Ahh, that was a great place to end… most of you had a fit. Laughs

Well this is another Chapter, and most of you are hoping to read… because of the last chapter… DeathAngelthestreetfighte was cursing… uh… oops? And I like to thank Dragon Man 180 for giving me so many reviews, man… I love you… not literally of course. You did hald of the reviews to start with… damn… well I hope this chapter is worthy of your review as well.

Chapter VII

Living With a Pace

Naruto twitched as he regained consciousness, his eyes were closed and he took in a shuddered breath, he was alive, he knew that, but wasn't exactly awake. Not fully. He let out a small groan. He slowly opened his eye but quickly shut it again from the blinding light.

"Ugh." Naruto grunted, his stomach hurt, and so did his legs, but the worst pain was in his right wrist, he grunted again, nope it was his stomach again. He began to slowly remember the past events. He broke his wrist, ribs, his legs were scratched up, and he vaguely remembered his stomach being kicked. But what happened after that?

Naruto thought as he lay still, he began to replay the events in his mind, some fuzzy and unfocused. Slowly his mind mending the holes he couldn't fill up. He face went blank. He remembered his clothes being ripped off… then what? He couldn't remember.

Naruto rolled over and let out a cry, the heart monitor beside him began to beep franticly as the pain in his abdomen increased to the point his mind began to swim.

"Naruto!" A familiar voice called out. Naruto paused his attempted to get out of bed. He opened his eyes, squinting at the figure by the door. There were others by the door watching him. Doctors and nurses, the Hokage gave him a frown. "Naruto, if it hurts so much why are you still moving?"

"What happened?" Naruto asked the blanket around him was awry and the pillow fell off the bed. The nurses cleaned up the room and the doctors checked on his wounds, they were listening intently, hoping for some gossip.

"I can't tell you anything till you tell me what happened. Why were you so far out in the forest?"

"Did you find me?" Naruto asked wincing when the doctor probed his left leg, which was worse, then, the right.

"Yes, but that's not--"

"Why were you in the forest?" the Sandaime let out a sigh, he should of known this was going to happen.

"I was going on a walk."

"So far in the forest?" Naruto said in a disbelieving tone, he was fishing; he was hoping that he was one of the people who were going to take care of him or at least knew he existed.

"Yes, even I who work with everyone need time for myself every once in awhile." The third sighed at sat at the edge of the bed ignoring the disapproving looks the others gave him.

"So, what happened?" the nurses left followed by a doctor who was checking things off papers. The other doctor collected the papers and handed it to the Hokage who murmured words with him. And they left.

"But first with you."

"I went home, and made some ramen, by reading the pictures on the back. Then I thought, I should take a walk because it wasn't so dark. When I did, I found this open field and laid there for awhile… then I fell asleep for about… two-three hours." Naruto began quickly, he thought about the events that took place next. "I was hit. Punched in the face right here." Naruto said pointing to his left cheek, there was a fading wound and Sandaime quickly wrote down what happened. "He was drunk too, he tried to hit me really hard but kind off missed.

"I was dropped really hard, and my legs were near these thorns, after that, I tried to get away. Then he grabbed my wrist really hard and broke it. Then he hit me in the face again… then… he kicked my really hard in the belly… I can't really remember after that… except that my clothe ripped, I'm not sure why." Naruto finished with a puzzled look.

"Ah, I'll have to fill it up from here. I found you just as he was… ripping your clothes." Sandaime said his face blank; being a ninja for so long also gave him the benefit of such skills. "I knocked him out quickly before he could do any, permanent damage. And took him to the ANBU. Where he would be charged with. Abuse, attempt molestation, and verbal abuse. It's likely that he would be in jail for ten to twenty years, of not more. If you don't understand you can ask me, but some things are better said when you're older."

Naruto stared up at the ceiling, he didn't understand what 'molestation' was or 'verbal abuse', but he did know vaguely what abuse was. The drugs they gave him were starting to take effect. His eyelids grew heavy and his breathing became sluggish. The pain was numbing most of him; he didn't hear a vain good bye as he fell to a deep sleep.

Hokage Tower

The Sandaime sighed, the first time Naruto was at the hospital, it was minor injuries, but this was big. Two broken ribs, both on the left and a cracked right rib, both his ulna and radius was broken, his legs were basically minced! The fist to the face wasn't serious, after about two hours the swelling was gone and it was nothing but a big bruise. Besides that he was fine… the doctors also said he had a bruise on his rear, but nothing serious, must have been from the drop, thankfully the tailbone wasn't cracked or broken.

Actually Naruto was healing very rapidly, it was amazing, the cheek wasn't as dark, the legs were roughly going back together and the broken bones had aligned themselves and were mending. It looked as if he was going to be all right within two weeks by how quickly it was moving.

After thinking over what to do with Naruto and deciding that Naruto cans those if he wanted a new caretaker he moved on to the pile of paper on his desk.

"Oh dear…"

Hospital

For three days he was at the hospital, that was the longest time ever. Mostly because he usually got minor injures. The hospital was boring and all he did was, eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom. He didn't even really take a shower yet!

Naruto picked at the suction cups on his chest, in other words, the heart monitor. The beeping ceased to a single long tone and there came yelling and running toward his room, or is it passing? The door shot open and doctors and nurses were huffing to get to him.

"Uh, hi?" Naruto said confused in his left hand there was suction cup and in the other the blanket roughly clenched.

"You brat! We can all they way here thinking you died!" the nurse yelled at him, he flinched at yelling. They gave his looks and placed the suction cup where it was before he took it off and left.

"That was new…" Naruto mutter, he thought of what happened and then gave a very sinister and wide grin.

Hospital forth day

Naruto watched the nurses walk by his room, he was moved to a less critical area, but still had the cast around the torso and wrist. They itched a lot, so much that Naruto swore he was getting white hair. But while in the hospital he got a small stack of presents, coloring book and coloring pencils, which he colored till his left hand hurt. The next gift was interesting; it was a small box with a small button that said 'I love ramen!'

It was home made from what Naruto could tell because of the constant erasing made the paper limp. He sighed for the only god knows how many times that hour. This was getting boring, fast. He needed a little excitement sometime. He watched a nurse walk past his room and grinned, now would be a good time, he though. Moving all the things he lay still in bed and pulled off the suction cup. The tone went off and people came pouring into his room.

"HEY I'M DYING HERE! WHAT KIND OF DOCTOR ARE YOU IF IT TAKES YOU THAT LONG!" Naruto cried watched them scramble, a figure that walked passed his room shook his head.

Hokage Tower

The third sigh, he was done with almost every paper, now he had one article left, which was actually really easy but wanted to rest his eyes with something less straining. Placing the crystal ball in front of him he thought of Naruto and an image was displayed. He watched Naruto color in his coloring book, and then turn to the doorway. He grinned, widely, too widely for his taste.

Sarutobi watched Naruto move everything back to the small table and lay down for a moment then takes off the suction cup. He groaned, lip reading Naruto's yelling and watching them go crazy.

Why was he so difficult?

Hospital.

Naruto eyed the dark haired boy; he was off in his own world, touching a cut on his upper arm. They were in the cafeteria; there was mutters and pointing. And surprisingly it wasn't at him. It was at the boy who sat across from him. And it wasn't really bad comments either. They were kind of nice words.

"Is that he?"

"He's so young what could of happened?"

"You know how clans are, they just keep to the selves."

Naruto blinked, he was going to be released today, and they boy was going to have his room, or something like that. Now that it really mattered, he was free! But he kind of felt bad that he was by himself and that no one would take him home.

Standing out in the bright sun Naruto sighed and took steps away from rushing Medic Nins.

"Naruto, I though I should see you home." Sarutobi smiled warmly at Naruto as Naruto gave him a look.

"I'm in trouble aren't I?" Naruto said in a suspicious way.

"Not really."

"What do you mean not really?"

End

Ah, another chapter finished I though I should do this before I left to Williamsburg! YAY! And I got out of school early today, two hours! Yay! And I got to eat fast food! Yay! I'm kind of hyper… just kind of…

Well to most of you who pretty much read so fast you missed it a couple of times, Naruto wasn't molested, and as Sarutobi said its better said when he's older. Well as much as you guy like this fanfic I won't be able to type it until after Monday, so you might be able to expect it on Friday or Saturday, okay? Good bye now!

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