It was another beautiful night in the village of Konoha. Most everyone was in their house except for one particular six year old blonde boy with three whisker like marks on both cheeks, and the angry mob that was chasing him. While he ran for his life he heard them shout things like "demon" and "monster" and "the Kyuubi brat". They also shouted other things but since he was six he didn't understand what it meant.
He knew he shouldn't have gone outside today because today was October 10th, also known as his birthday. Every year on his birthday a group of villagers would always get together and chase him, they called it the Demon Hunt. They always caught him and beat him while hurling insults at him. This year they chased him down an alley but before they could start hitting him they heard a voice shout at them that a few recognized. The voice instilled fear in the smart ones, while the idiots of the group thought that they would now have the help of a ninja to help them exterminate what they thought of as trash.
"What the hell is this," shouted the voice. A pink haired lady stepped forward, presumably the leader of the group, and said "Why hello Tsume-sama, care to join us in the Demon Hunt." The woman, now identified as Tsume, looked to see what she was talking about when she spotted the poor frightened six year old. Instantly realization and anger flashed across her face. Tsume turned to the lady and threw a powerful punch at her jaw knocking her out instantly and sending her flying at the wall where she made a dent then slumped forward unconscious.
Tsume walked over to the boy, who was still cowering but now with a shred of hope on his face. She bent down close to him and asked very politely what his name is. He let out a whimper then replied with a whisper of "Naruto". She smiled and then asked if he wanted to come with her. He was hesitant to accept at first, since the villagers had tried this before only to stab him in the back, literally. Then he remembered what she did to the leader, Haruno he thinks he heard them call her, and accepted by jumping into her arms nodded his head vigorously.
Tsume smiled at his antics and set him down gently. "I just have one thing I need to take care of first and I need you to close your eyes and hold your ears closed. OK?", she requested. Again he nodded his and did as she asked him to. After she was sure he couldn't hear or see anything she turned to the crowd and smirked evilly. The idiots in the crowd once again took this as her helping them and advanced a little which royally pissed her off. She held up her finger to stop their advance and then spoke, "If I catch any of you even thinking about hurting this boy again I will personally fuck up your whole life," she threatened. At the end of her threat the crowd was in an uproar with shouts of the demon brainwashed her s they advanced again, but Tsume wasn't having any of it. After they stopped shouting and walked forward a little she proceeded to beat the shit out of everyone there.
After she was done with the mob she turned back to Naruto, picked him up, and left turning towards the Hokage tower. While they walked, Naruto being carried by Tsume, he turned to her "Why are you doing this for me? No one is ever this nice to me," he asked and stated. Tsume was heartbroken at this and replied with, "You remind me of my own son, Kiba. Also I was good friends with your mother and if you're good I will maybe tell you about her later." At the mention of his mother he perked up because of the possibillity of learning where he came from so he promised to be a very good boy.
So for the rest of their walk they just chatted with mostly meaningless chit-chat. When they stopped to Naruto looked up he noticed they were in front of the Hokage building. "What do you need to talk to jiji about," he asked. "I need to talk to him about staying with me for awhile," she replied. Naruto was caught off guard by this since no one had ever wanted him before except may the old man. Once what she had said sunk in he burst into tears of joy, hugging her tightly, and thanking her over and over. Tsume shushed him saying it was in honor to have her old friends son stay with her.
After his break down, Naruto fell asleep from the emotional rollercoaster that was that day. With Naruto asleep in her arms she walked up the stairs, ignoring the secretary's shouting that she couldn't go in without an appointment, she walked up to the Hokage's door and knocked receiving and "Enter" from inside. She walked in and Sarutobi smiled at who it was until he saw who she was carrying and immediately grew worried. He stood to go over to them but she mouthed the word "Sleeping" and he nodded to the door that held his personal lounge. She walked over to it, opened the door, and walked in to the place the still sleeping Naruto on the couch in the room.
She walked out of the room, closing the door behind her, and took a seat in front of Sarutobi. He flinched at the look of rage that was displayed on her face and asked her what brought her here. So she launched into her story of finding Naruto being chased by the villagers, of her threat to them, and her carrying out said threat. After she was done the Hokage summoned and squad of Anbu and ordered them to collect the mob and take them to Ibiki Morino of the T&I (Torture and Interrogation) department. After that was done he turned back to Tsume and asked her if there was anything else that she needed. She smiled at this saying, "Yes there is Hokage-sama." "Well what is it," he asked. "I wish to adopt Naruto and make him an Inuzuka," she replied still smiling. That is until she heard him sigh. "I wish you could, but the damn council would never allow it," he stated with another sigh.
"You mean the Civilian council would never allow it. However, the Shinobi council is all for it. Also the civilian council is all but eradicated because all of them, save one, was in the mob making it easy to out vote them," she corrected him. At this he smiled and said he would call for the council together. After the quick meeting, the vote passed that she could adopt Naruto, the clan head Uchiha Fugaku being the only one on the shinobi council to be against it.
So Tsume and Sarutobi walked back to his office and he had his secretary draw up the paper work, which she signed immediately. After that was said and done she went and woke up Naruto and told him that he was gonna move in with her. At this his eyes went wide and he asked, "Is it really true?" She smiled and nodded so he launched himself and squeezed while thanking her all over again. "In fact your name will now be Naruto Uzumaki-Inuzuka, since I adopted you," she told him. Again the excitement, and now the prospect of having a family at last, caused him to pass out. When he next awoke he found 10 minutes to have passed. He didn't find Tsume anywhere so he got up and walked out of the lounge to find her waititng for him outside of the door.
"So before we head home to the Inuzuka compound do you want to head to your place to get anything," she asked. "No I don't have anything except for the clothes that I'm wearing," he replied with his head down in a sad way. This broke Tsume's heart so she told him that they would go buy him some clothes before heading home. So with that they set out in the direction of the market. All the while Naruto beamed a radian smile at everything because he had finaly found a family.