A/N: This will be the start of many author notes J Hi i'm WineMaster. I am just one of the people of DrunkenDragon. The others are DragonLord and Blind Ninja. This is our first fanfic so we would appreciate no negative flames. This fanfic is rated 'M' for violence and language. Also we may put important information in the author notes, so it may be in your best interests to pay attention to them. We also accept questions, and if you want to ask one of us individually, just type the name of the one you want to ask in the subject line of the pm. Well that's all for now so come deeper into the mind of DrunkenDragon and we hope you enjoy "The Unmasked Kitsune"
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*Prologue*
*Naruto – 4 Years Old*
He had been wandering for hours now. The evil old lady had kicked him out of the orphanage screaming, "If you come back here, demon scum, I will finish what the Fourth started!" He didn't care, she always hated him. He was used to it though, he never had many friends. Little Naruto, had always been aware of the glares he received. He had thought it might be from his torn clothing, but there wasn't much he could do about that. Naruto thought he looked pretty good, he didn't see why people would look at him like that seeing he had lived in an orphanage. The spiky haired blonde thought he looked surprisingly like the Fourth Hokage, with his blue eyes, slightly rounded face and blonde spiky hair, but realized that had to be just a coincidence.
After a few hours of wandering around the village, he walked off into a small back alley and found a box to sleep in for the night. He sighed and prayed to Kami it wouldn't rain tonight, before curling up on the cold ground and drifting off to sleep. A few hours later, Naruto awoke to shouts of, "Where's the demon?" "Its evil must be purged of this village!" "Kill the demon!" and other phrases that were drowned out in the chaos. 'It's another one THOSE groups,' Naruto thought worried. Groups like this one had been coming after him since he was two and they always would attack and hurt him, calling him demon-scum and a freak. Naruto looked for a way out, but the alley had not way out. He was cornered. The only hope he had would be that they wouldn't be able to find him hiding in the little box. If they didn't know where he was, they would just leave him alone and go away, right?
"There he is!" someone shouted. As soon as it was said, all of Naruto's hopes for escape were shattered on the spot. He got up and tried to run, only to reach a brick wall. He cowered as the mob got closer, covering his head with his arms, still the crowd was shouting out for his death. "I didn't do anything!" Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs. He was frantic, this group was even larger than normal and he knew they would all get there turn to attack him. "Shut up demon! Scum like you doesn't deserve to even be alive!" one of them yelled out as they started to punch and kick the terrified boy. The child was forced to go through beatings, cuts, burns and everything imaginable. Just when everything started to go black for Naruto, he heard a powerful voice ring out. "HOW DARE YOU ALL! THIS BOY HAS DONE YOU NO HARM! ANBU take these… "people" …to Ibiki and tell him he has no restrictions." Everyone in the mob paled when they heard those words, knowing the implications behind them.
"He is hurt badly," the voice said more gently, "Get him to the hospital, and don't leave until you see he is treated properly." Naruto heard all this just before he fell unconscious.
Naruto awoke looking at the bare white ceiling of a hospital room. 'Why do people treat me like I'm some kind of monster? I haven't done anything to them. It's not fair!' Naruto began to cry at first it was just tears but it turned into him bawling.
After awhile, he was able to calm himself down. 'I'll just show them that I'm not a monster, everyone will look up to me as a hero.' Naruto began to wipe his face clear of moisture when the door opened and someone walked in.
"Hokage-jiji!" Naruto quickly finished wiping his eyes and faked a yawn. "What's up?" Naruto didn't want the Hokage to see he was crying.
'Was the boy crying before I got here? No matter, however I'm glad to see the ANBU that I left to watch over his hospitalization were able to get the doctors to perform correct treatment.' Sarutobi though "How are you feeling Naruto?"
"I feel fine gramps, stop worrying," Naruto said with a fake smile. "What was up with those people last night though? I got the feeling they didn't want my autograph."
'Is he trying to play off what happened to him last night? No matter I'll see how he is doing.' "How are you doing Naruto?"
"Ohh, I'm doing just find jiji." He put on a fake smile.
The Hokage sighed. "Naruto, I know what happened. You don't have to hide your feelings from me."
Naruto's smile faded and he lowered his head so the Hokage couldn't see his eyes. "Why do the villagers hate me? I've never done anything to them." His voice began to crack as he spoke. Soon afterwards he was crying.
Sarutobi walked over to Naruto with a sad expression. He stood there for a few moments until Naruto started crying uncontrollably and he latched on to the Third. He held him there until Naruto had calmed down a bit.
"Jiji, will you train me to be a shinobi?" Naruto asked as he eventually calmed down. "The people respect them, and would never attack them. Please Hokage-jiji?"
Sarutobi smiled but said, "Not yet Naruto, you are still too young to be a shinobi." Seeing Naruto's disappointment, he quickly added "Don't worry, you will be in the Academy in just a few years."
'I will make them see me as me, Naruto thought. They won't be mean when they see I'm not a monster. If you won't train me, then I will train myself and become even stronger. I'll train hard, to show everyone!' That was his last thought as he fell asleep dreaming of what was to come.
Sarutobi gently laid Naruto back on the bed after he had fallen asleep he would come by to check on him later.
Early the next morning, The Hokage went to visit the hospital he walked up to Naruto's room and opened the door. Inside, he found Naruto fast asleep. Sarutobi smiled, I guess I'll visit him later on then. As soon as he left though, Naruto got up and started doing pushups. He started counting quietly to himself, "One, two, three, four…"
One day, they will look up to me. Dattebayo.
A/N: Well, that wraps up the prologue. How will Naruto be in a few years? Good luck guessing. We will try to post the next chapter soon. But until then, DrunkenDragon OUT!
