The Tale of the Moon and the Sun

One night, in the moon's fluorescent light. A baby lay crying with fright. Wrapped in a bundle, abandoned at the floor of the orphanage matrons door. The door was opened, and then began the life of Naruto, the boy with sunny hair. In the same quaint little town, a future lady was born, Hinata Hyuuga, of Hyuuga enterprises, and at this moment she was a wonderful little child, laughing and giggling, even though she was only just born. Sadly this will not last, for the responsibilities of lady Hyuuga are terribly vast. During this moment she only blinks, and you see the eyes of a Hyuuga, the color of the moon.

-7 Years Later-

"My names Naruto Uzumaki, King of the Forest!" Here we find little Naruto, frolicking in the forest. He had just recently escaped from the orphanage (not for the first time).

"Kurama, where are you buddy?" He exclaimed

"I can't be king without my friend!" The bushes next to naruto suddenly rustled, then out jumped a fox. He had orange reddish fur, large dark eyes, and white tipped tail and ears. The sight that met the fox was an interesting one, with Naruto hanging upside down from a tree branch his white shirt with a swirl on the front hanging from his armpits covering up his sunny blonde hair, his bright blue eyes just barely peeking out from under his shirt. His blue shorts that were a little too large for him scooting up to his belly button, all in all a goofy sight.

"Hey Kyu, what kept you?" Naruto greeted, and all he got in reply was a "yip" from the fox because it is, in fact, a fox…..

"He he, I bet you were messing with that family of rabbits again weren't you?" He chuckled.

"Oh well, lets go have some fun!" He yelled excitedly.

And have fun he did, running, jumping, and climbing, he did it all with his fox companion at his side. No worries, no problems, no stupid matrons yelling at him. Here in his forest kingdom he was free, here in his forest kingdom he was happy.

-Several hours later-

"Ahhhhhhhhh, this is the life ain't it Kyu?" Naruto breathed out.

Kurama yipped excitedly in reply.

"HEEEEEELP!" A voice screamed

"Whoa, Kyu, someone's out here, lets go check it out!" Naruto said.

Naruto and Kurama took to the trees, and when they were getting closer they could soon hear….. crying? Naruto and Kurama stopped on the tree directly above where the crying was coming from, and peeked out of the leaves of the tree. Lying against the tree was a little girl about Naruto's age, she was wearing a red yukata (formal robe, dress sort of thing) with yellow highlights. It looked like the dress had seen better days, she had Dark Lavender hair.

Naruto jumped out of the tree, followed by Kurama, and slowly walked up to the girl so as not to alarm her.

"Hey are you okay?" Naruto asked.

"I-I fell and I twisted my ankle.." She sniveled.

"Oh can I look at it?" He questioned, with his head tilted to the side.

"O-okay" She replied, and extended her ankle.

Naruto slowly took her leg and examined her ankle, it was definitely agitated. It was red and already showed signs of swelling.

"Okay, I did this to my ankle before, Mrs. Sarah said it was called a sprain, we just have to get some cold water on it to reduce the swelling and wrap it, okay?"

Hinata only nodded in response

"Well, I know a pond close to here, but we have to keep you off of your ankle, I'll piggyback you." Naruto stated.

"You don't have to I can-"

"No your legs hurt, I'm gonna piggyback you, so you don't hurt it more okay?"

Hinata only weakly nodded in resignation, it was then that she noticed Kyu sitting off to the side. "Look out there's a fox!" she yelped, Kurama only raised his ears in interest.

"Hahaha, no silly that's Kurama my friend, right Kyu?" Naruto laughed "Yip" Kurama confirmed.

"Ummmm okay, if you say so…." Hinata replied.

"Now quit stalling, we gotta get you to that pond!" Naruto exclaimed. He then proceeded to kneel down and allow her to climb onto his back, and then he was off.

"So what's your name?" Naruto questioned, as he walked through the forest.

"Hinata" she whispered, the day's events starting to catch up with her.

"I'm Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki" Naruto happily replied

"So what are you doing out here in the forest, I mean I love it, but most other people don't" Naruto questioned.

"I was going for a walk and I saw a little bunny and I followed it out here, and then it ran and I realized I didn't know where I was, and so I started running, and I tripped and rolled down a hill, and that's how I hurt my ankle." She replied, a little out of breath from the long explanation.

"Huh well that sucks, anyway we're here" Naruto replied

Naruto then slowly let her down by the pond and told her to put her leg in the pond. They sat in silence for a bit the only sound of Kurama running around in the background. Finally Naruto figured she had soaked her leg for long enough, so he told her to take it out.

"Okay, now we gotta get you home and wrap up your leg, cause I don't have anything to wrap it with, do you?" Naruto asked.

"No I don't….." Hinata replied.

"Hey Hinata, before we leave can I ask you a question?" Naruto timidly asked.

"Ummm yeah…. sure" Hinata said, sounding confused as to what the question could be.

"Well I was wondering if you would be my friend, you see I don't have many friends because of my scars, so do you wanna be my friend…." He trailed off at the end, and it was true, for as long as he could remember he had these three lines on both of his cheeks that almost looked like claw marks, and other kids looked at him and thought he looked scary.

It was then that Hinata stopped looking at the ground, and looked at Naruto, and Naruto breath caught in his throat.

"Woah, that's so cool. Look at your eyes, they're like silver, and there's no pupil that is so cooooool!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly

While Naruto was talking about her eyes, she was examining his face, and there were indeed three large scratch like markings on each side of his face. They looked like they hurt, but they didn't seem to bother him at all. It was then that his question caught up to her, he wanted to be her friend? Why not, he helped her why wouldn't she want to be his friend.

"Yes." She stated

Naruto stopped his rambling for a second and said "What?"

"I want to be your friend" She said again

"REALLY, YAYYY, hey kyu we made a new friend!" Naruto yelled, as he jumped for joy.

Kurama happily went up to Hinata and bowed his head, in a submissive position, almost as if to say "I accept you."

Hinata laughed as she pet the fox, she couldn't believe the situation she found herself in, a boy that hides in the trees, and plays with foxes had just become her friend

As the sun descended under and the moon began to become more bright, a friendship was born between a carefree sunny blond boy, and a timid girl with eyes that shone like the moon.