A girl no older than 12 sat on her rooftop to watch the stars, wanting the peace that came with the night in her town. Wanting so desperately that what she had heard and seen was just a figment of her imagination. But it wasn't and the pain that came with it won't go away no matter how hard she tried to deny the truth that had been laid out before her. The bruises were more then enough evidence that everything that had happened, was in fact, real and it hurt. It hurt real bad which is why we find her here, on this roof under a clear and beautiful sky rethinking everything and cherishing the quiet that has come.

A gentle breeze whispered to her rustling the leaves and her long blonde hair away from her delicate looking face now marred with dried tears and freshly forming bruises. Her name? Uzumaki Naruto. And she has just been told that the reason why the Konoha's people hated her. She had the nine-tails sealed within her- thus making her a Demon. The bruises? They came from some random villager who was looking for, what they seem to think, righteous revenge on the Demon who had brought them the pain that they had to suffer from.

She now knew why there were so many glares aimed at her and not the other kids who actually did what they were accusing her of. What she wanted though was to be loved and so far? The only form of love that she knows is what the prostitutes in the red light district would show her when she got locked out of the apartment building and they took pity on her, when she asked, one day naive thinking that they were being forced, the had told her, "This is how we get love. This is how we know that at least one person in this forsaken world wants us; if only for a little while."

That had made a bigger impression on her, then the women thought it would. And now that she was slightly older, had the reason for the hatred that was forced upon her, was re-thinking her goals in life. She wanted to feel loved so badly. After all the hate that she has gone through who wouldn't? But she didn't want to sell her body to get it. Naruto sighed as her thoughts began to circle one another, getting nowhere. Naruto stood up and walked to the edge and knelt before grabbing the ledge and swinging herself in her room, closing and locking her door before getting ready for bed. She had team assignments the next day and was cautious of who her new team mates would be. Deciding to think more on it tomorrow she turned on her side and fell into a dreamless sleep.