KYUUBI'S APPRENT ICE

So I decided to rewrite the first chapter, and am thinking about rewriting a bunch of other chapters. Please let me know what you think, I really need to know.

'thinking'

"talking"

"kyuubi talking"

'Kyuubi thinking'

Dislaimer: I do not, and will never, own Naruto or the characters. My writing is entirely fan-based, and I do not make a profit from it and the characters and story line all belong to Kishimoto. I don't like doing the disclaimer on all chapters, so here it is.

Chapter one: A master picks his Apprentice.

It was night out, well, technically it was early morning. It was October 10, 2:13 A.M. In a small, dilapidated apartment in the village hidden in the leaves, in the corner of the one bedroom sat a child. Eleven year old Naruto Uzumaki sat in the corner, cautiously waiting for something, anything.

It had been this way for the past three days. Naruto would stay awake all night, and sleep in his classes at the academy. Why you ask? It was nearing his birthday over those past three days, well today was his birthday. Why would he stay up all night on his birthdays? One word: survival.

The villagers had always hated him.

He didn't know why, but they always avoided him like he had the plague, or like he was some kind of leper, or a mass-murderer. Some of them even went as far as attacking him or kicking him in some way or another. However, since he joined the academy and started getting better with his skills, thanks to him having to outrun anbu and other ninja because of his pranks, he could usually avoid them. However, he had once been attacked on his birthday by a chuunin. He had barely gotten away, if it hadn't have been for the Hokage being so near by, and Naruto running into him trying to escape, he couldn't think of what could've happened. He shivered.

Ever since that night two years ago he stayed up all through the night the two days before, the day of, and the two days after his birthday. He could sleep in the academy, he was still the dead-last so it didn't really matter to him, also he would be in the presence of all the kids and the two chuunin instructors, Iruka and Mizuki, so he could relax and sleep.

He looked at the clock and said, "seven-thirty. I guess I'd better go ahead to the academy, I'll get there a little earlier than usual." He stood, walked over to his door, opened it, stepped out, turned back and locked the door. On the door was painted a message, 'die demon-spawn'.

Such was the life of Naruto Uzumaki. Hated and outcast for some reason that he didn't even know. As far as he was concerned, they only hated him because he was an orphan.

So why did he want to be a ninja in the first place?

Well, self-defense, and acknowledgment. He had not parents. No mother and no father. He never got to come home to the loving embrace of a mother. The loving praise of a proud father, or a home-cooked meal that he ate with a family that he didn't have.

Yes, most the time he was depressed. He was never encouraged, never praised. Only abused. Only abused.

He pretended to always be happy. It was a mask that he wore to cover his pain. He figured that if he pretended to be stupid the villagers might just laugh at him, instead of beat him. He really didn't think he could become hokage, he only shouted it so people would think him stupid. He really didn't think he possessed the skills necessary, he was the dead last after all. But maybe he was the deadlast because he had no parents. No family. He had no encouragement from the family he didn't have, and had no help from parents who could show him the ninja way, like most of the other students had. He couldn't help but wander, 'if I had parents, would I still be the dead-last.'

He was wrapped up in his thoughts as he turned from his door and made his way down to the street below. Today he needed to take the long way to the Academy, so that he wouldn't have to go through the main district of the village, where he would more than likely have a couple of ninja or villagers try to beat him.

'Why? Why do they hate me? Why do they always try to hurt me?' he asked himself, "Why do they always beat me?' Then he got angry, 'I've never done anything to them. Ever since I was a child they have hated me. A FUCKING CHILD. How dare they? I will become Hokage so they will have to acknowledge me, acknowledge my existence.'

He made it to the academy, walked in to his seat, and fell asleep. Iruka just sighed, he knew what happened around this time of year, and why Naruto always slept in class around this time. He had confronted Naruto about one time. He would never forget the look in Naruto's eyes. The look, not of a child, but of someone who had already experienced far too much in his short child-hood. A short childhood because Naruto was forced to grow up faster than the normal child, save Sasuke Uchiha who had had his whole family taken form him by his brother.

Later that day the blonde woke up. He went home, the long way around again. 'It' settled. Before I was just saying that I wanted to be Hokage so that all the ninja and villagers would laugh at me and maybe leave me alone. Now, however, I really want to be Hokage. No, I need to be Hokage. I will grow, from this point on to become the greatest Hokage ever, I will master all areas of a ninja's life, I will become the one hokage better than even the fourth Hokage. I will surpass all before me, I will lead Konoha into an era of lasting peace, and through this I will gain the one thing I've always needed, but never had: a family.'

Naruto made it to his apartment, he unlocked his door and went in. He went into his tiny kitchen and opened his cabinet door. "damn, out of Ramen" he said, "I should go to the store." He walked over to his door, henged into a normal looking brown haired civilian, and walked out and left to the store. Little did he know this one time, would change his life for ever.

At the store Naruto walked in, getting a shopping cart on his way in. He walked to the isle where the cupped ramen was and walked down the isle, putting his arm in the shelf, knocking all the ramen into his shopping cart as he walked by. He then went and grabbed some new milk. He walked to the register, waited for the lady to ring his groceries up, paid for them, thanking the hokage for the orphan allowance, and was walking out of the store with his groceries when a ninja walked in, followed by a group of civilians. Naruto was instantly on alert.

As he walked by, the ninja, probably chuunin, noticed something. "huh, that feels like someone is in a henge nearby." He turned and looked at Naruto. He put up the hand sign and said "release" and to Naruto's horror his henge disappeared.

'Damn it! I knew it was a bad idea to go shopping today. Stupid stomach, always getting me in trouble!' he mentally berated himself.

"well well well, what do we have hear. The demon-brat." said the ninja, drawing the attention of the crowd and all the cashiers to him.

"demon, you know you're not supposed to be in here, we forbade you from coming in" shouted the store manager.

"Is that so," said the ninja, "I guess there is certain disciplinary measures to be taken" said the ninja as he drew a kunai. The crowd showed their approval.

Naruto gulped. He dropped all of his groceries and made a B-line for the exit. As he was passing through the door, he ducked just as the kunai whizzed over his head. He ran down a small alley next to the store. This would've usually worked to avoid regular civilians, as he was fast enough to get in the alley before they saw him. However, he was not so fortunate today because the chuunin he was running from happened to be a tracking specialist.

'Hey brat" said the Ninja from on the other side of the garbage can he was hiding behind. Naruto jumped back, avoiding a downward slash from the ninja's second kunai.

He turned and ran out the other side of the alley. As he exited the alley he noticed it was getting dark out. He turned to the direction of the only place that could help him. No he couldn't go home, he was trying to make it to the Hokage. The only place safe enough for him to go to right now.

Luck was not on Naruto's side this night. The chuunin proved why he had acquired the rank by appearing in front of Naruto and landing a solid punch to Naruto's jaw, shattering it.

Naruto was thrown backwards, all the way to the entrance of the alleyway from earlier. As he lay there, jaw and head throbbing, he looked up and noticed, 'man, the moon is beautiful tonight.' He turned his head to his right, hearing the scuffling of feet. What he saw horrified him. At least thirty villagers were pouring through the alleyway. Some had knives or broken beer bottles. However, each one reeked of alcohol. He could smell it from twenty feet away. The chuunig appeared next to him and put his foot on Naruto's chest. Naruto looked up and got a good look at the man. He was about six feet tall, had shoulder length brown hair and was decently muscular. His headband was on his upper arm, and he had a sword strapped to his back, which he was currently pulling out.

"tonight, is the night you die for what you did 11 years ago…demon" said the ninja. As he plunged the sword into Naruto's shoulder. Naruto didn't scream. He wouldn't give the ninja the luxury of hearing him in pain.

The crowd cheered as they came up and started to beat him as well. Twenty agonizing minutes later Naruto was a broken and bloody mess. The chuunin said, "STOP! That's enough." He walked over to Naruto.

'What now,' thought the blonde.

"IT'S TIME TO END THIS BASTARD'S LIFE" shouted the ninja as he plunged his sword into Naruto's right lung.

The crowd had shouted their approval, but when they stopped to see the state the child was in, they remembered the Hokage's law and quickly fled the scene. The chuunin snickered and kicked Naruto into the middle of the pitch-black alleyway. The chuunin then said, "I'm not just a tracking specialist, I'm also very adept at keeping from being tracked." he then proceeded to put a cover seal on the alleyway, effectively blanketing the alleway in a few layers of Genjutsu that even Kurenai would be proud of. Effectively hiding Naruto from even some of the most experienced ninja. "you will die demon" said the chuunin as he walked away.

Naruto knew nothing but the feel of agonizing pain. As the darkness began to close in on his vision, all he could think was, 'why.' and then there was nothing.

'Why? Why do I live like this? Why do I put up with this? Am I still alive? It matters not, I should just end it? Yeah that sounds good' he was telling himself in his mind.

He suddenly awoke inside a dark place. He couldn't see, but then the turned to where a ominous dark red or orange light was coming from. He could see, from the light, that he was in what appeared to be a sewer. He felt a tug. A pull. As if he needed to go closer to the light.

"I guess this is what they mean by seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, but man this tunnel sucks balls." he said as he moved towards the light.

As he got closer, he could feel the density of the air increase. It was hot, humid, and hard to breathe. It felt….evil. He walked through the doorway at the end of the long hallway and saw quite a sight to behold. In this gigantic room was two gigantic doors. Like the doors to a cage. On these doors, near the point where they locked together, was a piece of paper that simply read, 'seal'. That's when Naruto noticed what was in the cage.

Two eyes, bigger than Naruto's body, red as the darkest blood, were staring at him from inside the cage. Then the cage was lit more, and he stood in awe at the beast before him. It stood, and was at least 25 stories tall. It was massive. A fox, with….nine tails.

"HOLY FUCKING SHIT…THE NINE TAILS….I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEFEATED BY THE FOURTH HOKAGE" shouted the blonde.

At the mention of the fourth, the fox lunged at the bars, pushing his giant claws through the bars towards the blonde. "I will shred you to pieces if you mention that name again."

"Where am I and what the hell are you doing here", asked the blonde.

"We are inside a combination of your mind and the seal on your stomach, Naruto", said the fox.

"Wait, did you say the seal on my stomach. So that means that….." Naruto got horrified look on his face.

"Correct! I, the nine-tailed demon fox, Kyuubi, was not killed by that Fourth hokage of yours. No, he sealed me inside an infant that night. The night of October 10, eleven years ago. I am sealed inside of you Naruto." said Kyuubi.

"Really," said the blonde. "So that's why most of the villagers hate me and try to kill me."

"Yes. They do not realize that you are the only thing standing in the way of me killing them all. They see you as me, and not my jailor. But that is the reason that I pulled you here, for one, you almost died, taking me with you. So right now my chakra is healing you. Second, I am not going to go on like this." said the Kyuubi.

"what do you mean….wait, if I kill myself I can take you out of this world" said Naruto.

"no, I would simply disappear for 100 years, I would return. But I don't want to wait one hundred years because I was sealed inside some weak fool. It's time that I take you on as my personal apprentice. What say you?" said that fox.

"I say what do you want" asked the blonde.

"Could you make the cage a little bit bigger" asked Kyuubi.

"sure" said Naruto as he focused and the cage the kyuubi was in expanded 100 times and the inside transformed into a forest.

"All right brat, here's what we're going to do, you're going to go home and go to sleep, while in your sleep I'm going to plant some of my knowledge into you. This will, at first help you with history and some of the basic skills necessary to become a genin or chuunin. It will also serve to get your brain used to taking in the information at a faster pace" said the fox.

"all right" said Naruto.

"Get going" said the fox.

Naruto awoke with a deep inhale of breath.

He took off the shirt he was wearing and saw a scar on his chest, over the spot he had been stabbed. He noticed he was still in the alleyway near the grocery store. He got up and ran to the hokage's home. He was at the gate outside, furiously pressing the button to get the attention of the guards. One came on the radio, "what is it"

"I need to speak to the hokage, it is urgent" said the blonde.

"what is the purpose" said the guard.

"never mind that, I can't tell you" said the blonde.

There was silence.

Then the hokage came on the speaker, "yes, who is this"

"it is Naruto Uzumaki, and I have an emergency" said the blonde.

"Naruto.." the gate buzzed and Naruto went in the now unlocked gate, an anbu appeared, put a hand on Naruto's sholder, and they body-flickered into the house of the hokage.

Once inside, the blonde told the hokage of the beating he received, but didn't tell him of how he encountered the fox.

"All right, I'm going to place a seal on your apartment. It will be of top-notch ability and it will only be opened by your blood. So it will be more safe. Let's go" said the hokage.

Thirty minutes later the blonde crawled into bed, with his clothes still on, and fell asleep, not knowing how much knowledge the fox was going to give him.

Ok that's it for the chapter one re-write. Let me know if you like how I rewrote the first chapter please.