Naruto blinked as his vision blurred significantly but he took in the plain white ceiling and knew that somehow he had made it. His body felt numb and he couldn't feel anything below the waist for the life of him. He took a deep breath and nearly gagged on the scent of blood, alcohol, and antiseptic liquid. Wherever he was he wanted out now. He narrowed his eyes in deep thought as he tried to conjure his brain to fill in the details he had missed. 

His parents.......adoptive parents but they were still his parents......his eyes welled with tears. He started crying loudly as he remembered that night. He screamed out when the numbness wore off and the pain, the absolute shit his body was going through. He wasn't aware of the room flooding with nurses all he could do was curl up in a ball to scream his soul out and dodge whatever hands were touching him. "Don't touch me! Get the fuck away from me! Mom! Dad!"

Suddenly he felt faint and his words slurred on the tip of his tongue as his eyes drooped, he could make out three males before him and suddenly everything went black. 

The tension in the room was thick, everyone was eying each other wondering if they were going to explode just like the beautiful male did. When Shikamaru had come to visit Naruto and see if he had improved the last thing he expected to hear were those same painful desperate screams for his parents. It made the depths of his being shudder from the pure rawness of his voice. He was silently thanking Kami that he still had his parents because he didn't know whether or not if he would still be sane after the fact. 

"He's a lively one alright," Shikayun the head doctor said with slight amusement in his tone. That diffused the room quickly and made the thundering hearts mellow out into normalcy. "Alright nurses back to your posts, guards the situation is now stable and Head and Heir please stay." 

After they all complied with the doctor Shikayun closed the door behind him and went over to Naruto and uncurled his body into a neutral waking position. "Seems all it took was two days, while you were out for those two days I did further testing and I discovered something unique about our little new family member."

"Is it something good or something that places suspicion on him?" Shikamaru asked as he took the chair closest to Naruto's bed.   

"No nothing that would make us doubt his origins but it was such a weird little quirk that I couldn't help but take note of it during my nightly watch," Shikayun pulled out a chart which showed x-rays of Naruto's body. 

"Well Naruto here is a rather remarkably healer and I'm not talking about healing as in just like how an average shinobi uses chakra along with the medicine in their body to heal themselves. During his first night here, his wrists and ankles popped back into place in only a matter of hours after you left. I found it odd so I had drawn some blood from him and compared it to the blood of other clans within the village."

"Any conclusions?" Shikaku asked folding his arms. 

"Two actually, one was most obvious was the Uzumaki blood we have within the village the other was for Senju. The fact is I don't think this is an ordinary run-of-the-mill newly dubbed orphan. Uzumaki and Senju DNA is hard to come by just being an ordinary citizen, these two clans were built for the shinobi world and you're telling me one just happens to be living peacefully within a neutral zone village. I just don't believe it," Shikayun continued as he handed over the DNA matches. 

"Alright, I sense this is going somewhere," Shikamaru encouraged as he turned back to the sleeping blonde. 

"I ran his DNA across orphans within his age range and I found a match," Shikayun produced a messed up, stain-ridden folder that had old pictures, birth certificate, and other personal effects. "Meet Naruto Uzumaki, a runaway from the Konoha Orphanage for Boys and Girls." All three males poured over the few pictures of Naruto that showed him as a baby, one as a toddler, another as a child, and one as he was nearing the age for being in the academy.  After that, there was a big red stamp across his files labeled 'RUNAWAY'. 

"When I tried getting his medical history all of it was redacted, like the council and the Third wanted to keep it a secret. Obviously, I'm sharing this in confidence what I've shown you here will stay here. If you want to question him about it I won't stop you but you can probably guess why he ran away."

"The housemother at the time was caught in a scandal along with her husband, molesting the children and selling them to the crude side of shinobi. I remember a lot of orphans showing up dead in alleyways, hunger, severe injuries, etc." Shikaku listed off as he stared at the solemn Naruto in the old worn pictures. 

"The Third must've known Naruto had potential but he ran away before he could be made into the academy," Shikamaru said gravely, little did they know Naruto was listening in on the conversation. 

'I hated that old man, I don't want to be here either but I have to.' He thought faintly as he whimpered slightly so they could stop talking about him when he was in the room. 

"Are we going to bring it up to him?" Both older males turned to Shikamaru. It was his call, he was Naruto's soulmate. 

"No, the Third isn't here to dictate his movements anymore and he's obviously been traumatized I won't expose any of this. There is a possibility that making this known will make Lady Tsunade inclined to have him trained and made into another foot soldier. I want my soulmate here within the clan grounds."

"Alright, then I guess we should kill any trace that leads to him, "Shikayun took out a lighter he used for smoking and burned the papers and all pictures of Naruto back then. Naruto smelled the smoke and relaxed into his bed. 

'Well, at least I didn't have to go hunt down for that shit while I'm here.' Naruto smiled internally. 'They also didn't make the connection, no matter works in my favor.' 

Well, you can't make a connection for something you weren't looking for. If the older Naras had paid attention to his birthdate they would've connected the biggest history change in the Leaf directly to Naruto. As if to answer the call a demonic laugh echoed through Naruto's mind. 

Shikamaru watched them burn before looking back over at his Soulmate. 'I will protect you Naruto. I won't let anyone lay another hand on you,' He sat back by the bed and stroked Naruto's cheek again, tenderly as he got caught by that angelic beauty once again.