Hey, first shot at writing a fanfic. So any constructive criticism would be nice thank! No pairings, there could be but so far it doesn't look like it. Not god like naruto but close to it. Itachi-like Naruto. Inspired by Rise from the Shadow by vsizzel but with my own twist.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Hokage Office

Minato Namikaze was doing paperwork, something every kage hated to do. He was currently looking at a forum that said to release the civilians that were in jail, for hurting his son. He realized that announcing that Narumi had the Yin chakra and Naruto had the Yang chakra was a bad decision. The villagers were quite narrow-minded sometimes. Assuming that because his son contains the Yang chakra that its evil and will corrupt him. When its the physical energy of Kyuubi only. He knows as a father he shouldn't let them go but he was torn between duty and family.

He understood the villagers pain, just how much they lost during the attack. They needed a scapegoat, something to help heal the pain even if was wrong. He couldn't just released them without any punishment but couldn't punish them too harshly. He gave them three months and a fine of 38,480 ryo (which is about $5000). He just hope Naruto could forgive him and the villagers would get over their prejudice. He was about to do more paperwork till he felt a familiar presence behind him.

"Jiraiya, what brings you here? Hopefully not your "research"." asked Minato while he was writing the punishment out.

"What can't a man visit an old student?" said Jiraiya.

"So besides peeping on women, why are you here?"

"The toads summoned me and told me a prophecy similar to the one they gave me earlier."

"Really?" asked Minato. He remember when Jiraiya told him the prophecy the toads gave him. " What did they say?"

"The prophecy said the chosen one is a child born from two powerful shinobi and keeps a great darkness at bay. There is more but it won't be revealed until later. I assume it means Narumi because she met the Kyuubi when she was three. And was hoping you would let her sign the toad contract." Minato nodded in understanding what his old sensei was saying. But then frowned when he thought about Naruto.

"So you believe its her? What about Naruto? He could be it too." asked Minato

"Possible but, has he meet the Kyuubi though?"

"No, he hasn't at least I think he hasn't. I'm not sure though. He really just keeps to himself mostly." Minato said sadly.

"At least he didn't meet it yet. Would you rather him meet it as a child or when he is older? He's quite fortunate to not have meet it yet. So can I let her sign it?" asked a hopeful Jiraiya. Minato gave him a smile and nodded. Jiraiya grinned at that, his next possible student would be from his student's family.

"Well, since I done here. My research is calling me, later gaki." Jiraiya giggled and disappeared in a shunshin. Minato chuckled at his sensei's actions. He sighed and looked at his paperwork and swore it grew. He still can't figure out how to beat it. Damn Sarutobi! Didn't tell how bad the paperwork can get.

He decided to take a small break and look at the village. Then thought about his family and how much they have grown as one. How happy they were him, Kushina, Narumi, and Naruto. But, when he thought about Naruto he frowned. After refusing to teach him he started to distance himself from the rest of the family. He remember when Naruto asking to go somewhere together but went with Narumi's over his. As time went on, Naruto's request became less and less frequent until they eventually stopped asking for anything. He evened showed his face less around the house. He either was in his room or outside and at dinnertime, he would be silent focusing on his food while he ate. He only saw him at dinner and when him and Narumi walked to the academy. He cursed himself how he could he ignore his child over another. Minato regretted what he did him and promised he would do anything to make up to him. He decided he was start his training like he should of all those years ago and bring him back into the family he swore.

Namikaze Estate

Presently, Kushina was making the family's favorite dinner. She too felt that Naruto wasn't part of the family. Every time both Naruto and Narumi would come home, he would either go to his room or drop his stuff off and leave until dinner. Even at dinner he would stay silent and just focus on his dinner. When they walked around the village, he would always stay several few back and remain quiet and emotionless. She noticed that he read a lot, which was good, and wish Narumi do some as well. But he read too much and would go out but never say where. She wonder did he have any friends. She truly regrets not training Naruto with Narumi but believed she need extra attention due to her experience with the Kyuubi. As a former junchuuriki, she knows how hard it is to control the Kyuubi is. Kushina was worried. She didn't want him to isolate himself from the family. She knew she had to do something to bring him back and when he walked through the door she, like her husband, was going to make it up to him. Her family was gonna be whole again.

In Konoha

"Naruto-nii-chan, where are you?" Narumi shouted. Narumi looked around Konoha trying to find her Aniki. After class finished, she wanted to walk home with Naruto. But to her disappointment, he disappeared when she tried to look for him.

"Naruto-nii-chan!" she shouted again, hoping Naruto would answer back this time. When she received nothing in return, she frowned and continued to walk home. She loved her aniki and tried to get him to play with her but he always turned her down saying he had stuff to do. She wanted Naruto to feel like family and not an outcast. During the academy, Narumi noticed he either slept or looked out the window. She noticed that he didn't try to socialize with anyone in class nor the classmates try to talk to him. Narumi made attempts to talk to him in class but her fan club would bombard. When she got rid of them, Naruto disappeared.

She started to remember the past and she immediately got sick at herself. She remembered when she was little after her dad told Naruto the he had to train her first, she always rubbed it in his face about it and teased him too. She would say that the family loved her more or show Naruto what she learned to make fun of him. When Naruto suggested somewhere to go, she would say a different place to go to and they always chose over his. Remembering these things, made her feel really ashamed.

Narumi walked home alone, without Naruto again. While she walked home, she suddenly remembered that tomorrow was both their birthday. She smiled and thought of a plan, to get her aniki back with the family. She ran home as soon as she finished her plan and was gonna started it the moment she reached the house.

Namikaze Estate

Kushina was still cooking dinner, making the family's favorite food, ramen. She heard the door open and turned to see who was at the door and saw the Minato at the door taking off his shinobi sandals.

"Got off work early, honey?" asked Kushina. Minato looked up to see his wife in an apron cooking dinner. He gave a small smile and nodded "Yeah, I did." he told her and walked into the kitchen with her. He gave her a kiss on the cheek, and saw that concern was written on her face and could guess what she was concern about. "Naruto." he simply said.

"Huh?" she said.

"You're concern that Naruto is not part of the family."

"How did you know I was thinking about that?"

"Because I was thinking the same thing in the office." He neglected to say what brought it up though.

"So you felt it too. I feel like he isn't part of the family any more." She said sadly and started to tear up. Minato hugged her from behind and tried to comfort her.

"I know what you mean. I have idea that might help. After the birthday party I'll be starting his training." Minato replied trying to comfort his wife. Kushina looked at Minato with a smile on her face.

"I bet he would love that!"

"I hope he will."

Just the the door swung open and Narumi came barging in with determination in her eyes. "Kaa-san make lots of ramen today!" she yelled as she went to her room to wait for dinner to be ready. Minato and Kushina were a little surprised by their daughter's action, but she did get it from her mother. "You think she thinking the same thing too?" said Minato curiously.

"It seems she notice too and feels the same." answered Kushina, then she notice that Naruto wasn't with Narumi nor he was home. "Hey where is Naruto-kun?" she asked wondering where her son could be at. Minato cringed when he heard this, hoping that he wasn't where he thinks he is. On cue, Naruto came thru the door with quite a few bruises and cuts on his arms and legs. He was favoring his left leg a bit. Kushina and Minato were in the kitchen but he still felt their chakra signature.

"Stupid, naive villagers can't tell the difference between the prisoner and jailor. I shouldn't have been caught but I over trained and was too tired to get away. That shouldn't have happened." Naruto quietly mumbled and walked to his room as quickly as possible. Kushina was shocked at Naruto's condition, while Minato narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists. She quickly ran to him with Minato following shortly behind her. "Naruto!" Kushina shouted. Naruto turned around and to see Kushina and Minato both looking at him.

"Yes?" was Naruto's reply with his emotionless visage.

"What happen to you?" asked a worried Kushina looking at his cuts.

"Oh this... I did this by climbing a tree and slipped and fell down. I'm fine." She didn't want to leave him alone but guessing that he is fine she let him go.

"If your fine then go clean up and get changed for dinner." Naruto nodded and walked back to his room. As soon as he closed the door, Minato cursed." Damn blind villagers." Kushina heard him and was shocked at Minato.

"What do you mean, Minato-kun?"

"He didn't fall out of tree. The villagers most likely beat him." Minato said with much anger. Kushina looked appalled at someone beating her son. Then she felt anger build inside her, she was about to go out and show the village that you don't mess with a mother's child. Minato stopped her before she could go on a killing spree.

"Don't."

"LET GO! NO ONE MESSES WITH ANY CHILD OF MINE!"

"Calm down! You can't do anything. I been trying to stop them without executing them even though I believe they deserve it."

"Why can't you? You're the damn Hokage!"

"If I did that, then we would have civil riot going on that's why" Kushina didn't like it but she had to agree that would most likely happen. Especially with reports of the Uchiha clan planning a coup d'etat." She sighed, tried to calm herself. When Minato saw that she was calming down, he decided to continue.

"What I have been doing is throwing in jail for three months and charge a fine. But when, they are free and if they do it again, they get a two week stay with Ibiki." Kushina shuddered at that thought, then she realized something.

"Why didn't Naruto tell us about it? Doesn't he trust us?" She nearly was brought to tears with that. Minato pulled her into a hug and consoled. He sighed, he hated to see her like this. "What was done is done, we can't change the past but we can shape the future. Right now we need to bring our Naruto back into the family." She looked up at Minato and smiled and nodded.

When dinner came and Naruto came out of his room, with a shirt and shorts. When he arrived at the dining room, he notice that they were staring and waiting for him, with smiles on their faces. Which is odd because, Narumi would be devouring her like a beast, especially since its ramen. 'What the hell is going on? Did I hit my head that hard?' Naruto thought to himself. It just didn't make sense to him. The Kyuubi saw this and understood what they were trying to do. He chuckled inwardly, he could use this against the boy to make lose control and give him a chance to escape. Which is unlikely, the boy has too much control over emotions but better than none at all.

'I guess they notice "something".' Replied Kyuubi.

'So it seems.' When Naruto got to his seat, he took out his chopsticks to eat. The second he ate his first bite, the rest started to eat theirs. Not breaking his eating stride, was wondering what the hell is going on to make them change so suddenly. He ponder this, and came with somewhat of an answer. 'So they, feel guilty, eh. Realizing that I exist, doesn't matter. I understand why, trying to make themselves feel better. Pretend to acknowledge my existence till they feel better than go back to normal. Well sorry, not gonna give that satisfaction.'

"So Naruto-kun, how was your day?" Kushina asked who really wanted to know her son's day. Naruto, not batting an eyelash or looking up, realized what she was doing and felt great anger coming to the surface with the fox encouraging it to surface. Naruto shut them down as quickly as they appeared. He chuckled inwardly at the fox's attempt at freedom, but he still felt that he should give a piece of his mind.

"Nothing special." He replied in a quick, monotone voice and went back to his food. Kushina frowned at his answer and how he answered. Narumi quickly jumped in.

"So Aniki, what did you think of today's lesson?" She asked.

" A waste." He quickly replied finishing his ramen. She frowned at his answer, it felt as he didn't even want to talk to them. Minato watched the conversation or lack of one. He getting the same feeling as his daughter. Wanting to get him to talk. Hoping to break the ice with a joke.

"A waste? Really? Are the lessons still that boring?" asked Minato.

"Yes." was Naruto's simple reply.

"What were they teaching today?"

"The parts of Chakra and the elements."

"Well the theory is quite boring but the lesson is still important less-"

"You misunderstand. I never said the lesson was a waste." Naruto interrupted.

Minato rose an eyebrow in confusion and so did Kushina. Narumi was also confused because she thought it was so boring and useless. Minato was curious on what he meant. "So what did you mean then Naruto?" asked Minato.

"It was a waste of time because I already know it." Naruto then walked over to the sink and started to wash his dish. Shocked that he already knew it a supposedly advance subject, Kushina broke out of her trance and saw Naruto about to wash his dish.

"Naruto, I'll wash it for you, you dont have to, ok." Said Kushina. Naruto continued to wash his dish.

"Its fine, I don't to burden you or waste any time of yours. I'm able to take care of myself." He replied without a glance at his 'mother'. Shocked at her son's reply, started to get depressed and tears started to gather in her eyes. Minato was just as shocked as Kushina and also felt depressed. 'He thinks he's nothing to this family.' They both thought, with a fire in their eyes, that was going to change no matter what.

As Naruto finished cleaning his dish they finish eating their ramen. Since they were eating ramen they finished it quick. Naruto started to walk back to his room till his father called him to the living room and said that they were having a family meeting. 'Such irony' Naruto thought but went to the living regardless. Saw that his mother and sister were sitting on the sofa, leaving a spot for him to sit between them, while Minato sat across from them. He raised his eyebrow slightly at their attempt to bring him in. So he decided to lean against the wall next to the them. Kushina, Minato and Narumi frowned at this, but their determination didn't falter to bring him back. Minato decided to start it off.

"Naruto, me and your mother have some news that you'll like." Said Minato. Naruto stared at him with his glacier-like eyes, making him flinch slightly but continued. "After your birthday, tomorrow we will starting your training in the family styles." He said. Kushina nodded with a smile, believing that it worked.

"Does that mean Aniki will be training with me?" a hopeful Narumi asked. Both Kushina and Minato nodded and Narumi glowed with happiness. Minato looked at Naruto and was shocked at him. His face was still cold and expressionless, his eyes, unlike his bright sapphire eyes, his were frozen glaciers. His face didn't twitch, even the slightest. Both Kushina and Narumi were shocked too, both thought that Naruto would be happy that he was finally getting to train. Kushina was certain that this would work.

"Naruto-nii-chan aren't you excited? We can now train together!" exclaimed a confused Narumi. Naruto turned his cold dead eyes at her.

"No. I'm not. Should I be?" he stated in monotone voice.

"Why Naruto? Don't you want to learn our taijutsu styles? Don't you want to be strong like me and your father?" asked Kushina trying to get Naruto to reconsider.

"Naruto, why don't want to train with us?" asked Minato, trying to figure out he doesn't want to train with them.

"I gave up on learning from your styles when you refused to teach me when you began to teach Narumi." Minato and Kushina were shocked and curious why their son didn't want to learn their style and jutsus and be strong like them. Broken out of their thoughts when Naruto spoke. " You didn't want to train me then so why start now? I'm coming along quite well without you." stated Naruto in a neutral tone. Both his parents, were greatly saddened and hurt when he said that. But before they could reply, "Which brings up another question, why do want train me now? I have a few of my own theories on why you would. Guilt is the first. You feel guilty that you neglected my training so you offered to train but would stop as soon as you felt better. Second, is perception. As Hokage and clan-head, it would look bad if any child of yours wasn't strong or was weak. Finally is the village. If one of the village's 'weapons', " Minato and Kushina cringed when he said that and were appalled that their son would think like that. " was defective or not adequately trained; 'it' would not be able to be used for the village." Naruto finished without a single twitch of a muscle or inflection of his voice. His family was wide-eyed and mouths agape. They were stunned and disturbed by their son/brother's rant. They were thinking a mile a second trying to comprehend on what he said. Naruto seeing that they weren't going to saying soon, decided to head to his room.

"Well if that is all then, I'll head to my room. Good night." Naruto finished and went to his room leaving his 'family' shell shocked at his rant. Kushina and Narumi started to break down and cry. Minato ,comforting both crying girls, trying to understand why would Naruto draw to such conclusions, he look down at both Kushina and Narumi. Narumi babbling 'Why Aniki? why?'. Kushina in a similar state as his daughter. He decided to take them upstairs and put them to bed. He first drops off Narumi to her room then Kushina to theirs. He puts Kushina on the bed and sees her face and eyes red and puffy from crying. She looks up and says "What do we do now?"

Minato sighs and looks up at the ceiling "I don't know. For once I don't have a clue on what to do." He looks back down at her and moves to sit next to her. Stares at her, uncertainty and doubt in his eyes. "I just don't know. The only thing I know is... I'm not gonna give up on bringing him back." proclaimed Minato. The doubt and uncertainty gone from his eyes replaced with raw determination. Kushina sees this, her resolve to get her son back renewed by her husband. Both settling on their renewed determination, decided to go to bed.

Damn that took me awhile Sorry bout that. work and school. But a please review. Will try to get to get next chapters up sooner.