Out of the Shadows Chapter 3, a naruto fanfic

A/N: Hey everyone! I'm back for chapter 3! I'm hoping that this chapter will be longer then my first two! This story is actually ahead of my other story's reviews and response for the first two weeks. I'm very pleased!

I did the math and if Kakashi was 26 when Naruto was 12 then he was 14 when Naruto was born so in this fic Kakashi is 18.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto!

Chapter 3

Kakashi was running from rooftop to rooftop carrying a bleeding, dirty Naruto. Naruto had been mumbling the entire time that he was sorry. With every new rooftop Naruto's mumbling got fainter and fainter. Finally Kakashi had to look down at the boy since he no longer heard anything. The boy had either fallen asleep or had passed out because of the pain or blood loss. Kakashi was going to stop to find out. He had to keep heading towards the hospital.

Meanwhile, down on the city streets walked a bald man. Right after Kakashi jumped to the next rooftop, this man felt something wet land on the top of his head. He looked up and realized there wasn't a cloud in the sky. He looked back around and everyone was exclaiming that his head was bleeding. He quickly walked home and investigated himself in the mirror. He inspected his scalp to find wound. All that was found was the drop of blood right where he had felt the wetness.

Closer to the hospital walked a little blonde girl of about four years old with her mother. She was a pretty little girl with blonde hair as white as possibly and a big forehead. She like the bald man felt something wet hit her head only a lot more then one drop. Her mother inexplicably hurried her back home and straight into the tub. Her mother used an entire bottle of shampoo to get the red blood out of her little girl's hair but could only get the red color to spread and then fade. Her little girl's hair would forever be a light pink color just like the flowers she was named after.

Kakashi finally made it to hospital. He rushed right in and called for help. The nurses and doctors quickly rushed over. They took Naruto behind the doors telling Kakashi to stay out. Kakashi quickly called the Hokage and told him everything. The old man rushed over as fast as he could. Together they would wait.

Two hours later a very tired looking doctor came out of the doors. He walked over to the two, "That boy is a lucky one. It took a lot of chakra for us to heal his wounds, but we did it. He will have to stay here for a while though. There seems to be a case of malnutrition." He turned towards Kakashi, "What exactly happened to him for him to be in that condition?"

Luckily for Kakashi, Sandaime stepped in, "Can we see him?"

"Of course! This way please, Sandaime-sama, Hatake-san." The doctor gestured them down a side hall. He took them to a small room with a bed a little to big for the boy. "He'll be here until I clear him to go back to the orphanage. It'll probably be at the end of this week."

"That is all. You may go now," Sandaime said.

The doctor left the room. They waited until they couldn't hear his footsteps any longer. Kakashi could no longer take the silence or what he had heard, "He can't go back to the orphanage! It was two weeks after his abduction until they even filed that he was missing!" exclaimed Kakashi.

"Then what do you have in mind?" the sly Sarutobi asked. "The boy has no family. The only ones that would even take the boy somewhere roaming outside the village. It would take too long to bring them here. So what do you suggest?"

"You heard my suggestion four years ago but wouldn't have it!" Kakashi said losing all of his patience and forgetting whom he was talking to. "You said that I might be his godfather, but I was to young to take the boy in! Now what do you think?"

"Let's wait and see how this experience has affected him. Then I'll make my decision." With though words the two waited for Naruto to wake up.

Around two hours later…

Naruto groaned. He slowly opened his eyes to see a white ceiling and bright lights. He blinked. 'Where am I? The cell doesn't have any lights in it. What happened? Why am I on something soft? And comfortable?' the boy wondered. He slowly looked around. He was in a room on a bed with to men watching him. One was old and in robes of red and white. The other was young with gray hair and a mask covering his entire face except an eye. He couldn't tell if it was right or left cause he was very bad with telling the difference.

"You're awake, Naruto-kun," the old man said. Naruto remembered that voice. It was the voice of the old man that came to visit him in the orphanage. Naruto liked that man. He was always kind and had time to play with Naruto, unlike anyone else that came there. Seeing the look of recognition on the boy's face, Sarutobi smiled.

"W-w-wh-h-ha-at-t a-a-ar-r-re-e yo-ou-u doi-in-ng h-he-e-er-r-re, S-s-san-d-diame-s-s-sam-ma?" the boy stuttered. Sarutobi's smile fell when he heard the boy stutter the entire question. Kakashi who had only heard the boy talk from a distance stiffened with shock. The experience was that bad.

Kakashi looked over at the Hokage, they exchange the same look that said he couldn't go back to the orphanage. "W-w-wh-he-e-er-re a-am I-i? Naruto asked sounding even more scared. "W-wh-hen a-am I-i g-goi-ing b-bac-ck t-th-ere?"

"You're never going back there again, Naruto-kun," Kakashi finally step forward and spoke. The boy cowered.

"Naruto-kun, this here is Hatake Kakashi-san. He's offered to adopt you." Sarutobi said. "You'll never have to go back to that cell or the orphanage."

The smile he expected to get from that never came. The boy just stayed in that cowed position shaking slightly. Why was he expecting a smile? The boy didn't even know Kakashi not to mention that the mask probably scared the boy more.

As if he had been thinking the same thought, Kakashi slowly got closer to boy, who started to shake more, and slowly lowered his mask to reveal…

Two days later…

Sarutobi was expecting Kakashi to walk into his office any minute now. He was going to show him a house that he thought Kakashi should move into. The house had enough room for a growing boy, a training ground, and was actually the Uzumaki clan compound.

Kakashi slowly waltzed into the office with the now usual lazy air to him, but underneath that lazy attitude though was the panic that you could only get when the shock of being a little boy's guardian wore off. Kakashi hadn't even gotten him out of the hospital yet, and he was worrying about how good of a father figure he would be to the boy. Would he be as good as Arashi would have? Unfortunately, he and the world would never know the answer to that.

Sarutobi took Kakashi to the house of Kakashi's former and late sensei. They solemnly walked inside. Kakashi felt weird in the now deserted house, but he knew that this house was specially made to house the Uzumaki. This would be the perfect and only place to raise Naruto. End the end he would have to live in the house, the rooms, and the halls of his former sensei.

A/N: Well it's longer and you now know more of what's happening! I couldn't resist the whole Sakura thing. Hehe! If anyone knows a better way to do stuttering p, please tell me and I'll change it. Review please!

Mel