In the past a demonic creature had been unleashed on the village hidden in the leaves, terrorising the village and forcing the most powerful shinobi to fight against it... That day was scarring for the populous of the village, the effects staying for years after. The nine tails beast which was sealed into a particular person Naruto Uzumaki as all previous sacrifices for the nine tails being people in the Uzumaki clan, although this was less willing than the last two. An infant with no will, no clue has this burden of being a jinchūriki.
In the following year I was born; because of the huge amounts of families destroyed recently they had huge "Fox hunts" now while it implies they hunted the animal, that wasn't the case, the group of afflicted people be it civilian or otherwise banded together and went through the village and hunted for those who were 'fox lovers' which was the cover up so they could attack, kill, bully, extort all those who weren't affected by the kyuubi. My parent's were included in the one killed by the hunters. They would have killed me if not for the two prodigies of the Uchiha clan: Itachi and Shisui who heard the screams of my mother as she was beaten and cut, my father dead on the floor and I was on the floor watching not sure what I was seeing but the cries I emitted were nulled by the screams and then the sound of two shinobi killing the fox hunters.
I was taken to an orphanage and had lived there for a while. It was here when I first met the most unpredictable ninja, he had already been here for a year, when I got there they treated me indifferently to any other and gave me what I needed, they hadn't really cared for me in any capacity.
I was age 3 when we first properly met, Naruto had never been able to sleep near the rest of us but I had seen him in the garden often. I was very curious of him I knew of him being here but never usually saw him. Because we were children our communication wasn't the best. I wandered over to him staring "Who are you?" it was a simple question in any normal situation. Yet any situation with Naruto is not exactly normal.
He stared back in utter confusion looking around slightly in disbelief. "Me?"
"Yea, I never see you much."
"I'm Naruto I see you here too."
"That's cause I live here too, I'm Zuko."
We both had a few moments of silence before Naruto tried to speak again only to be abruptly cut off by some kids who came out to play "Hey why are you hanging out with that freak?" the one which seemed like the ringleader shouted at me, it was a confusing question cause I had no idea what he was refering to. Logically it was Naruto but I couldn't understand the nickname. Before any response could be given one of the underlings of the first kid had asked if I was the son of some demon lovers; the adults would often talk of some people in an ill manner this way, effecting the children and how they act. It was something that made me angry: not them asking questions, but what Naruto said next
"You should probably leave me alone, otherwise they'll be mean to you." Now I was angry mostly because I was so intrigued by Naruto that I wanted to continue to know more about him. In honesty he, at this point, was the closest I had to a friend.
"They can be mean all they want! I was having a talk with you." and that was my defiant answer. Also how me and Naruto became friends.