Naruto's pov

"Naruto, get up." I can't move. "Get up." "I cannot move!" "So? Get up. We have things we need to do." I felt my finger twitch and sighed. Kurama was right. I need to stop. I need to get up. Get up. Get up. Get up.

I hear footsteps. Fucking fuck. Get up, Naruto! Someone blocked my already poor view of the moon. A kid. A kid? Without anyone around him?

"Helloo, are you okayy?" Do I look okay?? Fucking idiot. But I didn't say that, obviously. The kid was probably going to go tell his parents and they were gonna beat me too.

"I'm fine."

"You don't look fine."

I narrowed my eyes at him. Then why the fuck did he ask? Now that I was looking closer, he had pale skin, black hair, and eyes as black as the sky right now. He reminded me of the moon— pale but shining so brightly while surrounded by darkness.

He started moving around and took out what looked like a bag from his bag. He started pulling out bandaids and creams and stuff. "Stay still, I'll help. I'm super good at this stuff, my parents started making me bring a kit with me everywhere because I'm clumsy. But it's coming in use!", he gave me a smile I did not return.

When he spoke, I swear he had an accent. It wasn't thick, and it wasn't all that noticeable. It might've been because he was a kid or because I had head damage after having my head hit against so many surfaces but whatever it was, I noticed it.

I flinched as I felt his hands on me, they're cold. He started moving my clothes around, applying cream and bandaids wherever he could find. Part of me thinks he just wants to play doctor with me, but if I don't have to do it later, I'm not complaining.

"How'd this happen?", he asked. He's nosy. "I fell." The furthest thing from the truth, but he didn't say anything. "I fall all the time too! But never like this, you must be more clumsy than me!!", he laughed. I'm glad he can find humor in my torment. But I'll admit, it did make me feel a little better.

It took longer than I expected, maybe because he was searching for the smallest scrape just to make it better.

He gave me a couple more bandaids, "for future use", put his stuff back in the bag, then back in his bag, then zipped it up and threw it on his back. He stood up, dusted off his pants, and helped me up, making sure not to grab my wrists, seeing as how they were bruised.

I stumbled at first but he made sure to catch me, putting his arm around my waist and helping me walk the first couple of steps until I was okay with it. Then he started holding my hand and walked to the end of the alley, looking around. "I need to find my brother, he'll help you more," he turned to give me a smile.

No. He can't do that. He'll make it worse. He'll probably kill me just for touching you. "You better get to running." I know, Kurama. I will.

"Itaaa!!", he screamed. I paused. He was going to draw too much attention over here, to us— to me. Someone in particular turned their head, stopping their frantic movements once he laid eyes on him. The little boy let go of my hand to go hug him and I took that as my opportunity and ran. I didn't get far, just tucked behind a neighboring alley. It was far enough and this one wasn't a dead end. I didn't go yet. I don't know why, I just didn't. I waited and I watched them.

The older one finally let him go and he immediately started telling him about me. "There was a boy!! And, and he was super duper hurt! And I helped him! But you have to help him too!! Look, he's right there!!!", he turned around to look at the alley, stopping when he didn't see me. "There's no one there." "No, he was there! Come on!" He grabbed his hand and started dragging him into the alley. I guess that's a habit of his. They came out a few minutes later with nothing.

The older one wiped his hands on something, "Ke, stay out of alleys, they're gross and you don't know what's happened in them." "No! There was someone there! I swear!" "Come on, it's late and we have to go home and shower, and don't tell mom you ran away!!" He put his head down in shame and walked in the other direction. Then, I finally left. I needed to go back to that house, I need to shower and get ready to see the Hokage.

At Naruto's House

Shimmy up the wall, shimmy shimmy shimmy, here to crash the party, gimme gimme gimme, gonna get some food, dinnie dinnie dinnie, open up the windowww, don't make a sound, gonna get beat, if I ever get found, climb through the windowww, close it right behind me, take off my shoes, because they're gonna find me, run to the closet, quick quick quick, get the clothes you stashed even though they don't fucking fit. Grab the towel and run, shower here I come!! Close the bathroom door and the song is done!!

Kurama laughed. He did every time I did this, but it just makes it so much more fun getting in the house this way, like I'm a spy. I locked the bathroom door and turned on the water, trying to be as quiet as possible. I took my clothes off and looked in the mirror, my eyes widening at the amount of dinosaur bandaids I had on my body. I turned around and looked, even on my back. But despite all the bandaids, every scar and bruise was still visible.

I turned my head away from the mirror, staring at the shower. This was going to burn so badly. I took a deep breath before stepping under the water. I wanted to pull back but I didn't, I needed to be able to deal with a little pain, this is fine.

About six minutes into my very painful shower, I heard banging on the door. "Mito, get out the bathroom!!" That was her name—my sister: Mito. I'm not Mito though, so I'm not leaving. But I do need to hurry up in case Kushina is here. I finished washing my body and brushing my teeth for the first time in a while and got out, grabbing the clothes that were a little too small and way too tacky.

I got dressed, ignoring the banging on the door, and tried to dry my hair to the best of my ability without making it look stupid. "Menma, shut up!", I heard someone else yell, a girl, so... Mito. So now Menma realizes that Mito isn't in the bathroom and that someone else is in the house. This is just great. This is so perfect.

I grabbed my clothes and opened the door where I was met with two faces that I hadn't seen in a long time. They looked like me, the girl having blond hair and blue eyes like me. The guy had black hair and blue eyes, and if his eyes were darker I would've thought he was the boy from earlier. No, that's not true; he's too distinct.

The girl screamed upon seeing me. Really? "Who are you!? Daddy!!! Dad!", she continued screaming. The Hokage ran up the stairs, coming to see what his daughter was screaming about. I looked at him and he paused. "Daddy!! There's a strange guy here!"

His eyebrows furrowed at her. "Strange? Mito, he's your brother?"

"Nuh-uh!! My brothers right here!" How old is she? I can't remember. I'm turning eight in a couple of months, and I know they're younger than me, but I don't remember how much younger. She's childish.

"You have two brothers, Mito. But Naruto, you're finally home! For a while, I thought you were just avoiding me all the time and I was wondering if I did something wrong." If he did something wrong?? He just allows his citizens to abuse me every chance they get! Of course he did something wrong! Is he just going to pretend like nothings happened!? Like I'm completely fine after all these years of never seeing me?!

"Did you have fun with your friends? Tell me about it, I wanna know about the people who make sure you're gone every time I come home. Well, I think it's time I meet them if they have you out this late at night. Seriously, what if you got hurt??"

What? With my... friends? He thinks I was out... with my friends??? For three years?!

"When your mom told me that you got yourself a new group of friends and you guys were as thick as thieves, I wanted to meet them but you were never here so I never got the opportunity. I asked her to make sure you didn't go out so I could talk to you but she said you would cry and beg to hang out with your friends so she had no choice but to let you go. But now, you're here!!"

What fucking bullshit has Kushina been feeding this chump??

He looked at my clothes, "Do those belong to Menma?" "Dad, I don't like orange," Menma looked at what I was wearing. Minato looked back at me and tilted his head in confusion. "Are your clothes dirty, Naruto? Menma and Mito just had their clothes washed, were yours not in there? Well, seeing as how you and Menma share a room, it doesn't really make sense for them not to be." For being the Hokage, he sure is gullible as hell. Did Kushina plan all this out.

"Dad, we don't share a room, I don't know him," Menma mumbled, looking at me, turning away when we locked eyes. Minato turned his head in confusion. "Naruto, where do you sleep?" Normally tucked away behind a dumpster with a newspaper over me.

"At my friend's house," I lied. "You don't have a room here?" He asked. He asks too many questions. I shook my head no.

He thought about something for a while. I don't know what, but it definitely took a while.

"It doesn't make sense for you not to have a room though. I always thought it was weird you wanted to share a room and a bed with Menma but I just figured you didn't like being alone. It's a four bedroom house so... well, your brother, your sister, your mom and I have separate rooms, so... where do you wanna have your room? Oh! What about the attic? Well, no, that's too isolat-" "The attic is fine," I interrupted.

Being in the attic would give me a way to get in and out of the house without Kushina noticing, I'd be out of the way so no one would bother me like that, and I can do whatever I want up there. The only problem is that it's probably hot and old up there, but it's fine, this is a relatively new house.

"Are you sure? The attic is lonely, scary, and there's spiders up there. More than that, the door gets jammed sometimes, it's hot and also dusty. Don't you want to be down here?" "The attic is fine, I wanna have a room in the attic," I said again. Can't he take a hint?? I said it's okay.

"Hmm.. okay, I'll start working on it, there's a bunch of boxes and old paper work and scrolls up there. I'll take them to the office in the morning. You can sleep in my room until it's done." The Hokage isn't all that bad. He's too nice for his own good, and he's gullible as hell, but he's alright. But, I would not be sleeping in his room. I needed to clean out that room. I'll do it myself tonight and just sleep on the floor.

"Starting tomorrow night, we'll be training, so you need to be prepared for that." Kurama always butts in with his sour attitude at the worst times. "We'll also be building up poison immunity and stamina so be ready for that as well." Huh?! Poison immunity!? I'm gonna die!

"Also, Naruto, no offense, but that jumpsuit is not for you, we're gonna go get you some more clothes tomorrow. You're seven, no? Well, should I say eight? You're really small for your age, I'm pretty sure Menma weighs more than you, and he's two years younger. Have you been eating enough?" I nodded. A fucking lie. What I eat in a week is probably what these people eat in a day, if that.

"Hm... we'll take you to the doctor, maybe it's an internal issue. It's around that time for the twins to get their check up too." I looked at the twins. The girl had wide eyes looking at the Hokage, "No, dad, no!! I don't wanna go to doctors! I don't want shot!" "If you need one, then they'll give you one, but that's not guaranteed. It'll be okay, you'll have Menma and Naruto with you."

I can't go to the doctor. They're gonna find all my scars and they're gonna tell the Hokage and then I'll never be allowed to do anything ever again. They can't know about anything. They can't. I have plenty of scars, having Kurama means they heal faster, but it doesn't make them go away for some reason. There's plenty that did go away when I first let him out of his cage, but there's also a bunch that didn't.

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