The Fourth Hokage was good at seals. Too good. His seal bound the Kyuubi inside Naruto, but with an unforeseen consequence: it stifled the boy's access to chakra. Now, Naruto, barred from ninjutsu or genjutsu, dedicates himself to master taijutsu, determined to forge a path to Hokage with the sheer force of his unsealed will. And who knows what will happen when the seal breaks?