First Story! Reviews Welcome! Sorry about the grammar issues.... Behold my first ever....*wiping tears in eyes*
A little boy around four ran as fast as his little legs could take him. He darted around the alleyways, heart pumping so hard it hurt. His legs began to tire yet screaming in pain, but he pressed on.
"Come back you Demon!!" "A Mob of villagers chased him furiously. Naruto turned the corner and stumbled. That was all the mob needed. Naruto felt a large object strike his head and his world swirled for a few seconds. He saw stars, but his hearing was not impaired,
"there's the demon child" a villager screamed "kill it!!" they all chorus in agreement. Naruto tried to run, but his vision was swirling. Naruto's head hurt so bad, yet something… someone… maybe his instincts, but something whispered into his soul. It told him to run… where to run. Given a burst of unusual speed, Naruto began to run. Along, with the pain in his head, Naruto experienced a new pain, it was not aching, it was searing. Naruto sent out a high pitched 4 year old cry of pain trying to see throughout the blurred vision the source. He located the source of it his eyes widened, a kunai was lodged in his foot. The villagers usually used homemade weapons, not the ones he saw in the academy. He looked up and gasped, the mob was not just villagers, they were ninja.
"This demon kid runs fast" one said bent over with hand one knees. A cruel laugh sounded out.
"But he's not running anymore!!" boasted another twirling a kunai around his finger.
"Heh, the ANBU really fell for it" the kunai man said.
"When will we run mariachi?" said a woman
"After he is dead and gone Lilia." Naruto moaned in disgust and defeat, he could not run anymore, the kunai went through his foot and into the ground. He knew he was going to get beaten horribly or worse this time. The four year old cried like and injured animal, he could scream for help, "but who would come" he thought. "The people in the masks were not here like before." He started to cry and one of the ninja kicked him in the stomach knocking the breath out of Naruto
"Whatcha crying about demon?!" Coughing, Naruto suddenly felt a new sensation....
He sat up yanked the kunai out of his foot and held it in his hand like a ninja did. He was not sure what was happening he felt numb, it was as if someone was in his own body protecting him. He had a warm feeling and his anger flashed in his blue eyes the blond scowled, a presence was forming, a strong solid force. The ninja backed off a bit, one studdered
"He-he looks like-" but the ringleader stepped out and pushed the cowering ninjas away. He scoffed"He's just a puny little demon brat"
He threw shurikin at the four year old Naruto and the boy held his hands up to his face. He felt the shuriken embedded themselves in his arms. The ninja then a punched Naruto in the chest so hard, Naruto felt as if it was by a sledgehammer. The ninja used chakra infused punches. He gasped in pain, troubling to breathe, then was kicked with a chakra infused kick. He slammed against the wall the yellow protecting presence now gone. He slumped over remembered a streak of silver, figures with masks, and most of all, a warm feeling as if a mother's comforting touch. If his face was not so swollen, there would have been a small smile, just a small one.
His Eyes shot open, Naruto experienced harsh pain, worse than his foot, worse than his head. He could not breath it was that simple. Human instinct of panic flooded over him, he tryed to breath but couldn't. His chest was so painful, but his vision focused some. He saw men and women dressed in white hovering above pulling something over his face.
"We will heal his lungs, but we won't help a demon child" a Man in white said. He felt a small jab and then nothing….
He was in a comfortable place… Naruto looked up blue sky, and he looked down thick green grass. He was in a meadow decked with blue flowers. He felt a small breeze too. It made the four year old feel sleepy so he collapsed backwards for a nap in the meadow. The ground seemed to catch him. He suddenly bolted up, the warm feeling was cast over him, and the fierce fighting manly sprit was present. He looked around hopeing to catch a glimpse of what it was. Them he saw them, barley, as if they were off in the distance. Their faces were blurs, as if you were looking through dirty window. He rubbed his eyes and he looked around only to see clear surroundings. He looked back towards them to try again, but they were walking away. He ran towards them. It seemed he was running, yet he wasn't moving. Like he was on a treadmill and the figures were getting farther away.
Naruto opened his mouth to yell "wait!!" Not a sound came, but then as if something was pulling him back they medow foged up and Naruto screamed in frustration.
He awoke in a dimly lit room still screaming, dark figures in animal masks were around him. He struggled try to get free, but they restrained him with chakra. He struggled in vain flailing around like a wild animal, given anger of a hot tempered Woman and then the strength of a full grown man. The people tensed up at the boy and they gasped when they saw his image. One of the chakra made ropes that held him down broke and then Naruto felt himself fill up with warm shining, power storm his body, suddently a man with a wolf mask stormed in, slamming open the door, yelling at the other masked people. They released the chakra ropes after that. The Wolf masked Man in was cloaked in a dark uniform also. He removed his mask. The protectors inside him, his fighters, his hope, seemed to give that man a desperate look before vanishing.
The man stopped completely caught off guard and said, "was that-?"
Naruto now with terrified look in his blue eyes, feeling powerless and vulnerable, began to become feral. The man reached out and said nothing. Naruto frightened at the thought of someone touching him, hesitated then lashed out squaring the man directly in the nose. Naruto knew the man could have stopped it, he was a ninja. Naruto peered quickly at the mask in his hands, an ANBU. ANBU people helped him before when mobs were chasing him or the orphanage locked the doors.
The man opened his closed eyes and smiled "got a good arm there" he joked while blood was dripping out his ANBU in the room stayed motionless just observing. Naruto stood up in self defense, fists up.
"Naruto knows basic taijustu" The man thought "maybe from the constant mobs"
Then naruto crumpled forward, the man catched him delicately. Naruto wheezed and started fit full coughing he started to feel the familiar pain in his chest. The Wolf man now worried motioned a wary medical nin, who regrettably came over to tend him. Naruto backed away instead, and through a strained voice said,
"please don't hurt me!" Naruto searched his mind,
"I won't do it again!" he pleaded. The Man ushered the Medical nin away. The Wolf ANBU looked at Naruto and said
"what exactly did you do?" Naruto still waiting, confused rambled,
"Please, Just, Please don't..." Naruto began to cry, "It already hurts, and it is not here to protect me anymore" He ended the plea with a threat "but it will help me" Naruto said with a scowl.
The people in the room shifted uncomfortably and the man put on a puzzled look, opening his mouth for a question. He was interrupted suddenly by someone in the room that said,
"WHO?" a random person in the room screamed. "The Demon!?" all the ANBU tensed up.
"Tiger!" snapped a woman ANBU "Shut your mouth" She snapped.
Naruto looked around, seeing the ANBU with a tiger mask tremble and shout,
"He's the demon!" He looked at the other ANBU hoping for support.
"Tiger stand down!" Yelled the Eagle masked ANBU. Other ANBU closed in at the shouter, and the Tiger screamed
"I can't just watch as he kills people, it is my duty!!!"
The Tiger ANBU dashed across the room to attack Naruto. Tiger ANBU clashed with other ANBU in the process. The Tiger ANBU cloned himself and drew out a scroll. The Wolf ANBU put on his mask and stood in front of Naruto with unbelievable speed. Breathing heavy and painful, Naruto tried to run to escape but was pressed against the wall by the Wolf ANBU. There was a poof and a sickening cracking sound. In the smoke Naruto realized there was kunai heading towards his body so instantly he curled in a protective ball. Then the protective spirit came about, filling his body with power, but it was not warm, it was cold and freezing. It was evil and thick. Naruto saw the Wolf ANBU man block the kunai, and through clenched eyes Naruto saw he was huddled by ANBU shielding him from further injury. Naruto, through years of beatings, mobs, and insults, instantly believed a crowd of people around him was there to hurt him. Naruto screamed out of terror and anger, the Wolf ANBU snapped around and ran to him. The other ANBU turned around to look at him drawing away.
"The ANBU were going to kill him!!!" he reasoned.
He begged inside for help. He felt the coldness take over, and the ANBU then backed away again.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!!"
Naruto now was not going to cower anymore. Naruto felt the power course through his body, alarming him; he teetered over a bit but was enjoying the powerful sensations.
"The demons chakra!!" shouted one ANBU.
Naruto never understood why people called him that, but it made him furious, he felt his boiling rage. Naruto felt pockets of air around him lashing out. It threw some ANBU against the wall and blasted the door off the hinges. Naruto looked up, he saw the ANBU on the floor and the broken door in peicies. He gasped, he did not mean to cause this. Right there and then, he then realized the power was unnatural and wrong. He sat against the wall and put his hands on his face, shut his eyes tight and screamed silently for help again. Hoping the warmth will take the cold away. Suddenly, the cold was pushed out. First slowly, then abruptly by the warm sensation, overpowering the cold. Naruto sighed in relief, he could not help but limp over for the pain at his chest began to linger again. He coughed and shook violently but relaxed, for he was held in an embrace, not by the warm motherly spirit, but by the Wolf ANBU man who clutched the child to his chest.