Forced to Insanity

Chapter 3

"We can't let people near him! He's too dangerous!" One of the council member shouted. It was just two days after the incident when Naruto killed one of the medics sent to take care of him. It was still a red hot discussion within the village. As it would turn out, one of the councilmen told their wife about what was going on with Naruto, and his son overheard and started to spread the rumor to his friends that there was an 'insane demon killing people' and that 'no one is safe'. This sent the kids into a panic, thus having their parents come to calm them down. When the parents learned what had upset the children, they scolded the first boy. They boy, not liking the scolding, told the angry parents that he heard it from his dad, a councilman. This convinced some of the parents that what he said was true, but most of them wanted to know for sure. A large amount followed the boy to his house and confronted the councilman, demanding the truth. When the man did not confirm or deny anything, saying he was under oath, they left. But this did not stop the other groups of people looking for the truth. Some went straight to the Hokage, questioning him on what demon this was, and why he was keeping it a secret, and others went to the other council members they were close to. All of them hoping for the boy to have been proven wrong.

Hiruzen dealt with the onslaught of questions well enough, appeasing the villagers' animosity to the 'demon'. The other council members, however, were a different story. Some of the members who strongly disliked Naruto were easy to convince, spilling everything from Naruto's other personality to the fact that he attacked a man, killing him in seconds. Of course, he left out the fact that the man was coming at a mentally unstable person with a sharp, thin, pointy object that had liquid in the tube attached.

By the end of the day of the medic nin's death, the entire village knew what had happened with Naruto, gossip spreading like a wildfire, blowing the entire ordeal out of proportion.

"Did you hear? That demon child killed an entire squad of important medic nin! They were supposed to be the elites in healing! Just under the level of Tsunade-sama! There only problem was their lack of fighting abilities."

"Hey, Misaki! I just heard that the demon child killed an entire group of harmless genin! They were just on a D-rank mission when they crossed his path! Just for that, he killed them all!"

"The demon is getting too strong! He killed a ANBU, just because he was throwing a fit! If he's alive any longer, he'll destroy us all! And the Hokage isn't doing anything about it! They boy went to the damn (mental) hospital!"

Rumors such as these flew threw the village. Though each and everyone difference in their own ways, they all had the same points. Naruto killed a ninja, the eldest Sarutobi was doing nothing about it, and he had only gone to the hospital after the killing. No one mentioned the hospital he went to was a mental one, and that he had been there for far longer then just after the killing. No, the creators and spreaders of these fantasies did not care for actual facts. They just wanted to spread their corrupt beliefs about a young boy.

No one thought about Naruto's mental state after killing a man who was sent to help him. His mental state after seeing one of his fears in a place that was meant to be safe.

No one thought of Naruto's slowly breaking mind

"Naruto, he must have deserved it. You saw what he had! That vial must have held poison! There's no reason not to kill him!" The outside world's Naruto was huddled in a ball, rocking back and forth within his mind as his body was doing the same in the real world. Every so often, he would mutter something such as 'murderer', 'dead', 'innocent', and 'monster'. Naruto sighed, allowing himself a rest from trying to fix his other self.

Though it may seem like there was no improvement - considering Naruto had been at this for two days already - there was truly quite a bit. Right after seeing the person he had attacked wasn't trying to kill him, he immediately froze up, and the self in his mind blocked itself away from Naruto. The ninja that were too late in arriving at the room were forced to move the boy to his bed, seeing as he was too out of it to do it himself.