The Rise
Night has fallen, there is a full moon shining brightly along with billions of stars in the clear indigo sky. A young boy is walking through the streets of a large village called Konoha. The boy's name is Naruto Uzamaki. He is only eight years old,has tanned skin, spiky blond hair, blue eyes, and six whisker like marks, three on each cheek. and has no one to look after him and has nowhere to go, at least for the time being. He silently walks the streets searching for a safe place to sleep, so that he won't have to worry about being found by some of the villagers who would want to hurt or even worse kill him. Why would anyone want to hurt a child so young, because he is the container for the Kyuubi. A beast that only eight years ago nearly destroyed the village, killing hundreds of people including the Fourth Hokage who sealed the beast within the young boy when he was only a few minutes old, thus losing his own life. As he is walking down the lonely streets he comes upon a teenage girl who is holding a baby, around the age of one, wearing a mask with the face of a kitsune and a tight, black body suit. Naruto notices that she is apart of ANBU and comes to a complete stop. Fear begins to rise up in him, the flight or fight mechanism is his body turns on, but he is unable to move. The teenage girl sensing the fear looks toward Naruto's direction and begins to walk towards him, child in tote. Naruto still frozen in place, shaking, he lifts up his hands ready for the beating to come, but is shocked when the girl says,
"I won't hurt you. What is your name little one," says the mysterious woman in a calming voice.
"My name i-is N-naruto." slowly lowering his hands.
" Well, Naruto I don't think that you should be out here all alone. Where are your guardians?"
"I don't have any."
"Well, now you do. Come with me," said the young woman holding out her child free hand to him. He shyly takes her hand and lets her lead him back to her apartment. She unlocks the door struggling some, due to the baby in her arms, but is able to open it. She guide Naruto inside and he is surprised by how large the apartment is.
"Make yourself at home while I go put Yoshiro to bed."
" Can I come?"
" Um, if you want to. Sure."He follows the young lady down the hall and into a small room that smelt like baby powder and strawberries. The room had a day and night theme. The walls were light blue in color and had a sun and moon themed border along the top of the walls. The curtain as well as the area rug matched the the border. There was an oak wood crib along the right side of the room filled with fluffy pillows and blankets. On the left side of the room there was a changing station along with a wastebasket and cart that had all sorts of baby cleaning items on it, noticing the lack of wipes and diapers. Naruto was about to ask the young lady why she did not have a whole lot of diapers when Yoshiro started to whine. The young lady presented Yoshiro with a blue and brown bear and hid cries were quickly hushed and he fell asleep. Naruto walked over to the crib and peered through the bars at Yoshiro who had short black hair and lightly tanned skin. Naruto looked at the young lady who had taken off her ANBU mask and notice that she was quite beautiful. Yoshiro's 'mother?' had milk chocolate skin, dark chocolate eyes, and short curly black hair that she wore with a black headband. The young lady felt Naruto's stare and looked at him and giggled when he blushed. He follows her out of the child's bedroom and back into the main area where she sat on a beige couch naruto followed suit and remembered that he had know idea who he was sitting next to. Feeling confident that she would not hurt him he asked.
" Um, what is your name?" The young woman looked at him questioningly , thinking to herself that he should have asked that question way before now, but answered calmly,
" Tsamaie Moorè."
" How old are you? You look kind of young to be a mommy."
"I'm 16 and yes I am kind of young to be a mommy, but I am."
"Where's Yoshiro's daddy?"
" Away."
"Is he coming back?"
"I do not know." she let out a sad sigh. Knowing in her heart that he was never coming back. 'How could he, he's a wanted criminal , who killed his entire family, well except for his little brother.'
After sitting in silence for a few minutes Tsamie looked at the clock in the living room and noticed that is was getting close to midnight. She looked towards naruto who was soundly sleeping at the other end of the couch. She stood up, picked up naruto and carried him to the room next to Yoshiro's and placed him in the twin sized bed. She tucked him in and kissed his forehead and whispered goodnight. She exited Naruto's room and headed towards her own which was across the hall. Once in her room she undressed, put on her pajamas, and got into bed and fell into a restful sleep.
The next day naruto woke up to the sun shining in his eyes. He rolled over and noticed that he was no longer on the couch in the living room, but in a bedroom. He got out of bed and walked over to the door listening for anyone who was awake. He stayed in that position for awhile until he hard someone jumping up and down in a bed.
"that must be Yoshiro."
he opened the door and walked over to Yoshiro's room. Upon entering Yoshiro stopped jumping thinking that it was his mommy, but was disappointed when he saw a strange boy with blond hair. Naruto walked over to Yoshiro's bed and introduced himself.
"Hi, I'm Naruto Uzamaki."
"Mommy?"
"She's still sleep"
"Wake up?"
"I guess we can go wake her up. Come on." Naruto held out his arms and helped Yoshiro out of his crib. He was on his way out the door when Yoshiro started squirming in his arms. Confused by this naruto put him down and Yoshiro began to walk towards his door, but fell half way there. Seeing this naruto walked over and helped him up this time holding his hand he and Yoshiro made their way to Tsamaie's room. Naruto was about to knock on the door when he noticed that Yoshiro had already began to open it. 'He must do this everyday!' Naruto thought while watching the toddler turn the knob and open the door. The two walked in hand and hand, climbed on to Tsamaie's bed and waited. After a few minutes of no response Yoshiro began to shake, poke, tap his mommy so that she would wake up. After the first couple of pokes, which were conveniently in her eye, she sat up and stared at the two children sitting on her bed.
"You do know today is Saturday," said Tsamaie still half asleep.
"Hungry!", shouted Yoshiro with a serious, if a child that young can be, tone.
"Fine, I'm getting up. So demanding to be so young," said Tsamaie while getting out of the bed.
"Good morning Tsamaie- San," Naruto shyly said.
" Call me mom," responded Tsamaie as she picked up Yoshiro and headed towards the door. Naruto was shocked by her response,but regained his composure and followed his mom and little brother, who was now waddling, out of the room. In the kitchen Tsamaie was getting the utensils and ingredients that she needed to make some strawberry pancakes for her and Naruto and she took out a box of cream of wheat for Yoshiro, who was not old enough to receive such a messy and sugary dish. After a few minutes the house was filled with the sent of strawberries and butter. Naruto started to drool, he could already taste the sweet delight that would soon be in front of him. Next to him Yoshiro, who was now in his highchair, was tying a bib around his neck, ready for his meal.
"Alright boys breakfast is ready!"
"Yea!" shouted the two children, soon their plate or bowl was filled with the awaited goodness that they longed for. After saying grace they hungrily began to eat their food.