Edited and Fixed: 11/14/18

A/N I will probably be doing time skips at the beginning of these early chapters because I want to try and move the story along. I also tried to change his childhood to something I haven't read before. I get tired of the same story be parroted with different word but the same events.

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Shinigami Miroku: you're probably right but I just couldn't bring myself to spend any more time on it because I was too distracted by this chapter. Hopefully that isn't a problem in the future. Like I said the last chapter has been done to death and just could hold my interest. (Update I have corrected this error.)

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Warning this will be an MA fic. It will have foul language, blood, gore, attempted rape, probably cold blooded sadistic murder, and most likely lemons and limes.

"Regular Speech"

'Regular Though'

Jutsu's- English or Japanese depending on which style I like better.

"Demon/Large summons Speech"

'Demon Thought'

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or really anything in this for that matter other than maybe one or two original ideas.

Chapter 2: Revelations

Five Years Later

Children run for many reasons. Playing tag, finding a place to hide while playing hide and go seek, racing to get to the park to play, or even just racing to see who is faster. The Boy we find running now is not playing a game of any sort. He is fleeing a several drunk civilians trying to, at least what they said anyway, "finish the Yondaime's job," and "get the demon brat."

Semi-Flashback

This was a relativity new phenomenon to the boy. Until about 6 months ago he was treated just like every other child in the orphanage. That is until his hair turned blonde and whisker mark appeared on his face. When this happened the matron went to the Hokage to ask what could have happened. Unfortunately, when she could not find the Hokage she settled for his advisors, even after she was told never to divulge information on that child to anyone but him, fearing that his health may be at stake.

When she told Homura and Koharu, their eyes widened for a brief second as they put together who the boy was almost instantly. They assured her that everything should be fine and they would look into it. They then proceeded to tell the civilian side of the council and Danzo of their discovery.

The reactions were mixed. They had been looking for the boy for over four years and had no luck finding him. No child matching their given description was ever spotted at any of the orphanages. But now out of nowhere someone came in telling them of a child that had changed overnight to look like the one they were seeking. It was obvious that the Sandaime had placed a genjutsu on the child to change his appearance.

What they didn't know was that it only worked on adults. The rest of the children saw Naruto for who he was and he had become friend with many of the clan children already. He had played with them in the park several times a week from the time they were three.

Danzo had shown up the next day and attempted to adopt the boy. The matron, who was a bit suspicious, started the process and told him to come back a few times over the next week to get to know the boy to help him adjust to the change. The final day he was to visit and take Naruto home was the same day the Hokage had showed up to reinforce the genjutsu he used to change Naruto's appearance.

When he got there and realized it slipped he asked the matron if any parties had suddenly expressed interest in him. She showed him the forms that were being filed for his adoption, the same form she had sent to him but never arrived. He didn't recognize the name and decided he had better wait for the person to show up. If this was a real family that just wanted to give him a home he would be more than happy to allow it, after he ran some of his own checkups on them of course. But he had sinking feeling that it was someone with less than pure intentions.

Hiding himself in the shadows he waited until door opened to reveal Danzo. When he asked the matron if Naruto was ready to go with a big smirk on his face Hiruzen nearly lost it. At this moment he stepped out of the shadows and confronted Danzo. To say Danzo was surprised was an understatement. Hiruzen very carefully explained to Naruto, who had arrived in the meantime, that Danzo would not be able to adopt Naruto because he was becoming very sick and didn't want to take the chance that Naruto would catch it. The irony was not lost on Danzo. Hiruzen then quickly and quietly whispered in Danzo's ear "If you so much as attempt to contact Naruto again I will personally KILL you and all of you ROOT agents. That's right, I know you didn't dismantle it like I ordered. This is no threat it is a promise."

With that Hiruzen turned to Naruto and asked if he would like to get some lunch as an apology for what had happened. Danzo hadn't moved, still frozen at what he heard. He was not scared. Death didn't scare him. He was surprised the Hiruzen had found his backbone again. Seeing that he would not win this day he went back to his plotting. He knew he could not openly defy or oppose Hiruzen. He was called the Shinobi no Kami, The God of Shinobi, for a reason.

After that Naruto's life had taken a turn for the worst. The nice matron had been removed through action on the part of the civilian council and Danzo, who decided if he couldn't get to Naruto he try to make Naruto come to him. He wanted his weapon. They replaced the kind matron with one of their own choosing. She was someone that saw Naruto as the kyuubi and treated him as such. She told the other kids to stay away from him and started kicking him out when she was teaching the other kids.

At first Naruto thought he did something to make her mad, but when he tried to apologize she told him she didn't care what a demon like him had to say. Naruto was reduced to playing alone unless he went to the park. Even some of his friends had their parent pull them away from now that they could see what he really looked like. His only friends that remained were a little girl with blue hair, pale skin, and lavender eyes with no visible pupil named Hinata Hyuuga, Hinata's two-year-old sister with brown hair and the same eyes Hanabi Hyuuga, a blond hair girl with blue eyes and no pupil named Ino Yamanaka, a rather plump with swirls on his cheeks named Chouji Akimichi, and a boy with his dark hair tied up looking like the top of a pineapple named Shikamaru Nara. These were the only parents who would let them kids play with him. All the other parents pulled their kids away.

End Semi-Flashback

Today is Naruto's fifth birthday and he thought that maybe today would be a good day. All his other birthday's had been. There was always a festival on his birthday and he loved to go. He had been walking through the festival when he was spotted and arrived in his current situation.

As Naruto was running he realized that while he was staying ahead of most of the stumbling crowd there were a few that seemed to be keeping pace with him easily. After all how fast can a five-year-old run? What he didn't know is that they were herding him to a less crowded area away from the ANBU and Uchiha police watching the festival.

When the finally got him far enough away they cornered him in an alley with a dead end. Only about 12 people of the mob remained. In that mob were four genin, three chunin, a jonin, and four civilians who were not drunk. The genins and civilians went in first with nothing but punches and kicks with their bare hands. After a few minutes, which were filled with Naruto's pained screams, when he was injured to run away or fight back, having a broken nose, leg, and arm, they backed off. At this time the chunins took their turn. Using kunai they speared his hands to the ground getting the loudest scream of his life. They then proceeded to start making shallow incisions all over him with kunai coated in a poison meant to cause pain, not death. After just a few long minutes Naruto passed out due to the pain. The attackers did not care in the least. If anything they were emboldened. He couldn't scream now but would still feel everything later.

Naruto's Mindscape

Naruto found himself in a dying forest more confused than he had been in his whole life. He was trying to piece together how he got there and the last thing he could remember was the worst pain he had ever felt. He looked down and didn't see any wounds or scars and became even more confused. It was at this point the he noticed that the leaves on the trees were pulsing with two different auras, one red and one blue. As he was trying to figure out the cause when he heard his name being called, it was faint and he could only just discern the direction.

"Naruto follow the sound of my voice. Yes you are almost here" spoke the deep voice as Naruto neared an impassable grove of trees.

Coming around a grove of trees that he could not see through Naruto saw a massive steel bared fence that looked like a huge animal Pen. The Bars were 500 feet tall and spaced with about 6 feet between them. The pen had to be large enough to fit the Hokage Monument inside. It had a gate that appeared to be held together with just and piece of paper with the Kanji for seal.

After taking this in Naruto noticed a fox with a human-like torso sitting near the gate with his tails swing haphazardly behind him. At first Naruto didn't know what to think until he decided to count his tails. He counted nine he began to back up.

"A-are y-y-you the nine-t-t-tailed-fox?" he asked trembling with fear.

"Yes I am the Great Kyuubi no Yoko" the fox replied.

"Why did those people bring me here? Are you going to kill me?" he asked the first part more to himself than the fox but it heard none the less.

This confused the kyuubi if only for a second. In truth it was expecting the boy today hence why it was at the gate but it now donned on him that the boy was about 4 hours early. At this odd occurrence the fox decided to ask the obvious question. "What do you mean those people brought you here?"

"I was chased through the Kyuubi festival by a bunch of people, when I ran down a dead-end ally. The started to hit me and the two of them stabbed me with knives I see those ninja use through my hands and then I woke up here." Naruto explained

This caused the fox to bristle in rage effectively scarring Naruto. Realizing its mistake the kyuubi immediately lowered it killing intent. "I guess I may as well start the explanations now. Those people did not bring you anywhere. In fact they are most likely still torturing your body. This is you mindscape. We are inside you head."

At this Naruto didn't know what to say as he tried to absorb this information. He was a bit scared that the people outside would kill him but he was thankful that he wasn't feeling it. After processing that information he had to ask, "How did I get here? How did you get here? Why does it look like this place is dying? What's going to happen to me? Why aren't you dead?"

The Kyuubi decided to slow him down before he got too far into a panic.

"First off I am not sure how you got here; it may be in response to the pain. Second how I got here will be explained later. Third this place is a representation of you. Six months ago the place was green and beautiful. It looks like this because of how you have changed in the last six months. I don't know what has been happening but it is not good. Fourth you will be just fine I can sense your injuries and a healing them just enough so you survive but not enough for people outside to see. Lastly you can't kill me not permanently at least." After explaining this Kyuubi decided that there was something he needed to do. "I can sense they have left outside I will send back and talk to you tonight when you go to sleep. I am sorry but this will hurt. When you wake up you need to use this hand sign and say 'Resurrection Seal Kai'. I will take care of the rest." When the kyuubi was sure Naruto understood and could do as he was told it pushed him out of his mindscape.

Meanwhile-Outside

After stabbing the kunai through his hands the chunin proceeded to stab his arms and leg repeatedly working their way in. When one of them got to excited and decided to cut his throat the jonin stopped them.

"Are you two insane? If you kill him here in three years he will reappear in his full demon form back to full power." This caused to chunin to step away while the jonin performed a quick katon jutsu to cauterize his wounds so he wouldn't bleed out. But still be in pain. After this they quickly fled the scene as the use of chakra would have no doubt alerted the ANBU.

A dog masked and weasel masked ANBU landed in the ally on moments later.

Dog asked "are you sure this is where it came from?

"Yes" replied Weasel.

After a quick check of the ally they notice what looks like a burnt pile of tattered clothes. When the get up to it the find it is a child that they both recognize.

"NARUTO! Weasel you report this to Hokage-sama I will get him to the hospital." Dog got out before scooping Naruto and body flickers towards the hospital. Weasel then does the same but heading to the Hokage's office.

Hokage's Office

Weasel body flickers directly in to the Hokage office appearing on one Knee.

"Hokage-sama," He says in a frantic tone. Worrying what might happen if Naruto doesn't make it.

"Yes what is it Weasel?" asks Hiruzen with a little bit of worry in his voice. Weasel is one of his best operatives and if he is shaken then it can't be good news.

"Naruto Uzumaki has been attacked" He says only to almost faint at the massive amount of killing intent suddenly coming from the Hokage.

"Where is he?!" he yells trying to reign in his anger so Weasel can speak

"Dog has taken him to the hospital" He manages to get out.

No sooner than he says that Hiruzen is gone already at the hospital with speed even Weasel can't hope to match.

Hospital

When Dog arrives at the hospital with the severely burned boy he is immediately taken into and operating room. After five minutes the Hokage arrives in an uproar when he sees dog and no Naruto.

"DOG where is he?"

"They took him into and operating room about three minutes ago Hokage-sama" dog tells him.

This eases his mind a little as he sits outside make sure only necessary staff can enter the room. It seemed like days but really it is only about an hour and a half when they wheel Naruto out of the room looking a lot worse for the wear. The Hokage sees this and instantly begins to ask questions.

"Why is he still in this condition" he asks trying to keep the venom out of his voice.

"We were not able to do any more at this time. His injuries are too extensive and he is too fragile to operate on right now. The best we could do was to stabilize him and try to keep him sedated but even that is proving hard as he seems to burn through it very quickly. However his injuries seem to be healing on their own faster than most of us could do it for him." The doctor reported.

They wheeled him into a room and started to set up the monitoring equipment when they witnessed a site that they could neither explain of comprehend. Naruto woke up.

An ear piercing scream let everyone know he was awake. The doctor started to call for sedation when he saw Naruto reach for his I.V. He grabbed the boys hand to stop him and was rewarded with another scream.

"You must leave it. It will help the pain go away" the doctor frantically tried to reason with him. But the blonde would have no part of it.

'"Take… it… OUT" He ground out through girted teeth. "I…can fix…this by… myself. Just take it OUT!" Naruto screeches at the top of his lungs.

Hearing this, the Hokage was curious. The look in Naruto's eyes told that Naruto really thought he could. He decided to give him his chance. The sedation was coming and they could always just inject it straight from a needle and replace his I.V. later. Really anything to that the boy wanted at this point he would allow if he thought it would ease his pain. Hiruzen motioned for the doctor to remove it and give the boy his chance.

After it was quickly removed Naruto brought his hands together in a hand sign and whispered "Resurrection Seal KAI!" The doctor only heard the KAI but the Hokage heard to whole thing and his eyes widened for a moment wondering what was going to happen having never heard of something like that and wondering where Naruto would have heard of or even received a seal like that. He certainly didn't do it himself.

As soon as Naruto said "KAI" a blinding golden light washed over him forcing everybody to look away. It went on for a full minutes swirling and pulsing making even the Hokage sweat from the amount of power that was swirling around the child. When the minute was up and the light died down they looked to seen Naruto sitting up on the bed as if nothing happened. His clothes were torn, ripped, and bloody but his skin was completely healed and he seemed to be with awake and full of energy.

Everybody in the room minus Naruto just stood there with their jaws on the floor. They had never seen anything like that. It would take even the toughest jonin's weeks to be sitting up let alone be fully healed. He was smiling and trying to mask his pain but it still shown through in his eyes. His physical pain may be gone but the emotional pain would take considerably longer to heal. Hiruzen saw this and felt a pang of guilt that he had failed to stop this from happening and keep him safe. He had done so well for four and a half years then somehow the genjutsu he had placed on Naruto had worn off two weeks early. He had gone over it in his head but came up with nothing but blanks. He was going to reapply it but the council had already spread what both versions looked like and his name. So he had settled for assigning ANBU protection to him.

He decided that he needed to speak with the boy alone. After asking the doctor to check him over then leave he sat down on a chair next to the bed and began.

"Naruto-kun do you remember what happened?" Hiruzen asked. Hoping that he both did, so he could punish those responsible, and didn't so he would not have to live with the memories of the terrible things that had done to him. A quick flash in Naruto's eyes told him that Naruto remembered everything.

"Some ninjas chased me away from the festival. The started to hit me then two of them stabbed those ninja knives through my hands and started to cut me everywhere with a few more. Then I passed out. When I woke up I was here and in a lot more pain." Hiruzen could tell it was taking everything he had to hold himself together. It broke the old hokage's heart to see Naruto in such a state. It almost pained him to have to continue this conversation.

"How did you recover so fast? It sounded like you released a seal of some kind." It was then that he noticed a slight hesitation that he had never seen in Naruto before. He had always responded to his questions right away. Whether it was from the pain of the memory or something he didn't want to tell him the Hokage didn't know.

"Kit, don't jump and don't say anything. You cannot tell him that you know of me yet. Everything will be explained tonight. Tell him something in the back of your mind just made you do it. Make it vague."

Hearing the kyuubi made him hesitate for a few moments before he answered. "I don't know. Something in the back on my head made me feel like it would take the pain away." The Hokage narrowed his eyes ever so slightly. He could see that either something Naruto said was a lie or that part of the truth was missing, the fact that he couldn't tell which unnerved him. He was the Hokage and couldn't read the face of a five-year-old boy. He decided to give Naruto his privacy as this had already been a hard enough night and prying might make it worse. He did however decide to keep a closer eye on the boy, not only to keep him safe but to make sure that nothing was influencing Naruto's decisions.

"Ok Naruto-kun. The doctor said that you are free to go. Let me walk you back to the orphanage since it's late and we don't want anything more to happen tonight," Hiruzen said with a smile trying to reassure the boy by telling he would be there but it immediately turned to a look of confusion when Naruto look down and let out a sniffle. "What is it Naruto-kun?" he asked with a great amount of concern in his voice.

"I can't go back there. They told me 'a demon like you isn't welcome here' before they threw me out" he managed to get out through the sniffles. At hearing this Sarutobi was now royally pissed. 'I can't believe that ignorance of those council members. Putting him through this because they are too stupid to see the difference between the scroll and the kunai.' With this thought he determined another course of action must be taken.

"How about I get you your own place then?" He asked trying to gauge the boy's mood by his reaction. When Naruto just smiled and nodded he felt a small measure of relief. Taking the boy by the hand and leading him to his new home.

Naruto's New Apartment

It wasn't much to look at. That was probably the best thing that you could be said about it. It wasn't that it was run down as much as the fact that it was just old. It showed its age too. It was in probably the oldest building in Konoha. The reason for this being it was the only place that would accept Naruto, especially at this late hour and on this day in particular. Naruto didn't care though. He had a place he could call his own.

After saying his thanks for the help he found himself very tired. It turns out the energy that he felt after releasing one of his Resurrection Seals had worn off and he finally felt the stress of the day. As he laid down to go to sleep he wondered if he would ever be able to go back to the way things had been before they started calling him a demon.

Hokage's Office

Sarutobi was furious. He was going to get to the bottom of what happened if it took all night. He had summoned Dog and Weasel who now stood before him.

"Dog, Weasel, report. What happened tonight? Why did you leave your assignment of guarding Naruto, only for him to be assaulted in this manner?" He asked trying to keep his anger in check. These were his two best operatives and for their sake they better have a good reason for leaving him.

Dog stepped up. "While we were keeping watch a fight broke out between approximately 35 shinobis. The other ANBU and Uchiha Police were overwhelmed. We decided that it would be prudent to step in and assist." After finishing he motioned for Weasel to continue.

"We have since come to believe that it may have been a ploy to divert out attention away from Naruto. They used our distraction to chase Naruto away from the crowded areas. After breaking up the fight we went looking for Naruto. When we sensed a large chakra usage several blocks away we went to investigate," stated Weasel.

Dog picked up again "It was at this point that we found Naruto he had been the victim of a long torture session and then they used a katon jutsu to stop the bleeding to make sure that he would survive."

This last part was the most disturbing. If what they suspected was true that would mean some of his own ninja have started a fight with plans of it getting out of control, by involving other shinobi that had no part in their plan, in order to cause a distraction large enough to pull these two away. To make thing worse they didn't want to kill him, they wanted him to suffer and live. They may have even believed that those injuries would be permanent especially the burns. It would have been a miserable life had he not been able to heal himself the way he did. As these thoughts were running through his head he was becoming both more enraged and burdened with guilt for failing his successor.

'Minato if you could see me now you would be ashamed'. After a heavy sigh he spoke "I want you two to ignore any fights between shinobi and or civilians while Naruto is in the vicinity from now on. I have a feeling this may happen again. I do however; want you to give the illusion that your attention has been drawn. Let's see if we can make an example out the next people to try it. Dog you are dismissed."

"Hai Hokage-sama," Dog then salutes the Hokage and flickers out of his office.

After this Hiruzen makes a motion and dismisses that ANBU guards stationed in the room he puts up a privacy barrier.

"Weasel remove your mask," Sarutobi commands. Weasel follows the order to reveal the face a young teenager with black eyes, tear tracks, and a serious expression. This was the face of Itachi Uchiha.

"What have you to report on the other matter?" Sarutobi asked cryptically.

"They continue down the fool's path. I fear that they are only a few years from truly being lost." Itachi replied in kind.

"Very well. We must prepare for the worst. Do they still plan to use HIM as a weapon" Hiruzen asks.

"I am afraid now more than ever they believe they can. They think I will bring him when the time comes and control him for their bidding" replied Itachi.

"It cannot be helped then. We will continue to try to diplomacy up to the last reasonable moment but after that I am afraid I will have to take action." Hiruzen warned.

"I just hope it never comes to that"

"As do Itachi, as do I."

A/N I think you will find this chapter far more cohesive and clear. I feel like I did a better job proof reading and just general flow to the story. Constructive criticism is always welcomed. I am currently looking for a beta. Mostly to proof read but also to make sure I don't leave to many plot holes or get my story facts crossed. I have finished an event outline and started on chapter 3 as well as have chapter 4 pretty well outlined.

A/N: Update: If you see and mistake is this updated version of this chapter please let me know. I am currently trying to fix everything before going to much farther.