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Chapter 1: Burning Pain
October 10, 6 years after the kyuubi attack.
Today was a day of remorse and celebration for those who lost their lives protecting the village hidden in the leaves from the nine tailed beast know to all as the kyuubi no kitsune. This is also the day one Uzumaki Naruto was brought into this world. Even though this was the day of his birth and a festival would take place in mere hours there would be no celebrating for this blonde boy. Today he would hide himself away in his lonely apartment building to try and stay as far away from the villagers as possible. Even with the multiple deadbolts, chains and pad locks on his door they never stopped them from displaying there hate for the young boy in the past. Today would be no different than any of the others but they may have gone to far on this night.
1:38 AM October 11, outside of Naruto's apartment
A very angry and very drunk group of about 20 Civilian men have gathered outside of the blondes apartment after the festival with torches drawn to display there hate for the boy that lives inside. What appeared to be the leader of this little gathering stepped forward to address the boy.
"Come on out demon! We know you're in there hiding like a coward!"
The man shouted with spit spraying out of his mouths. When there were no replies or any sign of the "demon" coming out he started to walk toward the apartment complex with a red jug and a torch in hand. Many others had the same items and they all began to dump the contents of the red jugs all around the building and under the door of the blonds apartment. They all vacated the area and threw their torches at the gasoline covered building to set it ablaze.
2:13 Inside the Apartment
Naruto knew what they where doing, he could smell the gasoline. Now with no way out of the apartment without running through the front door with all 20 other people outside, that clearly wanted him dead, he began to panic. The apartment was already on fire and spreading under the door. He was running out of time. He had only thought of two ways of escape at this point. Through the door to pain and death, or out the window of a second story building on to concrete. Witch lead to slightly less pain and maybe death. With theses thoughts flowing in Naruto's head the choice was clear as he prepared himself to jump. The fire over took the spot where Naruto was standing just has he dove head fist out of his bedroom window. The world around him seemed to slow to a crawl as he watch the hard parking lot grow near. When he finally felt his head meet said parking lot everything went dark as the world faded away from his view.
The Next Day in the Village Hospital
Naruto woke up to a splitting head ache has his eyes met the bright white lights and walls of the hospital room. He could here an old man and a female nurse talking by the window on the far side of the room. He could here the nurse giving a brief description of what his injuries consisted of.
"He has suffered a major concussion and a few broken bones in his arm and shoulder from the fall but he will be back to full health in no time with proper care and rest Hokage-sama."
"thank you. You may go now."
The wise old man practically whispered trying to keep his cool over last nights incident. Naruto didn't want to talk to the Hokage about what had happened but he knew he could not avoid it forever so he sat up and decided to talk with him now instead of later about the subject.
"Hokage-jiji..." Naruto spoke with a choked voice because of all the smoke. The Hokage turned his head towards the frail boy in the bed from looking out the window to the hospital court yard.
"Hello Naruto-kun, how are you feeling?"
The Hokage spoke smooth and calm even though he was furious on the inside for what had happened to his surrogate grandson.
"I feel Fine."
As he said this he tried to move his body toward the third Hokage and winced at the pain shooting up his arm. Tears threatened to escape this young boys squinting bright blue eyes as he tried to keep the pain from his arm and his emotions under control. The Hokage visibly flinched has he saw this boys expression show pure pain and suffering deep within his soul. The Hokage could feel his heart break watching this boy struggle with pain, and confusion etched across his face. He could take no more of this. He sighed with relief when he saw the Naruto fall unconscious once again. The third decided then and there he will be raising hell for what those men had done to this defenseless boy And none of them would go unpunished. The Hokage called for one of his Anbu and an instant later an Anbu appeared in front of him on one knee waiting for his orders. The Anbu wore a simple Anbu uniform with a bear mask.
"Bring me Inoichi Yamanaka."
The Hokage spat between clenched teeth, still enraged about last nights unfortunate turn of events. The bear masked Anbu only nodded as a response to the request and disappeared in a swirl of leaves only to return a few minutes later with the head of the Yamanaka clan.
"What do you require of me Hokage-sama?" Inoichi noticed the Third Hokage's grave expression and turned to see what he was staring at. When his eyes met the blond boy in the bed he could have sworn he felt his heart sink to his stomach as he took in the battered and bruised form of Naruto. His head snapped back to the leader of Konohagakure and before he udder a single word the Hokage answered his question before he could even ask.
"It was last night. According to my reports a group of civilians went to his apartment building and set it ablaze. Naruto was found outside in the parking lot under is bedroom window. We think he jumped."
"Those damned villagers! How could they do this!"
The usually stoic and composed Inoichi struggled to keep his voice down to not wake up the sleep blonde in the bed next to them.
"That is why I have called you here today Inoichi-san."
"What do you mean?"
"I want to you to go in to his mind and replace all of his memories from the previous night with good memories nothing to out of the blue just something to fill the void with even if its just him in his apartment."
"then I want you to put him somewhere else that's not his apartment so we can explain to him why his home burned to the ground and he didn't burn with it."
"understood."
With those commands the Yamanaka head took a seat next to the blonde haired boy and went to work. After about 45 minutes Inoichi was done altering the boys memories.
"all done sure. I changed the memories of last night to him going to the training fields after he couldn't get to sleep. So he broke his arm wile training."
"Very good Inoichi-san and thank you again you are dismissed."
Inoichi bowed his head to the third Hokage and went to leave but before he walked out of the door he turned to look and the Blonde boy one more time.
"I may be able to change his memories but I cant help his broken heart but I think I know someone who can."
A/N
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