Chapter 1: Discovering the hatchling.

Talking

Thinking

Biju Talking

Biju Thinking

Jutsu

Konoha, the village hidden in the leaves and what most call the strongest hidden village of the elemental nations. Many great heroes had come from this village all changing the world with their power, to most it was a paradise where people could be happy to live the lives they wanted under the protection of ninja and the great Yodaime Hokage but among every paradise lied hidden secrets.

In the late hours of twilight with the residence of Konoha still safe and sound in their bed a noise was heard, in the back alley between houses a small figure could be seen curled up inside a box.

The figure was a boy no older then six years old with a very cute face, his golden blond hair sprayed out in messy unkept spikes that looked like he had just rolled out of bed and his eyes were a deep sapphire blue so much they looked like the stones themselves. on each of his cheek were three birth marks that seemed to give the boy whiskers.

This boy's name was Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, the young son of the current Hokage Minato Namikaze. Many would wonder since he was the son of the Hokage what he was doing in a box sleeping in an alleyway.

Naruto played on his side his eyes filled with tears as he held a small red plushy dragon close to his chest and tried to stop himself from outright crying at his situation, he wanted to still be strong but he found he was having a hard time as he thought over how he ended up in a situation like this.

Naruto was born six years previously on a cool night of October 10, he and his two twin sisters Naruko and Mito had all been born about the same time and for the new family of five it was suppose to be the happiest day of their lives.

However, fate played a cruel hand as on that very night the most powerful of the tailed beast the nine tailed fox attacked the hidden leaf village. Minato as well as the rest of the Shinobi force rushed to meet it in a fierce battle lasting for hours, seeing no other option Minato prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice and seal the beast away.

*Flash back*

"IT'S TO STRONG." A ninja yelled as the fox swiped one of its tail across the forest uprooting trees by the sheer force.

"Damn it kid we need to bring that thing down now." Jiraiya the toad sage said as he and Minato stood on top of the boss summon of the toads Gamabunta.

"I know, i just wish there was another way." Minato said as he looked down at the sleeping form of his two new born daughters, he knew after tonight he would never get to see them and his son Naruto grow up and be heroes.

"There is Minato, give them to me." A voice said behind him making him turn, standing behind him in his black ninja gear was the third Hokage Hiruzen Saratobi with a grim but determined look.

"Sensei, what are you doing here." Jiariya asked shocked to see his teacher.

"Doing my final duty to the village, Minato you have a family you think of and a village to lead. I'm old and have done so much for the village that it seems only fitting i go out in glory." Saratobi said as he took the young children out of Minato's arms.

Minato want to protest against it, saying he still had so much to offer the village but he stopped when he saw the look in the old man's eyes. A look of determination and almost happiness as his chance to do one final job for his village which cause Minato to nod.

"Well keep the best contained." He told the old Hokage, who nodded and flashed off.

Arriving at the spot where the beast was being held down by seals thanks to Minato Saratobi set the two small girls on stone pedestals he created with a justu and began to flash through a series of hand signs while Jiaryia, Minato, and Gamabunta kept the beast still.

"SEALING JUTSU: REAPER DEATH SEAL." The old Hokage yelled as he pressed his hands to the ground, a large seal formed under the fox and began to drain it of its energy splitting it in half with each going to one of the two girls who began to cry from being woke up.

The nine tails thrashed and desperately tried to free itself but it was all for not as soon the energy was to much and it disappeared with a final roar in a flash of crimson and two identical seals appeared on the girls.

With his final act done Saratobi smiled and willingly let his soul fall into the waiting mouth of the shinigami before it disappeared leaving only silence in its wake.

Minato walked over and kneeled down to the old Hokage and payed his respects before picking up his girls.

"I promise Saratobi ill honor your sacrifice." He said before flashing back to the hospital.

*Flashback over*

After that day the village rebuilt itself and life returned to normal, the trio of kamikaze children grew and the family became whole. But, slow things began to change for the family of five. The girls regarded as heroes for having the fox sealed inside them were praised and showered with admiration and love while Naruto remained in the back drop always happy for his sisters but soon began to feel left out.

Slowly the family began to forget Naruto was even around, it started out small like not calling him right away for dinner or simply not noticing he was in the room but gradually it became more and more until they didn't even remember he was in the house or with them if they went out on family outings.

The final straw was on this night when the girls celebrated their six birthday being showered with love and presents from their friends and other members of the various clans Naruto didn't even bother coming downstairs as no one even knew he was there.

He no longer could take it and that night with nothing more then the clothes on his back and the small dragon he had received back on his second birthday and one of the last few good memories he had he snuck out his window and disappeared into the night.

As these thoughts played out in Naruto's head he never noticed a shadow moving outside the alleyway he was in nor did he see the warm amber eyes turn into the alley and seem him.

Naruto was pulled out of his thoughts with a gasp when he heard a noise coming from outside his box and scooted in closing his eyes and whimpered thinking someone had come to hurt him.

"It's alright little one, you don't have to be afraid." A soft voice said gently as a hand was placed on his shoulder to throw away some of the fright. Slowly the boy opened his eyes and glanced out.

The figure outside his box was an impressive sight. She was a female standing about him at easily 6'1 with long flowing silver hair reaching her shoulders and tied up in a pony tail, her eyes were amber and seemed to have a warm glow around them. She was wearing an interesting mix of clothes, over her chest was a black leotard with red spirals and patterns sown into the fabric her lower half was covered by a battle skirt of the same design with black spandex shorts under it. her legs had armor on them and black armored ninja sandals to keep them safe. The leotard had armored sleeves as well with metal plated fingerless gloves on her hand and over it all was a silver trench coat that reached down to her feet and had an icy blue fire design similar to his fathers.

"W-who are you." He asked in a small voice still showing he was scared but, that changed when he saw the warm motherly smile he gave him.

"I should be asking you the same question little one, not every day you find such a cute little boy out here on the streets but since you were polite ill introduce myself first. My name is Mira Kuroitori." she said crouching down to his level.

"M-my name is N-naruto." He told her making her gain a look of surprise.

'Kushina's boy, whats he doing out here like this.' Mira thought, her and Kushina were old friends from back in the academy day's

"What are you doing out here so late little one, shouldn't you be at home with your family?" She asked him, however the next words out of his mouth shocked her.

"I don't have a family, they don't care about me and don't even notice me." He said sadly the tears returning.

"Hey hey, none of that now little one." She said before giving him a thoughtful smile." You know there is an easy way for that to be fixed." She said making him look at her.

"How." He asked and she could hear the hope in his voice.

"How would you like to be apart of my family." She asked him making his eyes go wide, for a six year old who had no family how could he say no.

She gave a small huff when his small body plowed into her with a tight hug and he began to cry small happy tears, smiling she picked him up and carried him back to her home. Once they arrived he was already asleep so she took him to the spare bedroom and laid him down to sleep while she took care of a few things she needed to do.

"Summoning Jutsu." She said placing her blood stained palm to the ground and a small poof of smoke appeared, when it vanished it revealed amazingly a small dragon that stood on all fours and had copper like scales with a messenger bag on his shoulder. It wasn't well know but Mira was the unofficial fourth Sennin of the leaf village given her title by lady Tsunade herself for being the wielder of the dragon summon contract.

"you called Mrs Mira." The dragon said in a small voice.

"Yes Gaia, normally i wouldn't do this but i need you to go to Korakana and have her forge some documents for me." She said adding a small message to her bag.

"Can i ask why mrs." Gaia asked.

"I came across a boy tonight and wish to adopt him however it will be tricky with who this boy is so i need the right documents before i do." She explained.

The small dragon gave a nod." It will be done at once ma'am." The small dragon said before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

With everything taken care of she went to her room and undressed before turning in for the night.

The next morning Minato Namikaze Sat in his office in the Hokage tower facing the most vile enemy of all Kage, paperwork.

He gave a sigh as he tiredly sorted through all the documents on his desk trying hard to not fall asleep, he was still tired from his daughter's birthday party the night before but knew he had to get this done. Something small nagged at the back of his mind like he was forgetting something but he shrugged it off and instead focused on the work until a knock was heard on his door.

"Enter." He called out not looking up.

The door opened and Mira walked in with a small tired expression herself as well as two cups of coffee.

"Please tell me your an angel and one of those is for me." He asked looking up and smiling when he saw her, she just chuckled and handed him one.

Minato had known Mira for quite some time, it was ironic he was friends with her because she was his wife's other rival along with the Uchiha matriarch Mitoko. The trio of girls had been best friends back in the day's of the academy always pushing each other and teasing each other because of their rivalry. When they grew up they became fiercely protective of each other each earning a nickname. For Kushina it was the red hot habanero, for Mikoto the flame princess of Konoha, and for Mira it was konoha's red dragon empress.

"Still battling the evil's of paper work." Mira asked snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Yes, one day i will discover the secret to taming this." He said with a voice full of passion which only made her laugh.

"So what brings you here Mira, i seriously doubt it was just to bring me coffee." he asked making her set her drink down and pull out some paper work.

"Well last night while i was out on my evening stroll i came across a small child who was hiding in a back alleyway, feeling compelled i stopped and helped the boy and almost instantly fell in love with him since he had quite the sad story of his parents neglecting him for his sisters so i came here today to finalize adoption papers." She said surprising Minato as he didn't even know there was a child like that in his village.

Taking the paper's he looked them over and saw that everything was in order including what needed to be known about the boy, the only thing that wasn't there is a photo.

"How come there isn't a picture." He asked.

"He wasn't registered in the archives so i was unable to find him, and i couldn't take one this morning with the little cutie still fast asleep." She said smiling.

"Well besides that everything else is signed and sealed, just get us a photo sometime soon so we can add him to the archives." Minato said taking a stamp and sealing it with his approval making her smile.

"Will do, also i don't think ill be enrolling him in the academy. he doesn't seem to do well around others besides me right now so I'm thinking of taking him on one of my training trips." She explained.

Much like how Jiariya left the village with his traveling rights Mira sometimes let the village to go out into the world and train so this wasn't so much of a shock to the Hokage.

"How long do you plan to leave." He asked.

"No later then six years, just around the time he would graduate from the academy anyway and this way when i return with him he'll be ready to be placed on a squad." She said.

He nodded and smiled."Alright then, just make sure to write when you get the chance. i doubt kushina is going to take it well if you don't send her some letters or something." He said making her laugh.

"Will do flash." She said before walking out the door and out the building.

Sunlight filtered softly in between the cracks of the curtains as Naruto gave a small groan and rolled over to try and keep it out of his eyes, slowly he began to wake up and realized he wasn't in the box he had been the night before and sat up. Looking around he saw he was in a modest bedroom painted the color of s sunset which was his favorite color.

'So it wasn't a dream.' He thought as a glorious smell hit his nose making his mouth water, jumping out of bed he rushed down the hall following his nose when he found the kitchen. Standing by the oven was the women who saved him last night Mira and she was cooking breakfast

"Well good morning little one, go ahead and get comfy the food is almost done." She said smiling as he took a spot at the table nervously.

He smiled when she came back and set down a plate filled with all kinds of breakfast foods in-front of him and his mouth watered, waiting until she sat down he thanked her and dug into the food with gusto making her laugh.

"Slow down little one, you'll give yourself a tummy ache." She said making him slow down.

For ten minute's all there was was the sound of eating and finally when it was done Naruto sighed happily.

"Thank you very much mrs." He said smiling.

She nodded and took the dishes and began to clean them, as she did he remembered what they had talked about last night.

"Um mrs Mira, did you mean what you said when you said i could be apart of your family." He asked half hoping it was true.

"Of course i did, in fact." She said setting down the adoption paper work and showing him that officially he was her son, he grinned ear to ear until he noticed something that confused him.

"Hey why is my name Tenzo, my name is Naruto." He asked making her chuckle.

"Because your my son now and i thought it seemed appropriate that since you are you got a new name to match your new home." She said, being six he didn't mind so much and actually kind of liked the name.

"Ok mama."The now named Tenzo said smiling and she sniffed happily and hugged him when he called her mama.

"Oh my sweet little boy." She said smiling, she was a mother now and it excited her.

Soon she pulled away and ruffled his hair, checking the time she nodded.

"Now then i have something to tell you sweetie, you want to be a ninja don't you." She asked making him nod his head frantically, he wanted so badly to get strong and be a cool ninja.

"Well today you start that journey, you and i will be leaving the village for a couple of years and i will be training you out in the real world about how to be a shinobi alright." She said.

He was nervous at first since he didn't know if he truly wanted to leave the village or if he was ready to do something like that, however once he looked at his mama and realized she would be there to protect him and help him get strong he smiled and hugged her.

"Ok mama." He said making her hug back again.

She smiled and stood before going to get dressed.

"Come on then lets get you cleaned up, we have something to do before we leave." She said as they went to get ready.

A hour later Tenzo stood at the entrance of the gate of Konoha checking over his things like his mother had told him to, Seeing how they would be leaving she decided to get him some proper ninja wear that did include his favorite orange color but not something as ridiculous as a bright orange track suit.

Tenzo was now wearing a black form fitting shit with orange swirls on each arm, a set of armored black pants that were similar to what the ANBU pants, he had black Shinobi sandals on that Mira added a bit more armor platting too to keep his feet protected. On Either side of his pants was a kunai holder and he had a dark blue pouch on the back of his belt full of Shuriken, ninja wire, and a few odds and ends se had packed for him. To complete the look his mother had bought him a coat similar to her own but it was midnight black with an orange dragon head stamped dead center of the coat.

"All set sweetie." Mira asked having just finished checking over her own things, her pouches and holders were a bit bigger for more weapons and on her back she had a large Odachi style sword strapped to her back over her coat and an equally large scroll that was golden in color with silver etching on it and a dragon head stamped on the front, this was the dragon summon contract.

"Yeah mom, I'm all ready." He said happily bouncing over to her, she had already told him she would make him a great ninja and now seeing her in full ninja attire he knew he one day would be just like her.

"Well then lets get going." She said turning and showing her paper to the gate guard before the two walked out of the massive gate and into the woods.

Turning back one final time Tenzo looked at his home and with determination thought.

'I promise i will get stronger, strong enough for you to all know my name and so my family remembers me, just you wait konoha.' He thought with determination before turning back and caught up with his mother as the two began their new journey into the unknown.

Author's note.

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to my first story ever, for those of you who don't know me this is a good thing as i just made my account yesterday so hey nice to meet you.

Now a couple things i need to stress about this story. First yes this is an neglect story however Naruto is not going to be evil or god like or anything like that, i intend to do a story where even though he was forgotten Naruto strives to be remembered by his family and in time with this story we will see them reuniting and making up.

Secondly and i stress this, there will be no lemons. Romance will happen but it won't be with his sisters, a fem kyubbi, none of that so it will be possibly a naruhina however if you have a better idea for a relationship please post I'm open to it.

Third and finally, i want to hear reviews, likes for this story. I'm new i want the feed back so please help with this BUT NO TROLLS.