At team 7's meeting place we find Sasuke and Sakura awaiting the arrival of Kakashi and Naruto. They were a little worried, Kakashi was late all the time so that wasn't a problem, but Naruto was NEVER late, he was normally the first one there. They continued sitting in an awkward silence. 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 40 minutes, 1 hour. Naruto still wasn't there, they were obviously worried now, even Sasuke, he would look up every few seconds, as if he was looking for Naruto. Over the last few days Naruto had been acting strange, more distant, they both had noticed. Sasuke had actually mentioned it once, but after seeing how uncomfortable Naruto was with the subjecyt, he let it drop.

A cry of pain jerked them out of their thoughts. They both jumped up into defensive positions as they heard footsteps coming there way. They were a little shocked to see Naruto limping towards them. There was a gash in his leg and two gashes in his left arm.

He was covered in other small injuries. He limped over to them.

"Sorry I'm… late guys…." He panted out

"Naruto what…"

"HEY THERE HE IS!!!" shouted a man

"Shit!!"

Naruto tried to run away but as soon as he put pressure on his leg he crashed to the ground. The men were closing in on him when Sasuke jumped in front of him.

"Get out of the way boy" growled the lead man

"No. What has he done?"

"We don't need a reason to attack that monster" growled out another man

Naruto whimpered softly when the man called him a monster.

"Sasuke, Naruto needs medical attention, we have to get him out of here." Sakura said as she helped Naruto up, she had left a note for Kakashi already

"Fine. Let's go."

They disappeared with Naruto. The group of men let out a string of curses before trying to follow them.

"Where are we going?" Saauke questioned as he took the now unconscious Naruto fron Sakura

"Lets take him to his house for now, the hospitals to far away."

When they got to his apartment they gasped. His door was kicked in, and on the walls there were messages spray-painted like" "GeT OuT Of OuR ToWn DeMoN!!!" "MUrderER!!!" NoBoDy CaReS AbOuT YoU!!!" "NOBODY LOVES YOU!!!". Inside was worse, there had obviously been a struggle. There was blood on the ground and kunai, shuriken and knives sticking out of some of the walls. They cleared a spot on the ground because his bed was torn in half. Sakura quickly took off his jacket to heal the wounds on his arm. Sasuke was keeping pressure on his leg to stop the bleeding. He noticed a scar on Naruto's arm that ran up under his shirt, he didn't remember that scar being there before.

Sakura finished with his arm and moved down to his leg, Sasuke moved up to Naruto's chest. He took off Naruto's shirt so he could bandage the smaller wounds and then dropped it in disbelief. Sakura looked up when he dropped the shirt and stared in horror. Naruto was covered in scars. They went up his arms and then curled down to his chest. Over his heart there was an X shaped scar, like someone tried to dig his heart out. Sakura gagged, she was a medic-nin, but she hadn't seen anything like this before.

POOF

Kakashi was here.

"What happened to Naru…to" his sentence died out. He was staring at Nartuo in utter disbelief. Sakura noticed that some of the scars were cut off by his pants, she gulped. She slowly took them off to(He's still in his boxers). His legs were no better than the rest of him. There were scars that went under his boxers but they left those on.

"I thought you said he was hurt?!? This isn't hurt!! This is torture!!" Kakashi yelled

"We didn't know about this" Sakura said in a small voice, she felt terrible. She was always picking on Naruto for not being strong, he was obviously stronger than she thought.

"That's not possible" Kakashi and Sakura looked at Sasuke

"What's not possible?" Sakura questioned

"Some of these scars are years old, but during training and missions I've seen him without his shit. They weren't there before" he stated

"That's right!! He didn't have them then" Sakura exclaim

At her yell Naruto groaned, they looked at him quickly. His eyes fluttered open, all he could see was 3 fuzzy blobs hovering over him.

"NOOOOOO!!!" he screamed

He jumped up and ran into a corner

"I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! DON'T HURT ME ANYMORE, PLEASE!!!"

Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke(though he didn't show it) were shocked, they had never seen Naruto this scared before.

"Naruto" Sakura said softly

He flinched and pushed himself further into the corner

"Naruto it's us" Kakaashi added in a soothing voice

Naruto still didn't respond

"Dobe! Snap out of it!" Sasuke said as he walked toward him

Dobe. Only Sasuke called him that. He looked up slowly, Sasuke was standing in front of him and Kakashi and Sakura were a little farther back. He launched himself toward Sasuke, and gave him a bone-crunching hug.

"You saved me! Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!!!!"

Sasuke shoved him off, Nartuo backed off quickly and wiped his eyes. Another shock, Naruto never cried. When Naruto saw his clothes in front of him, he looked down.

"DAMN-IT!!!"

He quickly formed a hand sign and the scars faded away. This turned out to be a bad thing, because when he formed the hand sign his seal appeared on his stomach. He didn't notice though.

"Just forget you saw those scars guys. It has nothing to do with you."

"Naruto"

Naruto turned to Sasuke, and jumped back when he saw Sasuke's sharingan activated.

"W-what?"

"What is that?" he pointed to Naruto's stomach

Naruto looked down and his eyes widened

"SHIT!!!"