Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters.
I hope you like the story! Please RxR!
Summary: Battled hardened, looking around to see all his friends, people he considers family lying dead all around him. He looks at Madara with contempt, yells and plunges forward to the man with his most powerful jutsu. Everything went black. Opening his eyes, he looks at his small hands with a quizzical look.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.
Chapter 1
.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Naruto...Naruto!" Naruto sat up with a jolt, a bunch of the children in the classroom started to snicker at him. He looked at Iruka-Sensei and just smiled rubbing the back of his head with a hand.
"Sorry Sensei."
"You are supposed to be reading Naruto not falling asleep."
"I already know it Sensei." The little soon to be six-year old boy said.
"Oh really, what are the ranks of ninja?"
"Genin, Chuunin, Jounin, special Jounin, Kage. Then there are the special cases of ANBU who protect the village from threats, conduct high-risk missions and directly report to the Hokage. Then there are S-class nin who have gained power far beyond average Jounin. Then the Sannin where there are currently only three in the world. Then there is medical-nin who specialize in medical treatment to heal. Then there is hunter-nin whose sole purpose is to hunt missing-nin. Then the courier-nin and cooking-nin who deliver packages and cook for other nin respectfully." He stopped pretending to be thinking. "Yeah that is it." The whole class fell silent as they stared at the little blonde boy who was sitting in the back of the class. Iruka and Mizuki too just stared at the small boy mouths gaped.
Naruto just sat there looking at the baffled looks of his class and teachers. He narrowed his eyes though on his teachers, silently judging them, remembering how it took some time for Iruka to come around and start being nice to him. But, he just snickered on the inside. "Show off. I thought we agreed to keep a low profile for a while." Kurama said within his mindscape.
"I know but I thought about it. Look we don't know how we ended up in the past but we agreed to change things so that we don't have the same result. I thought about playing the baffling idiot again but I can't, not with everything that I have been through. And plus if we are to make changes, I need to demonstrate what I am capable of so that people will respect me. I have to gain trust of the people again and pulling pranks like before won't cut it anymore."
"Fine very well, Kit, have it your way. Just make sure that you don't go overboard. Now pay attention, the human is calling your name."
Being pulled out of his mindscape, he looked around the room until his eyes landed on Iruka. "Did you say something Sensei?"
"Yes, I asked where did you learn this?"
"Oh...ummm…in a book." Naruto sheepishly said.
"Hmmm. I see, well good, I will be expecting more from you then Naruto." Iruka said and continued teaching the class, leaving Naruto to daydream.
It had been a week since Naruto was somehow transported into the past, and the second day of class. At first Naruto thought he was in a Genjutsu but Kurama had reassured him that they were in fact in the past, back in his soon to be six-year-old tiny body. Naruto, himself, held his breath, grimacing at the memories of his early childhood.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-Flashback-
"I am going to fucking kill you Madara!" Eighteen-year-old Naruto yelled. Two years had passed since Obito/Madara called for the Fourth Shinobi War. Countless battles took place, each leaving a wave of death and blood. And now, now was the last straw for Naruto as he watched Hinata, his lover, falling right before his eyes. Hiraishining to her from her marked seal on the back of her neck, caught her before she could hit the ground. With her last words she expressed her love to him. It was that moment that sent him over the edge. Battled hardened, looking around to see all his friends, people he considers family lying dead all around him. He looked down at Hinata one last time before closing her eyes, kissing the top of her head and setting her down.
He looks at Madara with contempt, yells and plunges forward in Kurama mode to the man with his most powerful jutsu. Madara ready for his attack, also went forth with his own attack ready. The two clashed, chakra exploding around each other until a blinding light erupted from their hands. Naruto started to fall, everything going black.
Opening his eyes, he looked at his small hands with a quizzical look. 'What the hell?' He thought to himself. He jolted upright and took in his surroundings seeing that he was in small dank room. 'Where the hell am I?' His thoughts now running a million kilometers a minute. He then noticed a mirror and ran to it. He stared at himself it only to find a smaller version of himself staring back.
"Kurama?" He went into his mindscape. There was no answer. "Kurama!"
"Yes kit?"
"What the hell happened to me? Where is Madara? Oh my god, we lost didn't we? We are stuck in that stupid Genjutsu of his." Naruto started to panic.
"No, we are not in a Genjutsu. We somehow have traveled back in time to when you were almost six. I believe to about a week before you started the Academy."
"What? How is that even possible?"
"The jutsu that Madara was performing was a time space jutsu and then combined with yours resulted in this. The sheer amount of chakra from the attack from the both of you caused a rip in time and we landed here."
"Oh god! What the fuck are we going to do?"
"Take this as a blessing Kit. You are almost six years old again, just a few months' shy of your birthday. You can begin anew. You already know the future, why not use this opportunity to change it."
Naruto just stared at his companion, his partner and smiled. "I like your thinking Kurama! We could change the future and hopefully prevent the Fourth Shinobi War."
And so plans and ideas started to radiate off the now five-almost six-year-old boy.
-Flashback-
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
With new found determination, Naruto decided that he would change the future. He wanted to prevent as much heartache as he could, save as many lives he could. He would save Itachi from the burden of caring such weight of killing his clansmen to prevent a civil war. He would save Sasuke from the dark path. He would save Gaara from himself and hopefully prevent all the destruction that Konoha is to face in the future. He would save everyone, he was after the child of prophecy.
"Alright class, let's go outside now to evaluate your skills with some target practice." There were some grumbles from some students but for the most part the students seemed excited and raced outside. Naruto, however, was neither. He just got up quietly and started to walk to the Academy's training grounds.
As the students filed outside, Iruka started to speak, "Ok today you will be ranked based on your initial skills. From there we will evaluate on what each of you will need to work on. Ok….let's see. Who would like to go first?" No one made a move, the civilian born children, scared and the ninja born children not sure who wanted to go first. Iruka looked around his class and his eyes fell on Naruto who just looked bored…again…not a care in the world, seeming to be in his own thoughts somewhere else. "How about you Naruto-kun. You seemed to know so much about what it means to be a ninja, let's see if your skills can prove that you can be one too."
Naruto just looked at him, narrowed his eyes in a small contempt but, just as quickly as it was there it was gone. He quietly walked up to the spot where Iruka instructed to stand and took the ten kunai in hand. He judged the weapons, lighter than what he usually used to. He took the first one and gaged it a little before throwing it. He missed, over shooting it. Some of his classmates again snickered at him, Mizuki too joining the children, love seeing how the monster failed completely. Naruto just ignored them, grabbed another and threw it, adjusting to the weight change and landed in the bullseye. All eight after the first one to land on the target too landed in the center whole.
The class who originally thought that the boy had zero skill were dumbfounded into silence. Naruto just looked at them, "The first was to gauge the weight of the kunai." He said, answering their unasked question of how he accomplished what he did.
"G-g-good j-job Naruto." Iruka said, also shocked by his student. He just stared at him, his thoughts running wild on this child before him. Where did you come from Naruto? Was his most prominent thought.
"Thanks Iruka-Sensei." Naruto said smiling at the teacher.
Lunch time rolled around and Naruto just sat under a tree with nothing to eat as per usual from what he remembered from his time when living at the orphanage. He sighed when his stomach growled. Closing his eyes, he took in his surroundings, sensing a multitude of different chakra around him, most coming from his classmates. When one was walking up towards him, he slowly opened an eye to see no other than Sasuke. Taken aback by this, for this was not the Sasuke that Naruto knew, was peeked with interest. "Naruto right?" The blueish-black haired boy asked.
"Hai. Sasuke right?"
"Hai."
There was a pregnant pause between the two of them. Naruto took the time to look at Sasuke, smiling to himself within his mind, remembering the little Sasuke and how he became his rival and eventual friend.
"Want to sit?" Naruto finally asked.
Sasuke smiled and nodded at the invitation. He started to eat his bento box when he noticed that Naruto had nothing to eat. "Where is your lunch?"
Naruto just looked out past the wire fence and into the trees that stood outside the training grounds, contemplating on what to say. "Not hungry." He finally came to.
"Well that is just stupid. You know for someone who really knows a lot, you are an idiot." Naruto turned to look back at Sasuke with a confused look. "Here eat this." Sasuke handed him an Onigiri to eat. "If you really want to become a ninja, you have to eat to become stronger."
Naruto just laughed and took it and they both fell into silence eating their lunch.
Soon the day was over and Naruto started walking back to orphanage that he had always hated with scorn. During his walk he sensed a presence, he stopped, and to the untrained eye, no one would be the wiser. But for Naruto, battle hardened and a sensor thanks to all his training could easily spot it. He looked into the direction from where he felt the presence giving a quizzical brow, seeing nothing he shrugged and guess it was one of the ANBU that Jiji would always have tailing him from when he was younger. He started walking again towards the orphanage.
"Well, look what we have here?" A bigger kid from the orphanage said causing Naruto to look up at the boy. He remembered him, Hiraki, the boy who would beat him up when he was little. But Naruto was not the same stupid child that he once was. Now he was a seasoned shinobi, one of the strongest ninja in his time. He knew what was about to come.
Hiraki, the boy who called him out gave a smug look in front of a cronies. "How many times have I told you that your kind is not welcome here."
"Just let me pass." Naruto said, not in the mood to deal with this idiot from his past/present whatever you want to call it.
"Tsk…tsk…tsk…look the little demon thinks he can tell me…ME…what do to?" The boy exclaimed.
"I said to let me pass." Naruto said, unintentionally releasing some killing intent. The boy almost shrieked with fear. But soon overcame it and went straight for him. Naruto just rolled his eyes and evaded every punch and kick that came his way. He soon grew tired of the fight and landed a few swift punches on him. He fell to the ground, crying like a baby and Naruto just looked at him with disdain. "I told you to let me pass." He said, punched him one more time to make his point and left towards his little bleak room.
He enjoyed the silence of his room but it didn't last long until he heard the stomping of the old hag Matron. "You! How dare you lay a hand on Hiraki." She screamed. Naruto just looked at her with a bored look, why bother arguing with her when she would just ignore him and yell at him. "No dinner for you tonight or breakfast." With that she slammed the door.
It wasn't until much later that night that he slipped out of his room, went to the kitchen and grabbed something to eat and headed out the window. He climbed up to the roof and laid on there looking at the stars. He could sense the same presence from before and decided to ignore it and decided to enter his mindscape instead.
"Kurama do you think I could convince the old man to let me get an apartment now. I know that in a year this stupid orphanage will kick me out and I'll get it then, but I don't want to wait anymore. I forgot how much I hated this place."
"I think you could if you make your case just right. It would be advantageous to have our own space without those baka humans always messing your room. Plus, think of what we could do and study and prepare for what is to come."
"Yeah that is my exact same thought. It would be much easier to move around without the old hag always punishing me for things that I had no part in. Now how to get rid of our little shadow and we could do anything. It shouldn't be too hard; I've done it a million times especially at this age."
"Don't."
"Why?"
"You want the council and the Hokage to recognize your talent and intellect, let them stay. You know that they report to the Hokage all of what you do. If we could be put on the fast track to make Genin and then Chuunin, then they would take you more seriously. Hell with your actual skill level, you could make ANBU and think about all the good that you could do there from the shadows. Gain the respect of the Hokage and then he will listen to you."
Naruto thought long and hard on it. "Ok, but if we are going to do this, I guess I better make more of an effort then." He let out a small chuckle coming back to reality. He sat up and looked towards where he knew the ANBU was hiding. He tilted his head with a curious look, making it look like he was trying to figure out the presence there.
He gave then out another shrug and laid back down to continue watching the stars.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Hokage had been working like a slave all day long at his desk when he received a report from Frog on Naruto from this week. The Hokage always had at least one ANBU watching the little boy ever since the first incident of a mob trying to kill him about three years ago. He opened the scroll to begin reading:
.
Report: Uzumaki, Naruto August 9th, five years of age.
Reporter: Frog
Sunday: Stayed in room, only left to eat
Monday: Stayed mostly in room, only left to venture to the library in the afternoon. Read many scrolls concerning Space time jutsu. Walked mostly through alley ways to avoid the public.
Tuesday: Returned to the Library to continue his study of space time jutsu. While walking to the orphanage he stopped and it seemed like he was curious about something until he looked straight at my location.
Wednesday: Went to training ground 17. There saw promise of kunai and shuriken throws. Missed only 2 out of 50 attempts. 18 in second circle, 30 in the bullseye.
(Note shows promise with throwing knives, first time recorded by my account)
Thursday: Went to training ground 17. Worked on chakra control exercises.
Friday: First day at the Academy. Paid little attention to lesson. Mostly was found asleep or deep in thought.
Saturday: Second day at the Academy: Paid little attention to lesson, when asked a question from instructor on the ranks of ninja, went into a detail account of every position available to include special positions. 10 out 12 perfect throws with kunai into bullseye. Looked at my exact location again while walking home. Got into a fight with another orphan. Note orphan boy started the fight. Subject evaded every punch and kick with ease almost like a seasoned fighter. Took down the boy in 4 moves and then added one more punch after saying something before he left. Was scolded from Matron. Punishment issued: no dinner and breakfast. One hour ago, expertly left the orphanage and currently on top of roof eating a small dinner. Again identified my position.
Conclusion: Subject shows an innate ability to fight with thought. His moves are precise and to the point. He is also unpredictable in the one fight, making a plan during the middle of it, displaying an aptitude to think on ones' feet. Also seems to have the natural qualities of a sensor for him spotting me three times throughout the week. He seems to be getting the grasp on basic skills very fast. It seems that something has changed in Naruto this week. Whether if he was just pretending or not all this time to the public it seems that he has decided to drop the act of the idiot. I believe that we are now just truly seeing the real Naruto that has been hiding from us all these years.
Assessment: Subject shows the inherent capability of being a genius.
Recommendation: Must watch subject closer. Possibly give special attention when the time is right to groom the potential seen from this week.
.
To say that the Hokage was baffled was an understatement. Had Naruto been pretending all this time? Many thoughts were running through his mind, but one thing was certain, he would speak with the boy in the morning. Curious, he took out his crystal ball to see Naruto hopefully asleep, but instead found him outside eating on the roof of the orphanage. He frowned at that. No child should be out at this time of the night.
"Tiger." The Hokage said and an ANBU came out of nowhere.
"Hai."
"Go to Frog and have him make Naruto go to bed. He should not be out in this hour of the night."
"Hai."
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Out of nowhere a masked man came to the top of the roof of the orphanage. "Uzumaki-kun."
"Hai." He got up from his position on the roof and waved goodbye to the ANBU before expertly climbing back down, not with charka for he didn't want to raise suspicion, but still showed off some skilled as he climbed back into the window of the kitchen and headed to his room.
.
.
.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Author's Note
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Again I hope you enjoyed my first chapter! Please RxR! I should be posting the next chapter sometime next week!