Hi everyone, this is my first Fan fiction ever, and its been a long time since I done any sort of story writing, so give me a chance and any sort of positive criticism wold be appreciated.

I don't own Naruto, but it would be cool if I did.

Chapter One. The Desire to Live

"Why do you hate me so much?" the child tried to say, unheard for the screams of the angry mob that surrounded him. There was no chance of getting away even if he could. They had beaten him so badly this time. His entire body was filled with pain, they had broken his arms and legs first, so that he could not struggle as they beat the rest of his body to something that looked like road kill. Not only that but they had cut his throat so that he couldn't scream. Tears were a constant stream from his blackened eyes.

"Die demon!" screamed the man in front of him, kunai in hand poised to perform the killing blow on the young Naruto. He brought the blade down towards the helpless boy's chest. The kunai's descent seemed to slow to a crawl for Naruto. The same thoughts kept running through his head.

"Why...why...why do they hate me?" Naruto closed his eyes. "Don't kill me please!"

"Don't kill me... don't kill...don't..."and then he heard from somewhere.

"Show them how strong you are kit. Prove to them that you have a right to live. Show them your power!" A strange feminine voiced rumbled and echoed within him. He opened his eyes, he watched as the kunai began to speed up towards him.

"Stop," he thought. "Stop it! I don't want to die! I won't die! I won't let you kill me!"

With this thought something welled up from deep inside Naruto. He felt it surge through his body; it felt like a storm was screaming in his veins. The ninja with the kunai stopped when he felt the chakra spike from the mangled mess at his feet. The power coming off Naruto became strong enough to the visible eye; waves of chakra began to boil off the boy. The crowd began to back away in fear, realising that it might have been very stupid to assault the demon boy, especially with the power that was pouring off the boy.

Naruto felt the power screaming for release, and so, he let it go.

The third Hokage was five blocks away on his way to aid Naruto, when he felt the release of a huge amount of chakra, halting his flight towards Naruto as he watched the explosion of light from where Naruto was being beaten. He continued to look on when he saw the lightning lance out of the clouds above and strike the ground, rapidly followed by too many strikes to count. The wind that stirred his robes became a howling gale, pushing Sarutobi back on his heels, forcing him to ground himself with chakra. Monsoon type rainfall soon followed drenching him and his escorting Anbu to the skin. What felt like forever, was in fact a few moments before the weather slackened and became still.

"Hokage-sama, what was that? It came from where the Uzumaki boy is, but it didn't feel like the fox's chakra." Questioned one of the Anbu,

"That chakra was Naruto-kun's," he replied, and with that he took off across the rooftops quickly followed by his escort.

As they came closer to their goal, the damage to the village became more severe. Suddenly the village cut off and simply disappeared. They found Naruto in the middle of a small crater, bleeding and unconscious. It was if something had simply removed the village from around Naruto for twenty meters in any direction and allowed a flood to rush through the area.



Sarutobi approached Naruto, marvelled at the sharp spires of ice that spread out from the boy. Kneeling next to him he reached out to check his pulse when a small spark jumped between them, numbing his right arm up to the elbow. Shaking his arm from the numbness his face showed his fury at the mob's treatment of Naruto. He scooped up Naruto's unconscious form and made his way to the hospital as fast as possible. He Left the Anbu to secure the area and recover any survivors of the incident.