A/N: This is my first fanfic so please give me an honest review of this first chapter. Even though this story as a whole focuses on Konohamaru this first chapter and part of the second chapter will focus on Udon and Moegi but these events are important for the rest of the story so please bear with me. This chapter and the next is a prequel for the main story. Please give me honest reviews so I can know what to do to make future chapters better but please try not to troll me in the reviews. If you have anything bad to say please keep it respectful and not try to be a douchebag. But other than that please enjoy my first piece of work.

Update: I wil be re-editing the chapters to address the problems with grammar and spelling. Some of the dialouge is different, but the plot is still the same, so there is no need to worry about missing any important info regarding the plot. I apologize for the many errors I made while writing this, I will make a effort to proof read before I publish. With this being my first fan fic, I got a little bit anxious on releasing the chapters. Once again, I apologize to any readers that were put off by my errors and hopefully you continue to read.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.


The night air was filled with ashes and flames that emitted from a burning village. Screams could be heard as people were running to get away or trying to save their loved ones. Rogue ninja from an unknown village had come and burned down a village not far from Konoha. Ebisu and his chunin team of Konohamaru, Udon, and Moegi were given the task of capturing the rogue ninja and protecting the village. Konohamaru looked on in horror as the village had been burned to the ground and most of the villagers were dead.

"Sensei, we have to find the men responsible for this!" Konohamaru yelled, as they arrived at the village too late to protect it from its grim fate.

"Don't be hasty! We need to be help the villagers first before we go looking for the enemy." said Ebisu. "These people need our help more than anything, so don't do anything drastic"

"Fine" Konohamaru said

"Good, now Udon, you and Moegi go see if you can find any survivors while me and Konohamaru try to find the ninja responsible for doing this"

"Yes Ebisu-Sensei" Udon and Moegi both said simultaneously.

"You guys watch yourselves." Konohamaru said.

"Likewise." Udon responded.

And in a flash, Ebisu and Konohamaru went to find the ones responsible, while Udon and Moegi went to go look for survivors.

"This is terrible" Moegi said as they tried to look for any remaining stragglers. "Who could be so cold-hearted that they would do this to these people."

"I don't know, but hopefully Ebisu-Sensei and Konohamaru can find them. We got a job to do too, lets worry about helping these people." said Udon in an reassuring tone.

Moegi managed to crack a weak smile as she tried to convince herself that everything would be alright. She didn't want to doubt Konohamaru or Ebisu-Sensei, but she had bad feeling in her stomach. Trying to comfort herself, she just blew it off as nerves and continued her duties.

As they searched the area, they couldn't find any survivors. Most of the people were either dead, or had fled the village. Just as they were about to give up, they heard a scream coming from a burning house.

"Help Help!" it was the voice of a little boy crying from the top window.

Udon and Moegi both turned around, and ran to the source of the noise. "Udon, let me go in to save him." Moegi said. "Moegi, you stay here while I try save him. There is no need for both of us to go in there and risk being killed" Udon replied with a firm look on his face.

This took Moegi by surprise, Udon definetely wasn't known for being brave, but over the years, he really started to change.

Moegi nodded and said in a concerned tone "Ok but please be careful. Don't die on me ok..."

Udon put his hand on her shoulder and said in a reassuring tone with a smile on his face "Don't worry, I don't plan on dying anytime soon"

This caused Moegi to blush, and soon after her blushing caused him to blush also. They stared at each other for what seemed like minutes though it was only seconds. Soon after, they both snapped back to reality and Udon proceeded into the burning house.

As Udon entered the house, Moegi admired how much he had changed.

"He's so confident now, it's amazing that he's the same kid from the academy. I like him so much, but I don't know if he feels the same." she thought, face turning red from blushing.

Inside the house, it was especially hard for Udon to see or much less breath, but he pressed forward, looking in every room that wasn't already engulfed by flames. When he searched all of the rooms in the lower half, he went to up the stairs to the upper half to continue his search. As he looked around he heard cry coming from one of the bedrooms.

"Hey, is anyone back there?" Udon said looking to see which bedroom the crying was coming from.

"Y-Y-Yes are you here to save me?" the little boy asked in a scared frantic voice.

"Yes just calm down. Are you near the door?" Udon asked not wanting to kick the door down on the kid.

"N-N-O, I'm sitting next to the window. Please hurry mister the flames and smoke are becoming to much for me to handle."

"Good." Udon thought as he proceeded to kick down the down. As the door came crashing down, a huge wall of flames flew out at him. Not wanting to waste time, he jumped through the flames. As he looked in the room, he noticed that his clothes had patches of fire on them. He proceeded to pat the flames off and look around the room for the kid. He found the kid sitting down next to the window, the boy was holding his legs and crying.

"Everything is going to be alright kid, I'm here to save to you" Udon said, reaching his arms out to grab the kid.

The boy, consumed by fear, only moved away from Udon and said "I'm scared, wha- wha- what if there isn't a way out? What if we're stuck in here?"

"Don't worry kid, I guarantee you that we will both get out of here in one piece."

The kid, feeling reassured, reached out and grabbed his hand and they proceeded to leave the house. As they made their way to the stairs, a weakened support beam came crashing down blocking their way and trapping them upstairs.

"Shit!" Udon said. "That was our only exit outta this place"

"What are we gonna do now?" The kid asked franticly.

"Stand back kid, I'm going to have to make a way out or else we're screwed."

Udon then used a hand seal and shouted Wind Style: Wind Pocket Jutsu and a concentrated ball of wind formed in his hand. He then hurled the ball of wind at the fiery obstruction blocking there way. The wind effectively blew out the flames and the support beam that was blocking them.

"Yes!" Udon said celebrating his feat over the obstruction that was blocking them. "Now kid lets get outta here"

As they proceeded down the stairs, the house started collapsing in on itself.

On the outside, Moegi saw that the house wasn't going to hold up much longer.

"I hope Udon makes it out ok." she said worryingly and as that thought passed through her mind the house collapsed.

Moegi gasped, as she feared the worst had happened, and Udon was killed along with the little boy.

"Udon!" she said tears falling down her eyes. She fell to her knees with a hundred things running through her mind. Then suddenly she looked up to see Udon walking away from the rubble with the young boy on his back.

Her tears of sadness changed to tears of happiness as she ran to hug Udon. As she embraced him, Udon with a surprised look on his face said "Woah, now I told you I wouldn't be dying anytime soon"

"I know but you never came out and the house collaped an-" she was cut off by Udon's finger which he put on her lips.

"There is no need to worry anymore. Everything is fine now so dry up your tears. We're shinobi, so there is no need to worry about me." said Udon with a caring smile on his face. This caused Moegi to smile and giggle to herself as she wiped her tears and regain her composure.

"I hope Konohamaru and Ebisu-sensei found the scum responsible for this." said Udon as placed the kid down.

"I hope they did to, but I just have one question. What business would these ninja have with this small village." Moegi said trying to figure out why all this happened.

"I'm not sure, but if I had to make a guess, I would say that it was just a coincidence that they were way out here. I mean, they were rogue ninja, so they might have just came here wanting to rob the village" Udon said. "But enough about that, lets see if we can find a place for the kid"

Just as Udon said that, a frantic woman was running around the village screaming "MY BOY MY BOY! WHERE IS MY BOY?"

Udon saw her, and hollered to get the woman's attention.

"Hey! Is this your kid?"

The woman turned around and saw that her son was ok. She ran up and thanked them for saving the boy.

"Thank You so much for saving my son. Is there anything I can do to repay you?

Udon thought for a second and then asked "What exactly happened here?"

The woman stared at him blankly for a second before telling him what happened. "Well, they just came here demanding all of our goods and money, but we are a poor village, so we politely told them we couldn't do that. Then they just went crazy and slaughtered everybody in the village. Those that hide away in their house were burned out. They set the whole village on fire in an attempt to force them out of their homes, and those that were forced out were killed on the spot. Me and my son were separated through all the panic, so as soon as they left the village, I searched all over for my son. I feared the worst, until I ran in to you two brave people. I once again thank the both of you for helping me find my son."

"Don't mention it" Moegi said, but then another question entered her head. "Where will you guys go now?"

The woman started sobbing before saying "We don't have anywhere to go, our lives were in this village, and now it's all gone. We don't have money or any relatives, as they were killed in the massacre. I honestly don't know where our next meal will come from or where we'll go next."

"There is no need to worry miss, we can take you and your son to our village." Udon said. "I'm pretty sure we can find a place for you to live in Konoha, but we have to wait on our comrade and our sensei to get back."

"Tha-Thank You." the woman said drying her tears.

Just as she said that, three exploding shurikens landed right next to them. Moegi saw this, and ran to push them out of the way before the shuriken detonated.

"BOOM!"

The shuriken exploded sending the group flying. For a second everything went black or Udon. When he finally came to he stood up to just what had happened, and that's when he saw Moegi on the ground bleeding profusely. He ran to her and in a frantic tone said:

"MOEGI! MOEGI! AR-ARE YOU ALRIGHT?"

Moegi in a weak low tone replyed "I'm sor-sor- sorry Udon. I-I thought I could save you but I 'cough cough' ended u-"

Udon interrupted by saying "PLEASE MOEGI DON'T DIE ON ME. PLEASE SAVE YOUR STRENGTH OR-"

Moegi put her finger on Udon lips and said "Ple-Please dont worry about me. We're shinobi right?"

"NO MOEGI. I WAS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT YOU, NOT LET YOU DIE LIKE THIS" Udon said now with tears rolling down his eyes.

She then proceeded to cough up blood, Udon tried his best to stop the bleeding, but her wounds were all fatal and there wasn't much he could do.

Her torso had been damaged beyond repair, and Udon was no medical ninja.

"DAMMIT, THERE ISN'T SHIT I CAN DO. WH- WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?" Udon said sobbingly.

"Be- Because I lo- lov-" but before she could get it out she took her last breath and died right there on the spot.

Udon sat there, with a bewildered look on his face, before screaming in agony.

"NO! WHY DAMMIT! WHY DID THI-" but he was interrupted by a another voice.

"Dammit, I only killed one? I must be getting rusty, I usually can a whole group of people with my exploding shuriken. Oh Well, I guess I'll have to get dirty to finish the job."

Hearing this, Udon rose to his feet eyes red from crying and blood boiling with anger and said in a loud scream "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"