Surprising Out Comings

Naruto sighed heavily as he walked onto the bridge where he was to meet up with his team each day to find that he was the first to arrive. Closing his eyes, Naruto leaned back on to the railing of the bridge to wait for his other two teammates Sakura Hurano and Sasuke Uchia to arrive. Placing his hands into his pockets, Naruto lifted his head and opened his eyes to watch as the clouds flew by over him.

"Hey! Idiot! What are you doing!" Sakura called out in a demanding tone as she walked onto the bridge and up to him.

Sighing tiredly, Naruto glanced down at Sakura as she walked to stand directly in front of him, his action causing her to step back in surprise.

"What do you want Sakura? I was trying to relax." Naruto asked, his tone showing his annoyence as he stared at Sakura.

Sakura blinked and stared at Naruto in surprise, taking that he had deep shadows beneath his eyes from obvious lack of sleep. Opening her mouth to speak, Sakura stopped when she noticed that Sasuke walking onto the bridge from the other side. Smiling widely, Sakura pushed Naruto to the ground and ran around him up to the brooding Uchia.

"Sasuke-kun! How are you this morning!" Sakura asked loudly as she stared at Sasuke with heart shaped eyes.

Sasuke grunted and looked away from her, noticing out the corner of his eye as Naruto got up off the ground and began walking towards them. Smirking, Sasuke waited for Naruto to ask Sakura for a date and then for Sakura to bash him in the head like every morning that they meet. Sasuke frowned when Naruto instead walked straight pass them to stand on the other side of the bridge.

"Whats wrong dope? Finally realized that its pointless to ask Sakura for a date every morning?" Sasuke taunted, expecting the blonde to jump up and deny it.

"Actually I have Sasuke. Why should I bother asking someone out if there just going to hit me over the head for it and then ignore me? If you ask me its pointless and stupid. I should have realized it a long time ago." Naruto answered, shocking Sasuke while causing Sakura to look at him in anger.

"And what is that supposed to mean Naruto!" Sakura demaned angerily while glaring at him in rage.

"It means that I am tired of being your punching bag Sakura and it stops today." Naruto answered, grabbing her fist out of midair as she tried to punch him in the face.

Sakura froze as Naruto held her fist non to gently and lifted her other hand to punch him with it instead only for him to catch it as well. Staring at Naruto in shock, Sakura noticed that his blue held no kindness for only a cold exterior. Pulling away, Sakura watched as Naruto once more placed his hands into his pockets and lifted his head to stare at the clouds above them.

"Yo! Sorry I'm late, but I got lost on the road of life." Kakashi said suddenly as he shunshined onto the bridge in a swirl of leaves.

"Only you could could get lost on a one way road Kakashi-sensie." Naruto said, not looking down from staring at the sky while also interrupting Sakura from calling the jounin a lier.

Kakashi stared at his blonde student in surprise, having never heard Naruto sound so tired when he noticed the bags under Naruto's eyes. Sighing heavily, Kakashi pulled out a soldier pill and tossed it to Naruto who caught and swallowed it quickly.

"Rough night Naruto?" He asked, already knowing that what had realy happened was that Naruto had had another assination attempt while he was asleep.

"Yeah. The usual. This one got in through the roof this time though." Naruto replied, drawing confused looks from both Sasuke and Sakura.

"Some one snuck into my apartment and tried to kill me. Nothing new to me though." He clarified, causing both of them to stare at him in shock.

'He has people trying to kill him at night. And often enough that it doesn't bother him.' Both Sasuke and Sakura thought in shock and surprisingly anger.

Turning around, Naruto began walking back into the village towards the Hokage Tower while Kakashi followed behind him. Mentally shaking there heads, Sasuke and Sakura both ran to catch up with there teammate and sensie. Walking through the shopping dsitrict of the village, both noticed that most if not all of the villagers were openly glaring at Naruto. Confuesed, the two ran to walk beside Naruto and saw how some of the villagers stopped glaring, but would still glance at the blonde hatefully.

"Dont bother trying to stop them. Its pointless. And besides, I've grown used to them looking at me like that. It's gone on my whole life." Naruto whispered to them, shocking them out of there thoughts.

"But its not right. What did you ever do to make them hate you this much. I doupt any of your pranks could warrent this kind of reaction?" Sakura asked softly, her voice low so that only Naruto and Sasuke could here her.

"No. Its not that. They hate me due to something that happened on the day of my birth. I am a constant reminder of what they lost that day." Naruto answered chuckling, inwardly surprised that the two were defending him.

Sasuke and Sakura stared at Naruto in confusion, not understanding what he meant. What could have happen the day Naruto was born to make the entire village hate him like they did. Naruto shook his head and indicated that he would tell them later, his blue eyes holding a slightly fearful look to them suddenly. Walking further into the village, Naruto smiled softly as they arrived at the Hokage Tower and walked into it. Walking towards the Hokages office, Naruto frowned as the secretary stepped infront of him, blocking his path to Sarutobi's office.

"You all may go in, but this thing has to stay out here." She spat out spirefully to both Sasuke and Sakura's shock as she glared at Naruto in pure hatred.

Sighing sadly, Naruto looked the woman staight in the eyes and stared her down. Frowning, Naruto watched as the lady stepped back in fear at his scutiny. Looking down at the ground, Naruto walked past her, Kakashi, and his teammates to stand at her desk silently. Sakura and Sasuke stared at Naruto in shock. Never had they seen there blonde teammate look so defeated before. Turning to glare at the secretary, both blinked when they noticed that the woman was staring at Naruto in surprise and confusion.

"What? You said I couldn't go into the Hokage's office with my team. Thought if I stood here, that would allow you to keep an eye on me easier." Naruto said plainly as he pulled a scroll out of his weapons pouch and began reading it silently.

Shaking his head while glaring at the secretary, Kakashi directed his other two students into Sarutobi's office, knowing that trying to force Naruto would only prove to be pointless. Walking into the circular room, Kakashi looked at Sarutobi and noticed that the old hokage had a single finger already pressed on the intercom button on his desk with an emotionless expression set apon his face.

"Kasumi-san. Would you please send Naruto Uzumaki into my office." Sarutobi requested of the secretary through the intercom.

"Hai Hokage-sama I will." Kasumi responded in a slightly fearful tone, the intercom cutting off as Naruto walked into the room before closing the door behind him.

Turning to face his team and Sarutobi, Naruto smiled lightly at the old man he thought of as a surgate grandfather. Walking up to stand beside his teammates, Naruto looked around in confusion when he finally noticed that both of his teammates were staring at him like as if they were waiting for an explination of some sort. Frowning, he looked at the two of them at different times. Sasuke was staring at him in both confusion and surprisingly anger. But not at him. Anger at the villagers for how they treated him. Sakura was staring at him with guilty eyes, probably thinking about how all the times she hit him must have made his day so much worse than it already was.

"Fine. Do you guys want to know why the village hates me so much?" Naruto asked, his words causing Kakashi and Sarutobi to look at him in shock while both of the other genin nodded.

"Okay. They hate me because I was born on the day that the Kyuubi attacked the village. But thats not all of it. They hate me beacause unlike what we were told in the academy, the Kyuubi wasn't killed that day." Naruto said, causing both of his teammates to stare at him shock.

"But if the Yodamie didn't kill the fox demon, what did he do to stop it?" Sakura asked, fealing that she wasn't going to like the answer that she got.

"He sealed it away. But the only thing that you can seal a demon of that strength into is a newborn child." Naruto replied, pulling up his shirt to show the seal on his stomach that held the Kyuubi sealed inside of him.

Sakura and Sasuke both gasped and unconsiously took a step back away from Naruto. Naruto frowned when he noticed this motion and sighed sadly. They didn't hate him, but they feared him instead. Sakura and Sasuke noticed as Naruto seemed to sink into himself and as his eyes seemed to dim slightly. Realizing what Naruto must be thinking before Sasuke, Sakura walked up to Naruto and hugged him close to her. This action shocked Naruto greatly, who tried to pull out of her arms.

"We're not afraid of you Naruto. We're just shocked is all. We're not going to leave you." Sakura whispered calmly into Naruto's ear, her soft words causing him to freeze in shock.

Lowering his head onto Sakura's shoulder, Naruto began to silently cry in relief, happy that his teammates weren't going to start treating him like the villagers. Feeling a hand on his shoulder, Naruto looked up to find Sasuke looking at him with a small smirk apon his face. Smiling, Naruto pulled away from Sakura and shook hands with the Uchia before they bumped there nuckles against each others. Turning to face the hokage and there sensie, all three blinked in confusion at the soft smiles that were on the two mens faces.

"I am happy to see that Naruto has made such good friends and teammates." Sarutobi said, smiling happily at the three genin.

The three genin smiled proudly before turning there attention back to Saurtobi when he coughed into his hand. Reaching into a dresser drawer of his desk and pulled out a mission scroll marked as a C-Rank. The three genin stood up straighter at the sight of the mission scroll. Smiling at there reactions, Sarutobi placed the scroll atop his desk and look at the three of them.

"Team 7. I am assighning your team a C-Ranked mission. Your mission is to head to the location of the remains of the Whirlpool Village and locate a woman living there. Once you have found her you are to return to the village with her in tow." Sarutobi announced, knowing that this mission was going to forever change Naruto's life.

"What is the name of the woman and what does she look like old man?" Naruto asked, frowning when Sarutobi smiled sadly at him while pulling out a picture of a red haired woman and handing it to him.

"The woman's name is...Kushina Uzumaki. She's your mother Naruto." Sarutobi answered, watching as Naruto staggered back in shock and as his whole team went wide eyed.

Naruto stepped back, his eyes wide in surprise and shock.