A/N Dang I was so excited about all the reviews and people who put me on their alert list. I know a lot more people get a ton more reviews but what counts is the thought. I'm wondering though, I thought you had to click the review button to alert the story? So if thats the case take your time to review the story as you get me on the alert. Thanks to everyone who reads my stuff though it makes me really happy and proud to actually have fans!!! -Beast

"..." means talk

'....' means thought

anything in italics is Kyuubi

Chapter 2: Back to the Past

That morning Naruto was still dead tired. His sleep was one that could be said to be somewhat lacking. He had been thinking about Konoha for the longest time. If the villagers had known who he was would they still think of him so harshly? Although he didn't care anymore about the people's thought he wondered if they would try anything against him again. Would the old beating attempts continue? The only reason he thought of this in the first place was because if they would try to attack him, then he would not hold back this time.

Naruto left the apartment after his daily morning ritual. He brushed his teeth, showered, and had eaten his breakfast. He walked outside to smell the fresh air that the woodlands gave. This smell was nostalgic; however, that be good or bad he didn't know. Naruto ventured to the peaks of the Hokage mountain. This was also one of his safe havens. He remembered the first time he had come here.

Flashback

"You monster how dare trash like you come near my child," said the man as he started to beat Naruto. Naruto curled up into a more defensive position as he let the adult smack him. Naruto always thought to himself why him, and no one else? What did he ever do to deserve punishment such as this. Soon Naruto was bruised all over, and had blood running from every orifice. The man stopped before he would be charged of murder.

When the man left Naruto tried to get up slowly, but to no avail. He had fallen down several tries; he just had no more strength. He looked among the crowd of people to see if anyone would help him. Yet again he saw no one who cared. Some laughed at his pathetic state, some ignored it all together, but he saw one man go through the crowd. He was an elderly man. He had a beard, wore a big robe, and a hat with the fire country symbol on it. When the people saw who was coming they stopped their laughter, they stopped their taunts, and they stopped their glares.

If there was one man in the village you do not insult it was the Hokage. In the presence of this man, no one dared to object or provoke. He picked the young Naruto up in his arms and he soon walked away from the crowd. The Sandaime looked down at the young boy he held in his hands expecting tears. That boy was not in tears though; he looked at the Hokage with a smile a mile wide. The Hokage thought this to be a gift that only the truly strong had.

The Sandaime gave a gentle smile back while asking, "does it hurt my boy?"

Naruto slowly responded, "only when you think of it."

"Let me show you something good then to ease the pain," the Sandaime told him.

He carried him all the way up the Hokage mountain, right at the peak on top of the 4th's head. They stood there gazing at the village. The sight was majestic and sublime. No one could comprehend such beauty as this.

"You see all that my boy," the Hokage asked.

"Yea I do and its amazing," Naruto replied with as much enthusiasm as any young boy could make.

"Well everything you see here, well I protect it," he said in a self gratifying way.

"Do people look up to you for it," Naruto asked with a much curiosity.

"They sure do, if you're Hokage then no matter who or where you are, you will get some kind of respect," The Hokage said with a smile.

"Then thats what I'll become, the Hokage," Naruto said as he used his priceless smile.

The Hokage couldn't help but believe in those words. He looked back at him, and ruffled his hair in assurance.

Flashback end

Naruto once again looked at the view. That same view never changed; it was probably the one thing he could count on. He had noticed a presence behind him and threw a kunai towards it. The person caught it with ease, and came out of his hiding spot. The person was a boy about his age. He had black hair, and was taller than him. He also wore a big coat covering his mouth, and sunglasses. Naruto thought as hard as he could who this person was. He thought that there was no one who would do this for no reason.

"What could have made you changed so much," he asked.

"Time and hate can change even the most gentle person," Naruto responded with malice in his eyes.

"What happened to the person with so much energy and perseverance," he asked once again.

"He's no longer with us, he died four years ago," Naruto stated.

"I'd rather lose my life than lose my way of life," He said coldly.

Naruto looked and screamed, "You don't know how I feel, you don't even know how I even handle these kinds of things. Priest-sensei came and showed me the light, he came and lifted the pain!"

Flashback- 4 years ago

Right outside Konoha

"Why is it that everyone hates me," Naruto asked while crying.

Priest smiled and told him, "Its not your fault, humans are just hateful to things they can't control. So Naruto can you control them?"

Naruto mumbled, "no I can't control anything."

Priest let out a more gruesome smile, "Then hate everything. Destroy those who hate you. Let everything you were holding in out. Let the rage build, let the malice shed its wings."

Naruto listened to him to him and did as he said. He recalled every single time they assaulted him, every time they ridiculed him for no reason, and every time they ignored his pleas for help. Soon a red aura began to encompass him.

Do you hate them?

'Yes'

Do you want revenge?

'Yes'

Then show me more hate. Show me the dark side that has slumbered within you, and I will give you powers beyond your wildest dreams.

'I hate them give me power'

Soon Naruto's body let out a fearsome aura. His chakra could be seen, and his blood thirst could be felt from a mile away. Priest let out another gruesome smile, and let go of Naruto. He let him have his time to himself. After an hour Priest had come to a small village. That village was destroyed. Pieces of wood had scattered everywhere, all the buildings were ablaze. Bodies were all over the place. Blood flowed like the river Styx. The lone figure there was a crimson Naruto. With claws of a beast and eyes filled with hunger.

He turned towards Priest and slowly walked to him. The moment Naruto reached Priest, Priest held his arms wide open. Naruto slowly but surely kept walking forward. Naruto then fainted into his arms. He slowly let loose his demon chakra, and opened his eyes slowly.

"Hey Priest-sensei what happened and where are we," Naruto asked in a weak voice.

"It's nothing Naruto-kun," he said with that same gentle smile.

"I feel a lot better now and its all thanks to you Priest-sensei," Naruto muttered.

With that said Naruto passed out. Priest had looked at the destruction Naruto had caused. Then like switching personalities, he switched smiles. He let out a bloodcurdling laugh that could heard throughout the land.

End flashback (if some people don't get what just happened, well heres a recap. Naruto let loose his rage killed some people, and forgot all about it. Most times when people go through sudden changes in personality they forget what they had last done.)

"So you're telling me after Priest spoke, something happened and you felt better," he asked.

Naruto nodded slowly in response.

"I don't trust you sensei you better watch out for him," He warned Naruto.

"I will take that into consideration,"Naruto said as he was about to take off, "It was nice to see you again Shino, I think this is the most you have ever talked to anyone.

Naruto then proceeded to go back to meet his team members. He had arrived at his new apartment, and opened the door. All three of them had been eating their breakfast, and looking bored.

"Where were you idiot?" Dusk said with annoyance.

Naruto replied, "Sight seeing."

"...............," Kaito mumbled.

"Sigh... I guess you have a point," Dusk replied knowing what he said was right.

Priest came up to Naruto to ruffle his hair some more. He gave Naruto a more tender look, and they both had a seat at the table. The environment seemed to lighten up somewhat. The table bursted with conversation, and laughter. Although Naruto puts up a tough front inside the village these people here bring out his usual cheerfulness. They finished eating quickly and set to go to town.

In the town it was very lively. The people were up and bustling crowds formed over shops. The market square was made for lively street vendors to scream their fresh produce, and others screaming their prices. What caught their attention the most was the clothing store. There they saw a black jumpsuit with the blue swirls that they had been wearing. They looked at Naruto as they saw this.

"Hey what was he wearing the first time we seen him Kaito?" Dusk asked.

"Orange......black........" he simply replied.

"Still not a man of words eh?" Naruto jested.

"Speaking of which remember when we first met you two hood rats?" Priest asked clearly amused.

"Nows not the time for that old man," Dusk said quickly interrupting as he pulled Naruto into the store.

They had spent sometime in that store picking out which clothes he should where. In the end they picked that black jumpsuit with orange swirls. He wore the same black sandles and they found some gel to make his hair look the way it used to.

"There now thats the Naruto-kun we were beaten by," Dusk said proud of how he looked.

"Naruto......version 2," Kaito murmured.

Priest gave a small laugh. He looked so much more ridiculous with those clothes. Before he looked cold and unforgiving. Now he looked like that small boy asking for help. It gave him a small gentleness though. As they were conversing to themselves the shop keeper had noticed Naruto. He had not perceived who he was at the moment, but he was sure it was there somewhere. Then a familiar group of people had walked by them.

The group was Kakashi's team 7. A tall man with white hair and a headband over one eye had walked passed. Following him led three people Naruto's age. One was a girl with a big forehead and pink hair, the second was a boy with raven black hair and wore the Uchiha symbol proudly on his back, and the last one was a boy with brown disheveled hair and looked very timid. As they passed by the three students hadn't noticed the blonde yet. After a few seconds the brown haired boy and the pink haired girl did a double take. They both had recognized Naruto's golden blonde hair, and his famous jumpsuit that was always orange in some way. Sakura then ran up to him.

"Naruto!!! we were told you died years ago!!!" she screamed in disbelief of what she saw.

"Well I guess all the stuff grown ups tell you isn't true now is it?" he questioned her while smiling.

"Naruto-san you might not remember me, but you were one of the only people who tried to play with me when I was younger," he hold him while giving a small smile.

"Hmmm let me see if I can remember, small in stature, timid, and had brown hair........ Oh I remember you, it was Zen right?" He asked him.

"Hai, Hai, I can't believe you actually remembered someone as unimportant as me," Zen mused.

"And you must be Sakura-chan, wow you really changed. I remember you were timid as well back in the day. Look at you now though, you're brimming with confidence and your still quite cute." He told her with confidence.

"Oh stop," she said while blushing and also hitting him.

Naruto fell to the ground from the impact of the hit. The raven haired boy had looked over at him with a smug look. 'so hes probably Sasuke Uchiha from the looks of things.' Naruto was a little agitated by the fact he was getting laughed at by the likes of him. 'arrogant bastard.' Naruto picked himself up and gave Sasuke a firm handshake. He looked directly in his eyes as well provoking him for a fight. Sasuke gave him a nod and pointed towards a field away from the market place. It was a medium sized clearing in the the forest not far from where they were a second ago.

"You sure about this Uchiha?" Naruto asked in a smug way.

"As if I could lose to someone who didn't even pass the genin exam," he returned.

"If that is what you want, but don't come crying when you lose," Naruto warned.

Naruto put one of his arms behind his back and gave the "bring it on" gesture. Sasuke had activated his Sharingan, and lunged at Naruto. Sasuke then leaped up and threw a spin kick. Naruto easily dodged it with one quick movement. Sasuke then threw a flurry of punches. Again Naruto dodged with some blocks in between. Naruto caught his hand in the next attempt, and twisted it so he would kneel.

Naruto gave him an arrogant look as to show who was superior. Sasuke twisted a little and did a grounded upwards kick towards Naruto's face. (If you don't get what it is, its suppose to be the kick he uses to do his Rock Lee imitation combo). Naruto let go of his arm and blocked it with that. The force was so great it made Naruto do a back flip to neutralize it all. As Naruto landed Sasuke performed several hand signs. Katon: Hosenka no Jutsu, a giant fire ball had been launched in Naruto's direction.

Naruto was arrogant, but he never underestimated his opponent though. In the time he had fell down he also performed a one handed hand sign. He then focused his chakra into his usable arm and formed a claw. With the claw he had cut through the fireball enough that he wouldn't get burned. Naruto then began an assault using his claws. He had slashed at him at a far distance causing the air to be blown at him. Sasuke could easily dodge them with his Sharingan out. The one thing Sasuke couldn't figure out though was how Naruto could do that. He knew that you could pour chakra into weapons like Asuma-sensei, but he never heard of actually forming weapons with them.

"Wait how did you do..." Sasuke was abruptly silenced by two running figures.

The two figures had been running at a high speed, which cause Sasuke to be trampled upon by the two. The worst part is that the two didn't stop. Naruto found this quite hilarious to be frank, enough that he bursted with laughter. Sasuke just lied there thinking about what just happened. He wasn't that hurt, but it surprised him the very least.

"Hey Gai-sensei did we just hit someone?" a boy with a bowl cut and green leotard ask.

"We might have my youthful student. Lets go check on his status and if we can't help him recover on the spot then we will do 500 sit-ups to repent for it Lee," Gai proclaimed loudly.

"Hai Gai-sensei!!! The our FLAMES OF YOUTH MUST BE BURNING AS BRIGHT AS THE SUN NOW." Lee quickly agreed to his conditions.

They had quickly rushed back to the scene of the accident. They both bent down to see who they had trampled. Gai laughed when he saw who it was. It was Kakashi's prized student, Sasuke Uchiha, and he was also Lee rival in love. Lee tried to help him up, but Sasuke quickly squatted his hands away. He got up by himself and gave him a cruel glare. By that time Sasuke had gotten up Gai had already approached Kakashi.

"Look at the Flames of their Youth Kakashi, we mustn't lose to them! Have a race with me the first to finish 100 laps around Konoha has to do whatever the winner says." Gai proclaimed with his fist jutted in the air.

"Sigh.... do we have to?" Kakashi said in an annoyed manner.

Gai gasped at first and then replied with, "Kakashi that cool and hip attitude of yours will get you nowhere in life. You have to have a burning spirit like me and Lee over there!"

"I don't have time for this I have to take these guys sight seeing since they are new here," Kakashi said as he pointed to Naruto's party.

Gai looked over there, and he was surprised to see what he had seen. He saw Kaito over there. He then flashed a look back at Kakashi. He was surprised at the resemblance. They both had silver hair, a bandanna over their eyes, and had the same kind of facial expression. He quickly rushed over towards Kaito and carefully examined his face. Kaito was slightly disturbed by this and started to back away. Gai then suddenly grabbed him and brought him to Kakashi.

"Kakashi, my eternal rival, is this to my belief do you have a child?!!!" Gai asked panicking.

"No you fool I'm not his son," Kaito quickly retorted.

"My god same expression, same look, and same hair. Noooo don't tell me this is true Kakashi. Don't tell me you have dirtied yourself and had a illegitimate child." Gai screamed as he begun to run around.

Gai had ran over to Lee for some comfort. He was now the only person that could understand Gai.

"Lee my student forgive me, but I can't hold onto this burning youth anymore," he sadly declared.

"Noooooooooo Gai-sensei," Lee said while crying.

"Lee!!!!" "Gai-sensei!!!" "Lee!!!" "Gai-sensei!!!"

Naruto and the rest of them that watched didn't really mind them doing this, but what got them was what happened as they were doing the motion. A seaside cliff had appeared under them somehow. The waves were crashing on the cliff side, rising above Lee's and Gai's head. There was also a fake sun in the distance that made them shone for some reason. Naruto and his friend's wasn't sure what was going exactly. They had thought it was some kind of weird, gay genjutsu. On the other hand Kakashi and the rest of them knew that Gai didn't know how to do that, and Rock Lee was unable to do anything with chakra. They all just stood there watching the weird scene until Kakashi got sick of it.

Kakashi quickly grabbed him and said, " I'm only in my 20's and this boy is around 12 there is no way I could have had a child when I was 8." (Yo if anyone knows how old Kakashi is please tell me.)

The image of the cliff had vanished all of the sudden as Gai lifted his burning spirit again. Everyone could see it as well. There was an image of a raging flame in both their eyes. Once again Naruto wondered if it was a genjutsu or some kind of weird/gay bloodline. The rest of them though sweat dropped when they saw what came next though. Gai and Lee had done handstands and were now racing through the forest.

"Umm is this something I'm going to have to look forward to from now on?" Naruto asked everyone

They all responded with a disappointed sigh which verified Naruto's worry.

A/N Sorry it took me so long to dish out a chapter my dear loyal fans. I had state testing and I had to do a lot of make up work for some classes. Sigh..... high school sucks...... Anyway back to the point.

PLEASE REVIEW THE STORY!!!!!!!!!!!-Beast