Hi, everyone this is my first try at a story, and I haven't seen this particular story line yet so I hope people like it. Please review and tell me what you think. I'm not sure when updates will be but I will try to update when I get a chance, hopefully on a regular basis. Any suggestions are welcome, and if you think this is good and want to write it, I might be willing to give this to someone else. I obviously don't own Naruto, I don't think I could create a plot anywhere as good as the manga. But anyways let's get to it...

"Spoken words"

'Thoughts'

Chapter 1

When people think of the 5 Great Villages, they think of the strong, brave and proud shinobi that represent those villages. Some think of the 5 Kages that lead those villages, and the distinct landmarks each has made in history. Fire country with its lush forests and perfect weather holds Konoha, Water country with is vast islands and rough seas holds Kiri, and Earth country with its steep mountains and rollin hills holds Iwa. The tallest mountains in the elemental countries is home to Lightning Country and the majestic village of Kumo, and last is Wind country which holds a dry desolate desert and the final great ninja village which is Suna. With all these thoughts in mind, many view Konoha, the village hidden in the leaves, as the best of the best. Konoha has been victorious in all its wars, producing ninja's like the White Fang, the Sannin, and though there has been tough times, each of Konoha's Hokages have been the strongest of their generation. The first Hokage (Shodaime) being Hashirama Senju, a man who was said to have many bijuu or tailed beast in his possession, and starter of the hidden village system. The second (Nindaime) being Tobirama Senju, brother of the first Hokage, and said to have unparalleled mastery of water. The God of Shinobi was the third Hokage (Sandaime), who was the student of the first and second, and known to master thousands of jutsu. The most recent Hokage, was the Yondaime, the fourth and known as the yellow flash and possibly the strongest ninja ever to come from Konoha.

Not many would believe Konoha could and has struggled in the past, but as the Sandaime Hokage looked out the window of the Hokage's tower he thought different.

'Why did it come to this?' As he looked at the torn walls of his village and felt the sad and gloomy weight in the air he thought, 'It should have been me who did the sealing, not you Minato.'

Just hours prior, what many would consider the strongest village was attacked by the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the nine tailed and strongest of all tailed beasts. Only the Sandaime and Yondaime Hokages had incite to what really happened, but to everyone else it was a freak accident no one saw coming. Regardless of the truth the Yondaime, Minato Namikaze, came up with a plan to defeat the beast at the cost of his life. Only the older generation who fought helplessly against the beast knew that the Yondaime sealed it in a newborn infant as he died, and even fewer including Sarutobi, the Sandaime Hokage, knew that he sealed it in his newborn son Naruto. But what hurt Sarutobi the most was that the child was now dead.

"I have failed you Minato and Kushina," said the Sandaime as he cried for his village and friends.

FLASHBACK

"Hokage-sama" yelled a young ANBU.

"Speak," said Sarutobi.

"He is gone sir,th.. th...the child is gone," cried the ANBU.

The ANBU didn't even see as Sarutobi left to go to the hospital, he moved to fast for the ANBU to track. As he arrived he looked to see Kushina's dead body. He was told by doctors that she died, and he knew personally after losing the Kyuubi she would die soon anyway. What held his attention was the empty crib in the room. The worst part about the scene was the dead bodies, 9 in total, littered across the room.

"Snake what happened here?" questioned the Hokage, as the young female ANBU was just making it to the room.

"Sir, I was late and.."

"I didn't ask what you did, what HAPPENED?" roared the Hokage.

"Villagers sir, 5 jounins at least confirmed, along with the doctor on duty. They came into the room to killed the child. Rabbit, Boar, and Hawk died while fighting them sir. I'm afraid because they succeeded in killing the child. I killed the last jounin after I saw the baby had been killed," spoke Snake with tears in her eyes.

"Where is the child?" asked Sarutobi.

"I told a nurse to watch the body as I rushed to you sir," spoke Snake. "Miss Sazuki, I believe her name was."

But it turned out that word traveled fast. Hours after it's defeat the village viewed the baby as the demon, calling for its death and blaming it for killing countless ninja and the Yondaime Hokage. As Sarutobi found the nurse, he discovered they burned the baby's corpse in celebration. The Hokage went into rage and killed every nurse and doctor who had a part in the events.

"Snake!"

"Sir"

"Get a team and clean this place up," spoke Sarutobi while walking away toward the Hokage tower. Only thing on his mind was 'How could this village stoop so low?'

End FLASHBACK

Outside of Konoha

With all the commotion inside the village no one noticed 3 ninjas slip into the village or see 2 of those same ninjas leave the village. The former happened before the 5 jounins stepped inside the hospital. One of the retreating ninjas was carrying what looked like a package. The 2 ninjas met up at the Fire Country border with a shinobi in a brown camouflage mask.

"Mission Accomplished Captain," replied the shorter ninja.

The captain was a tall man, and wore a brown and black camouflage mask. he carried a ninjato stabbed horizontally on his back, and wore a black long sleeve shirt with a dark brown jounin/ANBU styled vest. His kunai holder was strapped to his left thigh. He wore black pants and steel toed brown boots. Most peculiar were the gloves on his hands. They had no backs on them.

"Did you get detected at all?" asked the captain.

A shake of the heads was the reply. "Give me the package." The captain grabbed the package and unfolded the cloth it was wrapped in. His eyes looked onto something and widened. Regaining his composure the captain spoke, "Well I guess Cougar has begun his secondary mission. We should move out, the border patrol will be here in 3 minutes. Move out!"

"Yes sir," whispered the 2 other ninjas.

All 3 ninja swiftly took to the trees.

"The Tsuchikage will be very pleased," said the ANBU captain.

End