I do not own Naruto, or any of the other characters. I also do not own the poetry and lyrics used to help aid this story.

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

-- Robert Frost

These words as depicted by an early western writer paint a picture. A portrait of a life, painted almost perfectly. The life of a shinobi. You see this poem depicts that innocence is always lost, just as a shinobi can not be innocent in the life they have chosen for themselves. A life of silent assassinations, dishonesty, and undying loyalty to a single person. This poem is always correct.

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A blinding light filled the room in narrow slits as it snuck through the blinds that covered the only window in the small one bedroom apartment. Bringing life to the room, its only belongings, a bed refrigerator and a small stove, off to the side a small door was open revealing a small bathroom which held a sink, toilet, and shower.

The beginning of our tale is not this apartment, but the inhabitant which lay drowsily in the bed trying to ignore the rays of light invading his privacy. The boy was a peculiar young man with spiky yellow hair which resembled the blazing sun on a warm summer day. He also held the color blue in his eyes, as deep as the ocean, brimming with innocence. But as the poem says this could not last, today was his last day at the ninja academy. The beginning of his career as a shinobi, marked by the test in which he will become a genin if he passes.

This boy goes by the name of Uzumaki Naruto. He is not well liked in the village of konoha, for reasons which until recently had not been know to Naruto. He discovered abruptly from a drunken man that he held a demon inside of him by the name of kyubbi-no-kitsune. A giant demon fox which thirteen years earlier tried to destroy the village. Naruto did not let on that he knew why they hated him, he just vowed , that one day he would show them that he wasn't a monster at all.

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Naruto walked down the street happily, he had just passed the exam. Of course he barely passed it scrapping a low passing grade. He was not as dumb or as weak as everyone believed he was. No he purposely did the bare minimum in school so as to let them think he was weak. Besides now he'd be on the same team as someone really strong.

As he walked around trying to find something to do for the hour that he had to waste before he had to report back to the academy. He saw someone that he recognized from pictures he had seen in the history books in the library. The man was tall, with a spiky mass of white hair trailing behind him making him look suspiciously like a porcupine. The legendary toad sannin, Jiraiya. Naruto looked at the man with awe until the man walked straight up to him and knelt down on one knee placing one hand on the boys shoulder. "Do not worry Naruto your strife will not last much longer here." And before Naruto could absorb the words that were said the man was gone.

Naruto stood there stunned for a long while, until he noticed that it was time for him to head back to the academy to find out what team he would be placed in and what teacher they would have.

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As Naruto arrived at the academy he noticed that the rest of his classmates were not present. So he decided to find out what was going on. Naruto walked up to his academy teacher, Iruka-sensei. "Hey, what's going on? Where is everybody?" Naruto questioned loudly. Iruka looked at Naruto with a happy expression on his face. "You Naruto are special, so therefore you must need a special teacher." With this statement a shadow moved from the wall, being previously unnoticed by the boy. Taking shape it formed into the same man that Naruto had seen earlier. "Hello again Naruto, I hope your ready to go on a little trip." Jiraiya said.

Little did Naruto know this trip would not be so 'little'?

The next day was the day that Naruto packed up his belongings and they left the village of the hidden leaf.