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"Human speaking"

'Human thinking'

"Demon speaking"

'Demon thinking'

Chapter one: the beginning.

"Ahhhhh." Screamed Naruto as he hit the hard pavement right outside of the orphanage. "Get out of here demon, we do not raise trash here. Now scram!" banging the door right in his face as he tried to go back inside the orphanage.

Naruto took a few steps back, right before he crumbled down to the floor and cried his eyes out. 'Why had this happened to him again? Why?' Things had been going on so well; he had finally been getting along just fine with matron who was taking care of the children in his wing of the orphanage. Then she had suddenly been found dead in an alleyway been devoured by rapid dogs leading to the appointment of the new matron who had just kicked him out of the orphanage. Of course this was not the first time he had been kicked out of the orphanage but the problem was that the rest of them hated his guts to the core and would not take him in.

After a couple of hours of crying he finally stopped and got up before he dried his wet cheeks on the sleeve of his worn out tan colored shirt and silently walked away from the orphanage. The first thought that had come to mind was go and talk to the sandaime hokage, his jiji, but he thought against that as he did not want to bother him anymore than he had already done in the past. So he simply strolled mindlessly through the streets of konoha soaking up all the galres of hatred, nasty comments about him and harsh whispers all around him.

Not even bothering to acknowledge them he simply walked past the countless shops, houses and stalls of konoha until he finally felt tired. Opting to get some sleep he simply walked into an alleyway where he spotted a dirty rag big enough for him to lie down on, and lie down he did and promptly blacked out after removing his worn out shinobi sandals and wet dirty white shorts.

Xx xx xx xx xx two weeks later xx xx xx xx xx

Sensing a presence near him he woke up and sat up his makeshift bed which consisted of a dirty rag which used to be a carpet now been used as a mattress and a worn out towel which had a few cuts in it which he used as a blanket. He looked around the dark alleyway trying to adjust to the darkness, a few seconds later he spotted a strange man. The man had black eyes, pale skin and the right side of his face and his whole right arm covered in bandages, to finish the weird look he was wearing a black yakuta with a white shirt inside and black shinobi sandals.

He recognized this man, he might not have known what his name was but he remembered seeing this man in the hokages office a few times when he had visited him a while back. Then noticing that the man was approaching him, he stood up quickly and took a couple of steps back and the man stopped. He had been approached by the villagers and some shinobi in the past week who had wanted to corner him and attack him. Most of the times he escaped untouched due to his remarkable stamina and seeing the danger approaching him before it was too late, the encounters had made him wary of the villagers and the shinobi.

So seeing this strange looking man approaching him put him on edge, especially that emotionless expression on his face. " who are you and what do you want?" the blond finally asked trying to buy himself time to think of an away to escape the man seeing as he was sandwiched in between the wall behind him and the man was standing near on the entrance of the alleyway.

"Hello boy. My name is Dan-""cut the crap and answer my question!" said naruto as he interrupted the man's attempt of introductions and small talk. The strange man looked surprised by the language and the attitude of the small blond child and thought that he was being influenced by the kyuubi.

"Okay then, how would you like to join my training program?" deciding to humor the child as he went straight to the point. "And what is in it for me?" was the short reply he got.

Xx xx xx xx xx five weeks later xx xx xx xx xx

CLANG CLANG CLANG ClANG CLANG

DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP

" … "Silence.

CLANG CLANG CLANG ClANG CLANG

DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP

" … "Then silence again.

SQELCH

DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP

" … " then silence once again.

This was the sequence of sounds in the room. The SQUELCHING sound was of metal hitting flesh, metal making friends with skin and skin embracing the metal. The metal its self is a 4 feet long steel bar of radius of two inches, and it was been used to beat a small blond child who was chained to the wall, feet and legs.

The said child's skin was all sorts of colors ranging from dark blue to bright red and signs of bruising with internal bleeding. And the condition of the skin itself, it was straight out terrible, cuts and deep gashes were covering it in all sorts of places. And let's not get started on what was covering the skin itself, dry dirty blood, covered every inch of his body, head to toe.

However this was not what it seemed like, it was a totally different situation. It seemed as though the child was actually dead, but if you looked close enough you could see his eyes wide open, blazing with determination because this was torture as in the real sense but rather training, a method of conditioning to never show pain and fear and to prepare the body for future interrogations after being captured. This was the first type of training he had been sent through, to get him prepared for the harsh ninja world. This type of training might have seemed out of line for children, but this was root training, nothing was normal, plain and boring everything was abnormal, strange and painful.

The beatings continued for another couple of hours until he was released from the chains and thrown out of the room, literally. Naruto painfully got up half walked and half crawled to his 'room'. His room was nothing special and was like every everything in the root base white and plain, the only difference from his old room was that this one was locked from the outside and not the inside. He dropped himself on the bed like a sack of potatoes and promptly blacked out immediately. If he was any other child, he would have sought medical attention first before sleeping but seeing that he was Naruto the kid with the unbelievable healing rate sleep came first.

BANG BANG BANG BANG

" uhhh…. What now?" he whined then asked the room as he got up from the bed and walking to the door. He then opened it to see a man wearing the usual all black outfit of the root.

"

Can I help you ANBU-san?" Naruto asked, "Uh yes, Danzo-sama has sent me to inform you that you have completed the first stage of your training, meaning that you have to through the next level of training."

"Really I have?" asked the shocked blond, as he was wondering how that was possible because he had been told that this usually took months to complete. However the shock was completely blown away as the thought of himself going through some complicated katas and running faster than the untrained human eye could see came to his young mind. Looking up so quickly that the ANBU thought he had snapped his neck, forgetting to go through his usual morning routine Naruto asked "what's next?"

"If would please follow me, Danzo-sama will explain it to you." Stated the root agent as he turned around and simply walked away and Naruto followed right smiling all the while thinking about the awesome things he is about to learn.

Only if he knew, only if he knew.