Yo guys! I'm B.j and this piece of literature below is my first fan fiction, so please be gentle. Wow, I am not even sure if that was an innuendo but whatever. Pairing is NaruHina, no discussion. And this would also be a neglect fic although it may or may not be rectified. To be honest, I don't know why my first fan fiction was a neglect fic; I'll have to talk to my psychiatrist about it later.

This fic is slightly dark, more grey-like but Naruto would not be evil.

So, enjoy!

CHAPTER 1

'It's not fair' 7 year old Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze thought. Sitting next to his bedroom window, he watched forlornly as his 'family'; the man had bright, blue eyes and spiky, blond hair. He wore a standard Konoha uniform with two bands on both of his sleeves, a green flak jacket, blue forehead protector, and blue sandals. Over his flak jacket he wore a short-sleeved long white haori closed in the front by a thin, orange rope. The haori was decorated by red flame-like motifs on the edges, with the kanji for "Fourth Hokage" (四代目火影, Yondaime Hokage) written vertically down the back. This man was his father, the Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze, the woman had a slender, but feminine build, fair skin, violet eyes, and the common Uzumaki red hair. It reached her waist with shoulder-length strands that framed both sides of her face and a black clip that parts her hair to the left. She wore a high-collared, sleeveless blouse under a long, loose-fitting light green dress with a wristband on her left wrist and standard shinobi sandals. She was his mother, Kushina Uzumaki-Namikaze, former jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, and a miniture version of his mother, except she wore a deep blue dress, she was his twin sister Mito Uzumaki-Namikaze, jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, along with his god parents Tsunade and Jiraiya played around his family's training ground under the guise of training.

He did not know what he did wrong. He woke up early, cleaned up the kitchen and went for a walk to the Hokage Monument where he could watch the sunrise, he greeted his parents every day, he helped Mito in learning how to read, and he even waved to the villagers who somehow still knew him.

Then he looked into the mirror to see if he had any sort of deformity, unsurprisingly he had none. He was as tall as any other healthy 5 year old, green pupils, two arms and two legs. But if there was anything strange about his body it would be his hair and his skin colour, it was similar to his father's blonde but had streaks of grey in it and his skin was very pale, luckily not too many of his veins were showing. One afternoon in the village's park, he asked a dark purple haired, lavender eyed 5 year old girl if he was ugly, she fainted. He would have to read into that later.

He even tried to see whether he was too dumb, he wasn't; because unknown to his parents had already started reading from his 'family's' library. He had already learnt the finer mechanics of fuinjutsu, going further in it than any Uzumaki his age should. Something even Mito hadn't done.

But he had a hunch on what his problem was, 'stupid chakra' he muttered bitterly. He sister unlocked her chakra when they were four years old, so predictably his god father Jiraiya proclaimed that she was a prodigy. Then started spouting something about training her early and letting her sign the toad contract. Yeah toads were cool, but he didn't want them. He had a hard time even unlocking his chakra, anytime he tried to use it he would feel weird, like it wanted to come out but it just wasn't strong enough. He asked one of his few friends parents what that meant, Shibi Aburame answered: "your chakra is too weak to come out" he tried not to take offense at that, "you will activate it Naruto, it would just be harder", needless to say he took Shibi's words to heart. He was his role model after all.

He finally coaxed his chakra out after two long weeks of 6 hour meditations; it was a sickly looking green that felt like tiny, tiny feet were crawling all over his skin. Like spiders. Now that he thought about it, his chakra, apparently, was poisonous. After activating it, he found a dead bear in the forest he was training in. weird.

'Screw them then', the poor child muttered,' I'll show you I can get strong without your help'. It was Greatness in the making.

The Next Day

We now find our young hero on his morning walks to the Hokage Monument, deep in thought.

'sarutobi-oji-sama said if I want to be great, I have to have a goal and a role model', then he giggled slightly 'or role models', it was an unknown secret that young Naruto looked up to anyone who acknowledged him. Like Shibi Aburame, Uchiha Itachi, Yugao Uzuki, the Kazekage, to name a few.

You may ask yourself how he knows the Kazekage, it was because Suna and Konoha had strong ties with each other and that his family would visit Suna as many times as possible and the Kazekage's family would do likewise.

Back to the topic at hand, hands in his shorts pockets, Naruto walked quietly to his spot on the Sandaime Hokage's head. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw a book; trudging over to it he picked it up and dusted the dirty cover, it read: The Bing Book. The red-head cocked his head to the side slightly and tried to remember where he had heard of the name from. Naruto opened the books and began reading it in awe and fascination; it was a sort of bounty book filled with both missing nin and normal ninja. Flipping the page quickly and trying but failing to contain his drooling, he even saw his parents. Then stopped dead at a missing nin page, not because of his name but because of his bounty.

'S-class Nuke-nin', he muttered, 'Sasori of the Red Sands'

S-Class

SASORI OF THE RED SANDS

AGE: UNKNOWN

AFFILIATION: SUNA NUKE-NIN

DESCRIPTION: BROWN EYES, RED HAIR.

ABILITIY(S): PUPETEER

NOTE: SASORI OF THE RED SANDS IS ACREDITED FOR HIS MASTERY OF HIS ART TO THE EXTENT HE COULD SOMEHOW CONTROL MORE THAN TEN OF HIS PUPETS AT A SING TIME. HE USED HIS ABILITY TO TAKE OVER A COUNTRY. SASORI IS ALSO KNOWN FOR HIS USE OF HUMAN PUPPETS. IT IS ALSO RUMOURED THAT HE HAD TURNED HIS BODY INTO A PUPPET. IF ENCOUNTERED: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ENGAGE.

"Wow", the quiet boy muttered, "this guy is awesome; he even has a higher bounty than Tou-sama and kaa-sama".

He proceeded with his walk, eyes still glued to the Bingo Book, committing his new role models page to his memory.

"Puppeteer", at this he paused, the title intrigued him just as much as the study of fuinjutsu. Forgetting that his daily tradition of watching the sunrise on the Hokage monument, he raced to the village's library. The village's library had become his second home when he could not reach the books at the top of the shelf at his family's library. It opened after sunrise and closed just before sunset, meaning he spent 9 hours of his life in the library trying to find an aspect of the ninja life that would interest him so that he could expand on it. He arrived 30 minutes early, so he sat at the steps and re-read Sasori's page, the words 'human puppets' popped out to him for not the first time. He could only guess what that meant, but strangely that did not disgust him in the least, just like when, after he unlocked his chakra, he experimented on what his chakra could do to other animals barring the bear he found. What he discovered amazed him, when he caught a rabbit he pushed a little bit of his chakra into it and found that the animal's skin pigmentation changed from light brown to a sickly green also when Naruto dropped the rabbit in fright and made to run the poor creature followed almost as fast as any other juiced up rabbit. Further intrigued, he pumped as much chakra as he could spare into the rabbit and the animal started to deteriorate and die. He also tested this on insects and found that particularly arachnids were drawn to it. At the time he was 5 years old so he summed it up to him having abnormal chakra. Yeah, go figure.

The pale boys thoughts were cut-off by the sound of jingling bells, "Good morning Naruto-kun" Sami Yamanaka greeted as he unlocked the librarys door, he was a 68 year old war veteran from the second shinobi war, he retired from active duty as a jounin to tend to the library which at the time was seriously lacking. "you're here earlier than usual".

"Hai Sami-san, I just wanted to get an early start", Naruto said as he scratched the back of his head.

Giving the 7 year old thumbs up, Sami whispered, "good boy, but next time if you want to get an early start you can swing by my place and help me open up"

"Really?" Naruto said with stars in his eyes.

"Really, now", helping the boy to his feet, Sami opened the library doors and ushered Naruto inside, "can you help me dust down the books today?"

"Definitely, old man!" Naruto grinned, running to the store room to carry the dusters. He started dusting the shelves from top to bottom occasionally climbing the librarys ladder to reach the top. "Ne, Sami-san?" at the old man's hum he continued "what do you know about puppeteering?"

"puppeteering you say," he paused to scratch his chin, "well puppeteering is a shinobi art form commonly indigenous to Suna, the make use of puppets, most likely made of wood, in combat" Sami recited as if reading from a text book, he continued, "from what I observed in the last shinobi war, puppeteers make use of chakra strings to bring their creations to 'life'".

As Sami was speaking, Naruto's mind began racing a mile a minute, 'puppets made out of wood, so human puppets are not really known or maybe even liked'. When he finished dusting his side of the library, he ran to Sami and asked where he could find anything on puppets. Sami's eyes twinkled knowingly and he pointed to the 'S' section of the library and told him to knock himself out.

30 minutes later

Naruto soon discovered that konoha's knowledge on puppeteering was seriously lacking. 'I mean how could information on something so interesting be so little' the boy pouted, then he looked at Sasori's page in the bingo book and clenched his fists 'I'll have to fix that, then I'll become the world's best puppet master, I'll show you Namikaze family, that I am worth your time'.

Racing to the door and waving to the elderly librarian who still had that knowing look in his eyes, Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze ran home.

On reaching his home, Naruto made a bee line to his father's library, luckily for him, Minato had already left for work as the Hokage; he searched for anything on puppets, puppet masters and chakra strings. He actually found more on chakra strings than in the library, but it was still not enough. He had to expel threads of chakra from the tenketsu of his fingers; it did not say how he would be able to do this. So naturally, for him that is, he deduced that to be able to expel chakra from one part of the body he would have to have very good chakra control. The pale boy found an entire scroll on basic and advanced chakra control exercises, clutching the book to his chest he ran out of the library straight to his room.

That month, Naruto found out that he had a lot of very dense chakra, so much that he had to start with tree/wall/surface walking before he could be able to do leaf balancing or even leaf spinning. He would only come out of his room occasionally to eat, which was once or twice a day and collect two hand full of leaves for his chakra control, the only people who noticed this were his friend (Shino Aburame), some of his parent's friends and his sister, Mito.

Mito Uzumaki-Namikaze loved her brother, borderline crushed on even, although she tried to not make it painfully obvious, the fact that her face would light up red would show that she was failing. He was very cool. She was slightly shorter than him, with her mother's red hair. She was also the polar opposite of her introverted brother, that is; she was friends with everyone, she pranked, she lacked patience and she had more stamina. But she still loved him. When there was a thunder storm, she would creep into his room and slide into his bed, sobbing into his chest as he whispered comfort to her. If she had any problem reading, she would meet her brother first before taking it to her father. Mito loved her brother. So when her brother did not come out of his room as regularly as per norm she became afraid, but her fears were assuaged when she saw him reading a huge scroll, he asked him what he was reading, he told her, "chakra control". Sighing wistfully to herself, the blonde nudged her way into his room and lying on Naruto's bed, Mito watched as her brother walk around his ceiling shirtless covered in spinning leaves and reading a text on wood work and construction.

"Ne, nee-chan! Do you think I can do that?" Mito

"If you are patient, yes you can Mito-chan" he grunted

Pouting, Mito ranted "I've tried Naruto-nee-chan! But Tou-chan said I have too much chakra, he said because I have so much chakra, I'll have to do so many chakra control exercises, I mean…"

"Mito-chan, trust me, you can do it" Naruto paused and smiled at her, "I believe in you"

Mito grinned up at him, face as red as her hair "thanks nee-chan"

"No prob" and he continued running around his ceiling

"Ne nee-chan, what are you think I should wear for the Kyuubi festival this evening" the red head mumbled as she twiddled her fingers, hoping he didn't hear. "I-I mean, are you going" here Naruto chuckled slightly, "of course you're going, it's our birthday"

"Don't worry Mito-chan; I'll see if I can go"

The rest of the day Mito silently watched her brother walking around the ceiling reading his book occasionally doing push up's, squats and some stretches, with stars in her eyes. Then she both heard their parents from downstairs yelling for her to get ready for the festival. The blonde sighed to herself at having her time cut short, she got up and trudged to her room while muttering "see you later nee-chan".

As the door closed, Naruto got down, leaves still spinning and stretched. He mused to himself all the plans he had for the puppets he would create. When he finished stretching he was sure his parents had forgotten him again and went to the festival. The blonde sat down at his desk and marked off all the chakra control exercises he has done, satisfied he has finished the scroll on chakra control he concentrated chakra to his index finger and watched fascinated as a thin thread of left his finger and floated to his pillow across the room and he tugged, he had to duck so as to avoid being decapitated.

'Interesting,' he thought, 'now to start sketching my puppet designs' at this he let loose an 'evil' laugh that sounded more like a giggle.

The festival was in full swing. The games were fun, the food was delicious and the people were happy, well not everyone was happy. Barring all those that lost a loved one on that day 7 years ago, two people were definitely not happy. They were Mito Uzumaki-Namikaze and Hinata Hyuuga, both for similar, Mito because she wanted her brother to be there at the festival and Hinata because she wanted to see her new crush (even if she had only seen him once) again.

But alas, oblivious to his daughter's thoughts, Minato Namikaze's mind was racing on how to celebrate part two of his daughter's birthday seemingly forgetting that he had a son as well.

After the annual Kyuubi festival, the Uzumaki-Namikaze family sans Naruto were now sitting round their main rooms table awaiting the guests for Mito's (and Naruto's) birthday party, and as the guest were trickling in Minato stood up and welcomed them in. it was at this time that Naruto, wearing a dark green shirt, black shorts and black sandals, walked in. he noticed to his disappointment that most of the party's guests and their children were surrounding his 'family', so he found a secluded corner and sat down, bringing out his sketch book and continuing his work. He already had 3 ideas.

"Yo Naruto!" a voice, Mito, yelled "come over here, lets blow out our cake"

Both of their parents looked at themselves and cursed, they had totally forgotten to get Naruto presents, then as if sharing a collective thought promised to make it up to him, that is if he could ever forgive them of what they were about to do…

The blonde boy nodded to Mito and stood up silently, he spotted shino and his parents in the crowd and nodded to them, but to his disappointment he did not see Itachi. He walked over to Mito and looked at his parents and bowed "Tou-sama, Kaa-sama", everyone was taken aback by his politeness because normal 7 year olds were brasher. After blowing out their cake, Minato announced that it was now present time.

"Oh oh I'll go first" Jiraiya shouted, "Mito-chan, with the blessings of the toad elders, I give you the toad contract to sign!" stunned silence, then thunderous claps from the crowd. The toad sage then brought out a huge scroll and presented it to Mito, shoving poor Naruto aside "just sign under your father's name with your blood" and in the Namikaze family's excitement they forgot the presence of their other child. Naruto's only sign of distaste was his slightly clenched hand. He walked back to his corner, sat down and continued his sketching, getting lost in his imagination and the mechanics of his puppet sketches. Then two people sat beside him almost silently, well three people but the third person chose to stand, poking her index fingers together.

"Happy birthday, Naruto" two of the people said, one male the other female.

"Thanks guys" the budding puppet master smiled at them, "how's the party"

Shino Aburame nodded "the party is good"

"Yeah, the party is ok, but how you are Naruto" Hanabi Hyuuga said, looking at what Naruto was drawing "and what is that!"

"I'm… fine and this" he said "is a work in progress, but I promise to show you guys when I'm done."

Shino nodded again and Hanabi pouted "fine", she the grinned and nudged her foot at the third girl, still standing and fidgeting "c'mon Hinata, say 'hi'"

Here the poor girls blush deepened and she waved at Naruto, who looked up at her and tried to remember where he had seen her from, "h-hello Naruto-s-san, my n-name is H-Hinata Hyuuga" she stammered.

"Nice to meet you" he smiled slightly, "have I seen you before?"

"Of course you have Naruto; she was the girl that passed out after you asked her if you were ugly!" Hanabi laughed, "Which you aren't, mind I remind you. She just said she wanted to meet you."

"Well met Hinata-san" Naruto said as he shook her sweaty hand "do you guys need anything to drink?"

"Nah, I'm good" Hanabi said as she patted her belly, "what of you shino?"

"I am also good" he then looked at Hinata who shook her head. "My Tou-san aid I should give you this" he brought out a new set of ten kunai and shuriken. Naruto took the gifts and smiled at shino nodding his thanks.

"Oh yeah, my Tou-san also sent us to give you this" Hanabi brought out a wrapped box. Naruto took the box and unwrapped it, he gasped quietly when he saw what the Hyuuga clan head bought for him. It was two pairs of Black Hand gloves, two pairs of black sunglasses and three black half masks (masks that cover the lower half of the face, which is nose and mouth). He smiled at the present, wondering how the man read his mind.

"Thanks guys," he then pulled both children into a hug, "you too Hinata" said girl blushed even deeper (if that's even possible) and nodded her head.

"Excuse me everybody, I have an announcement to make" Minato's voice yelled over the crowd, ordering for silence "I'd like to announce that I have now officially named Mito-chan as the Uzumaki-Namikaze clan heir". The silence was deafening, most of the guests sent Naruto-who was at the back of the room-sympathetic looks, knowing fully well that he was the older twin.

Naruto's world screeched to a stop. 'They named her clan heir…' it is a well-known fact that if ones birth right is given to someone else it meant that the guardians-in this case, his parents-thought that he was incapable of the role. 'They think I'm too weak! They think I'm useless!' he mentally fumed. He stood up and looked at his parents and took a deep breathe, bowed to them and walked out the front door. Back at the party, most of the guest sighed in relief that they did not have to witness a childish tantrum, while Naruto's parents felt sick to their stomachs, 'how could we do this to him' they sighed. They renewed their promise to try and make it up to him. Meanwhile, Mito's heart broke.

Naruto walked calmly to training ground 44 to vent out his anger.

When he reached, his anger was almost legendary to behold. He manifested chakra strings from most of his tenketsu, whether it was his hands, back, legs, neck, anywhere the strings could come out without it tearing his clothes to shreds and he decimated any tree and animal that got in his way. He let loose a yell and tore into a bear, mutilating the poor thing, disregarding the animal's roars of mercy. It was midnight when he finally cooled down and could make even the slightest bit of coherent thought, suspiciously not even the slightest bit tired he sat down and, for the first time in four years when his parents first forgot his birthday, cried. He cried until his voice was hoarse and scratchy. Another hour later pale boy stopped crying and looked up at the moon, clenching his fist he produced a thin string of chakra from his index finger, it glowed an eerie green and snaked around the trunk of a tree where he pumped more chakra into it and watched as the tree deteriorated slowly until it was on the verge of falling, with a flick of his wrist the tree fell forward and crashed in the now freshly made clearing.

'I'll show them' he thought darkly 'I'll show them I'm not useless'

And with that last thought, he took off his shirt and produced chakra strings from all his available tenketsu (same as before, but now includes his back, chest and sides) and began chipping away at the fallen tree, constructing his first puppet. If one were to watch him cut into the tree one would say he looked eerily like a spider wrapping its prey with its web.

A few feet away, Shibi Aburame watched his unofficial student as carved into the tree trunk and nodded approvingly, already knowing what he was doing, before he left in a shunshin. 'Good luck, Naruto'.

Authors Note

Well, first chapter done! Let it be known now that this is not a complete bashing, so all of you can relax. I really do not know where I got this idea from. Yes and the pairing will be a NaruHina, although there would not be any development about them anytime soon. Therefore, no matter how much this fic seems more incest inclined, it is not. Can't write it but I can read it. *Grins* I had a crush on my aunt when I was 7 years old, I'm not sure if it's natural or whatever. It's also on my list of what I'll ask my psychiatrist.

*cough cough* Further, since Naruto now has multiple 'limbs' (chakra strings) and he is used to doing multiple things at a time like his chakra control exercises while reading, he would be able to complete a puppet faster than normal. He does not have chakra chains. Hope Naruto isn't OP.

Naruto does not hate Mito, in fact he loves here just a little bit less than she loves him, which is a lot. Most of his pent up anger would be towards his parents, he won't be a brat out rightly to them, he would most likely ignore them or act like nothing ever happened. Either one is fine.

That's it then. You guys can't see it but I'm hyperventilating now. Please review.

B.j.