Demon: Welcome to a new story written by yours truly.

Creeper: You're going to die, you know that? You've been away from writing for over a fucking year!

Lexboss: Leave him alone, Creeper! (smacks Creeper over the head) He's had a rough year.

Creeper: Really? Like what? How bad of a year could he have had to stay away from writing for an entire year?

Demon: Let's see, I had finals during the spring after my last post, my dad passed away from cancer, one of my relatives basically went bat-shit crazy, and I didn't even want to touch my computer for a long time because I was on it playing a game when my dad died.

Creeper: … Oh.

GoodWriter: Well, Creeper, it looks like you just fucked up.

Lexboss: You actually cursed?

GoodWriter: Well, I'm loosening my filter a little bit, but not much.

Demon: Alright, let's get to the main thing here. This is a new story I thought of, and it includes two OCs. So, let's get to it before my writing inspiration goes AWOL again.

"Talking" – ThinkingDemon/Summoning Speaking/Jutsu Demon/Summon Thinking

The Orphan Trio, Chapter 1: Meeting the Third

The sun was rising in the sky, bringing in the morning light over the trees and mountain surrounding Konoha, the village hidden in the leaves. The light reflected off the four faces carved on the Hokage Monument, seemingly making the faces shimmer in the sunlight. For many in the village, the beauty of the sight was taken for granted, with very few stopping to stare in awe at the sight. However, there were four individuals looking at the mountain and admiring the view; two enjoying the sight every day while the other two gazed for the first time.

The first person taking in the sight was an old man in the tall red tower stationed in front of the monument. The man was currently wearing white robes with red patterns stitched within, a hat with the kanji for Fire on the front sitting on his head. As he stared at the monument, the old man took a toke from his pipe, breathing out a kanji for fire in smoke. This man was Hiruzen Sarutobi, the current leader of Konoha. Hiruzen, or Lord Hokage as most refer to him, smiled a little as he felt a bit of relaxation from his morning ritual. As he turned away to start on the paperwork on his desk, the old man had a thought on his mind. 'I wonder if Naruto is enjoying the sunrise,' he thought as he began stamping the papers.

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Naruto Uzumaki, the boy Hiruzen was thinking about, was indeed enjoying the view of the sunrise. Naruto, an eight year old boy with blonde hair and ocean-blue eyes, smiled happily as he enjoyed looking at the monument. Naruto was currently sitting in a tall tree, hiding away from the villagers below. Naruto didn't know why, but most of the villagers hated him with a passion.

The reason for the villagers' hatred was due to an incident that took place a little over eight years ago. Konoha was attacked by a demon with incredible power. The Kyuubi, or Nine-Tailed Fox, had appeared out of nowhere and violently struck the village on October 10th. Many lives were lost and many buildings destroyed. The mighty beast was eventually defeated by the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. The Fourth managed to kill the beast at the cost of his life.

However, this story was not completely true. The reality was that Minato Namikaze managed to defeat the Kyuubi by sealing it away into a newborn infant, killing Minato in the process. This infant was Naruto Uzumaki, the Fourth's own newborn son. However, after Hiruzen took the role of Hokage again, he felt that Naruto would not have a good life had this been told to the villagers. So, he passed a law making it an offense punishable by death to speak to people about the truth of the Kyuubi, hoping Naruto could have a normal life.

Unfortunately, the villagers who knew about the fox being sealed in the infant ignored the wishes of the Fourth, who wanted the infant seen as a hero, and disregarded the Third's law. While the original villagers that broke the law were executed for telling the entire village's older population, Sarutobi knew that he could not execute everyone. As a result, the villagers constantly talked about Naruto, often in a hateful way.

The third, in a state of desperation, added a clause to the law immediately. Anyone who told their children of the situation with Naruto was not only to be executed, but the child as well. It was met with a large amount of outrage, but Sarutobi refused to remove it, feeling it was the only way the younger generation wouldn't develop the hateful grudge the older population possessed.

Despite this, the villagers still found a way to torment Naruto. First, they told their children to never associate with him, claiming he was a horrible person and a monster. Due to this, Naruto found himself very lonely throughout most of his life. Second, most shop owners refused to serve Naruto at all, or if they did, they overcharged him and sold him only the absolute worst quality goods. Third, the Orphanage Naruto lived in kicked him out at the age of five, leaving him to fend for himself for three years. Due to the meddling of the civilian side of Konoha's council, no clan was allowed to adopt the boy, despite the fact that a fair number of clans wanted to.

The final thing the villagers did to make Naruto's life a living hell was a violent treatment of the boy. Nearly every day, a mob of villagers would chase Naruto and would beat him mercilessly. A few times, Naruto was nearly killed from these attacks. Worse, sometimes there would be some Genin or Chunin ninja in the mob who lost someone from the Kyuubi attack. Desperately, Sarutobi placed an Anbu guard to protect Naruto, but many of the Anbu hated Naruto as well and would ignore his pleas for help.

Currently, this is why Naruto was sitting atop a tall tree. While he was able to find solace in the rising sun, he knew that soon a mob would start looking for him, something the villagers "affectionately" called the "fox hunt". Unfortunately for Naruto, the villagers seemed to get active early today. A couple rocks were tossed toward him, barely missing. Sadly, it was enough to cause him to fall off the tree and hit the ground below. Seeing the mob near him, Naruto quickly started to run, the mob quickly following.

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The last two watching the sunrise and admiring the beauty of the mountain were actually found at the gates of Konoha. The two were both children, each with a small bag holding all of their belongings. The two waited patiently for the gate guards to check them into the village while they looked at the mountain.

One of them, a young eight year old boy with brown eyes and a bit of brown hair underneath a spiked-top hood, whistled slightly as he took in the view. He was dressed in a pair of black pants with a slightly burned headband used as a belt. The symbol on the headband was that of two boulders, signaling he hailed from Iwa, the village hidden in the rock. He also wore a sleeveless black shirt with a clay-brown tunic over it. The tunic had the hood attached, and on the front of the tunic was the boy's clan symbol, an upside-down rounded horseshoe magnet with the positive pole being red and negative being blue.

"Look at that, Kurohi. Isn't that beautiful?" The young boy asked his companion. The second boy, eight years old, was dressed in a pair of black pants with a black and white horizontally striped shirt. He wore a bandanna on his head, completely covering his hair. The bandanna had his clan's symbol, a wide-open eye with a dark, crescent-like pupil in the center, on the front. He also wore a damaged headband, which had the symbol for Kiri, the hidden mist village, as a belt.

"It sure is, Toshi. There wasn't anything like this back in Kiri." The second replied, smiling slightly at the sight before him. Before the first boy, Toshi, could respond, the gate guards got their attention. The guards stamped their entry papers and told them directions to the Hokage Tower, where they needed to go to speak to the leader. The two boys thanked the guards and walked into the village.

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After walking about ten minutes through the village, Toshi looked over to his traveling companion, who was staring straight ahead, but with his eyes slightly glancing left or right every few seconds.

"Jeez, Kurohi, why are you so paranoid? I heard the Leaf is welcoming of those with a kekkei-genkai. We don't have to worry about anyone trying to kill us." Kurohi looked over to his friend and sighed.

"I'm aware of what we heard about Konoha. It's just that after what happened back in Kiri, I'm going to be a bit paranoid, especially in a new village. I know they are supportive of those with a kekkei-genkai, but there were supporters in the Mist, too." The boy replied quietly, glancing around again. Toshi sighed, he figured his friend would be nervous, but he heard from the monks at that temple in the Land of Fire that Konoha loved kekkei-genkais and those who had them. 'Still, considering what he went through, I'm not too surprised he is worried. Hell, after what I went through, I'm amazed I trusted Kurohi enough to travel with him.' He thought as they continued walking.

However, they started hearing something strange. Looking to their right, they saw a small boy around their age running quickly, a mob of people angrily following behind him. As the people got closer, the two heard some of what was being said.

"What did I do? I didn't do anything to you people!" The young boy shouted as he ran. The mob started yelling and cursing him as they chased him.

"You know what you did you monster!"

"You're going to die, you damn demon!"

"You're going to get it for killing our loved ones!"

"Them kicking you out of the orphanage let us finish what the Fourth started, you damn demon!"

The boy kept running, tears in his eyes. "I'm just an orphan! I didn't kill anyone!" The boy's cries were ignored by the angry villagers, but two individuals heard him. 'Orphan?!' Toshi and Kurohi thought as the small boy approached them.

Looking at each other and nodding, Toshi began doing hand signs as the child ran past him. Stopping on the ram seal, Toshi slammed his hands on the ground. "Earth Style: Labyrinth Wall Jutsu!" Toshi shouted as the ground started to rumble. Suddenly, a number of large stone walls began shooting out of the ground, surrounding the mob and trapping them inside a giant labyrinth. Hearing the angry yells from the villagers, Toshi nodded over to Kurohi and stepped back. Kurohi, who had grabbed Naruto to stop him from running, let Toshi grab the boy as he walked to the wall. Doing a couple of hand signs, Kurohi placed his hand onto the wall and called out, "Dark Style: Labyrinth's Shadow!"

Inside the labyrinth, the mob was running about, trying to find a way out of the giant labyrinth. As they reached the center of the labyrinth, signaling a dead end, a strange shadow sprung from the walls. To the shock and horror of the villagers, the shadow morphed into a strange man wearing a creepy outfit and a giant bulge in the crotch of his pants. The man looked at the mob and started towards the villagers, wiggling his crotch towards the villagers. Loud screams were heard around the village as mob tried desperately to escape the labyrinth and the terrifying man.

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Seeing the two boys stop the mob from attacking him, Naruto let out a sigh of relief. He knew these two might be dangerous, but he was willing to at least thank them for helping him out. He turned to the boys, whom he noticed were smirking a bit at the fearful screams of the mob.

"Th…thanks for helping me out," Naruto nervously said, taking a step back. "Those guys would have done some really painful things to me if you didn't help me." Toshi looked to the boy, noticing the fear in his eyes. Kurohi, who also noticed the look in Naruto's eyes, was letting out a small amount of killer intent in anger. However, noticing Naruto's fear grow, he stopped himself and extended his hand out.

"No problem, man. We always try to help out one of our own." The boy replied as he offered his hand. Naruto, slightly less scared, took the boy's hand and shook it. Toshi smiled at this and took Naruto's other hand, shaking it as well.

"Thanks again. But, what do you mean 'one of our own'?" Naruto asked, confused. This time, Toshi answered.

"We mean an orphan. You see, Kurohi and I are both orphans. Even though we come from different villages, we have that in common and it bonds us. We both had something horrible happen to us in our lives, and it created a bond. Since you are an orphan too, we consider you one of us." Naruto was happy that he found two people that treated him kindly. Sure, the Third Hokage treated him nicely, and there was the two from Ichiraku Ramen, but he hadn't had anyone from his age group that was nice to him.

"Thanks, I really appreciate that. My name's Naruto Uzumaki. What are your names?" Naruto asked happily. Toshi smiled a little, surprised how quickly the boy changed emotions. "My name is Toshi Jiryo, and this is my friend Kurohi Yami." Kurohi nodded before a look of realization came over his face.

"Oh, damn. Toshi, we still need to get to the Hokage Tower." Kurohi said, causing Toshi to nod in agreement. Naruto started walking away. "Follow me, I've walked to the Tower so many times to talk to the old man, I can practically get there blindfolded." He explained. Liking this kid, Toshi and Kurohi followed him, intent on getting things handled as well as finding out some more about their new friend.

Demon: There we go, chapter 1. Hopefully, I can actually keep working on this thing.

Creeper: Yeah, otherwise you're gonna be meeting with one of my guns.

Lexboss: You can't stop threatening him, can you?

GoodWriter: Once a prick, always a prick, I guess.

Demon: Yes, now as you can tell, the title refers to meeting the third orphan, not the Third Hokage.

GoodWriter: I'm not sure if that's necessary to point out.

Demon: Just a precaution. Anyway, I think I should point some things out real quick. First of all, I do not have any colored pictures of my OCs, but I described their outfits fairly well. If not well enough, just look up "Team Magma grunt" for Toshi and "Team Aqua Grunt" for Kurohi. For Toshi, just replace the magma emblem on the tunic with the upside-down magnet and remove the horns from the hood.

Lexboss: Seems simple enough.

Demon: For Kurohi, imagine the pants are all black instead of blue and get rid of the aqua symbols. As for his bandanna, replace the Aqua symbol with the Psychic symbol from the Pokemon trading card game, but the pupil of the eye is the dark symbol from the card game.

GoodWriter: Simple, but effective.

Demon: I know, not very original. However, I focused more on their abilities than their outfits. Besides, I like the Magma and Aqua uniforms. Now, I'll put the personality description and skill levels of the OCs in my profile soon, and I'll work on the next chapter soon as well.

Creeper: Sounds like you actually are going to continue this.

Demon: Yes, I am. Now, one more thing. I have no pairing ideas yet, as this is going to be a humor and action/adventure story. Romance is going to be on the backburner, if at all. I am not great at romance scenes, and that usually keeps me from working on chapters. So, I'm going to avoid it for now. Also, there will be Council bashing, and Sasuke/Sakura bashing, but I will try not to be excessive. There will be a good amount of it, but I will try to keep it respectable. However, if I can find a way to make them into the butt of a joke or two, I'm gonna do it.

Lexboss: Alright, I think that's everything.

Demon: I think so. I'll list the new jutsus used below each Author Note, and while a few are canon, some are altered from canon a bit and a good number of these are original. Well, in the sense of non-canon; I did take some inspiration from YuGiOh and a few other things. As for the shadow in the labyrinth, it was basically David Bowie from "Labyrinth". I found it creepy yet funny, so I thought it would be nice to fit it here. Plus, one of my OCs' jutsus creates a labyrinth, how could I not put that in there?

Lexboss: Ok, then. Read and Review! Wow, it's been a long time since we've said that!

Demon: True enough. No flames!

New Jutsus Used

Earth: Labyrinth Wall: The user creates a small to medium sized labyrinth around the target(s), placing them somewhere between the center of the labyrinth and the only entrance/exit. The main purpose is to confuse or distract the target(s). The walls cannot be broken by anyone inside the labyrinth. The only way for the walls to disappear is for them to be destroyed outside or for the target(s) to successfully navigate out of the labyrinth. (Rank C)

Dark: Labyrinth's Shadow: The user creates an illusion in the form of a terrifying creature (usually David Bowie from "Labyrinth" if civilians or low level ninja, more realistic fears for higher level opponents) using some of the user's chakra. The illusion haunts and torments those inside the Labyrinth Wall. Once a physical clone jutsu is learned, the user can use a physical clone transformed into the creature instead of an illusion. (Rank D (B when physical clone used))