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Scattered Remains

Chapter 1: Shattered

(This chapter contains somewhat graphic depictions of torture. You have been warned)

Naruto sighed as he stared at the shattered remains of the door on his apartment. He'd have to buy a new one and with the small amount of money given to him by the Hokage he probably wouldn't be able to eat for a couple of days in order to have enough money. 'Well nothing I can do about it' he thought as he began walking through the village towards the nearest hardware store one of the few places that Naruto was allowed in and not charged outrageous amounts.

When he walked in he saw Denbe the man who ran the store smile broadly at him and waving. Naruto smiled back and walked up to the nice man. "I need a new door for my apartment" He said still smiling at Denbe.

Denbe nodded "Do you know the dimensions of the door frame?" Naruto told him and Denbe walked off to retrieve the door for the boy. When he came back he laid it on the counter and rang up Naruto who was about to leave with the door in tow when Denbe stopped him.

"How about I help you install the door Naruto-kun?" Denbe offered smiling. Naruto nodded excitedly "That would be great thanks" Denbe smiled and went into the back to get his tools before leading Naruto out the back exit of the store. As they walked they talked merrily until Denbe suggested that they take a shortcut through an alley.

When they were deep into the alley and away from prying eyes Denbe struck. He hit Naruto over the head with a hammer causing Naruto to slam into the wall and drop the door. Denbe picked the surprised Naruto up by his right arm and picked up a large spike and slammed it into Naruto's hand piercing through, Denbe than hit the spike with a hammer pinning Naruto to the wall.

(Torture is ahead read at your own risk)

Naruto wailed in pain "Why are you doing this, what did I do?" Denbe chuckled darkly "You killed my wife you damned monster don't you dare deny it I saw her get crushed under your paws with my own two eyes." Denbe picked up Naruto's left hand and repeated the process. "I didn't do anything I don't even have paws please let me go!" Naruto begged.

"Now we're going to have some fun" Denbe snarled picking up a carving knife and stabbing it into Naruto's stomach causing him to scream in pain or at least he was until Denbe stabbed him in the throat impaling his vocal chords. Denbe continued on carving Naruto until his entire chest was a mangled mess of hanging skin and blood.

Then Denbe moved on to Naruto's feet he picked them up and ripped off the boy's shoes and began ripping off his toe nails one by one. After he finished with all ten he started breaking them and once he was done with that he began to cut them off. Naruto tried to scream but all that came out was the sound of gurgling blood.

When Denbe finished with Naruto's feet he picked up a stack of tag's which Naruto thought were explosive tags. He placed one on Naruto's face and another on Naruto's stomach directly on top of his belly button. Denbe then picked up a lighter and burned the tags. Naruto expecting them to blow up was surprised when instead they erupted into flames covering his torso and face with fire. Again Naruto tried to scream but again all that came was blood. Denbe smiled at the struggling boy before once again pulling out the carving knife. "Good bye you damn demon now my wife and everyone else you killed can rest in peace." With that Denbe stabbed the knife directly into Naruto's heart. After a few moments Naruto stopped moving so Denbe picked up his 'tools' and left leaving Naruto hanging from the wall covered in blood and still slowly burning.

(Torture scene over)

Kakashi was horrified. Actually that was an understatement, what he was staring at was enough to make him want run away screaming and seeing the nature of his profession that's saying something. It had been reported that Naruto hadn't been seen for 3 days and no one at the academy reported having heard from him at all, he also hadn't visited Ichiraku's so the Hokage sent him to search for the boy. When his dogs said that they smelled blood Kakashi was worried that he had been caught and beaten again, he had never anticipated that any human being could do such a thing to 7 year old boy, giant demonic fox or no.

When he found Naruto he was covered in burns and though most of the cuts had stopped bleeding Kakashi could see where he was cut from the white scars that littered his body. As soon as Kakashi had found the boy he immediately freed him from the wall picked him up and began minimizing the bleeding with his clothing then took off as fast as he could towards ANBU headquarters. While he would have taken the boy to the hospital he didn't trust a single doctor there not to attempt to kill the 'demon' is his weakened state.

Instead he would have to pray that the ANBU medics would be enough to save the boy.

Kakashi arrived and sprinted inside the two ANBU who were hanging out by the door eyes widened as they saw the bloody heap in Kakashi's arms. "What the hell happened sempai!" One exclaimed recognizing the person as Naruto. Kakashi turned and said "Get Taka here now and one of you go tell Hokage-sama" When neither one moved Kakashi yelled "NOW!"

Immediately they sprinted off to do as Kakashi said. Kakashi laid Naruto down on top of a couch in the corner of the room and began trying to bandage up the cuts that hadn't stopped bleeding yet. Within a minute Taka, a tall woman, wearing the traditional ANBU garb, her jet black hair held back in a short ponytail, appeared staring at Naruto in shock and horror before immediately jumping into medic-nin mode, healing what she could and trying to minimize the damage of what she couldn't.

By this point many of the ANBU had begun to surround the couch worried for the boy that they had each watched over at least once over their tenure as ANBU.

They felt the Hokage before they saw him. The amount of killing intent he was leaking was enough to kill most chuunin out of fear alone. Even some of the ANBU began to have a bit of trouble breathing.

He walked in with a look of pure rage on his face which only increased when he saw the state of the boy he saw as his surrogate grandson. By that point Taka and a few other ANBU who had begun to help her had finished treating him to the best of their abilities. "How bad is it?" Sarutobi asked as he began to control his anger.

"He had all of his toes cut off but they seem to have grown back fully which I assume is a side effect of his tenant which also stopped most of the bleeding though seemingly wasn't able to heal the scars. His vocal chords are scarred from being cut but were also mostly repaired he should be able to talk after a while of healing. He is alive and breathing though we had to drain the blood from his lungs and reset the broken bones in his ribs as well as reattach most of the nerves and tendons in his hands luckily we were able to restore their functionality. The worst injury was a stab wound to the heart but that was also healed though he should probably shouldnt have too much excitement for a few days for fear of further damage to his slowly healing heart. He will live and though the burns were numerous we were able to save most of his skin and keep the nerves intact although the burn on the right side of his face has killed most of the nerves there. Quite frankly he is incredibly lucky to be alive as his heart had stopped and by all accounts he should be dead. Although I do fear for his mental state physically he should be fine after a few months." Taka stated though everyone could hear the barely restrained anger behind her voice.

Sarutobi clenched his teeth but nodded. "Call Inoichi here immediately perhaps we can find out who has done this" He ordered pointing to an ANBU in a monkey mask. He bowed before disappearing in a shunshin.

Within moments Inoichi was there bowing to the Hokage before turning to the boy almost losing his breakfast from the sight of the mangled boy. "Enter his mind and try to find who did this." Sarutobi ordered.

Inoichi nodded and put his hand into the seal for his family's jutsu but before he could do anything everyone heard a gurgling sound from the couch and saw Naruto with his eyes open clutching at his throat and thrashing wildly.

Taka launched forward and pulled Naruto's hands away from his throat "Naruto-kun you need to calm down no one here will hurt you I promise." Tears began to pour from Naruto's left eye as he stopped struggling and gripped Taka as tight as he could. (1)

"You can't speak for now Naruto-kun you might hurt yourself more." Naruto didn't stop crying but the gurgling sound did stop.

"Inoichi-san please return home we'll do this another time for now Naruto needs his rest, I assume I don't need to tell you to keep this whole situation a secret especially from your daughter."

"Hai Hokage-sama is there is anything else I can do please tell me immediately. I will also listen around town and see if I can find anything about whatever monster did this." Inoichi said bowing before taking his leave.

Sarutobi turned to Taka who was stroking Naruto's hair trying to calm the hysterical boy. "Taka could you please take Naruto to your cot and let him stay there for a while? If he calms down tell one of the others to get me immediately but whatever you do, do not leave him alone I'm worried that in his distressed mental state he may harm himself."

"Of course Hokage-sama" Taka picked up Naruto still stroking his hair and walked up the stairs.

"You are all dismissed except for you Inu I want you to come with me it seems that it's time we have a council meeting." Without another word the ANBU dispersed leaving just Kakashi and the old Hokage.

"Let's go Inu we should get this over with as soon as possible" With that Kakashi and the old Hokage disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

AN: This is the first chapter I've ever written for this site so I hope you all enjoy. Any and all feedback is welcome as well as any questions you may have also tell me if I make any mistakes. Sending me a PM is probably a better way to get a response to your question then reviewing but do as you wish. This story's pairing will be Naruto FemKyuubi and Hinata so you do have that to look forward to though I do ask that you be patient with the romance aspect as it will take a while to develop, with my current outline it'll be Chapter 17 when the romance first story originally started as an idea for a story with Kyuubi as the main character which I may still write later on but for now I like this idea a bit better.

Naruto cries from only his left eye as most of the right side of his face is burned. For those that didn't know third-degree burns kill most of the nerves under the skin making the afflicted area numb.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and more will be coming soon

-Requiem of Darkness