DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO NOR AM I TRYING TO RECIVE ANY TYPE OF PAYMENT WHEN I PLAY WITH THE NARUTO UNIVERSE.
A young boys sprints through the center of a festival in konoha. The look of absolute terror color his every feature. His head keeps turning, as if he is looking over both shoulders waiting for monsters to descend upon him. If he would have looked to the roof tops he would have known he was right.
A short while ago the young boy in question, one Naruto Uzumaki had been ruthlessly thrown out of the only home he had ever known. The Konoha orphanage. Though the child was often neglected, and made to retreat from any type of group learning exercises, i.e. reading writing etc.
He was anything but stupid. In fact he had raw brain power that rivaled what most refer to as geniuses. So for that fact, the young boy noticed, as he landed badly on his backside. The calculating gleam in the Orphanage administrators' eyes as the woman shut and locked the only gate leading out of the complex.
Both physically, and emotionally hurt they child grit his teeth, wiped away the few tears that leaked out of his very blue eyes, and set forth to find somewhere to sleep for the night.
But I'm afraid that young Naruto's night was just starting. For unknown to the child of 6, the administrator had just enacted a plan with some like-minded individuals. A plan that would give them their revenge on the ill perceived wrong doings of the child.
Ill perceived wrongdoings? You ask. Yes, you see not long ago, six years to be exact. There was a great catastrophe that beset itself upon Konoha. A demon of immense size and power was unleashed onto the unsuspecting village. The nine tailed fox.
The greatest of the tailed beast reeked untold damage in a short time. Killing hundreds wounding thousands, and looking for all intents and purposes as if it would never be stopped. That is until the village leader at the time Minato Namikaze the fourth Hokage arrived and teleported the demon away. Then giving his own life to seal the giant fox into a newborn child. Naruto Uzumaki.
Now for those of you who are unaware, or did not read that correctly. The fourth Hokage sealed the beast into the child. He did not somehow turn the beast into the child, nor did the beast take on a human form. It was placed into a pocket dimension which was powered by the newborns very heart beat. It was imprisoned within the newborn.
Many of the villagers knew of sealing. Having at one time or another purchased sealing scrolls, which would allow the owner to place items into a small pocket dimension for ease of use, and to free up space. Now while they were indeed familiar with a lower form of sealing and pocket dimensions, their fear induced, hate filled minds. Dismissed what they knew to be an absolute truth, and instead came to the misguided conclusion that the demon that had just killed there loved ones, destroyed their homes, and resulted in their hero's death was now the newborn that held the monster back from finishing that which it had started.
From then forward it had been up to a very small percentage of the population to keep the child from being killed. The boys death was called for nearly daily until the new village leader, whom came out of retirement to fill the position, made a law decreeing it illegal to speak of the child being the nine tails prison.
Hate still festered within the hearts of the populace. Everywhere the child went he was whispered about. If he stopped at a park to play, the parents of other children would leave, or drive him off. The young boy grew very used to getting very little food and almost no attention. Every night when the young boy would tuck himself into sleep he would see all the hate filled stares, and think to himself. 'What is so wrong with me that I cannot be loved?'
His treatment worsened with age. He was given even less to eat, little to wear, and that is when the pain started. The children of the orphanage seeing the hate filled looks soon learned to abuse the smaller child and taunt him. They were in face often rewarded for such behavior.
Which leads us back to the present. Out in the streets, alone, terrified, young Naruto runs as if the hounds of hell were on his heels. Naruto breaks through the crowd getting yelled at and suffers being pelted with refuse from all near him. He turned down an alley still looking over his shoulder. Then another and another, fore though he cannot see what chases him, he can feel there hate, and bloodlust, as sure as if it were someone running an ice cube down his spine.
Naruto finally makes a mistake. Tired out of breath he turns down an alley that happens to be a dead end. He looks around frantically. For anywhere he can hide. It's no uses, four figures drop from above to land in front of him. Reeking of bloodlust and alcohol. "Nowhere to run now nine tails." Growls one man. Wearing dark blue slacks and a green shinobi flak jacket.
"We are finally going to finish what the fourth Hokage started. We are going to rid the world of the greatest of all demons." Sneers another larger man wearing an almost identical outfit to the others.
"P..Please don…don't hurt me. I swear I di…didn't do an…anything." Naruto begs with tears running down his young face. 'Why are they saying such things? Everyone knows the fourth killed the nine tailed fox. Its one of the first things I ever learned.' Naruto thinks to himself still praying for away out of this alley way. then terror consume his innocent heart. 'What if I am the nine tails? Wouldn't that explain why everyone hates me? But I don't feel like a giant demon bent on the destruction of Konoha. It can't be I'm Just Naruto.'
Unable to handle the stress of the situation Naruto slumps to his knees. Eyes going blank as they focus on nothing and his young mind shuts down. He doesn't even feel the first knife enter his body. He doesn't notice a splash of his own blood hit his face. He sees nothing as the shinobi stalk towards him with murder in their hearts.
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