He Will Be Loved

Chapter title refers to Naruto Uzumaki. It is so weird when I write and then people tell me what they liked about the chapter.I know that sounds crazy, but when I read the reviews, I always go back and look at the chapter to make sure people are reading what I wrote. Hehe.

Anyway, this chapter is late and sad, but I'm giving you a special I guess. It's a holiday where I am….in America. :(

Don't think that I'm not a fan of my country. It's the economy in the country. And I'm dark. I don't just think, like others, that the system will fail.

I think the whole world's going to shit. That's actually in this fanfiction. Naruto's views on the world in this fic are actually mine.

Naruto ran as fast as he could down the street. He wasn't supposed to be out at this time, but he had no barriers.

His father was posted in Sunagakure for a week to work out trade relations and his mother was busy with Gaara.

They never noticed him slip through the cracks. Going to train with Sasuke. Going to climb and paint the Hokage's monument.

Not once had anything gone wrong….not like this anyway.

"Come back here, demon!" Someone screamed behind him. The boy never turned around to know who was following. Although he had been training hard, Naruto was not allowed to use his power for anything.

Pein's orders.

So when a few people spotted the seal upon his neck and his Ichibi eye, he ran for his life.

They were going to kill him.

"The little fucker's fast." Another yelled.

Naruto didn't understand. Where was everyone?

He wanted Pein to come and rescue him from this dark place. But, he was ashamed. If Pein saw him crying, he would feel even more ashamed. To be a God like the others wanted, he was not allowed to cry. The six year old felt that if Pein saw, he would know what Naruto felt, and the knowing would flood the landscape.

There would be nowhere to hide.

Just as Naruto turned down an alleyway, the blond boy tripped on his stomach, his clothes becoming muddy. He couldn't run anymore. The villagers were too close.

With as much strength he could muster, the blond turned and shook his head rapidly. "Please don't hurt me." He whispered. "I'm the hokage's s-"

"You're a demon, you little shit." A large man cut him off by kicking his stomach.

After the seventh kick and a few punches and sharp jabs, one to his eye, he stopped feeling. Shukaku did that for him. The racoon dog cut off his feeling, knowing that no one was coming.

They said mean things. They called him a monster, but he didn't understand.

"Wait." Naruto heard one man say, causing the beating to stop. "Maybe we shouldn't. He is the hokage's son. Just because this is a far end of Konoha doesn't mean we can't be caught."

They were debating and Naruto shivered on the cold hard ground. "One last thing."

"What else can we do besides beat the bastard?"

Naruto shivered as a large hand touched his leg. "He doesn't have fight in him. We could have a little fun."

"With a demon?" Came an incredulous response.

"He claims to be delicate. He should prove it."

"Kit." Kyuubi voiced within him. "Let me take over."

But, Naruto did nothing. He didn't know how to do such a thing.

In his mind, he was still clinging to his Pein's leg, a tree trunk of which Naruto was an offshoot- a young branch attached through Pein by flesh and blood. Where Pein was rooted, so was Naruto. Where Pein walked, he walked.

He was Pein's thoughts.

But here…..in the arm's of these men, Naruto was going to be a parasite on Pein's body, no longer of his mind. If he ever told Pein about this, the alarm would send a tremor through their bodies and he would be torn from Pein.

But, the secret has already been found out. Naruto, in trying to be just as brave, was seeking out danger.

And danger's hands were frightening as they sat him on their laps each.

Putting their moist lips on him. Rubbing his head with their large hands as if he were an animal.

Was this where the fear began? Here, where these men were removing his clothes with sly smiles? While they removed their own? While they touched Naruto in inappropriate places and placed their own inappropriate places near his face, hands, and bottom.

"For a monster, you sure are handsome." they whistled, laying on top of him.

"Don't tell anyone." they would whisper.

In an attempt to stop everything, Naruto put his hands out, letting light glow around and tear them apart.

The closer ones screamed. Others grew horrified. Some died. Some shielded their eyes and drew weapons, a signal that they had just found out what he really was.

In his childhood dreams, the mountain yawned apart. Pein was on one side of the rift. He was on the other. They couldn't reach each other. His every being was being destroyed.

Pein jumped from roof to roof after leaving the hokage building. His father was currently on a trip to Suna where they would discuss trading, so Pein gave his report to an assistant.

Just a he hit another roof, the ten year old jounin stopped with a smirk. "Come out, coward." he hissed.

Out of the shadows came Itachi Uchiha, his sharingan on full display. Although, Pein could see there was a slight tint to the older boy's cheeks.

"I am not a coward. I was watching." The ANBU child stated simply. "The night sky." he added.

This was Pein's secret; to everyone. His parents, comrades, friends, even to Itachi.

This eleven year old ANBU before him was his little secret. A sort of haven within his thoughts when he felt boy urges.

One of the reasons the boy would always tell his brothers that the Uchiha clan was not cursed. The reason why he was so happy that his little brother found a friend in Sasuke.

His secret infatuation with Itachi Uchiha. If anyone could change the outlook on the Uchiha clan, it was Itachi.

Pein frowned deeply, holding a serious face toward the Un-Uchiha like ANBU. "you were spying on me."

Itachi shrugged with a smile. "Thought you needed someone to talk to."

Pein's orange brows rose in confusion and the metal bars through his nose wiggled. "Me? Needing someone to talk to?"

Thinking of his favorite younger brother, Pein smiled softly toward the ground. "I already have someone for that."

"Are you talking about your younger brother? Naruto?" Itachi wondered, settling down on the rooftop.

Pein grew serious again. His little brother, whom they all disliked. Surely Itachi would not say anything.

Itachi smiled with his eyes closed. "Sasuke talks about him like he puts stars in the sky. He must be a real charmer."

Pein nodded. "He is. You have to meet him. He has this certain aura around him….you'll only notice it when you get to know him. He draws you in and he has the most wonderful mind. A beautiful mind….uses it all the time. He isn't so dense. And he cares….he's so caring no matter what."

Pein laughed in delight, not even paying attention to the world anymore.

"Everyday, he gets up and tries to make me food before he goes to school and I go on a mission. The rice is slightly burned and the salmon is a bit raw...and sometimes he brings me sweets with little love notes."

Pein rubbed his eyes. "Every morning. 'This is for you, big brother.' It hurts my stomach on missions sometimes, but it's worth it, you know?"

Itachi smiled softly. "I can tell he means a lot to you."

"So much." Pein grew quiet. "I'd never abandon him. For anything. Not for this village...not for anyone. He's my only light in this world."

"Darn...and I thought my otouto and I had it all."

"Hm….so you were watching me...eh?"

Itachi blushed a bit. "I wasn't…..I saw that you came back from your mission….I uh…"

Before Itachi could get out his sentence, a white light flashed around the village of Konoha. Itachi shuddered in slight agony and Pein covered his eyes.

There was screaming. Pein shook his head and he and Itachi watched the light dim down.

Itachi looked to him, but the orange haired Jounin continued to stare in horror at the place where light had come from.

"Naruto." He whispered in horror.

And he took off, Itachi close behind.

"What the fuck was that?"

A villager removed himself from the ground and stared in disbelief at the tragedy around him. His fellow neighbors- five of them- lay on the ground torn apart.

There were only two left.

And the only one who could have done it lay upon the ground half naked; his body shuddering in fear, but not of them. In fear of himself.

"The demon did it." One hissed. "We have to kill him."

Shaking his head, one moved back. "I don't know. He just killed like five of us. We have to leave him alone now. We'll tell the council about it."

"No. This demon-brat isn't going to get away with this." The man walked forward, his knife raised. Just as he lowered it, a shadow jumped before him.

Before Naruto's eyes, his oppressor fell to the ground….dead to the world.

The last remaining villager yelped and dropped his weapon, turning in a swift manner. He wouldn't have to die….for he had not tried to kill the demon.

"Universal Pull."

Pein killed the man without interrogation.

He and Itachi stared at one another in horror for the longest of moments.

Itachi Uchiha- a child under the hokage and an ANBU of Konoha- knew.

"Aniki" came a whimpering voice. Pein broke contact and crouched to his little brother, holding him in his arms.

Instantly, Naruto began to cry and whine in torment. "Big brother, my legs….they hurt."

Pein looked toward Naruto's legs and frowned at how much blood was upon them. They had continuously slashed and stabbed Naruto's legs.

In fact, bruises were forming over Naruto's body and Pein knew why the fox couldn't heal them now. They stabbed his Ichibi eye and that would heal over some days in the hospital. Naruto's tailed beast's had shut themselves in from fear.

"It's okay. Shh. We're fine."

Naruto began to struggle in his arms, the events of the the recent past replaying over and over. He wasn't here right now.

"Please….no….please let me go."

"Shh. Otouto, it's me." The older boy tried desperately and Pein, with tears in his eyes, looked toward Itachi.

The raven stood and stared at Naruto in sympathy before pulling out a large scroll.

A concealing scroll where things would never be found again. The bodies were going to be placed in there and they were going to tell the hospital that those who attacked Naruto ran off.

When Itachi was done, he crawled over to Naruto. "Put him to sleep. It will reduce pain and stop his visions." he whispered.

Pein nodded and Naruto kicked his legs more. He squeezed the boy's nose to make sure he was still breathing and whacked a pressure point upon his tan neck.

"I'll protect you."

Itachi nodded and wiped his own tears, moving hair from Naruto's face. "I understand." he whispered. "I understand why you killed the last one. I wouldn't want them to know if Sasuke had such mesmerizing power either."

Pein smiled a little. "Come on. We have to get him to the hospital."

Minato expected a lot during his return to Konoha: he expected his wife to attack someone. He expected his sons to get into a large argument of who would play with him first; he expected Gaara to say his first words.

He didn't expect to be led to a hospital room where his youngest blond lay. Naruto's eyes were bandaged, both legs were wrapped and strawn up, and the Uchiha police guarding the boy's room had informed him that his son had been 'touched inappropriately.'

"How could this have happened?" He asked as his wife came from the room in tears.

"Naruto snuck out to a further end of Konoha...where the Uchiha force does not roam." Shisui stated. He put his head down in pure sadness. "His Ichibi eye had been stabbed, as well as parts of his legs.

"Doctors found that they had hurt in places children should not be. Fortunately, he will live and we are doing our best to find the perpetrators. We are sorry, Hokage-sama."

Minato walked down the large hospital room where Naruto lay, his eyes covered. He expected the boy to be sad and jumpy, but Naruto was smiling and laughing softly every so often.

Minato stared at Pein, who held Naruto's hands and smiled softly. His rinnegan eyes were bright and Naruto held his bruised stomach in laughter at whatever the older boy was saying.

"And then he told me to get a job. I didn't understand. My job was to protect him."

Naruto doubled over in laughter, squeezing his brother's hands. "He said that Aniki?"

"Of course. I wouldn't make this up, Shuk."

"And what did you do?"

"Well, I knocked him over his head."

Naruto giggled some more and calmed down, laying his head down and smiling blissfully.

Pein, still unaware of their father's presence, touched Naruto's hair. "Guess who can't wait to meet you when you feel better?"

"Who?"

"Itachi Uchiha."

He bet if the bandage wasn't over Naruto's eyes, the boy would have been shocked. He supposed the widened smile was enough. "Really? He's ANBU though. I'm not even a ninja."

"Not to him supposedly. He's heard great things from Sasuke about you. I even told him some things."

"What did you say about me, Aniki?"

Pein ruffled blond hair. "I told him you were a knucklehead, of course."

Instead of growing offended, Naruto laughed. At this moment, Pein's eye trailed over to Minato and his smile faltered ever so slightly.

"Father." He spoke.

Naruto's smile widened even more and Pein squeezed his hand. "Hi, dad."

Tears filled Minato's eyes and he walked over and hugged his son tightly. "I'm so glad you're safe and happy."

Naruto smiled a bit and hugged back after a moment. "I know, dad."

The two continued to laugh and speak and soon Kushina, Gaara, Deidara, and Nagato joined in.

But, Pein knew.

He knew how bad it was that his father had found out about what happened to Naruto. He knew that his father had lost all faith in in the village of Konoha.

The village he'd sworn to protect. He knew that his father would try something against Konoha.

That wasn't what bothered Pein. No- he knew this was coming.

His sole problem was that he knew his father would gather them all in his events. He would gain the votes of their mother, Deidara, and Nagato. Pein would have to pretend that he liked whatever plan their father lead.

But, he couldn't. His sole problem was that Minato and Kushina had discovered the power that Naruto had. Done research on it.

Pein's sole problem was that Minato's main way of getting back at the village for hurting his son was using his own son as a weapon of destruction.

And Pein couldn't, for the life of himself and Naruto, let that happen. He'd have to speak to the village elders.

Alright, people. That set the mark didn't it? It can only get worse from here. Things will get better soon, but Naruto's life will literally be on learned through pain.

First thing to clear up, Naruto was not raped. He was only molested by these men. I know it's sad, but I wanted to create a truer effect on the village's hate of Naruto. I think we all know what's coming. I'm going to be sad and I can't tell you yet. I'm not sure if it'll be next chapter or the chapter after next. Goodness, this is hard to decide. I'll have to figure this out. However, the next chapter will be up after reviews are posted.

Shout out to Yaoilover1013 for her awesome reviews. They're always well purposed.