As the sun set on Konoha that day, all of the citizens, shinobi and clans were celebrating the signing of the ceasefire between themselves and their long time standing enemies The Hidden Village of the Cloud, all except one clan that is. The Hyuuga clan was celebrating for another reason, that reason being the Hyuuga Heiress Hinata Hyuuga's Third Birthday and all were too busy enjoying the party to notice the man in the shadows. Hiashi Hyuuga signaled for a silence among the crowd and raised his glass in the air for a toast

"I am glad to see that both the main and cadet house are here to celebrate my daughter's third birthday, here is to hoping that she will grow up to be a strong leader of the Hyuuga clan as so many before her did"

As night fell and the celebration at the Hyuuga compound began to come to an end, all of the Hyuuga clan began to fall to the floor unconscious and the one still strong enough to stay conscious activated their kekkai genkai the Byakugan in hopes of seeing the ninjutsu but found none as their world too went black. As the last of the Hyuuga fell, the man from the shadows crept out and deposited the now empty glass vial back into his pocket. He began to cross the courtyard to where the main house is located along with his prey, the young Hyuuga Heiress in hopes of kidnapping her and safely making it to the boarder of Fire Country where he will be home free.

As he entered the main house, he saw that it was lightly guarded since most of the cadet house that act as guards for the main house were all at the party and now knocked out in the courtyard with the rest of the clan. As he approached Hinata's room, he saw that there was a guard standing at the door but the guard have not noticed the intruder's presence yet. Using the element of surprise, he snuck up on the guard and with a quick flick of the wrist a kunai became imbedded in the guard's neck and was dead before he even hit the ground. He opened the door to Hinata's room just enough so that he could slip in without letting too much light in and closed it just as quickly and quietly as he opened it. In the dim light he see the outline of someone laying in bed and judging by the size, the intruder assumed it was his prey so he started to slowly creep towards her trying to not make any noise. He was half across the room when he heard a loud squeak come from underneath his foot and he looked down to see a plushy toy under his foot and as he looked back up, his eyes met with the milky white eyes of the Hyuuga Heiress. Hinata woke up from her sleep when she heard a squeak come from her favorite toy and she opened her eyes to see man that she did not recognize in her room and she did the only a three could do, she let out an ear piercing scream. The scream alerted the rest of the guard in the house and they began running to Hinata's bedroom, the intruder knew that one Hyuuga or two were difficult but he could deal with them but a dozen of them would easily overpower him so he jumped out the window and began to run.

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As everybody was enjoying the celebration, there was one little boy who was not in attendance, but it wasn't because he did not want be, it was because the rest of the village would not let him come to the celebration. Tears welled up in the blue eyes of the sad little child, all he wanted to do was to go down there and have some fun like the rest of the children his age but all of the adults chased him away and called him many different names such as demon and hurtful names. As he shut his torn curtains to try to keep the sunlight out of his room, he could hear the cheers from the street below and began to cry into his pillow wondering why the people of this village hated him so much and he continued to cry until he fell asleep ignoring what was happening below.

When the child awoke, he noticed that the sun had gone down but the celebration was still going on, he also noticed that his stomach was rumbling so he went to his cupboards only to find them bare so he grabbed his frog wallet, put it into his shoe in case he was robbed again and then set off for his favorite restaurant. The blue-eyed child kept to the side streets and back alleyways to avoid the people at the celebration because he knew from experience that when people drink, they become more aggressive towards him and hurt him even worse. He finally found his way to the ramen stand and as he sat down the old man from behind the counter walked up to him and took his order, after the child ordered the old man saw him reach down into his shoe and pull out a bill to pay for the meal. As the old man was pouring the ramen into the bowl he took a look at his lone customer sitting at the bar and felt pity for the child, the child was sitting there with blond hair that had looked like it had not been washed in weeks and clothes that are about four times his size so he looked back to the boiling pot and shook his head in sadness. The child finished the bowl of ramen and went to get up but then the old man slide another bowl of ramen right in front of him and told him that it was on the house. The boy's eyes light up as he picked up his chopsticks for a second time and began to devour the bowl with gusto and the old man just looked on with a smile on his lips knowing that he made the small child a little better.

The child left the ramen stand fuller then he had felt in months and as he walked home ho forgot to stick to the back alleyways as some citizens who were drunk from the festival came up from behind and grabbed a hold of him and started to take turns beating on him. The townspeople were either too drunk or did not care enough to help the child as he cried out in pain from the bruises on his face and body that the people inflicted upon him as they held him down. After the people were satisfied, they left the small child on the ground beaten and bruised with tears in his eyes once more the happiness of a few minutes ago forgotten, the child picked himself up off the floor and willed himself not to cry in front of the people showing them that they broke him so he took off for home. As he was walking home he passed the Hyuuga compound he heard the scream come from inside and a few seconds later he saw a man jump over the wall and almost land right on top of him.

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The intruder jumped over the wall and was going to start to head for the wall of Konoha but as he leaped over the wall he saw a small child standing right were he was going to land and since he was in his descent he could not change his course. The small child and the intruder collided into one another and wound up on the floor in a mess, the man was about to yell at the kid for being in his way but then he took notice of the child was dressed and quickly thought to himself that going back with any kid is better then going back empty handed, so with a quick chop to the back of the neck, Naruto was knocked out and flung over the shoulder of the ninja as he returned to fleeing the city. As he reached the wall surrounding the city, he quickly put chakra to his feet as he ran up the side of the wall with blinding speed and as he reached the top he could feel other charka sources closing in on him and began to run down the front of the wall down towards the forest and his freedom. As he touched down on the ground he began to run as fast as he could but no matter how quick he was he could feel the presence of the chakra sources gaining on him with every passing second but the kumo ninja could make it to the boarder then he would be free and with that thought he pumped more chakra to his feet to increase his speed. In the distance the kumo ninja could the guard posts the line the boarder of the fire and wind countries and once he was passed them he was home free but as he got closer he heard a high pitched whistle come from behind him and the guards standing on duty withdrew their weapons and prepared to fight. So the Kumo ninja realized that he could not fight his full potential with the kid on his back so he would have to do a hit and run technique, so with one hand holding the kid he withdrew a kunai with his other hand and threw it at one of the two boarder guards as they released their weapons at him. The kumo ninja weapon hit true as it imbedded itself in one of the guard's head but their aim was not as good for they struck him in the arm and leg but no hit was vital and deadly and as he passed the post he saw the guard release more weapons at him so with great difficulty he pumped as much chakra as his legs could hold to increase his speed until he made it over the boarder. As the ANBU and the boarder guards watched the Kumo ninja pass over the Fire-Wind Border they knew that they had to go back to the Leaf village and report to Hokage what had happened here and see what he wished to do.

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Three ANBU stood before the Hokage as they delivered their report and as it went on Sandiame got a worse look on his face and as the report finished, he stood up and walked over to the balcony looking over the city and watched as the moon slowly made it's way over the sky.

"I want you to summon the entire village and all of the ninja that are not on missions for a meeting in front of the tower at nine a.m. tomorrow morning so they can be informed of what happened and also see if you can find out which child was taken at the same time"

"Yes Lord Hokage"

In the back of his mind, the Hokage already had a good idea of what child was taken but he did not want to jump to conclusions until the ANBU came back with the headcount report and confirmed what he feared was true. He knew that if any of the ninja families had their child taken that the clan head would be in his office as soon as it happened trying to rescue their child and there are very few civilian families that are important enough to warrant another ninja war with Cloud. He sat down at his desk as he pulled the crystal ball from the bottom drawer and activated it with his chakra and tried to find Naruto on it but as the image came up foggy he knew what that had meant, that Naruto was no longer in the village and as a single tear rolled down his face, a whisper of a sentence passed his lips

"Goodbye Naruto"

(A/N)

- Welcome to my rewrite of my old story "Demon of the sky", I personally did not like the way it was headed so I decided to delete it and start fresh with "Demon Hidden in the Clouds".

- If anyone knows a good translation site, please list it in a review.