I'm so sorry for the super late update. It's just that I, being the super stupid smart person that I am, signed up for all honors and advance courses plus two college classes after my regular school. So without further adeu the second chapter, please review.

Field of Innocence

Chapter 2: Witnessing His Pain

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Ital - in peom is a crowd

Ital - in story thinking

Ital - in story is inner conscious or Kyuubi in Naruto's case

Monster, Monster!

Glowing red eyes

Monster, Monster!

Fox demon dripping in blood

Monster, Monster!

Do you the child screaming?

Monster, Monster!

Or only the fiend killing?

Monster, Monster!

It runs through his head.

Monster, Monster!

The killer of his haunted past

Monster, Monster!

Lies hidden, within him.

Monster, Monster!

He screams… but no one listens…

Monster, Monster!

Demon Child!

Damn, Sasuke-teme, he better be okay.

Naruto tossed the box into the garbage and started walking to the training area.

Naruto was so lost in his thoughts that he walked into the one part of the village that he normally avoided at all costs.

Something hit the back of his head, knocking him to the floor. "What the Hell!"

"Demon!" Hordes of people surrounded him, "Hell Spawn!" Fists and kicks landed hard blows, "Go back to hell!" Blood was drawn.

He was lifted to his feet and a ninja, it had to be a ninja because his charka was being blocked, held him up right. A man, no several men came up to him and started punching him. A crack was heard, so at least one of his ribs broke. The men chuckled and paused to let the women get in on the beating.

One would think that the women at least one of them would try and stop it, but instead they came upon him like banshees and all but clawed out his eyes. His clothing was torn and dirtied. Blood dripped from every cut and scratch. Naruto bore stab wounds that bleed profusely.

He didn't cry, oh no. Heaven forbid he gave those bastards a single tear. This had happened before many, many times before, before he could even protect himself. Back when he was an innocent little child that wondered why the world cursed him so and left him alone to misery. They had no mercy for things they feared. Even though what they feared was but a lonely lost child who didn't even know how to care for himself. The memories flooded back to him but he could only focus on one thing that was constant in his life, pain.

The man, woman, person that held him let his useless body fall to the ground. People rushed in and started kicking him.

Naruto couldn't even breathe. Every nerve in his body was being tortured and his only thought was.

Naruto whimpered, "Sasuke…"

"How dare you-" the leader of the mob heard him and went to hit him with a closed when a loud voice cut through the riot.

Sasuke yelled as he scanned the crowds, "Naruto!"

At the sound of the Uchiha's voice, everyone froze except Naruto who cried out loud in the strongest voice he could manage, "Sasuke, Sasuke… Sasuke…"

Sasuke had just got through the crowd as he caught sight of Naruto's battered form. Sasuke stilled as he saw Naruto curl himself into a ball and the man next to him frozen in his previous position about to hit the fallen boy.

Irrevocable rage surged through his veins. His head dipped down and his bangs covered his reddening eyes. His hands turned white under the force in which he clutched his fists. His propensity was just to beat the living daylights out of every single person there. But currently he was more likely to kill every single one of them, than leave them alive. So he settled.

His aura was so blood red hot that when Sasuke swung and punched the man who stood over Naruto, the man got third degree burns in the local area where he was hit and he flew into a building some thirty feet away and hit the fifth floor.

Through gritted teeth, Sasuke growled, "How dare you…"

He turned and faced the crowd with the shanigan(?) swirling furiously. He continued, "You dare touch what belongs to an Uchiha! I should kill you all, or better yet," Sasuke smiled a smile that he got when he was finally allowed to do something after people were forcing him to behave, "I'll hand you over to the Hokage and with her torture each one of you, not one will escape now that I know your disgusting faces." He chuckled darkly.

Weakly Naruto breathed out, "No… Sa… suke… don't… not… worth… it…"

Sasuke spun around and sweeping to the floor gathered Naruto close in his arms bridal style. Sasuke put his mouth near Naruto's ear and whispered, "Naruto, they deserve it. Let me handle them."

Naruto murmured, "I'm not worth it, leave them... alone"

A person in the crowd heard the carrier admit his worth and yelled, "See even the monster knows its place, Uchiha-sama! Uchiha-sama you should find grander company to keep!"

Sasuke growled and standing with a bleeding Naruto in his arms, yelled, "Naruto is no monster! Naruto is a better human being than all of you put together! I would rather be in his company than anyone else's. If anyone was the monster it would be each of you who hate a brave strong individual who would and has risked his very life to protect you! I would have left you to die if I had gone through what he has suffered…" He looked at them with despise in his eyes. "Your hatred broke a little boy who couldn't even understand why. I hope you're proud now because in the end that's all you'll have! I won't ever forgive you for what you've done to him. I claim Naruto Uzimaki Namizane as Uchiha. Touch him and face the Uchiha clan. What is done to him will be returned a hundredfold."

Floored, Naruto let go of all the tears he was holding back. He clutched Sasuke's black shirt tightly as he buried his head underneath the Uchiha's chin.

Feeling the tears hit his chest and the silent sobs that racked the young blonde's body, Sasuke's eyes softened from the death glare he was giving to the crowd as they traveled to the young man he held in his arms. Sasuke looked up once more giving the entire crowd an Uchiha death glare that would've made Itachi proud and sent shivers down the crowd's back, before jumping onto the nearest and running to Hokage's Tower.

"Don't worry Naruto. Tsunade will have you fixed up in no time." Sasuke murmured trying to be comforting.

Naruto gasped out between sobs, "I'm not worried… about me, teme… you idiot. You shouldn't," he coughed hard. Turning his head away from Sasuke, Naruto spit out some blood, "You shouldn't have done that."

"Done what? Protect what's mine? Hah!" Sasuke was beginning to think Naruto got hit one too many times.

"That's just it…" Naruto breathed in, taking in Sasuke's scent, impressing it in his memory, "I'm not yours… am I?" Naruto passed out to Sasuke's worried shouts as the blood loss became apparent.

Please review, next chapter should be up sometime next week.

Sasha Dragon Heart