A New Yet Similar Path

Introductions Part 2

Naruto was standing on top of the Hokage Monument wondering what he should do for the next five hours. It was seven in the morning and he promised the Sandaime that he would be at the academy at noon so that he could meet his team. Naruto sighed as he remembered how much he had hated his team at first. The only thing he really liked was Sakura and even then he had moments where he would doubt his love for her.

Looking out at the village, he thought about all those he was going to try and save.

'I may have my work cut out for me...'

Then his thoughts took another turn. 'Mother... I know you're out there, but why did you leave?' He remembered when he had finally found out who his mother was.

Flashback

Naruto stared at the multiple rings in the eyes of Pein.

"Now then, Jinchuriki of Kyuubi, the time has finally come."

"Fuck off..." Naruto whispered.

"You should never have challenged a god such as myself. Your sensei Jiraiya suffered the consequences. You should have learned from his mistakes."

Naruto let his rage consume him at the mention of the old pervert's name.

"Never say that name again you son of a BITCH!" Naruto was quickly surrounded by the Kyuubi's chakra and tail after tail started to form.

When the tails reached four and the transformation was completed, Pein lashed out. Using the small puddles surrounding them, he preformed his next technique. The water from the many puddles shot into the clouds above them. The clouds quickly began to contort into different shapes until it formed a large duplicate of Pein himself. The duplicate looked down on the mini-Kyuubi and inhaled.

"Hyouton, Makai Hisame (ice style, Hell hail)" announced Pein. The duplicate formed into a giant meteor which shot towards the transformed Naruto.

Naruto was about to take action when the meteor suddenly exploded. Pein whirled around only to have a long katana thrown through his face. The four tailed Naruto turned to look at the new comer only to quickly fall to the ground and feeling the Kyuubi's chakra recede in fear.

Just before he fell into an unconscious state, he saw a red haired kunoichi smile warmly at him "Good luck, son..."

When he came to, he was back in Konoha and in a hospital bed. When he told Tsunade what had happened and what he had heard the woman say to him, the beautiful Hokage had no choice but to tell him about his parents.

Flashback ends.

Naruto smiled. He at least had a mother who was looking out for him. The Kyuubi had never told Naruto why he was afraid of Kushina and refused to talk about what had happened.

Naruto looked at his arm and flexed it. "Wonder how strong I am...?" He started to think of different ways to test his strength out when it hit him. The two best Taijutsu users in the village would be a great way to test his strength.

"This'll be fun."

Naruto jumped from the Hokage monument and plummeted towards the ground below. Naruto focused chakra into his feet and quickly clung to the stone face of his father.

"Not bad control..." Naruto said to himself. He quickly started to run down the monument and then towards the training grounds.

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Sakura was off to a bad start that morning. It had been two weeks since she had seen her precious Sasuke-kun. The academy had given them the time off as congratulations for passing their exams. Her red dress flapped in the gentle breeze flowing through the village. She was thinking of what she would be doing now that she was officially a ninja.