CHAPTER: - 9 TRANSFUSION.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN THE Naruto UNIVERSE.

WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS GRAPHICAL TORTURE SCENE, BUT CONTAINS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY SO TAKE PRECAUTIONS.

It has almost been 2 weeks since Naruto has been under Iruka's tutelage, by now Naruto is able to read and write properly, gained some good amount of chakra control, but it was still not good enough to do a clone jutsu, and had finished learning a good amount of this year's portions (just enough to help him scrape through the exams). All in all, Naruto had made amazing progress in the past 2 weeks. He would spend a LOT of time with Iruka-sensei and the old man Hokage would come and visit him from time to time, but right now Naruto could be seen walking back to his apartment being really anxious about tomorrows test. He knew that feeling like this wouldn't do him any good so after reaching his apartment he took nice a cold shower and got some shut eye.

Time skip: next day at the academy

Naruto had reached the academy earlier than usual today being kind of excited for the test. After a little while the class was full and all the students were seated at their respective places, a few moments later Iruka walks in and announces that today will be a written test, Naruto's spirits was lifted at this announcement, being very pragmatic Naruto knew that he didn't have a flying pigs chance in passing the jutsu exam. Once the papers were given Naruto started writing down everything that he knew though it wasn't much, once he was done Naruto submitted his paper and left for his home knowing that he won't have any extra class from Iruka-sensei since he would be evaluating their papers. So Naruto went home meditated for a while and then went to sleep excited to see his results tomorrow.

Time skip: the result board.

Naruto tried pushing his small body through the crowd to be able to see his result, once he was in front he checked the results but instinctively went to the bottom of the list and there he saw his name 'Naruto Uzumaki' result…. 'PASS'. Naruto silently walked out of the crowd and just stood there in silence trying to comprehend what he just read, and when it finally settled in he lifted up to see Iruka standing there smiling at Naruto. Naruto started crying but these weren't tears of sorrow but tears of pure joy, Naruto ran towards Iruka and pulled him into a bone crushing hug while constantly saying "I passed Iruka-sensei, I've finally passed an exam!", "congratulations Naruto! Come on lets go to Ichiraku's to celebrate" Iruka said getting a nod from Naruto as the teacher and student left for a small celebration.

Time skip: 5 years later.

Naruto after passing the exams started a new life at the academy. He didn't fail anymore exams but never actually put an effort for any of the written exams since he thought it was just a waste of time and hence had always received just pass marks putting him at the dead last of the class. Naruto always wore a mask hiding his talents and strong points like he did with his exams, he made everyone except the Hokage, Iruka, Kakashi, Yugao (neko)and Itachi believe that he was that immature, dumb, and annoying prankster. Though Naruto acted dumb his skills in stealth, strategies, trap setting and infiltration was unbelievable. Naruto once broke into the anbu's HQ which was the most guarded place in the village wearing that same kill-me orange suit and added the same orange coloured dye into their laundry machines completely undetected. Next thing you know; you could see anbu's wearing orange tutu's. Naruto's danger awareness and danger prediction levels were off the charts, mostly due to being constantly attacked by civilian mobs and attempts to murder him by poisoning his food and leaf shinobi's who were after his head.

Due to all this Naruto could go into hiding and make it very difficult even for the most skilled anbu's to find him, but Naruto would still get caught sometimes, get beaten till an inch from his death until all the civilians who were beating him up were satisfied or until an anbu comes by and kills two of the civilians and disperses the crowd, but the end result was always the same, he would end up waking up in the hospital every time this happened. Even in the hospitals the doctors and the nurses would try to kill him by administering some poisons, but even then the silver haired boy wouldn't die thanks to the demon within him. On his birthdays it was even worse as the people would be so hell bent on killing him, he would get away sometimes and receive a beating of a lifetime, but none of this was compared to what would happen to him this time.

Naruto could be seen walking carefully through the streets of Konoha trying not to draw anyone's attention towards him. Naruto right now was around 4 ft. 9 inches tall but was still small compared to the other kids of his age, Naruto also had a long silver kind of spiky hair which came up to his shoulder with two long bangs on either side of his face (exactly like Minato's hair but a little longer and not as spiky). Today was Naruto's birthday!!! Usually he would spend his birthdays with Iruka-sensei, Hokage-jiji, Kakashi, Yugao, Itachi, Teuchi and Ayame, but today all off them were busy with their missions, paperwork and their jobs so they told Naruto that they would meet him in the evening at his apartment. Seeing that he had a lot of time left he decided to head back to his apartment and meditate, but on his way back he heard people saying that they were going to get the demon boy at his home and make him pay for what he has done. Hearing this Naruto hurriedly went home to start laying booby-traps to stop those mobs in their tracks.

Being happy with his work he went to meditating and around 30 minutes into his meditation Naruto could hear the mob approaching and standing outside his apartment building, Naruto was patiently waiting with a sinister grin on his face to hear the traps go off but, his smile slowly faded as the traps didn't go off even after 10 minutes. Naruto's danger senses were suddenly going overboard so he instantly got up and started running toward the window in his apartment. At that very instant all the 3 traps that he had laid went off simultaneously as his apartment door flung open to reveal a Chunin holding a katana, jumping and thrusting the katana at the place where Naruto was seated 2 seconds ago.

Not thinking twice Naruto jumped, smashing through his window and landing in the alley next to his apartment, as soon as his foot touched the ground he turned to his left to see a huge mob running towards him, 'SHIT!!! They actually had his planned through.' Thought Naruto before he started running as fast as his little legs could take him, suddenly out of nowhere his danger senses told him to duck and so he did only to see a couple dozen of kunai's and shuriken's aimed for his head to miss and embed themselves into the ground. Knowing that he'd die if he stopped, Naruto sprinted forward, a few minutes into running through the streets with the shinobi's and civilians hot on his tail, his danger senses told him to jump, but before he could react a kunai had scraped his cheek and 2 shuriken's had embedded itself on Naruto's back, but with the adrenaline rushing through his veins the pain was numbed a he kept running another few minutes into the race a few more people had joined the hunting party.

Naruto took a right and then a left and kept running, but suddenly he couldn't breathe properly and his heart started to beat so hard that he thought that it would rip a hole in his chest and jump out, that's when he realised that the shuriken's were laced with poison but he still kept running, a few seconds later Naruto's legs wouldn't move anymore, as he froze in his tracks and fell face down on the ally floor. 'DAMN IT!!', 'That was a paralysis poison' thought Naruto as he laid there on the unforgiving ground, but before he could think of anything else he felt one of the shinobi's stamping on his face. "well lookie here, the poison finally took its toll on you huh, DEMON SPAWN!!" said the Chunin before stomping on his face really hard a few more times. "It took longer than we expected but it did its work in the end" said another Jounin standing behind Naruto before kicking him on his back causing Naruto to wince at the pain.

Naruto couldn't do anything since he couldn't move, but to make things worse the poison coursing through his veins was amplifying the pain that they were inflicting on him. The shinobi's and the villagers started their work, they kept beating, kicking and stabbing him till he was just a bloodied piece of meat, the villagers found a crate of glass bottles in the alley so they used it to stab and cut him like a piece of meat.

A civilian found a piece of wood lying in the corner so he picked it up and walked towards Naruto, another civilian saw this and he lifted Naruto's right leg up and on que the civilian holding the stick started continuously hitting his leg with the stick while laughing like a maniac throughout the beating

A few shots later everyone heard a sickening 'crack' and then a 'snap' signifying that Naruto's bone had been broken, but the civilian didn't stop and kept beating his leg until only the sound of wood hitting flesh was heard.

Satisfied with their handiwork they all stopped and looked to see a bloodied Naruto on the ground lying in a pool of his own blood with uncountable amounts of cuts and multiple visible broken bones which were sticking out of his body. The villagers were leaving one by one while the shinobi's stayed back and admired their work until one of them spoke up, "Hey you know what, it's been quite a while since I had some target practice so, why don't we practice now while using him as a dummy?" " yeah that's a great idea! Let's do some practice." Said another shinobi as they walked towards Naruto.

They took hold of Naruto and took him towards the far end of the wall and had crucified him on the wall by shoving a kunai's through his palms and legs. Naruto hadn't screamed even once during this torture session, he wouldn't give in and wouldn't give them the pleasure of hearing him scream and beg for mercy.

Naruto had his head hung down due to exhaustion and immeasurable amounts of pain, 'why?', 'why me?', 'what have I done to these people?', 'Why…. Why won't they just kill me rather than making me suffer like this?' he thought as he felt a really sharp pain of a kunai being stabbed into the right side of his body, Naruto winced mentally as he wasn't going to move and struggle during their practice.

All the shinobis were at the end of the alley continuously taking turns in throwing kunai's towards him barely missing all of his vital spots intentionally to keep him alive during their practice. By now there was a pool of blood under Naruto's body with all the kunai's embedded on him.

One of the Chunin's had asked Naruto to look up towards them, and as a kid Naruto's curiosity got the better of him, and as he painfully lifted his head and looked up to see why they had asked him to look at them, but the last thing that he saw with his right eye was the edge of a kunai just millimetres away from it. Time seemed to slow down for a moment there for him and before he could even process what was going on the kunai had embedded itself in his right eye socket causing his head to be thrown aback.

The Chunin who had thrown the kunai shouted "BULLS-EYE!" as he high-fived everyone there. Naruto didn't feel anything when the kunai hit him, but when the pain had finally registered it was so painful that Naruto let out a bloodcurdling scream of pure agonizing pain which resonated throughout the entire village striking fear in the hearts of everyone who heard it while thinking 'What caused someone so much agonizing pain to scream like this?'.

Meanwhile near Naruto's apartment.

Hiruzen, Iruka, Kakashi, Itachi and Yugao were walking towards Naruto's apartment to take him out to Ichiraku's and celebrate his birthday when they suddenly heard the scream, all of them instantly recognised it as Naruto's voice and started running towards it while screaming "Naruto!" in unison.

Meanwhile with Naruto another Chunin who was throwing a kunai slipped and it ended up hitting Naruto's elbow joint severing his arm at that point, seeing this they planned to put him out of his misery as two shinobi's came forward and lunched a 'fireball' jutsu and a 'gale wind palm' jutsu at him. The two jutsu's merged to form a very big fireball travelling towards Naruto, but just before the fireball could hit him Kakashi jumped in front of Naruto shouting "Earth style: Mud wall" causing a wall of mud to rise from the ground blocking the fireball while Itachi and Yugao landed in front of the Chunin's beheading them while Iruka and the Hokage took Naruto down from the wall.

"Iruka…. Sensei, jiji" said Naruto before blacking out. all of them gasped at Naruto's gruesome state but they could think about that later so the five of them rushed him to the hospital, while Iruka carried Naruto and his severed arm. Once they had reached they had asked the doctors to heal him and all of them refused to, but one glare from Hiruzen was enough to change their mind. They had him put in an emergency room and had all sorts of life support machines attached onto him just to keep him alive.

"He's lost too much blood. He needs a blood transfusion, does anybody know what his blood group is?" the nurse asked with a tone of fake concern, "O-ve!" Iruka immediately answered "We don't have any more O-ve blood left in our blood bank. Is anyone among you an O-ve?" she asked hoping that the answer was a no so that 'the demon' would die of blood loss. But Itachi immediately stepped forward without even thinking twice and said "I am an O-ve!". The nurse reluctantly but immediately took him over to Naruto for the blood transfusion.

Itachi knew the consequences of this action of his if his clan ever found out, they would create a huge fuss about it saying that they were the strongest clan in all of the elemental nations, ELITES! And it was a crime to share an Uchia's blood with a lowly commoner like Naruto, but Itachi couldn't find any fucks to care about his clan's ranting since Naruto was just like Sasuke, a younger brother to him in almost all ways except blood, and so he would do anything to keep him safe.

The blood transfusion was done and they had him wrapped him in bandages, but it was too late as Naruto's heartbeat slowly decreased and then finally stopped, the life support machine attached to Naruto had stopped beeping and was letting out a long continuous high pitch sound indicating that he was dead Itachi, Kakashi, Yugao, Iruka and the Hokage had walked into the room and towards him and was looking at him completely heart broken. "I've failed you again sensei' thought Kakashi as he clenched his fingers into a tight fist out of pure rage as tears threatened to come out, the others were also seething with complete anger flooding KI throughout the entire room causing the doctors and nurses to suffocate under the pressure.

Everyone was so busy with their own thoughts and sorrows that they didn't notice Naruto being covered by a layer of silver light. A sudden burst of youkai filled with so much hatred and malice was what that caught everyone's attention. They all looked at Naruto to see that there was a silver layer of youkai covering his body completely, it grew brighter and brighter until all of them had to cover their eyes from the light. The light finally dimmed and faded away to reveal a fully healed Naruto with a new right eye and a new left arm.

Naruto was sleeping peacefully as the life support machine started to beep again signifying that his heart was beating and that he was alive. The five of them moved closer to Naruto and started examining his body to see that there wasn't a single scratch on his body anymore. "He looks so…. Peaceful" said Yugao as everyone had nodded in an agreement, "How?" was all that Itachi could ask at this moment as everyone else thought the same thing.

"There is only one explanation for this" Hiruzen said getting everyone's attention as he continued "Juubi…. The Juubi must have healed him to not let its host die, that is the only plausible explanation I could think of at the moment". Everyone else agreed to this as it was the only logical reasoning that they could come up with after this event.

"Alright, let him rest he's had a long and painful day today. Iruka you can go home and rest now, Neko you can go ahead and resume your guard duties for the night, and Itachi and Kakashi will stay here for the night to make sure that none of the hospital staff will try anything funny on Naruto." Hiruzen said with a slight amount of venom at the last part while looking at the doctors and nurses in the room. Everyone bowed and said "HAI!" to the Hokage as the three of them left, leaving Naruto in the safe hands of Itachi and Kakashi.