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"Naruto!" – Regular Talk

'Naruto!' – Thoughts

Naruto! – Flashback

Naruto! – Jutsu and Devil Fruit

A Fox Or A Bear

The Legacy of the Tyrant Discovered!

"Demon!"

"Murderer!"

"Monster in the skin of a child!"

And various other insults and yelling for death was all one certain, poor boy had to listen to for every single day for as long as he could remember. It hurt when they caught him so the boy learned to always run when there is a large group of angry civilians with pitchforks and torches. And it used to be just once a few months all the way to almost every half hour and that is when the civilians were in their homes sleeping rather than trying to kill the boy.

And the boy, Naruto Uzumaki of eight years during the current day, had always knew that the more times he ran from the mobs, the faster he got at outrunning and losing the civilians on a killing spree with one single target. And at the same time, Naruto had noticed that the more they avoided him during the periods of giving up, he will be able to sneak in even the most secure of places; they just tried to blot out the eyesore that he looked like every single day.

Naruto was rather thin and short for his age. He was wearing the cheapest t-shirts that fitted kids in his age group with a simple spiral in black, polyester threads and that was better than his pants as well. The only things about Naruto to be considered good was his blonde hair that remained golden and never dirty as well as his ocean blue eyes that beat the clear sky during any day.

But right now, Naruto was still running but also smirking because he knew where he was going; a place in the village of Konohagakure, or the Village Hidden Behind the Leaf, that none of the civilians will dare try to enter. Among the Shinobi Training Grounds, there was number 44 aka the Forest of Death; it was named 44 since the number in kanji can also translate into the Japanese word for death, fitting it was.

"Look!"

"The demon is fleeing and into the Forest of Death!"

"Let's go! We are not allowed in there and if the demon wants to die there then we should allow it!"

And such voices were heard among the angry crowds as they stopped their advancing and moved away from the forest. But what they didn't know was that the reason Naruto never took a bath was so the boy wouldn't lose the scent that allowed the boy to be familiar with most of the giant animals that grow to enormous sizes along with the insects and trees within Training Ground 44.

And just like that, any tiger, any centipede and living flytrap lily that came across Naruto had just treated him like another member of their kind that they almost attacked by mistake. That allowed Naruto go anywhere in the Training Ground while trying to avoid the large tower right in the center. That is where the Konoha Shinobi usually hang out when they too want to get out of the village but not out of the boundaries.

But at least they never take any measures to protect the food in the cafeteria and the vending machines throughout the floors. That was how Naruto actually got any food to eat besides hunting in the forest and eating at a certain ramen stand. Of course, the reason he is still malnourished and under tall was that the Shinobi only pack in junk food into the facilities at the tower, hunting had nothing like milk or grain and ramen could only provide so much while filling in all the energy requirements for a Shinobi.

"So now, am I going to do today?" Naruto asked himself while simply walking through the forest in a casual walk while trying to think. Thinking and a casual walk are just two of things at the bottom of the list of things that you should do in the Forest of Death. "Darn it! I usually don't take an hour and a huge headache to come up with some…" Naruto yelled until he felt like his foot had sank into the ground. "…thing?" It was like that little twitch of the mouth line had caused him sink even more until the ground gave in all at once!

"Aw dammit!" Naruto screamed through the hole that he was falling along with the clever disguise that looked no different than the rest of the forest floor. But Naruto knew that no matter how hard he screamed, no one will ever come to help if they do hear him. That is just how Naruto is to mostly everyone in the village but his future is also mostly unpredictable like himself and he will have a future that no one will ever imagine.

XXXXX

"OW!" Naruto suddenly felt like he hit something, after hours of falling it seemed, on his hand and the recoil had caused him to hit something else on the face instead. "Ow…ow…ow…OW DAMMIT!" Naruto soon got tired of being tried like some kind of pinball going down; but the bottom had come at last and it did come, really hard.

Thankfully, Naruto had gotten some kind of thick skull, both literally and figuratively, so something like this won't crack his head open like a walnut. But the problem was how to get back up and into the forest. Naruto just tried to pry himself from the steel covered floor, hoping that nothing about him was sticking like cheese in a hot pan.

"Now let's see where I am and hopefully there is a set of staircase or at least something that will get me out of this hellhole and back into my first one." Naruto muttered to himself while looking for a light switch as well. After finding something that gave a good click, the lights started to flicker and gave off some light; almost like the batteries were just about to die. "Well that is just grand." Naruto grumbled until something had got his eye across from the wall with the switch to the center of what seems to be some kind of lab. Not with all the machines and tech that Naruto had never seen before. There were even tubes that contained some kind of specimens and liquid that was kind of creepy as well.

Back to what got Naruto's attention, it was some kind of table that was covered in dust but he could see that there was a couple of boxes and a book nearby. One of them was big, big enough to fit Naruto's bare hand into it so Naruto went to it first. Wiping the dust off, Naruto noticed that it was some kind of display case since most of the sides were clear glass without the dust cover. Naruto could see what was inside and it seemed to be some kind of object like a fruit, closely resembling a kiwi but had the shape of a cat's paw with one large body and three smaller ones attached on the top.

"What the hell is that thing? Can it be eaten? I am really hungry." Naruto asked himself until his rumbling tummy came and Naruto smiled. "I am eating it!" Naruto spent a good hour trying to find out how to open the box until he saw a rusted lock on some kind of lock that fell apart when he tossed the box around. Feeling a little embarrassed, Naruto silently opened the box and noticed that the fruit felt fresh even smelled fresh in his hand so the boy sank his teeth into it; much to is later regret,

"Blaargh! That is the most disgusting taste ever!" Naruto yelled while trying to swallow what was in his mouth and regretting the rest of the fruit only to notice that it was already spoiled before it hit the ground which made it even more revolting to even think of to the poor boy. Naruto just turned to see what the big joke was about and didn't notice that some kind of miniature robot had cleaned the mess. "So what is inside this little box?" Naruto tried to place it in the palm of its hand until the box zoomed out like a rocket which almost scared Naruto. "W-what!?"

Naruto then turned to see something that really creeped him out. On his hands were some kind of paws that were definitely not there when Naruto came into this lab and ate the fruit out of hunger. Wondering what is going on, Naruto's thick skull had deduced that this strange thing on his hands had repelled the box so how is Naruto going to prevent this from happening to everything that he holds with his hands normally.

Naruto then saw that the box wasn't even damaged and only hit one of the shelves which caused a pair of gloves to fall and land on it. Naruto got closer and noticed that they fit his hands perfectly so he placed them on and noticed that they weren't rocketing off his hands like with the small box and neither did anything else. Naruto felt like screaming in joy but his curiosity over the small box had won over. Taking it and putting it back on the table, Naruto then tried to find out how to open it when he felt like he instead pressed that got the box to glow and grow; Naruto then dropped the box right onto the table.

And out of the box came a projector scream that showed a person that scared Naruto greatly. "Greetings to all who has discovered this message and this entire room that once belonged to the great genius and inventor of our time, Dr. Vegapunk." The large figure spoke in a calm and composed tone that got Naruto wondering why; he was expecting this giant to be the opposite and with a booming voice instead. "My name is Bartholomew Kuma, a member of the Revolutionary Army and the Shichibukai as well as a former pirate that once had a fierce reputation."

Kuma is an enormous man, (22'6" tall). His overall appearance resembles that of a bear, though there are a few key differences. His eyes are strangely covered by either a pair of glasses or clear-mirrored lenses. His hat features a pair of rounded ears, and, along with the dark blue fabric of his pants, is covered in brown spots. His jacket contains a large white design reminiscent of a target cross-hair or a coda sign. There are also several white paw prints lining the bottom hem of his coat. He also has a long protruding chin. He bears the tattoo 'PX-0' on the left side of the base of his throat. And finally, Kuma's hair and jacket are black, and his hat is gray with black paw-like prints. The covering of his Bible is also shown to be intricately colored purple.

"And as you will discover this lab, you will also uncover a fruit of curious shape and texture. It is not some kind of decoration, it is an Akuma no Mi (Devil Fruit). A fruit that is cursed with the power of a long extinct race of sea devils. It is called the Nikyu-Nikyu no Mi, the Paw-Paw Fruit." Kuma continued and Naruto tried to fight the urge to laugh at the silly name for a fruit. "I am sure that is sounds ridiculous but I assure you that it has the power to not only permeably attach paws to the palms of your hands, but to use them to repel anything." Naruto stopped laughing and pictured himself using his hands to deflect some kind of unknown substance in the form of an arrow. It all made him excited.

Meanwhile, Kuma went on. "That is the basics of the Nikyu-Nikyu no Mi but everything else I have discovered about the fruit is all in a book among the various others in this lab. Use it as you wish to improve your mind and try to find a new power source to use the machines to improve your physical condition. But there is still so much to all you found then even I know so I ask that you will try to find out everything. Because my greatest regret was not finding out how to 'Awaken' my Akuma no Mi. Good luck and we won't see each other again, Farewell."

Before Naruto could respond, the message died and the box, from which the image came from had short-circuited until it was nothing a big mess of smoking gears; completely useless and unrepairable.

But Naruto wasn't down and instead searched the multiple bookshelves for anything that caught his interest. The others will have to wait for last. And after assembling them on the same table that he found the strange fruit, the strange message and even stranger book with a large paw on the cover, Naruto then got up and rubbed his hands together with a megawatt smile on his face.

"Now…which one should I try first?" Naruto said to himself and didn't actually care because everything single thing on that table in front of him belong to him and him alone; and they are going to turn his life into something that he will never dream of. Naruto didn't care how much this is over his head, the boy had all the time in the world and the eagerness to learn to take it all in; after all, unlike a road bandit with a spiked club, a Shinobi is both strong and smart in order to be considered as such.

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Two years later,

The underground lab within Training Ground 44 was dark and quiet. Not abandoned or destroyed. There was the minimal amount of dust and everything was still in place to tell that someone still uses it. The shelves still had books of various advanced subjects such as chemistry, biology, mechanics and engineering, and psychology. There were also some scrolls with kanji on them, meaning that they are scrolls on Shinobi or Ninja topics; there were some scrolls labeled Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, Poison making along with some curious ones like Kekkai Genkai, Nature Control and Shape Control. Nearby, there were also machines that appeared to include weight and barbells as well as target bullseyes that showed clear signs of being used; that means that this lab was used, not only for storing data and knowledge to take in, but to improve the human body as well.

And then, footsteps were heard and yet no door opening or closing was to be heard previously. Instead the shadow of a person in the dark had suddenly appeared, as if from nowhere, and moved towards the light switch on a cord. He then used his thumb to press the switch

"This place never looked so good. Especially since today is no originally day." The figure talked to himself as the lights turned on, one section at a time. He was Naruto Uzumaki what gave him away was actually his shaggy blonde hair that was still wild but much longer in the back and then there was the ocean blue eyes that retained their color but looked more fierce, almost like a storm at sea rather than a calm sky.

The rest of the boy, no a man, was all different. Naruto was no longer short for his age or looking as thin as a living and talking fishbone. Instead he looked rather tall for his age of ten instead and through his new clothes, new muscles filling out can be shown. All in all, he looked like something that most ten year olds don't; they barley could work themselves to the ground with bodybuilding without their overprotective parents telling them to save it for another five years or such.

As for the outfit; it was a lot like the one Bartholomew Kuma wore in the holographic message, only smaller to fit the body of a ten year old boy. There were some more differences; the hat with the bear ears was absent, the glass like eyes too and instead this boy had black goggles that are placed on the forehead when not in use. He also wore a heavy jacket over his shirt and there were strange seals on both his wrists and ankles.

"No, this day is going to be the day." This new Naruto Uzumaki smiled to himself. "I am going to stop being a simple civilian and I am going to take a big step to becoming a Shinobi. A Shinobi of Konoha, to help protect it. From the outside and from itself."

And Naruto said every single world from his chair, in front of the table that became his desk. Covered in notes, powders in one corner, metal pieces in another and books in all the other places. But Naruto was not just reading a book or studying a powder for a new type of poison, he was looking at a sheet of paper. A piece of paper that was written and sighed by the Hokage, leader and champion of Konoha, himself so it couldn't be denied; it was made as an acceptance paper for Naruto to attend the Konoha Shinobi Academy!

End of Chapter 1.

*Hey everyone! A new story for you all! And after reading the already completed story made by fellow author, Moritaka1900, Naruto Kuma, I noticed that it reminded me of my first work. It is short and simple for sure but like how I first started, I left with very few details to even build a story arc within my stories. So I decided to try for a story with Naruto having the all-repelling power of Bartholomew Kuma from One Piece. Tell me what you think!*