Prologue
Naruto jumped across the forest branches. For a 5 year old, this was an amazing feat. He quickly dashed toward a black figure far in front.
"Itachi-san, where are we going?" Naruto asked the black figure who is Itachi. Itachi looked back a t him.
"Don't worry Naruto-kun we're going to the a little group that I just joined. I'm pretty sure that they'll want you too." Itachi looked back. "Are you tired yet? Do you want to rest?"
"Okay." Naruto jumped down from the tree exhausted. The two were far out of Fire Country borders. They had been jumping for more than 2 days. Naruto reminisced the reason he had left Konoha with Itachi.
Flashback
Naruto fell down with a thud as another villager punched him hard in the jaw. He coughed out some blood before trying to run away. Unfortunately, he ran straight into an alley. An alley that was a dead end. The wooden fence that blocked the other side was much too tall for a person like Naruto to get over. Naruto looked at the mob of villagers behind him as they started to corner him.
"Die demon!" One of the villagers stabbed Naruto with a pitchfork. 3 streams of blood came rushing down Naruto's jumpsuit.
'I can't take this anymore' Naruto thought. He curled into a ball and waited, wanting all the pain to suddenly just end, and that's what happened. He heard a whoosh and then, all the pain seemed to go away. There was silence for a few minutes. Naruto looked up and saw a black figure. It turned around and he could see its red eyes with strange connecting curves. He looked behind the figure. The villagers were all down. There wasn't blood or anything. They just…fell out of nowhere.
"Do you want to stay here and keep all of these beatings up? What do you want?" The black figure walked into a streetlight. It was a ninja that was no older than 16. The cold blooded eyes stared meaninglessly into Naruto's soul. It scared him to the brink of death itself.
"N-n-no. I don't want to get hurt anymore, but I do want to get respected within this village." Naruto stood up.
"Then let's go. I know a place where you can get what you want. My name is Uchiha Itachi." Itachi jumped onto the top of a building, and Naruto followed.
End Flashback
Naruto couldn't help to think what was going to happen to him in order to achieve such power. Pushing those thoughts out of his mind, he went and drifted off to sleep.