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A/N: The prologue is gonna be about Naruto's childhood up until he returns to Konoho at the age of 12. This is a completely AU story.

The Yondaime's Legacy
Prologue: Childhood

It was a month after the Kyuubi was defeated by the Yondaime Hokage and sealed inside his own son, Kazama Naruto who was renamed Uzumaki Naruto using his grandmother's last name to save him from the dangers of Kazama Arashi's enemies.

The Legendary Medic Nin, Tsunade who had been one of Sandaime Hokage's own students had just arrived in the village Konoho after an urgent message from the Third Hokage, her sensei.

"Sarutobi sensei, may I inquire as to what was so important that you threatened me to come to Konoho right away." Tsunade asked as she sat in the Hokage's Office.

"Yes Tsunade san, I'm asking you to take care of Naruto till he grows older." Sarutobi replied.

"No, I won't settle back down in this village just to look after a brat."

"I'm not asking you to return, take him with you. Already the Village council is pushing for his death, at the very least his exile from Konoho. The villagers and Shinobi of the Leaf cannot see the hero like his father wanted, but instead see the Kyuubi sealed inside him. They do not see the jailor protecting us from the demon, instead they see a demon waiting to destroy our village. He has great potential, but here it will be wasted because of this."

"I can't, the places I go are not well suited for children."

"Please Tsunade, do it for your cousin Arashi. Do it as a favor to me."

"Plus, how would I pay for his care."

"Arashi left a large inheritance for Naruto, you will be given a stipend of that inheritance every month for Naruto's costs plus you will be paid by the village yourself to take care of Naruto."

"What about Jirarya, he could take care of Naruto. He was after all Arashi's sensei."

"Do you seriously want Naruto to grow up to be like Jirarya, a pervert."

"No sensei."

"Then it's settled, you can take Naruto and leave in the morning. You're the only one for the job. Plus he will be strong, he'll be a prodigy like non before him. The only thing that won't come easy will be charka control because of the Kyuubi sealed in him. Imagine what will happen if he activates all three bloodlines that he could possibly have, the sharingan from his mother, the kirameki from his father, and the mokuten from his great-great-uncle. Just imagine, three of Konoho's most revered bloodlines, two of them the village thinks are dead. The other has never been combined with another bloodline since it was forbidden for Uchiha's to marry outside there clan."

As they continued to talk, they got up and walked into a room next to the Hokage's Office and Sarutobi handed Naruto to Tsunade. Naruto woke up to the warm touch from Tsunade and she knew at that instant that she had lost the argument.

"Fine, but you owe me big time in the future. He'll return when he's twelve."

"Thank you Tsunade san. Konoho and I will forever be in your debt for raising our future hero."

The next day Tsunade and her attendant/apprentice left Konoho again to embark on there 12 year journey.

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Naruto was now three years old and was already at the mental capabilities of one several years older than him self. He never seemed to be bored learning new things and had taken to reading book when ever possible. He could already play shogi and go and beat Tsunade and Shizune more often than not. It was shortly after his third birthday that Tsunade started to teach Naruto charka control and manipulation, but once the figured out why it was so hard he learned it quickly.

Shizune continued with his "school" lessons until he had learned everything the academy would teach him which normally took seven years doing it in only 4.

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Naruto was five years old and some local gang members had cornered him since it looked like he had money. One gang member charged at Naruto who stood there and yelled "Get away." It was then that one of his bloodline limits awakened and the three gang members were ensnarled by roots shooting up from the ground. Naruto quickly ran back to the hotel and told his kaasan and nii-chan what had happened. The next morning Tsunade took Naruto on a camping trip and helped him learn to get the Mokuten bloodline awake, she was surprised that he could awaken it since the last one too was he grandfather who was Naruto's Great-Great-Uncle, the First Hokage.

Two weeks later, they returned to the village and packed up and left with Shizune now that Naruto had some control over the bloodline. They knew that at least two of them would awaken, but they never suspected them to awaken so early in his life.

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At the age of seven, Naruto was given special weights for his ankles and wrists that allowed him to up the weight simple by placing more weight tags on them, they weren't your traditional weights but worked far better for shinobi who planned on going pace 40 or 50 pounds on each limb. Naruto started with 10 pounds on each limb and added 20 more by the time his next birthday came around.

Also he was given a special scroll, left to him by the Yondaime. This puzzled Naruto as to why the Fourth would leave his scrolls and techniques to Naruto, but he quickly learned the technique on the scroll, the Kirameki no jutsu. Tsunade also gave him a set of kunai for his birthday and added a medical jutsu, a katon jutsu, a doton jutsu, and a suiton jutsu and started to teach him medic Nin taijutsu as well as how to see and dispel genjutsu. It was only 6 months till Tsunade was given Naruto the scrolls from her that she had planned to give him for his eighth birthday and also one containing the kirameki weapons no jutsu totaling 2 from each of the four categories and the many on the Yondaime's scroll.

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By his eighth birthday, Naruto was just starting to wear 50 pounds on each limb and had mastered the last set of techniques the Tsunade let him learn. Because of his quick learning rate even though he insisted on not just gaining a large amount of jutsus but instead on learning them completely and mastering them so he would know the best jutsu for each situation, Tsunade decided to give him five scrolls from each of the four areas along with a scroll on using short swords and a scroll from the Yondaime that was the first stage to the kirameki style taijutsu.

It was also this year that they started traveling to other hidden villages as Naruto's sharingan activated when he was using the kirameki style taijutsu for the first time defending against his kaasan, even though he didn't use it much because he though it was cheating to use a bloodline limit to steal techniques and that he would only use it in battle if needed.

The sharingan seemed to awaken some hidden part of Naruto's brain as he picked up jutsus and taijutsu much quicker than before and his charka control and manipulation were as strong as a chuunin, if not a jouinin. His charka reserves already that of a jouinin, if not higher and refilled far quicker than anyone else would expect. If he used up all his charka, it would only take an hour or two tops before he already had enough to fight for another couple hours, not to mention the fact that it seemed to take 12 hours or more too completely tire him out.

With learning even quicker than before, Naruto mastered twice as many jutsus and mastered the first and second stage of the kirameki style taijutsu. Tsunade knew she would have to teach him other techniques because soon she would run out of katon, suiton, and doton jutsus to teach her adopted son.

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In Naruto's Ninth year, he mastered another string of jutsus but Tsunade added in genjutsu and special Konoho jutsus like the kage bunshin no jutsu and added simpler jutsus like the bunshin no jutsu, the kawarimi no jutsu and the henge no jutsu.

Naruto had also in this time added much weight to his body weights now wearing close to 150 pounds on each limb and was quickly moving up adding another 10 pounds almost monthly and only going that slow because Tsunade didn't want him wearing a thousand pounds on each limb. He was already consistently beating Shizune in his sparing practices and Tsunade at least once in every fifth try.

About half way through the year, one night when Tsunade was at a local casino, she met a student of the fourth's, Towasoki Leon who gave her a large number of scrolls telling her to give them to Naruto once he had mastered all of the jutsus that she had to teach him. When she had asked them what they contained, he replied that they contained special katon jutsus and taijutsu styles that he had created that only a jinchuuriki containing a fire-based demon could learn. He didn't have to learn about the kyuubi to learn the jutsus, just that the charka that he used might be red because of this.

Tsunade soon also found some Raiton jutsu scrolls and added those to Naruto's vase collection of scrolls.

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It was now Naruto's tenth birthday, he had progressed rapidly over the past three years and had already completely mastered all the genin and chuunin level jutsus for the five groups, medic, katon, suiton, ration and doton. This year she gave Naruto half of the jouinin level jutsu scrolls for these jutsu groups and also gave him the last two of the Yondaime's scrolls, they would teach him two of the Yondaime's most powerful techniques and the last that he would learn before they returned to the village, Kirameki Tsuki and Rasengan. Tsunade also added in the basic Mokuten jutsu scrolls that she had inherited from her grandfather knowing that they would do better in Naruto's control since he could use the bloodline limit of there family.

Shizune once again bought him his usual weights for his birthday but instead of just the normal 10 pounds for each limb, she added 50 hoping to slow him down enough to at least beat him sparing once or twice. Naruto however had other ideas and by the end of the year, had added another 100 pounds to his weights on each limb and was wearing a good 400 pounds.

Naruto had also mastered all of the jouinin level jutsus but was still having immense trouble learning the Kirameki Tsuki but had made way on the rasengan and could perform it using a clone now. He still wanted to get to the point where he only needed one hand but that was for later.

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Naruto was now eleven years old and Shizune had once again added 50 pounds to each of his four weights for his birthday only to have him add another 100 before the year was out.

Tsunade had given him the last half of the jouinin level scrolls that he mastered at an alarming rate and he also managed to master the rasengan and the kirameki tsuki by the end of the year. Naruto also consistently beat Tsunade in spars using the kirameki and even the odd time with out it. Tsunade was pleased with his progressed but slightly sad that he wouldn't consider following her path and becoming a medic.

He also mastered the intermediate mokuten style jutsus and the mokuten style taijutsu stage two as he continued to grow and learn how to properly use his third bloodline limit.

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Naruto was just turning twelve, this would be the birthday Tsunade hated the most. Not only was she to tell Naruto about his parents and lineage and return to Konoho in a couple months, but she had to tell him about the kyuubi no kitsune that was sealed inside him.

The three of them were sitting in a private room they had rented at the local restaurant and had just finished eating. Tsunade asked Naruto to come over to her after they had opened presents and she pulled he adopted son into her lap and looked at him. "Naruto-kun, what I'm about to tell you is really hard for me, but I believe it'll be even harder for you. First off, the reason that the Yondaime gave you the scrolls is because well, he was your father, Kazama Arashi was your father and the fourth Hokage."

"That's sweet kaasan; the fourth was my father…" Naruto started till Tsunade cut him off.

"Yes, but you can't let anyone know, you see, your father gained many enemies during the war between the Leaf and the Stone. One of his students and the nephew of your mother, Uchiha Obita was killed to get at him because the only line the Stone Shinobi couldn't push back was your fathers area. After this happened, he sent his remaining two genin back to Konoho and started to lead attacks against Iwa. In one afternoon alone, half the Iwa shinobi fell to your father and two dozen handpicked Leaf shinobi and because of that Iwa hates the Kazama clan and most of the other shinobi are jealous of the power your father had. That would be even more so for you since not only did you inherit his bloodline limit but also the sharingan and the mokuten bloodline limits. You are the first in a long time to have more than one bloodline limit."

"I understand kaasan, but wasn't it war. I mean that shouldn't they understand that my father just wanted to protect his precious people?"

"I agree with you, but when one loses family, it is often hard to think rationally. Now on to the second thing, first off before I give you the jutsu scrolls, I want you to tell you how your father died. You see, he died the night that you were born, just hours after your birth to defeat the kyuubi and seal it inside a baby. But your father was honorable to a fault. He just couldn't ask anyone to give up there baby for this task, so you see…"

"He sealed it inside me didn't he?"

"Yes Naruto-kun, he sealed the Kyuubi inside you, he wanted the villagers to see you as the hero, the jailor of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. Instead they saw the monster, they saw a demon that had almost destroyed there home and had taken the life of there fourth hokage, a man loved for his protectiveness of the village and his fairness to everyone."

"I see, so that's why we left the village when I was a baby."

"Yes, you see, the Sandaime Hokage was my sensei, he asked me as a favor to him and to my cousin, Arashi to take you from the hateful glares of the villagers. At first I declined, but when he placed you in my arms, I lost the argument, I fell in love with you the instant I held you, I loved you as a son ever since."

Naruto hugged Tsunade and said in a love filled voice "I love you as well kaasan, even though you aren't my real mother, I will always see you as my mother. You've always loved me and have given my the love of a mother, it is thanks to you that I've known that love and you will always be one of my precious people, forever and always I will protect you and Shizune-nii-chan."

"Thank you Naruto. Now, for your last present, a couple years ago, I met a man named Towasoki Leon. He was one of your father's genin and also holds a demon that is sealed in side him. He gave me scrolls that contain special katon jutsus and taijutsu styles that he created using the demon inside of him. You see, he holds the demon known as Bahamute, the King of Dragons and because of this has an affinity with katon jutsus and taijutsu styles. You also have the affinity because of the Kyuubi no Kitsune sealed inside you. These will take a while to master but I believe you can do it. We'll also be returning to Konoho in five months so you can become a Genin. The Genin exam at Konoho's shinobi academy will take place three weeks after we arrive."

"Yes" Naruto shouted jumping out of Tsunade's lap really happy "Then I can become Hokage and defend the village like the Yondaime did. I'll make my father proud."

"Don't worry Naruto, I think you've already made your father proud. I suggest you work on the taijutsu forms so you can conceal the fact that the Yondaime is your father. I believe they are similar to the Kirameki taijutsu styles since your father was his sensei so hopefully you'll learn how to use them quickly."

"Yes kaasan, I'll learn the taijutsu styles first. Can we go on another camping trip kaasan?"

"Yes Naruto-kun, I'll take you on another camping trip tomorrow."

"Shizune-nii-chan, do you want to spar with me. I need to get use to the extra weight you gave me." Naruto asked his honorary sister.

"No, why don't you rest tonight for the camping trip Naruto-kun." Shizune replied.

"Ok"

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It was 5 months later, Naruto had already added another 100 pounds to his weights and Tsunade told him firmly that because he had so much weight now on each limb, she wouldn't let him add anymore until he had became a chuunin and that for now he should try to become as fast with the weights on as he currently is with them off. This fine day also saw them with in sight of Konoho for the first time in twelve years. Konoho's unknown Genies had returned home and he was ready to take on any challenges he met.

A/N: I know that there is little detail for Naruto's childhood, but its basically just training. I hope you enjoy the rest of the fanfic.