Hope is held by friends (Naruto fanfic) (ON HOLD)

Mystery person reveled!!

To avoid confusion later, Naruto's parents are still alive, and he has a sister to!!! Her name's Mika and she's a year younger, bit of a @%#$& though. His family also neglects him, and that's where the mysterious white-haired person comes into play. Well, enjoy!!!

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Naruto slowly blinked open his eyes to find himself in a strange place, it wasn't his house and not somewhere he recognized. He looked around, trying to figure out where he was. It was probably an old apartment building from the looks of it. (He's had to hide in a countless number of places)

After thinking about it for a while he finally realized he had several bandages all over the place. And he was carefully placed in a bed too, which made him thoroughly confused. His own parents never set him to bed at night, and they only acknowledged him when he was late. And that often resulted in a hard slap from Kushina.

'Where am I now?'

"Probably that humans home"

Naruto blinked several times then said out loud, "Kurama?"

"I'm speaking to you from your mind scape so unless you want people to think your insane just talk to me mentally."

'Oh, okay.'

Naruto stiffly got out of the bed, his body was still rather sore though his wounds weren't in any danger of reopening. He carefully made his way to what looked like the kitchen, and then he heard what sounded like soft snoring.

'Um, Kurama?'

"What?"

'What should I do?'

"Go check it out obviously."

Naruto simply started walking towards the sound, which was coming from the living room area. And sprawled out on the couch was 12 or 13 year old girl with waist long white hair, snoring softy.

Naruto just stood there, shocked. This girl had patched him up? She suddenly twitched in her sleep, the spastic kind that meant she was probably having a nightmare. But it startled the blonde, making him fall backwards with a yelp.

"Aww, is the kit scared?" Kurama laughed from Naruto's mindscape, Clearly enjoying the show.

'That wasn't funny Kura.' The blonde pouted, not enjoying the foxes comment.

"Where did that nickname come from?"

'Am I not aloud to call you Kura?'

"No, you're not."

'Well then you can't call me kit.'

Naruto's argument with Kurama was interrupted when the girl suddenly shifted in her sleep. Then she bolted upright so fast and with so much momentum she somehow managed to fall over the back of her couch. While Naruto and Kurama where to shocked to even say anything.

"That was............. interesting."

Naruto slowly climbed up onto the couch and peeked over the edge, ready to run at a moments notice. The girl was lying on her back with her eyes shut tight, wait, her one visible eye. Her white hair covered the left side of her face. Naruto finally looked at what she was wearing, a loose gray tee-shirt and normal black pants. Pretty simple. Then she moved her hands to her head and started rubbing her face before she looked up at the blonde with her pale, emerald green, slit pupil eye.

"You okay kid? Cause you had some really bad wounds." The girl said, causing Naruto to sweatdrop.

"I should be the one asking you that." Naruto replied. The girl just gave him a big toothy grin before laughing and sitting up, that big grin still on her face.

"I'll be fine. But thanks for worrying." Then her face grow serious. "I barely managed to patch you up. I had to transfer some of my blood to you just to keep you alive." And then she rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly. "Which may have resulted in a slight change of hair color."

"Huh?!" Naruto said, and immediately started looking for a mirror. He saw one and ran to it, picking it up an looking at his reflection. His hair now had streaks of silvery-white running through it. So his hair was now a silvery-blonde color instead sunshine yellow, his pupils where now a bit oval shaped as well.

"You look pretty good considering your only a six year old runt. All the girls will be going nuts." Kurama laughed.

A depressing aura appeared around the blonde, "I look like an old man." He said, clearly depressed about it.

"Oh come on, that's a small price to pay for being alive. And you don't look that bad." The girl said, standing up and brushing off her clothes. "Now wait a minute and I'll get you something to eat." She said before walking towards the kitchen.

Naruto blinked, she was actually getting him something to eat? His own parents never did that for him. The blonde followed her in to the kitchen where she was starting to cook what seemed to be raman. Naruto had just met her, and yet she was treating him like family. The blonde sits down on one of the chairs to ponder this.

"So what's your name? Mine's Valla." The newly named Valla turns toward the blonde. Naruto looked at Valla, not quite sure how to respond.

"N-naruto, its Naruto." The blonde replied.

"You loooooove her." Kurama laughs. (And in a distant universe a certain blue cat sneezes) Naruto's cheeks turned slightly pink and gained a tick mark on his forehead.

'Shut up you stupid fox.' Naruto angrily says to Kurama. (A certain blonde next to a blue cat sneezes as well)

Valla gives Naruto another big toothy grin before turning back to the raman. And then Naruto realizes something, Valla has pointed ears(think Zelda or Blue Exorcist), which where sticking out from under her hair. Naruto thinks back to Valla's smile, she has fangs too. Just what is she?

"Not human for sure."

'But didn't you say she was human?'

"Yeah but now I can tell that she doesn't have a sent."

'No sent?! What about her fangs and ears?'

"That's even more proof, cause most demons have fangs. I don't know anything about the ears though."

Their conversation was once again interrupted when a steaming bowl of ramen was placed in front of Naruto.

"Dig in." Valla said, sitting down across from Naruto. The blonde started eating so fast the bowl was gone in about 3.5 seconds. Naruto gave a content sigh, before his eyes started to feel heavy. He yawned, causing Valla to chuckle. She stood up from her chair and walked over to the blonde and picked him up. Now Naruto would have normally flinched away from that, but he felt comfortable around Valla. She just gave off this calming, peaceful aura. And her arms where so comfortable.

Valla laid the blonde back on the bed and pulled the covers over him. She gave the boy a soft, caring smile as he fell asleep.

"Sleep well, brother."