Disclaimers: I don not own Naruto. Sigh... for years that I've been a member of this site, you I still have to say these?

Author's notes: Okay. Just a little story that have been playing in my mind for about a week. I continued debating whether I would do this or not, but the story kept playing on my head, so I decided to do this. I hope that you like it.

Warning: OOC-ness... in the future to come.

Summary: After the people attempt to kill an eight-year-old Naruto and thinking that he's already dead, Naruto lived in hatred against the leaf village as he grew up being trained with one of Konoha's feared missing-nin. Now that he's strong enough and back in the village with a different personality, will he be able to control himself from getting the revenge that he greatly wanted now that it's just in an arm's reach?

Pairings: None at the moment

Prologue:

Naruto's POV (eight years old)

"Leave me alone!" I screamed as I continued to ran away from the crowd – away from all the people who wanted my death.

Why? Why me?! What did I do?! What did I do to them?! I did nothing! Whatever happened is not my fault! Not mine! Why me?! Why do they treat me like this?! WHY?! Mama! Papa!

Now that I remembered, I never had any parents to look out for me...

Why must I be hurt like this...?

Why...?

Normal POV

The eight year old blond ran away as fast as his legs could carry him. Unfortunately, he tripped over a rock. The people then went towards him and started beating him with sticks, rocks, and even steel.

The other people at the back screamed in revolt and anger at the poor boy. The boy screamed in fright and pain, but nobody cared.

"Onegai! Stop it!" He screamed.

The people sneered at him. "Stop? You want us to stop? Hah! In your dreams demon child!" One of the people told him.

'Demon child...? What do they mean?' He thought as he held placed his small hands on his head in hope to shield him at least, but it proved to be futile.

"It's your fault, demon child! It's all your fault!" They screamed.

The poor boy cowered as blood poured from his wounds, mostly on his head and legs. He cried in pain. "Gomen! Gomen-nasai! Gomen-nasai! Onegai! Gomen-nasai!" The boy screamed. But the people paid no heed.

"Suffer! Suffer you demon!"

"Ahh...!!! GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!" With that, Naruto stood up on his feet and pushed himself roughly out of the crowd, and as expected, the people followed.

"Come back here you demon!"

'Why? It all went so fast? I got home from Ichiraku and slept. Then I woke up and took a small walk. And then when I got back... all the people were in front of my apartment with torches, steels, rocks, and other weapons... then they... they started attacking me. What did I do wrong... why must I live in hell-like world!' Naruto screamed to himself as he ran past the gates with wobbly legs and towards the dark forest.

Luckily, as soon as he past the gates, the people didn't follow anymore. However, one of the men signaled the other people. "All of you! Throw your torches! Set flame on the forest! Kill the hideous demon!"

As the fire started to set flame around the forest, the smoke started to thicken with speed. The eight year old started to cough as the smoke began to fill his lungs.

He gasped and coughed again as he realized that gasping in a place like this was a mistake. The harsh smoke filled his lungs more as he found himself harder and harder to breathe.

'I... can breathe. No... I must... run...' Naruto thought as he started to weakly walk as his eyes widened in fear as the arrows of fire started again, starting more fire around. He did his best to evade the arrows, but then got hit on the back by an arrow without fire.

The boy, surprisingly, still managed to stand in pain as he held onto a burning tree, which was his mistake. As the fire started to grow larger every second, he let go of the trunk in attempt to run.

However, he did not succeed as his foot tripped over a loose root as he screamed in pain. He weakly looked over to his foot and saw that his ankle was twisted. It was then when the unshed tears started to fall down.

His clothes were ripped and burned, his body was bloodied and bruised, his ankle was twisted, he had an arrow on his back, and not to mention that he was in the middle of a huge forest fire.

The fire was starting to crawl towards him. As the tears continued to fall down, he smiled weakly. "I... never got... my dreams..." He laughed lightly as if he was insane. "Hah. Besides, how could I... the boy that they call a monster... be able to achieve... such a dream...?"

"A-at least... I'm... free... free of the hatred... the pain... the torture... free of everthing..." He whispered.

Just then, a huge burning branch started to fall towards him. Naruto smiled a sad but happy smile.

"...goodbye."

But then, before the branch even reached him, a dark haired man carried him and dashed away from the burning forest towards a large lake. The man stepped in the middle of the lake with his chakra as he placed one hand on the surface of the lake and started to spread his chakra to solidify its surface and laid the boy there.

He then stared down at the sleeping boy and waited for the fire to stop. Seeing that it wouldn't happen soon. He made a few hand seals as a water dragon appeared from the lake and went to the sky.

Soon, the rain started and little by little, the fire started to disappear. The man picked him up and went to the shore to tend his wounds. After making sure that the boy wouldn't bleed as much as before, he carried him and disappeared in the shadows.

Author's notes: I'm sorry if it's short! This is a prologue after all. The real chapter one would begin in my next updation. Please tell me what you think about this. Like it? Hate it? Please tell. Reviews please!