• Chapter One
    The Newcomer

    It has been seventeen years since the attack on the caravan, and seven years since Alan decided to leave it to wander alone. Alan Walkstone, the child the ninja had used to seal the wolf demon in, is now eighteen years old. He wore his usual clothes a black vest with a white shirt underneath, grey pants and black shoes. He wanders the forest looking for a village he'd heard of in a restaurant hoping that maybe there he can fulfill his dream of being a hero. He had already been to several other villages hoping to become a ninja, but despite the fact he had the ability to use charka and ninjutsu he never received his wish. Every time he entered a village people hated him. he recalled what one person had said to him once in a shop. "I don't know why but for some reason looking at you just ticks me off." "Man, it doesn't make any since how can someone just naturally hate me." he thought. As he was thinking this he caught a flash movement on his right and two kunai knives flew out of the bushes at him. Pulling out his own kunai he easily blocked them. "Alright show yourselves!" Alan shouted. A person steps out of the bushes and laughs. "Not bad, kid but it'll take more than that to defeat me." the man lunged at Alan brandishing a sword and just as Alan was about dodge the attack a person with spiky blond hair and black and orange jumpsuit , Jumps in front of him and punches the man straight in the face sending him flying back. "Aghhh, who the he- k-konoha ninja." the man said fearfully. "hehe you got that right, now why don't you scram before i pulverize you." The blond said grinning punching his palm with his fist. With fear in his eyes the man got up and ran. "Woah, so this is a ninja." Alan thought shocked by what he had seen. Just then two more ninja come out of the forest, onto the path. "Jeez, you can never wait can you. you're so impatient." The voice came from a girl that couldn't be more than sixteen with pink hair and green eyes. wearing a red top and a light pink looking skirt, with black short tights under it visible on the sides of her skirt. "wow shes pretty." Alan thought looking at her. "Hm, what are you looking at." she asked catching my gaze. "Uh, n-nothing." Alan said quickly looking away with a little red on his face. This time it was the ninja with silver hair, wearing a headband over one eye and a green vest over a blue ninja uniform. "I agree with Sakura on that, but right now why don't we introduce ourselves to our guest." the man stated calmly. "Huh, oh right. The names Naruto Uzumaki, pleased to meet you." The blond said. "I'm Sakura Haruno." Stated the pink haired girl. "And I'm Kakashi hatake." the third ninja said simply. "I'm Alan Walkstone, nice to meet you all." Alan says smiling big.
    "Alan... what kind of name is that?" Naruto asks. As he says this Sakura raises her fist and hits him over the head.
    "Ow. what did i do?"
    "Be respectful it's obvious he's not from around here!" She shouts fuming at Naruto. Alan laughs just shrugging it off. "It's alright I get all the time, but I have to ask why did you help me?" Alan asked looking at Naruto.
    "Huh, I don't know it just seemed like something I should do." He said.
    "I see, not that I'm complaining its just that I'm not used to receiving help. people just usually hate me before they even get to know me." At this point Sakura looks at him with sympathy while, Kakashi looks at Alan questionably "Could this boy be?" He wonders. "Hey I got an idea why don't you come with us to Konoha there's plenty of people there that would like to be friends with ya." Naruto piped up. "Really you think so. Well that's great I was actually heading that way!" Alan Replied. Beside us Sakura smiles and chuckles. Then looks up at Kakashi noticing the serious look on his face. "What are you thinking sensei?"
    "I'm thinking Naruto's right Alan should come with us." Then he steps forward announcing "Well if we want to get back to the village any time soon we better go now." They all pipe up "yes sir." As they start walking in the direction of the village Alan notices for the first time in a while that he feels happy. He felt that for the first time he was accepted and equal to the people walking beside him. When they finally made it to the village Alan was shocked by what he saw. "This is konoha." He said wide eyed.
    "Yep, welcome to your new home." Sakura said with a smile.