Neglect

Chapter 1

After reading multiple stories involving this sort of scenario, I wanted to try my own hand at it. Meteor, a Naruto/Fairy Tail Crossover is my favorite so far. And I do know that these types of stories don't last long due its depressing nature, but I am writing out a few chapters ahead of time to see where this goes.

Hope you all like it.

There is a saying. It goes like this; you learn everything you need to know in life in the first five years of your life. For Naruto, this holds true.

Ever since that horrible night, the night in which the Kyuubi was freed from its prison in Kushina Namikaze and then attacked Konoha, his life has been not what you expect. That night, the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, had to seal away the Kyuubi somehow. He would have done so by sealing the Yang, or Light Side, of the Kyuubi into Naruto's sister, Kaeru while sealing the other half of the Kyuubi into his brother Menma. Only, in order to save Minato, Sarutobi arrived and did the sealing himself, with a smile as he died. Happy to be with his wife once more.

Even though Naruto was the oldest of the three triplets born to Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzuamki, the poor blond was seen as second best…or in this case, third best in their opinion. They didn't even know that they were doing it and so didn't care.

Some say that the reason for this is because of what happened just before the Kyuubi was released. When Kushina had finished giving birth to all three of her children, she was reasonably tired as hell. That was the perfect opportunity that the Masked Man to come in and threaten their way of life. He took Naruto and threatened Minato to back away from Kushina. The ending result was the Kyuubi's release.

In the end, after all the fighting and the sealing of the two halves of the Kyuubi into Naruto's siblings, the event had caused a stigma and a darkness to grow with in Minato and Kushina. Like Hiashi's blaming of Hinata for being too weak to defend herself from being kidnapped, they subconsciously blamed Naruto for the entire event.

They didn't know that this hatred would grow and the darkness would one day over take them. Be something far more dangerous in their lives.

So throughout the years, it was not fun for the blond haired boy. For the first five years of his life, he learned to take care of himself. When they bought clothes for them, they only bought him the bare minimum, if they even bothered at all, while Kaeru and Menma got all that they ever wanted. The same went for food. They went out and asked the three of them what they wanted, but when Naruto offered, Minato and Kushina just seemed annoyed with him. So they went to where ever Kaeru and Menma wanted to go.

It was all about Kaeru and Menma.

So when they started to train his other siblings, they left him in the dust, saying their training was more important due to the Kyuubi. To him that was just a cover saying that they didn't feel he was important enough. He was Nothing. He tried multiple times throughout that year and it just ended in disappointment, with each reaction harsher.

So he gave up trying to get them to train him and he did it on his own. He also knew they would be pissed that he was training because they told him that he would training in the academy, but he felt cheated in that area because they were a clan. Clans were supposed to train their children before the academy. So he trained on his own, making sure they never found out.

Naruto shook his head at the memories as he sat in the classroom, waiting for Iruka to come in and announce the teams. While that was happening, he remembered how he got there and his training.

He remembered at one point that his father had to go to talks with Onoki in Iwa so that they could be allies. So, for reasons he didn't understand at the time, Minato had him come along. It was horrible. On the way there, him father would barely talk to him and when he did, the man was just cold.

So he stopped trying to talk and kept silent.

However, when they got to Iwa, Minato began talking and smiling at everyone. It hurt Naruto to see this because the man never smiled at him. A simple smile was too much after all.

And it was kind of odd since he knew Iwa was pretty pissed at his father after the last war.

However, the most notable aspect of that trip was him making his first and best friend.

Flashback!

Naruto was bored. He sat in a boring office while his father and the Tsuchikage talked about things that he didn't understand or just didn't care about. He turned his head to look back at them and with his father's back to him, he saw that the short old man had confusion in his eyes, wondering why Naruto was even here and why Naruto looked so miserable. Of course Naruto didn't know that, all he saw was confusion. He was 7, he wasn't meant to know all that yet.

Thankfully, his boredom was stopped by the opening of a door and in rushed a little girl his age. The girl has short black hair, unique pink eyes, a red shirt with a sleeveless brown vest over it, a pair of brown shorts, and open toes brown sandals. "Grandpa! I am bored! Let's….oh." she said, stopping short of what she wanted when she saw said old man talking to a blond haired guy that her dad didn't like.

The Tsuchikage chuckled. "Sorry, Kurotsuchi, I am busy at the moment." He then turned to Naruto and smiled. "Boy, you must be bored out of your mind. Would you mind keeping my granddaughter company?"

"Sure!" Naruto replied, his voice full of energy as he jumped up, took hold of Kurotsuchi's hand, and hightailed it out of the room.

Minato eyed the Tsuchikage and said, "Onoki, are you sure that was wise?"

The old man shrugged. "Why not? They are kids. It is not like if they don't get along that this alliance will break. Besides, your son looked bored." He said while noticing that Minato had a look of pure annoyance on his face, making him wonder why the man was so annoyed. Should he be happy that his son was happy?

Then he had his answer. It was telltale, but he saw it like he did many years ago in his friend Roshi's family. At the mere mention of Naruto being happy, the color in Minato's eyes flash red for just a second, but that was all Onoki needed. Poor kid, his family must be strongly affect by the Hatred Infection to be their sole target. I wonder who else it has affected. Do they even know what is happening to them?

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"So you name is Kurotsuchi?" Naruto asked, making the girl nod. "Cool, I am Naruto!"

"Nice to meet you Naruto!" Kurotsuchi replied with a smile as they slowed their pace and simply walked through the village; get many to look their way.

"So what kind of fun do you guys have around here?"

Kurotsuchi smiled at that. She figured that they didn't have the same games as they did in Konoha, so that was to be expected. "Well, we have a game called Boulder Rush that I usually play with either my dad or grandpa, but they are both busy right now."

"What about your other friends? Don't you play with them too?"

The young girl scowled at that. "No, I am unapproachable…or something like that."

"Huh? Why?"

"Because my grandpa is the Tsuchikage and people are afraid of offending me and by proxy him." Kurotsuchi said sadly. Naruto noticed her extensive vocabulary and chalked it up to who her family was.

"So, they should know it is obviously hurting you. Back home, I am the oldest son the Fourth Hokage and people treat me normally." He said, but that was mostly because the people there have noticed how Naruto was treated by his own family, so they treated him like a normal person for his sake.

"Must be fun." Kurotsuchi pouted while wondering why it was different for Naruto.

"Meh, it's ok." Naruto replied. "but the main thing here is, I will be your friend because I really don't care who you are related to."

The black haired girl stared at the blond boy for a while before her face broke into a big smile and she hugged him. "Thank you."

"No problem." Naruto said. No one should be truly alone.

Backing away with a smile, Kurotsuchi asked, "So ready to play Boulder Rush?"

"I'm game."

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"Seriously?" Naruto asked after they got to a strange spot and Kurotsuchi had explained the rules. They were currently on a fairly large hill next to a giant boulder overlooking a giant lake. Apparently, they were supposed to push a giant boulder down into the lake to create a huge splash. The only problem was, Naruto was not sure they were strong enough to push the damn thing. They were a couple of kids after all.

"Yeah." Kurotsuchi replied before a thoughtful look passed her face. "However, I am not sure how grandpa does this to be honest. It looks heavy."

"How does your dad do it?"

"Um…he punches it with a rock encased fist." The girl replied simply.

Naruto look at him own fist and then to the boulder. "Nope."

"Then how are we going to do this?" Kurotsuchi asked.

"Push it as hard as we can?" The blond offered.

"Fine with me!" Kurotsuchi shrugged before rushing at the boulder and pushing with her whole body.

Naruto shook his head before doing the same, the both of them going red in the face as they did so. Finally, their body's gave out, however, due to the sweat on their bodies, they slipped along the boulder as they lost their footing. They landed in front of the huge boulder on top of each other.

Thankfully, Naruto managed to land on top where he used his arms to stop his fall, with both of them on either side of Kurotsuchi's head. They just laid their staring at each other while catching their breath.

Kurotsuchi had a small blush on her face due to their position and was about to say something when something happened.

CRACK!

The two paled and looked back at the boulder, noticing that in their fall, they kicked a thick plank of wood keeping the boulder in place and with it gone, the boulder was free to move. Only problem was, it was coming right at them!

So helping the raven haired girl up, the two ran down the slope and away from the boulder that was on their heels. "We're not going to make it!" Kurotsuchi cried.

"Like hell we're not!" Naruto raged as they kept running. However, they soon came upon a problem. They were running out of land and quick due to the lake in front of them. Naruto silently cursed. He would have to reveal some of his chakra control training to survive this; hopefully Kurotsuchi was not a blabbermouth.

Slowing down just a bit, Naruto scooped Kurotsuchi up bridal style, added a constant flow of chakra to the soles of his feet, and ran along the water just as the boulder crashed into the water. However, even though he thought they were safe, he was wrong because the crash boulder had created a wave of water that was surging towards them.

"Oh come on…" Naruto deadpanned as the wave almost hit them. Almost being the key word because Naruto cut the chakra to his feet and sank while letting the current take him to the other side of the wave and then running on top of it to ride it out. All the while, Kurotsuchi was looking on in amazement.

Their little reprieve of danger was cut short as Naruto not only lost his footing, but his control over his chakra as well. The end result was them getting swept up by the rest of the wave and then getting slammed on the other side of the lake, right into an outcropping of rock.

When Kurotsuchi came to, she found that she was in Naruto's arms with his back to an out cropping of rock, no doubt made by her grandpa's men…one of those mask wearing guys. Still, they saved them and Naruto saved her. He was cool her in books.

Naruto opened his eyes and said, "Are we dead?"

The soaking wet girl laughed out loud at her equally soaked blond friend and said, "NOPE! But how were you able to walk on water like a ninja?"

"About that, can we keep this a secret?" Naruto asked. Kurotsuchi hesitated for a moment before sighing and nodding. "Good, because I have been training myself while my…parents…trained my siblings. Come on, I'll tell you on the way back."

The girl nodded she followed her new friend back into town while her father's ANBU followed and listened in as well, curious about the boy.

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The duo and secret third wheel made it back to Onoki's Kage tower in little time at all and by then they were dried off thanks to the sun's rays, but it was starting to get dark out. Kurotsuchi put her arm around the blond's shoulder and said, "Your family sucks, but if you are training to get back at them for ignoring you, then I say go for it! And if it doesn't work out, you can come here! After all, you are my friend."

"Thanks Kurotsuchi." Naruto said a bit shyly, not used to people truly believing in him other than Tsunade and Shizune. "You know, you are my first friend."

Kurotsuchi looked at him for a moment, not believing it for a moment and then she thought about her own situation and then smiled. She hugged him and said, "Mine too, but I think you are my best friend!"

Naruto gave off a megawatt smile and nodded. "Cool."

The girl let go of her new friend and start to walk back into the tower but before she could, she stopped. Naruto was about to ask if she was ok but he didn't get a chance to because Kurotsuchi back tracked to him. "Oh and….thanks for saving me." She said while planting a small kiss on his cheek before running back into the tower.

Naruto watched the girl run back into the tower a bit dazed while he held his cheek. "No problem." He droned out, making the hidden ANBU chuckle as he disappeared to report back to his superior.

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Onoki sighed while his hands messaged his forehead. His ANBU had just gotten back to him after he sent the man to look out for the two kids. He had been surprised to find out that Naruto was able to walk on water somewhat with obviously no help from his parents.

He was actually happy that he boy learned how to do so or else he and Kurotsuchi might be dead from their Boulder Rush game. Something he needed to do about…like teach Kurotsuchi how to manipulate the boulder's weight.

However, what got him was how the boy was dealing with the situation. He was training to eventually show them he meant something and then there was Kurotsuchi's offer, which he didn't think was a bad idea. Still, with the boy's story, it was just as bad as or worse than Roshi's experience. Minato and Kushina…along with a few family friends were the most affected by the Hatred Infection while the young blond's siblings seemed barely affected by it.

Odd.

But whatever, he was sure the boy could do it.

Then, another ANBU appeared in his office to give him some info on Naruto's predicament. "Sir! It would seem that Minato is asleep and has locked his son out of their given apartment."

"Thank you, you my leave." Onoki replied with some annoyance. He stood up to leave and help the boy since he himself had a key, but stopped as a scroll on his desk caught his attention. "Should I?" He asked aloud before shaking his head. "Why the hell not, Roshi already thinks Kurotsuchi has the potential to use the Lava Element, so she won't really need it."

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Naruto sighed as he made his way to the roof of the apartment building that Onoki let him and his father use for the duration of their stay. However, like usual, his father had locked him out after a long day of work, not bothering to even care if Naruto was there or not.

"Figures." Naruto grumbled as he stared out around the village of Iwa in twilight.

"Something on your mind boy?" A familiar voice asked him from behind.

Naruto wiped around to see old man Onoki floating a few inches off the ground. The blond shook his head and said, "No, not really. Just wondering why my family is like it is."

Onoki nodded, "When you do, you will have to face something dark. When that time comes, I feel that you will need all the power you can get."

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked, not understanding.

Onoki smiled as he handed Naruto a scroll. "You'll know when the time comes." He said as he floated back to his tower, but not before turning back to Naruto, "in the meantime, get some rest."

Once he was gone, Naruto looked back at the scroll to see two things. One was a key, mostly likely to the apartment. The other was words on the scroll. Dust Release

End Flashback!

Naruto smiled at the memory. Onoki and Kurotsuchi truly believed in him and that was good enough for him. And thankfully, him and Kurotsuchi still kept in touch with letters they sent each other every month. Despite the distance, they really were best friends.

Turning his head, he looked at his reflection as he still waited for his teacher to show up. Must be preparing himself for a goodbye speech….he does like to talk. He thought. Naruto was currently wearing the usual open toes sandals for ninja, but they were white. His pants were jeans that were bleached white as well. He had on an orange T shirt with a white unzipped white hooded jacket over it. On the back was his special kanji that the higher level ninja and a few civilians knew the true meaning of. It was the kanji for Chaos.

It was his secret to keep until the time was right.

A tap on his shoulder brought him out of his musings. The blond looked to see three out of five of his only friends in the academy. Shino, Shikamaru, and Choji. While Choji was clueless most of the time on Naruto's plan, Shino and Shikamaru had picked up on Naruto's plan. They also felt for him because of his situation.

Shikamaru found that Naruto was a challenge for him and found out Naruto's plan right off the bat, thinking it was ingenious. The blond could have left at any moment that he wanted, yet he stayed in the village to piss of his 'family' and eventually show them what he could do. Now what the blond could do was something not even he knew. He was still trying to figure that one out.

Shino figured it out as well but did not become friends for that reason. Despite hating his brother and sister for the Kyuubi…among other reasons, Naruto did not hate Shino right off the bat because of his bugs like most people did. The blond had accepted him because he thought the Bug Clan was cool.

Choji was a friend of Shikamaru and that was main reason he became friends with Naruto. The big boned boy knew the blond was hiding something but he didn't mind the boy, even if he could be as broody as an Uchiha at times when in the presence of his family. At other times, he was just a goof and it pissed off his parent's visibly that he didn't take much seriously.

Naruto's other two friends at their own desks across the room. There was Kiba and Akamaru. Kiba was a brash kid like him and with the others, they would often cause a little panic with their skipping school and other such pranks. Kiba hadn't really figured out Naruto's situation and really didn't care. Kiba was friends with him just because. Thankfully, it seemed that his mother had figured it out and encouraged the friendship.

Finally was Sasuke Uchiha. Which was a surprise since Naruto thought that most of the Uchiha were all stuck up…even after a certain incident. But Sasuke was a friendly guy and often looked up to his brother since Itachi was the new Clan Leader. A tiring job yes, but he made time for his brother when he could. Sasuke was surprisingly the second best in class and he was ok and at the same time not ok with it. Sasuke was not really pushing for Rookie of the Year, but he just did not get along with Naruto's brother, Menma, and so they were always at each other's throats. Thankfully, he didn't have a problem with Naruto.

"Who do you think will be on your team?" Choji asked while munching on his ever present bag of chips.

"I would prefer it to be any one of you since we all passed." Naruto said. Yes he passed, but he made it so that he did just barely. Still, this was all just a front. Naruto had a plan and it did not include them. It included his siblings and eventually making fools out of them, destined children his ass.

"Logical since we are your main friends. Despite Kiba being a friend, he is not close and seems to prefer your sister, which makes it hard to develop a friendship with him." Shino concluded, to which Naruto nodded to. Yes, Kiba had a major crush on two girls in class, his sister Kaeru and Hinata Hyuuga. Both often spurned his advances but he never gave up like the dog he was.

Still, Naruto thought Kaeru and Kiba made a good couple. They were both full of themselves after all. "I also wouldn't mind being on Sasuke's team. I think he wants to replace his father for the head of the police force, to take some of the weight off of Itachi's shoulder."

"Noble." Shino replied.

"Yeah, I would have thought Sasuke's personality would have darkened when his father died in that incident." Choji said.

"Lucky for us, he didn't." Shikamaru drawled out. "I am good with you guys as well, but if I am correct, the Hokage will try and remake the Ino-Shika-Cho team."

"Logical since your fathers are one to the best teams." Shino replied with a nod.

Then, Iruka finally came in. That man had always been on Naruto's side. He always rooted for Naruto and often took him to Ichiraku's. He was basically a father to the boy…or a big brother. However, most of the other low level ninja of the village viewed Naruto as a lost cause and just didn't care for the boy, yet the higher ranking ninja saw the boy's situation and had a high amount of respect for him for not leaving, but the down side of this was that they lost respect for the Hokage and the rest of his family. Yet they did not let it show…much.

"Ok class. This is the last time we will see each other for a while and I am proud to be your teacher. Thank You." Iruka said as he began his speech. When he was finally done, he got to the teams. Most of them were not of note until he got to team seven. "Ok Team Seven is Menma Namikaze, Kaeru Namikaze, and Naruto Namikaze, you sensei is Kakashi Hatake."

That was not really a surprise to most people. Since Menma was Rookie of the Year and Kaeru was the Top Kunoichi, it was expected that they would be on a team together along with whoever was the dead last and in this case it was Naruto.

All of Naruto's friends, however, cringed. They knew of Naruto's dislike for his own family, along with a family friend that seemed to not care either way and now he would be spending more time with them. That had to suck. Sasuke shook his head and gave Naruto a nod of good luck to his friend, hoping that Naruto survived his family.

Still, it was what Naruto had planned. On the outside, his knuckles were white, showing his friends that he was not happy, but that was mostly for the name, Namikaze. He hated that name since he felt he wasn't even part of the family. On the inside, he was laughing evilly. One step closer to making fools out of his family.

"Next we have Team 8. Hinata Hyuuga, Shino Aburame, and Kiba Inuzuka. Your Sensei is Kurenai Yuhi." Iruka continued, and only seeing a sad look on Hinata's face and a brash one on Kiba's, he went on to the next team. "Team 9 in still in circulation from last year so we have Team 10. Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi. Your sensei Asuma Sarutobi." He paused when Shikamaru drawled out a lazy 'called it' and then continued. "Team 11 is Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Sai. Your sensei is Itachi Uchiha"

That last one made everyone raise an eyebrow. Iruka saw and expect this, so he explained. "Sasuke, your brother wishes to teach you despite being the clan head and all that entails. However, you mother is capable to leading the clan as well since she is a clan heir as well. So Itachi is working in shifts with you mother on that front." Iruka paused for a moment and said, "Sai, while not being in this class will be at your team meeting. As for who he is, well….he is part of Danzo's root and Hokage-sama is giving that man another chance by integrating one of his younger subordinates back into the ninja force….sort of like an experiment of sorts."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow at this and then shrugged, not really caring anymore. He was more interested in learning under his brother. Sakura on the other hand was more wary of her new teammate, having heard some things about Root from her dad.

"Your senseis will be here to pick you up in a few minutes. See you later." With that, Iruka left the room just as most of the sensei came for their students. Some happy about being teachers and students while other just didn't give a damn.

However, as predicted, Kakashi was not there. He would be late, so Naruto leaned back and put his feet on the desk while observing his 'teammates.' First was Kaeru. She was flame haired to put it simply. Most of her hair was blond with the tips being red. She wore red ninja sandals, skin tight black pants, and a red shirt that seemed to be skin tight as well. It hid not much to the imagination of her developing figure….C cup breasts and all. She also had two curved blades on her back.

Kaeru was loud. To a lot of people she could be mean and then cute to some. She tried helping Naruto by yelling at him and when that didn't work, she was really nice and cute. It was odd and irritating at that same time and it gave Naruto a headache. He would call her a Tsundere if that was the word for it but he was not sure. Naruto was also clueless to her feelings towards him due his own dislike for his family. He often thought that since she was the ONLY one not to ignore and hate him. He felt that she was playing some sort of game and therefore didn't trust her.

Then there was Menma. He had red hair with black tips. Many thought it was badass. Naruto thought it made him look like an ass. The boy had black ninja sandals, black cargo pants, and a silver tank top to show off his developing muscles. Like other ninja he had his ninja tools on the back of his belt.

Like Kaeru and most of their family, Menma was loud and he was egotistical to the level of Uchiha on some days. He and Naruto did not get along, at all. Others thought that they actually hated one another. However, it wasn't always like this. Menma used to get along with Naruto, not buying into their family and some friends not giving Naruto a chance. That changed over the years as he too saw Naruto as nothing but dead weight. So he began to hate the blond boy with a passion, often degrading him like their dad did on occasion. To him, Naruto was worthless and that Jiriaya had been right.

Naruto closed his eyes. Yes, with all of his training and not just in the dust release, he would show them he was not the worthless brat they made him out to be.

He would show them, more importantly, he would show that damn Toad Sage, that he was NOT nothing.

Naruto snapped his eyes open and smiled. And I show them the power of Naruto Ranmyaku!

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That is chapter one for you all. Some things explained but not all. I plan to reveal his past in flashbacks. His memories and others alike. Like the reason his last name is Ranmyaku, which means Chaos. So in a sense, Naruto's name could mean Maelstrom of Chaos.

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