Konohagakure no sato one of the five great ninja villages. A prosperous village full of life and for a dictatorship quite easygoing. It is surrounded by dense forests said to be created by Shodime Hokage, Senju Hashirama. It had always a warm climate except on rainy and winter season. It was one of the best place to stay without the worry of life threatening dangers.

Today in the village a festival is organized like every year to celebrate the victory of Konoha over Kyuubi, but like every year I'll be hunted down. Hello everybody! My name is Uzumaki Naruto and I'm 7 years old. I don't know why every year since I can remember people mistreat and harass me except a few like my ANBU guards: Dog, Cat, Crow and Dragon. My legal guardian Sarutobi Hiruzen, my teacher: Monkey King Enma and Ichiraku's. In all my years of misery I had to grow up fast. I'm quite intelligent, enjoy gathering information necessary for my survival when I'm not acting as an idiot, but no matter what I do there are 3 things I'm still not able to cut aside. First my verbal tick: Dattebayo, second: My temper and third: My over forgiving nature.

Children start learning to be a ninja when they enter the academy but I can't believe how delusional they are about the profession. If I could, I would prefer to be a normal civilian rather than be a trained killer but that is not an option for me so a trained killer it is. I learned about the energy required to be a ninja by Enma-sensei and learned how to harness it by a girl 2 years younger than me whom I saved from some bullies. Before she could tell me her name she was taken away by her guardians saying to not associate with me saying I was dangerous but as my second teacher I'll always remember her. After that over the years I learned many things. The Uchiha matriarch Uchiha Mikoto taught me Henge, Bushin and Replacement technique and its uses to protect myself yet I'm unable to produce a proper bushin. The Ackimichi clan head taught me about balanced diet and gave me an all you can eat pass at their family owned restaurant valid till the day I become a genin. The Yamanaka clan head and his wife taught me about plant life and told me to find out a way to release my stress and frustration, hence born was a prankster. The Nara clan head one day saw me getting caught after one of my pranks and after a few days gave me a book on strategies from basic to advanced battlefield tactics. When I asked him why was he helping me, he just said it was too troublesome to explain and went away. The Inuzuka's drove me mad. After they caught me after my prank on their compound, they made me clean their dog kennels for half a year and during that time the head of the clan after learning of my more than average senses. So she taught me how to further enhance them using chakra. The Aburame's were in a word just creepy not because they had a symbiotic relationship with bugs, the answer was NO. They were creepy because they showed no emotions and did everything according to logic. From the clan I didn't get any knowledge but a person to talk to and his name was Aburame Shino and for the first time in history somebody's parents actually forced their child to spend time with me since according to their logic the boy could loosen up with me around and I could think before I act with him around. I don't know why these important figures were trying to help me but one thing they all had in common was they had looks of guilt and sadness when they saw me but nonetheless I can become a ninja in less time thanks to what they taught me.

As Naruto was remembering and giving his thanks to everyone that has helped him while sitting in his hiding spot, a voice suddenly broke his trance like state.

"Hello demon brat! Ready to have some fun?" said a man wearing a flank jacket with a group of chunins in tow.

"Just leave me alone. I haven't done anything to anyone except for harmless pranks. Please don't torture me, again", pleaded Naruto while he was looking horrified since he knew he can't escape from a group of chunins. He had tried before and learn't that he didn't got caught after his pranks because they didn't even tried to catch him.

"Just don't spoil the fun brat. How could the festival be complete without fulfilling the tradition of fox hunt where you become the fox? So let's start the fun", said the man.

Naruto ran, he ran like there is no tomorrow if he stopped. The group of chunin pursued him, threw weapons at him and the people who saw Naruto threw objects at him. He was bruised, cut and bleeding. His nose was broken thanks to a woman who threw a pan at his face, all of his bones were hurting and he was plain exhausted. His guards or jiji still haven't came to save him. He then readied himself for torture or death but he wished for instant death, at least it would be painless. They caught him and took him to a place named forest of death. There they stripped him naked and crucified him to the trunk of a large tree. Two kunai to his palms with his arms wide apart and his legs hanging.

"SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!" shouted Naruto in a desperate attempt to get some help.

Somewhere in a tower situated in the forest of death, a purple haired kunoichi who had just came in wasted by drinking her ass off and stomach full of dango heard the call of help but discarded it thinking it was her mind shouting just please help me and have a good night sleep. So she went to sleep.

A chunin started laughing seeing Naruto in vain and said- "Oh great kyuubi how can you be such an idiot? We know all about how the Hokage favor you and your gaurds care about you. Since the Hokage is meeting with the dignitaries and your guards are sent on a mission requested by us, you are in the first time in your life unprotected. Okay guys who wants to play dart?"

"No, no, no, no please just don't hurt me anymo...AAAAAAAHHHHHHH", just as Naruto was going to finish his sentence a chunin threw a rusted rod at his knee joint. Then another two threw rods at his other joints. They impaled all of his joints with rods, senbons or anything they could find while Naruto just screamed more and more in agony.

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Somewhere in the forest of death. "Just which idiot had thought it would be a good idea to train in the forest of death during the festival and got into trouble. Wait no one trains today except for ANBU and Gai. No one will enter the forest today for survival training just to be exhausted during the festival. Shit somebody has got Uzumaki and is torturing him in the forest. I've got to hurry ", thought Anko.

SUMMONING JUTSU

Two large cobras appeared out of thin air. Both of them were huge and looked like each of them could swallow an entire house.

"Hurry up! One of you go to Konoha and inform the Hokage or Anbu that Uzumaki is somewhere being tortured in the forest of death and the other come with me and help me locate the boy", said Anko.

"But miss Anko, we don't know the scent of this Uzumaki you say of. How can we even track him?", asked one of the summons.

"It doesn't matter just track the scent of the most fresh human blood in the forest spilled in a large quantity and hurry up we don't have time to spare", said Anko.

"Hai miss Anko", replied the snakes. One of them went towards Konoha and the other one started to search for Naruto with Anko standing on his head.

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The festival was finally over and all to remind of the festival was a large amount of closed stalls and groups of drunken people who were still drinking and dancing in celebration. Sarutobi was looking out of his office window with a smile. He was happy to see that the village was happy, celebrated, got extra income and on top of it no news about Naruto getting hurt came to him. He was thinking that finally the villagers were realizing that Naruto was not the Kyuubi but his thoughts were interrupted when he saw a humongous cobra coming towards his office and he knew something was wrong.

"Tell me what important news Anko wants delivered?", ordered Hiruzen.

"Lady Anko said some Uzumaki was being held in the forest of death and needed help to locate and rescue him", as each word the cobra spoke Hiruzen grew angrier and angrier and when the snake stopped a KI so powerful was unleashed in the village that it alerted everyone. In over 30 years every ninja knew one thing SARUTOBI HIRUZEN was pissed off.

"ANBU put the village on lockdown, inform every shinobi with high battle prowess to meet me at the entrance of forest of death and in full battle gear. Today there is going to be a carnage, I can feel it. Now go", shouted Hiruzen.

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(Forest of death)

Anko was disgusted. No what she was seeing could not be described in words how terribly disgusting it was. A boy just 7 years old was crucified naked, tortured and broken. The group of chunin were celebrating and congratulating each other how they had cleverly cut the boy away from the Hokage, his gaurds and did what was important. So she stealthily reached Naruto who looked at her with eyes void of any emotion but fear.

"Don't worry kid, I'm here to save you and sorry to be so late. Let me just take care of these idiots first and then we can get you to a safe place. By the way I'm Mitarashi Anko, what's your name?", asked Anko.

He was terrified. Is she trying to get my trust and betray me, like others? Is she even real or am I hallucinating? All these questions were troubling Naruto but to survive he decided to answer."My name is Uzumaki Naru..

"So the snake-bitch is trying to help the demon-brat. Today is truly a good day, we should kill both the monster and the whore. What do you say guys?" asked the leader and everyone agreed. So began a battle that would change Naruto forever.