It was amazing how fast things could change for the better or worse. Everything would be one way then within seconds everything you'd become used to was being ripped out from under you and you had to find your footing somewhere completely different in a situation you never thought you would be in. Well that's how it was for me anyway.
Im Naruto Uzumaki. Im 16 and from a family I wouldn't exactly call loving. You see the day I was born was the day my father died. He was a cop. He'd been on his way to work when he got a call from my mother saying she was in labour and on her way to the hospital. He told her he would be there soon but never arrived. He'd been so excited about my birth he wasn't watching the road properly and veered off the road into a bush. My mother blamed me for his death. As soon as I was born she gave me to her sister to raise but the day I turned 6 my aunty was hit by a bus. My mother said I was bad luck. She started drinking and doing drugs. By the time my 7th birthday came around she was a complete drug addict and an alcoholic. She was also a whore. Probably seems horrible, me calling my own mother that but it's true. She had sex with any man for any reason.
Life was crap but I could deal with it. Well I could until I turned 15. That was when things took a turn for the worst. Her "customers", as she liked to call them, suddenly found me a menace to have around. Some "sexually abused" me while others beat the shit out of me. My mother never tried to stop them, she was too drug fucked to even realise who I was. That was when child services finally came around. They decided mother dearest was an unfit parent and sent me to the Konoha orphanage. I've been here for just over 8 months. Tomorrows my 16th birthday, not that it matters. Nothing good will come out of it.
With a sigh and a few tears I turn in for the night hoping without actual hope that tomorrow things might turn out ok.
