Prologue

He traveled to the earth in search of new adventure and new opponents. He was one of the newly discovered races in the galaxy. He was a Saiyan. For many alien beings, this means nothing, but for the people of that planet, this meant a lot. There were only a handful of Saiyans. In fact, there are less than a total of one hundred-fifty Saiyans still alive to this day.

This young Saiyan was very different from the rest of his race. Saiyans in general thirst for battle and usually never give any mercy to other races from various planets. This Saiyan however sought only to get stronger so that he can protect the ones he loves the most.

He never sought to kill; he only fought other alien races to seek more strength. He was considered to be the strongest warrior amongst the Saiyans. However many considered him to be a coward and weakling because of his lack of aggressiveness and will power to terminate other lives of other races.

This Saiyan one day had enough of the ways his people were living, and he decided to leave. Many laughed, taunted him, and told him to leave because he was useless anyways. He took a pod and sent himself to another star system far away from that of where the Saiyans were.

The young Saiyan eventually ended up on a planet known as earth. It was only a few systems away from his home planet, but he new it would do. After having landed onto the new planet's surface, he stepped out of his pod and began searching around the place.

After traveling a good fifty miles by flying of course, he came upon a large village with a large bustling population. Deciding not to scare the "local inhabitants", he descended into a nearby forest and made sure that he wrapped his tail around himself to present it as a belt.

As he was walking through the forest, he heard some voices talking amongst themselves. He quickly yet quietly walked through the brush and came to the edge of the forest. He noticed that there was a path leading towards the entrance of the village. Walking along that path were three people.

The first he noticed was a man standing at about five foot ten or so with blonde spikey hair and warm blue eyes. The second person he noticed was a woman with crimson hair. She was standing at about five foot five or so. The third person he saw with that group completely blew him away. The third individual was a woman standing at about a height of five feet a six inches. She had raven hair and beautiful onyx eyes.

Everything about this woman blew him away. The trio, particularly the blonde man and crimson-haired woman seemed to be arguing about something. Or rather the crimson-haired woman was ranting about something while the blonde man simply sweat dropped and continued to listen with respect.

The raven-haired woman simply rolled her eyes and watched the two in amusement. However, she looked a little bit towards the surrounding forest and saw the young Saiyan standing behind a tree watching them. As soon as he noticed that she saw him, the young Saiyan quickly hid behind the tree he was looking from. The raven-haired woman smirked at this and stopped staring towards the tree. The other two stopped a few feet ahead of her noticing their teammate stop so suddenly.

"What is it Akane?" the blonde one asked curiously.

"I just saw someone a moment ago hiding behind one of the trees over here," the raven-haired woman replied simply.

The crimson-haired woman took a defensive stance and drew out a kunai as well.

"Is it an enemy?" she asked cautiously.

"I don't think so. He seemed a little intimidated by us," the raven-haired woman replied teasingly.

That caused the young Saiyan to jump out from behind the tree and yell at the raven-haired woman accusingly.

"Hey, I am not intimidated by any of you. I probably have a lot more power than the three of you combined!" he retorted.

After the outburst, the young Saiyan paled as he was caught red-handed. The raven-haired woman smirked, the blonde man watched and studied the new stranger before him with amusement, but the crimson-haired woman was still on her guard.

The young Saiyan noticed this and chuckled mentally in his mind, 'Remind me not to get on her bad side.'

The raven-haired woman asked, "So Mr. Eavesdropper, what's your name?"

"My name is Eli Light, or just Eli," the man replied simply.

"You're a foreigner huh? Your name is kind of cute," the raven-haired woman replied.

The young Saiyan was not fazed by this as the young woman hoped he would've been. He's been teased and made fun of so much because of his name that he became quite used to the insults or compliments about his name.

"You find that cute?" the crimson-haired one asked.

"Eh, I have my weird fascinations," the raven-haired replied curtly.

"Right, well my name is Minato, Minato Namikaze. It's a pleasure to meet you Son Eli," Minato greeted kindly.

"Nice to meet you Minato," replied Eli bowing towards the blonde shinobi.

The raven-haired lady, or previously identified as Akane introduced herself next.

"Hey there. My name is Akane. Akane Uchiha. It's a pleasure to meet your acquaintance Eli."

The crimson-haired lady sighed and lowered her guard.

"The name is Kushina. Kushina Uzumaki. Nice to meet you as well," she said politely as she could muster.

Eli sweat dropped at the sudden change in Kushina's attitude.

'This woman is definitely bipolar,' he thought before saying, "Thank you for your kindness, it is a pleasure to meet you all too."

"Anyways Eli, what are you doing out here? Are you heading towards Konoha?" Minato asked.

Confused, Eli responded with, "Um, what is Konoha?"

Kushina face faulted before getting up and asking, "Wait, you don't know what Konoha is?"

"Nope. I come from a VERY far away place remember?" he reminded her.

Kushina sweat dropped and asked, "How about the Hidden Leaf Village?"

Akane rolled her eyes and said, "Same thing Kushina."

Kushina turned around immediately and replied shouting, "I know Akane! I'm just trying to see if he's heard the other name of our village!"

Akane chuckled and said calmly, "Alright Kushina. Calm down."

Kushina puffed her cheeks and crossed her arms over her chest. Minato, Akane, and Eli all laughed at this sight. After a few seconds of laughing, the four calmed down and continued their conversation with Light.

Eli replied awkwardly, "Yeah, I don't know what either of those two things are. I just so happened to come towards this area." 'Whatever planet I'm on,' he added mentally.

Suddenly his stomach grumbled so loudly that it startled the other three. He began rubbing his stomach and gave them a cheeky smile. He then brought up a hand behind his head and started to embarrassingly scratch the back of his head.

"Sorry, that was my stomach. I've been traveling for quite a while now that I forgot I ate all of my food I packed with me," he said.

Minato smiled & said, "What do you say we continue this conversation at the local ramen place I know? Lunch will be on me."

"Really? You don't have to do that," Eli replied trying to be courteous.

"It's my treat. Plus it looks like you don't have many belongings with you. Let alone any money to pay for a meal," Minato pointed out.

Eli chuckled & replied, "Yeah, that's the truth. Sorry, I don't mean to be a burden on anybody."

"It's no problem at all!" Minato replied happily.

Kushina looked and Minato and called him, "Minato."

Minato turned his attention towards the crimson-haired woman.

"Yes Kushina?" he responded.

Kushina questioned, "Is it even allowed? Can we bring a stranger like him into the village?"

Eli didn't take any offense to what Kushina had just said. After all, he indeed just met the three, and he didn't really want to impose on anyone, but he didn't want to miss out on a hearty lunch either.

"If it's too much to ask for, then I'll just go on my separate way from you guys. I really don't want to impose on anyone if it's that much trouble," he replied.

"Non-sense Eli, it's no problem at all. Plus I'm sure you could use a place to stay right?" Minato replied trying to convince everyone present otherwise.

Eli sighed & said, "Honestly yeah. I kind just went off adventuring without thinking ahead."

Akane walked up to him and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder.

She told him, "It's no problem at all. I'm sure that you could use the help. Plus I'm open for helping someone out. On top of that, you don't look or sound like a bad person. I was studying you while you and Minato were talking, and I didn't sense a single bit of evil or darkness in your heart and words. So sure, it's no problem at all."

Light smiled at her & replied, "Thank you Akane. That was sweet of you to say."

Akane blushed slightly at his statement. It also didn't help that he gave her another one of his "grins" that would attract all types of women towards him.

"I-It's like I said, it's n-no problem at all," she replied stuttering a bit.

Eli's stomach grumbled again. He grinned again and began itching under his nose. Akane blushed an even brighter shade of red but managed to hide it from the young Saiyan. However, this did not go unnoticed by the other two ninjas. They looked at one another and smirked at each other. They knew that Akane was developing something for this man even before she or he knew it.

With a grin, Eli said, "Well lead the way guys. I'm starving over here!"

Minato laughed and Kushina giggled at his reaction to his stomach growling. The two began walking off towards the village entrance with Light tailing behind them. Akane however stopped right where she was and placed her hands over her chest. She felt her heart skip a beat when he gave he that grin of his.

'What could this mean? Why did I stutter before him? I've been able to stand up to any man I've met before, but he's different. He's a lot different from the rest of the men I've met in my life. Perhaps the only one to rival his personality is Minato, but other than that, he's totally different. What is this meaning?' she thought to herself.

Eli noticed that Akane was still in her spot, so he stopped and turned around to face her direction.

"Hey Akane!" he shouted.

Akane looked up from the ground and noticed that he called her.

"You comin' or what? If you don't hurry, I might have to just carry all of you there! I'm starving! Come on slow poke!" he said with as much enthusiasm as he could.

Once again he ended that statement with that grin of his. She blushed again, but then quickly shook it off and began to jog towards the others who stopped and waited for her to catch up. As she was jogging over, Akane had some thoughts in her head.

'Grandmother, I think now I understand what you were trying to tell me. I think now that looking back on what you said, I think now I found that one person who is completely the opposite from me. You were right. I won't find that person, but that person will naturally find me. And I truly believe that person has indeed found me. Thank you grandmother. You've always been so kind to sis and me. I can never fully repay you.'

And with that, they entered Konoha.

That event was only the beginning for the young Saiyan. Through the years that he stayed in Konoha after this encounter, he became a part of the village. He never joined a clan, but he remained as an independent citizen in the village. He was well known amongst all the people of Konoha because of his personality and attitude. Eli was like a celebrity amongst the many young people of Konoha. In fact, he became a teacher and taught at the local school for young shinobi. He even managed to get his own apartment and repaid Minato for his kindness once his paycheck came in.

As for Akane, let's just say that as the years passed, she fell in love with the young Saiyan and the two eventually got married. Even though some Uchiha disagreed with the marriage, they still respected her decision because Eli had helped the Uchiha Clan on multiple occasions. Two years into their marriage, they eventually had their first-born child. They named him Beat Light Uchiha.

This is Beat's story about his life and adventures throughout the shinobi world.