Chapter 1

It has been one week since Team 7 had just come back from Wave mission and Naruto was barely adjusting to the hatred he was once again subjected to once he entered through the gates of Konoha.

The blonde genin in his bright orange jumpsuit sighed as he took to the rooftops and arrived at the training ground that Team 7 frequented and found that he was early. He made to climb the large tree overlooking the bridge where he, Sasuke, and Sakura would wait for their late sensei.

Naruto didn't have to wait long because Sakura arrived first along with Ino, but as he prepared to jump down to greet her, he picked up on pieces of their conversation and he felt his blood run cold.

"He's worthless, Ino. That pathetic idiot doesn't even know when he is not wanted," Sakura spat as her green eyes squinted at the thought of her blond teammate

Ino questioned, "He can't be that bad, can he? I know he is the class clown, but it can't be that bad, can it?"

"Yes, Ino he is. He keeps distracting Sasuke-kun and if he wasn't there in the first place, Sasuke wouldn't have to protect him. He nearly died! I hate him!"

"He almost killed Sasuke?" Ino asked in shock

"Yeah! And the dork has the nerve to think that I would ever date him! I'd rather date a perverted monkey then go on a date with him. He's pathetic and a waste of space!" She as she stomped her foot into the dirt

"If you say so, Sakura. I need to go and meet my team," Ino said with a shake of her head and left the training ground

Sakura waved goodbye and watched her leave before looking left and then right before sneaking off the spa to freshen up for her precious Sasuke.

If she stayed just a bit longer, she would have heard the gasp of someone covering up a choked sob.

Naruto felt his throat hurt along with his heart as he couldn't believe that Sakura hated him that much and he just couldn't believe it.

'She hates me that much? All I want is to be friends with her and I wouldn't have killed Sasuke-teme, I just wanted to help him. I didn't ask him to jump in front of Haku's attack!' Naruto thought as he knew he would have to think more about this later.

He pulled himself together for the team meeting, but then he saw Kakashi and Sasuke together walking towards the bridge.

Naruto barely managed to pull up a smile but then his mind came up with the thought, 'Kakashi is early? But why is he with Sasuke?'

He saw that they were talking and decided to listen to their conversation, as he felt that he needed to hear it, no matter how much he felt he needed to turn away.

He heard Sasuke say, "Teach me what the dobe knows, Kakashi-sensei."

Kakashi sighed, "I have already taught you the shadow clone jutsu, but you cannot use it like Naruto, it would kill you. The only thing that Naruto has going for him is his massive chakra coils."

Sasuke said with a droll, "Then why did you pick him? He is just going to slow me down."

"He is not going to slow you down. Just…think of him like a measuring stick," Kakashi offered

'What?' Both Naruto and Sasuke thought in shock as they both looked at him

"What do you mean?" Sasuke said, his black eyes staring into Kakashi's own

'Yeah, you bastard…what do you mean by that?' Naruto thought as he thought this day couldn't get any worse.

"Exactly that, he is only a measuring stick for your progress. That is the only reason I picked him in the first place, he was to be your rival without completely rivaling you to push you to make you reach your goal."

Sasuke stared at him wide-eyed for two seconds before schooling his features and responding with his trademarked, "Hn."

"However, let's keep this a secret between us, no one has to know," Kakashi said, raising a finger

Sasuke nodded and Kakashi gave him an eye-smile.

"Good, now let me show you another chakra control technique," Kakashi said as he led Sasuke deeper into the forest.

Naruto had tears running down his face as he covered his mouth as his mind swirled with all the insecurities and all the taunts that he pushed into the deep corners of his mind were now ringing in his ears.

"Ignore him, he is bad news, kids."

"Stay away from my daughter, demon filth!"

"Die, you little shit!"

"Why are you so pathetic, Naruto?"

"Why can't you do anything right, it's simple!"

"Ha, Loser!"

"Dead last!"

"Clown!"

"Why do you all of us a favor and disappear?"

Naruto grit his teeth as he silently jumped down from the tree, clenching his eyes shut blinking away his tears before running away from training ground 7. He decided to skip out on the so-called team training today, he didn't care if Kakashi chewed him out for skipping. He needed to get away before he did something that would put the Old man in a bad position.

He quickly made his way to the ramen shop where Ayame was manning the front and she immediately saw Naruto who slowly walked over to her and she instantly picked up on his bad mood, his slouched shoulders, his tired and glassed over eyes and she immediately pulled him into a hug.

They quickly hugged before people could see her hugging the demon boy as she led him to her room in the back where she allowed him to sleep on her bed, it was one of the few places he could stay in Konoha and drop his guard because no one knew that he slept in her bed.

"Thank you, Ayame," Naruto whispered to her as she pulled the sheets over him

"Of course, Naruto," She whispered back as she kissed his temple as she watched him fall asleep

A couple hours later…

Naruto awoke with a groan as he stretched out his limbs before his instincts kicked into overdrive as he immediately observed his surroundings before calming down when he realized that he was still in Ayame's room.

He was found his orange jacket on the chair next to the desk in her room and he was just wearing his fishnet shirt and his orange pants. Naruto took it with him as he made his way from the back to go to the front, but then he heard Kiba, Ino, Shikamaru, and Sakura's voices in the front of the restaurant.

'Why are they here? None of them ever accepted when I invited them to come with me?' Naruto questioned

Naruto snuck his way forward and made to sit still in the shadows as he listened to their conversation and much to his dismay, they were talking about him.

Naruto knew he didn't have to listen and that if he left he wouldn't face any more emotional pain, but he felt something stir deep within his chest telling him that he had to hear what they were going to say about him, no matter how much it hurt.

Annoyance

Troublesome idiot

Bastard

Loser

Freak

Worthless

Nobody

Useless

I'd just wish he just did everyone a favor and get lost! Sakura yelled as she smashed her fist into one of the pictures of Naruto and Ayame.

The glass surrounding the frame shattered just like Naruto's love for Sakura.

He watched as the picture frame fell to the ground and saw the picture was when Naruto first met Ayame and her father, he helped her when a drunk tried to have his way with her, but he smashed his head in with a trashcan.

Before she could thank him, he immediately fell unconscious and she panicked trying to wake him until his stomach growled as she giggled before taking him back to the shop and placing him in her room. After wrapping him up in bandages and calming him down, Teuchi gave him his first bowl of ramen, making him smile as he ate it with vigor.

Teuchi wanted to make a picture of that memory and had Ayame hold Naruto in her lap as he hugged her, much both their embarrassments, but she decided to kiss his cheek for the picture, making the boy blush like a cherry for most of that afternoon.

Ayame was trembling in rage before she stopped as her eyes caught the sight of Naruto in the shadows of the shop. He wasn't wearing his large 'I'll get through it' smile anymore. His eyes were darker and misty as his lips were pulled into a thin frown as if he was barely restraining himself from breaking down on the spot.

He slowly shook his head at her silently telling her to not give him away as he immediately left, almost as if he wasn't there in the first place.

Ayame, on the other hand, has had enough, she would not let them insult the boy she considered a little brother, especially in front of her.

She slammed her knife that she was chopping vegetables with on the cutting board, cutting through the group's mockery and beratement of Naruto as she slowly turned towards them and slammed her hands on the counter, making the nearly finished or half-finished bowls of ramen jump from the force.

"Enough! I've had enough! Keep your money, I don't want it, but I ask of you to please leave my restaurant! I will not have you insult one of the sweetest boys in this village if you want to insult him go elsewhere but you are not doing it here. Now please leave!" She snapped at the shocked genin who looked at the livid face of Ayame.

All of them immediately left, Shikamaru, Sakura, Hinata, and Ino looked back to see Ayame sadly pick up a broken picture frame that Sakura smashed. Some immediately felt bad, but all of them brushed off the feeling of guilt thinking that Naruto wouldn't hear what they said anyway and even if he did, he couldn't do anything about it... right?

Shikamaru, on the other hand, couldn't feel deep from within his gut that they all committed a grave error and it was going to bite them all in the ass later.

He sighed and thought, 'Fuck it…I'll think about it tomorrow.'

Naruto was on the rooftop, hiding in the shadows as he rested his head in his arms as he hugged his knees up to his chest as he basked in his own solitude as he felt despair slowly swallow his heart as he tried to calm himself down, only managing to push back his raging emotions a bit as he needed someone to talk to.

He ran to the Tower, unaware that Hiruzen was watching him from his crystal ball as he had his hat cover his eyes as felt shame over his failure of taking care Naruto that wanted to swallow him whole, but he stamped it down as he waited for Naruto to arrive.

After a couple minutes, the boy of the hour didn't slam open the door and yell, he knocked first, signaling that he was done, wearing his mask and Hiruzen released a long sigh and said, "Come in, Naruto-kun."

Naruto slowly opened the door and he silently closed it behind him and the ANBU stationed in the room would have attacked the imposter if Hiruzen didn't look so sad at seeing the state of the boy. All of them were shocked, thinking, 'Is this the real Naruto Uzumaki? Just a depressed young boy?'

Hiruzen slowly told all the ANBU in the room, "All ANBU leave the room, I do not wish to be disturbed and you are not to breathe a word of this to anyone. If you do, I will personally kill you on the spot, understand?"

Their shaky nods were their silent replies before they vanished and before Hiruzen could walk towards him, Naruto raised a hand for him to stop as he took out two kunai and threw one above his head and one behind Hiruzen, both of them making a wet, meaty thump where they hit their target.

"Pathetic war horse…" Naruto said, plainly as the ABNU fell away from their hiding spots, wearing the ABNU masks with the kanji for 'ROOT' on the forehead.

"Naruto?" Hiruzen questioned

"They…*sniff* have been trailing me for a while and if you are worried about how I was able to kill them, then don't. I made my first kill a couple years ago."

"When?" He asked as he kneeled down to Naruto's level

"When…when I was 9, it was after a beating and it was a retired ninja who wanted to make the demon into a boy toy for him and his friends."

Hiruzen had his killing intent slowly leak out before he reigned in his temper as he sighed looking much older than his years as he stared at Naruto and how he failed at protecting him.

"You killed him, but why didn't you tell anyone?" Hiruzen concluded

"Only Teuchi and Ayame who helped me through it… I didn't want to tell you just yet, I was afraid the council would give you more trouble if they knew...afterall, who gives two flying fucks if the demon boy of Konoha is made into someone's bitch," He said in a miserable tone.

Hiruzen kneeled down as he gently lifted Naruto's head, taking in his glazed over eyes, his trembling lips, and his nearly bleeding fists before he removed his hand from Naruto's chin, allowing his head to fall once again.

"Naruto…Naruto please look at me," Hiruzen said, tiredly, feeling twenty years older than he actually was.

Naruto slowly looked up and saw Hiruzen with his arms out and Naruto trembled a bit more before he allowed himself this one moment of weakness and rushed into his arms, allowing Hiruzen to wrap his arms around him as Naruto started to bawl into his robes as Hiruzen rubbed circles into Naruto's back.

Hiruzen looked at the sobbing figure of his grandson in everything but blood, as he looked at the sad faces of all the past Hokages, especially the Fourth Hokage as the sky thundered as dark clouds rolled in.

Naruto's sobs trickled down into soft hiccups and he cleaned his face with the sleeves of jumpsuit as he said, "I'm sorry…I didn't mean to break down like that. I ruined your robes."

"Don't worry about it, Naruto, considering…" Hiruzen trailed off

"You saw that, huh?" Naruto said, moving back a few steps out of Hiruzen's arms as he pulled himself together

"Only the last part…" Hiruzen said as he stood up and leaned against his desk.

"Do you want me to tell you?" Naruto asked

"If you could, Naruto. I need to hear everything," Hiruzen said

Naruto gave a sigh of a weary veteran ninja as he explained everything he heard from Sakura, Kakashi, and then finally down to the Rookie 9 said with brutal clarity.

'Damn you, Kakashi! Naruto has more talent than you can even imagine and you squander it to waste on the Uchiha? I should have never placed Naruto on your team...Hopefully, I am able to do right by him, but you better have a good explanation or you are going to pray your ass off every day, in hopes you don't die soon. I for sure know that Kushina will be wanting your head on a pike,' Hiruzen growled before he calmed himself down to look at Naruto

Hiruzen looked at him and said, "What do you want to do, Naruto?"

Naruto snorted and said, "If you think words from people I thought who were my friends or those who I thought actually liked me would be enough to make me quit, then you are underestimating me old man. If I had that weak of a will, I would have killed myself years ago."

"So, what is it?" Hiruzen asked, a bit in shocked at the dark blue eyes staring back at him

Those same dark blue eyes instantly reminded him of his father when he found out his team was ambushed by Iwa ninja. The slaughter he made of them was something on the level of his massacre of Iwa ninja that caused them to pull out from the war.

Naruto gave a sigh and said, "That… I will figure out when I ask of you for a three-day vacation, away from the village. I am not sure if I could face any of them without wanting to rip off their heads."

"No more mask?" Hiruzen asked as he felt a smile slowly fall on his face

Naruto's lips twitched up, "No more, old man. It is too broken and I can't swallow their shit anymore and if I see Kakashi right now I would be tempted just to set off violent prank after violent prank on him."

"Aren't you going to prank him anyway?" The third asked as he raised an eyebrow

"Oh yes, I am and the rest of them. However, if I do it as I am, then my pranks will become death traps. I have no respect for Kakashi, I thought he would be different, but he is just like the rest of them. The person I thought who would become my friend doesn't care if he uses me as a stepping stone. I could care less if Haruno threw herself off the monument…" Naruto finished with a bit of heat before taking a breath and calming himself down.

"Sorry, I just need to sort out my emotions before I do something that will land us in deep shit," Naruto finished rubbing his temples to push back the pain in his temples.

"Very well, I will have a note written for your excused absence and Kakashi and the rest of them will be forbidden to look for you, let's just say you are on an assignment for me and we will move you from there."

"Do I have to continue to be on the Sasuke-cocksucker team?" Naruto quipped

Hiruzen snorted as he smiled at Naruto who gave a small smile back, "Glad to see you still have some of your wit with you."

"And allow them to win? No, never…" Naruto stated, tiredly

"You know where I will be, Old man if you need me and…Thank you," Naruto said before leaving the office.

Hiruzen immediately wrote the note and called his ANBU's back into the room, two of them took the dead ROOT ninja to the T&I unit while Hiruzen called Hawk over to him.

"Hawk, deliver this note to Kakashi, he is to follow it to the letter and if he disobeys my orders or tries to find a way around it, I will have Anko use him an unmoving kunai target and have the Anti-Icha Icha collocation slowly burn all of his Icha Icha books in his collection."

The Hawk ANBU saluted, taking the note and responded, "Yes, Hokage-sama."

Hiruzen turned his chair towards the window and whispered, "Be safe Naruto…"

Naruto made his way back to his apartment, ignoring the new curses written on broken door as he made his way through his trashed apartment.

'Idiots... But, be wary, I am no longer going to take your shit anymore, so enjoy your petty victory of trashing a teenager's apartment, for now, because it is the last one you will have at my expense,' He thought as he made his way towards his closet and pulled out several clothes and made his way out through the window.

Naruto smiled as he jumped from rooftop to rooftop until he came to be in front of a large forest and walked inside, enjoying the views and noises of the forest around him.

He spent the day relaxing, away from all the glares and muttered curses from the populace of Konoha as he stripped himself of his orange jumpsuit and made his way to the lake to rest in the water before coming out. He heard a rustling in the bushes as he went to go grab his jumpsuit, he readied himself with a kunai, prepared to stab at any animal who thought he might be their next meal until he saw it was a tiger cub.

Naruto smiled and knelt down, showing his palm to call the cub towards him as he put the kunai down as the cub slowly walked towards him, sniffing his palm before nuzzling his hand with a purr.

He laid down on the bank next to the river as the cub settled on his chest as Naruto looked up at the sky and smiled as he let the noise of the forest lull him to sleep.

Several hours later, Naruto slowly woke up to find his chest was heavier than before and saw two more cubs were joining the first one that was sleeping on his chest and that he was leaning against something warm and fuzzy.

He slightly turned and saw that he was leaning against a large female tiger who was sleeping as well.

"They must have kept me warm when I was sleeping..." He whispered as the mother's ears twitched at the noise

'Fuck it...I'm going back to sleep, it's too comfortable,' He inwardly concluded as he made his way back to his dream world.

Soon, morning broke out and Naruto woke up with a yawn, causing the tiger family to wake up with him, the mother tiger stood up, shaking her fur as she let out a yawn as the three cubs yawned and rolled off Naruto's chest.

He gave them all a good scratch behind the ears and knelt down to see the mother and thanked her for keeping him warm yesterday, she responded with a good lick that made half his face wet, which he laughed off.

He waved at them before going on his way to explore the forest, he was wearing his orange jacket over his shoulders leaving his chest and stomach exposed with his fishnet as he kept his orange pants on.

However, the quiet day was interrupted when a gruff voice addressed him, "Ah~? What do we have here? A retard in orange in my forest?"

Naruto growled as he looked up to see a boy the same age as him jump down from the tree and land right in front of him.

He saw squinted red eyes glaring at him, pale spiky blond hair which was in a messier style than his own with an olive skin tone, minus the various cuts and burns that could be seen on his arms. He wore a blazing red shirt with black flames on the bottom with baggy pants tied down to his ninja sandals.

"Hello, retard, I am talking to ya!" He yelled

Naruto frowned as he said, "My name is not retard. It's Naruto and who the hell are you?"

"The name is Katsuki Bakugo and you are in my forest," He announced

"The forest doesn't have your name on it," Naruto stated, plainly

Katsuki's eyebrow twitched in irritation as he said, "Shut it, shithead."

"Who are you calling shithead, porcupine head?" Naruto questioned with his own twitching eyebrow

"Porcupine head...? Who the fuck are you calling porcupine head, you ass?!" He snarled, getting in Naruto's face

"Who the fuck are you calling an ass, bitch boy!" Naruto snarled, slamming his forehead against Katsuki's as they glared at each other.

"That's it, you are so dead, dumb fuck," He snarled, his hands clenched as they turned a blazing orange

Naruto cracked his knuckles as he stated, "Bring it on, you poser!"

The two stared each other down, unaware that they were being watched by a man covered in black, his dark eyes flashing red for a few seconds before turning back to its usual lazy black.

'Katsuki…Still reckless as always. So, this is the Kyuubi container. I wonder, how this will pan out,' Aizawa thought as he leaned against the tree trunk and watched the battle between the two blondes commence.

Ending the chapter! I am so sorry that I haven't been updating my other stories, statistics during the summer is horrible and I was out of the country for ten days didn't help me either. I came up with the idea on the plane and I was binge watching Boku no Hero Academia and for those who don't know the series...Watch it!, Like now, I mean right now. I feel the familiarities between classic Naruto and Izuku and I just had to make it. I hope you like it and before cannon suckers bitch at me, saying that Naruto isn't canon, can fuck off, this Naruto isn't canon, he is realistic and a depressed boy who was a loner for most of his life. What if he decided to not gain the respect or attention of those who said what they truly thought about him.

Now, before several people bitch at me, I want you people to think, Naruto is the heroic saint in the anime we all love to write about where he overcomes all his hate, but what if he was realistic and you need to realise that nobody was on Naruto's side when he was at his weakest, it was only after the chunin exams after beating Kiba and Neji did they start looking at him in a different light.

Regardless, I hope you will enjoy the story.

~Kourtney Uzu Yato