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Dying Inside	By : KaiyoNoHime Category: Naruto > General Views: 1037 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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If I owned Naruto I wouldn't be sewing my own costumes together, and living off of dollar store food.

So, in simple terms, I do not own Naruto now, and I doubt I ever will. ^.^

Italics means a flashback. Unless it's only one word in italics, then the word is accented and strengthened. ^.^

Dying Inside

Chapter One: Promise

"No, get away from me! Get away from me, please!" Naruto screamed, his high pitched child's voice echoing against the alley walls, "Why do you hate me so!?"

"You stupid brat," the man growled, the stench of whiskey hanging around his large frame, "You killed my wife!"

"I didn't kill anyone!" the four year old sobbed, backing against a dead end, "Please, just leave me alone!"

"I don't think so, whore," the man smiled wickedly, undoing the ties on his pants.

"Please, don-" Naruto's voice broke as he screamed in agony, tears streaming down his face.

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Naruto turned over in bed, looking over at his alarm clock, thanking it mentally. Every morning, without fail, it managed to wake him up from the nightmares his mind visited upon him. He loved his little alarm clock more than ramen itself.

"I don't think I want any ramen this morning," the blonde sighed, glaring up at the cracked ceiling above him.

He wasn't sure whether or not to curse the morning for making him have to remember why the people hated him, or to bless the sunshine for letting him escape the pain of the hatred of the village.

Either way, he knew he had to be at Team Seven's meeting place in half an hour.

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Kakashi looked down at his team, observing them silently before he 'arrived' for the daily missions. He enjoyed this quite solitude, watching Sakura chase Sasuke, and Naruto chase Sakura. How he missed the carefree days of childhood, even if none of his students, save Sakura, had ever had the carefree days of childhood.

Not long enough to enjoy them, anyway.

"So sorry to be late," Kakashi grinned, "But I got caught up in following a butterfly-"

"LIAR!" Sakura and Naruto shouted.

Sasuke merely grunted.

"Well, as much as I would love to work you all to the bone," Kakashi began, glancing toward Naruto, "I'm afraid that I have other matters to attend to today! So you all are dismissed. Except for you Naruto."

Sakura cheered, heading back toward her home to catch up on beauty sleep, while Sasuke remained, glaring at the hyperactive blonde.

"Are you giving him special training?" Sasuke demanded, sure that his sensei was placing the good of one student above the needs of another.

"Of course not, Sasuke. I just need to talk to Naruto about a new flavor of ramen!" Kakashi replied, patting the ebony haired boy on the head, and scooting him down the path.

Sasuke glared at Naturo, and then at Kakashi, but continued on his way down the path, unobserved, leaving his clone hiding in the trees to inform him later of the private meeting.

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"What do you want, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto grumbled, already knowing what was coming before the words left the silver haired Joanna's mouth. It was more than obvious by his glare.

"You haven't been to the hospital for your check up," Kakashi reminded the blonde.

Naruto suddenly found his feet extremely interesting, fidgeting under his sense's intense glare. He didn't feel like explaining that he didn't care anymore, about his illness, or anyone else.

"You promised Sandaime that you wouldn't let your ninja life get in the way of you illness, and you promised Tsunade and Jiraiya as well. You wouldn't break your promises to them so easily, would you?"

"No," Naruto whispered, drawing spirals in the sand at his feet, "But I'm tired of getting shots and blood tests. It doesn't matter, everyone in this village wants me dead anyway, so why should I keep going?"

Kakashi felt his anger snap as he slapped the boy across the face, sending the orange clad boy flying to the ground, anger raging through his face. He had accepted the boy before ever meeting him, allowing him a place on his Team when the other Jounin's had faltered. He had nearly gotten himself killed defending him, and now, to hear those filthy words escape his mouth!

"Is Iruka nothing!? And Jiraiya and Tsunade!? Are they nothing too!? What do you think would happen if you died on them, after they put so much of their hearts into raising and training you!? Any selfish brat who can talk as you do deserves to die more than any filthy demon!" Kakashi barked, lifting the boy up and shaking him, hard.

"I'm sorry," Naruto whispered, tears streaming down his face, "But I'm just so tired of living like this."

Kakashi smiled, wrapping Naruto up in a hug, "It's okay. We all give up sometime. We just have to force ourselves past the bumps in the road. Everything will be better someday, I promise."

"Do you really promise?" Naruto snuffled, his eyes drooping as Kakashi picked him up.

"I promise, with all my heart," Kakashi whispered, bounding lightly toward Konohagakure.

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"What's wrong with Naruto?" Sasuke questioned his clone as it recounted its story to him.

The clone shook its head, indicating that the blonde's illness was never mentioned during the conversation. But Sasuke knew it must be serious if Kakashi would raise his voice to the boy.

"I wonder if this illness could be of any use against him," Sasuke whispered silently, dissolving the clone with a quick kunai to the chest.

This new situation was definitely worth looking into.

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Authoress' Notes: I know, I know! I should be working on Return of the Lost right now, but there is a reason why I'm not uploading a chapter of that and instead uploading this.

One, a major case of writer's block. Leave it to me to get stuck half way through a chapter AGAIN! ^.^;

Two, I wrote this first! :p

Actually, I wrote this while watching the movie Orca. Yes, I know it's a really bad movie, but I've liked it ever since I was a little girl. Just call it an odd sense of me.

Well, do review please! I promise to get the next chapter up as soon as possible! ^.^

Oh, remember, Kumori Con will be in Portland, Oregon September 4th-6th, and it's $35 at the door for the entire weekend! So do come and have fun! ^.^
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