Hinata was frozen outside her father's room. She listened in terror what the elder was ordering her father to do to his newborn daughter.

'You know that there can't be two female heirs." The elder growled. Hiashi paused, in that bit of silence, Hinata pushed into the room,

"N-No you can't hurt Hanabi like that!"

"What do you propose child? You know the laws." The elder scoffed at the young child.

"I…I" Hinata looked down, even as eight, she knew what she had to do, 'I will renounce my place in the main house…. And take the Caged Bird Seal in place of Hanabi."

"No!" Her father knelt before her, 'No Hinata." Hinata looked her father in the eye for one of the first times in her short life.

'I have to Daddy. Hanabi will be stronger than me, and maybe, Neji-nii can help me train." Hinta looked at the elder, her face set. She was terrified, she knew it would hurt.

'Hinata," The elder's voice had softened, "You know if you join the branch house, you will be unable to live with your mother and father, and you will no longer be known as their Daughter? And Hanabi will never know you are her sister?"

'I do. And, I can accept it. So long as I can be Hanabi-ch… Sama's protector." Hinata replied.

"Then Hiashi, I redeem you of your eldest Daughter, Hinata Hyuga. I will take her to the branch house. She will receive her seal early, since in three years, her body won't accept it." Hiashi bowed his head in defeat as he watched his eldest daughter lead away by the elder.

Across the village, a boy named Naruto Uzimaki was being tormented by his fellow villagers. As another Kunai sunk into his leg he fell to his hands and knees, shaking and bleeding. Maybe, it would be ok to die, he thought. Tears welled in his eyes and he looked up at the moon, sure it would be his last sight of the glowing orb. Within the boy, Kurama Kyuubi no Kitsune thrashed angrily. She hated the village her vessel belonged to. He was only a child, a kit. He didn't deserve the pain they inflicted on him, it was sad, Kurama thought, that a demon had more moral than the human villagers. She lay down, and came to a resolution, within second the boy stood before her.

"Where am I? Am I dead?" Naruto asked Kurama.

'No child. Far from it. You are in your own mind. I am Kurama, the Kyuubi no Kitsune. You can't let them do this. I am going to lend you a little chakra, and then, you have to stand up to them. I will train you if you do so. I will tell you what to say." Kurama poked her slim muzzle from the bars of her cage, and licked the small boy, 'Go now, my kit. I will protect you."

Naruto opened his eyes and stood shakily. He turned to the villagers that were slowly advancing; the sick bastards that had burnt down his home, and tried to kill him for the last time. Naruto pulled the kunai from his leg and immediately felt Kurama heal it.

"You are sick excuses for humans." Naruto snarled at the village. 'I don't know what I have done to incite such rage upon myself, but I am a child. I will one day be a ninja. You will rue the day that you attempted the murder of Naruto Uzimaki." He snarled and threw the kunai back into the crowd. He limped away to a forest, and was surprised. They didn't follow. He shook his head and found a tree. He climbed into a forked bow, and curled up to sleep.

Two children are alone, and hurt. One, a small girl with a newly placed seal upon her curled on the stone floor of a cold room, weeping tears of loneliness, another homeless in a tree, planning vengeance with his only friend, a demon. They would come together, and become the two most powerful ninja Hidden leaf has ever seen.

Hey there, so my newest story! I'm going to focus on this this week, and then Fox cloak next week. I will switch back and forth between the two until one is done, then I'll start doing that with the rest of my stories. That way I can eventually finish them. Ttfn!

-Fox