Rise from the Dark, Step from the Shadow

CH:1 Special beginnings

I stared sadly at Narumi. I watched her face break out into a humongous grin. She was with her parents, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Namikaze. I didn't consider myself part if the family. I haven't since I was a young child. My name is Naruto and this is my life.

When the Kyuubi no Yoko attacked the hidden village in the leaves, the Yondaime hokage came out to face her. That's right, I said her. Just because something is mean doesn't automatically make it male, and for the people who think women can't be mean then just think of every woman who has ever murdered someone, yelled at orphans, or insulted someone. But I am not writing this to speak of the battle of the sexes. Regardless of my blither blather, after the massive battle the yellow flash sealed the beast into a child. That child was me, big shocker. But the thing is only I know the full truth. That on that dreadful day the fourth placed a seal on both me and my sister Narumi. But as I said he sealed the beast, but instead of my sister gaining the chakra and myself the soul, I got the whole package. My sibling had an empty cage. Hurray for me.

With that simple fact I was cursed, shunned, hated, and beaten. As far back as I remember I've been my sister's shadow, her darkness. If she played a prank on someone, I was blamed. If she desired something, it was hers. It was almost like I didn't exist except for her personal tool to suck up all her problems. After I turned five, I gave up on being part of their family. They were my family, but not at the same time. Kushina my mother, but not at the same moment. Narumi my sibling, not so as well. It was confusing at first glance but was true. The boy whose family that was not his own.

When I was younger I tried to make friends. Any child I met shunned me and wanted to play with Narumi. I tried to be helpful, but was scorned. After being rejected so thoroughly, I turned to books. Or more specifically, the ninja arts. I read all I could in ninjutsu and taijutsu. Scouring the entire library for tombs of genjutsu and other fabled ninja arts. Of iryojutsu and bloodlines. All of this information filled my head, and then I trained. Trained to the bone and doubled it. I was determined to master it all and make it my power. I eventually made one friend. His name Itachi Uchiha. Whenever he wasn't busy with Anbu he would help me train. I quickly discovered I was what people in Konoha a, "Genius." I excelled immediately in whatever I attempted to learn, no matter the difficulty of the subject. I even learned an A-rank jutsu in one night, it's name Kage bushin no jutsu.

One year later I had strength, but not nearly enough for I planned. But that was also the day I and Narumi joined the ninja academy. That was also the day I cast the first stone for what I had planned. My plan to step from the shadows, to rise from the darkness!

…... Six years earlier...