~Five: Evil~

Five years of hatred. That was all Uzumaki Naruto knew. He had been hated for as long as he could remember – which was his whole life, all five years of it. And now, as he carried his bag of ridiculously over-priced groceries down the road to his small apartment, he was close to tears once more.

The shopkeeper had called him evil.

Now, Uzumaki Naruto had been called many things, including evil, but to hear the venom – worse than ever before – in the woman's tone had taken him aback. What had he done to deserve this? He never did anything wrong – on the contrary, he kept out of the way and avoided doing anything that would make someone yell or glare at him – and yet he was constantly belittled.

He didn't understand why they said those horrible things.


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~Ashuri