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Chapter 1. The Apprentice

Pain. That was the only thing that Naruto Uzumaki,3 year old orphan of konohagakure could feel. What started as a trip to Ichiraku's quickly spiralled into his worst birthday yet. After leaving the ramen stand he was surrounded by villigers with weapons and ninjas in a dark alleyway By the grace of Kami he couldn't remember what happened after as he continued to crawl out the ally towards home. Unfortunately, he realized he was starting to lose conscienceness as he made it out the ally. Before he passed out, he manage to see a strange purple glowing man make his way towards him.

As he opened his eyes to the world again, all he could see was white. Naruto then realized he was back in the hospital...again. After getting his bearings he realized he wasn't alone in his room. Looking over he sees his jiji talking to a strange man. The first thing that Naruto realized was that the man was wearing a strange armor covered in some areas with cloth. The armor itself was black with glowing purple symbols all over. With a start Naruto realized that this was the man he saw before passing out. While observing the stranger, Hiruzen noticed his blonde surrogate grandson was awake. "Ah, hello Naruto-kun, your awake I see". Looking at the old timer, Naruto said "Hi jiji. Who is this guy?". Before Sarutobi replied, the stranger spoke up "hello Naruto. My name is Irou". "Naruto, this man was the one who found and brought you here. There is a reason why he is here right now. You see Naruto, I know that you have wanted to become a shinobi for months now and I told you that when you were 8 I would let you join the academy right?" Naruto nodded for him to confirm it, "Yes, well that was a half-truth that I held onto until your birthday today. Irou is one of six men who are some of the most powerful and dangerous people in the ninja world. He and his group are what inspired Kiri to create there group of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. Irou has agreed to take you on as an apprentice of his group, and mabye even one day, become there 7th member." The Hokage looked at the awe struck child and chuckling a bit while saying "I'll take that as a yes then."

One week after that night, we find our young blonde standing beside his sensei looking one last time at the few precious people that he has in Konoha. Also, our young blonde was thinking of all that happened in this past week. First, Naruto was informed of his lineage, and after hours of yelling and screaming at his supposed jiji, he finally came to terms with and accepted the news. Irou was given many of both his mother and father's inheritence, with the promise that he would receive the rest apon his return. Also during the week, Itachi Uchiha tried assassinating his clan, only leaving behind his brother Sasuke. As it just so happened, Irou was nearby and decided to do some grave robbing before anyone showed up at the seen. He took a random Uchiha's body to bypass the blood seals on the Uchiha's secret scrolls and copied them down for future possibilities. While doing that, he happened to stumble onto a sealed pair of strange sharingan eyes. After some digging, he found out these were mutated Mangekyo sharingan eyes to stop the blinding process. He left with everything in hopes of giving it to his young charge as a birthday gift soon. As Naruto finished his farewells he and Irou began down the dirt brown road smiling madly the whole time.