I do not own Naruto obviously.

Chapter 1: the beginning of the road

"We want him." the Hokage blinked in surprise at the request sitting on his desk, it was the most informal recruitment letter of recommendation he had ever seen. It was on a napkin and it said "we want Naruto Uzumaki" proudly written big and bold. there were tears in places where the pen had caught on the napkin. He had only seen this once before, six years ago when the ANBU had wanted Itachi Uchiha for their own, then it had been on an actual official form with proper signatures, and he had not one but all eight of the team leaders, and their sixteen different squad leaders in his office begging. this time it was one, she probably drew the short end of the stick he realized, but he wasn't going to let that get to him.

"what in the actual fuck makes you think that I am going to allow you to recruit a six-year-old into the ANBU. not six-year-old genin, or a six-year-old chunin, but a six-year-old failing academy student!" the window behind him had shattered and blew out and he had risen like an angry god appearing larger than life and ready to kill.

"Lord Hokage we believe with proper management and the right training we could have potentially the best shinobi the world has ever seen. He has shown numerous times with his pranks and afterwards his escapes that he has the patients and skill for it when he outran numerous chunin and one or two jonin that managed to get into the chases, despite being the lowest of his class we have ruled it out to him being a gifted child who is bored what he does pick up he picks up fast and what he doesn't pay attention to are mostly classes he knows or in his mind are pointless." the ANBU had pulled out a manila folder and handed it to him.

Hiruzen looked over the dossier taking note at how well put together this was, the napkin now that he thought about it was probably for shock value as he saw probably hundreds of letters a day just none on a napkin. Reading through it he could see that while it lacked in some areas it deserved some thought now that his initial anger had been shattered by his ANBU's calm behavior. He leaned back in his chair reaching for his pipe while he did "what would the plan be?"

The agent in front of him looked a little too eager and probably didn't expect to get this far "we have a two-year training program prepped with a focus of building his body into prime shape along with chakra enhancement techniques and beginning lessons in hand to hand and swordplay" another packet was handed to him "during this time he would receive no missions. during that phase, two would start, minor missions around Konoha and war games alongside fellow ANBU along with training, now with actual ninjutsu and genjutsu. Phase 3 about 5 years from now, he would begin taking missions around fire country with a more administrative approach to training, with moderate technical skills being trained as well, and phase 4 he would be a fully-fledged ANBU with a specialty starting to appear."

Hiruzen continued to look over the plan and report idly smoking his pipe, ANBU presented a strong case there was just one thing he wanted to know "what about"

Naruto hated the academy about as much as he hated walking through the streets while his fellow kids never really gave him the truly hateful glares and the quiet whispers that the adults did, they did however almost never talk to him and when they did it was mostly rude names, and insults, the fact that he was two years younger than anyone else in his class didn't help at all with the situation.

But that didn't matter none of it would matter he would show them all when he was the best, at what he didn't know the strange old man that visited him once before starting the academy seemed to be respected maybe he could work his way into that position, his musing was interrupted by the silence of the rest of the class. they had been waiting outside the classroom door after lunch to be let back in when the most badass looking ninja he had ever seen walked down the hallway her mask was cool, her armor was cool, she even had a sword across her back like a badass. he knew exactly what he would be now just like her she walked by them without even looking down and they all stared up eyes wide with awe, then before there very eyes, she disappeared into thin air! The murmurs of wow and one holy shit from a daring young kid were interrupted by their classroom door sliding open "alright brats get in here" the filed in one by one greeting their sensei once the class was seated he began. "this afternoon we will be starting the first shinobi war studies, now did anyone read ahead" Naruto promptly fell asleep.

When Naruto woke up it was not where he had been expecting instead of his classroom and instead of being awoken by an eraser it had been some cold as water and he was strapped to a chair and a very dark room "what the fuck!" he was promptly smacked in the face.

"Where did you learn that language" he didn't recognize the voice and obviously couldn't see, so he used a string of words that he learned from the conversation between two guys next to his apartment.

"From your mum" instead of getting slapped this time they punched him, he should have expected that it was the same reaction that had happened in the conversation he had seen. he knew what would come next after the next few words "you hit like her too"

rat-2 was going to have a blast with this, he and his partner snake-16 were naruto's first glimpse into the ANBU they were supposed to be his guide throughout the entire six-year training process and the pillars of his training and snake-16 was already one-minute and thirty-seven seconds in, beating the shit out of the kid she stopped smacking him around two-minutes and twenty seconds "that's it, my own mother dishes it out better than you and she's dead" two-minuets and thirty-eight and she was back at it.

"You quick for a six-year-old" rat-2 said Snake-16 had stopped three-minuets and forty-five seconds. Naruto remained silent looking in his general direction he spat one of his teeth on the ground. "well your tough kid so I'm going to feed it to you straight welcome to the ANBU I'm rat-2 and this is snake-16 we are here to guide you and keep you to your schedule we're gonna make you the best shinobi out there." The lights flickered on showing himself and snake-16

"starting today you will receive all the necessary training, nutrition, and skills to turn you into a one-hundred percent effective ANBU operator" she reached over and tossed new clothes at him "now change into these your training starts in exactly twenty minutes."

"can you untie me please!" naruto begged at them snake-16 walked away her laughter being heard even after she left the room rat-2 moved to exit as well

"good luck kid."

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