Naruto: The Devourer of All Things

Konoha

Third P.O.V

The raven haired and dark skinned child, who has recently transformed from the adulthood due to the actions of the monster book by 'eating' his age. The child enjoying his slumber in the middle of nowhere, even sunrise were unable to move him from the ground.

An old man goes by the name Suzuki, whose job is a merchant in a horse carriage are on his way to Konoha for a business dealings. He primarily supplying food and ingredients for the restaurants. Many of the restaurant owner favoured his product. The Akimichi Clan has been a regular customer for his business as he selling a top qualities ingredients. Some of it are quite rare and difficult to be found. Because of that, he is one of the favourite food merchant in the Land of Fire.

This business trips is the last one that he needed to carry out before he returned to his family. The merchant life took quite a bit of his time. This time, he made a promised to himself that this will be the last trips before returning to his home. His grandchildren always wanted to spend their time with him. He will not disappoint them this time.

The old man Suzuki right now are riding on his horse carriage. His nose suddenly picking up a blood on his way there. The elder man is curious about such thing so he rides the horse carriage there according to the smell of blood he is picking up.

The stronger the smell, the closer the source of the scent. The merchant Elder come down from the carriage. The horses were uneasy with the development as well. He calmed the horses before checking up the scene.

He approaching the source of the strong smell of blood with caution. In his mind, many thoughts running inside of it as he walked closer to the scene. It could be the fightings of ninjas or thugs, wild animals disputes over their territories. He simply hope that it was the latter due to the fact that animals were actually predictable because of their wild nature while humans are not.

He would retreat at once if he saw battle of ninjas or thugs.

Still, there are no sound of clashing of swords, usage of ninjutsus, or even a roaring of animals. Just a strong smell of blood.

As he getting closer to the cause of the scent of blood. He saw a young boy, wearing a clothes covered with blood and lying on the ground. The bones of an unknown animal were all over the boy with the traces of blood.

He quickly made an assumption that the boy defended himself from the wild animals around here. He move closer to the boy to check on his pulse whether he is still alive or dead. If he is dead, at the very least he could buried him and plant a tombstone.

But, if he is alive which most probably not, looking at his condition, he would apply first aid kits and then brought that kid to Konoha hospital for treatment.

As he moved both of his finger to his neck to check on his pulse, the boy suddenly gripped his hand, shocking the old man. The old man Suzuki is sweating at the boy's glare.

Suzuki: " Boy ! You're still alive ! I was just checking on your pulse ! What happened here !? Where are your parents ?"

The dark skinned boy's glare soften as he looked away from the old man and focus his sight to the sky. In respond of the old man's question, the boy simply shake his head.

Suzuki: "Never mind, I'll take you to the hospital. You looked like you really need it, boy."

The old man did not quite understand but he will asked questions later. The boy is in need of the medical attention. He carry the boy with his two hand and lay him down inside the carriage.

He getting up to the horse carriage and make haste to the Konoha Hospital.

In reality, the boy neither understand Japanese language nor knows the identity of that old man.