Decided to try my hand at a Psycho Naruto story and this the product at hand. The buildup so far seems slow at the moment, but I'd rather not come up with some half-explained reason why he goes under. Simply put, in order to make the events after Naruto loses it believable I'd have to create a good enough foundation.
Sometimes it doesn't take an entire mob of people to cause someone to crack. Not every person has to face every demon a human can encounter before showing their weakness. At times all it takes is a single act.
Konohagakure No Sato, Orphanage.
Young Uzumaki Naruto was a child with a list of troubles no child his age should face. Many of the caretakers at the orphanage despised him, the children followed the adults' footsteps and kept away from the boy, but most of all and unknown to him he was the container of the Kyuubi no Kitsune. It brought the most of the negativity he felt his way with the child none the wiser. People who tried to get close to him would never be harmed, but it never stopped the others from pressuring sympathizers into becoming distant empathizers. The Sandaime Hokage did all he could to make the boy's life easier and even visited him periodically in hopes to allow the child a normal childhood. But even through the hardships Naruto grew, mainly due to the careful hand of Aizaki Yumi.
Naruto, Age 3 through 7
Yumi nee chan as Naruto loved to call her as a 13 year old civilian who didn't allow blind hatred to block her view of the boy. She and her brother watched as the Kyuubi trampled a large portion of their household, only surviving through the night due to the fact that they slept in the room next door to their parents. The image of the hellish snarl on its face was something that gave her nightmares even up until this day. So when she saw the sullen expression of the child left alone and the pure joy in his eyes when he realized that she wouldn't push him away like the others, it became clear to her that Uzumaki Naruto was NOT the Kyuubi no Kitsune. No creature that can place the fear of death in man like that fox could feel the vast range of emotion like the blonde bundle of energy.
The young woman, after quelling her hatred toward the Kitsune, took it upon herself to educate and care for Naruto the way that the other caretakers would not. He ate healthily and learned to read at the proper level due to a lot of catching up. Her influence allowed the boy to escape the throws of being kicked out of the orphanage at an early age and even allowed him to make a friend amongst the many disillusioned children that disliked him. It would all crumble in one night.
Age 5,
Naruto sat alone in the corner due to a punishment that he didn't deserve once again and watched as the children started to use a civilian game system called the PlayNation 3. Like all children he was curious, but even without being in trouble the others wouldn't let him play it with them. One of the older ones snuck a game out of their back pockets called 'Overmind: Beyond Human Limits' that most civilians and many ninja didn't allow their teenage children to play, let alone a group with children around age 5 and 8.
The game smuggler said, "Alright, this time we'll beat this boss and this stupid game!"
The children around him cheered in a whisper and watched as he played. The game centered around a young adult who trained his mind enough to give himself power without using chakra. The part of the game shown at the moment was a decidedly brutal part where the character Rashaad Warrent had lost his mind and went to his job at a superstore to slaughter all of the people who hated him there. The free controls allowed the player the chance to completely decimate every person in the store, but the player would also have to escape the authorities and their "guns" without getting killed in the process.
The boy around 15 years of age always decided to go the gruesome way and destroyed everything in his path until he found his targets, until the police would always arrive and end his character's life. "Man this SUCKS! He's crazy so he HAS to kill all he can, but every time the police comes before he's finished!" the boy said as he threw the controller and stormed off. A few others tried their hands at it before they all eventually gave up. Later Naruto would find out that one child, was determined to get past that part.
That Evening.
After lights out in the orphanage, Naruto snuck back into the playroom in the back of the building in order to see the game one more time, to control the character he saw so many times end so many lives. He wasn't expecting to see a young boy with ginger hair and freckles to be sitting in front of the game, beginning to do exactly what he himself had planned. Once the game started, the boy did something Naruto would have never expected. He patted the spot beside him, beckoning him to sit down.
"Renjiro, Ito Renjiro. And 'ur Uzumaki right?" the freckled boy asked.
"Wha.. how did you know?"
"Cause the others always tend to blame the 'Uzumaki' and I never see anyone but you in the corner." The eight year old reasoned.
"I don't know why they don't like me…" Naruto said but was cut off.
"Fuck em! My papa's an ex-ninja and he always says 'Kiss no man's ass, if they glare at you give em the eyes of the devil himself!' But enough about that, we gotta get past this level!" Renjiro whispered/shouted.
Renjiro despite his age used a better strategy than his elder and only took on a few civilians before attacking his targets. Little good it did, since he tended to get killed before leaving the area. After a few tries, he abruptly pushed the game controller into Naruto's hands.
"I had five tries, now's your turn to try. I took more turns so ya could get a feel for the game since its ur first time."
Naruto was too lost in the fact that he had a chance to play to acknowledge beyond picking up the controller and starting the level back over. Certain buttons triggered kick and punches, whereas others triggered special moves. One of which disabled the electronics in the building, and it was the exact thing that separated his attempt at gameplay from the others.
Naruto's Gameplay, Third Attempt
Rashaad wasn't focused at all on the people running around in panic as he pumped his mental energy into the electrical box for the store. The junction he aimed for was perfect for reversing the output and it cut out all of the normal functions. The only light in the building was from the natural sunlight. He then set out for the people who always accused him of insanity and the management who tended to abuse their position. On the way though, he had to get used to his new found energy control by killing a few of the more obnoxious people in the building. One fell to a well-placed strike to the heart filled with enough energy to paralyze it while another found themselves struck in the spine and paralyzed permanently but alive. All the while, Rashaad had the right frame of mind to assault people only at times when others would be unable to see him.
The disabled cameras and sliding doors made the store a large cage, with him the hunter amidst countless prey who stood no chance. But he still only took out those who seemed worth eliminating before murdering those he needed to face to face. By the time the electricity cut back on, people fled the scene far faster than they could be detained and Rashaad Warrent slipped out using the confusion as a mask to escape without a trace of evidence to convict him. No forensics would be able to pick up energy traces, and those were the only "fingerprint" the man had left.
The Orphanage
The freckled boy couldn't pick his jaw off the ground. He had played the game with the others nearly every day and they were stuck on that certain level for at least two weeks and this 'Uzumaki' came and cleared it within his first day of playing. Renjiro eventually remembered what set them and him apart, they had all forgotten about the energy control and uses they had recently unlocked. Naruto, having just recently picked the game up, tested every button and its use so he excelled. That and the fact that his execution was unusually precise, but that was something no child would be able to notice.
"This'll be our save! Since I know the others don't like you they don't get to use your hard work" Renjiro smugly stated.
"Thank you! Nii san!" Naruto whispered with a bright smile on his face, making his new friend wonder why the others didn't like the boy when it was obvious he just wanted to enjoy himself.
"No callin me nii san. You're only a little younger than me, but come play with me again tomorrow night."
Luckily their conversation and Naruto's nod of agreement had happened when it did, because not long after they agreed a young woman with bubblegum pink hair came into the room. "Naruto! Renjiro! While it's good that you two are getting along, it's WAY past lights out! You know what the punishment is for that don't you?" caretaker Yumi asked. Both boys gulped before eventually being put over her knee and spanked before being put to bed. The boys shared a slight grin before the slept and their friendship started at that moment.
Naruto, Age 7
Naruto and Renjiro continued to play the game for quite a while up until the boy who smuggled the game in was adopted. The duo decided that day to give up the ways they got farther in the game than him on the day he was about to leave. Of course he asked how they knew and why Naruto never joined him and the others to play. The teenager's last words before leaving was, "But I woulda let him play too if he asked…" Even with the game that brought them together gone, the two would hide away and play around when the others were sleep. Renjiro helped keep Naruto out of trouble and Naruto was the hyperactive, yet shyer, child that made it easier being an orphan.
Yumi also kept a good watch over Naruto, after finally catching the boy up to the normal level of intelligence for a child his age she made sure to keep every child well-mannered and helped them study. No one had a bigger spot in her heart than her "adopted brother" though, and even without her favoritism being something the children could notice the adults had different opinions.
"It's bad enough you taught it how to read and write, but I see the look in your eyes! You care about that damned demon don't you?" a middle aged woman asked.
Yumi quickly yelled, "If you think that HE is a demon, then you're either blind or dumb. There's no way that a boy who tries to get along nicely with everyone could be anything NEAR a demon!"
One of the male caretakers asked, "How can you be so BLIND? That brat killed your parents!"
Without even a second to process the information, Yumi slapped the man in the face with tears streaming down her face. "The KYUUBI killed my parents, you monster! That child has done me no wrong… so why? Why are you all so ready to condemn a child for something he isn't capable of?" What the others weren't aware of was that Naruto had entered the room, drawn by the sound of Yumi's distress. When everyone looked at the girl who stood up for a demon, they saw the boy himself standing in front of her with his arms stretched out.
"Don't bully my nee chan! I don't know what she did wrong but punish me if you have to, just don't bully my nee chan…" Little Naruto said with a strong determination in his eyes for a boy his age.
As time passed, Yumi would seem to be a bit more quiet during the day or sad about something. It would never last for a long period of time, but the observant orphans noticed that every now and then the most vibrate caretaker would stop being as warm. Things started to get worse the day that Renjiro found himself being adopted.
"Little Naruto! I finally got another family! And they said they wanted to adopt another child so I won't be lonely!" By now Renjiro was pull/dragging the boy toward his new family. "Tou san! If ur gonna adopt anyone else it has to be Uzumaki!"
Renjiro wasn't able to notice it, but his adoptive parents were infected with the same hatred that most of the other civilians held. Naruto saw it and quietly sank into the shadows of the room. If it was up to him, he wouldn't dampen his best friend's mood by making his new parents mad. The blond disappeared from the room altogether with an expression that almost made the woman feel guilty.
"Who are you talking about Renjiro? You came in the room alone, and the caretakers haven't mentioned a Naruto." The adoptive father said calmly.
Even though he searched for hours, Renjiro didn't find his friend before he left the orphanage for good. And the fact that he was no longer there allowed the floodgates to open. Without Renjiro to help prevent children from pinning their misbehavior on him, Naruto started back getting in trouble. Aizaki Yumi continued to be there for him, but it seemed as though she was always tired so Naruto tried not to let her see him in pain so she wouldn't worry.
One night Naruto was made to skip dinner for another act he didn't commit and he snuck into the pantry in order to get a meal and heard strange noises coming from the direction of the caretaker's rooms. "Stop… it hurts…" the child heard as he started to panic. It was Yumi's voice and it was obvious that she was in trouble. Naruto dashed into the room where the sound came from and saw something his mind couldn't comprehend at the moment. The male caretaker was naked and on top of his nee chan holding her legs over his shoulders. She was crying and her soft features were distorted with pain. She happened to open her tightly shut eyes to notice the other person in the room. Her eyes widened to a point that hardly seemed possible.
"Naruto…" Yumi looked heartbroken when she saw the boy's frozen stare. "Minaide kudasai…(1)"
Time stood still for a few seconds before Naruto started to hyperventilate. An ominous feeling started to build up in the room until the blonde's blue eyes became crimson and slitted as he reared back. "WRRWRWWRWRROOOOOOO!" he roared in anger as he charged the man, his body covered in chakra the color of blood. The chakra augmented the boy's strength too far beyond what a child should be capable of, but only to the strength of an adult. So the child kept punching the man relentlessly, angry but fully in control, not stopping until the man himself stopped moving.
"I tOld YOU! Don't bully YUMI!" Naruto yelled in a distorted voice as he slammed the man's head into the wall.
Yumi herself only managed to say, "Naruto…" as both she and her savior fell unconscious.
1. Please don't look.
The next chapter will be coming later on tonight or after midnight, but damn soon. Writing this story makes it a LOT easier to write Of Fox and Wolf. The videogame and its character are both my creations and will play a recurring role in both stories. This one however, will hold the game in a more important status. (Medium for self reflection)