naruto is 4 years old its his birthday and the villagers are having the fox hunt where they hunt naruto down and nearly kill him if it wasnt for the third hokage he would be dead after his birthday hes walking in the streets when he hears som guys laughing and making fun of a girl so he decides to go and stop it ending up with a 5vs1 naruto can only take out to before getting a kunai to the back and the guys left after. The girl who was being made fun of came over to help him after that they become good freinds but after naruto decides to leave the village debating if he should bring hinata or not