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Chapter Two
Three Years Later
Just beyond the horizon, two figures make their way towards the village hidden in the leaves. The taller one, was a man with long black hair and blood red eyes. The second was a child roughly 4'4" and had scruffly blonde hair with his ravishing blue eyes . Naruto Uzumaki was now much stronger than before he had left the village. The two began walking towards the largest building in the village.
"Naruto, I only have one more thing to tell you before we go back in and see the hokage." Itachi said now turning his face towards Naruto. "You must hide the power you have attained until after you become a genin."
"But why Itachi- Sensei, why can't I show them all how strong I have become. I mean I could probably beat you in a fight half the time now." Naruto continued to ramble on until they finally made their way to the hokage tower.
Naruto decided to show off a little by climbing the tower on just his hands. Itachi smirked a little as he smacked the boy in the arms, causing the boy to lose control and fall down twenty feet and fall flat on his face.
"Baka...I told you hide your power, a ninja's best weapon is that of surprise. Now come on or we will be late in meeting with the hokage.
The pair walked into the building, and began towards the hokage's work room. What Naruto noticed when he entered was the neverending pile of paper work the hokage still had yet to do which made his eyes widen.
"Hokage-sama, I have returned from the mission and it was a complete success." Itachi said as if he was almost...proud.
"Eh? What mission Itachi-Sensei?" Naruto was dumbfounded they never did missions for Konoha while they were gone.
"Allow me to explain Naruto, during that day three years ago when you were nearly killed I was ready to pull you out of the village so as to ensure your safety. I had no way to do this however, because if I acted solely in the purpose of helping you, the village would have entered a small civil war because of my supposed favoritism of you. However, Itachi came to me later that same day and asked if he could train you somehow. I thought for a couple of hours on how to make something like this work. Then just like that an idea hit me. I decided that Itachi would have a long term mission with training you, so that by the time you came home you would even be able to properly defend yourself against some jounin in the village. I simply told the council that we were to tame you-" the Hokage stopped when Naruto interupted.
"Your talking about the Kyuubi right?" Naruto paused to add to the effect of his words.
"How did you find out about the Kyuubi?!" Sadaime asked now wide eyed.
"Itachi-Sensei told me about him, I noticed how fast I healed and one time I accidentally called on his chakra while sparing sensei. I asked him about what happened and he told me about the Yodaime's Seal."
The Hokage sent a nervous glance towards Itachi, now confused about what do do with this predicament.
"Old man, before you say anything, I want you to know that I do not hold any grudges about it. The villagers are scared for their lives everytime they have seen me in the past. It just shows how far I really have to go to change their minds. Don't blame sensei for telling me,because now I understand." Naruto Finished as a tear slowly trickled down his cheek. He remembered before his training.
"So continue on with what you were saying before we got of topic." Naruto said trying to get back on track.
"Well I wanted the council to believe that we were making you no longer a threat to them. My real intent however was to increase your power by one-hundred fold, so when you came back you could properly defend yourself." the Hokage finished and took a sip of tea and turned to Itachi. "So Itachi whats your guess at how strong the boy is?" interested in hearing the results.
"Well I was impressed, he grew far quicker than i thought he would have. At this point I would guess he is twice as strong as i was at that age." Itachi said as if talking about something as simple as the weather.
The Hokage's eyes just bulged when he heard this bit of information.
"For the first few months we din't have any progress as I tried to teach him the basics. I soon found out that it wasn't because he was stupid that he couldn't accomplish such a simple task, but he just had way too much chakra to do the techniques of such simplicity." Itachi went on to explain in greater detail of how he taught Naruto.
-----------------------Flashback Four Months Into Training----------------------------
Naruto was lying on the ground panting heavily as he was trying to figure out what went wrong.
"Kuso why can't I get this. I have the chakra and control, but I can't get the basics..." Naruto sat down and began to think his way through what his sensei taught him. As Naruto was deep in thought, Itachi came up just behind him and began to wonder at Naruto's lacking of such simplistic skills, and yet he had so much power within him. Then it hit him.
"Naruto, forget about that regular bushin technique, I have aonther type of bushin that I want you to learn. It is called the Kage Bushin no Jutsu. What this jutsu does is creates solid clones of yourself by splitting your chakra evenly between you and all your clones. Normally a move like this would be suicide because of an acceleration of chakra depletion. For you though, if my hunch is correct, you should be able to use this as one of your most valuable tools in battle." Itachi finished saying and looked at Naruto.
Naruto's eyes lit up when he heard what this move could do for him. He wanted to learn it as soon as possible, but he honestly wondered if he would be able to pull off a move like this then Itachi spoke again.
"Okay Naruto here is the hand sign you make." Itachi made a cross sign and then said "Kage Bushin no Jutsu." There were sudden pops and next thing Naruto seen was that there were five Itachi standing there one next to the other. Just as fast as they came out Itachi then dispelled the clones."Now you try Naruto."
Naruto made the same sign that Itachi had shown him just a minute before then said "Kage Bushin no Justu." he wanted to show off just a little so he put as much chakra as he could into the move. he noticed there was roughly one thousand clones arund, and now he was only low on chakra as he felt it slowly restore itself. So he figured even if he did this he would still have enough strength to fight in a taijutsu match, He dispelled the clones and felt all the energy he previously lost come back to him excluding the bit it took to use the jutsu. Then a huge headache hit him causing him to pass out from information overload.
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"So thats how Naruto got so powerful in such a short amount of time. He learned that the Kage Bushin will bring back the memories of what it had seen while they were temporarily around up until the point they were dispelled. Of course, he still had to train his body. There was no trouble with that as I managed to find him a trainer who had a specific style and training for taijutsu alone. This man himself probably has skills that would rival even Maito Gais. During the training Naruto would have clones perform various training aspects he had yet to cover, while he himself would work on his strength and taijutsu style. Quite ingenious I must say, as it seemed to make him improve by leaps and bounds. However, thats why I felt it nessassary to perform a three day power sealing jutsu on him. The effects of the sealing jutsu will come off by the time he graduates the academy and attempts his first chuunin exams, by which time i believe he will have surpassed me, as I am now. What the jutsu did was cut his power to a third of what it is supposed to be and any new power he should achieve during this time will be forced into the seal as well. I put a loophole on the seal, seeing as if his life is in danger and at stake the seal will break. It really pisses him off that I put the seal on him, but he knows we cannot risk him being caught by the council." Itachi finished taking a deep breath.
The Hokage let out a breath he din't know he was holding in and took in all the information.
"So I guess we won't get to see your true strength just yet then huh Naruto?Sarutobi almost looked downtrodden at this."Hehe no matter, Naruto we will still be enrolling you in the academy to keep the illusion of your power a secret. Go ahead and consider this your first ninja mission ever. You will only be allowed to use any C-rank jutsu or below that you may know of. I will pull my ANBU from monitoring your actions so that you may still practice your mor advance skills, so they don't become rusty over time."
Naruto knew to expect this so he just nodded already understanding what was going on.
"Hokage-Sama and Itachi-Sensei there is something I still need to tell you of..." Naruto pause not quite sure about how to explain it. "About two weeks ago when Itachi-Sensei and I were heading back from Lightning Country the Kyuubi came into contact with me..."
--------------------------Flashback-------------------------
Naruto was busy training with his Kage Bushins to increase the strength of his jutsu. It was an all out battle of One versus five hundred so he had enough strength for jutsus as well as his clones. Neither side was backing down from the fight with many of the jutsus Naruto learned flying through the air. Whenever a clone got hit or dispelled itself for whatever reason he had Naruto would pause the fight so he had five seconds to make just enough more. He believed this was one of the best ways he knew to train his already god-like stamina. Naruto decided to call it quits as he dispelled his last clone. Naruto decided to take a nap right there in the spot he was to exausted to move from training.
When Naruto woke up he found himself standing outside of a huge cage with a talisman that had the word seal on it. He vaguely remembered this place, but couldn't it until a voice spoke to him.
"Hmmm... My my Little Naruto, come here." the voice said slowly emphasizing each word.
Naruto was shaking, but did as the voice commanded and walked towards the cage, then out of no where a claw came straight out of the cage towards Naruto, who barely avoided being skewered completely.
"Faster than I thought you would be you foolish human." The beast stepped out of the shadows and revieled its elongated fangs.
"My name is the Kyuubi no Kitsune-"
"Your the Kyuubi?!?" Naruto now seen it was in fact a fox he was talking to that had Nine massive tails all of which manged to fit behind the bars of the cage.
"Insolent mortal have you no respect." Kyuubi calmed his demeanor and began speaking again."I have been looking through your eyes since I was sealed within you, I see the pain you go through everyday, I have a proposition for you that you simply cannot refuse. On your tenth birthday I'll begin sending you the strength of my chakra tails to permanantly become part of your own chakra. By the time that you are eightteen years old you will have eight tails of my power possibly making your the most powerful ninja to ever live. My only request is that right after the time you receive my eighth tail you release me with the little bit of power I'll have left."
Naruto began to think and it hit him... this was the power he seen when he was six, it was that power that healed him and always made him practically good as new. He wanted to Harness this power but first he needed a way to control the fox.
"I'll agree but...you must submit yourself to my control, meaning what I say goes. You must pay for your crimes you committed and since the Yodaime sealed you in me that makes it my responsibility."
"I accept but you should sign the fox contract that I hold. This way all my bretheren shall be bound to you and your word. Demons may be vile and destructive but we cannot break our word if it wasn't broken to begin with." Kyuubi finished thinking about when he would be free. "Naruto the pain you have endured thus far is more tahn even most demons can take, for a human like you to do that has earned my respect at the very least."
"Arigatou I think, but I want to tell the Hokage and Itachi-Sensei before we finalize our deal and have it set in stone. After all they should know I have this power." Naruto finished up
---------------------------End Flashback----------------------------
Itachi and the Hokage were just speechless, they did not know what kind of game the Kyuubi was trying to get at.
"Is there any way I can contact the Kyuubi to verify this." The Hokage asked
"Actually Hokage-Sama, I can contact the Kyuubi with my sharingan. If you look into my eyes we can all go into Naruto's Mindscape and have a chat with him there, so we can find out whats going on." Itachi told the hokage activating his sharingan.
The Hokage just nodded his head and looked at his eyes as Itachi looked at Naruto, they felt a pulling on their bodies and it felt like it was in another world.
----------------------Naruto's Mindscape----------------------
The Kyuubi was napping when the three people showed up in his den. He was interupted from his snooze and was for lack of a better word...PISSED OFF.
"Hey baka Kitsune, Old-man and Itachi-Sensei need to talk to you." Naruto yelled which slightly shocked the company with him, as they were struggling to shake off the killer intent radiating from the beast.
The Hokage cleared began to clear his throat. "Ahem I simply wish to know about the deal you struck with Naruto that you seemed to be so interested in.
"I can see it in your eyes, you believe I decieved the boy, well if it were any other human you would probably be correct, because to be blunt I do not trust your kind at all. So I am not above decieving them in general. However, this boy here is diffrent. I trust him with the power that he will recieve, and as it is this deal is my only chance to survive. I examined the seal and theres no way for me to break it. My deal speeds up the process but gives me a chance to survive, wins on both sides.
"If Naruto released the seal wouldn't it kill you both like the fourth had told me about it a long time back?" the Sadaime asked.
"Normally yes because my chakra would flood his and overload, then be lost. However if he has Eight out of Nine Tails of my power it wouldn't flood through as rapidly and the chakra increase would withstand it. As soon as that Ninth tail would escape it would use matter around to create myself a new body." Kyuubi replied expecting a question like that.
"And would you continue your rampage on Konoha should you be released." Itachi said voicing his own sort of concern.
Not if the Kit is still loyal to that village, and that goes for his descendants as well. So in a way he saved this village way into the future as well." Kyuubi stated as a matter of fact.
The Hokage took a long hard look into the Kyuubi's eyes, forcing himself not to look away. He could see the demon was telling the truth so he no long had any questions for the moment.
"Itachi cancel the jutsu I belive we are done here." The Hokage stated.
Naruto just looked back as he felt the tug back into the real world
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"I believe for this particular event we can believe what the kyuubi says will hold true." The hokage looked Naruto directly in the eyes. "Naruto, I trust you will become the strongest shinobi this village has ever seen some day, you will become its savior when Konoha is in the darkest of times. I hope one day the village sees you for the hero you really are." The hokage then sighed, which was a sign they were now allowed to leave.
Naruto and Itachi began walking towards their first training ground when Itachi spoke up
"Naruto if something ever happens to me, I need you to do everything in your power to solve the problem I may have failed at. I have one last gift for you ." Naruto was then swiftly knocked out as Itachi nailed him in the gut and began walking with Naruto towards the hospital.
Naruto woke up three hours later to find bandages wrapped all around his head, excluding the spot where he could breath and where he could see out of his right eye. He began unwrapping the bandages until he heard someone speak to him.
"You might want to be careful when removing that bandage, your new eye may be sensitive to light." the voice had said.
Naruto couldn't believe what he had heard, a new eye?!? He began removing the bandages faster, and looked into the mirror . He thought it must have been some kind of joke his eyes looked exactly the same as they had before. They were the same saphire blue color and din't see anything diffrent so he turned to the person sitting next to him who happened to be his sensei. He began looking at him for an answer.
"I had one of my sharingan eyes implanted into you, but i dimmed down the power on it so you have time to make it grow and adapt to your tastes. As of right now it only has one toma but like your power seal it will grow in time, all you need for it is just tons of training. Don't worry this won't make me weaker not by a long shot, I simply had another eye ive been planning on getting put in for a while now i just din't want my sharingan to go to waste so i gave it to someone i felt deserved the power." then Itachi pointed to the mechanical eye. showing its power slighty from the aura it gave. Naruto understood it was more powerful, but it still freaked him out. To him it was like looking into the eyes of hell itself, with fire burning but it was icy cold and slitted and evil looking, but then he looked in his mirror at his eyes again and was confused.
"Channel some chakra to your left eye to make the sharingan appear." Itachi told Naruto.
Naruto nodded and did as told and a single toma appeared in the left eye on the very top of his eye but he was still confused.
"Itachi-Sensei why is your sharingan red but my seems to be a dark blue and why is the toma in mine white instead of black?" Naruto pondered
"Must be genetics through Kyuubi or something, this is something I don't really know." Itachi said unsure for the first time in a long time.
Naruto decided to accept the answer for now and cut the chakra flow to his eye which then returned it to its sapphire blue color.
"Naruto, I think you should head out towards your home and get some rest for the academy tomorrow. My little brother should be in your class, so you should challenge him to see where your skills are right now, as my brother is probably the top of his genin class. Hang out and get him to open up tomorrow I'm sure you would both benifit from it."
With that said Itachi disappeared and Naruto decided to head home and sleep.
-------------------------------------Next Day--------------------------------
Naruto woke up at 6:00 A.M. and began the morning workout routine he had done every morning since he went to train with Itachi. When he was completed with his task it was 7:30 so he decided to go early and meet some of the students maybe even make a few friends.
Nobody paid too much attention to Naruto as he passed, they were used to the "Kyuubi-Brat" being gone so the blonde haired boy never recieved a second look.
When Naruto made it to the academy he seen four people already present in the classroom. In the back row was a kid with a pinapple shaped head who appeared to be asleep at the moment.
Naruto gazed around the room and noticed there close to the front row were the other three people in class this early one was a girl with blonde hair and she was wearing a purple top and skirt, while the other girl had pink hair and a red dress. They were both in the middle of bickering over what appeared to be the boy sitting in the middle of them who was wearing a blue shirt with a red and white fan on the back. Naruto then remembered what Itachi had said about his little brother during the trip so he knew this must be him. Naruto decided to walk over and start a conversation with the quiet raven haired kid. When Naruto got to the front he then noticed the pink haired girl and something hit him, he some how remembered her but he couldn't quite place it. He then turned his attention to Sasuke.
"Uchiha Sasuke I presume." Naruto began in a casual tone
"Thats me and you are..." Sasuke said in a similar manner
"Uzumaki Naruto , your new rival in the academy but i would also like to be a friend." Naruto prayed he din't screw up when he said that.
Sasuke knew he was a new kid so he decided before he would make judgement he would see what this kid could do so they stuck out their hands and shook.
The girls were looking between both guys , when their eyes met. They came to a silent agreement, if this "Uzumaki Naruto" was any good at all because they already thought he was cute enough, they may be able to end their rivalry with one taking the Uzumaki while the other get the Uchiha. Thats when they introduced themselves.
"My name is Sakura Haruno." the pink haired girl stuck out her hand to shake his
"And my name is Ino Yamanaka." the Blonde then did the same.
After those introductions were made Naruto and Sasuke began talking about diffrent styles of ninja techniques one could use when Sasuke offered him a seat. The two boys sat by each other as the girls decided to sit one row behind and spy on this newcomer as they too wanted to listen in.
As Naruto and Sasuke talked the class began filling in until it was finally 8:00 and their sensei quieted them down.
"Alright class we have a new student today, he has been on an extended trip outside of Fire country so he missed the first year at the Academy , but from what the Hokage tells me he is good enough to be here in the second year class with the rest of his age group. So Naruto would you please come down here for a second?" The Sensei asked and Naruto came down and noticed a large scar on his nose.
Naruto heard of this teacher already, his name is Iruka Umino and from what he heard his teachers parents died in the Kyuubi attack nine years ago. It appeared as if the Hokage straighted things out and made Iruka realize he was the container not the fox itself, which he was greatful for.
Naruto got to the bottom of the stares when he heard some whispering but he ignored it. When he was standing next to his teacher Naruto turned around and took a look at the whole classroom.
The pink hair girl named Sakura got a little close look at Naruto than she had before and gasped. She knew his face his hair and his eyes from somewher but just couldn't place it. But she was brought out of her thoughts when Iruka spoke again.
"Naruto these kids are all going to be your classmates so why don't we have everyone share a little something with Naruto so he feels more at home and welcome, we will go around the room beginning on the right.
The whole process took close to an hour, after all the introductions Iruka decided it was time for a history lesson over the hokages and all the great things they accomplished in their lifetimes. Naruto and Sasuke decided to talk via notepad , while the two girls behind them were trying to decide ways to see who exactly Uzumaki Naruto was.
The class throughout the day seemed boring to Naruto because he believed himself to be way beyond that of a standard academy student. So he decided on talking to Sasuke right after class was dismissed.
"Yo Sasuke want to get some ramen with me now and then have a spar or have it the other way around?" Naruto asked and then began to salivate at the thought of food.
"Lets spar and shall we say loser pays for the food." Sasuke suggested as a bribe so he could get himself a free meal.
Naruto shook his head in agreement and they both dashed off towards the academy training grounds.
"Taijutsu only for todays spar okay sasuke." Naruto Suggested not wanting to show even half his skills
Sasuke just showed his approval by slipping into a loose taijutsu stance, while Naruto decided on a weaker version of the style he was currently mastering.
Naruto was the first to charge, slamming Sasuke with a flurry of punchs and kicks never giving time for retaliation, eventually he broke through Sasukes guard and slammed him into the ground with a fist. Sasuke got back up and naruto decided to test his defense as Sasuke attacked with what seemed to be everything he had for taijutsu. Naruto let one punch through and fell to the ground. Naruto pretended to be tired and got back up as both went back in for a final attack slamming a fist in each others face both fell to the ground and began to...laugh. After five minutes they felt refreshed and went their seperate ways for the evening. Both found something special that night one found a friend another found a rival.
In the shadows Ino and Sakura silently were going over the match in their heads they were now convinced that the Uzumaki was actually dateable and on par with their "Sasuke-kun" and soon they would decide which one gets what guy. Then they gave each other a smile realizing their rivalry was coming to an end.
Naruto began his jog towards his home thinkin about taking a nice shower but when he got home he noticed the Hokage standing outside his door looking very grim.
"Hey old man whats up?" Naruto asked with a smile.
"Naruto I'm afraid I have bad news, your sensei...your Itachi-Sensei is now an S-Class Criminal for the murder of his clan minus Sasuke. One of the saddest days indeed it is being recorded as the Day of the Uchiha Massacre.
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A.N.) Hey tell me if you like the story and want me to keep going with it i will prolly update once or twice a week with it, depends on what you guys like.