Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto -.- Unfortunately

A/N: The reason I set this in Vermont was because it was the first place that came into my head when I thought 'What place snows heavily in the middle of October? Haha. I know it's a pretty random place but you know, whatever works I guess.

"Have a happy birthday Naruto!"

Naruto Uzumaki smiled brightly and waved a bronze colored hand at his pink haired companion his blonde hair blowing softly in the wind and his cerulean blue eyes as bright as his grin. The blonde was just on his way home from his job at the firm. His co-workers and all of his friends threw him a surprise birthday party and even though his boss threw a extreme hissy fit and basically threw everyone out of the entire building and into the freezing October weather, it was one of the best moments of his life. Now he was finally leaving to go home to his apartment building that rested five blocks away from his job. His best friend, Sakura, had volunteered to drive him home since Naruto's car was in the shop but the blonde found that he enjoyed the time he had to himself when he was walking home because once he got there he wouldn't have any peace and quiet since he lived with a extremely roommate and his abnormally large canine. Not to mention his ginger red cat, Kyuubi, who never seemed to be content until he covered every part of Naruto with his feline hair. So with that Naruto turned down his pink-haired friend's offer and set on his way.

The streets of Vermont were completely covered in white blankets of snow about four inches deep. The was covered with clouds as more snow fell down and the wind was blowing softly to add that winter feeling. Naruto sighed. Why was there such a place where it snowed as if it was winter when it was still the middle of fall? However the sight was very beautiful to take in, especially on his birthday. There was nothing as beautiful as nature's beauty and the unblemished snow, since no one was on the streets, was probably the most beautiful thing to Naruto at the moment.

So continuing down the street, Naruto was thinking about what he should stop and get for dinner when a scream pierced the fall wind. Naruto stopped in his tracks and looked around alarmed. That sounded like a little girl's scream. Someone was in trouble! Naruto quickly ran in the direction of the scream, silently thanking his friend Ino for buying some large snow boots for his birthday and forced him to wear them during the party because without any slipping, Naruto made it to the trouble just to see what occurred.

There was a small girl lying in the snow her hand outstretched toward a cloaked figure that made a sharp turn and flung himself upon the child. As if knowing he was watching, the figures coal black eyes landed on Naruto's as soon as these vicious dogs landed upon it. Naruto saw the dogs immediately start ripping at the cloak with their teeth and claws. Suddenly three men came and grabbed the screaming girl from under the figure as the dogs continued to attack. The girl screamed and kicked furiously in the men's' arms trying fruitlessly to get back to the attacked figured. The men laughed at the girl's efforts and the sound made Naruto's blood boil.

"Papa! Papa!" The girl screeched. Naruto couldn't just watch anymore. Grabbing a huge branch from the alleyway he was standing in front of Naruto let out a battle cry before racing towards the nearest dog and smacking it in the face sending the dog flying into the street with a loud yelp. All eyes were upon him at once. The rest of the dogs bared the teeth with large growls but now Naruto's attention was on the men. The young girl stared at him in astonishment and tear tracks on her cheeks. Naruto sucked in a breath at the site of her ankle. It was so red it but cherries to shame and extremely swollen. No doubt from the stress she put on it trying to get away. Naruto looked up from the girl to glare at the three men before him.

"Let. The girl. Go." He hissed through clenched teeth. The men stared at him with an expression caught between annoyance and amusement. One man with a hideous car going down his face stepped up and sneered.

"Go home little boy. You have no business here." The man boomed before puckering his lips and letting out a loud whistle. At the command the dogs lunged at Naruto trying their hardest to sink anything they could anywhere on his body. Naruto let out a growl himself before swinging his stick to fight back. However fighting five dogs with just a branch was not an easy feat and Naruto was having quite the trouble. The men laughed at the site. The young girl however took the distraction as her chance to get away and with a swing of her little body, she kicked the man on her right in the place where the sun doesn't shine. The man immediately dropped his hands to the area and doubled over in pain. Before the man on the left could retaliate the young girl turned and bit his hand as hard as she could, causing the man to let out a yelp and drop the child onto the ground. The girl cried in pain for landing on her bad leg however she clawed at the earth beneath her, trying to make her way to the cloaked figure. Naruto noticed the girl and made to go help her but just at the moment a man cradling his hand moved to her side.

"Rotten brat!" He huffed and gave the girl a hard kick that sent her screeching onto the pavement. Naruto's blood boiled to 150 degrees, red crossed his vision, and before anyone knew it, he delivered the same kind of kick to the dog gnawing on his leg, ran over to the man cradling his arm, and gave him the hardest punch to the face that almost had his knuckles cracking. The man stumbled back onto the ground a stream of blood flowing from his mouth. The scarred man turned around quickly.

"You damn nuisance!" He yelled flying towards Naruto but the blonde was far too angry and without any hesitation, twisting his leg through the air so that it connected to the side of the scarred man's head, causing him to fall and slam it upon the pavement. Naruto turned towards the last man with absolute fury in his eyes.

"You want some too?!" He screamed. The last man shook his head vigorously and scrambled his companions together before they all high-tailed and ran, their whimpering dogs right behind them. Naruto sneered and spit in their direction before quickly making his way toward the young girl who had crawled towards the cloaked figure despite her injuries. The girl turned to face him as he kneeled down beside her. Naruto took in her hurt appearance. She had a cut on her lips that were bleeding and a couple bruises spread on her arms. Her ankle had turned a purplish color and Naruto noticed a spot of blood on her stomach where the man had kicked her. However that wasn't her blood on her clothes. Naruto looked at the cloaked figure the young girl was clinging to and saw the slowly freezing blood upon the cloth. Naruto immediately freaked, reaching into his pocket to pull out his cell phone and fumbling with pressing the buttons before he finally called who he meant to call. The young girl watched him with curiosity even though there were tears rolling down her face. Naruto gulped praying that someone would answer the phone.

"Hello?"

"Hello Baa-chan?!" Naruto rushed out immediately.

"Naruto?" The other person answered. Naruto nodded his head even though he knew the person couldn't see it.

"Yes it's me. Baa-chan you have to hurry! I was walking home when I heard this scream and it sounded like someone was in trouble so I ran and I found these guys attacking this little girl and this other person and I can't really seen his face because he's wearing some type of cloak but I think it might be the girl's father because she called him Papa and he was being attacked by these dogs that must have hurt him pretty badly because now he's bleeding like crazy and I think the girls sprained her ankle because its all purple and puffy and I beat up the guys and the dogs but I don't know any kind of medical things and one of the guys kicked the little girl really badly and she's crying because I know she's in really bad pain and I was going to carry them there but I didn't think that it was wise to move them because of their injuries so I just decided to call you so that you could bring an ambulance to take them to the hospital but I didn't think you would still be at home this late and-"

"NARUTO!" Naruto stopped his rambling and took a deep breath for his suffering lungs. The blond looked at the little girl and cloaked man. Were they going to make it?

"Baa-chan..." He whispered, noticing a small red puddle in the snow beneath the cloaked man's body and silently hoping for her to speed down the icy highway to get her as quickly as possible. The person on the other line sighed and spoke the next words with a firm yet motherly tone.

"I'm on my way Naruto and I promise I'll get there as soon as possible. I just need you to stay calm and do exactly as I say."

Naruto could not hold still. Tsunade was true to her and made it to trio in less than five minutes flat, not admitting to how many people she probably hit on the way. As soon as she got there though, a large group of men filed out and carried the young girl and the cloaked man into the ambulance. While they were doing that Naruto had climbed into the front seat and they sped back to the hospital this time Naruto seeing how many people that were hit during the journey. Not even seconds after they arrived both were transported into the emergency room and after hours upon hours, into a regular hospital room where Naruto was fidgeting outside of while Tsunade was checking on them. The girl had only slept a few hours, the worry of her father injuries keeping her awake. However, the father had not woken up ever since he passed out on the pavement when naruto first saw him. Naruto had feared he died of blood loss but Tsunade assured that everything was alright. But Naruto needed to see that himself so his grandmother finally gave in and allowed him access after she was through with the check-up.

The creaking of the door caught Naruto's attention and the blonde bolted upright as Tsunade leaned out the doorway with a small smile on her face.

"Come on brat." She said in a soft and tired voice. Naruto grinned widely and made his way into the room. It was a big room since it held two people in it. Naruto noticed that the first be that held the cloaked man had the curtains drawn around it, hiding the man from view. Naruto turned toward Tsunade with a questioning look upon his face. Tsunade just shrugged, her large chest bouncing in response to the action.

"The girl said she didn't want anyone to see her father so she had me draw the curtains." Naruto nodded and stared at the bland pale blue curtains.

"How is he?" He croaked almost afraid of the answer. Tsunade shook her head and Naruto's stomach lurched into his throat. Was he right? Did the man die?

"It's not anything to get worked up about." Tsunade replied, making Naruto let out a breath of relief he didn't even know he was holding. "His injuries were serious on a level but it was nothing life-threatening. However the most important thing right now is to get some information on who these people are and where they came from. And since the father is still unconscious, the girl is the only person to ask."

So the two blondes made their way across the room the girl's beside. The curtain were only drawn half-way so when Tsunade approached the bed she threw them back, startling the young child who seemed to be in her own world. Her long silky hair was pinned up in a neat bun with a very decorative pin that looked like chopsticks. Her pale skin had bandages and patches where she was scratched or bruised and her foot was casted in a huge bulky cast that looked extremely uncomfortable to walk around in, even with crutches. But that wasn't the most depressing thing about the girl's appearance. The thing that broke Naruto's heart was the utter fear and worry in her pure onyx eyes. Her father's injuries was a heavy weight on her tiny shoulders that would not lift until he woke up and Naruto felt so helpless to ease her heavy burden. Tsunade, however, was completely bent on getting information out of the child so she plopped down on the bed beside the girl and pulled out a notebook and pen from inside her large bosom. Naruto saw the girl wince and glance sharply to her right, where her father's bed lay, as if she knew what was going to happen now. However Tsunade's voice brought back her attention.

"I'm about to ask you a few questions okay, and I want you to answer them truthfully." Tsunade said in a firm voice. The young girl nodded sharply, her onyx eyes still on her father's bed.

"First of all what is your name?" Tsunade asked. The girl looked hesitant to answer at first but finally said in a meek voice,

"Satsuki."

Tsunade nodded and scribbled that down on her notebook before looking back up at the girl.

"And if you don't mind me asking what is you father's name?"

This immediately made the girl go rigid. Her eyes darted wildly around the room before they clenched tight together. A sob choked form the girl's throat as tears fell down he bruised cheeks. Naruto quickly went by the girl's side and grabbed her hands softly. Tsunade's chocolate eyes softened and she reached up to stroke Satsuki's black locks.

"I'm sorry honey. You don't have to answer that if you don't to okay?" Satsuki nodded and calmed down the best she could. Naruto didn't move though and Satsuki made no move to push him away. Finally after a few more scribbles, Tsunade put her pen down and opened her mouth for another question.

"Okay, can you tell me where you are from? Or where you're going?" Tsunade said cautiously. However that wasn't enough because moments after she asked the question Satsuki burst into tears, her hand clenching onto Naruto's for dear life. Tsunade sighed and put down her notepad to reach stroke the girl's hair once again. Satsuki just bent her head at such treatment and began to cry harder as if she had been bottling up her feelings for a long time and she was finally letting them out all at once. Once she had calmed down, and her sobs turned into large hiccups, Naruto ran to get her a glass of water to drink. Satsuki gulped down the beverage greedily, a few tears just trailing down her face.

"I'm-I'm so sorry. Satsuki wishes she could tell you what-what you want to know but...but..." Satsuki stopped to collect her thoughts. Naruto saw Tsunade grab her pad and write down something. By the small glimpse he got, he figured it was that the girl referred to herself in third person. Tsunade put the pad down once again and cupped one of Satsuki's cheeks.

"How old are you Satsuki?" The small girl looked up at the blonde before her.

"Five. I'll be turning six in December." Tsunade quickly wrote down Satsuki's age and the fact that she only refers to herself in third person when at will. Satsuki stared back down at her bleach white sheets.

"Satsuki would like to tell you everything she could but," Satsuki paused again, taking the time to look at her father's bed. The action caused her to tear up again before it turned into another sob. "but there is no way we can go back to that place! That place...that man is pure evil. He'll hurt me and Papa if we go back! Papa always said that I was smarter than any other five year old and he says it's because of they way I was born. And because of that that man he...he..." Satsuki choked out a sob. "Satsuki just wants Papa to be okay. Satsuki doesn't want to go back because they hurt Papa! They hurt him a lot! Papa says no one can help us either. He says we can't rely on the police because we've run away so many times they just think we're troublemakers but it's not true! We just want to get somewhere safe. Somewhere far away from that evil, evil man!" Satsuki screamed at the top of her lungs. Naruto stared at the young child in disbelief before turning to Tsunade who also looked shocked. So shocked she didn't even try to reach for her notepad to record the information. Satsuki let go of Naruto's hand finally and covered her face as she sobbed. Naruto wrapped the girl into a hug and waited until she calmed down.

"Satsuki...where is your mother?"

The question made the girl go entirely rigid and for a second Naruto thought she was going to cry again but instead she looked up at him with emotionless eyes.

"Satsuki's mother died when Satsuki was born." She replied but the sentence just went through one ear and out the other. That didn't sound right. It didn't have any sadness, any regret. It was just...rehearsed.

Tsunade stood abruptly grabbing her notepad and her pen before leaving the room. Naruto whispered a 'be right back' to Satsuki before running after his busty grandmother. When he got outside he saw Tsunade glaring at a tall man of at least six feet, long white hair, and a crisp forest green business suit with a red necktie. A small crossed over the blondes face and he ran up to the old man before him.

"Ero-jiji, what are you doing here?" He asked earnestly. The old man smiled back toothily.

"Why I'm here to see my lovely wife of course. I've missed her so much I-" However a punch to his face interrupted him as an angry Tsunade seethed beside him.

"There's no time for this Jiraiya. We're in the middle of something here." Tsunade said glaring at Jiraiya venomously. Said man grew a serious face and looked through the door's window before turning back tot his two blondes before him.

"Ah yes. The two people Naruto saved. My grandson a little hero." He joked ruffling Naruto's hair. Naruto just scowled playfully and pushed Jiraiya's arm away. Naruto turned toward Tsunade.

"We got a lot of information about them from the child, Satsuki. It's just too bad we couldn't get the father's identity." Naruto said before noticing a smirk on Tsunade's face.

"I already had that. I immediately recognized him just by looking at his face. I just wanted the child to tell me as confirmation." She said while flipping the page back in her notepad. "Name: Sasuke Uchiha. Age: 19. Sex: Male. Blood type: AB. Height: 153.2 cm. Weight: 43.5 kg. Birth date: July 23. Son of Fugaku Uchiha and Mikoto Uchiha and brother of Itachi Uchiha. When Sasuke was 9 his family was assassinated, killing everyone but him and his brother Itachi. Since Itachi was not old enough to take care of them both they were both sent into foster homes however there is no record of where they went when they were adopted and who adopted them. Itachi has been missing for the past 3 years and Sasuke is always sighted running away constantly. The police take him back but once again there is no record of where he lives." Tsunade read off before closing the notebook. "Whoever has Sasuke is obviously doing something to him to make him continue running away even after getting caught constantly. I don't know how he met whoever is Satsuki's mom or the deal with Satsuki period but I know one thing, if we find where he ran away from, we can find all of the answers to our problems."

Haha. I almost forgot about this. Well this is Chapter 1. It wasn't what I exected because I stopped half-way through my idea when I saw how many words I had already written. Anyway it was a good, successful chapter to me. My friend told me recently that I had to have a new years resolution which I didn't make at first so I decided to start setting goals for myself in life. And the best way to start that is to set goals in fanfction =). So I will not update the next chapter until I have at least 10 reviews. That is my goal. Hopefully it won't be that hard to reach. Well I'll see you soon...maybe ;). R&R!!! Ciao Ciao!