Hello everyone! My first fanfic ever (for those who read my first first story, I just felt I couldn't get anywhere with it. Sorry) This story goes out to Solvdrage. He's the one who gave me some help to lure in the mystical plot bunnies. Well, I have nothing else to say, so here we go!

'thoughts'

"talking"

Disclaimer: Do I own Naruto, in my universe yes! But in this one no :(

Tweleve years ago, a demon known as the Kyubi no Yoko went on a rampage and attacked Konoha. There was an intense battle, but in the end, the man known as the Fourth Hokage sealed the demon into his newborn son at the cost of his own life. His dying wish was to have his son be treated like a hero. The council, however wanted to execute the Fourth's son. They believed that the Kyubi was reincarnated into the child.

At present time, every adult in the village despised him. A law was made shortly after he was born to have anyone who openly threatened him or harmed him was sent to jail. The villagers managed to get around this law by sending him cold glares and socially isolating the child.

The child's name is Naruto Uzumaki. He has the Kyubi sealed within him, but is unaware of the truth. The Third Hokage was forced out of retirement after the Fourth died. He secured Naruto's entry into the ninja academy, but the instructors kept purposely altering his grades and subtly reinforcing improper techniques. He had just failed the genin exam for the third time and was currently sobbing in the forests around Konoha.

'Why can't I pass? I work as hard as I can everyday and I still can't pass the exam'I'm always going to be a failure! No one every believes in me! Why does everyone hate me?' Naruto shouted inside his head. There was a rustling in the woods and Naruto saw one of the instructors for the Academy.

"Oh, hey Mizuki-sensei. What are you doing here?" Naruto said as he wiped the tears of fustration from his eyes and put on his unflappably happy mask.

"What, I can't be worried about my students?" Mizuki asked with a sly smile on his face.

"I saw that you failed your exam, and thought you might want another chance at becoming a ninja." Mizuki continued.

"Really?" Naruto asked excitedly.

Mizuki nodded and said, "Yep, now there's a scroll in the Hokage Tower. If you manage to take and bring it here. The Third Hokage and I will make you a genin. Be careful though, the Third will try to stop you and make traps. The test has to be difficult. We have to make sure you're ready. You are ready right?"

"Yeah!" Naruto shouted and headed off in the direction of the Hokage tower.

'Orochimaru-sama will be pleased that I brought that I brought him Konoha's forbidden and the demon brat' Mizuki thought to himself as he waited for Naruto to return.

'Ok, the scroll's gotta be in here somewhere.' Naruto thought to himself.

'There it is!' Naruto took the scroll and went back to where he saw Mizuki. Right before Naruto jumped out of the window a chuunin on night guard walked into the room where the scroll was supposed to be.

"Oh dear Kami, alert the Hokage! The demon brat stole the forbidden scroll!" the chuunin shouted.

'Crap, Mizuki said traps not guards.' Naruto thought.

Many years of running from angry mobs in Naruto younger years allowed him to easily shake off the chuunin, but this particular chuunin was from the Inuzuka clan, so the chuunin had a scent on him.

Naruto evaded the chuunin for several minutes, before losing his pursuer by passing throught the Yamanaka Greenhouses. The flowers served to hide his scent. Naruto grinned broadly as he heard the chuunin cursing up a storm about losing track of Naruto.

"Haha! Stupid chuunin! Better look at what this scroll has. Must be important if he chased me." Naruto shouted to himself while he was running. He stopped in a clearing and opened the scroll.

'Awesome! This is full of jutsus! Ok, so lets see what some of these are. Ah here's one.'

Jutsu name: Shadow Clone Jutsu

Handsign: Ox

Purpose: Creates a clone that can actually cause pain upon the enemies and can relay information when dispelled.

CAUTION: TAKES UP AN ENOURMOUS AMOUNT OF CHAKRA. THIS JUTSU SHOULD ONLY BE USED BY JOUNIN RANK OR HIGHER.

'Woah, that sounds really powerful.' Naruto thought with a very sneaky grin on his face. 'I bet if I learned this Clone technique, it would really impress Mizuki-sensei!

Naruto threw himself into learning the technique. The boy lost track of time as he worked to perfect the technique.

'Crap I forgot about Mizuki-sensei' Naruto thought as remembered why he had the scroll.

(about 1 hour, 27 minutes after Naruto opened the scroll)

"Mizuki-sensei! You here?" Naruto shouted.

"Quiet brat someone might here us!" Mizuki replied.

"Hey I got the scroll!"

"Great, now come here and give it to me." Mizuki said while putting his hand behind his back

Naruto was just about to hand over when a man jumped in out of nowhere and looked panicked.

'Iruka-sensei?' Naruto questioned in his mind.

"Naruto, get out of ther!" Iruka shouted. Naruto just had a look of confusion etched on his face. The distraction was all Mizuki needed to knock out Naruto with a blow to the head. Mizuki tossed both the scroll and Naruto into a sack. He attempted to flee, but Iruka gave chase.

'Damn that Iruka. Better drop these off an finish him for good.' Mizuki thought. Mizuki dropped off the scroll and the bag containing Naruto.

"Well, well, well Iruka; are you ready to die?"

"I will always protect Konoha, no matter the enemy!" Iruka shouted in response.

"Take this!" Mizukis shouted. He threw a few shuriken at Iruka, but he easily dodged. "Fire style: Fire Ball Jutsu!" Mizuki shouted.

Iruka noticed and did a substitution jutsu with a fallen log near the battle field. Iruka pulled out a scroll and mumbled a few words and a huge water wave came out of nowhere and tried to hit Mizuki.

"Mizuki, why are you leaving Konoha?" Iruka shouted while in the midst of combat.

"Why? Orochimaru-sama will realize that I am the strongest weapon he has and will want to make me his next body. That is the greatest honor he could give!" Mizuki shouted back as he sent another fireball toward Iruka.

Iruka barely dodged and right after Iruka landed, Mizuki dashed toward Iruka and stabbed him in the stomach with a kunai.

"Ha, you see; Konoha is worthless and your just another example of that weakness. Time to end you." Mizuki said with a very icy, cold tone.

"Not if I stop you first!" A voice shouted out of nowhere and punched Mizuki in the face.

"You little brat!" Mizuki growled back.

"Naruto, get out of here! Your just an academy student!" Iruka shouted to Naruto but it was no use.

"You know Naruto, before I leave this worthless village, I feel I have to tell you something. You remember how the Fourth Hokage supposedly killed the Kyubi, well he didn't. He sealed it inside you! You're the Kyubi Demon!"

Naruto just stood in shock as the news set in. While he was just standing still, Mizuki preformed a few hand signs and then pulled out a kunai with a paper bomb on it.

"Say goodbye to demon you care so much for Iruka!" Mizuki shouted as he threw the kunai. Naruto just barely dodged, but didn't realize that Mizuki would win either way. Naruto watched in sheer terror as he watched the paper bomb land a few feet from Iruka. Time seemed to slow down to a crawl as the paper bomb exploded. One of the few people to truly accept Naruto as Naruto dissappeared into the flames. Umino Iruka was dead.

"You…. You…. I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Naruto shouted at Mizuki as an orange chakra began to seep out of his body.

"Wha- what's happening?" Mizuki stammered.

"Naruto!" Iruka shouted. Mizuki managed to place a genjutsu on Naruto, but the strange, orange chakra cancelled it out. Naruto made an ox seal and hundreds of Narutos with an orange chakra cloak began to rush Mizuki. The clones cut deep gashes into Mizuki and the traitor dropped like a Naruto calmed down, the strange orange chakra dissappeared. Naruto was worried about Iruka and started to check on his favorite teacher. Thus, Naruto was caught completely off gaurd when he was grabbed by the Inuzuka chuunin and handcuffed.

"What the heck?" Naruto shouted in shock.

"Naruto Uzumaki, you demon brat, you are under arrest for harming a Konoha ninja, evading arrest, and stealing the Forbidden Scroll. I'm going to make sure you get one of the harshest penalties Konoha can give. The chunin shouted.

"Wait! He didn't do anything! Mizuki was about to hand the scroll over to Ororchimaru!" Iruka pleaded but it fell on deaf ears. The chunin was ignoring Iruka as he took Naruto to face the judgement of the council.

In the confusion of the battle, no one knew that the entire affair had been observed. Hinata Hyuga, of the Hyuga clan, had heard from one of her clansmen say that Naruto stolen something from the Hokage. She had rushed out of her clan's compound before a councious thought had even crossed her mind. Hinata had seen how Naruto had been failing again. She had even summoned enough courage to speak with her crush and idol, but a Branch family member practicall dragged her back to the compound. Now, she had just witnessed Mizuki make some hurtful and outrageous claims about Naruto. She had been too far away to hear the conversation, but when she saw Naruto and Iruka's reaction was all the conformation she needed about Mizuki's words. The traitor had attacked Naruto and Iruka. Then, to make an insane night worse, a chuunin had arrested Naruto and left a completely helpless Iruka behind. Hinata rushed over to her fallen teacher and administered some basic first aid.

"Thank you, Hinata." Iruka sasid weakly.

"Don't speak, Iruka-sensei." Hinata said. She activated he bloodline and watched Naruto be lead away.

'You deserve so much better, Naruto-kun' Hinata thought sadly. She swore to herself that she would be there for him next time.

Well there you have it, the first chapter of many! I believe that this is a really good chapter and I have to thank Solvdrage again. He edited this chapter and it made me feel stupid with all the good ideas he came up with. So hit that review button, leave a review, and go worship Solvdrage. (This is for you Solvdrage) Remember, God hates Sasuhina