A slightly smarter Naruto, you might as well call him a Prodigy trained by Kakashi at an early age in hopes to right his own mistakes by cloning his mentor.

Just had a writer's block with the Naruto x Hanabi so decided to try something else. I wouldn't want to force myself to produce shit chapters for you guys so bear with me.

PART 1

The scene opens as a small boy the age of 4 with blonde hair and 3 whiskers on each side of his cheek speeds through the village as he's chased by angry mob. He moved as fast as his tiny legs could move him dodging projectiles and manoeuvring through any tiny spaces and between objects. However all his attempts were for nothing as the villagers continue to move after him but even for them it should be very difficult to keep up with him. He just never understood why the villagers hated him this much, it was daily activity for him to chased around by them and normally resulted in him getting beaten.

On some days they villagers would be stopped by an Anbu member with a dog mask but he was never really around much. He was mostly around October which was Naruto's birthday, which happened to be tomorrow. On some days, like today the villagers were accompanied by other shinobi because Tomorrow also happened to be the day that the Nine tailed fox was defeated.

Our Blonde continues to run until he eventually loses the villagers in an alleyway. Trying to catch his breath he stops for a brief moment. 'I'm quite far away from my apartment' he thought to himself as he looks in the sky and notices the sun set. Suddenly his collar is grabbed as his feet left the ground.

"well well well, look who we have here! If it isn't good old Naruto" The man said as he suspended the Blonde in the air by his collar. The man snarled as he looked at Naruto, who was trying to best to loosen the man's grip on him.

"Don't even try i! you're not strong enough to defeat a Chunin or should I say Chunins?" the man snarled as 2 more people joined the scene. Naruto now a bit worried now that 2 more other's had joined tried to wiggle himself away but instead received a punch to the gut. The punched halted the blonde's movement as he groaned and he held his gut.

The men began to cackle hysterically as they watched Naruto groan in pain. The man held Naruto to his face and received a spit in the face and then dropped Naruto. Wiping his face in disgust, he signalled for the other's to grab the Blonde as he tried to escape.

Unfortunately for Naruto he didn't make it far and was grabbed back to the Alley and beaten. Receiving kicks and punches on every place on his body. The men had just finished beating him up expecting him to be out cold and were surprised to see the Blonde back up.

"You think you're tough huh?" the man said to Naruto as he closed the distance between them preparing to send another attack.

The man halted his attack when he noticed the Blonde started laughing, this confused him a lot. Why would he be laughing when he's getting the crap beat out of him, the man thought. Or maybe he's making fun of me, the man concluded on his thought and punched the Blonde right in the face.

"What is soo funny? Imma beat the shit out of you" the man said as he held by the collar and shoved him into a wall. "Tell me?"

"if guys like you can become Chunin, then becoming Hokage will be easy as he-" his sentence was cut short as a punch met his gut again. The man with fury in his eyes pulled out a kunai from his pocket. Naruto's eyes opened fear as he tried to losen the man's grip. "Yo dude chill! You could kill him bro" his other friends tried to reason with him but he did not listen. "Forget this I'm leaving dude" The two friends soon left. "Well I guess no one would see me end your life then"

The man lunged the Kunai at Naruto who closed his eyes awaiting impact that never came, he opened his eyes and saw the Kunai on the floor. The man looked in horror and released his gripped on Naruto who fell to the ground. The man began to scurry away but was sent flying into the wall beside Naruto. Naruto notices the person is with the Anbu by the vest he/she wore, he also deduced the person was different from his normal Anbu fellow who wore a dog like mask whie this one wore a cat like one. She grabbed the man and delivered a kick to his groin making the man groan in pain

"if you touch him again I'll make sure there's kunai in your skull" she moved to aside as the man run for his life. She then looked at the Blonde headed boy who bled out beside her. "Dammit Captain!" she muttered under her breath as she carried the Blonde on her back.

2 hours prior

"Neko may I speak to you in private" the dog masked anbu asked her as they separated from the crowd. "What is it captain?" she asked. "I need you to do a favour for me" Neko tilted her head to side. "And also it's Kakashi when we're alone, we've been over this" she rolled her eyes at her silver haired Anbu making him sigh in response. " What is it Kakashi-senpai" she could see his eye smile as she looked at his face, damn she wanted to hit off him.

"There's this Blonde headed kid, I'm sure you've heard him! Naruto" she nodded prompting him to continue. "As you know the villagers aren't a big fan of him especially around this time of the year" she sighed leaning into the wall. "Yeah I get it, but the villagers wouldn't hurt a kid right?" she noticed as his body language changed and he clenched his fist. "they would" as he said in slightly depressed tone which didn't go unnoticed by her. "Alright, I'll get on it but why don't you just get the Hokage to assign some special Anbu for him?" "because he's my responsibility" he responded.

"Well then captain you're not doing a very good job at it, you're rarely home enough as it is" she said before she put on her mask, "see ya captain!" she sunshined into a swirl leaves.

Less than an hour later she found the Blonde rbeing chased by a mob of villagers. 'Hm Captain was right' She decided to follow after them at a safe distance but the young boy's speed and manoeuvring was top notch but she was Anbu for a reason but wow she hated to admit but she lost kid. She searched for his chakra signal and found it at other side of the village. 'Damn he works fast'

As she arrived at the scene her eyes were filled with horror, seeing a chunin, shinobi of the leaf beat and abuse the kid. She immediately dropped from her hiding place and stopped the Kunai from impaling the boy. She kicked the Chunin away as he released his grip on Naruto and tried to run for it but she appeared infront him throwing him into a wall giving him a swift kick to the nuts before threatening him. She watched as the man scurried away before carrying the Blonde to the hospital.

She jumped from building to building with the Blonde on her back hurrying to the hospital, he needed treatment for all his wounds and she wasn't the best at medical ninjutsu.

She barged into the hospital requesting for medics she swarmed by a group of a med ninja but suddenly noticed them all disperse almost immediately. "hey did you guys not just hear me?! He needs help"

She was approached by another nurse "I'm sorry but we're out of rooms"

"bullshit" she spat at her before leaving the hospital. She couldn't believe how the people of Konoha had turned their back against their own. 'what do I do now? I have a med kit at home I could try to treat him I guess'. She was about to leave before someone called out the Blonde's name.

"Hey mom, Isn't that Naruto?" a short kid with black spiky hair with garments that showed the uchiha crest behind it.

"why, yes it is Sasuke..." she paused to get a better look at the Blonde before noticing all the bruises and wounds on his body. "Oh my God! What happened to him?" she asked the purple haired Anbu who quickly explained everything to her. "They did what?" Mikoto, sasuke's mother growled and everyone could sense it, her killing intent. "and let me guess they won't treat him?" The purple haired Anbu nodded. "damn them, where are you taking him umm…." "Neko" she completed the Uchiha's sentence. "I was going to go treat himself at my place" she responded. Mikoto looked at her for a moment as if contemplating something, " just how far away is your place?"

"about 10 minutes" Neko responded. "Ok let's go, I May not look like it but I know a little medical ninjutsu" the two prepared to leave. But Mikoto felt her son tug her clothes.

"oh Sasuke dear, I'm sorry. Mummy has to treat Naruto, do you think you can go home by yourself and get Itachi to make dinner" she watched her son's face drop it almost broke her heart to see him sad but she had to help Kushina's son, she was her best friend. "Sasuke I'll be home before you know it" she saw her son's smile return as he hugged her and replied with a hug as well.

"Ok mum, Please do your best for Naruto, okay" she nodded and kissed his forehead and left with the Purple haired Anbu.

Sasuke watched as his mother and purpled hair Anbu left with Naruto. Following their lead he began to walk home to the Uchiha compound. As he walked he saw three men, by their outfits he could tell they were Chunin. He swore he heard one of them ask the other why he didn't stop beating the kid. So he hid behind a trash to listen to what they said.

"Look man I was going to go until this purple haired anbu cat lady showed up, she crushed my nuts and took the demon with her" his friends laughed at his misfortune meanwhile Sasuke identified him as the one who attacked Naruto. He was about to leave until he walked into the dustbin falling over into the men's line of sight. ' Oh no'

He tried to runaway as the men drew closer to him. "what do we have here? A little stalker." The man who Sasuke had identified as the one hit Naruto spoke to him.

"I know what you did!" the man tilted his head in confusion. "what are yo-"

"I know what you did to Naruto!" the man frowned his face at the boy. "so what? You his friend or something?"

"yes I am! Got a problem with that" Sasuke responded back and was met with a big slap across the face. "tch… you talk big kid, but you ain't shit! Noisy ass uchiha's" the man spat at Sasuke who charged at him head on but received a kick sending him backwards. Making him spit blood, and the man cackled at him. As he saw the boy on the ground groaning in pain. He noticed a bunch of crows pass by. "Huh?... crows at this time?" He turned back to see his incapacitated and then looked down at the boy, taking a closer look he realized who it was… Sasuke Uchiha meaning the crows were from..

"Itachi?" sasuke weakly asked before letting out huge smile which caused his brother to smile back. The boy instantly closed his eyes and began running away bumping to everyone thinking he got away he opened his eyes but what he saw next surprised him. Everyone around him looked like zombies. He tried to run but no matter how far he went that was all he could see.

Sasuke now riding on Itachi's back asked why the man was scared of everyone he bumped into. Itachi just smiles and says "I'll show you one day" which makes sasuke huff at him. "You always say that! Why won't you train me Itachi"

"in due time Sasuke I will, but do you mind answering why you got in that fight?"

"Well Mom and I were coming from the hospital when we saw Neko-san carrying Naruto, he was really beaten up cos of those guys over there and mom went with her to heal Naruto! By the way did you know mom knows medical ninjutsu?"

"yes I did Sasuke" Itachi said as he let a little laugh escape. "hmm what's funny Itachi?"

"nothing Sasuke, let's go home yeah?"

"okay"

Meanwhile

The the two kunouichi had just finished up with Naruto.

Mikoto trying to regain her breath was given a glass by water by Neko as she had come to know her. "Thank you for protecting Neko" she said as drank the water. She looked at Naruto before weakly smiling.

"If I may speak Lady Mikoto" Neko asked her before going on. "go ahead" the reply from the Uchiha prompting her to go on. "why do people treat him like this, surely they should be punished… right?"

"People deal with grief in different ways, on that day 5 years ago many people lost their families hell I lost my bestfriend during the attack. The pain of losing someone close to you causes you to do things you wouldn't. When they see him they see a container for a beast awaiting to be reopened, It depends on how you see him."

"and how do you see him? Lady Mikoto" she asked treading lightly.

Mikoto stared at her for a brief moment and began laughing. "you must be about 11 years old, yet you act so much older. Hmmm how do I see him? I guess I see him as my best friend's son"

"her son?" Neko pondered.

"Well that's enough story telling for one day, I'd appreciate if you kept on watching Naruto every once and a while, you too Kakashi" as she mentioned his name the silver haired Anbu suddenly appeared out of the shadows. "You know it would make her proud"

And with that the Uchiha took her leave.

Neko turned to look at Kakashi. She pointed an accusing finger at him "you! How long have you been watching the boy" she received no answer from him as he walked back into her room to check up on the boy. She followed him back quite angrily.

"Hey don't just ignore me" she was shocked to see Kakashi cradling the boy in his arms ready to leave.

"And where do you think you're taking him?" she asked her Captain who paused before responding.

"Thank for your assistance today but like I told you before he's my responsibility" he proceeded to leave but the window was shut by Neko.

"Yugao out of my way" she refused and received a sigh from him.

"He's my responsibility now too" she said. The silver haired Anbu frowned as he put the boy back in Yugao's bed.

"Ok so what now?" He asked staring at her. Surprised by the question she just scratched the back of her head making her captain sigh again.

"Well you could start by training him a bit" she suggested leaning on the window. "because we won't be always around" she said folding her arms at the silver jonin who put up his hands in defeat. "fine I'll train him"

"Well then I'm leaving him in your care for today then." Kakashi said looking at the clock on Yugao's wall before he proceeded to leave and stopped. "And tell him Happy birthday when he wakes up he'd love to hear it for once but make sure he doesn't leave this room without you"

"Happy birthday? Today's the 10th of October….ohhhh" she finally realised but before she could ask another question he had disappeared.

"Dammit captain"

She changed out of her Anbu clothes and looked at the Blonde sleeping, he looked at peace and adorable she felt like she was staring at her little brother if she had one.

Not wanting to disrupt his sleep she slept on the couch in her living room.