Chapter 1: The snake's apprentice

The Sun lifted over Hokage Mountain, spraying light onto the unaware civilians. It had been 5 years since the Attack of the Kyuubi no Yoko. From the outside, Konohagakure looked like a happy prosperous town, but for those that lived there, well… not so much. You see Konoha had a deep dark secret. It's name was Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto.

Young Naruto was sleeping behind a pile of wood. He didn't choose to sleep there but what could a small boy do against a swarm of angry humans. After many cries of 'Demon', 'For my family' and hundreds of others they finally left a depressed and dying 5 year old in an alley. This was a usual occurrence in Konoha. "W...where are m..my parents', Naruto thought as he hid amongst the planks.

Out of the shadows came a pale snake pedophile. "Kukuku" Slowly, stepping forward to as not to make much noise, he walked towards the planks.

(In the wood)

The jinchuuriki's ears pricked up as it heard the soft crunch of sandals on stone. "Wh...wh..who's there?" He asked worried of another crazy drunkard attacking. Without a response he slowly shrunk back into the wall curling himself into a ball. With hushed breathing he waited, waited for anything. Then he heard it.

"I'm here to help you" said an oily and creepy voice. "I can make you better, and stronger", "I.. I don't need your help I c..can do it myself". "So he knows how to think for himself"

"I will make you loved, respected and the center of attention" he said. After spying on the child for many years he knew exactly how to make him do his bidding. Slowly pushing the wood off of himself he slowly rose to his feet, cautiously watching the man. "Really?", "Of course, Sarutobi-sensei said I can teach you".

"Ji..ji-ji was your sensei?".

"Of course Naruto, Jiji even said I could help you". And with that they headed to his house to leave.

(30 minutes later)

We now find Naruto rushing around his room packing up everything he had. This would usually be relatively easy for people with as little as he had but he needed to go into each separate trapdoor or hiding spot and grab one object without setting off any of the traps. In the middle of the room currently sat two black ANBU style pants, a gift of pearl green necklace (from a certain ANBU), green goggles and training weights. He was slowly reaching his hand in through a thin gap, in the floor, under his bed lifting and dropping his hand through an array of wires that only the creator could know. Grasping onto his most prized possession he slowly began pulling it out. (It was sitting on a weight and when he pulled it off the wires stopped working). The decayed and peeling paper had a rough but soft feel. As he pulled out a small scroll and a purple snake kunai, Orochimaru watched him in surprise. That particular Kunai was one of many he had left his previous apprentice Anko Mitarashi.

"Naruto, can I ask what is in that scroll?"

"Ummm… I haven't been able to open it".

"Well how about I open it for you" " Umm.. no. I want to open it by myself at the end of our training"

"Understood. Now let's go".

"Wait can you umm… do that ninja stuff and like make a copy of me so that people don't know I'm gone", "Fine, now can you cut your finger and put it in this cup". He handed n

Naruto a kunai and a cup. He slowly drew the kunai and carefully sliced the tip of his index finger and dripped some blood in the cup. As he gave the cup and kunai back Orochimaru had a chance to see his finger being rapidly healed by the Kyuubi.

Going through the necessary hand seals he then placed two glowing fingers into the cup. (A/N: don't know if it's a real jutsu or not but oh well.). The blood slowly began boiling and rose up until it was the size of Naruto. The dark red soon turned white before finally becoming an exact replica of Naruto but he was as stark naked like the day he was born. 'kukuku, he is certainly a fine specimen. "Now Naruto this clone is exactly like you except that it will dispel and give you all its memories will transfer to you if it "dies", now away to train." Orochimaru opened the door and they soon headed down the stairs before turning down an alley. He turned around to his young follower, "Now Naruto we are going to have to sneak out of here because Ji-ji wants me to train you in secret". Without waiting for confirmation he slapped a seal on himself then Naruto before opening a small metal cover. Jumping down he waited for little Naruto to land behind him before closing the metal door with chakra strings. He quickly began walking down the hole not slowing down to allow the child to catch up. To his surprise Naruto was able to keep up with his strides. Glancing at him he spoke "Now Naruto we are going to have to give you quite a few protein and health jabs to protect you and make you stronger".

A red haired kunoichi was walking the streets of Hi no kuni's capital with six other woman making them appear to be a small band of scouting Ninja. The obvious leader walked around looking tired and worn out, her eyes also showed the knowing pain of losing a loved one. Kushina Uzumaki had grown to resent her late husband for not only ruining her life, even if they had four living children that she loved dearly, but also taking the life of their fifth and only son.

"Kushina, I think we need to go to Konoha to see your son's grave, it's already been five years" Spoke the second eldest the famous Tsunade Senju, granddaughter of the great Hashirama Senju, and thought to be the best medic-nin in the world.

"No" came the stern reply

"Please if not for yourself but for your daughters" she pleaded. This immediately struck a chord with the stubborn woman, she always put her children first.

"Fine. But we will go in five years." But it wasn't enough. For now.

A large metal door creaked open as a pale man and child prided it open from the outside. Small rays of green light pierced the dark set cave vaguely illuminating a teenage boy with glasses.

"Master you have returned and your mission to save the boy seems like a success" he spoke picking his words specifically not to scare the boy away and make them seem like the good people. "Yes, please prepare a new room and make sure he is fed". Handing over the responsibility of the child to his subordinate Kabuto Yakushi, he left. Small Naruto stepped up to Kabuto in a highly respectful manner, shocking Kabuto, it appeared as though Orochimaru-sama had been able to destroy the child's boisterous attitude. This idea was definitely true as Orochimaru hadn't let him speak once during their week long trip, taking away his childish and stupid attitude. In hindsight he thanked him for stopping that and was ready to train mercelously. "I'm Naruto pleased to meet you" he spoke respectfully. "Kabuto" was the reply as the now known Kabuto walked off leading him to his new room. The solid metal walls gave a prison like feel to his new home. They stopped at a solid metal door where the letter X was. "This is your room, you have a week before we start, ask if you want anything" Kabuto dryly said then walked away. He slowly grabbed the handle and slide the door to the right revealing a small metal room with a raised futon (bed), a shelf full of scrolls and a small desk with paper and pens. He then saw a dark shades part of the wall above his desk, to most people this would be near impossible but with his heightened senses he could just see the light reflecting. Walking forwards he sat down on his bed and smirked.

(Next day)

Waking up Naruto slowly rose to his feet noticing a metal test with a cup of miso soup and a bowl of rice. It also had chopsticks and a note reading "You can read the books. Your first protein injection is this afternoon". Picking up the tray he grabbed the first book on the top shelf labeled "What is Chakra". Sitting at his desk he began eating his miso soup before downing the broth, moving on to the rice he quickly chomped down the rice slightly too quickly, using his hands, and leaving him wishing he had left some broth. Getting up he placed the tray at the door before returning to his desk and began reading.

(4 hours later)

By the time lunch came he had read three books "What is Chakra" followed by "How to use Chakra" and finally "History of the Elemental Nations". The final book had highly peaked his interest as he finally could read an unbiased recount of events. He read a highly interesting account of when his "precious" Ji-ji and his favourite student Jiraiya had killed all the men of a village and taken all the women and girls as slaves, for not allowing them to take up camp in the small Hacho Village. Then he read tales of the Rinnegan, the Tsuchikage Mu's Dust release and even the great Rikudou Sennin, Hagoromo Otsutsuki. Shutting the book, he turned to find a small bento box. Opening the lid he noticed the freshly made sausages, that were shaped like octopi, a handful of cherry tomatoes and two onigiri. Taking a nice long sniff of the good he carefully plucked a tomato and popped into his mouth before carrying the box and a new book to his desk. Quickly munching through his lunch he began reading his new book. As he got to the 27th page his eyes began to feel heavy before he began swiftly sleeping.

Orochimaru was impatiently waiting for Kabuto. The test-solution with Sasori's DNA was ready. Finally the metal door creaked open revealing Kabuto with a small sack over his shoulder. He smirked "Is he ready?", Kabuto dropped the sack revealing and unconscious Uzumaki Naruto "Yes Orochimaru-Sama".

Said Sannin smirked "Good, then let's begin". Opening the metal door he walked to a small chair in the corner before observing Kabuto work. The subordinate began taking off Naruto's clothes before placing an oxygen mask over his face and sticking a heart-rate reader on his chest. He then placed a catheter long enough to inject the serum. Tossing Naruto into a glass container filled with water he then injected him with the solution before injecting a fast acting mixture that fattened people out. Now all they could do was wait so they retired back in the waiting room and watched through the one way mirror. From past failed experiments he deduced that I would take about half an hour for the drug to take hold. After this stage most of the subjects began to go purple or decay. If his idea of the Kyuubi helping him was wrong he would be seriously injured and possibly killed. They both soon nodded off not noticing a small black and red substance flicker over his skin.

Waking up Kabuto began looking around hurriedly before noticing that Orochimaru had left. Getting up he heard the soft beeping of Naruto's heart monitor. Deciding to check if his body had accepted the blood or the Fox has simply burnt away the solution. Draining the water he took the boy out of his container and laid him on the bench. Pricking the finger he drew a small amount of blood and put it in a small machine. He began muttering "Please have it, please have it, please have it" to himself before he stopped "YES!" He screamed as the result showed he had taken it into his system.

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Orochimaru looked at Kabuto expectantly "And".
Kabuto smirked "He survived and now had accepted the solution, he should now have heightened intelligence and have much higher chakra control". Orochimaru smiled "Good give him one week to receiver and then inject him with another."
Kabuto nodded "Which one should we give him next? Hidan's?"
The Sannin frowned "No the only reason the fox is helping us is to keep him alive if we give him immortality it might not help us anymore. We'll begin with that Iwa-nin's, Deidara. Anyway did you analyse the clay sample I gave you?. Kabuto stared "Yes it's just regular clay".
Orochimaru smirked "Good. We'll soon have a steady supply of explosives. Anyway, return to Konoha to not arise suspicion and return in a month or so".
Kabuto nodded "Understood".

Naruto groggily awoke to find himself on a cold steel bed with a thin blanket wrapped around him. He shivered, then he realized that his clothes were gone. Looking around he noticed his clothes neatly folded and clean sitting on a chair, on the other side of the room. Grabbing his blanket and carefully wrapping it around himself he walked towards the clothes and quickly slipped on his pants before dropping the blanket. He gasped to find most of his ribs weren't visible and he looked slightly healthier. "So they gave me the injection after all". Slipping on his now slightly tighter shirt he walked towards the metal door and tried to open it. Twisting the knob he found it locked. Knowing the drill, after being kidnapped many times, he shrugged "HELP, there's a dead guy in HERE!". Coughing to clear his throat he began counting, waiting for someone to open the door.

Orochimaru kicked down the door and rushed in, kunai in hand, only to find Naruto sniggering. He frowned "Where's the dead body?"

Naruto shrugged "Dunno". The Sannin watched him "Well, it's been a week and as promised myself and Kabuto will be personally teaching you". Naruto shrugged before following the Snake out of the room and down the hallway. Turning left then right before descending down a flight of stairs Naruto watched as Orochimaru nodded to a guard before entering a room. Entering the room all he saw were shelves full of books, a small table at the centre of the room and 3 different doors. Seeing Orochimaru sitting down he walked to the table and sat in a traditional kneeling position. Orochimaru slid a book on the table labeled "What is Chakra" and said "Read the book and call me when you're done" before getting up and walking to the door. As his hand clamped around the door handle Naruto swiftly replied "Done" before smirking. Orochimaru smiled "Ohhh, so you have been reading. We'll then memorize it and call me". Opening the door Naruto again replied "Done". Orochimaru frowned "Sasori's DNA was supposed to make him smart but not this smart. Unless… He smirked "Good. Now Naruto do you want to tell me about the "real" you." Turning he closed the door before sitting in front of the child.

Naruto smirked "Well you see I'm not stupid. I have photographic memory and perfect recall. One time I entered the Konoha Shogi tournament and won but they said I cheated using Genjutsu, I don't actually like the Sandaime and your teammate Jiraiya, I know I'm the son of the Yondaime, I know about the Kyuubi "And the Ichibi, Nibi, Sanbi, Yonbi, Gobi, Rokubi, Nanabi, Hachibi and Juubi Chan's" he mentally added, being sealed inside me, and that's about it. Why? Was I really that obvious?".

Orochimaru smiled "No. I wasn't called a prodigy for a reason though. So how many books have you read so far?", Naruto shrugged "In your library in up to number four but I'm Konoha about half of them. Why?". Orochimaru inwardly smiled "Well that's good, very good. How about we start with finding your Chakra?". Getting up he walked to the middle door and waited for Naruto to follow. Sliding open the door he moved to the center and got in a meditative stance. Naruto soon followed and waited. "Good, now close your eyes and search yourself, look passed your soul and go towards your ribs, there you should see a sort of image. Your chakra should be blue so carefully begin pulling it out, imagine your lifting a bucket full of water from a Well". Naruto furrowed his brows, closing his eyes he slowly began searching. After what he thought as 5 minutes he soon found his soul. It was a small replica of him, with some patches being orange some red but most of it was a full grey. Flying last his soul he quickly waved goodbye and kept going deeper. He soon passed a video. It was the first thing he ever saw in his life. It showed 4 young girls tickling him, earning a giggle and a beautiful red haired Angel smiling at him. He presumed these were his siblings and that the angel was his mother. A small tear slid down his check before dropping into the black food below him. Scrunching his eyes shut he began moving forwards. He soon came to a spring surrounded by many flowers. Orange and red roses grew freely in the far side of the spring and pink, white, purple, blue and even yellow tulips littered the ground. He just wanted to lie down and sleep on the ground. But he knew his mission and walked towards the spring. A small Rocky waterfall was slowly flowing on the right with clear water splashing on the smooth round rocks around the edges. On the left a small sandy beach with pearl white shells was slowly moistened by the small ripples. Taking off his black sandals he let his feet touched the moist dirt. The green blades of grass slipt in between his toes and tickled his calves. Walking towards the rocks he made a small meal into the sand letting his feet sink into the small grains. Pulling his feet out of the sand he began walking to the small waves before taking his bright orange shirt, with the Uzushiogakure symbol in the back, he dived head first into the cool water. Taking a deep breath, he dived under the surface and began swimming to the bottom. He watched as baby Carp swam around him, pushing off from the bottom he made his ascent. Lying on his back he was in pure serenity… before his face went under the waterfall. Naruto's eyes snapped open as he awoke from the most peaceful dream. Looking down he noticed his shirt was soaked, tilting his head upward he saw the guard from before smiling sheepishly "Sorry, you wouldn't wake up. Anyway Orochimaru-Sama says to go to your room and rest. I will show you the way".

AN/: Yay! Another chapter done. Anyway this was a really quick update so don't think I'll be doing all of them this quickly. Again if someone could be my Beta Reader that would be cool. Also review and if you have any ideas fire away. And don't be mean this is my first fanfiction.

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