Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto used to be a happy boy. He had a loving mother and father, an adorable younger brother who looked up to him, and another one on the way. He had an older brother figure in Kakashi, a grandfather figure in Jiraiya(though Naruto always referred to him as Ero-Sennin, annoying the white haired man greatly), his Obaa-chan, Tsunade(though she seemed to get seriously pissed whenever he called her that), and another grandfather figure in the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
That all changed one cold, October night. His parents had told him and his younger brother, Arashi, that they were going to leave for a few hours and when they got back, they would have their new brother or sister. His mother, Namikaze Uzumaki Kushina, really seemed to want a girl.
Later, while he was playing with Arashi, he was overcome with an intense feeling of fear. It was like the time Namikaze Minato, his father, had killed that squad of Iwa-nin that had attacked him and Arashi, who was just a baby at the time, only it was hundreds of times worse.
He was able to get outside of his family's home to see what was causing such a feeling and felt his eyes widen in fear at the sight that laid before him. A giant fox with nine long, flowing tails, and red-orange fur was rampaging just outside of the village walls. As he was staring at the monster fox in horror, one of the fox's tails lashed out, crushing his family's house with his brother and the babysitter still inside.
He screamed in horror and rushed to the rubble of his home. He frantically searched through the rubble, trying to find his brother, but the bigger pieces of the debris were too heavy for him to move. He started crying hysterically, calling out to his brother to no avail. Suddenly, there was a yellow flash of light behind the hysterical boy and he whipped around to see his father's solemn face. As soon as Minato saw Naruto's crying face, and his collapsed house, he immediately understood that his youngest son was gone. Naruto was about to start yelling at his father to do something, but before he could, Minato flashed over to him and knocked him out.
The next thing he knew, he was waking up in a hospital room three days later. It was then that the reinstated Sandaime Hokage told him everything. Apparently, there were complications during the birth of the next Namikaze. The Kyuubi that was sealed into his mother has somehow been able to break free of the seal. It immediately went on a rampage, destroying everything in its path. The first casualty had been his baby sister. She hadn't even been named yet. After a few minutes of fighting the fox, Minato decided he needed to seal away the bijuu to stop it. And since only an Uzumaki could do that, he would have to us one of his children for the sealing. The younger the person was, the less chance of failure there was, so he decided to use Arashi. However, when he got to his home and saw it destroyed and the hysterical Naruto, he knew Arashi was gone. He knew he would have to use Naruto instead. So, he quickly knocked the boy out and flashed back to his wife, who was barely alive at this point. Together, they were able to subdue the fox long enough to successfully seal it into Naruto.
When asked how the Sandaime knew all of this, he told Naruto that he was able to get to his father just a few minutes before he died, and Minato had told him everything. What the Sandaime wasn't telling Naruto was that Minato had also told him that a masked man had attacked them just after Kushina had given birth, and that this masked intruder was the one who released the Kyuubi from its seal. He didn't tell Naruto this because he was afraid Naruto would get angry and the seal would fail, releasing the Kyuubi back into Konoha, and the wizened old man knew they couldn't stand another attack of that magnitude.
When it sunk in that his entire family was dead, Naruto collapsed into hysterics. He was so distraught that he had to be sedated many times, so he was barely awake at all during his stay, and when he was, he had this dead look in his eyes. After a few weeks in the hospital, Naruto was told that he would have to be sent to the orphanage. After being discharged by the strangely cold nurse, he ran into a situation that had never crossed his mind as even remotely possible.
The villagers had lost many things the night of the Kyuubi attack. Possessions, loved ones, their greatest Hokage and his family. They needed something to blame. Something to focus their pain and Hatred on. So, they chose the only option that looked correct in their minds.
They turned on Naruto.
It was certainly not what Naruto had been expecting at all. He was expecting some sympathy, or at least a couple people saying 'tough break, kid'. What he was not expecting was to be shunned and ostracized by the entire village, shinobi and civilian alike. After living in the orphanage for a couple of weeks, he wondered if he hadn't actually died the night of the Kyuubi attack, and he was actually in Hell right now, because that's what the orphanage felt like to him right now.
The caretakers all glared at him, and when they weren't doing that, they ignored him completely. He got the last and usually nastiest piece of food, if any, he was barely allowed out of his room, and was punished severely for the smallest transgression. His punishment usually included a severe beating. He guessed the only good thing about this was that he had his own room, but that was only because they didn't want him near the other children, not that the other kids were any better.
When the other kids asked the caretakers why they treated the blond the way they did, they told the kids the 'truth'. They told them that the Kyubi, the same one that had destroyed their homes and had taken away the majority of their parents, was sealed inside Naruto. The blond knew that was true enough, but he still couldn't understand why they hated him.
He got his answer when the caretakers continued speaking.
They all told the children that when the Kyubi was sealed inside Naruto, the beast overpowered the boy's soul and took over his body, erasing the last Namikaze's existence. When Naruto heard this, he couldn't help but wonder what they were smoking. Is that what they all really thought? That was idiotic, but the other kids believed them without question. After all, why would they lie about something so serious? The older kids delighted in beating Naruto within an inch of his life, and the caretakers always rewarded them for it and punished Naruto, saying he was emotionally distressing the other kids.
A few days later, the Sandaime enacted a law that no one was allowed to talk about the Kyuubi, nor reveal Naruto's status as the jichuriki to anyone who didn't already know, but it was too little, too late. Thanks to the villagers, everyone knew about Naruto's jinchuriki status that was old enough to understand. He was shunned by everyone.
Late at night, Naruto always wondered why he was in the orphanage anyway. What happened to Ero-Sennin? What happened to Baa-chan? What happened to Kakashi-nii-san? He should be staying with one of them, not this hell hole.
He found out why he was when Jiraiya visited him a few months later.
He was overjoyed to see his godfather and asked him why he hadn't come to see him yet and where the others were. Jiraiya told him that Tsunade had left the day after the Kyubi attack because she couldn't stand losing more people in her life, informed him that Kakashi had joined the ANBU out of grief, and that he had to run interference with his spy network so the other nations wouldn't take advantage of Konoha's weakness after the Kyuubi attack. Naruto somewhat understood their reasons, but couldn't help but wonder why they didn't think of him at all. Soon into their conversation, he asked Jiraiya when he was going to take him away from the orphanage. Jiraiya dodged the question by asking how his time in the orphanage was going, and he promptly told him it was Hell. After that, he immediately reiterated his question to Jiraiya about when the Toad Sage would take Naruto away from the orphanage, and Jiraiya once again dodged the question.
After a few more times of this happening, Naruto got angry and demanded why he was avoiding the question. Jiraiya didn't answer and simply left. He hasn't seen him since.
He hated his father for doing this to him. He hated that his father sealed the beast into him. He hated his father for trusting the villagers with this information, but most of all, he hated his father for dying.
Things only kept getting worse.
A few weeks after starting the Shinobi Academy, Iwa declared war on Konoha. The sensei's immediately changed their approach to teaching, forgoing most of the history lessons and training them all to be serious shinobi, ready to kill without a moment's hesitation. Before, they ran through lessons like the helpful, caring teacher, except with Naruto, but now, they ran through lessons like drill sergeants, punishing those who couldn't keep up. Many students dropped out, but most stayed, happy that they were being taught things that they saw as useful. Everyone graduated in two years and were assigned sensei's, where they would take on C-Rank and B-Rank missions, instead of wasting time of D-Ranks. Naruto got assigned to Sarutobi Asuma, along with Inuzuka Kiba and Hyuga Hinata.
In the beginning, the war wasn't really anything too bad. The opposing ninja would fight each other, but there weren't many casualties because it didn't happen too often. It almost seemed like they were waiting for something. Both sides were low on shinobi as well, Iwa from the Third Shinobi World War, and Konoha from the Kyuubi attack. The feeling that the Iwa-nin's were waiting for something was proven correct after Naruto got deployed outside the village, after which they got extremely more aggressive in their offense, turning the war from nothing more than a few skirmishes here and there to a full on bloody assault.
It was abundantly clear to everyone, including Naruto, that the only reason Iwa started this war erase the last Namikaze. Many shinobi said that if Naruto was given to Iwa to be killed, the war would end, but the Sandaime nor Danzo would hear of it. Danzo didn't want to give him away because he was their jinchuriki, and the Sandaime because of his relationship with the boy, even though Naruto had seen him less and less and when he did, he noticed the Hokage becoming progressively colder to him. Naruto thought it was the stress of the war and the increasing pressure of the Konoha shinobi and civilians demanding that they simply give Naruto up, but it could have been that the Kyubi had taken away his wife. He wouldn't have even entertained the idea before, but he apparently didn't know people as well as he thought he did, what with everyone ostracizing him aside from Ichiraku Ramen, the only place he could get a decent meal, even though he didn't particularly like Ramen. No one would sell to him, and when they did, the food was either spoiled or the prices were jacked sky high.
Not only that, the only clothes he could get was a hideous orange tracksuit. He wasn't stupid. He knew that they wanted him to wear it because he would stick out like a sore thumb with it on, increasing his chances of being of being spotted and killed by enemy ninja. Despite his bright clothing, his personality was rather cold and apathetic in contrast, only showing emotion in extreme situations, a result of his ostracism and abuse. It was the total opposite of his bright and cheerful personality he had before the Kyuubi attack.
That's where he was now. Jumping through the trees in the Land of Grass towards the mission's destination, a small supply line for Iwagakure, the Tenchi Bridge, near the border of the Land of Rain. For some reason, neither Iwa nor Konoha could get into the Land of Rain, but that wasn't important right now.
He was nearing the bridge with his 'team', when Asuma suddenly called a hault. The reason for the air-quotes around 'team' was because he didn't really see them as a team. Asuma ignored him at best and glared at him at worst, not deigning to teach him a damn thing. He figured it was because Asuma's mother died in the Kyubi attack.
Kiba simply mocked him for his weakness, and Asuma didn't stop him at all. He tried to defend himself, but Kiba was right. He was weak, but it wasn't his fault. He studied as hard as he could, but the sensei's did all they could to sabotage him in the hopes that he would be killed. Because of this, he graduated near the bottom of his class, and Kiba took every chance he got to remind him of this fact. At least he wasn't overly cruel about it.
Hinata simply stared at him when she thought he wasn't looking, and blushed when he got too close. He didn't particularly care. He knew she had a crush on him, but he didn't care. Maybe if she told him, they could have been something when they got older, but as it were, he didn't feel anything for her if she left him to his loneliness, and he knew she knew about his isolation. If you're wondering why he didn't make the first move, it was because he didn't really like her. She was just so shy and pathetic, he couldn't really stand her personality at all. He wasn't going to turn her down if she wanted to be friends, hell, he wouldn't turn anyone down, and with the way things were in the village, she was probably his only chance to have a family, but unless she changed, he wouldn't be happy with it.
He was shaken out of his thoughts when an explosion rocked the forest he was in. Asuma got in a ready stance with his trench knives out, Kiba got into formation with Akamaru, Hinata shakily got into the Hyuga's traditional taijutsu stance, and Naruto got into a totally incorrect taijutsu stance with a kunai held in a reverse grip.
"Ah, looks like the intel was correct. The Namikaze brat is here." one of the fifteen Iwa-nins that were surrounding them said with a vicious sneer aimed at Naruto. He looked over at the other two and grimaced when he saw Asuma, recognizing him as a powerful Konoha Elite Jonin.
"Listen, you're all surrounded." the leader began. "I'll make you an offer. You leave the Namikaze brat, and we'll let the rest of you go, untouched and unharmed." he offered calmly. As if to show Asuma he was being truthful, the Iwa-nin behind them moved out of the way, giving them a clear escape path.
If he was being honest, the Iwa-nin didn't believe Asuma would take his offer, so he was surprised when he noticed Asuma seriously considering it. Naruto saw this, too, and glared at him.
"Don't you dare!" he yelled at his 'sensei'.
Asuma simply stared coldly at him for a moment before he put away his trench knives and turned around, "Kiba, Hinata, let's go."
The two in question were shocked that Asuma was ordering them to abandon their teammate. Sure, Kiba mocked him relentlessly, but he didn't want to leave Naruto to die. Hinata felt much the same way, but her father told her to never disobey an order from a superior officer.
"B-But, Asuma-sensei, we can't just abandon a comrade..." Kiba said quietly.
"Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices." he said coldly. "Now, let's. GO!" Asuma snarled at him forcefully, and Kiba gulped, but hesitantly followed him along with Hinata.
"NO!" Naruto screamed desperately, trying to run after them, but was stopped by one of the enemy shinobi planting his fist in the blond seven year old's stomach hard enough to cause him to spit up a glob of blood, and his eyesight to become blurred. He soon lost sight of his team.
Needless to say, the Iwa-nin's were pleasantly surprised. They were expecting a fight, and while they knew the kids wouldn't be anything tough, Asuma was one of Konoha's most powerful shinobi and could probably take out most of them easily, but it looks like it was their lucky day.
"Well, brat, it looks like your father isn't here to protect you." the ninja who punched him sneered. "Oh, wait! My mistake! That bastard's dead!" he laughed unpleasantly.
Naruto weakly glared at him, "D-Don't talk about my dad like that!" he yelled, only to be backhanded to the ground.
"I'll take about that monster any way I like!" he snarled. The other nins approached them both with vicious grins on their faces.
"How about we chop his head off, so Onoki-sama can mount his head in the office?" one of them jeered.
"Nah, how about we have a little 'fun' with him first?" Another suggested with a leer, getting agreeing laughs from the others.
Naruto was shaking in fear and grief on the ground, and when he understood what they were suggesting, his shaking increased ten-fold, causing the Iwa monsters to laugh louder. Tears started falling from his eyes. First, his family dies, then, everyone in the village ostracizes and abuses him, and now, a bunch of Iwa-nin were going to rape him repeatedly for, most likely, days, and then kill him in probably the most painful fashion they could think of.
'Why is my life like this? What did I do wrong? Why did my family die? Why did the others abandon me? I-I don't want to die!' His grief was so great, it was causing actual physical pain, especially his chest and, for some reason, his eyes.
As the first Iwa-nin reached him, pants already around his knees, Naruto's eyes snapped open. Unlike before, when they were a dull cerulean, they were a light purple with a ripple-like pattern which spread over the eyeballs. He thrust his arms out and words were falling from his mouth before he, or anyone else for that matter, knew what was happening.
"Shinra Tensei!(Heavenly Subjugation of the Omnipresent God!)" he screamed.
A large shockwave erupted from the blonde, powerful enough to completely disintegrate the Iwa-nin's closest to him, shatter the bones of the ones further away, and uproot the trees from the ground, repelling everything around him away.
Not one of the Iwa-nin survived.
Of course, expelling that much chakra at once tired him immensely, and he collapsed to the ground, unconsciousness claiming him. Not long after that, a woman appeared next to his unconscious body.
The woman would be considered by any hot-blooded man. She had a paper flower in her short, blue hair. She had a labret piercing and was staring at Naruto with shocked, gray eyes. She was wearing a ring on her right middle finger with the kanji for 'white' on it, along with nail polish on her fingers and toes. Her attire consisted of simply shinobi sandals and a black cloak covered in red clouds. Her name was Konan. She was coming back from a mission and came across the the enemy shinobi confronting each other. She was about to just continue back to Amegakure, but stopped when she saw the Konoha ninja abandon the blond child. Normally, she still wouldn't get involved, but despite her outward stoicism, it disgusted her when the Iwa-nins said they were going to rape the boy. She wasn't going to let that happen. That was one of the things that still got to her.
'That was the 'Shinra Tensei' technique.' she thought to herself. 'Could he...?'
She crouched down and rolled the unconscious boy over. She reached for his eyes and pushed them open, and had her suspicions confirmed. Staring back at her were the same eyes Nagato possessed.
The Rinnegan.