In the leaf village all was peaceful. Ninja's training and doing their odd and end mission. Children were having fun playing games like tag and hide-and-seek. Civilians were going along like nothing was wrong, but there was something wrong. Hidden in the shadows was something that most civilians and some ninjas wanted to forget. They were ashamed of it…. Or shall we say Him.

You see 5 years earlier. The Kyuubi-no-kitsune attacked this village. It took years for people to finally reopen shops and rebuild homes that were destroyed. The Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze died in the fight with the fox. He was their hero for defeating the demon fox, but the millennia old fox could not be killed by a mere mortal. So in a last ditch effort to save his home and all of those that he cared about. He summoned the God of death the Shinigami. They made a deal. In exchange for his soul, the Shinigami would seal the fox into a new born Baby.

With his last breath. He hoped that they would honor his last wish to treat the boy like the hero that he was. That, as we all know, was an near impossible task. As the villagers were only human and as such feared the boy. Jumping to the conclusion that the baby was the fox reborn and was trying to trick them. So that when they lowered their guard, it could kill them. Just like a fox in a hen house.

About 90% of the ninja population knew that was not the case. 25% of that didn't care and thought it was funny to watch. (AM: insane much I know.) 30% were indifferent because they didn't know the kid, and the other 45% was trying to help but either couldn't cause of their clan council (cough*Hyuuga*cough) or they (non clan ninjas) were threatened by the council adviser, Danzo and his root division. But most of the clans were stopped by the Civilian council and the Uchiha clan. Whom were very displeased that the fox's power had not been given to one of them. For they are the elite of all the other clans (that was the thought of about 90% of the clan power hungry fools).

That child was none other the village pariah, the one and only Uzumaki, Naruto. Hate beyond belief and nearly killed 26 times already. He was what the village kept hidden, the skeleton in their closets. They thought the demon fox watching and waiting to slaughter them. Most of them didn't know that was right. You see the fox had meet Naruto at the age of 3 and taught him the basics like speaking, reading and writing in more than 3 different language.

One being his hometown language, next was the demon language and last was angel. (Now here is an example of each "human", 'human thought', "Demon", 'Demon thought', "Angel", 'Angel thought'.) Naruto in exchange released 1/3 of the seal. So now Kyuubi could see, hear, taste, smell what Naruto could. He also helped suppress very, very bad memories, which he swore on his 9 tails. That was all he was going to do to Naruto's memories. Most of those 26 assassination attempts were after this age and it pissed Kyuubi off that they would treat a child like this, especially Naruto. He had a heart of pure gold. Those were not including the beatings but he always had some of the 'nice people,' as he called them, near by to save him.