'It's always them.'

Naruto watched dejectedly as his parents refused him again, chosing to focus on his siblings instead.

He only asked for their help in reading a bedtime story for him.

"Akaru, Hanae, time for bed!" Kushina called.

'It's always them, and never me.'

He just watched, standing there like an outsider, as his parents took his brother and sister to their rooms.

Naruto held back his tears and ran to his 'room'.

It was only the attic. With a worn matress, a thin blanket that he has as an infant, and an oil lamp. Nothing else.

Naruto slammed the door to his little room as he burried his face in the matress and wailed.

They never gave him their time of day.

Everything has to be about Akaru and Hanae.

"It's ok, Kit. Let it out. I'm here for you." The Kyuubi's gentle voice soothed his aching heart, as he felt himself pulled into his mind.

It took the form of a giant sewage system, caging in the Tailed Beast that resides within him. The Tailed Beast who had long stopped trying to break out of his confinement.

"C'mere." The Kyuubi called, and Naruto wasted no time in running past the giant pillars into the gargantuan swils of his tails.

He burried his face into the Kyuubi's fur and let out loud sobs. The Bijuu said nothing, choosing to lie his head down next to the boy and his tails.

His presense helped his Kit more than words could ever do.

'Pathetic humans and their stupid ignorance, leaving their own kind, their own blood, because they can.' He watched his kit dose off to sleep, sighning.

"Minato, Kushina, when he has moved on from you, don't even try crawling back to him, begging him for forgiveness and acceptance."

The Jinchuuriki and Bijuu stayed like that till morning, when Hanae and Akaru were called up by their parents.

'It's not fair...'

"You'll pull through it. I promise."