"Naruto" Normal speech
'Naruto' Normal thought
"Rasengan" Jutsu/Seal

Konoha
Meeting room

After the unexpected massacre of unknown enemy, Hiruzen decided to call the meeting to discuss the matter. The leaders of all the shinobi clan in Konoha was called to this meeting.

On Hiruzen's right was his former teammate and one of the elders, Homura Mitokado. Next to him was the leader of Hyuuga clan, Hyuuga Hiashi. Near Hiashi is the only female leader of a shinobi clan, Inuzuka Tsume. Next to her is the leader of Aburame clan, Aburame Shibi.

On Hiruzen's left was Utatane Koharu. Next to her was the leader of ROOT ANBU, Shimura Danzou. Uchiha Fugaku, the leader of Uchiha clan sat next to him. Then come the former members' trio of Ino-Shika-Chou: Nara Shikaku, the leader of Nara clan, Yamanaka Inoichi, the leader of Yamanaka clan and Akimichi Chouza, the leader of Akimichi clan.

"I called you all here to discuss about the ANBU massacre that happened the night ago. According to Kakashi-kun, it was the mysterious figure in a fox mask wiry three eyes" started Hiruzen.

With that the clan heads began to murmur to each other and discussing to themselves.
"At first I thought that his target was the ANBU HQ, but that was just a distraction to achieve the true goal. His goal is to eliminate me as well as the elders" said Hiruzen looking at all the clan heads.
The clan heads began to gasp at the information. Nara Shikaku decided to say his opinion.
"Hokage-sama, I found it near impossible to get in the ANBU HQ with our level of security. Also it's hard to believe that one person could kill off all those skilled ANBU fighters. I think he could has accomplices from within. Because the only way to get in the village unnoticed, need to know the weakness of the security system. Or he may has a spy in our village, that report all the information to him"

"You may be right, Shikaku-kun, but I forget to mention one thing. He is an Uzumaki. Not only that but a very skilled seal master" said Hiruzen with his fingers link in front if his face.

"Uzumaki? But I thought the only Uzumaki alive right now is Naruto-kun. But if you said that the enemy is an Uzumaki, yet alone the seal master hd could invade in the village with ease. But how do you know that he is an Uzumaki, Hokage-sama?" asked Shibi Aburame.

"Kakashi-kun asked his name and managed to find out that his name is Uzumaki Arashi. To create a barrier that could absorb chakra, as well as creating the elemental giants, is said that the mastery of fuuinjutsu of this person is very high" said Hiruzen

"But why would an Uzumaki decided to attack us? As I remembered from long ago Uzumaki clan was our most trust allies" asked Hiashi curiously.
The elders and Hiruzen looked down to the table at that statement. Hiashi just looked at them strangely.
"Hokage-sama, did you and the elders hide something from us that happened in the past?" asked Tsume.

Every clan heads also looked at their Hokage waiting for the answer. Hiruzen turned to both his teammates and they nodded their head. Then he turned to Danzou and he also nodded slightly.
Hiruzen sighed heavily and said.
"Alright, but I am about to told you should never left this room. Is that understand?"
Every clan heads nodded their head and waiting for their Hokage to continue.
"It all happened 20 years ago from now. At that time, Konoha was at war with Kumo, Kiri and Iwa. Konoha managed to hold her own against the three major villages because of extraordinary ability of Nidaime-sama. But even he fell in battle against Kin-Gin Brothers of Kumo. Uzushiogakure was Konoha allies at that time, due to the pact made by Shodai-sama in the past. They assisted us in the battle against our enemy, but even then we barely managed to hold off.
It was then that Kumo, Kiri and Iwa decided to negotiate with Konoha. They will leave Konoha alone, if they sold out Uzushiogakure to them. In the battle again the three major villages, Uzumaki members are the ones that caused our enemy to lost their major forces. That was when I decided to agree with their terms and sold out Uzu, for Konoha's survival. After that, our forces along with Kiri, Kumo and Iwa managed to wipe out the village of Uzushiogakure. But even then the combine forces still lost more than half of our forces. Even now, I still feel afraid of Uzumaki clan abilities. And now the survivor appeared and ready to avenge his clan" Hiruzen told his story and looked down at the table in shame.

The clan heads heard that widen their eyes in disbelief. They can't believe that their Hokage sold out their most trust allies in exchange of the survival of the village.
"H-how could you do that, Hokage-sama-" shouted Hiashi shocked and stood up. But Danzou decided to interrupt that moment.

"He did was necessary back then for Konoha's survival. It was all for the good of Konoha"
"Yeah, but at what price! If Naruto was to find out about this..." Said Shikaku felt disappoint in his leader.
"That's why, Naruto-kun should never knew the truth. If he find out, I feared Konoha will be destroyed for sure" said Hiruzen looking at Shikaku seriously.

"Didn't you overestimate him too much, Hokage-sama. I mean sure he is a very talent shinobi at this age, even when he is not the shinobi officially. But he is only seven years old now. He is not the much of a threat" said Tsume.

"If you are saying that, then you didn't know Naruto at all Tsume-san. Naruto is the only that Itachi, my son saw as the future rival. Itachi said himself that by the time Naruto reached thirteen his strength will be already overwhelm Itachi's now. In other words, Naruto's talent is greater than that of Shodaime or Uchiha Madara at their teenage days. The only reason he didn't want to graduate now, probably he didn't want to be seperated from my youngest son, Sasuke. After all the three of them are like brothers. Which means by the time he reached fifteen or sixteen he already has the strength of a Kage. Not only that when in battle, he analyzed every step, so that there will be no mistake. You could say that Naruto is the future perfect shinobi" explained Fugaku with his arms crossed.

Every clan heads hearing that information widen their eyes. They couldn't believe that the usual arrogant Uchiha clan head said that about a non-Uchiha.
"If his strength is that much then we should find a way to control him. We must not allowed him to betray us in any way" said Koharu.

"I agree. I propose to put him in a genjutsu and control him. Itachi will be the one to cast the genjutsu. He is the best in genjutsu after all" offered Homura.

"I won't allow it! You guys treat Naruto-kun like he was some kind of monster while he did nothing now. Just leave him alone and let him graduate with other children. Do you forget who are his parents already? They would of rip you all to pieces for that suggestion" retort Hiruzen.

"But we should be assured that he won't betray us. What do you propose then, Hiruzen?" asked Koharu.

"When the time comes to graduate I will put Kakashi-kun to be his jounin sensei. Tomorrow I will take Kakashi-kun off duty as ANBU and prepared him to be a jounin sensei. Knowing Kakashi-kun he won't pass any team if they didn't find out the idea of the test. He will continue to fail them. But Naruto-kun is a genius he will find out about the test sooner or later. Kakashi-kun will be the one to look out for him and make sure of his loyalty to the village" stated Hiruzen his idea.
"If Kakashi is he jounin then I am at ease. He after all is a genius as well that graduate at six years old. Not only that he is also our best shinobi. Yeah, I approved of that" said Koharu nodding her head.
"Me too" nodded Homura
The other clan heads also agreed. Hiruzen stood up and said
"With this, this meeting is over. Everybody can go back to their duties"
The clan heads all began to stand up and left the meeting room, though some of them still murmur something to each other.
Hiruzen looked as they all leaving the room and sighed heavily.
"I am too old for this. Maybe I need to find a successor soon enough"

Academy
After the class

Naruto Uzumaki is walking away from the Academy to the direction to his apartment. Suddenly, he noticed a bunch of girls bullying a pink haired girl not far from his place. He looked closer and noticed it was the girl from his class that was always very shy and tried to hide her large forehead constantly. He was about to approach her and planned to help her out. But he stopped when he saw the other girl from his class with short blond hair comes for the pink haired girl to the rescue. He watched curiously as the blond haired girl interfered.

"Hey, move out of the way blondie. Our business is not with you, but with that girl with a big forehead" said a girl with short purple hair.

"You only know how to bully someone weaker than you. How about you pick someone your size huh?" said a blonde haired girl standing before the pink haired girl protectively

. "Ino, you are the most popular girl in the Academy. Why decide to associate with this forehead girl?" asked the purple head girl.

"Ami, what do you want by bullying this girl. You think that with this action, you will actually become popular than me? It's not work like that girlie" answered Ino narrowing her eyes at Ami.

"You know, you always pissed me off so much. I don't even understand why you are more popular than me. Also I didn't understand why you are so fascinated with that demon boy. Sasuke-kun is so much better" retort Ami.

Ino hearing that narrowed he eyes and glared at Ami.
"Don't you dare call Naruto-kun a demon boy. You wouldn't understand his greatness. He is the most mature in our age. Despite being an orphan he did just fine with his life. I don't understand why the villagers and many people looked down on him. But to me Naruto-kun is the most wonderful person. Oh, just so you know Naruto-kun and Sasuke-kun are very close. If he heard that you talk about Naruto-kun like that he will hate you for sure" retort Ino.

Naruto blinking in surprise in was the first that someone praised him, except Sasuke, Itachi and Hayate.
"Whatever I am done here. But it's not over yet remember that forehead girl!" shouted Ami and run away.
Ino waited for Ami to run away then turned to the pink hair girl and asked.
"Are you alright?"
The pink haired girl nodded her head shyly and stood up from the ground.
"T-thank you for helping me. I was always being teased constantly, because of my big forehead" said the girl and looked down sadly to the ground.
"So what if you have a big forehead, I think that will make you more charming. Also that pink hair is a very unique trait. What is your name, by the way? I am Ino Yamanaka" said Ino and smiled at the girl.
"I-I am Sakura Haruno. Nice to meet you, Ino-chan" answered Sakura meekly.
"I noticed you always tried to hide your forehead when in class. It's pointless to hide it. The more you tried to hide the more it make you looked worse. Just have confident in yourself... Here this ribbon will make you looked prettier" said Ino and offered her a red ribbon.
Sakura looked at the ribbon and slowly took it from Ino's hand and muttered.
"T-thank you very much"
"It's no problem. Hey, do you want to be my friend, Sakura?" asked Ino suddenly turning to Sakura.
"Y-you want me to become your friend? B-but why? Aren't you the most popular girl in the Academy? Why decided to be friend with me?" asked Sakura surprised.
"Che, I don't need a reason to be friend someone? So what do you say?" replied Ino waving her hand dismissively.
Sakura looked at Ino with wide eyes end then nodded with some tears come out of her eyes
"It will be my pleasure"
Suddenly, some boys with hitai-ate began to surround them. The big boy in the front walked forward and said.
"Well, well, looked here. Some Academy girls didn't know that they are in our territory. I think we should punished them for not knowing their place"
Sakura and Ino hold on to each other and looked around them fearfully.
"W-why do you said that this is your territory? I saw no writings said that its yours" asked Sakura.
"If I said that this is ours then it is ours, understand little girl. Now you guys should be punish for coming to this place without permission" said the leader of the gang and was about to approach the girls.
Naruto decided to act then and threw a couple of shurikens to the ground between the girls and the gang.
"Who the heck threw that?" shouted one from the gang.
"That would be me" said Naruto and walked slowly to them with his hands in his pocket.
Ino saw who was her saver and exclaimed in happiness.
"Naruto-kun! You come to save us?"
Naruto turned to Ino and said
"Yeah, I observe the situation for a while now. But decided to interfere now because the situation began to turn out of hands. You are very brave to stand up for someone else like that, Ino-san"
Ino blushed at the praise of her crush and smiled widely watching the situation.
"Who are you punk? Do you have a dead wish or something? We are all genins already, while you are just a brat from Academy. You are not a threat to us" said the leader pointing at Naruto.
Naruto just looked at them bored and said.
"I don't want to hurt anyone here. So I suggest you all leave the girls alone. Is that alright with you?"
The leader gritted his teeth and shouted.
"How dare you demand anything? It seems you don't understand on which situation you are right now. Boys, take him out!"
With that the while gang consist of five genins began to charge at Naruto. Ino looked with wide eyes and shouted.
"Naruto-kun!"
But what happened next, caused her and Sakura to open their mouth widely.
Naruto with his hands still in his pocket, dodge each punch and kick that the gang unleashed and just stomp on their foot each time they decided to kick him.
At the end the genins all crying loudly and run away cowardly. The girls looked on in awe all the time. Naruto turned to the two girls and asked.
"Are you two alright now?"
The girls are still too shock at what happened and just nodded their head affirmatively.
"Good. Well I'll be on my way now" said Naruto and was about to leave, but was stopped by Ino.
"Wait, Naruto-kun. Thank you for saving us. If not for you I don't know what would have happened to us"
Naruto just looked back at them one more time then waved from his back when leaving.
Sakura and Ino looked as Naruto leaving. Then Ino turned to Sakura and said with stars in her eyes and said.
"Well, isn't he cool? He and Sasuke-kun are the coolest boys in our class. Though for some reason, Naruto-kun always slack off making him the deadlast of the class. But that didn't make him less attractive to me. Whe I grew up I will make him my husband for sure"
Sakura also turned to the direction where Naruto left and felt something happened to her heart recalled Naruto sudden appearance when he rescued her and Ino. She still couldn't believe that be defeat genins so easily, and he is only an Academy student like them.
"Naruto-kun really is amazing. To defeat the genins so easily, while he is just an Academy student. And you say he is an orphan as well? He is definitely amazing" said Sakura.
Ino looking at Sakura's face and frowned.
"Hey, don't tell me you are after Naruto-kun now. You should chase after Sasuke-kun, because Naruto-kun is mine"
Sakura looked at Ino then at the direction of where Naruto left and said.
"I don't know. I only meet him today. Plus I am not very confident about myself now. I need time to change myself"
Ino just looked at Sakura for a while and said.
"Alright, let's go to my house to play. We are friends now,aren't we? I want to introduce you to my parents as well"
With that the two girls began to head to the direction of Yamanaka Flower Shop.

Naruto's apartment

Naruto walked in his apartment and lied down on the bed, then he took out a book called 'How to create your own techniques' and began to read. Naruto has want to create new techniques for a long time now. He just didn't has enough ideas for creation.
"To create a technique of your own is awesome. But it also takes a great amount of time for research and then to create as well. Plus, Sandaime and the elders are already suspicious about my development, now trying to create your own technique will just raise suspicion level. Guess I will lay low for now. Everything will start after the graduation" muttered Naruto and looked at the ceiling in thought.
Then Naruto stood up as he remembered something.
"I nearly forget. I promised Sasuke to train with him and showed him some tips for a Katon technique" said Naruto and hit himself to his forehead.
Naruto then walked out of his apartment and head to the Uchiha compound.
Uchiha compound
Sasuke is tapping his foot impatiently as he waiting for Naruto to appear. He wondered if he has other business to take care off or is late because of other reason.
"Sorry, Sasuke. There was an expected situation I ran in. So it take me a while to get here" said Naruto run to Sasuke's direction.
"Well, what happened? Is it something serious?" asked Sasuke
"Nothing, just some genin punk decided a couple of Academy girls. Ok, let's start our training now" answered Naruto and began to stretch.
Sasuke nodded his head eagerly and asked.
"So what will be doing first?"
Naruto thought for a little and turned to Sasuke and asked.
"Ever heard of the exercise called tree climbing?"
Sasuke shook his head in negative.
"Then we probably should try that first. It's the exercise to improve chakra control. And then you can start to learn the new Katon technique" said Naruto and approached a tree.
Sasuke followed him and wait for the instruction.
"The idea of this exercise is to climb the tree without using hands. Instead you use chakra that need to store at the bottom of your feet to stick to the tree. You need to climb as high as possible to improve chakra control. Remember, too much chakra it will cause you to blast from the tree, too little and you won't be able to stick. Now, let's start" explained Naruto and began to concentrate chakra on his feet and take out a kunai.
He began to walk slowly to the tree with ease, while Sasuke watched in awe. Naruto walked to the top then proceed to slowly walked back to the the ground.
"Now, you try it" said Naruto to Sasuke.
Sasuke nodded his head and began to concentrate chakra to his feet and rushed to the tree that near Naruto's. He could manage about five steps before he began to fall the ground.
Sasuke then sit back up and muttered.
"Just looking you do so easily, I thought it will be easy. Didn't expect to be the hard"
"Well, at first anybody struggle with this exercise for the first time. Just take your time to complete the exercise. You just need to find a balance of chakra in your feet, not too much but not too little either" instruct Naruto.
Sasuke nodded his head and began to try again, using Naruto's advice.

Time skip
Evening night.

It take Sasuke nearly the while day, but he finally managed to reach the top of the tree. Though because he trained constantly all the time, he has become very tired and nearly out of chakra. Naruto stood on the tree with his feet sticking to it, looked down at Sasuke's sleeping form and smiled.
"He actually did better than me, at first time. That's Uchiha for you. Though, I think today's training is over now"
Naruto then jumped back to the ground then felt a presence that just appeared and turned to the direction. There he saw Itachi walked out behind a tree.
"You two sure are training hard. I think you should try to enjoy your childhood more Naruto-kun. You two are still children after all" said Itachi and approaching the sleeping Sasuke.
"Itachi, you forget that the moment I was born I lost all the time to enjoy my childhood. I never have a childhood, because if I lower my guard even for a second, my life will be over that instant. Sasuke did a very good job today, by the way" said Naruto then bowed his head down to Itachi and turned to leave.
Itachi just looking at the leaving figure of Naruto sadly.
'All just because you are a jinchuuriki. Why are the people in this village so ignorant? They destroyed the life of an innocent boy the moment he learn to walk. And my clan is not an exception either. I feel so ashamed of them. Naruto-kun, you are truly strong. Not only you withstand all those hateful gazes, you also showed the look in your eyes that said 'won't take shit from anyone be it superior or not'. I feel proud to call you my brother. But if you decided to go against the village, as a shinobi of Konoha, I will stop you'