Naruto Ch1

I'm wanted

It was noon in Konoha ninja village, to some of the villagers this is the time that they have lunch but, to one couple it's their time to wake up. In a comical two-story house a man woke up to sound of his alarm. "We have got to be the only people in this world to be waking up at noon," said the woman next to him.

"You know I don't like waking up at dawn," he said to his wife as he put on his robe and glasses, "so what do you want for brunch?"

"I got brunch this time," she said as she put on her robe, "you go take a shower, your sweating all over the place."

"Gee, who do I have to thank for that," he said as walk to the master bathroom.

'Sometimes I wonder why I married those men,' she thought as she went down stairs to start their day.

As he started he started to think, 'well today's the day, hun, this is two favors that you owe me, Inari,' he looked down at his left arm to see three rings wrapped around it with one line linking the three, 'maybe I'll get two additional rings.' As soon as he was out he went his room to put on his clothes. This was a pair of kaki cargo pants, a white long sleeve t-shirt, under a thick red work shirt with his long red hair tucked underneath and a red and white baseball cap. He went down stairs to see his wife cooking brunch, "smells good," he said, "what are you cooking?"

"Just a little something," she said was happy voice.

"Don't cook any for me," he said, "I'll just have a bar and a glass of milk."

"Who said I was cooking for you," she said not turning her head.

"That's good, last time you cooked for me and I didn't want any, you almost hit me that pan," he said with relief, "and my brother as well."

"Well maybe you two should be more careful what you say," she said as she poured the contents on a plate and made her way to the table. "And don't you two have a job to do," she said as she dug in.

"Yes, but I've got to get ready for her arrival and I've got to get the boy," he said as finish his bar, "you know you should be doing this not me."

"Me," she pointed to her self with her fork as she stops eating, "what are you talking about, you knew his father pretty well."

"Yeah, well you knew his mother better then I knew his father," he said.

"Please don't talk about her," she said in a low voice.

"Don't tell me your still mad at her for teasing you," he said drank his milk, "I mean it couldn't be that bad." That speech of course gave him the look from his wife, "ehh, forget I said anything," he said as he finished his milk.

"You know someday somebody is going to figure out about your hair," she said as he got up to rinse his glass.

"Well here's hoping that no one will," as he went over to kiss his wife good-afternoon. "You know if you took this job," he said, "you wouldn't have to cook diner."

"I know," she said, "ohh, before you forget, go by the Uchiha district and get some of those sweet rice crackers, those are delicious,"

"I'll bring two boxes of them if you bring three boxes of dango from work and hide two of the boxes from our little resident," he said stood by the door awaiting her answer.

"Two and a half," she said she got up to rinse her plate.

"Done, see at diner," he said as he left.

'Those men,' she mused as she went up stairs for her shower.

Across town at Konoha orphanage

Two ninjas and boy in orange were walking up to the establishment; the boy had some busing and some cuts but, didn't look tired. As soon as they half way there they saw a middle aged couple walk out of the orphanage with a little girl in their hands talking about celebrating their union and head of the place waving them off. This made the boy sad despite his cheerful appearance; it made him even sadder that he's still in this place. Everyone's rooms are nice but his; room was in the back and it was separated from the rest, the roof was leaking, and no one would tell him when it was time to eat and the head of the place wouldn't give him the time of day; in short it was living hell for him.

The owner looked to her left to see the boy be escorted by two chunin at his sides. 'Great,' she thought giving him a cold stare, 'what has the demon done this time, I swear this is the sixth time he's escape be grounded to his room and did a prank on the local villagers.'

As soon as ninjas pulled up to stairs, "I believe this belongs to you," the one on the right said as he push the boy forward, making the boy stumble. "He was in a fight with some other kids today at the playground," the one the left said, "thankfully no one was hurt badly, we advise you that you watch over him better, this is the sixth time e gotten in to trouble." The two ninja then went back their station in the west district while the boy and the owner went inside.

Once inside the owner grabbed the boy by the shoulders and gave the boy a tight squeeze," listen here you little demon," she said with venom, "I got a special person coming by to adopt one of the children here and I don't want you to seen here scaring them away like the last four times."

"All I did was say hi," the boy said in his defense.

"Your presence is enough to cause disgrace to this village," she said as she lead him to the back room, "not to mention this orphanage."

"Yeah, well that's going to change because, one day I'm going to be hokage, maybe even greater then all the previous kages," he said with determination in his eyes.

The owner gave a small chuckle, "you hokage, ha, you'll be lucky if you make it to genin." She then pushed him in his room, "besides, how are you going to be hokage if you can't even get out of here," she said as she closed the door.

"I'll get out of this shit hole home soon," he yells while shaking his fist at the door, "and then I'll be one step closer to becoming hokage and gaining the respect of this village." Then the boy went to his bed doing something he never showed he cried him self asleep.

Three blocks away a man in red and white was walking in towards the orphanage while reading his day planer. "Let's see here," he said as he reviewed his list, "I've got the rooms set up, spare keys made, and waypoint set for her arrival. All that's left is to get the boy and get him settled, well dressed, prepared for the meeting at 10:15pm." He looked at his digital watch, it was 4:00, "well here I go," he said he walked up the stairs and gave the double doors a knock.

A very shrewd woman answered the doors, "how may I help you," she said with mock interest.

"Rough day," he said to her of mock concern.

"You have no idea," she while shaking her head, "you're our 4-o-clock, right."

"Sure am,"

"Right this way," she said as she was leading him to her office. He took a seat in front of her desk while she got some files a cabinet and then sat down at her desk. "I looked at your files, and found no warrants, no drugs, runs a small business and is married; is that right."

"Yes, that is correct, but before I choose a kid as my own I would like to see these children for myself."

"That's no problem," she said with a smile then handed him a folder containing files on the children, he then thumbed though the pictures of them. When he finished his search he made a small frown.

"So this is all the children you have here," he questioned.

"This is a small orphanage, we only have around 50 to 60 kids," she said as lead him down the main hall.

"It's alright, it makes decisions much easier," he said as he saw children playing in the halls and outside the window.

With Naruto

Naruto peeked out his door to see if the shrew owner was out there. If there is one thing this boy hated it was being held prisoner. When he didn't see her he went quietly down the hallway so that the rest of the children would hear him. He was about to reach an intersecting hallway when he herd the shrew talking and leading another person, when they turn right Naruto let out a breath of relive, if they turned left they would of spotted him. When he turned from which they came luckily none of the children knew he was grounded so he walks down the hallway without tattle tales on him. 'Finely,' he thought in relief, 'I'm out of this dump of a prison.' As he came to the doors he found that he can't open them, 'damn it,' he cursed in his mind, 'that shrew must have locked the doors, just so I couldn't get out. Maybe if I go out the back though the playground I can be free.'

So he backtracked his way to the intersection where a hall closet was and waited inside for the owner to go back to her office. When he saw the owner pass by though a crack in the door, he went to the back playground to escape. When he made it to the playground he forgot one thing.

5 min earlier

"My you seem to have spirited children here," he said walked off the small deck to see children running and playing. "I wish to speak to these kids if I may because paper only says so much."

"Ok," the owner said, "I'll be in my office if you need me." She then went back inside and closed the door.

He then went around the lot interviewing the kids and some of the chaperons that watch them. During his interview with one of the little girls he found out that there is a boy that they not aloud to play with. When he tried to find out more info on this kid he found out that she was scared to talk more about him for fear of punishment. When he went around the playground he found out the same thing herd from the girl and when he asked the chaperons about this they just wouldn't divulge any information on this boy.

Present

'Lucky me, the other adults are on the far left of the grounds,' Naruto thought as he made his way to the back gate. Little to his knowledge he was being watched by a man in red and white with sunglasses.

'Well there's the one I'm here for,' he thought as he walks over to the boy, 'it seems that no one is watching over him much. 'Those burses on his body don't look fresh but look like they are heeling,' he thought as he snuck up on the boy, "What are you doing?"

'Oh, shit,' Naruto thought as turn around to see the man that was walking with the owner, 'is he a new adult that helps run this prison?' When noticed that the man was a waiting an answer, he gave the man his usual replay, "nothing."

"Nothing huh," he said in a mock voice, "it looked to me that you were trying to sneak out, am right aren't I?"

"Uhhhh," Naruto said scratching the back of his head, "I'm sorry, I'll never do it again."

"Do you promise," he asked as he led Naruto away from the gate, when Naruto didn't answer, he answered for him. "You can't make that promise can you." Naruto shook his head, "you going to tell me why aren't you," the man said as took Naruto to a near by bench to sit down.

"Because I know I'll do it again," Naruto said in a hush voice.

"Someone who hates to break promises as well as someone who doesn't make promises he know he won't keep," he said as he ruffled Naruto hair, "I like that." Naruto gave him his fox smile. The man slapped the side of his head, "where are my manners," he said, "here we are, having a nice chat and we don't know each others name. I guess I'll start." He extended his hand a little, "my name is Haruno Kosumo, what is yours," he asked.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki," he said shaking Kosumo's hand.

"There we go," Kosumo said a smile back, "now that we got introductions out of the way…"

"Excuse me, sir;" said one of the chaperons "is this kid bothering you?"

"No, he isn't," Kosumo said without looking at her, "In fact we were having a nice conversation, so could you please shoo," he finish by waving his hand.

Needless to say the woman was upset as she huffed away. "Now where were we; ah yes, tell me about you self," Kosumo said.

"Why don't you start first Kosumo," Naruto said try to pry info from Kosumo.

"Me," he said pointing to himself, "well I run a small shop that repair TVs, radios or any electrical or mechanical, maybe a little pluming. Sometimes I get house calls, hell I even get calls for the Hokage to fix a few things like circuit blowouts, clogged pipes, and maybe some faulty equipment like radios and cameras. Now that I give you some info about me, it's your turn."

"Well I like ramen noodles, sometimes when I sneak out I go to this ramen stand called Ichiraku, the owner of that place likes me, I don't know why but, I'm thankful."

'Propolaly, because you remind him of his old favorite costomer,' thought Kosumo, "I know that man; I fix his stove after sometime ago."

"Do you think you can give me free ramen," Naruto asked.

"No," Kosumo said while glance around the playgroud. "What do you think of this place and be honest."

"I hate it," Naruto said a grim voice.

"Why," Kosumo said, "there kids your age and I'm sure that the people here take care of you." When Naruto had downed look on his face Kosumo figured out the rest, 'looks like the rumors were true about this boy's treatment,' he thought, "They don't do they," Naruto gave him a nod, "well that explains why you escape." Kosumo then saw the owner walk out and looked directly at them, mostly Naruto, 'my, it's been a long time since I've seen those types glares,' he thought as the owner walked towards them.

"Excuse me," the owner said as she glaring at Naruto while he moved closer to Kosumo, "what are you doing outside of your room."

"I don't like it in there, it's dark and lonely in there," Naruto said while he shook a bit.

"I don't care you little monster," she said with venom as tried to hit him.

"Hey," Kosumo shouted while he grabbed the owner's hand before contact, "what do you think you're doing."

"What are you talking about," she questioned.

"You were about ready to hit a defenseless boy. I hope you don't treat the rest of the children like this," Kosumo said as he let her hand go.

"I just about ready to teach this demon a lesson, that's all," she said.

"How can you say that about this boy?"

"If you don't like what I do to the children here, then are biasness here is finished." She said as she turns to talk to one of her attendances to escort him out.

"Not quite," he said making the owner turn back to him, "for you see I'll not be leaving alone, I'm taking this boy with me." This made the owner and rest of the playground quiet. 'Wow if I know that would make people quiet I would of said that sooner.'

"You can be serious," the owner said.

"I'm dead serious," Kosumo said as he turn to Naruto, "Naruto," snapping Naruto out of his shock of being wanted, "you got ten minutes to get your stuff ready."

"Alright," Naruto said in excitement as he made his way to his room.

"Well, now that's be taken care of, let's go to the office and fill the paperwork."

"Why would you want to adopt that demon," the owner asked.

"Let's just say I made a promise to three people," he said as he made his way to the front office.

15 Minutes later outside the front entrance

"Well, let's get you settled and ready to work," Kosumo said as they walked to his shop.

"What do you mean by work," Naruto asked.

"You'll be cleaning my shop and if you want to get out you'll be my assistance when I make house calls. There by gaining you more money," he said as he saw ryo signs in Naruto's eyes.

"Do you think you can enroll me in the ninja academy," Naruto ask sheepishly.

"Why should I do that," Kosumo asked. When Naruto didn't answer, Kosumo spoke, "that was a serious question. So tell me why you want to be a ninja?"

"You'll laugh just like everybody else," Naruto said.

"You wouldn't know unless you tell me," Kosumo said with a smile.

"I want to become hokage and gain the respect of everyone in the village." Naruto said.

"Well let's say this if you answer this question I'll enroll you in the academy in the fall; what do you say,"

"Alright"

"Here's your question, how will you gain the respect of the villagers to make them acknowledge you as hokage? Now I want you to think about the answer while I get you settled in, OK."

"Ok"

"Good, now my shop is three blocks away, then we'll get you started on your first job," Kosumo said as they continued to his shop. Naruto continuing getting glares especially from a man wearing a mask on a near by rooftop.

"So someone actually gave into the demon's charm, but for now I'll inform the Hokage," the man on the roof said as he disappeared.

AN:

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