Whorl-wind into part two

The survivors were shocked. Their beloved Hokage was gone, having sacrificed himself to save them all. Already hailed a hero, the yellow flashes' sacrifice cemented his place in all Konoha history books to come. As he had reigned for such a short period of time no successor was chosen before the untimely demise. But for as many people that held him in good graces for defeating the most powerful demon currently existing an equal number blamed him. Had he not impregnated the Kyubi's container the release of said beast and then attempted control of it would not have been. All the public knew of the women was her last name: Uzumaki

Now the Uzumaki clan was well known for four things. One is that they were the only girl dominant clan. Meaning the line of succession was primarily through female offspring and incidentally Uzumaki's rarely had boys. Two is their deadly sword skills. Not even the seven sword-man of the mist could best in Uzumaki in a one on one sword fight. To top off there sword skills they also made the weapons themselves and through years of test had the strongest swords that were unbreakable. Of the many types of swords they specialized with katana. Third was the dominant trait of red hair. No matter the colour of hair the other parent had red was always dominant. Last the clan was always associated with foxes.

Not only did some villagers detest the late Hokage for the attack but most actively destroyed what was left of the Uzumaki clan. Never again would an Uzumaki walk the streets as they were to blame for the Kyubi attack and the ending of the Namikaze line. The public was informed by the recently reinstated third hokage that not only was the woman's life lost but the new born child's as well. A grave lose indeed for the Namikaze line was once the most powerful.

Just as the Uzumaki clan was known for four unique things so was the Namikaze clan. The first and most prominent was the hair. A bright yellow head was a clear sign of a Namikaze. Two was the level of intellect the clan possessed. Each generation seeming to know more than the last and bound to discover new things to be passed on to the next. Third was the bloodline ability to control light. Originally confused with a strong affinity for fire, light affinity is much like controlling the sun, which brings us to the fourth thing. The clan was always associated with the sun, from the yellow hair and bright personality to the unique bloodline everything about them made people think sun.

Now if the child of these two grate clans would have survived, it would have been trained jointly in each clan as a union between mother and father was never formed and thus no clan had entire clam to it. It is said that a child with all traits would have been more powerful than the sage of six paths was. But alas, with the demise of both parents and offspring both lines appear to have come to an end.

Sarutobi first ordered a casualty count and a clean up to begin. Half of Konoha's civilian population had been lost, but more than half of its ninja population had been destroyed in the efforts to protect the village. Many kids were now without parents, and many families without homes. Being shorthanded Sarutobi himself was walking through the rubble and clearing smoke trying to estimate the damages. Alone in a basked a baby lay crying for food. It was a boy with light orange hair that almost looked yellow in the light and red in the dark. His face was marred by a set of three scratch marks on each cheek giving him a faint resemblance to a fox. On his belly the fading marks of an intricate seal was fading as the last remnants of Kyubi's chakra was absorbed into the infant.

Sarutobi alone was the only one to know that this was the child of the last hokage. The dangers of having the knowledge know were grate so in a moment of impulse Sarutobi took the child and body flickered away with him.

In the forests on the side of Konoha not badly affected the Third placed Naruto, the name he gave the infant, down near a fox's den knowing the boy would be cared for as within him was the queen of Foxes (there will not be a king as personally I think queens can be more devious and thus more foxy). Once a week Sarutobi would visit the boy and play with him, and teach him some human habits like speech and how to walk. And at the age of four Naruto was given a small apartment in a poor part of town to live in for a year as he got used to human interaction.

Naruto, not knowing anything about being human, was shunned. To Konoha this strange boy resembled a fox, acted like a fox, and smelled like a fox, and was thus a creature to be killed for the village harbored a hatred to foxes. But the Hokage band the public from killing Naruto nor from discussing any of his foxy attributes. Still by the time Naruto reached five years of age, the village had already tormented the poor boy to the point that he ran from smiling faces.

Our actual story is to start with this boy two weeks before he is to enter the Ninja academy. And two weeks until he is revealed to be an Uzumaki.