The Second's Real Legacy

Chapter 1:Start Of Something

Naruto a 5 year old boy panted as he ran, his little feet beating hard on the ground, his legs hurt from exertion. He kept running until he spotted an alleyway off to his left, making a spilt decision, he dove for it. Naruto heard heavy feet running past the alleyway and he sighed in relief. He heard low voices murmuring at the entrance to the alley, occasionally he heard words like "kill" or "demon." He tried to calm his ragged breathing so they wouldn't hear him. He just had no luck. He took one gasping breath as he saw eyes staring at him and started to cry.

"Please," Naruto whispered, "I didn't do anything, please."

"Stop trying to trick us. You know what you did, demon." A man sneered. He was identified as a chunin by his forest green flank jacket, his white hair hung to his shoulders and was covered by a blue, bandana like hitai-ate, his grey eyes held malice for the young blond-haired Kyuubi container. The man started to laugh as the child with sunshine hair started to cry.

"Haha, is the little demon crying? I didn't think demons' could even cry." The man laughed with venom in his voice. The man then reached out and grabbed the young boy's dirt-covered hair, blood started to drip down his forehead at the force the man was pulling. The man laughed again at the child's pain and then called out to the others that were chasing the small boy.

"Look what I found, boys." The man sneered. Naruto looked over as much as he could with the tight grip on his hair and saw 5 other men, 3 of them civilians and 2 of them chunins'.

"I'm sorry for whatever I did, I'm sorry. Please, what did I do? I don't understand!" Naruto tried to plead with the men but he had no such luck. He cried out as he was hoisted up in the air by the grip on his hair and clawed at the hand that was holding him.

"Ah! You little bitch!" The man yelled, dropping Naruto. The man reared back his fist in anger and landed a well-aimed punch at the side of the blond's head. The force of the punch knocked Naruto off of his feet; he slid across the short passageway hitting the opposite wall. Naruto gasped for breath as the wind was knocked out of him by the force on his back from the wall. He looked to the side and saw the distinct glint of light on metal and started to cry harder.

"Please! Please! I'm Sorry!" Naruto screamed, trying to slide closer to the wall behind him. The light glinted off the metal of the kunai the man had taken out again, and Naruto panicked. Naruto used what energy he had left to stand up and dive for the entrance of the alley in a desperate attempt to escape. He seemed to forget that there were the other men blocking the entrance. As he dove one of the chunin put his foot up and kicked Naruto in the face. The force of the kick sent Naruto back into the man with the kunai. The man put his foot on the sunshine child's throat, crushing it. Naruto gasped for breath as his throat was constricted by the chunin's foot.

"This is where you die, Kyuubi scum." The man sneered at he pushed harder on his throat. Naruto just gasped and closed his eyes, waiting for the end of his short life.

The end never came. The child peeked an eye open at see what was going on and all he saw was carnage and blood. A girl a few years older than himself stood over the men that had cornered him in the small alley, blood covered her clothing and her katana was drawn, dripping with the thick, red liquid.

Naruto whimpered and backed into the wall behind him still trying to catch his breath. The girl shifted her red eyes to Naruto and sighed.

"Hn. I won't hurt you." The girl started to walk towards Naruto but stopped when she saw his terrified expression. "I won't hurt you," she repeated, "My name is Itachi Uchiha. You can trust me Naruto-kun." she held his hand out for Naruto to take. "Come with me Naruto-kun, no one will hurt you where we are going." Naruto stared at the hand with suspicion.

"No one will hurt me?" Naruto asked with distrust.

"No one, Naruto-kun." The raven haired girl said with conviction.As soon as naruto said that he fell down with exhaustion taking over him. "I must tell Hokage-sama" Itachi said as she disappeared.

HOKAGE'S OFFICE :

"Hokage-sama" Itachi said as she held naruto in her arms.

"Thank you Itachi-chan for saving him" The Third Hokage said as he grabbed Naruto from Itachi and used a little bit of Medical ninjustu he could use.

"Hokage-sama is he" before Itachi could complete her sentence Hiruzen nodded and Itachi went silent. "Then why is he treated like that why must he suffer for their ignorance" Itachi said as her eyes turned into the Sharingan.

"Itachi my child these people's eyes are blinded their hearts are I have tried to make sure that they don't do anything but I think I should do something that would make everything better for Naruto-kun" Hiruzen said.

"May I ask what it is" Itachi said.

"From now on you will be living with Naruto from now on and overlook his development that is your new mission" Hiruzen said with a smile.

"But Hokage-sama I am -" Itachi said but before she could finish the sentence

"Itachi-chan please do it"

"I see very well I will do it" Itachi said as the hokage smiled and she picked up Naruto with a small smile and disappeared to Naruto's house.

"thank you Itachi"