I do not own Naruto...Sadly.

This will be my third story I hope you all enjoy it, Please read and reviews are always story starts off with a bit of angst in it, I am not going to keep it this way the story will be come more up beat as it goes on. So I hope you stick with everyone I look forward to the reviews.

Chapter one pain.

"No, don't go please mother, father don't leave me!" A small child of five yelled out the rain mixed with his tear soaked face, hiding the amount of tears already shed.

The child cried for a couple of hours until a social worker came for him, he only had a few family members that might take him in. His family was small and most of the people who remained were old, and needed someone to take care of them so it made it hard to place the child.

"Shino?" A woman called out to him her hand held out for him to take, she had straight blond hair, brown eyes and wear red lipstick along with her red fingernails and toes.

"Do I have to leave mommy and daddy alone, I really don't want to they miss a lot when they go away sometimes I don't want them to miss me?"Shino sniffled as he took the women's hand, he looked up at her with tears in his eyes only to see her frown.

"I am afraid you have to leave them here for now, but one day when its time you'll see them again." The women said in a soft sweet voice that made Shino calm down a bit.

"Whats your name miss?" Shino once again sniffled as he talked, almost in a gruff whisper.

"Its Tsunade, it's very nice to meet you Shino." She smiled at him as she took him to her car it was almost a night-time black van.

"Where are we going miss Tsunade, I really don't want to go to far from mommy and daddy?" Shino whispered out.

"We are going to a home for kids that need new mommies and daddy's." She said in a sweet tone, patting him on the head as she put him in a boaster seat buckling him in as she did so.

"But why can't I stay with any of my family?" Shino whimpered he was scared and didn't want to go to a home he didn't know.

Tsunade sighed she knew this was rough on him but she needed to drive, so instead of answering the poor boys question she flipped on the radio. Only to have the song tug at Shinos heart, its went with how his day and life were going right now.

Sara Jackson-Holman – Freight Train

Grief is a freight train,

y'know what's a little pain

when you have so much to love?

Grief is a freight train,

y'know what's a little pain

when you have so much to love?

Forever as a slow dream

all what I've ever think,

when you've got so much to lose.

Hope is a fast car,

only takes you so far away,

all you've got are to learn.

Close your eyes.

Take to the sky like a big blue kite,

leave your words behind.

Close my eyes.

Try to remember what you said to me,

before you said goodbye.

Love is a slow song,

playing on the radio.

I know every word by heart.

Happiness is a soft light

that way we see our life by

only fading to the dark.

Close your eyes.

Take to the sky like a big blue kite,

leave your words behind.

Close my eyes.

Try to remember what you said to me,

before you said goodbye.

At the end of the song Shino had remembered the last time he spoke to his family, the last words he said to his mother and his father. He would never again want to feel love, he would shut out the world he never wanted to lose anyone he loved ever again.

They pulled up to a dark gray building it had an air of terror about it, like if you made just one wrong move it would eat you alive. Shino being only five froze the house was to scary he just wanted to go home, but with no luck of that happening he was pulled out of his seat and placed on the ground. Bag in one hand and Tsunade's hand in his unoccupied hand, she smiled at him sweetly and pulled him along to the dark gray building with windows that looked broken.

"Shizune I'm here I have Shino with me to we have his bed ready?" Tsunade asked a black-haired women with dark eyes behind the front desk, she smiled down at Shino who just looked away.

"Yes, it's on the third floor with the other boys." She said almost in a sickly sweet tone it sounded so fake, even to Shinos ears.

Tsunade walked him up the four flights of stairs that lead to the boys rooms, he would be put in with a boy he would never be able to get ride of. Naruto Uzumaki had almost the same tragic back ground, but he lost his family right after being born he had been bounced from family home to family home. Ending his long five-year bounce here at the orphanage, Shino was hit with the smell of dust and mold as he walked into the room he would share with the blond.

"Shino this is Naruto he will be your roommate while you are staying here." She smiled kindly at the blond boy before them, who quietly nodded to Shino.

"Nice to meet you."Shino said in his already deep voice, it sent a calming wave over the blond and he instantly liked the other boy.

"It's nice to meet you to um...Whats your name?" Shino blinked was the boy unable to hear his name being said before hand?

"Shino." He said calmly.

"Oh yeah that's right sorry I was spacing before, nice to meet hey miss Tsunade is it time to eat yet I'm starving?"Naruto moaned out as his stomach made its self known to the two before him.

Shino shook his head at the boy in front of him it would be easy not to like the boy, well at least that's what he thought but we all know how Naruto works. With a smirk on her face Tsunade laughed at the boys stomach, he patted him on the head and shook hers in reply he pouted at her no and went back to sitting at the window.

"Well Shino dinner will be done soon why don't you get settled in the mean time." And with that the blond women left the two boys alone, Shino started to unpack only to stop when the other blond sat on his bed.

"So whats your story?" Naruto asked not so subtle at all.

"None of your business ." Shino shot back in an annoyed voice.

"Oh come on I'll tell you my story if you tell me yours."Naruto whined out making Shino cringe at the voice, it was so high pitch you think the glass window would break.

"Go away." Shino snapped out.

Naruto took a step back he didn't want to upset his new roommate everyone hated him anyway, he didn't want this person who held the same pain in their eyes as he did to hate him to.

"I'm sorry I-everyone hates me, I never get adopted I've been here for a while I-I'm just sorry." Naruto said with a sniffle whipping his eyes free of tears as he walked back to his window, to look out it as the other kids play games with each other.

Shino looked up at Naruto looking into the boys eyes and seeing all the pain flashing in them, Shino couldn't hate him he wouldn't be able not to like him so Shino dropped his head and grunted.

"Hey, um...I'm sorry it's just been a long day." shino said in a quiet voice making Naruto strain to hear him, but he smiled at his roommate jumping off the window seat to go to the others bed.

"So...tell me about yourself?" Naruto asked in a shy voice not wanting to upset his maybe friend, Shino sighed he was going to cave this boy was just to nice.

Naruto would be the only one to hear about how if family died, and how Shino really felt for the longest time. The two would become closer over time building on the friendship they both desbratly needed, Naruto would only tell Shino of his past and why everyone hated him. No one ever found out about the blonds past without him being the one to tell it, this made Shino feel special like he could clam the blond as a brother now.

"Hey new guy and freak foods on." One of the older boys about ten or eleven said through a crack in the door, the name freak making both boys red in the face with anger.

"Do they call you that all the time?" Shino asked in a hushed voice, Naruto just nodded his head sadly in reply.

Shino stopped Naruto from going down the stairs he had yet to put away his clothes, but thought it best to dress like his father would so as to not show his anger. Shino put on the shade his father had bought for him a month before his death, and the coat his mother had bought for him at the same time. He smiled when Naruto gave him a confused look, he simply nodded and headed for the door now he would be a freak to.

"What the heck is her wearing?" One of the older kids whispered when Shino and Naruto walked in to the dinning room, they got their food and sat in the back of the room away from everyone else.

"Shino why are you dressed like that?" Naruto asked confused about his new friends look.

"Because I want us to be equal Naruto, it's not fair you put up with all this stuff alone." Shino whispered back in his deep voice, this relaxed Naruto he had a friend that cared enough to do something nice for him.

"So Shino what kinda stuff do you like?" Naruto questioned the boy as they ate the gray looking mush on their plates.

"Bugs, I like bugs all kinds of bugs." Shino smiled at Naruto who shivered, he hated spiders but if Shino liked bugs he knew of a place they could go that Shino would like."What about you Naruto what do you like?" Naruto shot his head up in surprise no one ever asked him stuff like that.

"Frogs, I'm not to big on bugs but I know a place we can go to if you want?" Naruto smiled at Shino who simply nodded his head yes, but before that could happen they would have to deal with the two bully's coming for them.

"Hey freak I see you have a friend now, so whats your deal glasses boy?" Shino smirked but it was hidden from them by his coat, he held out his hands and out crawled two large hissing roches.

"What...Oh thats so nasty you freaky bug boy,bet your eyes look like theirs to let's get out of here nasty." The boy with brown hair said turning to walk away before he became infested with bugs, Naruto looked at the hissing bugs and laughed.

"You don't mind them Naruto?" Shino asked his voice sounding happy.

"Nope those are huge man, can I hold one?" Shino nodded and handed one over Naruto laughed as the bugs legs tickled his hands.

"Hey you want to go now?" Naruto sniffed out Shino looked at him in confusion was the boy crying?

"Are you okay?" He was worried his brows rose in confusion.

"I'm just happy I have a friend sorry, I promise I'm not a cry baby I swear."Naruto rubbed his eyes and smiled his brightest smile, one that would go down in the history of smiles as Narutos best.

"I'm glad I have you has a friend to, and yeah we can go now." Shino put his hand out for Naruto, he could be friends with this boy but no one else he hoped.

Naruto and Shino hooked hands and walked off to a fun bug filled place, that Shino would come to know as his get away place. A few years have passed and they had remained in the orphanage, some people would look at them and think about taking them in but no one ever did. Over the years Shino and Naruto both took beatings from bullies, one such bully wouldn't leave shino alone and became something the boy feared.

"Did he beat you again?" Naruto asked worried for his only friend seeing the black eye and split lip, made him almost flip out he wanted to help but one more fight from him and he would be sent away.

"Yeah but I got him in his nuts this time, he cried a lot."Shino said proudly well that was until Tsunade came into the room red-faced from anger.

"You two that's it I'm done you've had your last fight!"She yelled this time Shino had, had enough and put his foot down.

"No you know what it wasn't me that started it miss Tsunade, that jerk beats me up all the time and Naruto to you clam to care but you don't. If you loved us so much you wouldn't let everyone here call him a monster, and you would let me get beat up just because I'm different!" Shino was gasping trying to catch his breath Tsunade hadn't heard the boy speak so much ever, she was to stun but then his words finally sank in they were being bullied and she had missed it for years.

"How did I miss this?" Tsunade asked to no one but herself but got and answer she didn't think she would.

"You didn't want to see it." Naruto said from the window his favorite spot to people watch.

Tsunades head shot up to see how tired the two boys actually looked, they were beat up clothes looked tattered and ripped. They have been going through this for three years they were to young to be so hard, Tsunades head dropped she got up and walked out a lone tear sliding down her cheek in shame.

"So Nauto what now?" Shino sat on the opposite side of the window seat, staring out at all the happy kids playing while they hide away.

"I don't know, I just don't want to do anything right now." Naruto sniffled out, he hadn't cried since Shino had come that first day three years ago.

Shino pulled his only friend into a hug stroking the boy's hair to calm him down, little did they know that in just a few short hours their whole world was going to be turned upside down. Either for better or for the worst, you can always hope it will be for the better but there are just some people out there that are hateful people.

A/N: Yes I left you all off on a cliff,what will happen to the two friends. Will life get better for them well read the next chapter once it comes out, sillies I'm not telling you yet. I do hope you liked this chapter and like I said it will start to get more up beat and I'm sorry, if this chapter bored you or made you upset. I promise in later chapter it will get way read and reviews are always welcome.