Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Many Minds of Namikaze Naruto ❯ Naruto Uzumaki: Konoha Shinobi ( Chapter 1 )

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The Many Minds of Namikaze Naruto

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any other shows, books, movies (etc. etc.)that you may or may not associate with this fan fiction. If I did, I wouldn't be here writing fan fictions, now would I?

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This chapter will have more narrator interruption than future ones, since the story is just being set up. The “interrupting narrator” is common in my writing style, but he won't usually be this prominent. This first chapter will also involve a lot more summary than future chapters, as this is not my story, but rather a slight alteration of the canon storyline. This story will feature a powerful Naruto, but not godlike, and with a powerful enemy (eventually). He will be somewhat different personality wise from the canon. If you don't like that, sorry, don't read it.

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It was not a good day. Of course, In Konoha, most days were “not a good day” for Naruto Uzumaki. For a reason he couldn't explain, the villagers hated him with a passion. He didn't understand why, he'd never done anything to them (that he knew of). Still, he struggled on, and the life that he remembered had been comfortable enough (considering his circumstances anyway) for him to get by.

Despite his distinct lack of family (Did I fail to mention that? Yes…his parents are dead…you'll learn about that later if you don't already know) and being ostracized by the village, Naruto had a decidedly upbeat, trusting personality, one that showed in his daily activities. So it was that when a Chuunin instructor by the name of Mizuki informed him of an alternative graduation method (because he had failed the first one, obviously) he took the chance without a second thought.

The Forbidden Scroll was spread across the ground in front of Naruto. He'd been training himself from it for hours now, and had mastered one technique from the scroll successfully: Kage Bunshin, the Shadow Clone Technique. Even that had constant training in those hours in order to master. It was while he was looking through the technique's description a bit more that someone else showed up: Iruka, and then, a short time after, Mizuki.

Naruto was shocked by the revelation that occurred in the next few minutes, that HE was in fact the container of the nine tailed fox that so nearly destroyed Konoha years before. It explained so much. In the end, though, It would make life easier knowing. After all, he now knew he was not the one at fault. They were plain and simple, complete morons. If that was how they thought, who would want to be friends with people like them anyway? Thought like this went through Naruto's head until Mizuki attacked him, and Iruka took the blow for him.

It was then that his training kicked in. Mizuki could not be allowed to get the scroll; though he wondered why Mizuki couldn't have gotten it himself…he'd practically just waltzed in and taken it, after all. So Naruto did something he hated doing, he ran. He ran directly away from Mizuki and Iruka, toward his home. The moment he was out of sight or Mizuki, he put his rather simple plan into effect. A single clone, with a copy of the scroll, switched copies with the real Naruto, who, a fake scroll one his back, turned and charged back toward Mizuki as his clone took the real scroll to Naruto's home.

Naruto stood his ground in front of Mizuki, who had begun to chase him as he ran. “Give me the scroll, brat.”

“You hurt Iruka…that was a bad idea.”

“It should've been you, you demon brat. Now give me the scroll, before I have to kill you and take it anyway.”

“Try it. You try to touch me or Iruka-sensei, and I will destroy you”

“I'll kill both of you in one hit, Demon fox.”

Naruto's mind was churning. Mizuki was even worse than the rest of the village…He pretended to care, and then threw him to the dogs. “You bastard,” He growled, drawing a kunai from the pouch on his hip. “You BASTARD!” His eyes were vertical slits as he placed his hands into the first seal “I will tear you apart” and still when he finished the last. “Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!”

Hundreds of Naruto clones filled the area, in trees, the ground, spreading throughout the surroundings. Mizuki seemed astounded. “Wh…what is this?!”

Without giving the chance for a second comment, all the Naruto's released their kunai toward Mizuki. He had no chance to react. A Thousand kunai filled the air and struck the Chuunin where he stood. He was unmistakably dead (with no chance of a return in a ridiculous filler arc, for example).

Meanwhile, at Naruto's apartment, his clone has the scroll laid out across the floor, his eyes scanning across it, copying anything of interest from the writings and diagrams onto another smaller scroll beside it. There were only a few techniques on the scroll that Naruto felt any interest in, and one in particular caught the clone's eye. It was not so much a technique as a description of the history of one, explaining the origins of many of the summoning contracts Ninjas used in their work. He copied the information as quickly as he could, and then moved on to the next technique.

Back in the woods, Naruto had left Mizuki's body and returned to his sensei. Iruka frowned. “You killed him.”

Naruto's face was dark. “He tried to kill me. He tricked me. He USED me. He deserved nothing better. I couldn't ask for a more justified first kill. Still…” He trailed off, a somewhat troubled look on his face.

Iruka looked at his student, a smile pulling at the corner of his lips. “Naruto…What Mizuki said…”

Naruto interrupted. “Don't worry…It made things better, not worse. I know the reason behind their hatred now…and I know who I am, regardless of the fox. If they can't accept me, they aren't worth my time.

Iruka's face held a full smile now. “Naruto…I want you to have this.” He slipped his headband loose and tied it around Naruto's forehead. “Congratulations on graduating.”

Naruto's eyes widened, with convenient timing, as he was also surprised by the sudden flow of information he got from his clone as it de-summoned itself. The scroll and its copied counterpart were both hidden, separately, in his house. “Sensei…before we return…the real scroll is hidden at my house.” The scroll on his back disappears in a puff of smoke. “We should probably go get it and return it, huh?”

Iruka sighed. “When did you…? Ah, never mind, let's get it…the village is probably in an uproar. I'll go with you and explain what happened to the others…I can walk well enough.”

Naruto nodded. “Iruka-sensei?”

Iruka looked at Naruto with his eyebrow raised.

“Can we go get some ramen afterward?”

Iruka sighed. “Fine.”

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It was the next day when Naruto next looked at the copied scroll his clone had made. He'd only gotten a few things from it, and several of them he doubted he'd be able to achieve for quite some time. He read over the story of the summoning contracts, skimming over some until he found one of interest. Most summoning had one this in common: A summoning contract. From what he could see though, there were many techniques that were technically summoning that didn't require a contract. The user simply forced the summoning to occur, as was the case with the Impure Resurrection and probably a few of the non-sentient summons. The seal used on the summoning scroll was what was important, until a more permanent contract could be formed. So what he needed to do to improve the technique was figure out how the seals themselves worked, and he could make his own summoning contracts! Most ninja didn't have the kind of chakra to force a summoning, but with the Kyuubi sealed into him, he shouldn't have any problem. After all, the scroll had said summoning more than a few dozen Shadow clones was practically unheard of. He'd summoned more than a thousand, easily.

So he set to work analyzing the seals that made up a summoning scroll. It wasn't nearly as complicated as he'd expected, and ultimately, the only thing he'd need to change is the symbols representing the target. So he found what he thought he needed. A set of symbols that should let him summon a HUMAN. He could imagine the possibilities. If a ninja were able to summon other ninja at will…defense and attacks would be that much easier. Ninja could be shifted around at a moment's notice. But so far as he knew, no one had tried it before. (He was wrong…no one had succeeded, but , many had tried…still…that is a story for another time).

He took out a scroll and began to paint the necessary symbol across it, taking care not to leave any mistakes. As he finished up, giving the ink a chance to dry before he tested it. What he didn't realize, was that of the three symbols around the edge of the scroll, “body”, “mind”, and “spirit”, only two were written properly. The symbol for “body” was missing a simple stroke, and that made it meaningless, simply a bit of extra ink on the scroll. Naruto, being a 12 year old who had never done well in school, and was rather impatient on top of that, didn't notice his mistake. So it was that when he swiped the blood from his thumb across the seal and planted his hand in the center, things did not happen as he expected. He fed a massive amount of chakra into the seal, more or less releasing it as a flood, not bothering any attempt at control. The energy flowing through the scroll exploded outward and threw him backwards, and when he opened his eyes again, the center of the seal, when the symbol for “human” had been, was burned completely away.

What just happened?

A very good question, as is this: Where am I?

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Well, that's it for chapter one. Make sure to review, I want to know what you guys think. More reviews=more motivation for me to write. The next chapter should be more interesting, but i'd like people to tell me what they think is happening, and tell me what they think of the concept thusfar.