The true horror of Konoha by jinx777 (NOT.MINE)

Chapter 2 - Why?

About 16 hours earlier

Naruto was sitting on his bed in his apartment. Today was his seventh birthday, and like all his previous birthdays, he spent it alone.

His apartment was made up of just two rooms, the main room, which had his bed and a small table, and a small kitchen he didn't know how to use.

The once-white wallpaper was peeling off the walls and the carpet was covered in strange reddish-brown stains from all the times the villagers had come and beat him.

There was one window that looked out onto the street but had several cracks and missing pieces of glass from where people had thrown rocks into his room.

The other room was what the old man said was supposed to be his bathroom. It did have all the basic things that one would find in a bathroom, a toilet, a sink, it even had a shower.

The problem however was that he never had any hot water, so whenever he took one it hurt because it was so cold.

He also learned that before he moved in, someone, probably his landlord after hearing that he was moving in, had disconnected the water pipe that went to the toilet. This meant that he needed to put water in it himself when he wanted to flush.

The problem with this though was that he could barely reach the top of the toilet.

He looked around his small apartment, he was lucky the old man could get him it really. Sure it was small, but it's not like he had much stuff.

And it was still better than when he was living on the streets.

Three years ago, on his fourth birthday, the orphanage had told him that they didn't have room for him anymore and threw him out, literally. One of the care workers had thrown him out by the scruff of his neck.

The first few weeks had been hard but he soon learned which bins would have food and which alleys would have boxes that he could sleep in.

But then the villages had found him.

That was when the beatings had started.

Luckily the old man had found him. He didn't trust him at first, it wasn't the first time someone had tricked him.

He could remember once how a 'nice' old lady had invited him into her house to eat when she found him looking through her bins.

As soon as he was in she locked the door and proceeded to beat him with her walking stick, screaming something about how he had 'killed her only son'.

He finally managed to get away from her by jumping through a window.

It was also the very first time he noticed that he healed very fast. When he had got far enough away he had stopped and looked at his arms, filled with shards of glass from the window.

Then, right in front of his eyes, the glass was pushed out of his skin and the wounds had healed.

After that, he didn't know what to think, but just assumed that it was the same for everyone and didn't think about it again.

The old man had been careful when he saw him, shocked as well. But after getting over the shock he took a shivering Naruto to the hospital and after getting him looked at, he brought him here.