Title: Naruto - A Different Story
Rating: M
Pairing: Naruto/?
Disclaimer: Naruto and all of its characters belongs to the great and powerful, Masashi Kishimoto.
Summery: At 3 he ran away from Konoha and ran into her. Now he's 12 and they're being forced to return to the village they hate.
Author's Note: Just one note, once Naruto becomes 12 in this story I will be dedicating about one chapter for every arc I can think of. This way the story wont be like a hundred chapters long.

Chapter Two: The Finding

Tsunade was tired; they had been walking all day to try to get to their next destination before nightfall. They never made it to their destination however, because their pet Tonton had decided she wanted to explore the forest on the side of the path. So Tsunade and her attendant, Shizune, had spent most of the late afternoon and night searching for the pink pig.

Now it was nearing noon, the sun was shinning brightly in the sky above them, and Tonton was tied to a very heavy-duty rope that Tsunade herself was holding onto. Shizune was walking a head of the two, not wanting to get into her sensei's way. The mousy woman knew when Tsunade was in a bad mood and what to do when she got like that.

As she kept her eyes on the trail ahead of them, Shizune noticed a pile of old cloth laying in a slightly large whole in the path. She quickly ran up to it to check on it and let out a loud gasp. The pile of ripped, soiled, and wet cloth, was in fact a small blonde haired child. She held out her hands and gently lifted the boy into her arms. He was small, and Shizune guessed that he was only a year or two old, definitely not old enough to be alone on a path in the middle of nowhere.

"Shizune, what the hell are you doing? We're already behind schedule and if we don't hurry all the suckers will have left." Tsunade's voice shouted from behind her. Shizune jumped slightly and winced as the small bundle in her arms let out a loud whine. Shizune was about to coo down at the boy to tell him it was okay, when Tsunade appeared in front of her. Her sensei had quickly grabbed the boy out of her arms and Shizune watched as the bright gold eyes widened in shock.

"I found him curled up in that pothole." Shizune motioned down to the pothole and watched as Tsunade bent down to examine the hole, and cursed loudly when she noticed the dried blood. Shizune looked down and noticed it as well and then looked up at her sensei that had pulled out a blanket from one of her bags and quickly wrapped the boy in it. Shizune picked up the rest of their bags quickly before following after her sensei that had started to run towards their destination.

Three hours later saw the two women in a small hotel room; the small boy was nestled in the heaviest blanket in the room and held securely in Tsunade's arm. Shizune was going through their bags and pulling out bandages and creams to help heal the small boys numerous wounds.

"He's very lucky to be alive, any other child would have died." Tsunade's voice was soft and held a pinch of anger, which Shizune knew was directed at the people who had done all the damage to the small boy. Tsunade had run a dynastic on the boy the moment they had gotten in the hotel room and had cursed loudly. The small boy was going through the symptoms of severe Hypothermia. His small frame had been racked with shivers when they had entered the room, but had stopped a few moments before they entered the room, an action that caused Tsunade to curse so loud the people occupying the rooms next to theirs had come to investigate. The boy had already been in a semi fetal position when he had been found, but he had curled into a more defined position when they had reached the room. His skin had gone from a pasty white, to a deathly pale, and his heart rate has decreased extremely. Even under a very blanket, the small body's temperature had dropped to 86 degrees, making both women scramble to assemble the necessary items to save the boy's life.

Shizune had quickly dug through their belongs and had pulled out a heavy wool blanket as Tsunade had stripped the small boy of his wet clothing. Tsunade dried the boy off before slipping onto the boy one of Shizune's nightshirts. Once he was wrapped up, Shizune had run down to the store to gather the necessary ingredients for a warm sugar water mixture. Tsunade had then taken the time to placing a few water bottles into a very hot bath to warm up.

When Shizune returned she mixed up the sugar and water mixture into one of the heated water bottles before wiring it up to an injection needle. She handed the contraption over to Tsunade who then injected it into the small boy's arm. When that was finished Tsunade laid the boy down flat onto one of the bed before turning towards Shizune.

"I'm going to send a message to Konoha." Shizune looked up with a shocked expression on her face. Tsunade sighed and rubbed at her neck. "Actually I'm going to tell that old coot of a Hokage what condition I found this kid in." Tsunade then stormed out of the room, leaving a stunned Shizune and an unconscious blonde hair boy.