Naruto's a hyperactive 6 year-old now! Let's see what he has done this time…
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Chapter 3: Feeling…unloved?
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"C'mon Daddy, wake up!" the hyperactive blonde was jumping on their parents' bed trying to keep them awake seven am in the morning.
"Naruto, why won't you go downstairs? Me and otousan will be there in a minute," Hitami yawned,
Naruto laughed and ran out of the room. The two adults sat upright yawning.
"I just don't get where he gets all that energy from," Arashi began,
"Your supposed to baby-sit him today remember," Hitami replied,
Yondaime just fell back into bed, "It's gonna be one long day…"
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Naruto sat on his chair eating breakfast waving his legs underneath the table.
"Naruto," His mother approached him, "Promise me you'll behave yourself today, your daddy has got lots of work today,"
"I will, Okaasan," Naruto smiled,
Arashi walked to the kitchen stretching his arms. He's been working overnight for two weeks now.
"Hurry up, Daddy, we're going to be late for work," he grinned as he was walking towards Arashi,
"Don't worry, we're not going to be late, Naruto. Let daddy eat his breakfast first," Arashi replied ruffling his son's hair.
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"Weeeeeeeeee! Broom! Broom!" Naruto ran down the corridors hands out holding a small aeroplane in his hand.
While the hokage was still stressing over the piles of work on his desk. Two chuunins walked along the corridors holding more piles of paperwork for the hokage. Naruto ran between the two chuunins laughing as he made aeroplane noises. The chuunins just stared at the boy.
"Sometimes I just feel sorry for the hokage," one of the chuunins said, the other nodded in agreement. They entered his office,
Arashi's eye brows twitched, "Great, more work," The chuunins put the pile of work on the floor, as there was no more room for the desk. "Thank you, you may go," He said,
"Yes sir," The two ninjas walked out and another person came in.
"How's it going?" the man asked,
"Oh it's going fantastically, every time I finish a pile of work, two more come in and to top it all of, I got my six year old son running up and down in the corridors like a headless chicken!" The fourth said sarcastically, it's no wonder Sarutobi happily gave the job to me…
"Why didn't you ask for a babysitter?"
"Because everyone else's busy,"
"You're son's very…spirited, I can tell you that,"
The fourth smiled, "There's nothing wrong with being free spirited and I'm definitely not saying I don't love my son anymore…"
Naruto ran towards the office but then stopped as he heard voices. He stopped hearing the words, "…I don't love my son anymore…"
The conversation was heard as Naruto stood ease dropping. The fourth continued,
"It's just that…I could use a small break from all this…" Naruto eyes started to water and ran out of the hokage tower sobbing,
"..So I can spend proper time with Naruto,"
"Well, I didn't say hokage was an easy job," Sarutobi said. Yondaime sighed as he continued.
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I'm nearly done, the fourth thought, just a bit more, but I need a quick lunch break.
He took his lunch, which was given to him by his wife. Better call Naruto, he's probably hungry too from running all over the place.
The fourth stepped out of his office and called out,
"C'mon Naruto, lunch time,"
No response.
Arashi started getting curious, "Naruto you can come out now, hide and seek is over…I give up…"
Still no response.
"Naruto?" Arashi said called one last time, where did he get to?
The two chuunins walked through the corridors. Arashi spotted them and asked,
"You two," He began, "Have you seen my son?"
"Sorry sir, I haven't heard from him for twenty minutes now," one replied,
"Twenty minutes?" The fourth started running up and down the tower calling his son's name.
He called for ANBUs to start searching for him. Arashi got worried by the second. Thoughts overcrowded his head, bad thoughts, thinking what could've have happened to Naruto. He searched all over the place and soon, very soon, he was starting to lose some hope. What am I going to tell Hitami? He thought, she won't talk to me for a long time. Kuso, the sun's setting…very soon it's going to get dark. What am I gonna do? What if he's in danger? Naruto, where are you???
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In the forest, hiding in the bushes sat a cheerless child who thought he wasn't loved by his own father. Naruto sat with small tears running down his cheeks. He doesn't want me anymore; I guess it's good if I say out of the way. His head began to fill with lonely thoughts. Why does it feel like I had this feeling before? Why does it feel like I've been so lonely all my life? It hurts so much…
He sat there thinking until he heard a faint voice. He got up and heard it again; it was a little clearer this time. 'Naruto' that's what he was sure he heard. Before he could take another step, a hand abruptly covered his mouth and he was shot back into the bushes.
Naruto opened his eyes to see what just happened and what he saw, he didn't like it at all. He was suddenly was thrown onto the floor. Four ninjas surrounded him with evil smiles.
"Well, well, well," One of the four began, "If it isn't the hokage's precious little boy,"
Naruto sat shaking; he didn't know what they wanted and what to do.
"What should we do with him?" the second glared,
"How about we rip him to pieces?" the third said,
"Or strangle him to death," the last spoke.
Naruto froze thinking why, why did they want to do this to him, what did he ever do to them? "What do you want with me?" Naruto spoke shakily,
"What do we want from you?" the second began, "I'll tell you want we want…" he gave a cold glare at the boy before he spoke again, "Revenge!"
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I can't go back, the fourth thought, not until I find him, I can't bear to see her face if I told her he's missing. I know he's here somewhere…Gotta find him…and quick!
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"Revenge?" the fearful Naruto repeated,
"Yeah," the fourth ninja said, "We're going to show you what it's like...to have freedom taking away from you that easily,"
"We're going to show you how it feels to be beaten one by one and have your goal taken away from you," the third one continued,
"All you wanted was power, by that you needed to make necessary sacrifices, but no…you had to be stopped by the great hero of konoha," said the first.
Naruto's heart started thumping, he was going to be killed, he was sure of it.
"I know," the second said and everyone turned to look at him, "How about we make the fourth suffer," everyone gave themselves cocky smiles, "Why won't we kill his own child in front of his eyes," Everyone thought for a second,
"I like it," the third said and grabbed the little boy, using his left arm to hold from Naruto's left arm across to his right. Holding him up from the ground. He clutched a kunai on his right hand.
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Arashi got more worried now that his tears threatened to fall. He bit his lip and held a grip. Calm down, I know he's NOT dead, he's still out there somewhere.
Two ANBUs appeared in front of Yondaime.
"Well?" Arashi eagerly said,
"Sorry sir, no luck," the first spoke,
"Maybe we could try tomorrow," the second suggested,
"No," the fourth snapped, "For all we know he could be dead by then. Keep searching,"
The two sighed but very quietly so Yondaime wouldn't here and jumped up to start looking once again. Before Arashi could take another step, a kunai was suddenly thrown towards him. As expected from the 'Konoha's yellow flash' he dodged it immediately. Instead, it hit the tree beside him, but then he noticed a note tide around the kunai.
Arashi opened the note and read it with widened eyes. He immediately dropped the note and ran.
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Naruto started breathing heavily as he was being held and hidden in the bushes. One held him and another was beside him. The two other ninjas were hiding elsewhere preparing an attack.
Naruto started to shiver, this wouldn't have happened if I didn't run away in the first place, no one's even looking for me, Naruto thought in grief. Naruto stopped as he heard someone approaching. He stared at a man now standing in the middle with a white cloak with a red flame pattern at the bottom. Daddy? What is he doing here?
The man beside Naruto jumped up and was standing now in front of the fourth hokage. The ninja spoke, "Long time no see, hokage-sama,"
"Where is he?" the fourth automatically spoke,
"Where's who? I don't know what you mean," sarcastically spoke the ninja. The two other ninjas who were hiding immediately jumped out and attempt to attack Arashi. But were defeated in an instant as the hokage was too fast for them.
"Where's my son?" Arashi said once again. Only to see the man that was facing him was now approaching him with a killer instinct. However, Arashi disappeared out of thin air and ended up attacking from behind. A total of three criminal-nins were now lying unconscious on the forest floor.
The last guy who's hiding now jumped out and faced the hokage himself a couple of feet away.
"You take one step," the ninja said, "And I will kill him immediately," he threatened as he held a kunai on Naruto's neck.
The fourth face turned from an angry glare to an anxious worried look. He tried to take a small step but was stopped as the ninja continued to say, "I mean it!" and held the kunai closer to Naruto's neck.
Naruto, tears running down his cheeks, was being held at his own will watching his father standing there with a sorrowed look.
It was utter silence until the ninja spoke, "Remember us? The ones you put in prison for the last five years and took the freedom we had,"
The fourth froze as he was trying to remember, "The ones who nearly killed nearly ten innocent people?!"
"Sacrifices were necessary. We had to do it in order to get enough power,"
"I'll tell you what's not necessary, power and greed. You don't need that stuff to make a livin-"
"SHUTUP! Power is everything in life. You took away what's important to us and now…we're going to repay you and take what's precious to you," He lifted his arm closer to Naruto's neck for Naruto to try to grab the ninja's hand out of the way.
"And to show I'm serious…" the ninja clutched the kunai in his right hand and scratched Naruto's cheek making blood drip down his face. Naruto cried out in pain.
The fourth stood there frightened, "YAMERO!"
"What?" he replied sarcastically, "Don't like what you're seeing?...Then you're gonna hate for what I'm about to do,"
The fourth's eyes widened as he saw the person's kunai in his hand being held up about to strike it into the boy's heart. Arashi yelled, "NO! DON'T HURT HIM!"
The guy stopped and gave a cocky smile, "Take a last look at your father boy!"
Yondaime's heart was now thumping hard as he was about to see what's beloved to him taken away…so easily.
An inch before the guy stabbed the child, he froze. Then fell with his back facing the floor. Arashi noticed an ANBU standing behind the ninja. Naruto didn't have to be told what to do. He just threw out the arm around him and saw his father approaching him.
Naruto ran towards his father and Yondaime held him tight in his arms, tears that threaten to fall on both the blonde's faces.
"Are you okay?" Arashi eagerly asked checking for major injuries.
The boy weakly nodded, "You do care?"
Yondaime looked at him with a mix of sad and stunned expression, "Of course I care," he said running his hand through Naruto's cheek, "Why would you say such a thing?"
"I'm sorry I ran away," Naruto said hugging his dad, "I thought you didn't want me anymore," More tears ran down his cheeks.
His father's eyes widened, "Where did you even get that idea?"
"I-" Naruto choke on his tears, "I heard you say in your office you don't love me anymore,"
"I would never say that, do you understand?"
Naruto nodded breathing heavily. More ANBUs arrived and they took the criminals back to their prison cells.
"C'mon Naruto, lets go home. Your mother is worrying sick about you," Arashi said.
As Yondaime held his son walking through the streets, Naruto had a warm feeling in his heart as he fell asleep on his father's shoulders…it felt great to be loved!
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YAY! I finally got this long chapter over with just for you guys so plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz review for me (gives the puppy-eyed face).
I worked so hard on it till 11:30 at night!
I will be looking forward to hearing from you guys,
Arigatou-gozaimas,
Mrs-N-Uzumaki xxx --- p.s if there are any mistakes, please let me know coz I'm too tired right now to read it myself...