Firstly a few people who have left reviews were asking questions. The answers to VicRB's questions are that there will not be a pairing involving anybody form Konoha and Naruto. The second answer is that I will not have anyone/thing remember the events of cannon Naruto. This is because the Jutsu reverses the fabric of time and well the whole world is reversed in time. Therefore nothing know about it. I thank the reviewers Kurama Thunderstorm and Echoing Mist for giving me advice. Now, let the story begin I do not own Naruto and never will.

Welcome to Konoha

A young boy of roughly seven years of age with golden hair, stunning blue eyes and adorable whisker markings on each cheek was currently attempting to get to sleep to escape the horrors of his life in the orphanage and enter the blissful realm of dreams where he was The Godaime Hokage of Konoha and gramps was bowing at his feet. His dreams were his only release from hell other than the food of the Gods aka Ichiraku Ramen and the occasional visits from gramps when he was not doing hokage stuff. However his dreams were not always pleasant. On one or two occasions he had a dream with Konoha in ruins and the villagers saying it was his fault, and that he was a demon. After these dreams he would wake up scared and run to the hokage tower to be calmed down by gramps and to be told that everything was going to be okay and after much whimpering Naruto would hug the old man. Naruto would then calm down and fall asleep in the arms of his protector and smile sweetly in his sleep when Naruto smiled the old kage could not help but smile as well. Naruto's smile was always infectious to those who knew what truly lied under the boy's skin, not a demon but a kind-hearted young boy. After Naruto fell into the warm embrace known as unconsciousness he was assaulted by wondrous dreams of adventure and bewilderment.

In the morning Naruto was awoken from the warm embrace of a family he never knew to a bucket of Ice cold water thrown onto him and was up as quick as a bolt of lightning. Once he was awake he checked his clock that was on his bedside and noticed the time being 5:25 AM. With a grown of irritation he was out and quickly was changed and had brushed his teeth in time for today's chores that start at 5:30. He knew not to be late or else he would be punished and have to do an extra hour before the other orphans were awake and then be starved of his porridge slop. Once he arrived at the designated area for his jobs with at least 30 seconds to spare he was given his first job of the day, Toilet cleaning. After the strenuous task of cleaning the three toilets for the orphanage of 70 children he was told to mop the floor and tidy the common room. Naruto did all this without a single complaint, he knew the punishment for insubordination and never wanted to receive that Hell ever again. After his hour of solid cleaning and putting away he toys that he was not allowed to use neatly away in their separate boxes, it was time for breakfast. Breakfast for Naruto consisted of very sloppy high water content porridge with nothing to add to make the flavour taste any better, since he knew the price of refusing to eat "such a generous offering that he should be grateful for being allowed to even pass his lips" as the oh so generous Matron had called it. So he reluctantly ate it with a straight face and then thanked the woman for the 'lovely meal' he left the table and decided to go about his daily business as he normally would.

When it reached 10 O'clock he instantly scurried out of the orphanage and ran straight to his first stop. This of course was none other than the area that crafts the delicacy that Naruto can only describe to others as the food of the gods Ichiraku Ramen. Once he was there he was greeted happily by the two that ran the Ramen stand a twelve year old girl who Naruto had lovingly named his nee-san Ayame and the old man himself, the master of the business the King of ramen Teuchi. Naruto quickly said his hellos and then asked for four bowls of miso pork ramen. Naruto's first bowl came the second he said the word ramen. This surprised the young boy but the loving smile given by Teuchi when he handed the bowl to Naruto made Naruto realise that they had prepared in advance for his arrival. After a quick ITADAKIMASU! Naruto dug in to the bowl with a ferociousness that would never seize to amaze the two people behind the bar. Once Naruto had finished inhaling his first bowl the second was placed before him and the circle continued. After Naruto had finished all four bowls he talked to the two kind people behind the bar about how things were going for him and asked them questions such as how was their day. Once their conversation was over Naruto hopped of the stool and landed on the ground. Once he had left the flaps his smile was turned to a neutral expression as he noticed all the glares and some of the people mentioning not too loudly but just enough for him to hear "isn't that the demon boy" and "why is he even allowed on the streets, he should be locked up for all he has done to us." Naruto just ignored them and bit his bottom lip while walking to the hokage tower.

When Naruto finally made it to the hokage tower he walked past the secretary and strode into the office of the old kage with a smile on his face. Once he was seated next to the old man's desk watching him work, patiently waiting for a moment when he could ask the old man questions that had been bugging him lately. Once the man had finished what he was doing Naruto would ask questions such as "What is it like being hokage" and "When will you give your hat to me old man?" He would ask affectionately.

The answer would always be "when I believe you are ready" or "once you become a fine shinobi and prove yourself to the village." The old Sarutobi loved to answer his questions and queries.

However when the question was about what it meant to be hokage, the old man would become serious and tell Naruto this "When you are hokage it is your duty to protect the village and villagers with your life. Even if the people who are in danger are people you do not particularly like, when you become hokage everyone matters. If you imagine the hokage as the leaves of the great tree known as Konoha while the civilians and shinobi are the trunk. If you think like this then you will see that even if the leaves wither and die the tree will not fall over and eventually new leaves will grow in their place but if the great trunk tumbles down then the tree will die and shall seize to exist. This tells us that if the hokage dies a new one will be made to replace the old one and the village will eventually return to full strength but if the citizens and shinobi fall then the village will wither away and die. This is why the villagers are so important, so even if they do not like you and vice-versa you will still have to protect them with your life. As is the duty of hokage. Even with this knowledge young Naruto-kun do you still wish to be hokage?" The old man patiently awaited the young boy's reply.

"After what seemed like years for the old hokage Naruto thoughtfully replied. "If I gave up on my promise now what kind of person would I be. Last year I swore on top of the Yondaime's head that I would become the hokage and protect those precious to me. Only now that I have your reasoning it just means that I have to make the whole village my precious people then I won't have to worry about my reasons for wanting that hat of yours ttebayo!"

The old man smiled at the young boy's antics and thought 'if only the villagers were as kind-hearted as you Naruto. Then I would not have to deal with all these problems.' After his thought process the old man chuckled and said to Naruto. "That's good to hear. I am proud that even after my little talk to you your dream continues on. However I do believe that you will still need to wait a little longer until I can give this hat to you willingly." After the hokage said this he let off a light hearted chuckle that was instantly replied with a large toothy grin by the young boy before him. The old kage smiled and thought 'it is remarkable how brightly the will of fire burns in you Naruto. I am sure that you will achieve your dream.'

After their conversation Naruto eventually ventured into the subject of who his parents were. This was always a tough subject for the old man because he severely wanted to let the boy know who his parents were and his heart always broke when he had to tell him. "Your parents were very brave and strong shinobi who loved you very much and were very upset that they would not be able to see their lovely son grow up." This broke his heart because he could see that look of betrayal in the young boy's eyes.

Naruto could tell that the old man knew his parents personally and Naruto thought that he probably knew them very well. This was why he was always so saddened when gramps would not tell him who they were and would always just leave it at how they were great shinobi who loved him. Although Naruto was disappointed in the fact that gramps would not tell him more about his parents. He also would at times wonder why they left him alone with no one to care for him. This would always bring nasty thoughts into his mind and he would wonder if gramps was even telling the truth when he said that they loved him. He would think 'what kind of parent abandons their child when he is having such a rough time.' Although he was upset that gramps would never tell him the full story he respected the old man's decision and knew that he could never hate him.

After being told that it was getting late and that he should head back to the orphanage he agreed with his gramps and made his way back down the dimly lit streets towards the orphanage on the other side of the town. Whilst he was walking he noticed the crowds of drunk villagers mingling with some of the drunk chunin. After a while he noticed that some of the crowd was following him. Although this revelation worried him, Naruto continued walking back to the orphanage where he knew he would be somewhat safe for the night. Whilst Naruto was walking back the crowd of drunkards was slowly getting larger. Naruto could see the road that led to the orphanage when he heard the shout of one of the drunk villager saying let's get him!

As soon as these words left the man's mouth Naruto flinched and started running as though his life depended on it. This statement in many ways was proving to be the case. The moment that Naruto started running the crowd of large men charged at the young and defenceless boy. As Naruto was running he could see the orphanage in the distance and started pushing his body to near breaking point. However the young 7 year old was just not quick enough as he suddenly felt extreme pain hit against his side and he fell over. The crowd then shoved him with extreme brutality into a side alley that was rarely used by the public. The group of drunkards then decided that now was as good a time as any to unleash the boy's due punishment upon him. The fully grown adult men were beating the crap out of the young boy before them all the while chanting horrible things such as "that's what you get demon child" and "you're lucky that we didn't get our hands on you earlier or you would be feeling ten times worse." In the crowd men were shouting out "get him for my brother. He is dead because of you."

All this time poor Naruto had no idea why they were doing this. The people were chanting death threats at the young boy who just thought 'What have I done to deserve this. I don't remember doing any of these things. I have never killed anyone or deliberately been mean to anyone. Just why ddoes everyone hhhate mme so mmmuch I just ddddon't understand.' Then the young boy started crying. Tears slipped from his eyes and splashed against the ground. His silent sobs unheard by the crowd. Even if they did hear his soft cries of anguish why would they care? What would that have done to make them stop? He just continued to take the beating.

After a few more seconds of this torture he thought of something. He thought 'why am I so weak? I can't even protect myself then how am I supposed to protect the whole village when I am hokage. I need to get stronger. But that is impossible. Nobody would train me, how could I possibly get stronger when nobody wants me to.' "It is just not fair!" he screamed out by accident not realizing that he had said that part out loud.

All of a sudden the beatings stopped. They stared at him as if he was crazy then on of the chunin walked up to him and told him. "Beating you up unfair? That is the dumbest thing I have heard all night. We are just getting payback for what you did to our village. Now that you are in you human form we can hurt you and you cannot do anything about it because you are weak!" Those words resonated with him stronger than any of the previous words that had been said to him that night. 'Your weak' these words hurt him more than any kick that was delivered to him that night. It felt as though someone had stabbed him through the heart with a frozen icicle.

The chunin then walked in front of him and pulled out a kunai. This motion shocked all the drunks to the core. All of them then said in a mumble of worry. "Put that thing down. We were only planning on teaching the demon a lesson. If you kill him you're signing all of our death warrants!" they screamed at him.

However the crazed chunin did not listen to them. The 25 year old believed that as long as it was him that ended the demons life, his family's murder at the hands of the fox would have been solved and he could have his revenge. He knew that he was signing his death warrant and the death warrant of many other people but he did not care. He believed that if he killed the demon boy and was executed the villagers would treat him as a martyr that died for the greater good in all things. He even thought 'maybe I will have a festival in my honour made by the villagers.' The crazed ninja made his way towards the young, terrified boy with a crazed look on his face. The man took a swipe aiming for Naruto's jugular when all of a sudden out of the shadows a kunai flew at rapid speed and hit the man in-between the eyes. A shot of blood spewed out of the wound and the man fell forwards and landed on Naruto. Naruto looked in horror as the now dead man's blood was flowing freely from the wound on his head onto his scruffy white shirt. The other people who were with the now dead man instantly ran with their tails between their legs away from the masked member of the anbu corps.

The anbu operative then walked towards Naruto and took him out from under the dead man. He then looked at Naruto and thought 'how could they do this to such a kind-hearted child I am ashamed to know that the civilians and some ninja are so cruel and horrid to such a young boy. He could only look at Naruto and think 'I have failed to protect your son Minato Sensei.' Naruto sighed in relief now that it was over then he looked at the man before him. The last thing that he saw was

In his dreams Naruto awakened in the location of a warzone. He then stood up and realised that he was not in control. Naruto saw through the eyes of this person what lay before him. Naruto was shocked. What he saw before him were 11 dead bodies. One had bright pink hair, another had black hair and a fan emblem on the back of his shirt, one had a spiky pineapple head, another had long flowing blond locks of hair, there was one chubby one, two with glazed over pale eyes, one with tribal markings on his face, another was in an anorak, one had her hair in two buns and the final was wearing a very unusual green spandex jumpsuit. In the distance he saw a great beast as black as the midnight sky with one giant red eye, then it fired a mysterious something at him. Just as the giant ball was heading his way he woke up with a start to find himself in a bright white room. Naruto screamed while he woke up. That nightmare was one of if not the worst of his life. His screams died down when the medics came into the room. All he could think was 'why did I have that dream?'

Thank you all ever so much for reading this chapter of Naruto: A Second Chance. Please review and leave ideas on how I could improve. I love improving my writing skills for you pleasure and my own.

Thank you for reading and I may release a new update tomorrow or next Saturday. Thank you for reading :-)

Will be updating tomorow. chapter name is The Mysterious Dream

i am really sorry for the delay in update but I was foolish and stupidly left my laptop charger a school so I may Not. Update for a while. On top of that the chapter was quite hard to write so I hope you will forgive me and I promise that I have not abandoned this story. Because I hate people that abandon stories that they have not finished. So well until next time this is from the depths of fear and see you in a little while:)