"Talking"

"Thoughts"

"Flashback"

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters but my OC.

AN: This is my very first story on I hope that everyone who reads it will like it at least a little bit. Anyway enjoy the story.

Chapter 1: Fateful Meeting

Do you believe in the power to make a difference or the power to change other people's view of yourself? A person with enough strength to overcome all hardships or obstacles that comes in front of his path. This is a story of such a person, a person born into a time of when Gods and Demons walk the Earth. A time when samurai and ninja wielded their weapons and fought for honor, pride and justice for their people and country. This is a story of two children who battle all obstacles that come their way, to prove their existence in a world that is ruled by strength and skill, which is key to surviving the ninja way of life.

Our story begins at night in the village of Konoha, a peaceful ninja village that is home to many great ninjas and their families. We see in the deserted street a small boy walking alone who is not much older than 4 wearing the traditional ninja shoes, dark blue pants, a white shirt with the village symbol on the front. His face has a pair of unique lines that looks like whiskers on each side of his face, his hair a bright spiky blond, and finally his eyes are a beautiful ocean blue that are glazed over in sadness and tears. This is Naruto, an orphan boy who lives by himself and is hated for a reason he cannot seem to figure out. Unknown to Naruto, the very reason he is hated dwells within him, the spirit of the cursed nine tail fox demon Kyuubi was sealed inside him as an infant, thus causing him to always be alone.

"Why do they hate me so much?" Naruto asked himself as he walked home from the park. Having no one to play with, all Naruto ever did was sit in the swing and watch as children played with other children or play with their parents.

"What did I do to make them hate me so?" No matter how much he thought about it, Naruto just couldn't think of what he had done to be treated so coldly. He was so distracted with his thoughts he did not see the figure in front of him.

"Watch where you are going you little brat!" said a drunken man in his late 30's yelled. He seemed to have just left the bar and had not left nicely from the sound of it. "Who do you think you are running into me like that!"

"I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean to run into you. I just wasn't paying attention." Naruto could tell that answer only made the man angrier. "You think that is a good excuse. I know you your that monster, maybe its time I taught you a lesson about how to respect your superiors."

"Not again, please not again." Naruto knew what to expect since it happened to him daily. Whether it was day or night at least once he would be beaten up by someone. In the past week he had been to the hospital 8 times, but even then the nurses never really helped him unless the Hokage was with him.

Flashback

"Look at what we got here, a little monster who doesn't know his place." "Let's teach him a lesson."

"You don't belong here, you don't even deserve to live"

"Let's see just how breakable he is"

"Who could ever love a monster like you, you're not even worth looking at"

"We'll teach you the meaning of fear. Next time we won't be so nice"

Flashback

Some time later…

"That should teach you to mess with me you monster." There in a ball of pain laid Naruto, eyes closed with silent tears streaming down his face which was covered with bruises, cuts, blood and dirt. "Next time you better watch where your going next time." And with that the drunken man stumbled his way home leaving Naruto alone to suffer.

Opening his eyes to make sure the man was gone, he pushed himself up with what remained of his strength and stumbled to the nearest wall surrounded by bushes only to sit against it. With nothing else to do and with no one looking, Naruto cried.

"Why…why…why?" Was all that he could think about as he sat there crying out all the pain and suffering he had endured in his heart. As he cried the wind blew causing the leaves of the bush to shift giving Naruto a glimpse of a hole around his size to show.

"Where did that come from?" Naruto thought as he got up only to grunt with pain holding his stomach where he was sure there were at least two broken ribs. Walking closer to the hole, he couldn't help but wonder where it ended. So with cat curiosity Naruto crawled through the hole just to see where it went to.

Not long after entering Naruto came to the end of the hole and entered into the forest that was outside the village. Never being outside the village walls before, Naruto decide to have a look around before going back. As he walked around he began to notice lots of different things that he didn't before when he was in the village. Like all the different sounds and smells that surrounded him from all sides, and how different the plants and animals were then the ones inside the village.

"What's that!" Ahead of him was a small waterfall clearing surrounded by trees with flowers blooming everywhere and well size rocks surrounding the water where you could lay close enough to the water and not get completely wet.

"Wow! This is amazing!" Naruto couldn't help but be excited at his new discovery. "Since no one is waiting for me it wouldn't hurt to take a quick swim." As Naruto started to strip down a voice suddenly rang out from nowhere.

"STOP THAT!" Hearing the yell surprised Naruto so much he ended up falling on his bottom. Quickly getting to his feet Naruto yelled out "Who said that! Show yourself!" After a quick look around Naruto noticed a moving object coming out from behind the waterfall.

A young girl stepped out wearing only an animal skin loin cloth. She was around Naruto's height, with long black hair that covered her chest and had unique eyes of white silver with gold specks. To say she wasn't a beauty would be an understatement, for anyone could tell that as she got older she would turn more into a goddess.

Speechless Naruto could do nothing but watch as she came closer to him. The next thing he knew the girl was in front of him talking to him and waiting for an answer. "I'm sorry what did you say?" " I said, are you lost?" You could tell the girl was a little annoyed at being ignored.

"Well to tell the truth I think I might be, but I didn't think about it until you said something." Naruto nervously laughed with a blush on his cheeks and a hand rubbing the back of head, a sign of nervousness. "She is so pretty, I have never seen anyone like her before."

"If you are from that weird looking place with all the people, then you are a bit far from there." "But I can show you the way back if you like." The girl said with complete ease not at all effected by talking to a complete stranger who kept looking at her funny.

"For some reason, I feel completely at ease around this boy. Like I know he would never hurt me" Looking at the boy in front of her, the girl could sense nothing negative in his aura. Never meeting any people around her own age the girl didn't know how to act around him. The only few people she meet were tall and always trying to capture her.

"If it is okay with you can I just stay here for awhile? I really don't want to be by myself right now." Naruto didn't know why he said that but he had a feeling that maybe he had finally found the friend he had always wanted and he didn't want to leave until he found out everything about her.

"I don't see that as a problem, I never seen anyone who looks like me before so it would be nice to talk to you." The girl smiled a bright smile that made Naruto's heart skip and face turn red as a cherry. The girl turned her back to him and walked to the edge of a rock and put her feet in the water. Turning around to see Naruto still standing, the girl padded the space beside her silently telling him to come sit.

Walking towards her Naruto sat down and broke the silence. "My name's Naruto Uzumaki, what's yours!" He said with a bright smile on his face with the blush still on his cheeks. "I don't have a name." "What! How could you not have a name, didn't your parents give you one?"

The girl gave him a strange look, "What are parents?" "Eh…parents are grown-ups that are related to you and take care of you when you are baby until you grow up at least I think that is what they do." Again Naruto was rubbing his head, not knowing how to explain it when no one ever really explained it to him.

"I guess I don't have any parents then." "I'm sorry, if it makes you feel better I don't have any parents either so that makes us both orphans." Seeing another confused look flash across her face at the word he explained again. "An orphan is a kid like us who doesn't have any parents or family, which is a group of people who are related to you like your parents are."

"Well at least we have something in common with each other. It must be nice to have a name." The girl gave a sad smile after saying that. Naruto took one look at her sad face and nodded like he just made a decision. "I know why don't I give you a name!" The girl looked at him and smiled, "I would like that very much, please just give me something simple." Nodding Naruto sat and thought about the perfect name.

"I got it! How about San, it's small, simple and easy to say!" Naruto looked at her reaction to see if she liked his choice. "…San…" The name didn't have a bad ring to it, and it was nice and simple like she wanted. Smiling again San nodded, "It's perfect. Thank you Naruto."

A few hours afterwards they talked about many things of what they liked and didn't liked and about their past. Seeing the wounds Naruto suffered San showed him her healing magic that she had but never figured out where she got it from. After Naruto got healed he notice how late it was and was sad to say that he needed to leave.

At the entrance of the hole Naruto had to ask, "Are we friends San?" Surprised at his question, "Of course we're friends! Why wouldn't we be?" "No reason I just wanted to know. Hey, I'll come see you everyday from now on okay!" San was so happy she hugged him as tight as she could.

Embarrassed all over again, Naruto could do nothing but hug her back. "I'll see you tomorrow!" and with that see went back to her home. Smiling so big that his face nearly split in two, Naruto rushed back home and went to bed dreaming of the pretty girl who was his first real friend.

AN: I hope you all like my story. It is my first one so don't be to harsh on me. I will update as soon as I can!