There was a loud ringing filling the room and the blonde haired male had no idea what it was. All he wanted was sleep and this thing was loud and annoying. He even went as far to cover his head with his own pillow. It drowned out the noise enough for him to slowly start falling back asleep. That was until he felt his ankles being grabbed and him being tossed out of the bed.

"Naruto! This is no time to be sleeping!" A white haired old man was laughing like a maniac. He had lifted the blonde haired, young man out of bed and was holding him upside down. How did he even have the strength? Naruto had no idea.

"Would you let me down? I get it and I'm up!" Naruto screamed at him, but this only cause for him to be dropped on his head. He groaned and rubbed his head in pain. He hated this part of the morning, lucky this old man knew how to make great pancakes every morning, which he could smell very clearly now. He was up off the floor and out the door faster than a bullet.

"AT LEAST TURN OFF YOUR ALARM!" Jiraiya screamed after Naruto once he left. Jiraiya could only sigh and turn it off himself. He couldn't help but look around the young boy's room. They were back where it all started for him, and it didn't seem to be bothering him physically. It was more than likely destroying him emotionally, but it was all a guess for the older man. This was the room he grew up in and also started everything. Jiraiya shook his head and walked out of the room heading to the kitchen.

By the time he got to the kitchen he saw Naruto stuffing his face with multiple pancakes and orange juice. Once Jiraiya got his own coffee and pancakes Naruto was already up and running back to his room. It was the first day of school and he was already running a bit late to meet the principal. "I'M OFF OLD MAN!" Naruto had jumped down from the last few steps on the stairs and was out of the door in a flash.

The school wasn't that far away from his house, and he was a pretty fast runner. He couldn't help but sigh as he felt the wind in his hair while he ran. It was already a pretty windy day, but there was not one cloud in the sky. The perfect weather in his opinion. He was tempted to just skip school, but he wasn't going to be like that anymore. He use to just skip school with his friend Gaara and see what trouble they could get into. Usually, by the end of the day they were being chased by either the police or other angry people. They had quite a record with the police department in their old town, but this was supposed to be a new beginning for all of them.

Naruto stopped in his tracks when he passed a little girl. She was crying against a tree and he wanted more than anything to get to school, but he couldn't leave this little girl crying. It was probably one of his weakness. He decided to walk over and bent down to her and smiled. "Hey, what's wrong? Why are you crying so much?"

The little girls sniffed as the tears continue rolling down her face. "M-My cat ran up the tree!" She was pointing up to a higher branch in the tree, and sure enough there was a brown cat chilling on the branch.

Naruto actually felt his whole body twitch looking up at the cat. It didn't look like it was going to come down without a fight, but he was already pretty good with fighting. So, how bad could this be?

He jumped up grabbing the first branch and pulled himself up. He kept climbing up the tree without any problem what so ever. When he finally got to the cat it had jumped up from his position and was hissing at him. He couldn't help let out a sigh at the reaction.

Cats pretty much despised him for some reason.

He was reaching out for the cat and it jumped at him. Well…at least he had the cat in his arms. "F-uuuuudge…" He was trying to hold himself back from swearing since there was a little kid just below him.

The cat was obviously not that happy about what was happening and his claws were dug into his arms pretty deeply. He was almost certain that the cat knew what he was doing, because he was even dragging his claws across his skin.

In other words this cat was a little bitch and he was in pain from this little bitch.

Wanting this to end pretty quickly he jumped down from the tree. This little girl actually screamed when she saw him jumping out from the tree, which was pretty normal. No person in their right might would actually jump from a tree to the ground, but this is Naruto. After years and years of getting in fights and always training his body to be. It was best we could say he wasn't very fragile.

Naruto landed on the ground crouching and the cat was scared shitless at what just happened. The girl saw that the random man was alright and ran over grabbing her cat. "Don't ever run away from me!" She was holding up her cat before hugging it tightly. "Thank you!" The girl smiled before running away.

Naruto couldn't stop the grin from taking over his face. It felt great to help someone, even though his arm was all scratched up and bleeding. He pulled out some bandages from his pocket and was slowly wrapping his arm up while walking the rest of the way to school. He already knew he was late, so there wasn't a problem with taking his time. The old lady was just going to have to get over the fact.

Naruto finally stepped into the office area where he saw Shizune sitting behind the desk. It's been a long time since he actually saw her and couldn't help his grin. "Shizune! Long time no see." He was waving at her while he was heading straight for the principal's office.

The young lady's eyes widen while looking at him. "N-Naruto? What are you doing? You were supposed to be here twenty minutes ago!" She had shot out of her chair following the young teen.

Naruto just waved her off while opening the door to the office. "Old Lady I'm here!" He didn't even get in all the way before he was face first in a wall.

"Naruto, what the hell! You can't just show up this late for school!" Tsunade was completely pissed off at the boy. Jiraiya and her had promised that they would take care of the teenager after some issues happened. We won't get into that for right now. There were a lot of conditions, but one of them was that he was supposed to show up to school, on time.

Naruto groaned and moved up from the floor. He was using the wall to support him while rubbing his cheek. "What the hell was that for? I just got sidetracked helping a little girl with her cat! Of course I'm going to be late!"

"Why didn't you say that in the beginning?" Tsunade took his collar getting close to him. As if getting to the point in the first place was actually going to help him in this situation.

An older male popped out of nowhere suddenly. He had spiky silver hair and a mask was covering his face. It was weird, in Naruto's opinion. "I'm Kakashi, by the way. I'll be your homeroom teacher."

Tsunade sighed and finally let Naruto go. "You are already late to class, so you should probably get going. The students are probably getting impatient anyways." She turned around heading back into her office and slammed her door shut.

Kakashi didn't even give him time to talk with him for even a second. He was already out the doors and going down the hall. He had to run to catch up with him. The silence finally gave him time to really think about being in this town.

This town that held so many of his friends. This town that held so many horrible memories of his downfall. He didn't care if they liked or hated him anymore. He had put almost everyone from his past behind him. He was different than how he used to be, especially from when he left.

He closed his eyes while they walked thinking.

He regretted everything he had done those last few months. Breaking away from his group and started beating them up every time they would talk to him. He just wanted to be alone at that time, but they wouldn't let him stay alone. They were always trying to push themselves closer, but there was a guy who told him that if he wanted to break away fully. He would have to do something that would cause them to hate him.

Sakura cared about Sasuke, so he beat the shit out of him…with a shovel. He didn't hit him over the head or anything. He could never do that to his best friend, but he did give him a few broken bones. Sakura in return turned on him and yelled at him while punching him. He didn't do anything to stop her though. He felt that he deserved that.

Ino cared about Sai, so he tore up everything single drawing that he had ever worked on. Sai always wanted to be a painter, and he could easily make new paintings and everything. Right? Wrong for that moment. His family was flat broke and what he got for supplies was what he worked for over a year. He broke everything he had for his painting. Crushing it and making it unusable. Sai was broken and Ino was extremely pissed off at him too. So, he let her beat him up too.

Lee was pretty easy considering he took the same shovel and broke his legs. Tenten didn't have much, but she was already turning on him pretty easily, but so did everyone else in the group. There was only one who wouldn't turn his back and insisted he could help. Neji Hyuuga.

So, what did he do? He went after his cousin that he seemed to be so overly protected off. He has never seen her before though, and only her initials. Not so much as a photo of her and yet he still had the guts to go after her. He regretted that night the most probably. All he did was believe that he couldn't go down this path, but he did. He broke so many of his friends, and he would do anything to fix that.

"Naruto…"

That was right before he turned ten years old. No, he didn't plan this all by himself. He had the help of two very special people. Yahiko and Obito. They had driven him over the edge when he finally thought he was getting over everything. Eventually after everything that had happened Jiraiya thought it was best to move and get away. Hoping that this would be better for the young boy.

Naruto...!"

There he met three people that changed his life, and eventually he forgot everything about Yahiko and Obito. That was until a year ago.

"Naruto!" Kakashi yelled at him while snapping his fingers in front of him. "You ready yet?"

Naruto's eyes were wide looking at his new homeroom teacher. Was he that deep in thought that he didn't notice? "O-Oh… Yeah I am!" He put his smile back on his face.

Kakashi nodded and walked into the classroom. Naruto quickly followed after him. Kakashi leaned against his table and sighed. "Yes. I know I'm late, but I have someone new for us."

Naruto looked out at everyone and instantly recognized some of the faces. Of course it would be his luck being in the same class as some of the people he was closest too. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki!" He stated proudly even though he really had no idea how to react.

There was dead silence at his words. Some of the people had heard rumors from the others schools about the male, but the other half were his old friends. The ones that he destroyed their bonds together, but that didn't matter.

It wasn't supposed to matter.

Why was he suddenly feeling sick?

Why did he feel like running back home and hiding in his room?

"Naruto!" He heard someone call his name, but didn't actually get a good look before his face collided with the board.

Why is this the same strength as the Old Lady? He groaned and looked over to the girl who was standing in front of him. Pink hair, so it was Sakura. No wonder she had hit him, but what came next was something that completely shocked him.

"We are sorry…" She had bent down and actually hugged him.

He just sat on the ground in shock. Sorry? Sorry? Shouldn't I be the one saying that?