Alright everyone, like I said before I am not listing the Harem or any pairings.

"Kyuubi talking"

'Kyuubi Thinking'

"Regular Talking"

'Regular Thinking'

I Do Not Own Naruto

Naruto The Crimson Chain Wielder

On his way towards the Hokage Tower, Naruto couldn't help but smile, even though he went through a terrible ordeal. He has found a friend that was always and will always be around for him. He even felt bad that she is a prisoner and had thoughts of one day releasing her but he would probably never have met her if she wasn't a prisoner in the first place though. But a friend is a friend in his seven year old mind, and he will cherish all of his friends forever. Speaking of friends, his first and oldest friend has just put away a crystal ball that he kept hidden in his office. It is none other that the old and wise third Hokage, the Sandaime, Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Hiruzen had never seen such a thing happen to the boy before, so he called his trust ANBU. "I want you to go and bring these people to Ibiki." He said as he wrote a list and descriptions of each person.

"Hai Hokage-sama." The ANBU said as they left to search for the men and women.

'Sigh... Naruto is probably very unhappy, I hope he isn't too upset.' the old man thought with a frown as he slouched in his seat more as the years seemed to catch up to him. 'I hope he can forgive me for failing him... Minato-kun, Kushina-chan I am sorry for the beatings that your son has suffered, but I promise I will help him become a great shinobi.' He decided in his head as he gained a determined look in his eyes, he is then brought out of his thoughts as he hears a knock on his door and his secretary's muffled screams from the other side of the door yelling at someone.

"He's busy you little shit, now get out before I call the ANBU on you!" the secretary yells quite loudly.

So he gets up opens his door and sees his favorite orphan outside and a red faced secretary from all the yelling she was doing. "Nishima" He calls in his famous commanding tone, the one that could freeze even the most veteran shinobi in their tracks.

The woman, now known as Nishima yelps in fright and turns around quickly to see the third Hokage right behind her and pales when she sees the stern look on his wrinkled face.

"I have tried to tell you that Naruto is always welcome whenever I am not in a meeting. He is a nice young boy and if you can't see that then maybe your are not qualified to be my secretary. You are fired so don't come back, you will have until noon tomorrow to pack your things and go, am I clear?" He talks calmly yet strongly at the same time.

"B-But I've had this job for months now, you cant just fi-" she stops talking as his glare hardens and he starts unleashing a small amount of killing intent on her. Feeling her life practically flash before her eyes she just nods dumbly and starts packing her things.

"Naruto-kun, you may come into my office now, I'm sure you have something important you want to talk to me about." He says calmly, while on the inside he is worried about Naruto. Seeing his shredded clothes, along with all of his scars and some burns here and there on his already frail and skeleton-like body makes him become angered at his treatment and a bit depressed that he can't protect him better. Naruto is like a grandson to him and he doesn't want to lose him or have him get mad at him. He wants to keep their grandfather to grandson bond intact, which as of now, he is not sure how strong their bond really is anymore.

"Ok, Jiji." The young voice behind him says quietly as he then sits in front of the Hokage's desk and waits for the old man to sit down as well to start his story. "I, was hurt today, Jiji. I was scared that I was going to die, but I woke up and was healed up really quick, its weird but I have always healed fast." He said as he tired to look into the Hokage's eyes but he couldn't so he kept glancing around.

"I know I haven't seen you too much in the last year or so, but if you didn't already know I was kicked out of the orphanage on my 6th birthday. I was also pushed around and hit with bottles and rocks that some of the more mean people threw at me from time to time. I never told you because I didn't want you to die of a heart attack or anything for worrying old man." He jokes and chuckles a bit hollowly, hoping to lighten the mood, if even a bit.

Hiruzen didn't laugh at all, a deep frown was too busy covering his face. Inwardly he was fuming, he never heard that he was kicked out of the orphanage, what did he eat, garbage? "Naruto-kun, you should have told me that they did all of that stuff, why didn't you, and how did you survive?" he asks momentarily forgetting his anger for curiosity.

"Well, first I tried to ask people for some spare food but they either hit me and said I didn't deserve it or just ignored me all together. I then, started to eat out of the garbage from then on or anything I could find really. Some people would even try to stop me from eating that, but I still managed and learned quickly to be really quiet and take the garbage at night time. A ramen stand with really nice owners had let me ear for free whenever I went but I didn't go so much because I didn't want to get them hurt. It was Ichiraku's I think. After the first four months or so I got sick of eating garbage and wound up catching some squirrels and rabbits to cook and eat the last two months or more, since I had been sneaking into the library to learn about survival. I'm sorry for not telling you but you help me a lot and I didn't want to take you away from your work, I know its important and I don't want to have to rely on you to save me all the time." He finishes calmly while finally looking into the man's eyes with determination which the Hokage can clearly see which impresses him a great deal.

'He seems to be quite skilled in survival already, and at age seven, I think he is maturing too quickly but I don't know whether to be sad or proud. Proud for his skill or sad that he is forced to develop that skill so early in his life, his endurance and pain tolerance are also too good for someone that age.' The Sandaime thought sadly. "Well, Naruto-kun I'm impressed with your natural survival skill and endurance, but you should have told me about this. I will see if I can find an apartment for you to live in. On the one condition that you come to me if anything bad happens again and I will fix it, do you promise?"

"Of course Jiji" He responds in his normal happy voice that makes the Sandaime happy that their bond is still strong and Naruto is still alright. "Before I go Jiji, I also wanted to ask if you could buy me some new clothes and help me to become a strong ninja so I can protect the village and my precious people that I hope to find." He asks quietly almost feeling like the old man would say no.

"I would love to help you be a ninja Naruto-kun, I could help you use your bloodline, the chakra chains as I saw you awakened it. Also we will get you some new clothes, and supplies. You can't be a ninja without some good ninja clothes and a good ninja is always prepared for everything, so I will buy all your clothes and supplies." Hiruzen says.

"Awesome! Jiji, that would be great, and I promise to help all the people of the villager through the good times and the bad. I will be just as good a ninja as you, if not better. I promise you that and I never go back on my word." Naruto shouts enthusiastically.

"I know you do Naruto-kun. That is a great quality in any man and I'm sure you can surpass me in time. Now lets go get you those clothes, and then we can go get ramen ." He says seeing that his story has taken a good amount of time and it is now around dinner time. He then grabs a nearby blanket to cover up the young blond boy in his office.

"ALRIGHT RAMEN, YOUR THE BEST JIJI!" Naruto shouts and starts jumping up and down in excitement.

On their way to a nearby ninja clothing store the Sandaime can see the angry glares cast at his young companion. 'Fools, not even being able to tell the difference between a young boy and a nine tailed fox.'

While Naruto, however, is mildly surprised at seeing the glares. Well that's not entirely it, he is surprised at the lessened amount of glares. He even saw some of the people who beat him earlier which seemed to not have been picked up by the ANBU. Some of them looked at him with clear guilt in their eyes and some even waved and smiled at him. Their were still other people who looked past him and ignored him and some of the usual glares and killing intent but not as much as before.

Shortly, they arrived at the store they were going too, it looked like any normal store to Naruto, but he also thought it was just a cover-up as he could almost sense something off about the store. They then enter and immediately Naruto's eyes widen in surprise. "Wow..."

The Sandaime chuckles at his grandson figure. "Wow is right Naruto-kun, I'm assuming you thought it was just a normal store by the appearance outside. That was a genjutsu to make the store look normal to civilians but a good ninja will be able to break it. The genjutsu also acts like a marker, it pushes away civilians but attracts ninjas to the store." He explains.

"Wow... Do you think I could learn something like that too?" Naruto asked, hoping it was a yes as he would like to try to hide some of his scars, mostly the ones on his face so he would be more normal.

"If you can get your chakra under good enough control you may be able to use some genjutsu, but not a lot as you have to much chakra. The higher ranked ones would be somewhat doable due to how much chakra it takes but other than that you will not be capable of using to much genjutsu." He explains carefully, knowing it might upset Naruto.

"O, I see..." Naruto replies somewhat sadly, wanting to be good at every aspect of being a ninja. "But, I will just have to be that much better in the other areas of being a ninja, isn't that right Jiji." He replies with tons of confidence.

Hiruzen just smiles at his determination and nods.

"Can I help you out today, young man" a gruff and strong voice suddenly sounds out. A man, well man isn't really the word Naruto would use, more like a bear. The man is easily 6' 5, probably weighing around 300 to 350 pounds, all mostly muscle. He has a full beard that is short and well trimmed, all in all, he is a scary looking guy. Naruto becomes wary but he doesn't look away and he doesn't back up as he knows that his jiji is there with him. Also not sensing any hate in his voice helped out, so he just smiles and nods at the man.

"I want to be a ninja and protect the village and I need some new clothes and supplies. Jiji will be helping me out today." He says to the man not noticing the respect the man seems to gain at not being afraid of him.

"Well then go ahead and look around while I talk to Hokage-sama, ok?" The bear like man replies.

Naruto just nods and starts to look around seeing all types of weapons and clothes, going to those first. He searches for a couple minutes and finally grabs some shirts and pants and goes to try them on. Shortly later, he comes out wearing all black ANBU style pants with a black shirt as well. He saw a cool trench coat there also, but when he tried it on it was much too long. It was black on the outside, with the inside being like fur, the fur was soft and crimson, he had really started to like the crimson color after he met the fox. Thinking that it looked really nice he was going to buy it so he could grow into it.

He then moves to look at weapons, thinking since he can't really use genjutsu effectively he would get a sword or a different type of weapon, even knowing that his chains would prove to be quite deadly if he trained with them. 'You never know when you could need a sword or two or maybe even nine,' he thought to himself with a small chuckle as he had thought of how many tails Kyuubi had.

Seeing nothing for a while, he starts to lose some hope but then sees a couple of beautiful swords. One is a katana, with a solid dark crimson, almost black handle. He reaches for it and pulls it out of its sheath. He is mesmerized by the blade. It was pure dark crimson and about 3 and a half feet long and extremely sharp looking. He knew he had to have it, the other blade was a wakizashi. It had a similar look of the katana but was about half the size of it. He grabbed it also and went to the front desk where the two men were talking. "I have everything that I want old man, But I will need more spares of the clothes I have on and some kunai, senbon, and shuriken as well please."

"Wow... a katana and wakizashi huh, the kid knows what to look for in weapons. His clothes are ninja worthy as well, excellent job kiddo." The man behind the counter says, and chuckles when the boy blushed from the praise.

"Indeed, but you will need to be careful with the weapons Naruto-kun, they are sharp and can harm you very easily." The third says. "Now lets get you some spare clothes and head over to get ramen. Then we will go to the grocery store and buy you healthy foods, and then go to the apartment I had in mind."

They soon continue on their short journey throughout the village with some more of the glares and harsh words that they would whisper. They didn't really bother Naruto all that much since this is the becoming the best day of his life. He is getting ramen from Ichiraku's, that has always been his favorite place to go, ever since he went there for his first time. He also got new clothes that feel great. They are comfortable and sturdy, they would last him a long time. On top of all that he got ninja supplies and a couple blades to practice with.

He is brought out of his thoughts when he smells something godly... The smell of fresh ramen. He starts to run to the stand drooling. The Sandaime just chuckles at the boys enthusiasm. "Teuchi-jiji, I'm back and starving to death over here. I hope you can make enough to fill me up." Naruto yells as he sits in his usual spot.

"Is that you, Naruto-kun?" and old voice calls out, the voice belongs to a kind looking old man around the age of the sandaime maybe a little younger. "Naruto-kun!" a newer and younger female voice calls out. That would be Ayame, Teuchi's daughter. She is younger, being only a little older that Naruto. She has brown eyes and brown hair. She is very cute to any sane man, and she adores Naruto. She is currently wearing an apron, as she works in the ramen stand with her dad.

"I'm here again Ayame-chan!" Naruto calls out just as excited as she is. But instantly loses his breath as he is grabbed into a vice like hug by Ayame.

"Where have you been all this time?" She asks angrily. "We've been worried sick about you, the last time you were here was months ago." She really worries about him and has even come to like him quite a bit. She has been really close to him ever since they first met and always feelt the need to take care of him, which is something she really enjoys.

"Ehh-heh, busy I guess, sorry Ayame-chan" He says sincerely. He hates it when she worries over him, but also knows that he couldn't live without it. He has always had a soft spot for her and has a crush on her but its a bit weird as he sees Teuchi as his own father.

"Well, its just good to have you back Naruto-kun, I'll get started on your usual order now." Teuchi says and quickly gets to work on Naruto's average of ten bowls, letting the two catch up as he knows that they like each other.

The first of many is then placed in front of him and he just stares for a while and drools over the godly smell of the ramen. "Itadakimasu" He says and devours the bowl in less than a minute.

Shortly after the reunion and everyone watching Naruto in an almost fascinated horror as he eats all 15 bowls. He and the old man say thank you and goodbye and head out of the stand. Not before promising Ayame that he will come again of course, even just to visit.

It is now getting a little dark out and Naruto is really tired and anxious to get to his new home. Soon the old man leads him into a slightly run down apartment building. Its nothing special at all but Naruto doesn't care, he has learned from early on that you should always treasure what you have. He enters through the door to room 120 and finds it to be an acceptable place to live. There is a kitchen with all the needed appliances, and a table for four with four chairs. The bedroom is small with a one person bed, but is good enough because he probably won't spend too much time in there anyway. Across from his room is a small bathroom with a toilet, a shower, and a sink. There is a cabinet above the sink for his toothpaste and other bathroom things.

"Thank you for everything today Jiji, I really appreciate it. This is the perfect place for me to live in." Naruto says after they filled up the fridge with all the healthy food they bought. He almost started tearing up, but he doesn't want to be seen as weak.

"Its ok Naruto-kun, I will always be around for you if you need help, also I would like it if you met my grandson Konohamaru, I'm sure you will both get along. Now, before you go to bed I will put some gravity seals on you. These will increase the amount of gravity you feel on you at all times. So when you take the seals off you will be much faster and stronger because you will be fighting the pressure. Also you will be able to adapt a bit when your sleeping. I'm going to start to at about three times gravity, people with your blood do have a better resistance to gravity after all which is why your skipping levels one and two.

"Ok Jiji can you do it quickly, I am really tired out from today."

"One minute Naruto." True to his word, it was only about a minute for him to finish the seals and he could tell Naruto was having trouble and started to chuckle when he heard Naruto's groaning. "Now Naruto-kun, I thought you wanted to be a strong ninja, so no complaining. I will take time off tomorrow to show you some basics and then find you a private instructor or instructors after that. Goodnight Naruto-kun." The kind old man says and shunshins out of the room.

"Man I have got to learn how to do that soon, that would be awesome. Well, time for bed, I start my ninja training tomorrow." He says quietly to himself as he forces his body to take him to his bed under all the added gravity. 'I will train harder than anyone and become a legend, everywhere I go people will recognize me. all the people will all look at me with respect while my enemies will cower in fear when in my presence.' He thinks as he lets sleep take him.

Chapter End

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