Here's the first chapter of the new Naruto fanfiction I made where Naruto was born with the ability to use Senjutsu chakra with some added twists to it, so enjoy the first two chapters!

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

-H.P. Lovecraft

Have you felt as though you were different from everyone else because you don't think the same things as they do? Or simply because of the way you look?

That's how Naruto felt since the very beginning. He could feel what everyone in the village thought of him if their glares and constant insults were an easy guess. He couldn't help that he was different from everyone else and in fact he was proud that he was different. The blonde wasn't thinking about the people of the village right now-no, right now he had a bigger problem, and the problem was the girl right in front of him. She had been crying her eyes out for what felt like hours without any signs of stopping and Naruto had no idea what to do, so he just stood there and let her cry. He was currently at the playground playing by himself again when he first spotted her. Looking around he noticed none of the adults were looking at her even when she started crying! At first she was trying to get people to pay attention to her but they ignored her as though she didn't even exist. After another attempt of her trying to get someone, anyone to look at her failed she started bawling her eyes out but even that didn't draw their attention to her. Not wanting to leave her alone he walked up to her allowing her to cry for a few more minutes before speaking finally.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

The girl's crying finally ceased and she looked at him with wide eyes, "You…you're able to see me…?"

Well…that wasn't what he was expecting her to say.

"Well yeah, of course I can see you! It's not like your invisible!" Naruto stated the obvious. If he could see her then why couldn't everybody else see her too?

She lowered her arms that were covering her eyes, "But I am to them," she motioned towards the villagers, "They won't even look at me, even ignoring me like I'm not even here."

He grabbed her hand, "Well I see you and I can hear you too, so don't cry anymore."

The girl smiled shyly, "Thank you, will you play with me?"

"Sure!"

The two children spent the rest of the day at the tossing the ball Naruto brought with him back and forth without a care in the world. If Naruto had to be honest with himself, this was the most fun he'd ever had with another kid. All the other kids avoided him probably because the adults told them too, but this girl didn't seem to care about that one bit and still played with him anyway. This was a happy day! They played until the sun started to set and soon the girl stopped passing the ball to him much to his confusion.

"What's wrong?" Naruto asked.

She smiled, "I really had fun playing with you, Naruto." The girl's body became transparent.

"Wait! What's wrong?!" Naruto yelled.

She shook her head, "Nothing's wrong, its just that…I've realized something."

"What's that?"

The smile never left her face as she spoke again, "I'm…dead."

He felt actually felt his heart stop when she said that with a smile on her face as if stating the very fact that she was dead didn't even bother her.

"Dead…?" he forced the out the words.

She nodded, "That's why everyone ignored me, but you didn't. I'm glad that you played with me today and I'm glad you see me as a friend even though I'm not alive, thank you." Her body started dissipating into a yellow light.

"Wait-!"

"Oh, don't worry! I won't be the last you'll see. Since you can see me that means you san see them too, but be careful because the bad ones might try to take you away and never give you back." And with that final message she disappeared leaving a heartbroken Naruto behind but he still took her words to heart.

He would be careful from now on and make sure the bad ones don't find him. It's a promise he'll keep to her.

Not long after he saw his first spirit he met another one in the form of an old man who wanted someone to talk to on the park bench. As usual, no one could see him but Naruto of course and not wanting to waste an opportunity to speak with another spirit he sat next to the old man and started talking to him making the elderly man smile. The old man's name was Hiroki and had once been a shinobi of Konoha during the Third Shinobi World War, of course Naruto didn't understand so Hiroki explained it to him. Konoha had been at war with Iwagakure no Sato and the man that ended the war preventing more lives from being sacrificed was Minato Namikaze-The Yondaime Hokage who gained the moniker Konoha no Kiiroi Senkō (Konoha's Yellow Flash). Naruto's small five-year-old mind didn't understand what the word "sacrifice" meant but he wanted to ask anyway.

"Hey, Hiroki-jiji what does sacrifice mean?" he asked with such innocence.

Hiroki contemplated his answer carefully before responding to the innocent child, "The word sacrifice has many different meanings, some of them not very good but that is the world you live in. I'll give you an example; Minato Namikaze ended the war by sacrificing the lives of the Iwa shinobi so the war would end. Do you understand?"

Naruto looked down, "The Yondaime…killed people…?"

"Yes, it may be hard for you to understand because you're still just a child but there are things in this world that you will be forced to do, with killing being the prime example. You may be forced to take a life should you choose to be a shinobi in the near future," Hiroki explained, "Do you want to be a shinobi?"

Naruto hadn't really thought about it before actually. All the shinobi here would give him mean looks just like the civilians, even call him mean names. After seeing how they act he wasn't so sure he wanted to be a shinobi.

"I don't know…they're all so mean to me." The blonde mumbled sadly.

Hiroki rubbed the boys head tenderly, "Don't let those blind fools sway your decision in whether you wish to be a shinobi or not."

Naruto gave the man a grin, "Thanks, Hiroki-jiji!"

"You're welcome," Hiroki stood up, "I better get going now."

The blonde was sad the man had to leave but smiled anyway, "See ya, Hiroki-jiji!"

"You as well my boy, oh before I forget there's a shrine located on the outskirts of Konoha. Go there and you'll find something interesting." With those final words Hiroki left the blonde alone.

The boy was confused as to why the old man told him what he did but didn't question it as he started walking out of the park, heading towards the outskirts of Konoha to go find that interesting thing Hiroki-jiji told him about. Hopefully Jiji won't be too mad at him for wandering out, but he really wanted to see what was out there.

Naruto had finally arrived along the outskirts of the village looking around for that interesting thing the old man told him about. Luckily it was still light outside so he was able to see his surroundings. Now that he was alone spending time away from those in the village he was able to hear the various sounds around him mostly from the animals that were around, and as strange as it sounds he could feel the plant life around him too. It was really weird. Lost in thought he didn't see a rock that was in front of him causing him to trip and fall but he managed to land on his hands. As soon as he landed on both hands cracks appeared in the ground as two hand print dents appeared right below the palm of his hands. The blonde sweat-dropped, 'I did it again…'

Oh, did he forget to mention that he had awakened some kind of super strength? He did? Well, he's going to explain that now. Back when he was still living at the orphanage and was playing outside by himself again he had accidently used his super strength to help get a little kitten down from a tree. Honestly he was only thinking about it and thought that even if he followed this thought of his that it wouldn't even work. So…when he actually managed to push the tree back with enough strength to bend it over with everyone in the orphanage seeing him do it, well lets just say he was taken by surprise. Needless to say the little kitten got down from the tree and ran off leaving the blonde to stare at his hands in total confusion, wondering how in the hell was he able to do what he did. Of course the Sandaime was called and the head mother there was ranting her head off, but for some reason the other kids seemed to like what he did and kept asking how was it he was able to do move the tree. Truth be told he had no freaking idea, no idea at all. The Sandaime didn't believe her when she claimed Naruto moved the tree, bending it backwards with his bare hands given her history of hating and disliking the boy, so the old man took him away from the orphanage and gave him his own apartment. It wasn't perfect but it was something. The blonde hadn't noticed any change in the people's behavior towards him because he was too busy talking to spirits and having fun, dead or not they had some really good stories.

With a sigh he stood up and continued walking like normal before he came to a stop looking up a run down place. Was this the interesting thing the old man was talking about? It didn't look very interesting. Shrugging his shoulders he walked inside the run down looking place and started looking around, but stopped when he spotted some cool looking masks.

"Wow…" he approached the masks but was too small to grab and reach for them much to his dismay, why did he have to be so short?

"My, my, are you trying to get those masks little sage?"

Naruto spun around so fast he fell on his bottom, "Ow!" opening his eyes he saw a man with long red hair that was in a low ponytail, green eyes that reminded Naruto of a pretty green jewel. The man was sporting a long black robed shirt and black pants with black boots. Another thing Naruto noticed was the man genuine kind smile and his eyes didn't look at him with hate either. Scampering to his feet quickly he eyed the man warily, "Who are you?"

"Very good question," the man smiled, "But first you must tell me what your name is."

Naruto still looked skeptical of the man but he seemed to be a nice person and hasn't tried to do anything to him so he guessed it was okay to tell the man his name, "Naruto Uzumaki…"

The man beamed, "I see! Such a strong and unique name! Do you know the meaning of your first name?

Naruto shook his head.

"It means 'whirlpool.' You're truly a blessed a child." The man said.

Naruto didn't know what that word mean but there was something else he wanted to know, "Hey, you didn't tell me your name yet!"

"How true I haven't told you my name yet now have I? My name is…a secret!" the man grinned.

Naruto pouted, "No fair!"

"In this world you will learn very quickly that life is unfair. Now then, where did you hear about the location of these masks?" the man asked nicely.

"Oh, Hiroki-jiji told me!"

"Hiroki-jiji?"

The blonde was going to tell him about the old man but decided against it because the man in front of him wouldn't believe him anyway, so he lied.

"He's an old man I met at the park." Naruto lied.

The mysterious man stared into the blonde's blue eyes making the boy uncomfortable, 'D-Does he know I lied?'

A smile graced the man's lips, "I see, what a nice old man."

Naruto sighed with relief, "Yeah, he really is a nice old man."

The man walked over by the boy passing him as he approached the masks reaching out and grabbing one off the wall, "Its ironic. An unknown old man told you to come here of all places, I wonder if he knew?"

Naruto blinked, "What are you talking about?"

"Your last name is Uzumaki, right?"

"Mm."

"Then that's why you were able to enter here," the man said cryptically, "You see only an Uzumaki can enter this temple because there's a seal on the outside of these walls. This place may run down but the seals still work, do you understand what I'm saying?"

Naruto had absolutely no clue what the man was talking about at all and it showed on his face making the man chuckle, "In other words…you my boy are part of the Uzumaki clan."

"Uzumaki clan? I…have a family?" Naruto didn't know what to feel right now. He's part of a clan? Why didn't the old man tell him?

"I see you haven't been told, quite an awful thing to do in my opinion but don't worry because I'm going to tell you everything." The man said bringing his arm up and touching his wrist. Seals appeared on his wrist before a bright blue light began to shine brightly blinding Naruto who was forced to close his eyes, opening them again he noticed all the masks were gone.

"Their gone?" Naruto said.

"Don't worry, I have them stored in the seal that's on my wrist so its okay. Now then let us go." The man began walking away, "Oh, and from now on you may call me…Sage."

"Sage…" Naruto said following behind the man sensing no danger from him.

Sage and Naruto walked out of the temple and out into the forest, once they were back outside the blonde noticed something odd. The trees looked like they were swirling around making feel unnerved a little bit as he moved closer to Sage, "What's going on?"

Sage rubbed his head with a smile, "Its okay, we're just going to go over to the other side for a little while so we can talk in private."

"The other side?"

"Mm, to their world." He picked up the startled little boy moving towards the distortion with a curious yet scare Naruto in his arms. The blonde closed his eyes as soon as they went through the distortion, "You can open your eyes now."

Naruto slowly opened his eyes and saw something amazing! He wasn't in Konoha anymore he was instead in a new world where everything was so colorful. The trees here looked greener, the sky bluer and there weren't any people around but strange looking creatures, some were tall, some were short, and some looked human but either had horns, horse legs and other features. What an amazing place!

Sage smiled seeing the smile plastered on the boy's face, "I take it you like what you see?"

"Awesome! Where are we?" Naruto exclaimed looking around with a childlike wonder and innocence.

Sage chuckled, "This place has been given many names over the years from those who were able to come here and see it for themselves, but you may call it "Makai (World of Spirits)."

"Makai…" Naruto stared out into the new world.

"There are many mysteries in this world little sage, nothing is as it seems on the surface. You need to look beyond the surface to actually see what is there otherwise you will remain blind to everything else." Sēji explained.

Naruto didn't understand what he was saying but nodded his head anyway, "Okay."

"Oh my, what cute little boy you've brought with you this time." A feminine voice spoke up.

Naruto tore his gaze away from Sage to see a woman with long black hair, purple eyes, wearing a long white dress, sporting two black horns on her head.

"Pretty…" the blonde said.

The woman giggled, "Such a sweetheart you are, little one."

Sage snorted, "Naruto, this is an old friend of mine, Ariel."

"Nice to meet you, Naruto-kun." Ariel smiled.

"Nice to meet you." Naruto mumbled shyly. He turned his attention elsewhere when he spotted a white deer walking right towards them with the tallest white antlers he'd ever seen.

Ariel smiled seeing the deer approach, "Oh my, did you come to meet the little one too, Eden?"

Eden kept his eyes on the boy, "Indeed, I must admit that my reasons for revealing myself is based on my own curiosity. This is the first time a child has entered our world."

"Now that you mention it that is true isn't it?" Ariel had a sudden realization. While true humans have accidently come here before but they were older, this was the first time a child was able to enter.

Eden approached the boy that was still being held by Sage looking right into the child eyes, as for Naruto he couldn't bring himself to look away from the deer like creature and instead kept his gaze on it. With a hum as though it was satisfied with something he looked over at Sage, "Sage-dono, I wish to speak with the child alone if you don't mind?"

Sage didn't look surprised and instead smiled, "Very well, but don't take too long because me and Naruto have many things to discuss." He placed the boy on the deer's back.

"I understand, let us go then, Naruto-dono." Eden took a curious Naruto away to speak privately leaving the other two behind.

Ariel gave the man a knowing smile, "Aren't you sneaky."

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Sage feigned ignorance.

"You can't fool me my friend," Ariel stated, "That boy's aura screams of the newborn sage, not to mention he's able to see and communicate with those that are no longer living within this world, not to mention he was able to see the gate to our world and enter. Even if you were here with him he could have still been rejected by our world's purity."

He chuckled, "You're right, I really can't fool you can I?"

She didn't share in his laughter instead her face expressed seriousness; "I felt it as soon as the two of you came here. Would you kindly explain to me how its possible this boy has awakened to Senjutsu?"

"I can't say, though there is a clan that can absorb the natural energy around them though Naruto's case is completely different. I suspect he may have always been able to use Senjutsu, probably since birth." The man theorized.

"Since birth…as usual humans can be very fascinating in many ways." She said., "Do you plan on teaching him how to control his now awakened abilities?"

"That's the plan and the main reason why I brought him here among other things…" he trailed off.

"Is that boy n Uzumaki by any chance?" Ariel wondered.

"He is."

"Ah, so you're just looking out for him then."

"I am. I do not trust Konoha."

"What a coincidence, neither do I."

Curious eyes wandered just about everywhere as he rode on the back of Eden. Since coming here he felt at ease with his surroundings that he had the urge to stay here but knew he couldn't because the old man would worry about him.

"You appear to like it here in our world." Eden spoke.

"Yeah! Everything's soo amazing!" Naruto told the deer.

"I'm sure they will be happy to hear that, especially coming from a child like you." The white deer expressed honestly.

"What does that mean?"

"Many people have come here in the past simply by accident, never purposefully. You are also the first human child to have ever come here before." He revealed.

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Oh…hey, you said 'human' just now didn't you?" Naruto said carefully.

"Indeed I did, do you believe yourself not to be human?"

Naruto rested his whole body down on the deer remembering the mean name people kept calling him, 'demon brat.' The first time he was called that he cried silently in his room, hearing someone call you such a mean word really hurts.

"Do not despair child for I assure you that you are very much human," Eden assured the boy, "Humans are known to be cruel creatures but they also have love in them as well. You have someone who loves you correct?"

Naruto rubbed his cheek against the soft fur, "Mm…Hokage-jiji."

"Ah, I see. Such a happy memory you have stored within you."

"You can see my memories?"

"Our kind has the ability to see into the memories of others, I feel both painful and happy memories stores within you. You are a strong child, never forget that."

'I'm…strong?'

"Hey, hey, grandpa can we play with the human?"

"Can we?! Can we?!"

Looking down the blonde saw three little deer's looking right at him with eager looks on their faces, in Naruto's opinion anyway.

Naruto got down from the deer and smiled, "I'll play!"

"Yay!" the three little deer's chorused as they led Naruto somewhere to go play with them leaving Eden to watch them like a grandfather would when watching his grandchildren.

"Did you say what you had to say to him?" Sēji questioned having appeared next to the white deer.

"Yes, you are fortunate to have found the child when you did." Eden told him.

"I know."

"Soo cute~!" Ariel gushed.

"Please refrain from looking as though you wish to eat them, it look unpleasant." Eden deadpanned.

"Mou, I'm giving them any sort of look." Ariel protested.

"So you say, honestly you young people these days…"

"Jealous because I'm younger than you, old man?" Ariel teased.

"Hardly."

Sage chuckled, "As amusing as this is I'm afraid I must cut this short as I really need to speak with Naruto about the reason I brought him here in the first place."

"Go ahead." Ariel encouraged.

"Naruto!" Sage called out to the boy who stopped playing with the little deer's and went over to him with a questioning look.

"What is it?"

"Its time for that talk I promised you, have a seat."

The blonde sat down on the grass looking up at the man with an expected look wanting to know what this talk will entail. The man sat before the little boy with a serious expression, "Naruto, do you want to know why people say such mean things about you and give you mean looks?"

Naruto nodded his head slowly.

"The reason they say such mean things to you is because you have the Kyūbi sealed inside you."

Time seemed to stop once the words left the man's mouth. Naruto sat completely still muttering only one word, "What…?"

The red head continued, "The Sandaime revealed you to be the Jinchūriki of the Kyūbi to the general public right after so many had been killed. Ironically the person who sealed the Kyūbi within you was the Yondaime Minato Namikaze."

The boy's eyes grew wide with that reveal, so the Yondaime was the reason people kept giving him mean looks and saying things behind his back or to his face. It was his fault!

"That is not all I'm afraid," Sage continued, "You see the man was actually your father and your mother's names was Kushina Uzumaki who was the previous host of the Kyūbi. Not only that but she was from the Uzumaki clan that had their very own village called Uzushiogakure no Sato. They along with Konoha were allies, the symbol for that is the red swirls on the back of those green jackets the Jounin and Chunin wear. Its ironic when you think about it, they wear it so proudly not even realizing you are a member of the Uzumaki clan."

Naruto's heart was beating faster than normal when more revelations just kept on coming. This was too much all too much.

"When the Sandaime revealed your Jinchūriki status he did so because the Yondaime asked him to wanting you to be seen as a hero, but that plan had many flaws as you can plainly see. Those who have a Bijū sealed within them are loathed and hated because of it, but that's not all. The villages seal the Bijū inside of people to use them as weapons." Sage kept revealing more information.

"Wait…hero…weapon…Jiji…he knew…?" Naruto forced the words out of his mouth.

"Yes…"

"He knew…but, h-he said he didn't know who they were…I asked him…and he said he didn't have anything about them…he knew why everyone…he knew…he knew…he lied…lied…lied…lied…lied…lied…" the blonde mumbled feeling some strange power begin to stir within him.

"Naruto-" Sage tried to calm the boy down but it was too late.

"HE LIED!" Naruto roared as a foreign power covered his entire form as he screamed his heart out to anyone that would be able to hear it. The force of the power was so great it sent Eden, Ariel, and the three little deer's away from him but not Sage.

The red head approached the heartbroken blonde and slowly wrapped his arms around the child, "Its okay to let out all of those emotions Naruto, let it all out, cry, wail, let out what you're feeling. I'm right here." He gripped the boy closer to him.

Naruto kept wailing but the foreign power he was emitting was slowly dissipating leaving just the crying blonde child in the red heads comforting embrace. The blonde held the man close to him not wanting to escape the hug just yet, he was too busy wailing out his very soul to notice Ariel, Eden and the little deer's approach the two giving their own forms of comfort. Hearing the blonde let out such a wail was just too heartbreaking not to give comfort to.

Ariel weaved her fingers through the blonde's hair as his head was in her lap, his eyes were open but if you look closer you could see something in his eyes had changed. Having found out the reason for your suffering was your own father and being lied to about your origins would make anyone feel betrayed and lose their trust and faith people. There's no telling what his future may hold now.

"Naruto."

Said blonde moved his eyes upward seeing the red head appear before him with a worried look, "How are you feeling?"

Naruto slowly sat up looking completely drained which was to be expected since the poor boy had practically screamed out his very soul that was felt all round their world, "I'm fine…" he mumbled.

Sage brought the boy in for another hug making the boy give out a content sigh at the warm feeling. Snuggling into the man's chest he spoke again, "Why did he lie to me?"

"While I'm sure he had his reasons that doesn't make it all right to lie to a child, especially if they want to know about their parents having become orphaned." Sage expressed.

"I would have kept it a secret! I wouldn't have told anyone! And why didn't he tell me I had a clan?!" Naruto demanded.

"I'm not sure why Naruto, but in my opinion I believe he did it to keep you safe from Iwagakure no Sato." He said.

"Hiroki-jiji told me about how he sacrificed them during the war." Naruto recalled conversation the conversation he had with the old man.

"Minato Namikaze took the lives of many Iwa ninja in order to stop the war from continuing so it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they tried sneaking into the village to try and kill you as some sort of revenge against him." Sage explained.

Naruto gripped the man's robes, "But still…"

"I know, but the real question is what will you do right now?" the man wondered.

Reluctantly Naruto removed himself from the man's comforting embrace to give him an answer, "Sage-oji-san?"

Ariel hid her snicker from behind her hand and Eden huffed in amusement as the man was called "uncle."

"Yes?" he responded not at all bothered.

"Will you…will you train me?" Naruto asked.

"Of course! I was originally going to ask you anyway." Sage grinned as the blonde shot towards him embracing him in another hug, "We'll start first thing tomorrow morning."

Naruto nodded having no complaints.

Naruto walked out of the distortion along with Sage, the blonde noticed no time had passed since he went over to the other side because the sun was still out.

"Time here and in their world flows much differently than it does here, remember we left in the early morning and now it's the afternoon." The man said.

"Oh…I want to move somewhere else." Naruto said suddenly.

"Move somewhere else?"

"The old man got me my own place but I don't want to live there anymore, it's too small." Naruto explained.

"Hmmm…I think we can set you somewhere tomorrow, do you want to keep living inside the village?" Sage asked.

"No, I want to live out in the forest so I can be closer to my friends." The blonde said.

"Understood. I'll see if I can get Ariel, Eden, and some others to help create you a place that suits your tastes." He smiled.

"Thanks."

"You're welcome, now then let's get you something to eat." He grabbed the boy's hand as they walked hand to hand back towards the village.

"Hey, I can walk the rest of the way back on my own. I don't want anyone to take you away from me." Naruto expressed.

The older man chuckled, "Why of course."

A mysterious man with a boy who sees what other's cannot.

It has begun.

Next Time: Yōkai