The Demon Blade

by Red Mage of Balance

Naruto ran away, not only from Konoha but the entire Elemental Nation. He heads off to a place where he can gain power beyond comprehension. SasuSakuKibaCouncil Bashing. Harem and Badass Naruto. Read and review please

3. Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3- THE FORGOTTEN'S ANGER: KING AND ALPHA AS ONE

It's already been two days since Naruto destroyed the cave of Senju Hashirama and Madara Uchiha. He was outside walking around, but if you could read his mind, you'll know that he was out not for a measly walk. He was finding routes and paths wherein he could escape to. Everybody was now busy for the preparations for his sisters' birthday party and Kyuubi festival. He could not help but give out a shallow chuckle, 'Heh heh, soon this village will not be the same again' he mentally cackled. "Indeed, you will very much turn this place upside down at your plan" his inner voice agreed.

He was walking straight up, but stopped when he saw a man with a cart of cabbages just straight up the gates. "Hmmmm..." he mused as he was planning something that involved that cart. If he was at the gate at the same place at the same time as to the festival, he could use this to his advantage. For now he'll see if tomorrow he'll be on the same spot, for now he has to watch on where the ANBU would patrol for the festivities so he walked away from the gates and strolled in the richer districts. He saw some chunins and jounins jumping from the rooftops guarding everyone and making sure there was no trouble.

He scouted out each team that was patrolling today. He had to wait for tonight to see who would assign for night duty. "Hey, didn't you hear? The twins are going to sign the Toad contract from their father. I can't wait to see it!" one random chunin excitedly said to one civilian who was also seemed very happy at the news. "Really? Well that would be a sight to see!" the civilian said cheerfully.

Naruto scoffed at that. 'Fools, you shouldn't gossip that kind of information. You don't know where a spy could be, or if the person you're talking to is a spy' he thought bitterly. As he walked by on every person, he could not help but feel jealous at seeing kids being happy with their parents, friends laughing at enjoying themselves, lovers holding hands and enjoying each other's company. He never had happiness for most of his life, but now he had a chance to find it out there. He went to different alleys, walkways, store, and practically everything in where he could walk without being noticed.

Naruto made a photographic memory of each site he saw. He then noticed he was near the park, 'maybe I should stay here until the night shift come so I can see who will be guarding the festival' he thought as he went to a tree near a lake. The park was made both by Hashirama and his brother Tobirama. The trees came from the former and the water from the latter. They made this so that everyone can relax and appreciate nature. Naruto respected that as he found the park relaxing and fell asleep leaning on the tree.

When he fell asleep he didn't know what was happening in the house he lives in.

NAMIKAZE MANSION

Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze was doing some cleaning around the manor. She was already done with the downstairs of the house, and was now cleaning the upstairs where the rooms were along with the library and weapon room. She passed by the master's bedroom where she and Minato sleep. It was a very beautiful room; the walls had a leaf green tone with leaf decorations on it with linear pattern going down (okay I'm not a good designer in rooms, sue me) the floors were marble and reflected the right amount of light. The bed was king sized and above the bed was a portrait of the whole family including Naruto surprisingly hanging on the wall. She studied the portrait and smiled at seeing Minato, Narumi, and Naruko smiling around her hugging like a family, but when she saw her only son she suddenly frowned. He was just standing there, his back almost completely turned and only the top portion of his face could be seen. She may not be able to see it, but she could feel him scowling. His eyes held nothing but a bitter cold feeling in her. While he had the same shade of blue as his father, they did not feel the same way at all.

"Naruto..." she said quietly and then continued to walk in the hall with a face of uncertainty. As she continued to walk, she passed her two daughters' room. She opened to see that the room was very lively. Two beds, posters on the walls, toys of different kinds, knick knacks, everything in a child's room were there, and it was so full of life. Her smile returned as she thought of all the good times she had with her daughters, but when she thought of her time with Naruto, sadness and guilt overcame her mind. Not one time had she remembered when the family had a happy moment with Naruto after the twins were born. In fact, there was nothing they all did together with Naruto. She now realized that every time Naruto comes home from the academy he marches to his room and stays there until dinner, and when dinner comes he just eats as fast and quiet as he can and leaves in his room for the rest of the night.

Even more guilt washed over her as she remembered the shared birthdays him and his sisters have. In every birthday, the twins get tons of presents from friends, clans, shinobi, and civilians. Naruto on the other hand didn't get a single one for the last five years, and whenever a party is held in their home; Naruto would just disappear or try not to get himself noticed by being quiet or staying away from others. There wasn't even a person who told him "happy birthday!" or even look for him, not even them his family. She wasn't even sure if he had friends at all. 'Wasn't he supposed to be well known in the academy?' she asked herself in her mind.

Then another thought hit her. She knew nothing of his capabilities as a ninja. What's his specialty? What field does he he lacks in? What type of ninja he could be? Ninjutsu? Taijutsu? Genjutsu? Even chakra control? She had blanks on him. She didn't even know how he does in the academy while they watch their daughters practice in the training field while Naruto was ignored. They know nothing of his abilities. Then another guilty thought: they haven't trained Naruto in the clan arts. He is nine for Kami's sake! Heirs were supposed to be trained half that age! Yet they haven't taught him anything. She was sure Naruto didn't even think he was an heir to their clan. She felt the weight of the situation finally hit her.

If she were sum up her son it would be that he was a shadow, a phantom, an enigma, a person that has no public identity. She could not hold it in any longer and cried tears out as she fell to her knees. 'I failed my son' it was simple, but it sums everything up about her family. She got up and closed the door to her daughters' room. She walked with tears still in her eyes as she reach corner of the hall and went to the other side. In the right corner of the hall, there was one room that the whole family never bothered to go to; Naruto's room. As she made her way to his room's door, another fact came to her. She has never been inside the room ever since he became four. The simple mahogany door stood beside her and the room of her neglected child. She put her right hand up and was now going to grab the door knob. When her hand reached the knob, ink marks started to form on the door. The ink was then starting to form into intricate designs and finally stopped a few seconds later. Her eyes widened when she saw the complex seal array. Her eyes could not believe what she saw. "How does Naruto know these seals? These are things even jounins find hard to grasp the basics let alone the advanced" she said to herself.

It was true. Seals are complicated and complex arts. The potential of a seal user is limited to their imagination, but you need a wide range of knowledge on seals to know how to make and create. But when she saw the seal or rather seals on the door, she could not believe Naruto took it well for someone his age. There were a total of three seals in the door. One was a blood seal; it can only be deactivated by the blood of the user or someone they incorporated it with, and as long as it is active it will block away any attempt to deactivate or disfigure with the object it was drew upon. Second was a warning seal; it will warn the user if it detects any foreign chakra signatures that have disturbed object/s or person/s that it was put on. Third was a sound seal; it blocks away any sound that comes in or out of an area giving everyone a moment of privacy. Kushina was amazed at Naruto's ability to combine all three with each other for one purpose; complete and utter isolation.

The thought worried her. Why would Naruto make these kinds of seals unless he doesn't want anyone coming in. "Naruto... why?" she silently wondered. She decided to wait for... wait, where IS Naruto? Has she ignored him to the point where she doesn't even pay attention to what he does every day? "I'm a bad mother... I'm not a mother at all, well to Naruto I'm not" she finally concluded. She turned away from the door and went downstairs forgetting her original purpose of going up.

As she reached the couch in front of the fire place in the living room, she sat down and looked at another portrait that was the same as in her room. She felt exhausted, not physically but mentally. "I guess the realization was overbearing" she mused with herself in a shallow chuckle. She just realized that she ignored her son after SIX FUCKING YEARS. She just stared at it for what seemed like hours for her. Then suddenly the portrait dropped to ground, breaking the glass in the frame. The picture was also close to the fire in the well fireplace. The picture was starting to burn so she quickly grabbed the family portrait to save it. As she shook a small flame out, she checked the condition of the picture, and to her shock everyone was there except for one person, Naruto. The fire completely burned him out of the portrait. To Kushina, this was a very ominous sign. Her heartbeat was faster, sweat was pouring out of her, her breathing was fast and deep and her mind was going on a mile a second. This was not a good sign.

HOKAGE OFFICE

One Minato Namikaze was sitting his desk and doing what he hated the most as well as all Kages: Paperwork. He was stamping through requests, files, reports, etc. He was right now reading on the academy papers since in a few months a new batch of genins will be graduating. He was first reading on the reports of his daughters' batch. It seems that the heirs and heiresses are showing the strength of their clans and his daughters were doing quite well. He smiled proudly knowing that with the training they got from both parents were showing fruit. Now if he could teach them some sealing... Before he could go further, he then checked the batch that was going to graduate and he was shocked to the core.

He scratched his eyes, not believing what he was reading.

Student Name: Naruto

Clan: N/A

Bloodline: N/A

Age: 9

Academic Performance:

Showing signs of being a prodigy.

Perfect in all academic and practical aspects

Intelligence level is near that of a Nara

Youngest person to graduate from academy breaking Hitomi Uchiha's record.

Able to do basic academic jutsus without seals

Shown to have interest and ingenuity in fuuinjutsu

Performance Percentage (Academic Standard):

Ninjutsu: 100%

Genjutsu: 100%

Taijutsu: 100%

Weaponry (Range and Melee): 100%

Chakra Control: 100%

Other Skills:

-Stealth: Perfect

-Information Gathering: Perfect

-Assassination: Perfect

-Tracking: Perfect

- Medical Arts: Perfect

Evaluation:

Mindset is that of a ninja in war. Healthy in both mind and body, he is what made many ninjas famous. Though he lacks social skills and has not been seen communicating with other students unless told to do so by instructors. In spars, he shows absolute focus and could bring down bigger and older opponents. Skills were that of Orochimaru and Hitomi Uchiha in all aspects when they were in the academy. The only thing he lacks is trust in his comrades and opening to his fellow ninjas.

Minato, after finishing reading the report had a gobsmacked face. "Why haven't I noticed this before?" he asked himself. He kept rereading the report about his son and there were two things that really caught his attention: his name and status. His family names weren't written and it said he has no clan. This wasn't right. Couldn't they see the resemblance between him and his son?

I mean sure his hair his red, but his hairstyle is the same and his blue eyes are almost like his. 'Why didn't he tell them he was my son?' he asked mentally as he rechecked everything. He was surprised that Naruto was that skilled. Hell, he was compared to Orochimaru and Hitomi Uchiha who were prodigies in their time. He was shocked that Naruto was already graduating this year, and what made him uncomfortable was the fact he didn't even know. Something told him that Naruto wasn't showing his full capabilities in the academy even with the grades he got. Then there was another, how could he be the rookie of the year when they taught him nothing. 'Nothing' his mind repeated. The thought filled him with shame. His son was this good without them, yet what would happen if they did teach him?

Minato just felt shame overcome him. He, like Kushina, realized how much they screwed up on their first child. Naruto was already graduating so young, so fast and without them being there to help him. "I need to know more about Naruto, and maybe I can talk him to maybe hold back for three years. He should enjoy life a little more" he said and then rechecked his report, "Maybe that wouldn't be good considering his results. I'm too late to try and talk him to reconsider. At least I can do is congratulate and support him like a father" Minato could only shake his head in shame. He dropped the report in the table and was about to grab another when his hand tipped the ink bottle and it smudged the report about Naruto. He tried to get it out as fast as he can and now when he looked at it; everything was fine except that Naruto's name was now forever stained with ink.

"I don't like this" he said to himself.

KONOHA PARK

Naruko and Narumi were wearing expensive looking silver kimonos and were accompanied by their friends Ino Yamanaka in a purple kimono, Hinata Hyuuga in a lavender kimono and Satsuki and Naomi Uchiha who were both wearing navy blue kimonos. They were accompanied by Hiashi Hyuuga and Himiko Hyuuga who was carrying a 3-year-old Hanabi Hyuuga. The girls were talking to each other and enjoying leading their guardians to the park as they were greeted by everyone with smiles and waves.

The girls were all having fun gossiping amongst each other as they were walking and enjoying the views of the park and now nearing the playground. "Alright kids, play safe okay? We'll be in the benches" Himiko said as she let Hanabi go and she ran to her sisters and friends. All the girls nodded before running off to the play sets. The couple couldn't help but smile and laugh seeing the children having fun and enjoying their time.

They were all chasing each other in a game of tag and they were laughing, chasing, and practically just ran with so much happiness that would bring a smile to even the most sadistic people in the world. The girls decided to go the swing set and all of them were enjoying it feeling the wind blowing on their face as the swings were making them go to high heights. Little Hanabi wanted a little drink considering she was sweating, and the day was a little hot so she asked her mother to help her drink in the fountain.

Himiko then carried Hanabi to the fountain and helped her drink in it by carrying her and to support her as she drank up the water. Himiko was looking around the park when she noticed a speck of red in a tree near the lake of the park. She activated her bloodline and saw that the person was a child around nine years and looked like a mini-Minato with red hair and whisker marks on his cheeks. Himiko's eyes widened at seeing someone who looks like Minato with hair as red as Kushina's. 'Wait a minute, didn't Minato and Kushina have a son?' she thought in her head. She was trying to find in her mind the answers to her question, but she was taken off by a shake in her arms. "Kaa-san I had enough. Kaa-san!" Hanabi shouted waking her mother from her trance.

"Oh sorry Hanabi-chan" she said as she let her down. "You can go back to them" she said and Hanabi ran back to her friends. Himiko calmly walked towards Hiashi. He could clearly see some uncertainty in his wife; it was like she forgot something VERY important.

"Hiashi-kun? Did Minato and Kushina... ever have a son?" she asked him with some hesitation. Hiashi was surprised by this. "Yes, I think they did" he answered after looking to his memory. He remembered that both showed them a son around 9 years ago in the Hyuuga manor. After that, they would let him in their home and Minato bragged become a father first out of all of his peers. But now, he never saw the boy or just hasn't noticed him after the twins were born. This is troubling.

"If that is so, how come is it that I forgot about him? I should know since Kushina would show me her children. I don't even know or, if not, remember his name" she was worried for some reason. You don't forget your best friend's son's name (well I do). "Nar... Nari...Naruto?" Hiashi was trying to remember until he hit the mark. "Naruto" Himiko repeated, and then all memories she had of him returned to her: Kushina showing him to them, Naruto playing with her, their walks in the park with him, and even his birthday. Birthday, Himiko faced Hiashi with fear in her eyes. "Hiashi, when is his birthday?" she asked him in fright. Hiashi was trying to remember some facts about Naruto. His eyes widened is shock, "October 10th the same day as the twins" he answered her. Himiko was in a panic attack. "Have we ever given him anything? Presents? A happy birthday?" she panicked out. Hiashi could only look down and shake his head no. "We haven't. I mean how can we? He always blends in to the background, he is very quiet, and he practically doesn't want to be noticed. What kind of child would do that?" he asked her.

"Now that you point that out, I never saw him walk with his family around the village" Himiko said as she moved to sit with her husband in the bench. "I think that child might be neglected by everyone around him. What should we do?" she asked in a sad tone. Himiko loved children; she didn't want to see one suffering physically or emotionally. It tears her heart seeing one being tormented one way or another. Hiashi comforted his wife. "Let's just talk this one to Minato and Kushina alright?" he tried to make her feel happy. Himiko only nodded as she tried to fight the tears away.

When they looked back at front they saw all the girls standing and looking at them with curiosity. "Kaa-san, is something wrong?" Hinata asked her. Himiko shook her head no as she tried to make a happy smile but there were traces of sadness in it. "Narumi-chan, Naruko-chan" she called the twins. The two girls looked straight in her eyes in wonder. "Yes" both twins answered her. "Do you have a brother?" she asked them softly with sadness. The twins' eyes widened at this.

"Yes we do. Naruto-nii-chan" Naruko answered with a smile. "But he doesn't want to play with us" Narumi said with a sad frown on her face. Himiko suddenly remembered all the times she had with Kushina and Minato and now Naruto. How could she forget a child? She tried to smile happily at the kids, and almost failing miserably.

"Well, why don't you ask him to play with you now? He's over there by a tree right now" she said pointing to the tree where he is sleeping. "Yeah maybe he'll join us this time!" Narumi cheered as she grabbed her friends to take them to their brother.

WITH NARUTO

He was still sleeping, minding his own business, and was enjoying his alone time. That is until someone scram at his head. "Naruto! Get up! Someone is here!" Naruto suddenly jolted up surprising the people who were looking at him. The twins and their friends were shocked at how fast he got up. He looked behind him to see the shocked looks of his sister and friends. They could only look in surprise and fear at seeing his cold blue lifeless eyes.

Putting his hands in a ram seal, he disappeared in a puff of smoke and leaves.

Everyone was shocked seeing this. Hiashi and Himiko were shocked at seeing a child, who is not even a decade old, was able to do a chunin level justu.

They did not notice the eyes that were looking at them from a distance. Naruto sighed in relief at avoiding them. "We have to leave. Sooner rather than later, Naruto you must now prepare. Tonight I will give you something useful" the voice said as Naruto shunshined again further away from everyone.

WITH MINATO

"Jiraiya, what brings you here? Hopefully not your "research"." asked Minato while he was putting away the academy reports out but kept Naruto's seeing as it was a very bad omen.

"What can't a man visit an old student?" said Jiraiya.

"So besides peeping on women, why are you here?"

"The toads summoned me and told me a prophecy similar to the one they gave me earlier."

"Really?" asked Minato. He remembered when Jiraiya told him the prophecy the toads gave him. "What did they say?"

"The prophecy said the chosen one is a child born from two powerful shinobi and has a great inner power within. There is more but it won't be revealed until later. I assume it means its either Naruko or Narumi because they met the Kyuubi when they were three. And was hoping you would let them sign the toad contract." Minato nodded in understanding what his old sensei was saying, but then frowned when he thought about Naruto.

"So you believe it's one of them? What about Naruto? He could be it too." asked Minato

"Possible but, how is he in the academy though?"

Minato gave him Naruto's academy report. Jiraiya scanned every detail and was shocked at his student's son's performance in the academy. "This is identical to Orochimaru's own, maybe even better than his! How did he manage this?" Jiraiya practically shouted.

Minato just sighed and rubbed his temples and practically had a look of desperation. "I don't know. I don't know anything at all about him. I mean what kind father am I to not know that he was already graduating? Not knowing he's about to become an adult even only barely a decade old!" Minato dropped his head in the desk with a thud. Jiraiya could only feel sad seeing the state that his student was in.

"We taught him nothing, yet this is how far he already went. I can't ask him to stop now because I have no right. What should I do sensei?" Minato begged Jiraiya near tears. Jiraiya was stomped. He didn't know what to do since he was never a father, but looked at Minato like a son.

"Maybe you should try talking to him, and me too since I never really been a godfather to him too and I think Tsunade think so too. Maybe we should all meet and talk with him. Hope that he would talk to all of us" Jiraiya advised and Minato nodded. "Alright sensei, let's go to my place and talk to Kushina and Tsunade, since she's already there I think" Minato and Jiraiya left the office, but not without Minato bringing Naruto's academy report.

WITH KUSHINA

Kushina was right now in the living room drinking tea with Tsunade sitting across her so they can talk. Their conversation was like Jiraiya and Minato's own about Naruto and Kushina was very depressed. Tsunade was also thinking sad because she hadn't been a good godmother either.

"How could I neglect one of my own over another? Mito-sama taught me better than that" Kushina cried out as tears went down her face. Tsunade walked up to her and hugged her for comfort. "I know what you mean. I haven't been a good godmother to him either" Kushina cried in Tsunade.

Just then they heard the door opened and came in the twin sisters. They looked kind of shocked, sad, and afraid. When they went to the living room, both went to their mother who quickly whipped the tears away. "Hello girls. How was your day?" she asked with a pained smile that both sisters didn't notice. "We saw nii-kun at the park..." Narumi started then started to look at the ground nervously. "Then he poofed away in what was it called again kaa-san... a ... shu-shun..." Naruko tried to pronounce it.

"A shunshin?" she asked shocked. "Hai!" both said at the same time.

Kushina was shocked even more. Naruto knows a chunin level move?

Then the door opened again and this time it was Minato and Jiraiya walking in. Minato saw everyone was in the living room and saw Kushina was depressed even if she was hiding it. "Hello Minato-kun" she smiled like before but with greater pain.

As all of them were now gathered they all started to talk about Naruto and how much they neglected him since the twins were born. The twins were sad about that fact but the parents told them it wasn't their fault it was theirs, but the twins kept it was theirs and turned to a debate.

Kushina was now crying tears at seeing that her daughters were at fault here. Minato then remembered that it was close to Naruto and the twins' birthday.

"I have idea that might help. After the birthday party I'll be starting his training." Minato replied trying to comfort his wife. Kushina looked at Minato with a smile on her face.

"I bet he would love that!"

"I hope he will."

"Hey where is Naruto-kun?" she asked wondering where her son could be at. The twins said that they last saw him in the park before he vanished via shunshin.

"He can do the shunshin?" Minato asked with a gobsmacked expression. Jiraiya and Tsunade too were surprised. Not every child could do a high-level technique like that. How much has Naruto done on his own?

As they were talking amongst themselves, the subject of their matter came in walking to the stairs.

Naruto has just entered the house (not calling it a home) and quickly and quietly opened the door and headed to his room. Right now, he was walking silently in the living room and bothering to take notice of everyone present in the room, and he was listening to some tunes in his I-pod and letting the cool music soothe his ears (right now he is listening to Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park- kind of fits don't you think). He expected everyone in there to be happily chatting and preparing their presents for the twins... blah blah blah blah. So imagine to his surprise when he felt a hand on his shoulders.

He did something that was taught to him in the academy:

When someone you don't want enters your circle, remove the threat immediately

So he quickly went to get a kunai from his pouch and swiped at the person connected to the offending limb. Minato was surprised that Naruto was quick in his reflex and barely got a kunai of his own to stop his attack. When Naruto saw who it was, he just put the kunai away and continued upstairs as if nothing happened.

Everyone was too shocked to move or reach out to him.

Naruto reached his room and deactivated all the seals to finally being able to open his door and enter his only safe haven. Right now he practically threw himself to the bed and catches a few Z's.

Downstairs, they finally went through shock, "Why did Naruto do that?" Minato asked more to himself as he just stood there with kunai in hand. The twins and Kushina finally stood up and went to Minato. Jiraiya and Tsunade decided to answer as to how they perceived it. "I think he thought you were a threat Minato" Jiraiya said as he analyzed Naruto's movement in his head.

There was no wasted movement, all were flawless. If Naruto was bigger, he could have at least cut Minato.

"When someone enters your circle, you remove the threat immediately. That's something the academy always teaches" Tsunade explained as she remembered that saying all too well all due to a certain pervert in the room. After hearing the word academy, Minato finally remembered the reports on Naruto.

"Did you know that Naruto is going to graduate in a few years?" Minato told everyone, and all were amazed at it except Jiraiya since he already knew. "That's not all" Jiraiya stated.

"His performance is equal, if not better than Orochimaru's own" Kushina, Tsunade, and the twins were now very interested. Minato took out the reports and everyone was amazed and saddened by this.

"He did this without our help" Kushina's sad voice rang out as to see how much he has done without them, but what could he be if they did help him. Now he was going to graduate, and they can't ask him to hold out for a few years. They didn't have the right to do so.

"Let's try doing this tomorrow okay? We'll talk to him after dinner and maybe we could know more about him" Minato suggested which made Kushina and the twins happy to have a chance to reconnect with the estranged Naruto.

Jiraiya and Tsunade left so that the family can go with their plans without their interruption.

A FEW HOURS LATER

Kushina was cooking dinner, making the family's favorite food, ramen. She was hoping that the family can be whole again after how much they haven't done anything for Naruto. After she was done cooking she placed it on a serving bowl and put it in the table, set-up by the twins.

Dinner came and Naruto came out of his room, with a black t-shirt and black sweats. When he got to his spot on the table he felt like there were eyes on him. He looked up and to his surprise his 'family' waiting for him, with smile on their faces. Even Narumi and Naruko seemed to be waiting for him, usually they would be attacking the food by now especially when its ramen. 'What the hell is going on here', he thought to himself.

'Maybe they finally noticed they have a son and a brother.' Replied Hollow Voice (that's what I'm going to call him now or HV for short) who saw what Naruto saw.

'We'll see about that.' Naruto took out his chopsticks to eat his ramen. When he ate the first bite, the family started eating their ramen. This confused Naruto a lot just what was going on to make his family change?

"So Naruto how was your day?" asked Kushina who actually wanted to know her son's day. Naruto was shocked his family actually talked to him. He was a little happy that he was finally getting attention, but that was easily washed away with anger. 'So now they notice be after all this time! Whatever! This changes nothing!'

'Good answer Naruto they don't deserve forgiveness, not right now at least.'Naruto inwardly nodded to HV.

"Nothing special," he replied in a quick, monotone voice and went back to his food. Kushina frowned at his answer and how he answered. Narumi quickly jumped in.

"So brother, what was your lesson in the academy?" She asked.

"A waste of time, that's what it was." He quickly replied finishing his ramen. She frowned at his answer; it felt as he didn't even want to talk to them. Minato watched the conversation or lack of one. He was getting the same feeling as his daughter. Wanting to get him to talk, hoping to break the ice with a joke.

"A waste? Really? Are the lessons stillthat boring?" asked Minato.

"Yes." was Naruto's simple reply.

"What were they teaching now a day?" Naruko asked him.

"The parts of Chakra and the elements."

"Well the theory is quite boring but the lesson is still important less-"

"You misunderstand. I never said the lesson was a waste." Naruto interrupted.

Minato raised an eyebrow in confusion and so did Kushina. The twins were also confused because he thought it was so boring and useless. Minato was curious on what he meant. "So what did you mean then Naruto?" asked Minato.

"It was a waste of time because I already know it" Naruto then walked over to the sink and started to wash his dish. Shocked that he already knew it a supposedly advance subject, Kushina broke out of her trance and saw Naruto about to wash his dish.

"Naruto, I'll wash it for you, you don't have to, ok." Said Kushina, Naruto continued to wash his dish.

"Its fine, I don't to burden you or waste any time of yours. I'm able to take care of myself." He replied without a glance at his 'mother'. Shocked at her son's reply, started to get depressed and tears started to gather in her eyes. Minato was just as shocked as Kushina and also felt depressed. 'He thinks he's nothing to this family.' They both thought, with a fire in their eyes, which was going to change no matter what.

As Naruto finished cleaning his dish they finish eating their ramen. Since they were eating ramen they finished it quick. Naruto started to walk back to his room till his father called him to the living room and said that they were having a family meeting. 'Such irony' Naruto thought but went to the living regardless. Saw that his mother and sisters were sitting on the sofa, leaving a spot for him to sit between them, while Minato sat across from them. He raised his eyebrow slightly at their attempt to bring him in. So he decided to lean against the wall next to the them. Kushina, Minato, Narumi, and Naruko frowned at this, but their determination didn't falter to bring him back. Minato decided to start it off.

"Naruto, me and your mother have some news that you'll like," Minato said. Naruto stared at him with his glacier-like eyes, making him flinch slightly but continued. "After your birthday, tomorrow we will be starting your training in the family styles." He said. Kushina nodded with a smile, believing that it worked.

"Does that mean brother will be training with us?" a hopeful Naruko asked. Both Kushina and Minato nodded and the twins glowed with happiness. Minato looked at Naruto and was shocked at him. His face was still cold and expressionless, his eyes, unlike his bright sapphire eyes, his were frozen glaciers. His face didn't twitch, even the slightest. Both Kushina and the twins were shocked too; both thought that Naruto would be happy that he was finally getting to train. Kushina was certain that this would work.

"Naruto aren't you excited? We can now train together!" exclaimed a confused Narumi. Naruto turned his cold dead eyes at her.

"No. I'm not. Should I be?" he stated in monotone voice.

"Why Naruto? Don't you want to learn our taijutsu styles? Don't you want to be strong like me and your father?" asked Kushina trying to get Naruto to reconsider.

"Naruto, why don't want to train with us?" asked Minato, trying to figure out he doesn't want to train with them.

"I gave up on learning from your styles when you refused to teach me when you began to teach Naruko and Narumi." Minato and Kushina were shocked and curious why their son didn't want to learn their style and jutsus and be strong like them. Broken out of their thoughts when Naruto spoke, "you didn't want to train me then so why start now? I'm coming along quite well without you." stated Naruto in a neutral tone. Both his parents were greatly saddened and hurt when he said that. But before they could reply, "Which brings up another question, why do want train me now? I have a few of my own theories on why you would. Guilt is the first. You feel guilty that you neglected my training so you offered to train but would stop as soon as you felt better. Second, is perception. As Hokage and clan-head, it would look bad if any child of yours wasn't strong or was weak. Finally is the village. If one of the village's 'weapons'," Minato and Kushina cringed when he said that and were appalled that their son would think like that. " was defective or not adequately trained; 'it'would not be able to be used for the village." Naruto finished without a single twitch of a muscle or inflection of his voice. His family was wide-eyed and mouths agape. They were stunned and disturbed by their son/brother's rant. They were thinking a mile a second trying to comprehend on what he said. Naruto seeing that they weren't going to saying soon, decided to head to his room.

"Well if that is all then, I'll head to my room. Good night." Naruto finished and went to his room leaving his 'family' shell shocked at his rant. Kushina and the twins started to break down and cry. Minato, comforting both crying girls, trying to understand why would Naruto draw to such conclusions, he look down at both Kushina and the twins. The twins were babbling 'Why Naruto? Why?'. Kushina was in a similar state as his daughters. He decided to take them upstairs and put them to bed. He first drops off Naruko and Narumi to their room then Kushina to theirs. He puts Kushina on the bed and sees her face and eyes red and puffy from crying. She looks up and says "What do we do now?"

Minato sighs and looks up at the ceiling "I don't know. For once I don't have a clue on what to do." He looks back down at her and moves to sit next to her. He stares at her, uncertainty and doubt in his eyes. "I just don't know. The only thing I know is... I'm not gonna give up on bringing him back." proclaimed Minato. The doubt and uncertainty gone from his eyes replaced with raw determination. Kushina sees this, her resolve to get her son back renewed by her husband. Both settling on their renewed determination, decided to go to bed

NARUTO

He was in his room, lying in his bed sleeping. But right now he was doing something not many people can do; he was entering his mind. As he entered, he saw everything was nothing more than a void of darkness, and misty white clouds flowing in his feet where he stands.

"It's finally time for us to meet, Naruto" HV's voice was heard echoing throughout the area. Naruto was looking everywhere to the source of the sound. "Behind you" Naruto turned around and was surprised to say the least. HV was practically his mirror image. His height, structure, hair, etc was exactly a copy of Naruto only everything in him was ghostly white (like hollow Ichigo). He was also wearing a mask with no eye holes in it, and had four vertical stripes that were thinning as it went down making it look like triangles. His clothes were all white also (Espada uniform).

"You... you're the voice that's talking to me all this time?" Naruto shouted as a rare moment of showing emotion. HV just nodded, and Naruto quickly regained himself. "I have waited for this moment ever since my creation. I waited patiently for you to finally become strong enough to leave this place. I know you have questions, so ask them now"

"Okay first, What are you really?" Naruto asked.

"To answer your question, I have a question of my own. Did you remember the details of your sisters' birth?"

"Which part exactly?"

"Remember when you frantically ran back to your house?" Naruto nodded.

"When you ran through a cloud of red that you thought was sawdust was actually chakra of the fox" Naruto was shocked. He ran through highly toxic chakra of a demon and lived!

"When you ran through it, bits of it were absorbed in you. The chakra that came inside of you was the spiritual half of it. As it came inside of you, it tried to find something to feed off of you. As time went by and your 'parents' ignored you, it finally found something to consume, your negative emotions. Sadness, anger, hate, envy, and others were eaten by that chakra. As time went on, the chakra manifested itself to create a form, me. Yes, I am the personification of all your negative emotion"

Naruto absorbed it all. He finally understood everything about the creation of the being in front of him. "Tell me, why are you helping me?"

"Because what you want is what I want. You and I are mere two sides of the same coin. I am you and you are me. But I am far stronger than you are now" Naruto seemed perplexed. How could he be stronger than him when he said they were the same?

As he thought of this, HV vanished suddenly and got behind him. "Huh?" was all he could ask before HV vanished again and started flashing around Naruto. "This is what I can do and so much more" he then stopped and pointed his finger in the opposite direction of Naruto and soon a ball of black energy formed at the tip and fired a black beam away from them. "Now you see the difference of our power. As I said I am stronger than you currently are" Naruto was amazed and shocked to the core.

That kind of power would make an army cower before him; it was terrifying yet amazing. "Wait! How come I don't have that kind of power?" he asked. "You will have this power, but not yet" this confused him but HV explained further.

"You will have it, but not until we unify" Naruto asked "Unify?"

"They only way for us to do that is if you defeat me" Naruto was gobsmacked, "How am I suppose to defeat you with that kind of power?"

"That is why you must leave. Get stronger outside, since in here your resources are limited. You can only so much from the scrolls of your 'family', the library and your academy. The whole world is out the waiting to be explored. You need to become stronger, so WE can become one" Naruto understood now. To beat him, he needs power. Power he can't get here, not with limited knowledge. He needs to learn outside, think outside the box and explore things he hasn't tried or experienced.

"Now I will teach you what I can for you right now. You can't do that cero yet, but you can use sonido" "Cero? Sonido?" asked a confused Naruto. "I'll talk about them in a later date, for now we train"

And for hours, he practiced sonido and now it was time for Naruto to wake up.

NARUTO

Naruto groggily woke as he was trying to stand up. As he stood he tried to do a sonido, and to his joy he could do it without any problem.

Naruto looked at the clock next to his nightstand and saw that it was ten thirty in the morning; Naruto sighed and started getting dressed. He was wearing a black shirt, a dark blue pair of pants and black shoes; he then made his way to leave through the front door. As he made his way to the front door not even bothering to look at his family as they ate their food for the morning when Minato came up to him and stopped him and said to him, "Naruto I know I haven't been the greatest of fathers but I do care about you and your well being so I want you to have this," he then went into his pocket and pulled out a tri pronged kunai and gave it to Naruto.

Naruto looked at the tri pronged kunai and then looked over at a family photo (one Kushina replace with a copy to make sure none would get worried) everyone was smiling happily in except for him in the background he had a frown on his face and several feet away from them. Naruto then launched the kunai at the photo aiming for his face in the photo; the kunai hit exactly where he wanted it to hit, the family were stunned by Naruto's action.

"Does that explain everything" he said in a dead tone. Naruto then stormed out of the house leaving to parents realizing just how much they have messed up, Minato only gapped at what his son had said as fear tears started to fall down his cheeks, Kushina was crying her eyes over how much pain they had let her son suffer through the years, while Narumi and Naruko tried to think of ways to gain back their brother's trust again as they wanted to make amends no matter how long it would take they would do it no matter what.

Naruto was goingto a training grounds to clear his mind. He practiced sonido and tried to do some taijutsu move while doing it.

His training had gone well mastering sonido he was panting heavily and was covered in bruises from several crashes, during the training he had a great idea thinking it would be best if he learned how to dodge people with it just in case. So he made as many shadow clones as he could practiced moving around while they tried to catch him. It was a good idea and harder then he thought it would be. The clones kept moving around forcing him to react quickly which caused him several times to crash into a tree.

Naruto looked up and saw that it was starting to get dark, Naruto allowed his body to relax while he took some deep breathes. When he regained his breath he looked back t the city of Konoha and said out loud to himself, "soon it will be over soon… I will be free of them… just five more days." Naruto then started walking back to the estate knowing what he will be in for when he got there, he would leave this place.

Back at the Namikaze house Kushina was being comforted by Tsunade and Minato while she was crying her eyes out. The twins left going to the Yamanaka flower shop visiting their friend Ino but also to clear their head to think better on how to get Naruto back into the family. Minato felt guilty about what he has done (or lack of) and wondered what he could do to show Naruto that he did care for him. Kushina had guilt washing over her completely over what she had let her son go through and wondered what she could have done, crying on Tsunade. Tsunade was also starting to feel guilty because she had also favored the twins over Naruto in training her as well, hell she doesn't even remember if she had a gift for him on their birthday.

Jiraiya soon entered through the door and saw a crying Kushina being comforted by Tsunade and a tri pronged kunai through the family picture where Naruto was in it.

"What did I miss," Jiraiya asked. Minato told him about the events starting from last night at dinner to this morning; Jiraiya had a frown on his face and sighed, guilt coming over him as well for the same reasons as Tsunade. "Well you aren't the only one Minato I haven't exactly been a good godparent myself,"

"Yeah do you think that if I teach Naruto the Rasengan he'll forgive me?"

"Possibly I think I'll let him sign the toad contract as well who knows Minato I may end up having both of your kids as my apprentices, but I'm sure if he says no then Tsunade will let him sign the slug contract."

The two men looked at Tsunade to see if she would agree to she had a smile on her face and nodded showing that she agreed to it, Kushina smiled thinking that soon her baby boy will see that he does matter to people here and be back feeling that he belonged with them. Minato went over to Kushina and cupped her cheek making her look at him and said to her, "Kushina I said that I wouldn't give up on Naruto until I brought him back and I intend to do just that." Kushina smiled thinking that everything was finally going to start getting better again after this whole ordeal is over. She would do her best to make amends hopefully having him feeling like he belongs here at the party.

Four Days Later

Naruto woke up and took a quick look at the clock and saw that it was only seven in the morning after he said quick good morning to his two friends and sensei's he activated the seal he made on his door to let him know if people entered the room and quickly got dressed wearing a grey pair of pants with a black shirt and ran down to get a bowl of cereal before his family woke up and tried to reconnect with him after he finished his bowl of cereal and orange juice he placed the dirty dishes into the sink, as much as he didn't want to he had made a note telling them that he went out training.

After an hour that Naruto left the house, Naruko and narumi woke up really happy since today she was going to go visit Satsuki and Naomi.

They both went to go the usual morning routine of brushing their teeth. After that they changed while Kushina went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the family, and Minato reviewed what he was going to teach Naruto.

The twins ran through the halls and appeared in front of Naruto's room. She was scared to open it. They never has been inside Naruto's room before so they didn't know what was in there. Too scared to go inside Naruko decided to knock on the door instead hoping Naruto would answer.

"Naruto," Narumi said while knocking on her brother's door. She got no answer, and knocked once again only to have no answer once again. They put her head against the walls to hear any noise but heard nothing. Assuming that he wasn't there, and still scared to go into his room, the twins went to tell their parents.

Naruko and Narumi quickly went to the kitchen where both Minato and Kushina are. Kushina seeing the sad look on the twins' faced asked, "What's wrong?" they looked at her and replied, "Naruto isn't in his room" shocking both Minato and Kushina.

"Did you check his room?" asked Minato.

"Well we knocked and got no reply and I'm scared to go into his room," Narumi replied with a frightful tone.

"Why are you scared?"

"That's because I've never been into his room before, and I'm scared Naruto will be mad at me." Minato and Kushina were surprised since they too have never been in Naruto's room and wondered what would be in there. Naruto seemed to be in there all the time so they assumed there was something in there for him to do, but doesn't remember getting him anything that will allow him to stay in his room all day.

"How about we all go to Naruto's room then, would you like that Kiyomi?" said Kushina, which Kiyomi nodded in reply. The three of them quickly went to Naruto's room and stopped when they are in front of Naruto's room. Slowly Minato opened the door to his room, and when it opened all three of them were surprised by what his room looked like.

His room was the very definition of plain; it didn't look anything at all like a child's room at all.

Naruko, Narumi, Minato, and Kushina frowned at how plain his room was. Not a single decoration, on the walls. They looked around his room and noticed a bookcase. Filled with book, mostly advance even Minato would have trouble reading some of the books on the selves. The books were ranging from romance novels to history books; there were many kinds of different books.

"Naruto can read these books?" said a surprised Minato. Kushina and the twins remained silent; amazed at how smart Naruto was. After a minute or so of being surprise they looked around his room once more. They noticed something on his desk.

It was a small stack of paintings and drawings that Naruto did. They looked through each one and were shocked at how much of an artist Naruto was. These paintings he did were almost as good as professional artist. The painting they saw where mostly about nature, but they were very beautiful. There were three paintings in particular that caught all their eyes.

The first one was a painting of four people. One yellow haired man and girl, and one red haired boy, and two red haired women, all five of them seemed to be very happy. The four of them knew that the painting was about them and Naruto. Minato who was holding the painting turned it around for Kushina and the girls to see. They saw Naruto's signature and when he painted this. It said that he painted this when he was around six, but something shocked them. What shocked them though was the title of the painting. The title was called 'Family', after reading it Kushina and the girls became sad, but quickly let it go. They were going to make it up to him that's a promise.

The next painting was very shocking. It was a painting of both Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama facing each other with their clan insignias over their heads. It was entitled 'Inspiration' on it. Why would he paint two of the strongest ninjas in the world?

The last and scariest painting was on body with two faces. One side was Naruto in black clothing and the other half had Naruto's hair only white with a white mask with four black triangular stripes going down and he wore all white. At the back it was entitled 'The true self'. It was terrifying to say the least.

They didn't understand what the drawing meant but it showed them as two complete opposites which confused them, they then turned it around to see if they could find a meaning to the painting or something that could describe what it meant. They then turned back to the desk and saw a journal it was a dark black leather bound book, they then opened it to one of the first entries and saw that it was the date they refused to teach Naruto.

Mom and dad refused to teach me today, I don't understand why they get everything all the training, friends, and presents. I never received anything. Does anyone even know my birthday, or even if I existed?

The Namikaze family was saddened by this and flipped the page to the next page.

I suddenly hear voices in my head. It counselled me and it understands me (does that seem familiar to anyone). I don't know why it's there but it became my friend, my guide, and my support for my sanity and life. I think it wants to help me.

They were scared and confused at the entry. What voice was in his mind, what was it telling him, was this voice friendly or not? All these questions needed to be answered, and they went to more pages for answers

I finally get to see who's voice it came from. I entered my mind, a skill I got from hours of meditation, and I am surprised at what I see. I won't go to details of what he is, but he is incredibly powerful. I mean he kept flashing around me as fast as Minato's Hiraishin for Kami's sake! His other ability is what really scared me. He shot a black beam that could destroy almost anything in its path. He said he can teach me that flash move, sonido, but can't teach me that beam attack yet.

That caused their eyes to widen in surprise. This thing might not be good for Naruto. But they knew it will only cause more damage if they try to talk him out off it.

That was the last entry in the book, when they looked at the date they saw that it hasn't been updated in a while. They need some information now.

They came out of their daze when they heard a knock, they turned around and were surprised to see Naruto standing in the doorway to his room covered with sweat and had a annoyed expression on his face, "can I help you?" Naruto asked coldly and with a slight tinge of anger in it.

Kushina came forward and told him, "Naruto breakfast is ready we were coming to get you but you weren't answering so we came in to get you."

While Kushina was talking to Naruto Minato activated a seal on his arm storing the journal and several of the paintings inside and decided to bring the information up with Tsunade and Jiraiya thinking that maybe his sensei had anything about this.

"I've already ate, I went out training after I finished my breakfast now if there is nothing else you need then could you please leave I want to alone right now."

Minato stepped forward and told him, "yeah but maybe something small then alright to help you regain your energy."

Naruto stared t them with blank face that many poker players would want to have, after a few moments he sighed and said, "alright fine give me a couple minutes though."

They nodded accepting the answer and then left the room; after they were gone he made his way over to his desk to see what they took. After a minute of searching he saw that they took a couple paintings and his journal.

'Damn… doesn't matter the entries are a bit old and I haven't added any new entries in awhile.'

"While that is true, however they might get suspicious and question you on who I am.

'they may, but nothing will stop me from leaving. I've come too far to lose now, no matter what happens no matter who tries to stop me from leaving, I will leave, and no one is going to stop or change that!'

"And I will be there for you every step of the way."

Naruto smiled at that last bit, he then got rid of his shirt and got a new one he took out a sealing scroll for storage and stuffed some ink and other seals for some ideas to make his escape easier in a few days. He then sighed and went down to the dining room to get them to leave him alone for a little bit.

When he was done their he only had a couple pieces of bacon and then headed out saying he was going out, before he left he turned to Minato and sent a small glare his way and said, "and no ANBU Minato."

That caused Minato to flinch, after Naruto left he sent a signal for a Anbu to come, after a minute an ANBU wearing a bear mask entered the room and asked, "lord Hokage what do you need?"

"I need you to get Jiraiya and Tsunade now, tell them that it's important."

The Anbu nodded and left the room trying to find the two sannin, after he left Naruto activated the seal and released the contents in said seal. When the paintings and journal were out he placed them on the table. Kushina came over to get a better look at the paintings and couldn't help but be amazed by his work she knew that this was the work of a great painter who had spent years working on paintings. She was happy that her son was a great painter and felt saddened that she had never even bother to notice.

What kind of mother was she? She knew everything that she could about Kiyomi; she knew her strengths, her weaknesses, her friends, her fears, and her friends, and her favorite foods.

What could she say that she knew about Naruto, 'oh I think he likes ramen?' She didn't even know his favorite flavor for god's sake!

She was brought out of her thoughts when she felt a hand on her shoulder; she gasped and turned to see Tsunade looking at her with worry. "What's wrong?" Tsunade asked. She gave her Naruto's diary and read through what they read.

Tsunade understood now; they were afraid of him forever being away from them

"So what do you need," Jiraiya asked as he entered the room.

"We need to know if you know anything about this" Minato gave him the diary. "I'll try asking the toads about this" Jiraiya vanished via shunshin to get to work.

Naruto was currently resting on a training ground, panting heavily from the exercise he just did.

"Naruto are you ready you should head back you got a big day tomorrow, tomorrow is your big day after all," VH said.

'Yeah I should,'

Naruto then stood up and started heading back; tomorrow was his birthday and escape after all. The less people suspected something from him the better.

NAMIKAZE HOUSE

"Any luck?" they heard Minato's voice ask and they turned around and saw Jiraiya with a completely straight face.

"I found absolutely... nothing"

"Nothing? Nothing at all?" Minato said seeing Jiraiya nod.

"The toads have nothing on this. Even the oldest have nothing"

"The only person who knows what this really is Naruto but if we ask him it could cause more damage than good," Jiraiya said.

"I suggest we wait a bit after we fix things up and then ask him, is that alright."

The two parents nodded and then returned the journal to its rightful place and waited for their children when the girls entered the room they had thinking look on her face and said that they had a good time over at Satsuki's house.

When Naruto entered the house he sent a nod their way and said goodnight to the twins. As he entered his room the twins then entered theirs after saying goodnight to them as well.

The two parents wondered if maybe things would start to look better soon, maybe after all this is over.

Tomorrow

"Mom! Dad wake up! It's ours and Naruto's birthday!" shouted the twins, jumping on their parent's bed waking them up. Minato and Kushina groaned as they woke up.

"Girls calm down. Why don't you wake Naruto up and we can walk around the village and see the festival preparation, and we will visit the clan heads and your friends," Minato replied. They nodded and ran to Naruto's room, while Minato and Kushina got up and smiled at their daughters antics. They knocked on the door but turned around when she heard Naruto and told him what their parents told them. Naruto nodded and told them that he would be getting ready. They ran down leaving Naruto who went into his room and he quickly changed into his normal gray pants and a dark gray t-shirt, he threw his dirty clothes into his dirty laundry basket. When he was done getting ready he closed the door behind him, forgetting about the plan he left inside his dirty pants pocket, the one he made last night. He went downstairs and ate breakfast with his family and they left the house to walk around the village and clan houses.

The Namikaze family made it to the Hyuuga compound. Minato knocked on the door, and Hisashi, the clan head, answered it to see Minato and Kushina with their children. They could tell that Naruko and Narumi couldn't wait to talk with her friend, and Naruto who… well they couldn't tell his emotion.

"Hello Minato, nice of you to make it" greeted Hiashi, who is a good friend of Minato.

"Yo Hiashi, how's it going." Replied Minato, Minato looked around the house and noticed a clan certain arrogant clan head missing. "Where's Fugaku?" he asked.

"Fugaku said something about not having time for childish things like get together," Replied Hiashi. Minato laugh "Dude got a stick up his ass that's for sure!" Hiashi chuckled at his friend attitude, after quick greeting from the rest of the family Minato and Kushina went to the adults to talk about things. Kushina glanced back at her children and hoped that they were at least starting to get along.

The girls looked at Naruto determination in her eyes. "Naruto would you like to play with us and our friends?" Naruto looked at them like they were crazy, didn't what he did yesterday mean anything to them? He wanted to say no until in the corner of his eyes he saw Kushina looking at them hoping that they get along.

Then something came into Naruto's mind and he mentally smirked. 'If I pretend to forgive them, then they'll probably get off my back about things, which will make it easier for me to escape. Thinking they have won so they wouldn't need to worry about me that much.' He looked at the girls' still determine face and nodded, "Sure that would be nice."

They quickly dragged Naruto to their friends which were Ino, Hanabi, and Hinata, since they were the only girl there really because it was a clan head family get together. As both twins and Naruto sat down, Ino, Hanabi and Hinata greeted them but were looking at Naruto. Naruto just shrugged it off and greeted both of them ignoring their looks. After a minute of awkwardness Ino, Hanabi, Hinata, and the twins talked like little gossip girls. Naruto groaned closed his eyes and turned his I-pod on (Engel- Rammstein) and listened as best as he could. Naruko and Narumi saw this and frowned but understood that he didn't understand girl talk (neither do I).

While the clan heads was walking with each other and watching their children interact. Minato was currently talking with Hiashi, Shikaku, Choza, and Inoichi, while Kushina was talking with the wifes of the clan heads but really she was paying most of her attention to Naruto. She saw his eyes closed which she thought that he was sleeping and it made her frown because he was interacting with anyone. It made her start to think that Naruto doesn't have any friends, and was lonely his whole life, which made her even more sad. Since she was part of the reason why he was lonely, because she played favorites and neglected him over the wins, not listening to her motherly instinct instead, listening to Minato and her ninja self, something she now regretted.

After two to three hours it was noon, and time for the Namikaze family had to leave so that they could prepare for the party and to see the festival preparation. During the clan visit, after Naruko and Narumi finished their girl talk with Ino, Hanabi, and Hinata, They tried to get to know Naruto better by asking him question, which he gave them answers and they started to talk. He pretended to enjoy being around his family.

During the walk in the village, everyone greeted the Hokage and his family. During the walk Kushina, and Minato noticed that Naruto was talking with naruko and Narumi. "It seems he forgives us" both Kushina and Minato thought, as they continue walking.

After an hour Minato decided that it was time to go home, so that they could prepare for the birthday party.

When they reached inside the Namikaze home Kushina looked at her kids and said, "Why don't you three clean up and change for the party." Naruto and the twins both nodded and went to their rooms. Kushina went to change and cook for the party, while Minato got the decoration ready. Luckily he put some seals around the house that were used for the Flying Thunder God Jutsu, which made it quicker for him to decorate.

Hours Later (Time 6 P.M)

It was six p.m. time for the party to begin. The Namikaze house was filled with friends, children, and adults. There were the clan heads and their family, the third Hokage's family, Naruto and the twin's godparents Jiraiya and Tsunade. There was also some jonin shinobi's who were close friend to Minato and Kushina, one of which was Kakashi, Kurenai, and Yugao who was once a student to Minato, and Kushina.

The twins were currently talking with her friends which where Ino, Hinata, Sakura, Hanabi, and some girls in her class. There were also some guys that hanged with her like Shikamaru, Kiba, Couji, and Shino. The twins though was not engaged into the conversation instead they were trying to find Naruto. Earlier when they finished helping their dad with the decoration, they waited for her brother to finish his nap. She waited for a while but then the guests started coming and quickly their friends assaulted them.

Naruto himself was standing in the corner away from the crowd where no one can see him. He was currently observing the party watching everyone and how the party was progressing, so that he would know the right time to escape.

About an hour as passed and he finished eating dinner, and still observed the party as it progressed. He smirked when they started to take out the alcohol. 'Now all I have to do is wait till they're all drunk.' He thought to himself.

Thirty minutes later most of the adults were drunk one including Minato, though he wasn't as drunk as the others. Naruto knew it was time for him to leave. He got up to go to his room, but someone bumped into him; it was Kushina. "Naruto, where are you going?" she asked. "I am going to sleep. I'm very tired" he said faking a yawn. Kushina wanted him to stay and enjoy the party, but he was tired so she let him go.

In his room he got his things ready and checked if he had everything he needed. In his backpack he had a few things in his backpack holding his possessions. He also brought kunais, and shuriken for practice. Extra clothes consisting of two shirts one gray one black, one black combat pants, and undergarments.

He packed his things and put on his backpack. Put on his shoes, opened the window and looked at his room once more before he would leave. Looking over at his table he saw a stack of his artwork. He saw two painting, the ones that his family was looking at earlier in the day. He picked one of the pictures up and put it in one of his scroll. After he pulled out a kunai sliced the other picture making it break, and jumped out of the window when he finished. He was lucky the gate was opened for incoming people that might be late to the party. He sneak passed a couple of drunken people and exited the gate.

In the village Naruto could see many people still celebrating. Children playing the games and the festival, while the mothers watch over them or talking to their friend,the men were mostly drunk from the many alcohol drinks that they drank.

Naruto went through the festival, making sure no one saw him. He hated the fact that the house was on the opposite side of the village from the main gate. So it was going to take him forever to reach the main gate, since the other gates where closed for the ceremony to make sure that if there was an attack they would have to come through the main gate.

It already took him an hour to get the festival and only the beginning. It took him forever because he had to take long routes and make sure no one spotted him, not even the ANBUs. He sighed thinking about how much more distance he has left, and the many people he would have to hide from in the festival. He inwardly groaned, this was going to take forever.

Later on

The time was nine, about an hour since Naruto left. The party doesn't seem to be getting smaller or tiring down, if anything it seems to be getting wilder. There were karaoke coming from the living room, with many more drunken adults singing, the children were running around the house. Minato, who was slightly drunk since he didn't drink much, quiet everyone down.

"Now then it is time for Naruko and Narumi to open their presents." Said Minato when everyone quiet down and was listening to Minato. Naruko and Narumi, who heard what their father said, smiled in happiness. For a while now they have been sad because they haven't found Naruto. But the mention of present brought her out of her sad thoughts. The only thing in her mind at the moment was their presents.

First off was Jiraiya who walked up to them with a giant scroll. Many people were wide eyes knowing what the scroll was. Tsunade though was fuming when she saw the scroll she wanted to give them the summoning contract to the slug, but apparently Jiraiya beat her to it.

"Girls, I want to give you the toad summoning contact," Jiraiya said. Their eyes widened. They knew what the toad summoning from what their father told them, and also wanted to summon toads like their father. They started to jump in glee. Jiraiya chuckled while everyone laughed.

"Now sign here with your blood." Jiraiya said pointing to the blank space next to Minato's name, they bit their thumb so blood could come out, then they wrote their names the best they could. After it was done Jiraiya closed the scroll and Minato came up to them telling them that they will have extra training so that they could summon the toads.

After they opened all the presents, which consist of clothes, toys, and things from her friends, and clan heads, their mother though got her a wooden katana and said that she will be teaching her in the family Kenjutsu style, which got them happy. Minato gave her some of his special kunais and said he will start preparing her for the more advance stuff of his training.

Minato was a little worried because he hasn't seen Naruto during the party and hoped that he was fine.

"Don't worry about Naruto. He went to his room to sleep." said Kushina. Naruko and Narumi frowned, their plan was ruined, but they didn't want to bother Naruto either. They sighed and went back to their friends.

When kushina saw everyone going back to party, she slipped away from the party to go check on Naruto. She was surprised to say the least when she saw his room's light was on and decided to enter the room.

She opened the door quietly and looked around the room. The only light was from the moon. She found the light switch and quickly switched it so the light would turn on. She looked around the now lit room and was shocked to not see Naruto frown. She thought that he probably went to the restroom or something so she waited, might as well wait for Naruto while he was awake to tell him goodnight.

While waiting Kushina looked around his room and saw the basket holding Naruto's dirty laundry. When she looked inside she saw a piece of paper slightly hanging out of one of Naruto's pant pocket. Curious, she pulled the paper out and read it. She gasped and then quickly ran out of the room and back to the party, looking for Minato. She quickly found Minato, who was in a group talking with some of the clan heads. She quickly ran to them.

Minato saw Kushina coming up into the group slightly panting with fear, and worry written all over her face.

"What's wrong Kushina?" asked Minato.

"It's Naruto," she replied who didn't get to finish when Minato interrupted her.

"What about Naruto?" Minato interrupted.

"Naruto is leaving the village!" she shouted loudly that the whole party heard and stopped what they were doing to look at Kushina. Minato was shocked to hear this.

"What do you mean he's leaving the village?" Minato asked rather loudly.

"I went up to his room to check up on him but he wasn't there, but I found this not on his desk," Kushina said handing the note to them.

Minato quickly took it and read what it said. His eyes widened when he finished. Kushina broke down crying, "He didn't forgive us," she said while sobbing. Minato himself felt even worse, he relooked over the plan and noticed that there might be a chance to get his son back.

"Dad is Naruto really gone?" Naruko asked wearily. Minato looked at his daughters; he looked into their eyes and saw fear. Fear that what they heard was true. Minato didn't want to answer so he turned away. Naruko and Narumi saw what her father did and somewhat understood what it meant and broke down crying. Minato himself felt even worse.

"ANBU!" shouted Minato. Then some ANBU appeared in front of Minato kneeling.

"What is it Lord Hokage," Said an ANBU wearing a bear mask.

"Find my son Naruto, and make sure he doesn't reach the main gate!"

"Why lord Hokage?"

"Because Naruto is planning on leaving Konoha, and I will not lose my son!" shouted Minato getting angry that the ANBU has not left yet.

The ANBU quickly left, doing what they are told. Minato himself was preparing to leave when he was stopped by couple of Jonin, Jiraiya, Kakashi, the clan heads excluding Fugaku.

Minutes later everyone was ready including Kushina. Minato looked shocked to see Kushina. "What are you doing Kushina?" asked Minato.

"Helping to look for Naruto what else," she replied getting annoyed of why they haven't left yet, and Minato questioning something like this.

"No you can't, you have to stay and watch the children. Don't worry I will bring Naruto back." With that Minato left, leaving an angry Kushina before she could say anything.

Mikoto and Himiko who were there went up to her long time friend. "Go find Naruto, we'll stay and watch the kids." Mikoto told Kushina.

"Thank you Mikoto, Himiko" Kushina replied, and started to leave.

"Bring your son back! We might even continue the party" Himiko shouted so Kushina could hear.

"I will!" replied Kushina, with that she disappeared via shunshin.

Later on

Naruto finally got outside of Konoha, though it took forever. He easily got passed the guards at the gate since they were knocked out from drinking too much. He signed to himself; it took him forever to get here after dodging people and making sure not to be spotted. He was lucky the festival pretty much reach all the way to the main gate.

"Finally out of that god forsaken village," said Naruto with relief and rare happiness.

"Still you shouldn't relax yet, your still in Konoha territory." HV told Naruto sounding slightly tired. He was right even though he was right outside of Konoha, it didn't mean he should relax, since he was still in Konoha territory. He inwardly nodded to HV, but noticed that when he talked he sounded a little emotional which was odd. He wanted to ask him what was wrong but felt chakra signals, that brought him out of his current thought. He cursed to himself, when he sensed that they were all jonin to ANBU level shinobi.

Quickly he hid himself behind a tree and tried his best to conceal his chakra, hoping no one and sense him. After waiting for a while he saw a few jonin pass by him. When there was no one left he got out of his hiding spot and began running again, only to stop when he noticed about three people waiting for him. He cursed to himself since he knew now that his plan was going to fail.

In front of him stood Kakashi, Jiraiya, and Hitomi, Naruto stopped a few yards away from them, staring at them with impassive eyes that hid a great fear, since they were some of the strongest in the village.

"Naruto you need to come home," Jiraiya said. Naruto glared at Jiraiya and Kakashi two people he didn't really care for, since they both were somehow related to his father. One being his teacher while the other being his student. But both were both strong something he respected that about them...a little bit because they forgot about him as well.

"Why would I do that?" Naruto said in a cold dead voice that scared them somewhat since it was coming from a child.

"That's because your father, mother and sister want you back home."

"Sensei, Kushina, Naruko and Narumi want you home so you all can be a family again." Said Kakashi jumping into the conversation hoping to change Naruto's mind about leaving, he frowned when Naruto face didn't lighten up.

Naruto now glared at Kakashi and replied, "Since when have I been considered family. I was never considered family to them. I was neglected and ignored for what? Only because Naruko and Narumi contains the Kyuubi" making Hitomi, Kakashi, and Jiraiya to flinch

Naruto seeing Hitomi, Jiraiya, and Kakashi flinched tried to run but stopped when he saw them also move. Naruto examined them and noticed that Jiraiya and Kakashi stood in front while Hitomi stood a few yards back.

Seconds later Naruto felt more chakra signal he mentally cursed to himself. He didn't want his plan to fail, all that planning for what? Only to fail, no he will not allow that. He had to think of something, anything quickly.

"Naruto, don't hide your true power anymore."

'Are you sure?'

"Yes"

"My father?…my mother?…my sisters?" Naruto questioned as he moved his hand to the seal on his arm, thinking that now is the time to show to show them what he can do. He deactivated the seal and suddenly felt heavy all of a sudden.

Jiraiya looked at the sea and wondered where he learned it, after a couple seconds of examining the seal he realized that it was a gravity and chakra seals. The chakra seal were stranger because it wasn't the same design as an Uzumaki origin.

"Oh, so you noticed the seal's capabilities eh? Well this is not an ordinary chakra seal. This one CONSUMES my chakra like a leech allowing me to limit my chakra pool, and when I release it all my chakra back to me, giving me my fullest capabilities (Inspired by Zaraki Kenpachi). And now the gravity seals are gone, I can move even faster" he explained shocking everyone.

"Take this. Earth Release: Hell's Ascend" he went to a series of hand seal and slammed his right hand down, and soon spikes of earth shot up randomly forcing the three to jump out of the way, giving him an opportunity to run. So ran he did as he was fast as a jounin.

As Naruto continued running, a red blur passed by him and stopped a few feet in front of him, making him stop. Naruto now saw who was in front of him glared at the person. For the person in front of him was his mother Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze. She wore her battle gear, but without her katana since she had to rush.

How Kushina found Naruto was rather difficult when she started looking she thought that he was probably in the forest of Hi no Kuni (Fire Country) already, so she dashed her way to the forest. When she got there she started looking but noticed Itachi. She asked him if he had found which he answered no and they went their separate ways. It was only luck that she found him, because of footsteps she heard like someone was running. She followed the sound and shortly after she found her son.

"Naruto,k why are you leaving? Is it because of us? If so then we will make it up to you" Kushina asked Naruto sadly hoping to change Naruto's mind about leaving.

"Please you had your chance years ago. I've even tried to become a family yet all of you pushed me away for what? Because the two has Kyuubi powers" said Naruto in his voided voice. He wasn't done yet, he was by far from done, since he was leaving anyways might as well tell her everything not liked she care anyways.

"I've always tried to do anything to become a family but every time, you ignore me, always choosing them over me! I stopped trying because I know what will happen", he continued, making Kushina sadder than before.

"But that doesn't mean you should leave! We can make it up to you!" responded Kushina

"Like I said you lost your chances about two years ago. You neglected and ignored me over the twins. Now it ends"

"But she had to be trained to control the Kyuubi's power, also Minato said so, and he knows what is best." Naruto replied with cold facts.

"So what? That doesn't mean you have to neglect me, you could have always gave me books on chakra or maybe the basics anything. But no, you just pushed me away like I'm some kind of fly. I decided to become strong on my own, but I can't go beyond if I stay here. Living a life of loneliness is not how I want to spend my life"

Kushina's eyes widened in surprise and then Naruto threw down a smoke bomb and made several shadow clones after the shadow clones he immediately used Sonido to get out of the smoke and gain some distance.

Kushina made several clones to chase after them followed one herself.

After that encounter Naruto made his way to the border simply waiting for them to come. After a while he saw Minato, Kushina, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Hitomi, and Kakashi appeared a couple feet in front of him. Naruto couldn't help it but smirk.

This caused all the people to look at him with confusion until he pointed down, they looked down and they all saw that they were on top of a large seal for containing them, the seal activated causing a dome to appear around them and also taking their chakra away from them at the same time.

Minato however managed to avoid it and quickly throwing tri-pronged kunai he vanished in a yellow flash heading straight for Naruto, only for Naruto to vanish as well and hit him in the face and throw a seal on him to paralyze him. Everyone was surprised to say the least and thought, "when and how did he learn the Flying Thunder God Jutsu."

"If you're wondering, that was not the Flying Thunder God Jutsu that was a technique called Sonido. This technique beats your jutsu because it is not limited by a kunai and is more versatile." Naruto said in a monotone voice.

"Naruto please stop we can make it up to you," Minato said trying to convince him to change his mind.

"I'm afraid Minato Namikaze that he is dead set on doing this" A dead voice said It came from Naruto, but it wasn't his voice.

"It is time for me to reveal myself" Naruto was starting to shake. His skin and hair started to become pale white. His clothes were morphing and changing color from black to white. He closed his eyes and soon, bony fragments started to form in his face, creating a mask. The same mask they saw in his painting.

"At last I finally get to see the people who helped in my creation" HV said now fully out and shocking everyone. "If you are wondering, Naruto let me out. I'm sure you read the diary and saw me in his painting?" HV mocked them. Kushina, Minato, Jiraiya, and Tsunade were able to finally put the dots together. "You... You're the voice that Naruo hears" Minato said.

"Indeed you are correct. Due to you negligence, I was there taking good care of him"

"You're nothing but a bad influence to him! You're the reason he's leaving!" Kushina shouted at HV.

"You are badly mistaken. I never make his decisions, he does. I only help when in need of advice and it's up to him if he follows or not. I would never put him in any danger since if he dies so shall I"

"You're lying! Why would you help him?" Minato shouted

"Because I am Naruto"

Shock quickly went in for all of them. "Me and Naruto are two sides of the same coin, when he gets stronger so will I. That's why we are leaving; to become stronger. He was inspired by two of the strongest ninjas to have ever lived in this world, Hashirama and Madara"

Soon another memory of Naruto's painting of the two individuals flashed in their minds.

"With that I bid you all a farewell. Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze is dead and never coming back" HV used Sonido to get away as soon as he felt more chakra signatures coming, ignoring the pleas for him to come back.

True to his word, Naruto is dead, and a new being has come to life.