Rated M for Depiction of violent scenes and suicidal tendencies.

"Words"- Quotes or speech.

'Words' - Thoughts.

Words- Kyuubi's voice.

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Chapter 6: A Typical Day in Konoha.

It was 6'o clock in the morning. Ino barely got any sleep, that whiskered face of that boy with blonde hair lingering around in her mind. It hurt her every time, every damn time whenever she remembered the lifeless expression he had when she said she couldn't recognize him. Did she really know him? Why did he care so much if she remembered him or not? Well, the answer was simple, only the boy knew the answer and she would get the answer out of him. Oh how much she wished someone could erase the memory of that boy from her mind so that she could sleep for a while. Talking about sleep, she was on her 104th attempt at sleeping by counting number of sheep on the ceiling of her room. Her eyes started to close down to a line by the end of counting 57 sheep. Soon enough the relaxed breathing from her body indicated that she attained the highly sought sleep she wished for.

5 minutes later

*Cring* *Cring* *Cring* and *Bam*. Ino hated this sound, she could listen to Sakura bitching about her beauty all day long, but the sound of alarm clock, she couldn't bear. Everyday the sound of alarm clock would be trumped by a loud bang. It was always her hand slamming the clock into the desk that trumped the noise of the alarm. Today her sleep was cut short to just 5 minutes by the alarm clock, and the punishment for that was the destruction of the clock. The gears were circling around the desk, and the clock still kept ticking, but at least the alarm stopped.

She got up rubbing her eyes, that now had dark circles around it, which highly contrasted her fair skin. No makeup could hide that, and also she didn't use makeup anyway. She got up and headed downstairs and cleaned herself and got ready for academy. She packed her backpack and went into her father's room to say bye. But the atmosphere was something she didn't exactly prefer. Her father and her mother were standing in a stare-off. The thick air of animosity indicated that she came in during a heated argument. "If you don't want to tell me what happened it's fine, but rest assured the Hokage will get his answers anyway. He summoned your presence at 8:00. And also he wasn't in a good mood. So don't do something that would make him or yourself regret."

The loud snort was the only reply she gave. That was the trademark sign of rebellion according to Ino. Ino just shook her head, her father and mother still fought like kids. "Father, I'm heading out, so see ya later!"

Her father's annoyed face from the argument mustered a smile just like always, after seeing her daughter. "Take care Ino, and remember to do your best." He saw her exiting the room while bidding her head. His smile disappeared again as he faced his wife.

"Alright I will be careful while talking to the Hokage."

In the academy

Ino walked into the room, and instead of sitting with Sakura in the front of the room, she went to the back of the room. She dearly needed some sleep to get rid of the recently developed dark circles. If she only knew the name of the boy that caused this, she would have cursed him out a thousand times for her sleepless night. Speaking of the devil she faced to her right to see the blonde haired boy running his eyes and look in her direction. He saw him tense up and start shaking. The black circles around his eyes clearly indicated he had even more of a restless night than her. And why would he not?

Flashback of last night

"Yo furball, is that good enough? Or do I need to come up with a better excuse?"

"Before doing all that you should just go to sleep. I doubt she will become friends with you with those black raccoon circles around your eyes. You almost look like Shukaku like that!"

Kurama was on his own world of amusement since Naruto didn't know who Shukaku was or how it related to his raccoon eyes. But then he remembered the black patch that went from around Kurama's yes to his ears. "Oi, Kurama, what is that patch of black around your eyes?"

"It's just a part of my face, just like those whiskers are part of your face."

"I bet that black patch around your eyes is the reason you have no friends." Naruto couldn't contain his laughter, while the beast thought to himself, 'I am to blame myself for this, after all he learned these cancerous jokes from me. Fuck my life.'

"Really good one there, now just focus on your work if you don't want the stick dick in front of Ino." Kurama felt relieved to see him go back to his thinking pose. It had been a long time since he last managed to use that that against Naruto, since Naruto didn't get to meet Ino for the last few months.

"You know what Furball, I think I found the perfect line." The crack head smile on Naruto's face meant that he was quite confident of his coming success.

Flashback end

Naruto had been shaking in nervousness this whole time. Ino raised an eyebrow looking at him. 'He's strange.' She went ahead and asked him first, since he was just glancing at her and facing some they direction whenever he was caught.

"Do you have something to say to me?"

"Yes, um hmm, would you please be my friend?" The puppy eyes he made could rival the power of any jutsu at persuasion. Heck even Danzo's sharingan that was stolen from Shisui, wouldn't be able to cast such a strong genjutsu of persuasion. She couldn't possibly reject his offer, even though she now despised him. She despised him, first for stealing her night's sleep, and second for hunting around her like a hunting dog. Yup, just like other boys he just came to be her friend, probably because of her face. He didn't know much about her or anything, so that's the only explanation she had for his interest in her.

"Of course why not."

She hadn't studied human anatomy yet, but she could learn a thing or two looking at the structure of the wide open eyes and the large face splitting smile on the boy's face.

Now she was expecting to hear him ask her out on a 'friendly' day out or take her on a romantic walk in the park. Typical male behavior, even boys of this age showed same interest in girls. But she didn't expect him to say what he said, "Ino-san, if you ever feel lonely or want to play or need help with anything, I can come over at anytime. And thanks a lot for being my friend." Even though this was his second time becoming her friend, he really didn't mind it. Infact even during his second time befriending he felt the same nervousness and excitement as the first time when he became her friend. He was about to say the rest of his script, when a chalk hit his head. The teacher in the front had his arms crossed.

"Don't disturb the class Naruto, go and stand outside the class while holding those water buckets and on one leg." Everyone laughed at Naruto being punished, seems like he wasn't much popular among the girls since the hostile growls and roars of laughter from those girls didn't really seem friendly. Well that had to happen, since he touched and broke a bone in their Sasuke-sama's chest even before any of the girls managed to lay their hands on his chest. Her attention then was brought back with the noise of a few cranky coughs. "And Ino-san, meet me after class."

Now Ino was totally confused, first the harsh punishment for Naruto for speaking a bit loudly even before the class started, and now calling Ino for a lecture without any reason. Well maybe it was just a bad day, yeah the day wasn't lucky for her that's all.

Naruto on the other hand was steaming in anger, 'Dammit you sensei. On other days you don't even care about what I do. Now that I finally got talk with Ino he had to butt in. At least this could improve my balance a bit, yeah I better make lemonade with the lemons he gave me.' A person who ran all day long with gravity seals on could easily hold buckets while standing on one feet for about the whole day. So Naruto right now was standing on his tip toe, and it hurt like hell, but he enjoyed it. He would have been the perfect student had he been trained by the konoha's most feared Masochist, Anko Mitarashi.

The rest of the periods went by without a hitch. Naruto just stood there outside the room with the buckets filled with still water through the whole day.

Ino came out of the room to see the blonde boy with his eyes closed, the water buckets hanging down his extended arms, and weirdly enough not a single wave or ripple in the water in the bucket. Well now isn't the time to be impressed. She was detained for a long lecture because of his outbreak and she didn't even know his name.

She brought her face right in front of the boy's face. He was too concentrated on maintaining the chakra input into the water buckets to notice the smell of Ino approaching near his face. He almost jumped onto the ceiling when he heard a 'hey' right in front of his face, and on top of that it was Ino. The bucket moved back and forth, but no matter how much the buckets rocked not a drop of water spilled. "How are you doing that?"

After settling down for a few seconds, he answered , "You had me scared out of my life right there. And this, I am just using chakra to hold the water's shape inside the buckets."

"Well that's quite impressive, nice face you made there a few seconds ago. So what is your name?"

"It's Naruto Uzumaki. Remember it, because this going to be the name of Hokage someday!" He did the Usain Bolt pose. He was definitely putting his all into creating an image for a confident Hokage in the future. But he apparently forgot about the two buckets he threw up to the air to do his victory pose. Naruto should have payed attention to the good old quotes of physics, "Whatever goes up, must come down.". The buckets bunked his head while the water drenched his clothes. Ino's eyes were shining with evil fire, she probably found something she could use to blackmail him for the rest of his life.

"If you wanna play with me you could come to the playground at 4'o clock. Don't be late unless you want everyone to know that the future Hokage pissed his pants."

Naruto looked down to see that except for his shoulder and his groin area, nothing else got wet. And now it looks like he pissed his pants, and that too happened in front of Ino, who was now fired up at having a gossip material. The same thing happened during their first encounter, when she blackmailed Naruto to come on time to save his reputation as future Hokage. Oh, how history repeats itself. Naruto was now sure that even if her memories were gone, she was still the same person at heart.

"Hai Ino-sama, I will not delay your routine!" Ino giggled away seeing Naruto doing a mock salute. She still didn't see what was wrong with him, but she knew something was wrong with the people of Konoha.

Flashback

'Damn that Blondie. First he asks me to be his friend and now I am in trouble because of him shouting out loud.'

The teacher looked towards the door to see a blond girl entering the teacher's room. "Ino-san, we have some pressing issues to talk about. You see the person you were talking to this morning wasn't someone you should mix with. He is the worst influence you could have during your academy years. So for your own benefit I ask you to keep your distance from him."

"Hai Sensei." That was the only reply Ino gave to his sensei. 'So that's why, probably the teacher doesn't let him have friends. That's why he was so eager to be friends with me. He maybe a bit dense, but definitely not a delinquent of any sort. Well it doesn't matter much. When it comes to making friends I will befriend anyone I want. And he doesn't seem to have many friends and he was really happy too, so it shouldn't hurt to be his friend.' After talking to herself for a while she headed towards the exit, when she saw the boy with buckets and his eyes closed.

Flashback end.

Ino was walking back towards her home after saying bye to the blonde boy who was now wiping the floor clean from the water he splashed while doing his victory pose. 'So his name is Naruto. Even my mom told me never to go close to him. He doesn't seem like a person that even the adults would tell you to ignore. Whatever, at least I get to play with a cute boy after a long time.'

She entered her mansion in the Yamanaka clan compound, but before she could announce her arrival she could hear a few sobs coming from inside. Well the paper doors didn't block even the faintest of noises from reaching her. 'Sounds like mom crying. I guess it was bound to happen after the argument she had with father in the morning.' Ino's guess was far from what actually happened. But Ino wouldn't know anyway since she walked upstairs to her room, not meeting her mother who was sitting in the corner of the room clutching her knees to her chest while shivering. Inoichi had warned her, but she didn't listen, and now she was scared half to death. She should have thought about the result of her actions before committing them.

Flashback

Inoka Yamanaka was standing outside the Hokage's room, waiting for her turn to enter the room to oblige with the Hokage's summoning of her.

A rough voice came from inside. "The next person may come inside."

She headed inside the room and bowed her head to show her respect to the Hokage. "You summoned me Hokage-sama?"

"Yes Inoka-san, I have some pressing issues to talk about." She raised her head and heard exactly what she didn't want to talk about. "Recently our Yamanaka clan heir somehow lost her memories about a certain villager. You wouldn't have any knowledge about it would you?" He just wanted to let her know about the situation really nicely since he didn't really want to deal with his anger erupting out. But the response from her wasn't a show of guilt or regret. It was prideful arrogance. She crossed her arms, and said, "And who might this villager be, whose memories are so important to stay in her mind?"

"Naruto Uzumaki."

"Yes, I erased his memories from her mind, I would rather not expose my daughter to the influence of the Demon Br-" she was cut off. She had her eyes closed through her last sentence, so she couldn't see what was happening in front of her. If she did, she would have been shaking like the Anbus were shaking in the room. In front of her stood the Hokage with his arms on the table, trembling in anger and in an attempt to stop himself from slitting the throat of one of his villagers. His eyes were facing down, not letting the killer stare scare his visitor. Inoka knew better than to talk to him right now.

"He saved the village by keeping the Kyuubi sealed in him. He lived without his parents, grew up with his own strength, never for once did he harm any villagers physically. The Yondaime's last wish was to consider him a hero. But is this how you repay him?"

"But the Kyuubi killed so many of our villagers, shouldn't the Kyuubi pay for that? What if he grows up to do the same?" Her knees were shaking, and she couldn't even think straight, so she said what ever came to her mind. And it definitely wasn't what the Hokage would have wanted to hear. The anbus nearby slapped their forehead in frustration. They had a lot of cleanup to do, they were just hoping they don't have to carry a dead body to the Morgue. They tightly clasped onto their nearest objects to stand straight during the upcoming shock.

A fraction of a second later the desk under the Hokage's hands shattered into million pieces without any effort. "Even though he is not the Kyuubi, he had to pay the price of the Kyuubi's wrath. He had to pay with everything he has in his life. His family, his belongings, his shelters. He doesn't get food from the stores, nor clothes or shelter from the Orphanage. He doesn't get paid to keep the Kyuubi from attacking the village, he gets attacked and almost killed by the villagers he is protecting. He doesn't get the respect that the martyrs of the Kyuubi attack does. Did he lose any less than those dead Shinobis? The future of the village rests upon his shoulders, and you want Him To Pay For Something He ISN'T EVEN RESPONSIBLE FOR?!"

By now Inoka was on the floor on her knees, too scared to look up. The Hokage calmed down a little bit. But his anger wasn't gone. "How would you feel if Ino-chan received poisoned cakes for birthday? How would you feel if she gets stabbed, punched, axed, cursed, beaten, spat at, and almost killed on her birthday? How would you feel if she had to eat food from the trash can, and live on the streets? How would you feel if she had to wake up everyday thinking of how to survive? HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOUR DAUGHTER CRIED HERSELF TO SLEEP EVERY NIGHT BECAUSE OF PEOPLE THAT SHE WAS SAVING EVERYDAY?"

The Hokage looked at her face, and knew that she had no answer. "You know that boy took beatings, poison, stabbing, insults, hatred and never for once he hurt a soul in this village. Never for once did he try to hurt the ones that tried to kill him. One time when he was about to die, I saved him. And you know what he said to me? He asked me why I couldn't just let him die and why I couldn't let his sufferings end. Four suicide attempts and he is not even 9 years old." Every single word contained the venom in his heart. The words that he wished Naruto should have said instead of accepting every bad fate. He was crying, he had to live protecting a village that wouldn't even let his grandson smile for one. "To hear a boy of his age plead for death, do you know how it feels? He tells me everyday that one day he is going to be the Hokage, and everyone would love and respect him. And you call him a demon? Everytime he would get stabbed by someone, he would hide his injuries so I wouldn't do anything to those who hurt him. He wouldn't shed a tear, so that I don't have to think of him as weak. He would put on a smile through all his pain, so that I do not worry about him. And I saw him smile with happiness for once, that was when he became acquainted with your daughter, and you want to take away that smile from him too?"

The Hokage slowly sat down in his chair, mentally exhausted but somehow content at being able to release all the pent up anger in his heart in one breath. He saw the women try to pick herself up, but fail, at which point one of the Anbus picked her up and decided to escort her home. But before leaving the third gave her a calm and collected lecture. "I hope I never hear another report of you trying to isolate Naruto from the only friend he has. Also if you want to file a claim against me for favoritism in front of the Daimyo Lord, you can. However I hope you remember the agreement between the Shodaime and clan leader of Yamanaka. Unless for emergency, life-threatening situations, the use of Mind-alteration jutsu on any leaf villager without the Hokage's permission is punishable by death. Ino-chan maybe a Yamanaka, but she is still a villager of Leaf. And I am the strongest Shinobi in the village, with the HIGHEST Authority in the Village. And yes, I am showing ABSOLUTE FAVORITISM TO THE HERO OF KONOHA, NARUTO UZUMAKI."

With the swirl of leaves Inoka Yamanaka vanished along with the Anbu holding her up.

The Hokage finally felt a smile dig its way up to his face as he sighed in relief. His chest was feeling much lighter today, since he spent a sleepless night remembering the face and the words of the crying jinchuuriki the night before. But his smile didn't last long seeing the huge pile of papers on the floor along with the dust of the wooden table. 'Let this cursed village be damned. I am in mood to read my Icha Icha Paradise right now.' The Anbus in the room, who finally managed to catch a breath, facepalmed themselves to see that the Hokage was now reading adult smut books mere seconds after he looked like he was about to destroy the place in anger.

Flashback End.

Ino was sitting in her room , thinking about everything that happened. Everything seemed so weird, it was almost like a déjà vu. At least she was glad that she became friends with Naruto and most likely he wasn't interested in her just for her looks. Her ego was somewhat comparable to the size of Sakura's forehead. She recently started to somewhat compete with her friends in terms of beauty to capture Sasuke's heart. Other girls were intrigued by his coolness, his status as the only Uchiha, his skills and of course most importantly his handsome facial features. But she didn't really care about either of them, she only wanted to change him for the better. She hated his present self, always self-loathing and bears an aura of hatred around. But she knew it could be changed, after all he used to play with him during the summer, and no matter how unlikable Sasuke was in his current self, Sasuke still was the one to give her those Bush Clovers during summer. She still remember how he explained that the flowers represented her wish to hold onto and care for friends and others. Yesterday when Sasuke didn't even recognize her, she felt the despair. The despair which was eased by her mother, who said that he had lost a lot of memories from the shock of watching the deaths of all of his clan members. The explanation didn't settle well with her, but she chose to believe her mom, since for the last few weeks she had been the one taking care of her. Also until the death of her uncle during the Kyuubi's attack, her mother had been an expert in Yamanaka clan jutsus and history, but the shock her brother's death somewhat demotivated her from the Shinobi career. So as an expert on minds, Ino couldn't trust anyone as much as her mother.

Ino woke up from a long nap to see the clock ticking at 3:50. She lazily headed down stairs to get ready to go outside. A smile gracing her face, remembering the stupid nature of Naruto. On the other hand, Naruto was in the park skipping from one side to the other. It had been a long time since he to play tag with someone other than his own clones. A smile crept on his face thinking of how much fun he was going to have.

The Hokage on the other hand had a wide smile on his face. It seemed almost like he hit a jackpot, which he quite surely did. What made the Hokage smile was the information he had gained from his Anbu who just happened to come to him to report on Naruto's whereabouts. According to him, Naruto did his Nature affinity test using the chakra paper before leaving his house to go to the playground. Hokage's curiosity to learn about Naruto's nature affinity was way too visible. It was like a parent waiting to see their children's report card. The Anbu decided to tease her Hokage a bit more. "Are you sure you want to hear it Hokage-Sama? I mean you were busy reading that orange book of yours." She was a female after all, and watching her Hokage read smut books didn't really help her gain much respect for him.

"If you make me wait any longer, I will be sure to take my discount from your paycheck this month. You wouldn't want that, would you Yūgao?" The sweet tone and his shaking eyebrows made it clear that now wasn't the time to delay him.

"Here's the report. When he passed his chakra into the paper, the paper split into thousands of small pieces, and all of them burned to Ashes instantly. It seems he has an overwhelming affinity towards both Fire and Wind." The smile on Hokage's face could definitely mirror his student Orochimaru's smile.

He was reminded of the letter from Jiraiya, that he received about two years ago.. His travels to Uzushiogakure was successful, since he found out new sealing techniques and a really important piece of information. Jiraiya on his trip managed to meet a few jinchuuriki, and oddly enough all of them had some sort of Kekkei Genkai or special ability. When he read about the tailed beasts in the scrolls about sealing, he found out that most Tailed Beasts had extremely strong affinity to certain elements. If those elements manifest within the jinchuuriki, then the Jinchuuriki will likely gain abilities that used those Nature Types. The Kyuubi according to Hashirama, could use fire and wind. So if the affinities of Wind and Fire in Naruto is so strong, it would mean that he would gain special ability that incorporated Wind and Fire. And he could envision him being able to use the famed Scorch Release, the Kekkei Genkai of the Hero of Sunagakure, Pakura.

The Hokage took his pen, and started writing in codes in a paper, which could be translated to-

Dear Jiraiya,

I am not really in the mood to exchange greetings, but I got news for you. Naruto seems to have befriended the Kyuubi, and he even made a friend in the village. Well, after his 4th suicide attempt, it was good to see him happy. And he still wants to be a Hokage just like before. I think he is ready to be trained by you. Everyday he trains with hundred of his own shadow clones in the training ground that I emptied for him. And he has extreme affinity to Wind and Fire Type Chakra, just like the Kyuubi. So I guess with his abilities, only you can guide him to the proper direction, since the academy studies aren't enough for him, and the teachers don't try to teach him either. So now I can only rely on you. Stop by during this summer to pick him up on your research trips. And also don't forget to send me your new issue of Icha Icha paradise.

Sincerely,

Hiruzen Sarutobi.

He realized from the killing intent nearby, that the female Anbu had deciphered the code about him asking for a new issue of Icha Icha series. But that didn't bother him much, he was getting used to being called pervert, by both Naruto and some of his subordinates. He was brought out of his thoughts, as he heard the loud Thump of stacks of papers hitting his newly replaced desk. "Paperwork, we meet again. I almost forgot what misery was for a moment without you." Hokage's assistant facepalmed herself to see her Hokage engage in a stare-off with the paper stack.

And things went back to how it was, with Naruto skipping to the park, Ino playing tag with him and the Hokage resisting himself from using his jutsus on the paperwork. A Typical Day In Konoha.

Author's note: I hope you liked this chapter. I know, maybe the way The Third spoke might seem unrealistic, but that's what I envisioned for him, since he is going to have big role in Naruto's life. Also things are going to be normal and light hearted now, cause the future line in the story comprises of tons of violence and blood. Bear with the childish chapters for a while, since I don't want to skip these parts to straight on move on to action. Rest assured, there's going to be a lot of action in the future.