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«ₒ°ººₒₒºº°ₒSix Years Later«ₒ°ººₒₒºº°ₒ

Deep in the heart of the forest, there sat a boy with tan skin, sun kissed hair, and three whisker marks on each cheek and the bluest azure eyes you have even seen.

It has been six years since the small kitsune clan has taken him in.

Naruto jumped from tree to tree, he was on his way to play with his brothers: Silver and Lighting. Silver like his name had silver fur and eyes. Lightning on the other hand had a lightning bolt scar over his right eye.

"Hey, kit?" Kyuubi asked through their mind link.

'What do you want?'

Kyuubi paused before she responded, "It's been six years since you were left to die in this forest."

'I know…, what are you getting at?' Naruto asked curious to where this was going.

"The forest won't be able to hide you from them forever. You will have to face your past sometime. Avoiding them will only make it worse. You have been lucky, since no one has seen you when they have come back from their missions. But you and I both know one day you won't be so lucky." Kyuubi explained.

Naruto faulted as he jumped to another tree branch, almost falling down in shock Kyuubi would bring up such a topic, before regaining flipping down onto a lower branch to regain his balance and continued to jump on.

'No! I hate those ningen (1)! They should being burning in hell! So should everyone in Konohagakure no Sato! I refuse to see them again! It won't ever happen!' Naruto spat in disgust, upset that Kyuubi would say such a thing.

"I understand you hate those ningens, you have every right to. But don't you remember there were people who cared for you! And I never took you for a coward." Kyuubi hissed angrily at the boy.

Stopping again Naruto paused to regain his thoughts, before he answered Kyuubi's accusation. 'You know as well as I do that I lost half my memory that night, because of their beatings. And I understand that I will have to leave someday. But you bringing this out of the blue and so close to my birthday doesn't help. I know I will face them someday, but please believe me when I say I'm not ready to yet.' Naruto begged Kyuubi before he shot off jumping again.

"Hn." Was all he got in response. It seemed that Kyuubi will respect his wishes for now at least.

But unfortunately for out little kitsune, it seemed that his luck has run out. For he was still lost in his thoughts that he didn't see or realize he was falling, before he knocked out his head smashing against the rocks.

«ₒ°ººₒₒºº°ₒRight outside one of Konoha's many forests«ₒ°ººₒₒºº°ₒ

A Chuunin with a scar across his nose and his hair held up in a high pony tail stood outside the forest a big group of kids lined up in front of him.

"Okay class, we will be going out into the forest today in groups of three. This is going to be practice to for you to learn how to survive outside when you are on a mission. This will also help become more familiar in your surroundings." The Chuunin instructed.

A series of groans were heard from the kids, while others looked excited and some fearful. A young pink haired child with a forehead that was too big to be normal raised her hand.

Looking over towards the child the man called on her, "What's your question Sakura?"

"Iruka-sensei do we really have to? It's going to be boring!" Sakura complained, gaining some looks of disbelief on some of her peers faces.

"Sakura, if you don't even know how to survive in a simple forest, how do you even expect to survive a mission much less graduate the academy! I expected better from you, you are one of the girls with the highest grades. Iruka scolded, making some of the kids snicker. "Well then know that, that's over your groups will squad one: Kasumi Tomonari, Nagai Yasuo, and Hayami Fumikazu-" a few minutes later… "Squad 8 will be Hyuuga Hinata, Akimichi Chouji, and Aburame Shino. Squad 9 Inuzuka Kiba, Nara Shikamaru, and Uchiha Sasuke. Yamanaka Ino and Haruno Sakura you'll be with me." Iruka ordered as the kids got into their squads and headed off.

"But Iruka-sensei!" Sakura and Ino whined together.

"No buts, you're going to be with me so I can watch over you two and make sure you are actually going to work." Iruka scolded once more. "And at the moment you two are tied at top kunoichi, so think of this as a test whichever one of you who succeeds first or does better than the other shall become top kunoichi of the class." Iruka said offhandedly to the girls.

"I'm gonna beat you Ino-pig! And then Sasuke will realize I'm a better kunoichi then you and will go on a date with me!" Sakura yelled at Ino.

"Nuh-oh Billboard-brow, I'm gonna beat you!" And with that the two girls were off. Leaving a chuckling Iruka behind.

«ₒ°ººₒₒºº°ₒWith Squad 9 right near Naruto's whereabouts«ₒ°ººₒₒºº°ₒ

Squad 9 was currently walking towards the heart of the forest, only to stop when Akamaru paused in his searching to sniff the air again, before barking at Kiba.

Kiba seemed surprised at whatever Akamaru had told him before he turned towards the others. "Akamaru says he smells blood but human blood, well not completely human blood there is something mixed in it but whoever it is, is really hurt! So come on!" And with that Kiba sped off, followed by Shikamaru and Sasuke.

All three of them, four counting Akamaru stood in shock at the sight before them, there lay on the ground a young blonde girl, blood leaking out from where her head contacted the ground.

Snapping out of his shock Sasuke quickly gave out orders to his squad members, "Kiba! You and Akamaru go find Iruka-sensei and bring him to us, Shikamaru me and you are gonna move her onto the grass."

Both of them snapped out of there shock and quickly followed through with orders, well Kiba was quick about it Shikamaru was a bit slower. Carefully lifting the girl up Shikamaru and Sasuke moved her onto the grass then waited for Kiba to return.

«ₒ°ººₒₒºº°ₒWith Iruka's squad«ₒ°ººₒₒºº°ₒ

"Iruka-sensei! Iruka-sensei!! IRUKA-SENSEI!!!!!" Kiba shouted as he and Akamaru ran over to said sensei.

Looking up startled, Iruka quickly made his way towards Kiba. "What is it Kiba? Where's the rest of your squad?"

"They're back where I left them! But come on you gotta come see this!" Kiba rushed as he grabbed Iruka-sensei's hand and dragged him to his teammates.

«ₒ°ººₒₒºº°ₒArriving where squad 9 is«ₒ°ººₒₒºº°ₒ

"Sensei look! We found someone and they're really hurt!" Kiba explained to their sensei as they saw him come into view.

Running up to Sasuke and Shikamaru, Iruka looked over the injured girl, and then turned to the squad 9.

"I want you all to listen to me carefully. I need Shikamaru and Kiba to find all the teams and order them to head back to the academy, right now." Iruka demanded as he carefully lifted up the injured girl. "Sasuke you are to head back to hospital and tell them to get a room ready."

Each nodded their heads and spends off in a different direction.

Looking over the figure he was carrying Iruka got lost in his thoughts, 'He looks so familiar, almost exactly like him, but how is that possible? He died; Hokage-sama told me he was dead.'

By the time he had gotten to the hospital, immediately a nurse took the injured girl from him and rushes her into the emergency room.

Sasuke burst into the waiting room looking around franticly, when a Nurse-nin named Hotaru came up to him, "Can I help you?" she asked.

"Do you know where I can find Iruka-sensei?"

Looking down at her clipboard she flipped through a few papers before she found what she was looking for, "Yes, he should be in room 910."

She received a blank look, "That's down the hall to your left."

And with that Sasuke ran down the hall, he remembered that he promised himself that he would never ever go back in a hospital again, 'looks like I have to break this one.' He thought to himself, before he was snapped out of his thoughts when Iruka called his name when he opened the door.

Looking up Sasuke was shocked to find Iruka and Hokage-sama watching though a giant window. Going over to where they were looking he found himself watching doctors perform surgery on the girl his squad had found.

"Sasuke where did you him?" Iruka suddenly asked, not taking his eyes off the boy.

"We found her--wait did you just say she is a 'him'?" Sasuke paused, as he realized what Iruka asked him.

Laughing the Hokage nodded, "Imagine the Doctor's surprise when they realized that the 'she' was actually a 'he'! But that's not what is important, what's important is where did your squad find him?"

"We found him lying in a bed of rocks, we wouldn't have found him if Akamaru didn't smell blood. Shikamaru thinks that she-I mean he fell out of the trees." Sasuke explained.

"That doesn't seem possible, only shinobi are trained to run through the trees, and I certainly doubt that he is a shinobi and he doesn't look like any academy child I have seen." Iruka reasoned, and then looked at the Hokage; he seemed lost in his thoughts as he looked down at the boy carefully, as if looking for something. "Hokage-sama, do you think…?" Iruka trailed off, confusing Sasuke since he couldn't figure out what Iruka or Hokage-sama could be thinking.

"I don't know, it could be possible, if you think about it he was always able to surprise us. And we never found a body." Hokage-sama thought aloud.

Sasuke was getting annoyed. Firstly they were talking about someone and seemed to forget he was even there, and from what he figured that person had disappeared a while ago. "Who are you talking about?!" Sasuke shouted, very unUchiha like, but it got the attention of Iruka and Hokage-sama

"Naruto."

"Fishcake?" Sasuke repeated confused.

The Hokage chuckled, "No, no the boys name it was Uzumaki Naruto." 'That name sounds familiar, but where could I have heard it before?' Sasuke thought to himself, before Iruka added on to the story, "He was in my care ever since the Orphanage kicked him out but something happened right before his birthday and he disappeared six years ago."

"So you think that this boy that we found is this Naruto?" Sasuke reasoned some disbelief in his voice.

"We are not sure that he is Naruto, but we can't give up hope either. We will find him somehow." The Hokage vowed.

It seems that the three where so caught up in their thoughts and chatting that they didn't notice that the Doctors had finished and were already moving the boy into a room.

A few hours had passed and the Hokage, Iruka and Sasuke were all waiting in the Waiting Room, it was then that a doctor who had helped in the surgery came into the room. She had a dark pinkish colour hair and purple eyes. She had approached the Hokage most likely to address him, "I'm Kubo Moe, and I'm the boy's doctor from now on. His condition has stabled, and it was quite an odd surgery it seemed like his body was already healing himself at a much faster rate than I've ever seen before besides one other case. He is still unconscious but he should be waking up soon, if he is who I think he maybe." Dr. Kubo explained.

"Can we see him now then?" Iruka asked.

Dr. Kubo smiled and showed them to the boy's room.

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