From April to June

Chapter 2

When he was only three, he had lived in an orphanage. The only impression he could ever recall of that place was the heavy stench of the matron's perfume. It had been three years later when the Third Hokage had taken him from the orphanage and placed him in a small apartment near the edge of Konoha. It was never explained to him why that happened.

The first night he had spent in his new home he had cried himself to sleep. Without the presence of the other children around him, the night's shadows and sounds had been frightening. When old man Hokage had returned the next day, he had found him sleeping within a kitchen cupboard. Every night afterwards the Hokage would come and keep him company until he fell asleep.

Eventually, old man Hokage stopped coming and he stopped feeling scared. He learned to live alone so it wouldn't bother him as much anymore.