Naruto ran to his favorite forest clearing, tears threatening to spill from his eyes. He held them in until he got to the pond. There, he fell on his knees and let them free-fall.
"Why, dammit, why! All I want to do is protect them and prove to them that I am not a demon. Yet they scorn me every chance they get. It's not fair." He shouted the last part. Little did he know that a shark was eyeing him from the pond, listening intently.
"I wish I could prove to them I am not weak, that I am worthy of their respect."
"What if I told you I can help you?" Naruto turned around to the voice and gasped when he saw a shark talking to him.
"Um, please don't eat me, Mr. Shark." The shark sweat dropped.
"Don't worry, brat, I'm not gonna eat you. My name is Samiyaka, and I am what is known as a summon. You know what a summon is, right." The kid nodded. "Now, my previous summoner, one Hoshigaki Kisame, was killed not too long ago. Before he died, he tasked me with finding someone worthy of inheriting his skills, summons and sword. I heard your little speech just now." The boy blushed embarrassed and scratched the back of his head. "Tell me, are you training to be a ninja?" Nod "Very well then, I have chosen you…. Um, what's your name kid?"
"Uzumaki Naruto."
"Uzumaki Naruto of bearing the legacy of The Monster of the Hidden Mist, Hoshigaki Kisame. Do you accept?" The boy nodded again, and the shark unsealed the Samehada from the scroll. "Take the sword, and be ready for a jolt of pain." When the shark said a jolt, Naruto assumed it to be short. What he got was almost twenty minutes of blinding pain, after which he passed out.
He woke up half an hour later, rubbing his head and looking around. "Damn. Wait, why is everything smaller?" He wondered out loud, his voice now gruffer.
"It's you that's taller." Samiyaka said. Naruto raised an eyebrow. "In order to fully wield the Samehada, the sword had to alter your genetic structure. You now look like Kisame's son." Naruto looked at his reflection in the pond. What he saw made him raise an eyebrow. He had blue skin, with gills on his neck. His hair changed from blond to dark blue, and it no longer spiked, but cascaded down his neck. He was a bit more muscled, but not too much, still maintaining a somewhat lean figure. Of course, his clothes were ripped in the process.
He looked to the sword, and notices it had changed as well. It was no longer a giant slab of metal covered with scales. The handle shrunk, and the blade completely transformed. It was now an o-katana, with a blue blade with darker blue lines over it. He raised an eyebrow again, but picked it up and swung it against one shoulder, in a familiar fashion to the shark.
"Now all that's left is to sign the contract. Here it is." The shark produced the contract from its mouth. "Sign with blood. Good. Well, see you when you summon me, boy." As he said that, Naruto walked towards the Leaf village. Before the shark poofed away, it looked over the name on the contract. It was Hoshigaki Naruto.
Nobody paid any mind to Naruto as he walked through the village. They were so used to ignoring him, that they actually stopped noticing him after a while. So, nobody saw his sudden transformation. He walked to a shop that was well hidden, it being only for shinobi.
"Hello Dustin." He called as he came in.
"Why, hello, Na…." He gasped as he turned around. "Naruto…is that you?"
"Yeah, it's me."
"What the hell happened to you?"
"Well, it's a rather interesting story. Goes a little something like this…." He retold the story to Dustin. "So, I'm gonna need new clothes before I go see the Hokage."
"Hmm….. I have just the thing. Follow me." He led him to the back, where the armors stood. "We keep the armors here because it's rare to find shinobi using them. But with your new strength, and you specializing as a swordsman….. This one." They stopped in front of a stand with dark blue armor that had wave patterns engraved in it. It was very light and maneuverable, but also very durable. "It's an alloy. A mixture of the hardest steal, and scales from a shark summon. I got it from a merchant from Mist. Try it on." Naruto did so, and was surprised to find that it fit him perfectly. "It will adjust itself as you grow… If you grow, that is. You're already over six feet tall and you're what, only thirteen." He snickered. "Just wait 'till Tenten sees you." Naruto blushed at this, which looked really strange on his blue skin. Tenten was the daughter of Dustin, and Naruto's classmate and secret crush. Or, rather, she was the only one who didn't notice.
"Yeah. Say hi to her when you see her. I've got to go now." Naruto paid for the armor and several pairs of dark blue boots, Anbu pants and shirts raging from black to white, and left.
The Hokage was busy with his paperwork, as usual, when the door opened and Naruto walked in. the Hokage did a double take at his look, and waited until Naruto explained the situation.
"So you see, I need a few months alone to sort out some stuff. How 'bout it?" Naruto noticed that he had been more brash and direct since the transformation.
The Hokage sighed. "Alright, alright, here's a training ground nobody uses. I'll see to it that food's sent every day, and clothes every month."
"Thanks a lot, old bugger. See ya." The Hokage sighed again when Naruto left. Then he wrote a message and sent it to Iruka. I wonder how Tenten'll react. I swear the boy is the only one who's not noticing her crush on him. Then again, she's the only one who hasn't noticed his crush on her. He snickered. What a couple. Both as dense as rocks.