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Naruto can't take living in the village any more. All the glares finely breaking him, so what is there to do besides leave? Taking what little he has from is tiny loft; he sets out to find the piece that eludes him in his so called home. Not knowing who or what he really is.

Last update 6-20-15

'Thinking' "Talking" "Demon Talking" 'Demon Thinking' {A/N} Word Expanded at the end

Chapter 1: It's a One Way Trip

Throughout the busy streets of Konohagakure, merchants and shoppers converse just like any other day. And just like any other there are the whispers intertwined, always following a 6 year old blond boy. There words all blending together.

"There's the beast." One would say.

"What's that monster doing here?" Another would comment.

"I don't get why the Hokage doesn't have that thing killed." All words passing his ears earning the same thing they earned every other day, indifference. Because this is what he has lived with his entire life from as far back as he could remember. It had started at the orphanage with his secretly abusive life until the age of 4, on October 9th a day before his 5th birthday, when he was kicked out. Now after two years of living on his own, his life is anything but better, now he was out in the open with no one between him and the mentally abusive villagers.

Having to buy his own food, cloths, or anything from the people that hated him is not an easy thing to do. Knowing the food you were given was bad, the cloths you wear have been worn, and the things you buy are broken or used, all of them twice the price just for him. Even so he continues to his loft on the second story of an old green rundown building that he doesn't bother to call a home. And worst of all today was October 4th, six days to his birthday, His least favorite time of year. A day he couldn't go outside for fear of being attacked by drunken villagers, who would only be taken care of later by the Hokage for their actions. Since his 5th birthday the third Hokage had sheltered him in his own home, during the week around his birthday, to prevent the assaults that are usually made against him this time.

This boy didn't know many facts. The first he did know being his name, Uzumaki Naruto. The second being his birthday, a day that should have made him happy, but was a day he had learned to hate. The third is that there is not a single person he knew of in the village that doesn't despise him other than the Hokage. Then there was one last fact that Naruto knew and that he was sick of it. Everything that had to do with the village made him depressed and that was enough. Coming to the decision half a year ago, he would leave the village, change who he was, and make a new life for himself with a whole new set of facts.

The evening of October 4th was the final time the six year old would be seen in the village. Naruto spent that night preparing everything that he had from the saved money along with needed provisions and tools. Among the things Naruto packed for his trip were all the gifts he had been given by the Hokage on his previous birthdays. The last two in particular were important to his survival, the first being a book on sealing the old man had been insisted he learn and the second being a set of 5 sealing scrolls and some basic ninja tools for when he started the academy. He knew he would need all of these if he were to survive for any amount of time outside the village.

Naruto chosen this particular night to leave because it was the only time that he could pull off the stunt without suspicion. If he didn't leave that night, he would be stuck in the Hokages home for the next week or two, and no one tried to make an attack on him for the better part of the year, only the first two weeks in October. He already had his path mapped out, his goal being to get as far as he could from any of the major hidden villages, so his first destination would be the Land Daemon, being furthest from all the major hidden villages. He would move on from there.

After he finished packing his supplies in his green pack, Naruto started to set up his fake death. The plan was simple really. He chose to simply cover his loft with explosive tags, and then set those off with his alarm clock so he was far enough from the village. Giving him roughly an 8 hour head start if they did go looking for him, to which he highly doubted they would. Never the less he continued with his plan, and set up the last of the explosive tags and attaching them to his alarm clock.

To avoid being noticed Naruto cut his hair to about half its original length and bleach his golden hair white. He also changed his regular closes and wore a black sweater and orange under shirt with equally black pants and black ninja sandals and his green back pack full of sealing scrolls and supplies (having put the gifts to good use.) On his face he applied some flesh tone makeup over his rather original birth marks.

It came time for him to leave, so he slipped into the night. Not knowing had it been any other time he would have been seen by an inu masked ANBU, the one that was usually assigned to watch the boy during his unlucky month. The dog masked ANBU was far out of sight then as he was now speaking with the Hokage about said boy.

Hokage's office

Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Sandaime Hokage, of 85 years of age he stared out at the village his old dark eyes with three long lines extending down his face. He sat in his office adjusting his white goatee as night covered the village he had sworn to protect for the second time since Senju Tobirama passed the position over to him. Since that time the seat had been passed to only one other, Minato Namikaze, who had been dead for the past 7 years. Killed saving the village from the Kyūbi by paying the true ultimate sacrifice, of not of ones own life but that of his, and his wife's, but also damming the happiness of their newborn son. Just thinking of it made the old Hokage wither, and even more so when thinking of his successors son. The same one he tried his hardest to protect from the very village Minato gave his family's life for.

Hiruzen sighed as he looked at the slowly dwindling pile of papers in front of him and then out the large window. Before long he felt a familiar presents arrive in his office "Good evening Kakashi, how's Naruto doing?" asked the Sandaime in a solemn voice, turning back to face the now present inu ANBU in the center of his office.

"He seems to be taking it quite hard this year, at least harder than the others." The silver haired ANBU stated while removing his mask revealing is mismatched eyes, the right obsidian black and the other closed sowing the full length vertical scar, and also the black mask always covering the lower part of his face. Holding the dog mask to his side he continued his report. "He's been avoiding anything to do with other people, including his own peers, unlike last year. It looks as though he is depressed, which when considering is unsurprising."

Frowning, the Sandaime turned back to his view over the village. "I don't know what to do anymore Kakashi. I knew it was a mistake to inform the civil council of his very existence, if I hadn't then we wouldn't be having this problem." He sighed knowing he was well past his years to be dealing with this job again. But he knew the alternative would leave Naruto vulnerable to either Danzo or the civil council and that was something he could not let happen.

"Kakashi," continued Sarutobi, "keep your eyes on him, and keep him safe by whatever means necessary. You're dismissed." He finished not even bothering to take his eyes off the village, as Kakashi replaced his mask and vanished in a swirl of leaves. Turing to the now vacant spot he stopped when his eyes passed over the images of the former Kages on the right wall, only to stare at his blond successor's calm blue eyes. "You would be ashamed of us Minato, at how your son has lived only to be shunned by the very village you gave your family's life to save. I am truly sorry and can only hope one day it will change for the better and you can forgive us."

Outside Naruto's Loft: Early Morning October 5th

Hiruzen was following his usual route to Naruto's apartment a trek he made about once a month in order to give him his monthly funds. During October he would take it to go pick him up to take him to his house, so as to ensure his safety on his birthday. This particular year he was thinking about how to solve this problem with Naruto and his status with the village. He knew he could always reveal Naruto's heritage at the cost of making him a target for his parents' enemies in the other villages. Unfortunately for Naruto the only people willing to adopt him are some the clan heads ones that know or suspect his heritage and their faith in the Fourth's sealing abilities. The problem is that if he were adopted by one clan it would be unfair to the others, and move his loyalty to them, which was the concern of the council, who did not have the boys' wellbeing in mind.

Sarutobi sighed clearing his mind to focus on the present. All he could do right now was show Naruto that there are people who care for him before it's too late to do so. As he approached the building containing Naruto's loft the crusty green walls of the building came into his view, with stairs leading up the one side and its thin balcony overlooking the deserted street. The building only contained one occupant, Naruto.

As he neared the building he sensed Kakashi nearby on a further building with a view of the loft. Following the street towards Naruto's loft he met with an uneasy feeling, one that told him that his day was about to turn bad. He had only felt it this strong twice, first the day he was given the position of Hokage by the Second and the day the Kyūbi attacked and he had to retake the position. Slowing down and looking up, he had that feeling just as he heard a ringing go off from inside the building and watched as it erupted in a fire ball, sending the entire upper corner of the building up in flames, pieces of glass and green painted wood flying in all directions.

Hokage's office

Sarutobi sat in his office, a far off expression on his face, of all the things that could have happened he was not prepared for this. He thought that he had done everything in his power to keep Naruto from harm and now he didn't even know whether to keep his job because he found himself incapable of protecting one child, from his own village.

After the explosion the Hokage sent for Ibiki Morino, Special Jōnin and commanding officer of the Konoha Torture and Interrogation Force, to run the investigation into the attack, find out who was responsible, and report to him and no one else on the findings. So there he was waiting, knowing that until this was finished and he knows what happened he couldn't make his decision, on what to do. He knew it wouldn't take long with Ibiki on the case with the promised reward for the truth.

And he was right, about 3 hour after the explosion; Ibiki was there in his office. Ibiki stood at about 6' 4" wearing a dark gray button up shirt with black pants and a belt. Over the top he wore a black trench coat and his headband, like a bandana covering the top of his head. Going down his face are two long parallel scars one going under is right eye down to his lower right jaw line and another starting to the left of his left eye and going down under it and across to the center of his chin crossing his mouth. His hands, which were holding a manila file, were covered in metal backed, black, fingerless gloves.

The old Sarutobi stared at Ibiki a while and then made a hand sign. The room glowed a light blue, indicating that the room was now sealed from sound and prying eyes. "Ibiki I hope you know the person I can blame this one on or so help me it might just be the whole village." Stated the old Hokage staring intently at the Special Jōnin.

"As of now there is only this to report sir and its either really good news or really bad news. Personally I do not know which." Ibiki replayed standing rigidly in front of the, naturally, upset Hokage.

"Alright what is this news that can either be good or bad?" Sarutobi asked raising his eyebrows at Ibikis veg response.

"Well sir Naruto is not dead." Ibiki said taking the folder in his hands and placing it on his Hokage's desk. "The first signs that point to this are the lack of remains in the room. It was a large explosion, but some of those tags were dead, so it was not nearly large enough to completely destroy a body, even a child's." At this point Ibiki paused to gauge the Hokages reaction of this new information.

To say he was surprised was an understatement, Sarutobi was flabbergasted but even more elated at the fact the boy was alive and that lead him to his new question. "So if Naruto is alive then where is he?" He asked looking up from the report.

"That sir is the one thing we don't know. After checking the apartment and determining he was not there during the explosion. I then checked the seal placed around the apartment and it indicated that Naruto was the only one to enter the building that evening, but it also indicated that around midnight Naruto left the building of his own accord, no forced entry no signs of anyone other than him inside the apartment for the past 6 days." The Special Jōnin explained and upon seeing that was not the answer his Kage was looking for he continued. "After finding this information I immediately ordered a low profile search for him, using some of our most trusted sensors to search the village, and they had determined that he was nowhere near Konoha sir. And after that realization I checked the village perimeter security and there was one small blip on the back outer boundary. Roughly a little after the seal on the apartment picked him up leaving. Sir I think he ran away." Ibiki finished keeping his stoic appearance.

Sarutobi stared in disbelief at what he was hearing, on one hand Naruto was alive and as far as he knew safe but on the other he was now gone. Now that his first worries were quenched, what was he going to do about it? Taking a deep breath and letting it all sink in he decided. "How much of a lead does he have on us?" He asked looking down at his desk.

"About 12 hours sir, do you want me to assemble a team to search for him?" Asked Ibiki ready for anything the Hokage may ask for.

"No, we won't be going after him, in fact this is the only thing I think he deserves, a life away from this village. I want you to get rid of this file and create a new one confirming his death. If this is truly what he wants then that is the gift I will give him." Sarutobi replayed in a solemn but decided voice. Looking back up at the man almost related to the boy on his mother's side he asked his last question. "Do you think you can do that for him?"

"I believe Kushina-sensei would be disappointed how it turned out, but I also believe it is for the best. As much as I would like to see him again, it's not only safer but I believe he may find his happiness out there and maybe he will return to find this place changed for the better." Kushina's old student replayed with a ping of sadness and hope. Taking the folder, and using a small fire jutsu, burned it to ash over a metal bin in the corner.

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