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A/N: Hello folks, this is a what if involving Orochimaru, I always wondered, what if he never left the village, what if not becoming Hokage did not cause him to go off the deep end, instead he stewed in his anger but stayed away from the hustle and bustle of the city I think it would have changed thinks just a little... and then he decides to help a certain jinchūriki. Enjoy.

Pain flooded Naruto as he tried to regain consciousness, a groan of pain left his mouth alerting the man in the room.

"Do not move boy, you're injuries were not minor." Listening to the voice, Naruto let his body go still as he tried to take in his surroundings. Wherever he was, it was not the hospital, this place had a damp feel about it. He opened his eyes to look around, but a dry cloth covered his vision.

"W-where am I?" Naruto asked in a raspy voice. Last thing he remembered, was a villager taking a knife to his shoulder, pain overloading his 8 year old body.

"You are in my lair, or has Sarutobi would call it, my office." The man scoffed, he grabbed a vial off the table and went to pour it in Naruto's parched mouth. "Take this." Naruto gagged slightly of the thick mixture that was put into is mouth, but managed to take it down. Feeling some of his energy return he decided to ask the name of his healer.

"Who are you sir?" Naruto asked. Naruto heard the shuffling of vials stop, and a deep chuckle spread throughout the room.

"Chief executive of Konoha Jutsu creation Orochimaru at your service." Naruto felt the air leave his body, he had heard stories of the man in charge of creating Konoha's best and most efficient jutsu, one of the 3 legendary Sannin. Naruto's next question popped into his head immediately.

"What happened to my eye, it hurts so much." Naruto asked clenching his teeth as he felt a wave a pain going through his eyes.

"One of our great citizens managed to scratch both of your eyes with a kunai destroying your eyes completely, I managed to... replace them. You were completely blind for about 2 hours." Orochimaru said with a pause.

Naruto felt a shudder go through his body, he was so close to having his dream ruined. "Thank you for saving me Mr. Orochimaru, I'll be out of your hair as soon as I can move my body." Naruto said suddenly feeling like he was intruding.

"Do not be so hasty boy, I have an offer for you, one that will help your dream of becoming Hokage." Orochimaru said with a smirk on his face. "You remind me much of myself as a child boy, did you know I wanted to become Hokage? While I failed in my dreams, I can assist you in yours. You shall become my apprentice."

"You want me to be your student, me?" Naruto could hardly believe his luck, he was going to be trained by someone who got as close to becoming a Hokage as you can get.

"I have already sent word to the Hokage, rest now, your eyes need time to heal, when you awake, we shall talk." As Orochimaru said these words, Naruto slowly dozed off to sleep, his future looking bright for the first time.

Orochimaru watched as Naruto fell asleep before making his way to his body, Orochimaru pulled the cloth covering Naruto's eyes and stared at him. "Interesting." Turning back to his work, Orochimaru let a smirk take his face.

XxX At The Hokage's Office XxX

"I refuse to have my son taught by that man!" Kushina Namikaze was not a happy customer, she looked around the room to see her husband cringe at her shout. Sarutobi tried to console her.

"Kushina, this is a blessing in disguise, we now have someone to watch young Naruto the way we can not." Sarutobi said as he stood at the desk of the 4th Hokage.

"The old man is right, While Orochimaru may be a little standoffish, he'll be able to teach Naruto all the skills he needs to become a great Ninja, and remember, if it was not for him, I would be in the death gods belly." Minato the 4th Hokage replied, while he was not entirely happy with the situation, he knew their was very little he could do, and he did owe the man his life.

"B-but he just stays underground all day long, that's not the kind of life we want for our son" Kushina added.

"We also did not want to abandon him to an orphanage, but things never go exactly as planned." Minato regretted saying these words as they left his mouth.

"I never wanted to go along with your shitty plan, fuck you Namikaze!" Kushina shouted as chakra began to flare around her body. Minato's gaze softened sadly as he looked at his angry wife.

"I know love, but we had to do what was best for the village, and both our children, I know its heartless to say, but as Hokage, I must put the village first, before anything..." Minato said staring at the ground, Kushina just shook her head.

"I've heard it all before Minato, I'm going to go pick up our daughter, I assume you'll be missing dinner again." Kushina said and she left the room. Minato sighed and leaned back in his chair.

"Should we really leave Naruto's training to Orochimaru, do you think he still holds a grudge against me for becoming Hokage?" Minato asked and Sarutobi stroked his beard in contemplation.

"I know Orochimaru very well, he's not the type to hold a grudge for a very long time."

XxX Under Konoha XxX

Naruto's slowly came back to the world of consciousness as he remembered that he had become the apprentice of one of the Sannin.

"You're awake, good. We're going to be together down here for quite some time, I shall hold no secrets from you, as you shall not hold any from me, the bond between a student and teacher is one that can not be matched, if you are serious about this, you have to give me your all." Naruto nodded his head quickly, already determined to never let his sensei down. "Do you have any questions you would like to ask?" Orochimaru asked as he took a seat in front of Naruto's bed.

"You said you replaced my eyes, what did you replace them with?" Naruto asked lightly touching the cloth surrounding his eyes.

"While you may already know, this village contains 2 of the lands most coveted Dōjutsu in the world, the Sharingan and the Byakugan, what you dont know, is that there is a 3rd Dōjutsu not well know in the world, a Dōjutsu of legends, the Rinnegan. "Orochimaru stared at Naruto for a moment before continuing. "It is believed the only way to achieve this Dōjutsu is to be a descendent of the Sage of the six paths, after failing to become Hokage I traveled the world for a year, and met a man who obtained these eyes, he asked me to join an organization dedicated to achieving world peace in the world. At the time, I was prepared to leave Konoha..."

Naruto gasped as he heard Orochimaru's confession, but said nothing as he heard the rest of the tale. Orochimaru reached into his pocket and pulled out a vial of blood.

"This is the blood of Madara Uchiha, the man I met, I've spent the last 10 years of my life attempting to recreate the Dōjutsu, and till now I have failed, and I understand now why, only a descendent of the Senju can hold the power of the Rinnegan, which makes you a direct descendent Naruto." Naruto's blood froze as he heard the first peace of information about his family background since he was born.

"W-what, how, the old man said I was..." Naruto stuttered as he could not form a sentence at the news.

"Ah yes, Sarutobi has kept quite a lot from you young Senju, tell me, do you know what happened 8 years ago on your birthday?" Orochimaru asked and a shiver went down Naruto's spine, of course he knew, he was reminded every year when the villagers attacked him, he was born on the day of the Kyubi attack on Konoha.

"Yes, but other than being born, what does that have to do with me?" Naruto asked, and Orochimaru chuckled softly before leaning forward.

"Let me tell you what happened that night 8 years ago Naruto."

XxX Flashback 8 years ago October 10th

Orochimaru stood beside Minato as he drew the seal on his daughters stomach, Orochimaru was slowly making the seal on Naruto. "As you can see Minato, by sealing the yin in Rukia, and the yang inside Naruto, there will be no reason to use the Shiki Fūjin, although some...complications may arise later down the line, I assure you this is your best option." Orochimaru put the finishing touches on Naruto's seal and took a step back.

"Yes, this will do just fine, thank you Orochimaru, looks like having twins worked out for the best right sweetheart." Kushina who was still weak from loosing the Kyubi and child birth could only nod slightly before falling to exhaustion. "Lets begin the sealing now. Shishō Fūin !" Both Minato and Orochimaru's hands rushed forward on the young ones stomachs sealing the fox into the belly of the 2 children. Both with 1 half of the Hakke no Fūin Shiki. Minato was extremely happy until he saw a tendril of red chakra escape Naruto and whip Rukia across the arm, Minato quickly grabbed Rukia and pulled her away. "What the hell was that!" Minato shouted as his daughter began to cry as the wound burned her young body.

Orochimaru only looked on passively as some tendrils continued to try and reach Rukia. "It seems... that the Yang chakra is not reacting well to being separated from its Yin, which leads me to believe that the Kyubi's mind is manifested inside Naruto." The tendrils continued to lash out causing Minato to frown, the sound of a door opening caught Minato's attention.

"Minato, the people are worried, the Kyubi suddenly disappearing has sent them into a panic, you must address the people." Taking note of the mood in the room, Sarutobi frowned. "Is there a problem Minato, Orochimaru?" The 3rd asked.

"It seems for the time being, I wont be able to have my son and daughter in the same room, the Kyubi's chakra's are reacting violently to each other, which means..." Minato trailed off as his eyebrows burrowed in thought, he had terrible thoughts going through his mind, but he was running out of options in his head. "I-I will introduce Naruto as an orphan that I sealed the Kyubi in, and tomorrow I will introduce Rukia as my daughter...and only child." Orochimaru raised an eyebrow in shock at Minato.

"If I have Rukia and Naruto next to each other, who knows what will happen as they get older, I have to keep them separate for now, at least until I can figure out how to not cause their chakra to react so violently to each other. Naruto is the oldest, he'll be the one to protect Rukia from...from living life alone. We'll be able to help him Sarutobi, he wont have to do this alone, and it'll only be for a while, just for a while." Minato said as he tried to make sense of his plan. He would live in his study until he figured out a plan. He picked up Naruto, and made his way to his people.

XxX End Flashback

"That was the plan at least, but Minato was not able to balance his seal studies and the village, and his time dedicated to figuring out the seal took a backseat to watching the village, until he eventually stopped studying the seal at all. " Orochimaru finished his tale solemnly.

Naruto's hands were clenched in his hands tightly, not only did he have a family, but he also had the Nine tailed fox sealed inside of him, and they abandoned him simply because of his age. At the whim of his 'Father'. "H-how can this be, they left me a-alone for 8 years, why did they..." Naruto trailed off crying out loud to the situation he found himself in. Naruto felt a hand on his shoulder, then he felt the cloth covering his eyes fall onto the floor, he looked up to see his saviors face, his ringed eyes in a trance.

Orochimaru was in awe of the eyes of legend staring at him, and he consoled his new student. "This place, this village may not care for you, but I do Naruto, which is why I'm going to train you to be ruler of this village, and they shall respect and fear you. Will you let me help you Naruto?" Orochimaru asked and Naruto grabbed Orochimaru's clothes tightly as he nodded his head sobbing into his clothes.

Orochimaru looked up to see a mask man nod his head, before leaving in a vortex.

XxX

AN: And so it begins, see you guys for the next exciting chapter...