A Step Towards a Different Adventure.

Ren Amamiya was given many names before Joker, Trickster, heck even Cat Lover.

Today on his rebirth his name was now Akira Kurusu in the Village Hidden in the Leaves.

Six Years After Kyuubi Attack October 10th

Naruto was running away from the Mobs today on his birthday. He desperately tries to find a place to hide from the cruel people of the place he called home. Running into an alley he trips into a small hatch where he finds a seven year old kid with black curly hair, a normal child body, and deep red intense eyes, who was surprised with the sorry sight of Naruto's wounds and offers his hand.

"Hey are you going to be ok?" Akira asked a wounded Naruto pulling him from the ground.

"With you helping me ya also why are you helping me?" Replied the tired mob escapist in nervousness.

"Because like you, we are also outcasts." Akira answered upbeat and reassured.

"We?" Naruto questioned and tilting his head, looking at the curly haired boy he was wearing a black jacket, red cargo pants, and a pair of glasses on his face drawing away from his deep crimson eyes.

"Me and my friends," Akira smirked and offered his hand, "oh I nearly forgot to tell you my name is Akira Kurusu."

"Naruto Uzumaki DAEBATTO!" Naruto smirked back and shook his new friend's hand

"Let's get you to the safe house away from this hell hole." Akira said as he peeked through a hatch.

"Is it really safe?" Naruto said nervously because he really did not want to hunted again by the mob.

"Yup only me and my friends know and we have no caretakers so it is only us." Akira said reassuringly.

Naruto nodded eagerly not only to get possible friends but also a place to get away from the beatings and words.

"Follow me." Akira said as he slipped with Naruto out of the hatch.

About Ten Minutes Timeskip

"That was very hard they really have it out for your guts." Akira was breathing out between light breaths.

"It has happened every year on my Birthday" Naruto said depressed not even exhausted from the running.

"That really sucks." Akira spoke slightly discouraged.

"How long to we get to the safe house?" Naruto said after stretching lightly.

"Right here." Akira smiles as he pushed a large rock and opened a hidden passage.

"What?" Naruto looking shocked spoke.

"We found this last Spring and it is cooler on the inside." Akira waved Naruto in.

Naruto nodded dumbly and walked down the well lit corridor that had wooden supports strongly imbedded in the walls and into a gathering room with couches and chairs and a shelf with multiple games. The walls were solid stone with ventilation, natural warmth that seep in through the walls, and paper tags with symbols on the walls. On one of the walls lied a spiral that looked like the spiral on the leaf signs but without the leaf design on top of the spiral. The height of the area was high as normal room and the corridor split off into multiple rooms and corridors.

"Hey, Akira your back?" A voice spoke happily as said voice walked into the room.

"Yes and we have new friend who was abused by the villagers Ryuji and he needs to at least be checked over." Akira explained to Ryuji. To Naruto Ryuji was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, which had a 'z-oing' with a star on it, and used sneakers.

"Got you man and hey what's your name?" Ryuji asked after nodding to Akira.

"Naruto Uzumaki DAEBATTO!" He said quite noisily.

"Sakamoto why are being so loud!" A annoyed girly voice spoke from another room and it sound like the voice was getting closer.

"Ann, don't yell so loudly we're indoors." said a brown hair girl who was by a platinum blonde who was presumably Ann. Ann was wearing fire red dress with a black hoodie on top with matching sneakers and the other girl with the brown hair had blue jacket with no hood and a pair jeans with black dress shoes.

"Hey Ann, Makoto perfect timing we need some help with Naruto here." Ryuji exclaimed.

"Oh got you follow me." Ann said brightly grabbing Naruto hand and skipping off dragging him in tow.

"Hey!" Naruto exclaimed and turning back only to see both Akira and Ryuji laughing at Ann's antics while Makoto was shaking her head and walking following the blonde duo. Going down a hallway to the left of the gathering room they crossed a fluffy haired girl who was looking slightly confused at what was happening.

"Ann-Chan why are you dragging that poor boy?" Said a fluffy haired girl spoke sweetly. The fluffy haired girl was wearing simple blue and yellow blouse and skirt and smiled a smile that radiated pure kindness.

"Oh Haru we have person to check up can you help." Ann spoke happily.

"Ok let's check him out." Haru smiled kindly grabbing the medical kit and opening it to the supplies.

Naruto looked at Haru in slight fear as he felt a cold shiver down his back as Haru looked like demon for second and he blinked and Haru was still smiling kindly.

A few minutes of light yelps from Naruto

"There all done let's go to the table and get you something to eat." Makoto said with satisfaction.

"Ow Okay ow." Naruto still wincing from his wound cleaning. He wasn't sure if they had fun cleaning and dressing his wounds but he was slightly irritated that they had chatted about they day while he was wincing every time.

Following the girls to the dining room with a pot of warmed up curry and rice.

"Hello." A blue haired boy eating a bowl of curry spoke awkwardly.

"Hi." Naruto said happily as he was sitting at a chair next to the blue-haired boy. To Naruto the boy look like he was his age but also thinner than usual but slightly taller than him. He had a purple and blue shirt with black pants and black dress shoes.

"My name is Yusuke Kitaguwa," Said the newly identified blue haired boy, "what is your name."

Naruto smiled with joy and proclaimed, "My name is Naruto Uzumaki and don't you forget it." The girls in the room chuckled and both Akira and Ryuji entered the room with small girl who was hiding behind Akira. She had orange hair just over her shoulders and was wearing a dress with floral patterns. Judging by her age from Naruto guess she was just a year younger than him.

"Hey Naruto we want you to meet someone say hi to Futaba." Akira said confidently and waving for him say hi and prevent him from eating the curry that tantalized from mouth.

"Hi Futaba my name is Naruto Uzumaki and I am going to become Hokage." Naruto said proudly.

Futaba was not impressed and said, "Wow, the world is going to end if you become hokage." Everyone sweat dropped except Naruto who practically fell off his chair looking at the girl who clearly insulted him, his dream, and humiliated him within a sentence.

"Sorry about that," Ryuji said to depressed Naruto, "she is just normally like that she is blunt and it hurts deeper than normal insults but that is because she is nervous around people."

Naruto was slightly stung and was starting to go in his curry and from the first bite he was in shock. It was like as good as ramen and more flavor in one bite.

"You like it, I made this myself after a few tries and practice." Akira said with a smirk after seeing Naruto's reaction to the curry. Naruto was having a debate in his mind to decide if curry was better than ramen or ramen better than this curry.

Naruto didn't notice a few seconds had pass until Ryuji was saying things like, "Earth to Naruto" and "Wake up." Naruto had blushed in embarrassment and said, "Sorry it good but I still love Ramen more than even this curry." Akira went to the corner and sulked about it with Futaba patting his head and everyone sweatdropped at the oozing of depression from Akira.

"Uhh did I do that." Naruto said slightly confused at what he did.

The others just looked at him and Yusuke said, "Yes you did."

Till Next Time

(Half a Truth and Rise of the Heir)

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