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Jutsu

Chapter I - The voice I hear in my head

Whenever Naruto walks through Konoha, everyone gives him hateful glares, whispers hateful things or simply changes the side of the road. It seems that not a single person, besides the Hokage and Teuchi and Ayame from Ichiraku's, can stand his existence and would be glad if he was dead. But why is that? That's one of many questions that Naruto has, besides who were his parents and why did they leave him alone in this world? Did they not want him, did the not love him and what is love in the first place? He never learned what love is since he didn't have parents or siblings or anybody.

Today was a especially horrible day for him, it was his 5th birthday. He never liked his birthday, it reminded him how alone he is, since there is no one there for him that would say anything nice or just simply be there.

He sat on his bed, his knees up to his chest and his arms around his legs, tears in his eyes and softly sobbing. "Why am I alone? Why does no one like me? Where are my parents?" he whispered between sobs. But like so many times before, there was no answer, no one who would be there for him, hug him and say everything will be fine. He was alone, just like he always has been.

Roughly two hours later he was sleeping, he had sobbed himself to sleep, just like so many times before. He often dreamed about how it would be if he had parents, friends, a family who would love him. But he also more than often had nightmares, and this time it seemed it was going to be a nightmare again.

He was in a dim lit sewer tunnel, on the walls were tubes of different kinds and sizes and on the ground where he stood was a large amount of water that reached up to his ankles. He didn't know when he started walking in a certain direction and the sewer tunnel seemed to go on forever with no end in sight. After what felt like half an eternity he reached a large gate that consists of large, red, metal pipes and in the middle of it was something, that was on top of where the lock would be. He looked closer at it and saw that it was a piece of paper and there was something written on it "seal".

"So you finally decided to come over for a visit?" said a melodic but at the same time menacing voice from the other side of the large gate. "Who is there and what do you mean?" "Oh, my mistake, let me introduce myself to you, I'm your prisoner, the one and only Kyuubi!" with that a giant nine tailed fox appeared on the other side of the gate, showing a large amount of deadly teeth. Naruto looked up to the fox, in his eyes was no fear only confusion and with a frown he asked "what do you mean prisoner and why are you imprisoned?" Now it was the Kyuubi who was confused, why was this kid in front of her not afraid of her? "This damn Yondaime sealed my inside of you, as to why, you're not ready for that, yet. Are you not afraid of me?" "Not really, you look like a nice person, not like the others, they just curse at me or look at me like I'm some kind of monster" he answered while looking down at his feet. 'I look like a nice person? What the hell did those people outside do to him that I look like a nice person to him?' the Kyuubi was surprised by Naruto's answer and she felt something that she thought she would never feel for her jinchuuriki, sympathy. "You're no monster, I am!" Naruto looked up again to see a deep frown on the Kyuubi's face. "But why am I alone then? Why does nobody like me? Why did my parents leave me alone in this world?" These words were heartbreaking, even to the Kyuubi. This little kid in front of her had to endure so many hardships in his life and there was no one there for him, worst of all he thought his parents left him because he was some monster. 'No, he's no monster, they are! They treat him like that just because I'm sealed inside of him and they fear me breaking out and destroy and kill everything and after knowing this I would gladly do so for them treating him like this!'

She was now really pissed, how could humans be so cruel to one another, especially to the one who is the only thing between them and her killing them for what they are doing?

"Kid, your parents didn't leave you because you're some monster, they died shortly after you were born and I know they loved you and they would have stayed with you if they could have. I knew your parents and I know how they died, but it's still too early for you to know, it's too dangerous for you to know, but I will tell you all I know about them once you're ready for it!"

Naruto looked intently at her face with tears in his eyes and after a few moments he rubbed his tears away and a large grin was on his face while he nodded at her "see, I knew you're a good person and you're no monster either, you're too nice to be a monster!"

To say that she was surprised by his reaction would be a understatement and thus she couldn't help but to chuckle at that. She was getting attached to the kid and felt a warmth inside of her that she didn't feel for a very long time, it felt good and she liked that feeling. But at the same time she felt a pain inside of her when she thought about how lonely he was and how everyone around him treated him and she wanted that feeling gone. So she decided to do something about it, she would care, teach and simply be there for him!

"Kid, I'd like to know something, what keeps you going on, what is it that you want to reach?" she asked in a soft motherly tone.

He looked at her and smiled "I want to be the greatest Hokage ever, then everyone will have to acknowledge me!" then his smile vanished and was replaced with a frown as he continued "and I want to have friends and a family that love me for who I am so that I'm no longer alone!"

She looked at him and sighed, after a moment a smile could be seen on her face "Okay kid, I will help you, I will teach you everything you need to know and help you become the most powerful Shinobi there ever will be and I will help you find friends and a family! But I must warn you, it won't be easy, it will be a long, hard and painful road but I believe you will be able to do it."

"Really? Awesome! Thank you for helping me Kyuubi!" he cheered with a huge smile. "By the way, I have a name, Kurama." "Thank you Kurama, I'm Naruto Uzumaki!"

"I think it's time for you to return to the outside world, but tomorrow we will begin your training, so just focus on the outside and when you want to come back focus on this place, it's your mindscape." Naruto nodded and waved her goodbye before he focused and vanished. 'That kid is something special, he will bring change to the world, I know it!'

Back in the real world Naruto looked around and saw that it was already almost 10 o'clock, so he made himself quickly ready for bed and soon after was soundly asleep.

When he woke up again it was still pretty early, the sun was just about to rise. He got up and made himself ready for the day. He was about to make him some instant ramen when he heard a voice "Good morning Naruto, ready for the first day of training?" "Yeah, I was just about making breakfast" "Ramen for breakfast? That's something we need to change, you need a real breakfast, something like toast with scrambled eggs and orange juice!" Naruto was frowning at that "Realy? But I like ramen, they are the best food in the world!" "No buts, ramen isn't nearly healthy enough, you need healthy food, so no more ramen for breakfast or lunch, you need energy, a lot of energy or you won't make Hokage!" Kurama chided him.

After that argument he made himself a real breakfast and after eating he was heading out towards one of the training grounds.

Naruto arrived at training ground 28, it was a wide, open space with lots of grass, a little river and a few tall trees. "Before we begin with your training, do you know how to concentrate your chakra?" Naruto simply nodded in confirmation "good, that makes everything a whole lot easier! The first thing you will learn is a jutsu that will help with your training, it's the Shadow Clone Jutsu, it creates a copy of you which can move around, fight and all kinds of other useful stuff, but it is also a dangerous jutsu! It uses a large amount of chakra, so much that most Chunin can only summon one clone and most Jounin can summon up to 4 or 5 clones."

Kurama paused for a few moments so that Naruto could process the information before she continued "the chakra drain is so immense that it can kill someone if he or she has not enough chakra! But you won't have that problem because you already have more chakra than most Jounin. You only need to take care of the other thing that jutsu is special for. Whenever you create one of these clones it will create it's own memories and when the clone dissipates it's memories will be transmitted to you and you will learn everything your clone has learned!"

When Naruto heard all of that he had stars in his eyes "that means I can learn everything way faster!" "Yes it does, but there is a drawback, if you create a lot of clones and let them dissipate all at the same time, the amount of memories that will be transmitted back can overwhelm you, in the best case you only faint and will wake up with a major headache, in the worst case the amount will overload your brain and kill you! Which means you should let them dissipate in smaller groups so your brain can process all the information."

He was shocked that this jutsu could potentially kill him that easy but at the same time excited because it could help him become the greatest Hokage ever.

"A good way to work around that problem would be creating only a few clones and let them create larger amounts, so when their clones dissipate they can gather the information, process them and then share the already processed information with you! The only thing they can't transmit to you is physical attributes, so you will need to do all the body workout." "Okay, then let us begin, what do I have to do to create clones?" "Cross your index and middle finger on both hands and make the ram sign, then concentrate your chakra, you will need a large amount"

Naruto did like he was told and a few seconds later with a poof of smoke 7 Shadow Clones appeared. "Yes, I did it, my first jutsu and I did it on the first try!" he exclaimed and he and his clones all jumped in the air. "Good, now the real training begins. Let your clones make more clones and then let them all work on a simple chakra exercise. Sticking a leaf on their foreheads using chakra. After an hour they let them dissipate, then create new clones and do the same exercise again. Let them repeat this a few times and then after the last round dissipate your clones."

Once again he did like he was told and his clones began their training. "And what do I do?" "Like I said before, you are the only one who can do physical exercise that will improve you so you will do that!"

Time seemed to fly by and soon enough it was afternoon. "Okay Naruto, I think this should be enough for today, we will repeat all this for the next few days and soon you will be ready for the next exercise ." Naruto was grateful for the end of the training, as much as he liked training, he was tired and the only thing he now wanted was his bed.

Like Kurama said, a few days later he began with the next exercise, tree-walking. He also created more clones which began with taijutsu training. Again, the days flew by and soon days became 2 weeks. His taijutsu made progress, just like his physical training and the tree-walking, he now could walk the tree up and down like he was walking normal on the ground, so the next step was water-walking. Since water-walking was a way more profound technic than the tree-walking he needed longer to master it, but after another 3 weeks he was finally good enough, only that Kurama decided that the exercise was now to easy and added rope jumping on top of it.

After 3 months of training his chakra control could now be considered Jounin-level, only his taijutsu stagnated a little since he had no one to spar with other than his clones. Kurama decided it was a good time to improve his senses so he started training to infuse his ears, nose and even his eyes with chakra, which improved his sense of smell and hearing, his eyesight remainder the same but he learned that he could now see better in the dark.

It was January and Konoha was white, everywhere was snow. Naruto was on his way home from training and walked through a park. In the distance he could hear some kids, but he didn't like what he heared "look it's that kid with those creepy eyes!" one of them said "she must be a monster with those eyes!" came from another "maybe we should beat her up, that way we safe this village from this demon child!" the largest of the three kids that were bullying the girl said. "P-p-please d-don't h-hurt me" the begged said with tears in her eyes between sobs. But the largest of the three bullys only smirked when he brought back his right arm ready to punch the girl in front of him.

Before he could swing his armed at her he was hit with a snowball at the back of his head "hey you jerks, leave her alone or in will punch you all into the next millennium!" As they turned around they saw Naruto standing in front of them, only that he was not alone, there were two more of him. "Hey aren't you that other demon child everyone talks about?" one of the other two boys said "yeah, he's that monster my parents told me about!" the third boy said. "So we should beat you too up, then there are no more monsters in the village!" the largest of the bullys said, he was about to run towards Naruto and punch him. Naruto had enough of it, he made quick process of them, run at them and he and his clones punched a separate bully each, square in the face sending them flying a few meters.

"You say I'm a monster? Then what about you? You go around and bully others, beat them up, insult them, just because they are different. You are the real monsters here!" Naruto had a sad expression on his face. The three bullys were scared shitless and turned around and run away. Naruto turned to the girl, she had dark blue hair, and lavender eyes without pupils "hey, are you alright? Did they hurt you?" The girl looked up to him, she still had tears in her eyes but when she saw him and his blue eyes it felt like all around her was gone, only him and her were there and everything was at peace. She rubbed the tears away and shook her head "t-they d-didn't hurt m-me, t-thank y-you f-for s-saving m-me." She blushed when she saw that Naruto was now smiling at her, but what surprised her and made her blush even more was what he said to her "I'm glad I could help and I don't think your eyes are creepy, I like them, they are beautiful and remind me of the moon." As soon as he said that he realized what he said and also began to blush.

A few moments later Naruto managed to ask "I'm Naruto Uzumaki and who are you?" "I-I'm Hinata Hyuga, n-nice to m-meet y-you" she answered still blushing and with a small smile. The two of them just stood there, blushing, smiling and looking each other in the eyes. For both it felt like that was all they needed, everything around them was forgotten. "Hinata-sama, where are you? It's time to go home." A voice of a man brought them back to reality and Naruto was the first to speak "well I also have to go, but I hope we see each other again!" And with a smile and a wave of his hand he said goodbye and vanished towards the village. "There you are Hinata-sama, it's late, we should go home now." The man said and Hinata simply nodded 'I also hope to see you again Naruto-kun'.

Naruto was finally home, he sat down on his bed and let himself fall over onto his bed. He couldn't stop thinking about Hinata and so he just blushed and smiled when he thought about her and her beautiful eyes. "Seems like you just got your first taste of love" Kurama chuckled which made him blush even more "and I have to say, she seems like a nice girl and she definitely is cute" "yeah she definitely is, I hope I can see her again."

He got himself ready for bed and when he finally closed his eyes he had a huge smile on his face while thinking about Hinata and drifted into sleep.

It was now months later and tomorrow would be his big day, he would enroll into the Ninja Academy. In the past months he saw Hinata every now and then but they had never the chance to talk each other, they could only smiled at another. His big hope was that she would also enroll to the Ninja Academy, that way they could see each other again and even talk to another.

The next morning he got up early, made breakfast, took a shower and got himself ready for his first day at the academy. Over the past months he read a lot of books, they were about different topics such as history, politics, economics but also a few books about chakra and even a book about fuinjutsu. He wore dark ANBU pants, which he got from the Hokage as a present for his enrollment, he also wore black standard Shinobi sandals, a black sleeveless body fit shirt with dark orange trims and black fingerless gloves also with dark orange trims. After he was ready he made his way to the academy.

He arrived at the academy early enough so he could still look around, he still hoped he would see Hinata. He opened the door to his classroom and looked around, there were quite a few other kids but none of them were who he was looking for until he saw a dark blue haired girl with pupilless lavender eyes. A huge smile could be seen on his face when he walk up the stairs to the top right corner of the room where said girl sat at a table. "Hey Hinata-chan, I'm glad to see you again, is it okay if I sit here?" Hinata looked up to him and when she saw who it was she blushed and smiled at him "H-hello N-Naruto-kun, I-I'm also g-glad to see y-you a-again and I-I'd be h-happy if y-you w-would sit b-beside m-me."

There was a lot of commotion in the room, especially between the girls "Who is this cutie?" " I don't know, but I'm jealous of her" "I know, why did he sit beside her?" The reactions of the most boys was therefore the polar opposite "Dammit, why another one?" "Who does he think he is?" "Why the only girl who isn't fawning over Sasuke?"

Before the situation could escalate a teacher entered the room "good morning everyone, please take your seats so we can begin, I'm Iruka Umino and I will be your teacher for the next couple of years!"