"Talking out loud"

'Inside thoughts'

'Dark inner thoughts'

'Kyuubi talking to naruto inside him'

"Kyuubi talking outloud"

Fire style: fire ball jutsu


Sarutobi compound


It was early in the morning in the village hidden in the leaves as naruto began to awake from his long slumber. "Hmmm where am I?" I sat up properly as I rubbed my eyes gently to get them accustomed to the bright light that was the sun, "wait where am I?!"

This time I began to panic a little as I didn't recognise the neatly made room with the fresh paint and what one could only describe as feeling homely.

Jumping up from the uncomfortably soft and large bed I started to scavenge around for my clothes "looking for these?" Asked a familiar voice, 'What the hell' jumping back I broke out a small screech as the orange jump suit was dangling from the old mans hands "naruto am I really so forgettable? First the hospital and now.. *sigh* you do know that you have as bad of a memory as people my age you?" Spoke Sarutobi in his old but wise voice.

"You know old man you can't be so casually sitting there expecting me to know that you're there, you're a retired shinobi,a hokage at that, I'm merely a civilian and you should do right to remember that, I can't sense you know" I felt so grown up saying something that seemed to complex in my young mind.

"Ooh look who's using there head instead of saying the first thing that comes to there mind" throwing the jumpsuit at me Sarutobi walked out the room with his favourite pipe in his mouth "I've made food for so you go eat to refuel yourself" Turning back he spoke once again "you know where the kitchen is right?". I had been to this place a million times, Of course I knew where it was "Yes of course old man." Smiling Sarutobi walked off. I had became familiar with the clan that lived here and come to like the culture that they were so accustomed to. Sarutobi had become my best friend, practically my only friend that I would say openly without a second thought, if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be here today or I would've been left in a corner in a abounded room.

Sarutobi was my surange grandfather, he was both a friend and a role model, he taught me that life was precious and even mine was although kami liked to show this in a cruel and unjust way. He took me under his wing even when the hokage had forbade it, he had that "everything has a story yours is sad but a true one naruto and the reasons behind this hate is even more so, don't hate these people as they just haven't opened the book like I have as they are afraid of what lies within it" he is so wise and caring it seemed too good to be true at first but I quickly learned that not every one was the same and the old man was a prime example of that idea.

As I looked at myself in the mirror I noticed how tacky the orange jumpsuit looked but it was the only thing that I could afford at the moment. 'Even though orange is my favourite colour, it isn't done justice through this outfit' I had really brought a bad name to the colour but that didn't matter as for now I needed to find the old man.


Outside in the garden


It had taken twenty minutes to find the old man but find him I did, "yo old man you could of told me where you would be, you know how unnecessarily big this place is?" Waving my hands up and down I gestured at what I believe to be a big house. "Haha naruto sorry age must be getting to me finally I guess, please join me" motioning his hand for me to sit right next to him, I quickly rushed to the old man.

"You know naruto when I first bought the land where my clan resides, there was once nothing but trees and grass" staring off into space sarutobi started to remember his experiences as a young shinobi and a married man.

'I have come so far haven't I' Thought Sarutobi as he thought back on the struggles he had to overcome to bear the land and lay the food on his table for his family. Then becoming hokage to a whole village to only give it up to a-'no, he doesn't desrve to be mentioned in the same breath as a hokage' "old man you're red, why are you so red? Wait are you thinking perverted thoughts?" Slowly but surely naruto face turned from one of fear to a face shock.

"What no-no-no naruto of course not, I just was thinking about something that got me a little angry"carefully analysing the old mans face, Naurto nodded his head as he believed Sarutobi. "You know naruto we should continue with your training" eyeing the old man, my face turned to one of pure joy as I already knew what he wanted me to do.

Sitting next to the pond I crossed my legs and closed my eyes as I sat up right as I let all thoughts drift off and only leave my mind blank "very good naruto access your chakra slowly and try to mold it into shapes" Spoke Sarutobi as he stood over me. Breathing in deeply and exhaling slowly I concentrated on my chakra the calm and smooth moving one not the raging tornado, 'slowly now' I throught as I approached it 'slowly' I thought again as I touched it, more like lightly stroked it 'slowly' each time I thought it the more loud it became.

Pulling the almost seemingly endless chakra pool to the surface "very nice naruto, now try shaping that chakra into a circle" asked Sarutobi as he blew the smoke from his lungs. The chakra felt weird in my.. in my.. in my.. wait how exactly was I holding the chakra if there wasn't any hands present to hold it also I wasn't exactly holding it, it could move freely move around my hands and could slip right through my fingers if need be.

Either way I concentrated on that exact feeling and 'held' the chakra and made 'a circle' I thought 'that should be easy enough' and easy it was chakra was like play dough in a sense it was easy to mold and did what exactly you want it to do without question. Pleased Sarutobi sat there watching naruto mix and match his chakra into different forms as a small smile on his face rose up. It was always a delight to see the child happy just like he should be all the time but unfortunately his childhood was being stripped away from him and Minato wasn't making Naruto's life any better


Flash back


It had just been after naruto had flashed his chakra and Sarutobi had taken to him to bed "riochi-kun please check on Naurto while I talk to Minato-Kun" Spoke Sarutobi as he asked a young man in his early twenties who was one of the leading medical ninja in the clan. "Yes Sarutobi-sama" Bowing the black hair male checked on the young blonde.

"Sarutobi what's the meaning of Naurto's chakra flaring like that? I could feel it from all the way in my home fuck that I bet half the village could feel it!" Shouted Minato as he grew redder and redder by the minute as he grew angrier.

"Let's talk in my office Minato here isn't the place we won't want to wake young naruto or anyone else in the compound" asked Sarutobi as he motioned Minato away but Minato wasn't having any of it, "fuck naruto, Sarutobi you know exactly why that boy can't learn chakra" levelling his voice to room level but keeping the same venom in voice as he talked about his son "you would do best to listen to me, especially if you're in my home" spoke Sarutobi

as once again motioned Minato into his office, only for this time Minato grudgingly accepting the invitation and walking in the office.

Sitting down in his old chair Sarutobi prepared himself for the incoming headache from the now hokage "Naruto shouldn't learn chakra and you know this better then anyone else Sarutobi after all the boy seal is partly broken also that other problem, chakra could be the end of us" Naurto was always a problem but for the man to neglect him was a bit overboard "I know this but Naurto needs to protect himself, being beaten up will eventually lead to him rejecting this village and going on a rampage as the kyuubi" Sarutobi had never throught that the boy was the demon, he was too sweet to be but he knew fully well that Naurto was becoming day by day more and more emotionally detached from the village and if it wasn't for him the boy would of left or be dead by now.

"That's not a good enough reason as hokage I demand no I command you to stop teaching the boy" this was it Minato had gone too far "You try and command me Minato you are as foolish as you are young I will not stop teaching you're son, no he isn't you're son anymore as you've already denounced him without giving him a chance, Naruto is being protected by this clan and Naruto's training will be a clan matter meaning that you can't interfere with anything to do with his training. He will enter the academy under this clan, he may not have our blood nor our name but he carries our will of fire and will make this clan proud" punching his desk Sarutobi released an unnatural amount of killer instinct onto Minato who had a visbale sweat drop running down his face.

Getting up Minato called his anbu to follow him "Anbu, we shall leave. You have won this time Sarutobi" vanishing in a flash of yellow Sarutobi was left once again alone in his office complex.

*knock* *knock* *knock* "come in" called a tired Sarutobi as he sighed once again as he re sat in his chair "sorry to disturb you Sarutobi-Sama" spoke Riochi "ahh Riochi please come in"

"That won't be necessary sir as nothing is wrong with naruto just some chakra exhaustion" turning around Sarutobi turned to the moon "Very well thank you Riochi" taking a new cigar Sarutobi sighed heavily as he took in a drag of the smoke.

"What has this village come to?"


End of flash back


Naruto was a true delight and his prodigious status was clearly shining as he made a tasked that many children find hard make look like child's play. "Alright naruto that's enough for now, today I've decided that you can learn something new" reopening my eyes I stared at the old man "today naruto you will be"

'Yes yes what' the suspense was unreal. Purposely taking a frantic pause Sarutobi waited a couple seconds, "learning on how to" again waiting for me to become inpatient Sarutobi waited a couple seconds. "What is it old man just tell me what I will be learning" I shouted in unmeasurable excitement, smiling a little Sarutobi slowly started to move his mouth to purposefully annoy me, but before I could call him out on it he started speaking once again "balance leaves on you're head."

"What?" No I must of miss heard that right? He couldn't of said "you're going to balance leafs on your body, to be more pacific you will be balancing them on your finger tips." All this dramatic build up and all I was going to do was balance leafs on finger tips? Did the old man view me to be so under skilled that he's got me doing child's play? I thought I was quite cunning but apparently the old man thought otherwise.

Grabbing a nearby leaf balanced it on my finger tip with a bit of a annoyed look "easy old man now teach me something useful I said we were going to train not do something like so childish!" Looking up I noticed the small smirk on his face "what are you smiling about old man I've done your stupid task now give me a task that is fitting to someone like me" raising an eye brow Sarutobi walked up to me. Bending down he blew the leaf off my finger "hey what was that for?!" I raised my fist and shook it as he walked off casually to his rocking chair, grabbing a fresh cigar he relit it and blew a grey/blackish cloud of smoke from his mouth.

"You're not meant to just keep the leaf balanced on your finger tip but also to balance the leaf with the usage of chakra." spoke Sarutobi, giving him a puzzled he grabbed a leaf that was convently on the ground "watch carefully" slowly but steadily his finger tip grew a dark blue "now naruto this is my chakra watch what happens to the leaf if I put it on their" placing the leaf on the chakra it stuck as he emphasised this point as he started to shake his finger around "see now you try" realising his chakra the leaf gracefully landed back on the ground and Sarutobi took another puff of his cigar.

'Should be easy enough' I thought with a smile as I channeled my chakra 'now to channel the chakra to my finger' I thought but the task was more difficult then I imagined 'wait how do I do this?' I thought as I started to really concentrate on my finger tip.

It felt like it was futile to continue on but miraculously I had managed to concentrate enough to allow the chakra to my finger, "well done naruto not many manage to channel chakra to a single point on their first time" spoke sarutobi as he continued to puff his cigar. 'Ok now I just need to place the leaf to the chakra but how exactly do I do it? Like why should my chakra stick the leaf to me?" None the less I placed the leaf onto my finger, suprisingly it did stick when I placed it on myself.

"Wow naruto congratulations not many can do that task on there first try but now we are going to balance a lot more leafs on you" grabbing more leafs sarutobi placed them one by one on naruto until he was covered with them "excellent naruto you do really excell in the ninja arts" smiling sarutobi stood up and walked to the back door to the house "come on that's enough training time let's go out for a bit."

Nodding I ran up to hold the old mans hand only to notice the leafs still stuck to my body. This hadn't gone unnoticed by Sarutobi who took note of how naruto was still unconsciously channeling chakra to the individual points "haha naruto you might want to release your chakra or you will be a walking leaf" blushing a bit I nodded then breathed in slowly as I closed my eyes concentrating on realising my chakra.

Smiling I re held the old mans hand as we walked out the Sarutobi compound.


The streets of konoha


I had never really liked walking around konoha as the clear glares and angry growls had put me off walking in public by myself. But they halved whenever I was escorted by the old. "Ignore them naruto, how about we go get some ice cream?" Said Sarutobi as he smiled down at me, I nodded as I stopped shaking a little.


Half an hour later


Laughter could clearly be heard throughout the village as two people strolled through the village holding ice cream, "old man I never knew a ninja could be so awesome" the old man had been telling me about his adventures with his old comrades and his old Sensai. He was truly amazing, he was taught by both the second and first hokage, they were the most deadly duo to walk this planet and maybe the strongest Kage to live period.

"You know what naruto, why don't we go to the park today?" It was a delight to see the child so happy but I was his only friend, he didn't trust people much (and for good reason) not even the ones in the compound.

Stopping I stared at the old man as if he was crazy "bu-bu-but what if they hate me as well?" The children my age weren't any better than the adults in the village, yes they may not beat me but their own form of torment was as bad or worse. Being called a demon was one thing but to be left out and ignored has made my existence seem futile initially, especially if it was from your own age group.

"Naurto I will be there and if you feel uncomfortable at any time we can leave" Smiling the old man had reassured me enough, he had always been there for me so It may not be as bad I think it might be. Nodding we set off to the park.


The park


I was nervous, and rightfully so, I had recognised clan memebers and clan heirs there. I had read up all the clans once in the sarutobi clan library when I was board, I couldn't believe the amount of clams In konaha and that the uzumaki clan was once a great and promising clan that had strong ties with the Senju and konoha itself. Unfortunately they were destroyed in the second great ninja war.

Walking over to a bench the old man sat down next to a group of mums "Sarutobi-Sama" all the women gasped, 'an yamanaka, hyuuga, Nara, inuzuka and aburama' and a couple others I couldn't recognise 'civilians maybe' I thought as the old man greeted them back "hello yamanaka-san, hyuuga-kun, aburama-san, Nara-san and haruno-san, inuzuka-san" casually sitting on the bench sarutobi relaxed.

"What brings you here?" Asked the Nara, you could clearly tell he was one with the amount of laziness he radiated all at once. "Naruto and I had decided to visit the park for a while" everyone had turned to look at me as I tried to hide from there intense stares, even the Nara had sat up and raised an eye brow at me before relaxing again and looking up at the sky.

"Naruto you can't hide behind me all day, say hello and then go play with the rest of the children." Nodding my head i said hello then I rushed off to play, "Sarutobi-san is it wise to bring the boy here? After all a lot of people hate him " Spoke the Hyuuga "that's why I'm here after all I will stop anyone who tries to do something foolish towards the boy." Nodding his head the hyuuga member had returned to watching the children.


With the naruto


'Don't freak out, don't freak out naruto, don't freak out' I continuously repeated that in my head as I headed over to the group of children. "hello my name is naruto" turning around the group of children stared at me "hello" spoke a platinum blonde girl as she stood up and held her hand out for me to shake "my names ino, that girl with the pink hair and massive forehead is Sakura" grinning a little, I noticed the visible tick mark on the pink haired girl

"The chubby boy other there is choji and the boy lying next to him is shikamaru" Smiling I waved a the two boys, shikamaru had grudgingly waved backed as if the hand movement was too much for him to even do, and choji waved back with a massive grin plastered across his face "that one with the puppy is kiba, the boy next to him is shino" Smiling I waved once again at them, which in turn earned me a small but cute yip from the puppy "and finally the lavender haired girl over there is Hinata"

"Hel-he-hello" her voice was small and quite but I heard the greeting none the less "hey." Sitting next to ino we chatted a little "so naruto who did you come here with?" Asked Sakura as we made a small sand castle "umm the old man" puzzled Sakura didn't get what I meant by the old man "who's the old man?" Asked kiba.

Pointing my finger, they all turned to see an old man lying on the bench chatting happily and smiling at them as he spoke with the adults. "Wait I feel like I know him" said Sakura out loud, "yeah he was the third hokage" I casually said as I continued to build the sand castle.

"The THIRD WHAT" shouted both ino and kiba, even the latest piece of information had warranted the shikamarus attention. I covered my ears as I waited for them to calm down, *sigh* "yeah he was the third, what's so surprising about that after all he's still a old man" I shrugged my shoulders as if Sarutobi was a just some ordinary old man.

Blinking rapidly and looking around at each other, the seven children had their jaws dropping to the floor even some of the adults overheard what naruto had said and couldn't believe a little brat like him could be so casual and disrespectful when addressing one of the most dangerous men to ever live.

"Does he allow you to call him that?" Asked shino with what everyone presumed a raised eyebrow after all his cloak hide his features. "Yeah why wouldn't he?" I replied as if forgetting who the old man was in this village "troublesome" replied shikamaru as he shook his head and went back to cloud watching.


Two hours later


Two hours had placed and yet the day was still young, the children had decided to play a game of ninja which conveniently had been Naruto's strong suit, he had been able to feel everyone around him, 'I'm going to have to ask the old man about that later on.' The day was perfect so far, it seemed nothing could go wrong but alas all good things must come to a end and in Naruto's case not a very pleasant one.

"Hey everyone" shouted a female voice from behind, turning ino screamed back rather excitedly "Mito-chan you're finally here" running up ino hugged the girl rather tightly. The whole group started to surround mito infact everyone but naruto.

'Mito?No it can't be! Not her, not here, not now' I had met mito a couple times, twice in the office and once wondering the village, she was everything naruto despised. Loved, cared for, popular, had a family, praised and most of all she looked like them. That long flourest red hair that seemed to shine whenever it went, those lavender sea blue eyes, that bright white smile, the silky smooth tanned skin. All in all she was what perfection was meant to be but if she was anything like HIM then fuck perfection as that's what I would call hell.

"Naruto? Naruto? Naruto!" Shouted ino as I was stuck in a daze, transfixed by own hatred for the girl and her family, "Yes ino-chan?" I gritted my teeth as I forced my answer "naruto come say hello, it's rude not to you kno-" but ino never finished as Mito walked up to Naruto with that smile 'mphm more like smirk' "names mito nice to meet you, I'm going to become hokage just like my dad over there,and you are?" She raised her hand and made a gesture for me to shake it, 'she knew who I was, didn't she? Or am I too less of a being to be remembered by her?' The mere thought had made me growl.

*slap* it was the sound of my hand slapping away hers "fuck you and fuck the hokage" The gasps coming from everyone could be heard from miles away "yo-yo-you don't mean that do you?" Mito was shocked no one and she meant no one was that rude to her father, even less where that rude when addressing him as the hokage "Of course I do if you're going to be anything like him then I might as well kill you, we can't have a second coming of his reign in this village"

I had so casually thrown away the thought of what if the hokage had gotten mad at my comment? Anbu appeared from nowhere as if ready for war, "hokage-Sama, your order" Asked the cheif anbu, raising his hand the hokage had signalled for them not to use brute force, they didn't need a showing of that to the children.

Quickly stepping to me Sarutobi grabbed my hand and vanished from the park hoping to not cause a riot . Only leaving everyone but Minato to wonder 'why did naruto had the hokage and his family so much.'


With Sarutobi


"NARUTO YOU CANNOT SAY THAT TO THE HOKAGE AND HIS FAMILY!" We may of been a safe distance away from park but that didn't matter, the old mans shouting was most likely heard throughout the village, and for good reason too.

"I don't care about them and I don't care about this village old man, it's only you and me!" I had whispered the last part as I tried to control the tears that were threatening to flow down my face, I had tried so hard to be perfect to be good to be something that this village could be proud off. I had been what the old man wanted/needed from me, and it had worked for some time, the mask of happiness and care free had played its role and I planned it still did, but the only problem was it was starting to crumble and every little piece that left me, made me weaker and more vulnerable.

"It's ok naruto truely it is, just promise me that something like that won't happen again?" The old man had lowered himself to my level as he gave me those hopeful eyes, I nodded, "anything for you old man" I whispered as I continued to dry my eyes. Smiling Sarutobi held out his hand for me to walk with him.

But I turned away and didn't face him this time "can I walk by myself this time? I just want to go home and think things through " shocked the old man sighed and reluctantly let me go and walk off by myself.


30 minutes later


It had been 30 minutes and I was nearing my destination 'home sweet home' I thought, haha it was funny wasn't it to think that anyone would accept a place like this as home. There was alcoholics lying on the streets everywhere, some where substance abusers and others where just lousy people he didn't warrant my time and effort "hey you" called one of them he had been hiccuping and burping his way through that sentence as he shakily approached me with a glass bottle in his hand.

*sigh* another one I thought I as I turned to around to ask what. "What?" That wasn't a question to him but what was behind him, a large group no rather a mob of villagers surrounded him as they held there pitch forks and knives ready for there hunt "we heard what you said to the hokage and his daughter" oh no this wasn't happening not now, the old man was right I was going to face the consequences but I didn't believe that it would be this.

"And we would like to punish you our self's , after all you had made her cry" they smiled as they neared me, 'ok all I have to do is out run them, should be easy enough, after all half of them are drunk' but as I turned back around to make my escape another mob appeared in my path way "not today demon, not today" taunted the leader of the other mob.

I was trapped and they moved slowly as if enjoying the slow but steady progress they were making on me, "get him" shouted both leaders, it was a nightmare that had come true. The demon was finally caught and this time there was no saving him.


Sorry I hadn't uploaded in long I have had mocks so I've been revising and doing them, next 2 months I will have gcse so don't expect me to upload frequently but I will have a 13 week break so I will upload 10k chapters then.

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