Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto or anything else mentioned in this story, I am not making any money from this, There will be absolutely no Disney characters in this story, All celebrity impersonations are not indorsed by the national celebrity impersonation society, coincidently I dislike most celebrities anyway, absolutely no clerks where harmed during the writing of this story, well there was that one that claimed they where out of Pocky but he was an ass and deserved it, I am writing this just for fun and by my own free will (Honest)

Is anybody still reading after all that?

"Talking"

'Thinking'

/Jutsu/

A Different Fox Tale

Chapter 1

A series of unfortunate events…

The morning started like any other; it was sunny; it was calm; it was peaceful; it wouldn't stay that way for much longer…

"Oh Shit! Iruka-Sensei is gonna kill me!"

Uzumaki Naruto awoke that morning and realized he should have been awake for over and hour by now; he was late for class; again. He quickly shot out of bed and ran into his closet, resulting in a resounding THUMP! He wasn't completely awake yet.

He sat up and glared at the offending wall, then remembering he was late, quickly began digging through a large pile of clothes which he at least had the decency to throw into his closet instead of just dropping them in the middle of the floor. Unfortunately he also had a habit of throwing his dirty clothes in there too, so he had to resort to the smell test.

With great displeasure he realized all his orange clothes where too dirty to wear, then he spotted something odd, something hanging in his closet on a clothes hanger, he gasped in surprise, somebody had hung a set of clothes in his closet. After looking over the hideous (in his opinion) garments he remembered the third had bought them for him a few months back, the old man insisted he own something that wasn't orange (he also claimed Naruto's few black T-shirts and his boxers didn't count as "something that wasn't orange")

He shuddered before grabbing the clothes; a black pair of cargo pants (with reinforced pockets for shinobi use) a red t-shirt with the black outline of a spiral design on the back and right sleeve (the red spiral matched the shirts color so it looked like a black outline) a black vest with four scroll pouches (two on each side of his chest) and the red spiral design on the back, a pair of black combat gloves with red metal plates on the backs (they even matched his shirt) and a black pair of steel toed ninja combat boots.

Dressed in the relatively new clothes (and hating every orange deprived second of it) he jumped through his window to the deserted ally below and began running as fast as his ten year old legs could carry him through the crowded streets of Konoha, but of course his misfortune had to return, simply sleeping in and earning Iruka's wrath wasn't enough to satisfy fate, not even close.

Almost halfway to the ninja academy Naruto smacked into a large meaty wall of a man, which only knocked him backwards, the man didn't look the slightest bit bothered by the impact, though he did look extremely annoyed as he glared down at the blonde boy.

"Sorry sir, but I gotta… " Naruto was cut off when the man recognized him and grabbed a handful of Naruto's vest with one hand before lifting him several feet off the ground and began waving his fist in front of the fox boys face in what was supposed to be a threatening manner, but coming from the fat drunken man (Naruto could smell his breath now, but really wished he couldn't) it wasn't very impressive, at least not after being on the receiving end of Iruka's punishment anyway.

"WaSh Wer Yer goIn ya lil basturd!" The mans slurred voice wasn't very intimidating either, but Naruto was still a bit shocked when the man raised his fist preparing to hit him, he was even more shocked when the mans fist stopped mid swing, the man turned a bit to see who would dare interfere with his punishing the demon boy, his slight turn also let Naruto see who had saved him from having his face bashed in.

To the mans irritation (and Naruto's disappointment) it was a boy just a few years older then the blonde child, the dark haired teen stood glaring at the drunken slob of a man looking as if he held more authority then everybody around him, he stood in a manner which although didn't appear arrogant in nature still seemed to demand respect.

"The hell er you?" The slob muttered.

"Put the boy down" The boy stated calmly and without the slightest hint of emotion.

"An if I don't?" The man poked the dark haired teen in the chest as if trying to prove he where in charge of the situation (which he obviously wasn't)

"If you do that again, I will kill you on the grounds of assaulting a member of the ANBU squad" The teen stated coldly, the man snorted.

"You, ANBU? Don't make me laugh runt" The teen reached into his pocket and pulled out a stick of chocolate pocky, he lazily bit the treat in half the bit the tip again at a certain angle before calmly replying.

"I have been ANBU captain for nearly a year now" The man laughed, he had actually sobered up a bit by now

"And let me guess, in this little pretend world of yours, when I don't do as you say then what? Are you strangle me with your fake ninja headband" he said in an extremely condescending tone. The teen just glanced at the pocky in his hand, where he bit it the second time it was rather pointy looking.

"Actually I was planning to kill you with this pocky" he stated calmly as if it where a perfectly logical fact, By this time they had attracted a fairly large crowd most of which wanted to see the fox boy beaten but several ninja in the crown where wondering if it where even possible to kill a man with pocky, The man laughed.

A second later the man was no longer laughing, his throat was heavily bleeding from a pocky inflicted injury, soon after he was dead, most of the villagers fled at the sight of such "uncalled for" violence and the ninjas present, though thoroughly impressed, had more important things to do then stand around all day.

To say Naruto was shocked would have been an understatement, not only did this strangely familiar looking teen kill the man but he had also stood up for him.

"Hey, thanks, I'm Naruto, who are you" The teen simply looked at him and gave a small smile

"Hello Naruto-kun, I am Uchicha Itachi"