The first time the concept of Chakra came to me was an accident; the best accident I'd had but nonetheless an accident.
Naruto and I would always hang out, almost never without the other. This wasn't exactly good for my reputation or anything but I hadn't really cared. When I was with my friend I couldn't be happier. Though people now had two targets to attack, which was what led to me accessing my chakra.
Whenever Naruto would be in danger of getting beaten by a group of people I would try stop them through trade; beat me not him. This rarely worked as I would end up sharing the beating rather than sparing Naruto from it. Even if I did stop them from hitting Naruto, he'd do the same right back as he couldn't stand his friend getting hit for his sake. The worst times were close to Naruto's birthday, the anniversary of those who had perished and so on. Being beaten to the point where you can't feel your thoughts is rather scary and that is exactly what happened. I was completely out of it. Though when I awoke I was in a endlessly white space, there were no senses available to me and after some time faint senses came back.
I could feel warmth lining my body but not yet spreading through; the sight was non existent and yet I could see myself, similar to a self aware dream; Sounds of silence that were inexplicably define. It was odd but I could feel that I wasn't going anywhere or that I wasn't stationery. There was no floor just space that seemed to be naturally assuring of me. Just when I was starting to form questions about the situation I came to.
Naruto had been able to flee while I stopped the herd of creatures called people from laying their tools of torture on him. By the time he had looked back at me I was out cold. Naruto had waited anxiously for the people to leave so he could retrieve my body and try to help me. The attackers weren't happy about losing their 'game' which is what led to the severity of their attacks. But Naruto wasn't stupid enough to run in when we would both end up unable to move. After the assault he had hauled me slightly back from the street, to try wake me without causing damage.
During that day one Kakashi Hatake was passing by the same area, he had seen the small Uzumaki and it pained him more than anything had done since the passing of his Sensei. He saw the similarities between the Yondaime Hokage and the fearful child next to the unconscious body. He was about to carry on and leave but the sight had too many resemblances. 'Obito, Minato-sensei.'
Kakashi jumped over to the young people while placing his ANBU mask on to conceal his identity. He picked the two up without a word and rushed to the Hokage tower. He appeared in the middle of the Hokage's office and interrupted a team giving a report. "Hokage-sama, I found these children in some trouble." Completely ignoring the others in the room, they had started to glare at the child who was still awake and he kept silent unsure of what was going on currently.
The Hokage had been taking a report from a gennin team's first C-Rank mission, they had to deliver a few supplies to the small camps of Shinobi that survey the outside of the village. They weren't impressed by the presence of the the interruption, but nonetheless the Hokage had shifted his attention to the genius holding the two orphans. "Inu... What happened, Team four, you are dismissed."
With the team gone Kakashi removed his mask and placed the two children on the sofa off to the side of the room and Naruto had finally got his bearings and spoke up "Where..." before finishing the question the Hokage answered him.
"You're in my office Naruto. Kakashi here brought you from the streets." The wise ninja let Kakashi tell him what had happened from his point of view.
"Well I had seen these two left behind as a group of people walked away, some smelling of blood and sweat, the sweat more explainable that the blood yet I believe the two to be connected." Kakashi was telling the Hokage this while he was listening attentively Naruto had turned to his friend. "I saw Uzumaki-san trying to wake his injured friend, and I had to take them to safety..." The Hokage looked at Kakashi knowingly and decided to speak up.
Clearing his throat after a few short seconds of silence "I think it would be best to have these two children emancipated and give them a place to live without any 'problems'. I'll assign someone I can trust to check up on them every month. With their own weekly income. I'm not proud that this is the only option I'm comfortable with." The conclusion was saddening to the adults but the elderly shinobi turned to the concerned child on the sofa and addressed him so he could start to make heads and tails of the situation "Naruto. You don't like it at the orphanage, do you?"
Naruto shook his head "No one there likes us..."
"Well how would you and your friend here to live in an apartment building where no one will harm you. Does that sound good?"
"Yeah. Um... Why did you help us?" This was mainly directed at Kakashi but the Hokage was included.
Kakashi crouched down next to Naruto before answering. "Because you looked like you needed some help. Nothing more, nothing less. It's always good to help those in need." The words were crafted to help Naruto be a good person and while it may not be the most effective, Kakashi wasn't the best social speaker.
Just before the Hokage started to speak I started to stir. Looking around the first thing that came to my mind was that Naruto is okay. I glanced at the two other people in the room and could start to sense this aura that rolled off them, this probably was because I was concentrating really hard but it was almost overwhelming, the one sat in the chair had the most energy, it felt like it was being held back and that was for the best. The other taller person had lots of energy as well, although there is no where near as much as the seated elder. When I looked at Naruto I could see some kind of energy, although it felt different, and sensed slightly different, I thought it was just due to him having less than the other two... Yet it wasn't too far off the tall man crouched next to us. "What happened?" It was the first question I thought I'd ask, knowing why I didn't die is slightly more important than where, besides I could see glimpses of the Hokage stone faces.
They had told me all the information about living arrangements and that we would be paid small amounts each week. despite the clarity of the situation I still had one question. "Why can I see this aura of energy radiating off of you three?" This question left them slightly confused, it wasn't really related sure, but I felt that these people of all those in the village could answer it.
The Hokage's face lifted, chuckling slightly he responded "It seems you awoken your chakra today, you can sense our chakras." Seeing my confusion he carried on "Chakra is the energy within every living soul, It comes in physical form and spiritual form, some people can sense these chakra signatures as they are unique to each person. You're using your chakra to identify ours. It's a very useful technique for shinobi to have." As those words left his mouth in the informative fashion both me and Naruto sat in awe and Naruto turned to me and started exclaiming how that was the best thing in the world. I know that it's not something we were expecting to hear, the best thing that day for me was getting away from that orphanage.
Kakashi took us to our apartment complex and it was better than the orphanage, there were at least 30 apartments in total, but we were still kids; we took the two at the very top and the apartment had a kitchen which was open plan with the rest of the first room, then a small hall with a bathroom on one side and two bedrooms on the other.
Once we had our small amount of belongings put into each of our apartments we Naruto and I had sat outside the building on the roof and were trying to take in all the events of today, the red scattering across the land and the glow being our last light left as we heard a voice behind us "Naruto-kun, Zuko-kun, I brought you some food and I have been thinking." It was the Hokage and he paused so we could give him our full attention. "You both have had a long day and tomorrow I'll have someone take you shopping. Now get some rest, you need it, especially you Zuko. You should be in hospital, but I trust you when you said that you don't get treated well there. Keep rested for awhile. Goodnight you two." And with that he vanished, we were finally out of the orphanage and I had learnt that I awoke my Chakra. Today was better than it was bad.