Welcome back =D are you a new are continued reader? Ah I don't care, as long as your reading =3 this one will be longer, but not super duper long… hopefully.

Enjoy the first chapter =)

Chapter 1

A New Day

It was early in the morning, not everyone has woken up yet, it was a good time to take an early cool walk before returning to my office to do paper work. Being the Hokage, you have to have a team of ANBU with you wherever you went, even if it were just a plain walk, they have to. They were in the woods, near the village, not out of sight of it, just enough to see the whole village, including the carvings into the mountain of all the past Hokages, including Hiruzen Sarutobi, the third one, he hadn't died yet. He was appreciative of it of course, just wished the fourth Hokage was still alive to see his son grow.

"Careful Hokage," one of the ANBU in front of Hiruzen stopped him, "I sense chakra in that burrow, under the tree."

"I know," Hiruzen said as he stepped through the ANBU, "it's just something small, I can take care of it." he was about to look under the tree till he heard a yawn from it, he only stopped and waited for whatever it was to come out.

The ANBU stood in a fighting stance, ready to pounce on whatever it was, but Hiruzen merely just waved them off, seeing a head slowly come out, eyes still closed while crawling her way out. Her eyes got halfway opened as she sat against the tree and stretched, dusting herself off.

"Good morning young child." Hiruzen said, startling the child, she fell to her side and nearly screamed, bug eyed as she backed away. "No need to fear child, I wont harm you." her dark brown eyes eased up, her breathing slowed down as Hiruzen got down on one knee, reaching his hand out to help her.

She looked at his hand curiously, seeing all the wrinkles, liver spots, nothing concealed in his sleeves as far as she knew. She took a deep breath and exhaled, taking his hand now. He stood up and helped her up. The little wolf pup came out yawning and stretching, looking at the new people curiously cocking his head to the side.

"Can you tell me your name child?" Hiruzen said with a smile.

Her memory was still fuzzy, not even able to remember her own name, she tried her hardest and found a word, or name, that kept popping up in her head. "Asuka, what's your name." she asked in her innocent voice.

"Normally people address me by Hokage, but my name is Sarutobi Hiruzen, just call me Hokage for now."

She swallowed the lump in her throat and said, "alright Hokage, what are you going to do with me?"

"Just try to find your family young one," he started walking towards the village, "do you have a last name Asuka?" the ANBU followed behind them.

"Well… not that I know of." She answered as her new wolf pup followed her.

"Hm… this will be hard finding your family." He said as he stroked his beard.

"Where are we going?" she asked.

"The village hidden in the leaves, also known as Konohagakure." He said with a little pride in his voice.

"Is there a shorter name I can use, I'm not good with names." She looked up at him, her dark purple hair shining in the light as they exited the forest.

"Yes, Konoha."

She looked at the village, seeing all of it's structures, sights, and the face carvings in the mountain, she studied them, and didn't hear what the Hokage said.

"Are you listening?" he asked.

"I am now, sorry." She answered with sorrow.

"Its fine, the village is a magnificent sight, I can't blame you child." He said smiling at the end of his sentence. "Do you remember anything at all? Like how you got these cuts and bruises on your body like this?" He studied her hand that he was holding, looking at the cuts on her wrists.

"No, not at all," she answered holding her chin, "it's all a giant blur."

"How interesting, and what of that wolf pup, was it with you? Or did you find it?" he looked at the pup, it had a kick in its step, as if happy to be with Asuka.

"Oh, well I just found it, I don't even know if it's a girl or boy." Looking at the pup, it had a sparkle in its stone blue eyes.

"It's a boy, are you going to keep him?"

"Well…" she looked at the pup, he was sweet, that's for sure, he was there for her, "yeah, he kept me warm when I was cold."

"Then I think you should name it, don't you?" they started to pass what looked like a school, all the kids were outside, playing. But there was one boy on a swing, connected to a tree, who was all alone.

Asuka stopped, looking at the boy with blonde spiky hair. She tugged on the Hokage's robe and asked, "Who's that?" pointing at the boy.

"First of all, don't point, its very rude." She put her hand back to her side. "Second, that's Uzumaki Naruto, why do you ask?" he asked, looking her in the eyes.

"He's alone, he shouldn't be alone, why is he alone?" she asked with plea in her eyes.

"The parents of those children tell them to stay away, thinking he's dangerous."

She looked at Naruto, then let go of the Hokage's hand and ran toward him. Naruto looked up at Asuka running toward him, her clothes are still stained with blood, then she stopped right at Naruto's feat, smiling at him. "What's your name?" she piped up.

His eyes bugged out, they were a pretty blue, near electric blue. He blinked a few times before answering, "I-I'm Naruto Uzumaki, who are you?"

"Asuka, you know you shouldn't be alone, right?" her pup ran up and jumped in Naruto's lap, licking his face, making him smile and laugh. He was holding the pup up above his face. Asuka's smile grew bigger.

"Is this your puppy? Can I keep it?" Naruto asked, hugging him close to his chest.

"No silly, finder's keeper's. Besides, he likes me more, isn't that right boy?"

The pup looked up at Asuka, and then jumped into her arms licking her face. Naruto kept his smile than asked, "oh yeah? What's his name then?"

Asuka looked at her pup; his eyes were big and beautiful, fur still soft like baby hair. "Hatsuharu, his name is Hatsuharu."

Naruto petted Hatsuharu, smile still big. "That's a cool name." he said showing a toothy smile.

Asuka looked over her shoulder, back at the Hokage, he slightly tilted his head to the side, he wanted me to go with him. She looked back at Naruto, he was still petting Hatsuharu. "Hey, Naruto, I have to go now."

His smile quickly went away into a frown; he put his hands by his sides and looked down at the ground. "ok." Was his reply.

"Hey, cheer up," she put a hand on his cheek and got him to look back at her, "I'll be back, I promise."

He smiled again, then he got up off of the swing and hugged her, putting his head in her shoulder. "Thank you, for talking to me Asuka, I'm tired of the other kids treating me like some rabid dog."

She felt him tearing up, about to cry on her shoulder. She hugged back and said, "Were friends now Naruto, I wont ignore you, you're a great friend."

He stopped hugging and just held her shoulders at arms length, "Were… friends?" Asuka nodded her head. Naruto sat back down on his swing and rubbed the tears away, "Thank you… Asuka-chan"

She smiled and waved goodbye as she ran back towards the Hokage, putting Hatsuharu down and holding the Hokage's hand. They walked away from the playground.

"So it seems you've made a friend Asuka." He smiled down at her as she smiled back at him.

"Yeah, he seems nice, I don't see why the other parents don't want their kids near him." She said tightening her grip on his hand.

"Maybe I'll tell you sometime child. What did you name your pup?"

"Hatsuharu, isn't he cute?" she smiled at her pup, he wagged his tail and jumped around happily.

The Hokage chuckled and said, "Yes, he's very cute."

"Where we going Hokage?" she asked.

"To my office, in the Hokage tower, right over there." He pointed to the building bigger than the rest of the buildings.

"Hey! You said it's rude to point." She pouted.

He chuckled some more and said, "It's rude to point at people, not objects."

"Oh, that makes more sense…why are we going there?"

"I'm going to try to help you, maybe find your parents and where you came from."

They stayed quite the rest of the way only making small talk till they got to the building.

Not a very good cliff hanger huh? Yeah, I'll work on that… and be patient is all I ask, she's not romancing Naruto, she's going to be with Lee, and I think she'll meet him in the next chapter or chapter 3… not sure yet, but you know.. I'm working on it ;)

What did you think? Was it a cliché? Oh well, when I saw Naruto as a kid, sitting on that swing alone, I just wanted to run up to the TV and hug it… but then I might have damaged my TV… I like my TV.

I think I might make it a bit longer next time… or was this good enough? What do you think? Tell me :3 I like constructive criticism.