Naruto: Alternate Beginning of a Legend

Naruto: Alternate Beginning of a Legend

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or any of the names related to any characters in any anime series.

SUMMARY: Seven-year old Naruto, on a visit to Suna with Sandaime Hokage finds Sasori's old bedroom, and begins to learn the puppet technique. Naru/Rin. Alternate Universe.

Chapter 3: A Deadly Mission and a New Puppet

Time Skip (Eight Months Later)

Studying his bloodline, Naruto found out that the regeneration jutsu was a bad idea. Well...for most shinobi. If Naruto used it, it would not reduce his lifespan. In fact, all it would do is destroy and heal damaged cells at a very fast rate. So Naruto had taken the time to learn that. He also learned the Chakra Scalpels and the Shosen no Jutsu.

He tried to spend most of his time on his Kugutsu technique. He could now control a single puppet from one string. He also created many more human puppets. A very large force of Iwa-nin had been sent to kill him. They were comprised of fifty Chuunin and Jounin. It had taken Naruto and his entire puppet security army to destroy that force.

Only a few Konoha jounin and ANBU helped to fight off the attackers. One of which was Hatake Kakashi. No one had seen Naruto's true face since he came back from Sunagakure with the Hokage. His district, the Uzumaki district had still been kept up. In fact, Naruto had the most frightening security in Konoha. Not even the Hokage was more protected than him.

His puppets were on par with most high jounin. The only able to enter his house unannounced and survive was Hatake Kakashi...no one ever found out how he got to the top floor before being beaten by Naruto's boss puppet...who was almost as strong as Naruto himself. Kakashi had survived the incident, but he hadn't gotten his precious book back from Naruto.

Naruto, realizing that Kakashi had gotten in and destroyed almost all of his puppets, hunted down Kakashi and made him reveal why he did it. Naruto spent the next month repairing his security puppets.

Naruto, realizing that he needed a failsafe method of fighting in the case that he couldn't use his puppets, he opted to use his family library and learn some Ninjutsu...he even created his own powerful move. However, he had completed very little in the way of missions. He had completed three C-ranked missions by himself, two B-ranked missions with weird girl named Anko.

Anko was a chuunin who was proving to the village that she wasn't a monster that was trained by Orochimaru, the Hebi Sannin...to...kill them...

More or less, Naruto had helped the older girl, offering her a place in the Uzumaki district if need be. Currently, he was talking to Sarutobi about a plan conspiring between the Uchiha Clan and Itachi. Apparently Itachi was working under orders of the Sandaime Hokage to destroy the arrogant Uchiha Fugaku and his prestigious Clan, who had committed heinous acts against Naruto and Fugaku's own son, Sasuke.

Itachi was to murder the Uchiha Clan on the night of the Kyuubi festival, when everyone got drunk enough to not care what happened to their village. Naruto had offered to keep Sasuke at his house while Itachi destroyed the Clan. He had refused, saying that he wanted Sasuke to keep going after Itachi in order to fool Uchiha Madara, the founding leader of the Uchiha, and Itachi's secret sensei.

Itachi told Naruto that if he wanted to fight him during the Uchiha genocide then he would let him, and make it seem as if Naruto was protecting the last Uchiha. Naruto made a condition that Itachi had to follow. Uchiha Mikoto, Sasuke's mother had to live. Itachi agreed, and they agreed only the rest of the Clan, and Naruto could use Fugaku as a human puppet.

This would be treated as an S-ranked mission for the both of them.

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At dusk, two figures were seen moving through the night, just silhouettes in the darkness.

"Naruto-san, how are we going to do this? Just slip in the front gates?" the skinny, short silhouette asked.

The short, hunched form of the one known Naruto replied hastily. "You will go in first, Itachi, and then I will follow..."

"Hai," Itachi said, understanding. He leapt down from the telephone pole and landed in front of the Uchiha Clan district gate. The gatekeeper let him in, and then hastily backed away. Itachi quickly decimated the man, along with several other Uchiha police officers. Itachi began decimating Uchiha after Uchiha, their screams echoing in the silent night. Finally, he stood before the Uchiha Clan Head's house.

Naruto landed gracefully on the ground, the tail making a smooth scraping sound as Naruto moved towards the Uchiha Clan Head's house. Naruto pushed the door open and Itachi ended the fight between him and Fugaku, and turned to Mikoto and Sasuke. Naruto swiftly appeared in front of Itachi, blocking the sword strike with the tail of Hiruko.

Itachi then threw five kunai at the puppet that hosted Naruto's true form.

Itachi formed handseals quickly and five kunai became fifty. "Kunai: Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

Naruto knew he couldn't block all of them because of the number. the Kunai ripped several places in his cloak. Naruto then took the traveler's hat off of Hiruko's head and flicked it to the side, where Sasuke caught it.

Sasuke gasped. "Who is this guy?" he asked his mom.

Mikoto sighed softly and looked up. "That is Akakusa no Naruto, or Naruto of the Red Grass. He is a borderline S-rank ninja. He is the only one besides Hokage-sama who can beat Itachi."

Naruto drew the tail close to his chest and ripped off the black cloak. He formed an attacking position that resembled an attacking scorpion. "Let's see you survive this one, Itachi-san..."

And with that sentence, the battle began. Naruto pulled off the nose/mouth mask and opened the puppet's mouth. He pulled a chakra string and shot thousands of poison-laced senbon at the enemy. Itachi miraculously dodged all of them, due to his Sharingan being activated. Then Naruto stopped the assault. Itachi, panting, popped a soldier pill.

Naruto pulled a second chakra string and popped a shell into the air from another arm. Fifty pods flew out of the shell and split into thousands of senbon needles...laced with poison...

Itachi again dodged every single one of them, except for one that lodged itself in his leg. He pulled it out quickly, the poison spraying the floor. Itachi then rushed at Naruto, which was basically a suicide move.

Naruto pointed the scorpion tail at Itachi from over Hiruko's head and tried to stab Itachi with it. Naruto's puppet metallic tail and Itachi's katana were locked in a grapple. Itachi eventually won and pushed Naruto back. Naruto poised and jumped through the top of the puppet, destroying Hiruko.

Naruto stood there in all his glory. He still wore black shinobi pants, t shirt, black sandals, and the black cloak. His long blonde hair moved in the wind. (and I mean long...like a ponytail down to the knees long)

Naruto opened a seal on his arm touched the remains of Hiruko, and sealed it inside his arm seal. He then touched another seal on his arm...the seal for hundred...

"Kuchiyose: Hyaku Kugutsu!" Naruto said as he completed the seal, bit his thumb, and smeared the blood down his arm. In a split second, one-hundred Konoha shinobi, Chuunin, Jounin, and ANBU rank all appeared before them. Naruto jumped backwards and dropped to the back of the puppets. His chakra strings latched onto one puppet and went from one to the next.

"Amazing..." Itachi whispered as he stared at the masterpiece. All at once however, the human puppets all attacked Itachi and drove him out of the house and into the Uchiha district.

Mangekyou Sharingan: Ameratsu!" Itachi called out as his eyes adjusted to form four-star tomoe red eyes. Black fire that was hotter than the sun raged out upon the puppets, crushing at least fifteen. Itachi clutched his head and moved back.

Naruto looked over to Itachi, banishing his puppets back to the seal.

"Naruto-san, when we next meet...I will kill you...and these foolish Uchiha..." Itachi exclaimed, vanishing into the ground.

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Naruto walked over to Mikoto and Sasuke who saw the entire battle. Sasuke was looking at him in awe, and Mikoto was thanking him profusely.

"Mikoto-hime, I would like to offer you and your son residence in my district...the Uzumaki Clan district," Naruto offered her.

"W-well..." she said, looking down.

"Say no more...you may take residence in my district...come with me," Naruto said, leading them to his house. He smeared some blood on the gate and it creaked open. The two swordsmen puppets that guarded Naruto's mansion raised their blades at the offenders. Naruto waved his hand and they went their separate ways.

Naruto led Mikoto and Sasuke to their rooms on the third floor. He told them to make themselves at home and that he would see them in the morning.

Naruto then snuck out the window, arriving at the Uchiha district. He gathered the corpses and took them back to the Uzumaki district. He then unsealed them and took them to the training ground and worked on them. By the time that Mikoto and Sasuke woke up the following morning, he was finished and made a special jutsu for his Fifty Uchiha puppets.

He quickly took a shower and made breakfast for his guests. He took some of their blood to add them to the security ID, so that the puppets would not attack them. Sasuke stayed home with Mikoto the following day and took the time exploring the house. The only places they couldn't enter were Naruto's room, the Uzumaki library, and the Council chamber...interestingly enough.

Naruto went to the Hokage Tower to inform Sarutobi of the success in his mission. He received his pay for the mission, and Sarutobi announced that he enlisted him in the Jounin exams. He then went back to the Uzumaki district and fixed Hiruko so that he would be ready the next time he went out.

Naruto then unsealed the body of Uchiha Fugaku, and spent the day converting him to a puppet. Eventually, he gained a new human puppet with the Sharingan.

A/N: Well, that's the third chapter...anyways...here's the translations for some of the Japanese jutsus and names...

Translations:

Kugutsu--Puppet Technique

Akakusa no Naruto--Naruto of the Red Grass

Akasuna no Sasori--Sasori of the Red Sands

Kunai: Kage Bunshin no Jutsu--Kunai Clone Jutsu

Kuchiyose: Hyaku Kugutsu--Summoning: Hundred Puppets

Mangekyou Sharingan: Ameratsu!--Kaleidoscope Copy Wheel Eye: Flames of the Sun God

A/N: Hopefully that clears up some things...next chapter is the Jounin exams and when Naruto gets another powerful shinobi.