Disclaimer: I own nothing except OCs. I wanna cry…

'Kuso... I need to get out of here...' a ninja cursed inwardly. The ninja had on dark clothing, a vest reserved for Chuunin-ranked ninjas and a headband with a slashed leaf symbol on it. Strapped on his back was a child with blonde hair, blue eyes, and whisker marks on his face. 'It shouldn't be too long before hunter nin catch up...'

The ninja performed a handseal before a copy of him appeared and they both split off in different directions.

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A fire was lit deep inside a cave as the missing nin poked at it.

"Honestly..." the ninja grumbled. "You'd think stealing a jinchuuriki everyone hates for a little bit of money would be easier..."

An old man with white and red robes, the Hokage or leader of the village, stood before the ninja inside a flashback.

"I want you to look after him for a while," the Hokage said. "Given the reactions the village had, I need to make sure no harm comes to this child."

"Of course, Hokage-sama," the ninja responded. "But if I may ask, why not use ANBU?"

"They are currently assessing the damage of the village," the Hokage answered.

Of course, the ninja had still found ANBU on watch outside the room and building shortly after trying to make an escape with the kid.

"Thank Kami the kid's asleep..." the ninja sighed as he sat back against the cavern wall to get comfortable. Unfortunately, such words always tempt fate to fix such errors.

To make matters worse, the child was much louder than expected.

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The sleep-deprived ninja moved on for days, so thankful that his skills lied in stealth even if he was mediocre in everything else. The child he could barely tolerate and his funds died as he paid strippers for a different purpose than their jobs indicated as he would rather use them for himself since the baby needed milk somehow. Cursing his luck, he continued on until he finally made it out of Fire Country. The ninja moved on to find a place to settle down in Earth Country until he could get his ransom money. After all, a jinchuuriki was a jinchuuriki. A jinchuuriki was a weapon any village would want, especially one like the Leaf that no longer had one. Thus, negotiations began once the missing nin went deeper into Earth Country.

"Freakin' kid doesn't know how to stop crying!" the ninja yelled in frustration. "Stripper said he wasn't hungry! Medic nin said he wasn't sick! His diaper's cleaner than my floors!"

The ninja glared at his dirt floors. "Not the best comparison, but I don't care!"

A figure suddenly appeared behind him and sliced his head off. The figure had a mask and a leaf symbol on him.

"ROOT member reporting to Danzo. Target one: Down. Target two is in sight," the ROOT member spoke into a microphone in his mask.

"Bring it in," came the order. "We cannot allow Leaf's weapon in the enemy's hands."

The ROOT member picked up the blonde target and left, leaving behind the beheaded body and two dead bodies of a deceased stripper and a deceased medic nin while two other ROOT members "cleaned up" the mess.

As such negotiations go...

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Things did not proceed smoothly as a house made out of dirt in flames would attract a lot of attention. The ROOT members were killed and ninjas with a rock symbol on their masks took the blonde child with them to their village.

This prologue and the first two chapters (the two after this) are all pre-written. I figured there weren't enough fanfics with Naruto raised in Iwa.