The Gift.

Naruto walked over slowly to the hooded man in the alley, pondering whether or not he should trust the man from his dream.

'What could he possibly want, and better yet, why was he in my dream?'

The man smirked slightly.

"Naruto my boy, you have nothing to fear. If you are wondering as to why I was in your dream, then you will just have to be patient."

The blondes eyes widened as he heard the man speak. Could he really have read his mind?

"H-how? How is that possible?" Naruto stuttered out.

The man chuckled.

"Like I said Naruto, be patient."

The blonde nodded slowly as he approached the man in the alley. The man gave a sigh before taking off his hood. Naruto began to look the man over, inspecting his appearance.

He was extremely tall, just under seven feet. He had spiked silver hair, which was thrown around in all directions. His eyes were a light jade color, with a light sparkle to them. On his face was a scar that slashed over his right eye, from halfway up his forehead down onto his cheek. He looked to be in his late twenties.

"Ah, alright. Glad to have that thing off, you wouldn't believe how hot it was." He stated with a grin.

Naruto stood shocked at the man in front of him. He had expected an older looking man, not someone only double his age. The way he talked did not suit his age appearance.

"So then, I suppose your wondering why I've called you into this alley. Well first off, let's fix something quickly."

With that said the man grabbed Naruto, who was still in his shocked state, and launched upwards onto a nearby rooftop.

The man gave a deep inhale and the smiled at Naruto.

"See? This is much better isn't it? Alright Naruto, it's time to get to business."

Naruto nodded to the man.

"What do you want from me mister?"

"Well, let's establish our first order of business. Give me one moment."

The silver haired man began to search through his robes, before pulling a large scroll out, and holding it in his hands in front of Naruto.

A questioning look made its way up to Naruto's face.

"What is that? A scroll?"

"It's not just a scroll, it's your gift that I was talking about."

Naruto's face turned to a frown.

"I really don't like reading mister."

The man punched Naruto on the head.

"It's not a scroll for reading you fool! And I have a name! You can call me Mikoto, and as to the mention of the scroll, It's a sealing scroll, used for real world items."

The blonde began to rub his head and glared at the man standing on the rooftop with him.

"Well sorry then! So…mister Mikoto, what's in it?"

Mikoto grinned to the blonde.

"Here, take a look."

As he finished his sentence, the scroll disappeared in a cloud of smoke. As the smoke cleared, Naruto looked in Mikoto's hand to see the hilt of a sword sitting in the palm of his left hand, and a ring in his right.

The hilt was a jet black color, with strange markings etched all around it.

The ring was a solid gold, was similar to the hilt in that it had markings engraved around it. The stone in it was an aqua blue gem.

Naruto frowned as he looked into the man's hands.

"So, you want to give me the hilt of a sword…and a ring? That seems kind of lame."

A large vein popped out of Mikoto's forehead.

"You idiot! Don't you have any idea what these two items are?!"

Naruto sighed and shook his head.

"This hilt," He mentioned, while holding out his left hand, "is the Raijin no Ken. It's a legendary blade that the second hokage wielded when he-"

"THAT IS SO COOL!" Naruto had interrupted the silver haired man and had launched himself over to the hilt, grabbing it out of Mikoto's hand.

"Idiot…" Mikoto muttered. "Moving on, this blade is extremely powerful, I'm only giving you this item because I believe you can make a good use of it. I hope you won't disappoint me." He looked at Naruto with slight worry in his eyes.

Naruto nodded excitedly as he began to swing the hilt around, only to blink a few times and looked back to the jade eyed man.

"Is it broken or something?"

Mikoto shook his head.

'Such a naïve boy I have here.'

"No Naruto, it isn't broken. Here, let me see it."

Naruto walked back to Mikoto and gave the man the hilt.

Naruto watched as he lifted the hilt up in the air, and was shocked as a blade of pure electrical energy appeared out of the hilt, it was extremely bright, and the energy was so strong, it made a loud buzzing sound.

"That's so cool! How did you do it?!" The blonde asked, with his arms waving around.

Mikoto chuckled lightly.

"All you have to do, is channel a bit of your chakra into the hilt, and there you have it, you will be able to activate the energy kept dormant inside of the hilt. Here, give it a try."

He threw the hilt over to Naruto.

Naruto closed his eyes as he began to focus his chakra into the hilt, he continued to channel his chakra into the hilt. He opened his eyes as he saw a small blade of energy make its way out of the hilt, and make its way about one fourth of the way that Mikoto's had gotten to.

Naruto had an angry look on his face.

"What the heck?! Why is my blade so lame compared to the one you made?!"

Mikoto looked at the small electric blade and chuckled.

"Don't worry about it, you did a fine job. It would take years of training and practice to sharpen the blade enough as to where you could do damage in battle."

The man put a thoughtful look on his face.

"I'm sure if you put your time and attention into it, your blade would be even greater than the one I produced."

Naruto tilted his head to the side.

"Are you…going to give this to me?"

Mikoto got a slightly annoyed look on his face.

"Why would I show this to you, teach you how to wield it, and then not give it to you?"

Naruto put a large grin on his face, deactivated the blade, and jumped up to the man in an attempt to hug him.

"Thanks Mikoto! I'll have it mastered in a month!"

Mikoto chuckled at the blondes enthusiasm.

"I'd like to see that, and with your determination, I really don't doubt it."

He suddenly remembered the ring in his right hand.

"Oh, I forgot to give you this."

He dropped the ring into Naruto's hand.

"Oh! I forgot about the ring, what does it do?"

Mikoto stared at the ring in the blonde's hand.

"This…is the Umi Housho. This ring draws in all types of chakra, it draws in your own chakra, along with elemental chakra, and the natural chakra of the world. It continually draws in chakra from all sources, until you apply a reasonable amount of chakra directly into the finger that it's held on. Once you've gained a reasonable amount of experience with this, you should be able to fire chakra "bullets" out from the hand your ring is on."

Naruto's mouth was wide open by the end of Mikoto's explanation. The blonde had a sparkle in his eye as he inspected the small piece of jewelry in his hand.

"Amazing…" Was all he managed to stutter out.

He slipped it on as soon as he finished his sentence, and felt a slight pulse from his left hand.

"This is so cool Mikoto, thank you. But…can you tell me one thing though?"

Mikoto smiled and nodded.

"Why would you just give me this stuff?"

Mikoto gave a slight chuckle.

"Naruto, you have near limitless potential, I know that by giving you these items, it will help you to benefit the world. I've also given you the ring for another reason, but I know these items will be in good hands with you. Just promise me that you will train with these, I swear that if you do, you will become extremely powerful."

Naruto grinned at Mikoto's explanation.

"I don't know how to thank you mister Mikoto. I'll promise you that I'll train with these items daily, my blade will be stronger than yours in no time!"

Mikoto smiled.

"I hope so Naruto, I will come back and check on you in another time. Until then Naruto, goodbye, and good luck."

Naruto nodded to the stranger that had given him his most current valuable possessions.

In a flash of light, Mikoto was gone, leaving the blonde alone on the rooftop.

'What a day, who would have thought I'd get a chance like thi- OH SHIT! I'm still late to

class!'

Hey guys, I hope you all enjoyed the second chapter, I know it's a smaller than the first, but I decided that this was a good place to stop. Chapter 3 will be coming next week, I have the release set for Thursday once again. As for this chapter, the sword "Raijin no Ken" is actually a real sword from the Naruto universe. It made it's appearance in those infamous fillers (which I despise.), the ring however is an idea I have come up with, if you read the Naruto manga then you can realize how many different chakras Naruto has learned to use, His own, the Kyuubi, Elemental, and the Natural chakra he used in his sage training. So I won't get into all the little secrets of the "Umi Housho", it translates to Sea Gem (I believe), and it will probably have a few more added capabilities as the story goes on. I just want to thank all of my reviewers, you guys have been awesome. I'll see you all next week, and look forward to any comments you guys have.

Until next time