I would first thank all of my reviewers; it really means a lot to me.

I have also decided that this is not to be a naruhina, but either a naruten or a naruino, you may vote for your own favourite if you wish.

"Thoughts"

"Normal speech"

Currently at the border of fire country, the shadow has finally stopped. Ahead is a small peaceful village. The village was small, but pretty, it wasn't protected by a large wall, but it had instead a watchtower. A low stone fence surrounded the village, and on the outside of the fence, I grew wildflowers of all kinds and in all colours imaginable.

"Hmm", I was hiding in the shadows of a tree, considering if it was safe to go in and get equipment and some freaking new clothes.

"Seriously, I can't believe that I actually wore this orange thing, it literally screams KILL ME, but then again, I did find it in a trashcan. Hmm, but since this is far away from Konoha, maybe they don't even know who I am, especially not that I'm the jinchuuriki of Kyuubi, I might have a chance of actually get some nice clothes at a decent price here"

With those last thoughts I jumped down from the tree and headed for the village. "I could feel the watchman's eyes in my neck, but he let me pass, and didn't have fear in his eyes, only curiosity, that was a nice variation from the glares back in konoha" I thought while I looked at the inside of the village.

Meanwhile in Konoha

In the outskirts of the village, at a ragged down apartment building a man with a brown pineapple hair-thing and a scar across his nose was knocking at a door. The man is Iruka, and the door he is knocking on is the former apartment of an Uzumaki Naruto. After not receiving an answer and since the door was locked, he got out the spare key he had gotten from the boy many years ago, inside he found the last thing he had ever expected to see….a clean apartment.

It wasn't that Naruto was a person that liked to live in the mess; he was just too lazy to ever clean it up.

Iruka went through every room in the apartment but found nothing, not food in the kitchen, not bathing things in the bathroom, not even garbage in the garbage can.

When he went into the last room in the apartment, he noticed two things, 1. The bed was made, 2. The letter that lay on the bed. The letter was put in a simple white envelope with the konoha mark in the corner, on the middle it also said with big elegant letters: "Hokage Sama".

Iruka left the apartment in a hurry, but not before noticing that also his genin picture was missing. He ran over the rooftops in a speed that could rival Lee, afraid of what they might find inside the letter he was clutching desperately in his hand.

In the hokage office you should normally find many busy people doing all the things that should be done to keep the village running, instead you would find a sleeping and drooling Tsunade on top of some probably important documents, that was at least how Iruka found her when he came barging in trough the window. Two seconds later you could also see a flying Iruka going trough the wall on the opposite side of the room….he did the grave mistake of waking up Tsunade without standing two meters away from her fists.

When she eventually managed to take a look inside the letter, her face grew white as snow, and immediately sent some ANBU out to find the Konoha 12, minus Sakura and Sasuke, and their sensei's, minus Kakashi.

Not less then ten minutes later they where all assembled in the hokage's office, all with a look of confusion showing clearly in their eyes.

Tsunade started the meeting by staring on them for about five minutes, and this off course just intimidated the poor people even more.

Suddenly she broke the silence and started to talk; when she did some people got a little startled, since they had grown accustomed to the silence. "Everyone, I bring grave news, and it was he's wish that all of you were informed of this" she said, not noticing the weird looks she was getting from most of the occupants in the room.

At this point some of the assembled people actually started to cold sweat a little, afraid for what Tsunade might say.

"I ask for that you do not interrupt me before I am finished reading" Tsunade continued while she pulled out a letter written on a simple white paper, also with the konoha mark in the corner.

Dear Tsunade no baa-Chan.

It pleases me that you have received this letter, and I hope that you did not receive it to long after my departure.

now even more people started to sweat"

I ask that you bring my good friends Lee, Neji, Tenten, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Ino, Chouji, Shikamaru, Kurenai, Gai and Asuma when you read this letter since this also includes them. I would also appreciate that you inform Ayame and Teuchi from the ramen stand that I will not visit for a while.

Dear friends, if you have not yet understood this, I, Uzumaki Naruto, have left the village; do not worry because I will be back one day. I just really needed a vacation from this dreaded place.

I wish that all of you know that you guys are NOT the reason why I left, on the contrary, you guys are the main reason to that I stayed sane these past few years, before you came into my life I was on the verge of insanity.

So therefore I would take this opportunity to thank all of from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

And granny Tsunade, please do not look for me, and I would appreciate that you did not list me as a missing Nin, that would be a real pain in the ass.

Considering the reason I left, I guess it is time that my friends learned of my secret, so you have my permission to tell them, I just hope that they will not turn against me for it. I have now gone out in the world to seek true strength and also to seek for my family, I will stay in touch by letter and I will also be willing to take on assassination missions and such, but I will do them alone.

I would appreciate it if you looked after my payments until I come and claim them, and don't even try to loose them in gambling, because I will be keeping a record over my missions and my salary.

I will miss all of you, but the thought of that I will one day see you all again will keep me going.

All my love, Uzumaki Naruto.

The feelings in the room at that moment was overwhelming, Hinata, Tenten and Ino had tears running down their cheeks, Chouji had stopped his hand midair and his chip had fallen to the ground, Lee and Gai was crying over the loss of youth, Kiba just stared at the ground and Shikamaru stared at the sky outside, almost searching for their lost friend, both Shino and Neji looked impassive, but you could see that they where both as tense as a violin bow, and Kurenai and Asuma just stared at their Hokage with big eyes.

Kiba was the first one to break the awkward silence that floated in the room.

"why?...why?" the first two sentences was nothing more than a whisper trough the room, until he exploded, no longer managing to keep his emotions intact. "WHY THE HELL DID HE LEAVE!!!!" in the same moment he yelled he fell to the floor, landing with he's knees first since he's own feet no longer had the power to hold him up.

After a deep sigh, Tsunade started on the dreaded history of the Kyuubi, the sealing and Naruto's dreaded childhood, she also told them about the 246 assassination attacks on his life.

When she finally was finished neither of the assembled could mutter at word, even the sensei's was speechless, they knew that it had been attempts on his life and that he had not had the best childhood, but none of them had in their wildest dreams thought that it was that bad.

It pleased Tsunade that Naruto had in the end collected a nice assembly of friends, since none showed hatred in their eyes, but understanding, compassion, friendship, sorrow and many others. They finally understood why their beloved friend was hated by many in their village, why he would never go to a restaurant with them or go shopping with them; the owners of the shops didn't let him in.

First they where sad, but then they got enraged. How dared those stupid villagers ever treat THEIR friend this way, could the villagers actually be that blind that they saw the Kyuubi instead of the poor little boy who only wanted to be recognised as a human being.

After they left the office they maltreated a training ground to dust, just to blow of their steam, all while they thought of poor Naruto, and then back at the villagers and just got more raged.

Soon the entire training ground existed no more, and the group of people started to look for another victim, it was just by pure luck that they didn't run into any villagers in their rampage. As for Sakura, she was not so lucky, since she ran into Hinata and Tenten on her way home, she was later admitted to the hospital, after what she said was a fall down the stairs. The doctors couldn't quite figure out how her tenketsu's got closed and how she managed to get kunai and shuriken wounds from falling down the stairs, but didn't really bother to think of it.

Back at the village at the border of fire country.

Naruto finally left the small village, with new clothes, new equipment and all he needed for his journey. He now wore black and baggy pants with pockets for weapons, a black tight t-shirt, a long (down to his hips) red jacket with a black Kyuubi on the back, the jacket wasn't as thick as his old jumpsuit had been, and wasn't as bulky either. It was slim and had many pockets for various scrolls. The collar and the wristband was also black, and the wristband hung loosely around he's wrists. He wore standard black shinobi sandals and a pair of black fingerless gloves with a metal plate on top. He had black bandages around the ankles and wrists; he had also removed his forehead protector from his forehead and instead now let it hang loosely around his neck, also had he exchanged the blue cloth to black instead.

He wasn't in the best of moods, considering he had walked around and sneezed all day long (1), but soon he was on the move again, and didn't stop before he had put a pretty decent distance away from both fire country and Konoha. Moving wherever the land took him.

In Japan they believe that when someone is thinking of you, you'll sneeze.

This is almost the same, with a little rewrite, still not quite sure but bear with me. The next chapter is already in writing and I hope that it is better. Don't forget to vote on either naruten or naruino.