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Chapter 1
So, in order to understand what went on there, you have to know what went on between me, Toby, Raze, and Naruto way before that. To start all of you off, I'm gonna tell it from the beginning--from when me and Naruto met. When he was truly hated by the public, but only accepted by me before he got into the ninja academy and met Iruka-Sensei. I was playing tag in the park with the other children, and Naruto decided to join in. Of course, the rest of them stopped playing, heeding the words thier parents told them. I was different; I had no parents to tell me poisoned lies about an innocent child. They died long before I could remember, and I was stuck in a foster home where nobody cared enough to even feed you regularly, so it was kinda like I was just living in the streets, except I had a roof over my had(putting that loosely). Someone told me a rumor that they died in the last Great War--the war that involved the Kyuubi which was sealed inside Naruto's body. I don't really know; I've never been one to believe rumors. And if Kyuubi really did kill my parents, that kid didn't; he was only two years younger than me; no way he could've killed my parents when I was 2 years old.
So when the rest of the kids ran away, I saw him about to cry, and I walked over to him "Don't worry about them; wanna play tag with me?"
He looked up at me like he didn't understand, but then smiled as he answered yes. After the game, he asked me what my name was.
"Marie; you're Naruto, am I right?"
"Yeah...how do you know?"
"People talk about you all the time; they tell me to stay away from you...but I don't care; you look nice"I flashed him a friendly smile when I said that, trying to get him not to notice the part when I said that everybody talks about him. It worked, seeing that he grinned back "You know, I don't have parents either.."
"You too??"He moved closer to me, in that kind of way a lost puppy clings to its master after just seeing them for a long time.
"Yeah...I'm kinda lonely sometimes, and I don't like where I live all that much.."I forced a smile, something I learned to do through all those hard times.
"Me too!! Do you wanna be my friend?"His eager eyes begged me pitifully, and I couldn't say no to a face like that
"Ok, what do you want to do first?"I asked
He grabbed me by the arm and yanked me all the way to his house. "I have a lot of toys we can play with!! C'mon, I can show you!"
From that day on, me and Naruto were the closest friends that anybody had ever seen. People looked at him in hate, and some even tried to yank me away from him, saying that he would hurt me, but I didn't listen. After a time, I could see that they were looking at me with teh same hate in their eyes that they looked at Naruto with, but I didn't care.
