Hello this is my first Naruto fic. This is only the prologue so it is a bit short, but I will try to have longer chapters.

Now enough of my rambling and on to the fic.

Disclaimer- I do not, and never will, own Naruto.

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Naruto: Village of sorrows

BY: Green Cheesecake

Prologue

The Terrible truth

"Naruto!" some one shouted from the crowed of fleeing people. "NARUTO!" he shouted louder trying desperately to get to the boy. He ran as fast as he could against the flow of people trying to reach the battle being fought not to far away. How? Why? Why did this happen! Why, Naruto? Why?

Blood covered the ground as he reached the battle, many would have turned away but he knew his place; to keep Konoha out of danger, at all cost… sadly he had been on the other side of town and the battle was already over, the fugitive had escaped. "Kakashi!" some one shouted to him. He turned around to see Iruka limping towards him. Kakashi ran up to him and helped him stand up.

"It's just like you to arrive late to everything isn't it Kakashi?" Iruka laughed as Kakashi helped him sit down on the edge of the battle field. He sighed out and started tending his leg, which was now covered in blood.

They sat there in silence as he finished bandaging his wound and looked around at the damage caused. "They weren't able to stop him." Iruka finally said "he got away." He looked down at the ground, not with anger but with a sadness and disappointment.

"What happened, Iruka?" Kakashi asked "I know he wasn't the best behaved or the best student…" he paused "how could he?" they once again looked up at the carnage the now covered the western half of Konoha. Bodies of both young and old lay on the ground, dead. Ninjas of all ranks lay in there own blood and the few survivors were trying to regroup and tend there wounds.

"We never expected it, not from him." Iruka said "and now he has escaped and he may comeback yet again to completely… destroy us."

"He is now very deadly, especially with that monster giving him power." They were both quiet again for they need not say more. They knew what this meant for the young man who did this to the village.

Kakashi helped Iruka up and helped him walk to the hospital. It was crowded with hundreds of injured that they had to turn away the less injured ones. Iruka (even with his bleeding leg) was one of the unfortunate ones who had to leave.

Kakashi helped walk Iruka walk down the road toward his house. They passed the familiar Ramen stand. Kakashi could see the Iruka's eyes lingered on the shop before turning forward again. Kakashi thought about taking him home but then decided that it may be better to talk somewhere else, so he took him to one of his favorite bars.

He sat Iruka down on a bench and went to order them some warm shake. He was surprised the place was open after all that had happened, but people needed to get wasted after nights like tonight.

He brought the drinks and a bottle of shake to the table he had sat Iruka at. He saw his friend sitting there just staring at the table as if something bad would happen if he moved.

Kakashi sat down and looked at his friend. He pored them both a cup of shake. He pulled down his mask and he drunk the whole thing in one gulp. Iruka didn't even seem to acknowledge the drink he just sat there…staring. "Iruka?" Kakashi asked worried

"Hu?" Iruka answered finally; much to Kakashi's relief.

"Have some shake it'll help." He motioned to the cup in front of his friend. Iruka finally noticing the drink also gulped his down in one gulp. Kakashi pored them both more and Iruka once again gulped it down, Kakashi filled the glass once more.

"Iruka, I know this maybe hard for you, but I must know, what happened today?" Iruka stared down at the clear liquid in his cup thinking about the day's events, every detail running over in his mind. He looked up at Kakashi, trying to think of something to say.

Iruka sat there as they both stared into each others eyes. He didn't want to talk about this it was to hard on him. The boy had been like a son to him; even if he didn't like him at first for what he had done to him, the boy had grown on him; he couldn't just tell Kakashi all the terrors he had caused.

"Iruka please, we must know, you were around when it happened, weren't you?" Kakashi wouldn't take his eyes off him, even when he looked away; his eyes fallowed him, searching for an answer. Iruka felt something warm slip down his face and he realized he was crying. He didn't want to bather wiping them away, it was too much energy and he was too tired.

He sighed out, tears still falling, and looked Kakashi in the eyes again "Please Kakashi, he is a good kid, it's just…just…" even more tears were falling now and it was becoming hard to talk. "It's my entire fault!" he yelled burying his head in his hands. Iruka didn't want to be seen like this not in public, but he couldn't do anything he didn't know what else to do but cry. Kakashi didn't say anything just looked at his friend crying into his hands.

"Iruka!" Kakashi finally yelled grabbing his arm and pulling his face up to look at his. "I know this is hard for you, but for the good of Konoha, you need to tell me what happened!"

Iruka whipped his tears, it wasn't like him to break down like that, but it felt like he had just lost his parents all over again, he couldn't handle it. he drank his cup of shake which now tasted salt, apparently some tears had fallen in there. "Okay Kakashi…" he said looking at the man across from him "I'll tell you what happened…but please don't put all the blame on him; it wasn't his entire fault… Naruto didn't mean to destroy Konoha."

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Yes it is short, but this is only the prologue. In the next chapters we will be going back a bit in time to before this incident to explain exactly how it happened.

If you want to know what happened please do review! If I don't get any then I will not continue. Also I need a beta and I wouldn't mind constructive criticism if you have some!

Until next time

Green Cheesecake