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Chapter 1: Hatred of the DemonBrat.
It was night time in the village of Konoha, like usual it was quiet, except for the murmuring in bars and home coming ninja from missions from faraway lands, the village was at ease – and was generally relaxed especially at this time of day, despite what most thought night time didn't mean an increased chance of an attack on a village, no quite the opposite, the dark didn't allow as much co-ordination and the people of Konoha knew this which left there nights generally uneventful.
A young boy sat on a swing looking at the academy he'd hopefully one day attend, he was around seven years old, blonde – with sparkling blue eyes and whisker like marks decorated his face, he wore an orange jumpsuit that made him stand out like a sore thumb, but it was all he had.
He stared towards the large brown double doors of the academy, he had trained all his life so far to become the best he could be, he'd taken scrolls from the library despite being insulted as he did, he'd learnt to take the insults – it was his fault and he deserved them, the villagers were merely helping him to atone. He understood that after a few years.
After he had mastered lower levels of jutsu and scrolls he proceeded to dig deeper into the knowledge base of Konoha's library, the more he practiced the better he became and he lusted for harder techniques, until he stumbled on a part of the library that was particularly well guarded and held a sign above it saying 'Do Not Enter.'
He recalled the day he weaved in and out of bookcases avoiding detection from ANBU level ninja, whatever they were protecting had to help make him strong, or it wouldn't have been so well guarded, and he was right, he had stumbled upon Fuinjutsu and what had surprised him more that the large scroll he had found had the name 'Uzumaki' on it so he decided to take it and replace it with a blank scroll also reading 'Uzumaki'
He was shook out of his thoughts when he heard that people were starting to leave the bars of Konoha a man was glaring at him and Naruto did his best to hold a smile towards the man, as he walked past he snarled at the young blonde. " Brat."
Naruto stood from the swing noticing the man had dropped his wallet, he grabbed on to the sleeve of the man and tugged it gently "M-Mister, you dropped something." The man immediately turned on heel and his fist met Naruto's jaw as it sent him crashing it to the floor.
"S-Sorry…" he whimpered holding up the wallet for the man to take as he snatched it from the young blonde and walked away muttering something about how demons shouldn't be allowed to live in Konoha.
Naruto got up and sat back on the swing, out of the village it was the only place he liked to sit within the village centre, it was in the shade almost hidden by the tree and when he sat here he wasn't beaten as much as normal as people didn't really take as much notice of him.
Another man walked up to the boy and he immediately prepared for the worst. "Hey brat, get off that swing you're ruining it for everyone else – no one wants a swing that a demon has touched!" the man declared clearly angered by Naruto's very presence, he could only follow commands – sure he could kill the man easily and most who approached him but that wouldn't help him atone for being a demon.
"S-Sorry I didn't mean to ruin it…" he said weakly hoping that the man could forgive him, the man just turned and began to walk away "Oh wait I forgot to give you your goodbye present." Naruto's eyes widened with joy, a present for him? He'd never had a present before he didn't care what it was he'd be happy just to receive something.
The man's span and delivered a swift knee to Naruto's nose leaving him blood trickling down his lower face and he was on all fours, he tried not to make it look as if he could get up – that might scare the person or cause him to think that Naruto intended to fight.
"T-thank you." Naruto said, if the man considered this a 'present' he would be polite as possible like he tried to be with all the villagers. "Cocky brat!" the man growled before kicking the small boy in the ribs as he double over, the man walked away like he was perfectly innocent.
Naruto stood up, all in all beatings as little as that didn't really cause him any pain – sure they made him bleed, but he could take the pain without question, he decided he would only anger more villagers if he stayed outside any longer he walked down the main street, the fastest way to his rundown apartment when he saw a blonde girl with dazzling blue eyes had just witnessed the scene and had a look of horror on her face.
Naruto looked up at her and smiled "You're really pretty! I hope you have a good night!" He exclaimed, he had seen her a few times and she hadn't even insulted him that was quite the feat in Naruto's mind. The girl quickly shook from her horror and ran inside and slammed the door.
'I guess she was too afraid to do anything to me.' He walked over to her door and pulled out some paper and an envelope.
He had done this many times to people and carried them around in case he needed them, he quickly written something down and sealed it in the envelope and pushed it through the girls letter box before leaving the scene towards his apartment with speed, he decided not to enjoy the walk in case he upset anyone else.
The blonde girl sitting on the stairs walked over the letter box that descended on to her welcome mat she ran over hurriedly to collect it and ran back over to the stairs to read it.
On the envelope it read 'I'm Sorry.'
She opened it up to reveal a quickly written letter ' I didn't mean to scare you, I just wanted for you to have a happy night and to you know that you were pretty I heard someone say people liked hearing things like that but I guess It doesn't work if I say it. Sorry.'
She sighed; she really hadn't meant to run inside like that.
Naruto opened the door to his apartment, it was spotless, no mess in sight –though it was late he knew he wouldn't be able to sleep just yet and decided to hit the scrolls, Fuinjutsu really grabbed his curiosity because it was one of the things he couldn't just learn in a few hours, so far he had learnt how to store things or make them explode and then some basic sealing creating a trap that when activated a bag full of kunai would implode sending them flying off in different directions.
He was bored with the basics thought, and stepped it up a level for those that could be used in battle other than traps or exploding tags, he had to be strong so the he could become the Hokage and the village would finally accept him though It would also help him to understand the things in the Uzumaki scroll which was of a much higher level.
After a few hours of reading Naruto discovered he was no longer capable of taking in the information, and he was starting to feel drowsy, he walked into the large room like he did every night, it was painted a cold blue, and there was eerie light in there from the large window that had a wooden window sill allowing a full grown person to sit and look out.
Naruto stayed in this room rather than the other smaller room, he liked the other room more but decided it would be a waste if he chosen the smaller room as this one was a little larger, he sat on the window sill and stared out at Konoha, despite what the people had done to him time and time again he loved the village with all his heart.
He stared out admiring the structures of the town and from here he could even see a huge compound, with large beautiful trees and the main house was considered to be a mansion, he knew that it belonged to the Hyuuga clan, he looked around seeing several shops he recognised, most of them sadly didn't allow 'his kind' in their stores.
He spotted his favourite ramen stall Ichiraku's packing up for the night, he loved that place, the people treated him like a normal person, but he didn't go there often – people might try to hurt them or ruin their business if they found out they were talking to him, and he didn't wish that on anyone.
His eyes wandered the streets and he came to a flower store – he loved to admire the plants that were on display outside although he'd never been inside the store he knew he wouldn't be welcomed, especially since he had been chased away just for looking at the ones on display outside.
His eyes continued to walk the empty streets of the village as they now gazed at the proud Hokage tower, the building he one day hoped to be seated in behind the small wooden desk, wearing the robes of the Hokage proudly. Pictures of the previous Hokage's would be dotted around his office in respect for them and his head would be added to the mountain that commemorated the Hokages of the leaf village.
As if on cue to the thought his eyes looked to the Hokage monument, he stared at the fourth one the longest, or his father's – he'd knew of course that Minato Namikaze was his father, the resemblance was too much of a coincidence and only those who didn't want to believe it could tell him otherwise although he hadn't actually told anyone he was Minato's son, surely no one would believe him.
He looked to a building – the closest to the apartment, a man was laying bricks to a soon to be complete construction and despite the time was still working on, Naruto admired that and watched on as the man carefully tended to his trade, another man soon joined the builder and pointed at Naruto watching from the window.
Suddenly the man frowned at looked angry and the two began throwing bricks towards the him, the first three left large holes in the window – his favourite window that had already been broken many times, and the fourth brick shattered through the window and hit Naruto square on the forehead sending him crashing off the window sill and onto the floor afterwards he blacked out.
Well that was one way to get to sleep.
Authors Notes: The first three chapters will be relatively short, I find it's easier to keep the reader interested when dealing with things like character introductions, hopefully it wasn't too short. The chapters will get longer after the first introduction chapters.
Hope you enjoyed reading.