A/N: Okay, so I forgot to mention that this is my first fan fiction EVER, so please be nice, but constructive criticism is accepted. Also, if you have any ideas or anything you think I should consider please put those forth in either a PM or a review. Here's the UPDATED Chapter 1, hope you like it! (:
Note: In this fanfic the Uchiha Massacre has not yet occured; it will later in the story, though I'm not saying when because where's the fun in that?
Note #2: There will be some changes from the anime, as I have not yet seen all of Shippuden so it may only go to the end of regular Naruto, I do not know yet
Anyways, here's the disclaimer, unfortunately
Disclaimer: Yes I own FINALLY Naruto! (note the sarcasm), just kidding, if I did then I would have been in it as the most awesome ninja EVER! :D oh how bad that would end (;
Ages:
Naruto-13
Other Rookie 9-13
Team Guy-14
Kakashi/Guy-20
Kurenai-18
3rd Hokage- Old
Chapter 1: 7 years later, Naruto P.O.V.
"Kit, wake up. Kit. Kit. KIT!"
Kyuubi's roaring finally reached my ears as I emerged from my subconscious dream of Ichiraku's ramen. The ramen that hadn't tasted in seven years. You could say I was excited about finally tasting it again. Actually, excited didn't even begin to describe my eagerness.
I slowly stretched then yawned, emerging from my tent lazily. Packing it up, I once again took note of how close we were to my ex-village. A growl was heard in my mindscape as I realized that once again, the annoying kitsune wanted to talk to me.
"What." I said, annoyed that he had woken me from my dream.
"I was GOING to give you a mission, but I guess that can wait till you get up on the other side of the ground." mocked the aforementioned overgrown fox.
"Oh. Then spill it foxie." I said, taunting him.
He just sighed, used to it by now, "You, my jichurikki, are going back to your village. It's time for you to advance your rank. We can't have an overgrown academy student as my holder, now can we? That is, if you want to be Hokage."
I sighed. As I walked aimlessly towards Konoha, not knowing whether I would be accepted back or not, Kyuubi talked to me through our mental link, instructing what he thought I should do. I wasn't that little kid anymore, Kyuubi reminded me, I was a ruthless, death-defying, and murderous machine, with only him for a friend... well at least for now. Now I lived up to the name Konoha's evil villagers gave to me; a demon. But unlike seven years ago, I could defend myself VERY well.
"Here's what you're going to do Kit. You job is to advance your rank. Nothing else. And when I say nothing, I mean NOTHING. I don't care that you still have that crush on that pathetic pink-haired twit, your job is to advance rank quickly and kill the Akatsuki.
"Well you're no fun." I joked, picking up my pace as the West Gates of Konohagakure came into view over the horizon, blocking out the view of the rising sun.
"I'm not meant to BE fun. I was meant to be a destructive machine with no emotions. But somehow you've grown on me. Now do as I instructed and shut the hell up! Remember mask your emotions and NEVER give away anything." were Kyuubi's last words as he dissolved our mental link and I walked through the gates of the village I hadn't seen in years.
The guards were stunned when they looked at me. They had the right to, since it had been nearly seven years since I had left without a trace. I was a missing-nin, supposed to be executed if ever seen, but they just smiled and waved, saying
"Hey Naruto! Great to see you again!"
What a surprise.
"Aren't you supposed to execute me? I AM a missing-nin right?" I said with all seriousness, suspicion evident in my burning eyes.
3rd P.O.V.
"Um, well... you see." began one of the new guards, "The Third decided to give you a wanderer's status, given that he thought you would never betray the village. Apparently he was right."
"He could have been wrong." Naruto said, appearing behind them in a blur of red. They blinked, and Naruto was gone.
He sped by in a blur of red flames licking a trail behind him as Naruto headed for ANBU HQ, towards the secret documents, and finally, to the records hall in the center. The records hall of legends and secrets. Naruto knew, he knew this wasn't in Kyuubi's orders, but he knew he had to find out the truth. That is, the truth about his heritage and secrets.
The ANBU there that day claimed to have seen nothing, and when the said that they were telling the truth, because Naruto moved so fast they only felt a breeze of wind and saw a flash of red before they even realized what happened.
In The Secret Record Hall
"Ninja Art: Hidden Mist Jutsu" whispered Naruto as he shunshined into the room that was the most heavily guarded
"Wha-What happened?", "Is this MIST?" were the chorused replies of the mystified ANBU guards.
'Wow," thought Naruto, "They're worse than even Kyuubi could have imagined."
Naruto blurred around the room, looking for 3 files in particular. Kushina Uzumaki, Minato Namikaze, and himself, the jinchurikki of the 9 tailed fox. The files were nowhere to be found in that room though, as they shouldn't be. That room was just a decoy, a fake. That much he had now figured out. Which meant that he was in a genjutsu.
"Release!" said Naruto with his hands in a familiar handsign, breaking the jutsu, only to find himself surrounded.
"Well, well. What have we here?" said the snickering voice of one Itachi Uchiha.
"Nothing." said Naruto, as he poofed into exactly that.
Outside the East Gates of Konoha
"Ah." said Naruto, dropping his meditative state. "It looks as if I'm still not good enough to get the files at half strength. I should go to the Hokage now... but I won't." he got up, and disappeared in red flames, heading to his favorite place. [A/N: RAMEN-it's actually one of my favorite foods to eat when my parents don't make me anything]
Ichiraku's
"I will never get how you eat this disgusting food! I mean it tastes like trash! There is nothing better than the taste of fresh meat and blood." said Kyuubi as he looked away in horror while Naruto downed a record 23 bowls of large Miso and Pork Ramen, skipping the vegetables, since that was what he was forced to eat on a regular basis, along with raw meat for Kyuubi.
"It's called it's Kami reincarnated into food." answered Naruto cheerfully, a bit too cheerfully for what the Kyuubi was used to.
"Um Kit, what the hell is with your attitude?" asked Kyuubi, slightly confused, but then he got it, "Oh. Smart thinking."
"And you called ME dumb. Hmph." mocked Naruto, pleased with himself for outsmarting the Kyuubi.
"That's because compared to me, you are." stated the Kyuubi in an exasperated tone. "And um Kit, you might want to run. They have spotted you."
"Oh shit." said Naruto, then took off sprinting towards the Hokage Monument, hoping to loose them with his superior, or so he thought, speed.
Naruto ducked behind a building, thinking he had FINALLY lost them.
"Phew." he said, "THAT was a close one."
"What was?" said a voice above him.
Naruto sweat-dropped, a surprised expression seemingly permanent on his face.
A barely audible thud was heard next to him, and a pair of onyx black eyes stared into his in shock. It was his ex-bestfriend, Sasuke Uchiha.
"You never saw me." said Naruto, fading into the shadows of the wall.
"That was definitely NOT Naruto, right?" Sasuke asked himself aloud.
"Actually, it was." said Itachi, who had mysteriously appeared at the end of the alley.
A/N: DUN,DUN,DUN! Muahaha hope you liked that chapter with all the surprises and twists. (More are to come) And sorry for the all overness with the setting, but it was all I could think of at the moment. (:
P.S. I shall try to make longer chapters in the future :)
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