Author's Note: What it do all? This is my first fanfic in over five or six years (still first one here though) so don't be to hard on me. This story will take place from the beginning of Naruto but with a twist. The majority of the story will told by Naruto in first person point of view as he on the verge of death. The fight scenes will be in third person point of view as well as the important dialogue of others. It will follow the storyline but only as a backbone the majority will be created by me. That way, hopefully, there will be no one skipping over my stories. Romance will also play a roll in this story but not right off the bat, but I already have my idea pair. And no its not the usual pair people have grown used to. Matter of fact I do not think I have even read a Naruto fanfic that has the pairing. We'll thank you for you patience and please R&R. Hope you enjoy!

Author's Note 1/3/2008: Rahhel gave me the idea to add here some of the reasons why the low review count. I failed to post this story in the Naruto U./Kyuubi section until Aldo Montonya told me I should do so around the seventh chapter lol --'. So thanks for reading and hope you enjoy the rest of the story '.

Side Notes:

Bold & Italic: Old Naruto talking outside the story

Italic: Current Naruto thinking

Immanence: "to remain within"

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto as you all know.

Immanence
Chapter One: Genesis

Life... To live or to die? What really is life when you think about? Is it a dream or is it merely a test to see if you are allowed to move own to some better place. For me that word centered around those who I considered my precious people. The very people that I would toss my own life aside without the slightest doubt to preserve theirs. I never once thought that my life was important enough to place on equal with others. Even after I had accomplished my goal of becoming a Kage, even if it was not of the village of my birth. But beggers can not be choosers.

I look over to my left to see my once glorious village now shrouded in a fog of smoke as the fires continued to spread rapidly. The screams of my people, my precious people, are pounding at the very fiber of my being letting me know how truly weak I am. I could not even protect my village, I did not deserve the right to be called a Kage.

My mind begins to wander back to the days of my youth, the days of trials and tribulations, the days were I wore a mask every day to hide who I really was for so long that it became apart of me. And the sad thing is I do not even know why I did when I had so many close ones after I grew older. I did not even try to fight it. How I wish that I could go back to the days of my innocence and freedom... I even miss that baka kitsune... She did grow on me after a while though.

...The Beginning...

A cool breeze blew past me tickling my nose a little. Just enough cause me to stir in my sleep. Unfortunately for me that was the end of my peaceful sleep as mother nature seemed to be far from pleased with me trying to sleep in on this day of all days. The rays from the sun burst in through my already opened window letting me know that I was going to be late... Late!

"Ahh!! Iruka-sensei is going kill me for sure today! I'm going to be late!"

I quickly jumped out my bed but my body seemed to still be sleep even though my mind was more than alert. This caused me to quickly come crashing down to the floor face first.

Man how clumsy I was back in those days. Still wonder how I became who am today with the way I was in the past.

After saying a few swear words that a kid of my age had no business knowing I managed to push myself off the cold hardwood floor and dash toward my bathroom but yet again my body was yet to catch up with me and I tripped over the floor rug and fell directly in the tub.

That was more than a sign that today was going to be a horrible day for me. But I was far to naïve and dense to pick that up when I needed.

After a quick wash up and brushing my teeth I quickly threw on my black t-shirt and my orange jumpsuit that ojii-san bought me along with my favorite goggles.

I owed so much to that old man, no telling what the villagers would have done to me if he was not there for me. He of all my precious people was the one I missed the most. He taught me so much.

I quickly locked my door and exited the apartment complex and began my dash toward the academy.

"Man how could I have slept in on what could be the most important day of my life! Baka! Baka! Baka!"

As I ran down the street I could not help but notice the angry stares and glares that were shot at me like daggers. But those very looks I had grown very used to and continued to run acting completely oblivious to their existence. As long as they did not attack me like they used to; then they could stare all they wanted. One day I just knew I would gain their respect when I become the Hokage, then they would have no choice.

During my sprint I noticed a shinobi in training around my age laying on the grass right in front of the academy staring up at the clouds almost in a trance. I instantly knew who it was.

"What...are...you...doing...Shikamaru?" I questioned as I panted for air.

"Huh? Of its just you Naruto.." he said in his usually bored voice.

"Are you late too? Why aren't you inside?" I asked but I already knew the answer.

He yawns as he raised up and dusted himself off.

"To troublesome..."

"But isn't the genin exam today?!" I yelled franticly as I just remembered why I was running and now I was definitely late.

"Yeah. Yeah it is. Just thought it was to troublesome to even deal with." His lazy tone was almost making me give in to my still sleepy body.

I swear Nara Shikamaru may have been a genius but when it came to motivation he scored an absolute zero even when he became my right hand man.

I decided to grab him and run inside of the academy hoping that Iruka-sensei would not notice 'us' absent now, but as soon as I tried to sneak into the class room my ears was met with a very familiar tone.

"NNNNAAARUUTOOO!!"

"Hai?"

"Where have you been?"

I looked around trying to think of a logic answer but nothing came. I started to look at Shikamaru for an answer but he had some how snuck to his desk without getting caught and had his head resting in his hand in his usual bored position leaving me to deal with Iruka-sensei by myself. I looked up at Iruka-sensei and place a hand behind my head and began to scratch it giving my usual stupid look and decided to play my usual act as well.

"Uh... gomen sensei.. I started to eat my favorite flavored of ramen and forgot all about the time..."

Some of the other kids began to giggle and laugh at my own expense. I guess that's what I get for acting like the class idiot. Iruka-sensei lets out a loud sigh and ordered me to my seat, as I walk up to my seat I glance over at my eternal rival, Uchiha Sasuke, one of the two surviving members of the Uchiha massacre with the first being the creator of said massacre. He shot me a glare of his own as I took a sit. It was very low but I heard him say something.

"Dobe."

This as usual sent me into a blind fit of rage as I ran up to him.

"What was that teme?!"

I stared directly at him with as much anger and killer intent as I could and he easily match mines with one of his own. As if he was so far ahead of me that even his killing intent was so large that I was not even worth receiving a full dose.

Damn how I hate it when people look down on me like that teme used to.

"Leave Sasuke-kun alone Naruto!"

I glanced up to see that I was now surrounded by fan girls of Sasuke which was the majority of the girls in our class including my former crush, a pink haired kunoichi in training by the name of Haruno Sakura. Sad thing is she was one of the biggest Sasuke fan girl in the class that was only matched by her former best friend Yamanaka Ino.

" I seriously do not see what you guys see in Sasuke-teme here. I am ever bit as good as he is any day."

"Ha, baka! Sasuke would swipe you away just like the annoying 'little' fly that you are! Theres no way you even half of a man that Sasuke-kun is!" One of the girls yelled.

She even had the audacity of making fun of my height as well. Hell I wasn't that short back then!

"Like you baka would know what a real man was anyway." I said under my breath but not low enough to not be heard. The next thing I knew all the girls in the class, except one, began to pound on me until Iruka-sensei decided that it was time to get serious and freed me from my beaten. But not before I was given several bumps, bruises, and a bloody noise. Mizuki-sensei entered the class room after my 'bashing' was complete and began to announce the rules for the genin exams.

"Ok class this is how the exam will proceed. Me and Iruka will split you guys up in several different groups and have you perform a jutsu that we have trained you on. If you perform the jutsu correctly then you have officially graduated from the academy as a genin."

Now I did say that I acted like an baka to hide my true face. But during this time of my life I was actually a clumsy idiot. Even though it still is hard to admit even as I speak; Sasuke would have easily wiped the floor with me back then. To say I was nervous about this jutsu test was a huge understatement. Specially since that bastard Mizuki was my instructor who I knew hated me like everyone in that village unlike Iruka-sensei.

In my group were me, Sasuke-teme, Hyuga Hinata, Sakura-chan and Ino who were both practically drooling over the fact that Sasuke was in our group; who just ignored them as if they did not even exist to him. The jutsu Mizuki had decided for us to do was the one jutsu that I just could not master if it meant death. That damned Henge no Jutsu. I noticed Mizuki smirked as he said the name of the jutsu. I swore under my breath as I moved to the back of the line by Hinata.

"Ano...g..g good l..l..luck na...Naruto-kun" A soft voice said to me. It was Hinata, the one girl who did not go crazy at the sight of that Sasuke-teme.

"You to Hinata! Arigatou."

I noticed her face complexion turn a few shades redder but for some reason I could not understand why nor could I explain why she would stutter so much around me.

Kami-sama I was so slow and dense back then. I'm almost grateful for what Mizuki did to me.

Unfortunately everybody but me past their genin exams that day. The henge I created look as if someone had thrown him through a blender then drug him through a puddle of mud.

I sat in a swing outside of the academy yards where all the other newly instated 'shinobi' were with their parents celebrating their new status.

I could not figure out which I was more jealous of, the fact that they all succeeded in pasting their genin exams and I failed it causing my dreams of becoming the Hokage to be forcefully taken away or... the painful truth that I had absolutely no one to comfort me or even scold me that I could consider family. That was one of the first day when I truly felt alone.

"Naruto, ne Naruto come here."

I looked around trying to find where the voice was coming from. I then looked behind the tree that supported my swing and there stood Mizuki. Confused I walked over to him to see what it was he wanted this time.

"You have not failed just yet Naruto." Those words quickly shifted my feelings from near suicidal to hopeful.

"How?!" I yelled with excitement. He looked around and shushed me.

"Now this special exam is the toughest and most dangerous. If you succeed you made actual get skipped up to chuunin instead of genin. Are you sure want this mission?"

"You better believe I do! Dattebayo!"

At that moment I was almost willing to do anything to get a second chance to continued my dream.

" You are going to have to sneak into the Hokage tower at nightfall and 'borrow' the scroll of forbidden jutsu. Study it and bring it back to me. Then I will give you your own personal forehead protector making you an official Konoha shinobi."

II

My excitement was on the verge of reaching the point where I could no longer contain it. Nightfall could not have came any quicker and getting the scroll was easy enough. It was not even guarded which really confused me at the time, but I really did not care since I had completed the first part of my task. I quickly dashed through the trees of the forest trying to find the area where Mizuki had told me to wait for him. I decided that now would be the perfect time to try and learn a few of these 'forbidden' jutsu. To my dismay the very first jutsu was the one that I had suffer with all my life but a more extreme version was the first one.

After about three to four hours of rigorous training to the point of exhaustion Iruka-sensei appeared.

"So this where you been Naruto. What do you think you doing?" He asked in his stern voice.

"Working on becoming an official ninja Iruka-sensei. Mizuki told me there was another way that I could become a ninja and even be promoted all the way the up to chuunin. I have already learned four of them!"

Iruka look switched to one of utter shock and dismay. It was hard for him to believe that Mizuki had been the one to deceive me. I guess he already knew I would have not done this without someone telling me to.

"Mizuki told you to do this?"

"Yes I did Iruka. Very good Naruto now hand me the scroll so I can promote you."

"No Naruto! Do not hand him that scroll!"

Iruka-sensei walked over beside me prepared himself for battle. This cause the expression on Mizuki's face to switch to a mask of utter anger and disbelief. Now I was completely confused with these new turn of events.

"Don't you want to get your revenge as well Iruka? Why do you protect the very thing that killed your parents."

Now that completely sent me into a whirl. My 12 year old mine went to work trying to figure out what he was talking about.

"Why don't you just kill the demon and join me Iruka?"

That was the last straw as my curiosity wanted to know what he was talking about.

"Demon?" I asked.

"Yes Naruto, you are the demon that attacked our village over twelve years ago. That is the very reason why all the villagers hate you."

"Do not listen to him Naruto!" Iruka shouted as he stood in between me and Mizuki. Everything began to make since to me at that time why I was always alone and treated poorly. My emotions began to boil over as tears began to flow out of my eyes as the hot tears rolled down my cheeks. At that time I honestly thought I was that demon.

"Do not listen to him Naruto, yes you do have the Kyuubi sealed within you but you are not it. You are its jailer, a hero to this village. Now ru..."

Before Iruka-sensei could complete his sentence Mizuki had launched several kunai at me but Iruka-sensei leaped in front of me while still talking and fell to the ground with a lifeless thud. The closest thing I had to a father had just died before my eyes and I had just founded out that I was a 'jailer' to a demon that almost destroyed the village that I wished to protect. Suddenly a fiery rage began to build up from within me as I felt a second presence begging to be let out. Ripping at my very core to be set free so 'it' can satisfied its thirst. The reaction caused for a burst of chakra that I had never felt before as I tried to contain the beast. I decided that this would have to be best time to test out my new jutsu, one of the four I had manage to learned and the very first on the list.

"Kage Bushin no Jutsu!" The forbidden jutsu allowed me to create well over sixty clones of me and we all began to gang up and pound on the shocked Mizuki beating him almost to death.

"Wow Naruto...well done."

I looked down and saw Iruka-sensei and leaped on him as I could no longer hold back my tears causing him to groan in pain. I seriously thought he had died; so to see him move and speak again brought great relief.

"Congratulations Naruto, you are official a Ninja now."

He untied his forehead protector and placed in my hands.

At that moment I did not care that I was made an official ninja. It did not even dawn on me until I woke the following morning. The only thing that matter to me at that time was the fact that I had managed one my precious people.That night was the first night that started a drastic change in me. That night was the first night I officially met her...