Disclaimer: i do not own Naruto.

hey everybody, just in case any of you are wondering, i have posted this story on another site, TONFA. so dont sue me for pladgerism. anyway R&R.

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Naruto walked towards team 7's training ground with high spirits. In the distance he could see that Sasuke and Sakura were already there. As he approached them he noticed that Sakura was not all over Sasuke but rocking from side to side with her hands locked behind her back and a feint blush on her cheeks. Sasuke was his usual self, ignoring humanity and focusing all thoughts on avenging his brother sadistically. But surprisingly there was a small package in his hand.

"Good-morning Naruto-kun!" greeted Sakura merrily.

Naruto was slightly taken back, but greeted her in his usual way nonetheless "Good-morning Sakura-Chan!"

"Good-morning Sasuke-teme!" called Naruto happily.

Sasuke's eyebrow twitched with annoyance, but he quickly masked it with a cool expressionless face.

"Hn," replied Sasuke in his monotone voice, "dobe" Sasuke added in for acknowledgment of the orange clad ninja.

Naruto turned to Sakura with a grin plastered on his face, "Guess what?!"

"Hmm," Sakura paused and began rubbing her chin as in thought, then said, "Oh, I dunno…what?"

"Guess!" said Naruto.

"Ok, hmm... could it be your…BIRTHDAY!" screamed Sakura then flung herself onto Naruto and gave him a hug. Naruto was taken aback; this was very out of character for Sakura. He ignored it though and tried to enjoy the moment, so he laughed and hugged her back, though inside his heart was pounding and his cheeks were flushed.

"You want your present, Naruto?" asked Sakura slyly as she released Naruto.

Naruto nodded with excitement.

"Then close your eyes..." whispered Sakura.

Naruto obeyed her and closed his eyes, as soon as he did so he felt something soft on his lips, he quickly opened his eyes and was shocked to find Sakura's face so close to his, then to realize that it was her lips on his. She was kissing him. Sakura pulled back and smiled at Naruto,

"Happy Birthday Naruto-kun"

"…wow" Naruto was speechless.

"Sasuke-kun! Come here! NOW!" yelled Sakura.

Sasuke got up muttering to himself, when he reached Naruto he stuck out his hand and thrust a parcel in Naruto's arms and muttered "Happy Birthday, dobe"

Naruto was speechless, so instead he flung himself on Sasuke and hugged him, then muttered 'thank-you'

"Get off me! DOBE! Touch me again like that and I will kill you!" said Sasuke annoyed seeing as Naruto had just violated his personal space.

There was a puff of smoke, and then a silver haired jounin emerged.

"Yo!" said Kakashi, emerging from the smoke.

"You're not late?!" exclaimed Sakura and Naruto.

"Why would I want to be late when today is a special day…Happy Birthday Naruto!" Said Kakashi, then made a nice guy pose, which sent shivers down the chuunin's backs.

"For your Birthday present, I am going to let you see something special…I am going to let you see beneath my mask."

"Really?!" shouted Naruto with disbelief.

Kakashi nodded and began to slide of his mask, finally revealing his true face…when all of a sudden the earth began to shake and there was a high pitched BEEEP-

BEEEP

Naruto slammed his hand on the alarm clock that was causing all the noise and commotion, all was silent for a moment and Naruto sighed with relief, then an even bigger and more irritating beeping noise came out of the alarm clock. Naruto slammed his fist into it, silencing it forever as it was crushed by the force. Naruto groggily got out of bed, mumbling 'stupid alarm clock'. He then stopped dead in his tracks as he remembered his dream…a grin spread across Naruto's face like a rash, and he quickly showered and got dressed with high spirits, hoping most of his dream would come true today (excluding Kakashi's 'nice guy pose').

Naruto rushed out his door when he noticed a crumpled brown package on the floor.

It looked like it had been pulverized; Naruto picked up the package and examined it. It was addressed to him, the handwriting seemed familiar. Naruto expression saddened when he turned the package over and found graffiti 'DIE MONSTER!' scribbled all over his package. He knew straight away that is must have been the villagers who did this. He looked to see who the package was from, it said 'from Umino Iruka, your sensei'.

Naruto opened his package carefully, as he opened it, bits and pieces of glass and material fell out. Naruto cringed as each piece hit the floor; it hurt too much to think that they would go to such an extent as to ruin his package…to ruin his day. Naruto felt angry, he felt his blood boil, he felt Kyuubi stir within him because of the sudden hatred Naruto was feeling. Naruto clenched his fists as he tried to suppress the anger, the hatred, but he couldn't. He felt his fingers sharpen and dig into his skin as they turned into claws. He knew that that wasn't the only thing changing. Naruto's eyes were flashing a red bloodlust demonic color, while his spikes were tainted red.

'Control yourself Naruto. Control yourself!' he repeated over and over again.

'Let it all out kit, let me out, I can find who did this and tear them apart for what they did'

'NO!'

Naruto concentrated on forcing Kyuubi back, and trying to seize control of himself before the demon took over. When he finally had control he calmed himself down. He looked in the package to see if there was anything else, and there was, a small crumpled note with his sensei's handwriting,

'Happy Birthday Naruto!! I am very sorry that I couldn't be with you today, but as you know, I'm out on a mission, and I can't really say anything else about it. Though I hope this comes to you on time. I got you a little something, it's a wrist watch. I'm assuming you have already smashed your alarm clock, so this too also has an alarm on it.

When I get back from this mission, though I don't know when, I will treat you to some ramen!

Best wishes, Iruka Sensei!

Naruto picked up the remains of the wrist watch and smiled sadly, at least he remembered. Naruto opened his package and filled it with the remains of his wrist watch. As he did so, he spotted another piece of parchment with a scroll attached to it. There was another note,

'P.S here is a special gift for you; it used to be Sandaime Sarutobi's, but he gave it to me when I was your age. It is in the scroll, de-activate the jutsu and you will see what it is. Wear it with pride!'

Naruto de-activated the jutsu and opened the scroll, there was a puff of smoke, when the smoke disappeared, there lay a silver necklace with a Konoha Leaf sign pendent attached to it. Naruto smiled with happiness as he wore the gift with pride.

Naruto headed to the training ground with a smile on his face, 'maybe things won't be that bad after all', though who knew that he had spoken too soon. Naruto felt his head jerk forward as he felt something stab the back of his neck and fall onto the ground. He let out a cry of pain and touched the back of his neck, only to feel the warmth of his blood trickling down his back. He turned to look for the culprit but found no one. He looked to the ground and found a broken sake bottle, which must have been what had hit him. There was blood on the jagged areas, and a small note attached to it. Naruto picked it up 'DIE DEMON!'

Naruto picked out the shards from his neck, and was thankful that it was nothing serious. As he did so he never once let his face fault or flicker with sadness, throughout the whole ordeal he had a smile plastered on his face, though it did not reach his eyes. He did not want the villages to see him sad. But deep, deep inside, he was torn to pieces, his insides wilted with sadness, but this time he had successfully pushed Kyuubi out of the way,

'Fine, this time I won't interfere, at all. Don't expect me to heal your wound either, now you can feel the real-'

'SHUT UP!' yelled Naruto inwardly to his demon.

Naruto knelt to the floor, acting as if he was fixing his sandals, but really let his tears fall down his cheek, as he could no longer hold them back and sobbed quietly. 'When will they stop? I never asked for this…' after a moment or so Naruto wiped his face with his sleeve, leaving no evidence that he had ever broken down and plastered a grin on his face. He pumped chakra into his feet and launched himself onto the rooftops of Konoha, in hope of avoiding the villagers. As he jumped from rooftop to rooftop, he let his face falter and flicker with emotions no innocent child should ever have to feel, sad memories no child should ever be left to endure…alone.