Chapter One : Baby Blues.
A two year old blonde baby with a mop of untameable hair crawled across the floor, reaching upwards, the boy giggled when he touched something. Pulling it down, he recognized it as a scroll, something Saru-ojisan had forbidden him to touch. The admonishments of the Hokage's brushed aside, he hastily unclasped the scroll.
Spreading the scroll on the floor, the boy giggled while reading the scroll, occasionally feeling the need to roll around. What this? Ka… Kage Bushin?
Hours later, an irate Sarutobi found the Forbidden Scroll in the open and clearly forgotten by the perpetrator. Na-ru-too…
Naruto was perched on the Sandaime's lap, a book laying on the table temporarily forgotten as the old Hokage ticked the young boy. "Stop that Saru-ojisan!"
The boy giggled when his sides were restlessly attacked by the Sandaime.
"Naruto-kun, I trust that you are old enough to behave yourself, don't you? Don't cause any trouble for me." The Sandaime fondly ruffled the blonde's hair. "If you have any trouble don't hesitate to look for me. My doors are always open for you."
He left the two and half a year old Naruto at the door of the Orphanage, where the Council had forced him to leave the blonde at. His heart wrenched when the Council had forbidden him to interrupt Naruto's life any further... That is, until Naruto became a shinobi. Then, the council could do jack squat about what he wanted to do. After all, shinobi fell under the jurisdiction of the Hokage, not the council.
"He ran down the alley! Quick!" The shout resounded loudly, alerting the gathering mob of his location. "After him!"
Naruto cursed and picked up his speed. He was garbed in dirty yellow robes, tattered and torn, and a pair of oversized pants held together by strips of cloth. The four year old boy stumbled across the uneven terrain, and he cursed mentally when he almost tripped.
"Damn it!" He swore when he saw that his toe was swollen.
He had managed to read his first scroll when he was two, still in Sarutobi's office. Of course, that man had been displeasured when he found out the Forbidden Scroll had been read, the traps set either ignored or useless against the baby. After all, the traps were calibrated for people of stature higher than one meter, so everything missed.
Although he didn't really understand anything, that book was his first book. The Sandaime had taken the chance to ease the scroll out of his hands and teach him the language. Sarutobi had certainly been surprised when Naruto absorbed his lessons like a sponge. With a decent grasp of the language, Sarutobi felt relieved when Naruto realised the severity of his actions. That was, until he was kicked out of the orphanage.
Naruto quickly dodged into a dumpster, crawling towards the back where he had formerly cut out. Squeezing through the hole, Naruto emerged on the other side while the mob searched for him. If it was a normal mob, he would have easily outran them as his speed was quite good for his age. However, this was no normal mob, and there were Chuunin and Jounin mixed between them. If not for his innate knowledge of the alleyways, he would have been long caught and be beaten badly.
"There he is!" Dodging at the last second, the kunai whizzed past his head. Stepping undercover from the shurikens and kunai being thrown by running into another alley, Naruto cursed when he realised that there was Hyuugas in the mob. He cursed when he ran headfirst into an apathetic Hyuuga. The man gave him a cold sneer before kicking him in the ribs. Hard. Naruto was sure that something had broken and his breathing was laboured as he soared into an abandoned alleyway.
Grabbing his sides in pain, Naruto tried to stop the tears that were threatening to escape his iron grip. No, he wouldn't give the evil bastards the chance to see him cry. No, he wouldn't give them the chance to see that they had actually managed to hurt him.
He clenched his teeth and the first tear trickled down his cheek. He withdrew his knees to his chest and cried silently. He was glad that the Hyuugas didn't bother to check and ran off in another direction. When he felt that the pain was numbed, he picked himself up and started limping through the extensive alleyways back to his meagre apartment. He always had a freaky rate of healing, and Sarutobi refused to tell him why.
He limped the way up the stairs and finally reaching his destination, he lay down on his dusty old bed and drifted off to sleep, the pain sapping his strength…
Location : Naruto's mindscape.
"What…" Naruto spared a glance to his surroundings.
Water dripped from the ceiling, forming dirty pools of blue on the floor. The surrounding walls were dirty brown, and muck formed odd patches on the walls.
"Where…"
"Open the door in front of you, and I will answer your questions."
"Who…"
"Do I have to REPEAT myself?" The voice snapped exasperatedly."Or is it that you're too dumb to understand such simple words?"
"Alright, don't get your panties in a twist…" Naruto cautiously scampered forward and grabbed the doorknob. Twisting it, he swung the door open and walked into the large room behind the unassuming door.
There was a gigantic amount of steel bars attached to the floor and they reached up to the ceiling. There was a piece of paper fluttering around with the kanji for seal on it. Pipes extended from cage towards an unknown destination. There were two pipes, one small thin one, and one large thick one. The large pipe glowed red in colour while the small thinner one glowed blue.
"Before I start, do you mind changing the area? It stinks."
"How…"
"Picture it in your mind. After all, a person is the master of their mind."
Naruto closed his eyes and focused. He remembered the small patch of grass near a lake where no one tried to bother him. The smell of fresh grass hit his nose and he opened his eyes.
"It worked…"
"Of course it worked. If it failed I'll have no face to continue calling myself the Ruler of the Bijuu, etc."
Naruto's mind made the connection immediately. The Ruler of the Bijuu was definitely the Kyuubi no Kitsune, which had attacked Konoha and was defeated on October Ten. He was born on October Ten, and he had always been attacked on the date particularly. With the thing inside of him called the Ruler of the Bijuu, this meant that…
"Good, glad to see that you aren't an idiot after all!"
The voice was getting nearer, and Naruto turned his head around, before his eyes stopped on a most extraordinary sight.
"What? Did you expect me to be a male?"
The Kyuubi was clad in a light red yukata, her black silky hair hanging below her waist, nine tails waving in the wind, emerging from…
Naruto blushed.
"Why, it seems that someone needs to get his mind out of the gutter."
She laughed, her voice tinkering like bells. She gave him a cheeky grin.
"Ano, well…"
"There's no need to explain yourself. It's natural." She waved his perverseness off.
Naruto suddenly had a stroke of inspiration. If the Kyuubi was as old as she was, she definitely knew a lot of things. Things Sarutobi refused to tell him. "Do you know who my mother is?"
"Do you know who my mother is?"
"By your tone, you already know who your father is."
"It's obviously Minato Namikaze, the forth Hokage."
"And how did you come to that decision?"
"By following the logical thinking of a Hokage, and observing. One whose eyes weren't clouded would instantly find the resemblance in the hair and the blue eyes. Also, whenever Sarutobi-oji-san dismisses me, he will look at the Yondaime's picture. You may think that Sarutobi-oji-san was merely asking his successor and predecessor about his choice regarding his legacy. It might also imply that he knew that the Yondaime was my father, and if you follow how a Hokage thinks, it's easy to arrive at the conclusion that I am his son."
"And how do you know how a Hokage thinks?"
"A Hokage is the person that sacrifices himself for his village. How can a Hokage ask another family to sacrifice their son?"
"Impressive. I'm impressed. Very well then, your mother is Kushina Uzumaki, from the former Uzu no Kuni."
"I guess that's where I got my surname from. But why… I get it."
"Get what?"
"From what I've read, the Yondaime had made a lot of enemies in the First Great Shinobi War. He wasn't known as the Yellow Flash for nothing, you know. Minato-otou-san definitely had a lot of enemies, so Sarutobi-oji-san had to protect me."
"I see. You certainly are a sharp one, aren't you?"
"Heh… I guess so."
"Actually, it's because she is of higher status than him, being a princess of the Uzu no Kuni's royal family. That is, until the country was annexed. So if you were born now your surname should be Namikaze, not Uzumaki. On a more serious note, I'm going to start helping you. I may be a demon, but the behaviour of the stupid dolts is worse. I don't feel like dying under the hands of ignorant dolts."
"Err Kyuu-chan, why did you attack Konoha in the first place?"
The Kyuubi blushed slightly at the boy's new nickname for her. "My family and the rest of what's left of my clan were slaughtered in sleep by Konoha nins. I was in a blind rage, so to speak."
"I see… I'm sorry."
The Kyuubi smiled, ruffling Naruto's spiky hair. "Hey!"
"First things first. I'm going to unlock your dormant Kekkei Genkai, and give you a Doujutsu, so to speak. Do you know what the term means?"
"It was covered in one of the scrolls Sarutobi-oji-san had."
"What do you know about the Sharigan?"
"The Sharigan allows the user to copy the jutsu other people uses and they grant extraordinary perception!"
"Go on, what else?"
"It allows the user to detect and cast Genjutsu!"
"Very good.What of its past?"
"I've heard that it only gained fame by a Madara Uchiha, and it existed after the Byakugan existed."
"Correct. What you don't know is that a Tengu in my army gave the Uchiha their Sharigan.This stupid mortal Kujinsaku Uchiha had asked the stupid Tengu to grant him a totally original Doujutsu, because he was envious of the Hyuugas. And…" She shrugged. "That happened."
"You may have heard of the Uchiha being able to control… well me. This is not true, despite what others may say. Madara caught me off guard and used the information the Tengu unwittingly provided to put me under something like a Genjutsu. However, I broke free quickly. He was gone before I could remove his head from his shoulders. What the foolish Uchihas didn't know was that the Sharigan was a two bladed sword. The Sharigan memorizes, but it never forgets. The person will never forget whatever the person does while having the Sharigan active. However, when the person attains the Mangekyou Sharigan, he is continuously tormented by the memories of him killing his friend. Thus the body has a natural reaction, which is to reject the images, which stems from the eye. Hence, day by day, every single time the Uchiha uses the Mangekyou Sharigan he becomes blinder and blinder. Madara only managed to preserve his eyesight by taking his brother's eyes. Because the eyes were from a foreign source, there is a auto rejection. the two auto rejections cancelled each other out. The Sharigan is truly a cursed bloodline. "
The Kyuubi laughed scornfully. "What I am going to do, is to give you the Anti-Sharigan, so to speak. This will prevent the Sharigan from affecting you at all."
She laughed and ruffled Naruto's hair. "You can call it the Kitsugan if you want. I don't really care. Your bloodline limit is just another Doujutsu. For your father, the main function was to prevent inertial from affecting him when he used the Hiraishin. If not for it, he would have vomited the moment he used the Hiraishin. Actually, it is always partially activated. It is what gives you and your father the distinctive sapphire eyes. From what I have analysed, it gives you greater control over the elements you are aligned to, and from what I've seen/read, your father always had an uncanny luck to survive through any dangerous attacks. Of course, if you were the one who jumped into danger, I think that the luck doesn't give a damn about you then." The Kyuubi chuckled. "Like situations where you fight me."
"Are you sure about this?"
"Being that my life is your life essentially, yes. I don't really want to die under the hands of some stupid villager."
"Oh yeah, where is the seal? The pipes?"
"The pipes are under the grass, and the seal is…" The Kyuubi undid her obi and opened her yukata. Naruto felt his face redden and he covered his eyes. "Open your eyes, I'm not naked you baka." She chided playfully.
Naruto opened his eyes and he saw that what the Kyuubi said was true. She wasn't naked, there was a black substance shaped like a swimsuit on the Kyuubi, with the kanji on the naval area. "This is what the seal has transformed into."
"Well, this is informative and all but, I think I should wake up before someone kills me in my sleep."
"No worries, little time passes in here in relation to the real world. When you wake up, don't open your eyes first. I'm also going to enhance your senses, and it's better if you were to get used to the new sensations first, so you don't overwhelm your brain."
"Wow."
"I'll also be enhancing your body. You will gain muscles easier and your chakra coils will expand faster, in order to keep in pace with your growth. I'm also altering your tenketsu to be smaller, tougher, and to be able to be shut at will. This gives you the chance to combat against the Jyuuken."
"Third, you will be gaining my elemental affinities, which are water, earth and fire."
"I can understand fire, but earth and water?"
"Do remember I can raise tsunamis and create earthquakes."
"Oh… Well, what is my affinity?"
"It's wind and lightning. It used to be solely wind, but something you touched seemed to have affected your chakra. It was something in the Hokage's office, but I can't remember it. It was something long, but I can't remember for the life of me."
"Wow, so you are saying that I have something like the Rinnegan?"
"Essentially yes. You just don't have those concentric circles… That is, you don't have them until your Doujutsu upgrade is complete."
"What? Why?"
"The Rinnegan doesn't grant you the ability to use the elements at will. It only appears as a side effect from your DNA. When your eyes are swapped, so to speak, the DNA will detect the changes and make the suitable arrangements."
"Alright! This is so cool!"
"I'll also start giving you basic ninja training, and be sure to pester or ask the monkey to allow you to get in the academy faster. I do want you to move out the apartment as fast as possible, and missions are the fastest way. But now, its time you woke up."
Naruto jerked upwards, taking caution to keep his eyes closed. He could hear the dripping of water, the tapping of foot, the shouts of the overzealous store owner, the slurping of ramen…
He could smell the slightly musty smell of his apartment, and it seriously stunk. He would have to see to it that he cleaned the apartment up.
Jumping down from the bed, he could feel the individual grains of the wood below.
He opened his eyes, having already getting used to his new found senses. His reflection stared back at him from the dirty mirror across. His sapphire blue eyes stared back at him. He walked closer, noticing that there were four white tomoes spinning around.
This is my gift to you. The Anti-Sharigan.
Naruto jumped. "Where are you?"
Inside you, and besides you just have to think to communicate with me. You wouldn't want the villages to think you've gained communication with the FOX.
Alright, so what does it do already?!
It enables you to strip people of the Sharigan by just staring at them and wishing for it to be so. The Sharigan cannot copy your techniques, and their genjutsu has no effect on you. In fact, Mangekyou Sharigan's jutsus, instead of being controlled by the wielder, they will be turned upon the user by you. I'll combine both doujutsu, and you will have eight tomoes in your eyes as a side effect. The 8 tomoes and concentric cirlces will only be visible to those both you and me want them to be able to.
For once, Naruto smiled.
"OJISAN THE MASKED MAN WON'T LET ME IN!" Naruto shouted from behind the ANBU, just a day after he had his first meeting with the Kyuubi.
Sarutobi opened the doors while the ANBU went off to a corner, with a decidedly depressed mood around him. "Come on in Naruto-kun."
Naruto bounded energetically into the familiar room. "Oji-san! What is the ninja academy I keep hearing the people talk about?"
The Sandaime sighed. Mentally preparing himself for the eventual question, he pulled Naruto into a chair and placed a booklet in front of him. "Read the information booklet and ask me questions about stuff you still don't understand when you are done."
Naruto was silent as his eyes wandered over the booklet, and with the information provided by the Kyuubi he proceeded to use the most cute look he could muster and asked the Sandaime. "Could I go in early, like now? PLEASE?"
Sarutobi sighed. He knew that would happen, as the boy was like his father. Too much like his father in fact. Both of them could teach a stone lessons about being stubborn and fire about hot headedness. "No , Naruto-kun. And not a peep out of you, you're too young and your body is still developing. You're not going there until you hit six."
"But…"
"No."
"Fine!" Naruto huffed. "Also, Kyuu-chan told me that you know who my mother was! Could you tell me who was my okaa-san?"
Sarutobi's eyes narrowed. "Who is that Kyuu-chan you are talking about?"
"Kyuubi-chan!" Naruto squealed. "She's really pretty!"
Sarutobi decided that the information about the Kyuubi's gender and looks were something he didn't really want to know. "Did she try to do anything?"
"No she didn't." Naruto shook his head for emphasis.
"Very well then." Sarutobi took a puff and relaxed in his chair. "You know your father, don't you?"
"You do deserve the title of The Professor ojisan! You caught the minute detail in my sentence!" Naruto smiled.
"It's part of the job Naruto. You'll have to learn to read the fine print." The Sandaime reached down and ruffled Naruto's hair. "Your father was the Yondaime Hokage…"
"Minato Namikaze. This reminds me, why is my surname not Namikaze?" Naruto asked.
Sarutobi chuckled hollowly. "There are two reasons. Your father made a lot of enemies in the war against Iwa. There are some people who wouldn't hesitate to hurt you. To protect you, I couldn't have you take the name of the person with the highest bounty in Iwa, couldn't I? Secondly, tell me, what do you know about the offspring of royal families?"
Naruto blinked once, before replying. "They take the surname of the royal family they come from, no matter if it is from the paternal or maternal side?"
"Correct. You come from the Royal Family of Uzu no Kuni." Sarutobi concluded.
"…"
"Is there anything wrong?" Sarutobi asked worriedly. He was afraid that Naruto had gone into shock.
"AWESOME! I LOVE YOU OJISAN!" Naruto yelled and jumped up, hugging the elderly Hokage in a surprising display of strength. The Kyuubi laughed mentally, chiding Naruto for doubting her.
Naruto sat down on the old sofa in his house, mediating. He opened his eyes when he smelt the grass again, signifying he was in his mind.
"Kyuu-chan" Naruto yelled.
"I've heard what that dumb old man said. For now, I'll just have to train you on my own. Be gone for the next few hours while I plan."
Naruto exited his mind and jumped out of his apartment, having mastered the wall walking to a certain extent under the tutelage of the Kyuubi. If he failed and fall, he couldn't die. In fact, the Kyuubi told him that it would just make her job easier, as she would be able to plan longer. Unfortunately for him, he didn't manage to detect the sarcasm in her tone.
He walked around the business sector, having nothing to do, before entering a bookstore that didn't chase him out. The owner had been warned by Sarutobi before, and after some interactions he declared that he didn't mind Naruto at all.
Naruto smiled and walked towards the shinobi section. Browsing around, he plucked out a worn book squeezed in between two expensive useless books and saw the price. It was cheap enough, so Naruto made his way to the counter and took out his gama-chan.
"Three thousand ryo, Naruto-kun." The store keeper said kindly.
Naruto pulled the bills out of the wallet and passed the crinkled bills to the old man. "Have a nice day!" The man called after him.
Naruto squatted down, fanning the small flame. He had decided to cook something but the gas ran out, so he had to settle for a barbecue. A very small mini-barbeque. He held the book over the flames to dry it quickly, seeing that it was slightly damp because he happened to touch it after bath, hoping to read the new book. The pages stuck and he didn't dare to force it open, and thus there he was
He scowled when the Kyuubi told him that she would be changing his life tonight. As the rabbit he caught was finally cooked, his free hand tapped on the guide book he had just bought. He then proceeded to eat the rabbit before he slept, the book held securely in his arms.
"WHAT!?!?!?!?" Naruto screamed when he woke up that morning. He glared at the mirror, the eight white tomoes staring back at him. "BLAST YOU, YOU FUCKING FOX!"
When the headache provided by the very irate and tired fox ceded, Naruto made his way to the training grounds. Che… you didn't have to do that to me.
Shut up.
Is it the time of the month?
GRAHHH!
Naruto decided that he should really stop irritating the Kyuubi before he went crazy from her rampages. Under the careful tutelage of the Kyuubi, he slowly trained and soon, he bought a set of chakra weights and he worked his way slowly. The manual insisted that he could only start at eight for fear of adverse effects to the body, and the Kyuubi had agreed, so he couldn't do anything but to agree with them.
End of Chapter One.
A/N : Some people were confused by Naruto's age. Hopefully it clears up now, being that I've added some more details. At the end of the chapter, he is 4 years old, just to clarify. The eight tomoe was more of me taking the number that popped into my head first. And being that I typed this chapter during Chinese New Year (HAH!), you get the story.
Naruto will not be able to save any Uchihas. Did you even think he, at this stage, will be able to even harm Itachi and Madara?! No frikkin way. Of course, if there are any plausible and good reasons why the/some Uchiha should survive, I can just pull the "they were on a mission, hence they didn't die" jutsu.
The Kitsugan has the functions/abilities stated below.
1) Disables the Sharigan from copying the wielder's techniques.
2) Turns control of Mangekyou Sharigan's technique to the wielder, not to the Uchiha/Hatake.
3) Grants the wielder the ability to remove Sharigans.
4) Looks cool. P
Naruto's kekkei genkai will be explored furthur in other chapters...
(PS : For those that doesn't, 8 is auspicious as it's pronunciation sounds similar to "fa", which means "to strike it rich".)
(PS 2 : Fanfiction screws up my formatting and refuses to save the correct one, so if something looks bad or out of place, not my fault..-)
Poll Time!
Vote for your favourite female characters to end up with Naruto! Haku's already in, so don't bother voting for her.
1) Temari
2) Hana
3) Hinata
4) Ino
5) Sakura (...)
6) Tayuya
7) Tsunade (I'll try. No promises.)
8) Shizune
9) Kurenai (Personal preference. XD)
10) Anko (Same as Tsunade.)
11) Yuugao (Same as Tsunade or Anko)
12) Kin
13) Others (State the person you want.)
Each person has 2 votes, and both cannot go to the same character...
