"Toss me the wallet, drop the bags and phones now."

The chilling December air swept through the empty streets of Konoha, well, almost empty anyway. A family of four, all bundled up in extravagant jackets, were returning home at around 1 in the morning from a very well-acted play at the local theater. The idea of walking to and from the theater seemed like a good way to have some family bonding time, seeing as though everyone was busy with either school or work.

For all intents and purposes it did work. The family enjoyed each other's presence and on the way to the theater, conversations never stopped popping up, things like what was going on at school with their classmates or idiotic things and people seen at work.

That continued on the way back too, this time the main topic was how handsome the man who played the lead role was, much to the dismay of one member.

Then this happened.

Hinata, stopped her conversation about one of her sensei's at school. Looking ahead, as well as her family, a man stood in their pathway. He looked a few inches shorter than her father, which would put him at about 6-foot-2, way taller than her 5-foot-8 figure. He wasn't there a second ago, where in Kami's name did he come from? An alleyway was to the mysterious man's left, branching off from the sidewalk they were on. 'He must've stepped out when we got close' Hinata thought to herself.

Hitomi, unconsciously wrapped both of her arms around her two daughters and took note of the man's appearance. His face was covered by the darkness and the black hood that was covering the rest of him. The black jeans he wore had holes in them giving her a good look at some nasty cuts and despite the terrible street lighting she saw something weird. He seemed to be favoring his right leg, a lot, this too seemed to be noticed by her husband.

Hiashi, looked at the man, just like his wife and felt like a moron for not bringing his firearm tonight. His hand started to rub the right pocket of his leather jacket and he felt the radio he carried with him no matter what, one call with that and half of the cities law enforcement would be here in a minute.

Hanabi, didn't know what to feel. Something like this never happened to her before, in fact it was never even mentioned at home or in school. She didn't know how to act in front of someone who could possibly hurt her or her big sister, mommy and daddy. Hanabi felt the warmth of her mother's arm wrap around her and simply continued her staring while leaning into the safety of her mommy.

Hitomi felt her little angel snuggle against her, causing her arm to wrap tighter, holding her like a nice warm vice. Thought her thoughts only wavered before returning to the kid, yes, kid. There was no possible way he was above the age of 15, the same age as her beautiful Hinata.

"I said, toss me the wallet, and drop the bags and phones now! Do it! I-I don't want to hurt anyone." The shady robber cursed at himself for the stutter, 'Remember why you're doing this' he thought to himself. "Don't make the mistake of me having to repeat myself again."

She noticed the stutter in his sentence and saw the shivering that came afterwards, and it didn't come from the wind. Hitomi was convinced something bigger was going on here.

"No the only mistake you're making scum is trying to threaten me and my family." Hiashi rushed forward expecting to end this kid off quickly, Hitomi had tried to say something before her Husband rushed in but there was no stopping the man now.

The thief was taken off guard by the man running at him, he took a cautionary step backwards. Hitomi noticing it was his supposed bad leg and took a stance.

The punch came. Throwing up his hand the thief re-directed the punch and had barely enough time to dodge backwards as the man he intended to rob sent his free hand upwards as an uppercut was headed for the thief's chin.

Not wanting to hurt the man, the thief used his advantage to shove him backwards, the man stumbled back a few steps before coming at the kid again. Pissed even more that a kid like this had gotten the drop on him like that.

This time Hiashi bull rushed forward and successfully wrapped his hands around the thief and slammed him into the wall. Accidentally stomping down on the thief's right foot. An ear piercing scream broke through the Friday morning as the women of the family stared in horror, while tears came falling out of the Lavender eyes of Hanabi, this was all so new and scary to her.

Hitomi knew that wasn't a normal reaction for anyone to have for just having their foot stepped on. "Hiashi!" she shouted, getting the quick attention of the man while trying to immobilize the thief.

Said thief noticed the quick distraction and took advantage of the gap in the man's stance. The thief used his good leg to kick the back of the "Hiashi's' right knee. Hiashi felt his leg buckle under the kick and his hold, just like his balance, was dropped. The thief threw him away back towards the rest of his family and walked off the brick wall, nursing the foot that was stained with injury. He couldn't do this without the 'item' he was given earlier. He tried to do it without using it but the master was expecting him back soon and with something worth money. He couldn't return with nothing, not unless he valued his life.

Hiashi sent an annoyed glance to his wife while picking himself up from the floor, which in return got him a look of annoyance right back. What the hell? He was just trying to subdue the bastard that was threatening his family. He didn't want to hear one of her speeches about listening to the story of the person before acting. Hiashi, was one of those people to act first and ask questions later, that's what got him his job today.

With the intent to attack again Hiashi stood, only to freeze in place. Now things got deadly serious.

"I t-told y-you I didn't want to repeat myself. Give me everything n-now and I pr-promise not to hurt a-anyone." The thief that a moment ago seemed harmless was now holding his last resort in his left hand. A .38 snub Smith & Wesson revolver, silver and fully loaded, was being aimed in the general vicinity of the family. "I r-really don't want to have t-to use this b-but I will if I have to." The sound of the hammer being pulled back only emphasized his sentence.

The thief hoped this would get the family to finally stop resisting. He learned that fear ruled over peoples decisions. When people were afraid of something or more importantly someone, then they would do whatever necessary to either stay away from it or listen to a person's orders, even if it's something they don't want to do. So he prayed that the family was at last frightened of him, he looked into each of their eyes.

Standing behind the two parents, he assumed of course, were their two daughters. One looked younger than he did and was dressed in a very nice looking Panda heavy winter jacket, a pink beanie covering her hair. Right now her head was buried in what appeared to be her older sister's chest, who looked like her age.

The older sister's eyes held fear in them, the thief had gotten good at reading people's emotions the past years, but there was another type of emotion the sister held in her eyes that he couldn't quite pinpoint. The older sister was wearing a Lavender light jacket that matched her eyes and long hair. Much like the rest of her family her skin was a type of pale that was very tantalizing to him

Now he looked at the Mom. This is where his tough guy façade broke. Her eyes didn't hold a single tinge of fear. In fact what he saw was something he had never experienced in his hell of a life. The thief saw compassion. No hatred, fear, or even sympathy. No, none of that, he had heard of compassion before but seeing it directed at him now made him feel uneasy.

The hand that held the gun began to shake unbeknownst to him as the mom smiled at him, a smile that wasn't forced or anything like that, the ones he was used to by now. This one was real and genuine, an unknown sense of warmth filled his body by just looking at the woman wearing a darkish pink light jacket, her hair also Lavender and it was longer then her daughters.

"You're hurt" those two simple words hit the thief in his core, the gun started to shake more as the idea of using it started to leave his thoughts. "I can make it feel better, if you just let me-"

Hitomi disregarded her husband's looks of 'Are you crazy?' and took two steps towards the hurt and confused boy, she knew he didn't want to hurt anyone.

The gun was aimed at Hitomi and she stopped quickly in her tracks, the smile still plastered on her face. "Don't come any closer lady, I-I mean i-it." The gun continued its shaking and the stuttering seemed to be getting worse.

Hitomi took another three steps towards her, despite the fire arm being pointed at her. "Hitomi!" Hiashi yelled at his wife. "I said to s-stop moving, d-don't m-make me use this!" the thief absentmindedly took a step back as the lady got closer and closer.

Hinata and Hanabi watched their mother continue to walk forward. Both of them amazed at the fact that her mother was one, not listening to their father and two, was walking towards the man that was trying to rob them a minute ago.

Hinata knew her mother could find the good in anyone she came across, as her job of head nurse at the city's biggest Hospital trained her in that area of knowing a person on the inside, not judging their previous actions.

Hitomi was two steps away. "I-I'm warning you! D-Don't do-"

Warmth. The thief felt his eyes bulge as he felt new found warmth flood throughout his entire body, the coldness he had been living in seemed to melt away. The woman he threatened to shoot but a moment ago was currently wrapping him in a big hug. She was the same height as him and he found his head placed in the crook of her neck.

He had never felt this before, it was something he craved for every day and now that it was finally here for him and him alone his emotions ran loose. The thief began to cry in the crook of the kind and warm woman's neck as years and years of built up anger, frustration, pain and straight up fright were let loose.

Hitomi felt the torrent of tears and heard the sobs come from the boy and felt sorry for the young man. Obviously he's been through a lot to have this type of reaction, and something like a kid his age carrying around a revolver was mind blowing. A kid growing up shouldn't be doing things like this, Hitomi felt a plan swirl in her head, something she is sure her husband wouldn't be too proud of. But she didn't care her nurse side, caring for people in need, came out. She wouldn't let this boy suffer any longer.

The sound of metal clanking made Hitomi look to the ground, there laying on the floor was the pistol the boy was holding. It having slipped from his fingers as she felt his arms entangle around her, pulling her closer to him, the crying growing.

Hitomi smiled, he was a good kid at heart, she could tell.

Snaking her hand up his back she reached for his hood and pulled it back. The boy pulled his head away from the crook of her neck and the two of them looked at each other's face. Hitomi looked at the young boy and another sweet smile graced her lips, something the thief couldn't get enough of. The boy had fiery blonde looking moppy hair, with the most amazing electric blue eyes she's ever witnessed. His skin was plenty tan and there was no complexions covering it. There was but one problem, his right eye, there was a gash going vertically over it. The right half of his right eye was grey, was he partially blind?

All these questions and more were plaguing her mind, but only one escaped her lips. "What's your name?"

"N-Naruto." He breathed out while never breaking eye contact with her. Hitomi smiled, "That's a very good name, and I like it."

Naruto felt a smile start to form on his face, "All units, All units this is Captain Hyuga requesting all cars in the vicinity of my area, at the corner of 6th and 48th. Ready for man in custody to be taken to the station."

The smile was gone. Naruto looked at the man he fought with fear. Hiashi saw the look he was getting from the kid known as Naruto. "What?" Hiashi smiled evilly at the kid while taking out a pair of handcuffs from his back pocket.

"Hiashi! What are you doing? He's done nothing wrong, plus he's just a kid." Hitomi felt Naruto leave her embrace and start to back away from her.

"Nothing wrong!? This punk just tried to rob us at gunpoint! How can you say there's no wrong doing here? It's this kids fault for breaking the law and being dumb enough to try and rob the family of the Captain of the police force for this city." Hiashi began to walk towards Naruto and his wife, "This punk is headed to Juvie."

Naruto crouched down and grabbed the dropped gun, placing it back in his pocket. He walked backwards slowly as the nice lady he had cried on did nothing to stop her husband. Naruto clenched his teeth and wiped any trail of tears from his face, so it was all an act eh? "I never should have trusted you" Hitomi looked at the broken face of Naruto, "It was all a trick to get me to lower my guard. You don't give a damn about me, just like everyone else."

"No, no, no Naruto that's not true I do care about you and your wellbeing it's just I-"

Naruto felt all these emotions cascading down on him at once, he had no idea what to believe. But one thought reigned through all of his others. If he went to jail, then he was dead, anyone that was arrested and sent away were killed the night they were sent there, no exceptions.

He refused to be sent to jail, to his own demise. So he did what he knew best. Run.

Naruto turned and despite his foot wound ran down the same alleyway he appeared out of earlier. "Oh no you don't you piece of shit, get back here!"

Hitomi yelled after both her husband and Naruto as they ran down the alleyway. She needed to stop them, she needed to follow them. "Hinata, Hanabi" Hitomi turned and faced her children who were both wide eyed at what just transpired. "I need the two of you to go home and wait for me and your father, do you understand?"

The two daughters were too distraught to try and convince their mother to come with them. Hinata wrapped her arms around Hanabi and nodded yes to her mother before they started their trek home.

Hitomi took off her annoying heels, never really liking them in the first place, and ran after the two.

Naruto could've ran faster if it wasn't for the injury he got earlier that day and kept looking behind him only to see Hiashi gaining on him. For the hundredth time that day he cursed the person who gave him this foot injury, pushing several garbage cans onto the ground to try and delay the Captain. It seemed that the goddess of luck was shining down on him this day. The cans seemed to delay him for a little over 4 seconds. Hey, in this state each second could go a mile.

"All Units suspect is fleeing the scene heading east towards-" Hiashi punted the last garbage can out of the way, continuing the chase, "Heading east towards 5th and 47th, suspect is dressed in all black, approximately 6-foot-2, with blonde hair and blue eyes. Be advised suspect is armed."

Hiashi let out a grunt as he jumped over two more garbage cans and a cardboard box, seconds later hearing the static of the radio coming back to life.

"This is Car 77 heading towards your destination."

"Car 98 coming your way"

"Car 27, E.T.A to coordinates 30 seconds."

Hiashi smirked, there was nowhere for this kid to go now.

Naruto came to the end of the alleyway, a square room was branched off the long alleyway and led to a garage door, which was open. Running inside he took in his surroundings. Car parts seemed to be laying around along with a nice looking 1981 Mustang, colored in a deep red. Why the hell was there an auto store connected to an alleyway?

"Honey? It's about time you got back, I'm star-"

Naruto looked at the man who rounded the corner, to a room that Naruto guessed was the stores lobby, better known as his exit. He was wiping oil off onto a blue rag, some of it on the blue overall he was wearing. Goggles sat atop his head that were covered in the same car substance and before the pale looking mechanic could ask any other question, Naruto acted.

Turning around he saw his pursuer still running after him. A red button sat next to the garage door, he quickly punched it and watched as the door started to slide down closed. "Give me your keys to the store." He turned to face the old man and aimed his revolver at him, he hated using the gun but he didn't need to have an hour long conversation with the guy about why he needed them.

The mechanic without hesitation listened to the gunman and tossed the set of keys. Naruto caught them in mid stride and continued his momentum towards the lobby. Just as he rounded the corner the garage door was merely inches away from shutting, smiling Naruto believed he had escaped.

His face turned to horror though when he saw the persistent officer slide on his back under the garage door, the big chunk of sliding metal just closing after he made it through.

Naruto cursed at himself and ran. Running through the lobby he made past the dull fold out chairs and stupid paintings just as a woman walked through the entrance. At the sight of Naruto she screamed as his outfit just read 'trouble'.

"Get the hell out of the way!" he pushed her to the side roughly, making her fall to the ground and the bag of groceries she was carrying to spill. After he exited the store, Naruto forced the glass door to close quickly before pulling out the keys he 'borrowed'. As he put the key in the keyhole he saw Hiashi round the corner into the lobby.

'Shit, shit, shit, shit, hurry up you idiot.'

The sound of a lack activating cooled Naruto especially when it locked just as the Captain had started pulling on the handle. The glass was sound proof but Naruto could read the lips of the Captain and knew some pretty bad vulgarity was going off inside the store.

The young thief smiled triumphantly and began to walk down the sidewalk away from the crazy Captain. He felt the adrenaline that spiked his system start to drain, as the pain from his foot wound started to eat away at his psyche. Naruto knew he needed to get it checked out, but 'he' wouldn't allow that.

Looking down though he could see blood start to pool out of his crappy construction worker boots. All that running he did, his right foot has taken one hell of a beating. Maybe he could schedule one of these secret meetups with the doctor again.

All in all that stuff was for a different day. He should consider himself lucky for escaping the Captain of the police force, now it was time to return home and hide. Hopefully his master was when in a better mood then yesterday. Naruto was sure that he would be upset to hear that he didn't steal anything and didn't make money, but when he mentioned escaping the arrest from the Police Captain he would understand. Right?

Naruto threw his hood over his head and walked down the street, feeling that something was still wrong and his senses were never wrong.

That sound. Sirens started blaring around him. 'How could he forget about the backup? His master was right he was stupid.'

Two police cruisers skidded around the corner of the intersecting street he was heading for, maybe they weren't looking for him?

"You there with the black hoodie stop!" the PA system on the cruiser shouted out. Maybe Naruto really was dumb, they weren't looking for him? He needed to start actually using his brain soon, maybe he would survive then.

Turning around he grew more scared when another cruiser came barreling around the corner, lights on. Naruto couldn't think, what should he do? They fucking sandwiched him and he had nowhere to go. Thinking back this was all that nice lady's fault. She broke down his emotional barriers with a few gentle words and a warm hug. He felt like a moron for falling for such a trick, it was like his master said, no one gave a damn about him. Trust no one.

That was rule number one that he set for himself and he broke it.

Shattering glass made Naruto look at the shop he just ran out of to see Hiashi standing up from the pavement, wiping pieces of glass from his sweater vest that he had underneath his leather jacket. Naruto looked at him incredulously, he broke through the door with his body? Just how much did he want to catch him? That was pretty easy actually, I mean he went as far as to use his wife as collateral

The panic of being sent away and killed forced the boy to turn and run across the street, the police cruisers hot on his tail, as well as Hiashi. Naruto ran through the back alley and immediately froze about 20 steps in. Not only was the alleyway a dead end but there were two people standing at the end, leaning on top of a parked BMW. They both wore white tank tops with baggy cargo shorts, orange bandanas tied on their heads and covered in tattoos of what looked like dead people's faces. He knew who these guys were, how could the master send these people after him? He wasn't even in custody and yet he would send them. More importantly how did he know about this? How did he know that he was tricked and was on the run?

One looked to be about 6-foot-6 and the other around 5-foot-10. The taller man held a pump action shotgun behind his head, a wicked smirk never faltering from his face as he stared at the young boy. The shorter man wore a second bandana over his face and looked to be holding a Micro Uzi.

"It is your time Naruto, 'He' sends his regards."

The shorter man aimed the Micro Uzi at Naruto. The young thief known as Naruto knew his life was over. The master has ordered his execution and when the mastered ordered an execution of another member, it was always carried out. In fear that if you failed someone else under his command would come after you. There was nowhere to run and there was nowhere to hide it looked like it was finally going to be over.

He had a good run. Fifteen years is a long time, especially for the type of life he lived. Naruto knew 12 year olds that lost their lives in outer family wars. Even he was surprised that he lasted this long to start with, through all the hell he was put through and he never cracked in his physical or emotional training.

Well except for once.

Looking back at the nice lady, even though she tricked him, he was glad that he hadn't realized the backstabbing at first. Because for the first time ever he felt some sort of happiness, even if it turned out to be fake, he felt for a fraction of a second what it felt to have someone caring for you. It's too bad he wouldn't be able to see that nice lady again, he actually thought about thanking her and giving her a commendation on her acting skills. Naruto closed his eyes and waited, much to the pleasure of the two killers.

The sirens got closer and he heard the slamming of multiple doors, then there was a door slamming noise that didn't go with any of the cruisers. Naruto heard long wheezy breaths coming from a woman, his eyes flew open and to the right of him was a door, that he checked earlier was locked from the inside.

Standing in the door threshold was the last person he wanted to be in the middle of what was about be chaotic gunfire.

Hitomi looked at Naruto. She had to run around the entire block to catch up with them as she saw a garage door that was blocking her from advancing in the alleyway from before. It was a hassle as she was never really known for anything athletic but he was going to stop her husband from harming this innocent boy.

He had a look of astonishment and fear, she noted and then looked to her left to see the police cruisers her husband sent for at the entrance of this dead end alleyway. Now she looked to the right and saw the reason, or at least she thought it was, why Naruto wasn't moving. Two gangbangers from what looked like the Hokage crime ring, as they sported the color orange on the bandanas they wore.

Hitomi though was mostly looking at the weapons they were holding. Afraid they would use them, and she was right to be afraid because that's exactly what's going to happen.

"No witnesses."

The shorter man raised his Micro Uzi at her. Without thinking Naruto unfroze from the middle of the alleyway and ran at the nice lady just as the sounds of rounds being fired off rang through the alleyway.

Hitomi couldn't move as the bullets came closer to killing her, although it seemed to be her lucky day.

The boy she was just trying to save wrapped her arms around her small figure and brought her to the ground and through the door. She felt the full force of the ground along with the force the body of Naruto brought. But it definitely hurt less than being shot multiple times.

Seconds later the sound of returning fire, no doubt from her husband's subordinates, sounded off as an all-out gunfight ensued.

As long as Naruto was safe, everything was good, she just prayed that her husband would end up fine too. He might be a little rough around the edges at first but once you got to know him like she and her daughters did, on the inside he was just a big teddy bear.

"Naruto can you get off me please? You're just a little too heavy for me." Hitomi giggled hoping to bring the sweet boy she saw earlier, but he didn't respond. He kept his head down and in fact it didn't look like he was moving. "Naruto are you alright?"

Hitomi felt a warm droplet of liquid fall on her bare right arm. Looking closely at it she could identify it as. Blood.

Using all the strength she could muster, Hitomi pushed his rag doll like body off of her and onto his back. She got one look at the young boy and felt bile start to rise in the back of her throat. Naruto, who looked to be about 15 years old, still a kid in her eyes and of many.

Had 6 GSW's (Gunshot Wounds) in his chest.

"No…"