Hello, to new and old readers alike to the remake of one of my oldest stories, Naruto: Tale of his Life...

I decided to change a lot of things, things that didn't exactly make my old version well liked...

I was inspired to change the title to this by the movie, Freedom Writers, which was an awesome movie...

Basically, Naruto is going to write a few things in his journal or diary, whatever... Sometimes it'll only be once a chapter or one in the beginning and one in the end... Either way, I just wanted to be a little different... If it's already been done, well, sorry but I honestly didn't know... I haven't read in a while which seriously sucks...

I'm surprised I even found time to do this! AP exams are troublesome, let's leave it at that -_-"....

Well, here goes!

"Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument."
~Author Unknown~

Chapter 1: Prologue...

I don't own Naruto... This is a challenge I took up from Aengus... And i was inspired to write again by my girlfriend who I hope reads this soon =]....

Enjoy....


Hello... ano, if it is ok, I'd like to say a few things… Ano…My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I've don't own a lot of things… just this pen, this journal and my words…

The old man gave me this journal and pen so I could write how I feel, what I do every day and my dreams. This is my first page…

Well… I don't really know what to write. I guess I'll just write whatever comes to my mind first…

Ano… I have no friends, no family and no hope. I am as lonely as anyone can get and am scared. I've been called many things but all are mostly the same word; Monster. But why? I'm only six and I've never even hurt fly... at least, I don't think I have. I have been blacking out lately and when I come back, I always see a dead person around me. Was I the one who killed them? How?

And, the teachers at my school don't like me, not even a little. I only know how to write because I put my ear close to the outside of the classroom door and listen to the teachers explain it to the other students. I don't have the best hand writing but it's something.

I'm not as dumb as everyone wants me to be, I'm pretty smart for a six year old but I don't want anyone else to know how smart I am. I was kicked out of the classroom for two weeks when I told the teacher I knew the hand signs for a substitution jutsu. I still can't do one because I'm barely considered an academy student but at least in the future I'll know how to perform the hand signs.

There's something else… today is my... oh no, I hear the villagers… I think they know where I'm hiding. No, they found me! Please, if someone finds this… help me…

*.*.*.*

A six-year-old little boy lay on his hospital bed as he healed from the previous day's wounds. He had blond, spiky hair, blue eyes and whisker birthmarks on his face. Under his pillow lay the dark orange notebook that the Hokage gave him just the other day. His eyes showed no emotions as he thought back on the day before. While he did, he wondered why exactly his village's citizens would beat him.

Incidentally, yesterday was his birthday, October 10th, the same day the Kyūbi attacked Konoha, the day that the Yondaime killed the Kyūbi, and unfortunately, the same day that Konoha lost the great Hokage.

'How I wish someday I'll be as great and as respected as the Yondaime was. But I know I'll never be; I know I can never be as great as him… I make too many mistakes. Why else would I get beat up every day? It's because I make mistakes, there's no other reason. I just wish they wouldn't hit me as hard around this time of year.'

Though he is abused daily, yesterday's abuse was different. Yesterday, the attackers were groggy, unbalanced and slurred when they spoke, a bunch of drunks who happened to see Naruto passing by.

[*.*.Flashback.*.*]

Naruto was walking home after having spent another birthday alone.

'Why am I so alone? Why must the kami toy with my life' He thought as he continued his walk home.

He would've bought himself a birthday gift but everything he wanted was out of his price range. He knew the people in the stores over charged him but there was nothing he could do so he ignored it. Soon, he passed a bar that was full of grieving men and women and heard them crying and screaming dead people's names. Naruto felt bad for those people but again, there was nothing he could do, so he passed on by.

A block later, he heard people behind him screaming and sounded angry. He soon panicked as he heard them shout:

"MONSTER!"

"DEMON BASTARD!"

"JUST DIE ALREADY!"

He prayed that they weren't talking to him, but apparently, the Kami were bored and decided to have a little fun with his life. He turned around and saw the same people from the bar he passed had followed him, hatred in their eyes and half empty bottles in their hands.

Naruto was now completely in front of his mob. "C-Can I h-help you?"

This caused the men in the mob to sneer, but the guy who responded was the worst of them all.

"Yeah, there is something you can help us with. You can die and go to hell!" The man slurred as he threw his bottle right at Naruto's face.

Naruto instinctively duck under the bottle, immediately knowing it was a mistake. His eyes widened when he saw the man's face change from mild anger into rage. The mob then picked up rocks and hurled them at Naruto.

This time, Naruto didn't try to dodge it, and let it hit him, doubled over in pain, and fell to the ground. He tried to ignore the pain in his stomach as he tried to stand up again. Only to angering the mob even more.

"Stay down you evil demon!" a lady in the back shrieked.

This shocked Naruto to the core.

Why was she calling him a demon?

Before he could continue his thoughts, another object struck him, this time a bottle hit him in the forehead. Naruto fell on his back and raised his hands to his forehead. Then other people continued throwing things at him.

Purses, coins, empty bottles, full bottles, bricks, and rocks… anything that wasn't nailed down.

Naruto was still cowering on the ground when he looked up. He then saw a girl around his age looking at him, or he thought she was, he wasn't so sure. What also surprised him the most was the fact he saw tears falling down her face.

'Is… Is she crying because of me or… or for me?' He wanted to see for himself but he couldn't get up and see since he was still getting a beating.

Halfway through the beating, the pain caused him to black out.

The girl who was in fact watching burst into tears as she saw his arms go limp and his eyes close. Then she felt someone behind her and looked up and saw her father, looking absolutely angry.

At this point, some of the mob had begun to lose interest in abusing the 'demon child.'

One even said, "It's no fun when he's not awake to feel it." Though most of the mob agreed, they kept on beating Naruto like savages. The little girl and her father were disgusted by the man's words and these people's actions, she didn't know how much more she could take of this, though she didn't have to wait long to see it come to an end.

Soon enough, she saw her father marching up to the mob. Not wanting to be left out, she decided to follow him. She stopped right behind her father as he stopped in front of the mob and stared at them angrily. When she saw that he had the entire mob's attention, she heard him start speaking.

"What are you people doing!?!" He roared, halting the violence.

"We're beating the demon to death." Sneered the first man as though he was describing a trip to the market. Again the little girl found the man's words sickening.

'So this is the boy who had Kyūbi sealed in him. Poor boy, I'd guess he has to deal with this kind thing every day.'Thought the little girl's father.

'Demon? Are they insane? He looks like an ordinary boy to me.' The little girl thought, rapidly becoming angry herself.

"What demon? All I see is a disgusting bunch of low-life drunks beating on a poor, helpless child." He was livif and could not take another minute of the drunks in front of him. "Leave. Now. Before I get really angry."

The guy who first threw the bottle at Naruto, missing by a hair, smirked arrogantly as he stepped up and challenged the other man's authority.

"And what would happen if we don't?"

The other man closed his eyes and let out a loud exhale through his nose while the drunk only laughed.

"Ha! Like I thought, no…"

The man wasn't given the chance to finish as he flew ten feet into the air and landed five yards away; in a heap, he groaned before succumbing to unconsciousness. The other drunken men and women of the mob could only watch in surprise as they saw that the man across from them had only his open palm where he had obviously struck their 'leader' from where he hit the drunk, now unconscious, behind them.

They all cowered and ran in fear, and ran.

When the little girl was sure the mob was gone, she ran to the unconscious little boy and laid his head on her lap. Her tears had dried off a while ago but as she stared into the unconscious face of the unknown boy, fresh new tears escaped their imprisonment. Her father put a comforting hand on his daughter's shoulder and gave her a comforting smile.

"He'll be ok Hinata. If he is who I think he is, then he'll survive this." This helped Hinata out, but only a little. From all she had witnessed, she finally found her voice.

"I-It's strange…" she whispered.

Hiashi looked at his daughter with confusing clearly visible on his face.

"What is Hinata?" Hinata didn't answer right away, though Hiashi was in no hurry to get her to answer. Considering the events that the two of them had just seen, he was surprised she had spoken at all. Finally, Hinata started speaking again.

"I… I've never met this boy, n-never seen him before today but I can't help but cry for him, feel completely destroyed from... earlier. It's like they were hurting me while they hurt him."

Hiashi at first thought she was being a bit irrational, but he smiled as he remembered something very near and dear to his own heart, a very similar situation that he had once been in; and saw that she was looking up at him with a confused look on her face.

"What's so funny father?"

"It's nothing. Really. It's just what you just said. That's exactly how I felt when I first met your mother." Hinata blushed and looked back down at Naruto.

"Hinata, do you like this boy?" Her blush deepened and she had lost her voice again, but soon found it again.

"Father! I don't even know this boy. I'm just concerned for his well-being." She said with her blush still on her face.

*.*.*.*

Naruto could feel something wet fall on his face for a couple of minutes. He thought it was rain but didn't remember seeing a cloud in the sky. Then he heard two voices. One belonged to a young girl while the other belonged to an older man. Naruto opened his eyes and saw the owner of the young girl's voice.

He heard her say, "Father! I don't even know this boy. I'm just concerned for his well-being."

When he focused his vision, he saw that it was the same young girl who he saw crying earlier. Naruto saw that she still had tears in her eyes.

'Is she still crying? Why is she still crying?' He thought. Naruto sat up, surprising the girl, and leaned against the wooden fence next to him, as far from the adult as he could.

When he was sure he wasn't going to fall to his side, he nervously looked at the girl in front of him. The first thing that caught his attention was her lavender eyes, at first thinking that they were kind of weird, but in a good way. In fact, he thought they were really cute, that she was really cute.

'W-Why did I just think t-that?' He had a small blush on his cheeks and looked in another direction. Then he found some courage and looked at the girl again.

"W-why a-are you c-crying, pretty g-girl?" He asked innocently.

Hinata's was surprised by his question and flushed a deeper shade of red. She had not expected him to say that. Hiashi looked at Naruto suspiciously while Naruto looked back a him before looking back at Hinata who he now noticed her blush.

"D-Did I do something wrong?" Naruto asked, his eyes wide as saucers. Fearing another beating, he rolled away from the father-daughter duo and hugged his knees to his chest, raising his arms over his head to defend himself.

"I-I'm s-sorry… I w-won't do it a-again. Just p-please, d-don't hit m-me." He cried out, tears pouring out of his eyes, thinking somewhat coherently; 'I thought that maybe she was different, that she really cried for me. I was stupid to think like that. The life of an insect is as, if not more, important than my own.'

Naruto made to stand up, but he felt a hand on his shoulder.

Already afraid, he decided to take a chance and see whose hand was on his shoulder. He didn't expect to see Hinata's hand on his shoulder or her smiling a sad smile at him. The next thing she said really surprised Naruto the most.

"I-I'm not going to h-hurt you. What's your name?"

Naruto couldn't believe she just asked him that. In his entire life, he never had someone be as nice to him as Hinata was being right now. She still smiled at him while she waited for his answer, Naruto felt like he was about to doze off but decided to answer her anyways.

"N-Naruto. N-Naruto U-Uzumaki." His voice wavering and his eyes darting everywhere, ready for a strike he was sure to come.

Hinata felt really bad for Naruto and decided to give him a hug. As soon as Naruto saw her stretch her arms out, he put his own arms on top of his head and hugged his knees, balling himself once again. He thought that now that she knew who he was, she would hate him and hurt him. Instead, she gave him a brief hug before softly forcing his head to lie on her lap. As Hinata ran her fingers through Naruto's hair, he started getting sleepy. He wanted to ask Hinata her name but couldn't because he felt himself losing consciousness. The last thing he remembered was a metallic smell in the air, cold liquid suddenly reaching his hands and hearing Hinata scream his name.

*.*.*.*

"Naruto?" Hinata saw his eyes suddenly closing and felt something wet in the hand that was in his hair. When she looked at it, she saw his blood all over it. She couldn't believe she didn't feel it right away. She should've gotten Naruto to the hospital as soon as the mob left. But she couldn't feel her legs and could not make them stand. So instead she started panicking.

"NARUTO! NARUTO!" Hiashi, who remained quiet the whole time, suddenly picked up Naruto from Hinata's lap while she cried.

"Let's go, if we don't get him to the hospital soon, it might be too late." Hinata nodded at her father's words and they both headed to the hospital. Hinata was nervous and prayed that Naruto would be ok. Hiashi was just concerned on getting Naruto to the hospital. 'Minato, if only you could see how foolish these people are being.'

[*.*.Flashback End.*.*]

Naruto remained still as he heard the door to his hospital room open. Then he saw someone enter his room from the corner of his eye. He instinctively flinched and scooted himself closer to the opposite edge of his bed. The Sandiame Hokage came closer to Naruto when he saw that he was awake, but when he was two feet away from Naruto, Naruto threw his hands over his head and brought his knees closer to his chest.

"P-Please… don't!" Naruto shouted, causing Hiruzen's movement to cease. "No…" He said quietly.

"Naruto, are you ok?" The third asked Naruto. The Third saw Naruto as a grandson and when he saw Naruto shy away from him, it broke his heart. "Naruto…"

"I said no!" Naruto said with hatred in his voice. Out of everyone in the entire village, in the entire world even, Naruto thought he could trust in Hiruzen, his surrogate grandfather. He hadn't received a single thing from him, save for the apartment but even Naruto could see that the broke down apartment isn't enough. Any trust he had for him was now shattered, he couldn't spend another minute with the man, whom at first he thought he could trust.

So Naruto did the only logical thing any six year old would've done; he jumped off the open window near him. What he didn't know was that his room was on the third floor. Naruto saw the ground rushing right at him. He didn't want to die, not yet. He closed his eyes and hoped that if he died, it would be painless.

However, he never felt his body hit the ground as his body was snagged by something and he felt wind past his blond hair. When he opened his eyes, he saw the ground under him rushing past him. He quickly looked up and saw that someone had saved him from his fall. He was speechless; someone had apparently seen him fall to his death and saved him.

'What if this person realizes who I am? I hope he or she doesn't drop me because we're pretty high.'

Shortly after the person saved Naruto, they landed near a huge mansion. Naruto got to take a good look at the person who saved him. A very pretty woman, with long, black flowing hair, crimson red eyes that were the same color as her lips. She looked to be a chuunin and very young. Then she bent down until she was at eye level with Naruto.

"Hey kid, are you ok?" The woman asked. Naruto stared at the ground in front of him, his eyes scanning for anything interesting, at least, more interesting than the woman. The question had completely caught him off guard and he really had no idea how to answer her question. A simple 'yes' would be sufficient but considering who he was, he didn't think a yes would be the answer she was looking for.

However, Naruto knew he was many things, most recently a demon as the village calls him, but he was sure he was not a liar. The woman in front of him crouched down in front of him and Naruto thought she was going to hit him or something so he flinched and took a step back. The woman blinked multiple times as Naruto looked away.

"What's wrong?" She asked and Naruto finally met her eyes before the intensity of it made him look away. The woman sighed and stood up. Naruto watched her stand from the corner of his eye and knew she was going to leave now.

"Do you want some?" Naruto blinked and looked up to see the woman holding a small candy in the palm of her left hand.

"F-For… m-me?" Naruto asked, unsure and doubtful. The woman nodded and smiled happily. "O-Ok." Naruto hesitantly grabbed the candy and took out the wrapper before putting the candy in his mouth. He was wary of it since someone had once drugged his food and beat him when they found him sprawled outside the store.

Slowly tasting the candy, Naruto found no added ingredient. It tasted really sweet that it made Naruto bend his head forward and cry. The woman tilted her head and walked in front of Naruto before crouching in front of him. She saw his tears and put her hands on his shoulders. He slowly brought his head up and looked at the woman.

"W-Why… w-why are you being s-so nice to m-me?" Naruto asked and wiped the tears from his eyes with his left sleeve. The woman didn't say a word; she was staring at Naruto, making him feel a little uncomfortable. Before he knew it, she brought him closer and hugged him. Naruto's eyes widened as his body stiffened at the contact.

'Poor boy…' The woman thought. After couple of minutes, the woman broke the hug and then stood up. She handed Naruto another piece of candy and smiled.

"It's ok if you don't want to talk right now, Naruto. If you ever need anything, just come and find me. My name is Kurenai Yuhi, just so you know who to look for." Kurenai said. Naruto just barely registered her name; he was so surprised at how well she treated him, and began to walk around the corner and disappeared from Naruto's sight.

Naruto looked down at the candy in his hands while the one in his mouth started to shrink. He pocketed the candy and wiped the remaining tear away from his eyes.

"T-Thank you… Kurenai-san…" He whispered as he continued to walk, oblivious to the other boy walking right in front of him. They both collided and Naruto fell on his butt. "Ow." He whined until he realized he ran into someone.

"I-I-I'm sorry." Naruto apologized. "I-I didn't m-mean to bump in-into you."

The person, child rather, that Naruto had run into, was none other than Sasuke Uchiha, who had been looking for his older brother, trying to get him to train him. When Naruto had knocked him to the ground, he took it as a personal insult to the Uchiha family and no one insulted the Uchiha family while Sasuke was around.

"You're gonna pay for that." Sneered the raven haired child.

Naruto wanted to run but his legs wouldn't move. Naruto could only watch in fear as the boy ran to him, ramming his knee into his stomach and he doubled over in pain, but he didn't stop there. He then punched Naruto in the chin and Naruto flew across the street. When he got up, his tears covering most of his cheeks, he braced himself for more.

"Tch, you're pathetic." The boy snarled. "Why are you crying? Are you a girl?" The boy continued to taunt. Naruto's legs still didn't respond as the boy ran at him again. Though he did manage to duck under the boy's left hook, he wasn't expecting the boy to drop down on all fours and sweep his legs under him. When Naruto fell on the floor, he cried out in pain when the boy did a flip and drove his foot into Naruto's stomach.

The boy chuckled as he jumped back and watched Naruto writher in pain. Naruto knew how to tolerate pain, he had to deal with it daily, but whenever it dealt with his stomach, it didn't matter if it was a punch or a kick; it almost always felt like a stab to him. Naruto's consciousness was starting to fade as he weakly stood up.

'Go to sleep… let me handle this…' Naruto didn't reply to the voice in his head. Every since he was four, he had began to hear this voice and everything it said was spoken in an evil and malicious way. However, Naruto didn't have time to consider this as he lost consciousness.

The boy smirked when he saw Naruto hang his head and his body go limp.

"You're going to give up? Ha, sad, but I'm not done." Sasuke ran at Naruto again but was surprised when Naruto looked up and smiled like a madman, his right eye open wide while his left eye was halfway closed.

"You wanna fight, do ya?!" Naruto shouted in a voice that the boy didn't recognize. "HAHAHA!" Naruto quickly appeared in front of the boy and grabbed his neck. Spinning, Naruto slammed the boy into the ground and punched him in the face with his free hand. The boy grabbed Naruto's punch and kicked Naruto in the face.

"Haha, that's it boy! Fight me!" Naruto shouted and ran at the boy only to jump over him before he was kicked and grab his shoulders. With a primal yell, Naruto threw the boy over his head and made him crash against a building. The boy coughed up blood as Naruto laughed insanely.

The boy looked up and tried to stand but his body didn't comply. His eyes finally connected with Naruto's and onyx eyes stared in fright into crimson ones.

Naruto's eyes suddenly widened and he grabbed his head. Naruto fell into his knees and was groaning until finally, he stopped and dropped his arms. He looked up with tired eyes and they widened again.

"O-Oh no… I-I'm sorry." Naruto said as he stood up and ran away. The boy watched him leave and cursed under his breath; he was going to get his revenge on him.

After Naruto stopped running, he was bent down and panted. Suddenly, he felt a hand place itself on his shoulder and he cringed. He looked up and saw Kurenai looking down at him.

'She's going to tell the Hokage and I'm gonna be exiled or worse, killed.' But all Kurenai did was smile warmly at Naruto.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anybody." Then she motioned her thumb and index finger together and ran them across her lips, the same way someone would close a zipper.

Naruto blinked multiple times before he smiled for the first time. Kurenai's smile widened back at seeing him smile. She was surprised, however, when he hugged her. She hugged him back after gathering her wits.

"T-Thank you…" Naruto said.

"Hey, are you hungry?" Kurenai asked and Naruto nodded timidly. She then grabbed his hand and started to walk. Naruto almost tripped but after reovering, he kept up with Kurenai.

"A-Ano… e-excuse me…" Kurenai looked down but didn't stop walking. "W-Where are you t-t-taking me?" Naruto asked.

"To eat." She said and Naruto nodded though he was a little more than skeptical. He wasn't sure how much trust he could give an adult before they turned their back on him. Of course, Naruto being who he is, decided to give Kurenai the benefit of the doubt.

*.*.*.*

When they got to the restaurant, there saw a young lady working the register. When the lady behind the counter looked at Naruto, he panicked and hid behind one of Kurenai's legs, causing the lady to giggle and that hurt Naruto's feelings, he thought she was laughing at him. The lady stopped laughing and went up to Naruto.

"I'm sorry little one; I didn't mean to laugh at you. You're just so cute when you do that." She pinched his cheeks and he blushed a little. Naruto nervously clasped his hands together and was playing with his thumbs. Even though this lady was nice too, his fear of adults was just stronger. Then some old man came from out of nowhere and yelled,

"Ayame, what are you doing? There are customers…" The old man stopped when he saw Naruto hiding behind Kurenai.

He was so scared, this old man just yelled and scared Naruto even more, Naruto's been yelled at his whole life and still not used to it, as no one should be. The old man looked at him and then smiled.

"Well who do we have here? A little boy, huh? What's your name young man?" Kurenai moved behind Naruto to let the old man see him better and shoved him forward a little.

"Come on; tell this nice man you're name." Kurenai insisted. Naruto looked back from Kurenai to the old man. The old man looked eager to find out his name.

"N-Naruto, U-Uzumaki N-Naruto." The old man's smile widened.

"Nice to meet you Naruto. My name's Teuchi and I own this ramen shop." Naruto looked at him confusingly.

'What's ramen?' Apparently the old man knew what Naruto was thinking because he said,

"It looks like you don't know what that is, so how about this; I let you try one." He turned around and started walking into the kitchen, but before he could, Naruto spoke again.

"No, don't." This seemed to confuse the man and every other person in the room. "I d-don't want to b-bother you. You'd only b-be wasting y-you're time on m-me."

The younger lady, now known as Ayame, hugged Naruto from behind; he whimpered and thought she was going to hit him. Impulsively, he jumped from her arms and ran to Kurenai, and hid behind her legs again and closed his eyes. She was the only lady, person actually, he thought that he could trust.

"I'm sorry; he's been through a lot his whole life so he has trust issues; though it seems he trusts me now." Naruto nodded his head and looked back at Ayame. Instead of her being angry like Naruto thought she'd be, she bent down and smiled at him.

"Don't worry Naruto-chan, I'm not mad. But I hope I can earn you trust soon." The old man soon joined in.

"Me too. And don't worry about this ramen, it's on the house." The old man, Teuchi, went to his kitchen to prepare this 'ramen'. Kurenai picked Naruto up and placed him in one of the chairs and Ayame ruffled his hair. Teuchi came back with a big bowl filled with ramen. Naruto spontaneously stood from his seat and sniffed his food.

He sniffed it like an animal would, a fox maybe, causing Ayame and Kurenai to squeal, though Kurenai's was so low, no one heard her. Naruto grabbed some chopsticks from the container and started eating. He really enjoyed eating the ramen. Naruto was eating it so fast that by the time he finished everyone looked at him funny, making him duck his head and flush a deep crimson.

"Thank you Teuchi, really. Naruto, don't you have something to say." Kurenai said as she picked him up. Naruto lifted his head off her shoulder and said,

"T-Thank you, sir. It was really d-delicious." Teuchi smiled at him and nodded his head. Naruto then buried his head back on her shoulder and closed his eyes shut.

"I'll see you later Ayame, Teuchi." With a wave of good-bye, Kurenai left the ramen bar and was walking. After some time, she stopped and pulled him apart from her. "Now Naruto, I'm sure you're tired by now, right?" Naruto tried to suppress a yawn but couldn't.

"Ok then, where do you live?" Naruto looked around and spotted his apartment. He pointed to the run-down apartment across the street. She seemed surprise at first but then she got angry.

"I'm s-sorry if you d-don't like it b-but its a-all that was l-left." He cried into her shirt, Kurenai only hugged him tighter and walked past his house. "W-Where are y-you taking m-me?"

She didn't answer. She looked very angry, which kind of scared him, so he stayed quiet the whole time.

'How dare Hokage-sama give Naruto an apartment like that one!' Kurenai slowed her pace down a bit when she saw the Hokage tower. When they went inside she put Naruto down in front of the Third Hokage's office.

"Wait here ok? I'll be back in a minute." Then Kurenai headed inside to talk to the Hokage.

As Naruto waited, he heard many of the adults say things like "Demon spawn," or "Demon", "Abomination" and other hurtful names. He didn't understand it; he didn't know what he had done to be the victim of so many cruel names. He couldn't handle it anymore; he ran into the Hokage's office and grabbed Kurenai's leg as soon as he saw her, tears streaming down his face.

"DO YOU SEE WHAT THESE IDIOTIC VILLAGERS HAVE DONE TO THIS POOR BOY?" Kurenai shrieked at the cringing Hokage. "DO YOU SEE WHY I'M HERE RIGHT NOW? HIS WHOLE LIFE HIS BEEN LIKE HE IS RIGHT NOW! HE NEEDS MORE THAN THAT USELESS LAW AND YOU GIVING HIM SOME CRAPPY APARTMENT THAT LOOKS LIKE IT COULD FALL ON HIM AT ANY SECOND; HE NEEDS SOME ONE THERE FOR HIM! AN ADULT, SOMEONE LIKE ME!"

Though Naruto knew that he wasn't being shouted at, his grip still tightened on Kurneai's leg, causing her to pick him up and softly hugged him. "Shh… I'm sorry; I didn't mean to be so loud." She said, all the while glaring at the Hokage.

"I see what you mean, but there's nothing more I can do about the situation. I've done all I can. The council has control over domestic trials and laws. I already pushed it by insisting on giving him that apartment. If you want to take him in you're going to have to talk to the council." The third Hokage said. Naruto looked at him for a second before looking away. "I'm sorry Naruto."

"Tch, fine." The chuunin scoffed. "If I have to talk to a bunch of stubborn old fools than that's what I'll do." Kurenai walked away while she still held Naruto.

"Wait," Kurenai stopped and turned to see the Third Hokage taking something out of his desk. Naruto's eyes widened when he saw his orange notebook. "Here, you forgot this at the hospital, Naruto." Kurenai walked back and took it from him with as much respect as she could manage and gave it to Naruto who gripped it with his life.

Kurenai bid another farewell and headed out of the Third's office. When Naruto looked back at the Hokage, he saw a single tear fall from his cheek.

"Ok Naruto, you're coming home with me today and then tomorrow, I'll try to make it permanent. Is that ok with you?" He nodded his head as he started to doze off as the stress of the day began to take its hold him. Kurenai let out a soft sigh and said, "Go to sleep now Naruto, it's a long walk back to my house."

The second she said that, he let his head rest on her shoulder and fell asleep. When she was sure he was asleep, she spoke again. "I swear to you Naruto, I'll make sure you're protected." She kissed his forehead and continued her walk home.


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