Chapter 1

As a 7 year old Naruto ran through Konoha at night from an angry mob of civilians and ninjas, somebody was watching the scene with disgust in his red glowing eyes.

When Naruto was cornered into an ally he cowered against the walls and closed his eyes waiting for the pain as he heard the yells from the mob.

He opened his eyes and saw someone in front of him.

The person was a boy who looks to be his age, brown hair with matching brown eyes. He wore a white dress shirt, black dress pants, a black ribbon loosely yet tied around his neck as a necktie, white socks that stopped below his knee, black dress shoes and he wore a black trench coat that stops around his ankle has a lot of pockets on it and around the waist was a black belt to tighten the coat around his person.

The boy looked at Naruto a bit then back at the mob.

"Brat! Are you a demon lover?"

"Yeah! If you are then you're going to die like that demon brat!"

"Get out of the way!"

The villagers yelled out to the boy as some glared at the boy while the rest glared at the cowering blond boy; however the unknown boy just stood there unfazed at the situation in front of him.

'What is he doing? If he doesn't get out of the way he'll get hurt because of me.' Naruto thought to him self, worried for the boy in front of him.

"Why would I? Why would I let you hurt a child?"

"Child my ass! He's a fucking demon! He killed a lot of people and he still lives!"

"We should kill the demon for his sins!"

"Sins? You people shouldn't be talking about sins. Beating up a child to dull your sorrows of the people you have lost."

That just caused the mob to get more angrier than before.

"Lets get'em!" One of the villagers yelled as they charged to the two kids.

However before they could land a hand on them a few people appeared.

"What's going on here?" The Hokage commanded with a few Anbu behind him causing the mob as they began to back up a few steps.

The mob quickly turned and ran away as the ninjas just teleported away before they could get caught.

"Hokage-sama, do you want us to catch them?" Asked an Anbu, with a weasal mask.

"No, leave them be. For now we have to help little Naruto and the young boy." The Hokage said calmly as he turned to the two said kids.

"Naruto, are you alright?" The third asked as he walked toward the said scared blond.

"Y-yeah, thanks to that person,"Pointing at the quiet boy, "he stopped them before they could hit me." Naruto had a smile on his face.

The third smiled back at the boy and ruffled his hair. He picked Naruto up and carried him in one of his arms as he turned around to look at the black haired boy.

"Thank you very much for what you have done for Naruto." The third patted the boy's head in thanks.

"Thank you" Naruto said cutely with his big blue eyes staring at the unknown boy.

"You're welcome"

"Jiji, is it okay for me to treat him to ramen as thanks for saving me?" The third nodded with a smile on his face.

"Tell Teuchi-san that it's on me."

"Okay" Naruto excitedly jumped out of the Hokage's hold and landed on the ground close to the black haired boy.

"Come on, we'll eat at Ichiraku ramen. They're the best ramen you could ever eat." Naruto dragged the unknown boy toward the said place, Ichiraku ramen.

"You're strange." The boy said to Naruto as they were close to Ichiraku's. Naruto stopped walking after hearing the comment and looked at Kaname with a teary look on his face.

"S-strange? T-that's m-m-mean."

"I apologize, let me rephrase the sentence. You are a bit different from people. They do not drag strangers to lunch before properly meeting eachother."

"Oh," Naruto had a sheepish smile on his face as he continued to drag him to Ichiraku's. "then my Name's Naruto Uzumaki, and I'm going to be Hakage. What's your name?"

"Kaname, Kaname Kuran."

They then were in front of Ichiraku and Naruto was the first one to go in.

"Teuchi, can I have 6 big bowls of chicken?"

"Coming right up. Are you going to be paying for it this time?"

"No, jiji said it's on him." Naruto said happily as he sat on the stools with Kaname sitting next to him.

"You must be really happy." Ayame said as she came in with some ingredients in her hands.

"Yep, jiji is always helping me along with Teuchi and you and now Kaname."

"Kaname?"

"Yep, he saved me from the mob a couple of minutes ago." Naruto jestured to Kaname.

"Thank you for saving Naruto, my name's Ayame while this here" Jesturing her father. "is my father, Teuchi."

"Kaname Kuran."

"Do you want something to eat?" Ayame asked.

"No thank you, I ate already before I came across the scene where Naruto-san was running from a mob."

When Naruto and Kaname walked out of the shop Naruto began to ask Kaname questions.

"Why were you out so late?"

"I was just bored so I just thought of having a night walk."

"How come I don't see you around the village?" Naruto asked curiously.

"I don't like the sun."

"Really? I like the sun sometimes." Naruto said a bit sadly with a sad smile on his face.

"Why?" Kaname said a bit curiously also.

"... No reason" Naruto said hesitantly.

Kaname then became more curious of Naruto because of his hesitation to answer such a simple answer.

"Where do you live?" Naruto asked happily again.

"I don't feel like answering."

"Eh, how come?" Naruto whined.

"..."

"Fine, don't tell me." Naruto whined looking away from Kaname.

Kaname took a quick glance to see a cute pout causing Kaname to have amusement in his eyes.

"Why is it...?" Kaname hesitated to ask Naruto something.

"Hm?"

"Why is it that the villagers tried to attack you and why is it that they called you a demon and such?"

"I don't know, they always tried to attack me after I left the orphange." Naruto said emotionlessly at the word 'orphange' as he stopped walking.

Kaname heard the tone of his voice and took another glance at Naruto, as he stopped walking also, to see no emotion in his eyes.

'Hollow' Was what Kaname could describe of how it looked. 'Why is he like this? Why is it that the boy changes expressions? Why is it that he makes me so curious about him?'