Naruto beamed with pride as he looked around his new apartment building. He had finally convinced the Old Man to let him move out of the orphanage and live on his own. The orphanage hadn't been that bad, but it had been weird. All of the staff always had a strange expression frozen on their faces when they looked at him and seemed to shake a lot. He knew it was him because when he asked the other kids about it they told him that, " Yeah they only did that when you are around." Since the staff was scared of him he decided to ask the Old Man to move out. He felt bad for the adults, nobody should live in constant fear like that.

Naruto opened his fridge and noticed that the Old Man forgot to stock it. He could ask the Old Man to get him food, but he was six years old and was not a kid anymore. Naruto grabbed Gama-chan and headed out to the nearest grocery store. He bounced into the store and said "Hi. Do you have any ram-"

The shop keeper screamed and prostrated himself on the floor before Naruto. "Please don't eat me Uzumaki-sama! I am bony and gamey. My wife and children are much more tender and succulent, eat them instead!"

"I... uh... what? I just wanted some ramen?" Naruto said confused.

"Take it! Take all of it for free! Just spare me your wrath!" the shop keeper begged.

Naruto shrugged and grabbed a crate of instant ramen before heading out. 'That sure was nice of him.' he thought 'Also weird, but nice.'

Since Naruto moved out of the orphanage he began to notice that all of the adults seemed to be terrified of him for some reason. For instance one time he accidentally bumped into an adult and the man turned to look at him to apologize. But when he saw it was Naruto, he turned back around immediately and ran away screaming "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

When he asked the Old Man about what had happened, the Old Man face palmed and said "Don't worry about it Naruto. People are just idiots is all."

But it still bugged Naruto. He had never eaten anybody before so why did everyone think he was going to do it now?! It was so unfair. At least the other children were friendly enough and they thought it was pretty cool that he could make adults do whatever he said. Still Naruto needed to do something about his reputation as a cannibal. One day as he was walking through the market he spotted a orange jump suit and he thought of the perfect plan. If he dressed in warm friendly colors that would put people at ease, right?

"Did you see that the nine-tails change his wardrobe? What do you think he is trying to tell us?"

"Well you know how the brightest colored creatures in nature are the most deadly? He must be trying to warn us that he is not to be trifled with."

"Also now that I think about isn't he is dressing in the same color as his fur."

"Oh god. He must still have his full power and he letting us know he could crush as all at any moment!"

When the Old Man asked if he wanted to join the Ninja Academy Naruto jumped at the chance. The ninja forces of Leaf were meant to defended and protect the Leaf villagers, so maybe that would convince them of his good intentions. However when roll call came on the first day of class Naruto got over excited and yelled out his name, causing the Chunin instructor to let out a scream of fright and pooped his pants. Later that same day he overheard two teachers whispering to each other about him.

"-learning to kill us all!"

"Quiet! He might hear you."

'Aw man.' People thought he was learning to be a ninja so he could eat people. Maybe if he did really badly in classes people would stop worrying?

"Okay nobody can possibly be this bad at being a ninja. I think the Nine-Tails is messing with us."

"But why would he choose to do badly? He should be showing us that we mortals do not hold a candle to his might or something along those lines?"

"Maybe he is saying that he does not need our pathetic ninja techniques to destroy us. He has all the skill and power he needs to do that already."

"Oh god."

Naruto fumed. His plan to do practical jokes backfired spectacularly. He saw some kids do it earlier during the academy year and it made everybody laugh. While the teacher scolded and punished the culprit, you could tell that they were amused as well. So he thought, 'Hey it worked for them it should work for me.', like an idiot. If anything people were more terrified of him than ever. One of the teachers started to openly cry whenever he saw Naruto and the villagers now made sure to leave ten feet of space between him and them.

He just didn't understand what he did wrong.

"Somebody must have offended the Nine-Tails! Who was foolish enough to provoke it!? Everybody knows that kitsune play tricks on people who wrong them!"

"I say we find the asshole that did it and beat that fucker to death!"

"Yeah!"

After failing to get the Old Man to tell him why everybody thought he was a murderous cannibal again, Naruto decided it was time to hatch a new scheme. Everybody liked and respected the Old Man, so if he modeled himself after him they should like him to. Step one was to let everyone know that he was planning on becoming the Hokage. This had to work! It had to!

"Did you hear?! The Nine-Tails wishes to rule us all with a iron fist."

"Well I for one welcome our new fox overlord."

My name is Naruto Uzumaki. My hobbies include proving I am not murderous cannibal, I dislike people who think I am murderous cannibal, I like people who don't think I am murderous cannibal, and my dream is to one day prove that I am not a murderous cannibal.

AN: I always thought it was weird that the villagers would go out of their way to provoke a demon that could maybe one day kill them all. I think this is a far more likely scenario.