A little boy wandered alone through the streets. Any normal child wouldn't garner such attention on his own, yet this was no normal child.
No, if you were to listen too long to the hateful whispers following his progress, you may begin to believe him a demon in human form. The more you watched, the slightly more believable such a thought might seem.
The boy moved with the grace of a trained fighter, dodging absently the traffic, avoiding shoves that many his age may not have seen coming. His hair was tangled, dirty and wild like the forests surrounding the city, burnished bronze like the light of the sun in a land where most had dark hair.
Despite his seeming vitality, the child was gaunt, body little more than skin and bone. He swam in his shirt and tattered shorts. Yet even his skeletal frame couldn't disguise his mildly exotic looks. The slant of his half hidden cerulean eyes, the angle of his cheekbones, the three whiskered scars marring his cheeks. Had he been a bit more filled out and in finer clothes, he may have been mistaken for the son of some foreign nobleman.
Yet, even nobles had such a lack of emotion. The child's face was carefully blank, apathetic to the people around him. His eyes, which would have been so welcoming if filled with cheer, were positively icy, glaring at anyone who made eye contact with the small figure. Such a child was an anomaly to the crowd. More graceful than many adults, surely surviving starvation somehow, completely antisocial. It was enough to put the citizens even more on edge, make the whispers harsher as resentment of the child fostered.
However, even as all those horrible things to call a child fueled the void, wiser heads would be surprised to learn that the general population was half right. At the same time, they were all so wrong in the source of Uzumaki Naruto's demonic heritage. And this would end up with consequences and circumstances that none of them would have expected.
Well hello there, folks. There are undoubtedly those who recognize the name of the story. It's been a few... years?
Anyways, as you can see I've restarted the story, on an account a friend and I have started together. So, this should be interesting. Anyways, Naruto will be a bit different than my earlier version, due to the events in this chapter, and the following few chapters.
First of all, Naruto will NOT be strictly 'evil.' He will still have a largely human, 'grey' morality, since his whole influences have been human. Reviews and criticisms would be wonderful!