I don't own Naruto or any of its characters.
Pairings: Naruto x Hinata and/or (Naruto x "Female" Haku maybe)
Info: This story follows after Sasuke left leaf to join Orochimaru. Naruto and gang manage to get him back and I'm taking it from there.
English is not my first language; please inform me if there are any mistakes I'll correct them.
I got the idea for this fic from BigAznDaddy's Survival of the Forsaken.
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"De-de-demon? What do you mean demon? I don't have any demon. Please leave." Stuttered Naruto.
"Naruto you do not have to lie. I have sensed the demon chakra within you and Shukaku has also told me about the demon. But he refuses to tell me who or what the demon within you is. It's like he is afraid of it. I need to know Naruto. Please tell me." Explained Gaara.
"No,no,no,no, this is not happening! No one was supposed to know." Naruto fell to the ground while chanting the same sentence like it was some mantra. Seeing this Temari immediately went towards Naruto and hugged him while whispering soothing words in his ears.
It took a while for Naruto to calm down and by the time Baki, Kankuro and Gaara and made it inside Naruto's less than comfortable apartment. They could not understand why Naruto was living in such a condition. The apartment had just one room, and a small bathroom while the kitchen was attached to the living room, if one could even call it that. What was confusing was that with Naruto's salary as a genin he should be able to afford a better apartment. Not this dump.
After Naruto had calmed down he looked at Temari and gave her a watery smile before turning to the others.
"I guess there is no point hiding it from you. How much do you know about what happened 13 years ago here in Konoha?" Naruto asked his audience.
Everyone shook their head indicating that they did not know as to what Naruto was talking about. Everyone except for Baki.
"Wait you mean when the Kyubi attacked Konoha right?" Asked Baki.
"Yeah that's the one. You see when Kyubi attacked Konoha The Fourth and the others did everything they could to stop it. But it was of no use Kyubi nearly destroyed all of Konoha that night." Explained Naruto.
"What do you mean? From the news we and the other Shinobi villages got was that your Fourth Hokage killed the Kyubi that night."
"Whoa whoa! You mean to that Konoha's Hokage was strong enough to kill the most powerful demon of the underworld?" Exclaimed Kankuro while Temari just nodded.
"Well that's what the Kazekage told us." Explained Baki.
Naruto Just sat there thinking about how he was going to proceed with the story before he continued.
"No. That's where you're wrong. The fourth nor any other shinobi was strong enough to kill Kyubi. If they were strong enough I would not be like this anyway."
"What do you mean? If the Kyubi was not killed then what happened?" asked Baki.
"Well what's the reason you're here? I think that should answer your question as to what happened to the Kyubi that night." Said Naruto with tears running down his face.
Realization dawned upon everyone's face when they put the pieces together.
"You mean your hokage sealed the demon inside you?!!" Exclaimed Baki.
Naruto just nodded his head.
"But how? Its almost impossible. The Kazekage was almost unable to seal Shukaku inside of Gaara and Shukaku is not nearly half as strong as Kyubi.'
"I...I don't know but from what I understand, the fourth created a new seal and he used a forbidden jutsu which killed him." Naruto was openly sobbing now and Temari immediately went to comfort him, while Baki, Gaara and Kankuro were speechless from the information they had just learnt.
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Outside of Konoha Hospital's entrance one could see a pink hair girl pacing back and fourth muttering curse words.
"How could they stop me from visiting Sasuke-kun? It's not his fault that he was wanted by Orochimaru, and now they're keeping him under Anbu guards 24 hours a day. This is all Naruto's fault. If he had not injured Sasuke-kun so badly and just admit that Sasuke-kun was better than him none of this would have happened. I knew I should have listened to mom and dad when they told me Naruto was bad news. Hmm maybe I could ask mom and dad to get the council to punish Naruto for injuring Sasuke-kun. Yeah that's what I'll do. I'll bet Sasuke-kun will be happy I get the idiot punished." With that thought Sakura ran towards her house. Little did she know that it was this decision that would change the fate of Konoha forever.
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"So is that why the villager's looks at you with hate in their eyes?" asked Gaara.
"Yes......you know what's funny though? I never knew about this until about one year ago. The third hokage made a rule so that no one was to mention this to anyone, not between themselves not to their children. But I guess it was all for nothing."
"Naruto-kun you mean you never knew why everyone hated you for 12 years but I mean who took care of you when you were small?" asked a shocked Temari.
"Nope. I never knew jack shit. And as for who took care of me the answer is simple, no one. I never had someone to take care of me. When I was small the hokage had a lady who came in once every 2 days to clean me up. And her definition of cleaning me up was to throw me into a tub of ice water and hoping that I drowned. But too bad for her that never happened. So instead she beat me every time she came over. And you know what's funny. I was only 2 years old but I remember everything like it was yesterday. It took the hokage about 1 year before he found out about it. He then stopped the lady from taking care of me and I have been alone ever since." Explained Naruto like it was common knowledge for everyone to know this.
"People used to chase me around town beating me up it only stopped when I started attending the ninja academy. Even now sometimes when I come home I find my house vandalized and trashed, and you know what, there are no signs of breaking in even though I lock my house up, so that means the landlord is helping whoever is doing it."
"But why don't you get someone to do something about it?" asked Kankuro.
"What's the point? No one believes me. And the hokage is to busy to be bugged about it. There is only so much I can ask him at the time. Plus when people found out about it, it only got worst."
"You know what it's like to be lonely. You were hurt and called a monster by everyone. You have the power, why do you not kill them?" asked Gaara.
"I-I don't know I guess no matter what happened I still want to protect the ones I love. I know that I don't have many of those but all the same I will protect them and hopefully some day everyone can understand that." Said Naruto.
"Well Naruto you now have 4 more people who consider you someone special and we will always be with you regardless of the consequences. If it was not because of you Gaara would still be killing to find a purpose and we would still be enemies of Konoha. Naruto it was you who helped us realize our mistakes and you brought my family together in ways I never thought possible. Now you have me as your sister too and you have Gaara and Kankuro as you brothers, while Baki-sensei......well he can be your...Baki!" said Temari while Baki scowled at her.
Naruto could not believe this was happening to him, they did not call him a monster and they did not hate him, and what's more they actually consider him family. Granted it was one hell of a weird and dysfunctional family but hey it was better than nothing.
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Haruno Setsuna was giddy with happiness; after her daughter had confronted her and her husband with her request to have the demon child punished she immediately left with her husband to visit the council to request it. But the council took it one step further when they decided to have demon child executed for all of his "crimes" against Konoha. Now she, her husband, her daughter, some villagers and the council were on their way towards the demon's house to carry on with the punishment. She knew that they had to have the Hokage's permission to do this but the council decided to carry on with the punishment and then inform it to the hokage.
The group finally reached the demons house and Haruno Setsuna knocked on its door.
The demon opened the door and she was surprised to find 3 other people inside with the demon. But it was of no matter to her as long as the demon died.
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Naruto was still talking to his new family when someone knocked on his door.
"Man how come I'm getting all these visitors today? It must be my lucky day!!" exclaimed Naruto happily.
Temari and the rest could only smile at Naruto's happy-go-lucky attitude seeing as he was extremely depressed only a few minutes ago. How ever their smiles quickly turned to rage when they heard what the lady on the other side said when Naruto opened the door.
"Uzumaki Naruto, for the crimes against Konoha we hereby sentence you to a public execution. We are here to escort you to the town square. Please come peacefully or we will use force."
