A New Nindo

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto I would be rich, I don't. If I did own it I wouldn't be counting my pennies like the pauper I am. In the future some of my jutsus may be borrowed from other authors; if they are I will hopefully remember to point them out in my author's notes. This story does not reflect the ability of those authors I borrowed from. In other words if my story sucks it's not their fault, it's mine. However I haven't borrowed any yet so I don't worry about it. This version of the Naruto story belongs to me; most of the characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

Summary: What if you died? What if it was a mistake? What if you were given a chance to step out of your normal everyday life and become hero? I'd grab the chance. This is my story.

Daniel Lynx: Thanks for review I'll check out Confucius' Better Equipped soon and see how it looks.

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TimeReaper: Don't worry I'll make sure it's interesting. I'm trying to make it different from all the other fanfics I've read.

Mercva: Don't worry Naruto won't be godlike, that wouldn't be any fun now would it?

Ranma Hibiki: I don't know how I could get Shino to talk more but I'll try. If you have any suggestions please notify me. Also Naruto will probably be more polite and thinks before he acts, sometimes.

Shadow132: Yeah I'll put him in team 7 but a few things need to happen first. I've got to finish my list of things to do.

Chapter 2: Learning to Walk

The next few years of my life were interesting to say the least. Humiliating in the sense that I had to be pampered like a baby, but at the same time glad because of it. I can remember too many times growing up in the orphanage cold and crying myself to sleep because I wanted my parents there. It chilled me to the soul when I looked around and thought that there were so many unwanted children.

I was truly grateful to Tsunade and Shizune, then I came to realize that this was real. That was Tsunade who rocked me to sleep, and Shizune who carried me around. Of course when it came time to feed me or change my diapers I put my body on autopilot. It was at that time that I ventured into the recesses of my mind to confront the Kyuubi.

The dark and damp sewers scared me. I honestly don't know how Naruto did it. I guess the only bright side was that I wasn't crawling, I was walking. When I came to his cell I could hear growling but I couldn't see him. I leaned in closer to peak in.

This would be when the monster appears in horror flicks.

CLANK… CLANK… CLANK…

That would be the sound of his claws rapping on the cell bars trying to get me. I stumbled… no leapt back in fear. This was way different from the anime. I could smell his breath, feel his eyes on me, and hear him flex his claws. I was scared shitless. I almost couldn't bring myself to look him the eye. I knew he couldn't hurt me but my body felt weighted down from the fear of death. His laughing made me look up.

"What are you laughing at you damn fox?" I yelled.

That was smart.

He seemed to laugh even harder, I could see him rolling around on the floor, sending tremors throughout the sewers.

"Yeah keep laughin' it up but I'm the other side in case you didn't know asshole," I said smugly.

His laughter stopped and he sat up to stare at me.

Oooohh struck a cord did I?

You've got guts brat to speak like that in the presence of the greatest Youma of all.

For some reason I detected bitterness in his voice.

What do you want?

"I guess I wanted to talk?" I said.

I know it was a stupid reply but what could I have done. I couldn't even walk let alone train in the real world. When he made no reply I continued.

"Why did you attack Konoha?" I asked in a submissive tone.

When I heard him growling I could hear the hate and venom in it.

Maybe I shouldn't have asked that.

Because all you HUMANS ARE DISGUSTING, VILE CREATURES. TREACHOROUS AND SELFISH! YOU ALL DESERVE ROT IN THE BOWLS OF HELL.

"That still didn't answer why?" I wasn't fazed by his yelling since I was already petrified from the neck down.

He gave a murderous look and I was flung from my mind and into the real world. I started to cry and Tsunade-kaasan ran over to me, immediately picking me up and trying to find out what was wrong.

Even though I had a huge headache I could still feel the love from Kaasan. However, now more than ever, I had a feeling Gabriel was right. There was a whole lot more to Kyuubi attacking the village than just simple bloodlust. I made a mental note to go back, but not too soon. I needed time to recover and Kyuubi needed time to cool down.

Four years later…

Kaasan had immediately noticed that I had trouble molding chakra. She had a knowing look on her face and I knew she thought it was the Kyuubi's fault. As a result she made me do numerous chakra training exercises like walking on trees and on water. Shizune-neechan watched over me when Kaasan wasn't there. She oversaw my weight training. I had decided I wanted to wear weights on my arms and legs to increase my speed and strength. I had seen what wearing weights could do for Rock Lee. However, I was certain I was going to die with the total of forty pounds I was wearing. Then again I thought about it.

I'm molding chakra and leaping from buildings with the grace of spider-man. I definitely thought that this world was simply subject to different rules like the matrix. I surmised the reason why only ninjas could perform such feats is because they had chakra training, without it they would probably be as weak as everyone else. I had personally seen Jiraiya get punched by Kaasan and he survived. This furthered my beliefs about this world.

I had already decided that if I was going to be Naruto certain things had to change. First off my wardrobe. I'm a ninja wearing orange was like wearing a sign that said "Please Kill Me." So I decided on a simple white shirt under a thin black jacket and white shorts. I had also decided to work my ass off in my studies. Back in my old life I wasn't known for being a genius but I did my share of hard work. It paid off as I was in the top ten of my college class. Combined with the fact that these people were about a hundred years behind compared to my world, made things easy. It was surprisingly easy for me to grasp the concepts of chakra and begin molding it.

Kaasan wanted to turn me into a medic-nin, which I strongly opposed. I brushed it off saying I was a guy and I wanted to kick some ass, which was true. Shizune-neechan seemed much more sympathetic and she taught me some of the more offensive moves of being a medic-nin. While they schooled me in the human body I learned how and where to attack and which parts to protect. I especially liked my Chakra Mesu (Chakra Scalpel) because it was one of my most lethal attacks so far. After talking to Tsunade-kaasan I understood the jutsu better. It pierced the skin and affected only the chakra pathways, which is how they used it in surgery. If I increased my chakra output I could affect the skin too.

One day, while training with Shizune I noticed something interesting.

"Neechan how come you don't need to perform hand seals to use Chakra Mesu?" I asked.

She smiled at me and said, "That's a good question Naru-chan. You know how hand seals are used to mold chakra correctly but experienced ninja's require less hand seals to mold the charka."

I processed this info through my twenty year old brain and tried to reply intelligently, "So does that mean that with more experience I can do it without hand seals too?" I asked.

"Yes," she replied, still smiling.

"So does that mean I could perform any technique without hand seals if I practiced enough?"

She had a thoughtful look on her face, "Yes but it would be difficult for some of the upper level techniques especially the A-class ones. However certain techniques like Kuchiyose are impossible without hand seals."

Yes… I've already found a way to counter the Sharingan. Kiss my ass Sasuke, Itachi.

In reality I knew would be a lot of work.

Shizune's voice snapped me out of gloating, "Yes Naru-chan you're progressing through the medical techniques nicely for such a young age."

I'm not that young.

Nonetheless I felt good about being praised by Shizune. For all intensive purposes Tsunade and Shizune were my mother and sister. The fact that they weren't blood related didn't matter to me and from their actions I could tell it was the same for them too.

At this rate I'll be Hokage in no time.

Despite the rants of my ego I reminded myself that I was only a four year old with only a handful of jutsus. However my goal was to become as efficient as possible in my techniques before moving on. My reasoning came from the fact that I've seen people like Gaara and Neji fight. While they only have a few special techniques compared to people like Kakashi or the Sandaime they were powerful nonetheless. I was still a long way from going up against someone like Itachi or even Gaara.

Shit I forgot about Gaara what do I do? Oh well I think about it tomorrow.

It was already night. I had been practicing my medic-nin taijutsu for awhile. Tsunade's special taijutsu style included accumulating chakra in my hand and releasing it instantaneously when coming into contact with the target. It took incredible chakra control and timing. Something my bruised knuckles said I needed work on.

When I returned home I decided to ask Kaasan an important question. In reality I already knew the answer but I needed to ask her anyway so I could get what I wanted.

"Kaasan?" I asked in my sweet four year old tone.

I was lying in bed and Tsunade was tucking me in. I think her adopting me has done her some good. She seems to gamble a little less and takes care of me more seriously. Not to mention she seemed to smile a lot more than in the series.

"Yes my little Naru-chan?" she asked.

"I had a dream last night?" I said.

"Was it a nightmare?" she asked slightly worried.

Here goes nothing.

"It was about when I was even smaller than I was now."

Oh yeah I was laying it on thick, acting like a naive little boy.

"Oh?" she asked, slightly interested.

"Yeah," I said. "You and Hokage Jiisan were talking about who would take care of me."

She immediately looked guilty. I guess she was feeling bad about being reluctant to adopt me now.

"I don't remember much but you guys were talking about this Arashi guy," I said. "Who is he?"

"He was the Konoha's Yellow Flash," she answered.

"Cool," I said. "Isn't he that really fast guy?"

"Yes," she laughed.

"Do you think I can be fast like him?"

She had a thoughtful look on her face before she smiled.

"Yes Naru-chan you will become just as fast as him."

"But how did he get so fast?"

"Well he started out wearing weights like you, but what made him the Yellow Flash was a special jutsu."

"What jutsu?" I asked excitedly.

This I wanted to know.

"It was called Shunshin no jutsu."

"Do you think I can learn it?"

Her smile got even wider.

"Yes Naru-chan, in fact…"

She left the room for a moment and I held my breath. I was getting my hopes up, and was not disappointed when she returned with a scroll.

"What is that Kaasan?"

"This is the Hirameku no jutsu."

What the hell is that? I wanted Shunshin.

"This is a step to learning Shunshin. I wanted to wait till you were a little older, but Shizune has been telling me good things about your training."

Oh I see it must me a more basic form of Shunshin and Shunshin is the advanced technique.

"Thank you Kaasan!" I shouted with glee.

Yes yes yeah!

She kissed my forehead goodnight and left the room. I immediately unwrapped the scroll and read it.

"Hmm," I pondered.

It seemed that Hirameku did not increase or affect my speed at all. So I wondered what Shunshin would do. It seemed that Hirameku blurred my image into several silhouettes. Imagine seeing someone move in several different directions at once, like when the men in black in the Matrix dodged bullets. As I read further down I realized that when I was fast enough and fluent enough in the technique that the silhouettes would become after images of me. In other words while I moved ahead of my image, my enemies would be focused on the image behind me instead of me. He even had a special fighting style to go with this technique.

"Whoa…"

It was at this moment that I recognized a sliver of the Yondaime's greatness. To create this hybrid taijutsu/ninjutsu/genjutsu technique was no easy feat. My mouth was almost watering at wondering what Shunshin was like.

Tsuzuku…

Author's Notes: Next time we travel to Wave Country and I get the chance to show off my jutsus. However I'm in for a surprise when I get there. Who are my enemies, why are they attacking, and am I outclassed?

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