Disclaimer: Naruto's not mine, though if he was I wouldn't share him with anyone, unless they let me have Itachi in exchange.
A week after his birth, while the Hokage was sorting through paperwork the attack happened. Naruto was in a cradle near the Hokage's desk and suddenly the room was filled with ninja. The Hokage immediately moved to grab Naruto but two ninja blocked his path. "What are you doing here Hyuuga?" The Hokage demanded. "We're doing what this damn village should have thought of" the woman in front of him returned. The Hokage recognized her as a branch member. The other ninja was a member of the Yamanaka clan. The Hokage attacked furiously, forcing them away from the baby. "I won't let you hurt him" The Hokage said fiercely and blocked just in time to stop an attack from an Aburame.
"It seems you lose Hokage-sama" a voice said behind him. The Hokage turned to see a Nara standing there, holding the crying infant. Instantly they all vanished in puffs of smoke. "All ANBU, stop them, return Naruto to us" the Hokage demanded. Several ANBU rushed to obey but were immediately stopped by others in their rank once they had left the presence of the Hokage. "This is our chance to rid ourselves of the demon" one of them said. Some of the ANBU who refused to disregard orders from the Hokage attacked and were killed by the large amount of ANBU intent on getting rid of Naruto.
Naruto cried hard and finally had a piece of cloth shoved in his mouth. Naruto whined loudly. "Shut up demon, you'll get us caught" another Hyuuga said to him. Naruto looked at them with wide eyes.
"Hokage-sama, retrieval of the infant was unsuccessful" an ANBU reported to the village leader. "The child was killed before we were able to get to him" he finished. The Hokage's eyes started to tear up, 'Damn it, he was just a baby' he thought. The ANBU had said the child was dead so that they wouldn't be sent on missions to retrieve the demon.
"You all have your clan scrolls?" the seeming leader of the group asked. They nodded and produced the scrolls. There were several from the Hyuuga clan, some from the Nara clan, some from the Aburame clan, some from the Yamanaka clan, some from the Inuzuka clan, and some stolen from the Akimichi clan. There were quite a few altogether. "Okay, this is all we need to create the perfect weapon, our clans will fall before us" the pupil-less leader smirked.
"Can't you do anything right?" a slap was heard after that and a muffled yelp. Naruto had missed another chakra point on the attacking ninja. "Forgive me Hyuuga-sama" Naruto said softly. "Damn it brat, you're supposed to be hitting chakra points, not giving them light bruises" the Hyuuga shouted and struck Naruto again. "No supper for tonight, and you're confined to your room" Naruto was used to this type of punishment.
The Hyuuga turned out the lights from the outside of the room so Naruto couldn't get any light. The Hyuuga left and locked the door behind him, Naruto waited until his footsteps were heard going up the stairs. "Summoning jutsu" Naruto whispered and in front of him a second later a bear cub showed up. "Hi Naruto-kun" the cub greeted and Naruto smiled, "It's good to see you Kumari" Naruto whispered. "They won't let you have dinner again tonight will they?" Kumari asked softly, hating the humans who would do something like this to another of their kind, especially to such a small sweet boy. "It's okay, I'm used to it" Naruto said. "What did you need?" the bear asked him softly. "It's dark" Naruto whimpered quietly and Kumari understood.
Naruto had been forced into dark areas when he was younger when he'd "misbehaved", this had fueled his fear of the dark. "Well, I'll tell you a story then and I'll stay here for the night, I'll be gone before those things wake you up" Kumari had refused to call the people keeping Naruto human because his old summoners had been kind people, and most other humans he'd met were at least polite.
"Once upon a time…." Kumari started his story. Before he knew it Naruto was asleep in his bed. Kumari gave a small grin, teeth showing and climbed up next to Naruto, then he fell asleep. Naruto wore his only clothing to bed, clothing of the Hyuuga clan.
In the morning, true to his word Kumari had left, though it had been just moments before he'd been woken if Naruto was to judge by the warm spot on his side where the bear had been.
"Hyuuga-san said that you did atrocious with the jyuuken yesterday, I expect you to do better today with my lesson. Do you understand?" the man asked him. "Yes, Nara-sama" Naruto said respectfully.
The Nara dragged Naruto from his room and into the training grounds. "I've already taught you the basic shadows, now I want you to stretch your shadow to that pole, begin" he said, the pole was about a quarter of a mile away and there was no way that even the Nara could do it. Naruto tried for several hours, slightly light-headed from all the chakra use and from lack of food.
"Pathetic," The Nara shook his head and handed Naruto a small amount of rice, it wasn't near enough to curb Naruto's hunger. He ate it with a "thank-you Nara-sama, this was most generous" as he was taught and returned to his lessons. By the time it was almost too dark to continue Naruto was nearly three quarters of the way there, a great accomplishment.
"That's enough demon, go back to your room, you're a disgrace to your kind" the Nara told him. Naruto bowed, "Understood Nara-sama" and went back to the cellar-like room. He summoned Kumari again and continued the process the next day with a different person.
There were three Hyuuga, one Nara, two Yamanaka, one Inuzuka and one Aburame. One of the Hyuuga's taught him the jyuuken style, another taught him weapons and the other taught him chakra control. The Yamanaka, Nara, Inuzuka and Aburame taught them their clan styles as well. Naruto had been given the kikai a few days after he'd been taken and had nearly died as they changed his body to house them. Also he had been given a summoning contract from each family, along with one from the Akimichi clan.
Kumari had been an Akimichi clan summon but the Akimichi were now unable to summon the bear because a special technique that had been developed by the Nara to remove the summoners from the contract. The same was true for the cat summons of the Hyuuga clan, the beetle summons of the Aburame clan, the deer summons of the Nara clan, the horse summons of the Yamanaka clan, and the wolf summon of the Inuzuka clan.
He'd even been given a weasel contract by the escaped Uchiha who had joined their group for a short time. Naruto had been forced to sign all of them after they'd signed them.
Flashback
"Sign your name in blood on this you worthless brat" the group leader shoved the scroll roughly into his hand. Naruto did as he was told. "Now make these hand seals and say 'summoning jutsu' use as much chakra as you can generate like we've told you." Naruto had no idea why he was doing this but did as he was told.
"Summoning jutsu" Naruto shouted as made the seals. "What do you want of the Cat summons human?" a giant female cat asked from underneath Naruto. "You are now the summons of this boy, and as such work for us now" the Hyuuga leader said arrogantly. "I refuse human" the cat hissed at him. "You cannot, the boy holds your contract so when he calls for you then you have to answer and do as he or we tell you to. Naruto belongs to us so as his summons you do as well" they Hyuuga ordered. "Mind your tongue human" the cat roared. "Please, if you make him mad I won't get food again tonight" Naruto whispered pleadingly to the giant cat.
The cat hissed again, angry for her new summoner, 'I can't allow the boy to starve' the cat grudgingly decided, "Very well, I accept this boy as my summoner, but I refuse to be summoned by the likes of you Hyuuga" the cat told the man beneath her and allowed Naruto to climb down from her head before disappearing.
The rest of the summons were carried out in much the same manner, though the head beetle summon was so angry that he vanished before negotiations could be made and Naruto called back a representative later to apologize.
End Flashback
Naruto sometimes would summon all the animals to him at once, except for the weasels. He liked to spend time with them and the smaller animals all got along with each other because they were so young and their families were friendly. The weasel family was unfriendly towards the cat, bear, horse and deer summons.
Naruto only had enough chakra to summon Kumari though because of the amount of chakra he'd been using and because he lacked energy from hunger.
The next day was the Aburame's turn. "Use your kikai to drain that man of his chakra" Naruto was ordered. In front of him on his knees was a man that was tied up and gagged, staring up at him with pleading eyes. 'I can't hurt him' Naruto thought determinedly.
Naruto shook his head. "What was that?" the Aburame questioned. "I won't do it, it's unnecessary and I refuse" Naruto told the man defiantly. "You'll do as your told" the Aburame said menacingly. Naruto took a few steps back but refused to change his mind. "No" he said. Before he could react he had one hand around the back of his throat and the other tightly around his arm. "Do not disobey us" the Aburame said dangerously and pulled him inside where the others were. "It seems the demon doesn't want to do as I tell him" the Aburame told the others.
"Damn brat" the leader grabbed Naruto, forcing his knee directly into his gut. Naruto gasped for breath and fell to the ground. He was kicked several more times and then a Yamanaka took over, "So you've decided to betray us, you know what happens in Konoha when someone betrays it?" the Yamanaka said, calmly twirling a kunai.
Naruto's eyes widened, he did know. "That's right demon, torture, did I ever tell you that was what I specialized in when I was in that hellhole? I'm getting a bit rusty I believe, I think it's time to sharpen my skills." With those words began the most painful day of Naruto's life. In the end Naruto still refused to take the man's chakra and was thrown into his room.
Naruto's kikai, sensing his injuries stopped taking his chakra for a short period of time, they didn't want their host to die if they continued to eat his chakra. Even so Naruto used the last of it to call for help. "Naruto, what happened" the cat he'd summoned gasped. Naruto had many broken bones and his face was so bruised that he could barely see through his eyes. "Refused, …. Mad" Naruto said, he was fighting to stay awake through the absence of his chakra, his throat was also raw, at some point in the torture session he'd started screaming.
The cat wasted no time in pushing him over on his back, ignoring the yelp of pain. "Your ribs are broken," the cat told him after poking his chest area lightly with his paw, "at least four, don't move from this position" the cat ordered. Naruto gave a small, almost imperceptible nod. "Good, tomorrow, those things will come in and heal you, they can't use you as a weapon if your injured" the cat informed him, he'd taken up calling Naruto's captors things as well. Naruto knew Nekoru was right.
"Listen, you need to get out of here" Nekoru started, Naruto protested slightly and Nekoru spoke over him. "No, you can't stay here, anywhere is better than here for you. You know I'm right, Nekota came up with an idea and I'm pretty sure it will work, they have no way of stopping you if it works" Naruto finally agreed to try the plan. "Okay, here's what you do"