Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but I do own the OCs that appear in this fanfic.

Hello to all, this is my first foray into the fanfiction world. I hope that my works will entertain all those that read.

Just to sayNaruto might be a little OoC, and that there will be three OCs. I have a few idea's for pairings, but I'm thinking of making this a Naruharem

Now let the fanfiction goodness begin.

Naruto of the Steel

Chapter One: The Beginning

It was a dark day for Konoha, it was the day that the Kyuubi attacked. There was no apparent reason for this attack, just the destruction of the village hidden in the leafs. Many ninja had died this day. All to defend the village and their families. Most of them were really skilled, while others didn't stand out.

One of these ninja who didn't went by the name of Kenosha Kunio, he was still a genin at the age of 25. He only knew academy level ninjutsu and average level kenjutsu. He had long brown hair that he kept in a ponytail and deep brown eyes.

Even though he knew he didn't stand a chance at killing the Kyuubi, he had to do all he could to at least stall the monster until the Hokage could do something. He always stood a distance from the beast and threw kunai at it. Though it looked like the Kyuubi didn't even feel them.

Then when he decided to retreat and get his daughter from his house since the Kyuubi was getting close, too close, to his house which she was in.

Almost as if the beast was reading his thoughts on how to cause him the most pain, one of Kyuubi's mighty tails lashed out and was heading straight for his house.

"NO!! IORI!! ", Kunio yelled as he tried to get to his house and save his daughter before it was too late.

He managed to get through the door when Kyuubi's tail struck. Almost instantly bringing down his house. Moments later Kunio emerged from the rubble and yelled, "IORI!!" as he was desperately looking for her. When he finally found her she was long gone. He just sat there for the rest of Kyuubi's attack with her in his arms, until the Hokage finally managed to seal the beast inside a newborn at the cost of his own life.

All he thought about from that point on was the death of that cursed Kyuubi Brat.

He didn't know it, but he would play an important role in the future of that child………...

8 years later

What had started out like any other day for Naruto had become a living hell.

He had started playing by himself (as usual) outside the orphanage, when one of the orphanage workers had told him to go shopping for an incredibly long list of groceries.

When Naruto looked at this list he said, "You expect me to carry all this!?".

Then the attendant replied, "Well how else are you supposed to earn your keep around here?", she said with a bit of hatred in her voice.

"Ugh, fine.", Naruto said as he grabbed the money she was holding and started walking.

Sure all the other children had to do chores and stuff to help out. But none of them had the hard jobs that the adults usually did. This was going to be worse than that time he had to get that wild boar out of the playground. He still had no idea how it got out there. He also found it strange that the workers were all standing outside laughing as he tried to get the boar. It was almost as if one of them let the boar in.

On his way to the market he had passed by Ichiraku's Ramen Stand, he stopped for a moment and sniffed the sweet smell of ramen, immediately his stomach had started growling. He been told to go buy groceries so early the he hadn't even had breakfast yet. Then, as if reading his thoughts, Ichiraku had shouted to him, "Hey kid, want to come in for some ramen?"

Naruto relied, "I don't have any money.", with a sad tone in his voice.

Then Ichiraku looked down then he looked up again and said, "Don't worry about it, this ones on the house."

Naruto had suddenly jumped up for joy and shouted, "This is going to be the best day ever!".

Little did Naruto know that someone was watching him.

'Don't worry Iori, Daddy will avenge you.', the man had thought to himself while he tightened his grip on his black and white swords and glared at Naruto with some of the deepest brown eyes you had ever seen.

--

'Man that was good.', Naruto thought to himself.

But because of his little stop at Ichiraku's he was way behind schedule. So to save himself some time, Naruto had decided to take a shortcut through the alleyways to make his task go a little faster. He kept walking through the alleyways thinking that he was getting closer to the market. Instead he was heading further away from the market.

Naruto was humming some tune that he had heard some people singing earlier. Naruto had turned a corner, he saw that a man with two swords was standing there staring right at him. He looked real real scruffy, and looked like he hadn't slept in awhile. There were barely any homeless people in Konoha, until the Kyuubi attack that is. That dark day had left many people homeless, some lost even more than their homes. In Naruto's experience they had always been hostile towards him, so he thought to take the way opposite of where the guy was standing.

A little while after he thought he was out of sight of the man, he heard what sounded like someone was running up behind him. He turned around to see what it was, and saw glint from the moon shine off of something metallic. Naruto had barely managed jumped back to avoid a slash of a sword.

He looked at his attacker and saw that it was the man standing in the other alley.

Naruto yelled at him, "What's your problem old man?!".

The man just stared at him and said, "It's time for you to pay for what you have done to Iori, demon.", as he walked towards Naruto.

He had kept going until he backed Naruto into a wall. He collapsed on the floor, his legs no longer wanted to cooperate with him.

Naruto replied, "I didn't do anything! I don't even know who Iori is!", with obvious fear in his voice.

But the man wasn't even listening. He was about to bring his white sword down and finish Naruto. Naruto brought his hands up to protect himself.

'Is this it? Is this how I'm going? I always thought it would be some cooler way like protecting a girl, not in some dark alleyway murdered by some guy I don't even know.', Naruto though to himself;

As the sword was about to strike, a kunai came flying out of nowhere at the blade and knocked it out of his hand. It had landed right beside Naruto. He looked at the fallen sword and then up to his attacker. The man was a little shocked about the slight resistance, but he wasted no time to try and kill the demon child. He pulled out the other black sword he had and went for the kill.

But as if the fallen sword had a mind of its own it found it way to Naruto's hand. Without thinking Naruto got up and made a slashing motion upwards. Both Naruto and the man finished their attacks, and stood still for moment. Then as if an invisible blade had struck him, the hand he was holding his sword with was cut off. With a scream of pain the attacker grasped his arm. He dropped to his knees. He made several attempts to get back up, but fell back down every time. This was doing his his body no favors as the blood came out of his wound faster, making a pool of blood at his knees. It looked like he was about to faint, but before he did he looked at Naruto one last time. If you were there you would be able to see the hatred in eyes eyes. The man had fell on his side, he still had that same hateful look. Then his eyes began to close and lost consciousness.

Naruto as shocked at what had just happened, he dropped the sword that he had used to cut off this mans hand. A moment ago all Naruto cared about surviving, now all he thought about was what he did. Naruto just stared blankly at the person that lay before him. He was ashamed at what he had just done. He didn't know the man and he was just defending himself. But Naruto didn't want to hurt him, he never wanted to hurt anyone.

"You know you were just defending yourself right?"

Naruto heard a voice say. Again the sword found its way to his hand and he turned around ready to defend himself from any threat. What he saw was a hooded figure that was staring at him from under its hood. It looked like it was a girl judging from the slender figure, and only a few years older than him.

"You know for somebody who looks like they regret they ever picked up a sword, you grabbed onto it really quick.", she said.

At this Naruto looked at his hand and saw that he was carrying the sword. "What do you want?", asked Naruto in a sad tone.

"Well all I wanted was to talk to such a little skilled swordsman, and cute too, and maybe tell him its all right. This man was only passed out and that he'd be fine if we took him to a hospital."

Upon hearing that Naruto was a little relieved, though he blushed a little bit at the cute comment. He didn't kill him, but he felt bad that he cut his hand off. In his thoughts he didn't notice the girl go towards the man and take the blade from the now severed hand and the sheaths for the swords.

She had sheathed the black blade and walked towards him.

"Here.", she said as she held the sword and sheaths in front of him..

Naruto looked up at her wondering what was going on.

"What are you doing?", asked Naruto.

'Well I can't let such fine swords go to waste, so I decided that you should have them since your so good with them.", she stated as a matter of fact.

So Naruto took them and admired them. They were fine swords, the sheath, hilt and guard were made out of the fine ebony and ivory. He looked the swords in his hands and saw that the blade was light and thin, making for a nice swift clean cut. The blades on one of the swords was colored the darkest black and the other purest white. Tho only difference, besides the color, was that the black one was serrated near the base of the blade. Naruto was mesmerized by the beauty of both of these blades.

As Naruto was looks at the swords, the girl looked like she was in deep thought.

Then finally she said, "I think I'll call them the Tasogare and Akatsuki."

"What?", asked Naruto.

"Weapons of this quality usually have names, and since the guy who owned them can't really tell us what they were called, I took it upon myself to name them.", she said.

"The Tasogare and Akatsuki huh?", said Naruto as he looked down at the blade.

Naruto was still very confused about all this. This all seemed so sudden, maybe somewhat forced into it.

"What's your dream?", the girl asked.

"What?", Naruto replied.

"That's seems to be your favorite word today. It's simple, what's your dream? As in what would you like to accomplish more than anything.", she replied.

"Oh that's easy, I wanna be the Hokage!", he said as he be smiled his foxy grin.

"Oh! Hokage is it? That's a pretty big dream, is there any particular reason why you want to be a Hokage?"

"Not just a Hokage, the best one there ever was! And I want to be one because everybody respects him, and that's what I want from everyone!"

"That's a very good dream you have there I hope-QUICK LOOK OVER THERE!!" the girl said as she pointed behind him.

"WHERE!", said Naruto as he quickly turned around to look for whatever she was pointing at.

He looked around hard, but all he could see was the same dank, dark alley that was there before.

"Umm, I don't see anything.", he said as he turned around.

When Naruto looked back the girl was gone. He looked around for her, but could find no trace of her. Even his attacker was missing from the spot he had just been.

'She's good.', Naruto thought.

He looked a bit more and saw a note where she was standing before she pulled her disappearing act. When he picked it up and read it said:

"Well then kid. I have to go now, I have other things I have to do.

Train with those blades, become a skilled swordsman.

I also took that man to the hospital, so don't worry about it.

Don't ever change.

P.S. I left a piece of sharp metal there, mind picking it up and keeping it? I'll be back for it later."

He looked around a bit more and found the strange piece of metal that the girl had mentioned. The piece was sharp and flat that was curved into a half-crescent. There was also what looked like a clan symbol in the middle of it. It was a simple circle with a vertical line going up the middle. The left side of the circle was black and the right was white. When he touched it it seemed to vibrate, it felt very odd. It was also very light, even a shuriken was lighter than it.

It was almost dusk when Naruto looked up at the sky and said to himself, "I will keep this for you until we meet again, that's the promise of a lifetime.".

Then Naruto looked around and yelled, "WHERE THE HELL AM I!!"

--

The mysterious girl was watching him from a roof as he went running in the completely wrong direction.

'Looks like he's one of the ones I'm looking for. As long as he gets stronger he'll be more than suitable. As long as he keeps our clans crest I'll be able to find him. So I guess that'll be one down and two to go.', She thought to herself.

She reached into her pocket and pulled out two similar pieces that she had given out. One was the other half of Naruto's crescent, and the other was a piece that was shaped like a black lemon. If put together it would make a moon. These two pieces seemed to pull in different directions.

'Wonder which one I should follow next.', she thought to herself.

She then remembered the man that was slung on her shoulder.

"I guess I should deal with this guy first.", she said to no one in particular.

With that she went with Kunio to the Hospital.

Well what do you think? I know it might have a few grammar errors and such, but I want your opinions and such. Please let me know of any errors I make. I don't have anyone to go over my work, so I can never catch all the errors.

So please R&R.