NARUTO: The Galactic Empire

The village hidden in the leaves, the first village of the shinobi world. The leaf village is considered to be the strongest village among all the other villages. Many legends and heroes have been born in this village. The leaf village was known for its compassion and teamwork and considered its citizens and shinobi as equal and made no discrimination. However that was not the case for a 5-year old boy.

This boy was none other than Naruto Uzumaki. The boy was the Jinchuriki of the Nine tail fox that attacked Konoha few years ago. The Kyubi attack had severely harmed Konoha ,countless shinobi had died sacrificing their lives in protecting the village. There were also many civilian casualties and destruction of the village and its properties. In the end,through a valiant and self-sacrificing ritual the Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze was able to restrain the fox and seal it into a new born child. The Fourth Hokage is still considered the biggest hero of the Hidden Leaf and had wished for Naruto to be seen as a hero that saved the village, Unfortunately his wish was not fulfilled.

This leads us to the present where a 5-year old Naruto was being mercilessly beaten by a mob of people consisting of many shinobi and civilians. He had bruises all over his body, some of his bones were broken but the worst part was that he was still conscious and could feel each blow being dealt on his body and many painful words like,

"DIE DEMON"

"That is for my father."

"Monster"

"Scum"

"Bastard Fox"

And many more words were being spoken by the people.

"Why do you hate me? What I have I ever done to you?" asked Naruto meekly while sobbing

"You dare ask what you have done you monster, now I will show you what you have done." yelled one shinobi and started performing hand seals.

"Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu(Demonic Illusion:Hell Viewing Technique)"

Naruto slowly felt himself surrounded in a swirl of leaves and after a moment he was faced with the worst nightmare of his life. He was standing in a clearing field where a fierce battle was going on between many shinobi and a giant nine tailed fox. Naruto had many nightmares of this fox since his early childhood and had always been terrified of it. The fox was killing people everywhere, people were dying, many body parts were littered all over the place, screams of the injured, fearful cries of the civilians, smell of blood all over the place and the malicious aura of the fox all over the place. All in all it was a nightmare.

"Please make it stop." yelled Naruto in agony

"I'm sorry,stop it, stop it, stop." cried Naruto but on hearing his pleas the mob was overjoyed and decided to kill him and get their revenge on their so called demon.

"Lets finish the demon." yelled one civilian and the entire croud cheered.

The shinobi threw several Kunai and shuriken towards Naruto who had fallen unconscious due to the trauma.

CLANG CLANG CLANG

All of the Kunai and shuriken were blocked by a squad of Anbu who were now standing in between Naruto and the mob. Leading the Anbu was Hiruzen Sarutobi, The third Hokage and was leaking such killing intent that made many civilians fall unconscious and many shinobi were cowering under his piercing gaze.

Hiruzen deeply cared for the boy. He respected the fourth's wishes and tried to make it come true but was not successful. He tried to make Naruto's life easy but faced many difficulties but he would be damned if he would let anything happen to the boy whom he considered a grandson.

"Anbu execute all of these criminals for breaking the the law," yelled Hiruzen and the Anbu squad immediately followed his orders and started executing the criminals while ignoring their pleas of mercy and killing the demon instead of them; but this just enraged Hiruzen more and within a few minutes where once was a crowd who were willing to kill an innocent child lay only dead bodies.

"Lets take him to the hospital." said Hiruzen picking up Naruto and checking over his injuries

"Forgive me Minato." thought Hiruzen sadly

"Hai Hokage-sama" said The female ANbu captain "Neko"softly.

She along with most of the Anbu did not hate the boy in fact they cared for him. They knew the difference between a jailor and its prisoner and had utmost faith in the Fourth Hokage's seal unlike the rest of the villagers. They had seen how the boy was just a normal kid who just wanted attention and protected him many times. But today they were a little late as the boy was severely wounded.

"Also contact Kakashi and tell him to meet me at the hospital and tell him if he's late, I'll strip him to genin, make him catch tora for months, and I'll burn his entire Icha Icha books." said Hiruzen angrily

"At once" said Neko and disappeared in a shunshin to fetch the masked Jounin. If Hiruzen had observed more carefully he could have heard "Neko" smirk when Hiruzen mentioned burning Kakashi's Icha Icha.

(Konoha Hospital:2 Hours later)

Currently sitting in a hospital room were three people. They were Hiruzen Sarutobi, Kakashi Hatake and Dr. Misumi. They were all seated around Naruto who was sleeping and was covered in bandages.

"How is he?" asked Kakashi sadly.

Kakashi knew Naruto's parents, in fact Naruto's father was the Yondaime Hokage , Minato Namikaze who happened to be Kakashi's sensei and the closest thing he had to a father. Kakashi cared about Naruto and wanted to adopt him but the council had prevented him from doing, so much to his regret. He had tried to be there for Naruto but had failed miserably due to being continuously on missions. But today seeing Naruto in this state made Kakashi very angry and if the culprit's hadn't been executed by the Hokage he would have executed them himself.