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It was so hard. I missed Miyu. I bet Mrs. Knushi didn't kick her out, she liked her.

I looked across the street. There was a group of people surrounding something and shouting. I got up and went over to see what it was.

"Come Yuki, you can beat him." One of the men closer toward the center was cheering some one one.

As I got closer I realized it was a fight, between some one named Yuki, and some one named Bakuza. One of them hit the other square in the face, knocking him down and spreading blood all over the concrete. The other man stood back up and hit the first man in the face again, knocking him down. It appeared to be more of a boxing match than a fight. Another minute of fighting passed and the second man, Yuki, was declared the winner.

"Alright."

"You beat im' up something bad, Yuki. Hees face es cov'rd n' blood!"

Suddenly some one grabbed me by my arm.

"What are you doing in this part of town by yourself?" The man, unshaved for a month or so, scared me.

"I don't have any family." I was beginning to shake.

"Come with me." The man started dragging me somewhere, I was scared.

"You have a family now!" The man had led me to an abandoned warehouse. There were five other men in it.

"I'm Zuka, this is Jinko, Noru, we call him 'The Rat', he's 'Dry', and that guy's 'Fish'." Zuka began to explain each one of their backgrounds.

Zuka himself was born into poverty, and as he said "Will die in poverty."

Jinko came from the Waterfall Village, he won't say anything else.

Noru used to be a rich noble, but some robbed his bank account, leaving him in poverty.

The Rat, got his name because he knew hundreds of ways to cook them. He said they were the easiest food to find in that part of town.

Dry got his name from drinking so much sake, one of his kidney's failed. Now he can't have a single drop, or he'll die.

Fish used to be a fisherman, until some one named Ghato forbid foreign fishers from fishing near the Land of Waves.

"What's you moniker?" Noru had never learned how to talk like an impoverished man.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki." A few of them gasped and whispered a little.

"Well, welcome Naruto!" Zuka began walking down a hall. "Follow me."

He showed me to my room. It was small, perhaps 5 feet by 5 feet. A pile of rags was in the corner, my bed. I was still better than what I was sleeping on in the street.

"Goodnight." Zuka shut the door, making the room near pitch black.

I fell asleep, wondering if I should trust these guys.

"Wake up." I opened my eyes, expecting to see Zuka. Instead I saw the man from the fight yesterday, Yuki. "So, you're Naruto. Cool name, kid."

Yuki was covered in bandages, from the fight yesterday.

"Come one, Rat's making breakfast." I stood up. "You ever had rat before kid?"

"No."

"It's good." He began to lick his lips as I followed him.

We sat down in a circle on the floor. Jinko pulled out a cigarette, lit it, took a puff from it, and then passed it to Zuka, who was on his left. Zuka did the same, passing it to Fish. Eventually it got to Yuki, who passed it around me to Jinko again. They began to talk about the fight yesterday.

"I'm telling you Yuki, you'd make the best boxer ever!" Everyone agreed with what Fish had said.

"No way. I only fight when I'm drunk, or when it's over one of my girls."

"You mean those prostitutes?" Everyone began laughing, at the time I didn't know what a prostitute was.

"Guys, guys, we have a kid here." Everyone stopped talking after Yuki said that, leaving a moment of silence.

"Rat's done!" Rat walked into the room, carrying a huge plate covered with little rats, grilled it looked like. "Enjoy!"

Everyone began to eat. Zuka and Yuki ate theirs in nearly one gulp. Noru ate his slowly, you could see the remains of a nobleman just in the way he ate. Everyone else ate their normally. They had left Naruto 3 rats.

"Come on kid, they're good for you, and they taste great." Yuki looked down on me.

I picked up one of the rats, took a bite, and then stopped.

"These are great!" I began to eat the rats as fast as I could.

Everyone began laughing, I looked around myself and smiled. I finally had a family, but most importantly, I finally had a real friend, Yuki.

Ya, joy in Naruto's life! How long will it last? Please R&R.