Hey I know it's been a while but this time I got a good reason, well at least to me. Anyway since its taking me a long time to finish chapter 8 for The Real Me, I thought I might as well get to getting out the story I had adopted from TheBeardedOne's adoption filled story, Konoha's Pet Shop specifically chapter 24.

So, all of you go give him some love seeing as he allowed me to even start this story.

Remember that if you like this first chapter of the story to not only review and give me feedback but to also go to TheBeardedOne and check out his stories (Which are amazing btw)

Anyway, onto the first chapter of Vanishing Kid

It was a clear and warm day in Konoha's market district. People walked all throughout the main street either going into shops or just walking down the street. It was peaceful time for many as such a clear and nice day made many feel calm and happy.

One such person was standing behind his stall watching people walk by. While he wasn't getting much business he was not worried seeing as it was only about noon. Bending down and laying his chin on his arms the man sighed out of boredom. A few minutes' pass by before the man noticed a strange occurrence, out of the corner of his eye he noticed a short blond haired kid walking down the street. While this may have not been interesting on its own what was interesting is that the kid would walk about five steps before disappearing and reappearing a few step away after which he would keep walking. The man watched the kid walk the down the street along with many others who had stopped what they were doing to watch.

What seemed even more odd is that the blond kid did not seem to even notice that he was doing anything. The kid had his head down in a sullen look not paying attention to where he was going. When the kid appeared next to his stall the man finally noticed who the kid was, right before he let a scowl crawl onto his face.

"Of course it would be that demon that's doing it. Always knew that thing was a demon, and now he is trying to mimic the Fourth's Hokage's own technique."

The man finished his thoughts by spitting to his side in disgust. It took the man a few seconds to fully understand what he thought.

"Wai-, A yellow flash!"

The man stuttered just as the blond kid yet again disappeared in a dull yellow flash.

Break

Naruto sighed for the hundredth time as he kept walking down the market district main street. Today was not one of his best days, it was more like one of his worst. All he had tried to do was save a girl his age from bullies but all he got was a punch to the stomach,

"Or was it, the guy looked like he held his palm out straight. Who punches like that, but it still hurt a lot more than usual. I swear I'll get that pale eye's guy back, I'll prank him into next week."

Naruto was thinking back to what happened an hour before at a random park.

He had been wondering around trying to find something to do when he found a little blue haired girl with pale eyes being surrounded by three older boys. Knowing that the boys wanted to harm the little girl he had jumped in to try to fight them back. But he was not that good in fighting so he was easily beat down. He did do one thing right since after beating up Naruto the trio of boys had gotten bored and left him and the girl alone.

He had gotten up a few moments latter bruises still there but he was able to stand and walk. Naruto was about to leave when he was interrupted by a quiet voice saying its thanks. It was then that Naruto remembered the reason he had gotten beat up in the first place. A strange feeling flooded him as he turned and smiled at the girl telling her that he was alright. He would have said more but was interrupted by an older voice shouting something out. Naruto had no time to think where the voice had come from before he was on the floor holding his stomach in pain. Getting over the pain Naruto looked up in time to catch a man dressed in white leaving while dragging away the girl he had saved.

Neither Naruto or the man noticed a faint glow cover Naruto's body, getting up Naruto tried to shake the pain from his stomach. Finally, the pain had faded enough to allow Naruto to walk. On his way Naruto, could not shake a weird warm feeling that lasted only a few moments and disappear only to come back a few moments later and disappear yet again.

Naruto was cut off from his memories by a voice shouting his name, looking up he noticed a man dressed in a white and red robe standing in front of him,

"Oh, hey old man long time no see."

The old man was in fact not just any old man but Sarutobi Hiruzen, the third Hokage of Konoha. Sarutobi for his part look worried as he stared at the blond haired kid in front of him, or where he was. Sarutobi looked to his left finding Naruto standing there looking like nothing happened only to yet again disappear and reappear a few feet away.

Sarutobi had been informed of a strange occurrence by a few of his shinobi. He was first skeptical of a disappearing and reappearing boy, that is until one of them had mentioned the boy to be his self-adopted grandson. He had right away left his office in search of the boy only to find him walking down the market place main street not paying attention to anything, or the fact that he was flashing place to place every few seconds. He did not know what to think of the situation, never had he expected to see this type of movement and flash ever again, at least until the boy grew up a bit more.

Getting the boys attention finally Sarutobi began to speak,

"Naruto…Do you know what you are doing right now."

Getting a confused stare from the boy Sarutobi could only worry more seeing as not even the boy knew what was going on,

"Naruto please look at yourself"

Getting even more confused at the old man's request Naruto looked down at his hands at the same time the warm feeling came back. Expecting to find nothing he was shocked when he saw himself get covered in a dull yellow light before he appeared a few feet away from his previous location. Not knowing what was going on Naruto started to panic, causing the warm feeling to come back much quicker than before and disappear again.

Sarutobi watched as Naruto finally realized what he was doing and the panic that soon set in. He let out a shocked breath as Naruto's chakra spiked and he began to flash a lot more frequently. Realizing the cause Sarutobi was quick to speak,

"Naruto I need you to calm down, you being stressed out is only making things worse."

Naruto young as he was still understood what Sarutobi has said and tried to get his panic under control, as best as his young mind can allow him. Sarutobi let out a sigh of relief as the flashing went down from frequent to every occasionally, again. Calming himself down Sarutobi let his mind race at incredible speeds, trying to find a cause for Naruto's condition. Not being able to find one now Sarutobi decided to take Naruto to his office before he hurt himself somehow.

"Come, Naruto lets go to my office, we may be able to find a cause and maybe a solution to your problem. Will you be able to follow me?"

Naruto could only hesitantly nod before stepping forward only to flash forward in front of Sarutobi. Seeing this Sarutobi told Naruto to try to follow him as best as possible and silently thanking whatever gods were up in the sky that Jiraiya was in the village for his every six-month report.

Break

A few minutes had passed since Sarutobi and Naruto had reached his office. To Sarutobi those few minutes had been almost as nerve racking as facing a whole platoon of enemy ninja. Naruto who had at first tried to sit in a chair, found that to be a bad idea since in a few moments he was falling on the floor in a different location and no chair underneath him. Ever since then Sarutobi had to watch as his self-proclaimed grandson flash all throughout the room, getting more panicked as they waited for Jiraiya to arrive.

"Hey, Sensei what's with the sudden call back didn't we finish my report earlier."

A lazy looking Jiraiya opened the window behind the sitting Hokage. Jiraiya would have continued but was sidetracked when he finally noticed the spikes of chakra and a yellow flash. Taking a moment to process what he was seeing after which he fell through the window landing on his butt, mouth wide open.

"Sen-…Sensei what is going on here"

Stuttered a stunned Jiraiya as he still tried to process the sight of a disappearing and reappearing Naruto. Giving a large sigh Sarutobi waited for his student's brain to restart before saying,

"That is what I would like to find out, which is why you are here. I am in the dark as much as you are, earlier I was informed of a disappearing and reappearing child going through a public street. To my surprise I find Naruto here for all intents and purposes using Minato's own technique. Please tell me you can explain this or at least stop it before it hurts Naruto."

Naruto perked up at the mention of his idol and was shocked at hearing what was happening to him looked like the famous technique of the fourth Hokage. Jiraiya for his part finally got up and only nodded before stepping forward toward Naruto. Naruto not knowing the, to him, old man got a bit nervous which in turn caused him to flash around more erratically.

Jiraiya seeing this stepped back allowing Sarutobi to calm down the boy with his words, at the same time introducing Jiraiya and explaining what he was going to do. Hearing Sarutobi's introduction of the white-haired man, Naruto calmed down to occasional flashed again. Once he did calm down Jiraiya saw a big problem with his examining Naruto, he would not be able to do a proper examination with the kid flashing around as he was. Quickly thinking he figured that what Naruto was doing was in some way related to his own student's technique as such it relied on chakra use, which explained the brief pules of chakra.

"So all I have to do is lock his chakra for now. But not for long, god knows what it would do to his current problem and his tenant."

With the skill of a master Jiraiya quickly flashed out a piece of sealing paper and a brush. He then began to draw on the paper which caught the attention of Naruto. While occasionally flashing, Naruto could catch glimpses of what Jiraiya was drawing and what he saw confused him seeing as in his young mind all he saw was jumbled symbols and squiggles. Finishing up Jiraiya was quick to apply chakra and with unexpected speed appeared before Naruto, slapping the piece of paper on the kid's forehead.

"Hey you crazy old man wh-" Naruto was pulled from his shouting when he noticed that he was still in the same place. Everyone in the office waited with baited breath, and after a full minute both Sarutobi and Jiraiya let out a sigh, seeing that the seal had worked at least temporarily.

Naruto was about to jump in joy at his condition being cured but stopped when he felt his shirt being pulled up. Looking down quickly Naruto saw the same old man lifting it with a serious expression. Naruto wanted to scream, to shout at the old man for being a pervert of something of the sort but he noticed the pointed look from Sarutobi making his words get caught him his throat.

"Jiraiya, why are you looking at the seal first, what makes you think the problem is with it."

Jiraiya did not even look up but instead waved the hand that was holding Naruto's shirt, silently asking the kid to hold the shirt up, before he started to poke his stomach pushing chakra though his fingers and into Naruto. An intricate seal almost as big as Naruto's stomach appeared, though to Naruto it just looked like a mess of symbols.

"The reason, Sensei, is that as you know I had checked Naruto all over years ago and there were no additional seals. And as you can see this can only be the cause of a seal, which can only be here. Minato was skilled enough to hide something within this."

Jiraiya said professionally not taking his eyes of the seal, occasionally running his fingers across some of the symbols.

"Hey old man Hokage what's going on here… what's with all the ink on my stomach suddenly."

Sarutobi did not want to have this conversation but knew that Jiraiya was right, and if Minato had hidden a seal it could only be within the Hakke no Fūin Shiki. Even still things were going so fast that he had no idea how to explain this to a seven-year-old Naruto. He was saved when Jiraiya has spoken up again,

"Sensei, you might want to look at this…"

Sarutobi felt his heart drop thinking that something was wrong with the seal. Getting up he went to kneel next to Jiraiya and stare at the seal, only for his mouth to drop at what he saw.

The seal while entirely whole and looking as new as it looked the day it was placed, now had a few additions to it. Unlike the original seal an extra line of symbols encircling the entire seal which in contrast to the Hakke seal's black ink was a dull glowing yellow. Also in between each prong of the original seal dull yellow lines seemed to bleed down into the spiral of the original seal.

To add to the surprise Sarutobi with his limited knowledge of seals he was still able to recognize some strings of the encircling seal symbols.

The seals were the same Minato used for his Hiraishin no Jutsu.

And done, if chapter can be compared to a preview or just trying out the waters, seeing as it is not my usual 4k to 6k word chapters, but since I don't know what the usual for chapter length is I can't say if this was short of normal length. Either way this chapter is perfect for introducing what the story will be about. And I would like to see if any of you can guess what is Naruto's problem, or what the purpose of the added seals to his original seal are.

As usual don't forget to review, also if all of you can be so kind as read my other story The Real Me I would appreciate it. It also may make me go faster with chapter 8, wink wink nudge nudge.

Anyhow… till next time.