Altair Ibn-La'Ahad looked at the large village in front of him "this is larger than Masyaf by far!" said Altair to himself as he walked through the village gate with a note in hand

Altair Ibn-La'Ahad

I do hope I spelled it right anyway I am the third Hokage of the village hidden in the leaves Hiruken Sarutobi

I send this letter to congratulate you on your new position as head assassin of your order we heard about the man Al Mualim and his plot and we thank you for ridding the world of such a man for he would have become a major problem for us as well as yourself.

Anyway I was wondering if you would like to see the village hidden in the leaves and if you would teach a few Gennin some tricks that you know

Hiruken Sarutobi Hokage of Konoha

P.S show this letter to the guards at the gate and they shall grant you access

Altair looked over the letter one more time as he passed the gate guards who were trying to get his attention he simply showed them the letter and walked through without saying a word h walked up to the what must have been the Hokage's tower he remembered coming here with Al Mualim. Back then it was the fourth the young man Minato Namikaze was it not? Well he would have to see. Wait what was that? an orange flash went past him as he was thinking to himself a crowd was running after him yelling profanities (a/n love that word) and throwing strange knives at the boy. As an assassin of the order and as a man he couldn't stand to see this happen he ran back after the boy who was currently being cornered.

"Why are you doing this to me!" the boy shouted all the while the villagers were throwing rocks at him they were hesitant though to kill him. Altair activated his eagle vision seeing the boy was in gold and the crowed was just a blur of red. he jumped down from his hiding position in front of the boy and grabbed a rock that would have seriously hurt naruto

"Boy get on your feet now" Altair ordered naruto

"Who are you" naruto asked scared of this man in a white hood

"A friend, now get behind me"

The crowed stood amazed at what they were seeing this man was helping the daemon spawn! One of the villagers shouted "what do you think your doing helping the daemon spawn?" the villager was cut off as Altair had his hand in front of his throat the man just fell to the ground blood spurted out the mans throat covering Altair in blood making the scene more gruesome the other villagers looked at this man and he said

"this boy is now under my protection would anyone else like to die tonight?"

Three villagers who had pitchforks and clubs ran at Altair. Altair simply danced between them pulling out his sword glinting in the moonlight. Naruto watched as this man killed three villagers and saved his life with complete ease the remaining villagers had already ran when he had finished he knelt before the dead and spoke in a language naruto was un-familiar with and got up again Altair looked at the boy and said "what is your name boy?"

"N-Naruto Uzumaki sir"

"Well my name is Altair Ibn-La'Ahad. Please just call me Altair though"

"Thank you mister Altair" naruto said truly thankful

"Come boy I am going to see the Hokage of this village I think I have a plan that will stop you from being hunted"

HOKAGE'S OFFICE

Hokage Sarutobi was fighting his most worthy adversary, paperwork, wishing for a distraction anything would do really it was then that he heard his secretary say "I'm sorry the Hokage's very busy at the moment with paperwork and cannot be dis….."She was cut off as a man in a white hood walked into the room with naruto in tow the sword on his belt was recognisable instantly

"its alright he is allowed to be here" the Hokage said

"lord Hokage it has been a long time and I am sorry to inform of three deaths in the village" Altair said keeping his hood raised so only his mouth and nose was visible to the old man

"you wouldn't have anything to do with that would you?" the old man said looking at the assassin

"Well they were attacking this boy and I could not just sit back and watch" Altair said his voice impassive as all the assassins

"Well then I will have there bodies buried and there family will be notified" Sarutobi said a little sadly

"Sarutobi I was wondering if I may adopt the boy?" Altair said as if he were asking about the weather

Both naruto and Sarutobi had their mouths agape "what?" They both said

Altair allowed a smile to cross his usually impassive face and looked at the boy "you naruto have great potential for an assassin you have no idea how strong you would become. Of course one of my brothers would become the new head assassin but I do not feel that it would affect me I never liked paperwork anyway"

Sarutobi chuckled at this and silently agreed with him and handed him the documents naruto looked at the man who was to be his adoptive father. And smiled