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Payback –

The Leaf village was in a sorry state as the Metal army since they gotten there, have been looting the village. They were busy taking what they wanted from the houses and buildings of the village. The clan homes were also being strip as their scrolls and family weapons were taken. They couldn't fight back as the army of Metal are too strong for any of them to take. Those that did try were quickly beaten to a bloody mess that were barely alive. Their king Hunrok was in the Hokage tower going through the files and scrolls that were kept there. Being guarded by several White Delmo's and soldiers.

Sarutobi was bound to a chair breathing heavily as he was trying to recover from the torture he was put through. The Delmo's information unit had work him over. They peeled off his skin and rubbed lemon mix with salt, then they would use healing jutsus to heal him. From there things only gotten worse. His bones have been broken a number of times only for them to be healed to be broken. His flesh having been burn or frozen only to be restored to normal. And his mind was rip apart only to be brought back to normal by the mind breakers of the group.

"Why are you doing this?" Sarutobi ask.

"Are you really that dense not to figure out why, I'm having your village looted by my troops and my grandson's tormenters be on the other end?" Hunrok ask.

"No, I know what we done and nothing we can do will make up for it but why are you kicking us when we're already barely standing?" Sarutobi ask.

"Oh you mean why, I'm having an already weaken village become even weaker?" Hunrok ask. "The answer is to make it an even easier target once my grandson comes for his revenge."

"But in the state that you'll leave us, we won't even be able to fight back even at half strength. The village will be nothing but a shadow of its former self. What kind of victory would that be for Naruto?" Sarutobi ask.

"You really think that Naruto doesn't know what, I'm doing here?" Hunrok ask. "Everything that's happening is his will. He told me before, I left that he wanted me to do this to the Leaf Village. Kicking the dog while it's down as they say."

"Why would he want that? Doesn't he want to prove he's stronger then us?" Sarutobi ask.

"You're still think you know my grandson don't you? I have seen what he is now. He doesn't care about proving anything to anyone in this village, all he wants is for everyone here to scream as they're thrown into firepits alive. It be like how this village ganged up on one little child. He wants all the suffering he went through that you could have stop if you really did cared for him, to be felt by everyone here. Then only then once the last sparks of life have been crush will his rage die. I seen what he's becoming and it scares me," Hunrok said.

"Then why aren't you stopping him. You know what happens to people like that once their rage has been spent. They either become heartless or lose the will to go on once there's nothing left for them," Sarutobi states.

"I'm hoping for that last part," Hunrok said to a surprise Sarutobi. "Once his rage is spent and his will to live is gone, is when the healing can finally start. He is like an old forest with many dead and rotting trees, his scars and wounds run deep. The only thing that will save him is for the forest to be burn down to the ground. Once the ash has settle, me and his grandmother can plant the seeds that will help him grow into the person he was meant to be. You knew what he was going through thinking that it didn't matter as long as he would protect the very village that wanted to kill him. Well once you watch this village burn and all the people killed, leaving you the only one to live in a village that should have been a place that Naruto could have called a home… Well you'll have plenty to think about once you're the only one from this village left alive." (1)

"There has to be another way," Sarutobi said.

"Why do you people think that saying sorry once the damage has been done would ever make up for something like this?" Hunrok ask. "How do you talk to someone who doesn't understand friendship? How do you talk to someone who doesn't understand compassion? How do you talk to someone who doesn't understand love? This is what my grandson is he just doesn't understand what anything but cruelty thanks to what this village has done to him. His mind is twisted his dark thoughts now running free now that he doesn't have to hide behind that fool mask he once wore. The only hope for him is for him to burn himself out so that he can start healing. I hope you're happy with yourself for letting this happen." (2)

"I couldn't place anyone ahead for the sake of the village," Sarutobi said.

"You're nothing but a broken record repeating the samething over and over again. For the sake of this village you made my grandson into a monster. The only thing stopping him from unleashing that side of himself is the faint hope that in Metal he could find something to fill his empty heart. But you won't every say that it's your fault will you? You're just keep on going on about the village wellfare takes place ahead of anyone. Well how about someone who has and will destroy this village you hold above all else?" Hunrok ask glaring at the old fool in front of him.

Sarutobi look downwards muttering. "It was to protect the village."

"Just as, I thought," Hunrok said. "I have invited your old student Orochimaru to the exams as my guest. After the exams are over he'll be taking your grandson with him."

"No you can't," Sarutobi said his eyes wide with fear.

"Why not you did the very same to mine. And why should, I act as the bigger man here. It's the only way to get it through to you that you had the power to stop all of this if you only had cared enough to help Naruto at the very start," Hunrok said before turning to the Delmo's in the room with them. "Take him away and be sure to spread the word that he sold his grandson to protect the village to his old student to do as he pleases with him."

"Yes my king," a white Delmo said as she and four soldiers carried the old fool out.

"No please! Hunrok don't do this!" Sarutobi shouted falling on deaf ears as Naruto's pleas for help had fallen on the same on his for years.

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Author's Notes

1 – That's the reason why Naruto's grandparents aren't stopping him. They want him to burn himself out so that once the blinding rage in his soul is gone they can heal the real Naruto who has been trying to be something that someone would love.

2 - Naruto in my fic never had anything that showed that he was loved or was treated with kindness. So that's why he's so emo as he just can't understand the new feelings he's having or being shown to him. He just never had anyone shown that kind of love or kindness to him before. It's like seeing for the first time if you were born blind. It takes time to get use to everything as it's all so new.

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