by shadow-lady65

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. So please don't sue me, there isn't anything I could give you...I'm so poor...*cries*

Summary: Naruto is slowly breaking under the abuse from the villagers, when a fight with Sakura sends him over the edge.

Desperate, he joins Akatsuki. Can those people he's always been told to be evil and stone-hearted show him what it's like to have a family...?
ItaNaru, possible PainNaru, possible ItaNaruPain

Warnings: This is yaoi/slash people, if you haven't already noticed. Boy on boy love. If this offends you, please hit the back button.

There's also voilence, possible caracter death (nobody important), graphic scenes, and lemons. Also this is a bit AU, Sasuke did never go to Orochimaru.

So folks, this is my first story. Well the prologue of said story. I know my grammar and spelling sucks but I haven't come around to get a beta yet.

Please bear with me, for now. Onto the story!

Prologue

"Shit!! I overslept!", was the first thing that came out of Naruto Uzumaki's moutyh on this beautiful, rainy monday morning.

You see, Naruto wasn't just any boy who'd just noticed he'd overslept and was late for school, oh no, Naruto was a Ninja.

A very sleepy and a bit frightend ninja, when he dared to think what Sakura would do to him, but still a ninja.

He was also the container of the nine-tailed fox, a demon the 4th Hokage had sealed in him. Because of that, the villagers were afraid of him and treated him very badly.

Naruto was very smart, so even as a child he realised, that if he were to act like a dumb, obnoxius prankster, people wouldn't fear him even more, and that it would probably save his life.

Since then, he always wore a horrible orange jumpsuite, that hid his beautiful body, pulled one stupid prank after another, and when he came into the academy,

played the loud, always cheerful brat.

Nobody noticed the shadows in his eyes, and everybody just accepted his act and wanted nothing to do with him.

When he became a genin, and got into a team with Sasuke Uchiha, a black haired boy who was silent all the time because his famiy had been killed by his older brother when he was a child,

and Sakura Haruno, who had pink hair, a bad temper and a crush on Sasuke, he slowly found more 'friends'.

He knew, he wasn't anything special to them, but to him they were everything. Slowly he formed his own family over the years which now consisted of Team 7 with their sensei Kakashi, the other Konoha Rookies,

Iruka and the three Sand-Siblings, Gaara, Temari and Kankuro. Together, they'd fought many enemies, and all this time Naruto never once let his mask drop,

simply because he feared their rejections if they knew of his colder and darker, smarter and wiser side, the side of a child who'd seen and felt to many horrors in his life.

So, back to Naruto, who was in the shower now. After he was done, he clothed himself and before he left, took on last look in the mirror.

His reflection showed a beautiful, if a bit feminine boy, who looked to be about 14, which he didn't like to much because he was actually 16,

with bright, azure eyes, that looked very tired right now, clear, lightly tanned skin, blonde hair that fell around his face like a halo and pink, full lips.

But the thing that stood out the most were three whisker like marks on both of his cheeks.

While everybody thougt they were birthmarks, he had actually gotten them when he was four and a few drunken men decided they should do the world a favor by marking the 'freak',

so everybody would know how evil the fragile and pretty boy really was.

Naruto turned around and left his apartment. On the way to the training fields his already bad mood darkend even more.

The hateful looks and thrown rocks from the town people weren't completly innocent. For his own protection he had turned them and everything around him out,

so he only noticed he had arrived at the fields when he bumped into somebody who fell down. "Gomenasai, Sakura. I didn't watch where I was going."

Naruto said and extended his hand to help the girl up. But Sakura only swatted his hand away, stood up and started yelling:

"Don't 'Gomenasai Sakura' me, you stupid idiot. You can't do anything right, can you?! You're so bloody anoying, always going on about how you're gonna be Hokage!

Face it, Naruto, you're never gonna be Hokage, nobody would want a monster like you. i know everybody else thinks so, too, so why don't you do us all a favor and shut up!!"

Sasuke and Kakashi, who had heard the yelling and had walked to them, stopped to look at her, horrified.

Sakura, who had finally noticed what she just said, clapped a hand over her mouth, totally shocked at what she had done. "Naruto, look...", she started but Naruto, who had

silently stood there until now, interrupted her.

" I understand, so that's what you think of me. Well then I won't bother you anymore with my annoying presence.", he stated calmly, all traces of his trademark smile gone, and turned around so they wouldn't see the tears that threatend to spill over. "Naruto, no...", Sasuke tried, but Naruto just laughed coldly and ran away and didn't stop until he reached his apartment.

AN: So, this is my first try on a story. Is it bad...horrible...or maybe even good...?? Let me know. (=

Ja ne, Lilith.