Hi everyone, so as some of you might know I am revising my Silver Fox fic. The reason why is because a lot of flamers with accounts have left reviews where I should commit suicide and such. Others just troll around to put negative comments on and such. I will be taking down the old fic and reposting the new chapters when I can. Also this is partially the reason for my long hiatus, but I still haven't given up on my fics. I have posted several OC on my profile for some future fic ideas, and would like to hear some ideas about a pairing for the DC fic for one of my OC characters. Thanks you guys for everything, and I hope you enjoy this revision.

Silver Fox

A three-year-old boy with bright blonde hair that looked smudged with dirt, bright blue eyes, three whisker marks on each cheek, a ragged white shirt and black shorts was running away from an angry mob of villagers. The boy was Naruto Uzumaki of the Hidden Leaf Village, the strongest village of the Hidden Villages, and Elemental Nations. Naruto ran from the villagers desperately trying to get away from them, "Demon Brat!"

"Get back here Demon!"

"We'll finish what the Fourth started!"

Naruto ran into an alley as a desperate attempt only to come face to face with a brick wall. Naruto turned around pressing himself against the wall sliding into a corner in a fetal position. "Please don't hurt me!" cried Naruto with tears falling down his face. The villagers surrounded him when an ANBU appeared. He had smooth black hair, black pants, an ANBU tattoo on his right arm, standard ANBU armor, and a tiger mask.

Naruto looked up and felt relieved. The ANBU looked at Naruto, and then looked at the mob, "What do you think you're doing?"

The mob looked at the ANBU with fear in their eyes, thinking he was going to kill them. The ANBU turned around grabbing Naruto by hair hoisting up the poor boy.

"The boy can easily tell the Hokage on all of you. So it's best to cut those vocal cords of his", said the ANBU in a dangerous tone.

Naruto looked at the ANBU in horror as he took out a kunai and slowly slashed him across his throat. Naruto tried to scream, but nothing came out except for his own blood trickling down from his wound. The villagers cheered with some of them holding him against the wall to let the ANBU properly finish what he started.

Naruto was their crying, praying that someone could save him, 'Help me! Someone, anyone! Please don't let them kill me! What have I done wrong? My chest hurts, I feel like me heart is going to explode', thought Naruto. Four villagers grabbed some rope and tied them to Naruto's arms and legs as each pulled hard on the rope dislodging his limbs from their sockets. Naruto tried to scream but no voice can be heard since his vocal cords were cut with him just staring into the night sky with his mouth opened.

Tears escaped his eyes letting out all his sorrow and heartache as he locked up at the ANBU who was ready to deliver the final blow, 'No one loves me…no one likes me…no friends, no family, no hope, no dream, no…life', were the last thoughts of Naruto when three blurs appeared knocking the ANBU back.

"Tiger! What do you think you're doing?" demanded a young man about 13 years old wearing the same attire as the ANBU except he was wearing a weasel mask while holding a katana in a defensive stance. The young man was Itachi Uchiha, the young Uchiha prodigy that obtained rank of an ANBU captain recently.

The other blur was a beautiful girl about fifteen years old with long black hair wearing what resembled a kimono without a right sleeve, a fishnet shirt underneath her kimono, and large white bandages wrapped around her. Her memorizing crimson red eyes looking at the poor disfigured boy crying his eyes out, the woman was known as the 'Genjutsu Mistress' and 'Ice Queen of the Leaf Village', Kurenai Yuhi.

The other blur was a purple haired woman about the same age as Kurenai tied in a pineapple-shaped knot and was wearing a full body fishnet suit, a short orange skirt, and a tan colored trench coat and went by the name of Anko Mitarashi.

"Is the boy okay?" asked Itachi.

Naruto just looked up at the two women with fear in his eyes just until he lost consciousness. The two women looked at him as he lost conscious and both started performing medical Jutsu best to their knowledge. The women healed some minor bruises, but couldn't stop the bleeding, "Itachi, we need to get him to the hospital and fast! We can't stop the bleeding from his throat!" said Anko in a worried tone.

Itachi looked at the boy and performed four Shadow Clones. Each clone grabbed a limb and swiftly put them back in their sockets waking the boy once again trying to scream with spurts of blood coming out of his mouth and wound until he looked at the boy effectively knocking him out once again, 'Forgive me Naruto, but I had to place back your limbs.'

"Tiger, you are hereby relieved of your ninja duties and rank! You are to turn in you mask or die! As ANBU captain, I hereby arrest each and every one of you for violating the Hokage's law! Those who run will be executed on the spot! I strongly suggest you all come quietly!" said Itachi in a dangerous tone releasing a large amount of killing intent.

Chuckle "That's cute 'captain', but I think your rank has gone to your head", said Tiger getting out several kunai, "I think the Hokage is growing quite senile appointing an inexperienced greenhorn like you to the rank of Captain. Let's face it, you got lucky because of those eyes of yours, and let's not forget I was the one who taught you everything you know."

"Itachi, we can't stop the bleeding!" yelled Kurenai ripping off some of her bandages with Anko ripping part of her trench coat to cover up his throat.

"Take him to the hospital! I'll deal with them!" said Itachi taking off his mask showing a piercing red eye with three tomes spinning, "Now then, let's see just how much I've learned from you."

The Next Day

Naruto awoke staring at a white ceiling realizing he was in the hospital and it was late in the afternoon. Just then an upside down face appeared with a young teen with long black hair in a ponytail smiling.

"Well it looks like sleepy head woke up", said the teen cheerfully. Naruto just stared at him with a curious expression. His nose twitched a little as the young blonde cutely sneezed dropping his Genjutsu revealing his two little blonde fox ears, and a large silver fluffy ball that was his tail.

"Well that's interesting", said the teen amused showing his onyx colored eyes while Naruto was looking at him with fear in his eyes, "I'd say it makes you look more adorable."

Naruto relaxed a little and was about to ask a question only to find out that his mouth was moving but no sound came out.

"The doctors said that your vocal cords are severely damaged. It would take years for you to regain your voice even with your amazing healing ability since it restoring the proper nerve and muscle tissue back into place is very delicate", said the teen, "By the way, my name is Itachi Uchiha."

Naruto just smiled revealing two small canines in his mouth, but were still a little larger than his regular teeth. Naruto's stomach gave a loud growl at the moment causing the small blond to blush.

"Hungry eh? How about some of that Ichiraku Ramen I hear you love so much?" asked Itachi making Naruto smiled with his giant fur ball of a tail was wagging underneath him.

Once outside the boy went into a dark alley and came back with a ragged kaki sheet wrapped around his entire body and covering his head looking like a wonderer's cloak. Itachi wondered about the boy's action, but shrugged it off when he heard his own stomach growling for food. Itachi and Naruto headed towards Ichiraku Ramen when Itachi notice the cold stares and activated his Sharingan to ward off anyone who had the idea of attacking the child.

Naruto was trying to hide behind his cloak when he noticed Itachi's eyes with the young teen noticing Naruto's curious look, "This is my families' bloodline called the Sharingan. Everyone in my family has it. I know it may look strange to you, but trust me it's a very unique thing that only my family has. In fact, you might've seen other people with unique eyes like the people with white eyes. They're from the Hyuga family, and they have special eyes like mine called the Byakugan. Even so, as a ninja you must always be prepared for anything because you never know what kind of skills your opponent may bring", explained Itachi as Naruto was hanging on to every word looking at him glossy-eyed. Itachi chuckled at how the boy was easily amused.

Ichiraku Ramen

"Well, well, if it isn't my number one customer and Itachi. What can I get you?" greeted an old man with a tan complexion wearing a chef outfit.

"Hello Teuchi-san, I would like to order some ramen please", said Itachi entering with Naruto at his side.

"What about you Naruto-kun?" asked a 12-year-old girl with light brown hair tied back with a bandana on her head. She was Teuchi's daughter Ayame and the waitress of their little stand. Naruto just stared at her feeling depressed causing Ayame to worry that she might have done something to upset him.

"There was an attack on him last night when an ANBU appeared slitting his throat and severely damaged his vocal cords", explained Itachi.

Slam

"What is it with these idiots?! He's just a kid for goodness sake! I swear if I had more money I would adopt him on the spot!" said Teuchi slamming his knife hard against the cutting board

"So why don't you?"

Sigh "I would if I could, but every time I go to the orphanage they nearly triple or quadruple the price for adoption papers. I even went to the Hokage, but every time I ask for adoption papers one of his secretaries barges in babbling some nonsense about a mistake and need to retype the entire thing, grabs all the paper including my adoption paper and shred them. Other times they would tell me he's busy and need an appointment, or threatens me call ANBU if I didn't leave", explained Teuchi.

Ayame was just cradling Naruto who seems to like the touch since his ears were down and his eyes close trying to soak up her warmth listening quietly to her heartbeat. Teuchi and Ayame were one of the few people who knew about Naruto's unique appearance with Ayame always playing with his ears or tail.

"A lot of people know he likes to eat here. They either check to see if he's here or not, and if he is they leave or avoid the stand completely. I even lowered my prices just so he can eat. So the only thing I can do is help hide him if he's near with a mob behind him, and provide him a place to sleep if they ambush him in his apartment. I've asked him countless times to just move in with me, but he always says that he doesn't want to be a burden for me and Ayame. I know we can protect him, but…" said Teuchi trailing off while gritting his teeth in frustration.

"You believe that he's afraid that the villagers might hurt you or Ayame if they find out he's living with you. Even so, you know that a lot of the ninja who hate him will still try despite your past reputation. Even you and Ayame will have to lower your guard some time, and that could end up being disastrous", said Itachi looking at the small boy who had apparently fallen asleep in Ayame's arms with tears in his eyes, "Teuchi-san, you might not be able to adopt him, but maybe I can", said Itachi.

"What do you mean?" asked Ayame with Teuchi looking at the young ANBU curiously.

"I'm going to talk to my parents to see if I can adopt him. You two can't be on your guard forever, but if he has a clan behind him to protect him, he might stand a chance at having a normal childhood. Besides, I'm pretty sure my little brother and Naruto would be the best of friends. But right now I think the little one could use some food in his stomach", said Itachi.

Ayame gently woke up Naruto and Teuchi placed Itachi's order and ten different varieties of ramen for Naruto. By the time Itachi was done he looked at Naruto with his eyes nearly popping out considering that Naruto was already done with his tenth bowl. Naruto rubbed his eyes yawning as Itachi picked him up when Kurenai and Anko walked in.

"Kurenai-san, Anko-san what are you doing here? I thought you would be in the dango stand right now", said Itachi placing Naruto's hood above his head to cover his ears.

"The owner was sick and decided to temporarily close the stand so we decided to come here. Besides, we hear that the owner was nice to Naruto and wanted to thank him", explained Anko.

"Well I'm honored ladies", said Teuchi.

"Itachi who is that you're carrying, and why are you placing a hood on him?" asked Kurenai.

Itachi was about to make up a story when Naruto suddenly moved his head rubbing his eyes again knocking down the hood revealing his ears. Itachi started to panic as he readied himself in case if the two kunoichi were to suddenly see him as a demon.

Kurenai and Anko just stared at Naruto with his new features causing an uneasy silence, "HE'S SO CUTE!" yelled the two girls gently touching Naruto's ears making him lean towards their touch.

Phew "I thought you were going to attack or something", said Itachi relieved.

"Why would we ever attack this cutie?! His ears are just too adorable", giggled Anko.

"It is a bit strange that he does have these ears. They must be a side-effect like his whisker marks, but even so he's still Naruto-kun", giggled Kurenai

'I wonder if I should tell them about his tail', thought Itachi with a sweat drop thinking it was probably a bad idea.

"Well come on Naruto, it's late and you should get some rest", said Itachi placing the hood over Naruto's head again.

"Hey old man, give me a shrimp ramen", said Anko.

"I would like a chicken ramen. We're going to follow Itachi really quick and then come back", said Kurenai.

The trio left towards Naruto's apartment only to be greeted by the sight of a rundown building. Inside was worse since the place was mostly clean, but had torn wallpapers, holes signifying kunai marks on the opposite wall of the front window, the kitchen sink was full of instant ramen, but the bedroom was at least decent for him to sleep. Itachi placed Naruto gently on his bed pulling the cover over him, "Good night Naruto", said Itachi in a fatherly tone. Anko and Kurenai gently kissed him on his forehead and left the little boy to sleep.

The Next Day

Naruto woke up checking his surroundings realizing he was in his apartment. When he looked at the floor there was a little stuffed red fox on the floor. He cautiously went up to the stuff fox on all fours with his fluffy tail sticking up. He poked it gently and quickly ran under his bed waiting for it to explode or something. He poked his head out cautiously approaching it again and nudged it again quickly stepping back sitting with his legs folded. Naruto smiled happily and crouched down wagging his fluffy tail and pounced on the little stuff fox hearing a faint feminine giggle coming from his room. He stopped for a minute, but decided to shrug it off and resumed playing with his first and favorite toy.

Up in a tree Kurenai and Anko were watching Naruto with binoculars making sure he was safe, "Aw, he has a cute fluffy fur ball of a tail. Itachi is so dead for not telling us", grumbled Anko clenching her fist in anger at the young Uchiha.

Random Street

Itachi was walking along only to sense a cold, dark, feeling directed at him, Shudder "I sense murder! But from who? Anko? No she's ,actually pretty nice once you get to know her…creepy, but nice. I get the feeling she found out something I was hiding from her, but what?"

Back in the tree

The girls continued to watch him until Kurenai heard a girly squeal.

Squeal "I just want to go down there and pet his little tail", squealed Anko.

"Wow, Anko-chan. I don't think I ever saw you this girly before", said Kurenai amazed.

"What? I have my moments. I am a girl after all. I wonder who gave him that stuff fox though?" said Anko.

"Probably someone who cares for him like us", said Kurenai as they continue to watching Naruto playing with his toy.

Naruto's Apartment

Naruto toss the fox with his legs and arms only to catch it while rubbing his ears against the toy's soft fur. Naruto then jumped back and pounced on his toy again giggling and wagging his tail.

Up in the Tree

"Just one touch! Just one touch! Come on Kurenai-chan it's not fair!" screamed Anko now chained to the tree trunk thrashing.

"Sorry Anko-chan, but I had to hold you back no matter how much we want to touch it."

"Then how come you're not tied up?! You just want to touch that cute fluffy tail by yourself!"

"On the contrary", said Kurenai showing a leg braced attached to the tree trunk with a chain as well, "I tied myself up when I tied you up."

"You're no fun", said Anko crying waterfall tears.

Five Years Later

An eight-year-old Naruto was walking down with a ragged looking cloak and a dark blue facemask covering his face. People today seem to be whispering amongst themselves, but they weren't about him, "Did you hear? Itachi Uchiha killed his entire clan last night."

"Yeah, plus I hear the only survivor was his little brother."

"After the massacre he just left the village."

Naruto's eyes widen at what he had heard with his heighten hearing. Itachi had failed to adopt Naruto since his father, Fugaku Uchiha, hated him for being a 'demon'. Itachi had tried and tried again, but to no effort even with his mother's plea to her husband that he was only a child. Itachi just gave up and decided to support Naruto by giving him half of his payment for every mission he went to help him buy anything he needed with his mother, Mikoto Uchiha, occasionally sending him box lunches.

Hokage Tower

Naruto raced past the secretary and ninja following him until he finally reached the Hokage's office door. Naruto slammed open the doors turning around and quickly closing them barricading the doors with his small body.

"Naruto? What are you doing here?" asked an elderly man wearing a white triangular hat with the kanji for 'Fire' on it, and long white robes. The man was known as the Legendary Professor and Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Inside his office was another boy about his age that looked like a miniature Itachi but with shorter hair, and a few inches taller than him. Naruto smiled widely only to be thrown to the floor with four Jonin holding Naruto down.

"That's quite enough! Release him!" ordered the Hokage.

"But Hokage-sama-"

"I will not repeat myself so do as I say or face Ibiki and Anko! Just so you know, Anko and Ibiki have taken quite a shine to the boy, and if they find out one of you harmed as much as a hair on him, their 'sessions' would be ten folds", said the Hokage in a dangerous tone causing the Jonin to sweat bullets. They reluctantly released Naruto and went back to their posts.

"Now then Naruto I'll be with you in a second, I just need to talk to this boy", said the Hokage walking over to him.

Naruto waved his hand around until he pulled out a photograph from underneath his cloak. The Hokage took the picture puzzled at Naruto's actions when he noticed something that caused his eyes. Sarutobi turned his attention towards the younger Uchiha with questioning gaze, "Sasuke, are you sure you saw Itachi killing your family?"

"Yes, sir. I saw it with a Genjutsu he called Tsukuyomi", said the boy known as Sasuke.

"It would seem that this culprit is craftier that I thought. Thank you Naruto, you just saved an innocent man from a horrible fate", said the Hokage.

"What do you mean Hokage-sama?" asked Sasuke.

"Look at this photo", said the Hokage handing Sasuke the photo. Sasuke looked at the photo only to see Teuchi Ichiraku smiling while hugging his daughter with one arm and hugging a smiling Itachi Uchiha that could rival Teuchi's smile with a peace sign on his right hand and carrying an eight-year-old Naruto with a peace sign on his left hand inside the ramen stand.

Sasuke was confused until he looked at the date and time on the bottom left hand corner of the photo. Sasuke eyes widen realizing that the date and time was at the same time the massacre had started.

"But how?" asked a shock Sasuke.

"So you noticed. The ramen stand and the Uchiha complex are on opposite sides of the village. Even if your brother did perform a clone Jutsu, it would still be difficult even for someone as skilled as your brother to pull this off. No doubt someone was spying on your brother for some time watching his movement, and use it against him. Whoever did it was probably just bidding their time to strike. As for this Tsukuyomi, it is believed that there is a similar technique when a person just focus a large amount of Killing Intent into their eyes and mix it with a high level Genjutsu effectively immobilizing its target. This technique has no name, and could be possible that the culprit made it up to confuse you. As you know, Transformation Jutsu can't exactly copy bloodlines except for cosmetic reasons, or its possible this culprit has made special contact lens made for this very occasion", explained the Hokage.

Sasuke was shock at what he heard considering whoever killed his clan took every consideration and detail down to the last second to frame his brother.

"Sasuke…" said the Hokage pulling Sasuke out of his thoughts, "…your brother was a good man and saved Naruto here countless of times. He even considered adopting him, but alas, your father had such a stubborn pride couldn't accepting him. Your brother and your mother tried their best to help Naruto whenever they can regardless of what the Uchiha Elders thought. Your brother was always a bit more humble which always put him at odds with your father."

"That's why I always hear him arguing with father and the others", said Sasuke.

"I'm guessing your brother was with Naruto the whole time", said the Hokage looking at Naruto who just nodded his head signifying he was right in his assumption.

"Thank you Naruto-san for clearing my brother's name. I don't know what would've happened had you not clear my brother's name", said Sasuke bowing at Naruto. Naruto just gave one of his foxy smiles and stretched out his hand with Sasuke hesitantly shaking it.

"Naruto, Sasuke, I suggest you run along now, you don't want to be late on your first day of the Ninja Academy", said the Hokage. Both boys bowed in respect and left the Hokage Tower heading towards the Academy.

"Itachi, if only you can see this you would realize that your wish for you brother and Naruto to be friends has come true", muttered Sarutobi looking out the window at the two boys.

Later that night

Naruto went to bed only to dream that he was in a sewer. He heard someone crying a decided to follow the voice. When heard the voice becoming louder, he found himself in front of giant gates that was being held by a small piece of paper with the kanji for 'Seal'. He looked through the bar and saw a girl crying, "Excuse me are you alright?" asked Naruto surprise that he had his voice.

The girl turned around flinching at the sound of his voice only to cry harder whimpering, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, it's all my fault."

"What's your fault?"

The girl came closer to the bar only to reveal a beautiful woman in her early twenties with pale skin, long red silk hair that reached her mid-back tied in a ponytail, crimson red eyes that rivaled Kurenai's eyes, and was wearing a white kimono that showed off her curves yet still look decent. Naruto then realized that she had two red fox ears above her head like his, and had nine blood red foxtails with white tips. Naruto stared at the woman with wide eyes as only one word that escaped his mouth, "Beautiful."

The woman blushed at his statement, "T-Thank you", stuttered the beauty.

"Are you an angel?" asked Naruto.

"No, I'm a demon, the Kyuubi no Kitsune to be exact."

"That's impossible, you're too beautiful to be Kyuubi."

"I'm not lying I really am the Kyuubi", said the woman looking down as more tears escaped her eyes.

"So why did you attack the village?" asked Naruto.

"I didn't mean to. You see there was this man with yellow snake eyes who woke me up and wanted to steal my powers. He put a Genjutsu on me, but it backfired causing me to go into my primal state thinking I was defending myself against the villagers", said the Kyuubi in a depressed voice.

Naruto slipped between the bars and hugged the Kyuubi. Kyuubi flinched as he hugged her only to hug him back, 'He's not afraid of me. Does he trust me?' thought the Kyuubi.

"I don't care what you call yourself, but you're not a demon", said Naruto remembering all those time the villagers insulted him and called him names along with the pain that came with it.

The Kyuubi was looking at him until she gave him a small smile and snuggled into each other's embrace, "Naruto-kun, do you remember your first toy?"

"Yes"

"Well, it was I who created the toy with my chakra as a way to try to brighten your day and make the burden easier. You look so cute the way you pounced it. It reminded me of a little kit playing with a little toy", said the Kyuubi smiling making Naruto blush.

"I still have it. Sometimes I still play with it, it was my first and favorite toy", said Naruto hugging Kyuubi tighter.

"Kyuubi-chan is there any way to release you, even if it's for a little while?" asked Naruto with Kyuubi stroking his hair with her claw-like hands making him purr at the gentle feeling.

"There might be a way to release me into a physical body, but I will have to study the seal first", said Kyuubi scratching his ears next causing them to twitch.

"Kyuubi-chan once outside, can you train me how to do some Kitsune attacks?" asked Naruto with his slightly longer tail wagging happily at Kyuubi's actions.

"Sure thing Naruto-kun, and by the way my name is Kira…Kira Yoko", said Kyuubi with happiness in her voice wrapping them both in her tails until they both gently fell asleep.