-1Disclaimer: chap 1
Blood bond
Chapter 2
The population of Konoha mourned for the losses it suffered in the battle against the enraged spirit guardian Kyuubi. Amongst the losses was the Yondaime Hokage. He was selected by the Sandaime Hokage to take over only 1 month ago. Now, Sandaime Hokage was asked to take over again, as the remaining 2 legendary sannin refused or left Konoha to wander around. Rumors of the reason of Yondaime's demise began spreading, and the fact that a little newborn child was found next to Yondaime's body, with a seal on it, intensified the rumors. This child was supposedly be Kyuubi reborn. After all, nobody saw this child to be taken to the battlefield. Hate towards the child began to build. Only a select few knew of Yondaime's true intentions, amongst them was the Sandaime Hokage. The Sandaime Hokage issued a law to try and minimize the hate towards the child, by forbidding anyone to speak of the Kyuubi. This way, the young generation of Konoha wouldn't bear the hatred the parents so obviously had.
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"Let's kill the kid tonight! To honor the Yondaime!" one of the villagers yelled. A chorus of 'Hell yeah' and 'Let's kill Kyuubi' was heard. The group of villagers, mostly drunk, headed towards the decaying apartment building where Uzumaki Naruto was housed.
Since his first, he was kicked out of the orphanage, under the cover of being too disruptive. Thus, the Sandaime had took it upon himself to take care of the boy by giving him an apartment and appointing a guardian. The guardian was an active ANBU. She wasn't home very often, but when she was, she would look after him with the care of a mother. When she was away, Sandaime came to check up on him at least once a day.
Naruto was walking before his first birthday, and running to outrun the bullies just after his first in the orphanage. When he came into the apartment building, he was instructed by his guardian and the Sandaime in the basics of writing, spelling and reading. Shiruna Kariu, the guardian, even tossed in some heavy pointers in stealth.
This became his most valuable asset, since it made him able to get away from drunken villagers on his second birthday. Kariu was on a mission, so unable to look out for him.
It turned out that this was also the last mission for her. She was killed while tracking an S-class Nuke-nin.
Now, Naruto was on his own, diligently practicing his stealth and making sure he knew as much as he could on Shinobi. Practicing with Kunai and Shuriken was very difficult, due to his current size.
Today was the day of his third birthday. Consequently, it was also the third time of mourning the assault of Kyuubi, which, again, made for a lot of drunken villagers, torn in mourning, wallowing and alcohol.
"Let's burn the place with him in it!" "Yeah, booze for a good cause!"
Naruto looked out of the window to see what the commotion was about. Just as he looked out his only window, he got hit with multiple bottles of Sake and saw only black with stars for a moment.
Next thing he saw was flames engulfing the apartment.
'What did I do to get this...' were Naruto's thoughts before he blacked out due to lack of air and the increasing heat.
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"Huh? Where am I?" the three year old Naruto thought when he looked around and saw a hallway filled with pipes and a shallow layer of water. He felt a pull towards the end of the hallway, where there was a turn. Naruto rounded the corner...
The sight that greeted him was one of enormous gates and a red haze.
'What the... Where is this? Where am I?' Naruto thought.
"You are in your own mind, little child." a loud voice came from behind the gates.
"In my own mind... Wait a minute, then what are YOU doing here then?" Naruto yelled towards the gates.
Kyuubi walked into visibility. Naruto looked towards the gates and saw a figure approaching. A HUGE figure, one as large as the gates. A red fox with nine swishing tails behind her. 'Red fox with nine tails... You don't see that every day...' A feeling of dread came over Naruto... 'I only know of one fox with nine tails...'
"Umm, if this is my mind, how come I'm talking to Kyuubi?" Naruto asked towards the gates, not really towards Kyuubi, but more to himself, not really expecting an answer.
"Your Yondaime Hokage faced me when I rampaged towards your village and used his life to seal me inside a newborn baby, namely you." Kyuubi answered.
Naruto's head shot up towards Kyuubi's eyes and looked straight into them for signals of mirth or mockery, but found none but sadness and despise? Remorse even?
Naruto's quick thinking caught up with his head and explanations about the hateful glares from the villagers seemed logical. "Well, shit... I guess my rotten luck comes with a very powerful fox in a cage..." -sigh-
Quick thinking caught up with Naruto again and another feeling of dread came over him. "Erm... We've got a problem... See, I'm in deep shit on the outside..." Naruto trailed off. "Yeah, I know. Your 'house' is on fire and since you're in here, you're pretty much knocked out. Now, I can give you strength beyond your wildest dreams, but I'll need to know what you intend to do with it. Will you take revenge on the villagers? Take them out like they are doing to you?" Kyuubi asked Naruto.
Naruto looked horrified. "No way! Why would I want to kill someone who's..." Naruto thought of a nice simple explanation. "... too weak to see me as a person instead of... erm... Well... You." Naruto blushed a bit with the last insinuation. In his hotheadedness, he almost did the same thing as the villagers. "I want to become a Hokage worthy to succeed the Yondaime! I'll just make sure that I get a longer term than he did... I mean, seriously, only a month of being hokage's not really good, is it? Why do you ask, by the way? Can you get us out of this burn-to-death thing?"
Kyuubi chuckled at Naruto's blush and the enthusiastic explanation of being hokage. "Well, if you were going to get revenge, I wouldn't've given you anything, since you'd be making the same mistake as I did. However, there are certain things I will order you to do. You will listen to those orders or give me a pretty damn good reason why not. The exception is in training. You'll listen and obey, no questions asked. The faster you become strong, the faster you'll be able to become Hokage. Now, what do you think of that?" Kyuubi asked the little boy.
Naruto's excitement grew with every word. "Cool! I'm gonna be the youngest and most powerful hokage ever! You bet I'll accept that! Win-win situation! I get power, training, and company! YaHOO!" he yelled, while jumping around.
Kyuubi chuckled and said: "Kittling, I'm going to give you a few little changes, which are going to hurt. When you wake up, go to the old man."
Naruto just managed to speak out "Huh? Kittling?" before his world exploded in darkness and pain.
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Outside, people were cheering into the roaring flames when they saw the flames intensify for a moment and a child's scream pierced the flames, followed by a high pitched unearthly scream that shattered the windows in the block.
Kyuubi used her chakra to protect Naruto from the flames and to teleport him out of the building, into another room.
The Hokage was returning from the usual mourning ceremony to check up on the villagers through the crystal observation ball. What he saw shocked him... There was a crowd outside the apartment building that housed Naruto and it was burning! "What the hell?" the Hokage exclaimed. As he was about to teleport out, he heard a child's cry from the room next to him.
Sandaime looked into the room, finding Naruto, wrapped in red chakra, sleeping restless. The red chakra began to form a mouth and produced words: "Let the boy rest. He will be fine in the morning, so for now, he will need a place to sleep. He will find you in the afternoon to convey certain wishes." with that, the mouth disappeared, leaving a Hokage speechless. 'Oh boy... Well this might prove interesting. I'll let him sleep at my place for now. We'll figure this out tomorrow. First, let me take care of these dumb-ass villagers.'
The Hokage picked up the restless Naruto and teleported towards his home. There, he laid Naruto on the sofa with a blanket covering him. Sandaime set out to some extensive physical punishment on 30-odd villagers.
TBC