This is my first story I publish so I would it appreciate if you would try to be as nice as possible.

I had the idea for this story a while ago and thought how the Hokage could have made Naruto's life better. This was one of the solutions I came up with.

I don't own Naruto or any other thing I write about, by now I guess we all know who owns it... So, Only the OCs are mine to keep

I'd like to hear your opinions about my idea. One thing before you can read the story, I am not a native English speaker so if you find errors let me know and I correct them.

Prologue

A small girl not even five years of age ran through the streets of Konoha. She had long crimson hair and eyes like the night sky, dark with many colours mixed in. Said girl was Kazumi Uzumaki, she grew up one of orphanages in Konoha. For reasons unknown to her the villagers seemed to hate her. She was kicked out of the orphanage at the age of three and survived almost two years on her own. She hadn't managed to stay unharmed because it seemed to be a hobby around Konoha to make her suffer when she was seen. Her whole body was covered in scars and bruises till now she managed to have her face unharmed but that was all. Her clothes wear ripped up so badly that she could wear nothing and hide more but she didn't have any dignity left because drunken people loved to… play with her.

The only good thing was that she obtained a summoning contract shortly after her fourth birthday. Kazumi saw a giant of a man with long white hair perform a jutsu and he summoned a toad. To her surprise the toad could speak and then it came to her. Humans didn't like her but maybe animals did. So she performed the summoning jutsu… she would never admit that she had no idea what she was doing and found herself at another place and she found talking cats.

The nekos accepted her rather easily… she learnt that she was the first neko summoner ever and that gave her a big boost for acceptance. She met the elder neko, a cat named Toshi and his wife Kimiko. The boss summons, the children of the two elders, were gigantic. Their names were Kamiko and Takeo. She even got a personal summon, one of the daughters of Kamiko with the name of Miyako. Miyako had a black fur with white dots and had a gently personality. Don't get it wrong in battle she would be ferocious but outside of that she was a pure soul.

Since her signing of the contract Kazumi noticed a few changes on her. Her nails got longer and sharper, her teeth were became more predator like and her pupil were silted. Something she would never admit was that she purred when she felt satisfied… it embarrassed her when she was not in the company of her nekos.

Another change was that her summons adopted her and she had for the first time in her life a family. It was a great feeling to know there was someone who cared for you. One side effect of that was that she became a bit… cat like. She was a curious person and wanted to know everything there was to know. Sometimes she could space out and do nothing for hours only to continue what she had done before. She lived not on the streets of Konoha as before rather she built her home in one of the many forests of the village. She found a clearing with a river nearby and that was all she needed. She made a den with the help of her summons and lived there ever since.

She had obviously no money and everything she needed she got one way or another. Before the contract she stole food and water but after the signing she hunted and fished on her own or with help of the nekos. Clothes were not available for her since she had no money but she didn't need too much again her summons helped her out. They were not great clothes makers but it got the job done.

After she got fixed up by the nekos and her body was no longer on the edge of collapse, she started to train… simply to avoid the drunken and evil humans. Kazumi started to run through the forest on the instructions of Yukio an old neko who was strict but fair. After some time she felt that she faster, stronger and had a lot more agility. With the help of Toshi she began to walk on the path of chakra. Chakra was the greatest joy of Kazumi's young life. If you had the imagination you could do anything with it. She learnt how to walk on trees and on water, all for the sake of surviving.

She even found out that she had a kekkai genkai, Lava release. One day she just sat there in front of her den and did nothing. Out of nowhere she had a warm feeling in her stomach and had to vomit and puked lava out. At first she panicked until she summoned Kimiko and the cat explained to her that this was nothing to worry about. On the contrary it was something really good but Kimiko also warned her not to show her kekkai genkai in front of humans. The only case she was allowed to do so would be when she was in high danger.

So yes, Kazumi was proud of what she became. She was Kazumi Uzumaki of nekojima.

Anyway back to the top. Kazumi ran through the streets of Konoha and that literally for her life. She was chased for whatever reason, known only to the gods, and was having trouble to find a way out of this mess. She ran and ran away but she recognised a few shinobi in the crowd. That was the moment she knew she was fucked… Even worse was that she wanted to run through an alley only to find that said alley had a dead end. Defeated she surrendered to her fate.

Hours later at the Hokage office

Hiruzen Sarutobi was the sandaime Hokage and an old man. He knew he lost some of his edge but he would never admit it. Currently he sat in his office and smoked his pipe while he tried to defeat his toughest enemy… Paperwork. He sighed as he looked trough of some of the petitions. Most of them concerned an innocent girl that he made to wear the burden for his quasi grandson Naruto. She was innocent before and now she most likely hated and distrust humans and to be honest he wouldn't accuse her because of that.

Kazumi was one of the many things he regretted… at least the other things were done in wartime and the children the sacrificed for Konoha lived a bit of a normal life before they died. Hiruzen knew that Kazumi was most likely dead inside and he knew it was his fault. While he gave every protection possibly to Naruto he forgot about Kazumi. When he visited Naruto on his fourth birthday he learnt that Kazumi was thrown out of the orphanage at the age of three. He found her a year later when one of his more trusted ANBU stumbled upon her in one of the forests. She seemed to have built something like a cave and lived together with cats.

A few moments before he heard of another incident concerned to Kazumi. Once again she was assaulted by some of the villagers and even some shinobi. He never thought that it would escalated to such dimensions but he couldn't stop it anymore. Maybe if he intervened a few years ago he could have changed the fate of the young girl but now it was too late.

Hiruzen lay his pipe away and massaged his temples because he had a headache coming and for once he made it himself…

A small Q&A at the end

Why is the life of Kazumi much harder than that of Naruto?

Because Naruto had the protection of the Hokage in canon. Everyone knew the Hokage was having a great relationship with Naruto and in this case Kazumi has absolutely no relationship with him because of that the villagers didn't feel afraid of retribution.

Will the Universe be altered?

Yes absolutely. I will change a few ages for some of the shinobi and some events will be later or earlier happen then in canon. Later on the existence will change the future of course but I try to stick to the original as much as possible.

Do you have any ideas for the continuation of the story?

Of course I have some ideas. I plan to let Kazumi enter the academy and let her graduate at the same time as the rookie 9. She will most likely not be on team 7 because to be honest I don't like it that much. I will (hopefully) not bash them but yeah…

I think I will give Kazumi an apprenticeship, most likely in T&I where she will learn under Anko, Ibiki and Yugao.

If you have any questions let me know :)