Naruto: The Legacy Chapter 2, a naruto fanfic

Notes: Thank you TigrezzTail, I have since edited that chapter to correct the mistake in it

(Now many of you had already read the original story, where Naruto is given the scrolls by the Hokage and bam Naruto is left on his own once again, however in the rewrite I thought I'd go into detail a bit more and the training that Naruto under goes)

(Previously on Naruto: The Legacy)

"LOOK THERE IT IS!" Yelled one of the mob "Lets kill the demon" screamed another person from the crowd of people who was screaming bloody murder on some kind of demon who had killed their own husbands, wives, sons and daughters, but who was this monstrous foul beast who had killed so many people but left no damage nor any dead bodies in the village, it was none other then boy who the forth Hokage sealed the foul beast in all those years ago..

This boy was Naruto Uzumaki, a loner an outsider, the unwanted, the unloved, the hated, the demon.

Slowly but surely night began to fade and day began to break across the horizon, Naruto slowly began to wake up from his little sleep he had that night, it had taken most of the night to get away from the mob, however what injuries he suffered that night like always had disappeared just as quickly as they had appeared, slowly getting up he looked through a gap in the blinds at the mess the mob had left outside his place and sighed to himself, "well Naruto, least you don't have to put up with a mob like that for another year, happy birthday.."

Naruto was about to leave the house via his secret exit when a knock at the door alerted him, not sure if to answer it or run Naruto kept his mouth shut for now in hopes that however it was would leave him along, it seemed like someone from the mob wasn't finished yet and hoped to get another beating out of the boy before anyone woke up..

KNOCK KNOCK!, this was a louder knock then previously and jolted the boy out of his thoughts, not thinking he yelled out "Go away leave me alone, I haven't done anything to you!" Naruto immediately clamped his hands over his mouth realizing what he had done, seconds began to tick by.

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A voice came from the other side of his front door, "Naruto... It's the Hokage" now Naruto wasn't an idiot by any means hell it could have been the Hokage for all he knew or someone pretending to be,

"May I come in?" asked the voice Naruto slowly approached the front door and looked through the eyehole, it looked like the Hokage but it could have been a ninja in a henge but he couldn't be sure, weighing the options he decided to brave it and hope it wasn't a ninja in henge and slowly but surely began to unlock the front door, after all the old man was one of the few people in this stupid village who had shown him any form of kindness and he wasn't about to turn it away..

Has he slowly began to open the door he closed his eyes expecting it to be forced open at any second and he himself get run through with a kunai, he waited and waited but nothing happened slowly he began to open them and look up and the Hokage was still standing there looking at him with a pained face, "May I come in Naruto?" asked the Hokage again Naruto just nodded and moved aside to let the old man into the house.

After a few seconds of looking around surveying the latest damage to the house he picked up one of the wooden chairs and set it next to the table and sat down gesturing the boy to join him, after a few minutes of awkward silence the old man finally coughed and spoke "I hear you had a rough night last night being you know..." he didn't really wanna finish the sentence, however Naruto finished it for him "the yearly meeting of the demon hunt, today is the day we will finally be rid of the demon once and for all, we shall finish what the fourth Hokage started, the nine tailed brat is to die, need I continue?" the Hokage flinched at every word as Naruto started to cry

"I don't know why they hate me so much, I've never done anything to them but they throw stuff at me, beat me, sell me rotten food, lets not even start with verbal abuse.." cried Naruto, the old man slowly placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder and waited for him to ease up on the crying, "listen Naruto, I hate this as much as you do, I've tried and tried to get people to stop this stupid and useless vendetta against you, when you wasn't to blame,," the old man replied.

Naruto looked up at the old man with eyes he had rarely seen in the boy "what are you hiding from me gramps?" having to survive all his life without any parents hell even his childhood went out the window having to grow up quick to survive and out run the mob that often chased him like his life depended on it.. funny thing about it... it did depend on it..

Old man Sarutobi sighed, this wasn't a conversation he wanted to have with Naruto this early in his life, however with those idiots screaming and ranting about the nine tailed brat, he was in a tough spot, "sorry my boy I can't tell you now maybe soon, but not today I'm afraid" he said as he glanced at a few of the scrolls Naruto had been studying, deciding he needed to change the subject away from the nine tails, "so my boy I see you have been studying those scrolls I gave you?" Naruto nodded "any chance did they help you out at all?" asked the old man Naruto looked up at the roof as he lent back in his chair next to the old man before responding.

"Yea they are helping, but I still to bet better though after all those people last night nearly caught me, and others have managed to catch me in the past and god does it hurt when they do, not just through the beatings I get from them but also I swear to god those people in the hospital don't know what they are doing, once again the old man flinched but made a mental note to have a private word with the doctors and nurses who had been treating Naruto in the past.

"by the way my boy are you still going to the training grounds like usual to practice your skills?" he asked, Naruto thought about it before nodding, "yea I go there at night mainly, only because during the day I get chased off by those ninja who don't like me and when I say chase off, I mean I get used as jutsu target practice until I leave." the old man growled he had heard things but to decline someone who had permission to use the grounds and then use the boy who wasn't even in academy yet as target practice ooh heads well be rolling for this rest assured..

the room was silent for a minute or so, but if to listened closely you could of sworn you could hear the dusty rusted cogs in the old man's head starting to turn a few seconds later Naruto could of sworn he saw a light bulb above the Hokage's head light up, "say Naruto this is a bit out of the way but I'll let you use training ground #0 for now until we can think of something, least there you can train whenever you wanted night or day.." the Hokage hardly finished speaking before he was leapt on by the small boy in a hug, the old man returned the hug and smiled as a small tear ran down his face.

"Listen and listen well my boy, you are Naruto Uzumaki of the village hidden in the leaf, you are not a demon that these so called villagers claim you to be, stay true to who you are and be strong my boy" Sarutobi said, now why don't you go grab your things and I'll show you the way to training ground #0 maybe while we're there you can show me how far you've come and if you're good I might even show you a jutsu or two how about that?" Naruto suddenly had stars in his eyes as if you had said the magic words to him, Naruto was one of a kind that responded to 2 magic phases, free ramen and new jutsu, luckily for the Hokage's wallet he had said the latter..

After about ten minutes the two figures entered training ground #0, the taller one of the two glanced down to the smaller one, "now my boy, this training ground is usually reserved for the general use of the Hokage, however at least for now, I'll let you train here, however I can't promise you that you will be able to use this ground from now on, but at least for the next few weeks I'll make sure no-one is able to disturb you while you can train in peace and safely, do you understand?" the smaller one of the two figures looked up and nodded "thanks gramps, even if it's just for a week I'll be able to train in peace without being used as a moving target."

The old man couldn't help but flinch at the comment, "any ways while we are here why don't you show me how far you've come" Naruto nodded "what do you want to see first?" he asked, "Mhmm why don't you show me your target practice on those targets over there?" the Hokage said as he pointed to several training dummies not far off, Naruto merely nodded as the two walked slowly over to the training dummies, "OK my boy now why don't you show me what you got" the Hokage said when they was about 20 meters or so away from the targets, Naruto grabs several of his kunai from his leg brace and aimed them at the dummies, something caught the Hokage's eye when Naruto took out his kunai, but at least for now he wouldn't say anything at least not while Naruto was focusing..

Naruto breathed in and out several times and eyed the targets and threw five of his kunai two of them hit their mark but three also missed, Naruto cursed under his breath as Naruto reached to grab more from his pouch, but before he could the Hokage stopped him "wait a second Naruto" said the Hokage raising his hand for Naruto to stop for a second, "OK two things," Naruto raised his eyebrow at the Hokage as to asked what's up? "firstly where did you get those kunai?" Naruto looked at the kunai in his hand then back at the Hokage, "these was the kunai that that shop sold me, in fact they was the only things I was allowed to buy, why do you ask?" the Hokage held out his hand and asked to see one of the kunai, Naruto politely handed one over for the Hokage to look at, the Hokage's eyes narrowed in rage as he looked closely at the kunai in question.

"Naruto these aren't kunai, they are fakes and bad ones at that, look watch this" said the Hokage as he grabbed either end of the kunai and snapped it in two, "just as I thought, look here Naruto" he handed a piece to Naruto, "you see the inside of the kunai is full of air holes and not to mention that metal was so brittle I snapped it in my own hands and also look" the Hokage showed Naruto the hand that had held the balded section of the kunai when he snapped it, not even a scratch on his aged skin.

The Hokage reached into his robe and pulled out a scroll and unrolled it on the ground before making a sign then 'POOF' with a puff of smoke on top of the scroll laid several stacks of kunai, "now my boy throw those junk ones away and replace them with some of these" spoke the aged Hokage as Naruto merely nodded and proceeded to take out all his fake and useless kunai out of his pouch and replaced them with these newer ones the Hokage had given him, "word of warning when you are using these Naruto, these aren't like your usual training ones where they are dull at one end, these are the kunai of a ninja and they are razor sharp, they are made to kill not to be a toy, please remember that" Naruto looked at one of the new kunai he was holding in his hand, he could feel the weight difference this was slightly heavier and a bit longer then his old fake ones.

Once Naruto had finished restocking his kunai the Hokage resealed the stack of kunai into the scroll and placed the scroll back into his robe, "always good to have spares" joked the Hokage as he tapped the robe where he had put the scroll, Naruto also laughed, "any ways why don't you try it once more" spoke the wise Hokage, however if he had looked down at Naruto at that very moment he would of saw something he wouldn't of ever expected, Naruto was spinning the kunai around his fingers and spinning around on the palm of his hand "Mhmm these ain't bad" thought Naruto as he stopped spinning it and launched it at the dummy..

WACK

Naruto lunched four more in quick succession

WACK

The Hokage couldn't help but flinch, yes Naruto at hit the target but it was where he had hit the target.. "Umm Naruto you sure you was aiming right, I don't know should you of aimed for it's heart instead of it's I don't know nuts?" cringed the Hokage as he looked down at the boy, Naruto took out his final kunai while looking at the Hokage and through it at the dummy all the time never taking his eyes off of the Hokage..

WACK

"you mean like that?" asked Naruto, the Hokage spluttered, as he looked up at the target, here was a boy who was only five had never used the weighted kunai before just hit a target from 20 meters away in the heart without god damn looking, regaining his composure, the Hokage coughed as he straightened himself "very good my boy, in fact well done, now why don't you go over and get your kunai from the targets then you can show me what else you have been working on, sound good?" Naruto nodded before running over to to get his kunai from the dummies, the Hokage's heart was filled with pride "you should see him now Minato, even with all his hardships he's had to endure this early in his life, he is coming along to be one of the great ninja of this village, I just hope the village doesn't do something stupid to piss him off one day, or I fear we may well lose our greatest ninja the world might of ever seen" the Hokage thought to himself as Naruto was quickly returning back towards the Hokage..

Once Naruto was back beside the Hokage "OK grampa, what do you wanna see this time?" once again Naruto had brought a tear to his eye, if he had to admit it he would consider Naruto a grandson, "why don't you try the Transformation Jutsu" stated the Hokage while Naruto thought for a few seconds before nodding, "try transforming into me" the Hokage asked, Naruto nodded and did the hand signs.

TRANSFORM!

With a puff of smoke where Naruto once stood now stood a copy of the Hokage, the Hokage began his inspection of the transformation, "height is right, body size is about right, not to sure on the amount of wrinkles though, guess it comes with old age" laughed the Hokage before nodding, "OK very good now dispel the jutsu, the copy nodded and with a puff of smoke the figure of a small boy once more appeared.

"OK now try the Substitution, replace yourself with me" asked the Hokage, the small boy nodded and did the seals to activate the jutsu, and with a puff of smoke they had switched places, "not bad Naruto, just remember this even though it's one of the most basic skills it's one even the most advanced ninja's including myself still use to this day.

"OK now lets try the Clone Jutsu" laughed the Hokage knowing this was the one Naruto always had problems with but never really had the time to help him out with or see what was causing it, as soon as the Hokage said 'clone jutsu' Naruto nearly fell over it was his worst jutsu, no matter what he tried he just couldn't do it..

But the old man wanted to see it so see it he should, Naruto built up his chakra like he was told to, as the Hokage looked on and prepared to do the hand signs for the jutsu, Naruto raised his chakra output higher and higher as he had always been told to pump as much chakra as he could into making the clones, a vortex of chakra began to circle Naruto as the Hokage looked on, however unknown to Naruto at this time the Hokage began to frown something was wrong, badly wrong..

CLONE JUTSU!

Yelled Naruto as there was a puff of smoke and there beside Naruto was a seriously poor excuse of a clone it was white and pathetic hell it wasn't even standing it was collapsed on the ground with his tongue hanging out, Naruto breathed and looked down at the clone before cursing "I don't know what's wrong, people who are willing to help me always tell me I'm not using enough chakra so I keep pumping more and more into the jutsu but nothing I'll get maybe one or two of these things," Naruto said as he thumbed over to the direction of the sorry excuse of a clone, all the while the Hokage was deep in thought.

Meanwhile the Hokage was replaying the events in his head and from what he knew from the jutsu it only took a very small bit of chakra to make a clone, academy students don't usually have very much chakra so they are usually told they don't pump enough into it, however from what he saw Naruto had pumped enough to make at least two dozen clones so why wasn't it working, then a light bulb started to flicker to life above his head, he recalled a time many many years ago back when Minato and Kushina was both at the the academy, both had exceptionally high chakra levels for someone their age and neither one of them could master it either, so they both learnt the shadow clone jutsu, could the same be true with Naruto? Dare he rise the boys health to test a theory? The Hokage was silent for another minute or so while he weighed his options.

"Naruto I don't think the clone jutsu will work for you, your chakra is just to high" the Hokage said Naruto started to look down and sadness appeared across his face, not wanting to get the boy upset "imagine this my boy, imagine your chakra is like an ocean and to make a clone you only need a teaspoons worth but you are trying to fill that teaspoon by using a fast flowing river, it's just not going to work, there are some people in the past who couldn't do this either," stated the Hokage "oh yea like who?" asked a saddened Naruto "well like the fourth Hokage he couldn't do it either, he had the same problem you are having now, but he found a way round it by learning a different type of clone jutsu" once the Hokage mentioned that the fourth Hokage the legend himself the one Hokage Naruto looked up to had the same problem as him he began to smile.

"now Naruto I'm going to show you a different type of clone jutsu, but remember this as a warning this is labelled as a very dangerous jutsu for anyone with low chakra levels, if anyone who doesn't have enough chakra to use this jutsu it could kill them, now while you have been learning E rank academy level jutsu, this one is on a whole different level altogether and very dangerous, this is a B rank jutsu created by the second Hokage and because of the chakra requirement it was labelled forbidden jutsu, it's called the shadow clone jutsu.

Naruto by now had stars in his eyes, not only was he having the same problem as the fourth Hokage did, he was going to learn a jutsu the the second Hokage created and it was a B-ranked one, "now I'll ask you once more as now I've told you the dangers now think very carefully about it, do you wish to learn it?" asked the Hokage sternly informing Naruto that this was deadly serious, Naruto lost his stars in his eyes and a calmness crossed over his face as he began to think to what the Hokage had said, sure it was dangerous but danger was the life of a ninja and he wanted to be a ninja, as it stood now even if he wanted to be a ninja he couldn't without being able to do a form of the clone jutsu sure he could keep trying and trying and who knows maybe one day he might be able to get the clone jutsu down but then again he might not, gah what was he to do, during this time several emotions had flashed across Naruto's face and the Hokage had seen every one of them, "good he's thinking it through carefully, if he hadn't thought it through and at least considered the risks to him I wouldn't even bother teaching it to him, well done my boy" thought the Hokage after a few minutes of silence Naruto looked up at the Hokage and nodded, "I want to learn the jutsu if you will teach it to me grampa, I know it's a dangerous jutsu however being a ninja is a dangerous life so no risk no gain right?" stated Naruto with determination in his face " good answer Naruto, now here are the signs for the jutsu," as the Hokage ran through several signs with his hands, Naruto nodded and practised them for a few seconds until he got them down, "OK my boy using the amount of chakra you used just now to make your clone instead this time do the shadow clone jutsu." said the Hokage which by this time the white sickly clone of Naruto's had long since dispersed..

Naruto got into the horse stance and began focusing his chakra higher and higher, it wasn't long until he was covered in a blue glow from his chakra, "higher" said the Hokage as he looked on, it wasn't at the stage it was previously, Naruto pumped more and more chakra a vortex of chakra began to swirl around Naruto, "try it now" said the Hokage as Naruto quickly ran through the hand signs he was just shown..

SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!

The Hokage's jaw dropped to the floor, surely this was impossible as he looked around then back at Naruto who was in front of him, yet creating all these the boy didn't even look slightly winded, the Hokage looked back around the training ground and there must have been hundreds of Naruto clones standing around, "just how far will this boy go" he wondered..

The Hokage quickly regained his composure "very good Naruto now in all truthfulness I didn't expect you to get it on the first try nor did I expect you to create this many clones, now I believe you need to work on some chakra control so you know when to get the right balance for chakra per clone, no point creating 100 clones if you only need 5 right and not to mention it would be a waste of chakra you may need in a battle?, but that can be fixed with enough practice..." the Hokage paused for a second "in fact you know these clones can help you do that?" said the Hokage as hit it on the head dispelling it, a few seconds later Naruto screamed in pain, "ouch what the hell old man why did you hit me!" then Naruto froze but the Hokage didn't hit him, he hit the clone not him "Mhmm I see you realized it Naruto, whatever the clone learns you learn, in that case the clone learnt what he was like to be hit on the head by me" joked the Hokage..

"Wait wait wait... wait a minute, are you saying if I used shadow clones for example practising a jutsu, say that would normally take a year to master with 365 clones it would only take a day?" asked Naruto, "well basically...yea.." replied the Hokage, Naruto's young mind began running through all sorts of various things he could use the clones for.. suddenly he stopped..

A look of concern crossed the Hokage's face, "what's wrong Naruto?" as Naruto slowly looked up to the Hokage, "OK lets try it this way, say... I was in an office with a crap ton of paper work to do, while just be doing it, it would take all day without breaks, so if I had a clone to help me I could do it in half the time and still remember everything the clone signed and did?" asked Naruto the Hokage thought about it, admittingly it was a weird way to think about it, but sure why not "yea sure that would work.." replied the Hokage, Naruto just stared at the Hokage "so one of me takes all day, two of me takes half the time, three of me takes one third of the time" said Naruto "you see where this is going yet?" said Naruto, the Hokage didn't understand, why was Naruto suddenly asking about clones and paperwork, surely it would be easier to use clones to assist with paperwork, then the thought of all his paperwork back in his office was most properly filling up" the Hokage sighed.. Naruto shook his head, the poor man still didn't get it yet.. the Hokage froze as he heard four words that would change the remainder of his life "so why don't you?"

A grin slowly appeared over the Hokage's face then he slowly started laughing "Naruto my boy, my dear dear boy, I don't know how I could ever repay you, you have saved the sanity of this old man more then you could of ever realized" Naruto smirked "well, if you want maybe you could show me another thing or two?" said a smiling Naruto unknowingly the Hokage was thinking something slightly different "hell I promised whoever solved the paperwork problem would get a free look inside the scroll of forbidden jutsu and get their free pick, but meh Naruto doesn't know that and I guess I've got all the time in the world now, so why not" thought the Hokage.

"Ok my boy as a thank you I'll show you two more things," said the Hokage as Naruto's grin got even bigger, "now you remember when I showed you how to walk up trees right to help your chakra control and increase your reserves?" asked the Hokage, Naruto nodded, "well my boy this is the next stage up from that, you are gonna walk on water" as he motioned Naruto to follow him, "oh and by the way get rid of some of these clones you don't need this many just standing around, oh yea before I forget something major, don't disperse them all at once, do it in groups of a dozen or so at a time, so the knowledge backlash on you isn't as painful... understand?" Naruto nodded as a few of the clones began to disperse as Naruto followed the Hokage towards the lake nearby Naruto had to keep shaking his head from the backlash of dispelling clones.

"Ok Naruto here we are, now remember with the tree climbing practice, you focused the chakra at the base of your feet if it was to weak you would fall and if it was to strong you would fly off, now as you have gotten that down we'll try you on water walking, doing this gives the user even better chakra control, but unlike the tree where it's a set amount you release, you have to release a constant stream of chakra from the bottom of your feet using the repellent force to walk across the water, like this..

The Hokage began to gave some chakra at the base of his feet and slowly slowed out into the middle of the lake, before turning around to face Naruto "now Naruto using clones will help you but I suggest you get some of those clones to still do tree walking as well, Naruto nodded as he turned to command half his clones to work on talk walking while the other half joined him in walk water practice, turning back around and finding that the Hokage was no longer in the middle of the lake but right next to him, "whaa... how.. how did you get over here so fast?" asked Naruto, the Hokage smiled down at the boy "this was the other thing I was going to teach you, it's called Shun-shin or body flicker jutsu, depending on the amount of chakra you use you can teleport short distances or even long distances at almost untraceable speeds, of course the further the distance the more the chakra the jutsu needs."

"Sweet, so how does one do this jutsu?" asked Naruto, The aged Hokage smiled down at the eager child in front of him, "OK this one is a more advanced version of Substitution jutsu that you already know, and only uses a single hand sign, which is this.. "The Hokage showed the hand sign to Naruto, "now focus your chakra around your body and feel your body getting energized then focus on a place, for example focus of moving to the training dummies for example" as soon as the words had barely left his mouth Naruto was gone, then a resounded scream of pain as Naruto reappeared at the training dummies though unable to slow down in time he went into the wooden dummy at high speed face first, CRUNCH..

the Hokage quickly appeared next to Naruto who had now stopped cursing and screaming in pain and was in the process of picking himself up off the ground, "OK note to self, don't use that much chakra for short distances, because it hurts like a bitch" muttered Naruto to himself, however the Hokage had managed to catch what Naruto said and smiled, "yea I remember when I first tried it myself I ended up face first into a quite a few trees before I managed to figure it out, any ways that's all I'm going to teach you today, I have to get back to that paperwork, thank you once again for solving the nightmare that is paperwork Naruto.. "anytime grampa and thanks" Naruto said with that the Hokage vanished in a flicker and a swirl of leaves, "cool" thought Naruto..