TroublesomeFox21

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This chapter isn't the best to be honest. So I'm sorry, I'll talk a bit more about it later.

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Previously:

Naruto trained with Kurama and is meeting the Hokage right now.

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Now:

"Naru-chan!" the Hokage breathed in relief. Naruto hid her questions for now, "Hokage-sama." She said with no emotion. He seemed to be in relief which really didn't make sense. Sure he knew her parents but he never said anything and he never helped her when she really needed him.

"I was looking for you everywhere. Where were you, are you ok?" He asked than took in her apparel. He was shocked. She wasn't dirty and her hair was brushed, not matted with blood and dirt. Her clothes actually fit and wasn't swamped in the cloth. Her hair was cleaner and she cut, quite cutely if he could say so himself. Then he noticed weapon pouches and frowned, something must have happened. Something big.

"Why do you care?" She asked still not looking at him. He didn't bother to hide his hurt from the comment. "Naru-chan what do you mean?" Deciding to ask instead of wonder.

"I mean, hokage-sama. Is why do you care? I'm just a normal girl that this village hates. Why do you care what happens to me?" She asked. She was trying not to pay attention from the elders obvious distress. This was the one person that she always looked forward to seeing. He was the only one who showed him any kindness besides Kyu-nii. Well, in addition the Rozu person. But she didn't know what her deal was yet. She wouldn't let him trick her, even if he was nice in the past she had to know why. Was it because of her parents? Was that the only reason? She knew that he knew who they were, but he never told her. Lies, like everybody else; only he was nice about it.

"Naruto what's wrong? Did something happen? Of course I care about you. Why-" He was cut off. "Hokage-sama do you know who my parents are." She didn't ask. She stated, if he didn't answer truthfully he would make this a lot harder on himself. Heck, she knew who they were. She understood that she couldn't say anything. She really didn't need more assassination attempts.

The hokage straightened up sadly. He couldn't tell her; it was too big of a risk. He hated lying to her but it was necessary. "No-" She looked at him with hate and hurt.

"You're lying." She stated. The hokage took a step back. "You do know, you just don't trust me. That's fine though Hokage-sama, it's not new. Why did you need to see me? Did you need something, a punching bag maybe?" She knew that she shouldn't have said that but she was letting her emotions get to her. She sighed when she realized that the Hokage was close to crying. She didn't want to hurt him but she couldn't trust him, not if it wasn't mutual.

The Hokage was torn between hurt, confusion and anger. What the hell happened to the sweet little Naruto? He steeled his resolve, she obviously didn't see him as her friend right now so he needed to be the leader now. "Naruto what happened?" She flinched at his resolve. She didn't want to talk about it, the orphanage the beatings and everything else. She defiantly looked down.

She knew that he was getting impatient, what she didn't know was if it was with her or not. It wouldn't surprise her if he was mad at her though, she was used to it. Even if it completely crushed whatever was left of their family relationship. He didn't trust her or care so she wouldn't either, she kept telling herself as tears came to her eyes. Everything just hurt.

The hokage sighed in worry. What happened? Thinking for a minute the only thing that he could think of that would get her to open up was if they were alone. "Snake please leave." She nodded and left. His heart clenched when Naruto looked up, eyes glistening with confusion. He walked around the desk and grabbed her shoulders gently, heart clenching even further when he literally felt her flinch in fear. "Naruto, sweetie, please tell me what happened?"

Naruto glared at him, which she seemed to be doing a lot of lately. "Who were my parents?" She said defiantly. That was all she wanted to know. That was the only thing she could think of to know that she could trust him. Her voice was quiet as she stared into his eyes not breaking eye contact. She wanted to trust him so bad, this was the one who was pretty much her mothers, father. She knew that there were others that were supposed to be there for her. People who were supposed to be her family. Jiraiya, Tsunade, someone named Mikoto, and Kakashi for starters. She had no idea who they were only that they were close to her family, Hiruzen tried to get them to step up but they all declined. He was the only one who made an effort, no matter how small.

Hiruzen sighed sadly, he couldn't tell her! Why did she think that he knew anyway? "I don-" He was shocked when she pushed herself away from him. She backed up into the room corner and slid down. Her knees loosely up and her arms were resting on them. He decided that she looked older, much older right now than she was. Too much so. They were quiet for a minute; it was obvious that she didn't believe him. He didn't know why she didn't.

After a minute she spoke up not looking at him. Her voice was so quiet and drained. Kurama was praying that the village leader would just tell her. It would give her comfort knowing that she wasn't being played with by the one that she always looked up to. He knew that this was most likely the only chance that the elder had if he wanted a relationship with Naruto. Just do the right thing Sarutobi. He kept telling himself.

Naruto's eyes dulled, "Hiruzen." She spoke, she didn't even care anymore. She knew that it was disrespectful but what was the point if he didn't care about her anymore, at all ever. The hokage was shocked, nobody ever called him that but now his five-year-old granddaughter was? He was honestly getting scared, he couldn't even be upset with her when she looked at him. She seemed dead. He nodded to let her know that he heard her.

"Just tell me. I promise I won't tell anyone. I need to know… who they are." She almost let out, if I can trust you, but managed to stop herself. It was hurting more than she thought it would that he knew but he didn't trust her. She looked up at him with a few tears down her cheeks.

Hiruzen sighed and called her over. If it was the only way for her to open up than fine, he didn't know what happened but it must have been pretty bad. He was surprised at her wording. She seemed smarter, once again, older as well. Like a war veteran in a small body. He didn't like it all and he only wanted to know what happened.

"Ok, come on." He sighed and turned to walk back to his desk just in time to see Narutos face light up. Not in excitement as he would have thought but in complete and utter relief. She didn't say anything and just walked over just happy that she really could trust him. Well, she did guilt trip him pretty much, she knew that but this was one person that she could trust at least somewhat.

They both sat down and stared at each other for a minute. Hiruzen stole glances at the fourth hokages portrait on the wall as if asking him if he was doing the right thing right now. He sighed and frowned when he saw that her face was expressionless. "Naruto, what I'm about to tell you right now is very important. You cannot tell anyone no matter what. Can you promise me that, please?"

She nodded absentmindedly. "I know." He nodded and opened his mouth to explain, "Your parents names ar-"

He was cut off by laughter, it was filled with sadness though. "No, I know who they are." Naruto explained than giggled quietly to herself at his horrorstruck expression. She sighed, she was glad that she could trust him, so he could let her 'mask' go and really be herself. No innocent little girl no more.

"What?" He asked.

Naruto rubbed her forehead and hugged her knees to her chest, still sitting on the chair. "Hokage-sama, I said I know who they are. I've always known who they are." She tried to explain, she only received a shocked how, in reply.

"You do know how the village treats me right? What they do?" She asked rhetorically. The hokage only sighed, he knew that she would get thrown out of stores and beaten. He did what he could though but the council had him on a collar. " I know, I am sorry. –" Naruto just sighed, she may trust him but they still had to rebuild their relationship. She shook her head and rested it on her knees mumbling, "No, you don't."

Hiruzen straightened up with a frown, "What do you mean what happened?'' Praying that it wasn't too bad. Naruto stood up and walked around the room. She stopped at the Hokage portraits and studied them. She was related to three of them, what were they fighting for though?

She didn't turn around when she talked barely above a whisper, "What didn't happen?" She turned around and looked at him. She didn't want to tell him but he should know. If they were going to be on good terms than he should know. That would sadly include everything, most of it anyway.

"I know what you're thinking. The words and beatings and not being able to look in a store is bad, right?" She asked, he nodded listening intently. He was right, she was smarter than she let on. She laughed, it was more like a mimic which sounded creepy coming from a short five-year-old. "Where do you want me to start?" She asked honestly.

"From the start would probably be good." He offered. She nodded and sat back down. Deep down she found guilty pleasure in knowing how he would react to some of the stuff. After all, if he actually did his job than she would have been treated a little bit better. Even just the slightest. "Ok, I know what happened the Kyuubi attack. I remember all of it, probably what you would call a photographic memory. Only a few steps up. I remember the actual pain, emotion and what happened. In everything and I always have." She said rather bluntly.

The hokage was shocked. She remembered?! She didn't give him a chance to answer. "I remember how happy my mom and my dad were when they first saw me. Than it all went to hell." He nodded telling her to continue, knowing that this would be a long tale. "What if I were to tell you that the Kyuubi was controlled that night. It was never his fault that he was pulled from my mom. They were actually on good terms, not exactly friends but not enemies."

The hokage was on alert. This was important, they were still trying to figure out what happened. If things continued to go the way they were than something bad was going to happen to the Uchiha clan, that much was clear. Whatever she told him may be the key to if they were innocent or not. He didn't think that they had any part of it but he couldn't be too sure.

"I need to know what happened right now." He still needed to know what happened to her to make her change so drastically but this was vital for the village. "I still want to know what happened to you sweetie but this is very important." Naruto smirked. She knew exactly what he was talking about, it wasn't that hard to figure out. You would have to be both blind and deaf to not know what was happening. It also helped that Kurama filed her in on the parts that she blacked out in.

"Oh, you mean the little Uchiha problem?" She laughed at his expression. "How did you know?" He asked honestly surprised. She waved him off, "Eh, don't worry your Uchihas are innocent in this. It was actually a very old traitor to the village." She enjoyed his shock.

"Orochimaru?" He asked more to himself but still watched her shake her head no. "No, Uchiha Madara." The hokage dropped his pipe that he was about to light. "Th-that's impossible. He died years ago." Naruto shook her head, "No he's alive and well, at least he was five years ago. He used the mangekyou sharingan to control the Kyuubi. Your beast had no part of this, he was actually quite content with sleeping. So you're Uchihas are innocent so you can stop your blame game."

He slumped back in his chair. He was relieved that they were innocent he only needed proof now. He watched her intently, how did she know all of this. He understood that she may remember it but that doesn't mean that she could understand how.

"How do you know all of this?" He asked. Naruto sighed, she didn't want to go back and forth in subjects so she asked, "Do you want to know how or do you want to figure out how to convince the council that their innocent? We can get back to me later."

He sighed and nodded, "Any ideas?" He asked more of a joke, he realized that she was smart, scarily so but she didn't have all of his answers. She answered anyway, "Yup, I think it will work." She smiled cheekily. She was actually kind of tired of using her brain this much besides thinking. Kurama was helping her out a lot though. She missed talking with the hokage like this, well anybody really. Yeah, she had Kurama but he was kind of in her head.

"Oh, do tell." Hiruzen advised as he rested his chin on his hands. "You write a letter from my dad saying that it had a time seal and it opened. The letter explains all of this in detail so you could share it with the council." She said wisely. The hokage grinned, that was perfectly reasonable. Especially since, the 'letter', could say that the time seal was so they could focus on restoring the village instead of stressing out about this new enemy that they have made. "That's genius Naruto, thank you. I'll work on that right after this." He said and hid the question of asking her to continue.

Naruto grinned sheepishly, still not used to any kind of compliment. "Ok so where were we, Kyuubi attack, Madara, Uchiha innocence right ok so. Pretty much my dad sealed Kyuubi into me and both my parents died. You and a lot of people let them down, on so many levels. I grew up beaten, cursed upon, starved. Do you need details?"

Hiruzen sat wide eyed at how bluntly she said it all. He frowned sadly and in shame. She really remembered it all. He looked at her, "I am so sorry Naruto, I can't even imagine." Naruto snorted quietly, "Well don't strain yourself in trying."

He sat in his chair straighter, "Do you want to talk about it?" He asked cautiously. Naruto was about to 'politely' decline but Kurama advised against it.

Kit, you really should talk about your past. I know what happened so we don't talk about it but you should talk about it. Please?

Naruto frowned and looked down. It was hard thinking about it. She remembered all of the feel of it along with the stories the memories held. But her brother wants her to so she would, for him. She was saved for the moment by a rumble. She looked up sheepishly and held her stomach. She hadn't eaten since that morning.

Sarutobi smiled, even if she changed it would seem that her eating habits haven't changed. It was kind of sad really, the parts that he knew anyway. "You hungry?" Naruto nodded. "Ramen?" Naruto made a disgusted face and shook her head. He stopped midstep, "Why not?" She looked at him blankly. "I don't like it."

His face lit up in confusion, "But you always eat several bowls. Why eat it if you don't like it?" Naruto looked at the ground for a second than looked up, "You eat what you can get. Some people don't have the pleasure of knowing if and when they get to eat again."

Naruto continued walking, missing the Hokages horror struck expression. What did this child go through?

After debating on where to go they decided to go to Akimichis BBQ. Naruto only went there once before. They were incredibly nice people but she knew that she was bad for business so she didn't want them to lose any costumers because of her. But the Hokage was with her right now so it should be fine.

After they got the meat the Hokage cut some of the meat into smaller pieces for the blond. They sat in silence for a minute as Naruto just stared at the sizzling meat. He watched her carefully as he put some meat onto her plate. A few minutes later she spoke.

"So how much do you know?" She asked calmly. The Hokage thought for a second. "I know that you've been kicked out of stores, missed meals. You've been beaten and cursed at." He really didn't know a whole lot about it. The way she was talking made him scared though. She looked at him with a weird look. He couldn't quite place it but it made him slightly uncomfortable. She scoffed, "The council has you pretty bad, huh?"

The Hokage nodded, "Yeah, I really can't do anything though. I am trying but… it's just taking too long to change anything." He said as he rubbed his forehead. She nodded, she blamed it on him being old. He really should have picked a new successor over taking the hat again. She wouldn't blame one of the only people who showed her any kindness; that didn't mean that she wasn't upset over it though.

"So you watched me until I was two weeks old, right? Then you took me to the orphanage. Mainly because nobody would take care of me? Tsunade left pretty fast. Jiraiya seemed to come close but he let the council man handle him into his spy network." She said as she sipped some water as she kicked her legs. It actually felt… kind of nice to talk about it.

The hokage was struck. She really did remember everything? He didn't exactly want to talk about his two students that let him down, well all three let him down but only one could be considered loyal to be honest. "Yes, I watched you for two weeks." She nodded, knowing he didn't want to talk about his students. She understood it since she spent a lot of time with the hokage when she was much younger. She came to understand what pissed him off. His students being a very careful subject for one.

"Ok, so pretty much people who promised my parents they would watch over me, your words, didn't. I went to an orphanage where you knew that there was no chance for me being adopted. The orphanage alone, I was starved. Maybe a meal every two days. I literally slept on a blanket that I brought home myself from the trash. The reason why I was so dirty all the time was because I didn't want to take any baths or showers there. They wouldn't let me touch the water at all. So it was either burning hot or freezing cold. Than hold me under."

Sarutobi inhaled, this was not good. She knew about everybody and knew her own chances for a family at this point. He suppressed a growl when he heard what the leaders at the childrens home would do to her. He would need to pay a little visit to them when he was finished here.

He rested his head in his hands having a feeling that this would be a long talk, emotionally anyway.

Naruto ate another piece of meat. "So that was the orphanage in short. Too be honest I was only there to sleep. I made the curfew every night at ten than slept. Leaving again in the morning. What was really hard was being anywhere else. I had a better chance of finding food out in the streets than I the orphanage. That's why I spent so much time out, even if it meant more beatings."

Naruto sighed, this is where it was going to get hard. She wasn't going to go into detail, just vaguely talk about it. "So I really never ate anything. The only meals I would get would be when you would take me out to that ramen shop. But, being on the streets were terrible. It wasn't until I was nearly three when it got to be really bad. I would go out more on my own when I was four, since I understood that the empty feeling in my stomach was hunger. So, um." Naruto sighed and rubbed her forehead. This was hard. She was able to will away tears but, just thinking about any of it hurt. And she could think of any moment in her life and remember it.

Hiruzens eyes saddened. She hasn't even told him anything except for the orphanage but she was never there and it was bad enough. "You don't have to continue if you don't want to."

Naruto shook her head. "No, Kyuu wants me to talk about it." She said it before she meant to but she couldn't take it back now. The Hokage narrowed his eyes. "Naruto, who's Kyuu."

Naruto looked at him intently, "I'll get to it soon." He nodded, not exactly happy with the answer but it would have to do.

"Ok, so I'm just going to speed through the past year, ok?" She laughed to try and ease the tension but it only made it worse. Naruto huffed and ate another piece of meat. She swallowed shakily when he saw him nod.

"So pretty much I was beaten, as you know. Anything from broken bottles, rocks, kunai, shurikan or swords. That would come from the civilians. I was lucky that they didn't know how to actually use any of it or it would have been worse. What made it harder was when the ninja would join in. They would use anything that they could. That would include burning me, cutting me, drenching me, drowning. Thye would use their skills." She said with a far off look in her eyes.

The Hokage had never felt this much anger before. His ninja, the people he trusted would do this to her? He almost missed when Naruto started to talk again. He did not like how tight she closed her eyes. He did not like the tears that escaped.

"T-that was the basics of it. Other than that there was rape, hunts, there was so much jiji. You asked where I was. Almost two weeks ago the orphanage asked me to get some food. I was happy since I thought I could prove that I wasn't a monster. That I wasn't the Kyuubi. That same day I ended up being raped and I was thrown out of the orphanage. I met the Kyuubi though, that's who Kyuu is. He isn't bad, he's one of the nicest people I know. After the orphanage kicked me out we broke into a store and flew to the forest. I came back since we were running out of food."

She spoke looking down, afraid of what he may do to her. Her voice was shaky and her face was wet from the salted tears. When she looked up she was surprised when she saw the Hokage crying.

"I am so sorry Naruto. I-I should have done more, I shouldn't have let them walk all over me. I-It's my fault you went through this and I am so sorry." He knew that the apology wouldn't change anything. He couldn't believe what she went through. It was all his fault. He couldn't believe that his village, the hidden leaf, would do this to a little girl. He was crushed.

Naruto shook her head, feeling a bit better that she talked about it with somebody. "It's ok Hokage-jiji. Just get your council under control." She laughed but meant it. She did not like the white masked ANBU that they would send after her. They were the worst to get away from.

Sarutobi sighed, he let Naruto, Minato and Kushina down. If they could see him now. He nodded with conviction when he registered what she said. Forget about putting them in line. He considered them dis-banned in less than a week. He frowned when he realized that Naruto literally had nothing right now. No, she had him. He smiled.

"Ok Naru-chan, thank you for telling me. Do you by any chance no these peoples names?" He really hoped that she did, he wouldn't mind taking Ibikis place for a few nights. He had no immediate response when he heard Naruto answer.

"Yes, jij I actually know a few. But I'm not going to tell you. These people are terrible, yes. But there're idiots that don't know better. I am pad about what they did to me but it's not going to change anything. I've forgiven them for the past but I won't stand for it any longer. I'll make them see who I am. I'm not a monster or a demon. I'm Naruto Uzumaki -Nam, nope. You get the point."

She laughed a bit at her almost slip. Hiruzen was feeling happy despite the situation. His village may have lost their will of fire but he gained a spark that was so strong he could see it light the blaze anew. Brighter, bigger, better. He laughed quietly with her when he realized her slip also.

Naruto happily went back to her food, feeling better to vent a little. Hiruzen was left to think. It was obvious that he needed to get Tsunade and Jiraiya back, for Naruto's sake and probably his own. He also needed to find a place for Naruto to stay, probably an apartment. He sighed, of the paperwork.

"Ok, after we're done here, let's go back to my office and find you a place to stay." Naruto smiled brightly making the elder do a double take. He realized then that he knew almost nothing of the real Naruto. It made him sad thinking that this little girl had to lie her whole life for her own safety and she only trusted him now.

"Really!?" Naruto asked in pure happiness. The hokage nodded, happy that she was ok with that arrangement. "Yup, and after that I'll see what I can do about getting Jiraiya and Tsunade back." Naruto stopped and stared.

The hokage stopped eating. Feeling awkward under her criticizing stare. "No."

Hiruzen leaned back shocked. "Why not?" Naruto set her fork down and huffed. "Really?" He nodded confused.

Naruto leaned on the table. "They didn't want me then and they wouldn't want me now. It's fine I've been doing fine without them. They made their choice years ago and I'm making mine. If they don't want anything to do with me than I don't want anything to do with them." She said with sad yet, determined eyes.

Well, now Sarutobi was back to being disappointed with his students, yet again. "Naru-"

Naruto cut him off with a glare, "They made their choice jiji. I've made mine just leave it. Please?" She pleaded. The hokage sighed but agreed as they headed back to his office. He was glad that he found a restaurant that the blond/ red head actually liked. He would be spending a lot of time with her from now on.

When they went back to his office they looked up different apartments. It would under his name so she could pick one anywhere. She ended up picking the same one that her parents lived in before they got a house that they decided she would get when she hit chunnin. The apartment was on a more secluded part of the town and it was actually a condo that nobody else lived in. So she got both of them making it so she had her own backyard that she would make into her own training ground. It was a two bed one bath. With a kitchen and two separate living areas. Naruto loved it.

When they went to move in, with the little she had, they made a note to get some furniture. The walls were a light brown with cherry wood flooring. The Hokage and her both decided that they would get some food and the furniture along with everything else that she would need the next day. They talked a bit more, mostly about the kyuubi since Hiruzen had his doubts. He was glad that he learned that he could be trusted, as much as a demon lord could be. He felt better knowing that Naruto had somebody.

They were talking in the kitchen when Naruto asked him a question that she has been wanting to ask since… forever.

"Hokage-jiji, can I ask you a question?" She asked shyly. The hokage laughed and shook her head affectionately. He learned that she was crazy smart. To him this Naruto seemed more real, honest. He liked it but not the causes that made her this way. "Of course you can."

Naruto nodded with a pout as she fixed her hair. "C-can I join the academy? Please?" The hokage was surprised. He knew that she would want to be one, especially since they talked about it a lot tonight. He didn't know if he liked that idea though, yes they had an Itachi, Kakashi, both graduating early. But he didn't know if he liked the idea. "I don't know Naruto. It's hard, why don't you wait a couple years, with the other kids your age?" He pleaded.

Naruto sighed and kicked her legs against the counter lightly. "I know it's hard but, I want to try it. I want to make my parents proud and show the villagers that I'm not a monster. I mean it can't be that hard, I can already tree walk." She grumbled the last part to herself but he heard it, shocked once again.

"You- You can tree walk already?" He asked. Naruto nodded happily. "Yup, Kyuu-nii taught me when we were in the forest. He also told me how to use the Kunai and Shurikans. He says that I'm really good at them." Naruto was happy that she could tell someone about her progress.

Hiruzen was surprised that she had that good of a handle on it already. Maybe, just maybe she could handle the academy. After all. If she could handle a village of haters than she could handle school right? "Can you show me?"

Naruto nodded and hopped off the counter. Her hair was down letting her ears show and she had her tails out. She was scared that she may have had to take the hokage to the hospital by all of his coughing and disbelief. But he warmed up to it, eventually. He did like teasing her about how cute she was though.

Naruto walked over to the wall and walked on it. She walked until she was standing in front of Hiruzan and laughed at his expression. She jumped down and landed in a crouch. Stood up and bowed mockingly when he clapped making her laugh.

"Well Naruto, I think you can go to the academy after all."

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Ok I know that that chapter wasn't the best but I had to make it non-massacre. So it all worked. Sorry for the lateness of this chapter, life was the cause sadly. I don't think I have a lot to say. I am still thinking about what I want to do for the pairing. I want to say it will be Sasuke but you can leave you preferences in a review.

So Hiruzen and Naruto ended up getting closer. He knows about her extra features and he's fine with it. He's just glad that she opened up to him. This chapter was between dark and feel-good if that's possible. But, yay! Don't forget to review.

I am also aware that the writing wasn't the best but I just needed to handle a few things like the massacre and rebuilding their relationship.

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