Chapter 2: Intro to Naurto Uzumaki

I dont own Naruto , Misashi Kishimoto does.

It has been 10 long years since the day Minato Namikaze agreed to be the Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village. A little more than 9 years since the kyuubi attacked the hidden leaf, and the same amount of time since it was defeated, by none other than the leafs 4th Hokage, with his mastery over fuinjutsu he was able to seal the beast into the only new baby available at the time, one Naruto Uzumaki, also known as Minatos son, but not many know of this, as Minato and Kushina only chose a close few to give the information of Kushinas pregnancy to, those few who were chosen were Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya the Gallant, Tsunade Senju, Kakashi Hateke, Mikoto Uchiha. The sealing process to make a new jinchuriki took Minatos life due to the price for summoning the death god for the seal. In the end Kushina ended up dying from the child birth and biju extraction under all that stress. Naruto was given the surname Uzumaki rather than Namikaze because of the fear that Stone or Cloud may send assassins after the young boy, it was that fear that made Hiruzen not tell the boy of his burden or heritage. But if there was one thing Hiruzen regrets it is telling the village of the boys burden as jinchuriki, oh how much he regrets that night. The boy known as Naruto Uzumaki has been the village scapegoat for what happened that night since the day he was born. Hiruzen placed an S rank law on ever talking about the Jinchuriki, what was more was that the boy was diagnosed to be blind but by the age of two turns out he developed the Uzumaki Sensing ability and it was strong in him, but only the Hokage and Tsunade knew of this. No villagers did anything too dramatic, usually just gave him looks of disgust and hatred. The populace of The village knew what would happen if they in anyways broke the law set in place, execution, that was the consequence for breaking an S rank law.

With Naruto

Naruto Uzumaki. 9 years old at the time, had sunshine yellow hair and dead gray eyes which many thought was his normal eye colour, he wore a horrendous orange and navy blue coloured suit that had 'big target' written all over it, he could careless because he was blind, but others could tell he had poor fashion sense. Naruto was having an ok day today. Basically everything that usually happened to him happened in the same way. Villagers gave him hateful looks, wasn't allowed at most of the shops, went to the academy, and now was his daily walk on the bridge. So everything checked out it was an average day at the most. As he was walking across he sensed a kid he knew from the academy, It was none other then Sasuke Uchiha, the king of the academy, or so most girls said, he was disliked by most of the civilian guys in the academy, but Naruto always wanted to surpass him in the academy, to gain somewhat acceptance from the other kids. Naruto thought back to all the spars they had.

Flashback

"Alright now let me go over the rules once again, you can use any three of the academy jutsu and taijutsu, if the battle goes out of hand you will be stopped" said the chuunin instructor known as Iruka Umino.

"Alright Sasuke vs Naruto, get to your sides of the field" said Iruka

'hope Naruto-kun does better today' thought one Hinata Hyuga

"The loser should drop out already, there's no wayyy he can beat Sasuke-kun" said Ino.

"Yea there is absolutely no wayyy!" Sakura shouted, not being taken seriously [casue shes Sakura]

Naruto and Sasuke got to their end of the small field and bowed to each other and took their stances. Sasuke settling into a basic stance for the interceptor fist and Naruto as if he was an inexperienced bandit.

"Alright 1, 2 ,3... Hajime" said iruka.

Sasuke just stayed in his spot waiting for Naruto to make a move, Naruto getting Impatient decided to run in head first.

"I'll get you this time Sasukeeeeeee!" he yelled running at civilian levelled speeds with a fist cocked back. He made his way to Sasuke and punched him in the face, only to have it blocked by sasukes hand as he grabbed the fist, and you could tell sasuke felt it as it hurt his hand a bit. He then flipped Naruto over in a matter of seconds and held his fist above his opponents face ready to punch if any signs of struggling were going to be shown.

"Alright, Sasuke wins this match" said Iruka marking it down in his notebook. Sasuke then held out his hand to pick up Naruto, which Naruto took without hesitance.

"You've got quite the punch there Naruto, if it hit me I'd sure be the one who lost this, you need a little help in fixing you taijutsu though" said Sasuke in a friendly manner.

"Thanks, your taijutsu is pretty awesome too" said Naruto scratching his head in embarrassment, they made there way back to the rest of the group only to hear.

"Naruto you should know that you could never hope to beat Sasuke, he's an elite, your just some orphan" said Sakura in a matter of fact sort of way. Ino decided to stay quite as she could see that what Sakura said was wrong and was out of line. Sasuke looked to Naruto and decided that Naruto should sort this out by himself.

" I mean you were soo pathetic out there, you might as well drop out of the academy, some hokage you'll be" sakura said again further inflicting emotional damage on Naruto. Still not seeing if she was saying anything wrong she continued more on the topic.

"Guess my mom was right about you, just some no name troublemaker that's a bad influence" this got Naruto the most, she was destroying his confidence in himself bit by bit. Iruka was far away from the students so he couldn't here anything Sakura was saying. The other academy kids were all looking on it amused except the clan kids in the class, as they weren't exactly friends with Naruto but did not hate him either.

"That is enough Sakura, can you not see you are hurting him, you should be ashamed" said Kiba, he did not usually defend Naruto when he was being picked on a bit, but he knew what was more than enough, and what Sakura said disgusted him.

"Gosh I was just stating my opinion" said Sakura as if she did not say anything wrong.

"alright next match up Ino vs Shino" Iruka announced.

On that day Naruto swore he would prove everyone wrong, and that was the day Naruto decided to give up pranks and become more serious, and he had found a rather strong rival in Sasuke to compare himself too.

Flash Back end

Naruto decided he would go down there and have a chat with Sasuke, after what happened to the once great Uchiha Clan and as its only survivor he would need some one to talk to that wasn't just trying to kiss his ass. He headed down to where Sasuke was and sat beside him on the doc. Sasuke noticed Naruto beside him.

"What do you want?" Sasuke said in a demanding tone.

'Hes grown colder since the clans extinction' thought Naruto.

"Nothing really I was bored and I figured you were bored too, so why not chat" said Naruto with a small smirk on his face. Sasuke laid down in the grass and thought of it and had a smile, he really wanted someone to talk to, and to his luck it was the one person he admired in a way for the hard effort they showed in the academy.

"Naruto, whats you dream or ambition" asked Sasuke, waiting for Narutos answer. Naruto was silent, no one had ever asked him this before other than the Hokage and that was before he had a more serious view on the ninja world.

"I want to get stronger and become Hokage... not for recognition as I did before, but to lead this village to greatness, the past month I have been doing research in the academy library on the shinobi wars and other things, and there is always one thing that all these battle originate from and help cause more of... Hate.. I want to achieve peace." said naruto in a calm tone as if what he just said was a common thing to say for someone his age. Sasuke just looked at him shocked. His brother Itachi had told him hate was the answer to gaining more power, and here was this kid less then half Itachis age, giving valid reason as to why hate was nothing more then a nuisance to the shinobi world. Sasuke finally decided to say something to Naruto.

"My brother... he was the one who killed the Uchiha.. he told me that the source of true power was hatred. So how do I not know you're wrong" asked Sasuke hoping Naruto had an answer. Naruto in turn had a confused look on his face.

"If he killed your whole clan, how can you trust what he told you is the true way of getting strong, he clearly didn't give crap about you then and why would he care in the future it is common sense" answered Naruto, knowing his point got across. Sasuke was in deep thought at the moment, what Naruto said was in fact true, it made sense too, his brother lied to him, but that coming from a serial killer didn't make it hard to believe that it was a lie. Naruto then turned towards Sasuke and asked him the same question the answer he got was quite intriguing.

"I want to find my... brother and avenge the clan, then I'll need to rebuild it" said Sasuke menacingly. When Sasuke had said this Naruto burst into laughter at how dumb Sasuke was.

"Whats to laugh at errrr" Sasuke said feeling insulted.

"Well I think you have things backwards Sasuke shouldn't you rebuild your clan first then go after Itachi, in case you die in the fight, I mean he is strong enough to kill the whole clan" Naruto said again showing he knew what he was talking about. Sasuke then again saw reason in what Naruto had to say, and realized how idiotic his idea was. The 2 boys just sat and stared at the sun set before getting up to head off to there own locations but before that Sasuke told Naruto something that would change everything for Naruto.

"Hey if you want to get strong so badly, you could always come over and use the Uchiha library, I wouldn't mind" Naruto was shocked at what Sasuke just told him, clan libraries had way more information in them then the academy ones, more jutsu, taijutsu styles, and more info on the different shinobi arts. He knew this was a once in a life time opportunity.

"Thanks Sasuke, that really means a lot, but why are you doing so much for me?" asked the blond boy confused why the head of class was doing this much for the dead-last such as himself. Sasuke just stared at Naruto for a moment.

"that little chat of ours made me realize something if I ever am going to go after someone as strong as Itachi it wouldn't hurt to bring a friend along" said Sasuke as he turned around and was ready to walk off, if one looked closely they could see a tiny smile on Sasuke. Naruto at hearing this had a big grin on his face.

'a friend, I finally have a friend' Naruto thought and was about to cry but started running towards his apartment but not before yelling.

"Sasuke lets go to the library after academy on Monday!" Naruto knew Sasuke heard, and didn't need a reply. He decided that first thing tomorrow he was going to go into town and get some new clothes, but he would need to go with the old man as he wouldn't know what would be good colours, honestly his disability was one pain in the ass. But his sensing ability might as well make him a Hyuuga with constant 360 vision around him, it was good being a sensor. He arrived to his building in the red light district, and went up to his door and let himself in. His apartment was a mess, empty cup ramen every where on the floor but that didn't really bother him, no one really ever came over other than the old man to give him his welfare checks. He made himself a cup of ramen and went straight to sleep as tomorrow was going to be a good day, he could feel it.

Next Morning

The next day, Naruto decided to get up at 7 am, deciding that he'll go to the Hokage Tower early rather than later when the streets are crowded with villagers and shinobi. When e was done showering he got dressed in his orange jumpsuit had another cup ramen, and decided it was time to leave. For most of Narutos life there were always Anbu following him, he could always feel them there, but knew it was just a way for the old man to show he cared, he was however surprised when he felt one anbu further away from the others, as if he was hiding from them, he decided to leave that at that, and made his way to the Hokage.

With Sarutobi- 30 minutes later

Sarutobi was going through all the paperwork on his desk at the moment, bored out of his mind, but that is what came with the job of the Hokage. Only moments passed when he heard a small commotion outside. After hearing it he knew exactly who had come to visit his office.

"The Hokage will not waste his time on some stupid brat" said the secretary to the short blond boy.

"The old man always lets me come visit, so please kindly let me in" said Naruto in a calm voice, this kind of stuff always happened to him, and whenever he asked the Hokage, he brushed it off and got Naruto sidetracked on something else.

"Now, Whats all the commotion out here" the hokage said to his secretary, when he walked out of his office.

"Nothing Hokage-sama, I was just telling him that you can not be disturbed at this time" Said the secretary not completely lying. The hokage looked towards Naruto and had a smile on his face.

"Good morning Naruto-kun, what brings you here" said the Hokage in a grandfatherly tone. To which Naruto responded.

"Old man I was wondering if you could help me pick out clothes, it is hard to know what is good, with my condition" said Naruto so only Sarutobi would know what he meant.

"tell you what, I'll have one of my trusted Anbu take you, how does that sound?" said Sarutobi to the boy.

"Alright is it weasel, or dog" asked the boy hopefully. Those were the only anbu the boy had met so far that would be friendly towards him. The hokage however had someone else planned to take the kid.

"Cat" was all the hokage had to say and there was an anbu with a cat mask that appeared. She had long purple hair and was about 5 foot 6 in height, she bowed down to the hokage.

"yes Hokage-sama" said Cat respectfully to the leader of the village.

"I would like you to take young Naruto here shopping, for new clothes, sometimes he isn't quite liked in stores" said the hokage, the last part a bit sadly. Yugao got where the hokage came from but still thought it was a bit of a mockery of her duty to the village she thought.

"yes hokage-sama" said cat agreeing nonetheless, she stood up from her kneeling position and went over to the young kid. 'so this is the kyuubi kid' thought Cat. She didn't have anything against the kid, she actually respected him to some degree and not for the holding the fox back bull shit, she believed that the 4th was the only hero that night the kid was just someone unlucky at the time. No she respected him for not falling victim to all the villagers put him through, she couldn't imagine being stared at with hateful eyes of people that were supposed to make her feel at home in the village. At this point the hokage went back into his office to complete the rest of the infamous paperwork. After the hokage left, Cat turned to the boy wanting to know where he wanted to shop.

"so what type of clothes are we talking here, civilian or training clothes" asked Cat wondering, hoping it was the latter, civilian clothes shopping was great and all but the more shinobi related stuff had more thrill in it.

"I'm looking for some clothes I can train in, I want clothes that are durable and also some kunai and shuriken wouldn't hurt either" said Naruto with a blank expression.

Cat was starting to like the kid, he wasn't like what rumours said about him, being goofy and obnoxious, she could take a liking to this kid. She knew just the perfect store to take the kid.

"alright come here" said Cat. Naruto started walking over to her. Cat then placed a hand on Narutos shoulder and they disappeared via cloud shunshin.

With Naruto and Cat

They arrived in front of a shinobi store within 4 minutes via cloud shunshin. Naruto looked up at the name and it was of a store he had been kicked out of many times by the store owner. Naruto was a little hesitant to go in at first something Cat noticed right away. ' why is he being hesitant all of a sudden' she thought as she grabbed his hand and waled him in. They went inside and there was almost everything a shinobi would want, from clothing to weaponry. Naruto had again been dumbstruck. ' maybe I can actually get something now that I have an anbu with me' thought Naruto, however all the excitement he had ended when they were seen by a worker. Said worker came to them and was gonna offer help.

"Hello welcome to-" said a random worker before his happy face turned sour and angry looking.

"what is that doing here, this is not a place it is welcome" said the worker as he was about to reach out for the boy. Seeing this Cat unsheathed her katana and had placed right above the mans hand. Faster than most high level chunin could see. The man in turn was frightened that she might actually cut his hand off.

"you even move that hand an inch nearer to this boy and I will be forced to take it away from you" said the anbu Cat in an emotionless voice, when inside she was furious at this ignorant villager. After seeing him just nod at her dumbly she sheathed her sword once again, not that anyone could see but behind the mask she had a smile on her face.

"alright Naruto now what colour do you like best" asked Cat. The young boy in return hesitated for bit, he knew he couldn't tell Cat of his blindness, and he really didn't know any colours that were good, what he was wearing right now was just something he found in the trash.

"umm I don't really know.. whats the best colour a ninja should wear" asked Nauto, the question was quite odd though for a young kid to ask, as he would still have a couple more years till he's put onto the field and doing missions.

"ummm, lets try this" said Cat as she started searching through articles of clothing.

Time skip- 2 and a half hours later

Naruto and Cat had finally finished finding all the clothing that made him look like a ninja. What Naruto now wore was black anbu styled pants, a black muscle shirt with the leaf symbol on the front and a red spiral on the back, a thin white coloured headband, that was tied to his shoulder, and black shinobi sandals. He was gonna get 10 pairs of everything minus the sandals and the thin headband. Cat was smiling on the inside of her mask, she saw how the kid was happy when he felt his new clothes, these had to be softer and better material then those excuse of clothes.

"So how do you like them, shinobi like don't you think" asked Cat trying to get his excitement to come out. Naruto was overjoyed at this moment, this was the first time he actually felt like a new person, these clothes, they felt comfortable, and he could move and stretch much easier too, he couldn't wait till tomorrow. Not because of the academy, but because of him being able to visit the Uchiha clan library, everyone knows that it is one of the biggest libraries in the village. They had everything jutsus scrolls, training methods, political books, anything you can imagine. He knew that he wouldn't be able to read any of the stuff in the books but luckily Sasuke would be there with him, he could read it for him and then they could also train together as well.

Naruto went back into the changing room and took off the clothes he just had on and had it folded on top of the other clothes he had gotten. Once he was done he stepped out of the room and him and Cat went to the cashier and bought the supplies. Despite Cat feeling the need to using a small fire jutsu on the place for overcharging Naruto a bit, she was in fact happy with what Naruto got, what she didn't get was why he got a headband. But that can be talked about later it was time for them to have lunch so she thought she outta introduce him to a friend of hers.

"alright Naruto today you'll have lunch with me and a few of my anbu friends" said Cat, to which Naruto was a bit excited to meet more people strong like Cat. He was also wondering if Dog and Weasel were going to be one of them.

"oh that sounds nice, by the way are Dog and Weasel going to be one of them?" asked Naruto hoping the other 2 nice anbu would be there. Cat didn't know how to tell the little boy about Weasel aka Itachi Uchiha, one of the leafs biggest criminals. She decided to just give him false information on Itachi.

"Weasel doesn't have lunch with us sorry, I eat with Dog, Snake, and tiger." replied Cat [dog is Kakashi, Snake is Anko, I decided to make her anbu in this, and tiger is Yamato, oh and if you havent figured it out yet Cat is Yugao Uzuki].

Naruto being a bit sad that Weasel wasn't going to be there was still quite happy hearing that at least Dog will be there. Cat got a hold of Naruto and they quickly shunshined to a sushi place. After spending 5 minutes yet again with the stupid villager to let Naruto in, they got there food and left. After they got out Cat and Naruto shunshined to a clearing there was a small stream near it and a forest ahead.

Training ground 7

"where are we Cat" asked Naruto, never actually ever being here before. Cat looked to Naruto.

"this is training ground 7, this is where some of the new starting genin start training in the shinobi way." said Cat. Naruto just nodded to her, thinking on how awesome it'd be to finally be a genin in just a few years. Cat then ushered him to where her friends were sitting by a large training post on top of that post was sitting Snake, on the right was Tiger, and left was Dog. Naruto saw Dog and ran up to him and gave him a hug. Which Dog returned.

"Dog its been so long, where have you been" said Naruto really happily.

"Uh, you know missions..." said Dog with his head turned sideways to which everyone had a big sweat drop rolling off there head to.

"Who is this brat anyways" said Snake in a high pitched voice, she was holding her kunai the whole time which was making Naruto feel a bit unnerved. Cat looked at what Snake was doing to the boy and got tired of Snakes childish antics.

"Snake please don't intimidate him like that, and he's Naruto Uzumaki" said Cat. Now Snake stopped what she was doing, ' this shrimp is the kyuubi brat eh, ha if trained right, he'll be a force to be reckoned with' Anko decided to not try and intimidate him again but began wondering what he was doing here.

"Cat what is a kid doing here anyways, more importantly why are you with a kid" asked Snake wondering what Cat was doing when she was supposed to be with the Hokage most of the day today.

"Well... the hokage gave me responsibility to watch Naruto while he shopped for clothes today" said Cat in a bored voice knowing what was gonna happen.

Silence thats all that was heard for a solid 3 seconds.

All the three other anbus burst out laughing.

"HAHA YOU MEAN, YOU HAHA WERE JUST BABYSITTING AHAH A BRAT ALL DAY AH" said Snake in between laughs, rubbing it in Cats face.

Now Cat was annoyed really annoyed. So she did the only thing she could have. Eat her food. The three Anbus continued laughing the whole time, and throughout the whole thing there was one confused Uzumaki not knowing what was going on.

'there all weird' thought one Naruto as he continued to eat his meal.

End.