Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Yo, minna! I kinda got inspiration and ideas for this story from "The Overlooked Prodigy". You should check it out, it's an amazing story. But I just got really tired because of agonizingly slow(At least for me 'cause I'm a very impatient person) updates and decided to write a story similar to it myself. If you have read "The Overlooked Prodigy", you might notice that this looks a lot similar to that one. Don't worry, it's just for very first few chapters. It'll change it later on.

Also, I know title isn't the greatest, but I really suck at making names so just let it go, after all it is but a title.

Now, why don't we get on with the story?

"What?" - Person talking.

'What?' - Person thinking.

"What?" - Bijuu/Large creature talking.

"What?" - Bijuu/Large creature thinking.

Rasengan - Mentioning a technique or some kind of name for a thing such as genin.

"Rasengan!" - loudly exclaiming a technique.

"Rasengan" - calmly saying a technique's name.

'Rasengan' - calmly thinking a technique's name while performing it.

'Rasengan!' - excitedly exclaming technique's name while performing it.

Crimson Eyed Uzumaki

Chapter One - New Sensei

It started as an amazing day for Yondaime Hokage and his pregnant wife - Uzumaki Kushina. Today was 10th october, due date for pregnancy.

Twins have been born: First one was whisker marked boy with light amethyst eyes and little tufts of red hair on his head; his name was Naruto. Second one to leave the mother's womb was a girl with bright blue eyes and small tufts of blonde hair - Kasumi.

Though, all great things end. And this was no difference. Secret hideout where Kushina was giving birth, which was protected by ANBU members was attacked. ANBU were quickly defeated, and an unknown attacker easily slipped through barrier. Through using child as a hostage, he was able to separate Minato Namikaze from his wife, and ripped out Kyuubi from red-haired mother's stomach.

He used his Kekkei Genkai, Sharingan, to manipulate and control the great tailed fox, using it to attack Leaf Village. 4th Hokage stopped the orange-masked man.

Later on, he used a forbidden technique developed by Uzumaki clan to summon Shinigami for sealing - the Dead Demon Consuming Seal. Said technique required user's soul as sacrifice, trapping it for eternity inside fiend's stomach, cursed for nonstop battles.

He sealed Kyuubi's Yin half back into Kushina for her to survive, while sealing the Yang half into his daughter - Kasumi. Reason? Simple: With having Kyuubi extracted from her, Kushina wouldn't live unless it was sealed back into her. But he couldn't just seal entire Kyuubi into her; she was greatly weakened and having such incredible power rush through her chakra coils so suddenly might have destroyed them, so he sealed only half. For another half, he chose Kasumi instead of Naruto, because from what he knew, only female Uzumaki were able to manifest chakra chains, and that would be great help when trying to control the nine-tailed fox.

However, that day a miracle happened: Yondaime Hokage survived. He had no idea why, not even his wife could explain such strange phenomenon.

But you know what they say, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth". So he didn't and continued living his life happily.

Time Skip 4 Years:

Coming years after the attack had been great for Namikaze family. Minato had not revealed about masked man to anyone but 3rd Hokage - Sarutobi Hiruzen, village elders and clan heads. He made them swear secrecy and revealed full details of incident, while telling the rest as such: During his wife's, Kushina's childbirth, Kyuubi forced its way out of the seal and attacked the village. It had been successfully resealed into his wife and his daughter. After carefully explaining to everyone that being host of tailed beast didn't mean being tailed beast itself, he asked them to think of his wife and daughter as a hero for keeping the monster at bay, protecting the village from such grave danger.

The village did so, mostly showering their gratitude onto the younger Jinchuriki.

Right now, he was in his office, doing the godforsaken paperwork. 'Come on, all it takes is a minor Katon jutsu to burn this paper, Minato! Do it!'. Yeah, this paperwork would drive him insane one of this days.

"Still struggling with paperwork, eh, Minato?" said a voice from behind. Minato sighed, though inwardly he was grateful for distraction. Looking at the origin of the voice, he replied in mock annoyed tone.

"Must you always use the window, Jiraiya-sensei?".

"It's quicker than the door" chuckled Jiraiya as he jumped from window into the office. However, his mood quickly went from humorous to serious. The Hokage's face forgone all the humor as well. It was quite rare to see his sensei become serious, and when he did it was because of something very important.

"I received a message from a toad messenger to go to Mt. Myōboku. Apperently, Great Toad Sage had a vision" said Jiraiya. After seeing Minato's questioning look, he explained.

"Prophecy states that your child is destined for great things. He also said it was the reason Shinigami left you alive. Your existence was necessary for that to happen".

Minato's eyes widened. Since Nine-tails was sealed inside Kasumi, he immediately though that she was the one prophecy spoke about. After all, she had blonde hair and blue eyes just like him, though already showing her impatient and brash side she inherited from Kushina.

Time Skip 2 Years (6 Years After Kyuubi Attack):

Naruto sat in the swing that was in the backyard of his family's house, observing Kushina and his twin, who was training in chakra control. Since Minato was busy with Hokage duties and all, raising and training their children became Kushina's responsibility. Not that she minded.

At young age of 7, Naruto had spiky crimson hair, light amethyst eyes, with slightly angled and slim eye shape. His face was very similar to how Minato's has been when he was same age as him, but slightly slimmer, with edges bit more pronounced. Also, it was rather ironic that it was him with whisker marks, not his sister.

His sister had long straight blonde hair, blue eyes like their father, with face just like their mother's when she was same age as them.

Not that they knew much about how their parents looked like in childhood, of course.

He still didn't understand why his parents have refused to train him.

~~~FLASHBACK START~~~

1 Month Ago

After hearing about his mother telling Kasumi that she would start her kunoichi training tomorrow, Naruto called out to her.

"Kaa-san!" After Kushina turned to him, he asked hopefully "Since you will be training Kasumi, can you train me as well?".

Kushina thought about this. She knew first hand how dangerous the fox was, she wanted to start Kasumi's training as fast as possible. But she didn't really want to sadden Naruto so she decided.

"Naruto, because Kasumi contains you-know-what, training her is very important," seeing as her son was about to protest, she raised her hand, cutting him off and continued "but, I suppose I can teach you the basics".

Naruto happily nodded, his 7 year old mind not really understanding how far the "basics" went.

~~~FLASHBACK END~~~

Well, then Naruto discovered that basics on covered simple Leaf Concentration Practice and using chakra to temporarily increase his limbs' power, which every ninja used to jump higher and make their punches and kicks hit harder than one's of a civilian.

When he complained about it, Kushina slightly harshly told off, saying that she fulfilled her deal of teaching the basics and that he would be taught more after he entered the ninja academy.

But, having inherited more than hair and eyes from his mother, he didn't give up, observing what his Kushina taught from afar and then trying on his own. But seeing as Leaf Concentration Practice could only help him so far, having all but perfected said exercise, being able to stick many leaves to his body and various places, he rummaged a bit in ninja's part of the library, where he sneaked into, and found tree and water walking exercises.

Considering he was just 6, there wasn't much of a rush, since he was already ahead of his sister, so he decided that he would start learning tree walking technique tomorrow.

Tomorrow, Evening 08:00 PM

Uchiha Shisui was returning back home after another day in ANBU, and a rather tiring one if he would say himself. Having just finished a rescue mission, unsurprisingly successfully rescuing several Konoha ninja's from a small band of missing-nins. It wasn't very hard, but it took quite some time to find the targets, which were pretty far away, exterminate the missing-nins and bringing ninjas back to Konoha.

Unlike some other ninjas, who would just simply jump from building to building, he preferred to slowly walk back to Uchiha compound. On his way there, he heard some noise, rather, grunts of pain. Curious and cautious about what was causing the voice, he jumped into trees and stealthily made his way to the origin of the sound, which took him to a small clearing inside the village.

What he saw, though, quickly captured his interest. There was a young boy, 6 years old at best, trying to run up a tree, taking several steps before falling to ground, sometimes on his back or head, which was the reason why he heard those grunts.

'Wait. Isn't that Hokage-sama's son?' he thought as he recognized the child. But why was he out here, training on his own. 'Why would he be training on his own, wouldn't his family be teaching him? And isn't the tree walking exercise is tad bit too early for a young boy like him?'. He was interrupted out of his musings as Naruto ran up higher into the tree, but by the looks of it, exhaustion had caught up with him and he slipped, unable to right himself in the air.

Seeing this, Shisui quickly crossed the distance between himself and redheaded boy and caught him in the midair before he hit the ground.

Naruto looked up, surprised, not expecting that he wasn't alone and someone caught him. He's been alone on this traning ground since the noon, starting with physical exercises, returning home for dinner and then coming back, trying to learn tree walking.

Shisui smiled down at the young boy.

"May I know the reason you are all the way out here, alone?" he asked.

"I'm training!" replied Naruto, pridefully, despite the exhaustion. 'Hmm. Perhaps he is a bit too eager and impatient, like I was?'.

"I can see that, but what I'm asking is why are you training on your own, away from your family, Naruto?".

Naruto wasn't all that surprised that Shisui recognized him, being Hokage's son and all.

"Kaa-san isn't training me anymore. Leaf Concentration Practice and and few other things are all that she taught me but I completed them already" he said with a frown.

"Maybe that's because that's enough for now for someone as young as you?". Really, slight physical conditioning, kunai and shuriken throwing and bit of necessary information was all that clan children were taught before they entered the academy.

"No it's not! She still continued to train my sister...".

Shisui's eyes slightly hardened at that, but he quickly reigned in his composure and Naruto didn't notice anything. Even if Kasumi was a Jinchuriki, that was favoritism, and parents should never prefer one child over another.

"I see. Why don't I drop you off at your home now, and we can meet here at morning, 07:00 AM sharp? I can give you some tips".

Naruto's eyes brightened at that, and he nodded vigorously.

Next Day, Morning

Naruto woke up early, excited for the day. Quickly making himself some easy breakfast, he ate it and after leaving a note to his parents, set out towards the small clearing for the meeting with Uchiha Shisui. He learned the name during their trip back to his home.

Getting there, he sat down, waiting, since he arrived 10 minutes early.

After 10 seemingly agonizingly slow minutes have passed, Shisui arrived right at time. Young Uchiha ANBU had gotten a day-off from his ANBU duties and was going to spend most of the day with young male Namikaze.

"Hello, Naruto" he greeted, as Naruto greeted back. After the small banter, they got to work.

"So, I've noticed that you were trying to do tree walking exercise?" asked the Uchiha, and after seeing boy nod, he continued "Before you got tired, you've been putting too much chakra into the soles of your feet, hence why you were constantly getting blown off the tree. Instead of running start, as is the most popular way, trying going to the tree and put your foot on it first. Then, regulate your chakra and every few moments try to take it off without stopping channeling your chakra. Do so until your foot is securely clinging onto the tree. Repeat same thing with your other foot, and then focus on it and start with a running start. What's important is to keep your concentration on the amount of chakra you release and not let it slip while running up the tree".

Naruto nodded and did so. Shisui watched him and was amazed by how quickly Naruto learned it with some small tips. 'If all it took him is slightly over 5 minutes to learn it, what were his parents doing? If they aren't training him, they could've at least helped him by giving some advice. Do they not pay any attention?'.

Putting those thoughts aside he focused on Naruto as he saw him grin and run up and down the tree happily and smiled

"Now, Naruto, from what I've heard from you, physical exercises are what you do during first part of the day, correct?" after seeing boy nod he continued "What I want you to do, is to complete all those exercises while on the tree. Gravity will make it more difficult, as well as staying on the tree will slowly drain you chakra, increasing both control and size of it as you stay there for so long".

Naruto nodded, with determination burning in his eyes as he got to work.

Shisui has stayed there for hours, watching the young boy. To say he was impressed would be an underestimatement. Naruto had fallen off the tree several times, but quickly got back to work, not single time complaining about anything, ignoring the pain and training as hard as he could. He did a lot of squats, pushups and so on. The fact that he had fallen off only few times, considering large size of his chakra reserves, was very impressive, but that's not why Shisui took liking to the boy.

'Naruto has very strong will, not giving up' he realized 'Maybe I should take him as a student? He's got guts, and doesn't have a sensei, Kushina-sama doesn't train him, and I do need a student to have him compete with Itachi's younger brother' he was almost drooling at image of Itachi getting angry, or at least irritated at having his little brother's ass kicked by a rival. 'And he does suit me. He's smart, determined, and very talented. Yes, I'm sure he would do'.

"Hey, Naruto!" he called out, getting the said boy's attention.

"I was thinking, how about you become my student?".

After hearing that, Naruto's grin became so wide that it almost split his face.

"Really?!".

After seeing Shisui nod he replied "OF COURSE! THANK YOU!".

And so started the story of the boy that would become a legend.

Characters:

Name: Namikaze Naruto, son of 4th Hokage, Yellow Flash, Namikaze Minato and Red Hot-blooded Habanero, Uzumaki Kushina; twin elder brother of Namikaze Kasumi

Age: 6

Appearance: Crimson spiky hair, amethyst eyes, normal height for a male of his age, slim body, 3 whisker marks on each of his cheeks

Personality: For a 6 year old kid, very calm, collected and very smart, even more so than his father was. Quite stubborn, but knows when he has to give up, however, always searches for another way to accomplish something.

Ninja Rating: Has high chakra reserves, much more than average, even for an Uzumaki, though surprisingly good control over it. A quick learner, thinking things though, or as much as his young mind can accomplish, preferring speed, skill and precision over brute strength. Not much more can be determined, considering his started training only while ago.

Name: Namikaze Kasumi, daughter of 4th Hokage, Yellow Flash, Namikaze Minato and Red Hot-blooded Habanero, Uzumaki Kushina, twin younger sister of Namikaze Naruto

Age: 6

Appearance: Blonde straight hair, going down to her upper back, blue eyes, normal height for a female of her age, slim body

Personality: Brash, dense, stubborn, impatient with small temper.

Ninja Training: Has very high chakra reserves, and extremely high Yang energy, former courtesy of being an Uzumaki and Jinchuriki, while latter because of being Jinchuriki of Yang part of Nine-tailed Fox. Not very bright, learning things quicker through experiencing them instead of theorising, preferring to recklessly charge into and through things while rarely thinking her actions before executing them. Not much more can be determined, considering he started training only while ago.

Ages of other characters:

Future Rookie 12 - 6/7

Future jonin sensei's - 20

Minato & Kushina - 30

Tsume - 30

Inoichi, Shikaku & Choza - 32

Shibi - 33

Fugaku & Mikoto 34

Hiashi & Hizashi - 35

Legendary Sannin - 45

Sandaime Hokage and the Elders - 62

Pairings:

I won't make this into much of a romance story, but I can do some pairings and few moments/chapters about them here and there, so vote which ones you want:

Naruto x OC

Naruto x A movie girl (Such as Shion, Sara or Ryuzetsu)

I won't be pairing him up with any of Konoha girls, or any from outside villages except ones mentioned above.

Though, I'll try make the relationship slow going and believable, and it won't be some kind of 'love on first sight' bullshit.

Also, absolutely NO HAREM, because I completely and utterly loathe it unless it's a humorous crack fiction with shitload of lemons and nigh unstoppable, super-powered character.

I hope you liked the story. Well, RATE & REVIEW!