My first try at writing a story. Review after reading if you like. Don't bother flaming though I'll ignore them.

I don't own Naruto.


Konoha, The village hidden in leaves.

One of the five great elemental villages and said to be the strongest of them. Being stronger than others doesn't mean being better though. Like others she too has dirty secrets and skeletons in her closet but she hides them behind a peaceful aura. Warmly smiling to hide her sins, deceiving everyone but most experienced and cunning...

and of course those who saw her real face.

Villagers. Like most humans seeing what they want; hearing, listening, understanding what they want.

Everything else can and will be ignored, hated, feared …despised.

Like a certain young boy.

His name was Naruto. He was an orphan, his parents died at the mysterious kyuubi incident years ago. He contained it. This made it impossible for him to have a normal life. They hated him but did not touched him because they feared kyuubi, not knowing it sealed tight in him; only in extreme moments its power can be out, but that didn't stopped them using other ways.

That forced him to mature quickly to survive.

At first he tried, tried his hardest to get accepted with no success. He started to think, what caused such animosity towards him? Why he was hated so much? He asked to the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, one of the numbered people who didn't hated him, but never got an answer. He always eluded the question. He also asked about his parents to him too but again he didn't got a satisfactory answer.

"I'll tell you when you are older"

This was the answer every time he asked.

They called him demon so he thought he had to be one. That would explain why he was hated and why Sandaime never gave an answer to who his parents were. But that brought more questions; why was he here? Where were his parents? Were they alive? When some time passed and he didn't get any answers, he just ignored those questions to continue living, thinking maybe at time there would be answers to his questions. He lived that way until he was four. Then he got kidnapped…

FLASHBACK

He found himself in a dark place – the musty smell was indicating that he was either in a cave or in another place underground- trying to understand how that did happened. Last thing he remembered doing was going to bed and sleeping. His thoughts cut off by a voice.

"So you are awake?" the voice said "good he is waiting." He heard them walking towards him.

He felt them taking his arm and leading him to somewhere. When they took a turn he could see a faint light coming at the end of the way. He looked at his captor; it was a white human like creature with green hair, pupilless yellow eyes and deathly pale body. They reached there – it was a great hall. On the walls torches were lighting the hall weakly. At the end of the hall a figure was sitting still, apparently sleeping. When they got close he could see details of the figure; it was an old man. He had Gray long spiky hair, wrinkly pale face, a dark robe. He opened his single eye and he saw most striking feature; his single left eye, crimson with a pupil and in a circle around it three tomoes – sharingan.

With his work done the creature took his leave, leaving old man and the boy alone. They stared each other for several minutes, neither breaking eye contact until the old man spoke.

"You don't seem afraid. You had been kidnapped, don't you fear that you can be killed?" he said, looking at the boy who doesn't seem to be affected by the chain of events.

"What would being afraid change? If you wanted to kill me you could do that while I was sleeping and I would be oblivious to that." He said while looking around. There were four columns supporting the ceiling. "As for fearing death; my life already is a hell. Maybe I'll find afterlife better."

'He is suitable, no he is perfect.' The old man thought while narrowing his eyes at the boy."Then I'll introduce myself and tell you my plan; my name is Uchiha Madara and the plan is project Tsuki no Me…"

END OF FLASHBACK


KONOHA ACADEMY

That was nine years ago. He learned everything he can from that man, everything he had - both good and bad. But in the end he died. He thought he left another discipline, but the boy was much more realist than him. He learned there was a group named Akatsuki from one of White Zetsu which had another of Madara's discipline as its leader. He was a broken man who couldn't get after his crush's death so tried to make a dream world to revive her. He didn't had any problem with him, even after he learned that man was behind the 'Kyuubi Incident' so he settled to watch him instead.

"You should wake up Naruto, he is about to shout to you."

This was Akimichi Chouji . Heir of an overweight but powerful Akimichi clan.

"He is never going to leave me alone a little is he?" Naruto sighed. He loved their teacher, Iruka, but he could be annoying at times.

Next to him was still sleeping Nara Shikamaru, Heir of the lazy but genius Nara clan.

Seeing Naruto waking up Iruka changed his focus back to lecturing.

But the blond wasn't listening to him, looking out of the window, watching sky.

"… And this is it. Alright class as you all know tomorrow you will have graduating exam. Make sure you are ready for it, dismissed."


End of prologue. Thanks for reading.