The Yondaime's Legacy

Disclaimer: I'm only saying this once, I do not own Naruto.

Chapter 1: Prologue

The Kyuubi's attack on Konoha had severely crippled the village, damaging it's most precious resources - of which the most important was shinobi.

A pariah was born on that fateful day. The jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi, who would in the future be scorned by the village. His name? Uzumaki Naruto.

Currently, they were attempting to rush the kids through the Academy in a hope to restore their numbers.

Three students, in particular, showed promise: Uchiha Itachi, the Uchiha clan head's son, Namikaze Narumi, the daughter of the Yondaime Hokage and Uchiha Shisui, another prodigy of the Uchiha clan like Itachi.

A Year Later

These three students became genin after a single year at the Academy, graduating at the tender age of six. They were placed under Inuzuka Tsume's charge and improved quickly under her strict training regiment.

On their first mission out of the village, all three awakened their Sharingan. In Narumi's case, her paternal grandmother was an Uchiha.

Among the three friends, there was a love triangle - Shisui had a crush on Narumi, while she had a crush on Itachi.

Another Year Later

The three were promoted to chunin at age seven, where they took more dangerous missions. The Sharingan had saved them on many occasions, though they were careful not to over-rely on it.

Two Years Later

The prodigious trio made it to jonin with their exceptional performance and teamwork. The Sandaime Hokage himself was impressed, and decided to keep them as a team.

Another Two Years Later

At age eleven, the three were promoted to the ANBU Black Ops, where they were the elite shinobi who only answered to the Hokage.

Itachi was given the codename Karasu, or Crow where he had a black bird mask. Meanwhile Narumi held the codename Itachi (no pun intended), or Weasel. Lastly, Shisui possessed the codename Taka which meant Hawk.

Itachi signed the Crow summoning contract along with Narumi.
It was after that day that Narumi was going on her usual patrol around the village when she noticed a blond boy cornered in an alley by ten villagers with weapons in their hands.

The boy was Uzumaki Naruto, the Kyuubi jinchuuriki mentioned earlier. He had blond hair and blue eyes, with whiskers marking his cheeks as the "demon child" that most of the villagers wanted dead.

Narumi drew her tanto instinctively as she crouched on the roof. Then she noticed one of the villagers walking towards him and swinging his kitchen knife.

"Don't hurt me!" the six year-old Naruto screamed.

The redhead leapt off the ledge towards the mob, intent on stopping the bellicose villager before it was too late. She wouldn't let her otouto get hurt.

The blond shut his eyes, waiting for the pain that would surely come.

Narumi and the other villagers watched in alarm as six flaming golden chains seemingly sprouted from the child's back and knocked away the knife with its bladed tips.

Then they wrapped around the villager who attacked Naruto and fried him alive with its fierce flames.

"This is Kaa-chan's... Kongo Fusa (Adamantine Sealing Chains)?" Narumi thought, trying to process what the hell was going on.

Naruto opened his eyes when he realised that nothing hit him. If Narumi was surprised just now, she was shocked now.

In her otouto's eye sockets lay a pair of Sharingan. Naruto then noticed the chains which were fighting the rest of the mob that became even more furious after their fellow villager's death.

"Demon! You just killed one of us! I knew you were a demon!" one of the villagers shouted. "Yeah! You'll pay for that!" another villager agreed.

Then one of the villagers pointed at his eyes. "Look at his eyes, now they're red! He's surely a demon!" the villager yelled without recognising the dojutsu - he was after all, a civilian.

Naruto could do nothing but cry at the verbal assaults. The chains then wrapped around all of them, easily crushing them into bits of charred flesh. Narumi just realised that he didn't need help at all. When the chains detected her presence, they seemed to recognised her as they retracted back where they came from.

Naruto cried even louder when he noticed another person coming, for it seemed that the chains wouldn't protect him from the next enemy.

Narumi got her heart torn when she saw her otouto crying like that. She squatted down, and hugged him.

"Naruto-kun, you're safe now. I need to take you to the Hokage for very important matters, is that alright?" Narumi asked gently.

Naruto merely nodded when he found that the person was an ANBU. Hokage-sama said that those ninjas with masks could be trusted.

Hokage's Office

The Sandaime Hokage looked up from his stack of paperwork when he heard the arrival of an ANBU and Naruto.

"Ah, Itachi-san. What happened this time?" Hiruzen asked. Narumi answered, "Hokage-sama, it appears that the villagers have gotten more aggressive. Instead of the usual verbal attacks, a group of ten decided to exterminate him with weapons."

"What?!" the Sandaime roared. The nerve!

"However, that was not the only thing. Before I could help Naruto, a flaming version of the Kongo Fusa shot out from Naruto's back and incinerated the nearest villager who attacked him with a knife. Then after that Naruto awakened the Sharingan," Narumi continued.

The Hokage's jaw dropped. He then pondered on it for a while. "Get me Inu and Karasu," Hiruzen ordered.

Narumi disappeared for three minutes, then reappeared with the two operatives. One bore a dog mask while the other, a crow mask.

"The reason why I have called you here was to see if you wanted to train Naruto-kun," the aged Hokage spoke.
"I agree," said Inu. He wouldn't miss the opportunity to train his sensei's legacy. "So do I," Karasu replied.

"I take it you do as well, Itachi-san?" Hiruzen asked Narumi, who nodded. Why wouldn't she train her otouto?

"Alright. Please drop your masks," the Hokage requested.

Narumi did, revealing a beautiful young girl with long, crimson hair and stunning violet eyes. Karasu did so as well. Behind that mask was a handsome young boy with jet black hair and eyes - Itachi. Lastly Inu took off his mask, showing a young man with gravity-defying silver hair, his hitaite was slanted so that it was covering his left eye, a Sharingan implant.

"You shall remain this way whenever you train Naruto all the way till he graduates from the Academy. Is that understood?"

"Hai, Hokage-sama!"

"I have decided on a training plan. Kakashi-kun you shall train him in ninjutsu and chakra control," Hiruzen ordered, looking at the silver-haired man.

Then his eyes locked on Itachi. "Itachi-kun you shall train Naruto-kun in taijutsu (Body Techniques), genjutsu (Illusionary Techniques) and using the Sharingan."

"Finally, Narumi-chan you shall train Naruto in fuinjutsu (Sealing Techniques) and kenjutsu (Sword Techniques). Any problems?"

"No, Hokage-sama!" the three ANBU responded.

"Dismissed."

Naruto, who watched the entire procedure, looked at the three ANBU operatives who were about to be his senseis in the shinobi arts. He was excited!

Then he felt something weird. When he closed his eyes, instead of the usual black, the world around him was rendered a light grey with outlines of the actual world.

There were four blue flames in front of him - most likely Hokage-sama, Narumi-sensei, Itachi-sensei and Kakashi-sensei. There were six more of these flames in the walls, three on each side. They all had emotions, ranging from happiness to sadness.

However, one of the blue flames had no emotion at all... that was weird for a human... unless it was not a human!

Naruto opened his eyes. "Narumi-sensei, can I borrow your tanto?"

The redhead shrugged and unsheathed her tanto, passing it to him. When Naruto grabbed it, he broke into a run towards the wall and impaled that flame without emotions.

The other nine people in the room watched in surprise as an ANBU operative materialised and collapsed to the floor, severely injured.

The Hokage then noticed the "Ne (Root)" marking on the shinobi's arm. "A ROOT agent among us? Send him to Ibiki for interrogation!"

Said Morino Ibiki was the head of Konoha's Intelligence Division (a.k.a. Torture and Interrogation Force or T&I), famous for his interrogations that would break even the most hardened criminals and veteran shinobi.

"Naruto-kun, how did you know that it was an enemy?" Hiruzen asked.

Naruto explained what he saw and felt.

"An Uzumaki sensor?" the Hokage and the three senseis thought. The three ANBU then turned and brought Naruto out of the room.

Sarutobi Hiruzen watched the receding back of the young Naruto.

Without a doubt, he would grow up to be a powerful shinobi.

Omake: Chapter 1 Deleted Scenes

Narumi drew her tanto instinctively as she crouched on the roof. Then she noticed one of the villagers walking towards him and swinging his kitchen knife.

"Don't hurt me!" the six year-old Naruto screamed.

The redhead leapt off the ledge towards the mob, intent on stopping the bellicose villager before it was too late. She wouldn't let her otouto get hurt.

The blond shut his eyes, waiting for the pain that would surely come.

Narumi watched in alarm as the knife struck Naruto in the chest. Suddenly a poof of smoke appeared, and when it cleared there were sixty naked ladies with smoke covering their most important parts surrounding the villager who had attacked.

They laughed and blew kisses at him. It was too much for the villager, who shot out of the alley propelled by blood spurting from his nose. His nine other companions followed soon after as the ladies charmed and seduced their way through the mob.

Narumi, who was watching, sweatdropped at her otouto. That was a weird but effective way to use the henge, one that would come to be dubbed as the "Haremu no Jutsu (Harem Jutsu)".

Author's Notes:
Hello readers, this is my new story. I would recommend reading my other story, "The Rise Of A Legend" if you haven't. This story should be better than the other one now that I've honed my writing skills, however this story's Naruto is less OP (of course, if you read the other story you would know). For this story, I would suggest you have a basic knowledge of Japanese honorifics and greetings etc. I always recommend Google Translate if you don't know a certain phrase. Now, about the story: Naruto is very formal (he called the Hokage "Hokage-sama" instead of the usual "Hokage-jiji" in other fan fictions), this is because I want him to be very polite. He has learnt that politeness and etiquette makes him more likeable. About the pairing, my current choice is Naruto x Yugito. If you want another character, review or PM me. This story should update a new chapter within a week at most, unless I'm going on holiday or my phone has to be sent for repair or whatever. By the way, I'm writing this with my phone for convenience and portability. Anyways, I see you should get on to the next chapter.

Until tomorrow,
Ja Ne