The Elements of Life

By teamkyubi13

Disclaimer: I FINALLY OWN NARUTO! Gets evil glare from a certain hyuuga princess just kidding. Naruto is own by his creator, ……..and hinata. Goes and cowers in fear of a woman pissed off

Just quick authors note to get out of the way; Ill update this hopefully weekly. And as for my other story, I'm working on its next chapter slowly. So bear with me to all who enjoy my sappy lovely song fic. Plus I'm looking for a beta reader. If anyone might be interested give me an email and ill consider ya. Now on with my new show.

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In the country of fire, there is many a village. One instance is the village of konoha. With its ninja and much commerce, it's a prosperous village. But this day, one village hidden deep within fire country would be erased from the map. This is the story of konoha and of a boy who barely got out with his life of the village that was destroyed, the dragon village.

An eleven-year-old boy was running blindly through the woods of Konoha. He just kept running through the barely light forest as the orange and yellow ball called the sun gently sank beneath the horizon. Naruto was running deeper and deeper into the woods to escape the villages and all the hate. He never did anything wrong except maybe a prank or two. But still in his mind it didn't call for him to be ganged up on and chased with sharp objects all around the village until he escapes into the forest right? Well, when things calmed down, he would talk with oji-san. He would at least treat him to so ramen. As he calmed himself with this thought, he realized he had run to one of his hiding spots in the forest that he liked. Around him was a clearing of trees formed in a ring. Running through the middle of the clearing was a soft moving stream. Next to the top of the hokage heads, this was one of his best spot to sit and be alone. He calmed himself down more. Only realizing now he was crying as he was running. He sat against a tree and looked up at the moon and the stars.

" Why kami-sama, did you curse me so many times in my life? Will I be rewarded in the end or is this repent for what I did in another life?"

Naruto's question was not answered by kami-sama, so he sighed and just closed his eyes and listened to the running stream in front of him. Letting the running water sound take his mind somewhere else….

rustle

He tensed up as he heard the bushes across from him rustle.

rustle

There it was again. He slowly got up leaving the utopia that was in his mind and got into the fighting position he learned from Iruka-sensei and pulled out the old kunai he'd found in the woods awhile back and claimed for his own. He wondered if the villages followed him to his spot and were going to attack him again. In which case he couldn't attack the villager(s) with his kunai because he would be arrested. He was ready for them, or anything else, rogue nins, wild animals. But what he wasn't read for is what came out of the bushes. What did come out was a young boy who looked about his age covered in gashes and cuts, his white clothing stained with blood. It looked like he just came out of heavy fighting. He looked to see naruto staring at him.

"Please, help me! My village is being destroyed and I…I… oh..."

He couldn't even finish as he collapsed onto the ground from exhaustion. Naruto rushed up to him and grabbed him and supported him.

" I better take him to the old man. He'll know what to do about this."

With that goal in mind Naruto started walking back towards the village where the hokage mansion is. Being careful with his new companion and making sure he didn't fall down or anything would hurt him any worse than he already was.

--------------------------------- Time skip to hokage's mansion -----------------------------------

Sarutobi was calmly sitting at home, done with paperwork for the evening and just about to sit down with a cup of tea and icha icha paradise three and relax until a pounding at the front door interrupted his evening.

" Now who could that be?" He wondered aloud to himself as he walked to the door. Well he got one good shock from seeing naruto with an injured person with him. He was just expecting an elder or assistant needing him for some paper work but not this. (A/N seems like my story has surprises in it ne?)

" Old Man, help me out. He hurt bad and I don't know how to heal him?"

"Naruto where did you find him?" The third asked him while they went into his house and laid the young man out in the living room on the couch.

" Well the villages chased me and I ran into the forest and then I sat down for a bit in one spot until he came up to me, shocking the heck out of me and said something about a village being destroyed. Then he just passed out and I brought him here." Naruto said as he watched the hokage do a healing jutsu on the wounded boy.

" Well when he wakes up we must ask him some questions; and what do you mean by you were chased by the villagers" The hokage asked with a stern voice.

" Well, uh, um, I bumped into a man and he started calling me names and then a group formed and started throwing things at me so I ran away, but they chased me, but I lost them eventually."

The Hokage sighed, tomorrow he was going to get all those villagers and let Ibiki have some fun time with them. He was tired of them chasing down the poor boy. It was time he took action on them. But before he could think anymore, he heard a groaning from next to him. He looked over and saw the source of the noise. He watched and Naruto to as the boy awoke from his tired induced slumber and looked up.

" Huh, where am I?" He asked out loud in a raspy voice.

"Easy young one, you are in Konoha village and are currently in my house, the hokage mansion. I am Sarutobi, the third hokage." He said calmly to the boy. " And who might you be and what is this of you saying a village being destroyed?"

He looked at the hokage for a moment, letting everything fill into his head and then it hit him hard like a ton of bricks. He bit his lip to fight the tears but just let them flow silently in the end. " Its t-true what I said. The village was… oh kami-sama…" He said aloud and just hid his head in his hands.

Naruto watched the boy in silence, not sure what to do. He apparently like him was feeling the pain of sadness. He was going to reach out to him until the old man beat him to the punch. " Take it slowly, first tell us who you are and what village was destroyed." He said in a calming voice.

The boy sobered up quickly, drying his eyes. Then looked at them both.

" My name is Sorem Jin and I am the last surviving member of dragon village which was destroyed tonight. If you will, ill tell you what happened."

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A/N like it? Love it? Loathe it? Hey that's your opinion. I'm just the writer. I've been dying to get this one started and now here it is. Don't worry Jin is no Mary sue. I promise he won't get out of hand. If he does someone tell me. Well, like I said I'm going to try and get this one up weekly if not sooner. Just check back for updates when you want.

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Flames will now be used to heat my house and lower my heating bill.

Until next chapter, this is your writer signing off.