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Chapter 11 "Shattered Childhood"
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"Naruto-kun? What are you doing?" Hinata asked him as he kneels down before her with a ring in his hand as he took her to the restaurant where they have their celebration together after graduation.
"What? Isn't it obvious Hinata? I want you to give me the honor to love and hold you forever." Naruto said in a serious tone with his eyes hoping for a Yes but fearing with No.
"If I will say no. What will you do?" Hinata teased amidst of her tears.
"Well too bad cause I already had prepared everything, from your wedding gown, the church, the reception and even our honeymoon hotels. And if you say No well…" he flashed a grin at her. "I won't take that dattebayo!"
Hinata smiled at him and then that smiled vanished. "I'm sorry Naruto-kun but it's a No. I'm already married to someone else." Hinata bowed apologetically to him.
"Oi Hinata, don't joke around, you can say no to me but don't ever say that you had someone else." Naruto smiled forcedly to her. He is been sweating so hard and he doesn't know why he does. Surely Hinata is only joking but then….
"Hinata!" a man with pale skin, shaggy white hair calls for her.
"I'm married to Toneri now. So you have to let me go Naruto-kun."
"Matte! Hinata!" He screamed...
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"Naruto! Stop it, you're dreaming!"
Naruto opens his eyes and sees that Sakura and Ino are holding him down. Stopping him from going berserk.
"You were just having a dream Naruto. So please relax" Ino said while she is panting from restraining him.
"Is everything okay here?" Kiba asked as he is the first one who came in from the door, followed by Shino, Shikamaru, Lee, Sai and Sasuke.
"It's alright now. Naruto is only having a bad dream." Sakura answered as she back away from restraining Naruto now that he is regaining his consciousness.
"You okay now Naruto?" Sai asked looking at the now panting Naruto who seems to remember what just happen and how he got in bed.
Ino patted Naruto's shoulder "You have to lay down again Naruto, take some few re-
"That woman back there." Naruto started and holds Ino's shoulder. "She is my Hinata right Ino?" he asked. "She maybe a blind woman now but you all see right? She is Hinata. There's no doubt about that."
Nobody speak out nor did they even move an inch. They all avoid Naruto's questioning gaze, except for one.
"I doubt that this time Naruto." Sasuke, who is standing near the door speak out. "She's not qui-
"What's that teme?" Naruto angrily stood up and took a hold of Sasuke's collar despite that he still feels weak. "How could you doubt it? You've seen her face! You know Hinata, how could you have a doubt that it was her?"
Sasuke doesn't answer. He just looks at Naruto eyes.
"Naruto relax." Shino said and took a hold of Naruto trying to separate him from Sasuke and be back on bed.
"Because she isn't quite the Hinata that we used to know." Shikamaru answered breaking the silence that Sasuke had created. "You guys have observed the way she reacted. She was puzzled about what Naruto is talking about. She doesn't know who you are Naruto, because if she does even if she is blind she should have recognized you with your voice but she didn't."
"What do you mean Shikamaru? You mean that woman is Hinata but he had forgotten about Naruto?" Ino asked.
"If we connect what happen years ago, it's safe to say that Hinata had somehow survived the accident but a cost of her to might be losing her memories and being blind. Her name was change to Hanabi for a reason. What Sasuke mean by he doubted that woman is Hinata it's simply because that woman has no memories of Naruto and even to us. She might be Hinata but she's not the one we used to know. And those kids that's with them. They can't hide the fact that the boy looks exactly like Naruto which mean that Naruto is the father of those two kids. Even if Hinata seems to be married to that Toneri."
Hearing the word father had Naruto's heart raced so fast.
Children, Kids, Son, daughter. Those are the words that he never had thought of having after the years of Hinata's absence.
He had children after all this year and he doesn't even know one thing about them. Himawari and that boy named Boruto, both had a special connection to him that he can't understand, now he knows what is it.
"My deduction that it was really indeed Hinata goes for 93 % and as to where the 7 % is it's because she is not quite the Hinata we know, she is -
"Stop it all this. I'm going to take my wife and children back, even if it kills me." Naruto protested and went walking towards the door; he was halfway there, when he collapsed on the floor. Luckily Sasuke is near that he caught Naruto before he would bear another hard fall.
"Naruto-san! You're not that strong yet." Lee reprimanded him as he kneels down beside Naruto. Trying to assist Sasuke.
"Hi-Hinata, I-I- cant a-afford to lost her again!" He cried out. "I know that she is Hinata. My heart tells me that it's her Sasuke!"
Sasuke stared at Naruto's crying feature. He took a hold of Naruto's collar tightly. "Then do what you must to have her back when you regain your strength Naruto. You're pathetic in front of Toneri if you would end up collapsing every now and then. You're not a weakling as how Hinata knows you. She knows and admires the strong and brave person who never quits. Hinata would never remember a Naruto that is weak and is crying like a child here! If what Shikamaru and I thought that Hinata might just lost her memories then we have to bring her memories back so we can fully have her again! Do you get me Naruto?! If we want to have Hinata back be the Naruto that she knows before!"Sasuke said strongly with full of strong emotion as he drop Naruto to the ground.
Naruto bowed his head and for a couple of minutes no one dares to talk, or to move a muscle. They wait till Naruto would be ready.
Slowly and shakily Naruto stood up from the ground and he stumbled from getting back on his bed.
Everybody smiled sadly towards Naruto.
"I'll get her back that's a promise dattebayo!" He said while he is still facing down.
"Don't worry Naruto while you're having a good rest we will investigate for you. Don't carry this burden since we are here to help you with it." Shikamaru said as he signalled for the boys to head out.
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"Did I mess again?" Naruto asked Sakura as Sakura took another examination on his pulse rate.
"No you didn't Naruto. Anybody would react the way you did."
"Have faith in your friends Naruto, they would take care of this. You work hard for everyone, now's the time that we all work for you." Ino said trying to somehow ease Naruto.
Naruto became quiet; he doesn't want to talk anymore. The fatigue, the stress and his depression had almost taken its toll and end to him. When he saw Himawari on the maze, Naruto knows there and then something is not right, his emotion and the feelings he had when he just first saw the girl. He knows that they have a special bond that is unexplainable and then when he saw Hinata with a young teenage boy that looks just exactly like him, who shares his feature, seeing the boy's eyes is like he was looking with his own eyes.
For so many years, He believe that Hinata is dead. For so many years that he thought that he will be alone for eternity, for so many years that he thought he had lost her forever. But now seeing her again even when she had a different name, different hairstyle and is blind, he knows that she is his Hinata.
It pain him to think what Hinata might have went through in life, she was pregnant the night she went missing, and it pain him even more to think that there is another man who claim Hinata.
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"Who are you calling to Shikamaru?" Kiba asked as they were all gathered in the balcony of the house.
"As much as we wanted to investigate, we can't deal with it if the time would call for a battle in a court and if we don't have a genius attorney don't you think?" Shikamaru smirk and dialled Konoha's genius attorney number.
"Do you think it will lead to that Shikamaru?" Shino asked.
"Yeah, 99 % that it would." He said recalling in his mind how possessive the mayor was towards Hinata. "Lee, can you get a hold of Hiashi-san?"
"Yosh I'm on it"
"Has anyone of you knows where the kids are?" Karui came into view with Temari. "We've searched for them everywhere but we couldn't find them."
"Sasuke isn't here as well. He just sort of vanished." Sai inform the group.
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"I hate this!" he repeated as he throw another rock on the river where he can clearly see his reflection, no rather it's not his reflection he is seeing, it's that man Naruto's reflection.
"I hate it dattebasa!" He screamed as he took one big rock and throws it in the river.
"The river has nothing to do with your frustration Boruto." The young Uchiha girl said as she took the pleasure of sitting on the grass while enjoying the night view of the river.
"That's none of your business. Why do you have to follow me here anyway- no it's rather why you people are following me here?" He grin his teeth in frustration as he look at Sarada's friends who are enjoying the scenery as well.
"I'm here for the food and not you cutie." A chubby girl said while stuffing her face with her snacks.
"I'm here to sketch." Answered the blond boy who is busy sketching on his pad while beside him is a lazy boy who does nothing but to take a nap.
"I'm here because the river calls for me to enhance my skills and do some training." A boy with dark eyes, black bowl-style haircut and bushy brows said while walking using his hands.
A blush came across his face by their blunt reply.
Sarada smirk seeing Boruto was somehow embarrassed of his self. "Don't believe them." She said softly to him as she stands by his side. "They are actually curious about you so they came and follow you here."
"You're all bunch of immature kids." He said and faced the river again. "What's there to be curious about?" He stubbornly said.
Sarada took a deep breath before composing herself on how to start having a conversation with a frustrated guy.
"I don't know Boruto, maybe because that you look like a copy of the Chairman we all adored."
"Che! Copy you see. That man isn't nothing like me! There's nothing similar about us. Are you people blind?" He said sarcastically. "That man isn't my father!" He shouted and throws another big rock on the river.
"I don't believe that you've been told about that part." Comes a comment from the guy who happens to arrive.
"Papa?" Sarada called out to the man.
"Sarada only said that they find it curious as to why you have similarities with Naruto, but she didn't say that they are thinking that Naruto might be your father."
Boruto eyed the dark haired man and he can't help but feel awed and be intimidated with his aura. He looks so cool.
"I do believe that nobody pointed out that matter to you, but why are you having frustration about that? You had a father right? That Mayor a while ago is your father is he not? Cause if he is then what's all the drama you are making?"
Boruto eyes grow wider at the man's statement.
"That is if that shitty Mayor isn't your father and you grows up not knowing anything about your biological dad which is why the moment you saw Naruto you had form a special connection to him. Am I correct?"
Boruto swallowed so hard at the blunt statement of this guy. He doesn't like this guy, it's like he is reading his mind.
"It is possible that Naruto is your father and no matter how I look at you, you look like him in many ways. His wife Hinata who happens to be look like your mother Hanabi as well went missing 13 years ago and she was presumed to be dead but there are no evidence to say that she is really dead, they never had children, but if they do then I'm sure that they will have children who will look exactly like them, and maybe they are of the same age as you and you sister Himawari."
He couldn't move. No, he doesn't want to move because his knees are trembling. He is not a dumb kid who won't understand and learned to read the situation.
The if's are playing on his mind since he saw that guy who looks like him but older. There was that special feeling he can't explain when he saw him awhile back. Something he feared but he dreamed of having.
"13 years" he mumbled. He and Hima will turn 13 years old soon. His mother raised them both without a presence of a father. He could remember clearly years back some memories when he wished to have a father by his side.
In the past, when he wanted to know if his father did exist or not. The past when he and Himawari would only pretend to believe in the story that their father was a good man who died before they were born, a lie that their mother created in order to comfort them from the pain that she doesn't have any memory of herself before she give birth to them. A secret that their mother wishes to hide from them, but he and Himawari knows the real deal. Why they know? Because Orochimaru-Mitsuki's father told them so.
They love their mother so much that they decided to play along with her story. Since then he wish and hope in silence that if his father is alive somewhere, that he will come to get them. He waited and for almost 13 years, the chance of having a real father is here. If what Sarada's father story is true, then there's the chance that the guy, Naruto Uzumaki is his father. His father.
Is he ready for it?
Isn't this just a dream?
A fantasy he created since he is been longing to it?
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"If that old man is my father. Will..Will he accept me as his son?" Boruto asked with a shaky voice.
"Boruto?" Sarada called out worriedly seeing how Boruto's tears stream down from his eyes.
"That's for you to find out." Sasuke answered and he offered a hand to Boruto.
Boruto raised his hand to accept it but then he remembered something that had him stopped. Something that is really important and life threatening.
So he sprint out and make a run for it.
Boruto!" sarada calls out and tries to follow him but was stopped when Sasuke took a hold of her arms. "Papa?"
"Let him be."
"But- papa"
"If he is Naruto's son then trust him. He is following what his gut is telling him." Sasuke responded. He knows it, that boy is in fact Naruto's son; there's no doubt about that. And since he is Naruto's son he is putting a faith to that boy. When he stopped from reaching out to him, he can see the fear for someone in that boy's eye, the need to protect someone is evident. "This won't be easy as I thought that mayor is really something to be feared on this matter." Sasuke thought..
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"There you are Boruto-kun!" Tamaki's voice greeted him upon his return. "Your father had ordered a search party for you; he said he wanted to see you as soon as you return home. He is in his office"
He went past her and went into the path leading to Toneri's office.
"Tamaki-san, do me a favor will you." He said and looks back at the woman who helped raised him.
"Never calls that pervert my father, I already told you a thousand times that he is not my father." He said and smiled at her.
Tamaki was lost for words. Did something happen to Boruto? She knows this boy for so long but this is the first time she had seen him so composed. Every time he addressed Toneri (as Toneri's order) as Boruto's father he would always get mad at her and sometimes yells at her and reprimand her that Toneri isn't his father. But somehow tonight he seems to be composed and relaxed and there's some spark in his eyes. She can see hope in it.
She smiled at the young boys' back. Whatever happens, she will be there by their side.
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"Boruto-kun!" Toneri who was talking at the phone immediately end his call and he went to greet Boruto who just came inside the office without knocking.
"I was worried and sick about you. It's past 10 so I ordered a search party for you. Please don't come home late again my son."
"I was practicing my soccer skills alone. I didn't take notice of the time pervert man.''
Toneri sighed hearing the nickname Boruto had always used to address him. He already had forbid him to call him that but this boy is really testing his patient.
"Well, be wary of the time then. There are people who are crazy this time around and they had infiltrate our place so please be careful my son. And about what happen a while ago, don't think about it too much. That guys is a crazy lonely man who lost his wife years ago, don't believe e-"
"yeah, yeah yeah I get it. Can I go to my room now? I'm kind of tired." Boruto said cutting off what Toneri would have to say.
"Yes you may."
Boruto took his leave and quickly went to Himawari's room to check her out and talk to her.
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"Nii-san."
"You're not sleeping as I thought." He said as he went inside her room and locks it afterwards.
"I can't sleep." Hima reason out as she was sitting on a chair facing her mirror and brushing her hair. "I've been thinking so hard about what happen today.
"Good."
"What?"
"I said good, Because I want to ask you something about that." Himawari."
Hima face Boruto this time.
"If that Naruto is our father, Will you accept him?"
Himawari dropped her hairbrush as she cries.
Himawari, like him had always been wishing to be found. They have this telepathic wish that someday their biological father will find them, if he do exist and take them away from such horrible place.
Yes Tsukikure is not a place for them. Surely they had found friends but they never feel at home in this place. It's like they belong to somewhere and it's surely not Tsukikure.
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Flashback…
"Stop it!" A crying 10 years old Himawari screamed at the group of young kids who surrounds her and calls her the name witch kid. While they made fun of the red scarf her mother had knitted for her.
"What are you going to do now ha witch? Are you going to cry and go to your blind mama?" A boy with a broken tooth said while his other friends made fun of the scarf by pulling it altogether, swinging it and even stamping on it on the dusty ground.
Himari just let out a soft sob and tries her best to compose herself.
"This scarf is so ugly!" said the other boys.
"You bet because the one who made it it's this witch girls ugly blind mother." Another one said and throws the scarf at Himawari's face.
"Don't call my mama ugly!" Himawari said angrily at the boys as she holds the tattered scarf on his hands.
"What? Your mom is ugly, that's what my mother always has to say." Says the boy with a broken tooth.
"Take it back now! Or it will be me who will break your teeth again. Nii-san already did one so I'm going to give you another broken one if you will not take back what you had said." Himawari warns.
"Heeh! As if you can do it." The other boy with a spiky hair said and goes to make fun of Himawari's hair, when Himawari took a grip hold on the boys' hand. "Hey what are yo-Ahhhhh!" The boy screamed at the pain cause by Himawari. "Let go!" The boy screamed. His friends are having doubt to help as if they don't believe that there's a pain in Himawari's grip on this boy.
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"Hima! What are you doing dattebasa? Let that stupid go" Boruto along with Mitsuki came in a hurry seeing her sister had just about to break the bully boys' hands.
Himawari let go of the boys' hand as she heard his brother simple command.
The boy went towards his friend crying over the pain of his hands that turns red.
"It's not me who started it." Himawari reasons out quickly.
Boruto looks at the scene; Himawari's red scarf is all tattered. Without asking, he knows what had happen.
"They made fun of mama and they call her ugly."
Boruto eyed the boys and recognize that one of them-a boy with the broken tooth was the one he had a fight with last week which result for him to get suspended in class for 5 days. His father is one of the teachers in school and his mother owns a restaurant in the city. His mom had told him not to cause any trouble and if he will cross path with this people that he should avoid it.
"Ohhh I see you are back now ha Boruto" The broken tooth boy greeted as he neared Boruto. "What does it feel to be suspended ha?"
Boruto just took a deep breath and faced Himawari. "Let's go Hima, Mitsuki, let's not waste our time here." He said and turns his back on the boy.
Hima follows his track.
"Ehhh.. Looks like you're not so though now ha Boruto!" The boy shouted whiles his other friends are snickering from behind. "Well you're a scaredy cat aren't you? Just like your father!"
Boruto stopped on his track as he heard that word came out from the boy.
"Ohh yeah, my mom told me that your father left you bastards and your ugly blind mother because he is a scaredy cat as well, maybe he can't just stand being near you bastards that's why he lef-" and the boys smugly face fell on the ground as Boruto in a flash of light punched the boy's face.
Another tooth was broken from that punch he had received. But Boruto isn't stopping there. He sat on the boys stomach and punched him some more, the boys friends tries to help but seeing Boruto's angry eyes had their knees trembling, they don't want to stopped or be the one to receive such punches.
"Take it back dattebasa!" Boruto demanded angrily while still throwing punches on the almost unconscious boy, only then he was stopped by a hand that grabs him away from the now unconscious boy.
"Stop it now Boruto" Mitsuki said holding him tightly. "Calm down!"
"Nii-san'' Himawari's worried voice had him stop struggling from Mitsuki's hold.
"Don't ever listen to what they say Hima. Our father will find us soon. Believe it dattebasa." He said with full of determination.
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"I had this feeling that he is. I just wished you and mom would have the same feeling as me." She cried.
Boruto eyed the floor and then he flashed his grin at her. "You bet I do!"
And then they both know that there Shattered Childhood memories will be long gone...
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End of Chapter 11.
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