The winter's chilling air settles across Konoha, A battle truly defying death now gruelingly over. The Hokage had made a terrible sacrifice and now the demon that once threatened all life in the forested village lay at rest. His last words called to the Third, asking that to demon be sealed into a young body, a newborn baby. An uneasy stare came from a blank eyed man standing not far away. This news troubled his already uneasy heart.

Not long after, the ceremony began to take place. A young newborn child with eyes as blue as a clear noon sky was chosen as the jailor to the beast. The blank eyed man stared with rage and hatred as the sealing commenced. His hands gripped tighter as the time lingered on. The baby's ceaseless crying felt as though a drill was placed through his temple. What hours seemed to pass as the seal soon came to a close. The baby was returned to the arms of the father, whom only looked at the child's face, not her eyes. The child sensed his displeasure and sunk her head and hid her eyes from his gaze.

Returning home, the man was greeted by a young women. Her hair long, so long in fact that she must tie the last foot back up with a ribbon to prevent it from dragging across the floor. The woman took the baby from the stern hands of the father and held the baby close to her face. The baby's joy filled the hollow halls and her laughter echoed through. The man uneasily stepped through the halls and readied for the nights meeting. The woman barely knew what this would be about.

"We must make a choice. We can not allow this...this thing to bare the Hyuuga name."

"What are we to do? Simply kill the baby? Then have the entire village think we are some type of child murderers?"

"Enough!" Hiashi entered the room with an angered yell. "I have thought this long and through, I will not have an heiress with such a being inside her. We hide all records of her birth and deny it at all costs. If anyone allows her existence to slip out, they will face the highest punishment."

"A-Are you sure, Lord Hiashi? Isn't this a little rash?"

"She will be fine. I'll have Hizumi make sure"

With simple nods of the head from each individual, the meeting was adjourned. The fate of a simple baby, sealed.

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6 Years pass...

"Hey! Can't catch me? Come on?! You're the village's elite guards!? You're gonna let a snot nosed brat like me get away with that?"

"Get 'em!" The black robbed men chased the eccentric blonde across the town, the group took him on all sides.

"No way you can escape now kid!" The men closed in and leapt to grab him.

The blonde boy placed his hands into a hand sign. "Mini-Clone Jutsu!" The orange clad boy popped into a hundred smaller versions before the men could grab him. Each spread apart into several deep reserves of in the town. The ANBU men just sighed and looked at each other.

"Failed again. Well, thankfully it's only chalk. He can wash it off when the Hokage has a word with him."

Mean while, the boy was having fun being chased. So he decided to get more people after him. Nearing the famous Hyuuga compound, he spotted the gate guards. He got a big smile and dropped his drawers, slapping his butt tauntingly to provoke the guards.

"Hey you lifeless drones, come get me! You gonna let me get away with this?!" Naruto quickly zipped up his pants and jumped away.

The guards quickly gave chase, having much better speed then the ANBU that had been in pursuit earlier.

Naruto jumped from branch to branch and even into Hyuuga grounds to evade many of the attempts of capture and the objects thrown. Eventually, he came to a corner of the grounds and found a cliff that prevented a quick leap to safety.

"Uh-oh, gotta think of something!" Naruto quickly used the Mini-Clone Jutsu and burst into smaller pieces. The Hyuuga guards took no time in attacking each clone. The real Naruto quickly managed to sneak away unnoticed into a near by cabin. After destroying each clone the guards headed back to their posts, assuming he made a hasty retreat. Naruto grew back to original size and let out a sigh of relief.

"Whoo, man, last time I do that again!"

A small scared gasp from the corner of the room grabbed Naruto's attention. A chill went through Naruto's spine as he forced his head to slowly turn towards the sound that came from behind. When he locked eyes with a shivering object in the corner, he let out a shriek of horror, causing the same panic to the object. Screams of terror were shared for a small moment until both calmed down and opened their eyes once more. Naruto looked closer at the object; he noticed rags, arms and legs, even eyes, blank, deep, blue eyes.

"Y-Y-You're...a person...aren't you?"

"Mm-mm." The voice was cracked and still scared.

"What are you doing here? You look like you've been locked up for ages!"

The youth turned away from the boy, fearing to tell her story.

"Why are you here? And dressed in rags? Are...Are you hiding from somebody?"

The girl just whimpered as memories passed through her head, still too scared to even reply.

"Come on, say something. Can I at least have a name?"

The girl looked back, seeing the puppy dog eyes of the boy touched her heart, and it warmed her in the cold weather. "H-H...Hinata...Hy-" She stopped herself, remembering the final words of the one who locked her in this abandoned old shack "If you tell anyone you are a Hyuuga, I'll have you locked in here forever!" "Hinata, just...Hinata"

"Hinata..." The boy thought about the name for a second. "Sounds cute, it fits you. I'm Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki. And I'm gonna be Hokage one day...and a prankster on the side." He smiled at his comment.

"Y-You shouldn't be here. I-If you are found here, they'll kill you...and...and me..."

"Whoa, come on! No one's that nasty, why would they want to do that?"

"I'm...I'm...not welcome here..." It was all she could muster.

"Hmm, you sound hungry. Think I can get you some food?" Naruto stood up and began carving a symbol into a plank of wood on the wall.

"Wait! What are you doing!"

"Relax, its part of a jutsu. It lets me go back and forth without notice. Its how I get around town and escape the ANBU easily." Naruto finished the seal and looked at the girl with a face only a hero would use. "I hope ramen is ok." With a puff of smoke, Naruto disappeared.

Minutes passed. The girl merely stared at the spot the boy was once standing in, amazed at his abilities for a youth her own age. In an instant of a blink, Naruto returned with two bowls off pork ramen, two pairs of chopsticks, and some napkins.

"Come on eat up, I'm sure the smell will give me away soon." Naruto politely started to eat his ramen, and prompted the blue haired girl to have hers.

Several feelings rushed through her: the feeling of being accepted, of being known, afraid of what might happen if this was found out. Why this boy felt so compelled to have her feel like everyone else. The smell of the ramen was distracting her train of thought; she soon felt a feral urge to gorge herself.

She practically fell face first into the bowl as she slurped it without another breath. She lifted her head out of the bowl to see the shocked face of the young Naruto, his upper lip twitching with his eye.

"Um...sorry, I-I haven't had much to eat..."

"Whoa, I was trying to be polite, but looks like you're a regular Joe yourself. Hey, I'll take the bowl and I'll stop by again. And keep smiling, you'll ruin that pretty face of yours." Naruto grabbed all the items he brought and disappeared via his seal.

Hinata merely sighed, having her moment of happiness just leave. She sat in her corner with new outlook on the world outside her confined hut. A glimpse of only what was to come...

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forgive my earlier upload, I had loaded the wrong document (The beta version) and did not relize it. Here is the actual version, I will make sure to check my documents more thoroughly before aploading next time.