The chaos had ended, thanks to the effort of the fourth. Konoha could finally rest the Kyuubi had been sealed away and the Hokage and his wife were both still alive, even if they were unconscious. The village was so glad that the destruction was over that no one noticed two figures jumping over the wall carrying something with yellow hair.

"This is going to be the easiest pay-day ever." The man holding the bundle said.

"I know all we had to do was get the little brat while the Hokage was unconscious." The other figure said. "What's his name anyway?"

"The Hokage's wife said Naruto I think." The figure hold Naruto replied.

"What a stupid name let's just get him back to the village."

The two figures stopped in front of their home village Iwa. The sun was high in the sky it had taken them a little over two days to get here even with them running nonstop. They walked through the crowed street. They walked towards the largest building in the village, the Tsuchikage tower.

The two Iwa Nin made it to the Kage's office. Behind a desk sat a very short old man. "Hai, Tsuchikage." They said as they entered.

"Is that the package?" The Kage said. Both ninja nodded. "Then bring it here." The ninja carrying the package put it on the Kage's desk. The old Kage unwound the blanket revealing a baby with spiky yellow hair and blue eyes. The Kage looked at his stomach for a while. "What is the meaning of this?" The Kage said in voice that promised death if they did not answer.

"What do you mean Tsuchikage?" The Iwa Nin said, only his ninja training kept him from stuttering.

"I mean why isn't the Kyuubi's Jinchuuriki in front of me!?" The Kage said his anger rising.

"I'm sorry, Tsuchikage." The Iwa Nin said bowing his head. "We must have gotten the wrong kid. We just thought the Hokage would have put the Kyuubi in his son not his daughter."

The Kage suddenly calmed down. "What do you mean his daughter?"

"It turns out the Hokage's wife; Kushina had twins, Naruto and Michiko." The ninja said hastily.

"Well then we have a problem." The Kage said putting his hand together. "What to do with the boy? If he's not a Jinchuuriki then I don't want him, so we not going to keep him. We could kill him, but it wouldn't help the village in any way unless we reveled that we kill him and we obviously can't do that. So I guess we should get rid of him." The Kage smiled to himself. "And I know exactly where to put him. The Kage lifted his hand and an anbu appeared. The Kage whispered something in his ear and gave him Naruto. The anbu took him and disappeared.

*1 day earlier Konoha *

Kushina slowly opened her eyes to adjust to the blinding white hospital room. She had a huge headache, but delivering twins and having the Kyuubi escape she was likely that's all she had. She looked over to see Minato lying in the bed beside hers. He was still sleeping and she had no intention of wakening him. She was glad he was still alive as she thought back to the events right before the sealing.

Minato was doing it the Dead Demon Consuming Seal. Kushina had begged him to stop, but he refused to listen. Minato was going to seal the Kyuubi into Michiko because Kushina was too weak and Naruto who would have been the better candidate for the Kyuubi had been taken home due to Minato's Hiraishin. So they had no choice but to seal Kyuubi into Michiko. Kushina was fully prepared to see Minato die after that, but for some reason he didn't and Kushina was prepared to ask him why after he woke up.

Kushina only thought right now though was seeing her two children and if on cue a Medical Nin walked through the door.

"Kushina I'm glad you're awake." The Nin said. "Now I know you what to see your daughter, but you need to know something first. Your chakra is shot to hell we don't know why, but because of this you won't be able to control it anymore. So needless to say you can't really be a ninja anymore." The Nin finished looking rather sad.

Kushina could guess that the Kyuubi breaking out was the reason her chakra was screwed, but that's not what worried her. "What do you mean daughter what about my son?" She said shocked.

The Nin looked puzzled. "What do you mean you only had a baby girl, right?" The Nin said.

"No! I had twins where is Naruto! He should be at are mansion." Kushina started to panic.

"That was no baby at you house." The Nin said.

Kushina couldn't think. What had happened to Naruto? Was he alright? Kushina jumped out of bed and ran over to her husband and started sacking him. "Minato wake up! Naruto missing!"

"Kushina please don't do that he needs to sleep." The Nin said trying to stop her.

Minato woke up. "What's wrong Kushina?"

Kushina was starting to cry. "It's Naruto he's missing!"

Minato suddenly became fully aware. "I'll go get a search party ready." Minato climbed out of bed even against the medical Nin's advice and stared heading for the door.

"Minato why don't you Hiraishin there it will be faster." Kushina suggested.

Minato looked door at the floor looking ready to cry. "I can't." He said so softly that Kushina barely heard.

"What do you mean?" Kushina said.

"In order for me to live instead of taking my life I offered the shinigami my charka. I can't use it anymore; I deiced that seeing my kids grow up was more important than being a ninja." With that said Minato left the room.

*Land of Rivers*

An Iwa anbu is carrying Naruto to a certain village as per the Tsuchikage orders. The village is a perfect place to hide Naruto. It's not really a Ninja village and no one ever comes there unless their merchants. The village Naruto is being taken too is Takumi Village. The village that supplies weapons to most of the ninja world. It's true that because of the skilled craftsmen that now live inside the hidden villages the economy of Takumi Village took a bit of a hit, but they still have all the mines needed to make the tools in mass orders which no other village can compete with. So over all their economy is still really good.

The reason Takumi Village is such a good hiding place is because very few ninja actually go inside the village it's mostly just merchants that buy the tools and sell them to the hidden villages. Also Naruto will probably work in the mine his entire life since there isn't really any other job he can take, especially becoming a ninja. Takumi Village is always in need of more miners and they take anyone. So the Iwa Nin just dropped Naruto off at the orphanage inside the village without any problems and headed back to Iwa. The only other thing he left was a card with Naruto written on it.

*Konoha*

Kushina was on her bed with Michiko in her arms. She was crying the search for Naruto came up empty-handed. The only thing they knew for sure was that Naruto was taken by someone. Kushina was crushed by this news she hadn't even had Naruto for a full hour before he was taken. It must have been a new record.

Minato walked into the room and sat next to Kushina. "How'd it go?" She asked him.

Minato sighed. "I told them what happened, but even without my charka they still think I should be Hokage."

Kushina looked at him strangely. "Why wouldn't they just because you can't use jutsu anymore doesn't mean you're any less of a hero. You can still run this village because you're a great man. Unlike me who was in the hospital when my son was taken." Kushina started to cry aging.

Minato pulled her into a hug. "This isn't your fault so don't blame yourself, besides we'll find him and we still have Michiko to raise and I'm sure that she'll want to find her brother as much as we do."

Kushina wiped her eyes feeling a little better. "Yeah, I'm sure she going to become a great ninja just like you and have lots of friends to help her along the way."

* Takumi Village 6 years later*

Naruto was excited because today was his first day in the mines. He had spent six years at the orphanage learning about the village and other useful thing like reading and writing and of course how to correctly mine. He was finally old enough to do so mining and since he was a worker he would get a small apartment. He was wearing black shinobi sandals, grey shinobi pants and black shirt with red lines going down each sleeve. Takumi Village didn't sell too many bright colors since the dust in the mine would just cover them up. He was currently on his way to go see the closest thing this village had to a leader, the Mine Boss.

Naruto was standing in front of a man with a very long brown bread. "So you'll be working in the mine?" The Mine boos said.

Naruto could barely contain his excitement. "Hai!" Naruto said.

The Mine boss just chucked at the boy. "Well as you know almost all men in this village are miners and the women are craftsmen. Do you have what it takes to make this village proud?"

"Hai!" Naruto said aging.

"Alright then here is the key to your new apartment and the keys to enter the mine. Just go down there and you'll be assigned a work station." The Boss said handing Naruto some keys.

"Thank you, sir." Naruto said and ran off.

The mine was huge it braced off in every direction for miles and went down so far Naruto couldn't even see the bottom. Now there were stairs for people to go down to the lower floors, but there was also a flat surface alongside the cave wall. Naruto saw two men go downthe vertical surface without any trouble at all. Naruto was amazed at the ninja. Ever since he found out this village had shinobi Naruto wanted to be one. The problem was that Naruto didn't know anything about being a ninja and there was no academy to teach him. The only thing Naruto knew for sure was that there was some kind of test he had to pass to become a shinobi. That was the reason Naruto was so thrilled to come down here. First all ninja who weren't on missions came to the mine and the mining itself would help him become stronger.

Naruto got his position and walked down one of the many tunnels. One thing Naruto noticed though was that there wasn't any miners in this tunnel are the other tunnels he past had plenty of miners so why didn't this one. Naruto was about to start mining on his own when her heard the sound of metal hitting rock. Naruto moved up a bit towards the source of the sound and sure enough there was someone else there.

He looked only a little older than Naruto probably by a year. He was in a lot better shape than him too. He wore brown shinobi sandals, dark blue shinobi pant with a kunai holster on his right leg. He had a grey shirt with an unzipped brown jacket it. He also had a headband tied under his black hair. Naruto suspected that the headband was originally white, but the dust in the mine had turned it into this sandy color. Overall he looked like he born to miner.

"Excuses me, can I ask you a question." Naruto asked.

The boy stopped mining and looked at Naruto. "So you're the new guy who been assigned her. I guess you can ask me some stuff, But first my name is Katsu Riku."

"My name is Naruto and I was wondering why you're the only miner here."

"Because this place almost never has any minerals in it you've been assigned here because they don't want you to fuck anything up." Riku said.

Naruto was a little mad about that, but decided to look past it. "Then why are you here."

"Because I don't have to be careful to make sure I don't hit anything. I not planning on staying a miner of long I'm becoming a ninja."

Naruto had stars in his eyes he couldn't believe how lucky he got finding someone who wants to be a ninja just like him. "That's great I want to be a ninja too." Naruto said excitedly.

Riku looked at him like he said he wanted to eat a rock. Then he started laughing. "You a little brat wants to become a ninja that's funny. I mean look how short you are." Riku put his hand over Naruto head to prove his point. "Wait a minute you're short and you're a miner you're not a ninja you're a dwarf." Riku started laughing even harder.

"Shut up!" Naruto yelled and threw a punch at Riku face, which he caught and flung Naruto to the ground effortlessly. Naruto was mad, but he wasn't an idiot he knew that was no way he could win. So he just waited for Riku to stop his laughing fit.

After a while Riku calmed down. "Listen I don't think you get it, begin a ninja in this village is far different than any other village. First there is no academy you have to do all your learning from books or get help from another ninja. Second since were not really a ninja village we get different request then the ones regular ninjas get, mostly once that involve some not so good thing. So if you're going to become one you better be ready to kill anyone. Last in order to become a ninja you have to take the genin exam which is held once every year. You don't get a jounin sensei like you would in any other village. You can have a team if there's enough graduates, but you don't have to. After that you just start doing C-ranked mission."

Naruto took in every word. "I still want to be a ninja if I have to become a little evil then I don't mind and for all the other stuff I'll just be really strong. I have one question though don't genin do D-ranked missions."

Riku just smiled at this. "That's only one D-ranked mission boys can do and you're doing it right now, it's mining." Naruto was a little surprised by this but realized it should have been obvious." The one girls can do is making weapons.

"So why do you want to become a ninja?" Naruto asked.

"You see my old man is a ninja so I'm kind of expected to be a ninja, but there's a different reason I want to become a ninja." Riku said.

"What is it?" Naruto asked.

"You see this village doesn't have too many ninja, but girls love ninja especially strong once. So if I'm become a ninja then all the girls will fall in love with me." Riku had a dreamy look in his eye.

Naruto thought about it and it seemed pretty cool to have a bunch of girls adore you. "Now I definitely want to become a ninja."

Riku chucked to himself "alright kid I like you so I'll help you out a bit." Riku handed Naruto a piece of paper. "If you can make something happen to that paper with your chakra then I teach you about being a ninja."

Naruto looked at the paper it didn't look like anything special, but Naruto wanted Riku to teach him. "Alright then I'll get on it right away." Naruto ran off to star training with the paper.

"Wait!" Riku said. Naruto stopped in his tracks.

"What is it?" Naruto replied.

"Just because you want to become a ninja doesn't mean you can ditch being a miner." Riku said pointing to a pickaxe. Naruto rubbed the back of his head embarrassed that he forgot what he was down here for. Now that Riku got a better look at his face he could have sworn he'd seen it somewhere before. Well he'd just have to look into it later.

*Konoha*

"Michiko come on you don't want to miss your first day at the academy." Michiko groaned under her bed sheets. "I thought you wanted to be a ninja with all your friends, but I guess if you don't want to you can always be a merchant." This got Michiko out of bed.

"I'm coming Kaa-san." She yelled. Michiko had long blond hair and very blue eyes and six whiskers marks on her cheeks. She got dressed in blue shinobi sandals, light blue shinobi pants and an orange shirt. She ran downstairs and took her seat at the table and started eating breakfast.

Minato and Kushina were both sitting at the table just watching their daughter eat. "So first day at the Academy are you excited." Minato asked her.

Michiko finished what she was eating. "Hai, I'm going to be an even better ninja then you two." Minato and Kushina chuckled at this. Michiko knew that they couldn't use chakra, but she didn't know how it happened. Minato and Kushina had decided to wait till she was a genin to tell her about the Kyuubi. The village knew about Michiko status of being a Jinchuuriki, but due to Minato's wishes no one in Michiko's generation knew because even though the village thought of Michiko as a hero kids would be a little scared of her if they knew she had a demon living inside her.

Michiko stopped eating and looked down at the table. Hey Tou-san, Kaa-san what do you think Naruto is doing right now?" Minato and Kushina stiffened at this. They had told her about what happened to Naruto and Michiko swore that she find him one day. Minato of course still had any ninja sent on a mission told to keep a look out for Naruto, but after six years he couldn't make a dedicated search party. Jiraiya was still looking for Naruto and Minato was very thankful for that.

"I'm sure Naruto is having a great time." Kushina said though since Naruto was kidnapped the odds of him being alive were slim let along having fun. They tried not to give up hope that Naruto was out there somewhere, but every time Michiko had a birthday it just reminded them that another year had gone by without Naruto.

"By the way can my friends come over after class?" Michiko said cheering herself up.

"Sure they can." Kushina said with a smile.

"Thanks." Michiko said

Michiko ran to the academy to tell her friend. She met up with her three best friends in front of the academy. "Hinata, Ino, Sakura good morning." She said as she waved. Her friend waved back.

"Hey Michiko we were just talking about how great it is that we're all in the same class as Sasuke." Sakura said.

"Well I'm going to be sitting by him." Ino said.

"No you're not Ino pig!" Sakura yelled and started fighting with Ino.

"Guys don't fight it's are first day on the way to becoming ninjas." Michiko said trying to calm them down. "Besides I have some great news my Kaa-san said we could hang out after class and we can even invite some of the boys." Michiko knew almost everyone in their class since most of them were sons or daughters of clan heads.

"Thank you for inviting us." Hinata said quietly since she was pretty shy. Ino and Sakura stop fighting to thank her too. Then Iruka came out a told everyone it was time for class.

Michiko sat down next to Hinata. Ino and Sakura had abandoned them to go sit next to their Sasuke. Sasuke didn't look to happy about this, but didn't say anything. Michiko didn't know what they thought was so great him. Sure he was a uchiha, but he was just starting the academy there's no way he was a great ninja yet.

Iruka came into class and wrote his on the board. "Hai class my name is Iruka-sensei."

"Hai, Iruka-sensei" the class said.

"Well I'm glad you're all ready to start your ninja train, but first let's introduce are self's." One by one the students walk in front of the class. Sasuke, Michiko and Hinata all received gasps from the people who didn't know who they were. After all you don't normally get the two future head of the most power clans and the Hokage's daughter in your class.

The rest of the class was quite boring in Michiko's opinion. Iruka basically went over what a ninja was and what they did for the village. He went over mission structure and the basics of chakra. After class the girls were standing in the yard. They decided that they would invite Sasuke, Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji and shino since they knew all of them. The girls asked all of them and they all agreed although it took a while to convince Sasuke and Shikamaru. They walked to the Hokage's mansion and went inside. Kushina greeted them and said she would start making snakes. All the kids sat down in the living room.

"Is your dad home Michiko?" Choji asked.

"No, he doesn't normally get off work till later. Away what did you guys think of you first day at the academy." She said.

"Boring" Sasuke said. "They should just pass me already if it's going to be this easy every day."

Sakura and Ino thought he was super cool for saying that, but Michiko was annoyed. Who did he think he was? We've only been the academy for one day and he already wants to leave. Michiko thought to herself.

"It's only been one day I'm sure it will get harder." Hinata said.

"I doubt it." Sasuke said with the famous uchiha pride.

"Come on Sasuke it not like they're going to work us to work us to exhaustion on the first day." Kiba Said.

* Takumi Village*

Naruto was exhausted. He could barely keep on his feet. Every muscle burned. He had no idea mining was so hard. Naruto was on his way to his apartment after an eight-hour shift. Riku was right they didn't find anything but rocks. Naruto didn't even feel like he accomplished anything. Riku did say it was great training though.

Naruto made it two his apartment and took his key out of his pocket. His hand was shacking so bad it took him a couple tries to get it in the lock. He finally got his door opened and got a good look inside his new living space. There was a living room without any furniture; Naruto would have to buy some later. Connected to the living room was a kitchen which didn't have any food. There was a door to a decent sized bathroom and then another door leading to a bed room which did have a bed which looked really inviting.

Naruto wanted nothing more than to take a nap, but if he wanted to become a ninja be would have to figure out what to do with the paper Riku gave him. Naruto didn't know anything about chakra so he just sat on the floor starting at the paper trying to make something happen. After a while Naruto deiced nothing was going to happen. Naruto thought of a different plan.

He remembered Riku telling him that you had to get all your information from books so Naruto would go to the library to find a book on chakra and he would get some food too. Naruto walked out of the house still sore from the day's work. It was night out, but the town was still alive with fires burning and women making the ninja tools.

Naruto made it to the library and found the ninja section easy enough. While he was looking for a book on chakra he saw someone he didn't expect to see, Riku. He was carrying a bunch of small black books.

"Hey Riku." Naruto said.

Riku looked over to Naruto I little surprised that he came to the library for help so early. Maybe he wasn't as stupid as Riku thought. "Well what do you know? I thought you would have left town after your first day at the mine."

This made Naruto a little angry, but not wanting to start a fight with the person that would teach him how to become a ninja Naruto held his temper. "What are those books anyway?"

Riku looked down at them as if he forgot he was holding them. "These are bingo books, I'm looking for someone."

"Ok." Naruto said and went back to looking for his book. Riku left carry all his books and Naruto couldn't help, but wonder who he was looking for. Naruto found the book he was looking for and checked it out. He then stopped by the store to get some food and went back to his house.

Naruto sat on his bed and looked over the book. The book explained what chakra was and about chakra depletion. Naruto wondered how much chakra he had, he would have to ask Riku later. Then it went into to molding chakra and finally about chakra natures, fire, earth, water, wind and lightning. However nowhere in the book did it say anything about a piece of paper. Naruto was a little disappointed in this, but guess it wouldn't have been that easy. Naruto decided that he would work on molding chakra tomorrow. He got in bed and slept like a rock.

The next day wasn't any easier. Naruto still felt like he was going to die after mining and Riku had a good laugh about it. Naruto didn't give in though right when he got home he started practicing molding chakra. He did this for three days until he finally got it.

Naruto was super happy. He could feel it flowing though his body. He got the piece of paper Riku gave him. Naruto closed his eyes and concentrated on the paper, nothing happened. Naruto was confused he had molded his chakra why wasn't it doing anything. Maybe he had to force chakra into the paper. Naruto closed his eyes and pushed chakra to the paper. It took him a while since he'd never tried to move his chakra to any part of his body, but after a while he heard the paper tear.

Naruto looked at the paper was cut in two. Naruto's eye started to twitch. That was it. All that was supposed to happen was it was torn in two. He could have done that with his hands. Naruto was pissed at Riku did he think this was some kind of joke. Naruto expected the paper to explode or change color at the very least. Something that he could have only done with chakra, but no it just got torn in two.

The next day Naruto was walking down the tunnels of the mine. He could hear Riku up ahead. "Hey Riku!"

"Riku looked towards Naruto. "Oh Naruto there's something I want to tell you." Then Naruto threw a punch which Riku barley dogged. "Hey what was that for?!"

Naruto held up his spilt piece of paper. "What the hell is this some kind of joke?!"

Riku looked at the paper he couldn't believe Naruto did it so soon. It would have been easy for any ninja, but Naruto hadn't even stared basic chakra control. "Well, Naruto it looks like you did it." Naruto looked puzzled. "That paper shows what element your chakra is and you are wind, not too many of those."

Naruto looked down at the paper. "Is wind good?" Naruto asked.

"Not what I'd prefer, but there's no such thing as a bad element." Riku said. "Enough about that though. I have something important to tell you." Naruto looked at Riku curious at what he wanted to tell him. "Take a look at this." Riku handed him one of those black books he had with him in the library.

Naruto looked at it. There was a picture of some guy and over the picture it said, Namikaze Minato current Hokage of Konoha. "What about it?" Naruto asked.

"Look at the picture, remind you of anyone?" Riku said.

Naruto looked at the picture more closely and was shocked. It looked like he was looking into a mirror; this Hokage looked exactly like him. "Who is this?"

"I believe that person is your dad."