THE START 2

The terror that those citizens were living under the pressure exerted by that child was almost unreal, they could not believe that the child that moments before was being beaten by them was standing in front of them crestfallen. The bloodlust coming out of the boy was suffocating for the civilians, while for the shinobi it was just a reminder that the boy standing in front of them was nothing more than a little demon bastard, that even though it should not be taken lightly, it would only be a small challenge to their skills, and in their minds they swore that they were more than enough to beat the boy up and his chakra increase spontaneously.

- I will kill you all for the damage you have caused him - the blond spoke in a low voice, almost like a whisper that although it was not heard by the civilians, for the ninja it was like a loud proclamation.

The ninja stood in front of the citizens while each one took his own combat stance, and stared at the little blond, who was now completely healed and the bubbling cloak that covered him receded until only a faint red aura surrounded him.

- You think that with only that miserable increase of chakra you will be able to defeat us, two chunin of the village, don't make me laugh you damned demon - were the words with which the scarred ninja shouted in his face.

The atmosphere was becoming more and more tense, the pressure was increasing, the ninja were preparing to kill the boy as soon as he moved from his place, the citizens who were behind the ninja were sweating even in the parts where they should not sweat. Until a civilian slowly stood up, either because of his courage or perhaps because of the stupid rage he felt towards the boy, he took a bottle, stood in front of the ninja and threw it with all his strength towards the blond. But what he didn't expect was that the blond ducked, letting the bottle hit the wall behind him, and from an impulse he threw himself at high speed against the civilian.

The citizen did not register the blond's movement until he was inches away from him, his first instinct was to close his eyes to receive the blow he was sure he would get, but the pain he felt was not from a blow, but something stabbing in his shoulder, when he opened his eyes, he saw those slitted eyes and red as red as his own, he saw those blood red slitted eyes looking at him with hatred and a tangible promise that he would not survive for much longer, and when he averted his gaze to his right shoulder he could see the boy's hand lodged inside, while another hand held the blond's as tightly as possible trying to keep it from lodging deeper into his shoulder.

Naruto and the ninja with the scar on his face began a struggle of strength, one to kill the civilian, while the other tried to prevent the civilian from being pierced by the hand of the little blond, who despite his size, was exerting a considerable force. But the competition came to an end, when the blond saw that the other ninja moved swiftly towards him, and connected a solid kick in the face making him fly backwards, making him crash against the wall.

The chunin threw themselves at the blond at full speed, trying not to give him time to defend himself. But the blond quickly recovered, jumped to the side to avoid the kunais that one of the chunin threw at him and that were embedded in the wall. Without wasting time the blond ducked under a kick that went straight to his head and once again took momentum to throw himself against the chunin who had thrown the kunais.

- Don't let him escape Hyuro - shouted the cut-faced chunin to his partner.

The chunin now known as hyuro watched as the blond rushed towards him, quickly raising his guard he was able to block kick that went to the side of his head, tensing his body to avoid being thrown by the force behind the boy's kick. Gritting his teeth hard to endure the pain hyuro grabbed Naruto by the leg and with a half twist threw him to the side causing the boy to roll several times on the ground, and as the blond got up a smile began to fill hyuro's face.

- I think I will make you receive the same pain that I got from your kick - mentioned hyuro while he took his left arm and began to move his hand in circles as if to clear the pain.

After a few seconds the little blond stood up on his feet, while exposing his own smile, and without taking his eyes off hyuro he raised a clawed hand, and blood was dripping from it. Hyuro seeing the blond's hand noticed the burning sensation that was filling his back, without losing sight of the blond he ran his hand down his back and could feel the liquid that was running down his back, and when he saw what that liquid was his eyes filled with a blind rage

- I'm going to kill you, you fucking demon - he shouted at the blond who was grinning cheekily at him, the rage was evident in hyuro's tone.

The blond braced himself to receive the assault of hyuro who was heading towards him, with such rage that anyone would think that the chunin had contracted rabies from some animal.

Dodging hyuro's jab Naruto leapt up to counter attack with a claw to the chest, which was dodged as hyuro took a step backwards to then throw a powerful uppercut, which connected in the blond's stomach, and while still in the air Naruto was thrown against some trash cans after receiving a spinning kick from hyuro.

Without time to recover Naruto had to jump away from where he was to avoid the other five kunais that the scar chunin had thrown in his face, but despite having dodged four of them, one of the kunais managed to successfully stick in his right leg.

The blond was still dodging the large number of weapons that were being thrown at him, but despite the increase of chakra he had suffered it was becoming tedious to dodge them all, and with no other options Naruto took the kunai lodged in his leg and with a low growl he pulled it out, the wound healed immediately and the blond used the kunai to deflect another series of shurikens that the chunin had thrown at him.

- Damn first time I fight with a child's body, not to mention that he is still too weak to try to force more of my chakra on him - thought the kyubi who for the moment had taken command of Naruto's body to protect him.

The kyubi's thoughts were cut off when he felt that hyuro rushed against him, trying to connect a series of several punches, which he dodged and blocked as best as possible, then connecting a combination of jab to the abdomen and a hook to the rib, then jumping and finishing with a kick to the chest, which threw hyuro several meters backwards.

Without wasting time the blond began to run after hyuro, to continue his assault. But he was stopped by a row of kunai that stuck in front of him, making him jump back.

- Don't get distracted hyuro - commented the ninja with the scar on his face to his partner while he didn't take his eye off the blond standing in front of him.

- I know isamu, he was just lucky to dodge my punches - said hyuro annoyed that the blond not only managed to block his punches, but also managed to give him a strong combination that left pain in the areas where he was hit.

- We'd better attack together. Let's not let that damned demon go unharmed tonight - the chunin, now known as Isamu, spoke while taking out a green scroll from one of his pockets.

Isamu took a big leap, unfolded the scroll that was filled with seals drawn "ninja art rain of blood", and with the sign of the tiger the sembones, shurikens and kunais started to come out of the glowing seals, rushing at full speed towards Naruto.

"Shit," thought the young blond as he began to dodge and deflect the weapons raining down on him. Displaying great agility Naruto was able to dodge most of the weapons.

"I've got you now," shouted hyuro as he appeared behind Naruto as he deployed a strong axe kick.

Naruto stepped aside dodging the kick and turning around thrust the kunai in his hand into hyuro's right leg, causing hyuro to scream out from the pain. Without giving him time, he began to hit the ninja mercilessly until culminating with a kick in the chest that threw hyuro to crash into the wall, and then ran away to where isamu was. The speed at which Naruto was moving was greater than a few moments ago, and this was noticed by isamu when he saw that in a few seconds he already had him in front of him trying to skewer him with the claws protruding from his fingers.

Dodging him narrowly isamu tried to take distance and prepare another weapon roll, but the attempts were in vain, as the blond was not giving him the time to take a breath. Naruto's onslaught was leaving him with no escape options, and because his taijutsu was no more than an ordinary one at best he began to give ground in the fight, his arms were already hurting due to the punishment of blows he was receiving and when he finally let his guard down he was hit by a combination of several body blows and a forceful kick that sent him rolling on the ground.

"You damned demon child!" shouted hyuro as he watched his partner being beaten by Naruto. The spite and anger were visible in his eyes, and with a defiant look he pulled a kunai from the case on his left leg and pulled out the one stuck in his other, and with the kunai in his hands he lunged at the blond without thinking.

The kyubi forced some more of his chakra through the seal that enclosed him and into Naruto's body, causing the aura surrounding the blond to intensify more along with his presence, and with a roar he made the blond launch himself at the ninja who was going to attack him. The boy and the ninja found themselves in a fierce fight, where hyuro was trying to punch and thread some kunai into Naruto's body, but the blond was being much more agile, the speed he gained helped him move through the attacks and connect some powerful blows that were destabilizing hyuro.

"haaaaaaaa!", hyuro shouted as he tried with unbridled anger to look for a way to lunge harder at Naruto, but he was failing to connect any attacks, on the other hand the blond seemed to be toying with him. The smile that appeared on his face was that of a hunter playing with his prey, and that was what was bothering the chunin the most.

The difference in speed was becoming more and more noticeable during the height of the fight. While hyuro was getting tired from the fight and also from the blows he was receiving, the blond was still maintaining the same intensity in every attack he managed to connect with him. Feeling that he was reaching his limit hyuro jumped backwards away from the blond, and when he got a few inches away he threw the kunai that was in his left hand at Naruto while holding the remaining one backhanded.

Naruto dodged the kunai that had been thrown at him and in a quick run shortened the distance between them, and when he arrived in front of hyuro he ducked dodging the thrust that sought to stab into his temple, and then launched a claw to the side of hyuro's body continuing with a knee to the face and ending with a forceful spinning kick to the head that made hyuro roll on the ground.

And without wanting to wait for the chunin to recover the blond was ready to continue with his attack, but when he wanted to advance a strong shudder whipped his body making him fall kneeling to the ground vomiting a pool of blood.

"Shit. The brat's body won't hold up for much longer, and to make matters worse I can feel two humans approaching fast. So I have to end this fight as fast as possible and leave the brat in a safe place", the kyubi said to himself while analyzing the situation he was in, however his thoughts were cut off when he noticed that several kunais had been thrown towards the blond's direction. Turning to the side the blond was able to dodge most of the weapons, but as he stopped he felt a pain coming from a kunai that had managed to stab into his left shoulder.

Forcing his body to respond the blond managed to get to his feet, only to flee backwards from some dumpsters to take shelter from a hail of sembon needles that had been thrown at him.

"are you okay?" isamu asked his partner as he limped over to him to help him to his feet.

"i'm not, and i won't be until i see that damn demon brat dead!", proclaimed hyuro as he covered the deep wound left by the blond's claw with his hand.

"let's finish this fight and that damn kid with our joint attack," said isamu to his partner as he pulled out another scroll, but this time a red one.

"all right," nodded hyuro.

Without wasting any time isamu unfolded the scroll with the seals in the direction of the dumpster to where the blond was while making the tiger seal, and with a glow from the seals came out a hundred sembon needles covered in oil, while hyuro went through a series of hand seals, and taking a puff of air he blew through his finger generating a hundred small fireballs that joined the sembons making them burst into flame.

"jutsu in collaboration. Flaming bloody rain," the two chunin shouted simultaneously.

The blond upon hearing the name of the jutsu peeked over the side of the container to see what the two ninja he was fighting were up to, but was surprised to see a hundred flaming sembon needles heading in his direction. Wary of the container's resistance and unable to move swiftly due to the state of his body, with no other options he could think of, the blond knelt down and placed his arms in front, covering his face, chest and abdomen, while a bubbling blanket of red covered his body.

The chunin watched as the container burst into flame after their attack, and waited anxiously for a few seconds to see if anything happened, but seeing nothing happen they began to walk at a slow pace to see the charred body they were sure their attack had left together. But they were astonished when they saw the blond emerge from the fire covered by the kyubi's mantle of chakra.

Fear completely gripped them. The bloodlust and pressure that overflowed from that blond boy was nothing compared to what they had felt when they started fighting. In their minds they wondered how that boy could have survived his strongest attack, and without being able to do anything else they saw how the cloak that covered the blond boy retreated leaving the blond boy and the seeds that were lodged all over his arms and legs exposed.

The blond could only look with great hatred at the ninja in front of him. Already his body was at the last of its resistance, due to the chakra that the kyubi had forced through the seal and into his body. Without thinking he pulled out the kunai that was stuck in his left shoulder and threw it forcefully towards hyuro, who could do nothing to prevent it from stabbing into his chest, only to fall face first to the ground.

"hyuro!", shouted isamu when he saw his partner lying on the ground.

The blond took advantage of the last ninja's distraction and with a painful last attempt forced his body to take off with great speed, closing the distance between him and isamu in a moment, then gathering momentum and hurling his clawed hand with all his remaining strength through isamu's chest, piercing his heart in the process.

Pulling his hand out of the body of the chunin he had just killed, the blond collapsed helplessly on the ground, due to his body having exceeded its limit.

"I'm sorry brat, but your body can't take any more. Just wait for the people who are about to arrive to help you", said the kyubi to the little blond who was lying unconscious on the other side of the fence of the mental space they shared.

After a few minutes Naruto opened his eyes regaining consciousness, but when he tried to move the pain in his body prevented him from doing so due to the fight that the kyubi had used him, it invaded him completely making him only able to move his head, but only that was enough to realize the great destruction that was in that alley, and the only injured civilian who was walking towards him with a kunai in his hand. Naruto closed his eyes to wait for the end, but after waiting a few seconds and not feeling anything but the persistent pain in his body he opened them again when he felt that two people came and stood in front of him, and when he looked up he only saw the silver hair and purple hair of those two people.

End of flashback.

"are you sure about what you just said?" the old hokage asked as he stared into naruto's eyes.

"I really don't know, man. Maybe it could have been my imagination. But what I am sure of is that I saw his hair in that alley", answered the little blond trying to convince the hokage, because he did not know if those images he saw in his dreams were the memories of that night, or they were just a nightmare that were constantly repeated in his nights of rest.

The confusion of that night was something disturbing for Naruto, it was something that he could not overlook, he felt that in that alley something had happened while he was unconscious, and that the disaster that night was not only caused by the anbus of the hokage, that maybe, just maybe he had to do with something that happened, because only then would make sense the growing hatred felt by the citizens of the town.

Naruto knew that they hated him, and even though he tried to look for the meaning of why, he could never do it, and he didn't want to ask those same people who hated him the reason why they did it. But since that night the hatred they already felt for him grew, something that surprised the little boy.

During all the time that had passed since that night, Naruto had noticed that in the eyes of the villagers, he could see the intense hatred towards him. Where before they looked at him with contempt and disgust, now he felt that they looked at him with those same feelings and including other feelings more, that despite not distinguishing them very well he knew that one of them was that desire to end his life what predominated in the eyes of the citizens of konoha.

"Naruto, are you okay?", asked the old hokage when he saw that Naruto for some reason had been distracted and had a worried expression.

Hearing the old naruto's worried voice he put his thoughts aside and focused on looking at the third hokage.

"old man, do you know what happened that night?", wanting to know the truth of that night naruto asked.

"i don't know what happened during that night naruto, the only thing i know is that we found you passed out in an alley in the trade district", said with a serene tone of voice the third hokage.

"I understand," he spoke as he nodded.

"Why the question," the hokage worried about the little blond's health. He knew of the treatment of the citizens, and even if he was the hokage he could do nothing to change the mindset of those fools who refused to see the truth.

"Do you know why they hate me?" was the second question naruto asked.

The third hokage, hiruzen sarutobi had a bad feeling about the kind of question the little blond asked, and even though he didn't expect it he took some time to meditate on the answer he would give.

"Sometimes we human beings do not understand the situations that can happen thanks to a tragic event, or because of things that are out of our hands, and as we refuse to let go of the past, we attack everything that reminds us of what hurt us as an outlet for all the frustration without stopping to think if the actions we took are the wrong ones.", were the words that came out of the third hokage trying to answer the doubt of the boy he considered as a second grandson.

"i don't understand, i need you to explain it to me", naruto commented to the hokage.

"don't worry naruto, you are still too young to understand", said the hokage with a smile trying to comfort the boy who was crestfallen. But the smile faded when he saw the tears running down the boy's face as he lifted him up.

"no, i want to understand now," little naruto cried out as he raised his head. "i want to know why they hate me so much, what i did to them, why i have no friends, why they all look at me with disgust. I need to know." The blond finished yelling as he took a breath of air, to catch his breath.

"calm down naruto, I can understand how you feel," the third one tried to intervene to calm the blond down.

"Know how I feel? Have you been beaten to death for just existing, have you been rejected for no apparent reason, or do you know what it's like to feel like you're all alone when you need someone to help you the most." Naruto's anger had already reached its limit when he stood up from the chair where he was sitting and ran out to his room, and with a loud bang he slammed the door, leaving the hokage and his anbus alone in the small dining room.

Hiruzen sarutobi was speechless when he saw the outburst of anger that the little blond had, and unable to avoid the feeling of guilt that was building up inside him, he did nothing more than just give a painful sigh of resignation.

"Are you all right, hokage sama?" asked the purple-haired anbu.

"yes, I'm fine. I just feel like I'm getting too old for this job," replied the old hokage as he looked towards the room where naruto left, and unable to help but remember the pain with which naruto said each word.

Regret and nostalgia began to flood hiruzen's thoughts, but despite that he knew that if he told the blond everything he might not understand the situations and the sacrifice his parents made for the sake of him and konoha. That was why he had to hide the whole truth, at least until he was old enough to face things in a more mature way.

"We'd better leave him alone for the time being," the hokage said in a whisper, more to himself than to his companions.

Standing up from the seat where the third hokage was sitting he pulled an envelope out of his robe and left it on the table, passing him how badly he was handling the boy's situation he looked at the door to the room, then turned and started walking towards the door of the small apartment.

Two hours later naruto was walking through the village, his eyes lost in thought. Despite the gestures of hatred that the people who saw him pass by gave him, the blond continued on his way without giving him the pleasure of being seen sad, he would show these people that he is not a monster, that he is not that demon that they want to believe he is, he would show who Naruto Uzumaki is, the strongest future ninja of all history.

With renewed motivation the blond continued in the direction of that small food stall, where he felt loved and not belittled. And as he walked his mouth watered at the thought of his favorite dish, the food he was sure was the gift of some god out there.

After half an hour of walking, naruto arrived at the small ramen stall and with a smile as he smelled the good aroma that flooded the street he passed by to get his precious food.

"good morning old teuchi," shouted naruto with animosity as he entered the ramen stall.

"good morning naruto. I'm glad to see our little customer number one so early," a tall gray-haired gentleman with gray hair covered by a white cap replied cheerfully, he was dressed in a white robe and had on a lavender apron.

"please, can I have a miso pork ramen", Naruto told him while smiling at teuchi's affectionate way of welcoming him, after all teuchi's ramen stand was the third place where the blond frequented the most.

"Coming out," teuchi replied cheerfully, as he began to prepare the little blond's order.

Sitting happily on one of the seats in front of the counter naruto stood watching as old teuchi prepared his prized ramen.

"and where is ayame neesan?", asked naruto to teuchi.

"At this moment she went to buy some ingredients that are needed", answered teuchi without taking her attention away from the ramen preparation.

"I thought you guys always had everything delivered here.

"that's how it should be, but we have a problem with some ingredients that the supplier hasn't brought us, and that's why ayame went to buy them", teuchi answered calmly, while she turned around with the bowl of ramen ready for the little blond.

Naruto stared anxiously to enjoy that ramen that was approaching him, the beautiful aroma that gave off that freshly prepared ramen, and without being able to wait to satisfy his appetite he began to devour the bowl of ramen that had been placed on the counter table.

After half an hour and a pile of empty ramen bowls naruto gave a sigh of satisfaction as he finished eating his food of the gods.

"thank you for the food teuchi ojiisan," the little blond thanked with a smile as he got up from his seat and left the money on the counter.

"we're at your service naruto," teuchi replied reciprocating naruto's smile with one of her own.

"you give my regards to ayame neesan", shouted naruto as he walked out of ichiraku ramen.

And without giving him time to answer teuchi, naruto went on a walk through the village having his goal clear in his mind and with the same determination he had when he was heading towards ichiraku, he wanted to start training, to improve his strength and that despite being small he could defend himself from those who wanted to harm him.

Hokage's office:

Hiruzen sarutobi was fighting against his bitter enemy, the one that in spite of fighting him daily, it seemed he would never defeat him. Paperwork was that enemy that made the old hokage want with great fervor to get that successor who could replace him, since he was sure that if old age did not kill him, the exhaustion of the work of reading, signing and sealing the endless piles of papers on his desk would make him perish at any moment. But despite that his mind was also wandering on the options he could take to improve little naruto's safety.

Flash back:

The third hokage stood in his office looking out of his glass window, waiting for his two most trusted anbus to arrive from the investigation order he gave them. The nerves he felt were getting worse and worse, hiruzen had a feeling that something was happening to naruto, since a while ago he could feel the flash of the kyubi's evil chakra. It wasn't as big as that night, but just the fact that he felt it was proof enough for him to feel fear that for some reason the kyubi was breaking free from the fourth hokage's seal.

"I hope you are well naruto," the old hokage said to himself in a worried voice as he sat back in his chair.

It hadn't been long since the third hokage had sat down when someone started knocking on his office door.

"May I come in hokage sama," a female voice was heard from behind the other side of the door.

"you may come in," the hokage said as he recognized the voice of his personal anbu.

"I'm here to deliver the report on the order you gave us," the purple-haired anbu said as she stepped into the office.

"and what is the report?"

"upon arriving at the place where the kyubi's chakra flash was perceived we found the place almost destroyed. Fortunately the damage to the properties was not something of serious magnitude. But nevertheless in the place there were six people, four of them are civilians in a presumed state of inebriation, and the other two are newly promoted chunin. "said the anbu beginning her report.

"I understand. But what could have happened," said the hokage nervous about the blond's situation.

"According to what we could see, it all stemmed from a battle between the chunin and naruto. The fight left one of the chunin in serious condition, and unfortunately the other died from a wound in his chest, while three of the four civilians were totally unconscious, and the last one was about to attack an unconscious naruto, but fortunately we arrived in time to stop him. Neko was in charge of taking naruto to the hospital and said that she would stay until he woke up.", finished giving the report the purple-haired anbu to the third hokage who was wide-eyed at the report he had just been given.

End of the flashback:

After remembering what happened that night the hokage took a deep breath and began to contemplate the portrait of the fourth hokage and squinting his eyes he could not help but reflect his concern as he remembered the promise he had made to the fourth hokage to take care of his son, but for some reason he felt he was not doing it the right way. Every attempt he wanted to make for the betterment of naruto's life for some reason went wrong. When he had received naruto he was just a baby and for his safety he gave him his mother's surname so he could be safe from his father's enemies, he had also decreed before the council of elders and the council of ninja, that naruto's status as jinchuriki of the kyubi was a class s secret, but apparently that was his first mistake, as it wasn't long when the news spread throughout the village, causing all the hatred of the village to fall on naruto.

"what a tasteless joke. Everyone knows that naruto carries the kyubi inside him but him," the hokage said to himself as he puffed on his pipe with a distressed face.

However, the hokage's thoughts were interrupted when suddenly there was a knock at his office door, something he found strange since he was not expecting anyone.

Changing his countenance to a more serious one sarutobi prepared to receive the unexpected visitor. "come in," he said in a loud voice.

"good afternoon hiruzen," spoke that person who was beginning to enter the hokage's office.

The hokage was a bit puzzled when he saw the person who had passed into his office. "good afternoon danzo. how can I help you?", spoke the hokage quickly hoping to deal with his former teammate as quickly as possible.

"I just came to ask you about the actions we will take for the team of chinobi from iwagakure, who are near the border of the fire country?" asked the old man in black robes who had half of his face covered by white ribbons.

Hiruzen frowned as he heard the question that almost sounded like a demand on danzo's part. But what bothered him the most was the speed with which the information reached him, since he had only received that information a few hours ago. And that fact alone made the third hokage furious at the failed attempts to root out and the power that old hawk had behind the scenes.

"it is not necessary for us to do anything, because according to the reports I received, the intentions of the iwa shinobi are not to initiate some kind of invasion", the third hokage replied to his former partner.

"you shouldn't trust the intentions of the iwagakure chinobi.", danzo kept pushing for the answer he wanted.

Hiruzen was already losing his cool at danzo's insistence to take action against the iwagakure shinobi. He already knew better than to get complacent for the safety of the people, and more so with the tensions the five great nations were in, and as the third hokage of konoha he could not afford to make a decision that would lead his people into war if not necessary.

"I understand your point," the hokage said without letting his serious countenance fall, then raising his hand to stop danzo from interrupting him. "But I'm not going to risk provoking an unnecessary war. I am the hokage and my priority is the safety of my people and I will try as far as possible not to push them into a conflict if it is not necessary." He stated with conviction.

Danzo frowned as he heard the words spoken by hiruzen. "you are showing yourself to be too weak to make the right decisions for the protection of the village, first by leaving the brat kyubi unrestrained despite killing a village shinobi and now in refusing to take action to protect our village."

The anger at the words his former partner had spoken was evident on the hokage's face, and without warning he blasted his chakra into the office, claiming that despite his advanced age he could still wield the power with which he was recognized by the five nations as the shinobi master.

"Listen to me well danzo," hiruzen spoke with annoyance clear in his tone. "not because we were teammates I am going to allow this disrespect towards me, your hokage. So forget about the fact that I'm going to allow a new war to start and much less that you even lay a finger on naruto... understood!".

"understood hokage sama", under the pressure of hiruzen's chakra, danzo had no choice but to frown in annoyance and write off the discussion he was having with the hokage.

"I am now going to ask you to leave." Said the third hokage sharply.

Without another word danzo withdrew from the hokage's office and as he walked with immeasurable anger he muttered something that could not be heard by the third hokage.

Entrance of the forest of death:

Naruto had entered the forest of death, he knew he had no knowledge of how he should start training, but despite that the little blond was not discouraged, he was willing to face anything to become strong.

With a fervent motivation and a basic exercise book that he had stolen from the library, Naruto had begun to wander through the forest for a long time in search of some clear place to begin his training, but despite the minutes of walking, the blond still had not gotten any clear area of the forest, until after a few more moments Naruto saw in the distance a clearing with a small river running through it.

After reaching the clearing Naruto felt that for some reason he was located in the middle of the forest of death, a name that to him was somewhat exaggerated, since despite the rumors he had heard, this place didn't seem that dangerous and that he had been living here before when he was kicked out of the orphanage, but he had never dared to go that deep into the forest, most of his time in the forest had been a bit far from the entrance at most.

"Enough resting, it's time for my training to begin," Naruto exclaimed with motivation, as he stood up and pulled out the exercise book he had stolen. He knew it was wrong, but when he wanted to ask the attendant nicely for it, she had told him that demons like him were not allowed to enter those kinds of places. So he had to steal it, since asking someone for help was something that would give with the same result.

Unknown place:

A silhouette was walking down a corridor dimly lit by a few candles that illuminated the way. The echo left by that person's footsteps could be heard clearly throughout the hallway.

"damn you hiruzen," danzo exclaimed angrily as he reached a door at the end of that dark hallway. "if it wasn't for him getting attached to that bratty kyubi, I would have had him in my hands by now and in the process of turning him into the perfect weapon for konoha."

Upon entering danzo came upon a room in a very unpleasant state, the dim light giving it a look of dread, on the left side of the room a large work tables could be seen with a gas light shining on it, next to a couple of scrolls and several strings lying around, that could be used to hang animals to kill them, and at the bottom was a glass pool that provided a dim light, this was filled with some kind of green liquid, inside you could see the corpse of a man full of scars and open wounds.

Following his walk Danzo had gone deeper into the room and after a second he found himself standing behind a tall man, his long black hair flowing down his back. Apparently the man hadn't noticed him, due to being more focused on the task at hand.

"It's a great pleasure to see that the old hawk of konoha came to visit me," the unknown man casually mentioned.

"you know what I come for orochimaru," danzo mentioned crisply with a serious tone.

The man now known as orochimaru only gave danzo a quick glance, and then continued with his work, which consisted of performing a kind of surgery on a body that was in a hospital bed, that body was pale and emaciated, the only signs that he was alive or something like that were the sounds made by the machine that measured his pulse.

"and I thought you came to visit me out of simple kindness", orochimaru said with a mocking tone.

"just tell me how you're doing with the assignment, or do I have to remind you that the one keeping your hidings a secret is me," danzo replied completely stoic.

"Damn, but what a sourpuss you are," the legendary sannin mentioned, as he stopped working on the surgery he was performing on the man. "But fortunately for you, I have what you asked for in the scrolls on that table over there," said orochimaru as he pointed to the large work table.

Danzo couldn't contain the smile that had formed on his face knowing that his plans were getting closer and closer to completion. "You'll see damned hiruzen soon you'll be dead and the position of hokage will finally be mine," he said to himself as he thought that he was now to begin his plan.

Orochimaru's evil grin widened as he interrupted danzo's tirade. "But for the seal to be completely efficient, you'll have to mentally fuck the kyubi brat, or at least put him into a genjutsu strong enough to exhaust him and make the seal work."

Forest of Death:

The day was coming to an end, the sun was setting letting us see the sunset forming in the sky, and in the forest, in the middle of the large clearing was Naruto lying on the ground face up tired from the exercise routine he had learned from the book he had stolen from the library.

"woood, I never would have imagined that doing those exercises would be so exhausting," Naruto spoke aloud, as he wiped his hand across his forehead to remove the sweat that was accumulating.

After a few minutes of rest, Naruto had stood up from the ground and shaking off the dust that had accumulated on his clothes, he prepared to leave the forest but the growling of his stomach stopped him. "I guess I'll have to eat something first," Naruto said to himself as he looked down at the river.

Not wanting to waste time Naruto made his way to the river bank, and when he arrived he began to take off his clothes to fish more easily, after all he had become an expert at barehanded fishing, a skill he gained from living in that forest for almost a year.

An hour later the blond had caught three fish, he had prepared a fire with branches near the river, and after having satiated his hunger he got ready to get dressed to leave the forest for home, because the sun had already gone down and he did not want to run into any civilian who for some reason wanted to hit him again.

With no more time to lose Naruto began his walk through the forest, heading for the exit of this, however as he moved away from the clearing and deeper into the forest, the blond began to feel stalked by something behind him, but when he looked back he could not see more than just bushes and trees that were illuminated by the moonlight. Feeling that anxiety and fear began to invade his head, the little Naruto began to walk faster, occasionally picking up some kunais that he found on the way.

After a while of running away from whatever was chasing him Naruto stopped. "I have to get out of here quickly," he said to himself as he tried to calm his nerves.

But almost immediately he heard the sound of leaves moving, fearful of what he would find the blond slowly turned around to see what was causing the sound, but once again he could not see anything at first, at least until a pair of glowing eyes were present behind some bushes. Startled the blond could only swallow saliva as he watched those yellow, glow-in-the-dark eyes get higher and higher, and when he finally made himself known to that giant brown-scaled figure Naruto let out a sigh of relief.

"Whew. It's a giant snake, for a moment I thought it would be a ghost," Naruto said relieved by the events.

"run stupid, that's worse," shouted a thick voice inside the blond's mind.

Feeling the weight of those words, Naruto became nervous again at the sight of the giant snake stalking him, so he tightly grabbed the kunai he had picked up earlier, preparing for the snake's attack, but the wait was over when Naruto threw the kunai at the snake's head, then ran off with all his strength in the opposite direction.

"! Damn! I thought the giant animal stories were a lie!" exclaimed Naruto as he moved through the brush and trees, trying to lengthen the distance between him and the giant snake that saw him as tonight's dinner.

Knowing that the snake would soon catch up with him Naruto stopped to look for a place to hide, but no matter how hard he searched he couldn't get any hiding place, and the little light coming into the forest wasn't much help. With no other options left, Naruto hid behind a tree trying to make as little noise as possible.

"Duck," that voice in his head shouted again.

Without a second thought Naruto ducked as fast as he could, only to see a large tail pass over him, shattering the tree he was hiding behind in half.

"Stay away," spoke the voice in his head.

Immediately Naruto followed the instruction that voice was giving him, launching himself into a somersault the blond managed to dodge the snake's onslaught, as it turned around and raised its head as if to analyze the next move Naruto would make.

"Leave me alone you stupid snake! Or is it that you can't stay one night without dinner", irritated by the persistence Naruto shouted at the snake.

The snake didn't even flinch at the blond's words, instead it kept looking at him intently, its tongue licked the air in the direction where Naruto was, and without warning it launched into an attack.

"Shit," Naruto shouted as he jumped to the side to dodge the snake.

Continuing to dodge to avoid being eaten, crushed or suffocated, Naruto wasn't realizing that he was slowly being pushed against a stone wall, leaving him in a position of complete disadvantage to continue his escape.

"shit," the blond exclaimed again as he saw that he had no escape left.

"I can see you're completely useless," that voice spoke again in his mind.

Frowning Naruto couldn't help but feel annoyed. "shut up don't you see it's hard to escape from that stupid snake," Naruto replied.

But suddenly the realization hit Naruto hard, he didn't know whose voice he heard inside his mind, at first he thought it was his thoughts which came a little weirdly to his mind.

"Who are you?" he asked cautiously.

"If you don't want to be eaten you'd better dodge," that voice casually mentioned.

Still afraid of that voice Naruto decided to listen to it, anyway it had been helping him so far, but when he focused his gaze to the front he saw that the snake once again rammed him with ferocity, however Naruto managed to dodge it by very little, but what the blond did not realize was that the snake shook its head at the last moment, successfully hitting Naruto's back, which could not avoid being sent to roll on the ground until crashing into a tree.

"Fucking shit snake," Naruto said while wiping the blood running down his mouth, using the tree where Naruto had ended up as a support he made his best effort to stand up.

"I see you are still very weak," the voice in his head said with a mocking tone.

"if you're not going to help me, you'd better shut up", mentioned the blond already tired from the race he had been having thanks to the annoying snake that wouldn't leave him still.