Chapter One
It was another beautiful day in Konoha.
The sun was shining, birds were cheeping.
And everyone was going about their lives with not a single trouble in mind.
Well except for me.
You see I honestly didn't expect my showing in the Chunin Exam finals to have earned me my Chunin Jacket.
But alas that's exactly what it did.
The same went for my team mates who also became Chunin.
Thus our team was dissolved.
We had one last night together were we celebrated our success along with Hayate Sensei.
We went to Yakinuku Q.
It was definitely a bitter sweet experience.
Especially as Tsurai and Ureshii went out of their way to apologize for the way they had treated me during our short tenure together.
They also made it clear that they wouldn't have become Chunin's in this exam without me.
It was strange that we parted on much better terms than we were ever on while we were together.
Hayate Sensei sat in silence simply observing us with a coy smile on his face the entire time.
I was honestly going to miss learning under him.
It was the day after this I began putting myself through some absolutely hellish training.
This was because the Chunin exams had taught me I needed to train quite a lot to be able to react to what my Sharingan were perceiving.
I knew this wasn't going to be easy.
And it was going to involve quite a lot of physical exercise on my part to bridge the gap.
After all I went straight into possessing a three tomoe Sharingan.
And thus there wasn't any of the prior stages where my body became slowly accustomed to it's use as it developed.
With that in mind I began upping the level of my physical workouts.
The Saitama training had reached some truly astronomical numbers.
All the while I wore weights on my legs and arms that I had purchased specifically for this.
It was absolutely brutal.
So much so that Mizaki was definitely worried I was over doing it.
She was such a kind caring individual that it warmed my heart such thoughts of hers were directed towards me.
Yet despite that I couldn't hold back on her account.
It would only lead to my injury or death later on should I do so.
And I knew she would be far more upset should that happen.
Of course I had a few days off where I allowed my body to recover.
On these days I spent my time with Mizaki at our home.
Or I was with Naruto in his crummy apartment helping him with his homework.
And since I became a Chunin he looked at me with such a level of hero worship I honestly didn't know what to think about it.
On one hand I was only a Chunin. Basically still canon fodder for the village.
But on the other hand seeing myself through his eyes definitely boosted my self esteem.
It was partially because of this I was able to maintain the absolutely crazy workout regime I was putting myself through.
I didn't want to let him down as stupid as that sounds.
Thus it took me roughly three months and back breaking effort on my part but I finally succeeded in making it so my body could keep up with my Sharingan.
This in turn had a positive effect on my mission capabilities.
I completed so many missions that it wasn't even funny.
These also included certain missions where I was also expected to lead a team.
They were mostly made up of career Genin.
And yet despite that most Shinobi didn't take kindly to taking orders from an Eight year old despite my superior rank.
It was only their Ninja training that prevented any sort of insubordination.
That didn't stop them scowling at me whenever I ordered them to do something.
I soon realised I much preferred the Solo Missions I was sent on instead.
Something that must have been realised by Hiruzen Sarutobi the Third Hokage.
As the ratio of missioned where I was sent out alone quickly began to out weigh the missions I was expected to lead a team.
And frankly I wouldn't have had it either way.
After all it allowed me much more freedom that way.
And it allowed me to take advantage of that freedom to see to my own goals.
For example I am now out of the Leaf Village on a solo mission.
It is a simple mission tracking down a mere B-rank Missing Nin that had been spotted in the Land Of Fire.
I used this opportunity to head to a place I have been intending on going for some time.
That being the Fire Temple.
Sneaking in was relatively simple thanks to the Transparent Escape Technique.
I managed to enter the Temple with a contingent of monks thus bypassing the supposedly Impenetrable sealed Iron Walls.
I was honestly in awe of the temple.
It was definitely quite beautiful.
And the statues all looked pretty epic.
Despite that I wasn't here for sight seeing.
No I was instead here for the Pseudo Jinchuriki Sora.
It took a great deal of effort on my part to track him down.
He was currently being ostracised by the monks and thus was kept for the most part alone.
It took searching the entire Temple for me to eventually track him down.
By then it was already quite late at night.
I followed Sora to his bedroom.
There I used my Sharingan to place him under a Genjutsu to make him more compliant.
From there it was a simple task of undoing the seal that his Father Kazuma had placed on him.
The Nine Tails Chakra instantly began to flow out of him.
But before it could condense enough to be detected I began absorbing it with a Medical Ninjutsu Technique designed for Emergency Chakra Transfers.
I then began directing the Nine Tails Chakra to my forehead using the Strength Of One Hundred Seal.
All the while purifying it of the hatred and malevolence it was saturated in.
After all I knew that would only cause me issues later on if I didn't do so.
Thankfully without the real Kurama there the continue feeding his hatred through it, that became easier than I expected.
As for the Strength Of One Hundred Seal. I was just thankful Tsunade had left behind notes on her various techniques.
Albeit most people lack the Chakra Control required to perform them.
I however didn't need the Chakra Control needed to hold this Chakra while I was asleep.
After all the vast amount of Nine Tails Chakra managed to fill up the Strength Of One Hundred Seal incredibly quickly.
By the time I had drained Sora of his Nine Tails Chakra I now possessed a crimson red diamond tattoo on my forehead hidden beneath my Leaf Forehead Protector.
Thus step one in dealing with my pathetically average Chakra reserves was taken care of.
I then left the Temple leaving behind no trace of my presence other than the now normal young boy who was now lacked the mutated arm he kept covered and with that it was clear he was no longer a Pseudo-Jinchuriki.
No instead that title was I supposed passed onto me.
With my main aim taken care of I then hunted down my target and returned to the Leaf before anyone could become suspicious.
All in all it was quite a successful time away if I do say so myself.
Not long after I turned nine years old, I was out in the Land of Rain on a B-rank Mission.
I was with a team consisting of Tsurai Hyuga my former team mate.
And an Inuzuka by the name of Koinu.
He was your typical brash Inuzuka.
However he has been in an absolutely foul mood practically from the get go and seemed to have been taking it out on us.
Especially as he knew taking it out on our client would be a terrible idea.
So at least he wasn't stupid which I suppose was something.
Our mission was just your standard body guard mission.
We were escorting a merchant.
He was an over weight bald guy with incredibly bad body odour.
Something which has been understandably getting on my Inazuka team mates nerves with their heightened sense of smell.
That however didn't give them the right to take their irritation out on Tsurai and I.
This continued until we finished escorting our client.
Two long weeks of his complaints quickly came to an end.
And the moment we were away from the merchant Tsurai pounced on Koinu.
And man did she look terrifying.
Her Byakugan activated and she had an almost visible aura of menace even without my Sharingan active.
Koinu's wild instincts as an Inuzuka screamed to him to run.
I had a very Morgan Freeman voice in my mind saying "It was at that moment he knew he fucked up".
What followed was something so brutal I don't even want to put it into words.
But lets just say afterwards whenever Koinu saw Tsurai again he would lay on the ground belly up regardless of if they were in public or not.
It also gave Tsurai quite the reputation within the Inuzuka Clan as Koinu was one of the few in potentials for the title of next Alpha of his clan.
It took all of my considerable Medical Ninjutsu Knowledge to prevent any permanent injuries to Koinu also.
I hoped that would have been the extent of the drama I would have to deal with.
Unfortunately for us it seems my life is not in any way going to be easy.
The reason being as we were part way home we came across Zabuza Momochi of all people.
And with him was an incredibly young looking Haku.
"look what we have here Haku" the mists Demon said.
His tone of voice filled with malic.
"A few scrawny leaf wimps. Perfect for you to test yourself against" he demanded.
"Yes Zabuza Sama" Haku replied in an emotionless tone.
I instantly took charge and told my team mates to run.
While I created a three Shadow Clones.
Zabuza however laughed at my efforts.
"Those aren't going to help you kid" he snorted.
He began forming hand signs and a large amount of mist began to flood in.
"Crap!" I complained.
I instantly activated my Sharingan but it seemed unable to pierce through the mist.
I shouldn't have been surprised as Kakashi's wasn't able to do that either.
Instantly a series of Senbon began popping my Shadow Clones.
But they did what they were made for and brought me enough time to formulate an idea.
I knew using the Transparent Escape Technique wouldn't work.
As the mist obviously were able to detect people within their own jutsu.
Thus I used the Hiding Like A Mole technique instead.
"Thank you Kabuto" I thought as it was he I copied it from.
But as it was a technique that wasn't of my Affinity it cost me way too much Chakra.
Luckily the Nine Tails Chakra was there to compensate.
Thus it was from those reserves I drew on the Chakra required to to use that jutsu.
I thus sank underground the first chance I got.
From beneath the ground I focussed my senses to detect where my surroundings.
I released a wave of Nine Tails Chakra that bounced back to me like Sonar.
It enabled me to realise that Zabuza had stayed put since creating the mist.
And thankfully my team mates were nowhere nearby.
"Wow they definitely made some distance" I thought.
I then focussed my attention on Haku.
He was searching the mist for me.
All the while Zabuza was complaining at his performance.
I knew Haku was too kind hearted to be of cause me any mortal harm.
As such Zabuza was my main issue.
I then snuck through the Earth and tried to pull him down in an improvised Head Hunter Jutsu.
But he was too tricky for me to have successfully pulled that off.
His hand grabbed around my wrists yanking me out of the ground.
And in his other the Executioners Blade hurtling towards my midsection.
I barely avoided my untimely death by mere milliseconds.
A quick Substitution Jutsu all that stood before me and dismemberment.
Even Zabuza seemed shocked I was able to pull off the Shadow Clone Substitution and right under his nose too.
"Not bad brat" he gave a condescending amount of praise.
"Haku come here" he said.
And the small androgynous individual obeyed his orders to the letter.
He quickly rushed over to us.
Seeing me still alive seemed to have shocked him.
Like he thought my death was inevitable despite his dislike of such concepts.
"Wipe that look off your face" Zabuza said seeing the same kind of conflict I saw.
"This is the Shinobi World. And it is kill or be killed" Zabuza stated.
"Unless you can talk no Jutsu your way out of a fight" I said with a sigh.
Honestly wishing I too possessed that ability.
Zabuza however didn't seem to have paid my words any head.
Instead he told Haku to pay attention.
He then began walking towards me and his aura flared.
His killing intent washed over me and it was like nothing I had felt.
Even as a Chunin I was unprepared for this.
It made all those C and B rank Shinobi I faced seem like jokes in comparison.
"And this isn't even the worlds final boss" I thought.
I was infuriated.
As I had thought I had worked hard enough to survive.
I had scratched and clawed every step of the way.
But it still didn't seem to be enough.
In my fury I subconsciously drew on the Nine Tails Chakra.
And around me I gained the crimson aura made of bubbling red Chakra.
I also activated my Sharingan which thankfully the slitted pupils of the the Version One Chakra Cloak disguised them.
My Nine Tails chakra rushed out to meet Zabuza's and it was like the unstoppable force meeting the immovable object.
Neither one of us wanted to back down.
"Well well well" Zabuza said with a grin.
"Who knew we had a Jinchuriki in our midst" he said.
I had no intention of correcting him.
I could somehow detect his negative emotions while in this state which made locating him in the mist far easier.
And so I darted towards him with all the speed the Version One Cloak with one tail could offer.
I shot off like a bullet.
Zabuza however was no slouch and was able to predict my trajectory.
His blade mere millimetres before it would strike me.
I however then shot off at a right angle.
I moved around in a crimson blur of constant motion.
Before long my movement had created enough force to make the Mist to disperse.
Thus it gave me a much clearer view of Zabuza and Haku.
I shot off claws of Chakra towards them both with a roar.
Haku being grabbed by Zabuza and dodging tirelessly as my Chakra Claws kept them at a distance.
Part way through this Haku was able to create his ice mirrors and thus had a perfect place to hide to remain as he thought safe.
Not that I had any intention of targeting Haku if I could help it.
What followed was basically me forcing Zabuza to begin fighting me seriously.
I observed with my Sharingan as he pulled out every technique he knew just to keep up with me in this form.
And it annoyed me that we were shockingly even despite my best efforts and the boost I gained in this state.
A part of me thought I needed to go further into this transformation.
But I knew my body wouldn't have been able to handle it.
"Hell I'm only Nine years old" I thought to myself.
And even this state is causing me some issues.
Thus I needed a new way of ending this.
Suddenly a crazy idea came to mind.
As I continued moving with break neck speed sending Chakra Claw after Chakra Claw.
All the while Zabuza Dodging and counter attacking.
I finally struck.
I sent a Chakra Claw passed Zabuza.
It seemingly missed him and thus he saw it as inconsequential.
However I managed to separate it from my Chakra Cloak.
And only because I had the Sharingan active was I able to time the transformation of it as I did.
The separated claw popped with a puff of white smoke.
And became a trio Shadow Clones.
There was only enough to create three of me in my base form.
But that was more than enough for what I had in mind..
They then moved through the Dance Of The Crescent Moon using their Katana's.
Zabuza barely spun around in time to avoid a killing blow.
Despite that however they injured him severely.
"Zabuza Sama" Haku yelled from his mirror as the Demon of the Mist dropped to his knee.
His shirt bleeding from his shoulder to stomach.
Haku rushed towards Zabuza creating the distraction I needed.
Thus my Shadow Clones popped and I Body Flickered away but not before I heard Zabuza complain I bested him with a sword.
I smirked as that must have really wounded his pride.
Once I was at a safe enough distance away I cancelled the Version One transformation.
The moment I did I dropped to the ground absolutely exhausted.
My clothing was ringing wet with sweat.
And my body was in absolute agony.
"Yeah definitely shouldn't rely on that any time soon" I thought to myself as I blacked out.
When next I woke up it was to see several hours had seemingly passed.
I gingerly sat up hissing in pain.
"If only I had Naruto's healing factor" I thought.
Instead I had to rely on good old fashioned Medical Ninjutsu to get me back up and on my feet.
It was a rushed job but it did the trick.
I then headed off back towards Konoha.
I was pretty much dead on my feet when I crossed the border into the Land of Fire.
Thankfully not long afterwards I was reunited with Tsurai and Koinu.
Also with them however was Ureshii.
He was on border duty and upon finding about me left his post to join Tsurai and Koinu to come find me.
I was honestly quite touched.
Thankfully after that there was no more drama for the remainder of the way back.
We left Ureshii back at his post so that he wouldn't get into trouble and made the remainder of the journey.
Chapter Two
All in all I was glad to return home.
This entire mission had been one that definitely wore on my nerves.
Between the constant fights with enemy Shinobi in the Land of Rain targeting our client.
And the fights between my team mates.
And finally the confrontation with Zabuza it was definitely not the type of mission I would like to repeat too frequently.
And after we reported to the Hokage I thought "I could definitely do with some rest and relaxation".
Thankfully this last mission meant I had hit my quota of missions which allowed me a small break.
Something Konoha allow to hopefully prevent their Shinobi from burnout.
I used my month off to first rest from the after affects of my fight with Zabuza.
It was safe to say Mizaki was terrified upon hearing I had battled against one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist.
She fussed over me practically from the get go.
Her Maternal instincts kicking into overdrive.
She quickly used her Medical Ninjutsu to fix the few injuries I had been unable to tend to on the way home.
Thankfully before she could fuss too much however her duties in the hospital called her away.
After all there were people far worse off than myself to be healed.
Even if she did look rather reluctant to leave.
After she did though I made possibly the greatest discovery I had ever made.
And that was that if I add some of my own Chakra into the Strength Of One Hundred Seal to replace the Nine Tails Chakra I had used.
The Nine Tails chakra remaining inside mutates my Chakra to take on the same properties of the Nine Tails Chakra.
I grinned upon discovering this as it would allow me to replenish the Nine Tails Chakra.
Granted it took me a while to replenish the amount I used due to my naturally reserves only being of an average amount.
But it was good to know that the Nine Tails Chakra I possess isn't a finite resource.
And with that worry out of the way I began pondering over everything I could have done better in my fight against Zabuza.
And there were a lot of issues I needed to rectify.
For one my ability to use Elemental Ninjutsu is woefully lacking.
And despite possessing a Sharingan, without the skill in those specific Elemental Natures it may as well be for naught.
I can't simply keep overpowering them with Chakra to get them to form.
After all that is one wasteful. And two creates incredibly weak techniques.
Thus I began spending every free moment I had when not on missions training to improve my ability to use various Chakra Affinities.
From Kabuto I had copied the Earth Release jutsu's
And Zabuza the Water Release jutsu's
And that's not even including my own natural affinity for fire.
I was just thankful my missions over the next few years were thankfully less stressful.
It allowed me to focus on my own development.
And I'll be honest it took years to fix the mistakes I had made.
Just like how I rushed ahead in gaining the three tomoe Sharingan without having a body that could handle it.
I rushed ahead to gain for myself a source of Nine Tails Chakra.
"I really have to stop making that stupid mistake" I thought.
"Its real life not an anime. I have to stop living like it is one" I reminded myself.
And that also reminded me of the people here too.
I have to make more of an effort for them.
And thus I would hang out with Ureshii and Tsurai whenever we could.
The same went for Mizaki.
You should have seen her face when one day I gave her a card out of the blue.
She was confused.
As it wasn't her birthday.
She then began crying upon seeing it.
You see Mother's day isn't a thing in this world.
And it really should be.
And while she may not be my biological Mother it didn't stop her caring for me any less.
Thus when the date I remembered as Mothers day rolled around I had a card professionally made for her.
But it wasn't just that day.
I enjoyed simply hanging out with her.
I even pampered her by routinely using my money from my missions to send her to the spa.
All in all I was trying to be the best son to her I could be.
And then we come to Naruto.
Since befriending him, and aiding in his studies he has improved exponentially.
But what infuriated me to no end was that his teachers in the Academy refused to mark him fairy for his efforts.
Because of this he was still the "dead last".
The worst perpetrator of this is Mizuki.
And as my efforts with Naruto have all been academic I have been unable to address his Chakra Control.
My busy schedule simply didn't allow for it.
That and I got the distinct impression someone was trying to keep us apart.
As it soon became apparent that any time the Academy got any time off I was quickly sent out of the village.
I wasn't sure if it was an actual thing taking place or if I was simply being paranoid.
This being the Ninja world however I leant more heavily on the former being the more likely.
As such Naruto failed his exam for the same reason he did in cannon.
His inability to create a suitable clone of himself.
His large reserves made that an impossibility.
And the fact the teachers judged him for that also put them in my bad books.
But as I knew what would be taking place I made sure to be in the village for it.
Sure it involved completing my Quota of missions in record time to earn some more time off.
But it worked out perfectly.
I used the Transparent Escape technique to follow Naruto after he had stolen the Scroll of Seals.
I watched over him as he read through them.
The vast majority going right over his head.
When he came to the Flying Thunder God Jutsu and the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu I may have also taken the chance to observe it with my Sharingan thus committing them to photographic memory.
Sure I currently lack any idea of what the seals mean but that is a problem for another time.
I then watched over Naruto as he practiced the Shadow Clone Jutsu.
Then came Iruka and Mizuki's appearance.
Seeing Naruto so heart broken upon finding out about the Nine Tails was definitely hard for me.
Especially as I care for the guy.
He had become like my annoying little brother.
Thus I simply couldn't stand back and observe any more.
When I dropped my Transparent Escape Technique those present were definitely shocked.
Naruto however looked at me with eyes filled with fear.
"Atsui" he said in a chocked off sob.
"Hey bud" I said as I gently lifted him into a hug.
"Don't worry what that cunt said" I told him.
"You are Naruto Uzumaki. Ninja of the Leaf, and a badass Future Hokage" I said making him stare at me.
"But most of all you are my little Bro" I said earning a wide eyed expression.
"Little bro?" he said.
I nodded before sticking my fist out.
"My birth family died in the Nine Tails attack" I said fighting back my own emotions.
Naruto gasped at this and almost looked like he wanted to shrink away.
No doubt expecting me to blame him for their loss.
"But I have never held that against you. After all I know the difference between a Kunai and the storage seal it's held within" I told him resolutely.
Big ugly tears began to flow down his cheeks at that.
"And I have also learned that in this life there are two types of family" I said.
"There are the ones you are born with. And the ones you choose" I then paused as I stared at him.
"And you choose me?" Naruto questioned.
"Damn right little bro" I said.
"And in the words of the immortal Dom Toretto 'Family is everything'" I said to Naruto with a grin.
He smiled that cheeky grin of his and stuck out his own fist.
Our fists bumped together.
I then pulled out a storage Scroll I had prepared.
And out popped two cups and a bottle of Sake.
I poured the two cups for us and informed him that if we share these cups it will make us brothers.
Sure I was ripping this off from One Piece.
But that didn't matter one bit.
Naruto and I quickly clinked out cups and yelled "Kanpai!" before downing our Sake.
It was then that Mizuki who had been shocked into silence until now spoke again.
"Well isn't this lovely" he said sarcastically.
"Hey little bro. Fancy putting this moron in his place" I said.
"It would be my pleasure big bro" Naruto said as he stood up confidently.
He then crossed his fingers and yelled out "SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!".
Large plumes of white smoke erupted all around us.
And when they dispersed the woods were filled with Naruto's for as far as the eye can see.
And much like in the anime they made remarkably short work of Mizuki.
After all he was a terrible excuse for a Leaf Shinobi.
Naruto beat him black and blue.
By the time he was finished Iruka dropped out from behind a tree that was holding up his weight.
The Academy Sensei was incredibly injured.
"Iruka Sensei!" Naruto yelled and ran towards him.
I followed at a much more sedate pace.
Iruka then told Naruto much of what he said in the anime/manga before handing over his own forehead protector.
Once he had given Naruto his field promotion I then got to work healing him up with Medical Ninjutsu.
As I was doing this soon came the arrival of Hiruzen and his Anbu.
He looked at me with a degree of suspicion for being out here in the midst of all this.
But I simply told him that "if it involved my little bro you better believe I was going to have his back".
It was the resolute expression I gave our villages supposed leader and Naruto's bobble head like nod that told the Hokage that this wasn't a hill he wanted to die on.
We then gave a report of the situation.
And upon it's completion he accepted Naruto's field promotion.
Thus Naruto like in canon became an official Genin of the Leaf.
