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In this chapter we will see how Naruto's disappearance affects the Hidden Leaf. As this is a fan fiction I am hoping that no one will be too upset at the changes that I make to the storyline. This won't follow canon to the letter and some characters will not be the same as they were I the manga, or anime. I hope you enjoy the chapter. Let me know what you think.
A Hero's DNA.
Chapter 1: Orochimaru discovered. Lord Hiruzen approaches.
6 years later,
Orochimaru sat in his dark study underground and reviewed all of his notes on the data he had gathered over the past six years. He named the boy experiment 583 and he was happily amazed by his findings. The boy's physical conditioning was flawless and his cognitive abilities were off the charts for his age. Orochimaru began to shake with the anticipation of what this boy could do for him.
"Lord Orochimaru?"
"What is it Kabuto?"
Orochimaru had found the silver haired, glasses wearing, child on a mission while working with the leaf elder Danzo, who also controlled a division of anbu known as ROOT. He instantly noticed the child's usefulness so he took him under his wing. In the year Kabuto has been with him, he has make significant progress with 583, much to Orochimaru's pleasure.
"I have just been informed that none of the children you injected with Hashirama Senju's cells survived the process. The experiment was a failure."
"That is disappointing to be sure, but it isn't a complete waste. Perform autopsies on all of them and bring me your findings."
"Yes, Lord Orochimaru, if that is your command."
Kabuto closed the door and went back to the labs. Orochimaru went back to studying 583's progress. It seemed that he had gained his father's innate genius. And of course his mother's large chakra reserves were also passed down. Orochimaru had even succeeded in breaking through the seal and releasing a larger amount of the Kyuubi's chakra into Naruto's system, though the seal repaired itself too quickly for any significant physical change to occur.
"I believe it is time to speak with the boy once again." He said to himself as he left the study in search of his experimental goldmine.
When he reached the boys cell he peered in and saw the child meditating on top of his bed. His skin was an ivory color, and his blonde hair had begun to show reddish streaks as of late.
"Well boy it seems that your Uzumaki blood is gaining dominance. We will have to balance out your body again. We don't want any one part of you taking over now do we?"
"No Lord Orochimaru, we don't" The boy responded.
"And how are you feeling?"
"Same as every day."
"Have been communing with your beast?"
"Kurama isn't a beast Lord Orochimaru." The blonde boy said defensively. He didn't like people seeing the fox in a negative light.
"I almost regret cracking the seal before. If I didn't know any better I would say you are plotting with the demon fox against me."
"I could never do that to you father." The boy said passively. His voice almost void of emotion.
"We shall see." Orochimaru said as he walked away chuckling.
He had a powerful jinchuuriki under his control and with the modifications he made to the boys genetic structure the boy was sure to be unstoppable when he would mature. And then when he was ripe for the picking his body belonged to Orochimaru himself.
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Hiruzen looked out his window at the village with sadness in his eyes. In three days it would be October 10th. In three days the village would remember the hero of the leaf who died to protect them al from the nine tailed fox. And in three days what should have been the happy birthday of Minato's child Naruto, would instead be remembered as the day the Fourth Hokage, his wife Kushina and their child were killed to defend the village Hidden in the Leaves.
He remembered that day well. Along with an anbu team, he found the cold bodies of Minato, and Kushina near the altar used to seal the Nine Tails. They found the remains of a charred up baby on the altar pedestal and after doing a DNA test, it was confirmed to be the remains of Naruto. Hiruzen and the village mourned the loss of the Fourth and his family.
Tensions had originally rose about how the Nine Tails was released or his seal in the first place. The Uchiha clan were one of the first to be accused of the crime but that accusation was later refuted and the clan was proven innocent of the crime. Hiruzen knew that something had to be done after this so he appointed a member of the Uchiha clan, Michio Uchiha the father of Mikoto Uchiha, to be one of his advisors as well as an elder of the Leaf Village. Doing this allowed the Uchiha to feel more connected to the village and relations had never been better.
Even though the Leaf Village was prospering again, Hiruzen felt like a failure over the death of Naruto. When Minato sealed the Nine Tailed Fox into his son, Hiruzen knew that it was up to him to protect the boy. And he to there too late. And to make matters worse there were rumors that his student Orochimaru had been conducting vile experiments on the children of the Hidden Leaf. Many have gone missing over the past few years, and most of them were shinobi. Hiruzen had squads of anbu out searching for evidence on the matter and he truly wished that they didn't find anything.
"Lord Hokage!"
Hiruzen looked to the door to his office which had been quickly opened. An anbu with a dog mask, and silver hair had barged in.
"What is it anbu?"
"We found something. It is true, about Orochimaru. We found underground tunnels with dead bodies in it. They were all children."
"Where is he?" Hiruzen asked as anger filled his eyes.
"We don't think he is on to us yet, a strike team is waiting on your order."
"Arrest him, I want him alive so that I can make him pay for his crimes. Tell them I will be there shortly."
"Yes sir."
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"Lord Orochimaru, we need to move at once!" Kabuto informed him as he ran into his study.
"What is it Kabuto?"
"A team of anbu have just infiltrated the tunnels they will be on to us shortly."
Orochimaru grabbed his research files and sealed them into a large scroll. He handed the scroll to Kabuto.
"Take this and leave. I will follow shortly. Go to our 5th laboratory in the Land of Tea. This is all of my most important research. Time is of the essence Kabuto. Don't fail me."
"Yes Lord Orochimaru." Kabuto used the Body Flicker Jutsu to teleport outside of the tunnels and made his quick escape.
"Well I guess it is time to finally leave this forsaken village."
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Kakashi Hatake, anbu black ops member, ran through the tunnels with the rest of the anbu team. They had located a total of twenty seven bodies of children who had obviously been experimented on. It made him sick to think that a fellow shinobi would do such horrendous things to his own village.
"Dog, there is an open door up ahead."
"Search the room quickly and watch out for traps." Kakashi responded.
The team stormed the room and located several more bodies of recently deceased children. It appeared that they had only perished a few hours ago.
"This is all just so wrong." An anbu wearing a cat mask stated.
"I know what you mean, to do something like this to children, it's against nature." Another anbu responded.
"Wait guys do you hear that?"
"Here what dog."
Kakashi moved over to the pile of bodies on the ground. He gently moved one from the top ad saw a hand moving.
"One of these kids are alive!" He shouted.
The other anbu ran over to help move the dead bodies off of the living child. He had brown hair and a leaf forehead protector on as well as a Chunin vest.
"A child, a Chunin at that age."
"I was one at a younger age." Kakashi said passively.
"Wait, dog, isn't he the one who was thought to have been kidnapped by Hidden Rock ninja on an escort mission?"
"Yes I believe so. Tenzo, I think his name was. Well he needs medical attention now. Cat take him to the hospital."
"But what if you encounter Orochimaru?"
"This child needs our help more."
"Yes sir." Cat grabbed the bow and flickered out of the tunnels.
"When will lord Hokage be here?"
"Soon. Let's move on."
The group came to a point where the tunnel split into three passage ways.
"You two go left, you two go right, and I will take center." Kakashi said to the other four anbu members.
"Will you be ok by yourself?"
"I'll be fine, now go there may yet be other survivors."
Yes sir." The four anbu said simultaneously.
Kakashi quickly ran down the hall until he found himself in a large room filled with what looked like jail cells. They all seemed to be empty.
"What is this place?"
He looked around the room until a voice shook the silence.
"Hello, who are you?"
Kakashi turned around to see a child no more than six years old sitting in a cell. The child looked somewhat familiar. His skin was ivory white, and he had long spikey blond hair, with red streaks throughout it. His eyes were the weirdest part of him though. One was a cerulean blue hat looked very familiar with the blonde hair. The other was a luminescent green that look natural and pure.
"Who are you?" The boy asked again.
"I'm an anbu of the Hidden Leaf Village."
"You should leave this place, father won't like it that you are here."
"Father."
"Orochimaru. He doesn't like visitors."
"Orochimaru is your father!" Kakashi was bewildered by the statement. Upon further inspection he noticed the shape of the boy's face and the red hair against it. The blue eye was so familiar. "Sensei?"
"Well how good of you to join me here Kakashi Hatake."
Kakashi spun around to see Orochimaru approaching him.
"I never expected you to be the one to find this place, though with who your sensei was, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised now should I."
"Orochimaru you are under arrest for crimes against the Hidden Leaf Village." Kakashi said shaking slightly from the snake's presence.
"Kukuku, oh Kakashi you humor me. Do you really think that you are strong enough to capture me? I am a Sannin after all."
"I will not allow to harm another innocent soul."
"Such conviction. Sarutobi sensei has really pushed through to you hasn't he. No matter I cannot allow you to get your hands on my child now can I."
Orochimaru made several hand signs quickly and slammed his hands on the ground.
"Reverse summoning seal!"
The cage that the blonde haired kid was in began to glow behind Kakashi and suddenly the child vanished from the room
"What did you do with him?"
"Oh I just sent him somewhere a bit further away. Can't have you getting into too much trouble with me now can I."
Kakashi knelt d0own and his right hand began to glow and crackle as the sound a one thousand birds filled the room.
"Oh my, your Chidori, I have heard stories about that jutsu."
"Actually this is my more powerful Lightning Blade, and you are the first to witness it." Kakashi ran towards the Sannin at incredible speed but the snake flashed away and appeared behind the anbu. Orochimaru grabbed Kakashi and threw him against a nearby wall with such force as too indent the ninja into the concrete.
"Poor little Kakashi, first you lose Obito, then you kill Rin, followed by the death of your sensei. And now I get the pleasure of killing you. I will definitely enjoy this."
Orochimaru opened his mouth and a sword came flying from his stomach. As he gripped the blade's hilt the snake laughed maniacally preparing to strike down the Anbu ninja. He raised the sword into the air.
"Goodbye Kakashi."
As he brought the blade down a large black metal pole crashed into him forcing him away from the young anbu.
"Orochimaru, your time is up."
"Why hello there Sarutobi sensei. I'm so glad that you could join me."
"What are you doing Orochimaru? How could you betray me like this?"
"Like how you betrayed me by giving the title of Hokage to Minato Namikaze. Well let's look at how that turned out kukuku. How must it feel Sarutobi sensei to know that you failed so horribly with your students? Even Jiraiya is a shadow of his former self now, ever since his student died."
"I will stop you Orochimaru." The third said.
"No, I will leave this place. But I promise that I will return and when I do, I will burn this whole insufferable village to the ground." Orochimaru said with venom in his voice and a demonic look in his snake like eyes.
"I really have failed you so." Hiruzen said sadly.
"You should be proud Sarutobi sensei. Your student has surpassed his master and will bring this shinobi world to its knees, kukuku. Farewell sensei." Orochimaru seemed to merge with the ground and he was gone.
Hiruzen stood, too shocked to move for the moment. He was snapped from his thoughts by a groaning noise.
"Kakashi!" He ran over to the anbu in the wall. "Are you ok?"
"I will be. Damn that really hurt."
"I will get you some help."
Lord Hokage?"
"Yes."
"Are you sure that Naruto is actually dead?"
"Why would you ask such a thing, of course he is dead. You saw the body and the coroner reports."
"I just saw a child, and I swear he looked like Minato sensei." Kakashi passed out as he finished the sentence leaving Hiruzen in a state of shock. It was impossible. Naruto couldn't be alive. Could he?"
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The young blonde woke up in the woods. He heard the sound of what seemed like a pig oinking nearby. The last thing he remembered was Orochimaru teleporting him away, but the boy intercepted the chakra flow of the jutsu and caused his body to go to another location.
"I got away. I actually got away."
He heard the same oinking again, so he stood up and followed the noise. As he came to a clearing in the forest Naruto saw two women. One looked to be in her forties and had long blond hair in two ponytails. She wore a white shirt that barely with navy blue pants and a black belt. She also had on a pair a ninja sandals, a green coat and she had a strange purple diamond tattooed on her forehead.
The other girl looked to be a few years older than himself, maybe around Kabuto's age. She wore a fishnet mesh shirt with a large black kimono that came down to her calves, as well as a pair of shinobi sandals. Next to her sat a small pink pig with a red jacket on and beads around its neck.
"Lady Tsunade do we have to keep running away like this? Why don't you just stop with all of the gambling?"
"Shizune, this next stop will be our lucky spot, I just know it. This losing streak is about to be over."
"That's what you said about the last town, and the village before that, and the city before that one." Shizune replied exasperatedly.
"What don't you trust me Shizune?" Tsunade said, feigning hurt.
"Of course I do Lady Tsunade." She replied afraid of offending her teacher.
"Oink." The pig named Ton-Ton squealed knowing how obliviously Shizune just acted.
"Well then, let's get moving." Tsunade started to walk away. As she walked she saw a small blonde boy wearing tattered clothes. He was watching them intently as if he had never seen people like them before.
"Lady Tsunade, what's wrong?" Shizune asked. She turned to look in the same direction and she too noticed the boy.
"Hey kid, are you ok." Shizune yelled out as she ran up to him.
The blonde saw the lady running towards him and he took a defensive pose. HE was afraid that she would hurt him like Orochimaru, and Kabuto did. Tsunade noticed the change in his posture and she started to walk towards the boy as well.
"Are you ok?" Shizune asked him as she stopped a few feet away from him. "Where are your parents?"
"I don't have parents, or at least not one I want to get back to." He answered.
"Are you hurt?"
"He silently shook his head no.
Shizune back away for a moment."
"Yes Lady Tsunade."
Tsunade knelt down next to the scared boy. She did a quick scan over him and noticed how striking his eyes were. She could also feel the chakra radiating off of him.
"Where did you come from?"
"My father's laboratory."
"What is your father's name?"
"Orochimaru."
Tsunade paled at the answer. She also knew that it was impossible as the boy had not resemblance of her former team member.
"Excuse me lady?"
"You can call what do you need?"
"Are you from Konoha? You look familiar."
"Yes I am, who do I look like?"
"You look like Tsunade Senju of the Sannin, and the last known member of the once great Senju clan. But you can't be her because she would be a lot older than you are."
Tsunade couldn't believe that a child so young, would have so much knowledge about her to be able to recognize her on sight. Sure she was famous but he looked like he was five.
"I am her. I use a jutsu to look younger than I actually am."
Suddenly the boy grew a large smile on his face.
"So you can take me to Konoha!"
"Wait what?"
"I read about the Hidden Leaf Village in a book, and I want to go to the place where the Fourth Hokage once lived."
"Why do you want to go there?"
"I want to see the village where he sealed Kurama inside of me."
"Who?"
"Kurama, the Nine-Tailed Fox."
Tsunade's eyes widened significantly. He couldn't be…the hair…and the blue eyes…..it wasn't possible he was dead…
"Naruto?"
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Thanks again for checking out the chapter. I am curious as to whether anyone could take a guess as to what Orochimaru did to him based off of the descriptions I gave. I also want to know who you guys think should be the third member of squad 7. Any of the rookie 9 will work. Thanks again to my followers, reviewers, and favorites.
Next chapter: Return to Konoha: The Prodigal Son Arrives.