Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto (forgot this last time)

Chapter 2

In the forest outside Konaha, young Naruto was hunting. Hiding in long grass, silently stalking his prey. Watching as the rabbit nibbled on some grass. Naruto prepared himself to pounce. In an instant Naruto disappeared from where he was hiding and reappeared with the rabbit in his grasp.

He did not have knives or any other hunting tool, so he had to rely on his hands and sometimes his teeth.

Naruto quickly snapped the rabbit's neck and ended its life. Naruto wasn't one to play with his food, he always tried to kill without causing the animals much pain. He knew what it was like to be toyed with and tortured and wouldn't wish that upon another soul.

Naruto carried the rabbit back into the village through a hidden hole in the eastern wall he had found. Being careful not to be seen, Naruto made his way back to the old abandoned paper store where he had lived for the past year.

The store was only small as it used to sell stationary items like pens, paper and ink before the Kyuubi had attacked. Naruto used some of the leftover ink and paper to practice Fuinjutsu whenever he didn't have his nose buried inside a book.

He started a fire in what used to be the storage room that now had a portion of the roof missing, which allowed the smoke to escape. Once the fire was strong enough, Naruto skinned the rabbit with his fingers and fingernails and held it over the fire with the help of a stick.

Watching as the flames flickered, he couldn't help but be reminded of the library he had lost two weeks prior.

Naruto loved to read books. When he was reading them, he didn't have to worry about any of his problems in the real world. That was why he loved the library. It was an escape from his painful life.

He loved all books and topics. He knew a lot of things about the world because of that library.

The only unfavourable thing was that the only books on the ninja arts were the Fuinjutsu and chakra books. Not that Naruto didn't like those books, in fact they were some of his favourites. It was just the problem that he would never be able to become a ninja.

He had seen the power ninja possessed and he figured he would be able to protect himself if he had that power.

But it seemed everyone was against him.

About three years prior Naruto had overheard a couple of middle-aged women talking about signing their children up for the Ninja Academy. Naruto followed them to a notice board where they took a piece of paper, which Naruto figured had something to do with joining the Academy.

He waited for the women to leave the area before approaching the board. Naruto took one of the papers the ladies had taken and quickly darted into an alleyway to make sure he wasn't seen by any of the villagers.

He looked at the paper only to see unfamiliar patterns of curves and lines. Although he didn't know what the patterns meant, they did look awfully similar to the patterns he'd seen above most stores.

It was a week later when by chance, Naruto had run into the library looking for a place to hide from a mob of villagers calling for his blood. He knew that they all thought he was the Kyuubi, but he didn't have a clue why they thought that. For one he wasn't a fox. Second, he had never hurt anyone in his life. And finally, he wasn't a god-damned hundred metre tall demon.

Though sometimes he wished he was, then no one would be able to hurt him. But he would never say that. If he did he would be asking for his own death and life was something he still wanted to keep.

After a while of waiting and no villager knocking down the door, Naruto looked around only to see thousands of dusty old books arranged on shelves. He walked through the aisles until he came across a section that had books with pictures on the front. He picked one up and opened it to the first page. At the top of the page was some of those symbols he had seen on the paper he needed for the, but it wasn't long like most he had seen. Underneath were pictures of a few different things like an ant, an apple, an acorn and a few others. Naruto instantly noticed the similarities between the pictures. "This symbol at the top must represent the sound 'a'."

It had taken Naruto a month to teach himself to read and write. Now that he could, he realised how precious the knowledge held within the books was. He began to read every day, starting with the easy reads and gradually moving on to the more difficult books.

The day came to find out if he was accepted into the academy. Naruto hid in the shadows waiting for everyone to move on from the notice board where the children accepted were listed. Watching as all of the children's faces lit up, which showed Naruto that just about everyone is accepted.

When everybody had left Naruto slowly and wearily made his way over to the list. Naruto scanned over the names looking for his. Not seeing it, he looked over the list more carefully. After not seeing his name amongst the others, Naruto felt heartbroken.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw the Yondaime leave the Hokage Tower. He had heard that this man was one of the nicest and most heroic people in Konaha. He never recalled a time where the Hokage had chased him down just to cause him pain like so many of the other ninjas and civilians in the village did. 'Maybe he would be nicer than anyone else he had ever met.' Naruto thought.

Naruto started to approach the Yondaime to ask why he wasn't allowed to enter the ninja academy.

"Um… excuse me, Hokage-sir." Naruto called coming up behind the leader of the village. The Yondaime turned around with an amused smile on his face. Naruto watched as that smile dropped the Hokage narrowed his eyes when he saw who was talking to him. Almost quicker than Naruto could see the Hokage created a swirling blue ball of chakra and rammed it into Naruto's stomach, sending him flying through a concrete wall, breaking the spine and several ribs of his young body. The last thing Naruto saw before blacking out was the tear drop from the man's eye as he turned and left.

Snapping out of his trance, Naruto realised he had burnt the rabbit. Sighing, Naruto bit into the meat ignoring how hard it now was to chew the meat.

Naruto knew it wasn't normal for people to treat him the way they did. When he was younger he thought everyone was treated that way. But after years of observation, he noticed he was the only one treated the way he was. He had seen people interact talking without raised voices and violence, sometimes they even made strange noises that sounded like a dogs bark except with a higher pitch. He could only link the action with a word he had read in his books; laugh, that mean to express happiness. Another word that alluded him.

Naruto could only remember two people whom had ever been nice to him, the old man and the girl that worked at the ramen stand. But they had died in their little restaurant when it had exploded into flames. Nobody had bothered to try and find out who was murderer as the all the villagers saw them as traitors for associating themselves with the proclaimed 'demon'. It seemed everything he cared for was cursed to burn in flames.

Shaking his head, Naruto decided he needed to clear his head. He left the little shop and climbed onto the roof and just sat there, staring into the starry night. He didn't think about anything and he let the cool evening breeze wash away his worries.

Naruto sat like that for hours until he felt something hard make contact with his back. He fell from the roof, feeling his left Tibia and Fibula snap as his leg bent outwards when he made contact with the ground. Through the pain, Naruto watched as a man who was obviously a ninja landed in front of him.

Naruto, Terrified and in agonizing pain, tried to scramble away from the man but with his leg in the condition it was he wasn't moving anywhere quickly. The ninja pulled out what looked like a pair of brass knuckles but with a knife attached to the side. The knives soon started to glow with a blue aura of chakra surrounding them. Still trying to move away from the man but was stopped when the man grabbed his good leg and stabbed it with his knife, then twisting is within the flesh before removing it.

Naruto couldn't help but scream as the chakra coated blades tore through his nerves and muscle like a chainsaw. His legs now both causing him excruciating pain.

Naruto started to lose focus on what was going on. The man moved up on Naruto's body, stabbing the left side of Naruto's stomach before dragging his knife across to the right. Cutting through the seal that appeared on his stomach when the chakra blades made contact with it.

Naruto was in unimaginable pain and when he felt darkness creep up on him, he eagerly allowed it to consume him to take away the pain, not noticing the now glowing seal on his chest. The ninja watched, panicked and frightened of what he might have just caused as the seal glowed an ominous red glow. The ninja fled hoping that what he had done hadn't caused the demon to be released from its mortal body.

Naruto's body quickly healed itself, but his amazing healing factor seemed to be slowing down. It took half an hour for his wounds to heal instead of the usual five minutes. But when the wound on his stomach finally healed it showed the seal glowing only faintly with a line going through the centre along the path the knife had taken when cutting through Naruto. Once the glow faded the seal hid itself within his skin once again.

I know I've managed to get this up quickly but don't expect me to do this all the time, I just haven't started uni yet and I have a lot of free time at the moment. Anyway I really need to know if I'm writing well or not, any review is appreciated. I know that my story doesn't match up with the summary at the moment but it will soon enough. I write it all out on paper before I type it as well so the story can be its best both grammatically and in the plot. If anyone has any questions (know that I am not going to give away any spoilers for this story) feel free to PM me.