Naruto was hungry and Ichiraku ramen was closed because Teuchi-san had broken his arm falling down stairs. That was the only reason he went near the civilian district. He had heard good things about Yakiniku-Q from Chouji and decided to try his luck there.

But as it always happened, the owner there also had some unexplained grudge against Naruto and accused him of stealing. He wouldn't hear of Naruto trying to defend himself and as usual there wasn't going to be any help from the crowd. Naruto prepared himself to run away from another public humiliation, when a white haired geezer stopped the restaurant owner from hitting him.

"What is going on here?" He asked in a really scary voice.

Since he hadn't automatically assumed Naruto to be the one to blame, the blonde haired prankster rushed to explain his side of the story. "I just wanted to buy food but he's lying to everybody that I tried to steal meat. That's not true, I paid him 800 ryo and why would I want to steal meat, I don't even cook."

The old man looked at him briefly before turning back to the owner, "Even if he had stolen something, you are supposed to lodge a complaint with the police, not assault a child publically."

"Don't you know who he is? He's the demon brat." The teme spat in Naruto's direction.

"I'm perfectly aware of who he is, the jinchuriki of Konoha, the container of the nine tailed demon fox and the human sacrifice protecting Konoha everyday. He should be honoured instead of being reviled. My sister in law, Senju Mito was the first jinchuriki of Kyuubi and I wouldn't allow her legacy to be insulted in this way."

"Ah drat." Naruto heard the curly haired Uchiha beside the white haired man mutter, as he tried to understand what had been revealed about him. He had heard call him the demon brat, of course, but he didn't think in his wildest dreams that he actually contained the Kyuubi inside him.

Before he could ponder further about it Curly spoke up, "Tobirama-sama, Naruto-kun, I think we need to go to the Hokage office now."

That was when Naruto noticed that everyone in the crowd was staring at the white haired dude (Tobirama, Curly had called him) with wide eyes, as if he had committed some unthinkable crime. He wasn't given much time to observe as he was rudely picked up by Curly and carried to jiji's office with the swirly lead teleportation thing.

As he tried not to vomit on jiji's new carpet ( it wasn't that hard, he hadn't eaten much that day), he tried to think of where had he hear the name Tobirama before.