Second chances

chapter 2: explanations and evil sensei

Naruto woke with a start to find himself in his apartment. Looking outside, he noticed that it was night.

He checked his clothes. No orange jumpsuit, but no hole or blood in chest either. That, he reasoned, was a good enough deal. Kyuubi must have been tormenting him and gave him some jutsu that knocked him out so that he could heal him quicker.

That must be it.…Wait. Kyuubi never does these kinds of things. He's the type that screams; "LOOK AT ME! I DID SO-AND SO! I AM SO PERFECT IN EVERY WAY!" or whatever.

An example would be the attack on Konoha twelve years ago. It wasn't like he quietly killed off the villagers one by one. No, he had to kill them on a grand scale, so everyone could see how powerful he was. Not to mention immortal, yadda, yadda, yadda.But look where it got him. So healing without his knowledge was out of the case. Then what jutsu did the furball give him? He knew the technique was real, as he felt the amounts of chakra and stamina leave him…

Sighing angrily, he paced around his room. Passing a nearby mirror, he then realized he looked much smaller than before. A LOT smaller than before. As if he was-

"Wahahaha! You're four years old, brat! The jutsu I taught you was a time traveling one! Kami-sama, your expression was priceless!" laughed Kyuubi

.Naruto seemed oblivious to the voice. "HOLY CRAP! I'M A FREAKIN' MIDGET!"

"Well, no duh. You shrunk about a foot or so because you are FOUR – YEARS – OLD."

This seemed to get through to the twelve – no, now four-year old.

"Well this is just great. I'm four years old, so this means I've lost all that chakra that I spent years trying to get. My movements are a lot more sluggish thanks to my lack of training… Thanks a bunch, fuzzy. Thanks for NOTHING YOU ASS!"

"SHUT THE HELL UP, you demon brat! Some people are trying to sleep here!" A voice yelled from outside

.Naruto then realized that he was indeed, screaming his head off. He decided to lower his voice. "Alright, Kyuubi, a promise is a promise. Why didn't my dad just kill you when you killed all of those people?"

"First of all, no need to say this out loud. I'm in your mind, remember? Now, as for why he didn't kill me…"He pondered over this a bit, trying to remember what happened.Originally, I was the boss of the fox summons, but I only accepted a certain clan to be able to call my underlings as well as myself. That clan, of course, was yours, the Hitomis."Of course, many people became jealous and angry at this, and many attempts were made to steal the summoning scrolls. Their attempts were in vain, but one little insect managed to do the impossible. He summoned me into this realm without your father's knowledge. That asshole's name," he spat the words out, "Was Orochimaru."You see, the little prick was jealous of Arashi and this heightened when the Sandaime declared him as the Fourth Hokage. So he managed to steal my scroll and summon me on his first go.When I appeared, I told him that I only obeyed none other than myself and the Hitomi clan. So he used a powerful Genjutsu to make me go berserk to become the arrogant, self-centered, cold-hearted bastard you knew all that time we communicated to each other. This resulted into both my master's death and your loss of parents, as your mother died in childbirth. It seems that seeing you nearly die snapped me out of the Genjutsu."So there you have it. The reason why your father sealed me in here was both that he knew that I wasn't evil, like everyone thought, and that he wanted me to tell of your birthright, young Hitomi Naruto, when I thought you were ready. Now then, any questions?"

Naruto was shocked to the core to hear what he said. Finally, he asked in his mind,

'Why was my last name changed?'