Title – Son of Konoha's Yellow Flash and Red-Hot Habanero

Chapter – One

Author – xxxiliveforthefuturexxx

Beta – None

Summary – Naruto is smart, knowledgeable, sly, sarcastic and strong. He knows about the fox in his stomach and that his father was the Yondaime Hokage and his mother a Princess of Uzushiogakure. Then why is he still the 'dead last' of the Academy?

Disclaimer – I, xxxilivefortehfuturexxx, in no way own Naruto. The lovely manga and anime belong to their respective owners, I am only using their characters and planning on giving them back how they were. Well, most of them anyway.

Main Characters - Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Kakashi Hatake, Kurama/Kyuubi, Sarutobi Hiruzen

Couples – N/A at the moment

Warnings - Smart Naruto, Nice Kyuubi, Bashing of Sakura though not overly so, Nice Sasuke,

A blond haired child frowned as he stared at the scroll in his hands, his brows furrowing as he read the words on the scrolls. The child's face was hidden by a black face mask and only his expressive blue eyes were seen. He was wearing a full black outfit that looked eerily like an ANBU uniform but without the insignia of his village. The child seemed to be no more then 4'5 and looked no more then five.

Blue irises filled with tears as he stared at the words, reading through the letter time and time again until he could recite it by heart.

My dearest Naruto,

I wish that I could be there, next to you, watching you grow into a courageous young man that I hope you'll become but I fear that I will not survive past this night. As I am writing this your mother, Kushina Uzumaki a Princess from the destroyed village of Uzushiogakure, is slowly dying, holding you like the precious miracle that you are and cooing to you. It is both a heart-warming and a heart breaking sight as she is already dying from the major loss of blood that she sustained while giving birth to you after the Kyuubi no Yoko was ripped away from her forcefully by a man so evil and nasty that I have no words.

As it stands the man in question is now controlling the Kyuubi to wreck havoc upon Konoha and I fear what I am about to do to you my dear child. There is nothing that can kill Kyuubi as the fox is a being made of chakra and not flesh and blood. I wish there was something else I could do but there isn't. You are the only one, my child, that can hold the Kyuubi in yourselves. Not only do you have the huge chakra core from your mother's side of the family but you were also in very, very close proximity to the Kyuubi's demonic chakra that you are pretty much immune from it.

What I am about to do will kill me as a live sacrifice is needed to seal something so huge as the Kyuubi but it is for the best. No-one but Kushina knows what I am about to do and while she doesn't like the fact that I will be practically forcing you to carry the burden of the Kyuubi she understands. After all, she also carried his burden.

I hope that you will be treated as a hero but I do not think that the village will honour my wish. While I do love Konoha the people in her are very fickle and will easily put the blame on you for the destruction of the Kyuubi despite the fact that you were only a few hours old babe.

I wish I had more time to write everything I want to say to you but it seems that I cannot. Your mother is already up and waiting with you in her arms, ready to help me protect you while sealing the Kyuubi into you.

I placed five storage seals at the end of this letter. Those storage seals contain everything that Kushina and I own. The first seal contains family scrolls from both the Namikaze and Uzumaki families. The second seal contains all the books that Kushi-chan and I collected over the years and those will help you a long way if you wish to become a ninja. The third seal contains all the weapons that Kushi-chan and I possessed. Tthe fourth seal contains the scrolls detailing Fuiinjutsu, Uzumaki Fuiinjutsu books, information about the seal that I am about to use to seal the Kyuubi into you and how you can modify it to give the fox a bit more control of what he can do in your mind like talking to you, looking through your eyes and listening through your ears. And the fifth storage seal contains Kushina's and mine private journals along with our marriage certificate and your birth certificate that state's who your parents are and who your godparents are.

Knowing the council as well as I do, I know that they will not allow Tsunade or Jiraiya take custody of you for some reason or another so please do not blame them if they do not show up. Especially Tsunade-chan. She lost her father, grandfather, granduncle, mother, grandmother and boyfriend to that village and she hates it with a passion and will not return until she will really be needed. I will however ask you to send letters to them and slowly get to know them before asking to meet.

Anyway, I better finish because Kushina is already swaying on her legs and looking very pale.

This scroll should have appeared to you when you turned five and I hope it does as my seals never failed me before.

We love you Naruto do not forget that, we will always be watching over you.

Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki

Naruto stared at the scroll before with a sob, he tore the face mask off and fell onto his bed in a sobbing mess, holding the scroll close to his chest. It had appeared twenty minutes ago on his night stand just as the clock struck midnight and the tenth of October came. Just like his father said it did.

He couldn't believe that no-one told him that his father was the Yondaime Hokage or that he had the Kyuubi sealed in him. Now he knew what that warm presence at the back of his mind was and who was doing the healing to his body when he was beaten by the villagers whenever they pleased.

Gingerly sitting up and rubbing away the last of his tears, he crossed his legs and looked at the five seals at the bottom of the scroll under his parent's name before he sharply bit his tongue and smeared said blood on the fourth seal, wishing to read the notes about the seal on him and how he could visit the fox so that he could form some sort of... contract with said fox.

He watched curiously as the seal flashed before scrolls appeared on his bed with different names on it. He shuffled through them all before finding the one that said 'Naruto's seal and how to modify it'. Opening the scroll, Naruto lent back on the bed and started to read through it, mentally making notes about learning more about Fuiinjutsu so that he could understand some of the concepts more.

Finding the information about how to see the Kyuubi, Naruto put the scroll to the side before closing his eyes and relaxing himself, blocking everything out. It took the blond no more then a minute before he was standing in some kind of sewer. His nose scrunched up for a second before he started his trek towards the place where he felt the familiar chakra that was always there comforting him.

The moment he saw the cage and then the red fox behind it, Naruto quickened his step before standing a mere few feet away from the egde of the cage. His head tilted to the side as he watched the fox who was doing the same. The fox was huge and Naruto could understand why people were scared of him when he attacked but now he looked very docile as if he were just relaxing.

"You going to come closer kit?" The rumbling voice of the fox startled Naruto out of his thoughts and the five year old child move towards the cage so that he was standing right in front of the fox, licking his lips before sitting down on the ground, his legs crossed and his arms resting on them.

"It's nice to meet you Kyuubi-sama." Naruto said softly. "Thank you for healing me whenever I was beat up."

"There is no need to thank me cub." The fox said as he slowly lowered himself to his belly so that he was facing the child at more or less the same height. "I wasn't about to let you die. Your mother and father wouldn't be pleased that you would join them in the Shinigami's stomach at such a young age."

"No, I don't think they will be." Naruto agreed with the fox, shaking his head slightly. "They would probably be very upset at the village that they protected with their lives when sealing you in me. Dad figured I would be quite possibly hated by the village and I wouldn't know about you or my parents so he left me a letter scroll that appeared when I turned five. The letter told me that you were controlled..." The child trailed off to let the fox explain if he wished.

"I was." Kyuubi said. "A man called Uchiha Madara, who should be by all purposes dead as he died quite a while ago, came to Konoha and cruelly ripped me out from your pregnant mother which induced the labour. Anyway, after he ripped me out I was furious and angry that someone like him could just do that me. I wasn't pleased and my anger blinded me until it was too late. By the time I came to my own mind I was already controlled by the Sharingan the man had and I could not do anything. I hated terrorizing the village and I wished for reprieve from the control. It was then that your father and mother came with you in their arms and I knew straight away what they wanted to do so I tried to fight the control so that I could just stay still and let them seal me in you but the man's will was very strong and due to me being angry before he controlled me I couldn't break it. I fought and fought the control but I couldn't. When your father started the sealing Madara grew furious and ordered me to kill you. I tried to fight it but I couldn't and I aimed one of my tails at you which both Kushina and Minato protected you from and got impaled by it themselves though they still continued with the sealing. When Minato finally sealed me in you, I promised to myself that I would forever be in their debt. So I decided to protect you... Or as much as I could. I healed you, I hid your presence from Shinobi who were sent after you, I protected your mind from nightmares."

Naruto listened to the fox talk, not interrupting him at all and instead nodding his head in the right places to show that he was listening. He was also mentally making notes to research about Madara Uchiha and the Sharingan.

"Father told me that I can modify the seal to allow you to see through my eyes and listen through my ears." Naruto commented softly. "I am unsure how to do this but give me a day and I will be able to do the modifications. Would you like that?" He peered at the fox with wide, doleful blue eyes and the fox huffed out a laugh.

"I would." The Kyuubi said. "I would very much like to see Konoha through your eyes."

Naruto beamed at the fox and scrambled up.

"I'll get going then and read through the scroll before coming back here with the modifications ready to be done on the seal." Naruto bit his lip. "Will I be able to talk to you in my mind?"

"Of course you will." Kyuubi said with an amused snort escaping his snout. "Just talk to me in your mind."

"Okay!" Naruto grinned before closing his eyes and pulling his conscious back into his body.

As soon as he felt the hardness of his bed, he opened his eyes and let out a soft squeal as he looked at the clock on his bedside table. He had only been with Kyuubi for half an hour which meant that he would be able to take the whole day to read through the Fuiinjutsu scrolls to get a basic understanding of how he could modify Kyuubi's seal.

"Oh yeah! I forgot to ask, what's your name?" Naruto poked the warm presence in his mind as he went about putting all the Fuiinjutsu scrolls in the right order on the bed before he got to reading through it. Thankfully he had found out just a week ago that he had edict memory which meant that he would only need to read trough everything once before he would remember the words perfectly.

"..." The Kyuubi was silent for a few seconds. "Kurama."

"Kurama-sama..." Naruto grinned to himself as he settled back down on the bed.

"Drop the sama." Kyuubi ordered. "Just Kurama is fine."

"Alright Kurama!" Naruto sent the fox a mental hug before he focused on the scroll.

For the next few hours all the blond did was read and make bullet points about the import things to do with Fuiinjutsu. He never once stopped and read well into the night before he finally stopped and knew exactly what to do. Thankfully his father had drawn out the seals that he would need to put on the original seal so he only needed to remember their shapes.

Minato's notes on the seal told him that the seal could be modified in quite a few ways. The first two seals were of course the eyes and ears one that Naruto would draw onto the original one. The next seal that Minato wrote about was the one that Naruto would ask Kurama if he wanted and that was changing the cage to be a collar around the neck which then would enable the fox to run around Naruto's mindscape as soon as he sorted it out to something different instead of the stupid sewers. The fourth one was a seal that would allow Naruto to slowly gain control over Kyuubi's chakra; this seal Naruto was going to ask when to use. And the fifth one was the one Naruto though Kyuubi would like; it would allow the fox to be summoned in either of his tailed forms although that would depend on how much chakra Naruto would use in the summoning.

Making sure that he hid all the scrolls under his bed, Naruto took a deep breath before immersing himself in his mind once again. And once again he was in the sewer system but thankfully this time he was much closer to Kyuubi's cell so he took off in a run.

"Hey Kurama! I'm back." The blond bounced over to the fox who was seeming to look at him in amusement.

"Welcome back cub." The fox huffed a laugh as the blond continued to jump around, almost as if he had too much sugar.

"So, I found the seals that dad wrote about and I can do the eyes and ears straight away however there are three others that I can also put up." Naruto mumbled as he tilted his head to the side.

"What are they?" The fox urged the child on, wondering what sort of seals Minato came up with.

"One is a seal that will allow me to change the cage to a collar that you would wear around your neck so that I can change this whole... sewer system into something more liveable for you like a forest or something. Another one is a seal that will allow me to slowly gain control over your chakra without going beserk from it. And the last one is a sort of summon seal that would let me summon you out into the real world in either of your tailed forms."

Kurama eyed the blond child as he thought about it. He could go with the collar seal as well however he wasn't sure about the other two. While he trusted Minato's seal's he really wasn't sure about what repercussions that would have on the boy in front of him. If Naruto would commit himself to training with both his own massive reserves and Kyuubi's chakra then the fox would let him however not without a condition to it.

"Put all five of those seals." Kyuubi said. "However I have a condition about the fourth seal."

Naruto looked at the fox.

"Under no circumstances will you train with my chakra unless you summon me out." The Kyuubi said seriously, his voice held a clear warning in it that Naruto heard. "My chakra is harmful and while I trust Minato's seals I do not wish to endanger you. If you commit yourself to training starting from now, you may put the seal on."

Naruto bit his lower lip and furrowed his brow as he thought about it. He could understand the worry the fox had about it and he agreed. He would commit himself to training and wouldn't train with the Kyuubi's chakra unless he had summoned the fox.

"I'll commit myself to training and I promise to not train with your chakra unless I have you summoned out." Naruto said with a quiet voice.

"Good." The Kyuubi nodded his head before propping it down on his paws and watching the boy. "Practice drawing those seals first before you draw them on your own stomach but not today. I want you to sleep."

"Got it." Naruto nodded before he disappeared from the mind scape and was once again back in his body.

He took the fox's advice and did indeed go to sleep but not before making sure that everything was hidden away under his bed that had a loose floorboard.

The next day Naruto spent all of it practising drawing the seals with a steady hand. It was hard and he already knew that but he thanked his dad for drawing them out so that he could practice.

It was nearing midnight before Naruto was finally able to draw the seals without messing them up and even then he took another hour to practice before he went to drawing the seals on his stomach.

It took Naruto a painstakingly long time to draw the seals and pour his own chakra into them to activate the eyes, ears and collar seals. By the time he was finished, he was barely keeping his eyes open but through sheer power alone he willed himself to stay awake and look at the seals before cautiously poking Kurama mentally.

"Kurama?" Naruto spoke the name out loud, biting his lower lip harshly to see if the seals worked.

"Yes kit?" The fox sounded amused and then started chuckling when Naruto jumped around his room in glee at having done the seals perfectly. "Now that we know the seals work kit, I want you to sleep. It's already nearing four in the morning. You will take the day to have fun and then starting tomorrow your training will start."

"Alright." Naruto giggled as he quickly shed himself off his clothes and pulled on a baggy shirt that fell loosely to his knees before scrambling into the bed. "Night Ku." He mumbled.

"Good night kit, have sweet dreams." The fox whispered in the child's mind before both of them were enveloped in the call of Morpheus.

AN: Alright guys, so this a sort of prologue for a story I am thinking of writing and it will contain a smart but not prodigal Naruto. He will have perfect control off Kyuubi though just B has with Hachibi. I know that some of the stuff may be overused too many times but I thought it would be fun. Just give me a review on what you think. And sorry about the title, I'm not overly good with them.