This is my first fanfiction on this website and I know it's kind of weird, but bare with me please. Hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Naruto, cause...hello i'm writing fanfiction.

Slave to Insanity

Chapter 1: Broken Promises

A slightly tanned hand slammed down on the annoying device, that continuously gave off ever irritating beeps. Meant to break him from his 'sleep'. Elegant fingers rubbed the tired ache that lingered behind cerulean eyes, from yet another sleepless night.

With an audible curse, the teen of seventeen rolled from beneath the comforts of his bed sheets, and landed lightly on cold wooden floors. Protesting muscles crackle and pop beneath the skin of his back and arms, as he stretched, yawning. With a final pop to his neck, the teen reluctantly made his way to the full length mirror, sitting against his bedroom wall.

Bright, sky blue eyes stared back at him with mock scrutiny. Tousled blonde hair stood on end, from endless tossing and turning, of much wanted but not gifted sleep. He dreaded every morning, having to wake up and face the thing that stood before him in the reflective glass. Showing the disgrace the world see's day after day, his scarred cheek holding darkened memories he begs to forget, and silvery patches of skin mocking him with the past horrors of his early life.

Dark thoughts drift across his mind, tickling the pitch black corners of his memories, causing flashes of gray walls, scream filled nights, and...He shakes his blonde head, he refused to think of such things. 'Come on Uzumaki, that was a long time ago' he reminded himself.

Brushing his hand along his disfigured cheek, he heard a faint knock on his bedroom door. "Yo Naruto, you awake?". The blonde almost laughed, "yeah, i'm up". There was a slight shuffle, then the door was pushed open fully. Naruto saw the reflected outline of his older brother Kyuubi, lean against his door frame, the hallway light allowing a slight shine of red to be seen. There was a natural silence for a few moments, both males studying the other thoughtfully. They continued like this for a while, until Naruto was asked the same question he was asked every morning.

"How did you sleep last night?" his brother asked. For a moment, the blonde says nothing, thinking that maybe he should just mention that he can't sleep. That the nightmares are just getting worse. But he doesn't need his brother to worry over him any more than he already did.

So like every morning, he plastered a fake, but big smile on his face and gives his answer. "I slept like a baby".

The red headed brother narrowed his eye's, he can tell the blonde was lying, the dark patches of skin beneath his eye's tell a different story. "When are you going to stop giving me bull shit answers?" he demanded. The blondes smile fades, it was fake anyway, so no real loss. "Whenever you stop asking me bull shit questions" the blonde replied, somewhat venomously.

Naruto removed himself from the reflective glass, inwardly relaxing without the dark clone of himself staring back at him. He begins to search his floor for decent enough clothes that don't smell to bad, as Kyuubi watched him from the door. The blonde could feel his brothers blazing golden eyes baring into his back, almost like he was trying to rip the blonde open, in hopes of finding the flaw that rested within his little brother. Naruto inwardly snorted. 'You wouldn't be able to fix my problem even if you found it big brother', the blonde thought darkly.

Finally Kyuubi sighs, "well when you're done, breakfast is ready, we have a lot to talk about". And he leaves.

Naruto watches his brothers back, as the red head disappeared down the stairs. He knew Kyuubi was just trying to be a good brother, and trying to make up for the past. But there were some things the blonde just couldn't go back to. He tried to be a better brother, he really did. But ever since he was put into Kyuubi's custody, the blonde has been nothing but trouble for the elder Uzumaki. In truth, Naruto wished his brother would just stop trying, he wasn't getting anywhere with the "how are you feeling" or "are you sleeping well" crap. In Naruto's mind, the red head should really learn when to give up.

Picking up some OK clothes, the blonde made his way to the bathroom. Hot showers always helped to clear his head. 'What else do we have to talk about' he wondered. He sighed, life just forced shit on him without any explanation. He hated it.

Kyuubi sat at the kitchen table, papers spread across his side of the table, and his plate of breakfast sat in his lap.

His mid-back length hair was tied low, and his golden eyes scanned over a sheet of paper he held in his hand. He wore a black long sleeved shirt, that is just tight enough to show his muscular build. And a pair of simple but scruffy blue jeans adorned his long legs.

Taking a bite of his eggs, the redhead glanced up from his reading, to watch his blonde brother bound down the stairs in a black and red long sleeved shirt and black slightly baggy skinny jeans.

The blonde made his way over to the coffee, and made himself a cup. "So what did you want to talk to me about?" he asked. Kyuubi sighed, 'it's just like him to get straight to the point' the redhead thought to himself.

He placed his plate on the table and stacked the papers up to one side. The pages he was reading earlier placed separately. "Maybe you should sit down first, this is important"
Kyuubi said glancing at the blonde who stood at the counter, steaming mug in hand.

Naruto glared at his brother, something was up, and he knew it. Kyuubi was acting stranger than usual. But he obliged to his brother's request and took a seat.

"Naruto, we both know you have gotten into some pretty deep trouble as of late..." Kyuubi started gently, watching his blonde brother for any sort of reaction. Naruto frowned, 'why is he bringing this up?' he thought to himself as he took a sip of his coffee. "Those fights you had gotten tangled up in-", "those bastards started those fights!" the blonde burst out, slamming his coffee cup on the table. Sitting back in his chair, Naruto crossed his arms "besides those fucking pansy's deserved what they got" he said bitterly. "Naruto, you put one boy in a coma!" Kyuubi said, trying to keep his cool. The blonde just scoffed, not giving a damn about whether the boy lived or died.

Kyuubi puts his head in his hands, this was not going well. "Kit, you don't realize the extent of the situation, Social Services...they want me to...I have to..." a sentence would not fully form in the red heads mind. There was no way to gently put what he has to say into words. The blonde gave him a slightly confused look. 'He hasn't called me Kit in years' Naruto thought to himself, his frown deepening as a defeated look falls upon his brothers face.

"Kyuubi..." the blonde starts, but he was interrupted. "They want me to send you to an institution, because they do not think you are fit to be in public society" the red head blurted out.

There was a pause, and the air seemed to leave the blondes lungs in one giant gust. "What..." was all the blonde could choke out. He kept running his brothers words through his head over and over, hoping the words got tangled and warped as his screwed up brain processed them. "You shouldn't be so surprised" Kyuubi said, his voice not sounding cruel, but neither was it comforting. " You have put more students in the hospital, in a span of a few months, damn it Naruto!" the redhead didn't bother to keep his voice from rising this time. "Do you realize that by doing this, you have caused not only stress to those boys families but also for me!".

Naruto continued to sit in his seat motionlessly, as his brother continued to rant about stress or some shit. 'Send me to...they want to send me...to a...' the blondes head was reeling, his eyes seemed dead as they looked at the kitchen table, yet saw nothing. He could feel the familiar black void opening up in his stomach at the thought of going back to being locked up, poked and prodded by psychopaths in lab coats. The flashes of familiar nightmares passed over his mind, and he felt a familiar pin prick behind his eyes that he hadn't felt in a very long time.

Tanned fists slammed down on the table, with a loud bang. Papers and plates scattered across the floor from the impact. "What the hell do you mean they want you to send me to a fucking institution!" the blonde screamed. His eyes squeezed shut, to keep the tears in, that so desperately wanted to fall.

Kyuubi was shocked from his rant at his young brothers outburst. "Naruto, I...", "No!, you can't send me to some goddamned loony bin!" the blonde cried out, "you can't give me back to some fucking doctors that are going to poke around in my head to see what makes me tick!" he banged his fists against the table again. "You promised me that you wouldn't let anyone take me away again!"

Naruto jumped from his chair, knocking it over in the process. He could feel the anger boiling inside him, it was mixing with the fear and hurt he felt towards the betrayal of his big brother. The emotions swirled and churned within him, creating a dangerous concoction of fury, that had to be let out.

"Naruto please!, just calm down, we have to talk about this" Kyuubi said, standing from his chair, trying his best to calm his distressed brother.

"You said that I would never go back to a place like that ever again!" the blonde growled, backing away from the eldest Uzumaki. 'If he comes any closer, i'll rip his throat out' a dark voice rang out through Naruto's head.

"Kit, look at me, i'm not going to send you to another place like the one before. Trust me." Kyuubi stepped closer to his baby brother, who had backed up against the kitchen counter. Naruto glared at the redhead, who stared back at him with pleading gold eye's. "Don't come near me" the blonde snapped, Kyuubi paused in his advances, watching his brother struggle with the decision to either cry or beat the shit out of him.

"Kit, it's nothing like that place, you remember baa-chan right?" the redhead asked. There was a pause in Naruto's frantic inner struggle, "you remember she was a doctor right, but she was the good kind, she helped you, she helped us. She was the reason that I was allowed to care for you after what happened." Kyuubi went on. Naruto thought back to the woman that fought tooth and nail with the police and the social services to allow Kyuubi custody of him, and she was so much gentler than those other so called 'doctors'.

"What does baa-chan have to do with this" Naruto growled, though this time it wasn't as feral. "She runs the institution that you will be visiting..." Kyuubi said gently. "She demanded that you go no where else but there, she did this so that she could take care of you while I can't" the redhead finished the last part in a whisper.

The blonde slid to the ground on his knees. His blue eye's wide and confused. He felt his brother wrap an arm around his shoulders and pull him close. He hated this, he thought that his life of nightmares was over, and that the bloody, screamed filled nights were just present in his dreams. Every thing he hoped for was going straight down the drain, and all because some snot nosed bastards didn't know when to shut their damn mouths. 'They deserve to be in that hospital, broken and bleeding' Naruto thought, 'they should be the one's being locked up away from society'. He just didn't think it was fair. He didn't ask to be tortured or broken. He didn't ask for his mind to be ripped apart, then put back together, with all the pieces in the wrong places. He didn't ask for any of this.

So in the confines of his big brothers arms. Naruto did something he swore never to do again for the rest of his life. He allowed the salty pearls of tears, to slid down his scarred cheeks. Life just wasn't fair.

I got bored, and this is what came of it. Enjoy!