Naruto was frightened facing imminent death. He couldn't move with the weight pressed into his spine and the kunai's tip in his neck. "What do you say, demon brat", the man on top of him practically spit those last two words at the blond beneath him, "shall I just put an end to you now and free the village from you?" A few steps were heard, sign of other shinobi appearing. "Don't you think you are overdoing it a bit, Mizuki? Better get off him." Naruto heard the female voice. It was somewhat familiar but he didn't know who it belonged to. "Maa, he just played a little prank on you, no reason to beat him bloody like that. Now put that kunai away so we can all be friends again." A lazy sounding male voice this time. A lightbulb went off in Naruto's head. Maybe that were some of the anbu!

(This part until the line of stars at the bottom of the paragraph is just a little bit of an explanation of Naruto's past and current situation and the change from Bach then to 'now'. Afterwards, I will continue the story right where I left off at the top line of stars. Might do this once in a while. Sry for the lil AN in the middle of the chapter. Enjoy reading on!)

Despite still being a child, lots of people would chase him away, throw things at him or beat him up when he was younger. This, the sandaime hokage had decided to assign some people to watch over him, people the hokage himself picked and he trusted. Ever since then, the amount of attacks on Naruto had gone down to once every few months and even then the anbu would be quick to interrupt. Due to the harsh punishments given out by the hokage for this kind of behavior, less and less villagers wanted to try their luck at killing or at least punishing the demon for what it did. Or rather, punish Naruto for it.

With a growl, aforementioned Mizuki removed himself and his kunai from Naruto's battered form, but not without pressing his knee into the boys spine harder for a moment. "Today's your lucky day, demon bastard. Next time you won't get off this easy." With that, Mizuki took off. Naruto rolled onto his back, took a deep breath and then let out a sigh. "Thanks for saving my ass there once again.", Naruto said, picking himself up only to wince in pain. The anbu with the dog mask cought him before he could fall to the ground. "So kid, care to tell me why an all orange guy just beat the crap out of you?" Despite the pain, Naruto grinned happily at the man. "I got him with my paint-bomb trap! But he came earlier then I thought after the laxative in his coffee", Naruto chuckled at this, "so I didn't have enough time to get to a safe distance before it went off so I got caught." The masked man shook his head in disbelief, or was it disappointment? However, the woman only laughed. "H-have you s-seen his FACE!?" She laughed once more, the continued, trying to finish without giggles, "I have never seen him THIS pissed before! And believe me, dog, I tried!" Wolf face palmed at that. "Snake, don't encourage him. It isn't like he doesn't have enough trouble with the people in the village already." He turned to the boy. "Why did you do it anyways?" Naruto started a loooong explanation about how Mizuki treated him all the time and how he saw him and a few villagers burn down the Ichiraku ramen stand, which was the few shops actually selling him food, the only one that didn't overcharge him heavily, how much he liked the ramen chef and his daughter and that Mizuki as well as a few others had threatened them to not rebuild the shop or they would be harmed. Which in turn lead to the Ichirakus leaving the village after saying goodbye and excusing to Naruto. Wolf nodded. "Naruto, you should have told us about that. Now with the Ichirakus gone and this whole thing in the past, we can't report this with the lack of evidence." Naruto frowned at this. Then he looked at the ground in shame. Wolf patted his back. "Maa, you didn't know. Let's get you home so Kurenai can heal you."

They brought Naruto back to his apartment. Actually, the hokage had given him the whole house, but he didn't know what to do with it. He didn't have furniture in any other apartment and most of them were somewhat rotten anyways. True to his words, Wolf brought in Kurenai, a beautiful black haired woman with red eyes, smooth, pale skin, a big rack and a stunning smile that made Naruto's heart skip a beat. Sure, he was young, way too young to get her attention, but he couldn't help it anyways. He had seen beautiful women in the magazine he found in the trash or that store at the outskirts of the village where he went when the owner fell asleep on the counter again to read manga and look into the adult magazines, but even with clothes Kurenai easily beat them all. He looked at her face while she concentrated on the healing jutsu. She wasn't a master of healing jutsu, but with Naruto's high natural regeneration and the addition of the demons healing, it was more then good enough. Also, without a little "convincing" from snake, no other medic would help him. When she finished, she poked him in the chest with her index finger. "You should be more careful, how could you become hokage if you died?"

AU: Well, I am usually one lazy bastard, I would not get my ass out of bed if said bed was on fire... However, I couldn't sleep and since I had already started chapter 2, I thought finish and dish it out before it gets cold. So yeah, 3am I got it done (somewhat; I planned this a bit longer but decided to split it into 2 chapters with this more of an extended intro and ch.3 will introduce the 'blond stranger' to the story. Well, shoot me. I like to get someone all built up before the big suppose comes. Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. If you actually did find the time to read through my story AND the AN, please take 2 more minutes to write a review so I know what rocks, what sucks, where I have to improve and what I should leave as it is. Don't worry about mean sounding reviews, I am a MAN not a mouse. Every review is a good review (somewhat... Unless you say something mean about my story, then I will cry and then I tell my mommy and she will yell at you, then I call the police at you Internet bully!1!1!1!)

Uhm, yes, that is about everything.

See ya in the next chap!

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