The Hero She Deserves

AN: This is mi first story, and I'm not a native English speaker, I'm hoping there aren't many mistakes, but just a heads up if there are, thanks for the understanding.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto.

AN: This story is the gathering of some of my ideas and preferences for all the fanfictions I read over de years, I hope that in this fanfiction I can put into a cohesive story and hope you guys like how the story goes.

Chapter 2: Training starts.

Naruto was currently exhausted, he was currently 6 years old. For the past 2 years he trained as hard as a child could, that means that he most of everything was training in his chakra control, taijutsu and kenjutsu. After receiving the letter from the Hokague 2 years ago, Mifune decided that he was going to train Naruto as best as he could till the day that the Hokage can send a shinobi to train Naruto.

For the past 2 years Naruto was training with Mifune, and something that Mifune and Naruto can be proud of is his chakra control, Naruto chakra control is the best control that Mifune could think of.

During the first 6 months of training Mifune had Naruto practices chakra control at best of his abilities, needless to say that the sheer resolve that Naruto put into training was beyond normal, the kid, managed to perfect tree walking and water walking within the first week of training, at first MIfune was gaping like a fish not believing the results, but after giving some thought he blames the strange white chakra of Naruto, that is something that not even today he could understand, why is Naruto's chakra white, after lerning the basics of chakra control Mifune had Naruto practice the hardest chakra control he knew for samurias, which consist in giving a sword a thin layer of chakra almost as thin as paper, this particular exercise was the hardest needed to be a samurai, and then again Naruto blew Mifunes mind finishing the exercise in 2 weeks, the rest of the 5 months left of chakra control Naruto managed to came up with his own exercises, one of the hardest the came up with was make chakra threads erupt from each finger and make little stones hover in midair just using chakra, this and all the exercises he did were made with two purposes the first one was to increase his chakra reserves and control it.

The remaining year and a half of training Mifune train Naruto at Taijutsu and Kenjutsu, at the beginning was pretty hard finding a taijutsu and a kenjutsu style because Naruto wasn't a normal person he was fast for a kid his age, way too fast if you ask Mifune, and the other problem was that Naruto even without the sharingan could predict and counter movements. By having these qualities on a kid Mifune managed to find the styles that would fit Naruto the best, Mifune show Naruto the best taijutsu style that he could, its name was The Wolf Stile. The Wolf Style consisted on quick but deadly strikes at killing zones, the point on this style as pain as its sounds is that you go in for the kill, strike as fast as you can, and as silently as you can. Naruto took this style as best as he could and in Mifune words, he could kill anyone with it.

The most important part of his training was Kenjutsu, as expected from the land of samurais the kenjutsu was the most important part, for the most part of a year he trained with a boken (wooden sword). Mifune being the proud godfather that he was, he taught Naruto one of the most valued sword styles on all of the word, this style relies on speed and reflexes, in this style you use a katana, in with you use the katana to make quick strikes and evade all the opponent strikes, usually this style is almost impossible to learn, because you need to have almost inhuman reflexes, but with the help of the sharingan Naruto pick it up pretty quickly, this sword style was at iron country from the beginning and is called The Black Fox.

With his sharingan Naruto was simply a prodigy among prodigies, in his spars with Mifune he managed to unlock the second and third Tomoes, he was just a prodigy that even that he was a kid and barely beginning his life, he manage to give Mifune a challenge. Mifune had to stop holding back with Naruto if hot he had a chance of dying, Mifune never though that Naruto would fight so viciously but after what happened a year ago he could understand the kid.

A year ago shinobis from Ame, tried to take Iron country, to make Konoha and Suna suffer from lack of weapons, but at invading the country the couldn't break the walls, the Ame shinobis were getting crazy for the lack of progress so they decided to raid the nearby towns and houses, one of them was Naruto´s house. Hearing the news of the raids Mifune gather a platoon of samurais and direct them to Naruto´s house, when they arrived there Mifune fell on his knees and started to cry, everything was destroyed, the houses burned, the people murdered on the streets, heads rolling of the floor.

Gathering all of his strength left Mifune ran inside his friend's house and froze in place at what he saw, Naruto was in the middle of 15 Ame shinobis all dead on the floor, with bloodied cloths and standing still you could even hear the kids breathing, Mifune breaking out of his trance walked to Naruto and speak softly "Naruto…. Are you ok?", hearing a familiar voice Naruto turn to Mifune and what Mifune saw left him speechless, there it was Naruto his eyes bleeding, and a weird shape in his eyes, the shape was a circle with 3 little circles spinning with and a black one at the middle ( Madara's original Mangekyou sharingan ), getting Mifune out of his shock Naruto speak "Uncle… they are all dead… tou-san…. Kaa-san… they are all dead" he said that without any emotion on his voice, almost as if he was a machine, even the samurais that went with Mifune were scared with the tone of voice of Naruto, Mifune quickly understanding the situation when to Naruto and hug him and said "… I know Naruto I know", hearing this Naruto faint and before he hit the ground Mifune caught him and turn to his samurais and speak "Search for any survivors, and any prisoners… I will see you at the fortress" and with that words he left them and took Naruto to the fortress.

After that incident Naruto has never been the same, he got cold and uncaring, but with a man like Mifune as a parental figure was expected, after that he focused at training more than anything, he never stopped training until he pass out from exhaustion, Mifune never said anything from this odd behavior because he understood that at war one could not do anything other than accept the losses and avoid more losses.

Now Naruto was 6 years old and he was ready to be a samurai in al the areas, he was a master of kenjutsu for his age.

Recently Mifune received a letter from the Hokage, one that said that with the surrender of Ame he will send one of the recently named Sannin to Iron to finally honor the deal that they made 2 years ago.

So MIfune was waiting the arrival of the Sannin, the letter arrived a week ago, so he was expectation the Sannin today, and like on clock you're his secretary told him that o Konoha shinobi was waiting for him at his office. Entering his office he saw one of the legendary Sannin waiting for him, there sitting on the couch was Orochimaru. MIfune quickly approach the Sannin and address him "You must be Orochimaru, Hiruzen student, I must thank you for coming", Orochimaru gave a soft bow to Mifune and said "Mifune-dono you are correct, and I'm here to honor the deal you had with Sensei, but there are new conditions that I'm sure Sensei informed you of", Mifune gave a nod understanding the new conditions and told him "Let's not talk any further and lets go grab Naruto for the test I'm sure you want to give him", Orochimaru gave him a nod and follow Mifune to the training area were Naruto is most likely to be in.

Naruto was practicing his katas when he saw Mifune walking with a pale looking man, he pay them no mind and continued practicing his katas. Orochimaru seeing a kit that could not be older than 7 practicing kenjutsu katas so flawlessly was already interested, and seeing the quick and precise strikes with the boken was already dying to see what kind of bloodline he would have, needless to say that Orochimaru was already aware that this kid will go far, with the resolve he shows in his eyes and the effort he must have put on the art of kenjutsu, there was no doubt that this trip was not a waste of his time.

Mifune approach Naruto and spoke "Naruto. This is Orochimaru one shinobi of Konoha, he came here to see you" Naruto taking a look at the man and gave a bow and said "Nice to meet you, my name is Naruto", Orochimaru was impressed with the respect showed from someone so young, but nonetheless reply "Nice to meet you Naruto-kun, I see that you are already warn, mind a quick spar?" Orochimaru asked with mischievous eyes, Naruto seeing no problem in the request gave a nod, and get into the beginning stance of his kenjutsu style. Mifune seeing this told Naruto "Naruto do not hold back, he is a great shinobi, and he is here to test you… begin at my call", Naruto understood and gave a nod ready for anything, Orochimaru smiled at the predicament and pull a kunai seeing that Naruto was with a generic katana, expecting nonetheless from someone of Iron country, Mifune backed away from the field and shout "Hajime".

Naruto seeing Orochimaru waiting for him with a kunai speed of trying to strike him on the hearth, but seeing that Orochimaru saw the simple attack incoming did a faint aiming for the neck, Orochimaru already knew the faint was coming but did not expect this kit to be so fast, if he say so himself he must be in high chunin speeds to low jonin, with the unexpected speed he almost manage to cut the Snake Sannin neck but with impossible movements Orochimaru bent his neck and gave Naruto a hard kick at the side, but before the kick connect Naruto lay low and the kick fly past his head.

Orochimaru impressed with the movement tried to make him use all his kenjutsu skill so he started swinging his kunai at great speed to see how Naruto would react, Naruto seeing this quickly started dodging all the strikes, Orochimari was confused that he would not use his sword to parry the strikes but quickly his doubts were answered by Naruto actions, Naruto was dodging all the strikes with easy and started to contra attack with his own sword, every time that Orochimaru swing with his kunai Naruto would strike the small opening created by the swing of Orochimaru.

Needless to say that Orochimaru was beyond impress with the skill of the kid, so he started striking faster and faster managing to reach mid joinin speeds, Naruto quickly knew that he could not keep with that kind of speed so he did the only thing he could do and the sharingan flare to life. Orochimaru almost got himself killed, at freezing at the shock of seeing a pair of 3 tomoe sharingan but quickly got himself together. Naruto took advantage of the shock of his opponent and infused chakra to his sword, and use chakra to speed himself up, he gave a strange strike to the kunai and the kunai was thrown away, with the boost of speed he leap forward and cut the Sannin net with no remorse, and the body of the snake Sannin was replaced by a log. Orochimaru was surprised out of his mind, a six year old boy without shinobi training almost kill him, if not for the shock of the sharingan he would not be prepared to replace himself with a log.

Mifune seeing the escape the Sannin had to make started walking to the field and said "I gees you have seen enough right Orochimaru", Orochimaru appear from the forest whit sweat running in his forehead and said "I believe you are correct, good jog Naruto-kun", Naruto seeing the Sannin appear from the forest was a little confused but nonetheless reply "Hi, thanks' for the spar" and he gave him a soft bow.

Mifune seeing the end of the spar turn to Orochimaru and asked "So Orochimaru, what is your skill assessment of Naruto".

Orochimaru was running the battle in his head to come up with a response, finally gathering his thoughts he responded "First of all the sharingan was unexpected… but nonetheless having a mature sharingan at such early age is nothing short of astonishing… his speed without chakra enhancement is at least high chunin, to low jonin witch already is good enough to make chunin… the sheer skill in his kenjutsu is impressive, but I see that he has no real skills at shuriken and kunai seeing that he did not use any, considering everything I think that we will need 4 years to fix the basics and teach him everything that he doesn't know as a shinobi and I need to see something with his chakra, I don't know exactly what but I fell that his chakra is different".

Mifune understood everything that he said and gave him a soft nod, then Orochimaru continued, "Then again I guess that he has great chakra control if the trick with the sword was anything to go by" Naruto understood everything and kept quiet during the explanation. Then again Orochimaru continued "I'm going to stay here, I can let pass a potential like Naruto-kun pass by" Mifune understood Orochimaru's assessment of Naruto skills and gave a nod "Then by no means star right away, I will inform the Hokage of this development".

Seeing that Mifune left the training ground Orochimaru aproched Naruto and gave him a pice of paper and said "That is a chakra paper, if you are going to be my student, you are not going to waste time", Naruto understood and asked "What this paper does?", Orochimaru reply "This paper will show us what are your elemental affinities, when we now that we will know what are the best jutsus for you, you have to channel chakra to activated", he tried explaining simple enough.

Naruto understood what Orochimaru said, and he channeled chakra to the paper, the results where astonishing, first the paper split in hundreds of pieces then each of the pieces started burning but not normal red fire, this fire was white and they were so hot that the paper almost disappear on the instant.

Orochimaru seing the results was surprised, first that a kid that age had not one but two affinities and that each one of them were that strong, nut wat almost make him faint was that the fire was not red like normal, it was white, and he knew that the brightest the fire the hottest it is, so practically the white flame is the strongest in existence (Besides amaterasu).

Breaking out of the trance Orochimaru laugh and said "You are no ordinary kid… you have fire and wind as elemental affinities but not normal affinities, Naruto was puzzeled by the comment so he asked "What do you mean that they are not normal?"

Orochimaru understood the question and reply "Your wind affinity is strong, usually the paper only splits in half not In hundreds…. And your fire affinity may be the highest in history", Naruto was surprised but his wind affinity but his fire affinity being the highest in history was ridiculous, so he asked "What do you mean with the highest in history what is so especial about it", Orochimaru replied his question "Fire is usually red, the brightest the fire the hotter it is… your fire is white, the brightest it can be."

Naruto was shocked knowing that he had such affinity so being the smart kid that he was asked "How can I control it?", Orochimaru was so put off by the question that almost faints, but gaining a face splitting grin knowing that he got the big prize in student he replied "I will teach you how to control it, your fire and wind affinities so be patient lets first work the basics".

Orochimaru got in fighting position and told Naruto "I'm going to make you at least jonin by the end of this 4 years, you better give it your all", Naruto gave him a nod and got in stance as well, The two watch each other and began their training.

Mifune was back at his office and started writing a letter to the Hokage:

"Hokage-dono

Im hero to inform you that your shinobi Orochimaru of the Sannin has decided to stay to teach personaly Naruto, im here to inform you that Orochimaru set an assessment of 4 years of trainin then we will continue the deal as we promised and I will send Naruto to Konoha

Mifune ruler of Iron"

Land if Fire: Konoha

Hiruzen was currently speaking with Tsunade of the little Kushina, Tsuda said "She is much better now, I guess that having someone familiar is something good" Tsunade said after remembering how happy she was at learning that they were blood relatives.

Hiruzen reply "That is much better… Kushina-chan starts the academy today right?, Kushina was much better the part of this 2 years but she rarely got out of the Senju compound, that the reason that she relay too much on Tsunde, even calling her kaa-san. Tshude reply "Yes she starts today, I hope she makes friends she never leaves the compound… she is a happy kid I know she will do great", in this past 2 years with Kushina, Tsunade knew that she was a great kid and very happy girl.

Hiruzen was happy with everything right now so he was about to reply to Tsunade, but there was a knocking on the door, so he let his secretary in. The secretary quickly apologize for the intrusion and gave a letter to the Hokage.

Tsunade seeing the letter quickly asked "What's that about Sensei?", Hiruzen notices the Iron stamp on the envelope so he opened and read its content, after finishing reading he pass the letter to Tsunade and waited that she finish reading the letter.

Needless to say that Tsunade was shocked of the news that Orochimaru would go out of his way to teach a kid, no matter who asked, then she turn to Hiruzen and asked "Who is this kid, Orochimaru would never go out of his way for anyone, especially for a kid and 4 years absence that kid must be impressive", Hiruzen gave a chuckle and turn to Tsunade and told her "We will have to wait 4 years to see for ourselves", Tsunade could only agree with his sensei and wait for the kid to come.

Kushina Uzumaki was nervous, today was her first day at the shinobi academy, her first day of the next six years to come. Kushina was 6 years old, she has red shoulder length hair, round face and big bright purple eyes, and she was wearing a chain best like shirt, and a yellow drees with a green sash over her hip.

Kushina Uzumaki was entering the first class of the day, the day were all the students will present themselves and talk about their dreams and goals, being a little nervous she went and knock on the door, waiting a little bit the instructor got out of the class room and Kushina hurry and said "I-II-I , the Hokage ga—ave me this paper to you", The instructor was smiling softly to the nervous kid and grab the paper and told her to follow him inside.

Entering the classroom all the eyes fall upon her, she was now beyond nervous at being on the spotlight, the chunin instructor cleared his throat and speak to the class "Shut up…. Ok now that you are quiet, today we will have a new student, ok tell your name, were you are from, and your dream", Kushina understood the chunin and breath a couple times and speak, almost shouting for the nerves "My name is Kushina Uzumaki, I'm from Uzu, and…. My dream is to become Hokage!", for a couple of seconds she thought she did ok until almost all of the boys of the room started laughing and you could hear "You are an outsider you cannot be Hokage!","A girl can't be Hokage!","Shut up outsider!", and there were a lot of more shouts.

Kushina hearing all of this quickly became angry and her face was getting red, seeing this the boys started bullying her even more "Look she is getting angry", "She looks just like a tomato", "tomato !", "tomato !", "tomato !", and like that they starting bothering her until the chunin spoke up "Shut up class and thon bother Kushina, now go take a sit", needless to say that kushina was beyond furious, first they make fun of her dream, then of her hair, she reached the top spot and sat fuming at everything.

At the end of the classes when the chunin finally leave, all the boys gather around Kushina and started bulling her,"Get out of here outsider! Nobody wants you!", "yea get away tomato !",and the course words continue coming from the boys until kushina snap and jump to the nearest boy and starting beating him up "The tomato went crazy run!", "run from the tomato" and there all the boys run.

Kushina seeing that the boys were running away, quickly got to the backyard of the academy, got to the tree and started crying, nobody accepted her, the make fun of her and her hair, the crying continue for various minutes, until someone touch her shouldes, feeling the contact kushina tensed and was ready to pounce on another stupid boy.

Mikoto Uchiha, was a cute girl black eyes, black hair and a slender figure, today when Kushina introduce herself the thought it was funny, so when she run away from the classroom she follow her. Seeing Kushina crying she approached her, touch her shoulder and told her "I'm Mikoto Uchiha, and I don't think your dream is stupid" she gave her a small smile. Kushina was impressed with this girl, because she knew that the Uchiha's were not friendly, Tsunade taught her that,she quickly got out of her stupor and gave her a hopeful look and speak "You really think so?"Mikoto quickly nod and speak "I know that you are new here so do you want to be my friend?", Kushina was wearing a beautiful smile and almost shout "really, that would be great ,dattebane ", hearing the verbal tick Mikoto started laughing and Kushina quickly followed but she was more happy because she have made her first friend.

Kushina was back at the compound when Tsunade arrives, quickly she went and asked how was her first day at the academy, Kushina told her about the boys and the bulling, needlees to say that Tsunade was beyond furious, until Kushina told her that she attacked the boys, Tsunade laughed for good 10 minutes, then Kushina told her about Mikoto and how they went to the park right after the converstarion.

Tsunade was happy that she finally making a friend, after having dinner, Tsunade go up from the table and told Kushina "alight Kushina-chan lets clean things up then you will continue studing Fuinjutsu from grandmother notes" Kushina gave her a happy nod and went to clean the table.

Kushina has been studding Fuinjutsu for the better part of the last 2 years, all started after Tsunade arrived, and they went together to Mito's old room and found a letter to Kushina, the letter said:

"Kushina-chan

I know that things will be difficult for you, and I hope that you will be strong enough for the challenges to come, I have a request for you, you are the princess of Uzu and as a proud Uzumaki you have to learn the art that we were famous for, that's the art of Fuinjutsu, I know that Tsunade will help you with it, she may not be good at fuinjutsu, but she is a great woman and I thought her some things, please make the Uzumaki and Uzu proud and become a master at the art, I will leave to you mi notes and scrolls on fuinjutsu, there you will find everything you need to become a level 10 master on the art

With love Mito Uzumaki"

After reading this letter Kushina was tearing up a bit, and Tsunade had a smile on her face, from that day forward Kushina gave her all to learn fuinjutsu, just like Mito would want, so every day before and after dinner she would go study fuinjutsu and she is safe to say that she is at level 2 in learning fuinjutsu.

Fuinjutsu is one of the most complex shinobi arts, to be good at fuinjutsu you need to have good chakra control and the process of learning can be very taxing in theory, you need excellent handwriting and the basics of this art the most time consuming of all, before beginning learning fuinjutsu you need to learn the basics then learn to write properly, ler to make your own ink, how to write in a paper and the correct kanjis for every one of them.

Level 1 of fuinjutsu beside the basics is simple recognition of seals and simple storage seals, the concept of a storage seal is so complex that it almost takes the hole chapter or level of fuinjutsu, Level 2 of fuinjutsu I almost as hard but no so much, in this level you get to the theory of explosive seals, paralysis seals, and chakra storage seals, being dangerous seals, you just learn the theory of this part.

Usually one takes a lot of time to be able to learn even the two first levels of fuinjutsu, but being an Uzumaki she had the fuinjutsu imbedded in her since she was born so she took it as a fish on water, besides learning seals, in her own time when Tsunade was not watching she would sneak to the training grounds and would learn from the scrolls of the Nidaime Hokage the art of Kenjutsu, she was not the most skilled of all but, she was a hard worker and never gave up.

Tsunade on those years also helped her with taijutsu and chakra control, so she was good enough with taijutsu to beat every guy to the ground. Living with Tsunade made Kushina lear a lot of things and pick up on things of the Sannin, first never talk of Dan or Nawaki, she lost both of them, and she was planning leaving the village but she couldn't leave Kushina by herself, second she hates perverts, absolutely despise perverts, she learned this when Tsunade's teammates came to the compound, they were Jiraya the world renown pervert, and Orochimaru a creepy guys. Remembering Jiraya she snicker a little for all the times she saw Tsunade beat him to the ground for pervert things.

Remembering Orochimaru quickly became aware that she didn't see him for a couple of weeks so she went to Tsunade and asked her "Kaa-san, why didn't Orochi came by this couple of weeks", Tsunade hearing this and giving her a smile for the endearing name of 'kaa-san' responded to her "Orochimari will not be back for 4 years", Kushina was surprised at this information and quickly asked why, Tsunade answered "He is goning to teach a kid at Iron country, by request of the ruler of Iron himself, the kids name is Naruto, he is the same age as you", Kushina was surprised by this information but put it aside, since she never liked that much Orochimaru, so she reply "oh, ok I'm going to the study kaa-san",Tsunade hear this ad reply "ok honey I will tuck you in tonight", Kushina gave a quick "hai" and went to the study.

AN: in this chapter I wanted to develop a little bit more the kushina character and I think that right now we just need Naruto to train.

AN: Naruto incident and the Mangekyou will be explained with more detail in the upcoming chapters, he will not show Orochimaru the Mangekyou at Mifune's request.

AN: I chose fire and wind for Naruto because I think they are the most offensive ones, and I think that they work well together.

AN: I hope you guys liked this, and I will be making more chapters as quickly as I can, please leave reviews and game me your honest opinion.