As stated before I don't own Naruto and I don't condone the horrible actions in this fanfiction. Please read chapter 1 for explanation.

Chapter 2: Living with the Ladies of the Night

When I woke up to a feeling I had not felt in months, safety. I was finally away from all those who hit me and though I knew being on the streets was not going to be a walk in the park I knew it was better than that basement.

I then got to looking at my new living situation. The box was larger being as it could easily fit three of be long and two wide so it gave me room to play with, which I was going to need. I knew that it was the end of October as had let a lot of people in to beat me on my birthday about 10 days ago. This also meant the colder months were coming and I had to figure something out. The size of the box would allow me to do something to keep me warm.

I then started to pull out what I had in my bag to see if anything could help. I had managed to grab 6 candles and a half box of matches. I also had a few books and one old rusted Kunai. Nothing that would truly help and my baby blanket wasn't going to keep me warm.

After setting out my things were I wanted them I decided to move on to my next task, food. I had no money so I knew I either had to con it or steal it but how. I was good at stealing food from the kids in the orphanage but adults would naturally be harder to take from. I had to start small that was for sure but I also wanted a bath.

So I decided it was time to go to the spring but first I had to find it. I left my box, with backpack in hand, and moved an old trash can in front of it to hide my entryway. I carefully moved out of the ally to see that the area was pretty quiet. It was odd cause I could tell it was noonish which meant the village should be alive with people but it wasn't.

As I moved farther I saw more people but they weren't the people I was accustomed to seeing. The men were covered in Tattoos and selling things I didn't even want to see well the few women I saw wore clothes that left nothing to the imagination. As I left the area behind I realized what the place was.

Mrs. Haruno had called it the red district. She had mentioned it was where I would end up in life. "Pimping" myself just to make a living though I didn't know what that meant I knew it wasn't something I wanted to do.

After I quick dip in the hot springs I made my way to the market. It was bussling this time of day and I did my best to avoid any adults I could. The task at hand was get food but I knew I wouldn't be able to get much, but if I could get just enough to ration for a few days I would be ok.

I knew I wouldn't be able to cook so I made my way to the bakery where hot loaves of bread had just been placed of the window sill. I grabbed as many as I could well the baker was off and placed them in my bag. My first score was a success but it wasn't time to get to confident. I moved deeper into the market to find whatever else I could get my hands on.

*Scene Change*

By the time I made it back to my new home for the finale time the district was busy. I also managed to get quite a bit of food and other items. I had managed to get 3 loaves of bread and an arrangement of fruit from different stales. Luckily I had hid my bag after the bread because I got caught at my stall by the Uchiha Police. They took the tomato's I had and beat me for a bit. I knew if I would have had my score they would have taken it all. After finding my bag I went back to my home and went out to look for useful things.

I had found an old wooden pot lid and some hinges that I could make a door. I also found an old saw blade so I could cut a hole in the backside of the shack. I had found a build sit that I planned to take some bricks and pip and make a small fire place. From this site I also found discarded foam board insulation and nails to place it on my walls. Plus was one side was shiny so it would bounce light around without having the need for too much light from the source. All this would make the place a little homier until I found a place out of the main village.

I stated organizing my things when I started to hear yelling. Quickly I blew the candle out as not to be discovered and listened. There was only two voices, one male and on female, and it wasn't anything good. I wanted to keep out of it but curiosity got the best of me so I crawled out and looked.

From my hiding place I saw an obvious that the man was drunk and wanted something. The women obvious didn't want to give him anything. For now I would sit and watch and seeing how it all played out.

"Come on y-you whore," the man said reaching "You know… I can pay,"

"You might be able to pay but you are banned from any place in the red light district with a madam," she replied as she moved away from his reach. She didn't move far enough though and he caught her wrist. "Let me go,"

"No I will get what I want," he said pushing her to the ground. Using his much larger size he pinned her beneath him. He ripped of the belt he was wearing and wrapped it around her neck. Next he tore off her skirt and started lowering pants. At this I could no longer sit on the side lines. I grabbed the old kunai and jumped out of my hiding spot.

"Stop!" I yelled. The man looked up and laughed.

"And what are you gonna do you demon brat," he said as he back handed the women. "This is between adults so go away,"

"No," I said shaking holding the Kunai. The man look at me and stood.

"Did you say no to me," he said walking over, dragging the women behind him with the belt.

"You heard me," I said voice wavering as he got closer "Let her go and leave,"

"I will get what I came for," he the grabbed me by the throat and pushed me against the brick wall. The kunai I had in hand dropped to the ground as grabbed at his arm. "you are just a bonus. Kill you and I become a hero of the village.

Dropping the belt he started punching me over and over again. He dropped me and started kicking me. I tried my best to cover my head but he still got a few hits in and my vison was starting to get fuzzy. The last thing I saw was the women I tried to save pick up the kunai I had dropped. After that it was just darkness.

*Few days*

I woke up in a nice soft bed. Looking around I knew I wasn't in the hospital but instead a room that barely fit this double bed. I slowly sat up to find myself covered in bandages. It took a moment to remember what had happened the night before but I knew this had something to do with that. I was just about to get out of bed when I heard a voice.

"I wouldn't if I was you," I turned to see the same women as last night carrying a tray with fruit on it. She was a beat beaten but the worst injure I saw the bruising from the belt. "Madam Lily wouldn't like if you left. You need to heal,"

"Madam Lily?" I asked well looking for my clothes, all I found was my backpack and blanket.

"Yes she is the Madam of this brothel," she said offering me the fruit. "If you are looking for your clothes they were thrown out. One of the girls has run to get you a new set,"

"You don't have to do this," I said.

"You saved me from a fate that, even in my line of work, can be worse then death itself," she said "Even the Madam says you are to be taken care of and fed,"

"Juniper is correct," I turned to see an older women come in. She wore a red gown and maybe looked mean but her tone of voice was calming.

"You must be Madam Lily,"

"Yes I am and little Uzu have done a great service for my girl," she said I was a bit shocked when she said my name. "Don't worry I am not going to turn you into the old Hokage. He is a caring man but he cant do much when it comes to you, as much has he may try,"

"The old man is looking for me,"

"Yes," she said "Apparently he made a surprise visit to your foster home. Your foster parent said you had run away. She placed a runaway report with the Police also but I belive that was to cover her own if that happened. That was all a week ago,"

"A week!" I yelled

"Yes that man hit you pretty hard," she said "Juniper her realized where you had come from so we gathered your things,"

"I will never get that place done now," I said

"No you won't so we are here to offer you a place," she said "This room is small and we don't use it for clients so I would like to offer you it to stay until the cold months are over at least. I figure you don't want to live to close to the main village,"

"I cant pay," I said

"And you don't have to," she said "I just ask that you help out with cleaning and other house work. I do not though want to see you around the clients though,"

"Alright," I said knowing this was my best option "but whats a brothel,"

*Few months later*

Time flew living at the brothel. The first day Juniper and Madam Lily had explained a lot about the place. It was a place men and women came to pay for sex. After awkwardly explain sex to me I knew why I would like this life but all the girls were nice to me.

I cleaned the house and made it presentable for their clients and would restock the supplies. I still went and stole things that I needed but now I added things to also pay Madam Lily for helping me. Even managed to get a really nice, though cheap, necklace for Juniper. It was a decent life.

Over the months I visited the old man just so he knew I was well but I didn't tell him where I was. He wanted to get me a place of my own but I refused and told him I had found a place I would build on. That wasn't a lie as I had found a nice place away from the village near Mito Falls. There was a group of 5 large oaks clustered and I had been building on them creating my own tree house.

I was just making it live able for now and would later get all the amities. The final things I need was a bit more wood for the roof so tonight I was getting some plywood form a construction site. I was about to get out of the site when I was caught.

"Look what we have here boys," said one of the Uchiha police "Looks like we caught a little fox in the act,"

I dropped my things and started to run but they had brought more people then I had imagined. I made it to the roof and was caught by one as I jumped to the next. I knew the moment he pinned my arms behind me what I was in for. They had beaten me every time I was caught after the Hokage had gotten me out. They wouldn't bother bringing me in cause they knew I would be out within an hour. I knew better then to fight back to much when caught because it just made the beating worse. At least this way they wouldn't use a Genjustu on me making the torment feel like hours.

When they were done they threw me down next to the dumpster. I layed there waiting for my prisoner to heal me enough to walk. Yep I had figured out what I was about a month ago after one of the other street kids decided to stab me. The fox brought me in my mind to save me the pain of having the broken tip taken out. He really wasn't that bad and acted like a big brother to me more than the evil beast everyone thought he was. Guess seeing everything that had happened to me because of him changed him, though he could still be an ass when he wanted.

I didn't get a chance to heal before two Anbu had come by. Weasel was the one I had seen in the past months. He had come to help me after the Uchiha beat me and I believe he was one but he sure didn't act like one. The other I hadn't seen since he last checked on me at my foster home. Even threw his mask I could see the disgust in his visible eye at my condition.

"Back to Madam Lily?" Weasel asked and I just nodded as he gentely scooped me up. It didn't take long before I was laying in my bed and started falling asleep. As I drifted I could feel someone patching me up.

*POV CHANGE JIRAIYA*

"Been a while Jiraiya," Madam Lily said as I walked in "I thought you had forgotten about me,"

"No one could ever forget you love," I said jokingly

"Oh we both know there was only one women you truly loved Jiraiya," she said "What can I do for you,"

"Just came to get the dirty of…," just then an Anbu appeared in the door she turned to look and sighed.

"What happen Weasel?"

"Uchiha police," he said. She stood and waved for me to follow. I was lead in to the small room we used many times when I had come to town in the past but this time it was different. There I saw an Anbu I had known for years patching up a small child. The moment I saw her hair I knew it was my goddaughter that I had long since I died. The dark red hair was just like her mothers. I looked to see a photo on the small table of Lily, Juniper, and this girl to see that she had one purple eye that matched her mothers and a blue that went to her fathers. Looking back to the girl I also saw three little whisker marks on her cheek not pressed into the pillow.

"This can't be," I said. Inu turned in eyes showed shock.

"Lord Jiraiya," he said "I wasn't aware you had returned,"

"Neither is the Hokage but he will have some explaining to do," I said trying to stay calm "He said she didn't make it, said she had been stillborn,"

"I was going to tell you," Lily said. "But it looks like tonight didn't go well for her,"

"No," Weasel said. "Some of the other street kids got wind she was build a place and were she was getting the material. They went to the police who laid in wait for her. I didn't hear about it until after,"

"Why is she her?" I asked

"I would like to know the same," Inu said "When I left for that mission 6 months ago she was in a decent foster home,"

"The father left on a business trip and everything went downhill," Lily said, "she showed up here about 2 weeks after her birthday. She saved one of my girls from being raped and in the process got beat so bad she was out for about a week. Since then I have allowed her to stay here. To think that this is what became of their child,"

"Is that were some of these marks come from," Inu said pointing at the scaring on her ribs. It was a wound I had seen many times and had gotten once or twice myself. Though it was healed well it still looked fresh.

"No that would be from a fight with a much older boy," Weasel said "We should be happy at what she hold keeps her alive. I had to pull the broken tip of a kunai out in this room since she refused the hospital. The beast drew her into her mind to keep most of the pain away,"

"You aren't planning on letting her do this work," I said as I rubbed her whisker like scar to her a purring noise that made me smile.

"She will never do this work," Lily said "I made that clear to her that this isn't what she is meant to do in life. She wants to be a ninja believe it or not even has the same ambition as her mother. Says even if the village hates her it's her home and she wants to protect it. Even if she did want to do this I wouldn't let her. That would be a disgrace to their memories,"

"Now what to do with her," Inu said "No offense but she really shouldn't stay here. Especially if the other street kids are turning on her. Eventually there could be escalation. I would take her with me but the Hokage already forbid it,"

"So you have known and haven't written to tell me," I said. The boy took of his mask reviling the face of the boy I knew as Kakashi. Though he had one eye closed and half his face covered in his normal mask I could see he was growning into quite the handsome man.

"I have only known for about a year and half," he said "I was under the impression you knew since you hold the key to the seal,"

"He has never called me to inspect the seal in the last 5 years so no I had no clue,"

"She is building a place near Mito Falls," Weasel said "She just need the roof to make it livable. It's not the best place but it would be something outside the main village."

"Could you lead us there?" I asked knowing Kakashi would tag along. Weasel nodded "We can make it a bit more livable. After I go yell at the Hokage I will put the paper work to make he my apprentice,"

"You can't take her out of the village," Kakashi said "The council would have a fit,"

"And I won't but hell if I am going to leave her to the academy to teach," I said "Plus they say they want me in the village more this will mean I have to come back every few months though I expect you two to help well I am gone,"

The both nodded and we left her with Lily. We went to the Hokage's office directly and after a small spat over the child it was decided that not only was she to be listed as my apprentice but I as her legal guardian. The fight for my goddaughter was over and some of the trust I had in the old man was gone. Now though I had to worry for Uzu, as she had been named since they had only ever shared what they would name a son.

Over the week Uzu was healing we finished her new home and made it truly look like a home with a little help from one of the newest Anbu recruits, though he wasn't aware who it was for. Stairs winded up the trunk of the tree closest to the falls and lead to a decent porch. We used all the platform instead of just the small area she had built the lean to on and we had managed to build a 3 bedroom house, well Tenzo did. Our job was manly getting everything she would need in it and we somehow managed to get 2 working bathroom.

When she was brought to the house all she could do was smile. We got the large bed for the master bedroom that was just as soft as the one at the brothel. The second bedroom was outfitted for anyone to stay in and the third as a study with plenty of books to learn from. The kitchen was fully stocked and she was made aware she wouldn't need to steal anything anymore. She was over joyed at her new home and the odd family she had come to have in less than a week.

I explained her family and though sad she knew the dangers she would be in if anyone was to know. She wasn't made at her father for more than a few minutes to my surprise she understood that he couldn't ask someone to give up their child just to spare his who was more likely to survive. She was happy to find that she was loved and wanted and that was all that mattered to her is that they wanted her.

After a month I had to head out again but she was understanding of that as well. She promised to work on her control exercise and her reading. Kakashi and Weasel had agreed to check on her and not to tell the Hokage where she was as that he had to tell the council. No this would be her safe place. A place were those who had endangered her life could no longer touch her.

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Hope you all like how Jiraiya is doing something this time. I would keep him around more but being spy master is important. Uzu will not have a last name for the same reason she is not called Naruto, the Third didn't know what they wanted to use. He only went with Uzu cause it was on the blank so he figured that was her name she was going to get and Uzu Uzumaki I don't like the ring of and Namikaze would been pretty much saying here is the daughter of the dead hokage kill her to any of his enemies.

Until Next Time,

~ Covley Hatake