A/N: This story will have slash in it.

"Japanese"

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

'Demon speaking.'

"Come stop your crying
It will be all right
Just take my hand
Hold it tight

I will protect you
From all around you
I will be here
Don't you cry

For one so small,
You seem so strong
My arms will hold you,
Keep you safe and warm
This bond between us
Can't be broken
I will be here
Don't you cry

'Cause you'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more"

1. You'll Be In My Heart

Pain. That's all he felt. The painful sting of betrayal hurt more than the physical wounds he had received and severe case of chakra exhaustion he was suffering from combined. He knew it was not only suicidal, but also incredibly stupid to put almost all his chakra into a single technique. Though in his own defence, it was his only choice. Still, as he looked around at the unfamiliar forest surroundings, putting almost all his chakra into a Body Flicker to get them as far away from Konohagakure no Sato was a good idea.

At the thought of the village of so-called "equality," his lips curled back in malice, exposing sharp canines. More like Village of Ignorance and Prejudice.

A slight breeze in the cloudy day caused him to look down at the small form pressed against his chest as the form shivers, tiny hands having a death grip on his not-so-new blue shirt. It is a child that looks to be 7 years old with sunshine blonde hair, a round face, and three whisker marks on each cheek. The child was asleep, no doubt from exhaustion.

His own malicious sneer softens into a loving smile and his orange eyes toke on a brotherly-paternal more like it-tone as he thinks back to what he'd said before he'd Flickered them out of that Kami forsaken village.

"I promise Kit, I'll never anyone hurt you again. That's a promise of a lifetime."

With agonizingly painful steps, he moved through the forest, his heightened half-breed senses missing nothing. He had to adjust his hold on his little brother-the fact that were only related by adoption had been irrelevant to them-and brought a hand to his forehead to let his sharp eyes adjust to the sudden glaring sunlight when he reached a strange narrow clearing.

It looked like some sort of path, only it was made of concrete and had two yellow lines going down the centre. He walked over on it and heard a strange sound. It sounded like a low rumbling, and it was getting closer. He looked in the direction of the noise and tried to move, but his legs were so sore and his exhaustion was rapidly catching up with him.

He did the next best thing, which was always the first thing in that damn village. Protect his brother. He tried to shield him by curling his body around the child so he'd take the damage as it looked like that metal rolling thing was about to hit them.

Something screeched and a creak and a loud clap sound followed and he heard tapping sounds moving along the ground, so he made a guess it was a person from the smell. He heard a male voice speak, but he couldn't understand any of it.

He looked up from his brother at a young looking man with short dark hair and blue eyes wearing rather neat beige clothes with an almost ninja-esque design to them. "Nani? What did you say? I can't understand you."

The man furrowed his brow before calling over at the red metal thing. A woman came out of the metal thing. She had long wavy blond hair, blue eyes and wearing more professional gray clothes than the man. The man spoke something he didn't understand again to the woman and she nodded before looking at him.

"What is your name?" he was genuinely surprised to find that she spoke his language that it took a moment for him to register what she'd said.

"That's not important-ahh!" he yelled when she touched a part of his shoulder not covered by the straps of his pack.

The woman pulled her hand back, and upon seeing the blood on her fingers; took a really good look at him and the child he was carrying in his arms before urgently yelling something at her male companion and looked back at him. "We need to get you to a hospital and fast!"

He balked at the mention of a hospital and shook his head. "No way! I don't trust those damn places, they've done us more harm than good!" he snarled poisonously.

The woman looked rather perturbed at his vehement declaration, and briefly wondered what this kid had been through before returning to the matter at hand. "I give you my word that nothing will happen to you."

He frowned at her. "It's not me I'm worried they'll hurt."

The woman looked down at the child in his arms before re-phrasing her statement. "I give you my word that nothing will happen to him."

His tense posture relaxed a bit at that and nodded. "Alright." He felt some confusion as the woman led him to the back of the red metal thing, with the man in front and the woman sitting in the back with him and his brother. His eyes started to droop closed. "I'm so tired."

The woman shouted even more urgently at the man in the front and his head snapped back as his eyes shot open in alert at the sudden movement the metal thing made. "You need to stay awake. We'll be at the hospital soon." she said. "Uh, what's your favourite colour?"

He raised a brow, but appreciated the fact she was trying to distract him from the urge to sleep. "Orange."

"Really? What about your parents' home number?" The woman asked.

His brown bangs shadowed over his orange eyes. "They're dead. It's just been me and my brother ever since he was born."

The woman winced in sympathy. "I'm sorry to hear that." she said softly. "I need your name and your brother's."

He felt his vision blurred and the child in his arms stirred. He looked down into big blue eyes. "Hey otouto."

"Where are we Aniki?" Blue eyes shifted over to the woman warily.

"Far away from Konoha." he said, vision growing blearier. "I'm getting so tired."

"No, you need to stay awake." The woman said urgently.

He shook his head. "I can't stay awake anymore." he felt the wound on his shoulder worsen; his healing ability having been temporarily stopped after he used up nearly all his chakra. "His name is Uzumaki...Naruto." he gasped for air. "...and mine...is..."

Orange eyes dulled and closed as the brown-haired teenager head hit the back of the seat he was sitting on, his younger brother worriedly yelling,

"Aniki? Kira?"

Naruto was worried. And scared.

He was worried about his Aniki because the hospital people had rushed him into the ER. And he was scared because they may try and hurt him, and he couldn't protect him. Just like when his Aniki protected him from the awful hospital people back in Konoha.

He hoped that these people were different and would actually help his Aniki.

Naruto clutched the pack his brother had put important scrolls and storage scrolls in. Before they had left, Kira had come home to their crummy apartment looking incensed. When Naruto had asked what was wrong, Kira had said that the council had denied them the right to move into the Namikaze Estate for the 5th time since Naruto had started the Academy. So for about a month.

Naruto had known all about his parents from his Aniki and how much they had looked forward to having him. Kira had told him about they died and about Kyuubi being sealed inside of him. Naturally, he had been terrified and went on about how the villagers were right. Though Kira had of course explained to him about how the seal would keep Kyuubi in, and about how they were two separate beings.

After telling him about the denial, Naruto had made a suggestion: Why should they listen to them? Intrigued, Kira had told him to continue and explain. Slightly flustered, Naruto had told him that since it was legally his house, they couldn't keep it from him. And if he couldn't have it, no one could. Kira had stared at him for a long moment before his face broke out into a vulpine grin and idly suggested that they should leave Konoha after making them suffer.

Naruto had known about Kira's not-so-secret distaste for Konoha after their father's wish had been ignored by basically everyone. It had gone so far that Kira had actually refused to wear Konoha's headband and had worn the one of Uzushiogakure, the village of Naruto's mother, when he had officially become a ninja.

Naruto had also gotten tired of everyone's treatment and agreed to whatever had Kira had planned. As it turned out, Kira used a drop of Naruto's blood to open the gate to the Estate and pulled out several storage scrolls from his pack and told Naruto to gather up anything he wanted to keep separated.

In the end, Naruto had gathered all the photos of their parents and any scrolls of jutsus he found and Kira had placed them into one scroll and then before his eyes, Kira placed the entire Estate into another scroll and replaced it with a transformed log.

Naruto had been rather confused about that before Kira had let out a simple fire jutsu and the henged house went up in flames. The wicked smile on Kira's face had indicated that this had been the suffering he'd wanted to leave to the 'good' people of Konohagakure. Angry villagers and ninja's had shown up screaming abuse at them for 'destroying' the Yondaime's 'home'.

It was a surreal blur after that, Kira had done something to make him sleepy before shielding him from the attacks and then a red glowing chakra had surrounded them and...nothing. He had fallen asleep by then.

The next time he'd woken up, he found himself being held by his brother and a strange blonde lady telling him to stay awake. It worked for a moment before his Aniki told her Naruto's name and fell against the back of his seat and Naruto had tried to wake him up, but it didn't work.

At the current moment, Naruto sent the blond lady and her dark-haired companion a wary look before the woman smiled down at him sympathetically. Naruto tried to smile back, but it came out like more of a grimace. He was grateful though that they had bothered with them when he knew that no one back in Konoha would have given them a second glance.

As the Doctor came into the waiting room, he hoped it was good news, but the grim look on his face was quickly diminishing those hopes.