Prologue

The young boy could never seem to understand why he was so hated...his earliest memories were all of pain. He never knew who his parents were, he was an orphan after all, and all the caretakers at the orphanage would treat him properly. It was a rare occurrence that he would be given the opportunity to bathe, his food was always spoiled, and no one would stop the constant physical assaults from the other orphans. Sometimes the young blonde would actually thought the caretakers were encouraging such actions, but he was too young to understand.

As his life progressed, his torment only escalated further. At the young age of five, Uzumaki Naruto, was forcibly removed from the orphanage of Konohagakure. Tossed into the streets to fend for himself. At first the young boy child considered it to be a blessing, he was finally away from all of the other orphans that would constantly attack him. Sometimes even leaving him bloody. He thought that being a young boy on the streets that someone would have to help him, no one could be cruel enough to walk past a young child who was smaller than your average child of his age. Not to mention his clothes were practically rages at this point. His white shirt with a small orange Uzushiokagure symbol on the front, was torn in many places, his black shorts were no better, and the boy had no foot wear.

Much to young boy's dismay, his beatings would only continue to get worse. Rather than other children, who were only slightly older than him, beating him. He was beaten by full grown men, most of which reeked of sake. Just like the one attacking the child now.

An alleyway in Konohagakure

The young boy grunted and cried in pain as he thrown into a brick wall and hit the grown head first with a thud. *Sniffle* "Why...why are you hurting me?" The boy managed to say in between his sobs of pain. His head was now bleeding profusely, and his back was practically one big bruise from the force he hit the wall. "Quiet *hic* demon. I will finally *hic* rid this village of its bane." The middle aged man exclaimed in a drunken rage as he pulled a small knife from his sleeve. The boy attempted to stand to try and run away, but he was unable to balance himself due to the injuries he just sustained, he fell right face first in front of the man next to a wall and passed out from pain. "Die DEMON!" He screamed as he lunged the blade down into the boys back, which was met with a loud splash as a red liquid splashed onto the man's face and into the walls. The man smiled and stumbled from the alley way where he threw the boy and began to walk up the street.

The young boy's blood was spreading over the alleyway as it leaked from his body, his blood was already on the walls and his life was quickly fading. The noise the drunken man had made while attempting to murder the young child, had finally caused a commotion as a light turned on from a window above his body. Shortly after that a window could be heard opening, followed by a deafening scream of horror from a young girl. "Father, Father! WAKE UP!" The girl screamed as she shook to wake her father who was stirring from hearing his daughter scream. "What is it Ayame?!" Teuchi asked his daughter as he stood up, there was a sense of urgency in his voice hearing the terror of his daughter's screaming. "A boy was stabbed in the alleyway behind our home! I think he's dying! Daddy we have to help him!" The young Ayame said in between the sobs of each of her sentences. Teuchi wasted no time in sprinting down to the alley behind his home with Ayame slowly coming down the stairs. As he reached the scene where the young Naruto lay, his eyes could not hide the shock. As a civilian he has never truly experienced any horror such as this, and to see it happen to a boy so young...it disgusted him. He quickly removed the knife from Naruto's back and quickly took his top off and tightly wrapped it around the boy. All while Ayame was slowly creeping up on her father, "is...is he gonna be okay daddy?" She asked with tears still in her eyes. "We have to get this boy to the hospital Ayame, I can't help him, I'm not a doctor!" Teuchi said as he picked the boy up and sprinted off towards the hospital with Ayame following behind her father as quick as her shorter legs would let her.

The hospital several moments later

The blue doors of the Konoha Hospital burst open with a topless Teuchi running through them with his daughter a few steps behind. Naruto's condition had worsened , his face was now covered in blood from where his head was bleeding, from the front his blonde hair almost unrecognizable from the blood stains. the white top Teuchi was wearing before he wrapped the boy up, might as well have been fully red at this point, Naruto was bleeding out.

"Doctors, you have to help this boy!" Tuechi exclaimed as he three steps into the building. There were no other patients to be seen, and once the nurses saw a now red top wrapped around a young boy, they were quick to bring a gurney over and ordered the boy be set down. "What happened here?!" The nurses yelled with shock in their voice. They had a hard time believing someone could do something like this to such a young boy. "My daughter and I found him like this!" Teuchi exclaimed as Ayame nodded with tears in her eyes "Please help him, he's only a small boy...".

The nurses quickly brought the gurney into some kind of emergency treatment room and quickly began to remove the tops from Naruto, no one was able to recognize the boy from all the blood that had stained his body. A man in a white gown came in to the room and immediately took control of the situation. "What's our patients status?"

Hokage's Office

"Is this true?" The third Hokage said with his eyes wide option in shock.

"Hai Hokage-sama." A young ANBU operative with the mask of a dog stated. "I failed to see the attack itself, but when I heard the screams and moved into investigate. The man and his daughter were already brining the boy to the hospital."

The Third Hokage spat with disgust. "Curse these pathetic villagers, I can't believe they would go this far. Why was the boy not at the orphanage?!" Hiruzen slammed his desk in rage. "A boy that age should not be on his own in the streets in that time of night!"

The ANBU operative stood in front of the raging Hokage silently, waiting for an order.

"Kakasi."

"Hai Hokage-sama."

"I want a full investigation launched, I don't care how many operatives you use. I want an answer to my questions on my desk as soon as possible!" The Hokage exclaimed while tapping his desk with his finger for each of the last four words of his order.

"Understood Hokage-Sama. I will get to the bottom of this myself." Kakashi said as he Shunshined out of the office.

The Hokage sighed and put his head in his hands and almost began to cry. "Minato, if only you could see how they treat your legacy..."