I know many people will be annoyed to hear this, but I've started another story (under request of family). It's a Naruto Hunter x Hunter crossover (two of them, actually...) and the first chapter of both are almost finished. I promise I have been working on my older stories as well whenever I get an idea or a computer to work on (which is rare).

wind dancer1981 - Thanks for your concern! Well, it's been a while, but everything's fine, and I was even able to update this!

Again, it's been a while, so I wouldn't be surprised if anyone yelled at me for being lazy. Schools just started up again, and it's boring. Though I do have two tests tomorrow... but I don't wanna go study yet. There's time... I think.

Don't even try to understand Naruto's process of thoughts. It's confusing on purpose.

Chap. 3

"We can't let people near him! He's too dangerous!" One of the council member shouted. It was just two days after the incident when Naruto killed one of the medics sent to take care of him. It was still a red hot discussion within the village. As it would turn out, one of the councilmen told their wife about what was going on with Naruto, and his son overheard and started to spread the rumor to his friends that there was an 'insane demon killing people' and that 'no one is safe'. This sent the kids into a panic, thus having their parents come to calm them down. When the parents learned what had upset the children, they scolded the first boy. They boy, not liking the scolding, told the angry parents that he heard it from his dad, a councilman. This convinced some of the parents that what he said was true, but most of them wanted to know for sure. A large amount followed the boy to his house and confronted the councilman, demanding the truth. When the man did not confirm or deny anything, saying he was under oath, they left. But this did not stop the other groups of people looking for the truth. Some went straight to the Hokage, questioning him on what demon this was, and why he was keeping it a secret, and others went to the other council members they were close to. All of them hoping for the boy to have been proven wrong.

Hiruzen dealt with the onslaught of questions well enough, appeasing the villagers' animosity to the 'demon'. The other council members, however, were a different story. Some of the members who strongly disliked Naruto were easy to convince, spilling everything from Naruto's other personality to the fact that he attacked a man, killing him in seconds. Of course, he left out the fact that the man was coming at a mentally unstable person with a sharp, thin, pointy object that had liquid in the tube attached.

By the end of the day of the medic nin's death, the entire village knew what had happened with Naruto, gossip spreading like a wildfire, blowing the entire ordeal out of proportion.

"Did you hear? That demon child killed an entire squad of important medic nin! They were supposed to be the elites in healing! Just under the level of Tsunade-sama! There only problem was their lack of fighting abilities."

"Hey, Misaki! I just heard that the demon child killed an entire group of harmless genin! They were just on a D-rank mission when they crossed his path! Just for that, he killed them all!"

"The demon is getting too strong! He killed a ANBU, just because he was throwing a fit! If he's alive any longer, he'll destroy us all! And the Hokage isn't doing anything about it! They boy went to the damn (mental) hospital!"

Rumors such as these flew threw the village. Though each and everyone difference in their own ways, they all had the same points. Naruto killed a ninja, the eldest Sarutobi was doing nothing about it, and he had only gone to the hospital after the killing. No one mentioned the hospital he went to was a mental one, and that he had been there for far longer then just after the killing. No, the creators and spreaders of these fantasies did not care for actual facts. They just wanted to spread their corrupt beliefs about a young boy.

No one thought about Naruto's mental state after killing a man who was sent to help him. His mental state after seeing one of his fears in a place that was meant to be safe.

No one thought of Naruto's slowly breaking mind

"Naruto, he must have deserved it. You saw what he had! That vial must have held poison! There's no reason not to kill him!" The outside world's Naruto was huddled in a ball, rocking back and forth within his mind as his body was doing the same in the real world. Every so often, he would mutter something such as 'murderer', 'dead', 'innocent', and 'monster'. Naruto sighed, allowing himself a rest from trying to fix his other self.

Though it may seem like there was no improvement - considering Naruto had been at this for two days already - there was truly quite a bit. Right after seeing the person he had attacked wasn't trying to kill him, he immediately froze up, and the self in his mind blocked itself away from Naruto. The ninja that were too late in arriving at the room were forced to move the boy to his bed, seeing as he was too out of it to do it himself.

It took three hours for Naruto to cox Naruto of of his little confined area. And even then, Naruto was unresponsive for the longest of times. Slowly, his mind's body moved into the fetal position before rocking back and forth, trying to bring some form of comfort the to the boy. As his mind's body did this, his real body followed the actions, thus sending some of the observers of his room into an excited frenzy - some rushing over to inform the Hokage of the advancement, some going to his room to see if he was truly improving and coming back into reality, as others checked every single guard to make sure no unauthorized personnel was trying to sneak in and harm the boy when he was unable to do anything to protect himself.

After much more work on Naruto's part, Naruto had began talking both inside and out, though just a few aforementioned words over and over.

To everyone, even Naruto, Naruto's behavior was unexpected. After all, he had already killed many people, and Naruto was in no way upset about killing one more. The only difference he could find was that, this man was kind. He had done nothing to make Naruto want to kill him.

Naruto didn't know what was going on in Naruto's separate section of their mind.

I'm just like them.

Murderer.

I killed an innocent.

All my fault!

I harmed a kind man!

Truly a monster.

Is it our fault?

He did nothing!

Innocent!

Killed in cold blood.

Why?

No one ever killed me, and they hate me for some reason.

I had nothing against this man.

It's horrible.

No motive to kill him. Nothing.

I'm not normal.

Villagers were right!

Why?

No, I'm worse than them!

Monster.

I murdered him in cold blood.

A normal medic

I murdered him.

They said I was a demon...

There was nothing against him!

I must be a monster, just like everyone else.

Even Naruto must be.

Should we be like this?

That's why I'm like this.

No...

Monster.

Am I really evil?

Why would I do that?

He's dead

Every so often, Naruto would hear Naruto calling him, or sometimes even on of the ANBU or medics sent in to try and help him out of his mental state, but never once did he think anything of it, too far got to comprehend anything.

It was only much later, after Naruto had organized his thoughts, that Naruto entered his empty shell of a body. At the same time, his mental body left the room he had shared with Naruto.

Naruto, asleep and mentally exhausted, did not notice a thing.

His body stirred to life, drawing the attention of the tired guards watching his cell. In stiff movements, he stood on four legs and crawled off the bed.

Slowly, he made progress to the wall opposite of him. The wall with all the pictures.

Taking a crayon, he lifted it up, the point just barely touching the blank white surface.

One line.

Two.

Three.

….

For his finished product, there was a man. A man that's face looked almost exactly like the medic that entered the room just three days earlier.

The difference?

There was a mix of clothing, skin colors, and lengths of body parts, pointing out that this was multiple people.

Some were recognizable. There was separate parts of the clothes that distinctly identified individual ANBU members. The Uchiha clan was clearly symbolized with their clan crest on the breast of the shirt. He hair color showed the Yamanaka, with their distinctive platinum blond hair. There was bandages over one of the eyes, reminding everyone observing of Danzo - someone Naruto had, hopefully, never come across - and the skin color was that of Naruto, a very rare color of skin within the Elemental Nations, even though people were outside 24/7.

The question resonating within everyone was, "What is this for?". A very good question. One that will be answered soon.

But everyone failed to notice the eyes. They were nearly white, a hint of purple present. The eyes of the Hyuuga.

And the no one could figure out what little Naruto, the boy within the mental hospital, was trying to communicate. They didn't even try.

Do you little geniuses know what it means? Yes? No? Good! You should/shouldn't!

Sorry for the sad excuse of an insane person. Concerning Naruto's thoughts, he had already thought all of this before, so now it's just floating around his head randomly.