It's a story about love, depression, and getting through tough times. I hope you enjoy it.

Naruto flinched when he heard the door open. His eyes squinted at the harsh light.

"Up for another round demon?" A man with white hair walked in, pulled Naruto up by his hair and smiled. "I know you must have felt neglected this past week with me not being around, but if you are good today... Well you'll see."

The torture lasted an hour, screams were heard throughout the basement as they echoed off the walls. Mizuki had spent much time into planning how he could hurt the boy, his favourite thing to do was chain the boy's arms to the wall and whips his back bloody. When the boy got to loud, he'd take off his shoes and socks and put them in his mouth making sure no sound could pass through the sweaty garments. Sometimes the young child would pass out from the pain, it was a disappointment yes, but he liked to wake him up with putting his cigarette buds on his bare skin. Making patterns that looked like swirls and shapes that he found pretty.

"Well done, now I told you I had a treat for you. Just wait a few more days- He's early." He was cut off by the sound of banging at the door. Mizuki went upstairs and opened the door, there was more shouting. Footsteps were everywhere on the floor above. Naruto couldn't make out what the voices were saying so he decided to give in to the darkness until the pain came again.

Kakashi had gotten a tip that there was screaming from a house on an old street, he grabbed a team of officers and his superior Jiraiya and headed over to the sight. He banged on the door and it was opened by a man who was covered in blood. Jiraiya yelled at him and everyone started looking all over from what the blood came from since there was no visible wounds on the man himself and didn't seem to be in any pain at first glance. Men went upstairs to secure the house, but what caught Kakashi's his eye was a small door on the side of the stairway that led down to a locked metal door. Acting with extreme caution he shot the lock with his gun and slowly opened the door to find darkness. He pulled out the torch that was strapped to his hip and flicked it on, moving it around until the beam of light landed on a limp figure that made out to a young boy.

"Oh my god. Jiraiya! There's a kid down here!" He slowly approached hoping not to scare the battered boy. "Hey kid are you alright?"

The kid groaned too tired to move to see who it was but it was too dark.

"Kakashi what's wrong?" Another man came down and stared in shock at where the small light had landed, he turned to see the light switch that was on the side of the wall and turned it on illuminating the entire space. The sight of the room shocked the two grown men, there was blood and urine staining the cold concrete floor and all sorts of weapons and dangerous objects scattered on benches and hung on the wall. What shocked them he most was the sight of the young boy chained to the wall with scars all over his body, you could practically count every bone in his body and he was only wearing a pair of tattered shorts. His hair was a dark brown that was covered in dirt that littered the rest of his beaten body. The boy had multiple lacerations on his back that were still bleeding dark red, Kakashi deducted that this was the blood that stained the man who opened the door.

"Hey kid can you tell me your name?"

The boy looked up through glazed eyes, when they finally did focus he flinched back from kakashi and hit his head against the back wall. In an all out panic he tried to raise his hands to protect his face but they were chained to the wall. Kakashi knew that the only person who could calm this down was his husband Iruka.

'Just do what Iruka would do and this should work out fine.'

"Hey, don't worry. We are going to get you outside, away from this place." Kakashi smiled warmly at the boy. "You won't get hurt like this anymore, you'll be safe."

"I'm going to try and get these chains off you alright?" Jiraiya grabbed a pair of bolt cutters that were coated in dry blood and snapped the chains off the boy's wrists. The boy wrapped his bruised arms around his his waist and tried to stand up in an attempt to get away but fell causing Kakashi to catch him. He carried the boy outside and he gasped at the fresh air and moonlight and the stars. "It's so pretty."

Kakashi smiled, it was the first time he had heard the boy talk and see an emotion besides fear and pain on his face. Jiraiya put a towel down on the car seat and Kakashi laid the boy down as softly as possible then hopping in the seat beside him and putting the dirty head on his lap. They drove to the hospital as fast as they could, the boy had his face scrunched up in pain but the older man could tell that he was out of it. He wasn't focused on anything nor did he seem to register what was happening.

Once they arrived Jiraiya called for doctors to come help, they carefully lifted him out of the car and onto a gurney so they could get him to where they could treat him. Jiraiya looked over at Kakashi with an exhausted look on his face.

"I need to get back to the station. Will you be alright here with the kid?"

"Yeah." He ran a hand over his face. "Don't worry about it, I'll be here when they allow me to see him."

He watched as Jiraiya left the hospital, he pulled out his phone. Now he just had to call Iruka and tell him why he was probably not going to be home tonight.

Sighing he pulled out his phone and called his husband.

"Kakashi? Is that you? Why aren't you back yet?" Iruka was very worried.

"Look, there was this call made in and we went over to this house where there were reports of screaming and in the house there was this boy and he. Oh Iruka I've never seen anything so cruel, he was chained to a wall and had whip marks that were bleeding."

"Oh my goodness. Is the boy alright now?" Iruka wanted to make sure that his husband was holding up alright. No matter how tough he acted he would always have a soft spot for children.

"I'm at the hospital where he is being treated now, how's Sasuke doing?" Kakashi asked about their adopted son.

"Good, pretty annoyed that you're not home." A laugh made it's way through the receiver.

"Don't tell him why I'm gone, just say it's work stuff." Kakashi sighed. "I want to help this kid Iruka, I want to help him get better."

"I'm proud of you Kakashi, this reminds me of the time you found Sasuke."

"I have to go, I'll be seeing you soon alright?"

"I'll be waiting."

Kakashi waited around in the hospital until a male nurse with dark brown hair came up to him holding a clipboard.

"Are you the one who brought in the young blonde boy?" He asked.

"Yes, I'm with the Konoha police."

"Ah, follow me." He started walking down a corridor and started to talk again. "He has multiple injuries, most recent seem to be on his back, burns on his arms and many fractures on his legs from broken bones."

"I see, may I go in speak him?" Kakashi asked.

"Yes of course, he is on mild sedatives at the moment to keep him calm, so he shouldn't get too worked up. Normally it would be family only but I'm guessing that's not the case right now."

The nurse opened the door to the boy, he was sitting up in the hospital bed looking at his bandaged hands. Fear flooded his dull blue eyes and whiskered face when Kakashi walked in, he pulled his knees up to his chest trying to make himself as small as possible hoping he wouldn't get hurt.

"He doesn't have any identification on him right now so a name would be nice." The nurse whispered older man.

Kakashi nodded as he made his way to the chair next to the bed the boy was sitting on. "Hey there, are you feeling any better?"

The boy nodded very slowly as if he was trying not to make any movement at all.

"That's good news. Do you have a name that I could call you by or so I could look up missing persons and find out where you are from?"

His head moved from side to side.

"Any name?" Kakashi tried.

The reply was quiet and if Kakashi hadn't been so intent on listening he would have missed it. "Demon."

Kakashi stiffened, that must have been the name that the man called the boy. A vibration accompanied with a quiet tune came from his front pocket and saw that he was getting a phone call from Jiraiya. He walked out of the room and connected to the call.

"Jiraiya?"

"Kakashi, we just interrogated the man from the house. His name is Mizuki no last name yet, but he says that the boy's name is Naruto, no last name again. Says he took the boy six years ago at the age of ten."

"Ten?" Kakashi was shocked. Naruto had been with the man for six years?

"I can't seem to find a missing persons with the name Naruto, but I'll keep looking into it." Jiraiya said hanging up.

Kakashi walked back into the room and sat down on the chair beside the bed once again. "I heard your name is Naruto, it's a unique name."

The kid, Naruto, looked back down to his hands avoiding looking at the police officer. Kakashi looked at his watch and saw the time, it was way past midnight and he wasn't sure when the boy would fall asleep, but it was very late at night and he had had a very long day and as much as he wanted to stay with Naruto he also wanted to go home to Iruka and Sasuke.

With a sigh he stood up. "I'll see you tomorrow alright?" He gave the blonde a warm smiled. "Don't worry, the nurse will take care of you for tonight."

Naruto nodded numbly as Kakashi walked out of the door, it shut and the young blonde laid down on the hard bed shutting his eyes tightly hoping to keep the shadows and nightmares away.

-Fizzydrink101