Uzumaki Ricky: UN-FUCKING- BELIEVABLE! SIX REVIEWS IN IN ONLY THE FIRST FEW HOURS! I GOT A GOOD FEELING ABOUT THIS!... Ahem... Sorry about that! I was just really shocked. I thought this would be slow to get reviews, but I was way off. So, I decided to get to work on the next chapter immediately when I checked the reviews. I got mostly positive ones and even peaked someones interest, so I was beyond motivated to get right to work. By the way, I won't be writing anything like that happening to Naruto again for a long, long, long time, if ever. The main reason for this is because it really hurt to do that to one of my two favorite characters. (ANYONE WANNA TRY AND GUESS WHO THE OTHER IS?) But enough of that, ON TO THE FIC!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did, then tow things would be different. One: Naruto and Hinata would already be together; and Two: After Sakura told Naruto she loved him, he would have Rasengan'd that pink bitch into the next decade!
"Talking"
'Thinking'
emphasis on certain words
"Inner (You know, that little voice inside your head (No, not like a Bijuu inside a Jinchuuriki) talking"
'Inner thinking'
Demonic voice or evil voice talking
Demonic voice or evil voice thinking
(Author talking)
Naruto: Life of A Shy Jinchuuriki
Chapter 2: Friends and Bad News
Running as fast as she could and ignoring the pain in her protesting legs, Tsume could only focus on getting the half-dead son of her two deceased friends to the hospital as fast as possible. Completely disregarding the questioning looks on the faces of the villagers she and Kuromaru passed them, the two of them kept running until they reached the hospital. Tsume ran straight towards the doors with only one thought running through her mind
'If I don't get Naruto-kun there soon, it may be too late.'
As soon as she and Kuromaru made it to the hospital entrance, they practically broke the doors down as they rushed through them, with Tsume ignoring the physical pain it caused her to just run through them without opening them first. Tsume then sprinted to the front desk and said to the receptionist
"Huff... Huff.. I need a doctor, NOW!"
The receptionist then looked from the frantic Inuzuka woman to the child she was holding and scowled.
"I'm sorry, Lady Inuzuka, but all the doctors are busy right now." The receptionist said without even bothering to check.
Kuromaru growled low in his throat at this. Tsume then stated.
"You didn't even check." "I'm sorry, but-" Tsume interrupted the woman by grabbing her by the collar of her buttoned-up shirt and said in a menacing tone "Listen up and listen good, you lying bitch! You had better get a doctor over here now to treat this poor boy, or I will personally drag you to the blackest part of hell and back again! GOT THAT!"
The frightened woman then left as fast as she could and, within minutes came back with a doctor. The doctor then looked at Tsume and said.
"Yes, Lady Inuzuka. Who do you need me to-"
He cut off as soon as he looked into her arms and saw Naruto. He then looked back up at Tsume and said.
"I'm sorry, Lady Inuzuka. But I cannot treat this b-"
"STOP RIGHT THERE! YOU, ALONG WITH SOME MEDICAL NINJA, WILL TRAET THIS BOY AND YOU 'LL DO IT NOW! OR DO YOU WANT TO BE THE ONE TO EXPLAIN TO THE HOKAGE WHY YOU REFUSED TO TREAT A DIEING, INNOCENT CHILD?" Tsume shouted, completely irate and out for blood with Kuromaru growling and snarling at the doctor.
The doctor, being afraid, not only of the livid feral woman and large snarling wolf dogin front of him, but of the Hokage's wrath as well, agreed to treat the boy and found some medical ninja that were also willing to treat the boy. Then, they got to work.
Meanwhile, in the Hokage's office,
Hiruzen Sarutobi was almost done with a stack of paperwork he was working on, when the exhausted Ino-Shika-Cho trio burst into his office, with grim looks on their faces and looking like they'd just run a marathon while going at top speed the whole way.
"Inoichi-san, Shikaku-san, Chouza-san, What's going on?" The aged Hokage asked.
At the same time, the three panting men all said,
"Naruto... Huff... Villagers... Huff... Hospital."
That was all they needed to say. At this, Sarutobi's eyes grew wide with concern. He then abandon his paperwork and ran towards the hospital at a speed that was both ridiculous and impossible for a man his age.
Minutes later at the hospital (while Naruto's getting treated for his injuries)
Tsume and Kuromaru were both pacing back and forth in obvious worry. The amount of time that she lost forcing the receptionist to get one of the doctors and forcing said doctor to treat Naruto may have caused the treatment to start too little, too late. Just as she began to think this, the Hokage burst into the waiting area outside the ER and asked, in a frantic and worried voice.
"Tsume-san! Is Naruto-kun alright!"
"I'm not sure yet. I'm sorry lord Hokage." Said Tsume in a slightly depressed tone.
2 hours later
The doctor finally walked out of the ER, with a scowl on his face. It was obvious he wasn't happy about something.
"Well, how is he?" Sarutobi asked the doctor.
"The boy will be fine. He's merely unconscious, unfortunately. We're just going to move him to one of the rooms." The doctor said, whispering the word 'unfortunately'.
The doctor and nurses then proceeded to move Naruto into one of the hospital rooms without waking him up or reopening his wounds.
"Oh, thank Kami!" The worried Hokage and four clan heads all said.
"Because the boy heals much quicker than... normal people, we merely had to pick the glass shards out of his head wound, then accelerate his healing process with some medical ninjutsu. however, he should remain here until we can be completely sure he's recovered." The doctor told them.
"That'a acceptable doct-Wait, glass shards?" Sarutobi asked.
"Yes. There were shards of glass in the wound on the back of his head. One of the villagers that attacked him must have hit him with a bottle or something." The doctor said.
This thoroughly angered the five worried adults. Sarutobi then left some trustworthy ANBU and went back to his paperwork. The four clan heads were walking home discussing what had happened. They all agreed to meet up together the next day with another old friend of theirs to discuss some things related to Naruto's future.
The next day (at the Academy)
The children were all heading towards the academy. Many were excited about what they might learn today, others were impatient to get it over with. But the general thought running through their heads was this.
'I''m one step closer.'
Closer to what, you might ask. Closer to achieving their individual goals.
Let us now turn our attention to four of these students in particular. The four had one thing in common. Their parents were old friends. The first of the four was a brown haired feral-looking boy who had a small white puppy sitting on his head. The second was a pudgy boy with swirl marks on each cheek. The third looked about as lazy as a sloth and had long jet-black hair in a pineapple-ponytail haircut. The fourth was a tall (at least for an 8-year old), pale skinned, stoic boy with dark bushy brown hair, The feral-looking boy was Kiba Inuzuka and the puppy on his head was his partner Akamaru. The pudgy boy was Chouji Akimichi. The lazy boy with the pineapple haircut was Shikamaru Nara. And last, but not least, the tall stoic boy was Shino Aburame. Naturally, since their parents knew each other, the boys had already spent a lot of time together and were good freinds. (Btw, Shikamaru, Chouji, and Kiba are wearing the clothes they had on in Naruto's flashback in chapter 154, while Shino's wearing a smaller version of the outfit he wears in the first half of the manga (couldn't think of anything else)). The four friends met up just outside their classroom.
"Hey guys! Looks like we're all here." Said Kiba.
"Not quite, Kiba-san." Said Shino.
"Whadda mean Shino?" Asked Kiba, looking a little confused.
"Shino's right Kiba. Naruto's missing," Chouji asked while snacking on a bag of potato chips.
Kiba looked around and saw that they were right.
"Huh... Hey, you're right! Where the hell is he?." Kiba asked with concern.
Ever since the four of them first met Naruto, he'd become a good friend of theirs. The shy boy had become like something of a little brother to the four of them.
"Man, Kiba. Sometimes you miss the obvious so much it's troublesome." (take a wild guess)
"While I am also concerned for Naruto-san, I believe we should be going inside now." Said Shino in his stoic tone of voice.
"Why?" Asked Kiba.
His three friends looked at him like he'd asked if the sky was blue. Then Shino said.
"Because I don't want believe Iruka-Sensei will approve of us being tardy. Even if we had a valid reason."
Later, at the start of class
An irate Iruka, covered in fecal matter and red paint, burst through the door and screamed.
"ALRIGHT! WHO'S THE WISE GUY WHO FILLED THE TEACHER'S LOUNGE WITH PAINT AND DOG CRAP?"
The students all just snickered, trying to hold in their laughter. But then, suddenly, Kiba just burst out laughing. He was rolling on the ground and was laughing so hard that he could barely breath.
"KIIIIIBAAAAAA! IT WAS YOU, WASN'T IT?" Iruka yelled. (You know that big-headed, yell thing he did to Naruto in the series after that "Sexy Jutsu" transformation. That's how he yelled at Kiba.)
"Okay. I know what it looks like, but it wasn't me!" Kiba exclaimed after he stopped laughing.
At this, Iruka, thinking that Kiba was trying to put one over on him, started turning red in the face and could barely form a proper sentence.
"YOU... DETENTION... AFTER CLASS... TODAY!" He stammered out angrily.
"AAAWE MAAAN!" Kiba groaned.
During all this, Chouji was snaking on another bag of chips and Shikamaru was sawing logs.
"HEEEEEY!" Iruka yelled at the top of his lungs, freaking out the entire class and startling Shikamaru awake.
"What is it, Iruka-Sensei?" The still sleepy Nara asked lazily.
"THAT'S IT! YOU TWO ARE JOINING INUZUKA-SAN IN DETENTION TODAY!" Iruka yelled.
When Iruka said this, one thought was running through the two boys heads.
'Damn it, Kiba."
While Kiba had one thought running through his mind.
'I'm gonna find the person who did this and punch em in the neck!'
After Iruka calmed down, he took attendance. When he reached Naruto's name, he called out for the shy and timid you boy, but there was no answer. He tried a few more times, but not a peep. This worried Iruka because, even though Naruto didn't talk much, he always spoke when spoken to or when called on. It was still barely audible, but he still responded. Iruka then looked up and peered aeound the classroom, but couldn't find any sing of the abused and tortured young jinchuuriki. This made Iruka worry even more.
'I hope something didn't happen to him.' Iruka thought
"Class, has anyone seen Naruto today?" The scarred Chuunin asked with concern dripping from his every word.
The students were all talking amongst themselves when...
"Who gives a shit about that neglected little wuss. I say that this class would be a lot better off if that timid dobe (loser) would just disappear. Even if there was a slim chance that he could become a shinobi, having Neglected Naruto on the front lines would start to give all of Konoha's real shinobi a bad name. I mean, seriously, what kind of shinobi, even if he's just a shinobi-in-training, can't even speak up, perform any basic exercises, or even stick up for himself. If you ask me, someone who doesn't even have the guts to look you in the eye when they talk to you is nothing more than a scared, weak, pathetic little coward who shouldn't even think about becoming a ninja.""Sasuke Uchiha said, throwing out more and more insults about his favorite target as he continued talking.
Because of how much Sasuke got compared to his brother growing up, he'd developed a bit of an inferiority complex, even though he never let anyone see said complex. He'd hoped that, when he started the academy, people would stop comparing him to Itachi. But, it actually got worse because he had more people comparing him to his big brother. So, as an outlet for the negative emotions he had built up inside him (and so that he could believe that he's as superior as he acts like he is), he became a bit of a bully. His main target became none other than our favorite jinchuuriki: Naruto Uzumaki. A lot of other kids, mainly fan girls and kids who got treated similarly to Sasuke, started following his lead and began to bully Naruto as well. As Sasuke said this, many of the students in the class nodded their heads in agreement. However, Iruka, as well as six students (care to guess which ones?), all wanted to knock the last Uchiha's teeth down his throat as soon as he started talking.
"SHUT THE HELL UP, SASUKE!" Kiba, Chouji, Shikamaru, and even Shino shouted, ready to tear the young Uchiha to pieces.
"Why should I?" Sasuke asked with a smug sadistic smirk.
"Cause it's four-on-one..." Shikamaru started, glaring at Sasuke.
"Which makes it's illogical for you to not back down." Shino stated with a weird buzzing sound coming from him.
"And if you're not careful..." Chouji began.
"You're gonna get hurt..." Kiba continued
"COUTESY OF OUR FISTS HITTING YOUR FACE!" The four of them yelled. (That's right, the finished each others sentences. They were able to because they were all thinking the same thing: Sasuke Uchiha must pay.)
At this, Sasuke shut his mouth (Thank god) and sat down. This had been going on for awhile. Ever since the Uchiha massacre two years previously, Sasuke Uchiha had gone from a daddy's boy with a classic Uchiha superiority mindset (which he mainly had to hide the inferiority complex he had when being compared to his brother), to a power-hungry, sadistic, psychotic, viper-bastard. (Like the Narutoverse's power-hungry equivalent of WWE Superstar Randy Orton, except much, much crazier (For those of you who don't watch wrestling, go on to Youtube and do a search on Randy Orton videos)). Sasuke hid his unstable mind so that he would be allowed to stay in the academy. (think about it: If he isn't allowed to be in the academy, he can't become a ninja. If he can't become a ninja, he won't get the training he'd need in order to take on his brother. If he doesn't get the training he'd need in order to take on his brother, he can't kill his brother. (DUUUH! Itachi's mega-strong and a real bad ass)). He may have hidden his unstable mind, but he didn't really hide much else. He bullied Naruto even more after the Uchiha massacre, but started to back off a little after Naruto met his friends. Because of his behavior towards their "little brother", Kiba and the guys, along with anyone else who sees Sasuke for who he really is, have appropriately dubbed him "The Onyx-Eyed Viper". After Sasuke backed down, they continued with attendance and then started the lesson.
Later (After detention ended)
Iruka was running to the Hokage's office to see if Sarutobi knew anything about why Naruto was absent. All the while, in his concern, he didn't notice four of his students following him. Kiba, Shikamaru, Chouji, and Shino were tailing Iruka because, just like their teacher, they were worried about the shy little ball of sunshine. When Iruka finally got to the Hokage's office, he just barged in running past the Hokage's secretary. Iruka barged in and saw that Sarutobi was still working on his paperwork.
"Iruka," The aged-Hokage Exclaimed, a little shocked by the sudden arrival of one of his favorite Chuunin. "What's the matter?"
"Lord Hokage,... Is... Is Naruto... Is Naruto alright? He wa... He wasn't in class a... at all today, so i got worried. Did something happen to him?" Iruka asked, breathing heavily at first.
The four boys were, without Iruka's knowledge, listening outside the door for any news on their shy friend.
"I'm sorry, Iruka-kun. Naruto-kun is in the hospital right now." The old man said in a depressed and worried tone.
As soon as they heard this, the four boys all nearly let out concerned gasp slip from their lips and Iruka nearly fainted.
"W... That did you say?" Iruka sputtered out, not believing his own ears.
"I said he's in the hospital." Sarutobi said, more upset than before.
Iruka's mind then began to fabricate possible reason for Naruto being hospitalized. Each situation that ran through his mind was more gruesome than the last. Finally, fear gripping his heart, Iruka asked the one question that the Hokage had hoped he wouldn't aks.
"Why?"
The Hokage took a deep breath and , with a heavy sigh, said,
"Some villagers attack Naruto-kun and tried to kill him."
TO BE CONTINUED...
Uzumaki Ricky: Well, that's it for now. Sorry if I left off too soon, but it was really late and I just wanted to get this posted. You probably noticed that I didn't have any flashbacks. That's because I find flashbacks a little tedious and won't use them unless they're absolutely necessary. By the way, I'm having a poll on my profile. Should I: 1) Have a time skip to graduation; or 2) Not have a time skip to graduation. Please vote. So... read, review, and spread the word about this fic to other people you know who like NaruHina. Cause I need reviews... For inspirational reasons, of course.
MonsterHuntergod: well, Hi everyone, I guess I'm his wingman for this story, so expect to see my author notes, and possibly my handywork, so lets see some reviews, and please do, this guy deserves them.