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No longer alone
Chapter 1
A small blonde boy sat shivering and bloody underneath a cardboard box, rain pelting onto his flimsy makeshift shelter. His previously orange jumpsuit was now a light brown and shredded, He was so cold, he rolled onto his side and wrapped his arms around himself, trying desperately to get some warmth into his body. The rain was pounding so loud on the roof that he didn't hear footsteps approaching him until someone tapped him on the shoulder.
He weakly turned his head towards the entrance to his box shelter and saw a man crouched down in front of it. The man was wearing a large hat to block the rain, he could only make out that the man had silver hair and he thought he saw a flash of pink?
"Hey Fucking brat, there a reason that your shit whole box is blocking the alley?" the man asked angrily.
Naruto looked at the man, with his dead blue eyes and quietly complied. He was used to this kind of treatment so he slowly, shivering slightly, got out of the box, threw it in a dumpster and shakily headed out of the alleyway.
The man slowly rose and looked after the boy, "what the fuck's wrong with that kid?" he said to himself and started following him, until he had ended up on top of the hokage monument. The kid was sitting shakily on the fourth's head with while the man looked on from the trees.
The man scoffed at the shivering kid and turned to leave, until he heard the kid start to say something.
"W-why do they always m-make fun of me" the boy said quietly shivering, "i-ive never done a-anything to them."
The man stopped and crept closer to the kid, now intrigued.
"i-I thought that once I'd entered the shinobi academy and proved to them that I was strong that they would stop," the boy sniffled a little, "I wish I'd known my parents, I bet that they wouldn't…..have…called…me…a….demon" The boy whimpered and then yawned and closed his eyes until he was snoring slightly and shuddering in the rain.
The man sighed and slowly approached the kid, his trip to Konoha had been thoroughly boring until now, he had only taken the trip in the hopes of converting a few people or if not then killing a few but so far no one would get anywhere near him, they all saw his scythe and stayed FAR away. The boy was the first one to look at him without fear in a long time so he had found him intriguing.
Hidan now looked down at the fair haired boy, with whisker like scars on his cheeks. He sighed, "I know that this is going to be one fucking big mistake but what the hell, I've got nothing better to do," so he scooped the boy up and headed down from the hokage monument and back towards the town.
~flashback~
Naruto dashed down the streets looking behind him every now and then, 'good' he thought, 'I lost them'. But when he looked back in front of him he saw a horde of both civilians and shinobi blocking his path and he skidded to a stop.
"You have no right to be a ninja, demon!" one of the civilians yelled.
"your only trying to corrupt the future of our village!" a shinobi yelled waving a short sword in front of him, with all of the mob cheering in agreement.
Naruto sighed as they charged, just another day in his life. Even though he wouldn't say it out loud he actually craved acceptance from these people and to have someone to say nice things about him or to have a friend that he could share his thoughts with and have fun. He used to play with an older black haired boy with an anbu mask on, but one day the boy up and disappeared and Naruto hadn't seen him since.
He closed his eyes as he felt the first blow hit him in the face, but soon he felt nothing as the sudden rush of blows and slashes dulled into one pain and he blocked it out. Soon though the mob grew bored with his compliance and left yelling at him not to return to the academy tomorrow or he'd regret it.
Naruto had returned slowly on that cloudy night to the orphanage that he'd lived at all of his life but once he entered the headmistresses told him that if he didn't quit the academy he would be welcomed at the orphanage no longer.
'why doesn't anyone understand?' Naruto thought in his box shelter that he had scrambled to find when it started raining, knowing that he wouldn't last long in the cold. 'the only way that people will respect me is if I am a ninja' he shuddered and rolled onto his side.
~Flashback~
Naruto bolted awake and felt unexpected softness underneath him, he was on a bed, a real bed! He glanced around not knowing where he was, it didn't look like the orphanage and from what he could surmise from the window he was on the second floor of someplace in the village.
He almost jumped out of his skin when he heard something grunt next to him. Cautiously, he looked towards his side to see that a man was asleep next to him, and Naruto suddenly sucked in a harsh breath.
'this is the man from before!' he thought, and the sight of the hat and the cloak in a heap on the floor proved that. Slowly Naruto crept out of the bed and headed warily towards the door. Almost there Naruto sped up a little but didn't notice the triple bladed scythe on the floor and tripped on it, not falling on the floor but successfully stopping himself from falling by pushing against a wall.
Naruto sighed in relief, but heard a creak behind him right as he did that. Hesitantly he turned around to face the bed where sleepy looking pink eyes were being trained on him.
"Where the fuck do you think you were going?" the sleepy eyed man asked.
Naruto's heartbeat skyrocketed, 'is this man a kidnapper? He's trying to keep me from leaving! What if he's a slave trader!' Naruto attempted to slow down his heart before he replied.
"I just thought that it was a mistake that you brought me to your room and that I ought to leave before I impose on you anymore," Naruto made up hastily.
The man quirked an eyebrow, "well that's a load of horse shit."
Naruto gulped before replying, "if you're a kidnapper then you're wasting your time, nobody cares about me, I'm just your everyday orphan."
The man smiled menacingly at Naruto, "so then, who would care if I killed you here and now?"
Naruto staggered backwards and hit the door but then he solemnly lowered his head, "no one."
The man sighed and sat up, walking towards Naruto. When he got close Naruto stiffened thinking that he was going to get attacked but was surprised that the man ruffled his hair.
"so not one of these fucking assholes would care if you just up and disappeared one day?" the man said with a glint in his eye. Naruto looked up at him and was about to shake his head in agreement when he stopped.
"The old man might not care, but he would notice." He replied.
The man frowned, "old man?"
"yeah he's this old guy who used to visit me in the orphanage but I haven't seen him for awhile so he might have died but I'm not sure." Naruto replied but then looked up at the man, "why are you asking me so many questions and not killing me?"
The man smirked and knelt down he then proceeded to poke Naruto in the stomach, "because, you fucking brat, I see a shit tone of potential in someone who can survive a beating like you did last night."
Nruto was shocked, "h-how did you know about that?" he asked wearily.
"you talk in your sleep kid, and you were pretty much screaming and yelling the entire night that I surmised what happened and I'm pretty amazed that you're still alive.
Naruto brightened at that and smiled hesitantly, but the man frowned, "now don't get all fucking high and mighty on me. Your still a snot nosed brat who can't even defend himself so don't think I'm giving you any more compliments!"
Naruto nodded and returned his face back to its emotionless state and he looked up at the man who had stood back up by then, "so now what?"
The man stood up taller and looked at Naruto calculatingly, "well first off you are way too fucking noticeable we're going to have to make a shit ton of changes to pretty much everything." Naruto looked down at himself but then looked back up at the man,
"what's wrong with the way I look? And why are you going to change it?"
The man scoffed, "how many blue eyed, blonde haired, tattered clothed kids 'you seen around lately?" Naruto opened his mouth to respond but then closed it. "we need to get out of this crap village and the only way to do that is if the front guards can't recognize you since you stand out like a sore thumb I bet everyone knows you."
"not in a good way" Naruto mumbled but the man kept on talking not really showing any hint that he had heard Naruto.
"I might be able to pull you off as my little brother if I can change your hair, eyes and clothes"
Naruto looked at the man in awe, "why would you be willing to do all of this for me?" he asked.
The man looked away, "I already said that you had potential… and it gets pretty fucking lonely traveling from town to town alone all the time. And anyways! I could train you in the ways of my lord and get you to help me spread the word of his almighty power!"
Naruto looked a bit confused at that but shrugged it off. The man went over to where his cloak and scythe were lying on the floor and threw the cloak on and attached his scythe to a strap on his back. "Ok brat I'm gonna go out and get hair dye and clothes for you, you're in the ninja academy right brat?" Naruto nodded his head and the man continued, "so you know what chakra and jutsu's are right?"
Naruto nodded hesitantly, "kind of but only what I've heard the teachers tell the other kids."
The man shrugged, "good enough. Anyways I need you to make a henge on your eyes."
Naruto looked shocked, "y-you want me to perform a jutsu? But I only started at the academy yesterday! I can't do that!"
The man growled and grabbed the front of Naruto's tattered jacket, "listen to me you fucking brat you CAN fucking perform one of the simplest jutsu's there is, unless you would rather stew in this hell hole the rest of your life?"
Naruto quickly shook his head and the man smiled, "good, just watch me do it once and then I'll explain it to you". The man knelt down next to Naruto and stared him directly in the eyes, Naruto watched in awe as the man's eyes slowly changed from pink to a deep brown then back again.
"woah!" Naruto said in awe, "how'd you do that?"
The man smirked, "in everyone's body there is a constant flow of chakra, to do the henge you just need to harness that chakra and focus it into the part of your body that you want to change, in this case your eyes. Focus your chakra into your eyes and mold it into a thin layer to cover your eyes' actual appearance. But be wary, henge shouldn't be used in battle since most ninja can see through it but luckily in our case the gate guards are lazy and shouldn't notice the henge unless they look at your eyes for awhile."
Naruto nodded again at the little explanation, "why aren't we just using a henge to disguise all of me?" he asked and the man sighed.
"I'm pretty sure most mid to high level ninja would notice if someone was walking around in a pretty much full on chakra suit." Naruto nodded and the man sighed, "practice the henge in the bathroom until I get back," he turned to leave but stopped as he heard Naruto mumble, "speak up brat!"
"I er never got your name…" naruto said a little awkwardly.
The man opened the door and looked back at Naruto, "it's Hidan and don't you dare fucking forget it." And he closed the door leaving Naruto alone in the hotel room.
Naruto looked at the door where Hidan had left for awhile before he raced to the bathroom to start practicing the henge.
X-X-X
Hidan grimaced as he carried three bags full of stuff back to the hotel room, slowly he made his way up the stairs to his room. Hands being full he used his head to knock on the door, "Hey fucktard! Open up the fucking door!"
He heard a crash and a grunt from inside and slow thuds leading to the door, slowly it opened revealing a now red slit eyed Naruto with a thick line of dark red almost black going around his eye and ending at a point of sorts. Also Hidan noticed that the kid's whisker looking marks on his cheeks were gone and he frowned slightly.
Hidan whistled, "Boy, you did a wicked job there but it might cause us too much unwanted attention, think you could tone it down a bit?"
Naruto frowned and sat on the bed, he then closed his now red eyes and focused all his chakra on his eyes, he was soon tired from the strain and looked at Hidan who had entered into the room and threw the bags onto the floor, "did it work?," Naruto asked.
Hidan frowned, "not a fucking bit, here let me put a henge on them myself". Hidan put the bags he was carrying down on the floor and crouched down in front of Naruto, who was on the bed. He then put both of his hands at Naruto's temple's, closed his eyes, and focused his chakra through his hands and onto Naruto's eyes but he felt a block. Hidan then opened his eyes and looked at Naruto who's eyes hadn't changed, "Damn, what the fuck did you do brat?"
Naruto looked up at Hidan, "well I started focusing my chakra on my eyes like you told me to do, but no matter what I did I couldn't make any change at all! I was practicing there for a long time, but then I felt all woozy like I was going to pass out. But I kept trying to practice through it all and then it felt like something inside me snapped and all of a sudden I felt a rush of power and when I tried focusing my chakra on my eyes again they looked like this and when I tried again I couldn't change them from this. Oh and then you came back after that."
Hidan sighed and flopped down on the bed, "we'll have to think of something to cover your eyes now instead, people will start asking questions about what kekkei genkai or whatnot caused your eyes to look like that. Fuck! Stupid brat just making everything ten times more fucking annoying!" Hidan sighed again and sat up, fixing his hair.
He glanced at Naruto then stood up and grabbed one of the bags off the floor and dragged Naruto off to the bathroom. "ok brat if we wanna pull off this us being related thing we at least have to somewhat look alike. So I got you some bleach and silver hair dye."
Naruto looked wearily at the two bottles now in Hidan's hands, "will it hurt?" he asked kind of worried.
Hidan waved it off, "Nah Nah, only if you leave the bleach in too long, but you're already blonde so we won't have to use that much of it."
Naruto sighed in relief and Hidan grabbed him and sat him on the sink, "Take your jacket and shirt off brat, then put that towel next to you on your shoulders."
Naruto did as he was told and in about an hour a boy with light silvery white hair and red eyes walked out of the bathroom, completely unrecognizable as the demon boy he was once hated as. Instead of his hair being unrulingly spiky in all directions the dye had damaged his hair so that it was pretty much slicked back on the top and then spiky in the back.
Hidan came out of the bathroom grabbed the other bag and headed back into the bathroom, "I need to change my outfit so that the guards at the front gate will have a harder time remembering who I am thus not be able to correctly remember if I had been traveling alone." He then threw the other bag out of the bathroom door and it landed at Naruto's feet, "put those on, we leave town in an hour and the hotel in twenty minutes so move your ass!".
X-X-X
Kakashi Hatake looked up at the sky and sighed, the sun's always way too bright in the morning. He solemnly trudged down the main road through Konoha, heading towards the hokages tower. Kakashi's days as an anbu were numbered so the third hokage had decided that during kakashi's last couple years he would overload him and his anbu team with near impossible missions, for anyone that isn't anbu that is.
Kakashi hadn't actually been able to see Konoha in weeks so he had decided to walk to the hokage tower the normal way instead of hopping roofs into the hokage's top window like he normally did.
He walked through Konoha leasurely looking around at the sights and people as he did so, he didn't even notice the boy in front of him until they were both on the ground. Kakashi slowly leaned up on his arms and looked at the boy sprawled on his chest.
The boy groaned and got up off of him, kakashi looked up at the boy as he stood up and was shocked, the boy had red slitted eyes! What could cause that? The boy put a hand to his face and then looked around the ground nervously but then stopped, kneeled down and grabbed a pair of sunglasses off of the floor and plopped them on his face.
Kakashi frowned at the kid, the boy had light silver hair that was slicked and spiked in the back, he wore a black coat that reached to his knees and a mesh shirt underneath, he also had on black ninja pants and average black ninja sandals, the boy looked about eight and appeared to be alone. Kakashi had never seen this boy in the village before and, being an anbu, he was required to know every single inhabitant of Konoha.
"you ok kid?" he asked. The boy nodded and Kakashi continued, "I've never seen you in this village before, are you and your parents visiting?" The boy was about to open his mouth when he was pulled into the air by the scruff of his jacket by a man.
"What the fuck brat! Why are you so fucking slow? I finally reach the fucking gate of this shit hole town and I turn around to remark to you some of my vast knowledge and you're nowhere to be fucking seen!" The man yelled in the boys face and the boy covered his face with his hands as if expecting to be hit, that calmed the man down a bit and he frowned and placed the boy back on the ground.
The boy looked up and saw that he wasn't going to get hit so he started talking, "I'm sorry Hidan, I was right behind you but I accidentally ran into this guy and it took me awhile to find my glasses and I couldn't see you around me."
The man, now Hidan, narrowed his eyes as if finally noticing Kakashi for the first time. Kakashi looked at the man, he had slicked back silver hair and pink eyes, he was wearing a black jacket with a silver fluffy collar, a black long sleeved shirt, with a mesh shirt under it that had a necklace tucked under it, he had standard black shinobi pants with a weapon pouch on his thigh and standard black shinobi shoes, and unusually he had a village of hot water headband tied onto his head.
Kakashi smiled at Hidan and the boy, "I haven't seen you two around here before, did you just arrive?"
"actually we were just leaving," Hidan growled.
Kakashi frowned, "those are some interesting eyes your um…"
"brother" Hidan filled in angrily.
"….brother has there," Kakashi finished with.
"Na-Niro, inherited those eyes from our mother, it was the effect of a kekkei genkai, but unfortunately my brother only got the looks not the kekkei genkai itself," Hidan glared at Kakashi who just nodded in acceptance, "Now we really must be on our way," he growled at Kakashi and dragged Niro away.
Kakashi frowned, he would have to ask the hokage about a kekkei genkai that gave the user red slitted eyes. He whistled and continued on his path for the hokage tower.
X-X-X
Hidan and Naruto approached the gate of Konoha with no other trouble, the guards at the gate stopped them though.
"Names and reason of departure" one stated.
"Hidan and…Niro, leaving because our tourist visit of Konoha has come to a close." Hidan replied hesitantly.
The guard nodded his head and the other one said, "I hope you enjoyed your stay at the village hidden in the leaves."
Naruto was about to retort nastily but Hidan dragged him away before he could say anything, "oh yes we did!" he called back over his shoulder to the guards. He and Naruto walked casually along the road until they were out of sight of the guards and Hidan grabbed Naruto and jumped into the woods.
"what the fuck was that back there Naruto?"he growled in Naruto's face.
"back where?" Naruto questioned and Hidan growled.
"at the guard station idiot! You could have said something that would have made them suspicious! And what about with that guy on the street! He was asking questions!"
Naruto looked solemnly at the ground, "sorry"
Hidan sighed, "fine, whatever, just make sure that you don't slip up again!"
Naruto nodded and Hidan rummaged through his bag and pulled out a book. "Ok brat I want you to read this book on our way to the next village, we're going to have to be doing some bounty hunting to raise money, so while I'm out doing that I want you to study and train to get better so one day you can help me.
Naruto nodded and took the book but then frowned when he looked at it, "basic jutsus?" he asked, "at the academy they only touched on chakra basics and pretty much only talked about history the entire time."
Hidan got aggravated at that, "well the academy can go fuck itself, history doesn't help for anything in a real battle, except maybe battle strategies but that's it! In the academy of Hidan we go straight to the action!" Hidan stood up and motioned Naruto to follow him.
The two headed through the forest with Hidan leading the way and Naruto attempting to keep up pace with Hidan, avoid tree stumps, and read at the same time. Which unknowingly to Naruto was the start of his training to be a powerful ninja.
X-X-X
AN- so I started this story on a whim and basically have no ideas for it except that Naruto will probably go back to Konoha eventually and be wicked awesome and Jashinist. So if anybody has any ideas just put it in a review and I will consider it and possibly use it. This story will probably have no official update time since i'll write it whenever I feel in the mood to. But review's definitely help!
Thanks for reading!
-KaosDemon