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Chapter 2

Last time

While Tsunade was walking down the hall she thought about how she was going to tell his friends that he wouldn't be able to walk for a while. And if Kyuubi didn't soon begin healing his leg, the shattered ankle and fractured tibia he received might be enough to end his career as a shinobi. Knowing them as she does, she knew that each one of them would be furious at this news.

She walked past the two ANBU guards and all eyes were on her.

Tsunade mentally sighed and began. "Listen up!"

(Well let's get on with it)

Immediately all eyes were one her. Every person who Naruto considered precious in one room, all for him. How could he not remember these people when attempting to take his life? Couldn't he see how much each one of these people cared for him? Her eyes scanning the room landing on the young Hyuuga girl, maybe some more than others.

"Naruto is still unconscious, his ankle is shattered and his tibia is fractured. We have done what we could for him and set the fracture, but the ankle being shattered was a more serious injury. His body is not healing the way it usually does. Without this the ankle may never fully heal, and he may be able to walk but…" Tsunade stopped at this, her heart about to break in two. "He may never be a shinobi again."

This claim struck through the hearts of every person in the room like lightning. Hinata let out an audible gasp and began crying yet again. Life really must be bad for Naruto right now.

Lee was the first one to speak up "But Lady Hokage! You helped cure me and take back my dream of being a splendid ninja without having ninjutsu or genjutsu. Why can you not do the same for Naruto?"

Tsunade just looked at Lee and slowly responded "Because Lee, your body did not become dependent on healing immediately and therefor almost remove your long term healing process. Naruto did and right now we cannot figure out why his immediate healing process has stopped working."

Lee just nodded as he looked back down towards the ground. Kiba was simply infuriated by this announcement. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT BEING A SHINOBI MEANS TO NARUTO?! IT'S HIS LIFE, THEN YOU'RE GONNA TELL HIM THAT HE CAN NO LONGER BE A NINJA? WHAT ABOUT HIS DREAM TO BE HOKAGE? YOU'RE GONNA TELL HIM HE CAN'T DO THIS? THIS IS GONNA MAKE HIM EVEN MORE DEPRESSED THAN WHAT HE ALREADY MAY BE!"

Tsunade looked at him in both awe and absolute fury. "YOU DON'T THINK I KNOW THAT KIBA INUZUKA?!" She took a deep breath and resumed her diagnosis "I understand what it means to him, yet unless we figure out what's wrong with his healing ability, he won't be able to return to duty."

"LADY TSUNADE! LADY TSUNADE!" Shizune came yelling down the hall. Immediately everyone turned to see her coming into the waiting area. "Lady Tsunade, he is waking up." Everyone stood up at this.

"Shizune didn't I tell you not to come in here yelling to me if he woke up?" Tsunade barked.

"Whoops" Shizune said with a fake smile.

"I guess I can't stop all of you from coming in now can I?" Tsunade spoke to the crowd now right in front of them. "If you all are coming into the room, you need to be quiet and stay quiet about everything I have told you just now."

With that everyone followed right behind Tsunade and Shizune not saying a word. Right outside of the door everyone halted. Screaming, why was there screaming?

Tsunade rushed into the door yelling, "Jiraiya what are you doing yelling at my patient!?"

Jiraiya turned to see the angry woman standing in front of him. "He started it."

Naruto turned away from Jiraiya with a pouting face. "Yeah right pervy sage, it was you."

Tsunade just looked at Naruto in absolute wonder. 'He attempted suicide about 6 hours ago, now he is back to his normal go-lucky self.' "Naruto!" Tsunade yelled. He immediately went straight looking at her knowing what was coming. He immediately looked down at the sheets in a sort of disappointment.

Tsunade looked at the boys sudden mood change. "Why would you scare us like that?"

Naruto kept looking down at the sheets "because."

Sakura ran into the room hitting him on the head with just a little less strength than her usual amount "Idiot!" she harped but immediately hugged him. "Please, don't do that again" she begged tears beginning to stream down her face.

"I'm sorry" was all Naruto managed to say before seeing the rest of his friends pile into the room.

Shikamaru looked at Naruto intently "I said this when I caught you Naruto and I'll say it again, you're more troublesome than some of the women in this village." At this Jiraiya laughed because he found the statement to be very true. Tsunade just gave him a mean look and he quickly shut up.

"Naruto, please tell us why you would do such a thing." Kakashi said before being interrupted by Kiba running to him all the while threatening to beat his ass if he attempted again.

"My reasons behind wanting to end my life are none of your concern. It never has been. It never will be. I know I can't stop you all from caring about me but it would be better if I were dead." Naruto proclaimed with a hint of anger in his voice.

Tears forming in the eyes of Hinata who was sitting to the right of his bed looked at him in disbelief, this isn't the Naruto she knew. She refused to accept it.

"The things I have lived through, none of you can even imagine. I've endured pain far beyond physical. The emotional scars I carry will always be there. Hell, I even have physical scarring from things in my past that have happened to me. None of you can even imagine knowing what it's like, growing up hated for no good reason whatsoever" Naruto's mask had finally fallen, he was vulnerable for once in what seemed like forever, he was crying. "I'm hated so much that nobody even cares enough to remember me on one day of the year. One day that everybody gets to celebrate except me. Nobody here knows how it feels to be forgotten. To be cast aside like yesterday's trash then left there because no one wants you. You all have parents that have always watched over you, always there to pick you up when you fall. I've always been alone. Nobody there to remember me, nobody there to care for me, nobody there… to even remember my birthday."

There was a long silence in the room. Everyone knew that Naruto was right. They didn't know what it felt like to be forgotten. They were always cared for. But Naruto, he didn't have that.

Naruto watched as almost every single face fell from him to the floor. Only the adults and Hinata still looked at him.

"Why?" Naruto looked to the point of the voice. Hinata was looking right at him with a compassion he had never felt.

"Because. It's just how it is. I can't change the minds of an entire village."

"Naruto, please give me a direct answer." She said with tears still in her eyes for the boy sitting in front of her. For the boy whom she had always noticed, always remembered. Unfortunately he never noticed her. Twisted irony was such a bitch.

Naruto looked at her in amazement. She had never shown this much strength to him before. This wasn't physical strength, or even strength of will. This was an emotional strength that he never knew existed within a human being.

"The second I tell you all, is the second you all turn into the villagers that hate me so much." Naruto replied grimly.

"Naruto, please." She retorted.

Naruto nodded then looked back to his bed sheets covering his broken leg. How did he not recognize that before? "I was born on October 10th, 16 years ago." Naruto stopped when he heard the crowd gasp, it was mostly just the younger shinobi. He couldn't tell if it was because they knew what was coming or if they were just thinking about why he would attempt suicide on his birthday of all days. Wasn't it meant for celebration to be turning a year older? "I was born the same night as the Kyuubi attack on the village. Most of you are familiar with the story of how the fourth hokage defeated the nine tailed demon, but what you don't know is that he couldn't defeat it for it was too strong." At this moment he heard the Kyuubi laugh within him.

'I TOLD YOU TO SHUT THE HELL UP YOU DAMN DIRTY FOX!'

"The fourth hokage used a forbidden jutsu to seal away the demon's chakra inside of an infant child." The group of people bewildered at what they were hearing. How could the fourth hokage not defeat the demon? Wasn't he the strongest shinobi to ever walk the streets of Konoha? "I'll let you take a guess at who the lucky infant was who was chosen to be the Kyuubi container. Me…" Naruto cringed knowing he told his friends, who he trusted and was willing to die for the truth about why he was so hated.

Hinata just started crying. So that's the reason why all of the people hated him so much. That's why he was always being called names and avoided. That's why… he attempted suicide. 'Oh Naruto' she mentally cried out wanting to hug him.

"I'm the container of the nine tailed fox. The most hated demon among shinobi history. The reason you all do not know this is the fact that the third hokage had made a law to where anyone who speaks of this is to be imprisoned for a very long time." Naruto looked up at the faces of who he thought was his friends. 'They all must hate me now.' "I understand if you hate me now, it wouldn't be anything new to me. So if you hate me please just leave." Naruto stunned when no one walked away.

Ino was the first one to speak up, surprising everyone. "Listen Naruto, you may be loud, obnoxious, and downright annoying, but you're our friend. I think I speak for every single one of us here that no matter what, you are you, not some demon."

Everyone nodded to agree. To Naruto though it wasn't enough. Even if all his friends wanted to stay by his side.

"No, you don't understand." Naruto began.

"WHATS NOT TO UNDERSTAND, YOU'RE OUR FRIEND AND IT SHOULDN'T MATTER!" Kiba yelled loudly.

"I'm being hunted." Naruto stated, shocking again everyone but the adults.

It was Jiraiya this time who spoke up instead of Naruto "The Akatsuki. A group of rogue ninjas known for wreaking havoc on their own villages and leaving. Among these are some of the most infamous of ninja. There's one that im sure you all know the name of pretty well. Itachi Uchiha." Jiraiya stopped here to let what he just told the young ninja sink in. "Sakura, you went on the mission with Naruto and Kakashi to save that Sand kid Gaara right?" Sakura slowly nodded. "It's the same organization who attacked them. That Gaara kid is the same as Naruto. He contains a demon and The Akatsuki want to harness the power in order to destroy the villages."

"That's why I have to do this. I don't want any of you to get hurt and it would be all my fault. If I die then they can't harness the power of the nine tails." The group of shinobi now knew one of the reasons he attempted to kill himself.

"What kinds of things were done to you as a kid?" Choji asked innocently hoping to get somewhat off the topic of Naruto being hunted.

"All honesty, I mostly only remember the solitude and the name calling. I repressed most of the other memories. I do know that I was beaten but I can't remember any of that. Only what the third hokage told me." Naruto answered still rather depressed.

"If you don't mind I would like to take a look into your memories." All eyes were now on Ino who had made such a bizarre request.

"Look into my memories? You can do that?" Earning a small smile from Ino.

"My dad and I developed a technique to be used by members of the Yamanaka clan who serve as military police. They along with other people around them can look into the memories of a suspect to prove the innocence or guilt of the person in question. The only kink we have hit so far is memories can be tampered and we haven't found much way around that."

"I don't know about this Ino, what would that entail happening to me out here?" Naruto asked earnestly.

Ino let out a small whimper hoping not to be asked this question even though she knew no matter what she did he would still re-experience the memories. "You would relive the memories." She replied.

"No. I repressed them for a reason. I don't want to relive these memories in any way. The ones I didn't repress were enough to make me want to kill myself. You think reopening the ones I repressed will make the situation any better?"

Ino thought for a moment before replying. "They probably won't make the situation any better, that is true, but at least we know what we can do to try and help you through this."

"I said no." Everyone looked a little disappointed at his answer.

"Please Naruto?" Naruto looked to his right to see Hinata had rested her hand on his.

"Ok" he let out in a barely audible whisper.

Hinata smiled. "Thank you Naruto."

Ino smiled as well. "Ok now Shikamaru put your hand on my shoulder."

Shikamaru did as told while complaining about this being troublesome.

"Now everyone either hold onto me or Shikamaru, or even someone touching the two of us. Bottom line, hold onto someone. Everyone except Naruto." Ino ordered.

Everyone looked at Naruto knowing they would soon be seeing what he lived through. The atrocities he experienced they would soon know it all.

Ino ran through a series of hand signs. "MEMORY INSERTION JUTSU!"

It was bright, too bright. Everyone had to close their eyes. They had no idea what was going to happen next.

Thanks for reading chapter 2 guys! I hope you enjoyed. This chapter was a little shorter than the last but I still feel it fit into the story so far.

I know what everyone is thinking. Isn't this supposed to be a NaruHina fanfiction?

Well it is. im just working up to it. I like the more developed romance and not the ones that run into the 'oh no he's holding my hand I think this means we need to kiss' stuff.

This may sound kinda sappy but I honestly felt the sadness when I was writing this chapter. Of course I thinks its also important that an author feel the emotions the characters do. So yeah.

I do try and throw a little humor into the writing but I still try to stay on task. There wasn't much this chapter but I attempted some last chapter.

Again thanks for reading and don't forget to review and follow. See y'all for the next update!