"Get back here, you dirty little fox," a drunken villager demanded as he ran after a blonde haired boy. The blonde was running for his life, it would seem. He was terrified and that's what kept him from stopping. It wasn't unusual for him to run for his life. It was all that he had ever remembered besides being alone. He'd cry every night because of that fact. No one would ever want to be near him, and all they would do was glare at him like he did something wrong. The thing was, that he never knew that he did anything against him. Even the kids at the park would discard him like he was a piece of trash, and he was sick of it all really. The only one who actually acknowledged him was the Hokage, but he was always too busy to do anything to help him. He had no one else besides him to go to, but he knew not to burden the old man with his problems because they weren't fixable. No matter what he does, no one would want him anyways. That's why he was always alone. Then the adults would always tell their children to stay away from him also. He had no idea why that would happen.

"Get back here, brat," the blonde turned to see that there wasn't just the drunk there anymore, but there were five of them now. He wanted to take a rest, but he knew that he'd have to out chase them first to be able to do that in the first place. His legs were tired from all that running, and he felt like it would never end. He felt his eyes tear up as harsh reality hit him again that he was alone and that no one would help him. No one ever does.

All of the sudden, he felt himself being lifted off of the ground. He started squirming, but that person wouldn't drop him. He hadn't been able to get back to him apartment. It wasn't his home because he had none.

"Well, well, looky here," the man who grabbed the boy stated. "It looks like I'm the one to capture you then tonight, huh?" The blonde just kept struggling. "You think that you can put up a fight, stupid fox?"

"Let me go," the boy cried. "Please!"

"Why should I," he man rasped. "There looks to be some people who want to talk to you." The man pointed over to the mob that was growing as they ran after him.

"Please, let me go," the boy begged. "I didn't do anything!"

"Yes you did," the man growled. "You did something by being alive!" He felt a punch to the back, and the blonde cried out in pain. Another punch came to his stomach, and he felt the man drop him to the ground. He wrapped himself up as the people around him started to kick him and beat him.

"Stupid fox!"

"Disgusting brat!"

"You killed my brother, you fox!"

"You shouldn't even have lived!"

"Go die!"

These all were the things that he heard as the people around him hit and kicked him. He was confused by it all, but he stayed quiet. He knew better than to question them when they were like this. He'd learned his lesson a long time ago the hard way.

He felt himself sputter up blood, but the mob kept going. No one stepped up to help. They discarded the obvious abuse because of their own selfish reasons. They all thought that he deserved it, and they all wished that they could get a good hit at him also, but they were too afraid to do anything, so they decided to ignore it, as if nothing was happening. They ignored the boy's screams of pain, the sound of boots hitting flesh. They've even ignored the sound of a knife digging into the boy's body before. They all knew that he would heal anyways. They didn't care; they cursed him unanimously. They all hated the boy, all of the adults that knew what he was. They hated him with every fiber of their being, and they all just wanted to see him die at last. No one cared.

"Stop," they heard a voice yell, but the mob just kept on hurting the boy. They just ignored it as if there was some other dilemma happening. The boy coughed up even more blood as he felt a kick to the stomach.

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Mitarashi Anko had been exploring the shops to find some supplies for her new apartment that she was giving when the ANBU came back with her. She couldn't remember anything that had happened besides bits and pieces that she picked up every once in a while. It was frustrating to her, but she did know a few things. One, she was overseen by Orochimaru, the snake sannin. He had been her sensei since her parents were killed on a mission. When he had ran away, he had brought her with, but she was just glad that he had picked her. She soon found out that she was wrong from the beginning to even think about trusting him. Second, there was a mark on the back of her shoulder. It wasn't just any mark, it was a curse mark. It was one of Orochimaru's that he had given to her. Thirdly, it was Orochimaru that had messed with her memory before he left for another hide out. He had deemed her unworthy. And lastly, she now hated Orochimaru with all her being.

She was just walking out of one of the ninja stores as she was looking for weapons that she would be able to use since the Hokage had deemed her fit of becoming a ninja again as long as she would tell them everything that she could remember. They had let Morino Ibiki, the interrogator of Konoha, take all the information that they could get out of her. To most people, he's the scariest guy that they may ever see, but to her, he was the coolest. She couldn't stop thinking about getting a job under him. It'd be awesome. She was thinking about asking him.

She heard a scream down the street, and she turned to see a mob that was abusing a blonde kid. She was so disgusted by how they were acting. She yelled at them to stop, but it seemed like they weren't able to hear her. She ran over there, and when she looked, the kid was a boy that looked not much older than five years old. Her disgust turned into rage.

"Stop it!" The men just kept kicking the boy without care. That was their biggest mistake. She dropped her stuff, and she started fighting the mob to be able to get in the middle.

"Scram, little girl," one of the men stated. A vein visibly pulsed on her forehead, and some of the men that had wives took that as a sign that their wives always had all the time when they were angered by them, and they knew that that guy went too far by saying that she was a little girl. They started backing away, while others backed away because they knew that she was Mitarashi Anko. They were afraid of her because she was an apprentice to Orochimaru.

"What did you call me," she growled.

"You heard me," he replied.

"I am not a little girl," she yelled before starting to punch him. When he tried to fight back, she'd dodge it perfectly, proven her theory that he was just a civilian. He was knocked unconscious within minutes. "Anyone else?" They just stared at her like she was a freak. "Anyone else want to take me on?" There were some that shook their heads. "Well then scram!" They took off running, two guys helping the unconscious man, before they could get hurt also.

Anko turned towards the little boy and found that he was staring at her. There was some blood, but it didn't seem too bad, but it just fueled her anger at the civilians who did this. She noticed that there was pain, sadness, confusion and loneness in his eyes that she didn't think that any child his age should experience. She felt that rage turn into sadness as she gazed at the innocent boy.

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For the little boy, she felt them stop beating him first before she looked up to find a girl fighting one of the attackers. He couldn't believe that she would be fighting for him because no one had down so for him before, and now she was just confused as to why should would be fighting them. The man looked like he wanted to take her out, but she was too fast for him to catch, and no one was helping him in the first place.

After she had fought the guy, she asked for others to fight. Then he realized, that she was fighting because she wanted to. She wasn't protecting her at all, he thought. He saw the lust in her eyes for them to fight, and he knew that she was doing it. It'd be sooner or later that he'd decided to fight him. That's what they always do. There was no exceptions at all for those who decided to beat him. When she turned towards him, she saw the anger in her eyes that he's seen a hundred times before, and he felt like he confirmed his suspicions.

Before she could decided to hit him, he took off running. He heard her call after him, but he didn't stop or look back as he ran. He could hear footsteps as someone ran after him. He just kept running, and the only time that he looked back, he almost tripped. He decided not to do it again. He noticed the mob when they reached his apartment, and he stopped.

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"Hey," Anko yelled after the boy took off the first time. She was aggravated that he did that, but he couldn't be getting him to stop by yelling, so she ran after him. She couldn't believe how fast he was able to run, especially since she was running at her top speed at the moment! She noticed him try and look back at her once, but he almost tripped from it, and he didn't look back again.

They reached an apartment building, that looked like they could be use some fixing, and he stopped for some reason. When she looked, she saw a mob right in front of them. He looked like he was trying to find a way to run before they caught that he was standing there. One of them noticed him though and alerted the others. "It's the stupid fox," the guy yelled. The boy started running, and the mob chased after him.

"Hey," I yelled. They didn't stop their chase though, and she saw looks of killing intent in some of those eyes. She decided to run after them, and take them down, one by one.

"Stupid girl," one of them said. "You're just getting in the way of us killing that monster."

"That's not a monster," Anko growled. "He's just a little boy!" She knocked him out before he could say anything, and She went after the next person. She looked up ahead to find that they had caught the boy. "Shit!" She tried to get over there, but a man stopped her, and she found that it was one of them from before.

"I'm not going to let you step into this, this time," he stated as he cracked his knuckles. She started fighting him thinking that she would be able to take him down as easily as the other guy, but she found that she couldn't. He must be a retired ninja then, she realized. She tried taking him down, but he was too experienced for her, but she was able to finally take him down after at least ten minutes. She looked to see that only a couple of people where abusing the boy now, and that infuriated her. Even though she was exhausted, she fought for the kid. She was disgusted with the civilians and those of the Konoha ninjas.

Once she knocked them all out, she turned towards where the blonde boy was, to find that he was gone. She looked around to see a trance of him at all, but she couldn't find one. Then she looked at the Hokage Mountain to find that there was something moving up it. When she looked closer, it was the boy. She started running after him again.

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The woman that had fought the other mob had come again, and the boy didn't stay this time. He started running to the one place that he felt safe no matter what. He didn't think that that lady would try and look for him there either. No one thought that he would sit on top of the fourth Hokage's head. He didn't know why he felt so much better up there, but he didn't care at all. It was the only place that he'd probably ever feel like he didn't have to worry. As soon as he sat down on the head, he started crying. He felt pain all over, and he wish that he didn't have to. It wasn't unusual though, but he just wish that he had one person to stand up for him, just one person to trust. He thought he'd never get it though.

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Anko had finally made it up top to find that the boy was sitting on the fourth's head. She finally felt like she could walk over to him instead of running again. She knew that she was worn out, and she hoped that he wouldn't run again.

"Hey," she called out. The boy jumped up and turned towards her. He started looking around. "I'm not going to hurt you." She walked over to him slowly, and she saw the confusion enter his eyes again. "I just want to talk to you, alright?" He hesitated before he nodded. "What's your name?"

"Uzumaki Naruto," he answered.