hey all! I had this running in my brain trying to kill my brain cells until I started it. I know I have to update my Harry Potter story but I hit a wall with it. so I skipped to this for a while. I think I like this one a lot so far and have a few chapters already typed and ready to go so I can update in a timely matter. please excuse the typos and misspells. my word program doesn't like to work all the time. I try and catch as much as I can, so if I spell something wrong and it needs to be fixed please let me know about it. but if it's minor please don't bother, I won't fix that.

I do not own Naruto if I did you would know it! XD

carry on! -Jackie

A young boy ran for his life, dodging the civilians who chased him, that were throwing anything they could get their hands on at him. He had tears running down his face. "Die demon!" they would shout at him. He didn't understand why they were chasing him, why they called him demon. The clothes he was wearing were dirty and torn, a new spot of blood on his shoulder, and on his knees. He had blond spiked hair that stuck to his forehead slightly from the water that he was splashed with.

A younger woman with faded purple hair and a fresh plate of dango heard commotion coming from the street over from the festival. It was the festival of the kyuubi, and his demise thanks to the fourth hokage. She turned her gaze the street, seeing a small child run in a blur then a group of civilians holding torches and bats. Some carries swords others kunai knives. Something inside the young chunin made her move, dropping her plate of dango and follow. She had her right hand in her pouch clutching a kunai, ready to attack the civilians if necessary.

When she caught up to the group, she saw they had surrounded the boy in a corner in an alley way away from prying eyes. The boy looked terrified, and no older than six years old. "now you will pay Demon!" one with a kunai pointed at the boy. In a flash, she was in front of the civilian and deflected the knife with her own. "you will not lay a finger on this boy." Was all she spoke, releasing her KI in force. The man flinched but refused to back down. "no! this is the year we kill that demon for good!" when he spat out demon the boy flinched and coward. The woman snarled and cracked her neck loudly looking at the others. "you should be ashamed of yourselves!"

Somewhere in the tower of the lord hokage, an elder man watched the events through a crystal and smiled.

"this boy is a child, nowhere capable of harming you than he can himself! You should be with your own children!" the group muttered to themselves but stayed weapons pointed to the child. "you're right, our kids should be here with us!" the one who spoke carried a large sythe like blade and held the coldest stare she has ever seen. "DOG!" the woman shouted loudly her voice filled with anger and disgust. In a poof of smoke an ambu member stood by her, his mask looked like a dog, his hair defied gravity and was silver in color. "Dog, they were going to kill this child, take them to Ibiki, show them the meaning of the pain they inflicted on this child. The man wearing the dog mask cracked his knuckles outward and did a few hand signs, summoning a few other ambu to help him relocate the villagers.

When Dog and the others were gone, the woman felt a slight tug on her sleeve. She looked down and into the most beautiful set of blue eyes. He didn't say a word, his hand in front of his mouth. She smiled and crouched down so he could look her in the face better. "hey Gaki, you okay?" the small boy nodded. One of his arms hung at his side, and he didn't move it. She sighed, and held open her arms for the boy. He looked at her questioning the reasons, but climbed the best her could into her arms. With a grunt she lifted him and began to walk to the hokage tower.
she knew basic medical jutsu, and looked over his arm and seeing it fractured, but not bad enough to warrant a hospital visit. "it's okay Gaki my name is Anko, I'm a ninja here in the village, I'm not going to hurt you or let someone hurt you ever again." The small boy sighed into shoulder and relaxed. This made her give a sad smile to no one in particular.

The small boy had fallen asleep in her arms by the time she was allowed to see the hokage. The older man looked up at Anko and smiled sadly. "Anko, why do you have young Naruto?" Anko looked at the third and sighed, retelling the story he himself had seen on the crystal. He would nod and look at the boy still asleep in her arms then back to the story. "He must have been tossed out of the orphanage." He spoke softly, letting out smoke from his pipe as he did. "He's an orphan? What's his full name?" Anko wanted to learn of the child she had somehow gotten attached too, it was beyond her thoughts as to how or why, and she only knew she had to stay in this child's life. "Naruto Uzumaki." Anko let her emotions be shown. "You mean like Uzumaki? The bloody habanero of Konoha Uzumaki?" the third looked surprised at this. "You know of her?"
"know of her? She is my idol! Her anger and talent is one I look up too! And you are saying this boy is her son?" the third paled. "I didn't say that!"
"but she was like one of only a few Uzumaki left! And the only one I know of here in the village!" the third sighed and looked at Anko. "Yes, he is her son. But this is an S class secret! How you but no one else was able to catch onto the boy's surname is beyond me." The girl smiled and held the child closer, which he responded by smiling. "With all due respect sir… I will not let the son of the greatest kinochi live of the streets. I knew I felt connected to him when I first picked him up. I have to do this; I need to be the one who raises him, for her. Please lord hokage, I know I'm young but he needs a family. Even if it's just me." The old man smiled and looked at how well Naruto fit into Anko's arms. "Alright, I suppose it would be better than sending him back to the orphanage. Come by in the morning to fill out paperwork, but leave the boy here for the night. He can stay with me to insure he won't be hunted later." Anko seemed hesitant in placing Naruto on the Hokage's pull out bed. But she knew that he could protect Naruto better than she could tonight.

With a sorrow she didn't know she could have, she walked to her home in a fog. She didn't feel the presence of Dog behind her, and jumped when he spoke. "Anko, who was that boy?" she turned to her friend and smiled softly. "My new son."

To say Dog was stunned would be an understatement; he was full out frozen with confusion. The woman who didn't want children suddenly found a soft spot for a child who wasn't even hers. Then he figured, this was Anko, she did the weirdest shit. He followed her home, and said goodnight, asking her again if she'd go on a date with him, and again he was turned down. "I'm Sorry Kakashi, I just can't right now, not when I need to get this place ready for my new ward." He understood really he did, but was it so out of the way to go and get tea? Or dango? He sighed, and jumped away.
Anko closed the door and sighed in relief, the place was a mess, but thankfully, they would get a new apartment so there would be enough room for the two of them. But until then, she made her home as clean as she could, and made her small couch into a bed for the boy. She was ready to wake up the moment she placed her head on her pillow, but sleep would not come easy to her. She kept hearing the awful things they were saying to the child, but one bothered her more than any of them. "monster."