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I don own naruto. This is a work of my over active imagination and inspiration from various novel.

"speech"

'Thought'

Dream are able use to interpret the future but often they show the past, the deepest memory, the good and the bad. The past is create the present, the future is built upon the foundation of the present.

On this night, naruto dream of the past that created the 'him' of today.

Time: Seven year ago

Location: preta outpost (Explanation at the bottom)

A young boy sits on the front of a door. His head turn looking at his surrounding desperately searching for something. He bit him lip so hard that if he apply any more force, blood will be spill.

That is the sight that greeted sora aoi when she opens her door on that morning.

"Little boy, are you lost?" she say gently.

The boy turns his head toward sora aoi. A lady is squatting beside him with her chin resting on her palm. She has pair of gentle eyes that do not belong to this cruel world. Her skin is pale like many who are unable to get enough food but that pale skin only enhance her beauty that contrast with black hair that reach to her back.

With the simple white dress and the glow of the sun. She looks a saint that should not be defile at all.

The boy shakes his head and say. "I have a name. It is Uzumaki naruto."

Aoi giggle as she pat naruto on the head. "Then will you tell me why you are here?"

"I am waiting for my mother." With that say, naruto eyes widen as he quickly turn his attention toward to streets.

"Ohh." Hearing the answer, Aoi stand up and walk off. After all, the boy seems harmless and she does need to get to work soon.

In glittering starlight and the soft moon shine. Aoi hum a small tune as she makes her way back home for a hard day work at the clinic. She is surprise to see naruto still outside her door.

"Your mother had not come for you?" she asked naruto who shake his head.

A soft growling sound out from naruto who face flushed as he turns his head away from Aoi.

Aoi tapped her finger on her cheek as she make a decision that change the life of two young children,

"Why don't you come in while I make some dinner for you?"

Naruto shook his head as he say in a firm voice.

"My mother told me a person must live with pride never take anything that they never work for."

Aoi look at him with disbelief as since the day of lunar cry. Moral and principle are simply word that no one practices. Yet here on her doorstep is one who still have some decency, she forget to place her within the same category of naruto.

She rolls her eyes as she think of a way for him to accept her help. She snaps her finger as she thought of a perfect excuse.

"You did help me after all you have been guarding my estate and protecting my daughter for the whole day." She smiles as she explains to naruto.

It is a very flimsy lie but to naruto who is a kid and hungry. It is a reason that he can accept. With that, he follows her into the house.

The sound of running footstep and a sharp exhale is first heard as naruto follow her in. The cause is currently in the arms of Aoi who smile sweetly as she run her finger through the hair of the child in her arms.

"Yaoyi. I want you to meet a big brother." The girl raises her head to look at the 'big brother.'

"I am Sora yaoyi and I am five year old." She says with pride as she raises six fingers.

"I am Uzumaki naruto."Was all the reply yaoyi receive?

Naruto's mother never came back for him. Each day, he waited outside the door aoi's house. Aoi offer him a room and food which naruto insist to be pay by taking care of yaoyi and helping in the household chore. He also practices various training exercise his mother taught him the yard of aoi's house. He thought that no one know but the fact is both Aoi and yaoyi know about it. They are just unwilling to invade his privacy.

Three year later.

Naruto is standing by the sink clearing up after breakfast when yaoyi walk over to him with a frown on her face.

"Big brother, what is happiness?" she asks suddenly. "Why do all fairy tale ends with they live in happiness?" (Author note: I am taking happily ever after as happiness)

Naruto shook as he has not thought of this question since he was abandon by his mother. He looks at yaoyi as he think about the question.

Seeing that naruto is staring into thin air, yaoyi raise her little fist and hammer his chest.

"Big brother!"

Naruto wheeze before answering her question.

"I am sure for other people but for me happiness is being with you and …mother." He says in a firm voice. Aoi had told naruto that she wanted to adopt him but he have always decline. Yet, the question yaoyi stir his heartstring letting him know what is important to him.

The sound of a breaking bowl is heard from behind him, naruto turn to see Aoi with her hand over her mouth and tears streaming from her eyes.

She walks over and hugs the naruto and yaoyi.

"You are my precious children." She says softly.

But the one thing about happiness is that it is fleeting and often for by tribulation that will burn into the mind.

A siren scream as the explosion sounded out, Aoi eyes widen in shock as the siren is an evacuation signal when raiders or lunar beast attack the outpost.

Yaoyi's father was killed during one of this raids but the family of yaoyi's father refuse to acknowledge her. Therefore, she follows the surname of Sora Aoi.

Aoi quickly carry yaoyi and grab naruto to get out of the house. Naruto slip out her grip and run toward one of the drawer pulling out several knife.

"We need some weapon to protect ourselves." Naruto say as he pour all the forks and knifes in a bag which he sling over his back and pass Aoi a boning knife. As for yaoyi …. A fork.

Aoi hold the knife with sweating palm, although she feels safer with the knife but she knows it make a very small difference if they do meet u with a lunar beast.

With the weapon in their hands, they left the house making their way toward the shelter. The streets were full of people rushing toward the shelter. It is a time where the saying every man for himself come to fulfillment.

Chaos is in the air as howling of the lunar beasts sounded from back of the crowds. The screams of the unfortunate caught by the beasts send shiver down the one who are in the front, they pick up speed ignore the elderly and the children.

In the end, it hard to say if the beasts kill more than humans themselves.

Naruto, however chose a direct approach, he would us the knife in his hand to cut those that attempt to run them over. In the chaos, aoi never notice but yaoyi did and she is grateful as she saw an elderly neighbours of their being push down and those behind the elderly just ran over.

When they reach the shelter , they found only a bloody sea of corpse.

Explanation.

There is a total of five outpost in the country of Asura with capital name asura. The one with all the technology and political power is located in the capital Asura. The five outpost are Deva, preta, Human, Beast and Naraka

Deva outpost is the place where those with riches gather and live a life of decay. They are not well receive but with finical power in their hands few can oppose them.

Preta outpost is consider the slum where thugs and ruffians gather. Weaker than the asura troop but stronger than the average person.

Human outpost is the training camp. The common folk know that it exist but it location is classified.

Beast outpost is a slaughter house of lunar beast to produce food for the entire country as well as training of tame lunar beast.

Naraka outpost is a mining camp of mineral that were fallen along with the lunar beast during lunar cry. The use of the mineral cover both military and cilvian aspect.

As such Beast and Naraka are often attack by small faction either for resource or land.

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