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Chapter 1

Naruto looked around the small room he was in. It seemed rather bare and wasn't in the best of condition to say the least; the carpet was threadbare and dirty. The room leaked, and his bed had a spring that stuck out; it could be worse he supposed, and this was true. Although he probably had the worst room in the entire orphanage he at least then was treated with disdain instead of outright hatred. Both were of course a far cry from the respect and adoration he got for defeating Pein/pain and Nagato.

Naruto walked up to the door and looked at the handle. 'I could barely reach it with the help of a stool let alone without one.' he sighed and after standing still for a few seconds he felt a breeze. Naruto looked at the direction it was coming from and saw a window. 'Oh, right I always used to sneak out through the there.' without another thought Naruto climbed on the desk and scrambled out the window. Naruto grinned as he felt the wind in his hair shift.

After Naruto got out of the building he stood up on the roof and yelled "FREEDOM!" The blond toddler launched himself off the roof on a nearby tree limb and climbed down Naruto took another look around. "Well that was easy." he said to himself. Following this statement, he immediately stepped on an incredibly sharp rock. "OWW!" Naruto yelled. 'I just had to say that didn't I." Naruto stomped off, careful to look out for more sharp rocks. 'I really should have grabbed my shoes fist, but I kind of like the feel of the ground beneath my feet.'

Naruto started walking down the street, after a while he was around the middle of the village. 'Huh it's the old Hokage tower.' Naruto thought. Maybe I should pay the old man a friendly visit?' The almost three years old thought about it. "nah." 'Old man Hokage just saw mini me last week if I seem different so soon he will wonder what's up with me.' Naruto continued to walk down the street. 'Then again that's why I have those memories, and he might want to know I can get out of the orphanage since I didn't start doing this till I was five before.'

Naruto tried to remember the way to their old playground and changed directions to where he remembered it being located. He arrived soon after and sat on one of the swings. The park at that moment was completely deserted; Naruto frowned and looked at the sky. 'Hmm it's about nine in the morning so the others probably won't be able to get here for a while, but at least I familiarized myself with everything okay'. Naruto sighed 'oh well I guess it's time to go back to the orphanage.'

After arriving at the orphanage Naruto climbed back in and relocked the window he felt someone watching him and assumed it was probably an ANBU guard, but he wasn't sure.' I guess the old man will find out about my escape soon.' Naruto yawned. 'Man being little does have its advantages but it sure does tire you out. Naruto stretched and made his way to the bed. 'I wonder if the fur ball got sent back as well?' was his last thought as he fell asleep.

(In the Mindscape)

Naruto woke up to a familiar sight of the dark tunnels which besides the water turned out to be modeled after the ANBU tunnels which he lived part of his first two years in. Unfortunately, he was still in two-year-old form. He still didn't remember anything about living there except other him's memory that he has only been in the orphanage for a few weeks; but Naruto knew that during his first year of life was in those underground rooms. Most of the reason was that at least now he could go to the bathroom on his own. He giggled when he found records of who taught him that. Kakashi sensei took care of him a lot when he was a baby, and Just because he didn't remember it doesn't mean he didn't have any proof that it happened.

There on the right side of his pillow was a gray wolf stuffed animal which Naruto remembered as Inu, 'was it just coincidence that Kakashi's ANBU name was Inu and had the same gray hair as the wolf I think not'. The other worlds Inu plushy had gone missing when Naruto was seven, but that was still years away. The now two-year-old going on 19 Naruto had no problems with anyone seeing him snuggle with it. After all, in this time the rest of the rookie had realized how much of a hugger/cuddle Naruto was in his sleep most of his comrades never wanted to sleep next to him for that reason. Except Choji, or Lee the former wouldn't notice the later pushed him away while still sleeping.

Naruto finally arrived at the seal and came upon a sight that didn't surprise him at all. The Kyuubi was as expected, sleeping. Naruto sighed well this doesn't help at all, better wake him up. "HEY KURAMA GET OFF YOUR LAZY BUT AND LISTEN." Naruto heard a grunt and sniff, surprisingly the Kyuubi had to struggle a bit to wake up. The demon fox looked at his host. "Shut it Naruto your chakra is especially oppressive today."

With that in mind he fell back to sleep easily. Naruto shrugged he knew that his chakra would be a lot stronger now because it was raw and still had some of the properties of nature Chakra that he used for the jutsu. "Well at least I know the Kyuubi is the same one from my time, Naruto didn't have anything else to do here and exited the mindscape to get some real sleep.

Naruto didn't go back to the park that day due to a light rain which meant no one would be there anyway. Naruto having always been childish had no qualms reverting to that state and spent his afternoon trying to balance wooden blocks on inu's head, and vise versa.

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The next day Naruto woke up at probably 5:30 and yawned. 'I guess I'm still on my wartime schedule I won't have anything to do for at least thirty minutes. Naruto thought about what to do while he waited as he felt an ANBU watching him. Naruto smiled he knew that chakra, it was Kakashi sensei's. Naruto paused "I shouldn't be able to feel chakra at this age, Naruto thought about it for a few seconds 'there is a possibility that with my chakra still in its raw state that I would be able to sense it. With that in mind maybe the only reason most people can't is that they lose it not gain it with age.' his eyes widened this means that me and the rest of the rookies have a chance of becoming chakra sensors this time.

Naruto grinned 'That means I have found out how chakra sensing works.' The art of chakra sensing was a large mystery because their birth was always random many sensors came from non-sensor parents some even from civilian families. On the other hand, a kid with both of his parents as sensors had the same chance as being a sensor as any other child. If I can figure out how I could have all of us except maybe Lee could be sensors. Naruto was frowning again 'we don't really need that many sensors though but still.'

Naruto started thinking about how to ensure that at least some of the rookies retained the ability. Because of his internal debate he quickly lost track of time. Naruto looked at the clock again; it was now almost 6:15.

Guess I spent more time than I thought thinking about it, Naruto jumped out of bed and ran to his dresser he grabbed a pair of black shorts and his favorite white tee shirt with a red swirl on both sides. He looked at it. His mom Kushina's clan symbol was the Uzumaki swirl, the Jounin and Chunnin vests all had it and it made him happier that he knew where it came from. Shaking himself out of his thoughts he put on some sandals and ran to the door which as with every day was unlocked shortly after 6:00 AM every day. Sure, enough it opened with a gentle push and he ran out and toward the mess hall.

Arriving at the mess hall he grabbed a tray and headed to the table with the various breakfast foods usually the matrons would fill the trays for anyone under 5 because the kids would usually spill or choose only the unhealthy foods. The matrons made him an exception mostly because he was the jinchurriki as well as hard to manage. Naruto grabbed a bowl of cereal a carton of milk and a banana. 'This seems healthy enough' he decided he sat back down. There was only one other kid currently which was rather strange. Most of the time, Naruto ate alone. The kid looked kind of familiar to Naruto.

'Maybe he was one of the civilians that Naruto was among the survivors back home.' before the boy could continue this train of thought however the boy turned to face him. Naruto's eyes almost popped out of his head. The boy had a white Gi on and black hair in a braid but probably the most distinguishing characteristic was they two fuzzy caterpillars where his eyebrows should be. The other boy smiled and gave thumbs up while introducing himself. 'Hello, my name is rock Lee. Naruto smiled 'one down eleven to go.' "Hi Rock Lee, I'm Naruto Uzumaki, can I sit with you." "Sure, you can Naruto."

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Naruto and Lee spent the rest of the morning together or at least till the matrons came back and told lee he had to go to preschool. Lee looked at the clock it was in fact thirty minutes till then, but he immediately understood what she meant. She wanted Lee to stay away from Naruto. Lee Shrugged a decided that saying so would probably only get them in trouble. "By Naruto-san it has been fun talking to you." Naruto nodded "you too Lee."

The two parted ways, and Naruto put his tray in the stack with the others. He was glad that Lee subtlety gave Tenten the basic story of what happened. Naruto looked down at himself and noticed the spots on his shirt. 'Huh it looks as if I have spilled as much food as I ate.' he thought back. Lee seemed to have similar problems now that he thought about it. 'we seem to have the same motor control as our age suggest." he shrugged it couldn't really be helped.

Naruto went back to his room and was mildly surprised but what he found. 'Crayons' he thought astounded. 'Who could have...' before he could finish the train of thought he felt a slight difference in Kakashi's signature. Without the ability to sense emotions that got when he used the fox sage cloak it was a lot harder, but it felt like... nervousness. 'So Kakashi gave me the crayons,' Naruto stared at the crayons for a moment. He didn't remember if he ever drew something, but it was years ago.' Naruto noticed that there wasn't any paper. without further ado he muttered just loud enough for the ANBU to hear "got to find paper." he didn't really know where any paper was but he guessed that Kakashi did and so he went on what he knew was an almost pointless search only to return to his room empty-handed sure enough beside the crayons was a small stack of paper.

Naruto grinned as he settled down; he never remembered doing this before, so this was a new experience for him. He grabbed the first one he saw which orange was of course and made a line and stopped Naruto stared at the paper. With true child-like wonder, he began to drag the crayon across the pad again, crossing the line that he made before. For the next few minutes, the little boy experimented with holding the crayon, changing the angle, the pressure. He glanced at the rest of the box sitting on the floor. Quick as a wink, the box was in his lap. Reaching in, he grasped the next crayon which was blue.

He scribbled across the paper with the new color, watching as intersected with the orange, creating a muddled shade of blue. He leaned back to look at his work, the bright blue scribbles popping out of the neon orange background, the shadows of the blurred mixed patches. Naruto stared for a second before he roughly grasped the top sheet and roughly tore it off the pad. Grabbing the red crayon, he set to work by lunch; the little boy was surrounded by a sea of multicolored papers.

Scribbles of all shades and sizes covered the page, Naruto was inordinately proud of his scribbles. He didn't think he had any artistic talent, but he liked it, and that's all that mattered. Besides, he reasoned that he was training his dexterity with his fingers by drawing, and if he happened to be acting like the kid he physically was, all the better. Besides it was fun seeing the colors get so muddled up.'

At dinner Naruto sat with Lee again (much to the matron's ire). Naruto smiled 'who cares Rock Lee is a true friend and since we have actually known each other for years; I know it's impossible to change either of our minds when there made up, and now we agreed that we are going to work together, and when the rookies work together nothing can stop us.' The calendar on the wall broke him out of his thoughts.

It was October the eighth. "Hmm." Lee noticed the sound, "hey Naruto what wrong it's going to be a beautiful youth filled day tomorrow." Naruto smiled "Oh nothing much it just that October tenth is in two days." Lee paused and thought for a few seconds. "Oh, you're talking about the memorial festival." Naruto nodded. "Usually Hokage-jiji took care of me on that day." Lee looked a little somber for a second, but then he grinned. "Then I guess you will have to wait an extra day before you open your present from me."

Naruto had a confused look on his face. "I didn't know you knew when my birthday was." Lee beamed "of course Naruto I remember all my friends' birthdays." Than lee rubbed the back of his neck obviously embarrassed, "I just never usually keep track of the date and so I usually miss them before I realize it." Naruto nodded " I have the same problem on missions, it just gets so boring it feels like each day just bleeds into the next till you can't remember what day of the month it is.

Naruto repeated the same routine the next day, he ate with lee and then went to his room; this time he was practicing his writing skills. They were incredibly sloppy and hard to read, but considering he was less than three years old he thought it was okay. This time it wasn't Kakashi who was watching him, and Naruto wasn't sure who it was. 'They probably died before I became a gennin,' thought Naruto. Shortly after dinner Naruto felt a Familiar chakra approach his room, and the figure opened Naruto's door.

"Jiji" cried Naruto as he got up from the floor and raced to hug his earliest role model. The aged Kage chuckled as he leaned over to pat Naruto of the back. "Hello Naruto, how would you like to spend some time away from the orphanage for a few days?" Naruto knew this was mostly to keep him safe as there were a lot of people who would take advantage of the situation. Not that any of them would really hurt him, (not seriously anyway since he had an ANBU guard with him always) but the commotion if he wandered off would be enough distraction for one of Danzo's root agent to make off with the blonde. Naruto put on a wide grinned "Really Jiji that would be awesome!"

Naruto was in the Hokage's office using the crayons Kakashi left to scribble on a piece of paper. Naruto giggled since he was still a kid even with his many years' experience as a ninja, so he just wanted to be a kid for a while. For now, at least the fighting could wait. Sarutobi was as usual doing paperwork Naruto didn't really see the point. When he became Hokage he just delegated it to Sakura or used a clone or two to get rid of it.

Naruto shrugged he couldn't really do anything about it, really it would set off alarms if a two-year-old knew the secret of and a ranked kinjustu. Naruto put the crayons back it he boxes and stacked his papers up in a pile. He grabbed a blanket and walked over to the Kage. Without a second thought he grabbed the side of the chair and used it to help him climb into the Kage's lap, he looked down at the papers; that he might not have been allowed to see, if the Hokage knew the toddler in hi lap could read just as well as he could.

Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't even glance down when he felt the blonde climb into his lap, it was after all a regular occurrence when the boy was dropped off. Hiruzen always tried to make sure, too spend at least some time with him once a week or so. He adjusted the toddler's weight so that Naruto was on his knee just above eye level with the mahogany desk. Naruto watched as the Kage worked on more of the paperwork.

Surprising to just about everyone in the future Naruto was quite good with paperwork, he had after all learned a basic amount of money management when he was seven in the academy. Besides his poor attendance and the sabotage by his academy teachers, he would have passed with rather high marks. In math at least, Most of this was born out of necessity as he basically took care of himself for most of his childhood. (Including budget management) the Hokage ordered a meal with extra silverware and they had onigiri.

At around 7:41 PM Naruto started yawning and was ready to sleep. He felt himself being carried to the Sarutobi compound. He would likely spend the next 36 hours there under the watch of Sarutobi and Aika (his daughter). Before Naruto succumbed to sleep he thought 'wait does that mean I'll see Konohamaru as a baby,' Naruto mentally snickered as he imagined a chilbi version of the Sandaime Hokage's grandson before falling asleep.

Waking up on October 10 Naruto took a few minutes to remember where he was. 'Oh yeah I'm in the Sarutobi clan compound till around tomorrow morning probably. Naruto climbed out of the guest bed and ran to the bathroom. Finished there Naruto went over to his backpack and pulled out his next pair of clothes. After he finished dressing he ran out toward where he thought the kitchen was. Sure, enough he was right Sarutobi being a Kage had made it a habit to get up early so he could get to the tower and finish the morning rush of paperwork in time to assign missions, which not important most of the time he seemed to enjoy it.

This fit Naruto fine as he also got up early and hated not having company to talk to. Hiruzen Sarutobi was slightly surprised to see Naruto up early. "Hello Naruto, what are you doing up." Naruto grinned "I like to get up early so I and my friend can meet up in the cafeteria before the matrons bring the rest of the kids in." Naruto smiled to himself 'it's not really a lie.' Hiruzen Sarutobi smiled "oh so you made a friend." The boy nodded "his names Lee and were both going to be ninja when we grow up." Hiruzen patted Naruto on his back before getting him a plate of pancakes that the cook of the house made.

Meanwhile Aika stepped into the room holding a small bundle. Naruto looked to his left. "Hey Jiji Whose, that. The Kage chuckled. "I assume you're talking about my grandson Konohamaru since you already met my daughter." Naruto nodded. "can I see him the blonde asked excitedly?" without saying anything Aika tilted the newborn in his direction Naruto starred Konohamaru was awake and staring at him, though by the look in his eye the young babe would be glaring if he had more control of his facial muscles. Naruto laughed in delight, 'hey he sure looks pissed, doesn't he?'

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Naruto groaned as he opened his eyes. It was two days after the memorial festival, and his birthday; he had spent two nights at Hiruzen Sarutobi clan house. The reason for doing so was partly the old man wanting someone to give Naruto even a slight semblance a normal childhood by at least giving him a normal birthday. In the previous timeline Naruto had gotten to spend his birthdays with the Hokage till he was about seven.

When he was seven however the civilian council thought he was showing too much favoritism. Sarutobi had conceded, if he was able to insure was not able to be harmed by someone attacking him during that time. The result could be a form of retaliation; what occurred was both unexpected and unfortunate for them, to say the least.

You see thought the Hokage trusted all his ANBU and Jounin he didn't underestimate the stupidity or resourcefulness of anyone else, especially not the stupidity of certain civilians. Don't get him wrong most could all be considered intelligent if not for the total lack of common sense. In the end Sarutobi took Naruto aside for about an hour a day for a week, the Kage did this to give Naruto a few safety "pointers".

He taught Naruto a few simple evasion techniques that he learned at the academy before the council took over. Therefore, Naruto could often be seemed easily evading chunnins' after a prank; he didn't do it by speed but mostly by deception, (the hiding behind a sheet to look like the fence behind it (explains why Both Naruto and Konohamaru have one.)

This year Naruto got more coloring supplies, these he suspected where from Kakashi. He also received his old toad shaped wallet (Gama-Chan); this he knew was from Jiraiya. Sarutobi gave him some new clothes, and a small bag of candy; Aika didn't know him very well, but she did give him same coupons for free ramen. Sarutobi had brought him back on the eleventh in the evening after lunch. Naruto had still not see Lee again yet nor gotten his present, but he could hardly wait.

Author notes

Sorry it took me so long the computer got a virus and then it was mostly writer block but hopefully it gone. Anyway, please review I would love your advice on my story.