Naruto
Twelve years earlier than the events at the focus of the series, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox showed aggression to Konohagakure. Potent enough to raise tsunamis and knock down mountains with a whoosh of one of its appendages, it raised disarray and slaughtered many people, until the chief of the Leaf Village – the Fourth Hokage – forfeited his own life to stick down the demon within Naruto when he was a newborn. The Fourth Hokage, who was renowned as a hero for sealing the mischievous sprite fox away, sought Naruto to be cherished in a comparable light by being the restraint container for the demon fox.
The Leaf Village , however, turned away from him, concerning Naruto as if he were the demon fox itself and badly treated him all the way through most of his childhood. A diktat made by the Third Hokage forbade everyone to discuss or reveal the attack of the demon fox to anyone, even their own children. However, this did not stop them from treating him like a recluse and as a consequence he grew up an orphan without acquaintances, relatives, or recognition. He could not oblige citizens to make friends with him, so he sought appreciation and consideration the only way he knew – through high jinks and naughtiness.
