Hey, I'm back! Hope you like the story so far. The new chapter introduces more changes to the plotline. Just so you know, the pairings are as Canon as I can make them. That means:
Onesided NaruSaku
Onesided SasuSaku
Onesided SasuIno
Onesided NaruHina
Onesided KibaHina (at least I think this one is canon, I won't be touched upon a lot)
AsuKur
KakaLittleOrangeBook
There is one more onesided pairing near the end, but it's more of a scary onesided OC pairing.
Disclaimer: see the prologue
Legend
thoughts
demonic voice/really big creature
jutsu/technique
Chapter 1
"I had that dream again"
"The one where-"
"Yah"
Naruto and his father, Namikaze Minato, sat at the table. It was Naruto's graduation exam today at the academy and he was ready to roll. His father, though, had a different opinion.
"Naruto, you've failed the past two exams. You need all the luck you can get now to pass."
"DAD! Have you no faith in you replacement?! Luck is for losers like Sasuke!" the whiskered boy shouted.
"Naruto, hate to say it, but you're kind of hopeless. You can't even perform bushin no jutsu. Now hurry up and eat or you'll be later for class," the Yondiame added.
Running at top speed, the Hokage's son reached the Academy in record time. He had taken many of the back streets to avoid the hateful glares of the villagers.
"Why do they always look at me like that?," he wondered, "Sure I play pranks, but those looks are way over the top!"
Sitting down as far away from Sasuke as he could, Iruka-sensei walked in to tell them what was on the exam.
"When I call your name, I want you to come into this room and perform the bushin no jutsu. Please create three clones and I will give you your headband which will signify that you are an adult and a ninja of Konoha."
"Oh no, not bushin! That's my worst jutsu ever!" thought Naruto harshly.
"What's the matter dobe," whispered Sasuke from his spot (apparently far was not far enough), "Shouldn't the son of the Yondiame Hokage be able to perform a simple bushin?"
"SHUT UP SASUKE! I'LL POUND YOU INTO THE DIRT!"
"Hn"
"Uzumaki Naruto."
"Here goes nothing…"
Alas, the Future Hokage of Konoha had no such luck. Having weak control over the insanely large amount of chakra he had, the bushin no jutsu was too small for Naruto, barely producing half a useable clone.
"Naruto, YOU FAIL!"
Sent running from the room in shame, Naruto hoped out the window in a flash of orange and onto the swing outside. There, the crowds of happy parents and newly-made ninja swarmed at the entrance to the academy. His father was too busy with work to pick him up.
"Is he the only kid who didn't pass?"
The sound of a woman's voice make Naruto focus his attention to the crowd.
"Yah, thank god. This think if he – no it – became a ninja? I mean after what he is-"
"Shhh, we're not supposed to talk about that!"
"What I am? What are they not supposed to talk about? What am I so different? Why does everyone hate me? Why-"
"Naruto…?"
"Mizuki-senei! What are you doing here?"
"Can I talk with you for a minute?"
And Mizuki explained. He explained everything to the silent Naruto: how he though Iruka's decision was unfair and if he wanted to pass, he would have to use what was called the scroll method.
"The scroll method? What's that?" asked Naruto.
"Don't tell me that your dad never mentioned it! It was how he passed his genin exam! All you have to do is steal the Scroll of Sealing and learn one jutsu from it and POOF you're a genin!"
"Really wow. Later Mizuki-sensei! I gotta go find this scroll! Bye," Naruto ran of without a second thought.
"All is falling into place, little monster. Soon you will be dead, and the Kyuusaisha will finally have their revenge!"
Later that night, Naruto snuck into the Hokage Tower. His feet barely making a sound, he passed through the halls and doors he knew so well. Passing by one door, the whiskered child reveled in his plight when-
"Naruto, what are you doing?"
Crap, his dad had caught him in the middle of the ultimate graduation scheme. Naruto turned to his father to see he was not alone. Hatake Kakashi and Hyuuga Hiashi sat the table with his father. Along with them were Hyuuga Hinata (Hiashi's daughter) and Hyuuga Neji (Hiashi's nephew). Kakashi sat with his adopted son, Uchiha Sasuke.
"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS DAD!" Naruto yelled back, but in the back of his mind wondered, "What the hell are they doing here? A dinner party? Why was I not informed?"
"Naruto, you failed the graduation exam again today, didn't you?" the Yondiame Hokage said in a serious voice.
"Yes, he did," sneered Sasuke-teme (as Naruto had dubbed him), "The Dobe of the Year!"
"SHUT UP! I'M GUNNA GRADUATE NOW! MIZUKI-SENSEI JUST TOLD ME THAT IF I STEAL THE SCROLL OF SEALING I-"
"NARUTO SHUT UP!" yelled his father, "Sasuke, Hinata, Neji, leave the room now!"
"Yes sir," the two Hyuuga children obeyed his orders, but the Uchiha was stubborn.
"No, I don't see what's so secret!" Sasuke argued, "You can say anything in front of me-" In a flash of yellow light the Rookie of the Year was transported outside.
"Naruto, what did Mizuki tell you?" asked Kakashi.
"He told me that if I steal the Scroll of Sealing and learn one jutsu from it I would become a genin," Naruto answered in an uncharacteristically meek voice, "I don't understand. What's going on?"
"Naruto," Hiashi replied, "that scroll is full of Forbidden Jutsu's that were banned because they are known to cause the death of the user."
"Mizuki-sensei was trying to kill me?!" Naruto thought.
"Naruto, I have a proposal for you," Minato said, "Not as my so, but as a ninja of Konoha, the Village Hidden in the Leaves."
"But dad, I failed my graduation exam today. I'm no ninja."
"Go on this B Ranked mission for me and I will award you your genin rank. Kakashi you follow Naruto," his father promised.
"Yes sir."
"But dad-"
"Don't worry. Besides, you couldn't perform the Bushin no Jutsu right?" said the Hokage with the trademark grin his had passed on to his son.
"Ugh, Kage Bushin no Jutsu! Don't tell me that's what dad was talking about!" Naruto whined. Sitting on the forest floor, the scroll opened in front of him, the boy studied the first jutsu. It didn't seem that hard. In fact, Naruto couldn't see why it was forbidden. Then he read:
"Once dispelled, the clones transfer all knowledge gained to the original person and/or all the other clones in existence…"
Ah, brain cramps. The downfall of all shinobi.
As time passed, Kakashi watched the young ninja-in-training try over and over again to create a kage bushin. He was making progress, and lots of it. The masked man was in shock when the blond boy created his first solid clone within the hour.
A snapping twig brought Naruto to his senses. But the person was not who he was expecting.
"Naruto," yelled Iruka, "I found you! Why did you steal the scroll?!"
"Iruka-sensei, you have to get out of here quick!"
"No way, Mizuki told everyone about you stealing the scroll of sealing. The entire village is looking for you!"
"Iruka's here! That means…" Kakashi spotted the traitor in the distance, "Mizuki's tailing him."
"NARUTO! GET DOWN!" Iruka shoved his student out of the way of several flying kunai.
"Good job finding him, Iruka. Now hand over the scroll, Naruto! Hand it over so I can kill you!" spat Mizuki.
"Mizuki-sensei! Why? Why are you doing this?!" Naruto said in a frightened voice.
"Don't call me that, you monster! Tonight you will pay for those you've killed!" he answered in an insane voice.
"Pay…for those…I've killed…?" Naruto was confused by the statement.
"Naruto! Don't listen to him!" cried his scarred Sensei, "Just run away!"
"Let me refresh your memory, Naruto!" sneered Mizuki, his voice cracking with madness, "Twelve years ago, the Demon Fox, Kyuubi, attacked Konoha. It was said that the Yondiame, your father, killed the fox! What a great story! A brilliant cover-up!"
"NO STOP IT MIZUKI!"
"Crap," thought the masked man in the shadows, "If I don't stop him now, he'll tell Naruto about Kyuubi! But if I do, we'll never get any information out of him!"
"But the truth was deemed to be an S-class secret that no one could speak of!" Mizuki paused to a dramatic affect, "The truth, Naruto, is that you ARE Kyuubi no Kitsune!"
"NO!" tears streamed down Naruto's face. His grief and anguish gave rise to red chakra: eyes slitting, turning red; fangs and claws growing from his hands and mouth; whisker marks deepening.
"Not good!" thought Kakashi.
"That's not true," shouted Iruka, "The Yondiame only sealed the Kyuubi inside Naruto!"
"Just die!"
"Since when have you been so stupid, Iruka?!" challenged Mizuki, "To do that, the Yondiame would have to use the Skiki Fuujin, a jutsu which results in the users death!"
"It…it can't be true," though Iruka, "But the Yondiame's…alive…That means…Naruto is…Kyuubi!"
"HA! YOUR PRESIOUS STUDENT KILLED YOUR PARENTS, IRUKA!" the madman screamed, "DON'T WORRY! IT'LL ALL BE OVER SOON! I'LL KILL THE LITTLE MONSTER AND STEAL THE SCROLL, JUST AS THE KYUUSAISHA ORDERED!"
"That's enough, Mizuki," the cool and calm Kakashi stepped from the shadows and placed a kunai to Mizuki's throat.
"Go away!"
"Hatake Kakashi! Why are you defending him?! When you of all people know the entire truth?"
"That would be why I'm defending him," the answer just enraged Mizuki more.
"You dirt! Don't you want to extract your revenge on the monster that killed so many all those years ago?"
"No," Kakashi replied, "For there is much more to life than revenge."
"Monster!"
"Yah, like what?" the sarcasm dripping from his voice, "Kyuubi took away EVERYTHING! All that is let now is Power and Revenge! The second you take your eyes off that monster, Kyuusaisha will strike! And we'll kill anyone that stands in our way! Even our foolish Yondiame Hokage! We'll-"
"Yeah, yeah, and you can go on," a swift chop to the neck silenced the traitorous teacher.
"Stay away from my daughter!"
"Naruto, we're going!" the masked man turned to the boy, "Naruto…"
"MONSTER!"
Glossary:
Namikaze: Wind and Waves
Minato: Port or Harbour
Bushin no Jutsu: Art of the Clone
Sasuke: a hero in Japanese culture
Yondiame: Fourth
Iruka: Dolphin
Konoha: Leaf
Dobe: Dead Last
Hokage: Fire Shadow
Genin: Junior Level Ninja
Kyuusiasha: savoir
Hatake: Field or Farmland
Kakashi: scarecrow
Hiashi: spreading of fire
Hinata: Sunny place, in the sun
Neji: screw
Uchiha: fan that controls the flame
Kage Bushin no Jutsu: Art of the Shadow Clone
It's over sighs that was longish. Hurray! The first swear word in my story is "Crap!" Crap, if I have to say so myself, is a very satifying word to say. But that all if for another time.
So, Naruto is Kyuubi, not Kyuubi is sealed inside Naruto. And Naruto has a dad! And before I get any reviews about it, no Kushina will not be showing up in the fic (as mush as I love her). Naruto was born Kyuubi, an immortal demon fox, he was not born a human.
A little teaser for the next chapter:
"Why do I have to be with Naruto?" the pink-haired girl asked, "He'll mess up everything! He's just a monster like everyone-"
So, R&R plz! I need reviews! I crave them!