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"Ninja Art, Memory Vision Jutsu!"

"Naruto, I know what you're thinking, at least explain what they're about to see!" begged Kakashi, he was the one who taught Naruto this jutsu, so he knew what was coming.

"Fine. In a few moments, you will witness some memories, some through my eyes, others from a 3rd person view. Any pain I feel, you will feel as a sensation on the corresponding part of your body. In other words, when my arm breaks, your arm will go numb. Now that that has been said, let us begin" stated Naruto as he closed his eyes and focused on a string of memories.

-Konoha, 8 years ago, Naruto age 4-

Naruto was running through the streets, a literal mob chasing him. They were gaining on him, shouts of "Die demon!" and "Come back here, demon!" rang through the air. A volley of rocks and bottles came over his shoulders, though one rock had hit its mark. Said rock cracked Naruto in the back of the head, knocking him to the ground. The mob converged, kicking and punching the poor blonde, braking his malnourished bones and injuring his internal organs. Just like the beating had started it stopped as the crowd ran away. The last thing Naruto saw before he blacked out was an ANBU with gravity defying silver hair.

-Konoha, 7 years ago, Naruto age 5-

Naruto was once again running from a crowd, but it wasn't civilians this time, it was Ninja. Naruto never stood a chance, he was caught and pulled into an alleyway. He was propped up against the wall and had a kunai hammered into each shoulder, elbow and hand along with his knees to crucify him to the wall. He was then beaten until he blacked out.

-konoha, 6 years ago, Naruto age 6-

Naruto was tied up and had a bag over his head. He was being thrown into every object that was within range. His body had deep cuts and the bone of his upper right arm and lower left leg were jutting out of the skin at grotesque angles. Naruto couldn't see, but he could hear the man laughing. Then all of the sudden he heard what sounded like a bunch of birds chirping and a voice that could almost be felt, yell "Chidori!"

Naruto waited for his death, but it never came. He was shocked when the rope that had been tying him up was cut off the bag over his head was removed. He looked up to see who this person was, only to find the same silver haired ANBU that had saved him almost countless times standing over him. He knew he was safe and allowed the darkness to take him but not before heard the man speak "Fuck the council and the elders! I'm going to take care of you, Naruto, even if I have to kill them all to do it!"

-Grass country, year and a half ago, Naruto age eleven-

Naruto was running full speed toward a bandit camp. He knew he had to get his friend out, and he didn't care what it took to do it.

He has just found his friend and was sprinting back to base camp so the medics could heal him, he had been tortured. There were burns, cuts and literal holes covering his entire head. On his face there was two deep slashes that looked to have even cut the bone. He made it back to base camp and delivered his friend to the medic.

Naruto was now standing outside the bandit camp. He created about 50 shadow clones to surround the area to make sure no one escaped. Then, he charged in. All he saw was red, he knew the kyuubi was filling him to the max with his power, but Naruto didn't care. He was literally tearing through anything that got within his reach, some not even seeing their own death. Anyone who tried to escape was slaughtered by his clones, anyone dumb enough to try to attack him was torn to shreds. After about 7 minutes of pure slaughter, they were all dead, and Naruto collapsed.

-End of jutsu-

Everyone was silent. All but Kakashi and Naruto had puked at least once.

"That was a fraction of my pain" stated Naruto in a cold emotionless voice. "That is my life, what I have lived through and what I have done, think before you speak, because there's always someone who's had it worse than you. I just pray to god the one that had it worse than me can handle the life they live, I'd hate to see what I would have turned out like without those that cared for me. I'll be back later Kakashi, code 48" and with that, he left in a swirl of wind.

It was almost 10 minutes before anyone could speak again, Tazuna and Kakashi stood silent, Inari, Tsunami and Sakura were sobbing uncontrollably and Sasuke was shaking like a left.

"Kakashi sensei" sputtered out Sakura between sobs

"Yes Sakura?" asked Kakashi stoically, knowing her she would ask if he was making that all up, he was right.

"That was just a genjutsu, right?" she asked, almost begged. There was no way that anyone could do that right?

"No Sakura, everything you've just witnessed was real. That all happened and more, none of that was anywhere near the worst of it" stated Kakashi with a tear rolling out of his eye.

"W-What? What could be worse than that!" shouted Sasuke. He thought he had a terrible life with the death of his clan at the hand of his own brother. He would take his life any day over what he saw of Naruto's. And Kakashi just said it got worse?

Kakashi hung his head and started shivering. "On Naruto's fifth birthday..." Kakashi was now crying, something that most think impossible, it was the single most gut wrenching thing he had never seen. "Me and another ANBU, Sasuke's brother Itachi, we're to look over Naruto to make sure he stayed safe. There was a fight at the bar down the street between a few jonin, we went and broke up the fight, but it was just a diversion to get to Naruto."

"What happened?" asked Sasuke shakily, anything that was actually planned out couldn't end well.

"Four members of a clan broke into Naruto's apartment. They beat him to near death and... And.." Kakashi couldn't say it, just the thought of the even made him physically sick, not just at the men who did it, but the fact he couldn't stop it.

"They what? What did they do?" asked Sakura, bawling even harder then before.

"They raped him..."

-Next day, Tazuna's Kitchen-

No one was talking, they were all still digesting what they had learned about their blonde teammate/friend. Everyone was trapped in a world of their own thoughts, ranging from person to person.

Sasuke was in deep thought. He had just the night before learned that the only person he would even think about calling a friend had had it worse than him, much worse. 'He lived through all that and is still the way he is? He truly is stronger than me. I had one bad thing happen to me and I spiraled. He had it much worse than me and still maintained himself. Maybe he really could become hokage! But one thing's for sure, I want to get closer to Naruto, for both of us...'

Sasuke got up and headed to the door, intent on finding the person he now considered a friend.

"You won't find him unless he wants you to." stated Kakashi, reading a book, though not his usual smut, it was a green covered novel that the name was worn off of. "Not even I can find him when he calls a code 48, and I basically raised him since he was 6."

Both Sakura and Sasuke were drawn back by this, they knew from the memories that Kakashi had saved Naruto a couple of times, but that he had actually raised him? Though that would explain some things...

"What is a code 48?" asked Sasuke, if he knew what Naruto was doing, maybe he could help find him.

"It means that Naruto is on a self appointed mission, probably training" stated Kakashi while turning the page of the old green book

"Then it shouldn't be that hard to find him?" questioned Sasuke

"Normally no, but I and several others have trained him to be undetectable, add that to the natural talent for stealth that everyone on both sides of Naruto's family has, you cannot find him. Not even a Hyuga can find him " stated Kakashi as he continued to read his book

"I thought Naruto was an orphan? He doesn't have a family." stated Sakura like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"His parents died the day he was born, his mother in childbirth, his father against the kyuubi. A lot of people that new his parents tried to adopt him and help him out, but it was immediately stopped by those idiots on the civilian council and a certain clan. They even went so far as to have a man assassinated for filling out the paperwork to adopt him." stated Kakashi, much to the shock of everyone in the room, why did everyone in Konoha hate Naruto? "It was only after me and several other very important people threatened to leave and sell secretes that they let me take over raising Naruto. But even then Naruto had to live on his own and was refused entry to the academy. That's why he was assigned to ANBU, it was the only thing that lord hokage had enough control over to keep the civilians and that clan out of, sense the day he was born he was technically a ninja of the village." stated Kakashi with an eye smile, remembering how he had hip thrusted at the civilian council when Sarutobi had finally outwitted them.

"Why would the civilians do that? Why was he considered a ninja at birth, what clan was against him?" rattled off Sakura, not understanding why something her mother was apart of would basically damn an infant to such a life, sure her mom didn't like Naruto, but that was just because of some stupid prank right?

"Only Naruto and the Hokage can explain the first two, but the clan against him was the Uchiha, and it's for the same reason the civilians are against him to this very day." stated Kakashi waiting the response from Sasuke, though the response came from Sakura

"You lie! The Uchiha are great people! They would never do that!" she yelled, not believing for a second that the great Uchiha would do such a thing

"He's telling the truth" stated Sasuke somberly "When I was young I always heard my clan speaking of ways they could harm "That boy". It must have been Naruto they were after. I remember there was a group of ninja that said they should put him in his place, and afterwards they went missing. Come to think of it, that was almost 8 years ago, and it was right around the time of the kyuubi festival-" Sasukes eyes went wide and he sprinted out the door. All that was heard was the sound of vomiting and sobbing.

Sakura sprung up to go help him, but Kakashi blocked her and told her that he needed this. 5 minutes later Sasuke emerged into the house, tears streaking his face. "What happened, what's wrong?" questioned Sakura

"I know the clan that was responsible for Naruto's rape..."

-Forest clearing-

Naruto had 500 clone all working on separate things, some his ridiculous chakra control exercise which was water walking while holding rocks and branches to himself with chakra, some working on jutsu, including his newest idea for his own jutsu. Most of his ideas he had he needed to train his body more, others were just too ridiculous to ever work without major drawbacks. The next group of clones were making an anti sharingan seal. Not that he didn't trust Kakashi, but he knew Sasuke would unlock his soon, and he would be damned if someone would just steal his hard work. The rest of his clones were split between working on his wind element and training his taijutsu.

He had 10 shadow clones fighting, each one on one. Naruto had the idea awhile back to make his own taijutsu style. He knew 5 of them rather well but just never hit full stride with any of them. He knew the Strong fist from Gai, the Interceptor from Itachi and Shisui Uchiha, two men that helped him train when he was in ANBU, his father's style, which relied on outrageous speed, he learned this from a scroll that was left to him, the Hatake style, which mostly involved great reflexes with speed, and a good chunk of the Uzumaki style, which was built around unpredictability.

He liked certain aspects of every style, but wanted to combine them into an amazing style that couldn't be truly countered. The power of the strong fist, the read and react of the interceptor (along with his doujutsu when he needed it), the pure speed of his father's style, the reflexes of the Hatake style and the unpredictability of the Uzumaki style. If he could successfully combine all 5, then he could become almost unbeatable in a taijutsu fight. But creating your own style is difficult as it is, add combining 5 vastly different styles to the mix and it would take years. But then again, Naruto could get a years worth of work done in a six hour workout. With his godly chakra reserves, good chakra control and the shadow clone jutsu, he could make almost 1500 clones and have them all last almost 6 hours. There was a huge downside though, when he dispelled that many clones after more than four hours of training, no matter how spaced out, he would pass out for at least an hour from information overload. Right now he was dispelling groups of 50 from his group of 500. First the chakra control group, then the elemental groups, then the jutsu groups and finally the group working on the sharingan seal. He had the basics of sealing from Kakashi and A LOT of different scrolls from what his father left him along with the 1-2 times he would see Jiraiya a year. He still had to make chunin to be able to move into the house his parents had left him, but that didn't bother him, he still had a lot of work to do before he felt worthy to live there anyways. The clone group had assembled the seal, but there were still kinks to be worked out, so he would finish and apply the seal tomorrow. The last group left to be dispelled was the taijutsu group. He had them fighting each other, switching up styles and finding the strongest pieces of each style. So far he felt he had a great base to start from, he had picked the pieces to use and enough to fill the gaps in between the opposing styles.

"Hmm, I'll start it at about 4 o'clock, that way when I pass out, it will be night time anyways" Naruto mused out loud. As he reviewed his plan on building the style he was imagining.

-that Afternoon, 4 o'clock-

Naruto had just made a little more than 1500 shadow clones, the most he had made up to this point in his life, but from the calculations he had done, he would need as many as possible to get the base of the style down tonight, and was now giving them instructions.

"Ok, split into groups of 60. Each group take 2 styles and start to combine the predetermined moves, stances, and katas. Anyone left over, work on mastering the stages of our Doujutsu we have unlocked. We most likely are going to need it, and I down want it to drain as much chakra as it did last time. After two hours, you will dispel in groups of 60 every minute. Begin!" he commanded.

Naruto knew he was going to be vulnerable when he passed out, so while his clones worked to combine the styles, he was searching for a tree to sleep in. He found a branch that would be able to support him, and started watching the clones work. He was surprised to see at the half hour mark that a couple of the combined styles were working together extremely well, though others were failing to fully work together. This was to be expected and he had already planned for it. He took clones from the groups that were making great progress and sent them to groups having trouble. At the two hour mark he got an idea.

"Everyone listen up! Battle royal! Everyone versus everyone! Use only the combination you've been working on! Begin!"

The clones all started to fight each other, though it seemed odd to him that the clones being dispelled were taking longer and longer between kills. He mulled it over in his head as the clones continued to kill each other. After about half the group had been dispelled he saw why they were taking longer and longer still. The clones were actually adapting the combined styles they were using for their opponent! The longer a clone survived the better and better the clone got at making adjustments. That meant that his finished product could do this too, he could literally tweak his new style to a new opponent and make it the best possible combination. In short, if he lasted long enough, he almost couldn't be beaten.

His head was starting to throb, he knew that if he didn't start to try to sort out the mass influx of information that he would most likely pass out and have to stop his training, and he wouldn't have that, not yet. He started to meditate and work through the information. He found it rather easy, as he had done this before but not to this scale. After about ten minutes, the throbbing stopped and he had finished sorting the feedback, and he had to say, he was extremely happy. The work his clones put in was ridiculous, they had almost perfectly worked out all the major kinks between the styles. Sure there was some slips every hear or there, but every style had those. He took an hour brake from his training and started the mental preparation for the next stage of the combination. After he had prepared, he created another batch of shadow clones. He was surprised that he actually matched the original number. He had figured there would be a rather large drop off.

"Alright! Get in groups of 25! Start to combine the styles! Hopefully when you're done we have a decent base to build the new style off of! Get cracking! After 3 hours, another battle royal! Begin!" the real Naruto commanded and watched as he saw all the clones form groups of 25 and get to work combining all the styles.

About an hour after he started to work on the combination of styles he decided to check up on his team. He really didn't need to show them all the memories he had, but he did have a reason for it. Inari had to learn what the world could be like, the kid had a ruff life, but there is always someone with a worse life than you. Sakura needed to see that as well, she was too much of a fangirl to realize what was going on around her and he needed to explain that to her in a way she couldn't just look away from. Sasuke needed a reality check, plus if it turned out that he and the last Uchiha could become closer, that would help team dynamics and he might even make a friend out of it, but that was pushing it. Naruto made a clone to watch over his training and went off to meet up with his team and get some food.

-Tazuna's house, 15 minutes later-

The team was starting to get worried. Well Sasuke and Sakura were, Kakashi seemed to relax more and more as time passed.

"We need to go find him! What if he's hurt? He's not that bright and he could have hurt himself training" stated Sakura. Kakashi just glared at her, not only had he already told her that he was fine 13 times. She was refusing an order to stop asking about what he was doing And with her continuously berating his intelligence, it was a wonder how she couldn't see that the naruto they knew in the academy and the Naruto they know now are two completely different people.

"Naruto has been trained by myself, Asuma Sarutobi, Maito Gai, and most of ANBU. He has had one on one time with the hokage himself. He can handle training. Trust me. Maybe instead of sitting here all day you could have trained and made yourself stronger for our next fight with Zabuza. At least Sasuke is meditating." stated Kakashi coldly, if he could he would drop them both and just train Naruto, he would in a heartbeat, but the council would make his life a living hell, and he was already on their shit list for having Naruto on his team. They wanted him to apprentice Sasuke and give up all ties to Naruto. He told them to go fuck themselves and ended up with the banshee as well.

It was true that Sasuke was meditating, Kakashi had suggested it to calm his nerves, but all it did was make him think. That in itself had both helped and hurt the young Uchiha's mental state. He had dredged up old memories that had been forgotten long ago. Some happy, some sad, but there was two memories that kept replaying in his mind over and over. The first was rather simple. It was the night of the massacre, just before Itachi put him in the Genjutsu that made him relive the events. Itachi was crying. He had so much pain and anguish in his eyes that you could see it, even through the sharingan. Had Itachi regret what he did? Was he forced to? These thoughts triggered another memory. Actually, 2 memories.

-Flash back, night of the massacre-

Sasuke had just finished his first round of the mental torture of watching his clan slaughtered. He couldn't move and was about to pass out from the emotional pain he was feeling. But just before his world went black, a golden haired ANBU appeared in his line of vision and picked him up off the ground. The last thing he remembered before everything went black, was what the ANBU said "I won't let you down Itachi, I'll make sure I save your brother, just like you helped save me"

-Flashback end-

Sasuke now knew who that ANBU was. It was his blonde teammate, but what he said that night didn't make sense to him. What did it mean?

-Flashback, sasukes tenth birthday-

Sasuke had just made it home from the Academy, it was another boring day, but then again, when you're better than everyone, that seems to happen quite a bit. He was about to enter his home when spotted a present sitting in the doorstep. He was surprised to see it there, only people with authorization are even allowed to walk in the compound, let alone bring anything in. He picked up the box and took it inside. When he opened it, he found a pair of white and blue arm warmers and a new blue shirt with the uchiha fan on the back. In the box was a note that read

"Dear Sasuke

I know how hard it is to be alone. Just remember that if you're ever in trouble, I'll be there as soon as I can.

Best of luck in the future

N.U."

-Flashback end-

Naruto was there for him all along! And all he ever did was insult the blonde. He needed to change that. He wasn't about to let his ego get in the way this time! He would find a friend in Naruto, and he would do whatever Naruto needed to be happy, just like Naruto had tried to do for him.

Suddenly the door opened and in walked the Blonde. "What's for dinner? I'm starved!"

-End of chapter-

(Pairing pole is still up, pairing will be announced during the chunin exam arch)

(Yes, Sasuke is going to be a good guy in this fan fic, but he will still be a dick to people he sees as under him, for now at least)

(1500 clones plus 1 hour equals 2 solid months, so if anyone thinks that i miscalculated the amount Naruto could get done in that time, let me know)

(What do i do with Sakura? shes still to into Sasuke to be a serious ninja.)

(REVIEW THE SHIT! it helps me write the next chapter and i love to see what people think of my writing skills)