Prologue
At the age of six, a bruised child with sun-kissed golden hair and cerulean blue eyes decided that the world is ugly.
For as long as the boy had known, he has been living in the poorly maintained orphanage all his life. And life in the orphanage is never easy, especially if everyone unanimously chooses one person to torment on a daily basis. Unfortunately, the energetic boy was the chosen unlucky one. He didn't understand what had he ever done to these people to be hated this much, he was simply a lonely parent-less child. What had he ever done wrong to this world to receive this kind of horrible treatment? The painful bullying of the children, receiving the brunt of the harsh scolding of the adults in random days, ripped clothes, bruises, cuts-the unfortunate boy has experienced it all. The young boy had no one to rely on except the voice inside his head. He had a voice inside his head and it was the complete opposite of him.
Kurama, the growling voice introduces itself, with a hint of annoyance. That's my name, kit. You best remember that.
Kurama had always been inside his mind for as long as the boy remembered. Kurama had introduced himself as a fox demon. He was the polar opposite of the boy, whereas the boy wanted for the torture to just end peacefully-Kurama demanded payback, he basically growled for the end of their tormentors. And all the times the boy succumbs to the beast's demands, he never forgets all the violence he has committed against the people who had caused him suffering. He drowns in the thrilling sensation as he pounds them till they were black and blue-or worse, bleeding. Kurama's violent nature only served as fuel to the flames and destroyed any chances of getting the boy adopted or making any friends at all. The boy only had himself, Kurama and his signature worn orange jacket.
The boy had given up about all hope of making friends and decided he was just not meant to be happy.
Just as he slowly accepts this painful realization behind the biggest tree at the orphanage's backyard, hiding from the rest of his tormentor's sight. he feels the soft texture of a fabric and snaps his head to see two of the most beautiful people he had ever seen in his life-one boy whose appearance can only be described as elegantly dark and another a girl who looks to be the epitome of spring herself. The girl was looking at him with genuine concern, unfazed by the filthy mess he was and continues to gently wipe the dirt smudged on his whiskered cheeks away with an ivory handkerchief while the boy stands beside her with an unreadable gaze.
"…Why?" The boy asks, voice trembling at the gentleness oozing out of the girl's very being. He knew her, it wasn't everyday a girl with pink hair and a good-looking-boy is brought into the orphanage after all. They had arrived only a few days ago and was always being chased by the other children. He didn't understand why had they paid him any attention even after all the malicious words of the children and adults. "Why me?"
"I like beautiful things" Was the girl's calm response, and the bruised boy stared at her in wild confusion. She smiles, causing the beating organ in his chest to beat loudly. Strangely, Kurama has yet to make a nasty comment or demand for the girl to be beaten nor silenced and the boy can only give her a look of puzzlement when the demon only purrs in satisfaction. She slowly cups his cheek with one hand and says. "And you're very beautiful"
Beautiful, that was a word he had never heard anyone tell him. And this pretty girl had just called him one. Just as he was about to question the reasons on why on Earth would she find him of all people that, the silent boy speaks up and answers the questions at the tip of his tongue.
"Sakura is telling the truth" He states with a slight grumpy tone. "Trust me, she called me that too when we first met."
'Sakura' giggled, much to the dark-haired boy's dismay "That's right, Sasuke-kun is very beautiful too." 'Sasuke' sighs in defeat before facing the confused boy once more. "My name is Sakura and this is Sasuke, we just got here a few days ago. What's your name? Everyone says your name is horrible, but I'm sure your real name are not the ones they tell us."
"Naruto" He answers them and Sasuke offers him a hand, to which he carefully takes as the dark-haired boy pulls him up to his feet. Sakura pats the dirt off his shoulders and smiled at him brightly.
"Well Naruto-kun, do you want to play with us? I think we will have so much fun if we play together" He warily gazes the two, this wasn't exactly the first time he was shown acts of kindness only to be cruelly deceived in the end but he wanted to cling unto the last tiny bit of hope that these two will be different from the others, and for once-even Kurama agreed, something the fox rarely does.
It's alright, kit, go with them. They're now ours, and always.
Naruto had been far too young to understand what the fox meant and thus ignored him.
"Okay" The two lightened up with his response in varying degrees and without warning, Sakura takes his hand while Sasuke takes a hold of the other. The peach petal haired girl smiles brightly once more.
"Why don't we play tag? Sasuke-kun can be it" Sasuke smirked, crossing his arms as he confidently says.
"Hn, guess the game will be short today then. I'm as fast as lightning you know?"
"Sasuke-kun, that's scientifically impossible. Right Naruto-kun?" Naruto feels a grin creep up his face as he bobbed his head immediately with the feelings of excitement and happiness spreading throughout his entire body.
"Yeah! Sakura-chan's right. Cos I'm way faster than lightning, dattebayo!"
"Dobe, were you not listening? Sakura just said that was s-scientifically impossible." Sasuke responds back, slightly stuttering.
"What did you just call me, sasuke-teme?!"
"Dobe."
"Teme!"
"dobe!"
"TEME!"
As the two slammed their foreheads together and glaring daggers at each other, Sakura only laughs behind them. And from that day on forward, Naruto Uzumaki has decided.
The world is ugly, but with his newfound friends, it was beautiful.
Hello readers, my name's Valdis23, and I hope you guys enjoyed the prologue of "Bonds of the broken ones". I am so finally happy to have worked up the courage to make a story in fanfiction! Lord, I am still Very nervous about this (and the other reason, was me being an idiot as I didn't know how the heck do i do this and that here)
This story is team 7 centric and my main ship is Naruto x Sakura X Sasuke (Because I've been shipping them so hard for so long) The setting will be in a modern universe where those who are supernatural or have strange powers are immediately taken away by the government or kidnapped and sold to the black market. I will explain more with the next update with this order. i know it's a reversed lol but I can't help it.
Naruto - check!
Sasuke -
Sakura -
That'll be all, really but I hope you guys enjoyed it and a little warning- I suck at writing properly, and only write with the way I'm really comfortable. I'll do my best to proof read here and there even tho I'll probably still miss some lol.
Hope you all have a good day/night everyone!
-Valdis23