Hey guys I just wanted to say hello and have fun reading this chapter, I will try to put 1 up every week but I am not sure if I can.

With that being said I hope you enjoy the chapter.

(Naruto age 7)

We enter with a 7 year old Naruto looking at the park with curiosity from across the road, many people passed by hardly glanced his way, unnoticed, almost a ghost with no shadow was his existence to the people around him. Every now and then he would get a sympathetic glance, of which he was never able to understand why.

After a while he realized he was only making himself sad by staring at the people with parents to know of, he started to go to his apartment to go to sleep, it was starting to get late, almost 8:00 by the clock in the store window nearby, as he was walking he decided to go through the alleyways to get a shortcut to his home, after walking for some time he felt a hand grab his shoulder and put a kunai to his back, threatening to pierce his skin, he winced at the feeling.just kill him, let me lend you my power, just a little and tear his head off" the kyuubi whispered in his head

"Give me your money or else" a gruff sounding voice sounded from behind him, then the hand, suddenly without warning, let go, it was for no reason, Naruto hadn't even said anything yet, quickly he turned around, seeing only the glimpse of a dog mask for half a second, barley even a moment, but just enough to recognize a dog.

"Hello? Is anyone out there?" he received no answer. Nerve wracked from what had just happened Naruto ran as fast as he could, often tripping over his own feet or garbage within the alleyways, meanwhile A dog masked ANBU was siting in the shadows on a roof, blood covered his hands, and a body with a large gash in the chest was lying nearby.

"Man, I must be losing my touch if I both let him see me and let him nearly get mugged." Said the dog masked ANBU. Looking back at the body of the man he had just killed he called on his radio to have a clean up crew to make sure no evidence was left over. He quickly noticed Naruto started to run and started to follow, it wouldn't go well over the hokage if he had to report 2 almost robbery's "For real? Alleyways again? You almost just got mugged in one of those idiots." Thought the dog masked ANBU shaking his head in exasperation and sighing, going to follow with one last thought of the night "I think I'm going to retire the ANBU position and become a jonin."

Naruto had just gotten back to his apartment, and rushed off to bed, exhausted from all that had happened that night combined with the late hour of 9:30 from his alarm clock, he nearly fell asleep, with his final thought being "Man, that dog guy was really cool." Smiling as he drifted off to the world of dreams.

(Naruto age 9)

Naruto had just gotten out to school and ran as fast as he could to get to his home, he had just adopted a dog 2 weeks ago that he found on the streets with a broken limb and had used his limited knowledge from the library and what he already knew to patch the dog up, but recently the dog had an infection on his wound and he didn't seem to look too well this morning when he went to school, fearing the worst and with the kyuubi making up worse and worse possibility's he had to see what had happened.

When he had gotten to his apartment he very quickly went to the under his bed to check on the poor dog. It was looking like it was in pain, after it had smelled and heard him it had crawled out of the bed to greet him but winced in pain from the movement.

Naruto looked at the bandaged leg and saw something he didn't like to see, the wound, A deep gash along his left hind leg was yellow, pus was leaking out of it, he had tried everything from injections, to pills to leaves, he thought they would work immediately, but nothing had seemed to work yet.

Deciding to go for a walk with his pet as he had heard that physical exercise could make the body heal faster he tied the dog with a rope around its neck and headed out the door, to one of his favorite places, A clearing he had found when he was playing in the forests one day within Konoha.

When he had gotten to the clearing it was 5:00 almost an hour after he had left. The clearing was bathed in sunlight, and most likely would be in moonlight as well during the full moon "This is one of my favorite places in the village, no one but you have been here before Storm." He told the dog smiling a big grin.

Over the next two weeks he had nursed the dog to health and had even gotten the infection rid of, but one day, when they were playing in the clearing Naruto had found some berries, they looked like red blueberries to him so what harm could they do from growing in such a nice place like this, right, besides the kyuubi had told him not to eat it, it has to be good then, Eating a berry, he had thought it a bit bitter but with a sweet after taste, finding it to be so good he called his dog over.

"hey storm, here boy taste one of these, their delicious." He said with a large grin, the dog hesitantly ate a berry, smelling something strange about them, but if his master was telling him it was okay, then it must have been okay. After a quick bark the dog licked a couple of berries from the palm of his hand finding them to have a strange taste. The dog suddenly felt ill, falling over it struggled as in pain, Naruto not knowing what was happening, laughed it off, thinking that the dog was simply playing with him, after all, nothing had happened to him but some minor discomfort.

But after almost 2 minutes of the dog looking like it was struggling to even breathe Naruto realized something was not right, feeling quickly, he got out his book from the academy about wilderness survival and opened to the edible berries page, looking throughout It he saw the berry he had eaten, in the very poisonous section, the survival rate was 12%, it killed within 5 minute, 3 had passed. Naruto would not be able to get help in time, and even if he had, would anyone notice? the kyuubi was right, he should not have touched the berries.

Going back to the dog, Naruto attempted to stroke its fur to calm the dying dog in its last moments of life, knowing from memory that the last 2 minuets were the most painful, silent tears made there way down his young face, Naruto hugged the dog with all of his might attempting to keep the tears in, but only reduced the sound he made, his chest and back was quivering as tears ran down his face, he wanted to scream, why hadn't this happen to him, why did he survive, he should be the one dying not the one who was only doing what he had said.

Finally not being able to take the tears anymore he screamed, he didn't say anything, he just screamed, only 1 minuet was left, with his screaming done, he continued to sob, blaming himself for what had happened, finally content with just petting the dying dog and sobbing quietly his back raising and lowering for the air he was breathing in and out of his lungs.

30 seconds was left, he decided to spend the last 30 seconds, the point were the body starts to shut down, to give comforting, nothing words, to comfort the dog.15 seconds left, the limbs were starting to shut down with the head being last, the dog started to reach up, Naruto seeing this looked on with hopeful surprise that the dog was maybe playing with him, even knowing that was nit the case, 5 seconds left, and the dog was at Naruto's face 3 seconds left, the dog opened its mouth, 1 second left, the dog licked a tear away from Naruto's face. "your actually crying for that mutt, I told you it was going to die a long time ago, idiot"

Naruto just sat there, the dog was limp and unmoving, Naruto sat with the dead dog in his lap for nearly an hour staring at the sky, soon the sky turned dark, it was well after 12:00 before Naruto was found.

Naruto was found by none other then the dog masked ANBU knowing how he would feel if one of his summoning dogs had died, he let the boy grieve, after an hour he slowly walked into the moonlit clearing, to the boy and pulled his ANBU mask off of his face, placing it on his belt, reviling it to be Kakashi Hatake, he sat next to Naruto. "Hello." He murmured to Naruto, Naruto looked over to Kakashi, seeing the dog mask he recognized it as the mask he had seen several years prior, with a breath, barely even a whisper he said hello back "You know, we should bury him, give him a proper burial and all that." "or you could just rip into the little meat basket and tear the corpse to pieces, but, you know, your call."

Naruto just nodded, and asked for a kunai, using the kunai they slowly dug a grave into the clearing, the sun had started to come up when they were finished, placing the dead dog, covered in tears, into the pit, they began to slowly fill the pit with the dirt they had just dug, after they had finished filling the grave Kakashi looked around and saw a small pink flower a Pink evening primrose to be exact.

Picking it by its roots he dug a small hole into the grave and planted the flower there to use as a grave marker, looking to the side he saw a tired and disheveled Naruto "Um, hey." Naruto looked to the masked man, Kakashi as he had come to know him by in the later hours of the night, "yeah?" he sorrowfully said, Kakashi thought for a moment, before finally speaking up "come on, we can go to my house to rest up okay?" Naruto didn't even think for a full minuet before he said "Sure."

Kakashi carefully picked Naruto up onto his back and walked to his apartment, remembering to put his mask back on, many people bocked at the fact the practically famous ANBU dog #56 was being used for a piggy back ride, or at least to them it seemed like that's what was happening, after sometime, they made it to Kakashi's house placing Naruto onto his couch he walked outside and preformed a body flicker justu to go to the Hokage's office.

Immediately upon arrival Kakashi ripped the mask for which one of the reasons he was so famous for and slammed it onto Hiruzen Saratobi's desk, "sir I would like to resign my position as ANBU captain and ask to become a jonin, furthermore I wish to adopt Naruto Uzumaki. "With the look in his eye and his background, for both of them, It might even have a therapeutic effect on the two, giving Kakashi a fatherly role, and a sense of responsibility, and Naruto the family he always longed for. Hastily he stamped the papers with a nod, smiling a grandfatherly smile he was known for, as Kakashi left the room he looked out his room towards the academy.

(Naruto age 12)

Naruto looked out the window of his classroom, ever sense he had moved into his fathers house his life had taken a turn in a different direction, he trained more, he had more clothes, he even got to the point of being more calmed down, after his move in with his father, the fist thing that was done was get him new clothes,(one of the Few times I will do a description or interrupt, sorry) He was wearing a green facemask that covered the lower half of his face, the facemask connected with his shirt , meaning to take it off, would mean to take the entire shirt off, he had a wakizashi on his back and was wearing burnt red jacket and pants, same for his sandals, so pretty red, he had gone up from dead last, the 29th out of 29 students, to the 3rd of 29 students, pretty good if he said so himself he couldn't wait for tomorrow he would soon become a genin just one more day, "cant wait to see you fail kid" the kyuubi chuckled, he laid his head on his desk and fell asleep daydreaming.

Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the story took a couple of hours to make, please read and review, I will try to update when I can, hope you like the direction I am taking, also I will call kuruma the kyuubi cause its faster, also if it seems a bit odd that due to the fact that I had forgot about the being the plot for a bit. and added him in late, also the kyuubi and Naruto have gained a bit of a friendly terms type bond so yeah