CH 2: Facing the past, Living for the Future.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the Plots similar to the one your about to read all original. This is a Dreamer Fanfic brought to you by Azndreamer45 from the minds of a lazy person with alot to think about.

In the voids of darkness, a despair of broken feelings start to rise as the depressed blond flows within the river of sadness and sorrow. A young blond lays there in eternal darkness, waiting to be awakened by someone that can actually save him from leaving an unmarked legacy of hope to the village nor a will.

"Where am I, am I really dead or is it something else." He said.

"You're not dead, not just yet, you need to know something about how life is." Naruto looked around to see a younger version of him, close to the age of six.

"Who are you and why are you here?" he asked.

"I'm you, isn't obvious only a tad young if you look at it right." The six year old blond went over to his older version and looked at him in the eye. Naruto couldn't believe that his younger self was looking at him face to face, yet at the same time curious as to why he's even here in the first place.

"Where are we at anyway, wasn't I suppose to die and go straight to the other side?" he asked.

"No I believe it's not your time to die, but it amazes me that someone so pathetic would take the coward's way out." He replied angrily.

"What do you mean; People hated me in the first place! They wouldn't know what it feels like to be hated, abused, and feared by someone who looks like that pathetic monster." Naruto got up to face his younger self; instead he got shoved in the gut by his younger self, got his arm and started to drag him somewhere in this world of darkness.

"Ughhhh……where are you taking me…" he groggily said.

"You tell me that you're abused and feared by many people to me? Do I look like an imbecile to you, I'm your younger version and I knew what's like and you know because we are one of the same in this darkness. Now come let me show you this."

The six year old Naruto took him to a door with the name: The Trials. As the doors open both Narutos went in only to find a beaten down blond near the alleyway as two men, who were shinobi took turns kicking him, grabbing his throat and beating his face senselessly.

"Die you Kyuubi bastard!"

"You don't deserve to live after loosing our men and beloved leader at the same!" one yelled, as he launched another blow to his ribs causing him scream in agonizing pain.

Naruto remembered that day that almost lost hope in living his terrible and lonely childhood life. He couldn't stand the pain of looking at his own past, yet he knew at the time that it was his toughest challenge.

"It hurts to remember it stop please, I can't take it anymore!" Naruto dropped to his knees, shaking as the thought that the past could be forgotten and live for the future. Yet now that his past was catching up to him, he couldn't do a thing but watch in agonizing horror of watching something so bad happen to him at that age.

"Hey snap out of it, if you keep on watching there's someone that saved you from your death and allowed you to live on up till your suicide." As Naruto watched he saw a familiar shinobi with white hair, a cloak, and a Hawk Mask. It appears that he was a member of the ANBU squad and had to break up the fight and abuse inflicted on the poor blond.

"What are you two doing, aren't you two suppose to be on duty" he asked.

"Sir we caught the Kyuubi boy trying to steal food from the store so we decided to hunt him down and beat him till he tells us where he hid the food." He said.

"Yeah that boy has no right to be even here at night…" just as he was about to say the next word, the two were knocked out by the silver haired ANBU. As he walks right in front of the blond with barely enough strength, he was about to move away from him with his last words that have made himself cower in fear.

"Please………..don't kill…….me…" the six year old Naruto lost consciousness and was completely beaten to a pulp. The masked ANBU however was met by his fellow members, who looked at the boy shockingly.

"Kakashi is this….."

"Yes this is the young boy, take him to the hospital before he dies while I got report this to Hokage-sama."

The ANBU Members nodded and took the boy to the hospital while the man, who was Kakashi reported to the hokage for any reports. With that final scene, the area around them went blank and the only people there was Naruto and his younger self.

"You see, that was the time that you thought we were going to die. Since that incident you became afraid of everyone around you, until someone acknowledged your existence and wanted to help you."

"Who are you exactly talking about?"

"Your Former Sensei from the Academy: Iruka." Said the six year old naruto, who finally got his older self to remember the person who shared his pain and found the truth on why the people hated him so much.

The surroundings of the black Void came to a set up of the Ichiraku Ramen Stand, where Naruto was eating his fourth bowl of Ramen.

"Hey Naruto calm down, I don't wanna pay more than one bowl!" Iruka yelled, as both shinobis continued their bowl of ramen.

"Awe come on Iruka-Sensei, you promised me that you'd treat me to a lot of ramen after I graduated from the Acadamy. Hey old man, another bowl but this time I want mine with extra meat." Naruto happily said, Iruka knew that his wallet was about to run dry on him but he didn't care. As long as he's there to support him then that's all he cared for, two people who both shared the same pain of being alone bonded together as one.

"Heheheheheheh…. Naruto you amaze me a lot but as long as you don't feel alone or sad then I'm a lot happy." Iruka whispered. Watching a touching and happy scene reminded the older Naruto the good part of life, yet the only person who acknowledged his existence was the reason he kept on going.

The hyperactive blond, who knew, shed tears of happiness knowing that there was someone there to show his sadness to him. As the surroundings became void black again, the young Naruto looked to him with a sad/happy expression on his face.

"You see you don't have to give in to the darkness that is within the village, you have to acknowledge the fact that there will always be people there to show you how much love and attention you need. I believe in you and we know that someone who looks away without facing reality is stupid, right?" Naruto looked at his older self and saw a look of determination rising above from his face. The same person who learned from the best, the same person who was able to use Ero-sennin's technique, Rasengan.

"…………You're right I can do it, but I got too hooked into depression that I started taking a liking to singing depressed songs about my self." He said.

"So, you can still sing, you have a voice that can allow you to spread the message and know the real truth through your gifted voice. Get people to know how determined you are, realized now that you're never alone, in spirit and real life. Now come on, sing me a line or two that you have thought of up till now.

The older Naruto nodded, cleared his voice and began singing a more in the sky and positive one.

I may have been all alone, but that never really tried to consume my heart………

There's so much grief to be done, to show the world my life is full of pride.

Yet, I was alone on this life of forsaken grief, that all I ever done is to show my weakness now……..

I may have been all alone, but the fire has kept me going beyond the life…….

There's so much life has to of-fer anything with comforted companionship inside……..

The young blond smiled as Naruto looked at his younger self and went up to him and shook his hand, as his younger self disappeared. Naruto again, is sucked away into another void instead of darkness.

It was the hope of light………

In the hospital………………….

"This is my entire fault; I should've told him something besides breaking his heart." Sakura looked at the unconscious Naruto as he was sleeping peacefully. The pink haired Kunoichi felt pity that her teammate resorted to suicide, she was even more frighten when Tsunade found out the reason for his attempted death and blamed it solely on her own apprentice. She was glad that Tsunade didn't kill instantly after throwing her to the wall causing her to cough up blood.after Sakura got up and left to go give the ok to let the rest of his friends in to visit the blond.

As Sakura walked to the lobby she saw Sasuke, Gai, Lee, Kurenai, Ino, Kakashi, Anko, Hinata, Neji, and Tenten. She received angry and hated glares from the three Kunoichi who seem to think it was her fault for the blond's attempted Suicide. Lee and Neji shot glares of death to the Uchiha as Kakashi and Gai had to monitor them closely before hell breaks in the lounge.

"Well I checked up on Naruto, his condition is serious and he hasn't been awake for eight hours.In fact he would've died if he had struck himself in the heart. In my case I'll give the ok to see him ok." Neither of the group talked, instead they got up and went on their way to see if their blond was ok. Out of the many people she knew who cared for him, she figured that Hinata, Ino and Kurenai show more interest for the blond's health than anything else.

As the group walked straight toward Naruto's room, they began to hear a nice heavenly song coming from the blond's room.

"Is it just me or do you guys hear that lovely song singing somewhere in this hallway." Ino asked, the group began to draw up a conclusion that someone was singing to Naruto without even asking for permission. This got the group to rush to his room for his safety, as a surprise though when they opened the door they find something surprising.

Earlier in the hospital………

Naruto awakens to find something soft, sheets and his a bandage patched up near his heart. He looked around to find that no one was there by his side as awoke, even though it hurted him to remember what happen earlier he will never give in to the village's mistreatment of containing the Kyuubi inside him.

He looked out the window to find that the sunset was setting and the wind blew breezily, it felt so good that the blond opened the window a little more to feel that kind of breeze.

"Even though no one cares I'll still sing for that moment of my life. I don't care what they say no one will take away that gift that I was granted."

The blond cleared his voice and started to sing…..

There was a time were life, was thrown on the ground

Staring at the sight of freedom, even though my life

Was a tragic cause there were people who inspired me to become a hero……

There is hope to be known throughout the world of time…

I realized that and I will travel far in the sky……

Being left in the darkness has brought upon pain, pain that was set upon an innocent one..

Struggling to live till the end…. There was nothing left for me to show how much I cared.

There is hope to known throughout the time of peace…

Showing up to live for those I loved is nothing to be afraid and there's nothing left that will bring me down..

Without a doubt that I will struggle to fight till I die….

Even though I'm alone, there in no place to go,

I will walk on life to the end………

And I will walk on life to the end of this painful life……..

Naruto caught a breather for a second and looked at the beautiful sunset, marveled by this beauty.

"It doesn't matter if I'm all alone, as long as I can succeed and fulfill my dreams and promises I won't back down not ever."

"Your wrong Naruto-kun, there will always be people by your side to support you till the end." Naruto looked to see Sakura, Kurenai, Ino, and Hinata all rushing to him and embracing him with love and comfort. Naruto however, shedded tears of happiness as he closed his eyes to feel the love that was never with him since the day he was born.

"Naruto-Kun... I'm sorry."

Author's note: Hello there, another chapter end with something still good, Now I plan to go along with the pairings for the next chapter depending on the outcome of this. Yet, the Lyrics though really are something. from the chapters here on it will be a romantic/Angst chapter. I won't do any bashing because it's wrong for me to do it without a reason for this to happen. I think I copied someone's scene on the story similar to the Kakashi incident, so if any finds that it was your work or looks similar I'm sorry. Still the story will be Angst as conflict will happen among Naruto himself and his past and his feelings for his friends.

I'll update soon around Saturday or Sunday ok.