Crimson & Blue
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
flashback/memory
'thoughts'
'TWO PEOPLE TALKING AT THE SAME TIME / CASTING JUTSU'
"speech"
"Jutsus"
"Kyuubi/inner demon speech"
'Kyuubi/inner demon thoughts'
A/N: This is going to be a Naruto/XXX Fic with Kurenai and Asuma as Foster parents. I'm not sure about the pairing yet. I'm still in the need of a beta reader so if anyone is interested please tell me. There's going to be Adult themes, but no full description. So please R&R.
A new Home
Naruto was running again. Not that he minded running, he actually enjoyed it. If it wasn't for the Mob of angry villagers behind him. In his 5 years of life he couldn't remember a day he wasn't running. October the 10th was especially worse.
He didn't know why but on this day the mobs where the worst, normally he would just run and ditch them after some time. But he wasn't so lucky this time. There where Shinobi with the mob.
That was especially bad he couldn't dodge those. Most of the time they would just chase him down and punch him a few times, but today, just damn today.
He knew Konoha very well but being chased for some time now Naruto was getting weary and he mistook his shortcut with a dead end
'Dammit! What now? There's no way I'm getting out of here.'
The Mob got really excited as they saw that Naruto was running into the dead end. As soon as they saw him pushed up against the wall they started their cruelty as every year. While they screamed, kicked and thrown weapons and rocks at him, Naruto only had one thought
'I hope Ojisan comes faster this time.'
Normally the Hokage would come and rescue him, but some time has passed now and Naruto got weaker from the assault.
Shouts like "Finish him off!" and "The Demon is dying!" could be heard and they started kicking and punching harder and harder, hoping they soon would finally finish him off.
Kurenai was just coming home from a several week long mission and just hoped to get home quickly to take a nice hot bath and get a goods nights rest. As she was coming closer to her apartment she was hearing a lot of commotion. First she thought that it was from a drunk mob who was partying in the streets but when she listen closer her blood ran cold. She rushed to where the shouts of revenge and bloody murder came from.
As Kurenai saw just how big the mob really was she was afraid she would come too late. Villagers and Shinobi alike where kicking and throwing at what seemed to be a little boy. As she tried to push trough all the people, she could see that a pool of blood was already forming around the small boy.
Now pushing trough with all of her strength she made it to the little body lying in his own blood. The Villagers where shouting more and more and when they saw Yûhi Kurenai approaching the 'Demon' they cheered her on, knowing that the whole Yûhi Clan except herself was killed on the Kyuubi's attack 5 years ago, hoping that she would give him the rest.
Shocked about what damage was done already Kurenai leaned over the little boy and gently brushed some of his blood-soaked hair out of his face. She knew who he was since she sometimes watched him, but she never thought about revenge even thought all of her loved ones where dead. Quite the opposite was the fact, Kurenai was kind of sad that Naruto had no family and was treated the way he was.
After all he was the one who was sacrificed by the 4th Hokage to become the jailer for the Kyuubi, doomed to a life a dread and despair and jet still he never has taken out his anger over his treatment on the villagers.
Naruto was slowly losing his consciousness the last thing he was aware of was that a woman was kneeling over him. Only one thought ran through his young mind while it was slipping away into the darkness 'Well Ojisan didn't make it in time. I guess that's it...'
Noticing that Naruto's vital signs where dropping rapidly Kurenai began to form the hand seals to one of her escape jutsus. The mob was shouting in unison now that they thought Kurenai was going to finish him off. It seemed like an eternity before both Naruto and Kurenai began to dissolve into a massive amount of sakura petals.
She could faintly hear the screams of the mob while she was rushing to the hospital.
'Damn. They really got to him this time. I hope he's going to be alright again.' She looked at the unconscious body in her arms
'I cant let this happen anymore, this has gone on long enough. I have to talk to the Hokage about this...'
Kurenai dropped Naruto of in the Hospital. First the staff refused to treat him but with the help of a fear infusing Genjutsu the nurse was more then willing enough to make sure he was treated. Now the only thing left was a little talk with the Hokage.
Old man Sarutobi was brooding over all the paperwork he still had to do, he took a deep drag of his pipe and leaned back in his chair. 'I'm really getting to old for this...'
He closed his eyes for a bit but was soon enough interrupted by his Secretary. "Excuse me Hokage-sama. Chuunin Yûhi Kurenai is here to see you."
"At this time? Well must be something important then. Send her in please."
Kurenai was led into the Office by the Hokage's secretary "Hokage-sama. I'm sorry to disturb you at this time but I have to talk to you about Uzumaki Naruto."
Sarutobi sighed hardly "He was beaten up again, wasn't he. Its always like this on the 10th October. I just cant stop them whatever I do. Even the law I passed to keep it a secret doesn't help."
"I know, I just saved him from an assault and dropped him of at the Hospital. It was really worse, if I wouldn't have interfered he would have been dead by now."
Sarutobi grimaced 'Nearly killed him this time huh? That's not good he can't take anymore of this before he'll break and God knows what will happen then.'
"Isn't he in an Orphanage?"
"Hmm, normally yes but they kick him out on a regular basis. I bribe them to let him stay but it always happens again. And with his 'condition' no one wants to adopt him."
Kurenai thought about that. The Hokage was right no one would adopt him, it would happen again and again until he's dead or has run away. Seeing the genuinely worried expression on Kurenai's face an idea has struck Sarutobi.
"Kurenai why don't you take care of him? You seem to have no anger for him despite everything that has happened to your family."
Kurenai was startled"What? Me? I don't thing I could take care of a child. Besides that I don't know how."
Sarutobi chuckled "Well through adoption of course! If some would finally take care of him I think all these assaults would stop, besides that you both need a family and you seem to be the right one."
Kurenai looked down, he said the truth she really wanted a family, she was lonely when her boyfriend Asuma wasn't around. They often talked about founding a family themselves but they both wanted to build a reputation and make Jounin first.
"Look. Why don't you spend some time with him before you make your final decision and talk to him about it? Ill make sure that you have some free time. Go home now and get some sleep."
Kurenai agreed and left the Office to finally get some sleep
OoOoO
Naruto was really glad that he healed so fast. He never liked the hospital the nurses where pretty rude to him and the doctors did as good as nothing. Gladly he just was in there for a day. He slowly walked out into the mid-morning son, he started to stretch his arms a bit and prepared for his daily run when he noticed somebody in front of him.
He didn't recognized her at first but then it hit him it was the girl that keeled over him before he lost consciousness. If that was right maybe she brought him to the hospital he thought. She slowly walked over to him.
"Hey there glad to see your doing better." Kurenai bowed down so that she was on his eye level "How are you feeling?"
Naruto put his arms behind his head "You're the one who saved me right?" Kurenai nodded
"Well then I guess I should thank you for that." Naruto grinned sheepishly
"Don't worry. Your name is Naruto right? My name is Yûhi Kurenai, nice to meet you." she reached him her hand.
He carefully shook it "Nice to meet you too." Although she brought him to the Hospital Naruto was still very carefully, more then once people where nice to him just to lure him into a trap.
The raven haired girl noticed his carefulness. "Don't worry. I don't wanna hurt you."
Naruto shrugged "Yeah, but you know. You kinda get cautious if the whole village wants you dead."
"Yeah I can understand that. Say why don't we get something to eat?" Kurenai was surprised that Naruto was so pretty straight forward
Naruto looked down "Real food? Yeah that would be nice for a change."
"What do you mean?"
Naruto just shrugged again. Kurenai sighed 'He doesn't even get any food? Just how worse is all of this really?'
"OK lets go and get some food then." She smiled while she waved at him to follow her. They both walked to Kurenai's favorite restaurant. While they walked through the village Kurenai noticed all the glares that where directed at her and Naruto. She even could hear how they cursed her for rescuing the 'Demon'. She really wanted to just rip them apart, but that wouldn't solve the problem so she just glared back at them.
When they arrived at the place that served Kurenai's favorite dumplings, she told him to wait by the bench near the restaurant for her, while she got 2 portions of dumplings. Kurenai sat down next to Naruto and handed him a portion of dumplings, when he took the first bite his mind was exploding with the new flavor. "Whoa this is excellent!"
"Glad you like it." they sat there and silently ate. After they where finished they sat there for a while. The raven haired beauty looked at Naruto and noticed the shabby state of his clothes if you could call it that.. 'He really needs some new clothes..'
"Say Naruto what would you say if we get you some new clothes?"
"Huh?" the blond boy didn't know why she, heck anybody would be so nice to him. First she bought him food and now she wants to buy him clothes? For Naruto that really smelled fishy
"Why would you do that? You barely know me." now he was really cautious
"To be honest, I think you deserve a better life. A life where nobody treats you like shit and wants to kill you. And I think maybe I can help you with that."
"You wanna help me?" Naruto didn't know hospitality, he only knew that sometimes the villagers would treat him nice so they could lure him into a trap but what Kurenai said brought him close to tears. For the first time he really believed that someone really wants to help him. Kurenai noticed that Naruto had tears in his eyes so she carefully laid her hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry. If you want you can stay with me. I wont hurt you, I promise."
Naruto was struggling with himself on the one side somebody wanted to take care of him, on the other it could be a trap. He didn't know if she saved him just to lure him into a trap but she seemed pretty nice to him. Maybe he should talk with the old man about it.
Naruto rubbed his eyes "I don't know. Sounds really good but I'm not sure..."
"That's OK I can understand that. Here why don't I write down my address for you and if you know what to do you come by OK?"
Naruto nodded in approval. After Kurenai wrote down the address on a scrap of paper and handed it to Naruto, he got up and thanked her for the food. He started to walk away which pretty soon turned into a run.
Kurenai still sat at the bench for a while thinking about what Naruto really endured up till now. He didn't even trust her, even after she saved his life. She really hoped she could do something for him. Deciding that all that thinking wouldn't get her far she stood up and left for her apartment.
OoOoO
While he was running Naruto thought about all that has happened in the last hour and decided to see the Hokage straight away, so he headed for the Hokage tower.
The Anbu guards in front of the Hokage's office snorted as they saw the 'Demon' climbing the stairs.
"What do you want here? Get lost!"
Naruto was already used to this, it was always the same they would exchange profanity's until the Hokage opened the door to see what all the commotion outside his office was. It was the same this time.
The Hokage dispraised their behavior and ushered Naruto into his Office. He closed the doors behind him and sat down behind his desk.
"Ah. Naruto its nice to see your doing well. Hows it going?"
"You know hows it going Ojisan. Bad as always. Killing attempts, getting thrown out of the orphanage, living in the dumpster. But I'm not here to speak about that."
Sarutobi grimaced. It was a shame that this little boy was so bitter and straightforward. He never would beat around the bush, normally he likes that kind of behavior but not with such a little kid.
"So what do you want to talk about then?"
"Exactly who is Yûhi Kurenai. And why does she want to help me so badly?"
Taking a deep drag from his pipe Sarutobi felt much older then he really was.
"Well she's a Chuunin. Her specialty is Genjutsu. Shes a pretty nice girl. Why do you ask."
"She told me she would take care of me if I wanted. Say how come? I bet you have your fingers in the game don't you? I doubt that she doesn't knows about 'him' so why still help me?" Naruto never understood why but when he was around the old man he felt kind of free.
"OK. Ill be honest with you. Her entire Clan was killed on the kyuubi's attack 5 years ago."
Naruto looked down "I knew it. Another trap!"
"Not so fast, Naruto. Although everybody was killed that night she doesn't sees you as the kyuubi as nearly everyone else in the village does. She sees you like you are. A boy without a family that has a great burden on his shoulders and needs somebody to love him."
Naruto slowly nodded, he didn't knew where this was going but somehow it made him feel a little better that at least somebody thought of him as a normal boy with feelings and needs.
"So when she saved you from the mob the other day she came to me to speak about you. She doesn't want you to suffer anymore and to be honest I think shes suffering to. She needs a family just as much as you do." the Hokage paused
Naruto looked up again "So?"
Sarutobi took another drag "So I suggested that she may adopt you."
This made Naruto grin "Adopt me? Really? I'm not so sure about that, what if it doesn't work out the way it should?"
"Well, let me suggest something. Why don't you go and life with her for some times? Maybe that will help you make the final decision about the whole adoption thing? How does that sound Naruto?"
The blond boy nodded "OK. Ill try..."
Sarutobi smiled. At least he archived something in this case. He asked if Naruto knows where she lived, so Naruto showed him the scrap of paper with the address written on it. Sarutobi nodded in approval and smiled as the little blond boy walked out of his office into, what he hoped, a family.
OoOoO
It was already evening when Kurenai was sitting in her kitchen, enjoying a nice cup of tea and thinking about what has happened the last night and today. She nearly nodded off if it wasn't for that knock on her door.
She slowly got up and walked to the door. A smile crept on Kurenai's face as she saw Naruto.
Naruto scratched his cheek. "I heard you have some free space, so I thought I maybe come by to check it out."
Kurenai chuckled. "Well then. Come on in."
Naruto slowly walked into the apartment looking around. To his right was a short wall with a little bit of decoration on it, right behind that wall was the kitchen which seemed pretty regular. To the left was the living room, which was was furnished with a nice glass table, a big white leather sofa and the matching recliner. Besides that there was a huge collection of books and scrolls some of them scattered on the floor bot most of them where neatly placed in one of the many bookshelf's she had.
Right next to the living room was a door, which was Kurenai's bedroom and then there where three other doors, one was the bathroom, one was a very spacious equipment room and the final one was a second bedroom.
"This one will be yours."
"Thanks. Its pretty big." Naruto was wondering how it would be to finally have a place to stay and somebody who cares for him.
Kurenai put a hand on his shoulder "How about we get you cleaned up and then have something to eat?"
Naruto nodded, he went with Kurenai to the bathroom and she showed him how to use the shower, so that he could take one, while fetched something to wear for him. When he stepped under the hot water of the shower, Naruto's body began to shiver with pleasure that the hot water brought.
He never thought that anything could feel so good, he didn't know how long he was under the hot water but it seemed like an eternity for him. He heard how Kurenai brought him something to wear and told him that she would prepare something to eat. Finally Naruto finished his shower and went to dry himself up. When he was done he picked up the clothes. It was nothing special just some black boxer shorts, a pair of blue socks and a red T-shirt.
"Felt good or?" Kurenai smiled at the cute sight in front of her. Naruto went to sit down with her and looked at the strange plastic cup in front of him.
"Whats that? Smells good." He carefully opened the lid and looked inside.
"Its called Ramen give it some more time there not done yet."
After Kurenai told him that the food is ready Naruto curiously dig in and was fascinated with the new flavor. After they finished dinner, Kurenai showed Naruto how to set up the futon. After it was ready Naruto crawled under the blanket enjoying the comfort it brought along.
"Good night Naruto. I hope you have a sweet dreams."
Naruto was already happy that she wished him good night she also gave him a kiss on the forehead. He was stunned he couldn't say a thing when Kurenai went out of the room. The feeling was incredible, it brought tears to Naruto's eyes.
'That feels good. Maybe this will turn out right. I really hope so.' Naruto turned around and clutched his pillow crying a little because he finally found someone else besides the old man who really cares for him.
Kurenai leaned on Naruto's door hearing the soft sobbing, which brought some tears into her eyes.
'This was a good idea. I hope that he will open up to me' after the sobbing stopped Kurenai went into her bed. With that the first day of their new life together.
OoOoO
A/N: That wraps up the first Chapter. I hope you guys like it. As I said before I still need a beta reader, also I'm not sure about the pairing yet. If anyone has any interesting pairing I'm open to suggestions.
C U at the next chapter
District North