Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto

This is something that just came to me the other day. If you don't like it don't read it. Flamers will be treated Perfect Lionheart style (I'll keep writing just to piss you off.)

Speech

Thought

Kyuubi.

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Prologue:

Legends speak of a long lost race of warriors who had an insatiable appetite for combat, fighters who lived for the thrill of the fight.

They were Saiyans. Their ferocity in battle was matched only by their ruthlessness. Over time, these people gained a reputation that caused the blood of others to run cold at the mere mention of them. Waging war was all they truly mattered to them until their destruction by a being named Frieza..

There was, however, one exception: one of the last surviving Saiyans that was sent to earth before they were destroyed. His birth name was Kakarot, but when he arrived on earth, he was discovered by an elderly hermit and named Goku.

At first th child was a living nightmare, violent and destructive....until the boy suffered a head injury that cause his personality to do a complete one-eighty. The child grew up kind and good-hearted. Of course, why the traditional Saiyan personality was gone, the love of a good fight remained. With a thirst for training, Goku grew into a powerful fighter. As time went, he and a band of fellow fighters fought to defend Earth from a number of hostile threats, as well as gaining the power to defeat the one who had killed his race.

The name of Goku and his kin eventualy passed into history, then legend and myth before it was soon forgotten. People, life and the world went on, changing with the ages. What they had also forgotten was the descendants of Goku continued, oblivious of their heritage.

Until the blood of the Saiyan warrior re-awoke in the form a denizen of the shinobi village of Konoha; a child named Minato Namikaze. At first, discovering the power he had frightened the young boy. He found it alien and hard to control. It took some help from the Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, to ease his fears and aid him in learning just what he had become. It took the pair a few years to follow the path of his ancestry, but they eventually managed. Minato was somewhat unnerved to discover he was descended from an ailen warrior, but he quickly took it in stride. Though he and the Hokage felt it would be prudent to keep it a secret lest certain people in Konoha took it upon themselves to use the boy for their own ends, or worse.

So it went, making sure only the two of them knew the secret. Minato grew into a formidable ninja and eventually took over for Sarutobi, becoming the Yondamine Hokage and for him, live was good. He married a girl by the name of Kushina and it wasn't long before they were expecting.

All that changed when on the day Kushina went into labor, Konoha was attacked by the nine-tailed demon fox, The Kyuubi no Kitsune. Several Konoha shinobi fell in the battle and all seemed lost until Minato made a decision.

Little did he know that choice would force a harsh, and surprisingly interesting, life upon a child born that same day...

His son, Naruto Uzumaki.

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Don't ask me where this came from (I blame the mix of Piggly Wiggly brand cola, ranch chips, and metal i subjected myself to)

before anyone stats saying it's short, this is just a prologue, like it says at the top. and besides, I keep telling people I can't do a long chapter.

Note: The next chapters of 'Where in the world' and 'Cheshire's grin' should be up by the weekend.