The Tempest

Naruto w/kick-ass ninja skills from the start. AU. This Chapter will tell you how this started. It will probably be long.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Uzumaki Naruto was seven years old. He had been having a bad day. He came home to find his apartment building burned down. He became very angry, and felt a surge of power. With all his might, he held it back.

"Seems like you need a place to stay..." a ninja said. "I'm Mizuki. I teach at the academy. You can stay with me, if you do me a favor. The Hokage is letting me borrow the Scroll of Seals. If you could go pick it up for me, I'll give you a hot meal and a place to stay until we can find you a new home."

"Ok, I'll go get it." Naruto replied.

He went into the Hokage's tower. He was surprised to find that no one was there. He searhed the rooms until he found a huge scroll. He strapped it to his back. It was quite heavy. He left the tower, and went to the place Mizuki told him to come to, a training ground outside the village.

"Give me the scroll."

"I don't know if this is yours..." Naruto said.

"Would you like to know why everyone hates you, why I had to burn your house down?"

"You burned my house down! You're a doodoo-head!" Naruto shouted.

"You're the vessel of the Nine-Tailed Fox. The Fourth didn't defeat it...no one could." He laughed.

Naruto became angry again, although he couldn't hold it back this time. His hair went wild, his nails grew, and the line-marks on his face became more prominent. His eyes became red, with slit pupils that could strike fear into even the bravest of hearts. Naruto rushed Mizuki, who drew a giant Shuriken. Naruto punched Mizuki hard, then picked him up and threw him very far, back into the village. He knew that he could not go back to the village, so he ran as far as he could, unknowingly running far Northwest. He ran for three days with his new energy fueling him. He eventually happened upon a house of stone, with steam rising from the chimney before collapsing. A tall man in red armor emerged from the hut.

"Hmm...this is no ordinary kid." the man said, taking him inside.

Naruto awoke, with three strange people look at him. One was an incredibly tall man, wearing red armor, wearing a forehead protector with rocks on it. The second man also had the rock-logo, although his was on a bizarre crown. He had red hair and a beard, and wore brown armor. The third was a weird, pretty girl with green hair and orange eyes. She was thin and fit, and her forehead protector was on her arm, and had something that looked like an arrow split in half. She was the first to speak.

"Han found you in the woods. Who are you?" She asked. "I'm Fu, by the way."

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, and I found out I'm the host for the Nine-Tailed Fox. I ran away because I hurt someone who burned my house down." He said.

"You can stay with us...we are hosts, too. I am the host for the Seven-Tailed Horned Beetle."

"I'm Roshi, and I'm the host of the Four-Tailed Monkey. The big guy is Han. He doesn't talk much, and he's the host of the Five-Tailed Dolphin Horse."

"Dolphin-Horse?" Naruto asked.

"It allows him to move at extreme speeds and use Boil Release." Roshi explained. "My tailed beast allows me to use Lava Release. Fu can use incredible Lightning Release. The beetle gives her incredible strength and she can fly if she uses it's power."

"You...can stay with us. We will train you...together..." Han said.

"Can I ever go back to Konoha?" Naruto asked.

"In time. You should wait a few years, at least."

A/N: I thought Kishimoto should've done more with these hosts, so I'm using them here. They teach Naruto how to use Water (from Han), Fire (From Han and Roshi), Earth (from Roshi), and Lightning (from Fu). He'll also know pretty much every jutsu in the Scroll of Seals.