Only

by YokoKitsune13

When all you know is pain; the pain of being hurt and hated and insulted to the point that you even hurt yourself, it's hard to think that things could ever change. For Naruto, this was the reality he resigned himself to, never thinking that change was possible. But change often comes when you least expect it.

1. Prologue

I can't remember the first time I felt the cold steel pierce my skin, but I know it's now a normal thing to see my own blood...I don't remember what it's like to not be in complete darkness but I know the pain makes the dark fade, just a little bit. Yet it's still there, it's always there.

At school I'm invisible, they see right through me. I prefer it that way. It's better that they don't see me, because when they do, they don't see a person, and I always end up seeing my own blood again.

Freak, weirdo, fag...Those are the names they use, cause no one knows my real one and no one really cared.

Naruto

But one day something happened and made me think the world could spit out a bit of mercy sometimes. That day made me feel like I was still human... Like I was important. Like I was alive. It would only last for that moment though because I could never escape my reality, there were always reminders.

"You're not one of us."