"This is a fan fiction, I do not own Naruto in any from being anime, games or published format.
Before I even begin I will say why I am writing this particular pairing. The fact is that I see the potential of this particular pairing for fun, smiles, romance, and even some good old fashioned revenge against bullies and help to some other people in the entire series, that deserve it, that need it or plainly should get it even if they don't know they need it. This will be a serious, commited relationship, with only 1 husband, 1 wife, 3 hounds and maybe some kids down he line. Now for the fans of a few characters a bit of a warning. Kiba I will give him a serious wake up call, and he will get his priorities straigh, those of you who like Sakura, I apologize, because I will beat on her every single chance I get. I simply like her just as much as the civilian council likes Naruto to tell the truth. Sasuke will stay pretty much the same, got to kill his brother, to revive his clan, to become the provebial sock puppet of Orochimaru. Neji will keep saying his excuses about Fate and Destiny, till Naruto kicks his teeth in. Then after some dentures and some much self exploration he will find love with Ten Ten. We have to admit the two are perfect for each other.
So with no further delay, starts the story of the fox and the hound.
For everyone that visited the village, the village hidden in the leaves was a rather peaceful, tranquil and some would even call it pleasant place to visit, do business and some might even go to simply enjoy the atmosphere of the village and enjoy some of the best food in the land of fire. The Hokage was a kind, considerate and very understanding old man, the very image of what a kindly old grandfather would be.
But this was to everyone else, not for Naruto Uzumaki, the one they called the demon brat of Konoha. If there was a tree that caused misfortune by being hit with one of its branches, Naruto when the day he was born was thrown head first towards the ground and he hit every single branch on the way down. First he was an orphan and not the orphan that grows under the kind care of a gentle lady that ran the orphanage. No,the lady of the orphanage did things to Naruto that would have made the most insane, morally deprived pedophile look at her with a look of sheer disgust.
At the age of six he was thrown out of the orphanage and not because the person in charge did not have any more ways to make the child suffer, oh no, she had plenty of things planned to make the child wish he would die, the laws regarding the orphanage clearly stated that if no one would adopt a child by the age of six, that child would become a ward of the village, under the care of the Hokage.
Danzo actually wanted to adopt him, to give him a good family home and to make this child be able to live a decent life. And this was a whole pack of lies, he wanted to turn Naruto into one of his Root children. An emotionally dead, obedient drone with the power of the most powerful of the tailed beasts. This one time the hatred of the evil woman in charge of the orphanage actually protected Naruto without her even realizing it.
Hiruzen Sarutobi loved Kushina Uzumaki like the daughter he never had, and to see how Naruto was treated made him suffer in ways that he simply could not mention. He had to keep the village at peace, and if he did anything, and I mean anything to help Naruto. It would be the cause of outright civil war. So the only things he could do was what the law clearly allowed.
Naruto received a monthly amount for his personal needs, and the cheapest, dirtiest, barely functional apartment that anyone could ever imagine. The door if you could call it a door, was a piece of plywood on some rusted door hinges, and the lock was a piece of wire that Naruto tied to a hole on the side of the wall. His neighbors did what you would expect, called him names, kicked him, punched him, or just pain stabbed him with a rusty kunai.
The doctors would not treat him, and if he was gravely sick the doctors would pray that the demon brat finally died. So much about that oath they made when they became doctors. The shops either told him to get the hell out or over charged him for everything. The only piece of clothing he owned was an orange jumpsuit he found in a garbage can, and it was only usable after he washed off the varies horrible substances that were on it. Too big for him, but it was the only thing he had. His shoes were broken sandals that he saw an old lady throw at him.
Every year he would get a present from the village, by present I mean the village would chase him around the village in a mob, and try to beat him to death. When he tried to run away a dog masked ANBU found him and dragged him back to the village, only stopping to give him a few kicks and then continue to drag him by his foot back to the village.
When he was eight years old the old man as Naruto called him, came to pay him a visit. He began to ask him how he was doing and Naruto lied through his teeth about how good and kind his neighbors were, and how good his life was. Hiruzen being either naive or simply believing that Naruto would never lie to him, accepted what the boy said. Hiruzen would only need to open the broken down refrigerator to see the truth, but he did not.
He had come to him for a reason, Danzo has been pushing for Naruto to study under him, he was of age and should receive an education, if he would not attend the academy, then Danzo would be the next best thing to provide him with the training he needed to be a useful member of the village. Hiruzen told him that if he went to the academy he would learn to take better care of himself, to be respected by the villagers and that he would be able to go outside the village walls and see more of the world.
Naruto agreed to join the academy but under several conditions. One was that he be allowed access to all the books, scrolls and learning materials in the village library and his own personal library. If someone stopped him he held the right to send drag that person to his office and made said person confess of what he or she did. A village full of brats that want to play and not read anything beside manga asked him that, of course he would agree.
The next thing was that he would buy all his inital school gear and items, and any supplies after that. Hiruzen had to know why that is when he told him what most if not all the shops had been doing to him. He had been digging in the garbage behind local restaurants to be able to get enough food to live. To say Hiruzen was angry is like saying that Jiraiya was just a simple ordinary pervert. That was the moment that the fair pricing and treatment laws were born. Hiruzen wanted to call it something else, but he simply could not put it down on paper so he compromised and called them the fair pricing and treatment laws.
The last was that he could ask for a review on any tests by him. "But Naruto they teachers of the academy are moral and ethical examples to all the students, they would never give you any grade other than the one you deserved." Naruto simply asked him if they lived in the village? Hiruzen of course told him that they did. "If they do they have either hated me my whole life, tried to kill me at least once in my life, or prayed that someone else did. So you review my tests or I am not stepping a foot in a classroom. I will learn on my own."
"Danzo would use that force you to study with him, and I think you know what happens to those that study with him." Naruto said that if he tried he would simply tear off the seal on himself and let the big fox that his father stuffed into him, have his way with the village. "But Naruto that would kill you, I don't think you would throw away for life like that."
"What life are you talking about, old man? The one where I eat practically rotten food, get almost killed every other day or the one where people treat me like I am the cause of all bad things in the universe? The life you are saying I should protect is a life in hell. No, I take that back. Hell would be more merciful that this place. So agree to my conditions or I might as well try to runaway and live with a pack of foxes out in the wilderness. At least with them I would have a chance to live a somewhat normal life."
Faced with the choices he agreed to every single on of his demands, Hiruzen would only ask that before he would ever harm any of the villagers that he be given a chance to judge the actions of the person. Naruto agreed but he told him if it came to stopping someone from killing him or the moron running away, that moron forfeits the right to be judged and he dies on the spot.
Hiruzen simply did not like to see a boy as young as Naruto talk about killing in such a casual way. "Yes, Naruto you have the right to defend yourself. But be kind to the villagers, they are simple people, that have let their fears cloud their judgment." Naruto told him as he left that he would be as kind to them, as they are with him.
Hiruzen then decided to buy the things that Naruto would need. He went to one shop and bought a few sets of dark blue steel toed boots, cargo pants, combat shirts, belts, kunai, shuriken, scroll holsters and finally fingerless gloves. When the shop owner asked him if he why he was buying things for what looked like for a child entering the academy, he told the owner he was doing a favor to a friend of his family.
Hiruzen then went and bought a stove, a fridge and a twin size bed. He had all those items stuffed into one storage scroll. They went and bought enough instant ramen to feed a small army, and again he told all the shop owners the same thing as the first one, he was doing a favor for a friend of the family. At night he walked over to Naruto's den, it couldn't really be called an apartment, specially since he was washing a wall with a message telling him to die and go straight to hell where he belongs, and the worst it was written in dog feces.
Hiruzen told him that he had all the things he would need in the three scrolls that he was leaving on his bed. To call that thing a bed was indeed a kindness. Prison beds would be more comfortable than that thing. He had to ask how did that happened. "I went to buy and eat a bowl of ramen from the only joint that will sell to me at a price I can afford. and I come back and someone used this wall as a chalkboard and a dog turd as the chalk. Nothing new, this kind of thing happens at least four times per week."
Hiruzen was not going to stand there and let Naruto clean that up and he used a water jutsu to clean the wall off, and then a wind jutsu to dry it. "This is elemental jutsu, you will one day learn to use these yourself. Now come over and help me get these things out of these scrolls. He replaced the broken pieces of furniture with the stuff he had bought. and Naruto hid his new clothes and supplies under a hiding place behind a lose board at the bottom on his closet.
"So no excuses, you get the things you need to read from my library or from the village library and please hand that orange monstrosity and use the clothes I bough for you. That is practically screaming please kill me. You better go to bed you start going to the academy tomorrow, and I will drag you there if you do not wake up on time." He simply thanked him for the furniture and the other things and jumped on his bed and was asleep as soon as his faced touched his brand new pillow.
In his dream he was in a place that looked like a sewer. There were pipes all over and the water looked like the stuff he would find in a swamp. He walked until he found a large gate, behind the gate the eyes of a fox could be seen glaring with plenty of hatred at him. "Look, if you are trying to intimidate me, cut it out, people have glared like that my whole life. I am pretty immune to this kind of garbage."
The giant fox looked at him. "Well not only does my container finally visit me, but he tells me off before he even introduces himself. Well at the very least I am happy that you have some backbone. If you turned out to be a scared, crying coward I would really be angry. You know who I am don't you?" Naruto told him the Kyuubi No Kitsune, no other fox was his size or had nine tails.
"You know as well as I know that the instructors will not want you to learn a thing, they wouldn't want you to be trained if they are still trying to get us killed. So you get the reading materials from those libraries and when you do not understand something you ask me, and before you ask I am doing this to stay alive. If they kill you I die too. So you better get strong and fast for both of us to survive."
He was about to introduce himself, when the fox told him he knew exactly who he was, and he knew things that even he did not know, but he would only tell him after he earned it. Now he told him to think of the village and let him catch some sleep, tomorrow they had to attend the academy and he was not about to miss how he would react to the academy or his fellow classmates.