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Hey all, hope you enjoy this chapter
Chapter's one and two were actually chapter one halved, so the chapters will be longer
Anyway to the people who asked about Naruto and Anko, I don't think Naruto deserves someone who likes to drink blood, his blood… ;)
I decided on a NaruHina pairing, but it's not going to be the normal, Boy recognizes girl or girl tells feelings, it's gonna be different
But love is far, far away for poor little Naruto
CHAPTER 3
Today was a good day for our blonde hero, so far he had only received glares. Yet, inside he was panicking. In two days was his birthday. Unlike other children's birthdays, filled with happiness and joy, his birthday was only sadness and pain. Where other children got presents and birthday cake, he got broken bones and bruises.
His answer to the problem was locking himself in his room all day, not even venturing outside to get food. It was even unsafe to go to the bathroom, and it involved him utilizing all his stealth ability.
Heading back to the orphanage after buying groceries with what little precious money he earned by physically hurting himself in public, he could care less about the ethics and more about the money. The crowd especially liked it when he bled.
So packing all the food he could eat in a day, he warned Nami to stay away from his room, she was confused as always, he never explained why to stay away. Shrugging he made a mental checklist to see if he had everything. He shivered when he remembered his 5th birthday, the crowd had caught him outside that day, and it was one of his worst memories. He remembered he had to spend a week at the hospital instead of his normal 2 or 3 days. Praying to whatever god listening that his next birthday would be a pain-less one, he fell asleep.
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2 days later Naruto was trying to avoid in and all contact with the villagers of Konoha. The caretaker of the orphanage had somehow fallen ill and required one of the children to go to the drugstore to pick up the medicine. For some reason the caretaker had picked him for the task, and when he tried to refuse, he had been slapped in the face and had his meal privileges taken away. Reluctantly he had left the orphanage without any money, the caretaker had told him he would have to buy it with his own money, as she was so incredibly poor. That was not the case at all, the woman received loads of money each week form the village's funds for taking care of the orphan population, but she used that money for herself.
Seeing the blonde departing, the caretaker got up from the bed and miraculously got better in seconds. Heading towards the nearest phone with a wicked grin on her face, it was time to alert the masses that the demon was on the loose and had threatened her. He had also rudely refused to help the poor old woman by going on a simple run to the store. Grinning she dialed the Inuzuka complex.
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Digging into his near empty pockets, he discovered he had enough for the medicine and had a little spending money. Remembering he had been unable to get Nami a gift for her birthday, he decided to stop at the flower store; it was on his way anyway. Walking up to the front door, he panicked when he heard the bell going off. In a few seconds a blonde girl walked up.
"Hello, and welcome to Konoha's finest flower shop, what would you like?"
Half expecting the nervous boy to say it was a dare or something he surprised her by asking if he could look around at the flowers, he wanted to buy one for his sister. Momentarily shocked that a member of the opposite sex had actually come in here willingly, she almost missed the faint voice the called out, "Ino, what's this kind of flower?"
Sighing she trudged over to her pink haired friend and spoke over her back, "Go ahead a look around I guess, come get me when you find something you like. Naruto nodded and looked around the store, staying away from the windows as much as possible. He kept giving occasional glances to the two friends, feeling the same pangs in his heart as always. Sighing he looked at some flower that appeared to have some unpronounceable name and decided to go over to the other blonde girl. As he approached he heard the pink haired one squeal and point to a flower.
"Ino Ino what kind of flower is that, it's so beautiful!"
"Geez Sakura, I would have thought that since you came in here so much you would know that one by now. It's a sun flower and they are really common around here so they are cheap. And I thought you were supposed to be the smart one…"
The girl named Sakura was silent for a moment before exploding, "INO-PIG I COULD CARE-LESS ABOUT YOUR STUPID FLOWERS, WHY WOULD I CARE ABOUT SOME STUPID FLOWER WHEN I CAN GO PICK THEM OUTSIDE FOR FREE."
Ino's eye twitched and she released an equally loud, "YOU DARE INSULT MY FAMILY BUSINESS? I OUTA KICK YOUR BUTT FOR THAT! FORE-HEAD GIRL!"
Naruto's gaze drifted over to Sakura and noticed that she did indeed posses a huge forehead. Taking all his self-control not to smile he continued to watch the conversation and then watched them exchange insult after insult. Eventually he grew bored and looked up at the flower, it was really cool, it looked like his hair, and it was one he could actually pronounce. Digging into his pocket he found more than enough cash to pay for the flower. Using his better judgment not to get involved in the argument he sat at the sidelines and watched. It was like a tennis match, one girl would fire off a vicious insult, and then the other would yell out one even more horrible. Suddenly the pink haired one crossed the line on the other one's patience when she called a ", STUPID DUMB BONDE, WHY DON'T YOU SHOVE ONE OF THE STUPID FLOWERS UP YOUR ASS!"
Remembering the boy, (who was currently chibified form the vicious insults) Turned an emotional 180.
"I'm sorry; I didn't mean you, I MEANT THE BITCH RIGHT NEXT TO ME!"
"WELL I THINK…"
This was when Naruto had had enough and coughed to get the girls' attention.
"Gomen, but I would like to buy one of your sunflowers please." Putting on one of his famous grins he handed her the coins. Ino blinked and looked at him, then swiped the money faster than he could blink. Turing her back and counting the coins she made sure he had enough, after, since she was working, she received all the money made on her shift, and a girl has to have lots of cash if she wants to look good. Turning back to Naruto she smiled and handed him a sunflower.
"Arigato for shopping at Yamanaka's flower shop, we hope to see you again."
Walking out of the Store he had barely taken two steps before he heard their 2 voices explode out of the store. Seconds later all the glass in the windows shattered, and he bolted out of there, the villagers would probably think he had done it.
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Back at the store, the two girls were deeply apologizing to a very mad Inoshi.
"Gomen gomen gomen gomen gomen…"
Inoshi signed and used the 1-10 trick to relieve him of his anger. Ino seeing her father had calmed down desperately tried to change the situation.
"Oh, guess what, we had a customer just come in."
"Really, what did she buy?"
"Oh it wasn't a woman, it was a blonde boy our age, and he bought a sunflower."
"Blonde boy…" wracking his mind trying to remember who could fit the description, he came only with one conclusion, there were only a handful of blondes in Konoha, and they all belonged to the Yamanaka family( except the Yondaime), it was something like a bloodline, each Yamanaka possessed blonde hair.
"Ano, can you describe the boy?"
"He had really blue eyes, he was kinda cute." Inoshi's eyebrow twitched. It seemed like every guy his daughter ran into was 'cute' or 'handsome' or 'hot'. He was relieved that his daughter wasn't like the obsessive Sakura, but if she was like that he would have to kill himself from shame.
"Can you describe anything else about the boy?"
Sakura spoke up, "He had some weird things on his cheeks, and they looked like whiskers or something.
Inoshi paled when the girls mentioned the marks. Ino, curious about why her father was acting strange asked, "Dad, what's so bad about that boy?"
Nearly exploding like his daughter had done a second ago, He used all his self control not to slap her, But he knew it wasn't her fault, she had no knowledge that there was a terrible demon running around loose.
"Because he a dem…. (Thinking hard Inoshi tried to come up with something equally as frightening)…serial killer. He visits flower shops and steals all their money and kills little girls for fun! Did he do anything strange to you?"
Ino thought back, the boy had looked over his shoulder at them, and stared. Terrified now of the 'Little girl killing monster who robs flower stores' the girls stared in the direction he left. Of course, neither suspected Inoshi of lying, why would he lie about something like that?
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Stopping he got up and got some water from a fountain then sat down on the bench and looked at the flower. He could imagine Nami's face when she saw it.
Fully rested, he jumped off the bench and went sprinting back to the orphanage. As he turned a corner he accidentally tackled someone to the ground. Terrified of the consequences, he hurriedly picked up the girl and asked if she was alright. When he saw her face he knew he was royally screwed. She was Hyuuga and she looked important looking, though all the Hyuuga looked important. Shutting his eyes he waited for her to kill him, but after a few seconds he opened one eye, she was just trying to get rid of the dust on her new kimono. Think of something to say so he get away, he was shocked when the girl spoke up, "A-a-no, its o-okay r-really, gomen for r-running into y-you."
Naruto blinked and gave her most his most intelligent answer, "huh?"
The Hyuuga bowed and looked at the ground. Thinking hard, he tried to remember what that strange guy had said.
Flash back
A young Naruto knocked on the Hokage's door. When it open he found he was not alone with the Hokage. In one of the corners was a man with extremely spiky white hair and a lot of scrolls on his back. Biting into an apple the strange man glanced at the boy then back to the Sandaime.
"So this is the kid? Hmm, looks just like a chibi version of Arashi…though I expected this; the guy was of course so egotistical that he would just HAVE to seal in someone who looked just like him."
Naruto was confused, he looked like someone, and they had done something to him?
Looking up from his apple the man asked him a question, "Hey kid, have you ever heard of Jiraiya?"
Moving his head in the negative, the man face fell. "SENSEI HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL HIM ABOUT ME?" The Hokage shrugged, "I guess the thought never crossed my mind…"
"Oji-san is this guy Tsunade and Orochimaru's teammate?"
"SENSEI! HOW COULD YOU? I'M GONNA KICK YOUR SCRWNY OLD ASS IF YOU DON'T TELL HIM HOW GREAT I AM!"
The other 2 people in the room sweat dropped. Sarutobi cleared his throat and looked over to Naruto, "This is my student Jiraiya, he is…very powerful... (Naruto thought how he must be if he was able to threaten the Hokage and get away with it) he likes to summon toads…and that's it really."
Ready to kill the Hokage he noticed the ANBU guards had started reaching for their swords. Deciding to forgive his sensei for the moment he turned his attention to the little boy.
"So kid, are you the same kind of playboy with the ladies that Arashi was?"
Naruto thought hard, what the hell was a 'playboy', suddenly he remembered, "Oh you mean those magazines I find in Oji-san's desk?"
Jiraiya grew his perverted grin, maybe now he could have his revenge.
"Sensei, I thought you swore to Tsunade that you would stay off the perverted stuff?"
The Hokage blushed, "Hypocrite, anyway don't we have anything else to talk about?"
"So anyway brat, how many girls have you picked up?"
Naruto thought, he was able to pick up Nami can carry her around, he was pretty fit for a 5-year old.
Naruto proudly boasted, "One so far" Jiraiya's eyebrows shot up, "How long have you been seeing her?" "For several years…" Geez, Sensei, this kid picked p a girl at 3 years old?" Jiraiya proudly stuck out his chest, "Still, that nothing, I picked up a girl when I was 2."
The Hokage sighed, "Of COURSE you did."
"Anyway brat, I'm gonna give you some advice on women, first of all, wait let me get out my diagrams…" The perverted man pulled out the many 3d models and posters all with pictures of the female body. The Hokage raced over and covered Naruto's eyes before he was able to see them. Blushing furiously and having a massive nose bleed the old man threw a paper weight that hit Jiraiya right in the face.
Rubbing his sore cheek, Jiraiya muttered, "My genius is wasted on this village, if I thought him this now, he would thank me for it in a few years." Tears formed in his eyes as he imagined a young Naruto having ladies on each arm, 'Thank you so much Jiraiya-sensei, without you I would have never been able to pick up women so easily, as thanks have this huge amount of cash, and these two girls" Then the girls would come over and 'thank him'.
As Jiraiya was daydreaming, the Hokage had used a katon jutsu (a bit reluctantly) to burn all of Jiraiya's posters and magazines. When Jiraiya came back to reality, he saw the face of a confused little boy and a VERY pissed of Hokage.
"Jiraiya, could you give him some advice acceptable for FIVE YEAR OLDS?"
Jiraiya rubbed the back of his neck, "Well kid, girls like... (receiving a preemptive glare from the old man, he shivered) flowers…yeah they like flowers!"
Naruto groaned, why would he care about girls? All they did was talk and talk and slap him and bitch about everything. Sighing he raced out of the Hokage's office.
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Now using this info to attempt to make fiends with the girl, against his better judgment, already knowing that this would result in pain, he put on his happiest and fakest grin and gave her the flower. "Hi my name is Naruto, would you…." "HINATA-SAMA!"
The girl turned around to see a branch member come running up to her and the kind boy. Panting the man was shocked when he saw who Hinata was with, grabbing her arm and backing up slowly he backed up right into the most arrogant person in Konoha, Hyuuga Hiashi.
"What is going on here?" Stuttering the poor branch member failed to answer.
"Pathetic fool, I can't trust my daughter's life to you. Hn, incompetence"
Making the seal to activate the mark on the poor mans forehead, the branch member fell down to the ground screaming. Both children were in shock. Naruto was speechless; Hinata rushed up to her father and begged him to stop. Hiashi turned around to her and backhanded her, sending her a few inches in the air and falling a few feet away.
"Pathetic excuse for a daughter, why must you be so weak, do you not realize that flower could have had poison in it, that he could have killed you easily? You are useless to the Hyuuga clan, I don't know why I let you live."
Growling, Naruto had had enough of the Head Hyuuga. Looking at the body of the dead branch member, he snarled and leapt at him. Smirking, Hiashi caught him by the hair in midair and palmed him in the stomach, sending him flying into a wall. Hiashi knew the dire consequences of killing the boy, your entire clan was executed, and their style of killing was too obvious. The last thing Naruto saw was him crushing the flower and Hinata crying, then he fell unconscious.
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Waking up several hours later, Naruto found himself slouched against a wall, a large dent right above him. Checking his pockets to make sure he still had the medicine, he slowly got up. He had a huge stomach ache, but he knew he had to make it back before the actual festival started.
Trudging along he managed to make it halfway there, before he found himself in front of a mod of angry citizens and ninjas. Just as they noticed him, he was gone. And the chase began. Dodging shuriken and kunai falling like rain, he weaved though alleyways and across bridges.
Eventually he lost them, but there were still guards posted around the main entrance to the orphanage. But Naruto had a plan; he would go past the Inuzuka complex and go though the back door to the orphanage. Only he and Nami knew about it, so he should be safe. Though it would be best if he stayed in the basement tonight, going to his room was suicide. So he raced down a few more alleys and made it in front of the massive dog-house-shaped buildings.
Sometimes he would pass by over here, just to look at all the cute puppies. He often imagined Oji-san getting him is own puppy, then he wouldn't be so alone, sure he had Nami, but she wasn't always around. Sighing he continued his way down the street.
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Naruto was so busy thinking he hadn't noticed a boy his age looking out at him though a window. Said boy was currently running down the stair to the kitchen, where his mother was making steaks. "Kaa-san, Kaa-san, that puppy killer just walked in front of our house! He must be trying to kill some of the newborns just like you said."
Tsume looked down at he son and smiled, "Good job Kiba, have a treat."
Handing him a dog biscuit she put two fingers in her mouth and whistled. Immediately all Inuzuka clan members and their dog partners appeared, Tsume grinned and licked her tongue across her large canines.
"Well everyone, it looks like we get to go on a fox hunt."
Cheers resonated around the room along with howls and happy barks.
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Naruto was power walking, he was so close to safety. All he had to do was turn this corner and…
That's when he saw them, loads of dogs and clan members; they had blocked off all the ally ways and had surrounded him. Terrified he tried to back up against a wall, only to have 3 dogs run at him. Ripping flesh away form his bones, they began to tear him apart. Then all the other dogs and their companions ran in and mobbed him. Tearing his clothing and giving him huge lacerations with their sharp teeth.
A small white dog was the last to jump him. It gripped onto his face and started ripping at his ears and nose. Screaming in pain the local ANBU stopped over and watched. The Inuzukas stopped; terrified that he might inform the Hokage. However the elite Nin just shrugged a said, "I didn't see anything" The leapt away.
Tsume had a feral gin on her face and gave the signal to continue to kill the boy.
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The Hokage watched all this through his crystal ball and made a note to himself to strip the ANBU's rank. Sighing with tears in his eyes he called for a squad to come with him. He just could not understand why the villagers refused to listen to reason…
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As the Inuzukas continued to kill the poor boy, several dogs stood on their haunches and began warning the humans that the Hokage was coming. Tsume gave the order to retreat, but not before letting Kiba have his fun. Kiba called Akamaru over and prepared his new jutsu he created.
"TAKE THIS GATSUGA!"
Kiba's and Akamaru's attack hit Naruto full force and sent him flying into the air, landing with a sickening squish, probably because of all the blood he was losing. A pained Naruto saw was Tsume rubbing her hand through Kiba's hair, telling him how proud of him she was. Then Kiba noticed he was still awake, and sent Akamaru to finish the job, shortly after he fell into the mercy that was unconsciousness.
Just then the Hokage arrived. Along with the ANBU, all the Inuzukas were arrested. But since they could put an entire clan to death, they gave them a harsh increase on taxes. The Hokage was disappointed with the punishment, but he stayed silent as the council gave out the sentence. In reality the tax increase was never put into effect, the tax collector kept 'forgetting' to ask for more, or they refused to take money from, 'the best heroes in Konoha!'
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After regaining consciousness, Naruto found himself at the bottom of a ditch somewhere. In all the confusion of the arrest, someone must have thrown his body down, effectively hiding it and destroying whatever evidence the Hokage hoped to get.
Sitting up, a bit painfully, he looked over himself. He felt his stomach feel uneasy when he looked at his arms and legs. He had hundreds of cuts, and in some places you could see his bones. Teeth marks covered his body and he was losing blood very rapidly. He tore off some of his already torn up clothes and used the pieces to stop the bleeding for the moment. Checking his pockets, he made sure he still had the medicine. Happy that he still had it, he limped home.
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Finally making it to the orphanage (trying to be a sneaky as possible, but that's hard when you leave a huge blood trail) he walked (if you can call it that) up to the caretaker's room. When he opened the door he found the care taker fake-coughing on the bed, totally missing the sly smile on her face. She weakly reached her head for the bottle, but when she read the label she slapped him hard. Standing up she grabbed his collar and shoved the label in his face, "Cant you read? You bought me poison, are you trying to kill me demon?"
Shocked, Naruto did a double take on the label, it was indeed rat poison, but he was sure he had bought the right kind. He probably still had the receipt, but when he checked he found it was gone. Expecting even more pain, he shut his eyes as the caretakers hand keep slapping him and kicking him when he was on the ground.
When he finally made it to his room, though it was will alone that was keeping him alive, as he locked his door, he pulled one of the tops off one of the boxes under his bed. Inside was his homemade medical kit. It consisted of a small needle and lots of string, alcohol, which he had stolen from the Hokage's desk, and duck tape and planks of wood. There were also rips of his old shirts that he used for bandages. Gripping the needle and the string he strung it and proceeded to give himself stitches. Using an old candle he had found in a trashcan for a mouth brace he worked himself well into the night.
When he was finally done he went to his bed to pray.
"Dear Kami, please watch over Nami and Oji-san and Me. Thank you so much for letting me live another day, getting to meet those nice girls at the flower store, and for being bale to help fix myself up. Please let the red light watch over me, thank you so much, amen."
With that he crawled on his bed and went to sleep.
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Dreaming, he remembered the first day he had felt the red light. He had been beaten very badly, near death even. Suddenly he had woken up in the night and found that his blood felt like it was on fire, but somehow, it made him feel better.
Then red light shot of all his cuts and bruises, causing a fog like aura surrounding him. All his cuts and bruises disappeared and his bones snapped back into place and mended themselves. After he felt a hundred percent better, the fog seeped back into a small cut on the back of his hand, then it closed up.
When he had asked the old man, the Hokage took it rather well, except for the part about him threatening Naruto that he would send him to Ibiki if he didn't tell him everything. The Hokage had grilled him for details and when it was all over Naruto had innocently asked what the red light was, he said it was Kami looking over him.
Ever since his first encounter with the red light, strange things had started to happen. Like sometimes, when he was getting beat up, he sometimes heard something that sounded like laughing.
But the problem was there was no visible person around laughing. Sometimes he would hear a voice saying curses to humans and saying how he would kill everyone. Naruto often couldn't fall asleep, afraid that some killer was going to murder him in his sleep.
When he was miserable the voice would make it worse, it would make fu of him, calling him weak for crying and not sticking up for himself. The voice never said who it was or where it came from, but it scared him at night, and sometimes he had nightmares involving a huge fox.
When he asked the Hokage about this, the old man replied that he had a mental condition called schizophrenia, where he would hear and see hallucinations and delusions. Confident with the answer he had left, but with that came the Hokage's normal routine of taking lots of Anti-depressants and staring at the Yondaime's portrait.
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Well tonight he was 6 years old and his birthday was over. Tomorrow he would see the Hokage about his annual brithday present, and in a few months, he would start the academy! Switching his dream to one of Ramen and friends he had a good nights sleep
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Hey all, hope you enjoyed it. Please leave any comments
Oh and I'm looking for a few good OC names, if you have got any please tell me thanks!