章節 151: Chapter 2
7 year old Naruto Uzamaki had just been released from the hospital after another attack on his person by a group of villagers and shinobi. It was a beautiful and bright Thursday morning, but he wasn't happy like the few people out that hour as he was walking home. He was angry and fed up with everything and everyone save two. It seemed like no one would protect him and no matter what he said his persecutors got off without as much as a word said against them. The shinobi side wouldn't vouch for him even if they came upon the attack just in time to shoo off the attackers before they put in the finishing blow and of course none of the civilians would speak up even those that pitied or liked the blonde child. It's always been like this even since before the orphanage kicked him out at age four.
Of course he wasn't any safer there. He didn't receive any serious beatings or stabbings there, but they still tried to kill him. They'd just try to starve him or when they did feed him poison him. In trying to be sneaky they only managed to drag things out long enough that the hokage eventually got around to saving him. To his fractured seven year old mind the Hokage was the worst of them all. He could step in and do something about what was happening, but he only arrived on the scene just in time to prolong his suffering. The few times he had decided to protect himself it was him who got in trouble and not the people who day after day tried to kill him or make him suffer through some other type of abuse.
Naruto figured he had been beaten over 500 times in his life, stabbed over 200 times, poisoned over 100 times, nearly starved to death 40 times, mauled by the inuzaka dogs 27 times, raped by men and women 20 different times by to many people to count, electrocuted 10 times, nearly drowned 5 times including a few were he was legally pronounced dead before he revived, lit on fire a few times, and there were more attempts on his life than he'd been beaten. He had even been used as a toilet by some particularly sick fucks. During all of that he figured only ten people had ever faced actual charges and been jailed. Of course those were during times the mob got bored with him and turned their rage on someone else who most likely got to close to the mob while cheering on their actions.
So you might ask why a boy who despite a few pranks and all that's happened to him in his short life most would see as bright, caring, and innocent even if he was a little dense was suddenly feeling like destroying the whole village? It would have to do with a certain purple haired kunoichi who had befriended him a few months before this last attack against him. They had bonded over stories of past abuse by the villagers and others. It started early on the morning of his seventh birthday. The villagers were getting ready for the festival that would be held later in the day celebrating the Yondiame's victory of the Kyuubi.
The woman who he was starting to see in an older sister fashion or perhaps even mother for his desperate wanting of a family offered to in her words "Give him a birthday he'd never forget." Naruto woke up early despite hating to do so as he knew the purple haired woman was the same way yet she was doing all this so he could have a good birthday for a change. It had truly been a great day as she took him shopping and bought him a few things. He would later look back as thinking that should have tipped him off as they went to shops were just a few days ago he was beaten and chased off from for merely stepping on the sidewalk in front of their shop. They went to eat and played games after. She even bought him a set of kunai and shuriken saying she believed in his dream of being Hokage and wanted to start him off right.
He was having such a good time with his nii-san that he lost all track of time. It wasn't until he heard the fireworks begin to go off that he realized it was nighttime. Immediately on guard and feeling sleepy from being out all day Naruto decided to call it a night. The woman picked him up easily and put him on her back with his arms around her neck. He'd always wanted to do this and now he was, but he felt so tired. She assured him he could rest and that he'd be safe in bed before he knew it. Unfortunately when he awoke later he found himself on the street in the middle of a dark alley with his onee-chan nowhere in site. However, upon clearing his eyes and looking he saw he wasn't alone as villagers and shinobi with murderous looks in their eyes began to move towards him from all directions cutting off any chances of escape. Naruto cried out for the purple haired woman only to receive no response only the cackles of laughter by the growing crowd as they started to mercilessly beat down upon him until he looked dead. Even with his unnatural healing rate it would be almost a month before he was released from the hospital cursing the weakness that put him in that situation.
It all served to point out how alone he was. That there were few people if any he could trust. There were two people he could count on through it all and that kept him from ending his life on his own terms, but he didn't want to be a burden on them. He knew despite the awesomeness that was Ichiraku Ramen they were not making much money, because people knew they served him and were nice to him. He figured it would only get worse if nothing changed. The only hope he had was that soon he would be allowed to train at the academy. He had no wish to be a ninja and become a tool for those who've made his life hell. Still, he needed to be able to protect himself and knew that was the place to learn. The only problem was he needed training now, but he knew no one would even let him look at a single scroll on even civilian level defense tactics. Honestly he wasn't much more hopeful about how he would be treated at the academy.
"I can help you." A voice called out to him. Naruto looked around for the voice, but he was alone. "There is no need to search for me kit." "Where are you?" Naruto asks the voice as he's still looking around. "I am talking to you inside of your head so unless you want to be stared at just think of what you want to ask me and talk inside of your mind. I will hear you just fine." 'Okay then who are you and why are you in my head?' Naruto asked as he was nearing his apartment. "I will explain all that when we are some place where no one will feel an extreme amount of energy being released." The voice said. Naruto thought about the request for a minute before responding.
'If you can read my thoughts you probably already know, but I'll say it anyway, there is a problem with your request. I've recently noticed that despite my best efforts there is always at least one person following me most of the time. Although they never seem to be around when I'm attacked for whatever reason. Also, while I live in a shit hole that no one else would even attempt to live in others would notice us there and thanks to break ins and attacks the windows and locks in my apartment wouldn't keep out a 2 year old. The only place left to consider is the forest of death, but I've heard people tell other people that there are things in there that are far stronger than the normal forest areas.' Naruto says while waiting for a response. "Head to the forest and don't worry about anything. I'll be showing you a technique along the way that will both hide what we're going to do and keep the creatures of that forest at bay." Naruto wasn't sure he should trust the voice, but when the voice started calling out hand seals he decided to go along with it of course after an explanation on what hand seals were and how to do them.
Naruto made it to the Forest of Death as this area was called half an hour later. He looked around and couldn't sense anyone following him, which really didn't mean much as most gennins could still escape his notice, but with the relative isolation of the area he figured he was safe. "Okay kid your going to learn a sort of chakra control exercise called Tree Climbing. You need it to be able to scale these walls and it will help increase your chakra reserves and make it easier for you to do the technique I need you to perform." That lead to an explanation about chakra and why he needed more control before actually telling Naruto what to do. Six hours later Naruto was still having trouble so that lead to the fox having to reveal himself to the child before he wanted to and altering his plans.
"Okay stop." The voice called out frustration evident. Naruto gladly stopped feeling a little tired and sore from where he fell numerous times. "I think it's time we met face to face."
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