apologize profusely for not writing for over the past year. Seriously. Not cool. Anyway, to make up for it, I am making a promise right here and now (or whenever you might read this) that I will update and finish this story. I have an idea on how many chapters and how long I want this to be, but I'll let yall know when the end approaches.

"Normal Speaking"

'Thinking'

Jutsu

"Tailed Beast Speakimg"

'Tailed Beast Thinking'

BeTheRevolution Presents and Epic tale of Ninja's, being badasses, saving princesses, and saving the World.

Konoha's Red Fox

Chapter 1: The Day That Changed It All

Naruto was on one of the numerous training fields that surrounded Konoha, the military stronghold of the Land of Fire. Naruto, being the not so intelligent person that he is, decided that he was going to take the Genin Exam a whole three and a half years before he should, attempting to prove that he was strong, not only to himself, but to his "Jiji" Hiruzen Sarutobi and his protector, Inu. Only flaw in Naruto's plan was that out of the three jutsu that was needed to graduate, the damn Clone Jutsu was the only jutsu that he could not perform no matter how hard he tried or how long he attempted to train on it. Sighing for what seemed like the millionth time that hour Naruto reluctantly make the seals needed to create the clones, channeled the smallest amount of chakra that he could possibly imagine, and hoped for the best when the smoke released showing an attempted jutsu. When the smoke dissipated, it revealed a sick look-a-like Naruto lying on the ground. In his frustration, he pulled out a kunai he had managed to scavenge from the training ground that someone had left behind, and threw it at the clone, dispelling the failed jutsu. Flopping on the ground, Naruto laid out staring at the clouds floating around. Unknown to him though, one of his unseen ANBU protectors made a decision that would change everything. Disobeying one of the few rules given to him by the Sandaime, he hopped out of the tree, stowed his prized Icha-Icha novel signed by Jariya the Toad Sannin himself, and walked towards Naruto.

"Yo."

Surprised by the sudden voice, Naruto jumped onto his feet and charged the man with a kunai in his hand. Not really surprised by his reaction, the agent grabbed Naruto's wrist at the perfect moment and flung the kunai across the training field. Realizing he was weaponless, Naruto proceeded to kick and punch at his attacker. Not really wanting to deal with an aggressive child, the man waited till a kick came close enough, and grabbed his ankle, and held Naruto upside down until he stopped swinging. Realizing he was beaten, Naruto looked at the person holding him upside down and realized that it was the person he sensed around him all the time. Suddenly Naruto was dropped on his head, and he rolled around until his head stopped hurting him, and looked up at the man again.

"Now Naruto, are you done? If so, nod your head up and down."

Naruto nodded his head up and down.

"Good. You and I are going to have a talk, okay? We can sit here, and I will ask some questions and I want you to respond truthfully. Understand?"

Once again, Naruto nodded his head.

"You can call me Kakashi. Tell me something. Why do you constantly sign up to take the Genin Exam early? You constantly fail no matter what you do."

"I'm taking the exam to prove to Hokage-Jiji that I'm a strong ninja, and so I can take the hat from him! It's my dream to be Hokage, believe it! And I know that it's going to happen one day, just watch! Except that I can get this damn jutsu to work. I can't ever get it to work right. I've tried at least a thousand times, and every time what shows up is an extremely sick looking copy of me!" Naruto replied.

"Well, I can tell you one thing. Your problem isn't with the clone jutsu, it's with your chakra and your chakra control." Kakashi said.
"What do you mean my chakra? I'm pushing the smallest amount that I can manage into it!" Naruto exclaimed.

'Just great. Now I'm a unofficial teacher besides being a glorified babysitter, certified assassin, torture specialist and wanted by three different nations each for twenty million ryo.' Kakashi thought to himself.

Entering the lecture mode, Kakashi summoned a board with some chalk and a pointer out of thin air. Naruto thought that that was pretty cool. Trying to pay attention, he noticed that Kakashi was drawing these weird stick figures on the board.
"Uh, Kakashi? Why are you drawing on the board? I thought you were explaining why the jutsu isn't working for me." Naruto asked.

"Patience, young grasshopper. Give me two more seconds and all will be explained." Kakashi replied without losing attention to the stick figures he was drawing. Once finished, he turned around and extended the pointer to begin his explanation.

"So first off, all jutsus are powered using chakra. The Clone Jutsu is one of the simplest jutsus ever. The Clone Jutsu is ranked in the E-Class jutsus, along with the Henge Jutsu and the Kawarmi Jutsu. There are five classes, the lowest being E, and the highest being S. Each class has its own set of "requirements" to be met before one can use the jutsu from that class. For example, an Academy student doesn't have enough chakra to perform anything above a C-Class, if they are lucky. If that student attempted to perform an A-Class jutsu when they didn't have enough chakra to perform the jutsu, they would instantly die, no ifs ands or buts about it. On the opposite end of te spectrum, if someone who had too much chakra attempted to perform a lower rank jutsu than say a C-Class, they would likely overpower the jutsu, or in your case, make it fail. Understand?" Kakashi said after he finished his lecture.

"So basically, I have way too much chakra to be trying the Clone Jutsu? Why didn't you just say that?" Naruto said.

"That is a very good question. I don't know why."

"So if I have too much chakra to be using this jutsu, what jutsu am I going to use to pass the Genin Exam?" Naruto said, starting to freak out a little bit.

'Clam down, you little brat." Kakashi said, walking up to Naruto and slapping him upside his head. "I know the higher ranked variant of the Clone Jutsu, called the Shadow Clone Jutsu. If you're anything like your parents, you'll get this like a fish swimming in water."

'Damn it Kakashi. Way to go, you just revealed an S-class secret that he isn't supposed to know for a while.' Kakashi thought to himself. Fortunately for him, Naruto wasn't paying to what he was saying anymore as he was hyped up for learning a new jutsu that would finally help him. Sighing in relief, Kakashi waited on Naruto to sit down and shut up, and waited, and wait some more, and waited until he couldn't wait anymore, which was a long time. Finally he punched Naruto on the top of his head to get his attention, which finally worked.

"Ahh! What the hell was that for you jack-ass!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Pay attention." Kakashi replied. "Now that your attention is on me, the sign to perform the jutsu is a double cross like so." Kakashi then showed the sign to Naruto.

"So that's it? Only one sign?" Naruto asked. Kakashi nodded his head. Turning around, Kakashi jumped into one of the trees in the training ground and leaned against the trunk and watched Naruto mold his chakra on the ground. Kakashi started to nod off unexpecantly, and went to sleep. Naruto, not paying attention to Kakashi, was trying to complete the jutsu. Steeling his resolve, he set out to complete his task.

*** Later the Evening ***

Kakashi woke up from his unexpected nap sluggish and dazed. Attempting to remember where he was and what he was doing there, he realized that Naruto wasn't anywhere near him. Freaking out slightly, he rose and ran towards the Hokage Monument, one of Naruto's usual rendezvous, to try and find out where he is. On the other side of the village is where Naruto really was, at Ichiraku Ramen, where Naruto claimed that they made noodles fit for a God. He was currently on his eleventh bowl, not even close to his record of fifty that he set a few years back. Suddenly, a man grabbed Naruto and put him in a choke hold without revealing himself to anyone else in the building.

"You're coming with me; we have some business to deal with." The man whispered in Naruto's ear. The unknown person pulled Naruto out of the ramen stand and shunshined away, without alerting anyone to his presence.

A few minutes later, Kakashi, with his ANBU mask on, walked into the stand looking for Naruto. He noticed a bowl of ramen sitting normally where Naruto sat, but dismissed it as someone else's, because Naruto would never leave a bowl of ramen uneaten… unless he was forced. That thought crossed Kakashi's mind and he hope that it was just his pessimistic mindset. He walked up to the counter where Ayame was drying the bowls she had just finished washing. He thought about the dossier on the Ichiraku's that the Sandaime had made, to protect Naruto of course. Teuchi Ichiraku moved to Konoha some thirty odd years ago and opened the ramen stand with the help of his wife. They eventually had a child, Ayame Ichiraku, who helped in the ramen stand from the moment she could walk. Unfortunately, when the Kyuubi attacked Konoha, Teuchi's wife was one of the thousands of casualties on that horrible night. Due to this, the two were under intense scrutiny when Naruto first started coming here two years ago. Kakashi was happy to say that the two Ichiraku's never thought badly of Naruto, even though he did house the demon that killed Teuchi's wife and Ayame's mother. Realizing that he was close enough to Ayame, he coughed to get her attention.

"Ahem, Miss Ayame? Can you come here? I need to ask you something extremely important."

"Of course Inu-san. What is the matter?" Ayame asked, setting the bowl and rag down on the counter and turning to Kakashi.

"Have you seen Naruto recently? You see, he was at one of the training grounds, and for some reason I can't explain, I took a nap, and when I woke up, Naruto was gone. I've checked all of his other usual spots and this was the last one that I haven't checked."
"Oh! Naruto was just in here! He was sitting… right there." Ayame said pointing to the bowl of ramen on the counter. "Weird. Naruto never leaves a bowl of ramen uneaten. Ever."
'Great. Something has definitely happened to him now, and I have to find him before it gets any worse.' Kakashi thought to himself. Looking back up at Ayame, He nodded his head in appreciation to the information that she had given to him. "Thank you Miss. I'll be leaving now." Kakashi turned around and walked out as calmly as he could. Once he was out of sight of the ramen stand, Kakashi started to freak out. He jumped up to the roofs to get to ANBU HQ faster. Thinking to himself, he started a mental list of the people that the Hokage had ANBU keep eyes on due to them mentioning harming Naruto. He then shortened the list to people that had any training in stealth, which shortened the list considerably to two people. Mioba Tensuka and Tenin Dioba was the people Kakashi would be looking for, along with the rest of ANBU that wasn't on a mission or on vacation, which wasn't a considerable number. Pressing a button on his mic the device crackled to life, ready to transmit any sound to all other radios on and tuned to the ANBU only frequency.

"Inu reporting in. Shinobi I.D number 009720. Kidnap in progress, two suspects in case. Names and descriptions as follows. Mioba Tensuka, age 20, retired Genin at age 15 when Kyuubi attacked killing his immediate family and fiancé. Dark hair color, five foot four inches tall, medium build. If found take into custody immediately and transport to Morino Ibiki in Torture and Interrogation. Tenjin Dioba, age 25, active Shinobi, Jonin rank, lost wife and child to Kyuubi. Light brown hair, five foot seven inches tall, stocky build. Same instructions as said earlier. Do not attempt to fight the two; they are our only link to our abductee." Kakashi said, speaking into the microphone as clear as he could while running across Konoha as fast has he could towards HQ. Almost immediately, one of his only friends left in the entire world responded to the transmission.

"This is Neko. Who was kidnapped, Inu-Taicho?"

Kakashi only replied in one word. "Kitsune." After that, Kakashi turned off his mic and sped up, hoping to get to HQ to group up people to help find Naruto and the two suspects and was silently praying to any deity that would listen that nothing happened to Naruto. He really didn't want to be on the receiving end of Kushina's anger when she found out that he let something happen to her son.

*** With Naruto ***

Naruto was really hoping that someone was looking for him at this point. First off, this jack-ass holding onto him had pulled him away from ramen! You don't pull someone away from an unfinished bowl of ramen for Kami's sake! It just doesn't happen. Second, Naruto could sense something going on in the man's chakra. It felt like anger, fear, rage, and hopelessness all rolled into one guy and he was currently holding onto Naruto and running to who knows where, well the guy knew, but that's not the point. The point was the ass had pulled Naruto away from his uneaten ramen! Finally opening his mouth for the first time, the first thing that Naruto said really pissed the guy off.

"So, I'm assuming she rejected you because of the small penis?"

The man slammed his feet into the ground, creating divots in the dry dirt. He grabbed Naruto by the hair and slammed his head into one of the trees in the clearing they had stopped in. He grabbed multiple kunai and proceeded to pin Naruto the tree using Naruto's small windbreaker and the kunai. The man stepped back after he was finished, admiring his handiwork. Cracking his knuckles, he grinned and walked up towards Naruto, and unexpecantly punched Naruto in his nose, breaking it in one quick motion. Naruto moaned in pain, never expecting to get hit in his nose of all places. He barely had any time to gather his thoughts when the guy started punching Naruto all over his body. Head, face, stomach, throat, eyes, all of Naruto's body suddenly became a huge target for this guy to hit as he pleased. In his mind, Naruto was praying someone found him soon, or he was going to die. Suddenly, a punch to his temple knocked him smooth out. His last thought before he blacked out was 'maybe I shouldn't have mentioned his penis.'

*** In Naruto's Mindscape ***

'Huh. Why did shit-head throw me into a sewer? That's weird.' Naruto thought, not noticing his thoughts were broadcasted, cause ya know, he's inside his mind. Walking around aimlessly and without purpose, Naruto began to ponder on why his mindscape was a sewer of all things. Not noticing where he was walking, he ran straight into a gate made out of metal bars.

"WHO THE HELL PUTS METAL BARS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREAKING SEWER! I'M GOING TO KICK THEIR ASS!" Naruto yelled, rubbing the growing bump on his head. Hearing something chuckling behind the bars, Naruto jumped up and ran away, just in the nick of time too. A huge red paw was placed where Naruto was just moments ago. If he hadn't of moved, he would have become Naruto pancakes. Nasty, he thought to himself.

"No, human pancakes actually taste very good, I'll have you know you little runt." A dark menacing voice said from beyond the bars. Slowly the mass that had spoken revealed itself from the shadows in the cage. To his shock, the figure was revealed to be a gigantic red fox with nine tails. Wait a minute, Naruto thought, and recounted the tails again just to confirm. Grinning while watching his host break down slowly but surely, the massive fox laid his head on his front paws crisscrossed.

Noticing the fox was staring at him, Naruto asked, "It's Kyuubi right? Why are you in this sewer?"
"Oh look! The little rat knows something for once!" The Kyuubi said, mocking Naruto.

"And who's locked in a cage?" Naruto said in reply, which shut the Kyuubi down, who then started muttering obscenities about the Fourth Hokage and the "damn crazy red head" and how he'd tear them apart if he saw them again. Not listening to the mutterings of the huge fox, Naruto zoned out, at least until he noticed blood soaking his orange shirt underneath his slightly torn up jacket.
"Uh, Kyuubi? Help me?" Naruto managed to squeak out before he collapsed face down into the sewer. Hearing the splash, Kyuubi turned towards Naruto and noticed the blood diffusing through the water at an advanced rate.

'Aw, hell. What have you gotten yourself into now, kit?' Kyuubi thought to himself. Taking a tail's worth of chakra and pushing it through the seal wasn't a difficult task, but splitting it in equal half's to heal Naruto and give him the partial transformation was another thing. Kyuubi focused completely on helping Naruto, because if Naruto died, he would die. Simple as that. He didn't care for the little runt, even though he was Kushina's son. Noticing Naruto's body was fading, which signified he was leaving his mind, Kyuubi sighed in relief, showing that he completed his part correctly. "Alright kit. This is it. Fight!"

*** Outside the Mindscape ***

Naruto opened his eyes and saw that he was where he was previously, but he had a kunai sticking out of his chest. Grunting, Naruto grabbed the handle of the kunai, and pulled as hard and as fast as he could to try and minimize the damage. When Naruto succeeded in removing the kunai from his chest, the gaping hole left in his chest immediately started to close. Looking at the man who had attacked him, he noticed the fear in his eyes. Realizing the Kyuubi had loaned him some chakra, Naruto tapped into it, and the chakra surrounding him elongated his teeth and his fingernails, and made his whiskers more pronounced. Startled, the man stepped and started to stutter.

"You d-demon! I'm going to finish what Lord Fourth and Lady Uzumaki failed to complete! Your life is mine today!

The man grabbed the last kunai from his holder, and held it in a reverse grip, and charged at Naruto. Naruto sighed and held his own kunai in the same grip as the man and charged as well.

*** With Kakashi ***

Kakashi was in the Situation Room with the most important people in Konoha, the Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, the ANBU commander Tora, and Shikaku Nara, the Hokage's Jonin commander. Kakashi was in the middle of a sentence when he felt something that he never wanted to feel again; the Kyuubi's chakra. And he wasn't the only one who felt it. All of the people present felt the malice and hatred that that chakra contained, and looked towards the man in charge of everything. Hiruzen didn't hesitate for a moment. He started to issue orders to prepare for the worst.

"Shikaku, issue the order for all active ninja to prepare for an exodus. You will receive a message from me when I have assessed the situation. Tora, go fetch Neko. Inu and I will need his assistance." Hiruzen ordered.

The two saluted to their Hokage, and ran off to complete their tasks. Hiruzen and Kakashi then ran out of the building towards Naruto hoping that they managed to get there before the worst happened. The two were running across roof tops and leaping from building to building as fast as possible with chakra augmentation. When they reached the forest surrounding Konoha, Hiruzen and Kakashi spammed the Shunshin Jutsu as much as they could without tiring themselves out. The duo finally reached where Naruto was after their all-out dash, and the scene that greeted them made the two want to puke. They saw the tree where Naruto was pinned and the blood on the tree from where Naruto's chest was pierced by the kunai. They saw gouges in the earth from Earth Jutsu are being used, evidently to try and smash something or someone in this case. And in the middle of the clearing was Naruto, sitting next to a man's body, holding a bloody kunai. He had obviously been crying, because he had tear streaks on his face still. Hearing the two approach, Naruto jumped up, dropped the kunai, and hugged Hiruzen around the waist and let go of the down pour that he holding back.

"J-jiji, I-I'm sorry! I-I didn't mean t-to h-hurt h-him! P-please don't be m-mad a-at me!" Naruto said, slightly muffled due to his face being covered by cloth.

Hiruzen let a sad smile grow on his face. On one hand, Naruto completed something that most shinobi are able to avoid in their entire career, but on the other hand, Naruto just killed someone, albeit in self-defense. Kneeling next to Naruto, Hiruzen placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder.

"Naruto-kun, don't be upset. You managed to stop that man from hurting you anymore. I understand what you are going through though. I've killed many people before, but I have managed to get past my actions, because they benefited Konoha in some form. All I have done in my life I have done for the betterment of the place I live in. But this isn't the proper place to talk about this sober thought. Kakashi here will bring you to the hospital, and I will come and check on you tomorrow, okay?"

Naruto looked at Hiruzen's face directly and nodded. Hiruzen motioned towards Kakashi, who came forwards and picked Naruto up and Shunshined away to the hospital. Standing all the way up, Hiruzen motioned to one of the ANBU who had shown up to stage the area to make it look like a foreign shinobi attacked and killed this thing that could barely be called a human. Sarutobi turned around and walked back towards the village formulating plans centered around Naruto, wishing he had his smoking pipe.

End Chapter One

A/N: Holy Hell! This rewrite took me way longer to actually write than I wanted it to, and I apologize for that. But hey, new milestone for me! 3,780 words in my first chapter alone! That's 300-400 more than the original! But I just wanted to thank all the people that have reviewed or PM'ed me, encouraging I write this story. So I decided to do so. Anyway, thanks to all the loyal readers that have been waiting on this.

Signing off,

BeTheRevolution