The Lone Fox: Chapter one

     A/N: Before I begin, I’d like to state that this is my first fanfic on this site; I plan on focusing on this one fanfic, and I won’t be making another anytime soon (Except of oneshots, drabbles, etc.) So, anyway…This is a NaruIno (Crowd: BOOOOO!!) Yeah, well too bad for you, It’s NaruIno—Like it or not…

     The dark streets of Konohagakure were home to anything; rats, cats, the occasion tumbleweed and newspapers, but most people know, it is the home of a certain young boy who was hated all his life. He had sun-kissed blond hair with cerulean blue eyes, he wore a long black scarf that went down to his ankles with the ridges ripped up, a dark green t-shirt with the Konoha’s ‘leaf’ motif on it, and dark blue pants.

     The boy had just gotten in trouble again—this time with the local bakery, he had stolen a loaf of bread that was on the display inside.

     “Get him!!” An angry villager shouted to some unbeknownst bystanders. “Get that fox bastard!!” They nodded in agreement as they chased after the young boy with the bread in his arms. He made his way to an alley were he had hoped it would shake them off—but it didn’t.

     Naruto turned around fearing his life when the villagers drew near. “We have you now, demon…” A woman with a rolling pin sneered. “Prepare to die!” The owner of the bakery snorted as he drew his knife.

     “No! Please don’t kill me! I-I w-was h-hungry and, and….” The boy broke out into tears.

     “That’s enough!”

     The crowd turned over to see a chuunin with a scar over his nose walk up to the boy. “Did they hurt you, Naruto?” Iruka asked the blond, to get a shaky nod in return. The man turned over to the bakery owner and pulled out some ryuu. “Here, I hope this pays for the food he took.” The man snatched the cash; and signaled to the mob, the quickly dispersed—but another person with blond hair observed the conflict in the distance; he was very disgusted.

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     As the two walked along the pathway to the apartments, Naruto was feasting on the bread the chuunin paid for earlier.

     “Is it good?” Iruka asked the little boy, Naruto simply nodded in return. “Glad to hear it.”

     They came up to Naruto’s apartment complex, he lives alone so he learned to take care of himself—but that didn’t stop him. He felt content being alone, and that’s how it’ll always be. He was raised alone, lived alone, so he’ll die alone. But even so, being alone has its problems; he doesn’t have anyone his age he could call ‘friend’. He thought he had a friend before, but he ended up hating him like everyone else. Naruto had no idea why everyone hated him, and he never second guessed it, at first he thought it was because something that his parents did; but little did he know, that was partially true.

     “Here we are…” Iruka said to Naruto. “Remember, tomorrow is the first day at the academy, I asked the Sandaime to be your teacher, so you should start calling me ‘Iruka-sensei’ for now on.”

     “Ok, bye ‘Iruka-sensei’!” With that he scurried to his room, Iruka looked over fondly, and then went home.

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     The next day Naruto wasted no time getting ready; today was his first day at the academy, he got on his scarf, t-shirt, and pants on—as he quickly ate a bowl of cheap instant ramen, he left the apartment complex. On his way, people were still glaring at them, he heard words like “bastard fox” and “Demon Child” he dug his face in his scarf, and started running. He was a short ways from the academy when all of the sudden he bumped into a man with pale blond hair and blue eyes, Naruto looked up at him, terrified.

     “I-I’m s-sorry s-s-sir! I-I was—“ The stammering 8 year old stopped when he noticed a hand extend in front of him, Naruto hesitated—and put his hand into his.

     “I should be the sorry one; I got in your way.” He said, to Naruto’s surprise calmly. “You must be Naruto, I’m Inoichi. I saw what happened the other day, I’m very sorry.”

     “It’s ok…” Naruto said—head hung low.

     “Just be careful next time, ok?” Naruto nodded and walked off; Inoichi smiled at him, and then walked off.

     Naruto arrived at the academy 3 minutes after the time people were supposed to come in at. He looked around to see an array of empty desks and chairs, and a few students. He went over to a table, and sat down; he took the time to observe some of the kids. One of them had a pineapple hair style and was sleeping on the desk, a fat kid with swirls on his cheeks munching on some salt and vinegar chips, an Uchiha, a flirty pink haired girl with a HUGE forehead, a blond haired girl wearing purple who strangely looks familiar with the man he'd encountered earlier, and a guy with a dog on his head. Naruto shook his head and looked the way, a few seconds later he turned around again to see that blond haired girl staring at him he felt a little nervous as she walked over to him.

     “Hi there! I noticed you came in, I'm Yamanaka Ino, and you are?” Naruto glanced up at her in mild awe, someone his age was being nice—TO HIM. It was nothing short of a miracle, Naruto gazed upon her big, curious blue eyes—then back at the ground.

     “I'm Uzumaki Naruto...” He mumbled.

     “Pleased to meet you, How 'bout I introduce you to everyone?” Naruto shook his hands defensively but Ino urged him to come over

     “This is Shikamaru.” She said nudging the boy to wake him up.

     “Ino?” He said in a tired tone. “How troublesome...what do you want?” She turned to Naruto and he turned to her; she looked down to the sleepy academy student.

     “This is Naruto, he arrived a while ago.” Shikamaru shrugged and then looked over to the other blond.

     “Hello there, but now's not a good time, so catch you later...”

     She then dragged the 8-year-old over to another group of ninjas-in-training. “This is Chouji, Kiba and Akamaru, and Hinata.” The two boys waved at him and continued their business while Hinata was fumbling over greeting phrases.

     Next, Ino took Naruto over to the table she was just at. “This is Sasuke...” She said, Naruto raising an eyebrow at the emphasis used on his name. Sasuke went up to Naruto and greeted him.

     “Hey, you know, I think I've seen you somewhere...” Sasuke stated.

     “Yeah, we met once at the park.” Naruto responded, the Uchiha had a realization-esque expression on his face and sat down.

     “And this is Sakura” She snorted at the billboard-browed girl, who Naruto also took mention on the emphasis and tongue-sticking.

     “So, you're Naruto—just a word of advice, you shouldn't hang around Ino-pig.” Naruto, confused, looked over to the female, and then back at Sakura.

     “Why? She seems nice.”

     Just before she could answer, two chuunin walked in the room.

     “Ahem.”

     The 1st year students gave their undivided attention to the two ninja.

     “Good day, I'm Iruka, but you can call me Iruka-sensei. This right here is Mizuki, we'll both be teaching you everything a basic shinobi needs to know.” He noticed a deafening silence from the group of children. “So...uh why don't we introduce ourselves?”

     He started from the top row, and made their way to the middle row, that when it stopped on Naruto.

     “Naruto, It's your turn.” Ino whispered to him, he stood up and gulped, what if the kids didn't like him? What if they hated him like everyone else? He shook off that thought and buried his head into his scarf.

     “I'm Uzumaki Naruto...I like training, and ramen, and I don't have any goals to speak of.”

     Naruto sat down with a hurt frown on his face, all the other kids had goals, but what about him? What was he willing to sacrifice in order to gain? He looked over to his left to see Ino looking at him with a worried look on her face. Naruto looked over to her, and lost himself in her eyes She's really cute... Naruto thought. He began to blush, but quickly hid it under his long, black scarf. The other blond noticed his face was a deep shade of crimson, what was he so embarrassed about?

     “Ino?”

     Ino looked over to the two chuunin, and stood up. She cleared her throat, and looked over to Naruto. “I'm Yamanaka Ino. My parents run the flower shop nearby, I like flowers, and my friends, and my goal is to win the affection of a certain someone.”

     She looked over to see 99.9% of the class’s female population in the class glaring at her, they knew who she was talking about...or did they?

     The blond trainee looked over to her fellow blond trainee. She looked at him in mild awe at how bright his hair was, it almost made her jealous, she also noticed in his cerulean blue eyes a sense of loneliness emitting from them—next, she took note of the whisker-like scars on his cheeks, it made him seem more exotic, lastly, she noticed that he had quite a build on him, especially for a boy his age. He could quite possibly defeat Sasuke hand to hand!

     “Umm… Ino?” She looked up to see Naruto looking at her. She began to blush, but she quickly shook it off.

     “U-um—yes, Naruto-kun?” Naruto winced a bit because of the 'kun' reference, he shook his head.

     “I met this guy named Inoichi, do you know him?”

     “Ah! He’s my dad!” Ino's reaction made the blond slip out of his seat.

     “Oh, he is?” he stated, getting up.

     “Ok, Sakura?”

     Sakura stood up, not before whispering something to her 'Sasuke-kun'

     “I'm Haruno Sakura, I like Sasuke, and playing with my friends. My goal is to become a strong kunoichi of the leaf.”

     Most of girls in the class glared at the pink-haired girl before she sat down, she gulped then buried he head in her shirt.

     “Sasuke, you're turn.”

     Sasuke stood up, glaring over to Naruto and then up front. “I’m Uchiha Sasuke, I don’t have many likes, but I hate the presence of fangirls…… My goal is to beat my brother Itachi in a fight.”

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     After the class introduced themselves they were lead to a place where they showed off their jutsus. “Ok, Shikamaru, it’s your turn. Shikamaru sighed and headed up to Mizuki.

     “Shadow Possession Jutsu” the pineapple headed boys’ shadow stretched all the way over to Mizuki, and caught him.

     “Ah, the Shadow paralysis technique” Iruka said putting a hand his chin.

     “Ino, its your turn.” The scar-faced chuunin called. The blond emerged from the crowd of kids.

     Just you watch she thought, “Mind Transfer Jutsu” Suddenly, Mizuki’s eyes went blank and Ino fell to the ground, then Ino (in Mizuki’s body) Waved to the class, signaling that it worked.

     “Ah, the mind transfer technique, very impressive.” Iruka said astounded, Ino swapped back to her own body, and Mizuki clenched his head in a ‘What in the HELL?’ fashion.

     “Sasuke?” Sasuke went over to the tree, not before glaring at Naruto.
He went up and formed hand signs. “Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu” Sasuke put a hand to his mouth and shot out a large fireball at the tree, incinerating it; Mizuki and Iruka splashed water on the tree.

     “Good show, Sasuke!” Iruka stated congratulatory.

     “Naruto?” The blond buried his face in his scarf before stepping up, He exchanged glares from the Uchiha and walked forward.

     “Umm… Iuka-sensei?” He asked.

     “Yes, what is it?”

     “I know several jutsu, can I show the ones I know?”

     “W-well, sure…”

     The young boy nodded and began making hand signs. “Shadow Clone Jutsu” Suddenly, 500 to 700 Naruto’s appeared in front of the class, the students stood in shock and awe at what the boy could do, Mizuki and Iruka were astounded.

     “Th-that’s jonin level! H-how’d you—”

     “I have REALLY bad chakra control, so shadow clones are much easier, and plus—they’re solid so they can fool people in battle.” Naruto cut off the awestruck Leaf shinobi. “Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Jutsu” Multiple fireballs went flying from Naruto as they hit various places: a fence, a cat, a mailbox, Mizuki, etc.

     “Wh-whoa! I’d hate to see the rest of your jutsu.” Mizuki said, wiping soot of his jacket.

     “Earth Release: Tremor Jutsu” The blond prodigy stomped the ground creating a tremor heading for the chunin; who successfully dodged the blow.

     “An earth jutsu? When did you learn it?” the white haired chuunin asked.

     “Uh, I don’t remember, hehe.” He said, whilst scratching his head.

     “Is that all, Naruto?”

     The boy nodded and walked into the crowd of children, he noticed a majority of the girls giving him glares of lust which made him shiver. He exchanged glares with Sasuke and faced the instructors. “Ok, its lunchtime, we’ll continue afterwards.”

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     At lunch, Naruto sat down alone at a table at the far end of the cafeteria—but he wasn’t alone for long. Suddenly several girls went up to him and sat at his table, watching him eat and sighing in content. Naruto looked up to see them staring at him again, and the next thing that happened, angry footsteps approached the group of fangirls.

     “HEY!! Whaddya think your doing? Get away from Naruto-kun!” Ino yelled.

     “Oh, so he’s Naruto-kun, now?” A defiant fangirl protested, which caused both blonds to break out in blushes

     “W-well, yes! Why don’t you all go back to humping on Sasuke!” The purple-dressed academy student replied.

     “Sasuke, who?”

     “Umm…” all eyes at the table turned on Naruto who stood up, he looked at the fangirls, and then at Ino. “I’ll eat outside if you don’t mind…” the blond academy student stated while collecting his things, the fangirls went after him; but he turned around and gave them a salty look. “Only Ino can come…only if she wants to.”

     Ino’s face turned into a brilliant shade of pink. She turned to the ever-glaring fangirls. Yes, take that Ino thought as she walked up to the boy. “Sure, how bout a spot by the tree?” She suggested.

     “Sure.” He curtly replied. With that the duo headed outside to eat in peace.

     A/N: Well that’s the first chapter of my story, I hope you all liked it. Next chapter they’ll be some NaruIno and SasuSaku but keep in mind, It’s mostly NaruIno.