Author Note: This is one of the many new stories that I will be posting this month. This doesn't have a beta, so I am very sorry about that mistakes and whatnots in here.

For those waiting on the next chapters of The Darkness That Binds Him and The Fourteenth Child, I will try to get those chapters out by Saturday. I've been extremely busy with school lately and honestly, I've only written the first page of TDTBH and about two pages worth of TFC.^^"

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 1 - Promises

"Mommy! Look at what I can do!"

A small child sat in the grass behind his house, dirt covering his small frame. His bright blue eyes shining with excitement as a woman wearing a long yellow dress walked towards him. Her hair was a bright red hair reached all the way down to her knees. She had blue eyes just like her son, except hers was a few shades deeper. She kneeled down next to her son, ignoring the dirt that got on her dress.

"What is it?"

His mother watched with wide eyes as he lifted his hands in front of himself and the rock that previously sat in between his legs shook slightly before rising from the ground. It moved in a circle a few times before dropping back to the ground abruptly. The six year old giggled at the new trick he was able do.

Before, the small blonde boy was only able to do small things like turn on the lights in his house without having to touch the switch. When he showed his parents didn't seem as excited as he was and told him not to do it again.

He looked at his mother, hoping he had impressed her with this trick. He frowned when he saw a worried look on her face.

"Don't you like what I can do, Mommy?"

His mother looked at her son and gave him a shaky smile. She patted his head lovingly.

"Of course I do, Sweetie. I think it's a great thing that you can do these things. That means you're different than everyone else."

"But I don't want to be different! I want to be just like Big Brother!" He puffed out his tiny chest.

His mother laughed slightly, knowing her youngest son always admired his older brother, Kyuubi. "But, Naruto, being different isn't such a bad thing. It means that you're more special than everyone else."

Naruto blinked. "More special?"

His mother nodded. "Yes. Everyone is special, you just happen to be a little more than the rest." She stood and dusted off her dress. "Now, let hurry inside." She smiled when her son shook his head frantically. "I made cookies."

"Chocolate Chip?" He asked.

"Yep. Now hurry and go wash up. Then you can have you're cookies!" She said, shooing him off. She watched him raced towards the house with a frown on her face.

Naruto quickly washed up like his mother asks and started stuffing his face with cookies. His brother came home soon after.

"I'm home!" A voice called from the front door.

Naruto shoved the rest of the cookie in his mouth then raced towards the living room. "Kwuuvi!" He yelled, hugging the red headed male.

Kyuubi kneeled down, laughing at the crumbs that covered Naruto's face. "Hey there Kit." He said, wiping off the crumbs.

Naruto smiled. All traces of the cookies gone from his smiling face. "Kyuubi! I missed you, brother." The blonde boy said, snuggling against Kyuubi's shirt.

Kyuubi was eight years older than Naruto. He had their mother's fiery red hair that he kept in a ponytail to his mid back. He let his bangs frame around his face, some of it hiding his red eyes.

"I'm hurt. Didn't you miss me?"

Naruto leaned over to look behind Kyuubi to see an older copy of himself. He grinned, letting go of his brother to hug the other man.

"Of course I miss you, daddy! Did you get me anything?"

The man laughed and told him to close his eyes. Naruto closed his eyes tightly and when he opened them he squealed and grabbed the fox plushy, holding it tightly to his chest.

"I love it!" Naruto smiled, examining his new toy.

"I'm glad that you do. Now I have to go see Mommy now, okay?" Naruto nodded and watched his father walk down the hall and enter his and his mother's room.

"Come on! I want to play cards with you!"

Naruto took his brothers hand and dragged him to his bedroom. He went to his dresser and emptied the pack of Poker cards on the floor. Kyuubi gathered the cards and started shuffling them. Naruto sat across from him and watched as the cards were laid out.

They played for a couple of hours before Kyuubi announced it was time for him to go to bed. Naruto pouted.

"But I'm not sleepy." He whined.

Kyuubi smiled slightly. "I know you aren't but you have to get up for school tomorrow."

Naruto pouted again but began gathering the cards with Kyuubi's help.

"Goodnight Kyuubi!"

"Night Kit." Kyuubi ruffled his hair before leaving the room.

Naruto quickly changed into his pajamas and put on his walrus hat that his mother had giving him for his birthday last year. Grabbing his fox plushy, he headed to his parents room.

"…you didn't see it, Minato!" His mother's voice drifted from behind his parents' door.

Calm down, Kushina, I'm sure it not what you think—." His father tried to say.

"He was levitating a rock!"

Naruto clutched onto his fox tighter as the silence in the room went on. As quietly as he could, he opened the door and peeked inside. It was a while before his mother spoke.

"I'm worried about this Minato. This is not supposed to happen." Her whispered wouldn't have been heard from outside the door. "He's not supposed to have those powers. It's—"

Her sentence was interrupted and she and Minato looked towards their bedroom door to see Naruto standing there with tears in his eyes. His knuckles were white has he held his fox in a death grip.

"Mommy? Don't you like what I can do? Do you hate me?"

Kushina knelt in front of him, embracing him in a tight hug. She tried to soothe him as Minato kneeled beside her.

"No baby. I will never hate you. Me and your father love you, so don't ever think that we don't."

Naruto looked at his father who smiled and patted his head lovingly. "B-but you don't like what I can do, so you must not like me!"

Minato gripped his shoulders and wiped the tears from his face. "We love you, okay? That's all that matters."

Naruto nodded and sniffed. Kushina picked him up and took him to his room. She tucked him in and wished him goodnight before leaving. Naruto drifted off into sleep, the night's events far from his mind.

Author Note: Thanks for reading and review!

~XxKageTenshixX