Enter Naruto Uzumaki: The Origami Princess!

Fuinjutsu, known as the art of sealing things away. On the day of her birth, Naruto had something more than the Nine Tails sealed. "Minato was always such a little shit. You being forced to suffer through life alone, he of course had to give a gift."

Rated M, eventual KakaNaru, some SasuNaru.

Listed as Naruto and Naruko since it's technically FemNaruto, but there's no OC siblings.

I don't own Naruto!

The number nine is the highest single digit.

In the growing Hidden Village of the Leaves, they were still recovering like its sibling Shinobi Villages, five years later. Damaged buildings were upgraded, removed, or renovated to hold the still new coming citizens. Unlike the other villages, it wasn't the opposition in the Third Shinobi War that landed the last blow and allowed hate to manifest in Konoha's villagers - it was just the attack and sealing of the nine tailed fox.

Being the oldest and most famous village outside of civilian life, it was said to be the most deserving that they dealt with the worse of the situations.

Only a month after the war ended as tension was still high with few and few casualties, Minato Namikaze was promoted to become the Fourth Hokage. Adored as the Yellow Flash for his helpful part in the war, the woman he had married in secret was already long pregnant and still fought in defense of the high walls when she was able to sneak away from her equally pregnant friend.

Three months after the war ended as attempts of agreements were made, Kushina Uzumaki gave birth. Unknowing to everyone of who the father was or the real reason she was formally invited to the village years before, the nine tailed fox escaped. Mostly rumored to have been seen by the eldest citizens in the time of the Shodaime Hokage, its existence was only ever confirmed by its weaker tails.

Looming over the village for hours as its tails was able to create earthquakes and brush off the attacks, only Minato Namikaze was able to defeat the beast by sealing it into his only child, Naruto.

His last request was for her to be seen as a hero, hopefully under the guise of a boy.

The villagers had no reason to see her as one.

As far as they knew, he was a monster, a beast in human form who killed their beloved Yondaime and what was left of his family.

The cultures, region, and history are all different - but all the villages had scapegoats. In many of the ninja ran ones, jinchuriki's were the locals favorites to blame, look down upon, and harm. Purposely given the same last name as his mother to keep her safe from the enemies of the Yellow Flash, she looked too different for her mothers own to target her. Already shamed for her status and hidden in plain sight, she was only able to be placed inside one of the many filling orphanages where she would never be adopted, never defended and called them all besides what she simply was.

Special.

Children act on what they think they should do and what is needed to be done, and intelligence is knowing quite a bit of it is what adults protect them from. Naruto did what she thought she needed to do first: to be seen as something other than a target.

The anger she held and that grew at those around her was dulled during the visits of the reinstated Third Hokage, Hurizen Sarutobi. Taught how to properly read and speak other than the repetitive insults to turn around at others, she was five years old when she was explained what a prank was.

She will call it life changing and anger management, but Hurizen will call the moment afterward it instead.

Stopping by the orphanage to personally inspect its teachings and lodgings, he wanted it to end in a trip for ramen with Naruto. During supper where the other children were distracted, Naruto had a habit of gathering the toys the others weren't friendly enough to give up earlier and simply enjoyed eating all the left overs a hour later in secret.

So stepping over an especially large pile of blankets that blocked the door, he sat down for the final part of the inspection process - interviewing a tenant.

Left unknown during this time of what was going on in his office, an incident at the hospital of a failed system just a few days before was nearly resolved, only a glance over and multiple signatures for approval was needed in the end, so one of the many Chunin were sent to search for the Hokage. Not taking long, the high stack blocked his view as he walked into the room - and he stumbled onto his face as it all was thrown into the air.

Like a machine with one true purpose in life, if anybody had paid attention to her from that day on, they would realize that Naruto Uzumaki was beginning the process of growing up too fast.

Her thoughts and actions acted as if they were a freshly fallen bee nest.

Tracing and pressing, seemingly blank paper finely folded underneath otherwise clumsy fingers as her lips mouthed the directions silently. Eyes hypnotized as she finished a flapping origami bird, the hive had finally came together to act as one.

She was awoken from the trance mid-reach for a well written piece of paperwork by Hurizen. While he was impressed and concerned as the almost possessed look faded away from her large blue eyes, a pit in the bottom of his stomach had formed and would only grow with her.

With the sudden loud shouts of becoming Hokage and the continuous quiet mumbles of wanting a family, her fingers began twitching at the sight of all paper.

Hurizen knew that when she rose high from the status of a scapegoat, the number nine will be offered by hundreds to describe her genuine power.

Rewritten: 6/6/2017