Naruto was six years old when the topic „love" was first talked about.
It was a rather chilly day at the playground and for some reason unkown kiba had started talking about some girl with pretty pale blue eyes that he liked. The boy that talked for hours about her and had bored away almost every other child. With a tilted head he had asked Naruto, " And who do you like,Naruto? "
The truth was nobody. At only six,he had not the mental Process to explain that: no Kiba,he doesn't like anybody and he was busy trying to keep a roof over his head and not get murdered for existing for having a crush, thank you very much. So Naruto did the mature thing and rolled his eyes and said, " Eww no! Girls are gross! ".
At the end nobody really cared,they were six after all.
One day there was a group Assignment.Naruto hated group Assignment.
Turns out that when the entire Village hates you people don't want to be in your group.