Chapter One: The Set Up
A young five year old Naruto Uzumaki was currently exploring the northwestern edge of the 44th training ground better known as the forest of Death. He first went in to the forest of death when he was third birthday when he was trying to run away from a drunken mob. Most of the animals usually left Naruto alone. The only creatures that tried to harm Naruto were the giant spiders. Naruto looked paused in his walking and around to check to see if he was being followed by the spiders as they did not like giving up a chase unless Naruto reached the fence. They were no were to be found it was if the area Naruto was in off limits zone for them.
"You are correct about this area young man." An old voice spoke to the left of Naruto.
Naruto turned around to see an old man sitting on a boulder. The man was dressed in traditional Japanese weapon smithing apparel. The man had a long white beard that matched the man's bushy white eye brows. Wrapped around his left wrist was Buddhist pray beads.
Naruto quickly bowed to the stranger wondering why he was out here in the forest of death.
"Correct about what elder-sama?" Naruto dumbly asked the elderly man.
"About why the giant spiders don't follow you into this portion of the forest of death when they chase after you as a special energy protects this area from the corrupted creatures of this forest." The elderly man answered.
Naruto was confused as to why this area was protected from the giant spiders. Before Naruto could ask why the area was protected, the old man spoke.
"I'll been waiting for you descendant of Hayabusa." The old man said as he bowed in respect.
Naruto looked around to see if he was talking to some else but found that there no one behind him.
"Do you mean me honorable elder?" Naruto asked as he pointed to himself.
"You're the only other person here besides me young boy." The old man spoke in an amused tone.
Suddenly he got serious and ordered "come with me child it is time for you to discover your linage."
Naruto knowing he had no choice quickly followed the old timer.
Thirty minutes later
The pair was on the outskirts of the hidden Leaf village. On the journey the old man revealed a lot of information to Naruto. For starters the old man's name was Muramasa the legendary weapons smith from the land of Iron. He explained about how Naruto's mother Kushina Uzumaki was part of the Uzumaki clan who were in turn direct descendants of the Hayabusa clan which explained the Uzumaki clans extreme longevity as the Hayabusa clan were hybrids of humans and dragons. Finally he explained the sacred duty of the Hayabusa clan which was to defend the human race from creatures known as fiends. However that duty had changed after the great calamities that rocked the world as even the fiends were fighting to stay alive and staying out of the way of the large numbers of the newly arriving demons. Until they finally arrived to the cave and Muramasa told Naruto to head into the cave alone.
"What's in the cave that requires you to send me in alone Muramasa-sama?" Naruto asked nervously.
"Only what you bring with you and your clan's heritage Naruto." Muramasa answered in a sad tone.
Naruto gulped and went inside the cave hoping to see daylight again not knowing his that he was about to embrace his destiny. Naruto slowly walked through the cobwebbed infested corridors his head swiveled as he looked out for any traps. He suddenly fell as he had tripped over something on the ground. He slowly picked himself up and looked back at what he tripped over his eyes went wide eyed at what it was and he scrambled backwards towards a wall. There lying on the ground in front of him was a rotting skeleton. By the looks of the clothing the person when they were alive the person had died when the Hidden Leaf village was first founded. Naruto saw something shining around the skeleton's right wrist of the skeleton; he slowly crawled forward and saw that it was a name bracelet. Naruto freed it from the skeleton and put the bracelet in his pocket knowing Sarutobi would want this bracelet later if Naruto survived his journey. He continued on wards hoping to find what he was sent down looking for. Finally after wondering around the dungeon Naruto came across a single ninjatō with a red grip and had a golden hand guard the blade itself was sheathed in its black sheath. It was being held up by wooden stand purposely designed for holding swords. Naruto picked it up and almost like he was in a trace partially unsheathed the blade. He bent down and pressed his forehead against the flat side of the blade where a traditional depiction of a dragon was carved into it. A green energy appeared around Naruto. However Naruto clenched in pain as the energy attacked his center of his charka. He did the one thing that he could he screamed.
With Sarutobi
The third Hokage was currently with the Konoha council. The council was broken up into four groups. The first group was the civilian merchants who formed the back bone of Konoha's economy. They were the richest people in Konoha outside of the clans. The next group was the duly elected officials that represented the interest of the non shinobi citizens of Konoha. They two groups formed they handled the day to day affairs of the civilians who happened to be living in Konoha. The next group was the shinobi council which was the smallest as they were made up of the heads of the various Shinobi branches such as the head of the ANBU BlackOps, the medical, the Hokage appointed representative, and the head of the academy. The final group was the clans council they handled the affairs of all the ninja clans within Konoha's walls. The Hokage and his advisors along with Danzō who was once part of the Shinobi council acted as observers and in the case of a tie they would vote to break the deadlock. However the council was currently arguing about what to do about Naruto. The civilians who were led by Hanzō Haruno who controlled seventy five percent of the businesses in Konoha was arguing to execute or exile the boy preferably to execute him for his supposed crimes against Konoha. He was being backed by Fugaku Uchiha from the clan council. While on the other side The Hokage appointed representative (cough Jiraiya cough) and Kuai Higurashi a retired shinobi turned member merchant was leading the shinobi council and clan council in protecting the boy from unjustified harm.
"That abomination must pay for his crimes against us before the Yondaime turned it human!" Hanzō yelled in frustration at the military portion of the Konoha council.
"He is the container of the nine tailed fox ya stupid idiot! We kill him it might release the demon!" Jiraiya yelled in responded offended that this civilian dare question the ability of his deceased apprentice.
Just then a wave of evil energy washed over all of Konoha. The shinobi were quickly to respond and rushed off to it point of origin. Leaving the civilians confused by the sudden departure of their shinobi counterparts.
With Muramasa
Muramasa just smiled as the sword did its magic of removing the taint of the nine tailed fox from the young Hayabusa heir. Just then the entire shinobi council appeared behind him.
"Excuse me civilian you need to vacate the area now." Sarutobi ordered not knowing who he was dealing with.
"I do not need to go anywhere young man." Muramasa spoke in a clam even tone.
Sarutobi was taken aback by the civilian's tone and his treatment of him.
"Listen here civilian, I am the Hokage of this village you will listen to my orders or else." Sarutobi threaten the unknown civilian.
Muramasa turned his head partly and gave Sarutobi a heated glare causing the old Hokage to back up in confusion. However Kuai and Jiraiya recognized and quickly kowtow towards him causing much shock everyone.
"Forgive our Hokage for he is ignorant of you are Muramasa-dono!" the two pleaded to the old man.
All the shinobi went wide eyed at the name the two just spoke as Muramasa was legendary throughout the elemental nations as being the greatest weapon smith. In the First Shinobi World War peace treaty he had his own written clause that stated that he was to be left alone at all times. Why was he here in Konoha? Many wondered.
Muramasa turned completely towards Kuai "It's good to see you again Kuai. How's the family?" He asked.
"They're doing quite well Muramasa-dono. May I ask why you are here?" Kuai asked with great concern in his voice as his former master would never leave his work shop in the land of Iron.
"Oh, I'm just here to help bring about the resurrection of the Hayabusa clan." Muramasa spoke like it was the most common thing in the world.
This caused many shinobi to start whispering to each other as they all heard of the Hayabusa Clan. The clan predated the great calamities and the sage of six paths. They were considered the greatest ninja clan in history. There even rumors that the First Hokage based the hidden Leaf village off an idea of the Hayabusa had with dealing with living in large numbers.
Just then Naruto appeared out of the cave with a beautiful ninjatō in his hands. Naruto's appearance had changed. He had shot up six inches from a puny 3"3 to 3"9. All of his fat was burned away leaving only his developing muscles in their place. His hair had change from it pervious golden blond hair to a dark brown. But the most startling change was his eyes. They were originally an ocean blue but they turned to dragon green but with a slight golden hue in it as well. The scariest part of was that they were silted like that of a reptiles eyes. The only way they could tell that it was Naruto was the three whisker like marks on his cheeks.
"Naruto is that you?" Sarutobi asked with concern in his voice.
He didn't notice that the civilian council just arrived at the sight of the new and improved Naruto. Causing many civilians to think that he truly was a demon
"Yea it's me old man." Naruto spoke in a voice that sounds like it could give off wisdom naturally.
This was all the Hanzō needed to prove that Naruto was indeed a demon.
"See I told you he was a demon freak now he has awakened his fiendish powers!" Hanzō screeched.
The rest of the civilians nodded their heads in agreement. That was until Muramasa disappeared and reappeared behind Hanzō with a sword pressing slightly into Hanzō's neck enough to draw out some blood. Hanzō gulped in fear as began to shake uncontrollably at his possibly imminent death at the hands of the greatest blacksmith in the world.
"Care to say that again you fool? He is a member of the Dragon lineage. His blood has just been reawakened and the nine tailed fox is dead." Muramasa spoke with venom in his voice.
Hanzō managed to shake his head.
Naruto collapsed onto one knee which Fugaku saw as a sign of weakness. He pulled out a Kunai knife.
"The demon is vulnerable right now we need to strike it down while it's still weak!" Fugaku yelled as he activated his Sharingan eyes and charged at Naruto.
What happened next awed and horrified the people present to witness the event. Naruto looked up and saw the foolish Uchiha coming at him with the intent to kill him in almost slow motion. He got to his feet at an inhuman speed and vanished. The next thing happened was Fugaku screaming in pain. Everyone looked in Fugaku's direction to see him holding his right arm or what was left of it. As blood skirted out of it like a water hose. Next Fugaku's legs which horrified the civilians as even more bloody poured out of his body. Finally Naruto appeared in front of Fugaku with his ninjatō ready to launch the finish blow in right hand.
"Please spare me, Please!" Fugaku begged trying to save himself from the embrace of death.
Naruto only sneered at the sight of Fugaku while normally he would be hesitant of killing someone if he was in his previous state. But Naruto's dragon blood within him told him to kill Fugaku as it would be more merciful and it would save Naruto a shit load of harassment from him. Naruto placed his left hand on the sword's grip causing Fugaku's eyes to widen in realization that Naruto intended to kill him. Fugaku realizing it no longer matter what he did started cursing out Naruto.
"DAMN YOU, YOU WORTHLESS HAYABUSA FILTH! DAMN YOU! MY CLAN WILL AVENGE MY DEATH AT YOUR HANDS!" Fugaku screamed out before Naruto's blade cut his head off silencing him forever.
Naruto started to collapse from exhaustion but was caught by Jiraiya who teleported away from the area.
On Mount Myonoku
Shima was tending to the garden while she waited for her husband Fukasaku who was gathering other major toad figures for a wedding ceremony between two young toads.
"Come on, come on, you guys known how my wife gets when someone is late for something she believes is important." She heard her husband Fukasaku speak to the other toads.
Her fellow toads groaned knowing all too well that she got very nasty to people if they run one second late for something. They entered the well taken care of garden which had been made to look like the Garden of Eden that one of the many old books from before the great calamities occurred that the toads had stored away. Just then Jiraiya appeared with a young boy over his left shoulder and a ninjatō in his right hand.
"Jiraiya who is this?" asked Shima with great concern as Jiraiya never brought anyone to the mountain with him the sole exception was his apprentice Minato Namikaze but that was years ago.
"This was Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze." Jiraiya spoke in a solemn tone.
"You mean he's dead!" The great toad sage exclaimed in great alarm as the prophecy that he had given to Jiraiya years ago was now in jeopardy of being destroyed.
"No, but the Uzumaki and Namikaze lines are dead; He is now Naruto Hayabusa." Jiraiya stated in defeat.
"Did you say just Hayabusa?" the elder toad asked as Jiraiya with great alarm still as if what Jiraiya said was true then they had to notify the dragon clan.
Jiraiya nodded his head signifying that he had indeed said Hayabusa.
Fukasaku turned towards Gamabunta who just nodded and disappeared with a poof of smoke taking the sword with him as proof that he was telling the truth. Jiraiya turned towards Fukasaku to speak but Fukasaku beat him to it.
"I will carry your request to train him over to the dragon clan council, Jiraiya. Now you must leave before the dragon leader arrives and sees you." The elderly toad spoke softly to the toad sage.
Jiraiya nodded in understanding before teleported back to Konoha. He knew that he was need more in Konoha than he was needed here. So with a heavy heart he departed from the mount, just in time to hear a mighty roar of the dragon leader.