Well no reviews so far but thats okay things go uphill from chapter one. Now I don't think it gets really good until chapter five but you know you have to wait. The action stuff will come in time (I can't wait to start writing that). But I decided that I will post a new chapter everyday up until chapter five then I will post one whenever I can. (Which hopefully will be atleast once a week). Any way here is chapter 2 ENJOY!!!

Growing Up

"Somebody help!"

"Shut up demon boy no one is going to save you!"

Naruto was running for his life from some Chunin was chasing him, Eragon and Harry were being held down by the Chunins teammates. Naruto ran down the street and turned into an alley, only realizing he made a mistake as he hit a dead-end.

He tried to turn the opposite way and run but his pursuer was already at the entrance of the alley.

"There is no escape now demon child." He said, slowly approaching Naruto with pure rage and killing intent in his eyes. Naruto tried desperately to scramble up the wall, it was no use there were no footholds. He just ran to the corner of the alley trying to get as absolutely as far away from the man as he could. The Chunin just laughed at the boys desperate cries for help and attempts to escape. He couldn't hope to get away now, today the demon will die. The Chunin was about a foot away from the crying boy, he drew a kunai. He raised the weapon over his head, his heart racing with excitement.

Naruto just cowered in the corner crying waiting for the inevitable. When he heard something fall down right next to him he looked up and saw that the Chunin had a kunai embedded in his head. He looked up more and saw an ANBU with a wolf mask and silver hair that stuck out to the side.

"Penalty for a shinobi to attack Konoha civilians: immediate execution." Said the masked ANBU. He then turned his attention to Naruto. "You okay Naruto?" he asked walking over to the still scared boy. He just nodded his head. "Well I will take you back home then."

"What about Eragon and Harry?" Naruto asked a scared look in his eyes thinking about what could have happened to his brothers.

"They are fine, the Chunin have already been dealt with." The silver haired ANBU said. "I believe your brothers are already back home." When he finished he picked up Naruto and jumped to the roofs heading towards the apartment complexes.

"Why does every one hate me?" The seven-year-old asked tears still in his eyes.

"They don't hate you, they hate something that has to do with you. But they are to blinded by their own anger to realize that it has nothing to do with you." The ANBU said giving a half-true response.

"What do they hate so much?" the look in innocent child's eyes almost made Kakashi tell him about Kyuubi and his father but managed to hold his tongue.

"Well Naruto you will have to wait to find out that answer."

"Oh…" Naruto looked disappointed he should've known not to get his hopes up for an answer, but he did say he would find out eventually. And for the time being that was good enough for him.

The two stayed silent the rest of the trip to the apartment.

"Naruto!" Two boys ran to the ANBU captain and Naruto. One of them had a scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. Emerald green eyes that hid behind his circular rimmed glasses. Messy jet black hair complimented his facial features. He wore a loose black shirt and khaki shorts.

The second boy had blue eyes and messy dirty blonde hair, there wasn't any unique feature about the boy. He wore baggy jeans with a blue short sleeved shirt.

"Are you okay Naruto?" Harry asked

"Yeah! Did you think a stupid Chunin could hurt me!?" Naruto shouted. "Guys when we become Genin we will kick any ones butt who gets in our way!"

"Yeah!" the other two boys cheered. Kakashi couldn't help but be amused by the boy's antics.

"Hey guys are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Eragon said with a grin on his face.

"Ramen!" the trio shouted at once. And with that the three boys ran down the street towards Ichiraku's ramen stand. Kakashi watched them as they ran down the street playing around.

'I don't think they could survive without each other' he thought pitying them, none of them knew about the past. As far as any of them new is that they were orphaned during the Kyuubis attack on the village. The boys met when Naruto was being bullied by one of the other orphans.

Flashback

"But I'm only a minute late." Said a four year old Naruto.

"That doesn't matter you were late and you don't get lunch if you are late." Said the caretaker. She was a woman in her thirties her hair in a tight bun, she looked at Naruto with distaste and hate. "Now go to your room and think about why you where late and how you can prevent it in the future."

"But the door was locked."

"That's no excuse, you should have been inside when I said."

"But Miu came late too."

"But she had to go to the bathroom, you were messing around outside. Now don't make me ask you to go to your room again." Naruto just gave a sad look as he left the room. It was always like this the caretaker would use any chance she could get to torment Naruto like that. It was a good thing that by now Naruto started storing food under his bed or else he probably would have died of starvation long ago. It was about then another one of the orphans walked into the room with Eragon in tow.

"What do you have there?" asked the first boy.

"Come on Kaito leave him alone." Eragon said.

"But we aren't suppose to have food in here Eragon." Replied the boy named Kaito.

"Yeah but he didn't get anything to eat so why not just lay off?" he suggested.

"Maybe you will but I'm telling." With that the boy ran out of the room shouting the caretakers name. Naruto sat there with a look of horror on his face.

'She'll kick me out of the orphanage now I know it.' The fear on his face grew worse and worse as more thoughts like that came into his mind.

"Hey, where are you keeping your food?"

"Huh?" Naruto was a little taken aback by the question.

"I said where do you keep your food?" Eragon repeated

"W-why?" Naruto asked, he hasn't been this scared since some villagers somehow broke into the orphanage and tried to beat him to a pulp.

"Because I have an idea." Eragon said with a little sinister smile on his face.

"I swear I saw Naruto with a rice ball in his hands." Kaito rushing towards the sleeping quarters for the children, the caretaker in reluctantly followed him. Usually she would have loved to have reason to yell at the demon but she had dishes to clean and other children to care to.

"Ha Naruto your in troub-huh?" he was cut short of his sentence when two cardboard shuriken hit him on the head.

"Ha Kaito you lost!" Eragon shouted as he came out from his hiding place behind a bed. "Me and Naruto set up the trap and tricked you perfectly." Eragon than gave a victory pose. Naruto jumped beside Eragon and the two stood back to back both doing a V with their fingers.

Kaito just stood their dumbfounded at what just happened. Not only did they manage to make him look like he was lying, but they also beat him at playing ninja game that they started this morning!

"Kaito," Said an angry voice behind the boy. Kaito just turned slowly towards the caretaker, fear was riddled all over his face. "Do you mean to tell me that you were just playing ninja?" Her voice may have sounded calm but it made small boy very nervous.

"N-no, I mean yes-"

"You brought me in here because of a stupid game!?" she yelled "Alright as punishment you are helping me with the dishes!" and with that she grabbed Kaito by the back of his collar and dragged him down the hallway towards the kitchen.

"No, no we weren't playing ninja we weren't playing ninja!" Kaito cried in desperation, but his voice fell upon deaf ears.

"Haha that'll teach him huh Naruto." Eragon said pumping his fist into the air.

"Teach who?" asked a boy with jet black hair and a lightning bolt shaped scar, who just walked into the room.

"Hey Harry," Eragon said turning to the new comer. "Ah no one really Kaito was just gonna snitch on Naruto for sneaking food in here." Eragon gestured to Naruto when he said his name.

"Naruto huh?" Harry said turning to Naruto. "You're the one that old bat keeps calling demon child right?"

"Yeah." Naruto looked down at the reminder of the nickname the caretaker gave him.

"Well I'm Harry looks like you already know Eragon." Harry said looking at Eragon when he said his name.

"So Naruto," Eragon said stepping forward "Want to go play a real game of ninja?"

"Yeah!" Naruto said pumping his fist in the air.

End Flashback

The three grew so close since then that when the caretaker was finally able to throw Naruto out of the orphanage that Harry and Eragon went with him.

"That type of loyalty is hard to find these days." Kakashi said to himself. When the trio was out of site he raise his hand, and fraction of a second later two more ANBU appeared behind Kakashi. "Watch them make sure no one else attacks them, I have to report to the Hokage."

"Hai" was their response before the sped away, jumping rooftop to rooftop. Once they were out of sight Kakashi headed off towards the Hokages office to report what just happened.

Jumping rooftop to rooftop Kakashi thought about the promise he made to the Fourth.

Flashback

Kakashi was standing in the Hokages office his old sensei was standing across the desk from his eyes were looking in the direction of the baby in his arms. The baby had blonde hair his cheeks not yet holding the whisker marks that were soon to take their place on the sides of his face.

"Kakashi you know I wont live past tonight." The Yondaime said, not taking his gaze of the child in his arms.

"Don't say that sensei, of course you will live, you have to live for your son." Kakashi said in a reassuring voice.

"Kakashi you know as well as I do that I don't have a choice. Just promise me that you will watch over him and protect him please. I want him to be seen as a hero but I know that the villagers will only see the demon."

"You never know sensei the villagers could actually respect your request."

"Yeah one can only hope though." With that the Fourth Hokage of the hidden leaf jumped through the open window of his office to face his death and the survival of his village.

End Flashback

'I'm doing the best I can sensei with protecting him.' Kakashi thought as he walked into the Hokages office.

"Yes Kakashi what is it?" The third asked, not taking his mind off his paper work.

"Naruto was just attacked by a team of Chunin." Hearing this news the old man lifted his head to look at the ANBU captain.

"Who was it?" he asked in a dead serious voice.

"The Ken triplets."

"Figures, their father was killed in the battle against Kyuubi." The third said turning his attention back to his paperwork. "I assume you have already dealt with the punishment."

"Yes, I barley found them in time before he killed Naruto." This response sent a slight shiver down the Thirds spine.

"Are they at Ichiraku's?" the old man asked looking up once again from his paper work.

"Hai" Was Kakashi's short response.

"Well then I'm going for a walk then." With that he stood up out of his chair put on his hat and walked out the door.

A few minutes later Sarutobi found himself outside Ichirakus ramen stand, three boys could be inside arguing at the top of their lungs about which flavor of ramen was better.

"Miso!" Eragon yelled.

"Pork!" Naruto yelled

"Kitakata!" Harry yelled

The argument seemed to go that way for a while until the Hokage stepped into the stand

"Old man!" the trio yelled simultaneously.

"Hokage-sama." Ayame greeted, "What would you like today?" The Hokage was a regular customer of sorts thanks to the trio that came daily if not hourly.

"Just the Miso special please." He requested as he sat down next to Harry.

"HA! The old man likes Miso that makes it the best ramen dish!" Eragon declared

"Does not just means that the old man has bad taste!" Naruto retorted. The Hokage just smiled trying not to let the last comment effect him.

"So how are you three today?" He asked as his order or Miso ramen was placed in front of him.

"Great!" Naruto answered practically jumping out of his seat.

"That's good to hear." He said as he broke apart his chopsticks and started to eat his meal.

"Are you guys excited about going to the Academy tomorrow?"

"Yeah!" the three yelled jumping up as they said it.

"We are gonna kick so much butt when we become shinobi!" Eragon shouted pumping his fist into the air.

"Yeah!" the other two shouted in agreement.

"Well you do know that being a shinobi is more than just beating up people and 'kicking butt' as you put it." The three groaned feeling lecture coming on. "Now, now this is important being a shinobi gives you responsibilities, you have to make life and death situations in a seconds time, you have to decide whether killing and enemy or letting him live is more important."

"Please old man don't ruin it." Harry said Sarutobi just chuckled, they would understand when the time comes.

"Hey old man want to have a ramen race? Only five bowls this time." Eragon asked from the end of the trio.

"You three go ahead, I'm not one for inhaling my food." The Third said as he inched away from the boys knowing what was about to happen.

Eragon just shrugged, "Okay your loss. Hey old man!" he shouted turning towards the owner of Ichirakus.

"One step ahead of you." He said lining up bowls of ramen in front of the trio.

"Ayame start us off please." Harry said.

"Of course," she said, she found these ramen races rather entertaining.

"Ready…" Harry, Naruto, and Eragon hunched over the bowls.

"Set…" Naruto cracked his neck, the tension in the room was building by the second

"Go!" As soon as the word left her mouth the three almost dove into their food, stuffing as much noodles as they could. Passerbys who could see in the stand were disgusted at the site.

In a seconds time the three were already done with two bowls.

"And…. Naruto is the winner!" Ayame declared as Naruto just finished his fifth bowl a fraction of a second before the other two.

"HA! Yes I still go undefeated!" Naruto said as he gave a victory pose.

"Two times in a row." Harry said, Naruto just sweat dropped. The Sandaime just laughed at their antics. After they argued about who got first when, the Hokage noticed the sun setting behind the Hokage monument.

"It's getting late boys you should be getting home after all you don't want to be late for your first day at the Academy."

"Yeah guess your right old man," Naruto said also looking at the sunset. With that the three said their good byes to their grandfather figure and left for their apartment.

END OF CHAPTER 2

A/N: Okay please review this time, tell me whats good and bad about the story please. And I would like a beta reader incase any one is interested.

Any way next chapter will be up by tomorrow.