TIME SKIP 7 YEARS
(With Naruto)
I'm not gonna directly say who the wanderer is but it should be relatively obviously. If its not well then all the better for the mystery behind him J He will be referred to as gramps or old man at least for now. Also there's going to be a lot of parenthesis in this chapter simply so things will be described simpler.
"Wake up boy and get dressed." Old man said.
Naruto stirs a little in his sleep but otherwise unchanged in sleepy stature.
"I said get up you pain in the ass." Old man yelled using a simple water jutsu to dowse his charge.
"AHHHHHHHH! Dammit old man really? A growing boy needs his sleep ya know." Naruto raged on chanting to him self getting up and dressed. (Obviously he's not wearing his usually jump suit since he wasn't in the village.) He slips up his baggy dark grey sweat pants. He follows suit with a orange tank top (gotta have the orange somewhere) covered with a sleeveless matching colored hoodie to cover his hair and eyes and to finish his get up he slides on his black ninja shoes. (Old man has him do this to cover his features so when around no one can recognize who he is as the hokage has sent patrols looking for him.)
"Come on now." Gramps said while rubbing Naruto's hair.
He leads him out to a clearing near their home. (They live in camps, caves or uprooted tree, whatever has shelter for the time being wherever they are for the day.) Today were going to work on escaping techniques.
"Why gramps, with the fox I'm already fast enough to escape if I have to but strong enough that I won't have to." Naruto asks with honest interest. (Yes Naruto knows about the fox and is much more mature then in the show since he has the attention that craving for so badly.)
"Boy there are people much stronger and faster out there then you are and someday you will be strong enough to fight them but for now you need to escape to be able to see those days." Old man replied. "Begin!" He yells before charging at Naruto.
He slams at the boy bringing his fist down towards his head. Naruto bringing both arms up in a cross to block as he throws a kick to the inside of Gramps legs. Then he dashes away throwing smoke bombs to cover his escape. He's close to a mile away from where they started high in the branches to the point where he couldn't see the ground. 'There if I can't even see the ground there's no way he could see HUUUHHHH…' He goes flying towards the tree next to him head first. He braces himself reaching out in front of him grabbing on the first branch he could to spin around and send a flying kick back to his opponent.
Old man grabs his leg and sends an elbow into Naruto's stomach hurling him down to the ground. He hit's the ground and gramps is on his an instant later with a kunai buried in Naruto's hood pinning him to the ground.
"Dead." Is all he says. Then steps up. "Again."
He attacks with a heel kick aimed for Naruto's chest. Naruto returns the favor by kicking out his other leg making him loose his balance. "Head Hunter Jutsu!" He yells disappearing and pull old man under the ground. Noticing gramps is temporarily occupied Naruto uses this time to escape once more. But this time he circles around leaving fake traps and tracks along one route. Jumping from branch to branch he returns to their encampment not to far where the exercise started and settles down in one of the tents. He sits and goes into a meditating state. Concealing his chakra as best he can he remains silent so as not to alert his predator.
About 20 minutes later Gramps finds Naruto in he middle of the tent meditating. Smacking him in the back of the head for not noticing his approach. "You brat, your cheated." He said although smiling.
"You never said anywhere was off limits." Naruto replied with a smirk.
"Good your learning to be unpredictable. I definitely think you'd come back to here of all places." He smiled patting his head. "Only problem is you need to be more aware of your surroundings while concealing your chakra."
"Yes sensei." He nodded.