Well people, here's chapter 1 of Naruto: the path of a hero. Hopefully this will be just as good as my other one "Naruto uzumaki the rising ninja", well enjoy everyone!

"Speaking": bjiuu/ summoning

'Thinking: bjiuu/ summoning

Fire style: fireball jutsu: jutsu/ attacks (although rasengan and chidori and all those moves will be just their own name)

Don't own Naruto

The cold wind of the night blew through the village of konoha, causing a slight ruffling in most of the trees that were both in and around konoha, however, the lone thudding sound pierced through the slightly howling wind and rustling bushes.

Thud…..

Thud…..

Thud….

Thud….

"Naruto….I know that you want to be a ninja, but practicing while you're only three is insane…"

Thud….

Thud….

Thud…

"Naruto…..I….look….you have to come inside now, before the other ladies in the building notice you're not in there and lock it up….and I can't exactly open any orphans room and I can't have you come out into the streets….please come inside now…."

The thuds stopped as a small boy at the ripe age of three stood in front of a tree. The boy was no more than 3'3 inches. He had short spiky black hair with blond streaks running throughout his hair.

When the boy turned around, the orphanage lady watched as the calm black eyes of the child look towards her. The orphanage lady looked at the small child with a slight smile, which was mirrored by Naruto, causing the slight, but still their whisker marks to rise up with his slight grin.

"Ok hamiri" spoke Naruto in a calm even tone, which was remarkable for a three year old.

Hamiri held out her hand, waiting for Naruto himself to grab it so that she could lead him inside, only to watch as he grabbed her hand and started to pull her towards the orphanage instead, showing impressive strength for his age.

Hamiri smile….until she looked up towards the orphanage….where she saw multiple orphanage workers grinning darkly towards her and Naruto….before the entered the orphanage building and locking up, Leaving both hamiri and Naruto outside in the cold dark night.

Hamiri looked down towards Naruto with a frown upon her face. She knew that if she tried to take Naruto inside with her….they would possible fire her on the spot for doing something that is considered "demonic"….and she needed her job.

"Naruto…" hamiri spoke in a soft tone…only to be cut off from the small three year old child who gave her a slight smile.

"It's…its ok hamiri….I understand….have a good night….." spoke Naruto as he let go of hamiri's hand and started to walk down the steps that led towards the orphanage.

Hamiri watched as the small child disappeared down the street, his short black shirt and long black cargo pants helping him blend in with the darkness of the street.

Hamiri lowered her head down slightly…..

"I…I'm….sorry Naruto….."

….before she turned and walked towards the orphanage, where she was welcomed in as Naruto wasn't with her.

(Down the street)

Naruto walked down the clear street with his hands covered up by his pockets. He felt the chill of the wind brush against his exposed face, arms and toes as he walked forward, his black shinobi sandals barely fitting his feet in the first place.

Naruto looked at the dark path ahead of him as he walked through the street. He could perfectly hear the sounds that surround him, the crunching of his sandals as he walked, the flaps of still awake birds, the sound of fireworks going off at the other end of the village….

Oh, it was his birthday then….October 10, well happy fourth birthday to him then.

Suddenly, Naruto widened his eyes….

October 10th…..

The fox hunts…..

'SHIT!' thought Naruto as he realised why exactly hamiri wanted him to enter the orphanage early….

Naruto took his hands out of his pockets, he already had experienced "lockout" a couple of times in the past, so he was able to plan for certain events each time he was locked out of the orphanage, of course the "lockout" rule only applied to him.

Naruto started to move into a slow jog, before speeding up into a decent jog, before beginning to sprint at a comfortable rate.

Watching as he ran past each street, Naruto narrowed his eyes when he caught sight of a certain alley way just a few house's ahead of him.

Suddenly, Naruto heard crunching…..multiple crunching's.

Not looking back, Naruto continued to run, hoping at the back of his mind that it was a nocturnal animal and not what he thought it was….

"HEY LOOK! IT'S THE HOST OF THE KYUUBI SPIRIT! WE FINALLY GOT EM BOYS!" shouted a muscular voice a few metres away from Naruto's currently sprinting body.

Naruto narrowed his black eyes as he ran even faster…. Only to get caught by the scruff of his shirt, he was only three after all.

Naruto felt his body sling shot back to where the man grabbed the scruff of his shirt, before feeling the ground beneath him disappear as he was flung backwards.

Naruto shut his eyes as he felt his back impact with the ground he was previously flung off. Opening his dark eyes once more, Naruto quickly looked around him and saw three men, all alike with the exception of hair style, but overall the same.

Naruto looked towards his left as a foot was sent sailing towards him.

CRACK

Naruto opened his mouth, prepared to scream…before remembering something….

No one would help him….

Shutting his mouth, Naruto felt blow after blow the men dealt towards him. He could feel his fragile bones crack and break, he could feel his life slipping away as the men continued to attack him.

However, being piss drunk they were, the men soon eventually passed out, causing Naruto to cough out a small bit of blood from his mouth. Tilting his head slightly, Naruto spat out a glob of blood, something that a three year old should never do, before he rolled himself over onto his stomach.

Grunting in pain, Naruto narrowed his eyes as he tried to keep conscious. Naruto then started to crawl, crawl to the only safe place he currently had.

Naruto winced and grunted with each movement of his body, he could feel his broken bones shift as they tried to fix themselves, what reason they could do that? Naruto had no clue; he just accepted it as he crawled towards the alley.

When Naruto reached the alley, he looked towards the back and saw that it was a dead end, grinning slightly, with blood now painted at the edge of his lips, Naruto crawled to the back section.

Reaching the back, Naruto saw a small boulder. Crawling towards it, Naruto laid his broken body against the building wall as he used a single arm to move the small boulder aside, showing a tunnel of sorts. Pushing his body off the building, Naruto shifted his body to fall into the curved hole, ignoring the pain he would experience after his body hit the hole.

Watching as his legs went into the hole, soon followed by his waist, and then upper chest, Naruto quickly shot out his right arm and grabbed a small hook attached to the small boulder's back, something he used to pull the boulder back into place as he fell into the dark hole.

Feeling his body finally get through the small hole, Naruto started to crawl through his man-made tunnel. Only spanning a few metres as there was another entry/exit at the other end.

Managing to get his body through the tunnel he made, he quickly got to the other end and moved a wooden floorboard and crawled through the gap the floorboard had given Naruto.

Once Naruto crawled out, he re-placed the floorboard before looking around.

Naruto grinned as he saw that he was in the right place, and not some other home, as someone could have copied his escape plan somehow.

The room he was in was a large, but plain, room.

There was a single futon in the middle of the large room and a small desk filled with scrolls in the corner, along with some water and lopes of bread on the other corner.

There were also a few exact copies of his current ware next to his body sized mirror…that he only filled a quarter up when he went to view himself.

Grunting as he crawled towards his futon, Naruto pulled the cover off and slid himself in, before wrapping the blanket on top of him as he went to sleep, ignoring another set of breathing from within his mind, not that he knew.

(Mindscape)

Naruto suddenly snapped his eyes open, as he felt himself lay against something nice and soft….

Pushing himself against what he thought was his futon, Naruto widened his eyes as he felt slight tickling against his hands and fingers, before noticing the lush grass that was surrounding him in all directions.

Blinking slightly, Naruto prepared to stand, getting ready to feel soar as while he was sure he was healed, he knew that he was going to be soaring, and however, when Naruto went to stand, he felt nothing. No pain in his bones, joints or organs, it felt as if he was not just beaten up and near dead.

Shrugging to himself, Naruto looked all around, noticing that there was a walkway heading towards the south, well his south as when he woke up he was facing north.

Moving his body, Naruto started to follow the path, curious as to where it would go.

The silenced helped Naruto relax as he followed the path that ran ahead of him.

Naruto watched as the luscious grass soon started to disappear, replacing itself with an old crumbled red sewer as he followed the once clean path, now underwater.

As Naruto walked with the path, he could hear the sounds of snores and movement, how he heard movement confused him, but he knew that something was moving along the path.

After a long walk, the now four year old Naruto came upon a large gate, held by a small piece of paper with squiggly lines upon it, fuinjutsu if Naruto guessed right.

As Naruto gazed into the darkness that was behind the gate, he quickly got bored of the environment surrounding him as he heard some shuffling from within the darkness.

Sitting down onto the water, something he noticed that didn't wet his cloths, Naruto let out a large sight.

"…I wish that this place was the same as when I woke up, at least I could look the grass growing" spoke Naruto in a slightly sarcastic voice….

Only to watch as the sewer disappeared, soon replaced with grass similar to when he originally woke up….

Another thing it did was clear the darkness out behind the cage, causing Naruto to come face to face with…. The nine tailed beast…kyuubi.

Naruto face morphed into that of both shock and awe as he stared at the massive beast…that was asleep.

Moving up closer to the bars, Naruto clenched his left hand into a fist and moved it towards the cage quietly…..before knocking on the cage, sending sound to bounce around the entire grassy planes.

After a few bands, Naruto watched as the massive nine tailed beast turned its head towards him and opened a single eye….before snapping his head towards Naruto instantly with both of his large eyes open.

"Uchiha!" screamed the large beast as he stood up on his hands and legs.

Naruto, ignoring what the beast originally said, looked towards the cage before sticking his hand slightly out towards the kyuubi.

"My names Naruto, what's yours mister fox?"

Well, there's the first chapter of my newest fic, also, for this fic I'm only having one partner for Naruto, and that will be an OC k, but alas, I will let you vote on the three elements Naruto can start off with, each element will be given a point if someone rights what element in the review, well anyway hope this was a good start and I'll see you later people.