CHAPTER 1

Konohagakure no Sato the inheritor of the will of fire is considered one of the strongest villages of the big five.

Many powerful Shinobi were born in this village some of them died defending the safety of their village.

Senju Hashirama was and is still considered the strongest Shinobi to ever exist in the history of elemental nations. He spent his entire childhood during the Warring Clans Era. He witnessed his brother die by the hands of the Uchiha clan, an enemy to the Senju clan. Later he formed a pact with his best friend Uchiha Madara head of the Uchiha clan and founded Konohagakure no Sato, many aspiring clans also joined the village making the village stronger.

To lead a powerful village a powerful leader is needed, due to Hashirama's ability to control Mokuton and his happy and friendly demeanor he was elected as the Shodai Hokage of Konohagakure No Sato even the Uchiha clan supported the decision, but Madara feeling betrayed fled the village vowing to destroy the village and with his kin.

Years later he came to attack the village with the strongest Bijuu Kyuubi no Kitsune only to be stopped by Hashirama which resulted in a gruesome battle between them, with Hashirama having to kill Madara in the end to protect the village.

He was very much weakened due to the battle, so he passed the Hokage mantle to his younger brother Senju Tobirama making him the Nidaime Hokage.

Even if the younger brother did not have a special bloodline like his brother but still he was not weak. He was and still hailed as the most powerful Suiton user of all time feared by the name of 'Konoha no Suijin'. He was also hailed as the genius for the creation of many jutsu like Hiraishin no jutsu, Kage bunshin, Edo Tensei, and so on.

He created many facilities and infrastructure the ninja academy, the ANBU black ops, Uchiha police force to name a few. He was ambushed when he went to sign a treaty with Kumo and sacrificed himself to protect his students and appointed one of them Sarutobi Hiruzen as the Sandaime Hokage.

He did not have any flashy bloodline but his complete mastery and complete overall nature transformations also having unsurpassed knowledge of ninjutsu, knowing all techniques in Konoha save for clan techniques gained him the title 'The Professor'. He also shared the title 'Shinobi no Kami' with Hashirama, because in his prime he was strongest of all the Kages.

Sarutobi was also the Sensei of the 'Densetsu no Sannin', the three legendary ninjas, who were among the most powerful ninjas in the world.

Yondaime Hokage Namikaze Minato one of the war orphans of the second Shinobi war, whose origin was unknown and later became one of the strongest Shinobi and most beloved Hokage of Konoha. Because of his genius intellect, his exploitation in fuinjutsu was unparalleled, his perfection of Hiraishin no Jutsu gained him the name 'Konoha no Kiroi Senko'. He was also considered the fastest Shinobi to ever lived, which even surpassed Raikage's lightning armor. He single-handedly defeated thousand Iwa Shinobi by himself, in the battle of Kannabi Bridge, thereby ending the third great Shinobi war by himself. In the leaf, he was a hero who sacrificed his life to kill the Kyuubi no Yoko that attacked the village five years ago.

And here, 5 years later after the Kyuubi attack, is where our story truly begins with a small boy that despite being mistreated his whole life will rise to become the legend he was born to be.

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## KONOHA – 5 Years after Kyuubi attack October 10th##

It was a warm evening in the leaf village, the sun was just going down, the sky gaining an orange hue. Town lights were coming up and we could still see many people going around the village doing their business. Unlike many other villages, even though Konoha was the most powerful village in the elemental nations it didn't seem militaristic or cold. Many people if they saw Konoha would say that it wasn't a Shinobi village, however the mountain that surrounded the north part of the village was a dead giveaway. In it were carved faces of the most powerful Shinobi to ever live.

It was October 10th, the village was covered in decorations and celebrating the defeat to the Kyuubi that attacked 5 years ago. Everyone in the village was happy, it was times of peace. The wars were long forgotten, but not the hate and pain of many that were lost. Although everyone seemed happy one particular kid was sad and lonely.

Uzumaki Naruto was an orphan of the Kyuubi attack, he was about 120 centimeter (3'11) and had spiky blonde hair, azure blue eyes he had three whiskers marks, a birthmark. He was wearing a white shirt with a red swirl in his back and black pants.

Despite being what appeared to be a normal child Naruto was hated and despised by most of the village, he was a painful reminder of the Kyuubi attack.

The stores kicked him out or sold him rotten merchandise or charged thrice the prize.

Even in the orphanage, he was treated the same. Ever since he learned to walk on his own, the matron of the orphanage started treating him like trash. He once tried to play with the children of his age and even when he managed to talk to them, they sneered at him and told him, in no uncertain worlds, that a monster like him was not welcome in their group. After that he never tried to approach them, so he had all the time for himself.

By the age of four, he invested most of his free time in reading books that he stole uh borrowed from the orphanage library because the matron would always refuse and tell that demons don't need any kind of knowledge, she was also not going to teach Naruto how to read and write but a threat from Hokage made it clear either teach him or lose her head, so she begrudgingly had to teach him.

He was able to remember anything he read. Naruto loved to read books because they never refused him in short words books were his only best friend. Due to his ability to remember and recall anything he saw or heard he abused the ability shamelessly.

Having a photographic memory was awesome.

He read about everything related to being a ninja, walking on walls, and spitting fireball from the mouth seemed cool to him, for that he would secretly sneak out of the orphanage at midnight into the deep forest surrounding the orphanage to train.

He trained in every exercise he could think of. He trained in Kunai-justu and Shuriken-jutsu with weapons he found sneaking into practice grounds and collecting them.

By any means, he was no master in the skill, but through practice and many failures, he was able to throw all bullseye.

He usually stored his weapons which consisted of some Shuriken, Kunai, Fuma-Shuriken, and some used ninja wire in the seal drawn on his wrist. Why wrist, when reading some stolen/borrowed books he came across a book on basic sealing.

To his surprise, the art of sealing came very naturally to him. He started practicing calligraphy and making basic storage scrolls. Just in one month, he was on level one of sealing not that he knew. But to his disappointment, it was the only book available on seals.

After finishing his study on sealing he started to feel some weird things that made him able to detect and sense people and their emotions around him. It felt so weird to him so he decided to keep this a secret from everyone.

He found a very interesting fact about himself that he recovered quickly from the physical exhaustion and wear and tear on his muscles. He recalled the memory when he first discovered this ability, he was seating at the base of a tree in a park staring at the kids playing with a sad frown on his face. While playing some random kid kicked the ball too hard that it came towards the whiskered blonde, when Naruto picked the ball and tried to have some conversation with them and perhaps make some friends, much to his joy they agreed and played with him.

But this was not acceptable by their parents that the demon was trying to corrupt and hurt their children, they cornered him after some time and gave him a severe beating yelling and cursing him. After that day he never approached any kid fearing for another beating.

He even found an interesting storybook on someone named 'Tales of The Sage of six Paths', it interested him that the sage was the strongest man to ever live. But much to his disappointment, he was considered a myth. He didn't dwell any further.

On his third birthday, he meets an old man wearing a weird hat, later finding that he was the Hokage of the village, but Naruto being Naruto he was never the one to go with respectable names so he just called Hokage as Jiji or Ji-chan.

When Jiji took him outside on his fourth birthday, he gained two more people in the form of ramen stand owner Teuchi and his eleven years old daughter Ayame who truly cared for him and wondered if he was eating or sleeping well.

But it was not enough for him to forget the negative treatment and beating he received.

And today was different from other days, the reason he was just kicked out of the orphanage by the matron saying there was no place for demons in here. So collecting a few things he owned he started roaming on the streets not knowing what was waiting for him.

It was already dark when the matron kicked him out, not knowing where to go he decided to go to the Hokage monument and relax and enjoy his birthday alone.

The walk towards the Hokage monument was very quick due to his midnight training Naruto nearly knew all the roads of Konoha, so finding some shortcuts were very easy to him.

When arrived he gazed at the decorated sight of Konoha it truly was a sight for sore eyes, it was truly beautiful. He lay down at the top of Yondaime's head looking at the stars that illuminated the darkness of the sky. Just like the infinite number of stars, many questions that always haunted him question came rushing to him.

Why was he hated? Why everyone called him a demon why the matron always treated him worst on his, birthday nearly killing him?

Many questions were popping like popcorn in his mind, but decided to ignore it like always he knew these questions will always remain unanswered to him, asking his Jiji was also no help to him when asked he always avoided it.

He just laid there celebrating his birthday while the village celebrated the Kyuubi festival, the day the Yondaime defeated the Kyuubi.

An epiphany struck him like lightning, causing him to sit in rapt attention.

His mind gears were working hard to conjure up a solution for the new puzzle, then he remembered a recent memory when he was drawing the storage seals on his wrists a big spiral seal always appeared when he tried anything related to his training. From his knowledge on the seals he knew a seal is always present if something was sealed in it, but he ignored it that time considering it as nothing important.

And Yondaime was master in seals, he gulped fearing the conclusion 'What if Yondaime did not kill Kyuubi instead he sealed it away in something or ... someone, rather m...me.'

Then the puzzle became clear to him, people beating him ...calling him names.

The blonde was nearly having a panic attack but took a deep breath and calmed his nerves that were going haywire due to his nervousness.

He sat in a meditative posture and tried to breach his mental barriers and enter his subconscious part of his mind not that he knew what he was doing.

He sat there still not showing any movements even the c breeze that assaulted his face did not manage to get even a single twitch of

For full thirty minutes, he sat there when he felt a pull on his mind, knowing what it could be he did not resist the pull.

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Naruto opened his eyes to find himself in a dark corridor with small pathways and numerous pipes that ran above the ceiling, dimly lighted torches on the wall standing in ankle-length water what seemed like a sewer, Naruto narrowed his eyes in confusion 'Is this where Kyuubi lives'.

He looked at the three pipes above him from were three different types of water dripped light silver, red and black.

He closed his eyes as if finding something, a few seconds of concentration and he sensed many types of emotions from the three forms of liquids. The silver felt calm and soothing it was full of life, the black liquid radiated sadness hatred. Naruto shuddered at the feeling when he focused all his senses on the red liquid.

He suddenly froze as his all senses were going haywire it was telling him to turn back and run never to return here again. But he ignored the feeling.

The red liquid reeked maliciousness hatred at a much greater level than the black one. It was filled with an unending amount of hatred and madness.

Naruto opened his eyes and then he noticed that he was sweating bullets, he felt nervousness possess him like a ghost.

He forced his eyes open contemplating whether to continue on this path. But Uzumaki genes in him decided to take over, he steeled his resolve he was not afraid any Kyuubi.

Just as he finished his thought process the ankle-length water rippled and parted away giving him way as if impressed by his decision.

Naruto was dumbfounded at the sight in front of him. Not want to stop in the place he started to follow the red liquid-filled pipe.

The red pipe parted away from the other liquid-filled pipes into the direction of the darkened passageways, it was eerily quiet the only noise coming from the irritating drop of water from the pipe in the room. The water below him still parted away. With every step he took he could feel the malicious aura that he felt from the red liquid, increasing rapidly.

He kept walking for few minutes when he came across a giant metal gateway that looked like a cage door his eyes landed on a paper which said seal. Darkness permeated behind the cage like some sort of black hole, it stretched on for what blonde could only assume, was miles.

Naruto kept staring at the darkness of the cage waiting for something to happen or waiting for Kyuubi his eyes to open.

Based on what Naruto had read Kyuubi is considered a demon who destroys no matter what came in its path.

A mindless beast that loved chaos and destruction.

But Naruto had read these from the story that the matron used to read to some children like a bedtime story, he did not believe in the existence of 'The sage of six paths' so why should he believe this.

A growl sounded from the cage, sending a breath of hot air on Naruto's face.

He tried to remain calm trying to avoid the previous nervousness coming in full throttle and that feeling doubled when two large red orbs flew open from behind the gargantuan metal gates, making him stumble back in shock. He could see as something parted and sharp toothy objects seemed to grin at him menacingly. The blonde's eyes widen but he stood his ground. His eyes picked up an enormous silhouette descending toward him.

Every part of his body screamed for him to run but his five years old curiosity got the best of him.

The descending figure stopped moving and Naruto was greeted with the sight of two slit crimson red eyes which bored at him like a significant ant, making him freeze slightly before he was hit by an intense aura of malice that whatever monstrosity behind the gate radiated.

A large clawed hand slammed against the metal bars of the gate, the claws mere inches away from Naruto's chest as he stood there as stiff as rock. The claws slowly returned into the darkness of the cage.

Now Naruto had a good look at what was behind them. The Kyuubi had orange, silky looking fur, with black markings around his eyes connected to his rabbit like years. His upper body was humanoid along with his hands. The lower body lust like a fox, long swaying nine tails in the back, the tails itself represented fire.

"Finally my host graces me with his presence." The enormous construct huffed out as it stared dispassionately at its host with its red slit eyes. It moved its head closer to the bars, baring its terrifying fangs at the blonde trying to intimidate the blonde.

"So you are the Kyuubi no Yoko?" asked Naruto curiously forgetting his previous nervousness keeping a straight face while staring at the mighty beast in front of him.

Kyuubi raised a non-existent eyebrow in amusement and mentally praised the brat to stand in front of him without any fear. Many would die by heart attack by his mere presence. The brat sure had balls to confront him directly without fainting in fear or run away from him.

"Yes I am the greatest of all the Bijuu but that distasteful term is only a reference to my tails conjured by you foolish mortals." The humanoid-like fox bellowed loudly, glaring intensely at the blond. What if he praised him but it is not like he liked the puny the child.

"So what do you call yourself, and there are others like you." asked Naruto with hidden curiosity.

"It's not your place to ask foolish Ningen." boomed Kyuubi dropping the subject.

Naruto glared at the fox for calling him foolish. "Shut your ass up, you damn furball I am not here to exchange curses with you. I have some questions and I want them answered." said Naruto with conviction, his glaring increasing on the fox.

Kyuubi angered by blonde's words thrashed against the cage wanting to break the damn door and rip the blonde to shred but the seal did not budge the slightest, grunting in annoyance he laid back down while still maintaining eye contact with the puny blonde.

On the other hand, he was impressed at the boldness of the five years old, bold enough to talk to him without any fear. But he was still angered that a mere child demanded answers from him, if not for the damn seal he could have destroyed the blonde in front of him in mere seconds.

"What are you doing here brat? What exactly is it you seek? Is it my chakra? HAHA congratulations, the answer is no."

Naruto could not help but look at the fox with a deadpan expression for the blunt answer at his own self imposed question.
He shook his head and let his eyes flicker about as he took in the appearance of the place, "So what is this place?"

"Foolish brat, this waste of place is your mindscape or part of your consciousness. A manifestation as a result of the seal placed on you by the Yondaime Hokage when he sealed me into you." Kyuubi said in a calm tone.

Naruto looked surprised at the revelation, his expression turned into disgust but he smirked towards Kyuubi, "This is my mind, pretty good place to live. Don't you agree." said Naruto sarcastically. Kyuubi twitched at the sarcastic tone. "But sewer and what is this water." continued Naruto still maintaining his sarcastic tone.

Kyuubi was again surprised at the blonde. The brat had the galls to speak to him sarcastically. But he was not a thousand years old sentient being for a name only, he decided to play the same game with the brat.

"Do you see any washroom for me in the cage," asked Kyuubi getting a negative nod and confused gaze from the blonde. Kyuubi smirked, a smirk that put the blonde on the edge for some reason. "So you can guess what the water is." replied Kyuubi with his smirk widening.

Naruto was still confused at what Kyuubi was applying. He looked towards the water that happened to be still no longer parted away then at the Kyuubi who was smirking at him. He thought furiously for some conclusion, for what seemed like hours of thinking then he realized what Kyuubi actually meant.

He screamed in terror and started jumping trying to get rid of the water.

The fox could not control himself he laughed not a menacing laugh but a genuine one. Naruto hearing the fox laughing realized 'That damn fox duped me' He glared at the fox who was still laughing like hell. But seeing it was him that tried to mess with the fox in the first place, the fox lived up to his reputation as the master trickster. He too started laughing with the fox.

Kyuubi did not know from how long ago he had laughed so heartily, not ever since he peed in the pool where Hachibi was playing during their childhood.

He stopped laughing when he heard another laugh from the other occupant of the mindscape 'Oh I forgot he is also here.'

He looked at the blonde trying to figure him out. When the blonde confronted him he was nervous at most not even scared of the Bijuu.

"Hey, brat." called out the fox but did not get any response from the blonde who was still busy laughing, but Kyuubi never being one to have patience just released a small amount of his killing intent enough to make a Jounin shit his pant.

Naruto, however, who was inexperienced in experiencing killing intents. Therefore his reaction was entirely predictable to the fox. Naruto instantly froze in his place, all thoughts of laughing fleeing his mind as he registered the new feeling. He slowly turned towards Kyuubi who was looking at him in amusement.

"W-what was t-that?" asked Naruto in a shaking voice.

Kyuubi stared Naruto in the eye indicating he was serious all previous amusement lay forgotten, "That was killing intent, usually used to intimidate the opponent. A higher level of killing intent can make the other suffer illusions of death. I'm impressed though, that you managed to stay conscious." he said with a raised eyebrow.

Scowling a bit, he asked, "Is it the way to interrupt someone, you could have asked."

"Hmph, I don't care and I don't love the 'chitty-chatty conversations'. I am always straight to the point." stated the fox.

Naruto grumbled under his breath something about 'Smart-ass Bijuus with a stick up in their asses'. But Kyuubi's sensitive hearing picked the words very clearly. He let loose another wave of killing intent and smirked in satisfaction as Naruto froze ...again.

"So brat I am curious, why aren't you afraid of me?" he asked him.

The question snapped Naruto out of his frozen state. He became serious all of a sudden, Naruto opened his eyes and with all seriousness he exclaimed...

"I don't know?" he replied lamely.

Kyuubi could not help but sweatdrop at the lame reply.

"What do you want brat?" trying to change the topic.

"I am not going to ask why you attacked the village considering you will not answer the question." started Naruto getting another sweat drop from the fox "I want to know you."

Kyuubi became serious at the question and stared into the blonde's azure eyes as Naruto too stared into the red slit eyes of the fox. It was like they were intently watching each other's souls.

Whatever the case, Naruto then felt the same hatred, malice from the fox but Naruto felt something from the fox that made his eyes widen.

The loneliness he felt loneliness from the fox, he too faced loneliness each moment. They both were the same. They both were hated and considered demons. They knew the meaning of hatred.

Naruto understood the Bijuu now. He was misunderstood. He was lonely. And it was because humans feared his power, that they hated him, that they cannot control his power.

Kyuubi too felt the same thing from the blonde being hated without any reason left alone all the time. He gave a small smile and nod of his head, which was replicated by the blonde.

It is said that when two people can feel each other's emotions, they don't need words to express themselves. Because when you can feel each other at such an intimate level, you cannot help but trust them.

"Kurama."

"What?" asked Naruto startled.

"It's my name, Kurama."

"Giving it a fresh start eh Kyu...Kurama." said Naruto with a chuckle.

Kurama merely grunted in reply. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto it's nice to meet you Kurama." introduced Naruto giving a small bow of his head. He looked at Kurama as if expecting something.

"What, I am not doing this stupid thing, I already gave you my name." said Kurama with a twitching eyebrow. Damn the brat expecting formal greeting from him, he was the strongest Bijuu was Kami's sake, not some mere child dammit.

Kurama's reply had the effect of sending Naruto into a bout of depression, a cloud of rain appeared above Naruto's head.

"You could have denied simply, Kurama." said Naruto with lightning now cackling in the above rain cloud.

'Why all humans are a bunch of weirdo's' Kurama could not help but think with a sweat drop, 'Yeah definitely a bunch of weirdo's' he concluded as he watched the blondes hair actually start to get wet from all the depressing rain above him.

"So, What now Kurama?" Naruto asked in a curious tone all his previous depression lay forgotten.

Kurama gave a massive sweatdrop seeing the 360 of emotional change of the blonde.

"Nothing, now go away I want to take a nap, go shoo away." said Kurama impatiently.

"Geez, it looks like you are not only the manifestation of hatred but you also seems to be 'The manifestation of impatience', ne Kurama." said Naruto while laughing.

Kurama's eye twitched at the jab at his impatience, the brat was getting on his nerves.

The blonde controlled his laughing and asked a question that was bugging him. "Ne Kurama. How you came into existence."

Kurama was caught off guard by the sudden question, he was nervous and was contemplating whether to answer it or not but shrugged.

"You see we bijuu are a mere construct of chakra, we were created by a man, a man whose power far exceeded your imagination." exclaimed Kurama, pride evident in his voice.

"Who was he?" asked Naruto curiously.

"He was the first human to use chakra, he was like a father to us. He was known as the Sage of six paths."

AUTHORS NOTES::

So readers i am back with the modified and corrected version of chapter 1 and other chapters will be replaced in due time.

As you should have noticed i added some new things that totally fucked up my further chapters so instead of rewriting some chapters i am rewriting the whole story.

Suggestion and reviews are welcomed, have any doubts you can PM me.

So until next time Ja Ne.