Chapter: -7 New Day.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN THE Naruto UNIVERSE.

DAWN……….

By next morning the rain stopped pouring and the last and final vestiges of the rain clouds fell, th bright, warm and welcoming rays of the sun embraced the village hidden in the leaves and a small silver haired boy who was sleeping, he started squirming against the warmth of the sunlight falling on his skin after a long sleep in the cold rain. Naruto woke up rubbing his eyes and stretched to relive the pain from last night's torture, only to be welcomed by even more pain and the felling of some bones moving in the wrong place. Naruto winced and grunted at the pain but only then did he notice that his white shirt was covered in his blood and was also in his tattered state, that was when he realised that he had to change before going to the academy.

But when he turned around his bag was missing, "I only a night on the streets and I've already been robbed?" he asked himself. Grief overcoming him of the thought of losing the only thing that he owned, Naruto looked and cried, after a few moments of crying he knew that crying won't do him any good and hence left towards the academy limping. When Naruto reached his destination he noticed that no one was here and instantly realized that he's early so, he walked towards the restrooms and got freshened up and went into his class and sat at his regular seat at the far back of the room, seeing that he had a lot of time to spare decided to take some rest so he put his arms on the table and placed his head on it and wound up falling asleep.

Slowly the class was filled with its students all of them took a look at Naruto but decided to ignore him. Soon Iruka walked into the class and begun his lessons. Soon half way through the class Iruka stopped and took the roll call as a small break for the students, "…. Naruto Uzumaki….", "Naruto!" everyone turned around to see Naruto fast asleep and started laughing hysterically, Iruka walked up to him and was about to shout at him and wake him up, that's when he noticed Naruto's torn and blood stained shirt. Iruka became worried and tried waking up Naruto by shaking him by his shoulders.

"Naruto…. Naruto…. Naruto!", instantly he woke up and brought his hand to cover his face as if he was about to get hit and shouted "PLEASE DON'T HURT ME ANYMORE!!" with a lot of fear etched in his voice, a small whimper escaped his lips along with tears forming along the corners of his eyes. Iruka was totally shocked and taken aback by Naruto's sudden outburst, the whole class (except for a few) instantly burst out in a fit of laughter causing Naruto to cry and run out of the class room. Iruka stood there for a few moments trying to analyse what just happened and shouted "THAT'S ENOUGH ALL OF YOU!", the whole class was suddenly drowned in silence as they watched their sensei run after Naruto.

Finally, after a few minutes of searching Iruka found Naruto sitting against a tree with his knees to his chest and his hands were in front holding his legs together whimpering, Iruka went ahead and sat next to him. A few moments of silence were shared between the two with only Naruto's sniffles being heard before Iruka decided to break it by asking him a question "They…. They hurt you didn't they?" Naruto not wanting to say anything merely just nodded. Iruka wanted to comfort the boy so he went next to him and pulled him into a hug, with such an action being so foreign to Naruto he flinched and resisted against it, but once Iruka said that it's okay and that he won't hurt him Naruto finally gave in and started crying into Iruka's vest. Once Naruto's crying had stopped the Chunin took a proper look at Naruto only to find that he had wounds and deep gashed on his body, his eyes narrowed at this sight and he felt so infuriated at the orphanage. "Naruto…. Let's go to the hospital and get your wounds checked" Naruto just nodded and Iruka carried him to the hospital.

--At the Hospital--

After almost fifteen minutes of persuading the doctor she finally agreed to do a full check-up on Naruto. Once he got report he was shocked. Ok shocked was an understatement to what his feelings were at that time. Multiple lacerations, torn tendons, torn muscles, broken bones, ribs and huge amounts of blood loss. It was a miracle that Naruto was even standing. The doctors had him patched up and he was already feeling better. Iruka knew that he was hungry from his stomach grumbling so took him to Ichiraku's to get some ramen. On the way Iruka was lost in his own thoughts like 'why? What happened? What did a four-year-old boy do to deserve such brutality?' before he could go any further with his thoughts it was interrupted with them reaching Ichiraku's the got in and was greeted by Teuchi "hey what can I get you two?" he handed both of them one menu and waited for their orders.

"I'll have a bowl of pork ramen please" Iruka said, but Naruto's order didn't come so Teuchi looked at him to see that Naruto was glaring at the menu as if trying to burn a hole into it, after a few more seconds of glaring Naruto let out a sigh and showed Teuchi the menu and pointed at what he wanted. The old man took their orders and was about to go into the kitchen to get their food before he stopped at its entrance and asked Naruto "You don't know how to…. Read, do you kid? Naruto instantly shook his head sideways answering his question. "WHAT!" was what Iruka shouted before asking him. "Naruto do you really not know how to read?" Naruto replied with a no.

That reply got Iruka thinking ''So that's why he has been failing all his exams". Iruka was broken out of his thoughts when a bowl of ramen was kept in front of the two of them. Iruka looked up and said a thanks to Teuchi and looked at Naruto and asked him to say a thank you, and Naruto did so and they started eating. Iruka was about to eat when he asked Naruto "Naruto didn't they teach you how to read in the orphanage?" Naruto said a no, and started digging into his bowl as if it was the first time he's seen food in days. Purely out of curiosity Iruka looked at Naruto to see that he was really thin and short for a boy of his age and asked "Naruto when was the last time you had anything to eat?" "Two days ago Iruka-sensei" Naruto replied while happily chomping down on his bowl of ramen.

Both Iruka and Teuchi was taken aback by his answer and Iruka asked him another question "Naruto what did they used to give you to eat in the orphanage?", Naruto stopped eating and answered "usually I don't get to eat anything to eat, and if I do its usually some really mouldy bread or some leftovers if I'm lucky." Iruka instantly almost threw up the two mouth full of ramen that he ate. He got up to go and beat up every single one of the warden's ass into the ground till they begged for his mercy, Naruto instantly felt the hate from Iruka and caught his sleeve effectively stopping him and begged him not to hurt them. 'How can Naruto be so forgiving to them after what they have done to him?' 'you really are one of a kind Naruto' thought Iruka. "Ok Naruto lets go get some new clothes for you and go meet the Hokage once that's done ok?" "Alright Iruka-sensei, but before we leave could you buy another bowl of ramen for me, please!" "Sure Naruto!" Iruka said smiling.

After chomping down another three bowls of ramen, Naruto and Iruka set out to shop for another new set of clothes for Naruto, they entered a shop and the lady at the counter refused to sell clothes to Naruto but again after another fifteen minutes of persuasion the lady finally agreed to sell some clothes to him. After going through most of the clothes Naruto really liked the black ones but they were all kind of expensive so decided to check for something more…. cheaper and while going through the rest on particular set of dress caught his eye, a kill-me orange track suit. He really didn't like the colour but the price was almost close to nothing, so not wanting to burden Iruka-sensei he took it. Iruka tried persuading Naruto by telling him that ninja's needed stealth which is not achievable through this suit, but Naruto was hell bent on getting this suit and so Iruka agreed to his choice. Naruto had gotten changed into this suit and surprisingly it was super comfy as they went to get this suit billed the cashier saw this and was actually since someone actually brought this suit which was sitting in this shop for god knows how long since no one would buy it. Happy on the thought of getting rid of this suit she said that she would give all the five pairs that she had for the price of one, they agreed and took the rest five pairs after paying for just one. Naruto was happy with his choice knowing that he didn't put a dent in Iruka-sensei's wallet, Iruka then sealed the rest into a sealing scroll and left with Naruto to the Hokage's office with Naruto speaking about his life till now.

--X at the Hokage tower X--

Sarutobi Hiruzen could be seen battling his greatest foe to have ever lived, the only one who kept coming at him no matter what happened…. 'PAPER WORK!' oh how he wished someone would walk through that door to give him a break from this never ending pile of paper work, to his luck an academy teacher and a silver haired boy wearing a kill-me orange tracksuit walked in while shouting "JIJI!". "Naruto-kun what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be in the orphanage?" asked Hiruzen while Naruto flinched at the mention of the orphanage, something which didn't go unnoticed by the Hokage. "Actually Hokage-sama we had come here to talk about it". "Naruto can you tell the Hokage everything you told me on our way here?", Naruto nodded and explained everything to the Hokage all the way from the beginning. By the end of it the Hokage's eyes were covered by his hat as he was fuming with rage. "THOSE BASTARDS! IENTRUSTED Naruto TO THEM BELIVING EVERYTHING WOULD BE FINE AND THEY WOULD TAKE GOOD CARE OF HIM!". "Iruka I need you to make other living arrangements for Naruto for now." "Lord Hokage I was hoping that Naruto would live with me from now on. I would take good care of him." Iruka told the Hokage convincing him. "Alright, you can take him in. but take good care of him", stated the Hokage to which Iruka gave an affirmatory nod. Naruto embraced the Hokage in a hug for the first time which the Hokage returned glad fully, Naruto and Iruka left and ran towards Iruka's home before it rained and thankfully they had reached just before the rain started pouring. Iruka took Naruto in and gave him a tour of the house and showed him to the room where he will be sleeping. Iruka then had put Naruto to bed to get the rest that he deserved. Once Naruto was asleep Iruka walked out of the room and made a plan to teach Naruto how to read and write and to begin his training from tomorrow. 'Looks like Naruto's going to have a new life from tomorrow onwards' thought Iruka with a smile as he got dressed for bed and turned off all the lights.

(A.N:- please review and let me know if I'm good or just ok).