Stefania: YAY! MY FRIST FICCY EVA! does happy dance

Shesana: Yes, and we are all very happy for you.

Darnmella: I'm not.

Sh: But you are never happy.

St: You should be happy, Darnnie, because you're going to be in this as something you've always wanted to be.

D: A psychotic, evil, super powerful demon bent on world domination!?!?

St: Yes.

D: Okay, now I'm so happy that I'm actually going to let you call me Darnnie in this fic!

St: Cool!

Sh: What about me?

D: You still have to refer to me as Darnmella…Or the Supreme Empress of the Universes.

Sh:rolls eyes I think that I will go with Darnmella.

D: Suite yourself. shrugs

St: Well, enough of us talking nonsense! This is Naruto done my way, from the very beginning, this starts when Naruto is three. (Following is said like at the end of a car commercial) All pairings, if any, will be straight. I will try to keep the characters from getting to O.O.C., except in some scenes. All reviews are welcome. Flames will be read, shrugged at, and then used to roast marshmallows. (Takes deep breathe, then starts talking normal again) I will be in this fic and that is why it is so different. Now, let the fic…BEGIN!

Disclaimer: Well, now I know what it is like to deal with the blood-suckers that are layers. So just to clear everything up, I DON'T OWN NARUTO! If I did, don't you think I would have done it my way from the beginning?!

Quote of the chapter: Me, right?! My name is Uzumaki Naruto! What I like is instant cup ramen! What I like even better is when Master Iruka treats me to ramen at the Ichiraku Noodle Bar!! What I hate is the three minute wait after I pour in the boiling water. My dream is to one day…Be a better shinobi than Lord Hokage!! And then all the villagers will have to acknowledge my existence at last!! My hobbies are… Pranks and practical jokes, I guess.-Uzumaki Naruto (sorry it was long, but I wanted to include everything he said)

Chapter 1

His First Friend

The sun was setting over Konohagakure and everything was as it usually is. This means that there is a commotion in a dark alleyway involving 4 shinobi that were all beating up something or someone. Fortunately for them, the villagers didn't seem to care. Unfortunately for them, a young girl visiting Konoha did. She peered carefully down from atop a building to see what was going on. What she saw horrified her.

The shinobi, who are supposed to protect the villagers, were beating up a small, blonde boy that looked to be about her age, three years old. Now, that made her mad! The boy was completely helpless! All he could do was lye in a ball and get beat up! That wasn't surprising considering he was three, 2 of the shinobi were Genin, and the other 2 were Chunin.

Without even considering what she was getting into she jumped from the roof top and drove the heel of her foot into one of the Chunins' heads. "In a situation like this it is better to take out the strongest ones first because you will need the most chakra to do that," thought the girl. She quickly defeated the shinobi, but the boy didn't move. "Well, that was easy. Almost disappointing," she thought as she watched the sad sight of the "great" shinobi of the Village Hidden in the Leaves running from a blonde three year old girl.

She turned her attention to the boy when she heard him start whimpering like an abused puppy. He still hadn't moved at all, but she could see his body shaking with sobs. She knelt down beside him and put a hand on his shoulder. Feeling the contact and thinking it was somebody that would hurt him he tried to run away, but the girl quickly grabbed his arm and forced him to look her in the eye.

"I'm not going to hurt you," she said firmly and kindly, but the boy didn't seem to believe her at first. He only relaxed when she didn't move and stared him down for nearly two minutes.

"No one has gone that long without at least sending me a death glare," he said. At first the girl almost laughed, thinking it was a joke, but stopped as soon as she saw his eyes. There may have been a small, forced looking, smile on his face, but his eyes were sad. "I'm--"

"Uzumaki Naruto! Everyone in my village knows about you! I can't believe I'm actually meeting you!" she exclaimed excitedly. "Sorry about that," she apologized when she realized he was staring at her like she had grown a second head, "My name is Stefania."

That seemed to shake Naruto out of his daze. "Nice to meet you," he said while shaking her hand. She nodded to show that she felt the same way. "Where are you from? I heard you say "my village" which usually means that you come from somewhere else," he asked.

A small smile crept across her face as she said, "I don't think here would be the best place to tell you that. There could be someone listening and I don't need someone out to get my village. How 'bout we go to this ramen shop I saw earlier, have dinner, and then go back to where I'm staying so I can tell you." She looked at Naruto and smiled even bigger when she saw that he now had a smile fully on his face that didn't look the least bit strained.

"I've never had ramen before, but I know the place you're probably talking about and it always smell really good there!" Naruto explained, bouncing up and down from excitement.

"Then boy are you in for a treat," Stefania said with a smirk. And with that she led him out of the alleyway and towards, what else, the Ichiraku Noodle Bar.

At Ichiraku's

Stefania had been thinking a lot after she asked Naruto what he thought of ramen. His answer was hard to understand because he wouldn't leave his mouth without ramen for enough time to speak properly, but it was so enthusiastic that anyone could understand that he loved it.

Stefania was thinking about how the villagers treated Naruto. On the way to Ichiraku's Naruto was sometimes shouted at rudely or kicked and/or punched, but there was always the death glares. Anyone who dared to send a death glare at Naruto got one right back from Stefania. At the sight of her death glare people would look away, some with a terrified expression, and some just turned tail and ran. Stefania had the best death glare, probably better than any Uchiha.

Once they got to Ichiraku's it only got worse. As soon as they came in there were shouts of protest and some people just got up and left. The owner said that they were welcome to stay, but Naruto looked ready to run. It took a lot of persuading from Stefania and the owner to get him to stay. "I can't believe this! They should be treating him like a hero! But instead they treat him worse than dirt!" she thought angrily "The people in my village treat him like a hero and he probably doesn't even know it exists!" No, she wasn't mad at Naruto in the least, but very mad at the villagers.

She was snapped back to reality when she heard Naruto say, "I'm so full," slowly and happily. She looked over to see Naruto sleepily patting his stomach with 5 empty bowls in front of him. It was then that she realized she had had two bowls herself. Her eyes grew when she realized how much this would cost her. Since it was Naruto's first time trying ramen she had gotten him the best thing on the menu to make sure he liked it. Now she was really regretting it.

"Well, it's a good thing my village isn't poor," she murmured with a sigh as she reached for her wallet, but the owner stopped her.

"First time is on the house," he explained with a smile. At that Naruto woke up wide-eyed. No one had ever been that nice to him. "Heck, no one's ever been nice to me!" he thought. Well, the Hokage had, but Naruto didn't see much of him. The customers didn't seem to like it though. There were many shouts of protest and some men even got up to make a fist fight out of this. One man, an especially big and mean looking one, came up and grabbed the owner, who didn't even flinch, buy the front of the shirt.

"Don't you remember what that thing is?!?" he questioned with his fist raised. Naruto had grabbed the seat of the chair he was sitting in and brought his knees up to his chin while Stefania looked ready to defend the one person in Konoha that was nice to Naruto. The owner still had moved, but looked ready to defend his new best customer at all costs. "He's the--" the man began to explain with anger swelling in his voice, but was cut off by a human sized puff of smoke. As the smoke cleared they saw a Leaf Village Jounin with his forehead protector covering one of his eyes and a mask covering the rest of his face. The only thing visible was his other eye, which anyone could see the intent to kill in.

He grabbed the man's raised fist and said calmly, but still with anger in his voice, "Now, I know you weren't about to break the decree. And I don't think that beating up a kind ramen shop owner and a three year old would reflect well on your family." Naruto hadn't really processed what this man was saying. He was too amazed that a shinobi, the people who beat him up the most, was defending him. He was only shaken out of his amazement by the strange man saying, "Let's go," and Stefania dragging him out by his arm.

"I think the Hokage would like to know that you made a friend Naruto, and one from a different village at that," the man said in a way that let them know that they didn't have much of a choice. On the way to the Hokage's office Naruto asked about why the man has saved him even though he knew who he was. The only response was, "You didn't do anything wrong, Naruto." Stefania was deep in thought trying to figure out how to explain everything to the Hokage, Naruto, and the man she knew was Kakashi. She finally decided it was best to tell them all at once and so she settled on the truth. She would tell them everything when they got there.

At the Hokage's office

"Naruto got beat up again, but has also made a friend his age," Kakashi explained, "There was a man at Ichiraku's that nearly broke the decree when the owner treated Naruto like a normal customer." Stefania looked nervous, but ready to reveal the truth about her and Naruto looked like he was only here because he had gotten in trouble.

"So who are you and where are you from?" the Hokage asked in a grandfatherly tone. He took a puffed on his pipe and explained, "I think it would be good for me to know a little about Naruto's first friend." It sounded like he wanted to know that, but also what she was doing in Konoha. After all, he had had no idea she was here at all. It wasn't everyday that a three year old girl somehow snuck into the village.

"Well, I had been meaning to see you, but it is only my first day here," Stefania began to explain, looking at the floor, "I'm a ninja-in-training from the Village hidden by Magic…"

St: And now you must wait for the rest of the explanation!

Sh: But I thought that you hated cliffhangers.

St: I do, but I don't really consider this a cliffhanger. Also, that is why I will be updating really soon. I don't do that 5 reviews and I'll update, but reviews make for good motivation!

D: Hey! I wasn't in this!

St: I know Darnnie, you come in later.

D: Okay…: (

St, Sh, & D: We hope you like it and we shall update as soon as possible. Oh, and PLEASE REVIEW!