A/N: I would like to thank Novrier for his review and tips he gave me. I will try my best to integrate your tips into the future chapters from now on.

Chapter 2: "A ray of hope"

When Naruto woke up he noticed that he is inside the Hokage Tower, specifically in Sandaime's office. He suddenly remembered the beating he got. Rising slowly from a couch that was never here before when he visited the Old Man, he heard the Hokage greet him.

"Hey, Naruto-kun" Hiruzen greeted, "did you sleep well?"

"Hokage-Jiji" Naruto greeted back, his voice held undescribable sadness in it.

"Why do the villagers hate me so much? Did I do something to them?" Naruto asked while shedding tears.

Hiruzen couldn't keep the sadness off his face when looking at the poor boy.

"Naruto, I'll tell you something but please keep it a secret." the Sandaime said

"Anything jiisan" Naruto replied, looking curiously towards the old Hokage.

"I think that you already know the legend of the Kyuubi no Kitsune" Hiruzen said.

Naruto looked at him strangely then answered, "Yes, everyone knows that"

Hiruzen had a grave expression on his face when he told Naruto what truly.

He started with the story of the Yondaime Hokage, the Yellow Flash of Konoha, the Kyuubi's sudden appearance and how it tried to destroy the village. The Shinobi who were not on duty at that time helped protecting Konoha and slowly pushing the mighty Kitsune outside of the village's gates. The Yondaime fought the Bijuu in a epic battle and managed to defeat it, sealing it away at the cost of his life.

Naruto looked even more confused at this moment.

"What does this have to do with me?" he asked, and then the Hokage continued to relate the story to Naruto.

"Naruto, I will tell you something about your parents but this is a S-Rank secret and I trust you that you'll not tell this to anyone else" Hiruzen said in a serious tone.

"Ok,Hokage-jiisan I promise you" Naruto replied and waited to see what the Old Man wants to tell him.

"Before sealing the Kyuubi, the Yondaime had to make a painful decision, he had to choose between the village and you, he was troubled at the thought of sealing the Bijuu in you"

"I have a monstrous fox inside me?" Naruto said with sadness. "Now I know why the villagers hate me.. but why?" "Why me?" he asked.

Hiruzen then told him something that stopped his breath: "You Naruto are the son of Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage of Konohagakure."

"Me?" was all Naruto could say as he look with a shocked expression towards the old Hokage

"If what you say is true jiji then why would he seal the Kyuubi in his own son?" "And why didn't you tell me of my parents before? I never knew who my parents were before"

The Hokage looked at him with a sad expression and answered him: "Naruto,you have to understand me, I really couldn't tell you because your father was a man who had many enemies."

"If I would've told you before, you'd have told everyone and you would have assassins after you."

"In the third Shinobi Great War your father killed an entire battalion of Iwa Shinobi and Iwagakure, and the son of the Tsuchikage who was between them" the Sandaime told him.

"Minato then sealed the Kyuubi into you because he trusted that you will learn to control it's power for the better future of the village. He couldn't ask a parent to give their children to be used as a Jinchuuriki because he himself wouldn't have gived you if he was the one being asked."

Naruto looked sad about this but understood the Hokage's reasoning and accepted it.

"Thank you jiji for telling me who my parents were" Naruto said as he started crying. "They gave their lives for me and many others and I will make them proud" Naruto stated. "I will become a strong Shinobi and an even better Hokage."

Hiruzen looked at Naruto with pride as he tried to cheer the little child.

"How about we go to Ichiraku's as I promised you?" the Hokage said.

Naruto's face lightened up at the idea of ramen and said "Yes! Ramen is the food of the Gods."

The old Hokage chuckled and walked outside with Naruto leaving the evil paperwork behind.

Time skip - two days later…

Walking through the main street, Naruto saw some boys picking on a midnight blue short-haired girl. Wanting to see what's their problem, he walked towards them.

"You think that you're better than us just because you're the heiress of a famous clan?" the leader of the bullies asked.

"N-no, t-that's not true" the girl stuttered as she was forced on her knees by the other two.

"Apologize!" the leader said forcefully.

"But I-"

"Oi! Leave the girl alone you bullies" Naruto were three in number and two of them were holding the girl's hands restraining fat one seemed to be their leader as he answered Naruto: "Make yourself a favor and disappear before we decide to beat you"

Naruto punched the leader in the face as hard as he could and the boy loosed some teeth from the blow.

"You bastard! he said, get him guys!" he said as the two boys headed towards Naruto quickly and tackled him to the ground. One of them punched him in the face as the other was puching him in the stomach. Trough sheer determination and willpower, Naruto headbutted the one that was straddling him and kicked the other then proceeded to beat them until they couldn't move.

The bullies' leader seeing that his minions were defeated told Naruto that he won today but to expect their revenge. Turning to look at the girl, she saw her poking her fingers togheter with a small blush on her face. "Ano..T-thank you f-for saving me from these bullies" the girl said.

Naruto smiled his foxy grin at her making her cheeks turn an even darker shade of red.

"There's no need to thank me for this." Naruto said while rubbing the back of his head.

"I couldn't let those bullies hurt such a pretty girl" he said, and at this point, the girl's blush reached such a dark level that it put a tomato to shame, if that was possible

"What's your name?" he asked the girl. Said girl poked her fingers shily and answered Naruto.

"Hyuuga Hinata" she answered and looked away from Naruto's face.

"Hey.." Naruto said, "There's no reason to be shy Hinata-chan" he said smiling at her.

Before she could say something, her bodyguard, Hyuuga Ko appeared and took her hand while shooting Naruto a glare. "Let's go Hinata-sama" he said as she started dragging her away from the blond. Hinata turned her head to look at Naruto and said "Goodbye, Naruto-kun"

Ko looked at Hinata and said "Why did you talk to that thing?" he asked.

Hinata looked at him weirdly as she responded "Why do you call him that? I see all of the civilians and most of the Shinobi glare at him for no reason. Why is that?"

"Don't concern yourself with this Hinata-sama" Ko answered as he led her towards the Hyuuga compound.

They walked togheter in silence as Hinata's thoughts drifted back to Naruto.

A/N: Well, this is Chapter 2, I'm sorry it's smaller than the first but I wanted to give you guys something to read. However, the next chapter will have be significantly longer and will have a 3 years Time Skip. I'm in the 12'th grade and I have a lot to study so bear with me please.

Anyway,whenever I'm trying to update as fast as I can, though sometimes the updates can be as long as a week, but the wait will be rewarding as they will be longer.

Until next time,

Ja'ne!