A Warrior, An archer and a Fox: Rewritten

"Regular speech"

'Regular thought'

"Demon/ Summons/ Inner Speaking"

'Demon/Summons thinking'

A/N: It's back sucka! Here's the rewrite folks and folkettes, with your favorite characters still in play! Don't worry, I'm just writing this to make it more… believable? Yeah that's the word! Anyway, have fun reading!

Thunder boomed and lightning flashed across the sky while rain drenched all those under the black clouds of this midnight storm. A village happened to be under these clouds, and this was a very well known village. The village's name was Konoha or the village hidden in the leaves and it was home to the shinobi and kunoichi of Hi no Kuni, otherwise known as the Land of Fire.

While the village was quite large and filled to the brim with powerful shinobi, the people of this village had been crippled, crippled quite severely actually. You see, not more than five years ago a force of such incredible power that it was classified as a natural disaster attacked this village.

A creature known as a bijuu attacked it, or tailed beast, and this bijuu happened to be the strongest out of the nine that inhabited this world.

The Kyuubi no Yoko, the nine tailed demon fox. It's power is said to be able to crush mountains and create tsunamis all with a single swipe of one of it's nine large tails. A creature composed of living chakra, malevolence and bloodlust; the Kyuubi destroyed a good portion of Konoha and killed a great number of both civilians and ninja before salvation finally arrived.

Standing atop a toad of monstrous size, a blonde haired man in a white coat with flame designs along the bottom of it stood firm and tall. He was known as the Yondaime Hokage.

Using a jutsu that summoned the death god himself, the fourth fire shadow was able to defeat the demon fox, but it came at a heavy price. He lost his life using the jutsu, forcing the third hokage out of retirement to once again take up the mantle. Today, people tell the story of how the Yondaime killed the beast but that is a lie.

A bijuu cannot be killed. They can only be sealed within either objects or a person. Unfortunately, there is no container powerful enough to hold a creature such as the Kyuubi no Yoko, so it had to be sealed inside of a person. However it could not be any person, it had to be a baby just recently born. As fate would have it, a babe had been born that day. A boy named Naruto to be exact.

Naruto Uzumaki was used to seal the demon away and he has suffered because of it. Ever since the Sandaime revealed that the great fox was sealed, the child has known little else outside of solitude, hatred, and abuse. Because of this, the third Hokage made it law that none of the younger generation were to learn the truth of what happened that night on the tenth of October. Those who broke the law were executed. Alas, the children still learned to be wary and ostracize the young Uzumaki, just because the adults held him in such disdain.

Today, on this stormy night, we find a five-year-old Naruto Uzumaki sitting on the porch of the local orphanage, a sour look on his face as he waits for someone to come open the door and let him in.

"Stupid old lady and here stupid rules," muttered the blonde spiky haired boy. Turning his head slightly, the boy glared holes into the door, wishing that somehow his blue eyed gaze would cause the door to explode or something. Growling the boy got up and decided that he had waited long enough. Being too small to reach the doorknob, he settled for the next best thing.

"OI! Someone open up this god damned door already!" shouted the young voice of Naruto as his tanned fist smashed against the door. For awhile, that's all he did, yelling for someone to open the door and smashing his tiny fist against the door. Of course, no one heard him what with the thunder and rain and anyone who did hear just didn't care. This wasn't the first time Naruto was locked out of the orphanage, not by a long shot.

"Alright! Alright! I'll open the damn door just stop already!" yelled a voice. Naruto stopped pounding his fist on the door in surprise. Someone was actually going to open the door?

He waited and with a click he heard the door being unlocked, which was followed by the slow creak of it swinging open. Mumbling curses under his breath, a five year old boy walked outside, one hand rubbing at his eye while the other hung at his side.

Naruto stared at the boy in front of him, confused as to who this person was. While Naruto may not be the smartest, he never forgot a face and this kid was new. He had brown hair and a lightly tanned complexion along with red eyes. Naruto blinked at that. Red eyes? Sure he'd seen bloodshot eyes but eyes with a naturally red iris?

"Well, you gonna come in or should I shut the door?" asked the boy gruffly, obviously annoyed at being roused from his sleep. All the kid seemed to be wearing was an oversized black T-shirt and some loose grey shorts. Not unlike what Naruto was wearing, but he had a white shirt with an orange Konoha symbol on the front, olive green shorts and some ragged sandals.

Snorting, Naruto walked into the building, stood to the side and gave the other boy a look that said "Happy?"

The brown haired boy just snorted and slammed the door closed, uncaring that it was practically midnight. For a while the two stared at each other before the red eyed boy asked, "So any particular reason you were standing out in the storm like a moron?"

"I'm not a moron you red eyed jerk!" Naruto shot back at his fellow orphan. "Besides, not my fault the old hag keeps locking me out," he growled.

The red eyed boy cocked an eyebrow and smirked slightly at that, "Sounds to me that you wouldn't get locked out if you weren't such a brat," he jeered.

Naruto glared at the other boy, "At least I don't go around being an ass to everyone!" he shot back.

"What did you call me? You trying to start something runt?" snarled the red haired kid.

"You heard me, you ugly ape!" Naruto said, getting on his tiptoes to get in the other child's face.

"I didn't quite hear that pipsqueak, how about you get a step ladder and say it to my face!" red eyes snarled, his face mere centimeters from Naruto's own.

"I am saying it to your face you moron! Are you deaf or just too stupid to understand?" Naruto barked.

"Midget!"

"Idiot!"

"Piss haired gnome!"

"Slack jawed bastard!"

Before the two could bicker anymore, a force suddenly slammed their heads into each other, causing both boys to cry out in pain and fall to the floor clutching their throbbing noggins.

"Both of you shut up, it's late and people are trying to sleep," said a calm male voice. Looking up, Naruto beheld an almost exact duplicate of the red haired boy except this boy had grey eyes.

"It wasn't my fault! This idiot got locked out and when I open the door he starts shooting his mouth off at me!" the red-eyed boy stated while pointing a finger at Naruto. Before Naruto could protest, the grey haired boy sighed and flicked his clone's nose.

"Doesn't matter Doku," responded the boy, "It's late and I'd rather not get in trouble with the matron because of you're bickering," he said while helping the newly named Doku off the floor. After pulling him up, the grey haired boy turned to Naruto and said, "My name is Yoku Tsuuro and this is my twin brother Doku," stated Yoku while gesturing to his brother who just gave a grunt of acknowledgement. "Whats your name?"

Naruto stared at the grey eyed boy, then smirked before saying, "My name is Naruto Uzumaki, dattebayo!"

Yoku smiled lightly at that before he heard the stomping of feet coming in their direction. "Who is making all that racket?" said a nasally and nasty voice. All three boys' eyes widened at that, but before they could run, the person had already stomped down the stairs and was now glaring at the three boys.

"Holy shit! Monster!" screamed Doku in fear, a finger pointing at the woman in front of him. Of course he didn't know that due to the lady having a strange white mask covering her face that seemed to be made out of some kind of cream or mud. While this is scary, if you add the dozen curlers in her grey streaked brown hair, her sharp hooked nose and beady black eyes plus she was wearing nothing but a brown wool bathrobe… you had a pretty terrifying visage.

She glared at the trio and through her sleepy eyes was able to pick out the three whisker marks on each cheek of the blonde blobs face. She narrowed them, "Who let that back in here she demanded?"

Doku frowned at that. "What do you mean that?" he asked confused, completely oblivious to the way Naruto bowed his head and clenched his fists. His brother on the other hand, did see it.

"I mean who let that piece of filth back in here? The creature knows that it's either here before sunset or it sleeps outside!" the matron snarled while pointing a crooked finger at Naruto.

Yoku frowned slightly and noticed that Naruto's fists were now shaking with restrained anger. Yoku turned to the matron and said, "But why lock him out? Has he really done something so heinous as to incur such a punishment?" asked the boy.

The matron merely growled and said, "Yes, but it is none of your business child and you'd do well to stay away from this thing,"

"The only thing we need to stay away from is your ugly mug, ya old bat!" Doku exclaimed, now thoroughly annoyed.

Then quick as an instant, all three boys found themselves deposited outside in the pouring rain. "And don't come back until you've gotten rid of that thing and learned some manners!" shouted the matron before slamming her door shut.

Doku snarled at that before yelling, "Oh yeah! You're orphanage smells like cat piss, the food tastes worse than the smell and no amount of makeup is going to get rid of the wrinkles you kijo(1)!" with that, the boy flipped off the building and stuck his tongue out at it.

Yoku whacked his brother upside the head and sighed. "Way to go bro, now we have to find a dry place to sleep or get sick and die in the streets due to hypothermia," he drawled.

Naruto sighed and got up, "Come on you guys, there should be a spot we can stay at for a bit," he said. Immediately Doku was in his face.

"And why in hell's name would we go anywhere with you? You're the reason we're out here in the first place!"

Naruto growled at that, "I'm not the one who insulted her and made her throw us out, dattebayo!" before the two could continue, Yoku grabbed them both by their ears and pulled.

"If neither of you stop, we will die," he said coolly, "So both of you, cease your incessant bickering, and let's be on our way," with that he glared at each of them, one that said 'I'll gut you if you say a single word'. Gulping, both boys nodded and were released.

Rubbing his ear, Naruto thought of where he could find a place that would shelter all three boys. 'Maybe the Ichiraku's will take us in for the night? No! It's way too late and I don't even know where they live!' thought the blonde. Wracking his brain, the boy tried to think of someplace but all the areas he could think of were either too far away or too small.

"Go to the Hokage Tower,"

The blonde jumped at that and quickly looked around, a little spooked. "Did you guys hear that?" he asked the Tsuuro twins. Both boys looked at him.

"Hear what?" Doku asked, covering his head with a newspaper he had found.

"A voice, I could of sworn I heard someone say something," Naruto replied.

Yoku stared at him curiously before saying; "I don't hear anything besides the thunder and rain,"

"Uh, never mind, must have just been the wind" Naruto dismissed with a sheepish grin. Doku just grunted and turned away, going back to waiting for someone to come up with an idea to get out of the rain. Yoku stared at him a bit longer before nodding and turning away. What the hell was that? Gah! I must be going mad, the storm is starting to mess with my head,' Naruto thought.

"Go to the hokage tower,"

There it was again! That voice but, it didn't sound like it came out of a regular human voice. No, it sounded like it was in his head!

Was he going crazy? 'No! No way that's just stupid!' he mentally denied, but hwy else would he hear voices in his head?

The clap of thunder and boom of lightning stopped any further contemplation on Naruto's part. 'Even if I'm crazy, the tower's better than here and Jiji might be able help' decided the boy. "Hey you guys!" he shouted, getting the attention of his companions.

"What do you want? Can't we die in peace?" Doku ranted. Yoku merely flicked his head and asked, "What is it Uzumaki-san?"

Naruto grinned and said, "Let's go visit jiji!"

The twins stared at him strangely for a moment then…

"Who's jiji?" Doku asked.

Hokage Tower

Near the mountain with the faces of the past hokage etched into it, there is a tower that sits just below and in front of it. This tower is a squat and well fortified building with a large red circle sign on the front that has the kanji for fire written in black ink on it. Now, inside this tower, the most powerful ninja in the hidden leaf village could be found. While he does not often enter the field much these days, the Sandaime Hokage is still the Kami no Shinobi(2) or his simple moniker, "The Professor", both given to him for his mastery of ninjutsu and intelligence. However, that man is not as grand as he once was.

Slowly wandering the corridors of the tower, a figure in white robes with red trim can be found. His face is covered in shadow due to a white hat with three points and the kanji for fire etched onto the point that curves over the face. These are the robes of the hokage, and the figure wearing them is named Hiruzen of the Sarutobi clan or Hiruzen Sarutobi.

As he walked the halls and staircases that would inevitably lead to his office, Hiruzen reflects over the last five years of his life, or rather, he ponders over his decisions he made in regards to not one orphan child, but THREE orphan children.

'How is it that three boys can have such burdens? The next generation will definitely be interesting' thought the old man. 'It's interesting enough having the nine tailed jinchuuriki being the village outcast, but to have that and twin boys found in-' unfortunately the old man was cut off when something nearly crashed into him as he opened his office door.

"What the hell did you do that for?" shouted a voice that Sarutobi recognized. Looking down, the old man saw that the thing that nearly crashed into him was none other than Naruto Uzumaki. Standing right in front of the door was a smug looking Doku with his arms crossed and his feet in a wide stance.

"It's payback for getting us thrown out of the orphanage in the middle of a thunderstorm," boasted the brown hairedboy.

"That wasn't my fault! You're the one who insulted her, ttebayo!" Naruto shouted indignantly.

"It wouldn't have happened if you hadn't started banging on the door in the first place! I'd still be in my bed, but noooo! I just had to let you in," Doku shot back.

"I didn't ask you to open it! You were the one stupid enough to insult her and get us kicked out, dattebayo!" Naruto stated while walking up and jabbing a finger at Doku.

"Who you calling stupid? You're the baka that got locked out!" responded the other boy while baring his teeth at the blonde.

"I didn't get us thrown out like you, mister Neanderthal!"

"Shut up you dirt eating punk!"

"Thick headed knuckle dragger!"

"Ankle biting moron!"

Before either could continue bickering or start brawling, both of them were slapped upside the head by Yoku, only, the boy had hit them with two books he had been reading that he found on the hokage's bookshelf. "Stop it, you're acting like idiots and in front of the hokage no less," he stated calmly. With that he turned and bowed to the hokage. "Konbanwa(2), Hokage-sama,"

Sarutobi stared at the boys for a bit, shocked and surprised to find them in his office. Quickly shaking his head, he schooled himself and put on a neutral face. "Konbanwa, Yoku-kun, Doku-kun, Naruto-kun," greeted the old man to all three boys. "Now as much as I appreciate you all visiting this old man, can you please explain why you three are here?" he asked pointedly while taking a seat at his worn oaken desk that even now had a stack of paperwork on it. Glancing at it the Sandaime grimaced slightly. 'Good Kami, I hate paperwork' thought the old man. Once he was seated he nodded at the boys to explain themselves. Nervously Naruto stepped forward, his small hand coming to scratch one of his whiskered cheeks, "Ya see Jiji, and we were um, kind of kicked out of the orphanage…" he stated.

"And it was his fault," Doku stated dryly before the two could fight again, Yoku slammed a book into their faces.

"Hokage-sama, again forgive their behavior, but what happened was…" and thus, Yoku told the hokage of what had happened tonight, how Naruto had been locked out and how the matron had reacted to Naruto and their defending of said blonde. When the bright young boy finished his tale, old Sarutobi leaned back in his chair and furrowed his brows, his hands clasped in front of him as he pondered. By havit, the hokage put his pipe in his mouth and lit it with a snap of his fingers. Smirking slightly at the awed looks of the three boys in front of him, the old man thought about what to do with the problem at hand.

'So they were locking him out, but what were Doku and Yoku doing there?' thought the old man. "If I may ask, what were you boys doing there?"

Doku answered this time, "The storm shattered the roof over some of the dorms, some of us were sent to the other one until they can fix it,"

Hiruzen nodded at that. 'The orphanages are old, and a storm like this hasn't happened in who knows how long ago' thought the man. 'They need a place to stay and I'm not sending them back to the orphanage' he thought for a while longer before nodding to himself. "Boys, have you enrolled in the ninja academy?" asked the old man.

"Yeah! I can't be Hokage if I don't go to the academy, dattebayo!" Naruto said enthusiastically.

"Me and Yoku are, why?" asked Doku.

Sarutobi smirked. "Because, I'm getting you boy's an apartment, you'll have to share but it's only until the academy is over. Until then, you'll receive a monthly stipend that covers all living expenses such as food, rent, etc.," Explained the man. All three boys' eyes widened at that before they grinned.

"Sweet! No more old hags and disgusting meals!" Doku exclaimed.

"And an actual bed to sleep in, ttebayo!" Naruto agreed eagerly.

Sarutobi merely smiled before speaking again, "We'll go to your new home tomorrow, for now, why don't you boys make yourselves comfortable and spend the night here?" suggested the old man. He was met with eager nods, and soon enough the boys had claimed spots all over the office. Doku and Yoku had taken the couch while Naruto curled up on one of the Hokage's chairs.

In almost no time at all, the room was filled with the light snore's of children and Sarutobi smiled as he watched their still forms. Slowly his eyelidss started to fall and the hokage mumbled, "I suppose a nap wouln't hurt,"

Soon, the entire room had fallen under the sandman's spell, with only the masked figures of the hidden ANBU standing guard still awake.

Drip…

Drip…

"Stupid leaky roof," mumbled Naruto as he sat up, the sound of sloshing water accompanying his movements. Confused, the blonde blinked and found himself to be sitting in water… in a sewer… that didn't have a ceiling.

"Where the hell am I?" Naruto shouted now standing. The only reply was his echo, bouncing from wall to wall. He sighed, then he noticed something strange.

There were pipes lining the walls, crisscrossing all over the place and stretching endlessly into the corridors. However what was strange was that all these pipes were glowing with a mixture of blue and red energy. Curious, the blonde began following the pipes and soon found himself walking down a corridor that was filled with pipes. He could also feel… something. 'Whatever it is, it's powerful, ttebayo,' thought Naruto as he walked closer to the source. As he did, something came into view.

It was a cage, bars thick as the trees around Konoha and they seemed tougher than the most tempered steel. In the center of this cage, Naruto could barely make out a white square of paper, but only just. "Jeez, that's got to be the biggest cage I've ever seen!" Naruto said aloud in amazement. "But why make it so big? There must be something totally awesome behind it!" Naruto decided before rushing towards the cage, he was oblivious to the blood red eyes that emerged from the darkness of the cage.

When he was a few feet from the cage when something set off his danger senses. Immediately he ducked, just barely a set of claws that would have skewered him had it not been for his quick reflexes and the cage. Crawling back, Naruto stared in astonishment at the giant red eyes and great big sharp teeth that now stared at him.

"Damn! Curse this cage and curse that man! If you had just gotten a little closer I'd be having a snack right now!" stated the eyes and mouth, which now looked like an outline of a giant long eared fox with a red glow in the back.

Naruto stared a bit more before he retaliated by screaming, "What the hell do you mean snack, you oversized rabbit!" screamed the child, having never seen a fox before.

There was silence for a bit then the giant fox outline started howling in laughter, "HAHAHAHA! Giant! HAHAHA! Rabbit! BWAHAHAHAHAAAA!" roared the fox in mirth now rolling in it's cage. When it had finally stopped laughing, the giant got to his feet and chuckled, "Oh man kid, you've got real guts to be calling me that."

Naruto just cocked an eyebrow, "And who exactly would you be?" he asked, arms crossed over his chest.

"Ha! As if you don't know!" chuckled the beast. When he was met with silence and a blank look from Naruto he asked, "You… you really don't know who I am?" Naruto shook his head. "Well it is a bit dark in here…" muttered the fox. Nodding in thought, he flooded the cage with his chakra, illuminating a giant red furred fox with nine swishing tails. Naruto's eyes widened in surprise and he stood up in awe.

"No way!" shouted the child. The Kyuubi grinned and struck a pose, 'Heh, now he knows who he's dealing with! Probably just slipped his mind'thought the demon.

"You're the most epic bunny I've ever seen!" Naruto exclaimed causing the fox to fall flat on his face, "I bet you must eat like, a billion carrots a day! Dattebayo!" Naruto said with a grin.

"I'M NOT A RABBIT YOU STUPID GAKI!"ROAORED THE FOX," roared the fox angrily.

"Then what are you?" Naruto asked in confusion. "I mean, regular rabbits don't have nine tails… or claws as sharp as yours… or teeth as sharp as yours… come to think of I don't think I've seen a rabbit with red fur either…" Naruto said fox sweatdropped at this. "I've got it!" Naruto exclaimed.

"You're a mutant donkey!" he shouted proudly. This time the Kyuubi stared at him, his eye twitching then,

"DUMB ASS! I'M NOT A DONKEY OR A RABBIT!" roared the Kyuubi in rage.

"Then what are you?" asked Naruto

"I'M THE KYUUBI NO YOKO!"

A/N: and thus ends the first chapter of the rewrite! Hope you like it and please review and if you just skipped to the bottom, go back to the top and read!