When Naruto awoke, he found himself staring at a white ceiling. It looked like the ceiling in his apartment, but when he sat up and looked around, the only other thing in the room was a locker the size of a closet.
"where am I?" Naruto thought.
"You are in ANBU headquarters" said Dog who appeared in his doorway
"What am I doing here?" asked Naruto.
"The hokage had it ordered that you were to join ANBU since you killed those three missing nins."
"Alright! I finally get to learn some jutsus!"
"Not so fast. It was also ordered that the only ANBU training you would receive would be tracking, camouflage, weapons, and taijutsu."
"Why?"
"Because all the council wants you doing is killing people the best you can. They feel that ninjutsu and genjutsu won't help you with that"
Naruto looked solemnly at the bed sheets before saying "When do I start?"
"Training starts in 30 minutes. Get dressed fast." said dog while holding up a mini ANBU uniform in one hand and a small fox mask in the other. "Your ANBU code name will be 'Kit'."
Naruto nodded slowly before taking the ANBU mask and putting it on.
Naruto was now six. It had been a year since Naruto's ANBU training began. Just last month he had been cleared to do missions with a three man squad. That squad consisted of himself, Dog, and Cat.
He thought of those two members as a mother and father. They had both at one point trained him and on missions they looked for out for him on missions.
"Kit! Are you paying attention?" Cat said in a stern motherly tone.
"No, sorry cat." Naruto answered "I was just thinking."
"Remember Kit, don't space out when you think. You need to be able to think and do at the same time, or else the missing nin you face who can will kill you." Dog said in a fatherly tone.
"Right, sorry." Naruto replied.
"It's okay, just don't do it again. Our targets supposed to be to the east of here. Take a hard left and lets pick up the pace" Cat commanded.
Both Dog and Naruto nodded their head and followed behind Cat
Naruto was now eight. He was now cleared to do solo missions. After he had heard this news he had immediately rushed to the lounge to find Dog.
When he got there he couldn't find dig anywhere. When Horse, Dog's best friend in ANBU, saw him he slowly walked over to Naruto.
"Kit, Dog isn't here." said Horse.
"Oh, that's okay. Do you know where he is right now?" Naruto asked.
Horse grimaced behind his mask. To the other ANBU, Kit made their life more exciting an cheerful then what it would normally be. He knew this was going to break the boys heart.
"Dog just quite ANBU." Horse said. "You won't be able to find him."
Naruto just stared at him for a while. Then he ran out of the lounge and into his room. He felt utterly betrayed.
When Cat had learned of Dogs retirement, she immediately went to see Naruto. When she got to his room she found him curled-up in a ball crying, reminding her that this was an eight-year-old boy. Not just a hardened killer.
She walked up to him and hugged him. He immediately retuned the embrace and cried into her chest, mumbling "he's gone, he's really gone isn't he"
Cat just sat there comforting Naruto, her kit. While doing this, she thought "Kakashi, I hope you're happy right now. Your life is about to become a living hell for pissing off Yugao Uzuki!"
Naruto was currently asleep in class. Ever since he had started the academy three months ago at age nine, it seemed the council had a solo assignation mission every night. He figured that was what he got for being the best assignation ANBU. Nobody expected a kid.
Finally the bell rung. Before his teacher Iruka could finish saying class dismissed Naruto was out the door like a rocket. Iruka for the life of him could never understand how the kid could sleep all day but move so fast.
As Naruto came out of the academy he saw Cat waiting for him to come out so she could take him back to ANBU headquarters. He ran to her and grabbed her hand.
"Did you have a nice day?" Cat asked innocently. That basically translated into 'Are you ready for tonight's mission?"
"Yes." he replied
With that they walked back to their 'home'.
Once there, Naruto ran into his room to get out of his civilian clothes and into his ANBU uniform. He then went to the hokage office to get his nightly mission again.
Naruto was now 12. He was now getting missions that lasted all night several times. He walked into the classroom tiredly after a mission that lasted two days. He sat down next to Shikamaru Nara. Shikamaru found this strange since the blonde usually asked if he could sit down first. What was even stranger was the fact that he fell asleep the second he sat down. He wondered what was going on.
Naruto was dreaming about why he didn't sit next to Kiba Inuzuka. It had been a year ago. Naruto had walked into class last again. Now the seat was left next to Kiba. He slowly walked over before promptly falling asleep. Kiba the meanwhile was wondering why Naruto smelled like blood. When Iruka had walked in he had asked that same question to Iruka. Iruka couldn't give an answer so Kiba just ignored it, figuring he smelt like that usually.
Naruto fell out of the chair now awake. Iruka was standing over Naruto.
"Now, are you awake? Shikamaru had to push you out of the chair to get you awake this time."
Naruto simply nodded yes then sat back down next to Shikamaru. Iruka was two minutes into his speech when Naruto fell asleep again.
"Shikamaru, would you mind waking Naruto again?" Iruka asked.
With that Shikamaru pushed Naruto out of the chair. This time though, he didn't wake up. Shikamaru was about to yell into his ear when he realized he hadn't fallen asleep. He had passed out. He was about to voice this thought when a female ANBU in a cat mask appeared next to him.
While picking Naruto up she said "I'll be taking Naruto home right now Iruka. I think he might be sick."
Iruka simply nodded as Cat walked out of the room.
"Now class, back to geography..."
The class moaned with that.