Influence of the Fox

Ch.1 Prologue

The streets of Kohona were quiet as they usually were at this time of night, much to the relief of a blond seven year old who walked alone in the rain. He knew he should be getting back to his apartment because the next day he began his training at the ninja academy of the village of Kohona, the village hidden in the leaves.

'Maybe everyone will start to respect me if I become a ninja' he thought, wishfully, to himself although he knew it probably wouldn't happen. His entire life he had been looked down on for a reason that he didn't know of. Every time he went out in public he would be talked about and scorned, if he was lucky. But it was usually much worse. Extremely unjust prices to daily beatings by drunken villagers.

Though every time he would be beaten he would receive the same 'demon brat' 'hell child' 'evil fox' yells until a seemingly random ANBU would stop the beatings and take him home. But over the years he had noticed that the shinobi that always rescued him was the only shinobi that even acknowledged him.

He had a set of spiky grey hair and had a tall, slim muscled body and a dog ANBU mask. 'It always seemed that this ninja was different from all the others' Naruto thought to himself, why simultaneously wondering why this man cared when no-one else did.

Soon the blonde found his way to his old rundown apartment where he had lived alone since it was given to him by the third hokage, who was the closest thing to family he had ever had. He had also caught sight of a stocky white haired man staring at him in the village. It wasn't the hateful glares he was used to but something of a deep, thoughtful look, as if he was thinking of someone else. 'Something about that guy is strange' the spikey blond said as he pictured him in his mind. Red marks running from his eyes, always carrying a large scroll with him. He could have sworn he had seen him talking to frogs.

Everything is his mind was spinning in an endless vortex as he thought of tomorrow. He would finally be on his way to becoming hokage, his life dream.

And he drifted into a light, dream filled sleep.

When Naruto awoke he immediately took a shower and dressed in his usual attire. An obnoxiously bright orange jumpsuit with blue trim and a white collar. He then ate breakfast, an instant ramen cup, and had set out towards the academy. He had woken up abnormally early that day and set out early enough to miss the crowds and coincidently arrive at the academy before anyone else.

He decided to sit at on the top row, last seat to the right. 'No one will sit by me anyway, they never do when I go to Ichirakus.' He thought. The old man and his daughter that ran the shop were the only people to ever do business with him normally. Everyone else would throw him out or charge him unreasonably high prices.

He was there for about an hour when the chunin teacher finally arrived. He had a Spike of hair coming out of the top of his head. His skin was dark and he had deep brown eyes. His only other distinguishing feature was a scar that ran over the bridge of his nose.

"Who are you? Oh you must be one of the new students!" he stated when he finally caught sight of the young blond."My name is Iruka Umino, but you will refer to me as Iruka-sensei,"

"Hai Iruka-sensei!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly, glad that the man hadn't yelled at him.

Slowly but surely more students began to arrive. First was a boy in a high collared trench coat, then a boy with a small puppy. They were followed by a Boy with spiky black hair in a blue collared shirt. Naruto knew who he was, Sasuke Uchiha, the last remaining of his clan after his older brother apparently went berserk and killed everyone. It wasn't suprising when he was followed in by a horde of seemingly rabid fan girls either, including a girl with long blond hair and another with equally long pink hair, who seemed to be yelling at each other.

The next was a lazy boy whose black hair made him resemble a pineapple. He was followed by an extremely pudgy boy with a bag of chips.

The last person to come to the class was a girl with pale lavender eyes. She had short, extremely dark blue hair with two long bangs running down her face. She also had pale, almost milky, skin.

'Wow she's pretty' Naruto thought to himself.

He was even more surprised when she sat next to him, but when they made eye contact she blushed and looked away and Naruto couldn't shake feeling they had met before.

(Flashback)

Naruto was causally walking down the road to the training area when he heard yelling from behind one of the bushes. When he went to check what it was he was surprised to see a girl laying on the ground with a group of people standing over her.

"Look at her freaky eyes!" one said as he kicked her in the stomach.

"Yeah shes weird!" another said, following his example.

"Shes probably after Sasuke-kun too!" one of the two girls in the group said.

'Is that ALL they think about?' Naruto thought to himself.

"No..im not…p-p-please stop." The girl almost whispered as she tried to stand up. "Not a chance Hyuuga!" the biggest of the boys, obviously the leader of the group yelled as he forced her back down.

Naruto had had enough and he jumped onto the boys back and hit him in the head with a rock. The size difference was just too great as he was thrown off. He now noticed that the older boy was wearing a forehead protector with a leaf symbol on it.

'A ninja?' Naruto thought to himself.

"Oh crap! It's the demon! Run for it." He yelled. Naruto was finally happy for his apparent 'Demon status' in the village. He immediately ran over to the girl and leaned down help her up. She took his hand and he pulled her up. Luckily she wasn't too badly hurt, mostly just bruises.

"T-t-t-thank you for helping me." The girl said, unable to look him in the face.

"It's no problem! My names Uzumaki Naruto! Whats yours? He fired off, excited to possibly to have a chance to make his first friend.

"H-h-h-h-hinata….H-hyuuga Hinata." She stuttered out, her shyness kicking in.

(Flashback end)

Suddenly Naruto remembered where he had met the girl and turned to face her.

"You're the girl from the park that day aren't you?" he asked her as she suddenly got very wide-eyed.

'He remembered!" she thought happily to herself, but all she could stutter out was a weak "H-H-H-Hai." As she looked to her secret crush.

NARUTOS MINDSCAPE

"So she like the brat hmmmm? Intresting… It would seem Naruto has found his first pack-mate." Said a booming, menacing voice as a pair of huge bright-red slit eyes stared on from behind a giant cage.

"Good"

PROLOUGE END.

Authors notes.

Just a quick a/n, this will hopefully follow a mostly original story line and I plan for it to be an EXTREMELY long story. If anyones noticed the other story on my page that ive hit writers block on for like 8 months now, don't worry, I have this story more thought out while I was basically freehanding that one.