Chapter 2: A Different life

Naruto's last childhood was filled with pain. This childhood was filled with joy. It's funny how one little change could effect your whole life. In Naruto's last life, he had few friends, and no family. In this life he had friends, a brother, and a father. Naruto had become friends with many of his past friends earlier on. This had made his new life growing up a lot better. Even the adults where kind to him now. It was like his life had pulled a one eighty on him. Naruto's first friend became friends with him in an odd way.

Flashback

A five year old Naruto was taking a walk after training with his brother and father. He had been doing kunai and shuriken practice. He was sure he had already known how to do it, but he had started loses some of his memory. In fact, he wasn't even sure if it had been there in the first place anymore.

Naruto was thinking hard about what it could be that was missing in his mind, but was so lost in thought that he crashed into a crying big boned kid. When Naruto got back up, he noticed the boy had swirls on his cheeks.

"Hey, sorry about that, I didn't see you." Naruto said, grinning sheepishly.

"M...my chips, there up in that tree!" the boy said.

Naruto looked up and saw a bag of chips hanging from a tree branch. Once Naruto realized what was going on, he decided it was his best course of action to hit his face with the palm of his hand. After which he started walking up the tree, and grabbed the chips.

"Wow! How did you do that?" the boy, now with chips in his hand asked.

"It's called tree climbing. You'll probably learn it when your a genin." Naruto said with his signature wide grin.

"Choji! Come on, it's almost time for dinner!" said a rotund man wearing Akimichi armor. The man was named Chouza Akimichi. Chouza is the head of the clan the Akimichi. "Who is your friend?"

"My name is Naruto Namikazi. Nice to meet you." Naruto said. Kakashi had told Naruto to be polite when he spoke, so he decided to listen. It seemed to work well, but old habits die hard.

'The son of the fourth hokage?' Chouza thought as he looked at the boy. He certainly looked like the fourth. "Well, it's nice to meet you to."

"Dad, this boy saved my chips! He walked up that tree and grabbed them!" Choji said, amazed.

"Tree climbing, isn't that a genin level skill? When did you learn that?" Chouza asked.

"I Learned it when I was, three I think." Naruto said matter of fact like. Naruto looked at Chouza's face and had to hold in his laughter. The big mans face was hysterical.

Chouza was shocked. Naruto had to have broken a record or two for that. The kid was definitely a prodigy. This could be a good thing for the village, or a very bad thing. "T-three! That's crazy. Who even taught you how to do it? Was it Kakashi?" Chouza asked.

'Oh no, I need to think up a lie.' Naruto thought. "Um, actually, I taught it to myself after I saw someone else do it."

'He reverse engineered a C rank jutsu at the age of three! This kid must be a genius.' Chouza thought.

"Brother! Where are you?" someone yelled from behind them.

"I'm over here Menma!" Naruto yelled back. After he said it, a boy that looked almost identical to Naruto with black hair ran to them. "What's the matter? Did you use too much chakra again?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, and it blew up in my face." Menma said angrily.

"Remember the rubber ball, just do that, and combine it with the water balloon." Naruto said.

Chouza and Choji had no idea what they were talking about, but it sounded complicated. "What are you talking about?" Choji asked.

"A jutsu that I'm teaching my brother. He's learning it a lot faster then me, but his chakra is even more potent then mine so its hard to control. Anyway, we have to go. See ya!" Naruto said as he and his brother started to walk away.

"Wait!" Choji yelled as he ran towards the two brothers. He pulled out some chips from his bag and gave the chips to them. Naruto, realizing that an Akimichi giving someone food was a sign of friendship, took it and smiled at him. Menma, not realizing what it meant, and being extremely hungry from training, took the chip and ate it quickly, making Naruto and Choji laugh at the boys antics.

End Flashback

Naruto was now training Menma how to use the rasengan. Unlike Naruto's rasengan, Menma's rasengan was red. Naruto had asked about his father's rasengan, thinking that the color of Menma's rasengan might be a problem, but found out that Minato's rasengan was a sea green color, so it made perfect sense that the rasengan colors would be different.

"Your using too much chakra Menma. Try using as little as possible." Naruto said.

"I tried. My control isn't good enough!" Menma yelled back.

"Here, let me help you." Naruto said. Naruto went over to where Menma was. "Do it again, and I'll watch."

"Okay, but it isn't gonna help." Menma started using his chakra, and Naruto froze everything in place with his eye. Naruto had found out that the Doujutsu he had was only in one eye, unlike when he used it in the future. He had also figured out that he could freeze chakra. The power only lasted about twenty seconds. He had also learned that it didn't work on other Doujutsu users, when he tried to freeze the Uchiha and Hyuuga patrols. It didn't make much sense to him, because it worked on everything else, including chakra. He could even use it to freeze a genjutsu, but only for twenty seconds.

Naruto looked at his brothers work and saw that he was doing everything right except for one thing. He was only turning the chakra one way. Menma had the same problem as him. He needed a clone to do it. He deactivated his eye and watched as the jutsu died out.

"What did I do wrong?" Menma asked.

"You're only turning it one way. Make a shadow clone please." Naruto said.

Menma did just that, and, after some additional instructions from Naruto, made a perfect, crimson ball of chakra. "I did it! I really did it. This is awesome!" Menma yelled as he started messing around with the mass of chakra in his hand.

"Menma, lets try something. Lets try to combine the powers of are rasengans and make one giant rasengan.

"Sounds cool, lets do it." Menma said as he made another ball of red chakra. Naruto did the same and stood in front of Menma. Naruto held out his ball of chakra as Menma touched his ball of chakra onto Naruto's. As they did, a giant ball of purple chakra formed in between there hands. "We did it! We really did it! Its really bright. I bet the whole village can see it." Menma said, making Naruto realize that someone was watching them. Naruto turned to the person and saw it was an ANBU black ops member. Naruto looked closer and saw that it was one of the Hokages personal guards, meaning that the third was near by.

"Naruto, Menma, what is that!" The voice of said leader could be heard from the door to there house.

"It's a jutsu brother taught me!" Menma said with glee. "He says its called the rasengan!" After Menma said this, the third passed out on there lawn. Naruto and Menma made the jutsu die out and walked over to the hokage. For some reason, the ANBU (Who where way to shocked to move) hadn't even reacted. Naruto woke the hokage up with a few taps to the face, and started making lies about how he had learned about the jutsu and had figured out how to do it.

'Naruto kun, you are truly amazing. I bet that you've made your father proud.'"That's amazing Naruto. But please don't use that attack at night. I'm pretty sure you woke up the entire village."

The Next Morning

"Yes, I'm terribly sorry about that Inoichi, my son's where trying out a jutsu, and used to much chakra."

"A jutsu? Which one?" The leader of the Yamanaka clan asked.

"Please don't go spreading this. The council will go nuts if they hear about it." Kakashi said.

"You have my word. I won't tell a soul." Inoichi said seriously.

"They were using the rasengan. I have no idea where Naruto learned about it, or how he figured out how to use it, but instead of telling me he taught it to his younger brother, and combined his and his brother's rasengan."

"That would make Naruto a genius. You do realize you have a prodigy for a son right?" Inoichi asked.

"That's what I don't get. I had Naruto take an IQ test, and he only scored sixty. He has basic intelligence for someone his age." Kakashi said.

"Did you think he answered falsely, maybe trying to hide his intelligence?" Inoichi asked.

"Naruto isn't the type to hold back anything, but he has been hiding things from me. Maybe he did."

Back With Naruto

Naruto had asked if he could go to the library, which he couldn't believe he was asking, because he had overheard Kakashi and Hiruzen talking about how he must be a genius for reverse engineering the rasengan, and had realized that he had made himself look that a genius. So, to make his lies stick, he would have to become a genius.

When Naruto got to the library he made a hundred clones to start reading every book in the library. He left three hours later after learning everything, and had a huge head ache. He didn't know how he could remember every single word, but he did, and felt like his head was going to explode. He needed to know more though. He needed to become a super genius and quickly. He made his way home and was greeted by both his father, and the head of the Yamanaka clan. Before Naruto could ask what was going on, he felt the clan head enter his head. 'Crap, what if he finds out about my past? I need to stop him. But how?' Naruto thought. Naruto got an idea and activated his eyes while looking into his subconscious. Once he got there, he saw the clan head about to read his memories.

"What are you doing?" Naruto asked, covering his eye with his hand.

"I'm going to read your memories to find out how smart you are." Inoichi said simply.

"I don't want you to! Get out of my head!" Naruto yelled.

"I'm sorry, but your father asked me too. If you have nothing to hide, it shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"I don't want you here! Get OUT!" Naruto yelled as he revealed his eye and froze Inoichi and his entire chakra network, forcing the jutsu to stop. Naruto got out of his subconscious. When he got out, he saw Inoichi coughing up blood on the floor. Naruto realized that he had froze his entire network, including the part that keeps people alive. He had already unfrozen his network, but even seconds without that essential chakra could hurt someone.

"Inoichi! Naruto, what happened?" Kakashi asked as he started forcing blood and chakra pills down Inoichi's throat.

"I-I didn't, I mean I..." Naruto stuttered as he realized what he had just done.

"Naruto, I'm gonna bring him to the hospital, stay here and watch your brother." Kakashi said as he used the Shunshin to get to the hospital faster.

Naruto feel to the ground and started to cry. He had hurt a comrade, all to protect a secret. What had he done?

The Next Morning

Naruto had fallen asleep on the floor the night before, and had woken up in his bed, meaning his father had come home. Hopefully that meant Inoichi was okay. Naruto rushed down the stairs and found his father sitting on the couch with his mask off, drinking some coffee, just like every morning.

"Don't worry Naruto. Inoichi is fine. But I want to know something." Kakashi said calmly. "When did you get a Doujutsu?" Kakashi asked.

Naruto didn't know how to respond. So he told Kakashi the half truth. "I've had it all my life." Naruto said.

"Will you show me?" Kakashi asked. Naruto nodded and grabbed a glass vase. He threw it up in the air and activated his eyes. As he did, the vase froze in midair. Kakashi's visible eye widened. He thought that the Doujutsu stopped someones chakra network, but it actually froze time. Kakashi was amazed. Kakashi looked at Naruto's eye and saw the whirlpool design. His eye looked beautiful, but Naruto didn't have full control over it. The beautiful eye could kill a lot of people. He would need to train with it, or it could spell disaster for all of Konoha. "Naruto, lets go see Inoichi. We need to tell the doctors about this." Kakashi suggested.

At The Hospital

When Naruto got to Inoichi's room, he had expected to be yelled at, but was actually apologized to.

"I'm sorry I invaded your mind without permission. Please forgive me."

"No, I should apologize. I nearly got you killed." Naruto said.

"Well, I guess where even then." Inoichi said with a smile. After he said it, A women and a girl Naruto's age walked in.

"Daddy, are you okay?" The girl asked.

"I'm fine Ino. Just a little tired." Inoichi said as his daughter jumped onto the bed and hugged her father. "Kakashi, after I get out of here, I need to talk to you."

"You've got it." Kakashi said.

"Who are these two?" the woman who looked like a Yamanaka asked as she looked at the to Namikaze brothers.

"Those two are Naruto and Menma Namikaze." The clan head said.

"Namikaze? Like the fourth? He had son's?" she asked.

"Yeah. I don't understand how few people have figured it out."

Later Outside The Hospital

"What did you want to talk to me about, Inoichi?" Kakashi asked.

"I want to learn more about Naruto's Doujutsu. Would you mind if we went on a trip as a disguise to learn more about it?" Inoichi asked.

"Hmm, I don't mind. Menma has wanted to go traveling to see some other villages. As long as Naruto agrees, I guess."

"Alright. Then let's go tomorrow. I want to see just what his eye can do."

The Next Morning

Naruto, Menma, Kakashi, Inoichi, Ino, Shikaku, and Shikamaru met at the front gate at around Seven in the morning to go on a mini "vacation," Which to the younger member's of the party, felt more like torture. They just kept walking, and walking, and walking. It got to the point that Naruto and Shikamaru had to hold back complaining, while Ino and Menma did. The whole way there. When they finally got to there destination, they where extremely hot. The had traveled all the way to the sand village in just three days. When they got there, everyone had something they had to do.

'I need to get to the library and learn what I can. Hopefully, this village will have different information then what's in Konoha.' Naruto thought.

"Alright kids. Meet over at that hotel over there at eight a clock. If you need us, well be in the hotel under my name. Go have some fun." Kakashi said with his eye smile.

"I'm gonna head to the library." Naruto said.

"I'm gonna find a shady spot to look at the clouds. Troublesome heat." Shikamaru said.

"I'm gonna go find a playground to play at." Menma said.

"I'll go with the adults and get some sleep." Ino said.

"Alright then. See you all at eight." Kakashi said as everyone headed to there destinations.

Naruto got to the library at around one, and made fifty clones and had them all henge into different people from Konoha. He got done reading all the books in the library at about six. Naruto dispelled all the clones as he left and decided to take a look around the town. As he was walking around the town, he saw a whole bunch of kids playing with a red ball. He watched for a moment until there ball flew away from them. He watched as it landed next to a boy with red hair. The boy picked the ball up, and walked towards the other kids, but instead of taking the ball and thanking the boy, the kids started to run away.

"Why wont you all play with me?" The boy asked as he dropped the ball. "What did I do wrong?" As the boy said it, the sand at the kids feet started to make a hand that started making its way toward the kids. Thinking fast, Naruto jumped in front of the hand and used his eye to stop the sand in its tracks. After he did, the kids ran away and left just Naruto and the red head in the park. "What did you do that for? Why wont anyone let me have any friends?" The boy asked.

"I just didn't want you to hurt those kids. There are better ways of making friends then forcing them to be your friend." Naruto said as he deactivated his eye.

"Why do they run? Why does everyone hate me? Why can't I be happy?" The red head asked.

"Everyone can. But threatening someone isn't the way. My name is Naruto. What's yours?" Naruto asked.

"Gaara. You are the first person I've met that hasn't run away from me in the first few seconds of seeing me. Your not from here are you?"

"Nope. I'm from Konoha. I've never been here before, so would you like to be my first friend from the sand village?" Naruto asked with his sheepish grin.

"F-friend. You want to be friends?" Gaara asked.

"Yep. You wanna play on the playground?"

"Y-yeah!" So for a while, Naruto and Gaara played with each other until it was time for Naruto to leave. Naruto waved goodbye and left for the hotel. Gaara looked at the boy with blonde hair. Gaara felt a warm feeling. A feeling in his heart. He felt the feeling of friendship, and with it, he smiled for the first time in a long time.

Author's Note:

Chapter two finished. Next chapter will have Naruto befriending Shikamaru and Ino. See Ya!