Ice God

Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

The sky was dark, the air was cold, so cold you could actually see your breath and lastly the entre Hidden Leaf village was covered in snow, yes snow.

Fire country, known for having the largest amount of well to put it simply 'green' in the entire elemental nations, It was also known for its warm weather throughout the year, rarely if ever it snowed, so one would find it mind boggling to find Konoha buried under a heap of pure white snow.

Heruzin Sarutobi sighed sadly as he looked at the snowing village; he knew the cause of it or rather the person who was unintentionally responsible for it. He approached his desk where his all seeing crystal ball rested, adding a pit of chakra into it, the crystal ball showed him an all familiar sight, one that broke his heart every time he saw it.

Seating on a swing in a seemingly desolate play ground, was a small boy no older than 4 years old, he had pure unkempt blinding white hair that seemed to glow when light reflected off it, and he wore a white short sleeved shirt with a red spiral on the back and grey baggy shorts.

Naruto Uzumaki; born four years ago and orphaned only a few hours after his birth, unwilling and unknown to all but him; the host of the Kyuubi that was sealed into him on the very night he was born and lastly ;the owner of a great power, power to control ice. Truthfully Heruzin was baffled by the boy's uncontrollable power over ice, there were no recoded Uzumaki in history who were said to have such a power, the only other plausible explanation was that it was from his father's line, what other possible reason could there possibly be?

He sighed sadly as he recalled how Naruto's life had been so far, when he was barely a year old his powers had started to surface. At first it had started with Naruto's body temperature decreasing drastically to the point where the medic nin were afraid that he was going to freeze to death. By the time Naruto had turned 3, it had become impossible for anyone to touch him, and anyone who did was slowly turned into a statue of unbreakable ice.

Another thing about Naruto's powers was that unlike ice, which when exposed to heat or left alone for a few hours would melt, the ice that his body produced would not melt, infect it was almost impossible to brake! They had done several tests on a the ice and to their sheer amazement had discovered that his wasn't just ordinary ice but rather it was crystal that was infused with ice producing a new element that they had dubbed as 'Crystal ice'

The many possibilities of such a new, unknown, powerful, bloodline had driven several council men and women power hungry, the glint he had seen in a curtain war hawk's eyes did not put his mind at ease.

But even with such a powerful ability there was one thing that made the little boy's life one of loneliness and hatred from everyone but a few, a mistake which Heruzin would forever live to regret, the boy was a jinchuriki and not just any jinchuriki but the jinchuriki of the kyuubi, and on the night that it had attacked and had been sealed within the boy, he had revealed it to the entire village. He had in all honesty been expecting the villagers to live up to the Fourths wish and see the boy as a hero and not the kyuubi incarnate.

Sadly that was not so, he had overestimated the reactions and understanding of the people in the village, instead of the understanding and pity that he was expecting from everyone, almost all the villagers were demanding that the young infant be killed claiming that he was the Kyuubi in human form. The situation had escalated so badly so fast that Heruzin was forced to deploy several ANBU units and Jonins to put the mob of angry, murderous, villagers under control. In the end it had taken almost an hour to get the crowed under control, enraged at the behaviour of his villagers to even suggest that he kill a child who had saved them all on that very day, a child who's parents had given up their lives to save him and the village, Heruzin had set a law on that very day, a law stating that anyone who mentioned the kyuubi being sealed within the boy or attempted to kill or harm him would be executed.

Safe to say nobody had made an attempt to harm the boy in any way, well physically at least. Even though his law protected the young boy from being harmed or killed by the villagers, it did however did not stop the villagers from hurting the poor boy emotionally, parents forbid their children from associating with him, everyone treated him like a monster; sneering at the boy, ignoring his very existence, refusing to sell anything to him be it clothes or food, and lastly nobody ever touched the boy.

Though the later be could not be blamed on anyone, as amazing as the boy's powers over ice were, they came with a great price...anybody who touched his skin directly would be frozen. The last person who touched him, a kind young nurse who had tried to help the boy put on his clothes after having his usual check up, the moment her hands touched the boys skin she had screamed in shock and mind crippling pain. Her screams only lasted for a few seconds before she was completely frozen. By the time the medic staff arrived in the room the nurse was already dead, her body and all her internal organs frozen.

Ever since that day, the villagers had become weary of the boy their hatred and disdain now replaced with fear instead. As for Naruto well the boy had not been the same since then, he had started going out less and less, often spending up to a month in his room at the orphanage. Heruzin had seen the dark rings around the boy's eyes many times after that incident. He had even become more distant and cold towards people and hardly ever said a word to anyone (not like there were many people that he could talk to)

Standing up from his chair, the Hokage created a seal less shadow clone and with that he disappeared in a swirl of leaves, reappearing seconds later in the small play ground where Naruto was. He slowly made his way towards the swing where the boy was; he sat by the boy's side and frowned when he noticed that Naruto had not even noticed that he was there.

Clearing his throat to get Naruto's attention, the boy in question almost jumped in fright when he heard the sound, he hadn't even felt the person's presence come so close to him!

Naruto looked to his side and saw the familiar sight of the old man wearing the large white robe and red funny looking hat.

"Oji-san?" Naruto muttered lowly but the old man heard him none the less.

"Naruto-kun, it has been a while hasn't it? What are you doing here all alone?" the old man asked trying to create a conversation with the boy that he had come to view and love like his grandson, he immediately regretted his question when he saw the dejected look of pain and loneliness flash through the boy's already emotionless ocean blue eyes.

Naruto shifted his gaze from the old man and looked at the empty-snow filled playing ground "Run away...they always...run way" he said sadly. The Hokage was not at all surprised when the dark sky blanketing the village became darker and snow started to freely fall again. Every time Naruto was feeling sad or depressed it would always snow, considering how the villagers treated him and how hard and lonely his life had been so far, he was seriously considering renaming the Hidden Leaf Village to the 'Hidden Snow Village'

Putting on a small smile on his face, the Hokage stood up from his sit and went to stand behind the boy "How about I play with you instead?" He suggested as he grabbed the ropes of the swing, Naruto slightly nodded his head in agreement. And so the Hokage spent the next hour or so playing with the small 4 year old boy chatting with him here and there, unfortunately for them, the old man was a Kage and so his time to leisure about was barely there, evident when Heruzin stiffened when he received the memories of his shadow clone, he was needed back at the office.

He stopped pushing the swing, getting a confused look from the boy, and gave him a small sad smile "I'm sorry my boy but it seems our time has to be cut short" the boy frowned when he heard the news and got off the swing, it was almost time for him to return to the orphanage.

The old man made to affectionately brush the boy's spiky white hair and stopped himself just a few inches from touching him, the last person to touch him did not end well.

"It's getting late, want me to walk you home?" Heruzin asked referring to the orphanage as a 'home' rather than an orphanage. Again Naruto nodded his head and started to walk out of the play ground, Heruzin looked at the spot where Naruto had been seated and frowned when he saw that it was now covered in a small thin layer of light blue ice, Naruto's powers where getting stronger and more uncontrollable as he grew older, considering how strong they already were (if the snow covering the village was any evidence)... that was worrisome.

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The trip to the orphanage was rather short during the way there Naruto had noticed the different looks that people were sending him, instead of the usual cold glares and fearful glances that he was used to getting, almost everyone that they passed were bowing to the old man and giving HIM of all people a smile, smiles that he recognised were being forced and clearly fake.

Not that he cared about them or what they thought of him, he had long since learned that people generally did not like him and for the life of him he couldn't figure out why, at first he had thought that it was because of his powers but then he had seen other people spitting fire from their mouths and throwing large chunks of rocks at each other, they all had powers and so did he so they couldn't hate him for that could they?

He had even asked the kind old man who wore the funny looking robes and visited him some times why everyone treated him the way they did, but the old man had shook his head sadly and told him that people were fearful of what they didn't understand and that one day they would all learn from their mistakes and would accept him, Naruto was not convinced.

Since then he had given up trying to figure out the reason for their hatred, it was not like he needed their acknowledgement and approval to live, as long as he had a roof over his head and food (as miniscule as it was) to eat then that was all needed, not them! Nor their approval!

The Hokage dropped Naruto off at the orphanage and just as he had appeared in the begging, he disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Naruto stared at the spot where the Hokage had been standing a second ago with wonderment in his rather dull eyes, he wondered if he could learn how to teleport like that, it would surely save him a lot of time and he could avoid going through the village and their hateful/fearful glares.

Muttering something lowly about asking the old man about it when he came to visit him later, Naruto knocked on the door of the orphanage and waited for a few seconds before he heard hashed movements inside the large, mansion sized orphanage, the door cracked open revealing behind it a rather large fat woman. She had shot brown hair that was tied in a single bun, light green eyes and was wearing a large red shirt with a black skirt that reached her knees.

Her name was Akisha, one of the matrons at the orphanage, a person Naruto had come to dislike ever since he could remember. She would always shout at him at any given moment, regardless of whether he had done something wrong or not and would find always come up with ways to make his already miserable life that much more miserable.

The woman looked up in confusion before her eyes landed on the small boy on her door step and her eyes immediately hardened.

"You're late" she said sharply, sneering at his very sight.

Naruto did not respond, he had long since been used to this. Through the corner of his eye, Naruto could some children playing; chasing each other around the trees and without a doubt he was defiantly not late, he made no comment of his observation. The woman stared at him for a little while longer with a contemplative look on her face, after a few seconds of intense silence she finally spoke

"A few children moved into the house today, unfortunately there was not enough rooms to fit them all in and so we had to give your room away" she seemed to be cheery as she spoke this, as though she had just done something that was so greet it demanded a celebration.

For the first since that day Naruto's face showed emotion, a look a attar disbelief and confusion appeared on his face "B-But where will I stay?" Naruto asked hesitantly the wind around them suddenly picked up.

A small sinister grin appeared on the woman's face, she opened the door and reached behind it taking a small green, torn up, bag that was full of what he could only guess as clothes, his clothes. She roughly threw the bag on the ground next to him "Not my problem, anywhere but here!" with that she shut the door in his face.

For what seemed like ages Naruto stood at the door step frozen in shock, his small mind replaying what he had just been told over and over. He was only four years old, he had no family, no friends, and nearly everyone he met hated him, where was he going to sleep?, what would he eat? For the first time in his life Naruto did something that he had only done when he was but an infant, he cried.

Sitting down on the ground and hugging his feet, Naruto let the tears he had long since held back fall. He cursed his parents for dying and living him all alone in the world, he cursed the villagers for the way they treated him, and he cursed the matron of the orphanage for always ignoring him and for kicking him out.

By now, unknown to the young distressed boy, a full blown blizzard had appeared in the village, everyone was running around trying to get to shelter, shop stand were being blown away, trees were being uprooted from the ground and many windows of shops and houses were broken, the entire village was in panic at the sudden, unexplained, appearance of such a strong blizzard it was the first blizzard that many of them had ever seen/experienced.

All around Naruto, everything was in a chaos, if one was to look through the blinding blizzard they would have been shocked to see a small white bubble of pure wind and snow, glowing eerily white, what was even more shocking was the fact that inside this bubble was a small white haired child, crying his heart out, completely unaffected by the chaotic, destructive, blizzard howling around him.

Naruto thought about his life, he thought about how lonely he was, watching other kids play, having fun, enjoying their childhood, whilst he, he watched from far away, longing to just (even for a second) to feel like that. At times he would sneak out his room and go to the playing ground and watch the other kids play around, at one time he had even tried approach a group of kids that looked to be the same age as him but the moment the children had seen him they had run away from in fear.

The adults were even worse, they would always call him hurtful names and on many occasion, chase him out of their shops or vendors, after a while he had accepted it all and become numb to the hurtful words and glares, it still hurt him but not as painful as it used to be but the stinging, lingering, sensation in his chest always remained there.

He wondered what would happen if he died, would he finally see his parents and if he did, would they love him, would they want to play with him just like he had seen all the other parents do with their own children, whatever the answer was one thing was curtain, he wouldn't have to live in the village and its people, anywhere and anything was better than that, he thought to himself.

He slowly raised his head and looked at his hand, a crystal blue kunai made purely out of ice rested in it, he briefly wondered where the blade had come from seeing as he had not once had a kunai on his form, nor had he ever held one in his life especially not one as beautiful and deadly looking like the one in his hand. His eyes hardened and without a second thought, he brought the kunai to his chest with as much force as he could master. Time seemed to slow down as the kunai moved to his chest, the kunai approached his chest and at the very moment the sharp edge of the deadly weapon made contact with his shirt, it shattered like glass into a thousand sparkling shards.

Naruto looked at the pieces of ice falling with a look of surprise and disappointment in his eyes, he was about to move on to something else when he felt something land in front of him, three somethings to be exact. He looked up and saw three black figures obscured by a heavy blowing white wind, blood red eyes with 3 rotating tomoe stared directly into his ocean blue ones. He found himself being drawn to the wired eyes, at that moment they were the most captivating things he had ever seen. Everything around him swayed a bit but he paid no mind to it, his eyes focused in a trance-like state to the weird eyes, the last thing he saw were the red eyes closing before his eye lids became too heavy to keep open and sleep claimed him.

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For what seemed like a hundredth time that day Heruzin sighed, a few minutes ago he had been called into his office because a messenger carrier bird from Kumo had arrived with important news. Apparently the Reikage had written a letter telling them he wanted to set up treaty with Konoha, he had spent the next few minutes with his advisers discussing the letter when out of no the bloom a strong blizzard had appeared

Worried, Heruzin had sent several ANBU units to find the one person whom he knew was the cause of the blizzard. Whilst his ANBU were out searching for Naruto, Heruzin used his crystal ball to find Naruto and upon locating him, he had almost gotten a heart attack at what he saw, Naruto was about to commit suicide. That was bad, horribly bad, if Naruto succeeded in killing himself it would not only be an insult to his parents sacrifice but it could also release the kyuubi and this time there would not be another Minato to seal it away, he doubted that he who has long since passed his prime would be able to defeat the beast, let alone seal it.

His blood ran cold when he saw Naruto stabbing himself with the kunai but that soon gave away when instead of the kunai going through the boy's chest like he expected it to, the kunai shattered like a glass. He breathed a sigh of relief when an ANBU team arrived and quickly knocked him out. The howling blizzard outside disappeared like it had never been there to begin with, and to his amazement and slight joy the dark clouds too disappeared revealing behind them a beautiful red and orange sky.

Heruzin gazed at the setting sun and a sudden sense of nostalgia came over him, how long had it been since he had seen the sun?. He knew that it wouldn't last for long, for the moment Naruto woke up the village would be once again blanketed by the ever dark clouds.

He heard someone knocking on the door, putting the crystal ball back into his draw and closing it; he sat in his chair and took out his smocking pipe.

"Come in" he said out loud, loud enough for the person behind the door to hear him.

The door opened and a young nurse walked inside, bowing when she was fully inside. The Hokage waved his hand and indicated to the chair in front of his desk, getting the message the young nurse approached the chair and sat down on it. She then proceeded to give the Hokage her report about the new patient that had arrived in the hospital a few minutes ago.

After she had finished giving her report the Hokage had asked her to inform him when Naruto had woke up and with that she had left the office, living the old aged Hokage to himself and his thoughts.

xxxThe Following Dayxxx

Naruto slowly opened his eyes to find himself in very white room, the room was so bright that the moment he opened his eyes he quickly closed them in pain, he made to rub them only to find that he couldn't lift his arms up. Confused as to why that was so, he opened his eyes again(this time taking great care not to open them too quickly)and looked at his hands, to his surprise and growing confusion, he saw that both his hands were tied to the hospital bad and had silky white gloves on them.

Before he could look further into the gloves and figure out how he had gotten himself in the situation he was in, he heard the door open, turning his head to the door, Naruto saw the old man(whose name he had yet to find out) walk inside the room with a sad and worried look on his face.

The old man walked inside the room and stood a few metres from his bed, for few minutes the old man did not say a word, he looked at Naruto and then averted his eyes to the window and sighed in disappointment when he saw the buildings of his village through the window

'To think they could drive a young child this far' Heruzin thought bitterly as he looked at the village, he turned his gaze back Naruto who was staring at him with a blank but slightly confused eye.

"Naruto-kun" he began softly "do you know why you are here?" he asked, trying to get the full story from the child himself, though he had a very good guess why.

Naruto paused for a few seconds as he tried to come up with an answer to the question, the last thing he remembered was staring at the weird red eyes and falling asleep after that, he racked his brain further to and remembered that he had been thrown out of the orphanage and after that he had...he had tried to kill himself.

He averted his eyes from the old man, suddenly feeling ashamed of himself, and looked at the ceiling instead. "I tried to kill myself" he said in an emotionless tone.

The Hokage stepped closer to the boy and sat on the bead "Why would you try to do something like that Naruto, there are many people who would be very sad and disappointed if you killed yourself" Heruzin replied trying to appeal to the boy and make him understand that he should NEVER try to do what he failed to do last night.

Naruto's anger spiked a bit when he heard the old man say that, he had no friends, no relatives and no family, who would be sad and disappointed if he killed himself infect he was sure everyone would actually celebrate if he died, heck they might even declare the day he died a public holiday.

"Who?"

"Hm?"

"Who would be sad?" Naruto asked, his tone gaining a sharp edge to it.

The Hokage was about to answer when he stopped himself, the boy did have paint not many people would miss him if he did die and the ones that did were all reclusive of the boy, his godfather was somewhere in the world peeping on women for his book and running his spy network, his godmother had left the village with her apprentice a few months before Naruto was born and was somewhere in the elemental nations drinking and gambling with money that she did not have. The other person was Kakashi, but the young man was still grieving his sensei's death and was the ANBU commander.

"Well I for one would be sad if you died and I'm sure parents would be sad too" He said truthfully

If Naruto could cross his arms he would so instead he settled for a small huff "They are dead, they left me when I was born...if they cared about me then they wouldn't have-"Naruto stopped talking when he saw the angry glare that the old man was sending him add to that he could also feel a large amount of negative emotions, which he easily identified as anger, coming from the old man.

"Your parents loved you very much; they sacrificed their lives for you! The least you can do for them is be grateful and not throw away their sacrifice by ending your own life!" Heruzin said angrily, though his anger was not entirely directed at Naruto, he was angry at himself for allowing Naruto to suffer this much that he had to try and commit suicide to escape his painful life, he had let the villagers get away with far too much and after today things were going to change.

"You knew my parents?" Naruto suddenly asked, Heruzin cursed himself for not being careful with his words.

"I'm sorry my boy but you are not ready to know about them" Heruzin said with a sigh.

Naruto nodded his head in agreement but inside he was heartbroken and disappointed. 'Even the old man' he thought sadly.

"Now Naruto-kun my ANBU said their found your clothes and some of your belongings with you, can you tell me why that is" Heruzin asked changing the subject.

Naruto frowned "They kicked me out of the orphanage...said there was not enough space anymore"

Heruzin frowned at that, he would have to send some ANBU to investigate the meter and unfortunately for Naruto even if they found the orphanage to be at fault (which it was) for kicking out a four years old child into the streets, there was not much he could do to punish them. The orphanage was run by the civilian counsel and the Hokage had no power over the business that belonged to the civilian counsel; a law that was created by the first Hokage to make the civilians feel more comfortable(being civilians and all) and have some power of their own.

He couldn't have Naruto live in the streets, he was far too young and would be attacked by the villagers if left alone. That meant that he had to find him a home, putting him in with one of the clans would be a better choice as many of the clans did not harbour an ill will for the boy but that would make the other clans start to protest as they will feel that the clan would have too much power and finding a person to adopt Naruto was defiantly out of the question.

The meant that the only choice left was for him to find a house for Naruto to live in and as reluctant as he was, Naruto would have to live alone. He thought about any vacant houses and couldn't think of any, Konoha was a Hidden village and always received a surplus of people every year, accommodation was hard to find and many houses were still being rebuilt after the kyuubi attack.

His eyes lit up bit when he remembered a particular document that he had to sign today, it was a report about an abandoned house near the red light district, the owner had been killed in the Kyuubi attack and had no living relatives to claim the house. The house was fully furnished, though after four years of not being attended to it was now rundown and required a lot of tending to before it could be used. He would have to send a few genins to clean the house.

"Not to worry, I have an old house of mine that I used to use when I was a genin and now it belongs to you" Naruto snapped his had from the ceiling to the old man.

"Y-Your giving me your house?...why?" Naruto asked unbelievably, it all sounded too good to be true.

Heruzin gave the boy a kind smile "Well I can't have my grandson live in the streets now can I? What kind of grandfather would that make me?" He said with a small chuckle in the end.

Naruto stared at the old man with pure shock written on his face, he had known the old for barley a year now, the old man had visited the orphanage one day and had played with all the kids, he of cause had stayed in his room the whole time but somehow the man knew where he was and had entered his room. At first Naruto was wary of the man but after not sensing any negative emotions from the man towards him, he had let his guard down a bit. After that the old would occasionally visit the orphanage and after spending some time with the other kids he would visit him in his room.

He had come to like the old man and would be exited whenever he would visit, and now the old man was giving him his house. Naruto looked at the old man-no his grandfather and for the first time in his life a small smile made its way across his face, his grandfather, that made him smile.

DONE! I'm nearly done with my exams and am only left with one paper to write and since this was a long appreciated weekend, I decided to update this story, i really do hope you like it and if you do please review.

IMPORTANT: I am in desperate need for a beta reader, if anyone is interested please pm me.

Oh and about the paring...any suggestions?

If you have questions ask away.