39Wings of the Leaf
Hello everyone! This is my first solo story on this site, and I'm going to try my best, please no flames and no hate and rude comments. I am all for constructive criticism, but I hope you all follow the old rule: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything.
This story is going to be an OC x possible harem, but the main girl is either going to be Anko Mitarashi, Hana or Tsume Inuzuka or Yugao Uzuki. if you can think of anyone else, let me know and I'll consider it. In addition, this OC is my own personal idea, if someone else has made a similar idea; I apologize if you think I stole from you.
"Konoha" = Normal speech
'Konoha' = Thoughts
"Konoha" = Bijū speech
"Konoha" = Jutsu/Techniques
Chapter 1: Chilly Arrival
Konohagakure no Sato, otherwise known as the Village Hidden in the Leaves, was for a lack of a better term, in a peaceful time. It had only been about five years since the night the Kyūbi no Kitsune had attacked the village and was defeated by the Yondaime Hokage, sealed within a young boy at the cost of the man's life.
This boy's name is Naruto Uzumaki. The boy was rather short for his age and normally wore a white t-shirt with a red spiral on the back, black pants, and blue sandals. He had a mop of spiky blonde hair and bright cerulean blue eyes. Adorning his cheeks were three whisker marks each as well, showing everyone who he was and what he carried.
Konoha was experiencing winter right now, the streets, roofs, and trees covered with snow as more of it fell, the warm air had a comfortable but not entirely enjoyable chill to it from the cold season, and children around the village were often out playing in the snow. At the north gate leading in and out of the village, two shinobi guards sat, bundled up in coats with a small fire near them for warmth as they watched the gate while talking over random rumours and gossip around the village. Being so absorbed into their conversation, neither of them noticed a small figure stumble past them and the gate and head into the village, said figure appearing to have a limp of some sort as they walked.
The figure walked the streets of the village, glancing around with bright golden yellow eyes as they took in what they were seeing, families out and about either talking with friends or playing with their children, kids the stranger's own age, playing and laughing happily with each other bundled up in their coats to protect them from the cold. All in all, there was an air of warmth and peace amongst the citizens of the village. The figure kept walking, the limp ever still present before they came to a playground at the village's shinobi academy, the figure spotted a concrete dome that was meant for children to play in and around before moving toward said dome and crawling inside, curling up in a ball slowly and trying to warm themselves up.
As the day went on, one of the classes at the academy was let out for a bit of recess from their lessons as the kids all rushed to the playground, but upon arriving their, one of the kids looked inside the dome and saw a small boy with the strangest looking hair he had ever seen on his side curled up and unconscious. The boy quickly rushed inside to get his Sensei, who promptly rushed outside to the playground and looked at the boy.
Iruka Umino was rather troubled and confused, he had only recently become a teacher at the academy, and during his first year of teaching, he found he enjoyed it, but when one of his students came in saying he found a boy unconscious in the small dome on the playground, Iruka was concerned as the main thought in his mind kept repeating.
'Did one of my students get hurt?!'
When Iruka reached the concrete dome and crawled in, he immediately noticed the boy wasn't his student, he didn't even recognize the boy, but that could wait 'till later, the boy was obviously cold and judging by the red colouring that stained parts of the rather torn and ragged clothes he wore, he was hurt as well. Iruka quickly and gently picked the boy up and rushed him to the hospital after telling his student who found the boy to find another academy teacher and have him or her inform the Sandaime Hokage about what had transpired.
+Hokage's Office+
Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Sandaime Hokage also known as the 'Professor' and 'God of Shinobi' was busy in his office most of the chilly winter day, dealing with the greatest enemy of all Kage, Paperwork. As he was nearly halfway done with the stack of papers, one of the academy teachers rushed into the room.
"H...Hokage-sama, Iruka-san sent me to inform you, a young boy was found injured severely on the playground at the academy during recess today, he is currently taking the boy to the hospital, but it doesn't seem he is a student, in fact no one recognized the boy."
Hiruzen stood up and thanked the teacher for informing him as he quickly left to head for the hospital.
+Konoha Hospital+
Hiruzen arrived at the hospital to find a concerned Iruka waiting for him.
"Iruka-kun, how are you doing today?" he asked kindly. Many in the village often saw the Hokage as almost a sort of kind grandfather figure to most of the younger generations, and even some of the older generations as well, his kind attitude and tone with the villagers was often a very welcome sight.
Iruka nodded with a smile and a bow to the village leader. "I am well Hokage-sama, a bit chilly with the current weather, but the boy I found, I can only hope he wakes up."
The Hokage nodded and sighed. "Be honest Iruka, how bad was his condition?"
Hiruzen started walking toward the boy's room as Iruka followed at his side.
"Well it wasn't pretty, the kids in my class thought he was asleep, but his clothes looked like he was beaten up rather brutally. His left ankle was sprained, his right arm was broken, and he seemed to have been bleeding quite a bit before he got here, he was unconscious probably from his injuries and the cold, but he was barely breathing when I got him here." Iruka had sadness and worry prevalent in his voice, the boy was old enough to be in his current class and yet he was in such horrible shape. "There is one other thing of note Hokage-sama, the boys hair is a snowy silver with faint highlights of gray and black as well, and it appears that it's natural as well."
Hiruzen's eyes widened a bit from that bit of information. He was saddened by the condition the boy was in, but his hair colour caught the old leaders attention, his mind wandered back to a young woman who was well known in the village and had passed away not long ago, dying in the line of duty.
"Iruka, we might have someone very special in our midst. I think I might have an idea who this young man is" Iruka looked at the Hokage as they reached the door to the boy's room where he still lay unconscious.