Eighteen years ago, an infant was born to the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi. A masked man kidnapped the child to get the father away from the Jinchuuriki. As the father hid the baby, the masked man pulled the Kyuubi out of its host and made it go on a rampage throughout the Hidden leaf village. The father of the newborn child went out to stop him. The masked man eventually ran from the strength of the father.

The father sealed the Kyuubi into his newborn son. He named him Naruto and then passed away. 2 years later, as soon as the child was able to walk, the masked man kidnapped the child again. He then hid away underground, warping the thoughts of the infant and teaching him forbidden jutsu and training him to be the best ninja.

At the age of 8, the masked man sent the child back to the Hidden Leaf. The Hokage put him in the Academy, but it was quickly apparent that he out ranked everyone there. The child was put on a genin squad. He remained in the Hidden leaf, feeding information to the masked man that raised him.

At the age of 9, he became a chunin. 2 years later he was a jounin. He signed up for the ANBU Black Ops at the age of 12. At 13 he was the leader of the entire ANBU cell. He sent all the classified information of the Hidden Leaf to the masked man. After so long working with the Hidden Leaf, his heart slowly begins to change.

At the age of 17 he completely rebels against the masked man. This story begins a few weeks prior to that.

Naruto sat on the roof of his apartment building, watching the moon slide past. He thought about everything he had been taught. He was taught to never show mercy, if he had the killing blow he should take it. He was taught to never underestimate an opponent, always attack fast and hard and never pull a punch even in sparring.

Naruto then began to think of the masked man. The only thing he knew about the masked man was that he had a Sharingan and a grudge against Kakashi. After a few minutes of contemplating the masked man, Naruto stood up.

He stretched his arms over his head and yawned. He then took off as fast as he could, heading toward a training ground. He began to run through the forms he was taught, flowing through each one as fast as he could. To a bystander, he would have been nothing but a black blur. After he ran through all the forms once, he stopped. He then sat down and put his hands in his lap palms up. His back was completely straight, his neck bent to allow his head to fall forward slightly, his eyes closed. Naruto started to meditate, thinking of nothing but the sounds of the forest surrounding the training ground.

He then focused on the Kyuubi sealed inside him and appeared in the sewer with the Kyuubi's cage. Water dripped from pipes running along the ceiling, the floor was coated in an inch of water. The Kyuubi's chakra provided a red glow giving the place a rather spooky feel. Naruto walked to the cage bars and leaned against one of them.

'What do you want boy?' the Kyuubi growled.

"Show some respect to the body you reside in Kyuubi," Naruto hissed the name. "I want to know how strong you really are."

'Hahahahaha, aren't you full of spunk today. You wanna know how strong I am? Let me out of this cage and find out,' the Kyuubi said humorously.

"So you can take over my body again? No, I like to stay in control. However, if you promise to behave yourself I can open the cage and let you reside inside me freely. The only thing about that is you have to teach and train me, as well as lending me your power whenever I want it."

'You ask a lot boy,' the Kyuubi said thoughtfully. 'You will let me free if I train you and give you power... that's a good deal. I accept your offer on a condition of my own.'

"And what would that be?"

'Destroy that masked bastard with the Sharingan. He is of no use to you anymore.'

Naruto bowed his head down and thought about it. The masked man trained him up till he was 8. He outclassed every ANBU by the time he was 13. Now head of the ANBU, the Kyuubi agreed to train him. Logically the Kyuubi was right: the masked man was of no more use. Emotionally, Naruto was attached to him like a son attaches to a father. He was raised by that man. Naruto looked directly into the Kyuubi's eyes.

"As soon as I am stronger than him, I will."

'Great. Now free me from this cage.'

Naruto reached out and removed the seal on the Kyuubi's cage and pushed one of the doors open. The Kyuubi jumped out and roared. Naruto suddenly had thoughts to destroy and rampage against everything.

"You agreed to behave!"

'I agreed to train you, not to behave,' the Kyuubi said.

Naruto jumped up and attacked the Kyuubi with taijutsu, using the speed of his fathers teleportation technique to jump from place to place to avoid the Kyuubi's attacks. Naruto was slowly pushing the Kyuubi back into the cage. The Kyuubi roared again and grabbed Naruto before he could teleport again.

'You are almost as fast as your father, but you still have a long way to go,' the Kyuubi growled. 'I will let you keep your precious body. But know, one day I will destroy you.'

Naruto teleported out of the Kyuubi's paw and nodded at the Kyuubi, who just laid down and closed his eyes tails waving lazily.

Naruto opened his eyes to find that a red chakra cloak was surrounding his body. He looked behind him and saw that he had 2 tails formed. 'Damn fox, keep your chakra in check!' he thought. Naruto focused on forcing the chakra to dissipate. After a few moments of concentration the chakra vanished, leaving Naruto looking normal.

Naruto stood up and yawned, it was already dawn and he hadn't slept all night. He sighed and shook his head, then shot off through the village to his apartment. At the apartment he took a quick shower, dried his hair off and dressed in the ANBU normal gear. A sleeveless black shirt, black ninja pants, black gloves and black full foot shoes went on first. Then a tan harness for his short sword and some summoning scrolls. On top of that went a black hooded cloak, then a mask painted like a fox.

Naruto left his room and locked it, then teleported to the Hokage's office. Sarutobi looked at him and nodded, Orochimaru just looked at him and grinned. Tsunade, however, addressed him.

"Several ANBU have been killed. You must search the sites of the murders and find and kill the man responsible. You have 2 weeks. Dismissed."

Naruto walked up to the desk and grabbed the file. He flipped through the folder before leaving the file on the desk and disappearing to the first murder site. It was the personal home of an ANBU member. There was blood on the wall, scorch marks on the floor, and the mangled body of the ANBU. Naruto looked around using his practiced eye to replay the battle in his head.

The assailant appeared in the room, no doubt using some kind of teleportation jutsu, and the ANBU woke up. The ANBU attacked using one of the kunai that was sitting on his bedside table. After a few swings the assailant grabbed the hand of the ANBU and stole the kunai, using it to slice the ANBU in the stomach. The assailant the started to slice the ANBU in various places. The ANBU dodged a swing and used a fire style jutsu (most likely pheonix flower jutsu due to the spread on the floor). The assailant dodged the attack with his teleportation jutsu and broke the ANBU's neck. After that the assailant started to steal the organs of the body, eyes, stomach, liver, heart, kidney's. The assailant then left with his teleportation jutsu just as a few passing ninja decided to enter the room.

Naruto looked around one more time to make sure he didn't miss anything. Then he saw the sign that the masked man leaves for him at every kill. Naruto read the code and then burnt the evidence away. Naruto then went to the next few sites and the same story played out: the masked man came in and attacked the ANBU, the ANBU fought back only to be brutally murdered, the masked man steals some organs and leaves a note for Naruto. After Naruto read all the notes he then started to piece them together, they would tell him where the new hiding place is.

The masked man would stay there for two weeks for Naruto's new intel report. If it didn't come, the masked man would hunt Naruto down and torture him for the intel. Naruto then went to his house and took the cloak and mask off and laid down on the bed and went to sleep.

That night, as the sun was just passing the horizon, Naruto woke up. He yawned and stretched. He got up and started doing one armed push-ups. He did 200 an arm. Then he got on his hands and started to do pushups from a vertical position. When he did 200, he flipped to his feet and stretched some more. He took a shower and washed off the sweat from that day. He then got dressed in the standard ANBU uniform, adding 200 pound weights on each leg. He hung the mask on the back of his belt. He left the cloak off that day, so as to move faster and freer.

Naruto then started running to a training field. When he got there, he saw a Hyuga training. He hid himself and his chakra signature and just watched her move. She moved gracefully, like a dancer. She held her head high and executed the movements regally, like a princess. Naruto was stunned by her beauty, he felt... something for this girl. He didn't know what because his emotions were confusing him.

Naruto stopped hiding his chakra signature and jumped down on the training field. The Hyuga stopped and looked at him. She immediately started blushing although she kept her gaze on his face. Her light lavender eyes met his deep blue. Naruto knew that he would do anything for this girl.

"Why a-are you h-here?" she stammered.

"Well I came here to train but I guess you beat me to it, huh?" Naruto said lightly, putting one arm behind his head and grinning at her. "What's your name?"

"W-why do y-you want to kn-know?"

"Well I can't just call you Hyuga all the time, can I. My name is Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto," Naruto offered, trying to coax her out of her shell. "Can I have the name of the beautiful woman I am talking to?"

"My n-name is H-Hyuga Hinata," Hinata said giggling. No-one ever made her feel quite this way before.

"Well Hyuga Hinata, would you like to train with me?" Naruto said kindly.

Hinata was taken aback for a few moments before saying, "I really should be getting back. It was nice meeting you Naruto."

"Will we meet again?" Naruto called after her retreating form. There was no answer as she disappeared into the trees towards the village. Naruto sighed and looked at the rising moon. He started training following exactly what the Kyuubi was telling him to do. By sunrise he was sweating and exhausted. He leaned against a tree and nodded off, thinking of the Hyuga girl he ran into earlier.