I do not own Naruto- Kishimito does and he pretty much fcked it up, but this is my first fanfiction so I may not be too much better so please be patient with me. Please review and no flames.

Heart of Steel
Chapter 1
- Prolog –
by Chefu and JCDx

The day was horrible when Kyuubi no Yoko attacked the Village hidden in the leaf. The fight against the Lord of all demons lasted for hours and no jutsus were able to affect the almighty kitsune. Kyuubi was using its tails to crush attacking ninjas and demolize all building around. People were starting to get desperate when they thought about their unavoidable death. All of this was banished when someone shouted:

"Yondaime-sama is coming!"

Before he was crushed by one of kyuubi´s tails. And it was true. On the other side of battlefield he was standing on head of toad boss Gamabunta. In his arms was resting his newborn son Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto. Fourth stood proudly and calmly, but insde he was wreck. His wife has died after the labor and he was now going to battle where he is going to sell his soul to the Death God, trading it for sealing the Kyuubi into navel of his own son. What he saw caused him to go into deeper depression. Where yesterday stood proud new buildings, there he could now see only debris, blood and dead bodies or their limbs. All in all he could say that Kyuubi stood to its legend as a natural disaster. With a simple command Bunta jumped and engaged Kyuubi in combat. With demons attention on the frog boss, attacks from ninjas around started again. Nara´s were trying to bind Kyuubi with their Kage mane no jutsu, Aburame´s were using their Kikai bugs to bleed some chakra from Kyuubi, and some still living Akamichis were using their expansion bloodline to suffocate their target. Hyuuga´s Jyuuken was used in combat too. All clan´s were fighting for their home. But all attacks looked weak to the great assault of Yondaime and his summon. He was constantly attacking with all he could. All in all no attack was strong enough to even scratch Kyuubi who was laughing at them. After a while it stopped its laugh and said in demonic voice:

"YOU CAN'T DEFEAT ME YOU PESTY MONKEYS. I AM THE KYUUBI NO KITSUNE, RULLER OF HELL. EVEN GODS ARE TREMBLING BEFORE ME! "

Yondaime knew that he stood no chance against monster so he used his last resort, his last work, the Skihi fuuin. With broken heart he started seals for summoning of the Shinigami. After few minutes , which were like eternity to him, he knew that jutsu was ready to use. But Shinigami didn't go unnoticed to Kyuubi who went after fourth for a kill.

"Gamabunta, please hold Kyuubi as long as you can, I will end this."

Said Yondaime to Gamabunta, who after hearing this jumped to the attacker and tried to hold it as long as he could. Kyuubi who could not have it tried to kill the frog boss , but only made a scar on Bunta's eye. Meanwhile hand of Shinigami took hold of demon's soul and started to redirect it to seal which was drawn on body of small Naruto. Kyuubi was trying to fight it off of course but had small success. Even it's tails were of no use and it´s no small feat, because with a single swing with them tsunami would rise or earthquake was caused. With all of Kyuubi's soul in seal, Minato said a single word, which will eventually change the entire world.

"Fuuin!"

After the battle a lot of people were searching for their beloved leader. When they found him they could not believe what they saw. Yondaime, champion of Konoha was dying. But before he died, he managed to say his last words.

"Please… cough … view him as a … cough… hero he is, … cough… because he prevented Kyuubi … cough… from escaping….''.

And with that said the most powerful ninja of elemenal countries died.

1 Week after attack

Sarutobi, person by many called "Proffesor," was not having a good day. Screw it, he was not having a good week. First he was reinstated as a Hokage so he had to fight his long forgotten enemy - paperwork - again. Second, Yondaime took his secrets for finishing paperwork in record time to grave. Third - after announcment about Naruto and Kyuubi, he was disappointed in civilians, because they thought about Naruto as Kyuubi and started to call for his death. And his fourth problem was council. These fools were trying to execute Naruto or make him into living weapon. He could have no of this.

Flashback

Council was in chaos.

"We should kill 'it' while it´s weak,"

Was heard together with shouts of approval from others.

"NO, we should make it into village weapon, and I am willing to train it,"

was heard from old war hawk Danzo. This was met with approval from some clan heads and Sandaime's old teammates. "Quiet," said Sandaime.

"Naruto will not be turned into weapon Danzou."

He then turned to look at the councilmen who were calling after Naruto´s death "And HE certainly will not be killed. " This was met with displeasure and scowling from all present. After he spent some time thinking about Naruto's future in this hateful environment, Sarutobi stood up and cleared his throat.

"As of today, I, Sandaime Hokage pass the law that no one from the poorest to richest can talk about Kyuubi being sealed inside of Naruto, under the penalty of death. This of course applies to all of you too!" "WHAT! You can't be serious. You would let someone from council be executed because of demon?? This is outrageous! " Horuma, Sandaime's old teammate yelled.

"Hai, this law will apply to you too," Sarutobi responded. "With this said the meeting is adjourned." With that he went away.

Flashback end

Now all he had to think about was where Naruto should live. 'No one will take him as their own child so adoption is out of question. I can't take him because of my job. Jiraiya doesn´t live in Konoha anymore. So the last thing, I can think of is orphanage.' He knew that this decision is going to bite him in the ass later, but he has no other choice in the matter. He silently prayed that people in orphanage are intelligent enough to understand that Naruto is not Kyuubi, but merely its container. As he glanced at small Naruto in his crib, he knew that he can expect big things from him. With that his break ended and he went back to his work with occasional curse to Minato for his death.

In five years of Naruto´s life, he has survived horrible things. People were trying to kill him by many different ways on daily basis. Strangling, stabbing or poisoning together with his daily beating was taking its tool on him. But today was far more horrible. First it was 10th October and he knew that on his birthdays, people were more bloodthirsty, deadly and more malicious to him. They wanted blood. HIS blood. Today he was also kicked out of orphanage with words:

"You have some balls to try to steal from us after what you did five years ago, demon. Get lost and and never show your face here again!" Naturally this was a lie as for some unknown reason everything made of metal seemed to stick to him which was really bothersome. Of course he didn't know that this simple event will change his future forever.

He knew that in orphanage people were mean to him but it was only place he knew he could live. He had one small room which was in the worst condition of all the other rooms. It had one small window. Of course the window was broken so he was very cold on winters. He slept on the ragged mattress and all he had in possession were his old clothes, which were one black sleeveless shirt, orange pants and one pair of shoes. His clothes were washed only once a month. He received new clothes only once a year. He had no toys and never received any. He tried many times to ask and borrow some from other children but workers would always stop him and would beat him to unconsciousness. But right now his living arrangements were his smallest problem, because he was being hunted. This was his fifth hunt today and he was not very happy about it, not happy at all. 'Why! Why are they trying to hurt me? To kill me? I haven't done anything. It's not logical at all! 'Over the prior 5 years, young Naruto learned to strictly hide his logic. Thing, which saved him more then enough times and you can say he became cold. Who wouldn't in his situation? So right now he tried to find logic in his pursuers' actions. TRIED is a key word, because no matte how many times, he couldn't find any. As he was thinking he was not paying enough attention to where he was running and he took turn in the dark alley. What he discovered caused his fear to rise. He was in dead end. A fact which ruined his escape. As he turned around to try solve this problem, he found the entrance to the alley was blocked by enraged mob of villagers. They were armed with variations of all pointy and very deadly weapons he knew and that were already used on him in history. They had some sticks, pitchforks, broken bottles and other things. Between villagers he saw even some ninjas, and by their vest he knew that they were at least chuunins, but they could as well be jounins. As he surveyed the crowd, by his calculating eyes, he felt a shiver run down his spine. He knew that this beating will be harsh and he will be lucky if he is still alive after today, he ran out of all his tricks after all. With a hateful roar the mob surrounded him and started their 'righteous and justified' beating. With a quick punch to Naruto's gut, he collapsed to the ground and cuddled into the fetal position to reduce damage done to him.

Meanwhile while Naruto was being beaten, Kyuubi no Kitsune was starting to wake up inside his mind from her five years long slumber in the seal designed by the Yondaime Hokage.

"Where am I? "

Said the queen of all demons. She looked on the surroundings and before her she saw a gate made of bars. All walls around her were painted by some kanji from which she deduced that they were some sort of seals. On the ground she could see small level of water. On the more distant walls she saw more seals and on the roof she could see tens maybe hundreds of pipes. Some were red and some were blue. She deduced that red pipes symbolized her yoki and were human chakra. As she took her surroundings into her mind, she started to think how the hell did she get there.

" Hmm… the last memory I have is the fight with the yellow haired man-Yondaime and him summoning the Shinigami to seal me into some infant. So this must be certainly his mindscape. Let's see if I can survey his memory, maybe I can learn something about the seal."

As Kyuubi watchedhow life of Naruto went she grew disgusted with humans even more. From how they acted to one of their kind, they were even more foolish then she remembered. And they called her race demons. When she finished with Naruto's memories,thoughts about seal completely forgotten, she noticed that some of the blue pipes were slowly changing a color. They were changing from blue to metallic silver. As she was curios she sent burst of her chakra to investigate the pipes. What she found made her smile.

"Bloodline ... Interesting…."

As Kyuubi was exploring her new domain Naruto was still under attack. With bloodlust which his attackers radiated today he knew that they wanted him dead. Not almost dead like always, but really dead and he can do nothing about it. The pain was so unbearable and distracting for him that he almost didn't saw the red yoki that surrounded him and began to push itself into the ground. The yoki shot from the earth with something that resembled sand. Only difference was that this substance was darker than sand. Almost metallic. As the yoki vanished the unknown substance remained on the earth. While this was happening villagers and shinobi felt something that they didn't felt for five years. Fear. Absolute fear which can be felt only from Kyuubi. Now they knew that it was breaking from the seal so they had to kill container. One foolish shinobi raised his kunai and tried to ram it directly into Naruto's heart, but he was unexpectedly stopped. His weapon was blocked by the said unknown substance. Surprised he tried to attack again but substance would always stop him by forming a kind of dark wall. Other people tried to attack too. They were stopped like their comrade in crime. At this moment Sandaime and two squads of Black Ops ANBU has appeared around Naruto. As he saw the substance he paled and said only one word:

"…Satetsu…"

Eyes of those, who knew about Sandaime Kazekage and his bloodline, widened. Others that didn't know were confused, but this now didn't matter. The silence was short lived as Sarutobi snapped from his thoughts and started to give orders.

"ANBU execute all the people who violated my law and I will take Naruto to hospital for help."

Cries of horror and pleading could be heard but Sarutobi ignored them all.He thought about Naruto's Kekkai Genkai and his parents 'Minato, Kushina you would be so proud of Naruto. This young and he already awakened his bloodline.'