Alright, here's a new angle for you, what if Sarutobi hadn't protected Naruto like he did, what if Naruto had to grow up on his own without the protection of Anbu, using only his skills and foxy nature. If Hinata was a complete bitch instead of the shy kind girl she was, Our young hero lost someone at a tender age and Sasuke wasn't a psycho, but a understanding person and Sarutobi also had a granddaughter that's what this story is. Warning, elements of Aladdin. Naruto/OC/?. Sasuke/OC/?
Naruto : Konoha's Winged Nin
"God speech"/'thought'
"Demon/summon speech", 'thought'
"Human speech"/'thought'
Jutsu
-flashback/scene change/time-
-Aftermath of the Kyuubi attack-
Minato smiled at the infant in his arms, the boy was silent even after the burden that has just been placed on him, he then scowled at what the Shinigami had told him just minutes ago. 'They will do what you'd wish? That is a thought in vain Namikaze Minato, they will treat him an outcast and a monster for what you've done! They will abuse your sacrifice and make him suffer. Though …I am not a cruel enough god to let my sacrifice suffer, if it makes you feel better, before I take you, you may place any three additional seals you wish on him, I don't want to eat someone with guilt on their mind, it makes for a bad sandwich later on. What seals? Well that my dear Namikaze Minato, is your decision… you have ten minutes until you die. Use them wisely', smiling slightly to himself, Minato placed the 3 seals on the boy, a genetic memory seal, a medical seal. And as a final extra precaution if it was true that the villagers didn't respect his wishes, a full release. The genetic memory seal would place all the Jutsu and knowledge he knew into the boy as well as a goodbye message and his mind. The medical seal would let him change chakra into medical chakra without the necessary control or concentration, and the full release, well you don't really need to guess what it releases. He passed the boy to an Anbu who was next to him, and said, barely over a whisper, "Make sure no' one interferes with him, Yugao-chan, don't let them turn my son into a weapon," and with that, Namikaze Minato passed away, eaten by the Shinigami.
The young girl stared at Naruto as he yawned and snuggled into her, the one thought passed though the girls head, 'Those whisker marks are soooooooo KAWAII!.'
-8 years later-
We now see our young hero in a red zip sleeveless vest, two matching sweat bands with the leaf's symbol in green, baggy and worn white trousers and a bandana that covered his unusual bright blond hair, in black ninja sandals, hoping from roof to roof, a small red fox bounding beside him easily. Chasing after them were a couple of civilians and Shinobi, though apparently they were not having as fun a time as he was.
"Come back here filthy demon!" one man in a Chunin vest a pineapple cut and a scar over his nose shouted. "I'll head for this!"
'All this for a loaf of bread?' he thought to himself, "Come on Scarface-san! You've been chasing me for three years so far and have always yelled out that same line! Put a little more variety into our daily Exercise shall we!" he shouted over his shoulder, then looking at the loaf under his arm. Taking it had been easy, keeping it while roof hopping and staying out of the grasp of the Chunin, that was the hard part.
He looked behind him to see if they'd gained any, when the fox beside him loudly yipped suddenly and his attention was turned to the fact he just stepped over the side of a building. 'Aw crud,' were his thoughts as he fell off the building grabbing clothes lines as they came to slow his decent, though, the clothes that came loose didn't help any. Landing on an old mattress broke the fall, but didn't make it any less painful when all the clothes came down and sandwiched him. Groaning to himself he moved the clothes from himself and took a thong of his head that said "eat me out" on the front, stretching it a few times, Naruto threw it over his shoulder, not understanding how adults found shit like that appealing. Hearing a commotion from the roof tops, he took the time to look up at the Chunin.
"You won't get away so easily Demon!" one of the Chunin shouted from atop the roof.
"They thought that was easy?" he said to the small fox at his side, who just shrugged it's fore legs.
Running out onto the street he looked around and saw two of the very small list of people he considered friends.
"Getting into trouble a little early, aren't we Naruto-chan?" the taller of the two, Yuhii Kurenai grinning and the was a Chunin with long silky black hair, and very unique eyes, a red in colour rivalling that of any Uchiha's Sharingan, with an additional ring in them, her outfit consisted of mesh Armor, as well as a red blouse with only the right sleeve visible "I use it to disorientate my opponents," she had once said. Over this was what resembles bandages with a pattern on it similar to those of rose thorns, over which was a custom flak Chunin vest. Her hands were also wrapped in bandages and she wore the Konoha Hitai-ate with regular Shinobi sandals.
"What'd you do this time Gaki?" the other one Mitarashi Anko asked with a sadistic grin. Anko was an eccentric Kunoichi with light brown, pupil-less eyes. Her violet hair is done up in a short, somewhat spiky ponytail, peacock style. Her usual attire was made of a tan overcoat, complete with a fitted mesh body suit that stretches from her neck down to her thighs. The mesh was somewhat transparent, since her body could be seen underneath, a "very useful tactic" she had once told him, "catches a mans eye to stare where they shouldn't" she said, but who was he but a humble street kid to question the motives of a Special Jonin. She wore a dark orange skirt, as well as a Hitai-ate around her forehead, and a small pendant, with shin guards. On the side of her neck was a strange tattoo, eerily similar to the Sharingan.
"Got a loaf of fresh bread to feed myself and Kai and they start chasing me out of nowhere!" Naruto whined, Kai just padded up and gave the two puppy… or in this case, kit eye's, the two instantly squealed 'Kawai' and picked up the small kit hugging it. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the group that was chasing him before round a corner. Instantly he slid under the table and pulled Kai by the leg under with him. Just in time too, because the group came over, keeping eye's pealed.
"Excuse me Yuhii-san Mitarashi-san," Can't you just hear the sarcasm in there? "have you seen the Demon child and that filthy kitsune servant he keeps with him?" the Chunin with a scar over his nose and hair in the pineapple cut asked.
"Haven't seen him Umino-san what about you Anko-chan" she asked feigning ignorance,
Anko just looked over and with smiled seductively. "Me neither I-ru-ka-kun," she purred out pushing her arms together, giving him clear view of her cleavage through the fishnet body suit. As she predicted, Iruka's face went red.
"O-okay j-jus-t t-ell u-us i-if y-you s-ee him" he stuttered, with a bright red face and a notable bulge in his pants, and the pants of the other Chunin as well. And with that, the group of Chunin left.
"Nai-chan, remind me to wash my mouth out later," Anko said finishing her drink just in one go. "I hate having to talk like that."
Naruto climbed up and sat in one of the empty chairs, Kai sitting happily on his shoulder, swaying his fluffy tail slowly across Naruto's back.
"Thanks Anko-nee-chan, Kurenai-nee-chan, I've done enough running today."
"It's okay Naru-chan," Kurenai said softly. "Your always welcome with us and Yugao-chan."
One of the waiters came in to see what he wanted, this one was friendly with Naruto because Kurenai and Anko were the shops best customers, so they also liked him, that and the fact he had a large appetite helped too. He took up the menu and chose the fruit dango, while Kai put his paw at the place where the chicken dango was, a few minutes later the two were eating, Naruto was holding the two Kai was eating from his shoulder while he held the stick.
After finishing their meal, Naruto said goodbye and apologised for being a burden.
Before the two could say anything he was on his way, no dust cloud, no tracks, just sped off.
" Hey Nai-chan, how the hell does he do that? Not even Hana-chan or her
Inu-nin can find him once he's off like that!" Anko pouted before continuing her rant. "I've got to get him to teach me that some time!"
"Ditto this end, with it, we might even to be able to take Kakashi-Hentai's filthy Icha, Icha collection and burn it on him," Kurenai said, an evil smirk growing on her beautiful face.
"Ohhhh, Nai-chan has an evil streak, Anko likely," She said, pushing her sizable chest into the red eyed temptress's, making the older of the two blush a shade that rivaled her eyes.
"Not her Anko-chan, we're in public!" Kurenai whispered a mix between turned on and irritated.
"Awwwwwww!" She whined pouting cutely, then she started smiling again. "Then back to the apartment!" she shouted enthusiastically running off, huge cloud trail flying behind her dragging Kurenai by the wrist.
'Why me?' was Kurenai's only thought.
-Somewhere under Konoha-.
"Report Sora! Where is Hyo?" an old voice said through the darkness a man in a cloak and a blank mask with a carving of the kanji 'NE' on the forehead, was kneeling in front of the man.
"Hai, Danzo-sama, on arriving on the co-ordinates, we used the artefacts to summon the cave, as per-ordered. We were about to step into the cave when it spoke…" the man said sceptically, as though he was doubting what he saw.
-Flashback-
The team assembled by Danzo stood in front of a huge cliff face, a huge arch carved into the cliff. At chest level, there was two tomoe indentations, in the centre, the apparent leader, one with a large katana on his back, stepped forward and brought out two tomoe shaped objects. A black canine like design and a silver bird design. Inserting them into the indentations, he twisted the two anti clockwise and leaped back. The cliff face began to morph and pull out of the cliff, into the face of a tiger.
"Who dares disturb me slumber," the tiger head asked dangerously.
One of the masked nin with a blue snowflake design walked out from the group. The man with the katana on his back pushed him foreword making him stumble for a moment before righting himself.
"Hyo of root, a Shinobi of Danzo-sama" he said quickly, trying to mask his fear of the giant tiger head in front of him.
"Very well Hyo of root, but know this… only one may enter, one who's sins lie not from their actions but the actions of one within. The jewel in the seas of glass " it said opening it's massive maw it's teeth glimmering in the moon and star light. "Enter at your own peril."
Hyo stepped forth, taken a hesitant step forward, the eerie breathing telling his instincts not safe, when nothing bad happened, he looked in to the mouth to see a long line of stairs forming out of sand. Seeing nothing wrong he started his decent, only for the stairs to give way, and an ear shattering roar came from the bottom making him lose his balance. Falling backwards, his eyes widened when they saw the giant tigers teeth come down on him, severing his head from his body. The tiger head rumbled angrily melding back with the wall, but before it melded fully, it imparted one last piece of wisdom. "If you are to come back here, Search for me a jewel in the sea of glass," the voice reverberated through the desert air.
The root looked at one and other before one shook his head. "Danzo-sama is not going to like this…"
-flashback end-
"Jewel in the sea of glass?" Danzo repeated monotonically. 'Now where have I heard that before?' he thought. He shook his head, clearing his searching's. 'No matter,' he though idly to himself. He would find this person, then the artefacts from the cave would be primed and ready for the village of Konoha.
-Konoha Village Park-
Naruto and Kai were lying on a branch that overlooked the playground his bandana tied around his arm letting his spiky golden locks swaying in the light summer breeze, how he longed to enter during the day, when there were kids to play with. But the adults kept him at arms length, never letting him play or have the attention he knew was in his fundamental rights.
"You're a Demon! YOU don't HAVE rights!" the voice of the orphanage matron screeched in the back of his mind
"Hey, you on the branch with the cute little fox!" a high pitched voice from below him shouted, breaking him from his depressed musings. Looking down, he saw a girl with shaggy brown hair, wearing a red knee-length dress with white flowers on it, footwear, she had red ninja sandals. Narrowing his eyes he put up a mask of annoyance, not wanting the girl to get in trouble for associating with him, just like she had.
"What?" his tone was laced heavily with annoyance making her flinch slightly, though she couldn't tell it was forced.
"I was wondering who you were, I haven't seen you before," she frowned seeing his annoyed look. "Wanna play?"
Those words tugged at his heart, he wanted to, he really wanted to, but he wouldn't risk it happening again, he couldn't take it again. So he kept up his mask. "No."
She pouted and stomped away, before looking back at Naruto. "Meanie, I'm telling my grand-papa on you!" before continuing her stomps away.
A stray tear dropped from his eye, it hurt him to be cold when all she was trying to do was be nice, but he wouldn't let it happen to another, not again. Flashes of a white haired girl lying in a pool of blood, reaching out to him, flashed up in his mind, he felt Kai paw at his chest. Looking down at him, he smiled slightly when he saw the fox rub up against him.
"Excuse me young man," an elderly voice from below him called. Looking back down, he saw a man in red and white robes, an odd matching red and white hat with the Kanji for 'fire' in red at the front. "I do believe you owe my granddaughter an apology."
Naruto glared at the old man, he may not like taking his anger out on other kids, but adults he had no problem with. "Screw you and piss off old man, I ain't apologising for shit, cause I didn't do shit, come back when I steal some food, then you can yell at me all you like," he said looking back up to the canopy.
The 'Old man' frowned heavily. 'Her death hit him hard. He has no will to gain a friend because of those events. Fugaku, Hiashi, you are both arrogant fools!' a dog masked man in a black robe appeared beside him and grabbed him by the shirt lifting him up to eyelevel.
"You little punk! Show the Hokage the respect he deserves!" he said sternly.
Naruto just tilted his head to the side and looked down. "Kai, sic'm," he said in a monotone voice, he could feel the confusion from the two, before he felt the masked man go ridged. With one hand squeezing the mans wrist, hard until he let go, he dropped the few feet difference landing soundly on the branch. He was about waist height and saw what was wrong with the man, Kai was hanging from his left one. Reaching out he took a hold of the fox that had and iron grip on one of the mans ball. "Drop it Kai, you don't know who they've done," the small fox reluctantly opened it's jaws and let go. Breathing in deep he blew out gently, causing the man to fall off the tree, head first into the ground. Looking back down at the old man. "You need another man's balls busted? Hokage-oji-san?" he asked boredly.
The Hokage was barely holding in his mirth, here was his best Anbu guard, brought down by a fox kit and an eight year old. It was preposterous! Off to the side, they heard incessant giggling. They both turned to see the Hokage's granddaughter giggling away.
"Why not come down, we can talk about this civilly, right?" he asked, grandfatherly tone soft. Naruto just stared suspiciously at him before taking a step backwards, grabbing the branch he was lying on and swinging down to in front of the villages leader. "Why don't we start with names," he paused here and beckoned his granddaughter over. "I'm Sarutobi Hiruzen, and this little bundle of joy," he placed his hand on the girls hair. "Is Sarutobi Mikita."
Naruto looked at them for a moment. "Naruto," Kai climbed up his clothes and onto his shoulder sitting at attention. "This is Kai," he yipped.
Mikita squealed at the sight of him, reaching out to grab him, but a glare from Naruto and a growl from Kai stopped her.
Sarutobi, trying to defuse the situation thought quick. "What about a family name?" he asked, in truth he knew the boys name, he just wanted to stop the boy glaring at Mikita.
Naruto gave up the glare and looked back at him. "Mashin, Oni, Bakemono. Take your pick?" he said coldly.
The elder Sarutobi was appalled. Here was a boy, no older then eight, and was made believe he was a demon, a devil and a monster.
"You don't look like a demon," Mikita said innocently. Naruto chuckled mirthlessly, turning eyes onto her.
"Tell that to the adults, the orphanage and shop owners," he said scratching his cheek.
The elder Sarutobi scowled. "Inu!" he called out sternly. Instantly the Anbu that had been twitching on the ground was kneeling in front of him.
"Hai Hokage-sama," only with an extremely high pitched accent.
"Look after the children, I will be back soon."
"Ji-sama, do you have to go?" Mikita asked pouting, letting a sniffle out for extra measure.
"Sadly, yes. Young Naruto deserves to know his family name after all," he said, putting up a fake smile, one Naruto and Kyu instantly caught. "Naruto-chan, would you mind looking after my Granddaughter while she is in the playground?" the simple question made Naruto smile on the inside, though on the outside, he had to keep up a façade.
"You sure bout this oji-san?" he drawled out.
"Absolutely, now run along and play," he said in a grandfatherly tone. Mikita took Naruto by the wrist and led him to the seesaw. "Inu,"
"Yes Hokage-sama."
"Anyone attempting to harm them is to be stopped dead, we don't want another incident like three years ago, especially not with my granddaughter. Understood? I want you in plain sight as a warning to some of our more ambitious citizens. Clear?"
"Hai, Hokage-sama, no harm will come to them under my watch," he voice had returned mostly to normal, the odd crack in it.
He turned his gaze and smiled sadly behind his mask at the boy. 'Your legacy lives on, Sensei,' he winced though as a pang of pain went through his left testy. 'But he has your sadistic streak, Kushina-sama,' he though, grimacing beneath his mask, thinking how he'd be when he grew up.
-Playground-
"What you wanna do next Naruto-kun? Swings, slide or roundabout?" she asked, bubbly attitude making him smile. Much to the discontent of all the adults, shepherding their children away from the two.
Naruto just totally ignored them for once. "Roundabout. And you Kai?" he asked the fox that was now lazing on his spiky locks, he simply pointed his tail at the roundabout. Mikita had to resist the urge to jump up and down and scream 'Kawai'.
"Miki-chan!" a voice called out from the other end of the sandy playground. They saw a boy with back hair and pale skin wearing white shorts, blue ninja sandals and a navy long sleeve t-shirt running towards them."Hi Suke-kun!" she said waving energetically and grabbing Naruto's wrist to make him follow her to her friend. "Sasuke-kun, this is Naruto-kun."
The newly named Sasuke looked over Naruto once then stuck out his hand. Naruto, being Naruto and having the life he did, just stared at him. At this Sasuke faltered. "Did I not do it right?" he asked awkwardly.
Naruto shook his head and snorted, this was crazy, he was being paranoid! He took the hand and shook once before letting go.
The adults all glared at him, acting all friendly with one of the heirs of the Uchiha clan and the honourable granddaughter of the Sandaime Hokage.
"You did, but Naruto-kun here just isn't used to others, isn't that right? Naruto-kun?" she said elbowing him in the ribs. Naruto cringed a bit but snorted again. "Wanna go on the roundabout with us?" she asked sweetly, they both could tell it wasn't a question, it was a statement giving Sasuke no room for a different opinion.
Sasuke smiled and nodded, happy that he didn't mess up the handshake. The three of them ran over to the roundabout. Well two of them ran, Naruto was dragged.
Itachi walked over to the dog masked Anbu and sat beside him on the bench. "It's good to see Mikita-chan having another friend, isn't it, Inu-san," he said getting a chuckle from the masked man.
"Yes, usually, when people find out she's the thirds grandchild, they start kissing up to her something fierce… What was with Sasuke-kun asking if he did a hand-shake wrong?" he asked, Itachi could literally feel him raise his eyebrow under the mask
"Our father constantly patronizes him, and tries to spend all his time on me, this has left my Otouto questioning himself."
"Fugaku is an idiot."
"Agreed," Itachi looked at the kids playing. "He's a lot colder then I remember him being.""Her death was hard on him, she was his first and only friend besides that sadistic pair of teeth on legs," Inu said solemnly, knowing full well what probably went through his head.
"I thought the Yamanaka were ordered to get rid of every memory he had of her," Itachi questioned looking at the gravity defying silver haired Anbu member closely.
"About ten minutes after he went in, his brain activity was erratic for a split second before his body flat lined, apparently, he treaded where he shouldn't have," what he meant was clear as day to the young Sharingan prodigy.
"Unlucky bastard."
Inu just nodded, fully agreeing.
"The civilians are getting rather upset, Naruto-kun associating with Mikita-chan and Sasuke-kun, what happens if we are to intervene?""Extreme pain shots have been authorised, and late kill shots, at maximum" Inu stated, edge in his voice"Understood."
-with the kids-
Mikita and Sasuke wobbled dizzily off the roundabout before falling onto each other. Naruto calmly walked though, the fox lying limply on his head had swirly eyes.
Mikita just sat up and held her head. "Why aren't you dizzy?" she demanded.
"I found a way to get rid of the dizziness fast," he said shrugging nonchalantly. Kai sensing the imminent danger put his paws over his ears to blot out the impending human shriek.
"TELL ME!" she shouted, making Naruto and Sasuke put their pinkie in their ears and twist them.
"Fine, what you do is," he paused for dramatic effect, seeing them both leaning in, looks of anticipation on their faces. "do a spin in the opposite direction, simple but it works." both of them looked at him like he was a giant two headed purple flaming duck. "Uh, is there something wrong with my hair?" he said tugging a spike.
"Why didn't I ever think of that! It could have save me so many embarrassing moments!" she squealed, palms on her forehead.
"Is she always this…loud?" he asked taking his pinkie out of his ear…again.
"Nope, only when she finds something new, that was to easy for her to see," Sasuke chirped happily, glad to have another friend who wasn't after him because he was an Uchiha heir.
"Hey! Uchiha-teme!" a voice called from the slide, all three looked over to see a boy with red fang marks on his cheeks.
"I got a bone to pick with you Uchiha-teme," he said pointing a finger at him, only for Naruto to get in his way. "Who the hell are you?" he asked rudely.
Naruto just stared at him, his unnatural blue eyes drilling into the boy. "Leave," his voice was monotone and cold, sending shivers up all the kids spines. The boy faltered before continuing.
"What are you, his keeper? Get the hell out of my way and let me at that teme!" he said trying to push past Naruto, but try as he might, Naruto wouldn't budge. "What the hell are you made of! Stone?" he asked still pushing.
Naruto quickly spun around on making the boy fall forward. Grabbing him by the collar, he used the momentum from the swing and flung him back the way.
"Bad dog. Shoo. Your not wanted here," he kept the monotone voice up, though, Sasuke could feel the mirth trying to worm it's way in.
The boy raised a shaky finger at Naruto. "You'll be sorry!" He said tearing up before getting up and running away.
Naruto turned back to them, a raised eyebrow at their gaping mouths. "So what's dogboy's problem?"
Sasuke was the first to shake out of it. "He's in our academy class, I beat him in a taijutsu spar the last three times," Sasuke said proudly, then brightened. "Hey! Can you teach me how you did that?"
"Teach you what?"
"The way you flung Kiba, that was awesome!" Mikita jumped in. "Teach me too!"
Naruto smiled slightly, it'd been too long since he felt like this, he nodded then went to the sandbox.
"It starts in the stance…" he began, completely unaware of the pale lavender eyes staring at him, arrogance mixed with wanting.
-Itachi and Inu-
"I wonder who taught him how to unlock and control his chakra?" Inu mused.
"Maito-san maybe?" Itachi suggested
"No, Gai doesn't know and chakra based styles, he only uses chakra to strengthen his muscles, Naruto's whole body hardened," Inu said, shivering at the name.
"An extremely interesting ability,. Kekkei genkai maybe?" Itachi mused.
"No, I knew his parents personally, neither had a body based bloodline," Inu said in a sombre tone.
"I thought his parents were unknown?" Itachi raised an eyebrow, curiosity evident.
"To anyone under Anbu captain, maybe, but every captain is briefed in every single A-SS class secret in the village."
"Interesting, I must get to captain status then," Itachi said smiling, but then a frown marred his features. "Here comes trouble…"
-with the kids-
"Almost there guys, you got to solidify your chakra more, I can still see you swaying…" he said before scowling as he caught the sent of dogs.
"That's him nee-chan! He's the one who threw me on my butt!" shouted an annoying voice. Turning around he saw Kiba back with a familiar face.
"Heya Hana-san, how's it hanging?" he asked boredly noting the three dogs behind her wagging their tails energetically.
"Oh Kiba, you get in an brawl with Naruto-san of all people, I swear Kaa-sama raised you better then to pick on orphans," Hana scolded her little brother, before turning back to Naruto. "And I'm fine Naruto-san. Remember, Kai-chan's appointment is next Thursday, please don't be late, I'd hate to have to have Kai-chan given a shot because his partner never made it."
Kai just glared at Hana, but Naruto scratched behind his ear, causing him to purr and lean into it. "Okay, okay, we'll be there on time Hana-san. No need to threaten him with needles," he said keeping the bored tone.
"Still not interested I see? Alright then, boy's go wild," She said turning her head to the dogs who barked energetically before pouncing on Naruto, Kai being smart enough to notice the trouble, leaped from his place on Naruto's golden locks, just before the three hounds barrelled into the boy, licking his whiskered face. It took awhile, but Naruto started off with a chuckle, which turned to a giggle, which eventually evolved into full blown joyous laughter.
"Alright, alright, I get it no more bored voice around Hana-san!"
"Chan," Hana insisted.
"Fine, no more bored voices around Hana-CHAN!" he shouted out while laughing insanely loudly.
"Alrighty boys, funs over, get off the fox-boy," Hana said giggling behind a hand, Naruto's laughter was always contagious. The dogs whined, they all had wanted to play more, but reluctantly got off the blond.
"Thanks guys," he said whipping dog slobber of his face. "I soooooo needed that," he said sarcastically. The dogs whined, their ears flattening. "Come on guys, you know I was being sarcastic, I've done it every time you pounced me," he said rubbing behind their ears in turn, all nuzzled into the small hand.-Kakashi and Itachi-"Amazing," Itachi breathed. "Those dogs are vicious to everyone not of Inuzuka blood, including Hokage-sama."
"I know, he truly is a remarkable youth, he is truly a broken gem in a sea of glass " both turned to see the Sandaime Hokage, a grandfatherly smile upon his old features."Hokage-sama?" Itachi asked uncertainly.
"Yes Itachi-chan?" (remember, Itachi is still a child in Hiruzen's eyes) in that grandfatherly tone.
"Only half of the clan wish for the coup," he said in a low tone. "Admittedly, my father is one of them.""I'm truly sorry Itachi," the Sandaime's voice grew serious. "but without concrete evidence, the whole clan will have to go," Sarutobi trailed off. "I cannot put the lives of my people at risk, I'm sorry, we will try negotiate for as long as possible, but sooner or later, my team-mates will back me into a corner on this matter," he said sorrowfully."I-I understand Hokage-sama," Itachi said, choking slightly. While he held no love for a lot of the clan, the idea of killing them all made his heart cry.
-in the trees, some way behind them-'So, the Uchiha clan are only half primed to attack, losing the whole clan will be a serious blow to the military forces, perhaps Danzo-sama can work something up, and the information about the Jinchuriki will be most appreciated,' the root member thought before using a Shunshin to move away.
-an hour later, at the playground-
"I had real fun today Naruto-kun, Sasuke-kun," Mikita said tiredly, before covering a hand over her mouth as she yawned.
"Me too ," Sasuke grinned, before rubbing one of his just gave a small smile, he'd never admit it, but this was the most fun he'd had in years, just playing the child, not having to luck over his shoulder every two seconds to see if there was a crazed villager or incensed Shinobi, to just play around and hang out with his own age group.
"Time to go Mikita-chan!" he heard the grandfatherly voice call up, they all turned to see the Sandaime standing with an alder looking Sasuke."Itachi-nee!" Sasuke shouted running up to his older brother and jumping into his arms, Naruto smiled sadly, before turning and waving lazily at the two."See you tomorrow Naruto-kun," Mikita shouted waving her arms exaggeratedly.
'Maybe,' Naruto thought, a small smile on his face.
"Anyone who shares a room with a Demon deserves this!" an arrogant female voice shouted over the screams of pain, and roars of agreement
"Let's free her of this taint! I'm sure she'll enjoy it."
"NooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" a roar of distress soon turned into a demonic roar of cold, hard, unbridled Anger Killing intent flooding the streets of Konoha. That night, all of Konohagakure no sato would hear screams of pain, and begging for it to shook his head, it would not be good to think to much of that night, to much of her. He felt Kai nuzzle into his cheek. A flicker of wind and Naruto felt a presence behind him, stiffening, he was ready to run the instant he heard an off move. Instead, he heard an emotionless voice."Uzumaki-san, Danzo-sama requests your presence at this time," the Anbu said quietly, kneeling behind him.
That stopped him right there, he knew his family name, but not one of the villagers would call him it, they were settled with calling him demon and all other variations of the word. Now, this was a completely new situation for young Naruto, here was an Anbu, one of the elite of the village, kneeling before him, with no intent of attacking, maiming, or killing intent, he raised a blonde eyebrow."Sure, I got time, nothing else to do either, okay, go ahead and do that swirly wind transporty thingy," he said, albeit slightly hesitantly. The Anbu nodded, then placing a hand gently on Naruto's shoulder, Shunshin'd them both away.
-Somewhere under Konoha-
The two arrived in an area shrouded in darkness. Naruto had to push chakra into his eyes to even make out minor details."Naruto-san, good to see you came, I have a proposition for you," he heard the voice of an old man. Pushing more chakra to his eyes, making them gain a mysterious blue glow, he saw a man with one arm and bandages over his left eye walk towards him, a cane in his hand and an x shaped scar on his chin."I learned awhile ago not to accept things like this without learning every detail, Danzo-san," Naruto said before cutting off the chakra to his eyes, he may be able to access and mould his chakra, but using it to augment his skills still hurt after awhile. He was still a growing boy after all."Hmmm, calm, collected, able to mould chakra to an extent no pre academy student should and knows about making proper deal, your far more mature then most adult Shinobi, Naruto-san.""Living on the streets, constant beatings, and scavenging for food will do that to you," Naruto said, eyeing where he heard the voice carefully.'The boy is good. Not revealing to much, and not keeping to much hidden either, he didn't tell me the whole truth, but he didn't lie either,' Danzo thought, eyeing Naruto carefully. "Very well, I have an investment in the deserts of Kaze no Kuni, and only a particular person may enter.""And this 'investment' would be, what, exactly?" Naruto asked, closing his eyes, they were of no use to him here, with his eyes closed, his other senses could fan out, hopefully giving him some real sense of where this guy was, instead of just tapping echo's in the dark.'Clever boy,' "A cave, filled with legendary items and weapons of great power that would no doubt benefit Konoha greatly," he said, walking closer to Naruto.
"I know this may sound cliché, but what's in it for me, serving Konoha as a protector of it's 'People'" he spat out people like it left a foul taste in his frowned, if the boy did not wish to protect the people of Konoha, it was almost as bad as not protecting the village itself. "An apartment building owned by you and whoever else you want to live with you, and a certain someone, who'll be serving in the genin teams with the rest of the clan heirs. Follow me."
Naruto chuckled mostly to himself, if he was just another kid, he would have went the other direction. "And you think just anyone will," as he is in the process of saying this, a light flashes on, opening his eyes slowly he looked at the lone light bulb following it down. "make. Me…" Naruto felt his heart stop, lying there before them on a hospital issue bed in a beam of light was a girl in a pale red, almost pink kimono, her snow white hair tied back into a simple pony tail, two bangs covering her eyes. Each second felt like an eternity for Naruto."Yu…ki…esho Kai…ri," he breathed out, his eyes scanning over her pail skin.
"If you are even able to enter the cave, I'll keep her safe and then train her till Genin placements, I give you my word on the safety of this village," Danzo said in a low, solemn voice.
Naruto kept his eyes on Kairi, before looking behind him and up to Danzo. "When do I leave?" his eyes shone with determination, he'd do this for her, for the girl who he thought had lost her life."Right now," he said, his cane tapping against a wall that slid away to reveal a tunnel, the sound of swirling wind coming from the far side.-Kaze no Kuni, tiger crest cliffs-
"Are you ready? Naruto-san?" Sora asked. Over the past six days, they had all bonded with the blonde to some level .
"Hai, Sora-san, call it out."Sora nodded, and once more walked up to the yin yang indentations in the wall and once again, twisted them clockwise, again, leaping back, to avoid the drawing of the sand and the morphing of the rock face.
"Who dares disturb me slumber," the tiger head asked dangerously.
Naruto tentatively walked up, Kai hiding under his vest. 'Some help you are.' "Uzumaki Naruto," His voice was a determined, a vast contrast to what he felt inside.
"Very well, you may enter, do not touch any of the closed off or forbidden items, or these walls shall be your tomb," and with that, it opened it's massive jaws, the rows of sharp teeth glimmering menacingly. Taking a few shaky steps foreword after the warning, when nothing happened, he let out a sigh of release, he padded down the dark steps, heading deep into the unknown of the cave of Ancestors… the root Anbu watched him descend into the light of the tigers mouth
Never knowing, that this was where his legend began, with those small steps into the unknown.
-Konoha, that night-
"Report Inu, have you found him?" Sarutobi asked in a pleading voice, Naruto had been missing for just over a week. Sarutobi had his most trusted Anbu search high and low for the jinchuriki."I apologise Hokage-sama, but if he was here, or was attacked again, my ninken would have found him by now, Demon and jinchuriki blood has an incredibly distinct smell. The villagers hatred must have finally broken him enough to send him away," Inu's fist clenched.
A tear fell from Sarutobi's eye. 'Have I really let it come this far? I know Minato last orders for them to see him a hero, not a weapon, but this! This is madness. Has the core of this village gone down such a dark path? I know Fugaku and Hiashi were angry at not turning Naruto into a weapon, but was it enough for them to block all attempts to give him a somewhat normal childhood? Are they truly that petulant bigoted children?' he asked himself, frowning wearily.
There was a knock on the door.
"Enter," Sarutobi said in a tired voice, Inu immediately melting into the shadows. The two elders walked in. Sarutobi's old team-mates, wrinkly faces set in stern.
"Good evening, Homaru-kun, Koharu-chan, what can I do for you tonight?" Sarutobi asked, tired voice hidden in a professional tone.
"Hiruzen, it has been brought to the councils attention that Uzumaki-san is not in the village, have you taken steps to locate our asset?" Homaru asked sternly.
"Whatever do you mean? Homaru-kun?" he asked playing dumb.
"Don't try and fool us Hiruzen, we know you almost as well as you know yourself, now tell us where the Kyuubi vessel is," Koharu demanded, annoyed that Sarutobi was playing games with them.
Sarutobi's eyes narrowed dangerously as he levelled his a slight amount of KI on the two of them. "And just where does the Council get the notion that they can demand results from the Hokage?" he asked, friendly tone washed away in a sea of annoyance.
'Damn!' Homura thought. 'Where did this resolve come from, he hasn't talked like that since we demanded the execution of the Kyuubi brat, he should have let us turn the blasted creature into a weapon!' "We apologise Hokage-sama, it was not meant to be taken as an order."
"Then what was it?" he asked, eying his two former team-mates dangerously.
"A request of an update," Koharu filled in, seeing Homura hadn't thought that far ahead.
"Very well then, our position, is that we don't have a position. Uzumaki-san is a civilian, and because he was thrown out of the orphanage, roughly four years ago, village law states section four, sub-section three paragraph 2 says if the orphanage cannot sustain, or find a guardian, said orphan will be given a weekly stipend and legally declared an adult. We cannot hold or even keep track of him, as a civilian with no previous crimes, other then stealing food and small clothes," Sarutobi said inwardly laughing his head off at the face his two former team-mates were giving him.
"You can't be serious Hiruzen! What if one of the other villages capture him! They will train him and use him against us!" Koharu shouted.
Sarutobi shuffled and organised some paperwork before tapping them twice on his mahogany desk. "Not our problem Koharu," he said before taking the next stack and beginning to look through them, before making a shooing motion with one hand. The elders looked about to protest, but huffed in resignation, turning on their heels and leaving, making sure for him to note their displeasure by slamming the door. Sarutobi just rubbed his forehead tiredly.
Inu stepped out from behind him. "That could have gone better," he muttered.
Sarutobi sighed, "It indeed could have, but I am thankful they didn't drag it out with useless arguments and impossible hypothetical situations… long winded idiots," he said tiredly muttering the last three words.
"And about Naruto sir? Are we really going to not do anything about him?" Inu asked worriedly.
"No, what I am going to do is ask Jiraiya to search for him, I don't care if he stops researching his Icha, Icha books to do it," that statement right there made Inu's visible eye widen, cancel Icha, Icha?
'Blasphemy! Heresy I tell you!' a chibi Inu shouted in his mind. "Let's hope it doesn't come to that," he said shaking his head, sending the stark raving chibi bouncing off the walls of his mind, and down to the depths.
-cave of the ancients-
Naruto walked through the winding halls, a look of wonder plastered on his face, all around him were objects, weapons, books, scrolls that all radiated power, the amazing thing, was the writing seemed to change to kanji as he walked past, showing their names to him.'Excalibur, soul caliber, soul edge, Pandora's box, First tsurugi, Masamune, Poseidon's triton,
' were a few of the hundreds he'd passed, he kept walking down the hall, before he stopped seeing a large book case, with the kanji, ten swords of nine, labelled on the front opening. He felt Kai stare at it and even felt some resistance as he walked away, as if something was drawing him to it. Walking into a huge cavern, surrounded by water was a pedestal, a light shining down illuminating two ornate daggers, these seemed to call out to him. The two resembled wings, one was like a dragons wing, the wing itself was an azure colour, twelve inches long by three wide, a thorn sticking downwards half way through, the skin like bit that were supposed to be a dragons wing was a bluish silver, the guard was simply a circle with two talons sticking out on either side, the hilt had silver diamonds running down the sides, wrapped in a crimson material. At the end of the hilt, was a sapphire eye suspended about two millimetres out. The other was a bird wing, although it looked slightly sharper, was an angelic white and also twelve by three inches, each feather looking razor sharp. The guard like the other, had two talons either side. The hilt was a deep blue material with golden stars. Rust below the hilt was a 'Golden cloud?' he thought curiously. Stepping into the water, he was pleasantly surprised when it wasn't cold, it was…nice. Wading in, not even a meter out, and he had to swim doing the breast stroke, he finally made it to the other side, though, the pedestal being taller then him made getting up to get a closer look at them rather difficult. Lifting himself up, he grabbed both before falling back into the water with a splash, daggers clutched tightly in his hands, turning under the water, he swam back to the shore, his head hitting the surface, he breathed in like it was a gift of life he was inhaling. He felt the disturbing familiar lack of weight. Kai was not in his vest…
Searching the crystal clear waters for any sign of him quickly, he saw nothing. Putting the dagger from his left hand in his right, he put his left finger and thumb up to his lips to whistle. When one of the daggers snapped out of his hand, the sapphire eye was in the centre of the cloud, the hilts floating a bit farther then normal, and were growing in thickness, rolling around like paper.
When it finished, held loosely in his right hand was a large scroll. Deciding to check it out, he opened it to see three names and finger prints.
"Hi-ra-shin Rai-do, Mo-ku-jin Ko-no-ha-ko, Be-ni-me-ga-mi Tsu-na-mi" he eventually read out, after breaking the names down into smaller bits, remembering Kurenai's advice on reading to him. The ink was red, and didn't look like pen writing. Leaning down he smelled the ink, only to pull his head back. 'Not ink, blood,' he thought frowning, biting his thumb hard enough to draw blood, he brought his hand down and started writing down his name … messily … compared to the other three, but as he finished, taking his thumb off the scroll, it glowed before turning into the same writing style as the other names. Out of the scroll popped what looked to be … some sort of holsters? Sliding them up his trousers, he was surprised to find that they adjusted instantly to his thighs, looking at the holsters and then to the currently shrinking scroll and dagger blades.
'How do they fit in there?' he thought to himself as the daggers returned to normal, before the wings folder over, and the hilt shortened, before the blade the dragon wing blade dropping, like something stopped the connection catching it with his left hand, he spun then twice in his fingers, before dropping them both in the holsters and running down the halls to find Kai.
Running through the halls, his eyes scanned through every nook and cranny that Kai could fit inside. He kept running past the now open bookcase, 'Wait…' he stopped dead and looked back.
'Open book case?' he said running back, seeing Kai about to touch a glowing red, large Zanbatou, the tip of hid paw glowing red to meet the big ass sword, the kanji for forbidden along each of the ten weapons on the shelves, one with the kanji for three was missing though.
"Kai! NO don't touc-" too late."FOOL! I warned you! Now DIIIIEEEE," he heard the tiger head roaring in fury as it shook the entire cave, all other artefacts melting into the walls or ground. Grabbing Kai by one of his hind legs who had his teeth clamped around the hilt of the Zanbatou, which was surprisingly light as he dragged it along, feeling head start to prickle his neck, he hazarded a look back, eyes widening as Molten lava started spewing down the hall.
"OH SHIIIIT," he said is he stuck his ass on overdrive, channelling chakra into his calf's and thighs, to speed him up, all around him, rocks were dropping from the ceiling, soon the stairs started coming into view.
'Almost home free!' he thought excitedly.
"This will be your resting place ningen, you can be assured of that," the giant tiger head growled viciously. As the stairs began to dissolve, pushing as much chakra as he could into his legs he leaped over the dissolving steps landing four steps above the dissolving stone, running up the steps as fast as he could, the dissolving steps rapidly gaining on him. He could see Sora, leaning in , his hand out stretched to pull him out and to safety. Joy overtook him, he was a stones throw away from freedom!Twenty feet: he could feel gravel beneath his feet loosening.
Fifteen feet: he was starting to sink in the sand.
Ten feet: he reached his arm out, he was loosing grip.
Five feet: he leaped trying to catch Sora's hand…
He missed, their hands brushing together before .
The tiger head let loose a victorious roar, before it chomped down it's mouth trying to take anyone to close with the little ningen.
Naruto saw the ground approaching fast closing his eyes.
'I can't die yet, I wont die yet, I still have to protect Kairi and make sure she's safe! I Will Not DIE!' he shouted in his mind, never noticing his rapidly diminishing Chakra reserves, or the strange tingling in his back.
The last thing he saw was two ethereal like wings overtook him, then blinding heat, before darkness.
-outside-
"PULL!" one of the Root shouted as they pulled back on Sora, before he was impaled, disarmed or decapitated like Hyo was. They pulled him out as the giant teeth slammed shut, taking slicing a bit off his leather glove.
The tiger head chuckled ominously as the two tomoe shapes were shot out in opposite directions, shattering and chance they had of rescuing the child.
"Are you alright Sora?" one of the grunts asked, some semblance of concern in his monotone voice.
"Let's report to Danzo-sama," he said in a strained monotone.
-unknown length time skip-
Naruto felt his body, it felt off, he opened his eyes experimentally before squinting them closed as the wind whiped against his face, opening his eyes carefully this time, he saw he was incredibly high, and falling fast. He started panicking, what was he supposed to do. How was he supposed to do it. Something flashed into his mind, they were handseals, draw blood, and handseals.
'Better then falling to my doom without an effort to stop it!' he thought as he bit his thumb, going through the seals. "I, Inu, Dori, Saru, Hitsuji! Kuchiyose no jutsu!" he screamed, throwing his hand forward blue chakra turning purple before an overwhelming amount of crimson took over, a massive puff of smoke bursting out of nowhere."WHO SUMMONS ME!"
-done-
So, what does everyone think? Gotta say, I'm pretty much tired out of all that, tell me what you like, what you dislike, and anyone who flames, shove it up yer mothers ass's, I could care less bout those, so, drop me a line and review to tell me what you think, and those nameless dozen who only put me on favourite story alert…I'm watching you…but I digress, I got a poll for you, seeing as it didn't show up on my profile.
In my story fade to black, should Naruto:Be Allowed make the branch of the fourth division.
Or
Become a freelance Shinigami.
You choose, anyway, Slan Leit agus Gureve math it, Push it, Push itYou know you want to