Hello. I decided to edit Illusion.
I hope you like the new version.
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When you cried I wiped away all of your tears.
When you screamed, I fight away all of your fears.
And I held your hand through all these years.
But you still had, all of me.
-My Immortal (Evanescence)
DreamScape
The sky is painted with shades of gray and black, with giant clouds that block the sun completely from view. Clear raindrops start falling from the sky, a blond child suddenly looks up. His blue eyes grow wide in fear and trepidation, he is just four but he has nowhere to go or anybody who cares or looks after him, plus he is hates thunderstorms.
Not because he scared of the lightning or thunder, no, the blond boy hates to see it rain. Its like the land is crying and the blond boy detests tears and crying. It is weak; it does nothing to solve the problem. He knows that lesson well. Scurrying around the darker places in Konoha he finds a quiet alleyway with a rotten box. Scuttling in it he is glad to find that there are no rats plus he picked a good spot to rest. A restaurant and trashcan is nearby, "Maybe I can go to bed full to tonight." He wonders.
A couple seconds later the child scoffs at the idea; he knows that it isn't true. His place for tonight is where one of the seedier Akimichi restaurants is. The Akimichi are known for eating every single morsel on their plates, he would be lucky to find a scrap.
The child doesn't sigh in disappointment or does his stomach grumble, instead he pulls the tattered shirt closer to his skin and draws he legs to his chest. Then he sits there watching the rain through blue eyes, completely guarded to world.
The sky is getting darker although the clouds are still looming overhead and the rain is falling down harder than ever. The sound of drums shrieks from the sky and bright lightning streaks across the sky. He doesn't blink an eye, although, his whole body is tense.
"Who's there?" He whispers.
Silence is his answer; a few minutes later lightning makes another appearance. This time the boy watches the area in front of him. His body is taut, as the flash of light illuminates the alley he sees a man in front of his box, watching him with rippling purple eyes
"Who's there?" He repeats. This time the man talks.
"Come out here." He says. The child doesn't move. "I won't hurt you." The man with purple eyes adds like an afterthought.
The child knows this trick well, adults act all nice, but as soon as he lets his guard down he gets hurt. The child's scars on his cheeks is his prove and warning about people.
The man with purple eyes says something else; "I won't hurt you, here." The child body jerked back violently as a piece of metal is thrown near him. It glints oddly and it newly sharpened. The child wonders why the man gives him this weapon. Usually they get his trust first than hurt him with it.
Picking it up hesitantly, he walks out of his box. The piercing rain makes contact with his skin, but the child ignores it in favor of watching the man with intent.
"That is kunai in your hand." The man says.
The child doesn't respond.
"Do you want to come with me?" The child shakes his head violently; he knew something like this would happen. Raising the kunai threatening toward the man, he waits till the man would try and come near him.
"Come with me." The man with purple eyes continues to repeat, this time holding out a hand. The child lowers his kunai slowly; the purple eyed man's eyes show nothing of deceit or treachery. The child takes a nervous step forward.
The man still holds out his hand encouragingly, the child continues to take a step forward, till he is finally there.
The rain stops momentarily, both don't seem to notice. The blond child takes the hand into the own. When he does it, the hand feels wet yet warm.
It feels safe.
"What is your name, mine is Pein."
The blond child doesn't remember at all. Everyone calls him monster, stain, fox demon, shit, bastard, and so many more. Then he hears a distant voice in his head it sounds feminine. "Live for us, Naruto." The voice sounds.
"Naruto. My name is Naruto." The child response confident that is his given name instead of the others ones people tend to call him.
It takes time for Naruto to adjust living with the man. He felt scared and out of place. Sometimes, Pein touched him on his head or just left him alone for days on end for business. They also went into the village a lot, Pein said it was good.
He disagreed heavily with that statement, every time he showed his face, people started to glare at him. They spat at him and screamed at him, calling him bad names, on occasion people threw things at him. He was used to it, he could handle it, but Pein was different.
He didn't want him to endure what he had too. Although, Pein always protected Naruto from everything not through violence or beating people up. In fact for some reason, Pein was always invisible to people, but Pein protected him with words.
He even said to Naruto one day that people would marvel at his strength, and they would know his pain.
Naruto believed him.
Naruto had been with Pein for six years on his birthday, which happened to be today. He was running back from the academy was speed, smiling brightly. Not caring that everyone was looking at him in unhidden disgust, over the years he had ignored that in favor of focusing on what he had and learned to be a little more open with people he was close to.
Sasuke had finally caught up to him, running by his side smiling in his own Uchiha way. "Let me guess Pein is making you ramen and you want me to come along too?" Sasuke said before Naruto got a chance to talk to him.
Naruto nodded.
Two hours later both Sasuke and Naruto had their fill. Cleaning up the dishes, Pein had sent them off to bed because they two had to get up early for their ninja hide and seek test. It was like the game just more dangerous. Students got sent out to a big forest of and had twenty minutes to hide in trees. Chunins then found them.
In Pein's opinion, Leaf still hadn't trained the Leaf students correctly. This was one of the few good exercises that they had. Still, Chunins should set up traps of sorts and dress up as enemy Nin to fight against. These kids would die out there with what their learning. Alas, Pein kept his opinions to himself.
As soon Naruto and Sasuke had fallen asleep side by side each other, surprisingly Naruto not snoring, but Sasuke although it was lightly. Kneeling closest to Naruto he felt suddenly Itachi's presence near Sasuke. The eldest Uchiha had on his Akatsuki cloak.
"You know Madara wants Naruto and he wants you to assemble the Akatsuki now. He isn't waiting any longer. You've had six years." Itachi said, his voice low, though, it filled the room.
Pein nodded, his purple eyes swirled violently. Finally he spoke and as he did that the genjutsu he held that covered most of his real appearance was disappearing. For years in Naruto's presence he was an orange-haired, tall man wearing a white shirt and blank shinobi style pants with his purple eyes. The genjutsu covered his Akatsuki and all of his piercing besides the one on his ears, nose, and tongue. The genjutsu also covered up his Akatsuki ring.
"I know, but Naruto and Sasuke will be safe, you and I will see them again."
"Again?"
Pein nodded, weaving a couple of complicated hand signs a purple energy surrounded both Sasuke and Naruto. "I will lock away all their memories of me and alter several things in their memories."
After a few minutes the energy had dissipated, "It will be like I never met them. However Sasuke's memories of myself will come back when he unlocks the third stage of his Sharingan. Naruto's memories however can only be unlocked by myself."
After that, Pein placed a necklace around Naruto's neck; Itachi also placed his necklace on Sasuke. Although, Sasuke was ignorant of why Itachi had killed the clan he knew he still felt some connection toward him that wasn't hate. In other words like Naruto he wouldn't take it off.
With that both disappeared leaving the sleeping boys unaware of their lost.
However early in the morning before Sasuke gets up, Naruto makes his way outside to the balcony overseeing the village. The sky is dressed in clouds and clouds each filled to the brim with rain just waiting to happen. A couple of minutes later, it does rain.
Naruto had always hated rain. He hates the tears that people or the sky cries.
Crying doesn't help anything and he knows it well. The sky is getting darker and he can hear it, no, feel it about to thunder. It's raining harder than ever and Naruto reaches out to touch the clear tears that the sky has produced.
He doesn't feel anything, but icy wetness. For odd some reason, Naruto feels like he is going to cry. He doesn't know why he going to cry, but he is. He tries hard not to he really does. His blue eyes flint across the hateful village called Konoha; his eyes are guarded to the world.
Lightning streaks across the sky and it lights up everything. Naruto sees a vision of purple rippling eyes and finally Naruto breaks. He doesn't know why he is crying, but he is.
"Pein." He murmurs.
A name he doesn't even know.