Yo! This is my response to Aengus' challenge. Here's what was need to do for challenge:
"CHALLENGE
According to Erik Erickson, German-American psychologist noted for his theories on the development of children, because of Naruto's childhood as the outcast child that no one wanted or had time for, Naruto has severe attachment issues and problems socializing with others his age, not to mention a terrible fear of adults. Instead of him being the loud idiot that is portrayed in the manga and anime, Naruto should be very quiet, shy, extreme nervousness, with excessive smiling and nodding. In essence Naruto does not trust anyone, a severe inferiority complex, all the while being one of the most competent and caring ninja in the village. Sasuke cannot be his friend in any way, shape, or form; he is the main antagonist to Naruto's growth and relationships with others, sometimes even going out of his way to try and ruin them. During the main story, a kunoichi begins to have feelings for him and must convince him of that fact.
Conditions: No yaoi, no good Sasuke, no Harem (he's going to have enough problems with one girl), no 'over-night' change for Naruto, no Naruto/older women (ex. Anko, Kurenai, or Tsunade), while I would prefer a Naruto/Temari, I won't insist."
So that's where we are at this point. I like a good challenge. So yeah, hope you enjoy it…
DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything that has to do with Naruto besides this plot and some OC's I might create while writing this.
WARNING: No, there is no lemon, that's not what this warnings about. It's about this story though. It WILL be a NaruHina story. No exceptions, no crap. I prefer this pairing more than any other. No way in hell will that change! If you don't like the pairing or the story, why the hell are you here in this story? I may take request for other pairings but not Shika/Tema. There will be no shika/tema and this story will remain a NaruHina story. Other than that, I'm ok with any other pairing requests.
Also, if you're one of those people who just flame because you think its fun to do, you're wrong. All you're doing is being a jerk ass and apparently have no life. Here, we write because we want to express ourselves or just because we get a kick out of writing. People review to give either constructive criticism or to tell the author that the story was great or something similar to that. Flames are pointless and a waste of time, if you do it, you're a jerk ass who needs a new hobby.
Those people who are reading this that read because you like reading stories and don't flame, I thank you because I know the world's not filled with jerk asses. And that this warning is not for you.
Again, if this this doesn't sound good to you, don't bother telling me it sucked and insult me. I already know I'm not the best author nor am I trying to be. I'm just doing this because I just get a kick out of writing.
Sorry if I sounded angry but I need to get that out my chest… Please enjoy my story =]…
A five-year-old little boy lay on his hospital bed as he healed from yesterday's wounds. He had blond, spiky hair, blue eyes and whisker birthmarks on his face. His eyes showed no emotions as he thought back on yesterday's event. While he did, he wondered why exactly his village's citizens would beat him. For you see, yesterday was his birthday, October 10th, the same day the Kyuubi attacked Konoha, the day that the Fourth Hokage killed the Kyuubi, 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 Fourth Hokage 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 everyday? 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 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 gods 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 SPAWN" and "JUST DIE ALREADY!"
He prayed that they weren't talking to him, but apparently, the gods 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 help you all?"
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 cried 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 changed 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 no end.
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 back 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 some one behind her and looked up and saw her father, looking absolutely angry.
At this point, some of the mob had begun to loose 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 to 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 Kyuubi sealed in him. Poor boy, I'd guess he has to deal with this kind thing everyday.'
'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 beyond angry at this point 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 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 about five yards away; landing 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 man behind them.
They all cowered and ran in fear of the man in front of them.
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, he'll be ok." 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/white 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 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.
"D-Did I do something wrong?" Naruto asked, his eyes wide as saucers.
Fearing another beating, he hugged his knees to his chest and raised 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, still unaware of Hiashi's presence, 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.
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 at first. 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 Third 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.
"Please… don't!" Naruto yelled, which caused the Third to stop moving. "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 all of the people he thought he could trust in, it was the Third Hokage. But, as far as Naruto's knew, the Third hadn't done anything to help him out, save getting him an apartment, though he knew that wasn't enough. It hurt him to think that the only adult he trusted in wasn't helping or even looking out for him.
Any trust he had for him was now shattered, he couldn't spend another minute with the man, whom at first he thought that he could trust, but had broken that trust, he jumped out his room's window.
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 connect with the ground. Instead, he felt the wind pass through his head. When he opened his eyes, he saw the ground under him rushing past him. He quickly looked up and saw that some one 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.
"Are you ok kid?"
Naruto, already frightened, froze when he heard her ask him that. No one, in his entire life, had ever asked him if he was ok. Then she looked a little more serious and stood up straight. Naruto recoiled and threw his arms over his head again.
"What are you doing?" She asked, Naruto's actions confused her to no end. 'Why is he always flinching like that?'
Naruto didn't know how to answer that so he didn't.
The woman sighed as she knew he wasn't going to answer her anytime soon.
'Is she angry at me? Was it because I didn't answer her?' He thought as he put his arms down, accepting the beating that he thought was to come.
"Come here." She moved closer to Naruto as she said this. Naruto took a step back and sat down on the sidewalk and went back to defend himself, balled into the fetal position.
'Why does he do that… does he really think that I'm going to harm him?' She thought jokingly, but as soon as she saw him shaking, she knew it was anything but a joke. 'He really thinks I'm going to hurt him.' She thought amazingly.
"I won't say this again. Naruto, come here." Naruto looked incredulous at her.
'She… She knows who I am? And yet she still saved me?' Naruto, not wanting to upset the woman, walked right next to her. As soon as he was near enough, the woman crouched down until she was at eye level with Naruto again, pulling him into her arms and giving him a kiss on the forehead. Thinking; 'Poor boy… must have been through a lot so far…'
'She's… She's h-hugging me… after she gave me a k-kiss on the forehead. B-But why?'
"W-Who… Who are y-you?" The woman gave Naruto a warm smile, not answering his question. 'I just don't understand girls, they were so confusing.' He thought before saying; "P-Please… don't waste your s-smiles on me. I'm not worth it."
The woman gasped, never had she heard anyone say they weren't worth smiling at; Naruto quickly removed himself from her hug, leaving her standing on the sidewalk where she had set him down. He prayed that nothing else would happen to him, he just wanted to go home.
He then heard her footsteps behind him so he ran, ran until he was near his house, and he got two blocks before he bumped into someone knocking himself onto his butt. When he looked up, he saw another boy on his own butt. Naruto got up as fast as he could and help him up; however, as soon as the other boy was on his feet, he pushed Naruto back down. He stood over him with a sense of superiority.
"You better watch where you're going idiot." He leered.
Naruto stood up, bowed his head and started to apologize. "I'm sorry. I-I didn't mean t-to bump into y-you."
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.
"Why are you crying? You're supposed to be a boy and boys don't cry. Besides, I'm not done playing." The boy's evil smirk grew. Naruto couldn't handle the pain and everything started to get fuzzy. Naruto, realizing what this meant, eyes widened in fear. 'No, not again!' Naruto then blacked out, his body still remaining upright. When the boy saw Naruto's whole body go limp, he smirked.
"Giving up already huh weakling?" Asked the boy, to which Naruto could not answer, angering his adversary. "Well I'm not, so here I come!" The boy ran up to Naruto again and threw a fist straight at Naruto's face, but never connected.
His fist was halted by someone's hand, Naruto's, his face lowed. When Naruto picked up his head to stare at the boy, the boy saw something that surprised him, Naruto's eyes were different; they were a combination of green and red and had a swirl in it. Before the boy knew it, Naruto's fist slammed into his stomach, sending him all the way across the street, slamming into the side of building.
The boy staggered to his feet, his body aching everywhere from that one punch. But he didn't want to lose to the weakling of a boy who had run into him. Once again going on the offensive, the boy ran back at Naruto and roundhouse kicked at Naruto's head. Naruto ducked a second before the kick connected and grabbed the boy's foot, spun him around, and then let him fly back across the street back into the wall that he had already been sent into.
The boy was really in pain now, unable to move without his whole body feeling the pain. In a blink of an eye, Naruto stood over the boy with anger in his eyes. Naruto then reeled his fist back to send the finishing blow, but stopped. Naruto's whole body tensed up before it relaxed once more. Naruto regained consciousness and looked around. Then he looked down and saw the boy under him in pain.
Naruto was too shocked to even speak. 'I could've sworn he would've died; no one's ever survived after I got my consciousness back.' The boy, thinking that Naruto wasn't going to do anything, stood up and ran away.
After he felt that he had run far enough from the scene of the brief "battle" Naruto fell to his knees and looked at his hands, he had no idea what had just happened, but it wasn't the first time. Suddenly, he felt a hand on his shoulder. When he looked up, he saw that it was the same woman from before, the one that had caught him.
'She's going to tell the Hokage and I'm gonna be exiled or worse, killed.' But all the woman 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 you would close a zipper.
Naruto then smiled his first genuine smile in years, turned and hugged the woman. The woman cringed under Naruto's hug.
'Does… Does this mean he trust me?' Apparently, Naruto felt the woman cringe because he stepped back, thinking he crossed the line.
"I'm sorry, I-I just thought…" He didn't even get to finish because the lady scooped him up and hugged him. Naruto just let the woman hug him; he was too surprised to do anything else anyways. After a couple of minutes, she pulled back from the hug and looked at Naruto in the eyes.
"Are you ok?" He nodded while he kept the same smile on his face.
"Are you sure?" He nodded again, she looked a bit skeptical, but let it go.
"Do you know who I am" Naruto shook his head 'no'.
'I don't know this lady and yet she's so nice to me.'
"My name is Yuhi Kurenai. And you are Uzumaki Naruto, correct?" Naruto nodded as his smile stayed in my lips. She knew exactly who he was and yet here she was, being very kind. Naruto as never felt as happy as he was right then. What Kurenai said next really got him happy. "Are you hungry?"
"Y-Yes." Naruto said timidly. Even though Kurenai was nice to him, he still didn't know if he could completely trust her, she smiled again and took his hand.
"Then come on, I know a couple of people, that won't mind you, that own a restaurant." She practically dragged Naruto because he didn't really want to go see any more adults. They scared him; all they did was hit him.
When they got to the restaurant, there saw a younger looking 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 laugh 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 rubbed the back of his head and smiled sheepishly. 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 you're name young man?" Kurenai moved behind Naruto to let the old man see him better and shoved him a little forward.
"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 squealed, though Kurenai's was so low, not many of people heard it. 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 moment." 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, SOME ONE 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." 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 jerks than that's what I'll do." Kurenai walked away while she still held Naruto.
When he 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 talk to the old men to ask 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.
Well, that's it! That's how I think it would've happen if Naruto wasn't the brave, dumb, loud and cheery Naruto as portrayed in the anime/manga... Leave a review if you want to... I'd really appreciate it if you did, but you don't have to...
Good luck with whatever...!