Where it All Began...

2 weeks before the 'accident'

"Hey, Sasuke look at this!" said an excited Naruto as he was pointing at an ant hill, "There so many of them, doesn't it look awesome."

"Hm… a little but dope there just ants there isn't nothing special about them/" said a stoic eight-year old Sasuke.

"Nothing special? Look at them there all working together to save up food as if there all family." explained Naruto.

"There together now but see what happens when they get stomped on, you'll see that its every ant for himself." scolded the raven-haired boy.

"Okay, what did mom and dad tell you about talking like that?" his brother said.

"There not my real parents, my real parents died a long time ago." mumbled Sasuke's reply. Naruto looked at his adopted brother with sorrow. Sasuke was barely one year old when his entire family was massacred by an unknown individual and forgot to kill Sasuke because he was asleep and was only about 2 months old. The truth was revealed to him during the adoption process when he was around 5 years old when he asked won why he was getting new parents. He wasn't the same after that, though Naruto and his parents have "melted" the ice in his heart a little but not enough for him to socialize like a normal child.

Naruto was just confused, not for the behavior of his 'older brother' Sasuke but as to why his parents decided to adopt him in his first place. He remembered when he asked his other.

"Well, sweetie we wanted you to have a brother by your side and as it turns out Sasuke was born on July 23 so we thought that he was a great choice to be your sibling. Despite what his predicament is…" He didn't hear the rest, as he learned that his parents felt pity and the need to help the little 2 month old that was left with no family when he lost everything on the September Massacre of the Uchihas, or so what the news have named it after the killing spree news broke out to the public.

Naruto shook his head and gave Sasuke a puzzled look and told him

"I know that there not your real parents but they raised you just like they raised me."

"But the difference being that you're their real biological son, Naruto Uzamaki-Namikaze. While my biological parents are gone and my real name isn't Sasuke Uzumaki-Namikaze, its Sasuke Uchiha."

"Whatever, lets go before mom gets worried. C'mon" concluded the blonde boy as he was leading the way home, never did he look back to notice Sasuke looking at an unknown shadow in front of him.

The Night of the Fire - 2:55 a.m.

"You know that the Uchihas are known for having a curse right?" said an agent in the adoption office.

"Yes, we are aware of that nonsense and I believe that its against your policy to talk something like that when in a adoption process, sort of you acting biased towards the innocent little boy. So, if I were you sir, I would ignore that little story that tells of the Uchiha "curse"." stated Minato Namikaze, he looked to his wife and their 8 year old son, Naruto.

"Mommy, daddy I thought Sasuke was already my brother and that he's adopted as you guys said so why are we here." asked the little blonde boy. His red-head mother, Kushina kneeled to her son's level and replied:

"Well, son we needed to do some finishing touches to the adoption papers, it takes a very long time to make Sasuke our son."

"Oh, ok, but mommy what was the man talking about an Uchiha curse?" Naruto asked innocently. His parents sighed and then his father decided to answer his question.

"Well, son its hard to say but its fake, you know the condition you have?" The boy nodded in reply to his father:

"Yes, dad, I have HSAN meaning I'm not allowed to play sports but what does the curse have anything to do with that?"

"Well, sweetie that little condition of yours was supposedly caused due to the curse." answer his frantic mother.

'Ugh…Kushina we already talked about this, I only asked Naruto so that he knows darn well that he was born with the condition to feel no pain, not some curse that people made up." Minato said as he walked towards his wife and kid.

"But…Minato think about it, this curse cause our boy to have this disease it just wasn't a coincidence, the kamis know that were trying to help the last remaining Uchiha and sending us a message to not do it. I love you, Minato but I think adopted this child could be a mistake." yelled Kushina as she hyperventilating and shivering.

"Kushina! Hear yourself, your making a judgment about an innocent and lonely child with some curse. I swear ever since the massacre everybody started to thinking that the family is and was cursed so, stop your darn crazy rant we're in front of Naruto." scolded the older blonde male to his wife. Naruto didn't know how to react, he wanted to comfort his mother for she was still shaking but didn't want to make his dad more upset. So, he decided to walk slowly towards his mother but he was stopped by a hand in his shoulder , he turned around and saw his 'brother' in front of him. He looked around and saw his dad comforting his mother but he looked closer at his parents and heard that his mom was chanting something:

"We're going to die, we won't live long Minato and Naruto will live on his own, why? Because of Sasuke Uchiha." This got the blonde eight-year old confused and asked:

"Mom what are you talking about—" he interrupted by some coughs giving by Sasuke and turned around and faced the dark haired boy,

"Your parents should have known better than to adopt me, now your all going to suffer." he said and all of sudden bursts of flames engulfed the adoption office and his parents were screaming and yelling at Naruto to go and escape before they were silenced. Little Naruto was terrified and was frozen in place but as soon as he realized that he should run and try to rescue his parents, he was stopped by Sasuke which he had a piece of paper in hand that was written and said:

'Wake up, before its too late.'

Naruto was startled but then he smelled smoked and realized that this wasn't just a dream but its happening for reals. He woke up in an instant from the nightmare and saw the black smoke entering his room, he knelt down to the ground in an instant and opened the door to his room. He didn't care what was going on with him, all he cared about is to sprint to his parents room and wake them up,

"Mom! Dad! The house is on fire (cough), we need to get out of here…now!" he shouted but then he noticed the direction of his parents room was surrounded by fire and the flames looked like they were coming from the inside. The little blonde-boy couldn't believe the scene he was looking at and he didn't feel the flames slowly engulfing him from the leg because of his condition

'Oh no! Mom and dad are dead there's no way they could escape…why?' he thought but then he thought that maybe they were already outside waiting for him, it can't be that late and maybe they were awake so he ran downstairs and spotted a clock that read: 3:03 am, his eyes widen and realized that they were still in the room. The smoke from the fire were making him dizzy and the flames were slowly climbing themselves up his body and fell just a few inches from the door but before he lost consciousness, the last thing he saw was his front door opened…

3:35 am:

"C'mon hurry up men, we need to see if there is any survivors in this house!" shouted the Chief of Police, Ibiki. All the officers and some EMT's scattered around the ashes and debris of the building. An EMT by the name of Shikaku Nara, spotted a body of a child. He quickly came to rescue him and notice there was no pulse so he started immediate CPR on the child. Shikaku saw the child covered in burns and his skin was almost the color of pure charcoal. He performed CPR for about ten minutes and nothing, his partner Inoichi Yamanaka came up beside him and said:

"Give it up, Shikaku, the child is dead, there's no way he could have survived the fire, cover him up and we'll pick him up when were done with the search." Shikaku was sad but he had no choice so he covered him up and stood up and walked towards his partner,

"I wish the child had a seconds chance, it looked young to die such a horrific death and…" he stopped as soon as he saw Inoichi, his partner stare at something behind him, "Inoichi, what are staring at? What's wrong?" Inoichi shook his head to indicate Shikaku to look behind in which he did and the scene before him, he couldn't believe it. In front of him there was the child that was pronounced dead not to long ago sitting up and looking straight at him.

"But how? He had no pulse and wasn't responding." he whispered.

The Nara was looking at two different colored eyes at the moment, one blue and one crimson red. He was staring at a child risen from the dead.

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