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Betrayal

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Chapter 2

Naruto watched Anko hold hands with Kakashi and run off. He felt hurt that she'd leave so abruptly and not even remember to say goodbye. He unclenched his fists and sighed. She probably was just caught up in the moment. Naruto put his hands in his pocket and saw that he had two hundred ryo. He didn't have breakfast yet and was kind of sick of all the vegetables he had to eat at the orphanage so he decided to walk around the village in search of something with a bit more taste. As he walked down the streets, the discreet looks and glances of hate were not missed by the young blonde. Shaking his head, he continued down the path he was on.

In the Hokage tower, Hiruzen sighed. The first batch of paper work was finally completed. Honestly, must everyone report each and every issue to the Hokage? Seeing as though Hiruzen had a bit of free time before he had to continue signing the next batch of pointless documents, he brought out his crystal ball. At least once per day, the aged Hokage would check up on Naruto. He was pleased to see that he and Anko were getting along swimmingly. He was not, however, pleased to see that most of the staff disliked Naruto and were always disrespectful towards him. Tamashi was neutral and acted as a grandmother figure but the Chunin under her command were far from respectful. He saw how they'd give Naruto less food and blatantly ignore him if he ever asked them for anything. I'm sorry Minato…Kushina…Naruto. Hiruzen knew that getting involved with the boy would make the council displeased. The Hokage wasn't allowed to show any kind of favoritism as the leader of the village.

"Show me Uzumaki Naruto" said the Hokage. The crystal ball shimmered and he saw Naruto standing behind Anko and the young protégé, Hatake Kakashi. Kakashi's father, the famed Hatake "White Fang" Sakumo had taught Kakashi all the basics and much more. Hiruzen had told Sakumo to not go overboard with his teaching but the legendary Jonin ignored Hiruzen's wishes and made Kakashi almost Chunin level with the amount he taught him. The famed "God of Shinobi" watched as Anko ran off with Kakashi but what worried him the most was the look in the young blonde's eyes. His normal crystal blue eyes looked almost black and his posture was so rigid that you'd think he was going to attack someone. I've seen that look before. Hiruzen was afraid that Naruto might become just like his own disciple, Orochimaru. After Hiruzen decided to make Minato his successor instead of Orochimaru, the snake Sannin had a permanent scowl on his face and a devious look in his eyes. Despite the change in his demeanor, Orochimaru did nothing to betray Konoha, and for that Hiruzen was thankful. Only three others would be able to subdue Orochimaru besides himself. However, he doubted Jiraiya or Tsunade would kill their teammate but Sakumo most likely would, even if he respected the man.

The old warrior broke out of his thoughts and continued to observe Naruto. The young blonde's posture relaxed as he seemed to relinquish his thoughts. Hiruzen watched as Naruto walked along the streets and was severely upset when he saw that so many civilians, even some ninja were glaring at Naruto. The parents warded their kids behind them in order to "protect" them from the "Kyuubi". Hiruzen cursed, Naruto did not deserve this. He was a hero. If it weren't for him, Konoha would've perished long ago. Minato, it seems your last wish was not granted. I'm sorry, my child. Hiruzen continued to watch but after a few minutes of doing so, he decided to let the boy have his privacy. After letting the image shimmer away, the old man came to a decision. I'm going to hold a meeting with the civilian and shinobi council about Naruto's treatment. Hiruzen had come to see Naruto as a grandson and he was glad that whenever he'd visit the orphanage, he would receive the happiest smile from Naruto. It made his heart swell from the look of admiration Naruto had always given him and his bold proclamations that one day he would take the Hokage's hat from me. The aged warrior was known as the "God of Shinobi" because of his incredible battle prowess and his ability to use all five elements. He was also known was "The Professor" due to his unmatched intelligence and wisdom. However, if he were a bit more wise, he would have continued to observe Naruto for he would've seen the terrible treatment that Naruto was about to receive.

Naruto continued to sullenly walk down the streets when the food stands came into view. He smiled and ran up to one that was selling fried shrimp on a stick and when he was about to ask the man for one stick he was assaulted. The vendor angrily pushed Naruto down and kicked him away from his stand.

"Beat it, you no good brat," the vendor said, harshly. "Don't come 'round here no more. We don't serve the likes of you." To top it all off, the old man spit on Naruto and kicked him one more time for "good measure".

The citizens of Konoha gathered around the scene and jeered their signs of approval. Some even threw rocks and scraps at him.

"You deserve to die!"

"No good demon!"

"Bastard fox!"

"Filthy scum!"

The insults continued to be sent but no one stepped up to stop them. Naruto looked up to see all the people continue to throw things at him and call him horrible things like "demon" and "useless". His eyes stung and the tears threatened to spill just when three men approached him. The undeserving blonde thought they were going to help him but it was just the opposite. The middle one looked at his lackeys and uttered some words to them. The other two nodded and had devious smirks on their faces when they heard their boss's plan.

"Don't worry boy, we'll make sure you get what you deserve" said the boss. The trio laughed as if it were the funniest thing they heard in ages and approached Naruto. The two lackeys picked Naruto up and held his arms away from each other and stepped on his legs to make sure he couldn't move. Naruto began to thrash about and screamed for help but it seemed to fall on deaf ears. The boss had enough of the little menace's screaming and gagged him. "This was a long time coming."

The boss picked up a metal rod nearby and savagely smashed it against Naruto's chest. Naruto's tears were freely pouring out as his muffled screams seemed to entice the audience. The boss continuously beat Naruto having no mercy on the boy. Naruto's screams were dying down due to all the pain and his vision was becoming blurrier by the second. Soon, the young blonde's face was hardly recognizable and his chest was marred with dozens upon dozens of gashes and bruises. His clothing was torn beyond repair and his thrashing had reduced to the point where he was just barely twitching, fading in and out of consciousness. Blood was pooling beneath him yet there was not a soul amongst the crowd who felt the slightest bit of sympathy or even the urge to stop his beating.

"Hey boss, we should probably stop. If the Hokage finds out about this, we're done for" said lackey number one. Lackey number two just dumbly nodded, seeing as he had no relevant opinion.

"You're probably right. Come on; let's go hide him in the outskirts so no one can find his body."

With that demonic statement, the three hell-bound civilians drug Naruto across the village and out into the forest areas on the west side. There were no ninja patrolling that gate so the civilians were easily able to get past and hide Naruto among the trees and bushes. The two lackeys each kicked Naruto one last time but when they did the two hundred yen he had fell and the two picked it up greedily. Once they admired their handiwork, the three brushed their hands off and started to make their way back to the village laughing and counting the stolen money along the way.

In Konoha, the rivers that traveled down from the mountains supplied all the water necessities. One of these necessities was hot springs. The hot springs were located on the west side of the village, so just as there are clouds in the skies, there are perverts near hot springs.

A certain white haired man with red lines going down his face was perched on a branch of a conveniently placed tree just peaking over the walls of the hot springs. He was holding a small binocular in one hand and furiously scribbling down on a small notebook while giving an occasional giggle every few seconds. His fun, however, was cut short when a beautiful young-looking woman with blonde hair and ridiculously sized bust appeared in a swirl of leaves right next to the white haired man.

"Jiraiya!" said the unnamed blonde beauty, "Why do you always have to peek? You goddamn pervert!" she exclaimed holding a fist up threateningly.

"Hehe, come now Tsu-hime, let's not do something we'll regret," Jiraiya stood up and put both of his hands on her fist and uncurled it, "there we go, now come on stop frowning, you'll get wrinkles." Just for that remark, Tsunade swung her fist at him, which Jiraiya caught and laughed.

"Honestly, Jiraiya, you're such a pain in the ass" said Tsunade, while shaking her head but had a small smile on her face.

"Gomen, gomen" said Jiraiya, while laughing, "Now where were we…"

Jiraiya crouched down on the branch and aimed his binoculars at the hot springs when something caught his attention.

"Are you serious Jiraiya?" exclaimed Tsunade, gaining a tick on her forehead.

"Actually, I am" said Jiraiya in a solemn voice and Tsunade could tell he was angry.

"What happened?" she asked, subconsciously placating herself for any type of danger

Jiraiya handed her the binoculars and told her to look near the woods north of the hot springs. Tsunade obliged and when her eyes saw the scene she gasped. She looked at Jiraiya but he was already gone and she saw him jumping to the area. Quickly, she followed wanting to help him, even though he didn't need it.

The three foolish civilians who were currently acting like the world was beneath their feet were ignorant of their surroundings because if they looked up they would've seen one of the most powerful ninja in all of the elemental countries standing before them. The three walked and the boss, who was in the middle of the group bumped into something.

"Hey, watch where your…" the boss looked up to see someone at least two heads taller than him staring down at him. "Jiraiya-sama, w-what do I owe the pleasure?" the civilian said, shaking a bit from the furious expression on the face of the normally happy-go-lucky man.

"Say, I just wanted to know did you do that to that blonde kid over there?" Jiraiya said in an eerily calm manner.

"Why, of course not, we didn't even see him there haha.." the civilian said, trying to remain as calm as possible.

"Oh, I see" Jiraiya said, and had a plastered fake smile on his face, which of course wasn't caught by the three thugs so they internally sighed in relief thinking they got away with their crime. "So, how much money is in your hand there?"

"Oh, this is nothing, just two hundred ryo that I found on the floor"

"200? I can do that." Jiraiya said smiling. Just as the civilian was about to ask what he meant, Jiraiya made a cross hand seal.

"Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" exclaimed Jiraiya and in less than a second, exactly 100 clones of Jiraiya appeared in the matter of a few seconds. The three thugs looked on flabbergasted at the sheer number of Jiraiyas. At that moment Tsunade made her appearance but stayed towards the back. Her face betrayed her true emotions. On the outside she had a serious façade but on the inside she was quite intimidated yet excited at the same time. Jiraiya might've been the biggest pervert known to mankind but he was a damn fine ninja and downright terrifying when he wants to be. His chakra capacity still wowed her to know end. Honestly, how does a civilian born shinobi have that much chakra? It's ridiculous.

"So, two hundred ryu, huh?" said the real Jiraiya. "Well, then let's begin."

All of the 100 Jiraiyas raised both of their palms and concentrated. In just a few seconds a blue sphere of rapidly spinning chakra appeared in both palms of all the clones. The three civilians looked appalled at the signature jutsu of the Yondaime Hokage, the Rasengan. They were so shocked that they didn't realize, not that they could've even if they were alert, that three of Jiraiya's clones had stood right behind each of the civilians. With no warning, each of the Jiraiya clones slammed their Rasengans into the civilians making them cry out from the excruciating pain. It felt as though they had a mini tornado ripping apart all their flesh and bones. Truth be told, that's exactly what was happening. The pain filled cries of the three thugs fell on Jiraiya's deaf ears as he continued his assault until they were on the brink of unconsciousness. When Jiraiya stopped, all of the other clones vanished out of existence.

"If this ever happens again, I won't hold back" spat Jiraiya as he quickly made his way over to where Naruto was rapidly losing blood and moaning from the sheer pain of all his injuries. Tsunade appeared by his sides already making hand signs before both her hands started glowing green. She hovered her hands over Naruto's head because the main source of blood loss was happening there. As she applied her chakra to his wound, both of the Kage level shinobi were astounded at what they saw. Naruto's gash started closing up faster humanely possible and his breathing was becoming slightly better but this time he really did lose consciousness. Tsunade stopped her chakra flow and saw the gash was still closing but this time at a slightly slower rate. Quickly, she reapplied her jutsu and attended all the wounds over his body until they were all completely healed.

Once she finished her procedure she huffed and stood up. However, she stood up too quickly and with all the chakra she just used her balance became unstable. But just as she was about to fall Jiraiya caught her by the waist with one arm and stood her upright.

"Uh, thanks" said Tsunade, not looking at him so he wouldn't see the small smile on her face.

"It's the fox" replied Jiraiya, looking down at Naruto's sleeping form.

"Huh? The fox?"

"Yeah, the Kyuubi. He's speeding up Naruto's healing and regeneration process. Minato's seal made it so the fox could leak its chakra into Naruto's system when it was absolutely imperative. I should know, I helped design the seal. Anyways, whenever Naruto's life is in danger, it'll send its chakra to keep him alive but not the point of corruption. The only way the fox could corrupt Naruto was if he let it. But Minato believed in Naruto, and I do too."

Tsunade looked at her former teammate with a strange look. He was hardly ever serious. Matter of fact, he hasn't been all too serious since the attack of the Kyuubi three years ago. It was different, not bad per se but different. Although, she would never admit it, she loved all the times he would joke around with her and take her monstrous strength like it was nothing. Even though he lets her hit him sometimes, he could easily dodge each and every attack.

"Come on; let's take him to the hospital. We need to inform Sarutobi-sensei as well" said Tsunade. Jiraiya picked up Naruto and two ninjas sped off to the infirmary, Jiraiya already having sent a clone to the Hokage's office to inform him about the situation.

The nurses in the Konoha Hospital were quite frankly enjoying their time of peace. There haven't been any serious injuries in a while. Ever since the incident with the Kyuubi, the leaf shinobi trained much more rigorously so that they would be prepared for such a climactic crisis and for other shinobi. This made most of the ninja much more capable thus reducing the amount of casualties from missions. Their occasional patient was some of the elderly but nothing too serious since most retired shinobi pass away in their sleep rather than from a health factor. However, it would be an underestimation to say that they were surprised when two of the strongest ninjas in the village busted through the doors at speeds no civilian could fathom.

Jiraiya had Naruto on his back and firmly held him to prevent any further injury and Tsunade ran behind him just in case something did happen.

"Room, now!" Jiraiya barked at one of the nurses who looked scared out of her mind. She snapped out of her stupor when she saw Jiraiya's face slowly start to become irritated and immediately led the two Sannin to an empty room.

Jiraiya quickly placed Naruto on the bed and Tsunade made sure he'd be comfortable when he was resting. The nurse recognized who the boy was and immediately scowled. In her mind, she was pondering about whether she should kill the boy once the two Sannin leave but her thoughts weren't allowed to fully develop when she was grabbed by the neck and slammed into the wall.

"Listen bitch. You do any harm to this boy and I will not hesitate to kill you and everyone in your family very slowly" said Tsunade as she glared at the nurse with an overflowing amount of anger and also made sure to leak a bit of killing intent in order to put even more pressure on the foolish nurse. "Do I make myself clear?"

The nurse hurriedly nodded lest she face the wrath of not only Tsunade but Jiraiya who was looking at her with just as much anger and despise as Tsunade. Tsunade let the nurse go but not without another burst of killing intent. From that day onwards, the nurse would never even think any ill intentions about the Kyuubi vessel.

Once the nurse had exited the room, both of the Sannin released a sigh.

"He's only three," said Tsunade wearily while running a hand through the blonde's hair.

"Yeah, these idiotic villagers don't understand that without Naruto, there wouldn't even be a village. Minato would be ashamed of us right now" said Jiraiya as he closed his eyes, his mind running at unbelievable speeds at the prospect of the situation that had unfolded.

Tsunade put her free hand on Jiraiya's shoulder in a comforting gesture which he smiled at her for in thanks. The two continued to look after Naruto until suddenly, the boy let out feral scream of pain.

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