THE MEETING ' PART-1'

*Tap tap tap tap* footsteps could heard as a little boy was running through the alley under the night sky, behind him was a mob full of people with crazed look running after him. They were shouting at his back as the boy ran right at the end of the alley and took a sharp right turn, he almost fell down but he saved himself in time. He saw a small opening in a run down house across the deserted street and quickly went inside it.

After he hid inside the house, the mob came around. They looked around but they couldn't find any trace of the boy on the deserted street. One of them said," Where did that demon brat go?!"

"He can't run very far, after all he is only a child" said a burly man in a serious tone.

But next to the man a women screeched," That thing is NOT a child, he is a MONSTER!!! He took away my sister!!" The woman had a distorted expression on her face when she said that.

Another person who was quite thin tried to calm down the crazed lady. He said," Calm yourself Nina, I know how you feel ..... after all I too lost my parents in that tragedy. we will find that demon and hand him over to Lord Danzo."

He turned to look at the burly man and asked him" So what happened at the council meeting with lord hokage Shiba?"

The now-named Shiba said," The council members were quite furious with hokage sama. They demanded that the fox brat should be handed over to Danzo sama otherwise Lord hokage has to suffer the wrath of the entire civilians. You understand that Koro?" Shiba was an assistant of a highly ranked council member so he new man inside information.

"Yes I understand that b..but how come hokage sama conceded so easily?! after all he is the strongest person in the entire village. Didn't he protest against them" asked the thin man named koro.

" It seems like the civilian council was somehow able to get the support of the Daimao of the fire nation. The daimao too thinks that a monster like him shouldn't be allowed to move so freely. Even some of the ninjas of our village support the council cause they too lost their loved ones, Anyways hokage sama wasn't that much concerned about the boy and he decided to give up on him as Lord hokage too thinks that the boy should be absolutely loyal to konoha. So he allowed Lord Danzo to take away the boy" said Shiba.

" Stop your nonsense talks lest the boy escapes too far from us. Get your asses to work!!" came a sudden voice from the middle of the crowd.

They all looked towards the person who uttered those words. He was an middled aged man in his forties. His name was jiro, a merchant who had quite some connection in the underworld. The mob nodded their head and dispersed to search for the boy.

Not far away from them was the run down house, inside which hid the boy. He was a boy of about five to six years old. He wore a white t-shirt with pants which only reached up to his knee. He had spiky blonde hair, an oval face covered with dirt and three whisker marks on each of his cheeks. He had blues eye, currently from which tears ran down like a stream. His name is Naruto Uzumaki also known as the demon fox.

He had heard everything those people spoke. He heard how the old man he looked up to has so easily given up on him. The old man of whom he thought as a grandfather has so easily left him to his fate. After hearing the truth about the person he cared for so much the little boy broke down hysterically. He was absolute despair.

He thought to himself sobbing 'No no I can't give up here. If I show up now in front of them, they are either going to kill me or send me to that person whom they called Danzo. I have to get out of here, out of this wretched village'

After gathering some courage he wiped away those tears and slowly and carefully came out of the house, he looked around to check if there was someone or not. After knowing that no one was around he started running towards a certain location of the village. This was a place far north of the village which led to the forest of death, an extremely dangerous region. Naruto had found out a secret location from which one could enter the forest of death. He was sure that nobody would look form him in that place so he decided to go to that place.

Slowly but surely he was able to get past the mob by hiding himself time to time as he got near to the secret location.

As he was getting quite near to the place suddenly his sense of danger flared up, he quickly side stepped in time to dodge a shuriken coming from behind him. Still the Shuriken was able to knick his left cheek.

"Oh it seems that the fox has got some reflexes" came a sarcastic voice from behind him.

When Naruto looked back, his eyes widened and he was struck with fear. Behind him were two figures wrapped in black cloaks. They had masks on their faces.

" Don't waste time, let us catch the boy and get out of here otherwise Lord Danzo will angry at us" said the voice that belonged to the woman in the mask. Her partner whined

" Oh come on let me enjoy it a bit and after this I will surely follow your command"

"Tsk whatever, just do it quickly" said the woman with annoyance.

The man looked at Naruto and said " Now little fox run fast as you can or I am going to cut your arms, legs and gouge out your eyes."

Listening to this Naruto's blood freezed, without any hesitation he ran into the forest. Following him were the two masked figures.

As all this things unfolded, nobody noticed that they were being watched by two pair of eyes from the clouds above.