Summary: This is how Naruto feels during his childhood. Based on the song "Someone Who Cares" by Three Days Grace.

*I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG OR THE CHARACTERS!

Someone Who Cares

Naruto stared through the window of his apartment. His sad eyes looked down to the streets below. He had such a horrible day. No one would play with him or even talk to him. Even all of the villagers avoided him. This day was just one of many that always ended like this…with avoidance.

Every street in this city
Is the same to me
Everyone's got a place to be
But there's no room for me
Am I to blame?
When the guilt and the shame hang over me
Like a dark cloud,
That chases you down in the pouring rain.

He didn't know why…but he felt as though it was his fault he was this way. He felt like he was responsible…for what he did not know.

It's so hard to find someone
Who cares about you,
But it's easy enough to find someone
Who looks down on you

Naruto felt like everyone looked down on him. He felt that the villagers felt he was beneath them…that he shouldn't be around even.

Why is it so hard to find someone
Who cares about you?
When it's easy enough to find someone
Who looks down on you

Everyone looked down on him! He didn't do anything wrong and yet they treated him as if he was the plague itself.

It's not what it seems
When you're not on the scene
There's a chill in the air
But there's people like me
That nobody sees so nobody cares

He knew there had to be people who were treated the way he was…he could feel it. He didn't know where they were…only that they were hurting like he was.

Why is it so hard to find someone
Who cares about you?
When it's easy enough to find someone
Who looks down on you
Why is it so hard to find someone
Who can keep it together
When you've come undone?
Why is it so hard to find someone
Who cares about you?

Day after day was a struggle for him. Naruto felt that if he never existed none of this would be happening. The villagers wouldn't act like he never existed and he wouldn't have to try and ignore their whispers. They thought he couldn't hear them…they were wrong.

I swear this time it won't turn out
The same 'cause now I've got myself to blame
And you'll know where we'll end up
On the streets that is easy enough
To find someone who looks down on you

Freak…Monster…Creep. These names were just a few of the things the villagers whispered about him throughout the day. Many of the things he heard were worse than this and they stung him deeply.

Why is it so hard to find someone
Who cares about you?
When it's easy enough to find someone
Who looks down on you
Why is it so hard to find someone
Who can keep it together
When you've come undone?
Why is it so hard to find someone
Who cares about you?

Tears slipped down his face. Wiping them away, Naruto came to a decision. He would show the villagers that he mattered…that he could make it in this world. He would become Hokage and then no one would doubt him…no one would whisper rude things about him.

Hokage…his dream of escape from his torment.

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