The sun had already begun to set as Kakashi was on his way home after having dinner with some of his fellow jounins. His head was dug deep down into his beloved book; Icha Icha Paradise. He was almost home when he heard a noise coming from a nearby ally way. Curious, he decided to go see what the commotion was about, but when he reached the destination, the sight he saw was horrific. He saw about thirty men of a large build, beating up a kid, no older then seven.
Enraged by this, he quickly popped his book into his pocket and ran over to the scene. Once there, he started to throw the men off of the boy, knocking them unconscious. When they were all out, he picked up the boy gently and took him home to his apartment.
Once there, he laid the boy down on the bed in the guest room. He quickly went to get some water and a sponge, bringing them back to the room which the boy was in. He took the sponge, soaked it in water and started to clean the face of the boy. Then he took off the kid's shirt to examine the wounds, but what he saw horrified him, it was much worse then he thought. There were large blur bruises, patches of raw flesh and deep gashes everywhere.
He took the sponge, rinsed it and began to clean the wounds, Everytime he re-rinsed the sponge, the water turned a darker red.
When he was done, he left to get some bandages and when he returned, he dropped them in shock as he saw that nearly all of the wounds were healed, steam rising from them. He picked up the bandages from the floor and decided to wrap the injuries just in case. When done, he brought out a t-shirt and dressed the boy in it, so that it looked like he was wearing a large male nightdress.
The next morning…
When Kakashi had woken up and got dressed, he went to go check up on his guest. When he entered, he found him still sleeping, however, when he sat down on a nearby chair, the boy woke up.
He looked around, taking in the new surroundings, before noticing a man, with a mask covering the lower half of his face, sitting on a chair, looking at him. At first he was scared, but then he noticed that there was no killing intent directed towards him and that the strange man seemed calm, so he relaxed.
"Did you sleep well?" The strange man asked casually. The boy only nodded in response. "Are you hungry?" The man questioned as he stood up. Again, the boy nodded, at this the strange man left through the door.
Minutes later the man came back, holding a tray with a bowl full of cereal on it. He then placed it in front of the boy before saying, "Enjoy."
When the boy was about half way through his meal, the man said, "By the way, my name is Hatake Kakashi, and I'm a friend so you have no need to worry… oh and before I forget, what's your name?"
The boy looked a little hesitant before he mumbled, "Uzumaki Naruto."
"… How old are?"
"Seven." When Kakashi heard this he was enraged. How could anyone hurt a boy of that age… He can't even protect himself from one man, let alone thirty…
One week later…
Naruto had settled in a bit at Kakashi's house, some colour had returned to his cheeks and his eyes seemed more bright. So Kakashi decided to go and talk to the Hokage.
When he reached the door leading to the Hokage's office, he knocked, entering after hearing a 'hn' from the Hokage, which signaled for him to come in.
When the Hokage looked up, he smiled before saying, "What brings you here Kakashi?"
"Sarutobi,, just over a week ago, whilst I was on my way home, I found a boy of seven being beaten by a large crowd of men. He was defenceless and they would have killed him if they had got the chance." When he had finished, the 3rd looked sad.
"Tell me, is the boys name, by any chance, Uzumaki Naruto?" Kakashi nodded. "Well I'm sad to say that this isn't the first time which this has happened."
"Why's that?"
"Don't you know who the boy is. He's the child which contains the nine-tailed fox, Kyuubi. All of the civilians fear and hate him for that. They think he is the demon and therefore they want him dead."
"But he's just a helpless little boy and besides, he only contains the demon, he isn't actually one himself."
"I know, but no-one else realises that."
"Then, would you mind if I take him in, so that he'll be living with me and he'll have my protection."
"If this is what you want, then by al means, take him in. But be warned, once everyone else finds out, they'll also be treating you differently."
"Well if that is the case, then may I suggest changing his name to Hatake Naruto. I won't adopt him or anything, but he shall have the name of my clan and be living as they would."
"Very well. "
"Good." And with that, Kakashi left.
Five years later…
Naruto was now twelve years old and he was soon to take part in the final genin exam. His teacher was a man with the name of Umino Iruka. There were twenty-six other students in his class.
He was in one of his lessons. Everyone, apart from a few people, were chatting rather loudly and Iruka-sensei's face was turning bright red from shouting at everyone to be quiet and pay attention in his lessons.
"Everyone SHUT UP!" As soon as Iruka shouted this, everyone immediately turned to him, sitting straight and no sound coming from any of their mouths.
"Good… now we can carry on. Remember, everything that I'm teaching you is vital for your upcoming exams if you are to pass. So listen to what I am telling you." When Iruka finished this, he turned his back to them and started writing on the board.
When the day's lessons had finished, the first ones to leave were Naruto and a fellow classmate who went by the name of Uchiha Sasuke. He wore a blue turtle-neck t shirt, which had the Uchiha clan symbol on the back; a red fan, and he had a white pair of shorts on.
Naruto wore an orange t-shirt, indigo trousers which had many pockets on, a black jacket which always remained unzipped and he had a mask which covered the bottom half of his face, which was almost identical to the one that Kakashi wore, except that it was smaller.
The two of them always hung out together, actually, they were almost always both in hiding from their fan clubs. They both had equally sized groups of girls who were always running after them and asking for dates and the sort. Neither of them enjoyed this, but they found that they couldn't do anything to prevent it except hide.
Every time that they left a room, they would be followed by those damn girls.
At the moment, the two of them were on top of the roof tops, somewhere far away from the academy.
"Just think, next week when we get put into our genin teams, we won't have to deal with these damn fan clubs anymore." Naruto said casually.
"Unless we're put into groups with two of them then it'll get even worse."
"Yeah, they'll want to spend even more time with us, saying that we should since we're a team and stuff like that."
"Hn."
Later that evening, Naruto headed home, careful of passing fan girls. But he managed to get home unnoticed. He went into his room and lay on the bed out of exhaustion, soon falling asleep.
One week later…
"Congratulations everyone, you all passed!" Iruka shouted, but out of happiness for once. "I will now be calling out the groups…" As he was calling out the groups, both Naruto and Sasuke had their eyes closed, hoping for a half decent team. "… Team seven will consist of; Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno… and Hatake Naruto." At this, the pink haired kunoichi, known as Sakura, jumped up in joy as she had been put in the same group as the two most popular boys in their year.
Neither Naruto nor Sasuke reacted to this as they were both happy that they were in the same team, but annoyed at having a member who was one of the, if not the most, obsessive girl in their class.
"Your senseis will soon arrive to get you, so wait here patiently until then."
One by one, teams were leaving with their senseis, until there was only one team left; team seven. Nearly two hours had passed and still no sensei came to get them.
Out of shear boredom, Naruto decided to set up a prank for the oncoming sensei. He went over to the door, opened it slightly and placed an over used chalk board eraser on top of the door frame, so that it would land on the head of the first person to come into the room.
They waited another hour before they heard some footsteps heading towards the door. As soon as the door opened, the eraser landed straight onto the guys head with a small cloud of chalk dust.
"Kakashi… You're our sensei?" Naruto blurted out.
"If you're team seven, then it would appear so…. We'll be meeting up on the roof in ten minutes so that we can all get acquainted." With that, Kakashi was gone in a poof.
Up on the roof…
Everyone was present, Naruto and Sasuke sat on the step next to each other and Sakura sat on the floor so that she was between the two. Kakashi was sitting on the raised edge of the wall.
"Why don't we all introduce ourselves and say something about ourselves." Kakashi suggested.
"What do you mean Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked cheerfully.
"I mean like your name, likes and dislikes, hobbies and dreams and that sort."
"Ok then, why don't you start, seeing as you're our sensei."
"Oh… ok… My name in Hatake Kakashi, you don't need to know my likes or dislikes, I have many hobbies and my dream is well… 'my' dream, so none of you need to know." Everyone sweatdropped at this, as they hadn't really learnt anything about it. "Why don't you go next?" Kakashi said, pointing at the pink haired kunoichi.
"Well… my name is Haruno Sakura… my dislikes are… hehehe" she looked up at both of her teammates." My dislikes are people like Ino-pig, my hobbies are… hehehe," again, she looked up at her two teammates, "and my dream is to show that I'm more then just a pretty face and… hehehe… "she giggled whilst looking up at her two teammates, for the third time. A fangirl? This couldn't get any worse… She cares more about love then becoming a ninja… Kakashi thought to himself. He then pointed at Sasuke.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke, I have many dislikes and not so many likes. I have few hobbies and I don't have a dream as it is more of an ambition, I want to restore my clan and kill… a certain someone." This one could be trouble… Kakashi thought before pointing at Naruto.
"I already know about you, and I'm sure that these two also do, so there is no need for you to tell us about yourself… Alright, you'll all be taking a test tomorrow to see if you are ready to become a genin team. So meat at training ground eleven at eight and I would suggest that none of you have breakfast tomorrow morning, unless you like throwing up." He was then gone in a poof.
"Hn… knowing him, he'll be late tomorrow, so there isn't really any risk of eating breakfast tomorrow morning." Naruto commented.
"Hn." Was his reply from Sasuke.