Hey y'all! Yes... I'm back. This time for good. Ok to clear a few things up about my reasons for writing this story:

1: I've had a lot of people tell me that I'm lame for giving away Team Zero and discontinuing The Only One for Me, a Naruhina love story, kinda.

2: I can't continue Team Zero because I adopted it away, and my other story, is just retarded.

3: I started my own original story, with original characters and everything, but I don't want to post it anywhere until I have it finished. But it just isn't the same as fan fiction.

4: It's nice having fans, even if it's for a story you write using someone else's characters, it's just, nice having people that actually like what you do, and it's a major ego boost to me hehe =-b

One more thing, this is my promise to all readers out there, this story WILL be completed. It will NOT be abandoned. It will NOT be adopted out to someone. It will NOT even be put on hiatus. This will be updated once a week guaranteed. If for some reason I don't update, expect a double chapter the following week (like the anime episodes of Naruto).

Disclaimer: I played rock-paper-scissors with Mr. Kishimoto for the rights to Naruto. Sadly, he cut through my hopes when I chose paper and he chose scissors.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Naruto stared as the water dripped through his leaky roof and fell into a puddle on his muddy floor. He slowly raised his head, to follow the water back to the source. He caught the sight of gray and realized the hole in his roof was big enough to see through even from the floor. Naruto sighed. He knew the cause of the leak, a villager with 'pesticide' had sprayed his apartment down just two days ago. Though, what the villager had said was pesticide, was actually diluted acid. Designed to eat away at wood slowly so as to look like an accident. How did he know it was acid? He had smelled it. Now most five year olds would never know what acid smelled like, but this five-year-old had been dunked in acid before in an attempt to try to kill him.

Flashback no Jutsu: 2 months ago.

"Kill the demon!"

"He's getting away! Catch up to him!"

Naruto turned a corner into an alley trying to escape the latest mob. He had been kicked out of the orphanage a year ago when he was three (A.N. A year ago from this flashback) and he had learned the alleys of Konoha since then. As he turned another corner he came to an intersection. Normally he would know to go right, but with all the adrenaline pumping through him and the fear as the mob got closer, his judgment was clouded and he turned left, right into a dead end. Before he could turn around towards the mob, he heard a soft thump of a ninja landing behind him and everything went black...

When he woke up an hour later he was tied up by rope hanging from the ceiling. As he looked up and followed the rope, he realized it went through a pulley and down to the ground where two villagers were holding it. He looked down and saw he was suspended over a large green tank filled with green liquid. His eyes widened when he felt himself moving and the tank seemed to be getting closer. He kicked and struggled but the rope held tight and he descended closer to the tank. As soon as his sandals hit the green liquid, they had started dissolving, which caused him to struggle even more. He was suddenly dropped into the liquid. It ate through the ropes, and through his clothes, and started eating through his skin. He let out a scream as pain suddenly flooded his senses. He thrashed around but could not concentrate enough to attempt to swim due to the pain coursing through his system as the acid was eating away at his skin. After a minute of thrashing in the liquid, the pain became too much and he passed out in the liquid.

Flashback no Jutsu: Kai!

Naruto woke up three days later in Konoha's hospital. He shivered as he remembered the doctor telling him he should have died from that acid bath, and he would have if the ANBU in the dog mask hadn't brought him in.

Naruto sighed once more, turning his somber eyes out his window to see the rain coming down. It was ironic really, the rainiest day in the whole year, was October 10th, his birthday. Almost as if the sky itself was crying for him.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

Naruto's eyes grew wide as he recognized the sound of someone trying to break his door in. He quickly got up and ran to the window and jumped out, sliding down a pipe bolted to the wall. As soon as he landed, he was off and running, hoping to escape the mob quickly to avoid this years beating. He looked over his shoulder to see what looked like a fourth of the usual mob behind him. His eyes grew wide as a kunai embedded itself into the ground an inch away from his foot. He stumbled briefly before regaining his balance and continuing to run. Up ahead he saw the gates to the city. Naruto's face became grim as he looked back and forth between the mob, and the city gates. After only three seconds of thinking, and realizing the mob was nearly on him, he made his decision and dashed out the gates. He was so focused on getting away, that he never noticed the whole crowd disappear into smoke to reveal a single ANBU standing there wearing a hawk mask.

He ran and ran until he couldn't run anymore, and when that happened, he crawled for a while, before he suddenly collapsed and passed out in the forest.

Naruto awoke to the sound of voices. Because of past experiences, he didn't even move until he took in the situation. He kept his eyes closed and listened to the voices. One sounded younger, around his age, and the other was more gruff sounding, and definitely older.

"Haku, you know we cant keep him. He will hinder your training and make you a useless tool."

"But Zabuza-sama, what if he became your tool as well? Wouldn't it be better for you to have two tools instead of one?"

"Damn that mind of yours! You want the truth? I don't wanna have to deal with another little brat. That's why were not keeping him! I'm going to go get my zanpatou and cut his head off. Who knows? Maybe someone has a bounty on him we can cash in on."

"Hai Zabuza-sama"

Naruto tensed up when he heard what sounded like a tent flap open up and footsteps walk into the tent. He decided to take a chance and open his eyes, since he was going to die anyway.

No words were exchanged between Naruto and the older man he assumed was Zabuza. The zanpatou came swinging down, and everything went red...