1 I'm Like His Twin
A small blonde boy was lying on the ground, unconsciouse. His clothes dirty and ripped in many places and many bruises could be seen on his face.
Suddenly, a man with silver hair whose face was covered by a mask that had red and black drawings resembling a dog. He bent over the small blonde boy and checked his pulse. A few moments later, the masked man picked him and carried the boy away.
"Ugh ... what happened to me?" thought the boy as he slowly opened his eyes.
The boy looked around with his blue eyes and found himself in a small room. He sat up on his bed and looked around the empty room.
"Oh right, those men beat me calling me a 'demon', after I got kicked out of the orphanage," thought the body.
[Good morning, Host!]
"What! Who said that?" muttered the boy in shock.
[It is I, the Gamer System!]
"Where are you? Why can't I see you?" asked the boy, looking around.
[Host, you can't see me as I do not have a physical body! I am bound to your soul and can communicate with you through your mind! You can just think and I'll be able to hear your thoughts!]
"Bound to my soul?" asked the boy confused.
[I was looking for a friend and I found you! I noticed you wanted a friend too so I formed a bond with you!]
"A friend? You want to be my friend?" asked the boy, tears willing up in his eyes.
[Of course!]
"All right!" exclaimed the boy excitedly. "I finally have a friend!"
[It's good that you are excited, but I should tell you what I can do!]
"OK, System, tell me," said the boy, smiling happily.
[I can do currently do three things.
1. I can show you your information in a screen that only you can see when you call out Status Window in your mind.
2. I have a storage space that you can open and close and store items in the space called the Inventory. You can access it when you say Inventory in your mind while thinking about it.
3. I can give you quests where I will award you with points only after you complete them.]
"Wow, that sounds like fun," said the boy, still smiling wildly.
[You should open your Status Window first to check your information. Remember, just say Status Window in your mind.]
"OK, Status Window!" called out the boy in his mind.
Name: Naruto Uzumaki | Age: 4
Level: 1 (10/1000) | Rank: Civilian
Status: Healthy
Title: Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails Fox
Bloodline: Uzumaki
Attributes:
Strength: 3 | Vitality: 10
Intelligence: 5 | Agility: 2
Wisdom: 2 | Dexterity: 1
Chakra Point: 1000
Attribute Points: 0
Abilities:
Healing Factor - Able to heal five times faster than normal.
Skills: None
"System, what's Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails Fox?" asked Naruto.
[Nine-Tails is a powerful fox that was sealed inside of you by the Fourth Hokage!]
"Why?" asked Naruto.
[It is better if you talk to the Nine-Tails directly!]
"How do I do that?" asked Naruto.
[Close your eyes and imagine yourself in front of a giant fox!]
"OK!" said Naruto as he did as he was told.
After about a minute, Naruto found himself staring at big iron doors with vertical bars. In the middle of the doors was a small paper that had the "Seal" written on it. Naruto peered inside the cage and found nothing but darkness. Then suddenly a pair of big red eyes with a black slit opened and looked straight at him. The eyes moved and as it came closer to the doors, Naruto noticed the shape of a massive fox with tails swinging wildly in the back. There stood behind the doors, the most powerful tailed beast that existed in the world, the Nine-Tails Fox commonly as the Kyubi.
Upon seeing the massive Kyubi, Naruto jumped back in fright.
"No need to be afraid, kid," said the Kyubi in a deep voice.
"Are ... are you really the Kyubi?" asked Naruto in a scared voice.
"I am," replied the Kyubi. "So? What brought you here to me?"
"I want to know why you are sealed inside me?" asked Naruto, disappointed.
"I was sealed by your father, Minato Namikazi, the Fourth Hokage, inside you on the day you were born," replied the Kyubi
"The Fourth Hokage was my father?" asked Naruto, shocked. "That explains why I resemble his carved face on the Hokage mountain."
"Yes, you're like a carbon copy of him," said the Kyubi, chuckling.
"But why did he seal you inside me, his own son?" asked Naruto, confused. "And aren't you dead? Everyone is saying the Fourth Hokage, my father, killed you."
"I am a mass of Chakra with no physical body to kill," said the Kyubi. "Which means that I cannot be killed. Before I was sealed inside you, I was sealed inside of your mother, Kushina Uzumaki."
The Kyubi then started explaining to Naruto everything that happened four years ago from when Naruto was born, to the masked man unleashing the Kyubi and controlling him to attack the village to Minato sealing him inside Naruto.
Naruto was standing there, frozen still, trying to absorb what the Kyubi was saying to him with hot tears trickling down his cheeks. He did not know what to say. It was just too much for his four year old brain to handle.
The Kyubi waited for Naruto patiently. He knew just what the four years old boy had gone through in his short little life and could relate to him. He too had been the victim of the same immense hatred and anger Naruto had been suffering from for a lot longer period than mere four years. It was to the point that his personality had long changed to the point he did not remember how he was when he was first born.
In fact, the Kyubi himself had started to change for the better when he was sealed inside Kushina, his previous Jinchuriki. That small change was only thanks to the kindness shown by Kushina and it was thanks to that he did not bear any resentment towards Naruto that he bore to all the other humans.
"So that's why the entire village despised me and were always hurting me, calling me 'demon' and 'monster'," said Naruto tearfully.
"Naruto, start training, grow stronger and once you are strong enough, I will teach you how to control my powers," said the Kyubi. "Our lives are linked together since I was sealed inside of you. Let's teach those ignorant fools a lesson once you are strong enough!"
"Yeah, I am special after all," said Naruto, smiling while still crying. "My father was the Fourth Hokage, after all and my mother was so powerful too. I'm their son after all. I'll become the next Hokage and I'll show them that I'm no 'monster'!"
"This kid, even after what everyone put him through, he still wants to earn their respects," thought the Kyubi. "He has such a pure heart."
"So does that mean we're friends now?" asked Naruto, wiping his tears.
"Yeah kid, we're friends now," said the Kyubi.
"Do you have a name?" asked Naruto. "I don't like calling you Kyubi."
"A name, huh?" said the Kyubi, looking nostalgic. "Now that is something that no-one has asked me in a long time. Call me Kurama."
"Kurama," said Naruto, smiling brightly. "I'm Naruto."
"Alright, Naruto, go now and get the Third Hokage to give you a new house since you were kicked out of the orphanage," said Kurama. "Also, tell him what happened but don't tell him about my conversation with you for now."
"Sure, I'll come back to talk once I get a new house and you tell me more about my parents," said Naruto, exiting his mindscape.
Just as he left his mindscape, the door of the room was opened. Naruto saw an old man entered the room.
"How are you doing, Naruto?" asked the old man.
"Old man, Hokage!" said Naruto happily. "What are you doing here?"
"I found out you were kicked out of the orphanage and were attacked," said the Hokage. "I came to check up on you."
"I'm feeling much better," said Naruto. "See? No more injuries! But I'll need new clothes though. My current ones are ripped."
"It seems the Nine-Tails Chakra have healed him already," thought the Hokage.
"I'll arrange an apartment for you and give you a monthly allowance to help you with your expenses," said the Hokage.
"Old man, let's go to your office and talk!" said Naruto with a smile.
"Why my office?" asked the Hokage, surprised.
"I don't like it here," said Naruto angrily.
"Very well," said Hokage after a moment of hesitation.
The Hokage led Naruto to his office and he sat behind his desk.
"Naruto, tell the old man to send away his men on the roof" said Kurama. "And yes I can talk to you in your mind and hear you speak in your mind."
"Gramps, before we start talking, can you send away your men?" said Naruto. "I don't want everyone to know what we talk about."
"You're a very good sensor for your age, Naruto," said the Hokage as he flicked his finger. His four bodyguards quickly left the room.
"Kurama, is there anyone else in the room?" asked Naruto in his mind.
"No, it's just you two," said Kurama.
"Gramps, you've never told me about my patents," said Naruto, looking around the room.
"I didn't know them personally," said the Hokage with a poker face. "They died during the war."
Naruto finally found what he was looking for and stopped walking around as he stood in front of the Fourth Hokage's picture that was hanging on the wall.
"Are you sure?" asked Naruto, tapping on the picture as he looked at the Third Hokage, smiling.
"H-how did you know?" asked the Hokage, slightly trembling.
"Is it really that surprising?" asked Naruto, tilting his head. "I'm like his twin if we were the same age. Why did no-one notice?"
"What are you going to do now?" asked the Hokage. "You can't tell anyone. You should know he had a lot of enemies."
"I'm not going to tell anyone," said Naruto. "I want to become stronger so I will train. So give me a nice house and double the monthly allowance. I also want to know more about my parents. I know you can do that much especially after all that suffering I've been through."
"Sigh ... Very well, Naruto," sighed the Hokage. "I'll give you your allowance first and your new flat will be ready by the end of the day."
"Yes! Gramps, can you come shopping with me? Please? I don't want to get beaten up again!" said Naruto with a pleading look.
The Hokage's heart pulled a string as guilt took over when he remembered being informed of Naruto getting kicked out of the orphanage and beaten up. He had made sure to punish those responsible as well as the Anbus that had failed at their job of protecting Naruto.
"Naruto, I have a lot of work to do," said the Hokage, smiling sadly. "How about I teach you the Transformation Jutsu? That should make it easier."
"That would be great!" said Naruto excitedly.
Naruto took the scroll that taught him the Transformation Jutsu. Just when he ran out of the office, Naruto received a quest from the system.
[Quest Alert: Easier Shopping
Learn the Transformation Jutsu from the scroll to make it easier to shop and go around the village.
Reward:
100 EXP + 10 System Point (SP)
He had spent all morning trying to learn the Jutsu in the training ground. As he had very excited about learning his very first Jutsu, Naruto had completely forgotten to eat anything all day. Only after he had mastered the Transformation Jutsu had his stomach growled loud enough for him to notice. On his way to Ichiraku Ramen Shop, Naruto decided to check his quest completion reward.
Suddenly, a man with silver hair whose face was covered by a mask that had red and black drawings resembling a dog. He bent over the small blonde boy and checked his pulse. A few moments later, the masked man picked him and carried the boy away.
"Ugh ... what happened to me?" thought the boy as he slowly opened his eyes.
The boy looked around with his blue eyes and found himself in a small room. He sat up on his bed and looked around the empty room.
"Oh right, those men beat me calling me a 'demon', after I got kicked out of the orphanage," thought the body.
[Good morning, Host!]
"What! Who said that?" muttered the boy in shock.
[It is I, the Gamer System!]
"Where are you? Why can't I see you?" asked the boy, looking around.
[Host, you can't see me as I do not have a physical body! I am bound to your soul and can communicate with you through your mind! You can just think and I'll be able to hear your thoughts!]
"Bound to my soul?" asked the boy confused.
[I was looking for a friend and I found you! I noticed you wanted a friend too so I formed a bond with you!]
"A friend? You want to be my friend?" asked the boy, tears willing up in his eyes.
[Of course!]
"All right!" exclaimed the boy excitedly. "I finally have a friend!"
[It's good that you are excited, but I should tell you what I can do!]
"OK, System, tell me," said the boy, smiling happily.
[I can do currently do three things.
1. I can show you your information in a screen that only you can see when you call out Status Window in your mind.
2. I have a storage space that you can open and close and store items in the space called the Inventory. You can access it when you say Inventory in your mind while thinking about it.
3. I can give you quests where I will award you with points only after you complete them.]
"Wow, that sounds like fun," said the boy, still smiling wildly.
[You should open your Status Window first to check your information. Remember, just say Status Window in your mind.]
"OK, Status Window!" called out the boy in his mind.
Name: Naruto Uzumaki | Age: 4
Level: 1 (10/1000) | Rank: Civilian
Status: Healthy
Title: Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails Fox
Bloodline: Uzumaki
Attributes:
Strength: 3 | Vitality: 10
Intelligence: 5 | Agility: 2
Wisdom: 2 | Dexterity: 1
Chakra Point: 1000
Attribute Points: 0
Abilities:
Healing Factor - Able to heal five times faster than normal.
Skills: None
"System, what's Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails Fox?" asked Naruto.
[Nine-Tails is a powerful fox that was sealed inside of you by the Fourth Hokage!]
"Why?" asked Naruto.
[It is better if you talk to the Nine-Tails directly!]
"How do I do that?" asked Naruto.
[Close your eyes and imagine yourself in front of a giant fox!]
"OK!" said Naruto as he did as he was told.
After about a minute, Naruto found himself staring at big iron doors with vertical bars. In the middle of the doors was a small paper that had the "Seal" written on it. Naruto peered inside the cage and found nothing but darkness. Then suddenly a pair of big red eyes with a black slit opened and looked straight at him. The eyes moved and as it came closer to the doors, Naruto noticed the shape of a massive fox with tails swinging wildly in the back. There stood behind the doors, the most powerful tailed beast that existed in the world, the Nine-Tails Fox commonly as the Kyubi.
Upon seeing the massive Kyubi, Naruto jumped back in fright.
"No need to be afraid, kid," said the Kyubi in a deep voice.
"Are ... are you really the Kyubi?" asked Naruto in a scared voice.
"I am," replied the Kyubi. "So? What brought you here to me?"
"I want to know why you are sealed inside me?" asked Naruto, disappointed.
"I was sealed by your father, Minato Namikazi, the Fourth Hokage, inside you on the day you were born," replied the Kyubi
"The Fourth Hokage was my father?" asked Naruto, shocked. "That explains why I resemble his carved face on the Hokage mountain."
"Yes, you're like a carbon copy of him," said the Kyubi, chuckling.
"But why did he seal you inside me, his own son?" asked Naruto, confused. "And aren't you dead? Everyone is saying the Fourth Hokage, my father, killed you."
"I am a mass of Chakra with no physical body to kill," said the Kyubi. "Which means that I cannot be killed. Before I was sealed inside you, I was sealed inside of your mother, Kushina Uzumaki."
The Kyubi then started explaining to Naruto everything that happened four years ago from when Naruto was born, to the masked man unleashing the Kyubi and controlling him to attack the village to Minato sealing him inside Naruto.
Naruto was standing there, frozen still, trying to absorb what the Kyubi was saying to him with hot tears trickling down his cheeks. He did not know what to say. It was just too much for his four year old brain to handle.
The Kyubi waited for Naruto patiently. He knew just what the four years old boy had gone through in his short little life and could relate to him. He too had been the victim of the same immense hatred and anger Naruto had been suffering from for a lot longer period than mere four years. It was to the point that his personality had long changed to the point he did not remember how he was when he was first born.
In fact, the Kyubi himself had started to change for the better when he was sealed inside Kushina, his previous Jinchuriki. That small change was only thanks to the kindness shown by Kushina and it was thanks to that he did not bear any resentment towards Naruto that he bore to all the other humans.
"So that's why the entire village despised me and were always hurting me, calling me 'demon' and 'monster'," said Naruto tearfully.
"Naruto, start training, grow stronger and once you are strong enough, I will teach you how to control my powers," said the Kyubi. "Our lives are linked together since I was sealed inside of you. Let's teach those ignorant fools a lesson once you are strong enough!"
"Yeah, I am special after all," said Naruto, smiling while still crying. "My father was the Fourth Hokage, after all and my mother was so powerful too. I'm their son after all. I'll become the next Hokage and I'll show them that I'm no 'monster'!"
"This kid, even after what everyone put him through, he still wants to earn their respects," thought the Kyubi. "He has such a pure heart."
"So does that mean we're friends now?" asked Naruto, wiping his tears.
"Yeah kid, we're friends now," said the Kyubi.
"Do you have a name?" asked Naruto. "I don't like calling you Kyubi."
"A name, huh?" said the Kyubi, looking nostalgic. "Now that is something that no-one has asked me in a long time. Call me Kurama."
"Kurama," said Naruto, smiling brightly. "I'm Naruto."
"Alright, Naruto, go now and get the Third Hokage to give you a new house since you were kicked out of the orphanage," said Kurama. "Also, tell him what happened but don't tell him about my conversation with you for now."
"Sure, I'll come back to talk once I get a new house and you tell me more about my parents," said Naruto, exiting his mindscape.
Just as he left his mindscape, the door of the room was opened. Naruto saw an old man entered the room.
"How are you doing, Naruto?" asked the old man.
"Old man, Hokage!" said Naruto happily. "What are you doing here?"
"I found out you were kicked out of the orphanage and were attacked," said the Hokage. "I came to check up on you."
"I'm feeling much better," said Naruto. "See? No more injuries! But I'll need new clothes though. My current ones are ripped."
"It seems the Nine-Tails Chakra have healed him already," thought the Hokage.
"I'll arrange an apartment for you and give you a monthly allowance to help you with your expenses," said the Hokage.
"Old man, let's go to your office and talk!" said Naruto with a smile.
"Why my office?" asked the Hokage, surprised.
"I don't like it here," said Naruto angrily.
"Very well," said Hokage after a moment of hesitation.
The Hokage led Naruto to his office and he sat behind his desk.
"Naruto, tell the old man to send away his men on the roof" said Kurama. "And yes I can talk to you in your mind and hear you speak in your mind."
"Gramps, before we start talking, can you send away your men?" said Naruto. "I don't want everyone to know what we talk about."
"You're a very good sensor for your age, Naruto," said the Hokage as he flicked his finger. His four bodyguards quickly left the room.
"Kurama, is there anyone else in the room?" asked Naruto in his mind.
"No, it's just you two," said Kurama.
"Gramps, you've never told me about my patents," said Naruto, looking around the room.
"I didn't know them personally," said the Hokage with a poker face. "They died during the war."
Naruto finally found what he was looking for and stopped walking around as he stood in front of the Fourth Hokage's picture that was hanging on the wall.
"Are you sure?" asked Naruto, tapping on the picture as he looked at the Third Hokage, smiling.
"H-how did you know?" asked the Hokage, slightly trembling.
"Is it really that surprising?" asked Naruto, tilting his head. "I'm like his twin if we were the same age. Why did no-one notice?"
"What are you going to do now?" asked the Hokage. "You can't tell anyone. You should know he had a lot of enemies."
"I'm not going to tell anyone," said Naruto. "I want to become stronger so I will train. So give me a nice house and double the monthly allowance. I also want to know more about my parents. I know you can do that much especially after all that suffering I've been through."
"Sigh ... Very well, Naruto," sighed the Hokage. "I'll give you your allowance first and your new flat will be ready by the end of the day."
"Yes! Gramps, can you come shopping with me? Please? I don't want to get beaten up again!" said Naruto with a pleading look.
The Hokage's heart pulled a string as guilt took over when he remembered being informed of Naruto getting kicked out of the orphanage and beaten up. He had made sure to punish those responsible as well as the Anbus that had failed at their job of protecting Naruto.
"Naruto, I have a lot of work to do," said the Hokage, smiling sadly. "How about I teach you the Transformation Jutsu? That should make it easier."
"That would be great!" said Naruto excitedly.
Naruto took the scroll that taught him the Transformation Jutsu. Just when he ran out of the office, Naruto received a quest from the system.
[Quest Alert: Easier Shopping
Learn the Transformation Jutsu from the scroll to make it easier to shop and go around the village.
Reward:
100 EXP + 10 System Point (SP)
He had spent all morning trying to learn the Jutsu in the training ground. As he had very excited about learning his very first Jutsu, Naruto had completely forgotten to eat anything all day. Only after he had mastered the Transformation Jutsu had his stomach growled loud enough for him to notice. On his way to Ichiraku Ramen Shop, Naruto decided to check his quest completion reward.