Mic: THANKS GOD IM ALIVE!

Naruto: your so lazy….

Mic: I know

Mic: On with the story ttebayo!

next day Naruto woke up to find both Menma and Tayuya dressed in black in front of him. Both looked extremely grim. From outside he could see everyone else dressed in black heading for the main entrance.

"What's going on?"

"…" Tayuya couldn't bring herself to look or tell the blonde. She knew that even if they both abused and ignored him, Naruto still loved his adoptive parents, Orochimaru and Kabuto.

"Naruto-kun…" Menma hesitated before continuing. "You see… Orochimaru- sama and Kabuto-sama were…assaulted yesterday…" That spiked the blonde attention and then he became completely awake.

"A-Are they a-alright-t?"

"Well…"

"M-Menma?"

"..They…they died…"

"What?" That's when Tayuya talked.

"They died, the bastards shot 'em in the head."

"B-But I-I just saw the-em ye-yesterday." His eyes started filling with tears.

" They were getting out of the office and.."

"No…" They both hugged the blonde when he started shaking and crying. He was really upset.

"Come on Naruto, it's going to be alright…" When he started to calm down Menma spoke up, breaking the silence.

"Why don't you get dressed to go say goodbye, ne?"

"..O-Oka-ay…" They left the room after smiling sadly at the blonde.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Time skip, at the funeral XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Orochimaru and Kabuto both had already been buried and the priest had already left, it was also raining cats and dogs, but no one had the heart to go away. Naruto was in front of them both between Tayuya and Menma. He was crying real badly. Kimimaru was nowhere to be seen. No one noticed one of the servants, Hikaru, glaring haltingly at the blonde, that is until he punched him.

"Fucking useless brat, why the hell are you crying if it's your fault their dead, you don't even deserve to be here!"

"I-It wasn't m-my fault-t."

"Yes it is! If you hadn't told them that they needed to talk to your teacher, they wouldn't have gotten out the company and died!" Tayuya knocked him out and some men took him away.

"Tayuya…? Menma…?"

"Yeah?"

"Is-is it re-really my fa-fault-t?"

"Of course not Naruto! Don't listen to Hikaru, he's out of his fucking mind! Come on, let's go home."

"O-Oh…oka-ay…"

It had been 6 days since the funeral and the blonde wasn't as bad as the first two days. He wouldn't eat nor drink, and sadly no one could help him at the time. Tayuya had inherited everything and in consequence needed to start working, and she had put Menma in Kabuto's place as the vice-president so they both couldn't spend the needed time with him. Everyone else accepted working for the both of them and also tried to start talking to the blonde(except for Kaoru who was fired). They had also taken a liking to him now that they actually made the attempt to get closer to him. But them not knowing how to help him of course weren't able to help him. Even if he was a bit happy that they finally accepted him, he was still terribly depressed. He had already called Temari telling her about the incident and she said it was alright, that he could take off as much time as he needed.

Just when the thing had started to get a bit more serious, a tall redhead had visited the blonde on the third day. He didn't talk, he had simply sat in front of the boy, watching him silently yet understandingly. He came and went for two days, and on the third he finally spoke to the blonde saying a simple 'Are you okay?' and then everything was alright again. The blonde went back to his happy easy-going self. Everyone knew that it was because of the redhead that they now knew as Sabaku no Gaara. It was later known that he was a childhood friend of the blonde and the boy's boss's brother.

It was Sunday and the redhead had once again gone to visit the blonde, but this time he wasn't alone.

"Naruto-kun! Gaara-san is here!"

"Coming!" And a lot of footsteps were heard, the sound of someone falling and more footsteps before Naruto appeared, a big smile on his face.

"Gaara!"

"Good to know your enthusiasm is back." "Meow."

"What was that?"

"That was Shukaku."

"Shukaku?"

"My cat."

"You have a cat? Lemme see!" Gaara stepped aside, letting Naruto see a cat as big as a medium sized dog. It looked a lot like a wild animal.

"Jesus Christ! What is that ttebayo?"

"This, Naruto, is a Savannah."

"Well, shouldn't it be in a cage!" The blonde was in a fighting stance in case it decided to attack.

"No. It is a rare breed that is the result from crossing a normal domestic cat with an African wild cat."

"So it's not dangerous?"

"No."

"You sure?" Gaara looked at the blonde.

"Okay….can I pet him?" Gaara nodded. Naruto softly touched its head before it began to purr and get closer to the blond to gently start liking his whiskered cheeks. The blonde laughed while Gaara smiled very, very, very softly.

"How old is he?"

"One year."

"He's so cute! Let's go inside."

"Here." Gaara handed Naruto a big bag of…something.

"What is it?"

"Cookies. Temari made them for you."

"Thanks!" He opened the bag and got one out only to have it stealed by Shukaku.

"I guess he likes cookies?" Gaara nodded.

"Is it me or is everyone in your Family obsessed with cookies?" Gaara glared at him.

"Okay, okay, here, cookie." Gaara grabbed the offered treat.

"So, how's everything at school?"

"Kiba entered today." Naruto nearly choked.

"Really?"

"Yes, I already told him everything. He's coming…" He looked at his watch. "In an hour, he had to go home first."

"Okay! Man, I can't believe I'll see him again. So how was school for him?"

"They all seemed to take a liking to him, even when he associated with the 'demon'."

"Oh, sorry about that."

"You didn't start it, besides, I don't care."

"I wonder what they'll do when they see him talking to me…"

It had already been an hour and Kiba had yet to come. Naruto, Gaara and Shukaku had already finished the cookies and were know watching TV. Exactly two hours later the doorbell rang. One of the maids opened the door and in came a something that was either a large dog or a small bear. And behind it came Kiba.

"Yo, what's up?"

"KIBA!"

"I-I'm sorry Naruto-kun, he just barged in! Do I call the police?"

"No, it's okay, he's a friend."

"Oh, I see, sorry." And she left. Kiba hugged the blonde and he responded back. "Your late."

"Sorry I had to help out at the shelter." Kiba's Family ran an animal shelter. They recued all kinds of animals from the street, gave them medical attention and put the domestic animals in for adoption while they sent the wild ones to shelters specialized in wild life. It was big chain and his family had had this shelter quite a while so they do have more than enough money.

"Man blondie, your still very short"

"That's not true!"

"You r hair barely touches my chin!"

"So?"

"Heh, good to see you."

"Same." A loud hiss and a bark were heard. They all turned to look at the cat and dog almost start ripping each other in shreds.

"Hell, what is that thing?"

"It's Shukaku."

"Your cat?"

"Yeah, and your dog better not do anything to him."

"Shit!" He quickly took the dog away from the cat, then turned back to the feline fearing it would eat him.

"What's his name?"

"Huh?" The brunette look back to see Naruto petting his dog.

"Oh, Akamaru…hey you're lucky, he doesn't usually like someone unless he's known them for a while."

"Heh. Guess I do good with animals"

" So…" He sniffed the air. "You ate cookies? Without me?"

"We tried to save you some but you wouldn't get here and we got hungry."

"Yeah right."

"So how'd you like school?"

"It was alright. Everyone seemed to like me. Well except for these two kids, I think they were called…Hyuuga and Uchiha or something."

"..." Naruto kept silent.

"Naruto? You okay buddy?"

"Yeah." Suddenly the door of the living room was burst open and in came Tayuya and Menma.

"Tayuya! You shouldn't do that!"

"Yeah, there's a lot of stuff I shouldn't do." She threw herself onto the sofa and made a beer appear out of nowhere and began drinking.

"Bad day?"

"Yeah, some idiots broke in and since the security system was so incapable of stopping them, Menma and I had to, and they were many."

"Look, this is Gaara and this is Kiba." He said pointing to each one respectively. Menma, polite as always responded with a warm 'Nice to meet you' and a smile while Tayuya said 'Yeah, yeah, lemme finish my bear you maggots.'

"…Naruto." Naruto looked at Tayuya.

"Yeah?"

Tayuya hesitated before continuing. "…You know how Orochimaru knew your biological parents?"

"A huh." The man did, but never talked about them.

"…Before he died…he found your…godfather." She didn't say this in private because she knew his friends would have found out eventually.

"What?"

"He was your father's sensei…he thought you were dead and being the man he is, he is fucking difficult to track down."

"…?"

"But Orochimaru discovered that Jiraiya, that's his name, is a very famous author, fighter and literature teacher under a codename, he also travels a lot out and inside the country, that's why we couldn't find him. He is mostly known because of his novels called 'Icha Icha Paradise'."

"Tho-Those are the books Kakashi always reads!" Kakashi was Naruto History teacher, a tall man with grey gravity defying hair that always covered the half of his face from his nose downwards with a scarf in winter and a mask in summer. He was always half hour late to class, then gave a lame excuse and sat down to read. Still the man was a very well known teacher and fighter. He could teach a monkey to fight with perfect martial art posture. That's how good he thought…yep.

"So, anyway…he's coming tomorrow for you."

"Really?" He was really excited. Someone could finally talk to him about his parents.

"Yep. Your moving in with him."

"Why?" Even if the man was his godfather he didn't think he could trust him enough to move in with him.

"He is your legal guardian, in consequence you have to go with him."

"But I don't want to!"

"Even if you don't want to, you have to."

"But-"

Menma tried to cool things down. "How about we work this out tomorrow, okay? It's getting late, would you both like to stay the night over?" He asked referring to Gaara and Kiba.

"Naw, thanks I gotta go." Gaara nodded in approval to what Kiba was saying. After they both said goodbye Naruto watched as they walked to their cars and drove away.

"Do I really have to go?"

"Yeah, but you'll like the man, trust me!"

"What is he like?"

"Well, he's old."

"Tayuya!"

"Ok, ok, um he is….a pervert."

"No kidding." Tayuya glared at the sarcastic comment.

"Well, he is just like you, loud and annoying."

"You know you love me."

"Yeah, right."

"Okay that's it, we have to get some sleep, especially you." He said looking at the blonde.

"Okay." And away to their rooms they went.

Naruto woke up when he felt the car he was in bump. Wait, car? When had he gotten in a car? And it wasn't a car, it was a van filled with boxes that said Naruto's stuff. He quickly sat up and looked around him. He saw a big, tall….50 year old man in the driving seat.

"Who the hell are you? And what am I doing in your van ttebayo?"

"Oh, Naruto, I see your awake."

"Who the hell are you, ya old geezer?"

"I am the Great Jiraiya!"

"What's so great about an old perverted man?"

"The level of my perverteness." Naruto blushed and glared.

"You know this could count as kidnap, right?"

"I'll take my chances." He made a sharp turn and then they both found themselves in a huge parking lot.

"Why instead of waking me up, did you abduct me?"

"Tayuya and Menma said it was alright. They also said they'll come to see you in a week. Work's hard these days, huh?"

"So I can still see them?"

"Of course you can, what'd you think I was a bad old man who wouldn't let you see them?"

"Kinda." Jiraiya got out of the van grumbling about stupid godson of mine who doesn't think have respect.

Naruto had grown quite accustomed to the weird old man who he called Ero-sennin. After the man took him for a medical inspection with Tsunade, a woman not only known for her incredible and out of this world medical knowledge but also for her great strength and beauty , it was decided to put him under a special nutritional program. Little by little he started gaining the normal weight for someone his age, but not the normal height. Tsunade said that he may grow a bit when he gets older but still be short. Both blondes had immediately…bonded…Tsunade being for Naruto like a grandmother, although one far from normal (which wasn't far from the truth considering she was dating Jiraiya who was actually quite grandfatherly himself) and Tsunade treating him like her grandchild. He later discovered they both were Orochimaru's childhood friends and the three of them had once been under the teaching of Sarutobi-sensei, the principal of his school.

He also met Pein and Konan. A couple that had been under Jiraiya's tutoring as had his father, and that were also their neighbors. They both had immediately named themselves Naruto's pretend parents once they knew him. When Jiraiya wasn't home because of business, he would either go to their apartment or they would visit him. After Naruto didn't need the nutrition program anymore they started baking him something almost every day. He ended up taking a lot of it to school to share to Kiba and Gaara. He and Jiraiya couldn't bear so much sweet.

School had been a bit tough at first but Kiba and Gaara were always there for him. He had gained new friends such as the new kid Sai (a copy of Sasuke…somewhat…) a black haired guy named Shino (who actually had talked and sat next to the blonde sometimes), he also met Ten Ten and Neji (after haven 'talked' to the guy in privacy when he criticized Hinata who was actually his cousin, which made him really mad) they didn't go to that school because they were already in college, Rock Lee (the gym's class teacher's, Gai, assistant, who was also in college with the ones already metioned) who also had been with the blonde but now they could talk freely and, of course, Hinata and Chouji who he discovered also went to that school but were outcasts just like him. The other students still didn't want anything to do with him, but at least, seeing the friends he had made, he wasn't bullied anymore. Neji, Ten Ten and Lee had gone to Konoha too and had made legend as 'The Three Great Athletes'. Why? Well because Ten Ten knew how to use every weapon that exists, besides how to make them, how they work, their history, etc (they always wondered why a pretty girl like her needed to know that much about a bazooka and even more why she was dating Neji). She was also very good with Karate. Neji was even better than the brunette which made him almost as good as Kakashi. And lee was good in every sport you introduce him to. Gaara and Kiba had also began to make history, even if they rarely show it, everyone knew they were extremely good fighters. The only thing they didn't know was that Naruto was even better. A LOT better. And when I say A LOT you didn't even know what I'm talking about.

He also had started working. It paid really well and was quite fun…except for the dress thing…

Mic: So in conclusion, Naruto's life has turned for good and it was only getting better…or is it…?

Naruto: What are you going to do to me?

Mic: Why nothing my dear Naru, nothing at all *Looks like the Cheshire cat from Alice in wonderland*

Naruto: Ah huh *really, REALLY freaked out*

MIC: PLEASE REVIEW! And I'm sorry for the REALLY late updates, I don't have Internet and finding a cybercafé here is freaking IMPOSIBLE!