After 3 months

Hiruzen Sarutobi was doing his usual paperwork but he could hardly do it. His mind was on Naruto, the boy was a genius but in same time he was too smart for his own good. The boy loved to read and that pleased Sarutobi's heart, it made him happy but last time he visited Naruto in the orphanage, he could see him not being happy about something and his bright face was gone.

' The old hokage opened the door that had written 'Demon' in the front and around the wall near the door. It broke his heart to see it, people were stupid and couldn't understand that Naruto was keeping the Kyuubi from breaking out and kill everyone.

He sighed and walked inside, Naruto was reading the same book as last time. 'The Art of Fuinjutsu Part II and III'.

The third was happy that Naruto liked to read and he seemed to have a knack for Fuinjutsu.

"Naruto my boy, how are you doing?" Sarutobi asked smiling at his surrogat grandson. Naruto's eyes went to the old hokage. He knew his jiji was coming 3 minutes before he came here. He could also feel the two anbus outside the orphanage.

"I'm fine jiji" Naruto replied and run and hugged him. Sarutobi gladly returned the hug but when he pulled away, he could tell Naruto was forcing a smile on his face.

"Naruto is something wrong?" He asked wanting to know if anyone has hurt him. Naruto frowned and took a step back. He glanced at the book he was reading.

"Jiji, can a living being be sealed?" He asked holding his hands together behind his head. Sarutobi felt tensed, is been a long time since he had been so nervous.

He wondered if Naruto was just asking out of curiosity, or did he knew about the seal in his stomach. But in same he knew Naruto would need to unlock his chakra in order to see the seal.

Naruto was looking at him almost like judging him. Hiruzen took a deep breath and looked at the blue eyes of Naruto. "Yes" he answered and noticed his eyes widened slightly for a split second and immediately turned to normal. Naruto's eyes lowered slightly. "Oh" he whispered but Hiruzen heard him.

"Can . . . Can you help me to unlock my chakra jiji?" He asked with hopeful eyes. Sarutobi wondered if that would be a smart move. He was still too young. Naruto, I would wanted you to have a normal childhood and be a child longer, but the normal childhood was gone the moment Minato sealed Kyuubi inside Naruto. '

It had been one month since that day. He was sure that Kakashi would appreciate to teach little Naruto, after all he had asked a few times by now to help him unlock his chakra when Hiruzen informed him of Naruto studying and wanting to unlock his chakra.

Sarutobi sighed and decided to write a letter to Jiraiya.

Naruto

He was reading a book about Fuinjutsu again, he liked how it worked. But in same time he was getting frustrated, he wanted to try himself to do some of the seals but he couldn't do anything without unlocking his chakra. His jiji had given him a few scrolls and a brush to try Fuinjutsu. He was sure he was doing seals of level I right. Simple storage seals to storage kunai or shuriken or maybe a sword. But he still couldn't prove it, he needed chakra.

Thinking about seals made him think about the seal on his stomach. Recently had started growing red more often. He didn't know why and hasn't asked his jiji why. But now Naruto was sure that there was a connection between him and the Kyuubi. Is the Kyuubi sealed inside of me? Naruto asked himself and putting a finger on his chin. The Kyuubi was a giant demon. Could a seal hold down The Kyuubi? Naruto asked himself.

Everyone else call me a demon? Except Jiji, godfather and my friends, everyone else look at me like I'm a demon, Naruto thought sadly. Like everyone else he had heard about the Kyuubi attack on 10th October, almost 4 years ago. In that moment Naruto remembered that his birthday was in same day as the Kyuubi attack. His eyes looked at the calendar in the room, today was 3th October.

He started breathing heavily and putting his little hand on his stomach. No Naruto thought as hot tears were developing on his eyes.

The looks of hatred Naruto said to himself and remembering them very clearly.

Tears were now streaming down on his cheek and falling on the cold floor.

"No" Naruto screamed and falled on his knees crying his heart out. Holding his stomach with his hand. "Why? Why?" Naruto asked out loud at no one in particular. He sealed Kyuubi inside me! Naruto thought. Everyone always said that The fourth had killed the demon, but he knew now that was all a lie.

When he had asked his jiji, and when he received his answer. He thought he had some sort of connection with the Kyuubi, but now he knew. The demon fox was sealed inside of him. Naruto falled in the cold ground and hugged his legs. Hot tears still on his face. "Toad-jiji please come here soon" he begged quietly. He stayed like that for a long time, he didn't know how long. All he could think of was, why him? Was he special? Suddenly He heard the rain outside.

His eyes then went to look outside the window, it was raining even more harshly now. The sound of rain falling on the ground and on roof of the orphanage could be heard. Naruto wondered why it seemed to always rain whenever he was upset. He walked closer to the window, but couldn't clearly see. He then picked up a chair and climbed on it to have a better view.

His eyes went on the two anbus hiding on the roof of a building close to the orphanage. He waved his hands at them knowing they would see him.

He then noticed that it started snowing, Naruto was confused. Where was the snow was coming from. He was sure it wasn't cold enough to start snowing. That does put a smile on my face, Naruto thought looking at the snow. He sighed and decided to return back to the bed. It was 5pm and he was slightly tired.

After one week

Naruto knew today was his birthday, usually birthdays were a day to celebrate, but not for Naruto. This day was his worst day. People around were even more hostile towards him, if that was even possible. Naruto was 4 years old. He had basically locked himself in his room, he didn't wanted to deal with other people today except if it was his jiji or maybe his godfather, but he knew he will need to wait two more months for his godfather to return.

Naruto sighed sadly and decided to read, but then he heard a poof on the room. He looked behind and saw a toad. It was almost the size of him. Naruto knew this one always brought him new books, he smiled.

"Thank you very much" he thanked him smiling and the toad smiled and went away. He noticed that it were three books this time. And to his surprise all three of them were dark cover with a weird red spiral symbol in the middle.

Knock

Naruto turned and saw the door opening violently, the handle hit the wall. And he saw a woman glaring at him with fury.

He knew that looked way too well, he was about to ask what was the problem when she just rushed at him and slapped him across the face. He felt his ears making weird noises on his head. His head had hit the floor and was bleeding slightly.

The woman grabbed his hand and started dragging him away from the room. Naruto tried to fight back but he was only four years old. His weak legs and hands couldn't hold anywhere.

Soon he was thrown outside, he hit the ground with his head. He put his hands where it hurts and looked at the woman still glaring at him.

"You're old enough to live for yourself" she shouted with venom in every word. Naruto felt tears in his eyes but not because of the pain in his head.

"My books, please they're the gift from my toad-jiji" Naruto shouted and crying in the same time. The woman only grew furious but this time she just went inside and closed the door.

"Noooo" Naruto shouted and ran at the door trying to open it. The books were the gift of my godfather. I can't lose them, Naruto thought as he kept trying to open the door but in vain. "Please" he begged as he kept trying to open the door.

Kakashi

It was the birthday of Naruto today, he hoped he could arrive in time, he didn't understand why he would have such a pointless mission. He was an anbu for crying out loud.

Kakashi soon arrived at the house with the scroll he was supposed to bring. He walked close to the door and knocked. He heard footsteps coming to the door. The door opened and he saw a soldier wearing weird green armor.

"How can I help you?" He asked with a monotone tone. Kakashi rolled his eyes and took the scroll from his pocket.

"I'm supposed to give this scroll to your master" Kakashi answered bored of this small village.

After 6 hours - Hokage's Office

Hiruzen, having gone through a long council meeting, the point of which he still had trouble comprehending, was annoyed at being pointlessly held back for so long. They were arguing and asking pointless things off of him that, in his honest opinion, were beyond ridiculous. Moreover, he still had to go and complete all the pending paperwork that must have piled up on his desk in his absence. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair as his back hit the leather of his chair.

He inked his brush and started scribbling away at the stack of folders. He must have been at it for hours since the sun was beginning to set in the horizon, Hiruzen realized tiredly. The thought of not being able to go see Naruto for his birthday. But he promised himself that tomorrow, at Ichiraku's, he would treat the boy and listen to all his babbles for the entire evening.

Hiruzen had just about finished on his train of thoughts when Kakashi came striding in the door, an act that made Hiruzen grow a bit confused. "Mission accomplished, Hokage-sama." Kakashi sighed lazily, further confusing Sarutobi.

"What mission is that Kakashi?" he questioned as if the masked jōnin had grown a second head. "I don't remember assigning you any missions. Weren't you supposed to be watching over Naruto tonight?" he asked with a hint of worry while Kakashi looked at him perplexed. "But, Hokage-sama, the elders sent two ANBU's saying you were busy in a meeting." Hiruzen blinked, caught off guard. "Plus, this mission required my immediate attention. They even told me that they had assigned someone else to watch over Naruto while I was away."

Hiruzen gulped thickly, "Kakashi, I never issued any missions of importance that might have need of your specific skill-set today." he admitted with a dry throat. "And as for the council meeting, it was a useless gathering of civilians that really had no point in me attending. What was this mission you were on anyways?" he asked dismally."I was supposed to give a scroll to the land of tea. They gave me this scroll in return." Kakashi said and pulling out a scroll. His words furthered Hiruzen's worries.

Hiruzen's and Kakashi's minds simultaneously began connecting dots. The useless council meeting summoned by the elders and the civilian council, Kakashi's pointless mission, the ANBU detail...Hiruzen stood up, "Kakashi," his voice turned desperate. "Please tell me that you made sure someone was assigned to protect Naruto while you were gone, didn't you?" he asked uncertainly. Kakashi mechanically shook his head, his lone eye widening as he too finished connecting the dots.

Hurriedly, Hiruzen took out his crystal ball and desperately tried to locate Naruto. He looked and saw him cornered in an alley by three shinobi. Without another word he left the office through the window with his battle armor. Please be safe Naruto

Naruto - 10 minutes earlier

He was walking down the streets after the sun had set, and he was walking aimlessly ignoring the glares they shot his way. He knew a few weak shinobis were slowly surrounding him, he would have run but he knew he couldn't outrun trained shinobis. What confused him was that the two ANBU's that usually guarded him weren't there, instead a single ANBU was looking at his direction. But Naruto couldn't feel any kind of emotion coming from him, almost like a piece of rock was instead of him.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Naruto was pulled into an alley and he fell down on his back. Regaining his bearings, Naruto saw three people donning the Leaf's forehead protectors and flak jackets surrounding his way out the alley.

Naruto's stomach dropped in dread when they pulled out kunai knives at him, and their smiles were downright evil. He had shivers running down his spine in fright at the vulnerable situation he found himself in. Naruto got up, and dashed through an opening, zigzagging his way down the alleyways while the three men followed hot on his tail.

Naruto knew they could have caught him by now if they so desired, being trained shinobi and all, but were probably enjoying the thrill of the chase. They were giving him some time, at the very least. Naruto tried to run even quicker when the men chuckled right behind him, apparently amused from his lame attempts at escaping them.

Naruto suddenly came to an abrupt stop when he saw the alley come to an end, and all he had ahead of him was a wall - a dead end. Naruto turned around just as the men turned around the corner and took a step back, then another, and another when his back hit the wall.

The shinobi began laughing at his miserable face when Naruto's back hit the wall and his eyes misted over with unshed tears. A lone tear rolled down his cheek when the men took out shurikens, not the practice one he was used to seeing, but the real deal. Without any hesitation or remorse, they chucked a volley of them towards him. Two shurikens lodged themselves in his right thigh and one in his left, another once in each of his forearms and a vicious scream in agony tore through his throat. Naruto fell down to his knees, whimpering in pain while they laughed at his misery.

"How the mighty have fallen," one of them taunted. "So, how does it feel to bear the pain that you inflicted on so many other humans, Kyuubi?! We know that we can't kill you or you'll regain your strength and be free off your bonds, but we can torture your vessel and break you from the inside out. Don't worry, you'll soon be numb from the pleasure we'll inflict upon you." He could feel the hatred coming from them. "Why?" Naruto whimpered dizzily. "Why do you people keep hating me? What have I ever done to you?" The man looked even more furious. "What did you do you say, Kyuubi?" they sneered furiously. "You killed so many of our villagers, and now you have the gall to ask what you did?! And to top it all, you ask What you DID?

As soon as those words were said, Naruto glared back, his eyes slowly turning red, his whiskers showing more, his nails slowly growing and his seal started glowing red like blood. "I'm not Kyuubi you Fools" he shouted as red chains started coming out of his chest.

The red chains quickly went flying and wrapped all three shinbois. Their legs and arms were tightened and none of them could move. "Let Us Go Demon" one of them screamed and struggling to break the chains. Naruto's eyes were red like blood.

The chains only tightened around them. Soon they started screaming in pain as bones were broken and shattered by the chains. Naruto could hear the snaps sound coming from the bones. The Shinobis were feeling weaker as their chakra was getting lower and lower. Naruto had eight chains coming out of his chest and slowly a ninth one came out and flied towards one of them and pierced him through the chest.

The soldier falled in the ground and in that moment, blood coming out of his mouth, he was struggling in the ground coughing blood and trying to stop the blood, as he was drowning on his own blood.

Naruto felt like he now was awake. He looked at the dead body in fear and sadness. Tears in his eyes as he couldn't believe what he just did. The chains quickly returned back to his chest.

"Die" both of them shouted and threw shurikens at him despite the huge pain around their legs and arms from the broken bones. As this was happening Naruto looked at his little hands. The blood had flewn to his face and hands. "What Have I done" Naruto said to himself.

He felt like a monster, what will jiji think of him? What will toad-jiji think of me? Will . . . Will they abandon me? Naruto asked himself crying.

The shurikens were blocked by an ANBU standing in front of Naruto. He could feel his jiji was here now, the two shinobis were in the ground now. He looked up to see the old man looking at him sadly. Along with two anbu near him.

Naruto knew the old hokage was talking to him but now all he could do was look at his hands full of blood. Slowly everything started getting fuzzuier and the welcome darkness took him.

Naruto opened his eyes to find himself in a dark corridor. He narrowed his eyes. 'Is this hell?', he thought in disgust as he walked forward. He kept walking for a few minutes and stopped seeing some light at the end of the corridor. It seemed to pull him towards it. 'Time to find out what is at the end', with that thought, he walked again, stopping only until the end.

It was a huge room, so large and vast it was that the ceiling was impossible to find. The floor was wet. He looked around, his eyes seeing black stone and nothing more. But the elephant in the room was a large iron barred door, with a paper on it that said seal.

He gazed at the piece of paper, resignation written in his eyes. His azure eyes looked past the cage, looking for what he knew was in the cage. He was just waiting for the Kyuubi to open his eyes.

Based on what he had read, Kyuubi was a being of pure hatred and evil. A mindless beast capable of destruction on a scale he never dreamed of. But Naruto was skeptical when he read that. He might get to see it for himself now.

A growl sounded from the cage, sending a breath of hot air in Naruto's face.

Naruto steeled himself, in spite of the cage separating him from the beast within. An enormous red eye opened, causing Naruto to tense up. They eye looked at him, as if evaluating him. The eye then started to rise, causing Naruto to look up at the massive form.

The Kyuubi had orange, silky looking fur, with black markings around his eyes connected to his, funnily enough, rabbit like ears. The upper body was humanoid, including the hands. The lower body was just like a fox, barring the nine, long swaying tails in the back. Fire was the closest thing they looked like.

The red, slitted eyes looked him closely with a hint of malice. Naruto spoke first.

"You're Kyuubi-sama" Naruto said afraid but in same time wanting to show respect. He knew the Kyuubi was the reason he was hated and why his parents were dead, but in same time even he wouldn't wanted to be inside a prison.

The Kyuubi looked slightly shocked from the way the little human greeted him.

"So my jailor has finally honored me with his presence" Kyuubi replied with a humorless chuckle at the end.

Naruto nodded his head. "Why are you sealed inside me?" He asked knowing from before that Kyuubi was sealed inside.

The giant fox narrowed his eyes slightly and showed his teeth. "You don't sound surprised to see me here, but when you remember the amount of books you read. I'm surprised you haven't died from a headache" Kyuubi said as he was slowly walking in front of the cage. All his tails could be seen.

"As for your question, you should blame your father, the fourth hokage who sealed me inside of you" he answered with anger in his tone and focused to see the brat's reaction.

Naruto's eyes widened and he quickly shooked his head in denial. My father is the fourth hokage?! He asked himself and started making sense to him. Why jiji would care for him and why he visited him every month. Why toad-jiji cared for him? Why a Sannin was his godfather, it makes sense Naruto thought.

He always felt like he had seen the fourth before but he could never really remember where. Why would he seal the Kyuubi inside his own son then? He asked himself out loud, and started hitting the ground with his fists. He didn't know whenever to hate him or love him for his sacrifice.

But then Naruto thought that could have not been easy for him, and he couldn't just ask for someone's else's baby. He kept quiet just staring at the ground.

Minutes passed and there was nothing but silence. Kyuubi could see that the brat was coping with the fact that his own father cursed him in a life of loneliness.

Naruto remembered his godfather telling him that his parents loved him more than anything but he wondered if his father knew if he would be treated like this? He didn't know yet.

Naruto slowly stood in his legs again and looked at the Kyuubi with bravery.

"Why are you not afraid of me brat?" Kyuubi asked slightly interested.

He smiled. "I would lie if I said that I'm not afraid, but I'm more brave than afraid" he replied.

Kyuubi released KI at the brat, Naruto immediately falled in his knees trying to breath, all his muscles were frozen he could hardly move a finger. He felt as he would lost consciousness at any moment. Kyuubi smirked at seeing the brat on his knees.

"N - nice t - try" Naruto said panting and his voice low, but Kyuubi heard him.

"You're brave kid. I will give you that" Kyuubi said slightly impressed.

"Why did you attack the Village?" Naruto asked trying to look brave.

Kyuubi looked at him. "Because of the damn Uchiha and their annoying Sharingan. I was sealed inside your mother. When she was giving birth to you brat. A man with a sharingan forced me to attack the village, not that I had anything against it" he replied with a grin on his face.

My mother was like me! Naruto wondered with widened eyes. Was she hated around the village like me? Naruto asked himself.

Naruto clenched his teeth. "Who was my mother?"

"Kushina Uzumaki" Kyuubi replied.

Naruto now was sure that the last name 'Uzumaki' wasn't just a random last name. He was sure that it was a clan.

"Was she from a clan?" Naruto asked with a firm tone. He wanted to have answers.

"Uzumaki clan. The clan from Uzushiogakure, they were known for their red hair and their abilities in Fuinjutsu and they had a long life span. They were close with the Senju Clan" Kyuubi replied with a hint of respect. Despite hating them he knew they were not like the others. And their strength was something to not take lightly.

Naruto's eyes widened at that, he never thought he came from any clan, and now he was related to Senju clan. But Naruto asked himself. If that's true, why couldn't I find anything about my clan anywhere?

But from the way Kyuubi talked he knew the clan wasn't around anymore.

"What happened to them?" Naruto asked afraid of his answer and taking a step back.

"I don't know exactly, all I know is that your mother mentioned a few times that Kumo, Iwa and Kiri banded together and destroyed them" he responded and wondered if this will bring hatred in his heart.

Naruto was saddened, everyone from his clan was gone, his parents gone. He was alone in a village that hated him for something he had no control over. He knew he had his godfather and jiji. He quickly raises his head high. "I will bring Uzumaki clan back. I won't let it be forgotten" he promised with a high tone and with a smile and with a fist on his heart.

Kyuubi looked impressed by his promise. For a second he felt like his father was smiling at him instead of the brat. He wondered if the brat was who father talked about.

"Why are you still here" Kyuubi asked interested on why the kid was still here.

Naruto swallowed a huge breath. He looked at the Kyuubi in the eyes, almost like he wanted to challenge him.

"Because I want to be friends"

Naruto is paired with Fuu, Yugito and OC Uzumaki Girl.