MS: Hey guys!! Here's my next story!! It's a crossover with Rurouni Kenshin and Naruto, just to tell ya. Well, enjoy!!!

Kenshin: Oh, hello MS. What goes on?

MS: Makin' another story.

Kenshin: I see. Interesting.

Jiraiya: YOU BOTH SUCK!!!!

MS: ( Vein.)

Kenshin: ( Sweatdrop.)

MS: Kenshin, may I borrow your sword for a minute?

Kenshin: It's a reverse blade though.

MS: With enough force, it should suffice.

Jiraiya: Uh oh.

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It was Saturday at 5 p.m. at the moment. In Konoha, everyone was minding their own business, being polite towards one another...well, most were. In a certain street, several rocks were being thrown at a 12 year-old boy in orange. Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto was breaking in two as he heard the hurtfull comments of the villagers. " Go away, demon!!!" " Don't look at him, son." " I told you to stay away from him!!!" " Mommy, who's that? He looks sad." " He's nobody, honey." Naruto was trudging along, ignoring the hurtful comments, or at least, tried. He felt a sting in his eyes as he walked by the hurtfull glares.

" Don't cry, Naruto. Don't show them you're weak." As he was walking, however, he was hit in the head with a large rock, thrown by a jonin with a katana on his back. " Hah! Take that, monster!!!" He then walked up to Naruto. " I don't care what that retarded Gondaime says!! I'm gonna end it once and for all!!!" He then pulled out his katana, and raised it to a high point, the tip of the blade looking down at Naruto. " Time to die, demon!!!!" At this time, Naruto did the one thing no one would expect him to do.

He cried.

He let out silent sobs with tears coming down his cheeks as he thought this was the end. He cried from the pain he felt for years. He cried for those who were hurt by the Kyuubi. But most of all, he cried because he would die with everyone hating him for something he couldn't control. " DIE!!!!!" The blade came down, but it didn't land on Naruto. Instead, it landed on another katana with the blade on the other end. The wielder of the sword was a tall traveller with a red and white samurai uniform, sandals, red hair, and intimidating blue eyes. But what really would attract anyone's attention was the cross-shaped scar on his cheek.

" What are you doing you fool?!" The jonin yelled. The stranger looked at him square in the eye. " What i'm doing is protecting a young boy from a murderous warrior." This greatly angered the jonin. He then jumped high in the sky with katana in hand. " Well, if your protecting that demon, then prepare to die!!!" The jonin then began to do a downward slash. However, the stranger disappeared, and reappeared just above the jonin. " Up here!!" The jonin looked up just in time to have his face plummeted with the blunt side of the blade. Also, the hit was hard enough to knock him out.

As the traveller landed, he looked in the direction of the boy to see him balled up against a wall. Sighing, the traveller sheathed his sword, and changed his eyes to a compassionate look. " Hello there. Are you injured?" Naruto was suprised when this man saved him, but he suspected he did it so he could have the privaledge of finishing him off. " Please, don't hurt me." The traveller knelt down to the boy to see any injury.

From what he saw, the boy had a bruise on the side of his head. At this, the traveller grimaced. " You're injured. I should take you to a hospital." Naruto was just plain shocked. He then looked at the traveller. " Why are you helping me? Everyone else is cruel to me." At this, the traveller frowned. " Why would the villagers be as to so cruel? And to such a young boy?"

" I'm helping because you're injured, and in need of help. I don't know why they do this, but i'm going to find out." Naruto looked at the stranger, suprised. " Really?" Smiling, the stranger said. " Of course. A mere traveller as myself doesn't need to leave a boy being unfairly beaten." Naruto was now letting a few tears flow down his cheeks at feeling cared for by someone who somehow felt fatherly.

" Now let's go. You need to have that treated." They then set off for the hospital. " Hey mister, who are you?" The traveller looked down at him with a smile. " Kenshin Himura. Pleasure to meet you..." " Naruto Uzumaki, the next hokage!!" Naruto said proudly. At this, Kenshin lightly chuckled, and then went to his thoughts. " Who would be as to so cruel?

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MS: Well, there's the first chapter!!! As I always say, please R&R!!!! Now...(looks at Jiraiya with blade in hand.) Nah. ( Gives blade back to Kenshin.

Jiraiya: Phew.

MS: THIS should do!! ( Gets Spartan Laser [Halo)

Jiraiya: Oh, crap!!!!!