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Author's Note- Hey guys sorry the last chapter wasn't the greatest, I think I'll take it down later to fix it! Everyone has been great with the reviews! Still undecided on the pairings so whoever gets the most votes wins NARUTO! So far Neji, Kyuubi, Sasuke, Itachi, Gaara and Akira are tied for the lead!
--------------------------------------------------------------With Naruto--------------------------------------------------------------------
Naruto hated a lot of things, and at the top of his list right now was this stupid unrelenting rain! Living in the forest wasn't that bad until it rained, usually Naruto would sleep outside under the stars but when it rained he was forced into the Cavern that had saved him a long time ago. Its not that he disliked the cave its just that if he wasn't careful he would still be soaked to the bone in the morning because when the rain water flowed into the cavern he couldn't do anything about it until the morning.
It was raining; it felt like a bad omen. Naruto always sort of hoped that he'd never have to go to Konoha again, hoping that the council wouldn't allow him into the academy so he could leave without breaking his promise with Ojii-san. So far Naruto was already ten years old, usually he would have entered the academy a month ago when he turned ten. However the Anbu never came to inform min of being enrolled into school yet.
"ACHOOO" Naruto sniffled "I hate the RAIN!" he mumbled. Then he got a mischievous grin on his face, which was more disturbing on his face than Kyo's. He went through his summoning Justsu and brought out all three demons, in there animal forms. With a wicked grin on his face he gazed at the three, they felt a sudden sense of foreboding. Swiftly Naruto tackled them, bringing them all into a fuzzy ball of chaos. Hikaru was trapped beneath Akira whose tails were caught under Kyo and Naruto was buried in the middle with a weird contented smile on his face.
"What the HELL NARUTO!!" They all screamed caught in extremely uncomfortable positions piled together. "Hey I was cold and you guys have nice warm fur, SHARE THE WEALTH!!!" "YOU COULD HAVE JUST ASKED!!!" They yelled as they got up and wrapped more comfortably around Naruto keeping their precious person Content.
-----------------------------------------------------Hokage Tower----------------------------------------------------------
"Its time...Tell Naruto..." Sarutobi smiled as the Anbu disappeared from sight. It had taken a month to finally get Naruto enrolled into the academy but it will be worth the trouble. 'I will honor his memory by keeping my promise...'He thought with a nostalgic bitter smile on his face.
-----------------------------------------------------Midnight--------------------------------------------------------------
"Tsh, Ojii-san had to wait until I was already asleep to tell me that the dreaded day had come!" Naruto muttered in frustration as he navigated his way through Konoha. He was quick and slipped past the guards with ease, "Geeze, they all most be really weak...".
Naruto landed outside his new apartment, regretting he ever made the promise to come back to this bitter town. "I'm going to have my own kind of revenge on this village wait and see." He said to no one in particular.
-----------------------------------------------------Dawn------------------------------------------------------------------
Naruto yawned and stretched, "It going to be a long day." He got up and dressed, he wore a turtle neck muscle shirt, blood red, with a loose sweat shirt over that was too big and slipped off his shoulder revealing his shoulder and engulfing his left hand, Blood red ninja pants, his Kuni pouch strapped to his right leg and standard ninja sandals. His hair had grown over the years and he was too lazy to cut it the result was that he now had a wilder version of the Yondamie's hairstyle. His body was lean and muscular due to his harsh training, but his face was still very feminine with his slight whisker marks accenting his face gracefully.
Of course he was in his mortal form because he didn't want anyone to know what his humanoid form looked like it could play into his advantage. He jumped out of the window gracefully and raced around Konoha trying to get used to living in a village again. He ended his tour sitting on the fourth Hokage monument and looking out at the peaceful village.
"Hey kit, what are you gonna do now that your back here?"Kyo asked, he just awakened to find his kit in this curious place gazing out at a village that despised him. "Oh...hey Kyo, I'm gonna follow our plan and play the fool. Train in secret with you guys still, and when I'm finally strong enough to take on everyone in this village I'll make them acknowledge how much they will need my power then..."a wicked smile spread across his face making him look like a feral animal "...well that'll be a surprise." "Its about time to head to the academy, its time to show me your mask that you've been working on with Akira." A small rare true smile graced Naruto's face as he headed to his first day at school.
------------------------------------------------In the trees at the academy------------------------------------------------
Naruto had been watching for the last hour as students entered the ninja school, he was using his Demon senses to rate them in power and potential. So far the only on with a huge amount of untapped potential had been an overly shy girl with pale white eyes that reminded Naruto of his almost friend Neji. The bell was about to ring in about one minute, time for his mask to make its entrance.
Naruto stood in the doorway seemingly out of breath just as the bell sounded. He had a goofy grin on his face with his hand rubbing his neck. He had chosen to put on sunglasses so he could use his Demon eyes to rate his classmates. "Good of you to join us Naruto, Why don't you introduce yourself to the class... And Naruto lose the glasses when you're in class." Iruka said with amusement in his eyes. "Hai sensei!" Naruto said loudly. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto, I'm ten and I wanna be a Kage!" He said with the same smile never leaving his face.
Naruto took a seat next to a brooding kid that had some natural power, wondering if there was anyone who could on par with him in this village.
'This guy is so weak...but is he a guy???! He looks so feminine.' A very pale blush stung his face and left as fast it had come. 'Like it matters anyway, all that matters is I kill Itachi."
'Naruto-kun Its been years since I last saw him! I wonder if he'll notice me this year. No...I'm too weak he'll never notice me..." Her face turned crimson as she placed her two fingers together.
'NARUTO IS SO KAWAII!!!' inner Sakura screamed as outer Sakura blushed slightly.
Iruka started droning on about something Naruto had learned five years ago, so without anything much to do Naruto went into the seal for a real lesson, but it just looked like he was sleeping.
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Naruto walked through the meadow, the scenery changed almost daily in the seal according to Naruto's whim. He was currently trying to locate his teachers, who were curiously absent.
When he finally found them they were in a circle talking in murmurs next to a brook. "What's with the suspicious meeting?"
Akira and Kyo jumped slightly, while Hikaru sat coolly as if he had known Naruto was there the entire time. "Naruto…huh…well actually we needed to discuss something with you anyway take a seat. This may take a while." Hikaru said in calm tones indicating the place beside him. Kyo and Akira looked at him almost as if they were nervous about what he was going to say. "What is this all about?"
"Simple Naruto, for some time Naruto we've been studying your DNA and we have made some very astounding discoveries. However I'm only going to tell you one until we have made some definite answers."
Calm now Naruto answered "Fine by me, tell me everything you know." Curious as to why they were even studying his DNA.
"First off, we had some of our questions answered about why you are a full-fledge demon, or should I say why it was possible. A normal HUMAN wouldn't have had the same reaction, the probably would have died after the first year. The answer is your Bloodline; yes you have one. Though it's not fully activated, your bloodline is that your cells in your body can take foreign cells introduced into your body and adapt to it. This means there is no bloodline that you cannot have, it also explains why you became a demon."
"That'll come in handy but otherwise what's the big deal? So I'm some kind of vampire that takes the traits of the blood I get?"
"Naruto, you don't understand the gift you've been born with, you're the only being in existence that I know of that can do this. It means that unlike regular demons you have no limit to your power. Potentially you could keep gaining power infinitely. Demons are limited to nine tails of power, and then the tenth is like the eight gate for humans, it will give us enormous power with death as a price. For YOU there is no natural stopper. Do you understand that you could given enough time become a GOD!"
Naruto just stood in stunned silence; he stared in wonder at Hikaru who had just told him an unbelievable tale. "Wait you said that it's not fully activated yet? Why? Shouldn't it have become active when I transcended into a demon?" "No, because your bloodline needs blood to activate fully, you used Kyo's essence to become a demon not blood so until you get blood from a bloodline clan you wont activate it."
"Well, then I guess the first thing I'll have to do is research the Bloodlines in Konoha, and then drink some blood." He said this with an ironic grin gracing his face. "Well, it looks like I'm needed in the real world...i better go before something happens."
As he faded into the world, the three glanced at each other a secret shared between them heavy in the air. Quietly they agreed to keep it that way, a secret between them until the time was right...
---------------------------------------------------In the classroom--------------------------------------------------------
Iruka was very irritated not only was the new student sound asleep in class he wasn't the only one. But Naruto was new and falling asleep on the first day didn't bode well, and Iruka was about to throw the eraser in his hand right at his head. The students snickered as it flew through the air, but just as it was about to hit Naruto he suddenly awoke and the eraser landed in his hand. To anyone that would look like some lucky fluke, at least that's what Naruto hoped.
'That was close, if it would have hit me my body would have throw a kuni at him after I caught it had I been asleep.' He thought as a confused smile lighted his face. No one would have ever suspected that this seemingly idiotic kid was potentially the most powerful being known to man.
The rest of the day passed uneventfully and when class finally got out Naruto was the first out the door. He ran out the door like a dim wit ready to escape school as was expected of him.
He made it to the roof so he could watch as the families take home their sons and daughters. He wondered what it felt like to go home with a family to be loved and protected by another, what a strange thought.
Naruto was so wrapped up in his thoughts about family he didn't notice the door open, and a certain Uchiha join him on the roof.
"Why are you here." It sounded more like an accusation then a question to Naruto's ears. "Just wanted some air before I had to go home." "Don't you get air when you walk home too." Sasuke grumbled. 'This is my place I don't need an idiot like him contaminating it.' Sasuke thought grimly as he glared at Naruto imagining pushing him off the roof so he could be alone.
"You know if you want me off the roof so bad you should just say so, otherwise I'm staying here until I'm good and ready to leave. Isn't your family waiting for you at home or something?" Naruto said as he saw a quick flash of pain shoot through the boy's eyes. "What don't you have a family?" he asked stupidly again.
"Leave, no I don't have one waiting for me anymore." Sasuke said expecting to see the flash of pity go through the blonde's eyes and a hurried apology as he left. But neither things he expected happened, he just replied "OH, well I not leaving anyway I wantta stay here for a few, I like it up here."
There was no pity, no sorries, he didn't treat him any different than he did before and this had a strange effect on the Uchiha he allowed him to stay with him on the roof with no more arguments. Sasuke, though he would never voice it, loathed the pitied stares and screaming fan girls of the last of the Uchiha clan. Naruto had given him normalcy so Sasuke accepted him, as he has never anyone else who was not extremely powerful.
"You said they didn't wait for you anymore, that means they used to what happened?" Naruto asked him in a bored manner while he gazed out at the last remaining students waiting for someone to pick them up. "They were all killed my entire clan, they're all dead and buried." "Huh, must have been nice when they were alive to have a family that is." "...yeah it was nice..." Sasuke said quietly remembering the days before the murder. Then the awful memory of the massacre replayed in his mind and a terrible anger welled up in his chest.
"BUT THAT DOSEN'T MATTER NOW ALL THAT MATTERS IS KILLING THE ONE WHO TOOK MY FAMILY FROM ME!" he shouted anger clouding his eyes. Naruto turned to gaze upon this revenge hungry being before him in curiosity, he was so consumed by his hate that Naruto knew instinctively that he could not remember or appreciate his memories of the love he once had. "You know that's really sad, to be so caught up in revenge it consumes you and the murderer you so hate now has the control over you. You can't even remember your family anymore."
"Don't get me wrong I don't think revenge is wrong at all you should pursue it, but I am going to tell you that if you let it consume your every waking moment you allow yourself to be controlled by the thing you hate the most." Naruto chuckled to himself as he left a stunned Uchiha on the roof.
'I never thought of it that way, I'm letting him control ME!' Sasuke thought as Naruto left only slightly worried that he let his mask fall a little too much.
---------------------------------------------------The monument-----------------------------------------------------------
Naruto stood gazing out at Konoha, wondering deep down what bound him to this village. Was it some sense of honor, loyalty, a precious person (Ojii-san), or was it something else. He stood there staring at the people who looked like ants scurrying about their daily lives. He didn't hate them, but he didn't like them either.
No what he wanted most in the world was for them to KNOW that they had a powerful Ninja and they let him slip away. He would learn everything he could, every secret jutus that Konoha held he would master, every bloodline that was worth having he could absorb, and when he found a village that both needed and wanted him, he would leave and help raise them up. It couldn't be just anywhere no it had to be a place that was worthy, which had good people.
Naruto didn't think of himself as all-powerful or unbeatable but he knew what he was and he was strong.
If you had bothered to ask Naruto what his dream was at this moment you would get his true answer, not a fake mask's reply or a cocky kid's reply. The answer is simple to die a beautiful death, to learn everything he could and to protect the unprotected.
Stealthy Naruto's clones returned in team formation behind him, "What have you discovered about Konoha's bloodline limits?"
Bunshin#1: "The most famous and rare is the Uchiha clan's they are rear extinction and only two have the true bloodline limit, one is a missing-nin Itachi, the other is your class mate Sasuke."
Bunshin#2: "The second is that of the Hyuuga Clan's the most promising would be the main branch's leader or Hyuuga Neji's would be worth having."
Bunshin#3: "There are few scattered bloodline's that would be easy to obtain with just more Bunshin but the Hyuuga and Uchiha will need your attention."
"Good, you three take some syringes and collect the blood from the ones that have their bloodline's are more prominent. I'll concentrate on the Hyuuga's for now."
Author's note: Hey sorry this chap. Isn't so good but the next one is coming in a day or two and its awesome!!!! XD Review if you want this story to go on!!