Ok so I just want to say some stuff about this chapter before I get into it and the kind of writing style that I am going for. First of all I don't know if you noticed but I am trying to delve deeper into Naruto's psyche and what I mean is this like in canon we only saw him run away from Mizuki and Iruka we did not know what he was thinking, like I always thought it was weird that he still thought iruka saw him as the nine tails even though he just saw him take a shuriken for him.

What this essentially means is that during most interactions that Naruto is a part of I am going to go deeper into his thought process and see what he really thinks instead of his outer appearance which we all know is not always representative of what he is feeling inside. The best example of this is his relationship with sasuke where on the surface it looks like he hates him but deep down he thinks of him as a brother. So I have said this before and I will reiterate, I am trying to go for a character driven story that really explores these people and tries to get us to grow with them.

I am introducing the rookie nine this chapter and I just want to point out the changes that I am going to have from cannon, first of all sakura will not hit Naruto like ever because I always thought this was a stupid concept and even if it is a joke it always makes me cringe every time I see it or even read it. I want my characters to be like real people as much as possible and I doubt any real person would be ok with it, even someone as happy go lucky as Naruto. She will still reject his advances, but she just won't be punching him and there won't be any bashing.

Hinata will still stutter but I won't write it in as it always annoys me reading something like that, you guys are just going to have to imagine she is stuttering.

I am sorry for the long note, but I just want you guys to get what I am going for so that you can tell me if I am succeeding or not with my goal. My Naruto will be a little different from canon but that's because like I said I want to write them like real people and real people grow and change, I mean he won't change overnight but he will grow in each new arc.

For those of you that read this thanks a lot and even if you did not it's fine, I know I probably wouldn't, now onward.


Chapter 2: THE FLAMES OF REVIVAL

"AHHHHHHhhhh." Naruto screamed from the intense pain, during which he immediately sat upright on his bed, he had just had a dream about the meteor incident and it had revealed something to him which he had apparently forgotten.

Back then all those years ago when he had huddled up next to the meteorite something had happened and some strange gas or something like that had seeped into him which had caused him to pass out from the pain induced.

He now also remembered that the rock had been the same shade of blue as his wings when he is in his phoenix form, which if he had to admit was strange but right now he had some other issues to deal with.

He had to go for his ninja registration today and he had to have his talk with the hokage about his phoenix powers.

Thinking about that it finally hit him that he has powers that no one else has and he could potentially be immortal, and a giant grin broke out on his face, now everyone would have to acknowledge how awesome he was and maybe sakura would finally agree to go out with him, now that he had something which made him cooler than sasuke.

Thinking about sakura the grin on his face subsided quite a bit as he thought about the number of times he has asked her out and she has rejected him, he had always lived his life believing that if you persevere your wishes will come true but after his many failures he just was not sure anymore.

He had asked ayame about his feelings for sakura and her constant rejections of him and she had told him to give sakura her space, but he just couldn't sit around and let a problem resolve itself as it went against what he stood for.

In all honesty he wasn't even sure why he liked sakura so much as there were definitely girls that were prettier than her in their class, but whatever the reason was the fact remained that he liked her and so he decided that the best way forward would be to be on the same team as her and she would get to know him and maybe fall in love with him.

Having had enough of all that depressing stuff he decided that he should go to one of the training grounds and try to play around with his powers a little bit before he met up with the hokage.


when Naruto got to a training ground which looked relatively empty, he looked around to make sure that it really was empty and then when he was satisfied he decided to get on with his training. Today he wanted to try to turn into the whole bird instead of just having the wings, and so he started concentrating on that tingly feeling again and when he felt it he opened his eyes and saw that he had the awesome blue flame wings and it seemed like his feet had transformed into bird feet which looked kind of funny to him.

As he was admiring the fact that he seemed to have changed a bit more than yesterday he heard a gasp in the bushes in front of him, and he immediately leapt into the bush with great speed which he had achieved by subconsciously flapping his wings once and then turning off his transformation so that he could fit into the bushes.

When he got into the bushes he already had the shadow clone hand sign ready to go but when he got into the bushes he immediately pulled his hands apart as the only person in the bushes was the weird girl from class, what was her name? Hinata?

Hinata hyuuga had been walking around the village trying to run down the time until she had to go for her ninja registration, she was walking near the training grounds when she saw Naruto look around before going into one of them which was incredibly suspicious for her as Naruto was not the type to hide his techniques and so she followed him.

She saw Naruto look around the training ground a little bit, but he didn't do a very thorough job which Hinata was not surprised about as Naruto was not a very patient person and he was probably in a hurry to just test out whatever new technique he was working on.

When he closed his eyes and seemed to be concentrating she was very interested to see what he would do but never in her wildest dreams would she have imagined that he would actually do what he did.

Before her very eyes Naruto's hands seemed to catch on fire and expand into what looked like giant flame wings and she couldn't be sure, but it also seemed like his feet had turned into bird feet? No matter the strangeness of it all she couldn't help but marvel at the beauty of what lay before her and so she did the best thing she could do right now, she gasped and fainted.

Of course, this would happen to him, the one time he wants people to ignore him someone sees him do something which the hokage had already deemed classified, and he also had to deal with a fainted hyuuga, he knew how stuck up those bastards were and so decided against taking her home as her parents would probably cook him alive.

Hinata woke up feeling groggy, she had just had the strangest dream where Naruto had just transformed into some kind of angel? but that couldn't be even if Naruto was her angel he was definitely not a real angel right? When she got up she looked around and there he was staring at her and she had almost fainted right then and there, but she used all her will power to stay awake.

Naruto was relieved to see that she was awake but now he still had to deal with the fact that she saw him when she was not supposed to, in class she seemed nice enough even if she was weird and she seemed to be the only girl who didn't like sasuke and so wouldn't use his secret as some kind of bargaining chip with him.

He decided to just tell her what was going on and then take her with him to the hokage because he knew if the hokage told her to be quiet she would be.

Hinata didn't know what to do and her face was heating up as Naruto had been looking at her for quite a while, it was kind of unnerving as he seemed to be looking into her soul and she had never seen naruto this serious before.

"You saw that huh?" he asked while scratching the back of his head and chuckling a little bit trying to seem like his usual self, she nodded and looked away.

"why were you spying on me?" he asked trying to figure out why she would be doing that.

She had been treading that question and now that Naruto had asked her she really didn't know what to say, in the end she decided to tell him the truth.

"I saw you acting kind of suspiciously when you entered this training ground and so I followed you, I have never known you to be the kind of person to hide a technique and so I wanted to see why you suddenly would." She said to which Naruto nodded.

He had already suspected that she had followed him because of his suspicious behaviour and now she had confirmed it. Deciding that she seemed trustworthy enough he told her about everything that happened last night, after telling he waited to see what she would say.

She couldn't believe it, Naruto had almost died and apparently, he had transformed in a full-on bird, it all sounded so amazing well except for the fact that mizuki sensei was apparently a traitor. She knew about the legend of the phoenix and so she understood why they had made that connection.

"that is so amazing Naruto, I can't believe you risked your life to save iruka sensei. Thank you…" she said as she choked on the tears that had started falling during Naruto's story "if it wasn't for you we would have lost both of our teachers yesterday." She finished.

Naruto didn't know how to respond to that as he wasn't really used to compliments and so he just flashed her a grin and changed the subject "After your registration I want you to meet me outside the hokage's office at 14:00 so that he can be debriefed about the fact that you know." He said to which she nodded, and they went their separate ways.

As Naruto was walking he couldn't help but smile as he thought about the fact that someone acknowledged his contributions and thanked him.


Naruto and Hinata had just told hiruzen what had happened and the hokage was giving Naruto a look of incredulity, he just couldn't believe that Naruto couldn't keep a secret for a day, but he had to admit that the girl was probably the best person to find out about the secret as she was so infatuated with Naruto that she would never do anything to break his trust. Deciding to leave that for now he told Naruto his conclusions.

"Naruto I am afraid that I don't have any new observations aside from what we came up with yesterday and I have decided that the best way forward is to wait for the doctor who I am trying to call back and get her to run a full diagnostic on you." He said, he could see that Naruto had been expecting a similar answer to what he had heard.

He also decided to address something else "Naruto I would like you to limit the use of your powers until we can know more about them and that will also make sure no one finds out about them and so it's a win-win." He said.

Just as Naruto was about to respond to that the door burst open and in came a little kid wearing a scarf that seemed to be way too long for him. "OLD MAN YOU ARE MINE NOW." The kid yelled as he pulled out a kunai and rushed at the hokage but before reaching the hokage he tripped and fell on top of Naruto's legs.

"OUCH" Naruto yelled as he immediately jumped away from the kid and examined his leg that the kid had plunged his kunai into when he fell on top of him. He pulled it out and the he heard what sounded like a voice at the back of his mind telling him to concentrate his transformation at that part of his leg and he saw it combust into the blue flames that have become so familiar to him. This time the only place that was on fire was his wound and when the fire receded the wound was gone.

After Naruto pulled out the knife, the hokage was about to ask him if he was alright but that sentence died on his lips when he saw Naruto summon his fire on his wound and when the fire receded the wound was gone. Well at least this answered his question of the fire's purpose he supposed.

Of course, that still left so many questions, it seemed like the fires purpose is to heal but can it heal other people? Can he regrow limbs? What is the limit of all this? And last but certainly not least if this ability did not require chakra where did the energy to do this come from? Was it some kind of exchange your own life force type of deal or what?

Groaning he took out his pipe and started smoking he decided as it clearly seemed like Naruto was on a personal mission to kill him and so he decided might as well die from lung cancer.

Hinata almost cried out when she saw the knife in Naruto's leg but when his leg healed she was just left in awe.

Konohamaru was panicking, he had just stabbed some random guy in his grandpa's office and now for some reason the guy's leg was on fire, when the fire stopped and there was no wound on him he really had no idea what was going on.

Awesome was the word currently ringing in Naruto's head, he couldn't believe it he had healed that wound in seconds, oh this was so awesome it wasn't even funny. Healing factor one of the most op abilities out there he concluded, oh he was so going to rub this in sasuke's face he almost even decided to do an evil laugh right there.

" well Naruto it seems we have discovered at least a part of what your flames do but I would still very much suggest that you don't use your powers until we can test them in a controlled environment with a certified health care professional." He said to which it seemed like Naruto was about to argue and so he added "don't worry after we have checked out everything and made sure this ability is safe I will even allow you to name it."

That seemed to calm Naruto down a bit and so he decided to end this meeting but before he could do that it seems it finally caught up to Naruto that someone had actually stabbed him in the legs.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT YOU IDIOT? YOU STABBED ME." He yelled at the little brat that he now had in his hands, that little stunt could have seriously hurt someone well not him because he was too awesome for that but someone else definitely.

"LET GO OF ME YOU WEIRDO YOU ARE FINE ANYWAY" konohamaru yelled back, he was at least a little bit apologetic for stabbing the guy but he was not going to show him that plus he was fine anyway.

"LET GO OF THE HONOURABLE GRANDSON YOU SCOUNDREL." A new arrival shouted, looking over to him Naruto saw someone who was clearly shady well in his opinion anyway but then his brain finally caught up to what that guy said, honourable grandson?

"Naruto meet my grandson." said the hokage with a weary look on his face, after the hokage said that konohamaru was thinking that Naruto wouldn't do anything to him now that he knew who he was, but he was wrong as Naruto immediately punched him after that.

"Don't go around stabbing people you idiot, lets go Hinata." He said and Hinata got up and they went on their merry way.


As all this was happening kurama was thinking about the fact that his plan seemed to have worked, he had purposefully told Naruto how his powers worked so that Naruto would start to trust the voice in his head. He would keep helping him out whenever he needed so that when the time came for Naruto to do what he wanted he would do it as his thought process would be 'well that voice at the back of my head has never steered me wrong before'.

Well this was kind of awkward, they had just gotten out of the building and were now on the street, Naruto didn't know what to talk about with Hinata, but he decided the safest bet would be to ask her how she felt about finally being a ninja.

He had to literally drag a conversation out of her but after a while she did finally start to talk with him and he had to admit they had quite a nice conversation about what they imagined ninja life would be like and their dreams and aspirations and reasons for wanting to be ninja, of course hinata didn't need Naruto to tell her as everyone knew about Naruto's dream but it was still nice.

After talking for a bit they finally reached the proverbial folk in the road and they said goodbye to each other and each went their separate ways. After that little chat Naruto realised that was probably the first time he had ever had a full conversation with someone his age and he had to admit it was nice, maybe he would finally get a friend even if he had always thought she was weird which he was starting to see was just a misunderstanding and she was just quiet.

As Naruto was walking he saw someone following him and when he confronted them it turned out to be the hokage's grandson who wanted him to train him which he decided to do. They had an epic training montage and at the end of the day they even defeated his teacher and so all in all it was an awesome time and he even walked away from the experience with a new rival for the position of hokage.


Naruto had been sitting with his team waiting for their sensei for 3 hours now, he was pretending to be asleep because he had tried to talk with his teammates for the first ten minutes but they ignored him, he hated all the waiting, but he supposed it did give him time to think about his team.

He had been ecstatic when sakura had been put on his team but immediately when they also added sasuke he knew that this would be a shitty team, not necessarily because sasuke is a douche but because their team had shitty dynamics even from the get go, I mean they already had some kind of love triangle thing and it was just the beginning.

He also had to admit that this also ruined his plan of being in the same team as sakura and getting her to like him, seeing as how she would be fawning over sasuke and then the last nail in the coffin for him had been what sakura had said about him when he had turned into sasuke. He had clearly heard that she likes sasuke and not him and worst of all she finds him annoying, but he just couldn't bring himself to give up on her, not yet at least.

Sasuke was fuming, not only had he been put on a team with a loser and a fan girl but his sensei was 3 hours late. He had been absolutely appalled to learn that he was on the same team as Naruto but he supposed that he could have definitely gotten a worse teammate than Naruto, he would never admit it but Naruto had impressed him when he had managed to defeat him even if he caught him off guard, it at least showed he had some aptitude for the ninja arts.

His biggest problem was sakura as he could clearly see from the beginning that she was going to be dead weight, and she was going to ruin team decision making as he could already see that she was always going to agree with him even if he was wrong and she will probably never agree with Naruto even if he is a more competent ninja than her because she thinks he is an idiot.

Sakura was super excited to be on sasuke's team, to her it showed that she was destined to be with him but now that he had called her annoying she didn't know what to do. Now that she had time to think she realised he probably snapped because him and Naruto were orphans and she had said some incredibly insensitive things.

Speaking of Naruto she turned her gaze to her sleeping teammate, she was really annoyed that she was on the same team as Naruto as he would get in between her and sasuke but she decided that even if she would never tell him she liked having him around as he at least kept it from being too quiet and his constant asking her out kept her self esteem a from taking a nosedive with all of sasuke's rejections.

Naruto decided that he had been waiting long enough and had to teach his sensei a lesson and so he put a chalk eraser in between the door and frame "Naruto you are going to get us into trouble" sakura said but Naruto ignored her, and even when sasuke added his own two cents about no jonin falling for that he still ignored them.

Kakashi had just gotten back from visiting obito's grave and was now on his way to meet up with his team, thinking about this particular team kind of depressed him as they were so similar to the way his team used to be.

He had a feeling that this one would maybe pass but the problem is even if they did pass from what he could see they were extremely rough around the edges and one of them would probably end up like obito if he didn't try his best to make them a functioning team.

When he got to the door he saw a crudely made prank and decided to tank it to see if it was a team effort. He was so disappointed in the team, sakura had immediately thrown Naruto to the wolves and sasuke seemed like he didn't think the rest of them were fit to be in his presence. After telling them what he thought of them he told them to meet on the roof.

After the introductions and Kakashi telling them about the test tomorrow, Naruto tried to get a date with sakura and she immediately turned him down and she tried her luck with sasuke and he turned her down. After that they each went their separate ways.


Naruto was fuming, he and his team had just had the so called 'bell test' and he hadn't done a single thing correctly. He had tried to take the bells on his own and failed which had led to him becoming more desperate and falling into an obvious trap "DAMN IT" he shouted, what the fuck was wrong with him, he had just had an incident where he almost died because of falling for a trap and he still falls for kakahi's one?

He couldn't believe it, I mean was he some kind of masochist? That was really the only way he could account for the fact that he kept doing these retarded things that kept putting him in these situations. He knew he wasn't the smartest person in the world, but he had really been trying hard to at least be a bit more observant, I mean come on even dogs can have behavioural conditioning or at least that's what kiba called it.

After the team left he had decided to stay behind and just collect his thoughts and lick his wounds. He was also thinking about how much Kakashi had humbled him in their little exchange, he was even reading a god damned book and he still destroyed him. He knew if he could get control of his phoenix powers it would be the ultimate defence as he could immediately shrug of injuries, but he still needed a strong offense and right now he couldn't think of one.

Speaking of his phoenix powers he realised he needed a name for them. He had been thinking for a while until he finally came up with the name fenikkusu no fukkatsu no hono, the phoenix flames of revival, he couldn't think of a more fitting name for his powers.


The hokage had just had his meeting with the jounin and he was now sitting on his desk smoking his pipe when he heard him, "you can come out now jiraiya." he said, and after he said that a large white-haired man stepped out of the shadows.

"I don't appreciate you sending your little monkeys to interrupt my research." Jiraiya said, he had been enjoying himself at a hot spring when one of sarutobi sensei's monkeys had shown up and basically threatened him to show up here.

"This is more important than your peeping jiraiya, Naruto has developed some kind of kekkei genkai." Hiruzen said with a straight face.

"what?!" said jiraiya with disbelief in his tone "but minato and kushina didn't have kekkei genkai" he finished.

"exactly now listen up this is what happened…" and he proceeded to tell jiraiya about all that had happened in the last couple of days.

To say that jiraiya was stunned would be an understatement, he had so many questions but it seems like he wasn't the only one.

"so you want me to find Tsunade?" he asked even though he already knew the answer.

"yes we need her to analyse Naruto's phoenix powers as they seem to work in a similar way to her mitotic regeneration and so we need to know what kind of side effects they present and such." He said.

"you know she wont agree to come willingly don't you?" jiraiya countered, he highly doubted he could convince tsunade to come with him with just words.

"tsunade is and always will be a medic and so I am hoping that when she hears about this healing power that was able to save naruto from the brink of death she will be at least a little bit curious." He said to which jiraiya nodded but he still seemed at least partially unsure about this.

"oh she will definitely be curios but I doubt she will be curios enough to set foot here, but I will try my best to reason with her and maybe even get her to come back for a week or something like that through a bet." He said, he was already trying to think of a way to get her to come back with him and he was sure of one thing it was going to be his toughest mission ever.

"do you have any theories about how Naruto developed this ability?" he asked, to which hiruzen just shook his head and jiraiya just left it at that. After catching up for a little bit jiraiya left for his mission.

After jiraiya left hiruzen was left alone to ponder on their current situation and he just hoped jiraiya would be able to convince tsunade to come back, they really needed her expertise right now.


"thank you that will be all." Said a man with a bandaged eye as he dismissed the agent who had just given him some incredibly interesting news. 'so the jinchuriki has developed some kind of new never before seen power? Well this will certainly make things more interesting' he thought as he tried to figure out how he could use this to his advantage. And just like that the worst possible person to discover Naruto's secret had found out.


Ok so I just want to say I don't know if the idea of hinata following Naruto around is cannon or fannon but it works well for their first meeting and the idea of hinata keeping naruto's secret is definitely a great foundation for a friendnship to develop between them.

The thing with kurama giving him advice was something I thought could open up a nice story thread plus I didn't want to set a bad precedence by having his leg automatically combust without effort from him as that's not how the flames work unless he is in his phoenix or hybrid form. If he is in his normal form he has to consciously turn them on.

finally i would like to know what you guys think on my take on naruto's character?