Hi

I dint own Naruto, but I'm just writing this fanfic because hey well I like it. My Japanese suck so some stuff you will see in Japanese some stuff you wont

This isn't beta readed so mistakes will be made.

And a shout out to my 3 reviewers thank for your reviews

Battle neurosis sorry I cant accept your challenge at the moment I have to get this fanfic off the ground first.

The shinobi drew out a book, not just any book it was the icha icha paradise detested by all women; worshipped by men.

"couldn't wait for this. Do you know how long it took me to finish the previous one? Two days jiraiya as your sensai I'm disappointed it took you six months to complete it" the sandiame hokage joked with his pupil. "so any surprises I should look out for"

"Sorry sensai for disappointing you, I shall do better next time I will change my schedule to fit in more research." Jiraiya vowed with convection. He took a seat opposite the hokage handing the book over. Gleefully sarutobi took the book; he looked like a kid in a candy store and given the option of having all the sweets. Hiruzen looked at the book intensely contemplating reading it or talking to his student. Putting the book down hiruzen and looked up at his student.

"I assume that this isn't the only reason you are here?"

"No it isn't. orochimaru joined this new group the Akatsuki, which are mostly made of s-class shinobi that's all I know so far. There's also trouble in Kirigakure it seems like a civil war is about to kick off, at the moment there is only some disputes in the government."

"Yes I heard about that, please continue."

"That's all I know of kirigakure, apart from the missing nin problem they have, which isn't any news. Iwagakure seem to be licking their wounds, minato really did a number on them, but I did hear some troublesome rumours they are planning on showing their strength, they don't appear to have knowledge of minato's son. There are talks in Kumogakure of sending a peace treaty, I'm not sure it though ."

The sandaime sat there contemplating over this news.

"And what of the minor villagers jiraiya?"

"I don't know that much but what I do know is that there seems to be tension between some of them I don't know that much really."

"well it would seem that war is upon us soon."

"Yeah I know what you mean I can feel it, the calm before the storm."

"so how about it jirayia want to take the hat, I think it would look good on you."

"nah not my style sensai you know I'm not suited to the job, heck tsunade would be a better candidate. She has the heritage, skill and political pull that I don't have."

"Yes I suppose that your right."

"talking about potential hokage candidates you really have to think about it. Sensai you're not as young as you use to be… sorry to bring this up but say you die suddenly danzo would make a play for the title and then after that you know what he is going to do with the village and Naruto. sensai you have to appoint or look for a successor for the village."

"Talking about the gaki, what so you jiraiya to you know taking him?" Inquired hiruzen curiously.

"sensai you know I can't do that, what would happen if iwagakure saw me with a blond haired blue eye kid or any other of minato's enemies. I'm amazed that the villagers haven't figured it out yet."

"Well some of the shinobi have their suspensions ."

"Who are they? Will it be a problem?"

"No there won't be a problem. Kakashi, shikaku and ibiki certainly know and I'm sure some others at least suspect it, at this moment there is nothing to fear."

"How is the little gaki sensai?"

"As well as any jinchuuriki in their village, I think it was a mistake revealing his secret and because of that I've made his life miserable." Hiruzen said dejectedly. He never would have showed this level of insecurity to anybody in or outside the village for fear of them thinking that he is weakening; he had an image to maintain.

"It was minato's dying wish for Naruto to be seen as a hero sadly it didn't go that way. You did the best you could do, at least hiss generation won't know it might give him a chance" jiraiya replayed.

"I don't think that will happen, their parents will poison their minds and alienate them to Naruto I just hope he at least gets one friend."

"sensai that's a problem, he is this villagers jinchuuriki he has to have a reason to stay in the village or at least to defend it. "

"I know that". Replayed hiruzen solemnly " I try to visit him I see him as my own grandchild its hard seeming him so lonely, every time I try to do something for him the council block it, or more specifically danzo does I still don't know what that old goat is up to."

"anyway sensai it was a long day travelling I'll come see you tomorrow." Jiraiya said tiredly before he Shunshin way hopefully to get at least some sleep before the sun comes up

Torune walked down the streets of konoha, early, and he could help but compare it to the other great shinobi villagers. The people seemed happier and more free, he wouldn't change it for the world that's why he will continue to follow danzo because he will preserve the prosperity of the village and the people who live here, to this end he will sell his soul to the devil. He took a left on the main street leaving the merchants and hagglers to their business. He entered a seemly unimportant side street as you can properly have guessed this alleyway was anything but ordinary it was arguably the way to one of the most secure buildings in all of konoha ( the only other places coming close or surpassing are the ANBU HQ, the hokage tower and of course the home of the resident jinchuuriki); he didn't need to fear anyone see him placed around the entrance was a high level genjutsu and only people shot of hokage level could have a hope to break. Torune came to a door. Just black. If he had feelings Torune would probably have felt an ominous vibe coming from it, he placed his hands into a socket locked just south of the handle a prick shortly followed he waited for five seconds before he heard a click he pulled the door open and stepped into another world. The architect of the root base know doubt strongly believed shinobi work best in shadows it wouldn't have been a surprise to Torune if Danzo himself designed the building. The corridors were darkly lit making the dark walls seem like an endless void, all the corridors would look the same to an outsider but that probably was point of the design to give the root operatives an advantage if the base was ever infiltrated. After many turns Torune arrived at his destination. He grabbed the door handle, it had a seal that will recognise the adjacent seal on the operatives hand, the lock gave way he opened the door and walked tens steps into the room. He knelt with his left knee on the ground and his left hand pressed fist down to the floor and his head bent.

"Mission complete, my lord." Torune said emotionlessly.

Donzo looked the same as he always did a patch across his right eye and a sling for his left arm he wore a black kendo gi that really brought out the black in his eye. He looked at his subordinate with a certain amount of detachment; to him they were just pieces to mix and match until the right mixture is obtained for the success of a mission.

"I trust that there was no complication in the assassination? Give me details on the mission." Danzo stated with an authoritative voice.

Obediently Torune carried out the order. "My mission was to assassinate the wind daimyo and his immediate family. "There was no complication on the mission, that where not foreseeable, however as I was coming to the village saw a bandit camp close to the village about a kilometre away I felt it was in the best interest of the village to deal with the threat." Torune replayed to his masters command waiting for his response after five seconds. Danzo said

"well done talk a break for a week then prepare for your next mission." Danzo replayed.

"Hai lord danzo." Torune said before he felt via a Shunshin. After he left danzo sat in the eerie light room, all the piece seem to be in place all that was needed was a catalyst for his next step in finally talking the mantle from hiruzen. Just a few more years then konoha will be mine and the world will know the might of konoha, thought danzo in his office in the supposedly disbanded root base.

Sometimes the roots must surface for the plant to prosper and grow.

Naruto finally woke again from his sleep but not from a nightmare no this time it was his alarm, groggily naruto looked at the time it was 8'o'clock in the morning he couldn't recalling a reason for him to be awake this early in the morning unless it was for raman but he knew the stand would open for another four hours. The jinchuuriki turned off the alarm, laying there occasionally dosing off still wondering why he set that alarm.

"wonder what jiji's doing." In a flash of inspiration naruto realized what the alarm was for; he bolted out of the bed quicker than orochimaru after a child with a sharingan. He had a meeting with jiji this morning, looking at his clock twenty minutes to the meeting time. He was like a blur through his mini apartment trying to locate items of clothing and hopefully getting breakfast down as well, he was done in ten minutes, that left him ten minutes to get to the sandiame's office. Thank god it was close to the hokage tower; not surprisingly.

Young naruto dashed through the streets dodging the occasional cart and persons of konoha bystanders could have sworn it was like the second coming of the yellow flash. Finally he reached the tower running to the door he flung it open not caring that he just hit the door against a chuunin. Naruto ran off with one target in mind the hokage.

When jiraiya left, most likely to spy on naruto before he turned in himself, sarutobi stayed in the office to complete some paper work he finished at 12, he headed home to a quiet house he slept until 5 before he was woken by the presence of one his ANBU in his bedroom. One of the missions went wrong and they caught a missing-nin his attention was needed for this, and ever since then he has been awake dealing with paper work. So it was a relief when his doors burst open almost pulling off its hinges.

"JIJI I'm here." Naruto screamed to his adopted grandfather, grinning like a fool.

"I can see that Naruto, come take a seat." Sarutobi replayed kindly to the young deviant. Naruto walked further into the room, with its book shelves on one side containing god knows what. Naruto looked to the left he was a door leading somewhere but every time he wanted to go there he gets this feeling in the put of his stomach he can't even look at the door for took long before he feels nauseated, he ignored the door just like he always did and focused on sarutobi, he took a seat in front of his grandfather's desk staring at him with horribly contained glee. Today is the day he kept repeating to himself over and over again.

"naruto my boy are you sure you want to do this? There are other things you can do you know." Hiruzen asked is jinchuuriki. But obviously he wanted naruto to choose the right opition, and if he didn't there are always contingency plans in place.

"come on jiji I WANT to be a shinobi, a ninja just like you and dog-san." Naruto replayed with a convection not many 5 year olds possessed or teenagers for that matter.

"all right my boy, wait here while I go get the papers to sign you in to the ninja academy." Sarutobi said kindly to naruto. He got up from his chair and moved his ancient body to the booking saying rummaging through the books and papers looking for one particular folder, that containing the completed forms for naruto's enrolment into the academy completed by his next of kin; his godfather. "here we go found it." Going back to his seat he handed the folder to naruto. "You just have to sign, put your name, by the dotted line."

Without a moment's hesitation naruto wrote his name down, and handed the papers back to the hokage. " so it's done, I'm going to be a ninja now jiji."

"not just yet naruto, first you have to complete the 8 years of the ninja academy then pass the exams then you will be a ninja of konoha." Replayed hiruzen merrily to Naruto's question, " so naruto how are you? Are you hungry?"

"I'm okay jiji, still haven't made any friends yet but I WILL keep trying detbayo(sp) cause UZUMAKI NARUTO never gives up. Not that hungry jiji I just ate. Oh wait I have a question is there going to be any writing?" naruto asked.

"Yes I suspect so boy naruto". As soon as the hokage said yes the ninja academy didn't look so appealing anymore to naruto.

"what about books jiji I don't have any, how im I going to get them but more importantly where do you buy them?"

"don't worry about that I will bring the books to your apartment later."

"Jiji if that's all I got some pra—erm I meant erm shopping today so bye." Naruto ran out the room before the hokage could say anything.

"he sure is his mothers boy." Hiruzen murmured to himself.

Jiraiya popped back into the room just seeing naruto ran out the door. "whats his problem?"

"just people to prank, I fear its going to be one of those days again.

"one of what days?"

"I like to call it the whirlpool of destruction day." Replayed jiraiya's sensai ominously

"oh one of those days. Well I just updated the seals on Narutos apartment, nothing less than a hokage level shinobi will be able to get into that apartment with all that seals that we placed there over the years; unless the gaki invites them in."

"so you finally got the voice recognised seal to work?"

"you make it sound like it was a walk in the park unless naruto or me actually says the words you are invited that person can't come in. the sensory seal is also in place so no one with a chakara level genin or above will get in."

"fine work jiraiya, so have you reconsidered?"

"no sensai you know it's not for me why don't you train someone to do it? But anyway I have to leave now sensai, one of my contacts has information that would interest "

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Running through the streets naruto came to a complete stop on the other side of the dirt road was this girl, midnight blue hair, porcelain skin rose chicks, eyes that just hypnotised him. She wore a white kimono with pink flowers dotting it; naruto knew he wasn't a worldly boy he didn't know much about the world but he could have sworn this girl was an angel. Everything fell away naruto only had eyes for her she smiled and naruto swore his heart stopped. He was so transfixed by this girl he did know it until someone knocked into him, he was following her. It seemed like she was out with her mother and father, he paid little attention to them he only had eyes for this girl. A little while later they reached the park the dark haired girl ran off to play with the other kids, naruto sat at the base of a tree watching her it seemed like none of the other kids wanted to play with her. Naruto sat there contemplating weather to go over there or not, maybe she was like him lonely, he decided he went over there to the swing.

"hello there do you want a push? I'm naruto by the way." Naruto asked the girl hopping that she would say yes.

"Yes I would like that naruto-kun. My names hinata." replayed hinata shyly

Naruto went behind, not sure really what to do he has seen kids do this plenty of time 'put your hands here then push' naruto thought and so he did. After the first 30 seconds he got the hang of it but then it suddenly dawned on naruto that her parents are going to take her away from him soon. He looked over there to them, the father ( he assumed) looked in his direction they made I contact, naruto could see the steel and disciple in them, he turned towards his wife and whispered something in here hear. She turned around and looked at him to, first naruto could recognise surprise in her eyes and warmth. None of the parents made a move to stop naruto so he just continued to play with hinata. After a while it people stared to leave.

Naruto turned to hinata and asked the question that would define their relationship for generations to come "Do you want to be friends?"

Hinata looked at naruto with surprise and happiness, surprise because she never would have expected for a boy like him to be friends with her "yes naruto-kun I will be your friend. But I have to go now bye." Hinata waved goodbye to naruto and walked off with hear parents

To say naruto saw over the moon was like saying orochimuro was not a freak. He didn't know why but he took to following her again until they reached this mansion with the insignia for hyuuga.

"so this is where she lives."

she entered her home, naruto lingered there for a while hoping to catch a glimpse of her after 30 minutes there was nothing naruto decided to pay the hogake a visit before he headed home.

Sarutobi just about finished his last pieces of paper work he was getting ready to go home when the door to his office were rudely thrown open; there were only three people in the world who would do such a thing two of them are not in the village one he sent one a mission earlier this morning the other was well grieving and finally naruto.

"Jiji can I ask you something." Naruto said in a surprisingly sombre tone that he rarely uses.

Instantly one guard and alert cautiously sarutobi said "yes my boy naruto you can ask me anything" a million thoughts were running through hiruzens head at the moment what was it that naruto wanted answered was it the kyubi or was it about his parents the list went on.

"okay. What do friends do jiji?" naruto questioned hiruzen, it was such a simple question but so in depth; how do you explain friendship to a boy that everyone hated and had no friends.

"well may boy naruto a friend is someone that has your back at all times, a friend is someone that you can count on in your time of needed a friend is someone you will protect even though they don't want it, a friend is someone that will protect you in time of needed, a friend could also become your life partner"

"It sounds nice. Jiji guess what… I made a friend today shes called hinata we played all day today, we tried everything the swings that slidy thing everything at the park we did it was like a perfect day Jiji." Naruto said with absolute bliss on his face

"I'm happy for you naruto." Sarutobi said affectionately.

"Jiji I'm going to go home know I'm tired." Naruto said to sarutobi, he got up and felt.

'Hinata huh wonder what's the hyuugas up to.' Sarutobi thought to himself as we was locking up and leaving for his home late yet again, think of all plots were befriend naruto would gain the clan. Its sad the way he has to think but that's the true with a jinchuuriki people will only see him as an item for power and influence for some time to come.

Kumo

In the office of the lord raikage two shinobi sat at a table discussing konoha…