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This is AU. Naruto is ooc and a bit smart for his age. Please read ALL AN's!!! I don't write them unless they're important! The one at the bottom is extremely important. ENJOY.

"...woot" Dialogue

'...woot' Monologue

'...woot' Flashbacks

...woot Scroll

"Hurry Ino, I think I saw Sasuke over there!" A young pink haired girl shouted enthusiastically to another girl behind her that looked to be the same age. They both looked to be around seven. Bright smiles adorned their innocent faces as they ran around the park. The park was beautiful, and the day was glorious. Every child in the park seemed to be enjoying the perfect day...except one.

A young boy sighed as he watched from afar. His eyes glazed with depression as he watched the children and parents laugh. Yet he was forced to watch from the shadows of an alley. He did this every day around the same time for about an hour before he would finally walk home, his mind desperately trying to understand why everyone seemed to be disgusted by the mere mention of his name. And everyday he would work himself to sleep.

Yes, a seven year old boy working himself to sleep. Push ups, sit ups, and punching an old mattress. That's all he could do. He would make them like him. He would become strong. He would become the Hokage. It was his dream. He wanted the smiles and respectful greetings that the old man was given by just walking through the village. It was all he had in this world...

His dreams.

He had no family. Only the Hokage, or old man, who barely had time for him.

He would change that.

He had to.

Naruto slowly ate his home made ramen while reading a book, glad that the Hokage had taken the time to teach him. It was the only book he was able to steal from the academy without getting caught. It was very hard to get it past the teacher. But he had done it.

Usually students were given their own textbooks.

But not him.

Naruto sighed as he turned the page only to find it was missing. His teeth clenched as he flipped through the pages, only to find that most were missing or were scribbled on. His eyes glistened as he promptly threw his ramen cup off the table and the book at the opposite wall.

' It...just isn't fair...'

He let his head hit the table as tears began to trail silently down his whisker scarred cheeks.

His head stayed like that for a moment before he got off of his chair and went to his "Punching bag". He began punching the mattress over and over, switching to kicking once in a while. ' I wont give up...I just can't.'

He stopped punching when he heard lightning. It was very loud...like it was close.

He then quickly ran to the kitchen of his small, unfurnished and dank apartment. Opening a old creaky wooden cabinet, Naruto pulled out four pots and began placing them in weird places around his home. Not a moment later, his ceiling began to leak, the drops of water making their way into the perfectly aligned pots.

Once Naruto was sure there wasn't any new leaks, he began walking back to his punching bag. That was, until lightning flashed once more. This time much closer, and the wailing thunder right after was extremely loud. The rain outside was getting stronger and coming down heavily.

Naruto wondered why it was raining so hard when it had been so nice out earlier. It seemed strange for the weather to change so drastically in what had to be less then three hours. But his musings were cut short when he was blasted back into his wall by a bolt of lightning that had torn through a chunk of his roof and struck ten feet in front of him.

Naruto's eyes opened painfully, wondering how bad the damage was only to widen in extreme shock to see something he never expected.

Right where the lightning had struck was a young man, around the age of seventeen, bloody and battered. He had an eye missing and his clothes were torn and drenched in his own blood. His left arm was split from the crevice of the middle finger and up along his forearm. His right arm held a bundle closely to his blood soaked chest. His hair was spiked up in the most spiky pattern known to man.

Naruto stared at the sizzling man in absolute horror. The grotesque sight making him forget his own slightly frazzled form. A shiver ran up his spine as the heavily panting man caught his eyes with his own remaining eye and smiled. His voice was horribly raspy and weak.

" Kid...y..o-o..u just...dunno ho..w..w lucky..."

The man closed his eye and swallowed the blood that was rising from his throat. He felt chakra signatures approaching. He had to act quickly. He used his remaining energy to stand and and walk over to the scared child and grabbed his arm, ignoring Naruto's horrified screaming. He then removed the cloth covering the bundle he had dropped using his useless left arm. It was a immaculate scroll. The man raised Naruto by right arm easily, holding him by the forearm with his right hand, and bit Naruto's fingertips.

Naruto just kept screaming and flailing his limbs. ' He's gonna kill me! Old man...help...'

The man dropped to his knee's and put Naruto's slightly bleeding hand onto the scroll. The scroll began to glow and thousands of small seals appeared all over it before they receded and the scroll went from its natural beige color to a light blue.

The man let go of Naruto who promptly scurried away in fear while holding his already healing hand, kicking the scroll away and into a corner in the process. Then he watched the man in shock as he began to cry. The man stopped after a minute before looking at Naruto, taking a deep breath, and smiling. His smile was extremely strained and immensely sad to look upon.

" Do me a favor...when you become famous...mention me...Raiken..kay'?"

Before Naruto could say anything, his door busted open and a few ANBU rushed in, one sending a well aimed kunai straight at the one named Raiken, who could only give Naruto a one eyed wink before collapsing onto the wet scorched floor, a kunai sticking out of the back of his head.

Naruto vision went black...

The ANBU never noticed the glowing scroll or the sudden stop of the storm.

Naruto stared at the ceiling while his mind replayed it all. He had never saw such...such sadness...or so much blood. That lone eye haunted him...

" Naruto-kun, how are you feeling?"

The boy in question jumped up at the voice, almost falling off his hospital bed. He regained his balance and turned to see the Hokage staring at him in worry. Naruto sat up facing the village leader.

" I'm okay old man, I just..don't understand..."

The Hokage sighed and took a seat, getting ready for a long talk.

"I don't either. But it seems that he was already injured when he entered you apartment...via lightning?" Naruto nodded stiffly. " And then began to babble before the anbu came in and killed him?" Once again Naruto nodded. He hated lying to the Hokage, but for some reason, he just couldn't mention the scroll.

"Okay Naruto, your roof should be fixed up by now, if you need anything Naruto-kun, don't hesitate to ask." The kage felt a twinge of sadness as the boy nodded and jumped off the bed. ' He's really closing himself up...and now this situation...I'm sorry Naruto..'

Naruto looked at his badly repaired roof. He just shook his head and began scanning his home. His floor was clean and pot less except of the scorch mark. It was very doubtful that it could be cleaned. Naruto then began searching for the scroll. After a few minutes of searching, he found it. He slowly picked it up, just staring at it for a moment.

' You just don't know how lucky...'

' What's so great about this scroll that the man had died for it? And why give it to him? '

Naruto sat at his kitchen table. His shaky hand began to unroll the scroll. He began to read...

I finally did it. I trained and trained, testing theory after theory. But I did it! What did I do? Well, can't tell ya yet, but when you see it, your gonna be like ' O-m-g, he did it, hes soooo awesome, I love him!' Anyway, if your reading this, then, I'm dead. Waaaaah. Oh well. And you, have been chosen to be my apprentice and holder of Raiken's techniques! Congrats!

OK, first thing. This scroll is seal bound to you. I spent my whole life changing, rearranging, and reinforcing the seals again and again, I'm very greedy with my techniques. But, your lucky. You get to have these techniques free of consequence. Anyone else who opens this scroll will see nothing. If they try and put chakra in it, they will get shocked. The more chakra, the stronger the shock. If someone tries to break the seals, and by some miracle removes a seal, the scroll will promptly explode with enough electricity to kill an entire village. So, you better hide this bad boy!...

Naruto's mind was in over drive. 'Holly crap...how strong was this guy..? And who could have possibly killed him...

'

Naruto decided to think about this later and continued reading, his heart thumping with silent excitement at the chance to fulfill his dreams.

Now its time to begin. Since you were chosen, you must have the most chakra at your age. And since your probably 7-9 years old, you might not know what chakra is. If you go to a ninja academy, stop going. This scroll will be your new sensei...hehehe, scroll-sensei.

I hope you like Lightning...

Now...lets start with Chakra. Its up's and downs...

Ok, don't kill me.

1. I know its rushed and short. Ill start to slow down after this chap, and the length will hopefully improve, im just limited on time a lot.

2. I kno my other stories are long over-due for updates, but I just keep getting stuck. Hopefully, this can 'unstick' me.

3. Pairings can be Fem Haku or Tayuya. No Yaoi, No Naruhina or Narusaku.

4. He will not. I repeat. HE WILL NOT, be god. Strong, yes, Akatsuki slayer, Sannin ass whooper, and Jounin humiliate r, NO.

5. Desperately need a BETA. If your interested, just email me.

PLEASE DO NOT REVIEW ME WITH ONLY A PAIRING!!!

Thank you darling readers.