Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Helping Hand ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

A/N: I'm putting this up on this site as well as I really like this fic.

I Don't Own Naruto, Inuyasha, FMA, DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho or anything else i might decided to put into this fic other than my OC's. They're mine.

Prologue

On a cold, cloudless night sky, a young boy around six years old with spiky blonde hair and electric blue eyes that would hypnotize you if you stared into them. On his cheeks were three whisker marks that seemed like tattoos but if you looked closer you could she that they were birth marks. His skin was tanned as if he always stayed in the sun and didn't have one blemish or scar on him. He wore a raggedy white t-shirt and blue shorts that looked like he had been wearing them for weeks and hadn't been washed during the entire time. The said young boy lived in the peaceful village of Konoha, but tonight it wasn't so for him.

The reason for this was that he was running for his life as a mob of drunk villagers were chasing him, intent on hurting, killing or even worse. The boy didn't understand why the always did this, but were always more cruel on his birthday. For you see he was Uzumaki Naruto, the jinchuuriki, or demon vessel of the Lord of Demons, Kyuubi no Kitsune, the very being that nearly destroyed Konoha on his birthday five years ago.

Even though he didn't know this, he always considered himself a demon as the villager always seemed to call him so. At first he believed it was the pranks and chaos that assumed after it, but he found that they already hated him before he even started his pranking. Then, after a brutal beating he receive last year he figured it was something deeper than that. The old man had assigned Anbu to him after that, but the ones that saw him as himself were few and far between so he normally had to take care of himself. Turning a corner, his heart froze as he saw it was a dead end and turned around quickly to see that he was surrounded by the mob. He unconsciously let out a whimper as he started backing up, hoping somebody, anybody would come to rescue him.

The leader of the rallied mob smirked as he saw the boy. "We found you demon. Thought you could elude us did you." A female with bright pink hair walked forward with and evil glint in her eyes. "Time for us to finish of what the Yondaime-kun started four years ago."

"YEAH!!!!" Shouted the rest of the mob as they slowly approached the whimpering child. He backed himself into the wall and curled into a ball, knowing he would be able to escape this. The mob sees this and a invitation and advances on the boy. They all started out kicking him with as much force as the could. Naruto shielded his face as he didn't know what else to do as pain began to rack his body. After a few minutes of kicking him, a few members of the mob pulled out what seemed to be clubs and walked towards Naruto with sadistic grins on their faces.

As they advanced on the boy, a voice stopped them from above. "Hey what are you doing." came from a man that wore an average jounin attire and had blue shaggy hair and a beard with a cigarette in his mouth as he looked down on the mob with his eyebrow raised.

"We're finishing what the Minato-kun started." came from the pink hair women as she looked up at them.

"Really how interesting." said another man wearing the same attire as the other, but had a mask that covered the lower part of his mouth, long silver hair that defied gravity as it stuck straight up and his hitai-ate was slanted and covered his left eye. "Maybe we should help, Kakashi." said the first man as he looked back at the other. Kakashi nodded his head in agreement. "Yes we should, but let them continue the it anyways. Now let's go Asuma, I hear that the bar is having an half of special for all shinobi." Asuma nodded his head and jumped away with Kakashi, leaving Naruto with the grinning villagers.

The one with the clubs advanced on him once more, and brought them down mercilessly on the young boy. Each hit felt like something broke inside of Naruto as he screamed in pain as he felt one of his ribs shatter. Another strike and he screams louder as his arm snapped in half. Tired of his screaming as it could alert one of the more caring shinobi and they didn't wish to be stopped, so one hit Naruto's head with a club and smashed it into the wall. A young boy with silver hair jumped in beside them wearing a shinobi gear but no vest, so he was probably a gennin.

"Let me finish it, it's only right that a shinobi should get rid of the beast." The other mob members smirk as they moved aside and allowed him clear access to Naruto. The pink hair woman stood next to him and patted his shoulder. "Alright Mizuki-kun, use that jutsu I taught you in the academy." Mizuki nodded at the women. "Yes Haruno-sensei." He did a quick set of hand seals and ended in Tora as he breathed deeply and announced his attack. "Gokakyu no Jutsu." He exhaled and unleashed a medium sized fire ball towards the unconscious boy.

As the fire ball neared some of the villagers began to cheer, until another voice was heard. "Raiton: Raitingu Bakuha!" A ball of pure lighting that equal size to Mizuki's Gokakyu connected with it and tore through it with ease and continued on it's decent to Mizuki. Unable to move fast enough, he was engulfed by the electric ball and screamed in agony as his nerves inflamed from the electric current ripping through his skin. The lighting ball went through Mizuki and impacted the ground, causing a large dust cloud to envelope the area as Mizuki fell to the ground, most likely dead.

Once the dust cloud settled down a teen around seventeen years old and was about 5'6", stood in front of Naruto. He had wavy hair like that of Trunks that was dark brown that could be mistaken for being black from a distance. He had an angular face and had dark emerald eyes that had a piercing gaze as he scanned over them. He wore a pitch black skin tight shirt showing of his well developed yet moderate size muscles and baggy black kakis that were tucked into his combat boots. He wore a opened black cloak like that of Akatsuki wears, except with the clouds with golden lining. He wore a hitai-ate, but with his hair it was impossible to tell what was village he belonged to.

The teen looked over the mob and started leaking out a massive amount of killing at them that made it hard for the mob members to breathe, let alone speak. He continued to gaze over them with his cold glare before spoke in a loud but not yelling tone. "What the fuck are you doing! This is a CHILD for Kami sake!" The leader of the group regained his courage seeing it was only a teen that stopped them and smirked as he replied. "We're going to take care of the demon once and for all and you better not get in the way or we'll take care of you to."

The young man's eyes narrowed as he heard this and his killing intent tripled and his chakra became visible and started to swirl madly around him as he stared at the man. He slowly started walking to the man as his right hand receded into his long sleeved cloak as if to hide something. He stopped a few feet away from him as he glared the man directly in the eyes. "Then you are a fool." Suddenly the teen gripped the mans neck while his other hand became visible once more and was covered by a lighting. His hand turned into a fist and he drove it into the mans chest. "Raitingu Kobushi!" The man fell to the ground and started to convulse as electricity coursed through his body.

The teen looked back up to the frighten mob with his cold emerald eyes. "Anyone else." They started to back away and were about to run when another, powerful yet aged voice was heard.

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!" yelled an aged man wearing white robes and a hat with a red strip on it and a kanji that translated to Fire Shadow, or the Hokage. Two Anbu wearing creamy white robes stood behind him, indicating that they were Anbu Captains, and had a Tora and Neko mask covering their faces while a few others stood behind them wearing regular cloaks. The teen looks up at them, his bangs parting due to gravity to reveal the insignia on his hitai-ate. There were three clouds closely bunched together meaning he was from Kumogakure, but the slash through the metal band also meant that he was a nukenin. The young nukenin pointed towards Naruto before pointing towards the mob, allowing them to understand what was going on before he walked over and started checking on Naruto.

Still wary of the man Sarutobi motion his captains over. "Arrest everyone here and get those two to the hospital. I'll deal with him." Both looked surprised and the Tora masked Anbu spoke up first. "Hokage-sama, be reasonable. He is a nukenin from..."

"I know Yamato, but I am a kage level shinobi, even if I have lost some of my abilities I should still easily be able to handle him. He is no threat at the time being." Yamato didn't want to leave the Hokage with the nukenin, but he was right, he IS the Hokage and could take care of himself. The Anbu captains jumped towards the mob and Yamato used Kanashibari to stun them while the neko masked captain used Nehan Shoja to put them asleep, making them easier to transport. A few other Anbu jumped down and started to take them to the prison, using solid bunshins if possible to lighten the load.

Sarutobi jumped down and landed in front of the nukenin as he rouse from checking Naruto's injuries. "Well, I would say he need to get to the hospital... but he seems to be healing at a rapid rate using what seems to be youki. So he should be fine in a few hours." Sarutobi relaxed a bit that Naruto would be fine, but still he still ready since he was in the presence of a nukenin. Looking over him, he was recognized who he was as he had seen him at the treaty three years ago. "So why are you here, Rikimaru?"

The teen flinched at as he should have know the old man would remember him. "I came here remembering that Konoha would take in nukenin if they left their villages under certain circumstances. So I snuck in the village trying to get to you. It was mere chance that I saw what was going on here and decided to stop it." Sarutobi sighed and rubbed his temple. "I need to up the security if a C-rank nukenin gets past it with ease." Rikimaru shrugs, not really caring as the Hokage continued. "It's not up to me to accept other villages shinobi into our ranks. That would be the council's job, and they aren't as easily convinced as I am."

"I'm not really worried about that, I have leverage." Rikimaru said impassively. Sarutobi eyebrow rose at that. "And that would be." Rikimaru shakes his head. "Won't say until I'm in with the council. Need some aces up my sleeve." Sarutobi narrows his eyes at Rikimaru, but sighed knowing it was the truth. He walks up to Naruto and cradles the young six year old in his arms before turning back to Rikimaru. "Best to stick with me while I drop Naruto off in my office so I can call a council meeting." Rikimaru nodded and flowed the Hokage as they head towards their destination.

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They reached the room with only the chunin standing guard at the Hokage's door stopping them and believing it wasn't a good idea for them to leave Sarutobi alone with a nukenin. After putting Naruto on the couch, he turned towards Kotetsu and Izumo. "Don't worry about it. I'll be fine. It's not like I can't handle a low ranked shinobi." This made Rikimaru twitch uncontrollably and started muttering darkly. Both Kotetsu and Izumo were still a little suspicious, but they nodded as Sarutobi was right. If he couldn't handle a low ranked shinobi, Konoha was in serious trouble.

Sarutobi smiled at the two. "I want you two to go and gather the council members for a meeting." The two chunin nod and shushin out of the room. Sarutobi sighed and laid back in his chair as he went back to doing the paperwork on his desk as Rikimaru sat down on a nearby chair. "Any other reasons you wish to join our ranks." Rikimaru looked startled at this before responding. "I already said my reason." Sarutobi continued to read and sign his papers as he responded. "Yes, and I sensed it was the truth. But not the whole truth. I'm not the Hokage for no reason, I can tell your hiding something. Also it states that in the bingo book that you kidnapped your sister Yugito."

Rikimaru sighed as he lowered his head. "I guess you can call it a kidnapping. She didn't know what they were going to do to her, so I took away from the village as I didn't wish to see her become a mindless weapon. So yes, you are right. I do have an ulterior motive. I want to bring imoutos and ichuunoonna to a peaceful village." Sarutobi stopped reading as he looked over towards Rikimaru with a raised eyebrow. "How many are there, including your girlfriend?" Rikimaru shifted uneasily in his chair. "Um... seven." Sarutobi sweat dropped at this and shook his head. "Well, they won't be to hard to get in as long as they aren't shinobi from other villages."

He noticed Rikimaru steadily increasing twitching, but couldn't ask him further as Kotetsu and Izumo poofed into the room. "Hokage-sama. The council is waiting." Sarutobi sighed as he got up as he motioned Rikimaru to follow him and turned back to the two chunin. "Make sure no one enters the room other than me." They nodded as Sarutobi walks out of the room with Rikimaru following him as they walked towards the council chambers.

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