The beginning of a legend

by luiszagi13

Naruto stopped caring about the welfare of the village and started thinking more about himself. Having no role model, he followed the path of the shinobi, a path full of adventures, betrayals, horrors, and joys. A path that without knowing it, would mark his destiny forever and would lead him to know the origins of his world and of those who call themselves gods.

DISCLAIMER: NONE OF THE CHARACTERS SHOWN HERE BELONGS TO ME, ALL RIGHTS ARE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AUTHORS.

Hello! I just want to say that none of the characters mentioned here belongs to me, all rights to their respective authors.

First of all, in this fanfic, Naruto has the appearance of Boruto and a similar personality to Sasuke, Sasuke's personality will also be a bit different and the events that will take place will be slightly different and abruptly different.

Leave your comments and feel free to follow the story.

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A fourteen year old boy got up from the bed he was sleeping in and walked slowly to the bathroom to start the daily routine of his life. He looked at his face in the mirror he had and saw that his long spiky blonde hair covered part of his head, he tied it in a ponytail and let it fall down his back revealing his blue eyes. dull and unenthusiastic.

'Not that it's a great day,' I thought dully.

Today was a test to become a ninja and it was very likely that he would fail again, last year he had taken the test and yet he had not been able to pass because he could not do a Bunshin no jutsu (分身の術 Replication Technique) and had to repeating the year, this had not been a problem, but even training all year to control his chakra and try to master it had not achieved results and his chances were as good as last year.

He opened the faucet and collected the water with his hands to take it to his face and get wet, he must be awake for the academy. He ran his fingers over his cheeks and felt those three pairs of whisker-shaped marks, he never understood why they were there or if they had any meaning, in the few times he had seen the Hokage he asked him and he only answered yes. it must be something unique. own self. He hadn't understood and simply set out to ignore them.

He went back to his room and looked carefully at what he had, the only thing that could be considered of value was the bed and what was under it, which were his weapons and shinobi clothes. As an orphan he had a certain amount of money that the Hokage gave to those who entered the shinobi academy, the money he had saved was enough to rent another house, but he had seen how some villagers saw him and he had a feeling that they would swindle him.

He pushed his thoughts aside and took off his pajamas so he could put on his shinobi clothes, which consisted of black anbu-like shinobi pants, along with his shinobi sandals. His upper part consisted of a mesh shirt that gave him minimal protection against sharp weapons, this was the second he had since the first one broke when he was trapped in the forest of death and was about to be devoured. by a giant snake.

Had it not been for his sword that he always carried on his hand seal, he would surely have been devoured by the snake.

He would have bought a stronger one but he was a shinobi, not a samurai or some barbarian, so he had to prioritize speed and agility.

A white T-shirt with a red swirl in the center was placed on top, he had always liked that symbol a lot, although he didn't know why.

She put that aside and put on the black jacket with thin yellow lines around the edges, again with the red swirl on the back.

He would have breakfast on the way back from the race, it was still early for lunch and he didn't want to have an empty stomach for his test. He ran to the door and instead of going down the stairs to the first floor, he jumped onto his roof and ran across the roofs of the houses, his movement and fall training allowing him to do this.

He raised his head and saw the Hokage mountain, there were engraved the faces of each of the people who wore that red and white hat, he didn't know what had motivated the Hokage to lead and protect this town with his life, but he waited. to find something like that, his life was meaningless without a goal. He had decided to be a ninja because it was the career that made the most sense for an orphan, but he didn't know if he wanted to be, he never had anyone to confide these feelings to, but he knew that sooner or later he would find it, as long as his heart beat and his lungs breathed, he would have the opportunity to make sense of that lonely life.

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The Shinobi academy was the place where the next generation of ninjas were trained. For a military village like Konoha it was very important and they made sure to help the students so that they didn't die after graduating, it wasn't something common, but very likely.

In this place, essentially the most basic of the art was taught, the control of chakras, the throwing weapons and the physical training of the students. There were also history classes that related the past of the town, its important events and the outstanding ninjas.

He didn't like being here, he didn't talk to anyone and despite being capable in the other areas, he was inefficient with his energy control, he never passed his genjutsu tests let alone bunshin which was one of the three techniques required to graduate. He had trained hard to make up for his inefficiencies, for two years ago he hadn't failed a hand-to-hand confrontation, a physical test, or a written test.

"Haruno Sakura, go to the next room to take your exam" The voice of an older man dressed in a green vest that identified him as a chunnin brought him out of his thoughts as he spoke in front of a medium group of children. He was the class administrator and today he would see who could lead the gangs like the blade ninjas.

"Yes." The particularly shrill voice made it easy to identify Sakura. She stepped forward confidently. Sakura was the best shinobi, at least theoretically, her physical grades weren't very good.

Naruto looked out the window towards the training ground, he wasn't sure if he could pass the exam, this morning he made a very pale clone of himself and the second one collapsed instantly. He had a tree leaf in his hand, that was a training method of the academy, to make leaves float with your chakra, the first time he did it he sent it flying like some, but unlike them, he could never make it float .

"Uzumaki Naruto, come over for your test" this time it wasn't Iruka who called, it was his assistant. Mizuki was her name, a man with light blue shoulder-length hair.

He let out a sigh and determinedly, this time he would get it.

Because he didn't know what he would do if he didn't...

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Naruto was running towards the forest with a large scroll on his back, if he achieved this mission, he would become a Konoha shinobi.

After his failed test, he had received a scolding from Iruka for not trying harder, after which he stood under a tree in front of the classroom. Mizuki had come later and told him about the special test, whoever could steal the forbidden scroll and learn one of the jutsu from it would become a genin.

Naruto found it strange but didn't question, he wanted to become a shinobi, or rather he had no choice but to be a shinobi, people avoided him and that just meant he could never have a life here.

He followed Mizuki's instructions and entered the Hokage's facility and took the secret scroll, he was lucky to arrive at the time of the shift change or he could have failed.

He was to reach the forest and then learn one of the scroll's techniques before the arrival of a master. She stopped under a fairly large tree and sat down to catch her breath, she was still hesitant about this test, but again put it aside in exchange for focusing on learning the first technique.

Her eyebrows bent into a frown.

"Kage bunshin no jutsu" her name seemed like a derivative of normal bunshin, maybe it was more complex or simpler, she would try it anyway, her procedure didn't seem difficult.

Following the indicated steps, he crossed the fingers of both hands in the shape of a cross, collected chakra and spread it evenly throughout his body, being careful not to use too much chakra, when he felt that he had achieved it, he opened his eyes and observed the clone.

It was a very pale and almost translucent white, it dispersed after a few seconds.

the sigh As it turned out, it was a flop.

'Did you open very little used chakra?'

He re-formed the seal and gathered chakra around his body, he had a feeling it would fail again, so he used more chakra than he thought was necessary. He heard the distinctive sound of the appearance of a clone and when he opened his eyes he saw not one but two clones of himself, more than the quantity he was impressed by the quality with which they were made, they seemed exact copies of the original, he even thought he was facing to a mirror, suddenly the clone spoke as if nothing had happened.

"Hey! Don't look at me like that, it's awkward" the clone suddenly jumped towards one of the trees and stayed there, the other just looked at him and shrugged and cut a flower that grew nearby looking at him while ignoring him.

The original was completely fascinated, those weren't clones, they were solid clones, they could do the things he could do, people could touch it but they wouldn't know if it was the original or not.

"! Naruto!" He turned his head to where the voice originated and saw that Iruka was quickly approaching, he was fine, he had already completed the jutsu and finished the test that Mizuki had given him.

"Sensei here!"

"Naruto, what the hell did you do? You stole the scroll from the Hokage, do you realize the trouble you got yourself into?" Iruka yelled.

It was like a blow to her face.

Had he been tricked by Mizuki into stealing the scroll and done so?

'Oh no...damn you...Mizuki...'

With nothing left to lose, he decided to make use of the feelings.

"But sensei, it's supposed to be a test, I steal the scroll, learn a technique and graduate, right?" He had to play along, it was the only way he could think of to get out of the problem.

"What the hell are you talking about? Who told you that?!" Iruka listened and his eyes widened almost comically as he realized what was going on.

"Mizuki-sensei said it, he said it was a special test" he decided to continue with his performance seeing that his teacher seemed to completely believe him.

"Naruto, no! It's a lie, there is no such proof-" Iruka stopped his words midway when the sound of a gun cutting through the air reached his ears.

He jumped even more clinging to the scroll, even if he had stolen it, he wouldn't give it to anyone but the Hokage. He couldn't, or he would surely be killed on the spot.

"Run away, you must not let the scroll fall into the wrong hands!" The authoritative, almost pleading cry reached him and he looked away.

Iruka was on the ground with a Fuma shuriken embedded in his shoulder nailing it to the leafy tree behind his back, that he was alive was a true miracle, however, he would die if he continued to lose blood.

Standing on a tree in front of Iruka was a man with pale blue hair, wearing the standard outfit of a chuunin with the difference that, on his headband, his headband had a horizontal stripe above the leaf symbol.

He was a lost ninja.

"Naruto don't do it, Iruka doesn't want you to get stronger, he doesn't want you to graduate, that's why he doesn't want you to have the scroll."

"It's a lie, Naruto go to the Hokage, inform him! The scroll contains secrets of the village, Mizuki used you to steal them!"

"Why do you think you can't graduate despite being as strong as you are?"

Those words caught his attention, he really wanted to meet them, he was strong, he knew it, they knew it, he still couldn't graduate even though he went last year because of a boy who couldn't even mold chakra.

Mizuki's voice was full of himself, full of arrogance, self-centeredness and lust, a very strong lust to continue speaking and to be heard. "Iruka hates you, he hates you because-"

"NO MIZUKI, IT'S FORBIDDEN!" Iruka's voice sent chills down Naruto's spine, he had never heard him so angry, scared and pleading at the same time.

The smile that Mizuki wore the whole time grew even bigger, he seemed almost excited to reveal this secret.

"The reason everyone hates you is because on the day of the Kyuubi's attack, the fox didn't die"

"SILENCE!" Iruka fought the pain only to stop it, only to receive a kick from Mizuki that pushed the Fuma shuriken further into his body.

"The fox was sealed within you, you are the Kyuubi"

Realization flashed in Naruto's eyes, now he could understand it, the variable he had been looking for so much was the tattoo on his abdomen that had caused him so many questions. The town hated him because he had inside the fox that almost destroyed half the town.

"That's right Naruto, they hate you, Iruka also for killing his parents, you've been hated since the day you were born, you were never loved by anyone, that's why you're always alone!"

Mizuki's words broke something in him, he felt a pressure in his throat and in his chest where his heart was, now he knew the reason for those looks, he knew why. He had always thought that when he knew he could do something to change that, yet here he was, on his knees, shedding bitter tears as he learned the truth, the truth he had once sought so much.

And so, an intense sense of closure filled him, his overflowing emotions were stopped by sheer will, I always heard from Sandaime that the power of a shinobi sword came from the heart, today he understood that those words were empty.

He had to come back, he had to deliver the parchment, he had to report what had happened, he had to... he had to...

'WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?'

Anger bubbled up inside him, sadness replaced by rage, pain tempered by his resentment, she felt his soul corrupting by seconds and his mind spinning senselessly.

'...I wish it was a nightmare...'

He jumped as high as he could and ran like never before, he was quite far from the Hokage tower, about ten minutes if he kept the same speed.

Still, even at this distance, he could still hear Mizuki's laughter and Iruka's moans of agony and pain.

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He couldn't erase the huge smile on his face, everything had gone perfectly. He had gotten Naruto to steal the forbidden scroll and had lured Iruka here, nothing could go wrong now, he would catch Naruto and kill him or take him to Orochimaru-sama, both options were very good.

But first she had to get rid of him. Iruka, he was always better than him in everything, he always received the looks and the praises, even those of the Sandaime.

He hated him and now he had the option to make him suffer. Unfortunately he didn't have much time, he had to take the scroll and escape before the border anbu were informed.

"What have you done Mizuki...?" Iruka's voice snapped him out of his trance.

"I did the right thing to get stronger, now I can get a juicy prize from Orochimaru-sama when I give him the scroll and maybe something of value if I give him the kyuubi brat or at least her corpse" the smile never left her face .

"Because...because by betraying your people, I thought we were friends-"

"Friends?" His anger was about to explode, but he put it down, he had to hurry up first…, of course, that was what he was looking for.

Mizuki gave him a smile.

"You almost caught me Iruka, grabbing me to waste my time like that..., but I'll answer before I go, I always hated you, die in agony"

Throwing a kunai at his abdomen and hearing the pierced flesh, Iruka collapsed to the ground shaking in pain. He reached out and took his Fuma shuriken from him.

"Bye Iruka" he said and then jumped into the nearby tree and started my chase after Naruto. He only had a three minute head start, could catch him in two and be out of the village in six, and then in a few hours away from the Anbu border.

'Everything went so well...'

He could already see the brat running towards the Hokage tower, they were about six minutes away from entering the civil area and his presence would become visible, he had to stop him here and now.

He hurled his smoke shuriken hard at the brat expecting him to be impaled to death. The sound drew him and he turned his eyes to see the gun running towards him, he turned sharply on his foot and ducked at the last second letting it pass, he could hear his gun embed itself in one of the trees about forty meters away. distance.

She jumped at him directly with a kunai in hand aimed at her back, but received a direct kick to her abdomen. The blow was stronger than she thought possible for a genin and she jumped into an adjoining tree clinging to it with chakra in her feet.

'Shit, the brat is a taijutsu user'

He had seen him practice, but he didn't think he was that strong.

Moaning from the annoying blow, he looked at the boy who was now clinging to the scroll, he was so ridiculous and so pitiful, he would never be a ninja, because his days ended today.

It was not convenient for him to cast any jutsu because he might be detected by some sensor, which would be annoying. He took out another kunai from his bag and tied it with his chakra to a ninja cable, he would have to do his best if he wanted to finish fast.

He throws four kunai simultaneously towards the boy's head, as expected he dodges them by jumping behind the tree next to him, I take the opportunity and throw the kunai tied with rope to the side of the tree, and jump for the other, if everything goes. as planned, the boy would be tied with the thread as soon as he tripped.

When he hit the ground, he saw the frightened brat out of the corner of his eye, a smile tinged his face and he launched a kick to his guts which was dodged as he expected.

However Naruto got stuck when he felt a thread on his back and jumped again. Mizuki took advantage of this and sent chakra through the rope so that it wrapped around his foot and tripped him up, lunging at high speed and grabbing his neck before he hit the ground.

He looked at his frightened face and enjoyed his last seconds, took a kunai and stabbed him in the belly, throwing to the side slicing through the stomach.

—Argk!

"You see Naruto, you are weak, pathetically weak, that's why you will never be a ninja and today you will die"

'burst'

The clone in front of him exploded in a cloud of smoke leaving no trace of him.

'Kage Bunshin?!'

"Shut your mouth, you fucking idiot" a whisper slipped down the back of his neck, he threw a desperate blow at his aggressor.

'Argk'

He cut and tore his vest, part of his chest and gouged out one of his eyes leaving a nasty view of his face.

"Damned!" He yelled in fury at the deception as he kicked the other Naruto in front of him causing him to explode in white smoke.

'Kawarimi?!'

"Thats not all!"

He looked up to see over a hundred Naruto, one with a smoke shuriken and the rest with a kunai.

'Shit...'

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Naruto saw that Mizuki's trick worked effectively and a shiver ran down his spine, if that had been him he would be dead, luckily that physical cloning technique was very helpful.

He could feel that his chakra was low, something that had never happened in his and that made him uneasy even though he still had three-fifths of his chakra.

Pushing the discomfort from his mind, he jumped at the chance and sent his clones to fight, it was an unrefined and even ridiculous form of fighting.

Mizuki was being beaten by more than three hundred clones while he tried to defend himself by hitting some of them.

He saw Mizuki's back free and released the Fuma Shuriken spinning around his axis thus increasing his speed.

'Click'

The sound of metal colliding with metal made him realize how much time had passed, even more so when he had two anbu with different masks in front of him.

He gulped as he realized the situation he was in, his clones were no exception and began to dissipate.

'Damn' he growled in his mind.

Shinobi or not, he had stolen the forbidden scroll from the Hokage, even if he had stopped the mind behind the plan, it didn't make him any less guilty.

At least they didn't seem to want to kill him, after all they were professionals.

"Uzumaki Naruto, you are under arrest for stealing the hokage scroll, you will be given a fair trial if you hand over the scroll and cooperate" the cat masked anbu said, her voice identifying her as a kunoichi.

His heartbeat began to slow and his breathing stopped being ragged, at least he didn't have to fight anymore. He was strangely calmer than before, and even remembered hitting Mizuki many times despite not getting close.

Weird.

In the same way, he preferred to go to the Hokage's office than to be taken as a criminal, in these circumstances it might sound the same, but it was substantially different.

Following this thought, he ran as fast as he could towards the village and the Hokage's tower, after all, Iruka had told him not to give the scroll to anyone but the Hokage.

"Follow him, I'll take care of him" said the other anbu masked bird.

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I think this time, the story is better written.

First, I think the chapter was very fast, but this will only be for this chapter.

Second, I'm still not quite sure how to make Naruto and Sasuke's personalities, Sakura the same and Kakashi fit Naruto and Sasuke's personalities.

and third, I already have in mind what Naruto's change and his interaction with Haku will be like, remember that Zabuza and Haku were the ones who unknowingly showed Naruto a path and this time it will be the same, only the result will be different.

Here I say goodbye, a greeting and a psychological hug. Do not forget to leave your comments, I will be reading them, they would help me a lot.