"Alright so let's start off with a little introduction about ourselves. My name is Kushina Namikaze, and my likes are; my family, learning new jutsu and this village. My dislikes are; those who are judgemental, and tomatoes. My dream for the future is to see many grandchildren to spoil. Memna you go next."
The blond boy nodded before starting himself "My name is Memna Namikaze, my likes are; learning new jutsu, my family, and protecting my precious people. My dislikes are; Naruto-baka, Sasuke-teme, my dream for the future is to one day become Hokage."
Aforementioned Naruto winced, when Memna said he disliked me, he hadn't even done anything to gain his ire, what he had done to deserve it?

Ayala Namikaze was the next to start up-

"My name is Ayala Namikaze, my likes are: my family, ramen, and protecting my friends, my dislikes; are Naruto-san, traitors, and liars. My dreams for the future is to one day become an ANBU agent.

Her introduction was simple and fast, just like and ANBU surmised, it hurt Naruto that she either couldn't provide a good reason for her unreasonable hatred of him. He turned his attention to the last member that was about to introduce himself, he probably guessed that she would hate him too.

"My name is Okokyo Namikaze, my likes are; my family, my friends, learning new jutsu and exploring, my dislikes are; Naruto-baka, traitors, liars and perverts, my dream is to one day become a sage, like Ero-Sennin."

Naruto was simply dumbfounded that all of these people hated him, yet they gave no reason for their hatred of him, they just simply said they hated him, he thought that being the children of the Hokage they would not hate him, but it seemed like it was too much to ask for. As the saying goes; when it rains, it pours.

"Oy, you...broody, its your turn."
Naruto was brought out of his reverie by the voice of Kushina, which sounded slightly annoyed, Naruto kicked himself mentally, its not even his first day on the team and he has apparently managed to piss of his sensei already.

"Uhhh...my name is Naruto Uzumaki...my likes are: Hinata-chan, Sasuke-nii, and Izumi-nee." Naruto was shaking because, he noticed they were all looking at him with annoyance in their eyes, as if he wasn't even worth the time they were wasting listening to him speak, Kushina-sensei had a...forlorn? Why would she….oh wait he had to finish his introduction.

"My dislikes are; people who judge for no reason, people who blindly hate, and those who cause strife. And my dream…"
Naruto trailed off, what was his dream? He had never really thought about dreams before, opting to stay focused in the present, an orphan in his shoes never really had times for dreams, because dreams were just that, dreams; they would never come true.

"My dream is to rid this world of hate, and bring about peace to the world" Naruto finished strongly towards the end, only to look up to see glares on his teammates faces, and a pitying expression on his sensei's.

"As if baka, how would you bring peace?"
"How would a dead-last like you do anything useful?"
"Hahaha, thats rich."
Before they could say anymore, they were stopped by Kushina who wanted to say one last thing.

" We will meet up at training ground 7, tomorrow to start team training. . Also we will be having a team dinner tonight, Naruto, you are welcome to attend if you-actually no, you have to attend. It will be hosted at the Hokage Mansion, I assume you know where that is?"
Naruto nodded his head, trying his best to imagine that his teammates were not actually glaring at him, as if hoping he would combust into flames spontaneously. He was seriously not looking forward to this dinner.

o0o

After being dismissed by their sensei, Naruto walked through the village, eyes looking down, not meeting the glares sent his way,

He instead chose to walk out towards a spot located near training ground 35, it was an abandoned training ground seeing as noone wanted to use the same training ground he did. Walking forward, he waited until he reached the trees at the left side of the ground and lay down, looking up at the sky

"I wonder….the sky looks so lonely", soon he dozed off and entered the world of dreams.

When he fell asleep, he was assaulted by dreams, voices, screaming at him.

He saw himself, with red eyes, eyes that looked so similar to Izumi-nee's sharingan, but this had no tomoe, and where there was normally warmth in Izumi-nees eye's, this stranger's eyes held nothing but disdain and malice, the power rolling off the man was palpable, the chakra was dark and malicious, as if tainted by the man's visage. Yet there was something familiar about this man, something Naruto could not place, and then it happened.

Half of the man's face fell off, and in its place, was…...was….was….blonde hair, and haunted blue eyes staring right back at him.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Naruto woke up from his dream, sweat pouring down his face, matting his spiky blonde locks down, as he struggled to regain his bearings.

Who was that? Was that…..me? I dont know anyone else with that color hair and eyes, and I felt a connection to him, as if…..we were the same person…

Naruto struggled to shake the vision out of his head, those haunted black eyes, they reminded him of his own blue eyes whenever he was alone. The eyes that only Hinata and Sasuke along with Izumi could bring any sort of life into.

Naruto knew that if it ever came down to it, he would willingly sacrifice himself in a heartbeat to save their lives, because if it was the other way around, Naruto wouldn't know what to do, he would be lost himself.
For Naruto loved his friends, and when a man learned to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

o0o

The Hokage Mansion was huge! It was quite an imposing building to be honest, it looked like a house built for a Daimyo. It was a tall 2 story house that was made of wood, the Shodaime's Mokuton to be exact. Its doors were taller than Naruto, by at least 4 feet! He was about to knock on the door when it swang open, unfortunately it swang outside, so Naruto had to jump back unless he wanted to hit by the door on its way out. At the door was Memna Namikaze, his red hair with blonde tips swaying with the wind, his whisker marks giving him a feral appearance.

"Took your time dobe, dinner was about to start"
Naruto just looked at him, and walked inside, manners be damned, he had more important shit on his mind, like the vision he had at the training ground, what if it was an omen for the future? But what could possibly happen to turn him into that?

He heard clattering and when he walked into the dining room he did not expect for so many people to be also eating dinner with them, letting out a sigh of relief he looked towards the seat that had his name on it, on his way there he looked around the table recognizing the people at the table. Among them was; Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya of the Sannin, Tsunade of the Sannin, Orochimaru of the Sannin, Kakashi Hatake; the Copy Ninja of Konoha, and also, Izumi-nee!

Naruto was gonna go embrace her, but a look from her told him not too, she hadn't told him she would be here for a reason, so he would just go along it.

It was Hatake Kakashi that decided to break the silence "So Naruto...I hear that you are on the team with Minato-sensei's kids, how do you feel?"
All of a sudden all eyes turned to look at Naruto, and he began to fidget nervously under his seat.

"I am..very excited and I hope to become strong enough to defend Konoha."
When he looked back up, everyone nodded, as if pleased by his statement, as Naruto began to eat he began to feel a sense of belonging?

But why would he feel a sense of belonging here? He was an orphan, but around this extended family he seemed oddly comfortable.

When he was a little child he had fantasies of being the son of the Yondaime Hokage, too bad it would never be true. .

It had started right after discovering he had another energy source, the reason why his chakra pools were so small. His chakra was always contesting with another energy inside of his body for nutrients, therefore no matter how much he ate he wouldn't grow as much as he wanted until he found a way to expel this other source inside of his body.

He had been assaulted by visions, visions of what could happen, visions of what would happen. He was never safe from their influence, even when he slept. Sometimes Naruto wondered if they were visions of the future, visions of what he could become, but the darker voice inside of Naruto would always reassure him, that no matter what he did, this was what he would become.

Some destinies, no matter how hard we try are unchangeable.

o0o

His time on Team 7 was not a pretty time for Naruto, he was rarely ever trained in anything, his sensei being too busy to train her kids, leaving no time for Naruto, most of the training session she just had Naruto work on chakra control so that he could "increase his reserves", but what Naruto really needed to do, was divert his nutrients into one source of Energy, rather than have it split up between two.

He would get jealous, of how Kushina-sen-, no Kushina-san would take her three kids and start showing them how to perform jutsu after jutsu, while all he got was the Tree Climbing Exercise.

Right now the Hokage himself was helping them, they were learning how to use his jutsu; The Rasengan, a A rank technique that can turn anything into mush.

Uhh, If i have to climb this tree one more time I am going to fucking snap.

"Naruto, I want you to come over here, I am going to teach you the water walking exercise."
Naruto looked over at his sensei with a disbelieving expression on his face,

She has had me walking on trees for about 3 weeks, and now she wants me to do it on water?

Naruto without taking a look backwards, jumped off the tree and walked away from the training ground, ignoring the voices of his team as they called him back.

He was gonna go see what Sasuke and Hinata were doing, hopefully they weren't busy again.

o0o

Who was Kushina to deny him his opportunity to get stronger? Was she like the villagers too? Did she hate him too for no reason? He hated this feeling, being powerless, it reminded him too much of his childhood, it seemed that even after all this time, nothing had truly changed, he still had only two friends; Sasuke and Hinata. The rest of his graduating class wanted to do nothing with him. He wanted nothing to do with trash like them, trash that doesn't even know its trash. As he walked away, his strides full of unmatched confidence and brimming potential, a single though ran through his head.
So long as they would reject him, he would reject them.