The Demon Fox of Konoha

Prologue + Chapter 1

The neglected prodigy

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto...Sadly?

In the garden of The Namikaze mansion, stood three happy members of the family with the same name: the father, the mother and the daughter. The father was a blonde haired man with spiky golden hair, on his cloak written Yondaime (The Fourth). The mother and the small girl looked almost the same, except that the girl's eyes were cyan, while the mother's were a deep blue. Both had long red hair, and the girl looked exactly like the mother in her youth.

Off on the side however, was not-so-happy member of the family. A boy that was 100% his father, but while the older man's features seemed to emit warmth, the young one seemed to look with a mix of anger, hate and jealousy, features that didn't stay very well on the face of a 10 year old. The boy's name was Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto, the Namikaze said with unhidden scorn when his familty wasn't around. His sister, Namikaze Uzumaki Mito, was, as usual, getting all their attention. 4 years ago that made him sad, but not now. She was Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi, and was looked up to like a goddess. Him? He was 5 years older, a prodigy of equal standing with Itachi Uchiha, who was also his best friend. But no one paid attention to him until now.

He just came home to tell them that he not only passed the Chunnin exams, but was asked to join ANBU. Unfortunately he never could tell them because they were too busy with the young girl.

'Oh well I'l just tell them when later' he thought looking at his family. 'As a matter of fact, why tell them? It's not like they care...' he thought. He was starting to doubt if his parents actually acknowledged his existence at all. Heck he was away for 2 months, yet they didn't seem to notice in the least! His mother Kushina probably still didn't know he was there. His father Minato was dragged along, so he had no time to say hello.' Is he somekind of weak fanboy?' he wondered.

The girl was learning the Rasengan, which he long since learned and upgraded, to the point of adding an element.

Secretly, he started learning from many jounins, Gai taught him taijutsu, until now he was jounin level, Asuma got his elemental training with wind, Hayate taught him sword lessons, in exchange for the cure to his sickness, which he got douring a mission. His Genjutsu was equal to Kurenai's, and he had a summoning contract from the least expected person- Kyuubi.

Slowly, he walked inside the house, looking down as he thought: 'They really don't care...'.

Chapter 1

ANBU? Since when?

Three years later.

An ANBU wearing a kitsune mask walked slowly inside the Hokage's office. He hated this place with all his might, although he never came here before. What he hated was the person who stood in the office. The Yondaime lifted his head to look at the newly instated ANBU captain. He had just sent the other new ANBU captain, Itachi, off and was wondering how in the world did a 13 year old become ANBU captain. He certainly didn't expect for the other to be the same age.

"What your name Kitsune-san?" he asked frowning, he had no info on the ANBU except for his age and the fact that he had amazing abilities."My name is Uzumaki Naruto, Yondaime-sama". Now that made Minato do multiple things, first he braced himself without wanting to when the boy accentuated that, secondly, his jaw dropped thinking that he had such a cool son that became ANBU captain at age 13, thirdly, he paled when he remembered that he didn't know anything at all about his son's skill."N-n-naruto? B-bu-but s-shouldn't you be at the academy?". Naruto shrugged before responding in a bored tone:" I graduated 6 years ago Hokage-sama...".

One hour later we find a still shocked Minato sitting at the table with his ex-student Kakashi. Minato, still trying to understand what the hell did he just hear, decided to ask him.

" What do you know of my son, Kakashi?", Kakashi responded carelessly:" He is a prodigy only seen once in a hundred years, respected by every single shinobi higher than genin." Minato's jaw was hitting the floor" He has his name in Iwa and Kumo's bingo book, Kumo with 'kill on site' and Iwa with 'flee on sight'." Minato's eyes were out of there places already. "He gratuated academy in one year, became chunnin at the age of ten, and joined the ANBU two months later with his rival and best friend Itachi Uchiha, his nickname is 'The Demon Fox of Konoha'" Minato just fainted after that last one.

That evening:

Kushina and Mito watched very shocked how Minato entered the door, pale like he saw the ghost of Madara. He quickly went to the table, sitting down while trembling like a leaf. As Kushina went near him, he put his face in his palms and tried to keep his sobs at bay. Kushina was getting scared," What happened Minato-kun?" she said scared. All she got was something like a whine. In that second the door opened to reveal a Naruto still dressed with his ANBU clothes. Kushina stood scared seeing him like that. She saw him holding his Kitsune mask in one hand, and approach with an unnerving glance.'Since when has he been an ANBU? And is that the Kitsune mask? Is he that Demon Fox of Konoha?' that last thought made her look at Minato with a pitiful look. She felt the same way, she didn't even know he passed the genin exams.

Meanwhile the young girl rised an eyebrow"What's wrong mom,dad? It's just Naruto-nii-san in his ANBU gear? What haven't you seen it before?" She asked surprised to see her parents stare at her. "H-h-how l-long d-did y-you k-know for?" Asked the two adults."For 3 years, why?" The two were almost foaming, Kushina more-so for she didn't know her son had been an ANBU for 3 years.'I never actually asked what he was doing, or what his rank was currently.' The parents thought at the same time. They felt like punching themselves.

Meanwhile Naruto seemed to be staring at Mito with a lot of concentration,she never got why but didn't really want to bug in.

'Hey Kyuu-chan, how are you holding up.?' Thought the boy. "I'm doing well, Naru-kun, but I'm running out of books here..." he heard the response of the Kyuubi. The relationship of Naruto and Kyuubi was strange, first they were the only friends of each other not counting Itachi, later they developed something like a brother-sister relationship, for all they knew about that, now they would tease each other to no end.

For example, when Naruto first tried to use Fuuton: Rasengan he summoned Kyuubi to help him, just for her to laugh in his face when it blew up. As revenge, Naruto gave her An Icha-Icha book the next time she needed something to do . His head still hurt from the punch she gave him, but it was worth it to see her angry.

Mito was looking strangely at her parents, what did Naruto do? Then it hit her like palm: her parents must not have known... it made sense since she found out they completely ignored him. She still thought of him like a big brother, he sure had more free time anyway. He was a little overprotective though, if she was to remember what happened two weeks ago, though it was a painfull memory to remember.

Flashback

The bell just rang, and Mito, Hinata and a new friend of Mito's called Rito got out. Mito was happy as she was blabbering about the fact that Naruto was going to be the one to take her home, which she was very happy about. Hinata had a pink color in her cheeks, she was an unofficial member of the "Fanaru" how they called themselves, all big fans of the ANBU member, stories about him spreading like the wind around the village. Rito however, hardened his gaze before slowly letting his hand reach into his pouch "Now I'l avenge you dad... I'l kill the demon" he muttered, before quickly drawing a kunai and attacking the defenseless girl.She felt an impossible pain as the kunai slashed her back. Just as she turned around, she saw Rito's hand with a kunai heading towards her, while he shouted : "Die DEMONNNN!". She closed her eyes expecting pain while she shouted reflexivly: "NI-SAN!". She never felt the pain. She opened her eyes to see the boy pinned to the ground, with his hand at his back held by another one, and a kunai at his neck. She looked up and saw that it was her brother looking at him with a face that screamed anger and fury. He let his Killing Intent leak slightly, and the boy was almost crying."S-stop! M-m-Mizuki-s-sensei w-will give you detention!" The young boy shouted. Naruto smirked: "No, I will be giving both you and Mizuki detention to Ibiki, but if you don't shut up it might spare me the effort and I can cripple you right here, and send you to Ibiki in 5 different packages!" he shouted. Rito skipped a beat. He knew that tone."ANBU-san?" he asked slightly scarred."ANBU, yes, but I'm also Mito-imouto's big brother Naruto, and if you DARE threaten her AGAIN I WILL PERSONALLY SEND YOU TOKAMI! " He said, his tone rising until a level that made Kyuubi shiver in excitement, even she could consider that cool. The fangirls, or fanarus as above mentioned, just cvatripled in number. Including even some of the older girls this time, ANBU or Chunnin didn't make a difference. "

Flashback end

She had later discovered that such things were uncommon even for him. Sure, if someone was to hurt his subordinates , this Ibiki person would somehow applaud him for the result, though Inoichi really hated when it happened, for some reason.

It made her happy that he cared enough to do that, seeing as she ignored him for most of her life, though 5 years out of 8 weren't that much. She only noticed him when she saw him entering the house with a chunnin vest on, 3 years ago. He told her that he won the chunnin exams, although the battle between him and Itachi was a draw. Apparently, Naruto was able to do a Rasengan before he was catched in Itachi's genjutsu. Still, she was happy when she heard he made chunnin. When she entered the academy, Minato and Kushina didn't have anymore time to help her, so she resorted to his help.

She shaked a little remembering what happened after the 'Demon' Incident(the flashback), she was so scared she thought she will have an emotional trauma. Naruto had left the room to change to casual clothes.

Her parents looked at her a little before deciding to ask her a few things. "Does he hate us?" Asked Kushina. "He considers you as a jounin and a Hokage, nothing more nothing less...I think." She answered. The older ones raised their eyebrows: "You think?". They asked. "He might be lying so he doesn't hurt me or somethin', it his kind of thing." Was the answer.

Minato decided to ask something that he had been wondering about: "Does he have many friends?". She shook her head sadly. "His only friends are Uchiha Itachi, his rival, and a girl named Akane Okyo (not an OC), his girlfriend." She said, a slight edge in her voice " Only Itachi has ever met her".

The Yondaime narrowed his eyes, 'Why would he be hiding her?' The girl suddeny perked up. "Oh yeah, he was going on a date with her tomorrow, he is going to finally show her to the rest of us ". Inside a certain seal a certain kitsune's fur was red, not because of anger, but because she completely forgot about that. She quickly transformed into her human form, in which she looked a lot like Kushina when she was 18, except her hair had a few orange strands, and her bust was bigger with a cup or 3. Her figure also looked more trained, she was also taller than Kushina was now. She giggled when she remembered that Naruto's parents had no idea she was Akane, a name she took from a kitsune friend, while the Okyo was a rewrite of Yoko as in 'Kyuubi no Yoko'

. Not like they were gonna found out anytime soon ' Not at all if it was me deciding' she thought. She had given Naruto her summoning contract in a deal: She helped him train, he would summon her so she could walk out, seal be hatin'. The deal could evolve, and she knew she might just do that. She was going to ask for something more in exchange to giving her container her power.

But that could wait, she had a date to prepare for.

Naruto suddenly remembered that too, and decided to go back to ANBU HQ to take the day off. He felt a sudden shiver up his back and had a strange urge to go kill the Yondaime (he doesn't call him father even in description: P) and Kushina (same here), and plunge a Rasengan into Mito. HE sighed and left his room by window, too quickly to hear an evil laugh

"So we are going to follow them?" asked Mito."Sure as hell we will, even if he doesn't believe us to be his parents, we still won't let go with some random girl, is she even a shinobi?" said Kushina, the last being sent as a question to Minato. He concentrated hard and came up with the only explanation he could figure out: " We have a new ANBU, wolf is her mask, but I never asked her name." he said."She is an amazing shinobi I heard, as strong if not stronger than Kakashi. She should be able to defeat anyone aside from me, Naruto, Itachi and maybe Kakashi." he continued.

Kushina sighed, it was about time she got back in gear, she had kinda been on stand-by as a ninja for 8 years, kami have mercy on her atrophied muscles, for she will have none.

To be continued

AN:Akane is just a name they made on the spot, Kyuubi's true name is still *Possible spoiler * Kurama * end of spoiler*