Naruto Fanfic: Ninja At Five
A four-year-old blonde boy was running through a street with his arms pumping forward and back. Tears were flowing freely out of his eyes and falling off his face and disappearing into the air behind him.
The street surrounded by two story buildings, the ones the boy passes becomes brightened by an orange glow a hundred feet away. Also emitting from the orange glows were shouts and curses from an angry mob with torches.
'Why me? Why am I always the one being chased after? I did nothing wrong and they yell and chase after me. If I was a ninja I could get away from them.'
The boy continued his uncoordinated sprint away from the orange glow, from the torches in the mobs hands, from the hurtful things coming out of their mouths.
Then the boy's eyes shot open. 'If I become a ninja I could do a whole bunch of stuff and they would have to respect me. But if I want to do all that stuff I have to get away from this crowd.'
The boy by now has stopped crying trying to remember what the ninja did to run fast. 'They lean forward and put their arms back to balance them out.' The blonde boy leaned forward from his upright run and raised his arms to keep him from falling forward going into an aerodynamic form. Amazingly he began running faster.
Now he could push forward harder as long as he stayed balanced. 'Then they have that cool thing what was it? Catra I think it was called. I have to focus I need to find it.'
The young blonde closed his eyes pushing out the things yelled at him and began focusing looking for something in him while still being verbally persecuted for who he was. 'Nothing I can't find anyth-. Wait there is something there, it's warm.'
The boy brought it out of his conscious and into the dark night. Then suddenly a blue glow burst out of him. The blast wave of catra slowed the crowd down but then they were really pissed. The young blonde was blasted slightly into the air and a small crater was in his place.
The boy landed, turned around and saw the crater. He looked at his dirty hands to see a blue glow emanating from him. 'The warm feeling, the catra is now everywhere, I can feel it going through my body I wonder what happens when I put it in my feet.'
The blonde focused and pushed the mysterious force to the soles of his ragged sandals. He started running from the crowd then suddenly he shot forward with a wave of catra blasting out from behind him kicking up dirt.
The blonde became a blur and speeded out of the crowds view towards the outskirts of the giant village. He shouted an 'Yahoo!' From the fun at his high-speed getaway from the crowd. He jumped up and flew over buildings. 'This is amazing if I keep this up I will be a ninja in no time, hell since I'm so young I'll become the Hokage!'
He landed in a small compound of buildings no light came out from the building's windows. 'This place is completely barren I'll stay here for a while.'
He crept into a house and searched for a room. He crept silently through a kitchen, a dining room and up a somehow extremely squeaky staircase. He ended up in a small room with a bed for his size and a bunch of toys and practice weapons for ninja. It had a whole bunch of stuff that was orange, his favorite color.
He silently put some catra in his feet and jumped lightly onto the bed and laid down. He pulled the covers over him.
'It's going to be tough I don't have those mission thingies to test out the stuff I need to do. Wait a second I was just being chased after, that could be my mission, get what I need to survive and get back to my apartment unnoticed. I will have to sneak around to listen in on ninja teachers on how to do all that cool jutsu stuff. Like they can transform into other people replace themselves with stuff or even make a clone.'
The blonde boy rolled over and closed his eyes. 'Uzumaki Naruto… the next Hokage.'
He then drifted off to sleep in the unused house.
The next day:
Naruto woke up alone in the lonely compound. He pulled his sandals on and walked out to the back of the house. Surrounded by walls connected to the house was a garden with several open areas. "Now what should I do now?" He sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes looking for all the times he watched ninja.
He opened his eyes to stare at the wall. 'They can somehow stick to stuff that are side-ways or upside down.'
Naruto walked towards the wall. He picked one of his legs up and put it on the wall. He forced his catra into the bottom of his foot. Surprisingly to him the foot stuck to the wall. The boy grinned and put his other foot on the wall.
But the boy fell back head first into the soft ground with a grunt. "Ow… not enough catra." The blonde picked himself up and thought about is last attempt. 'I think I should start on the ground.'
Naruto laid down on the ground with his feet on the wall. He pushed a lot of catra into his feet. But the wall crunched under his feet. The blonde sat up and saw there was a small whole in the wall. 'I guess too much…'
He moved over to a solid piece of the wall. He chose to put about half as much catra into his feet. He cringed and his feet glowed blue. He took a step up the wall. He stuck to it, which made him glow with happiness. He slowly took another step up the wall and still stuck.
He took a mental note at how much catra to put into his feet and began running along the walls cheering.
Meanwhile at the Hokage tower:
Sarutobi was glaring at the piles of paperwork in front of him. He hoped that if he stared at it long enough it would just disappear and nobody would ask questions.
But that's what dreaming was made to do and after an hour of staring he gave up and made a move to finish some of it off before another thought came to mind.
'I wonder what Naruto is doing about now?' He looked around his lonely office and shut the blinds. He reached into one of the cabinets and pulled out a crystal ball. He focused some of his chakra into the ball and found the spiky blonde laying down sleeping in a clearing with flowers around him.
'It's good to know he is safe, I'm sorry about how this turned out but I wish Minato got his wish.' Sighing the Sandaime put the crystal ball back in its place; he then stood up and opened the blinds while looking at the still huge pile of paper.
He sat back down and stared at the piles of paper work. 'Just once please work!' Then suddenly the pile got a little smaller. The old man wide-eyed and began doing the rest of his work in fear.
Back with Naruto:
Naruto was laying down with his legs crossed, hands behind his head, and his eyes closed. It was noon he thought with the sun directly over him.
'I have to become a ninja, I won't make it to ten years-old if I don't start now.' The boy stood up, gathered some of his catra to his feet and jumped off.
He continued his long strides through the wind feeling it go through his hair. 'I will be a great ninja.' He continued his strides until he landed in a far too familiar district. It was filled with bars.
Suddenly all eyes were upon him. 'I should have just kept going.' But he felt something from around him; it was something eating away at them, all of their hate, disgust, how much they wanted to kill him. But the boy did not back down. He took his first shaky step and began walking through.
'I will not be afraid of these people.' His blue eyes were filled with determination. He somehow made his way down the streets his hands in his ragged pockets. His face clearly say, 'I am not afraid of you and there is nothing you can do to change that'.
He continued his death march through the streets; everyone's disgusted looks at him met his eyes of sheer determination and will power.
He was not confronted, nor shouted at, he found the building he was walking to. He cringed bringing more catra to his feet and began walking up the wall. Next to a window, then he turned so he was facing the ground.
Naruto leaned back so his back was on the wall; he slid down so he was sitting on his heels. He brought more catra to his ears and began listening.
"So class we will be going over the Henge today." A ninja teacher said. Naruto pulled out a pen and notebook and began writing things down about the lesson. Naruto took a quick look inside and saw the teacher put his hands together. Naruto as fast as he could drew the hand sign in his notebook.
"You have to think of the image in your head, then you start molding your chakra in your stomach. Then you let it burst out." 'So it's called chakra…' The teacher then disappeared in a puff of smoke and a figure of the Hokage stood. "See now you all try."
Naruto watched as a whole bunch of people tried to turn into the Hokage, most of them failed. Naruto leaped down and began running off to his new home.
He was a small blur to the villagers he passed, they shrugged it off as one of the Inuzuka ninja dogs.
Naruto jumped over the stores and houses and found the abandoned compound.
He snuck into the house and locked the door behind him. He went over to the kitchen and found a bunch of foods. He pulled out some instant ramen and began to cook it.
Instead of waiting the antagonizing three-minutes for it to cool off he pulled out his notepad. He looked over his fairly well drawing of the hand sign and the instructions. He put his hands together in the form of how it was in the picture. He felt his chakra was a little more solid, not as flowing as normal but labeled it as 'molding chakra'.
He pulled out an image of the Hokage and focused. He put everything around him out of the way and focused on the image. He compressed his chakra and let it burst out.
A puff of smoke erupted from him and faded away. Naruto looked at his hands, they were old and wrinkly. He looked for a bathroom by stumbling around from his new height off of the ground. Naruto found the bathroom and looked into the mirror.
He looked exactly like the Hokage. He smiled and screamed 'yatta!' He was still focusing on keeping his chakra's current state before letting go. Another puff of smoke erupted from him; he then looked back into the mirror and found himself how he was normally.
Naruto walked back out taking note of the huge tub in the bathroom. He began eating his ramen at peace in the lone house. When he finished he began to explore the house. It was pretty dusty so nobody must have lived here for a while.
With it still light outside he could make out the things much easier. He walked up the now quiet stairs. The spiky blonde made his way into the room he slept in the night before and looked at the contents.
'There's a lot of stuff in here a whole bunch of weapons made of wood and wait…" Naruto looked at a small billboard.
'Welcome home Naruto…' was written in kanji. The plaque had the same amount of dust on it than anywhere else in the compound.
Naruto slowly walked up to the plaque, he gathered some chakra to his feet and walked up to the wooden board. It was written in red paint only a calligraphist would be able to do.
'There's no one else that I know who's name is Naruto. So this must be… My family's house.' He jumped off the wall and hit the ground running out the door. Naruto ran through the doors until he found a very large bed in the middle.
At this point the blonde was crying as he walked gently across the room and sat on the bed. He looked around until he found the nightstand on the opposite side of the bed. Naruto crawled across the bed and picked up a picture. In it was a red headed woman holding what seemed to be her pregnant stomach.
'M-m-mom?'
Naruto stared at the figure taking in everything he could. He then noticed an arm was wrapped around the woman's shoulder.
He followed the appendage to a man smiling bringing her close with a smile Naruto thought he trademarked. The man had spiky blonde hair longer than Naruto's with jounin clothes on like the other in the picture.
Naruto's eyes shot open at the photo. 'N-n-no way Y-yondaime?! Yondaime is my father?'
Naruto grabbed the photo of his parents and ran out of the house locking the door behind him. He put so much chakra into his legs that he blasted off as a blue flash looking like a comet across the night.
His mind crossed a very random yet beneficial memory. 'I remember a kunoichi was yelling at some guy with white hair and markings under his eyes. She was yelling at him for being a pervert but the guy was slightly reluctant to apologizing. Then she said she was going to castrate him, then he was really scared and apologized profusely.'
In seconds Naruto found himself at the entrance to the Hokage tower. Still carrying the picture Naruto brought the appropriate amount of chakra and stuck to the side of the wall next to the staircase. He pulled the picture close to him and began sprinting along the wall to avoid going up the staircase.
He sprinted past the receptionist not even noticing he was there before a blast of wind hit her.
He found the Hokage's door coming up and pulled chakra into his open hand, which became a fist. He found the door and jumped head on into it. His fist was flaring like a flame with the blue essence.
The door never stood a chance.
Naruto knocked the door off the hinges and the door flew inches past the Hokage's face before blasting out the window.
Naruto rushed in with the most pissed off face he could muster. "OLD MAN! IF I HAD ANY IDEA WHAT CASTRATE MEANT I WOULD DO IT RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!"
Moments later an ANBU appeared and tried to apprehend the boy. But Naruto saw this and gathered more chakra into his fist. Naruto spun around to try and backhand the ANBU.
The ANBU blocked it with his forearm but it did not do much. The physical attack was stopped but the chakra did not. It shot out of the back of the blonde's hand like a shotgun and blasted the ANBU into the wall. He fell unconscious moments later.
To say Sarutobi was shocked was very much an understatement. 'Naruto just burst in here yelling that he was going to castrate me, then he actually take out an ANBU member. What he has to say must be really urgent.'
"What is it Naruto?" The blonde's rage subsided into an extremely sad state. Water was practically pouring out of his eyes before Sarutobi saw Naruto was holding a picture.
"Why? Why didn't you tell me about my parents!?" Sarutobi was now extremely surprised. 'Did someone tell him about his parents? No that wouldn't explain the picture.'
"Please sit down." He said calmly. Naruto slunk into the near bye couch staring at the picture tracing their faces. "I am truly sorry about not telling you but it was to protect you. Your father had an extremely high amount of enemies and if they found out he had a son they would have came after you with no mercy."
Naruto only nodded still starring at the picture. "Did they, did they love me?" The Hokage smiled at this. 'We're making progress that's good.'
"Naruto your father and mother would have given their lives for you. When you were born your mother couldn't stop holding you. We had to give her an anesthetic to get you out of her grip."
Naruto smiled thinking of her mother beating up nurses while still holding him. "Well old man I've never held a grudge and I don't plan on starting now but you owe me big time."
Sarutobi only sighed and nodded. "What do you want?" "I want to live in my parents house," Sarutobi nodded nothing wrong with that. "And I want you to enroll me into the academy."
This had Sarutobi surprised. "Enrollment? Why start so early?" "I figured out that if I don't learn a whole bunch of ninja stuff I won't survive to ten years-old."
Sarutobi let his head hang. 'That is true, these damn villagers can't tell the difference between a cup and the water in the cup but this won't be as easy.'
"That I have a slight problem with. If you start now you probably won't be able to keep up with the kids the proper age." "Didn't I just take out the guy in the mask, or do I have to beat up a bunch more of those guys."
At this Sarutobi chuckled 'He's probably get one or two more down.'
"Hmmm, what can you do at this time?" Naruto smiled and put the picture down. He walked into the middle of the room and focused. He'd do something flashy but not too flashy. He focused and his whole body became engulfed in a flame of chakra.
Then Naruto let it die down. He turned towards the wall and walked up to it, not stopping he started walking up the wall and onto the ceiling. He made a hand sign and his whole body was covered by a smoke screen.
When the smoke dissipated there was an exact copy of the Hokage standing on the ceiling smiling. 'He's pretty good, plus his chakra has to be intense if he can blast it out and knock someone unconscious.'
The four year-old hopped down to the ground and undid the Henge. In front of him was a smiling Hokage. "Hmmm, when would you like to start?" The Hokage said lighting his pipe. Then the small blonde boy was jumping off the walls making cheering noises.
This had the old man laughing but crying in his mind. 'What have I done?'
Naruto landed in the same spot before saying. "I want to start in two days I need to get situated in my house."
The Hokage nodded. "I will come by tomorrow, your father probably left some things that you will need my help to unlock." The blonde boy nodded with his smile still there.
"Thanks old man." He said. Naruto waved and jumped out the broken window with a small trail of chakra behind him.
Then Sarutobi looked around; there was a small crater in the wall, an unconscious ANBU member, a missing door, and a huge whole in one of the window. "Let the paperwork come this will be entertaining me for a long time."