Unsealing Legacy

Chapter 2: Prisoner of Hatred

            "Humans are fickle beings, they could hate as strong as they love...

greedier than the demon and seek pleasure from slaughtering for power..."

                                        Kurama, The nine tailed fox

Naruto ran back to his home with the scroll Hiragi-jiichan gave him safely tucked in his backpack. He was grinning from ear to ear at the prospect of learning cool fuuinjutsu and becoming a seal master like the Yondaime and Hiragi-jiichan. He frowned at the sight of an ANBU squad stationed in front of his home and stopped before jogging to them. "Hello, good evening~ whatcha doing here?"

The ANBU with a bird looking mask crossed his arms. "Where were you, Naruto-kun?" Tori asked worriedly. They had gotten the corpse suspected of kidnapping Naruto, but further investigation indicated the man was alone. They had combed through the entire village be ordered to wait for the child in front of his home, while another squad was assigned to continue their search.

Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Eh, shouldn't you know where I am? Like all the time?" he pointed out, innocently unaware he had scored a

ANBU squad losing him again.

"Naruto-Kun," Tori warned, flushing under his mask, "we're going to see Hokage-sama." And then after a beat, he added, "And you're grounded. Three days of no pranking and no ramen."

Naruto flinched at that, "Eh, sorry, Tori... I'll just put my backpack in my room first, okay?"

A bear masked ANBU stretched his hand out to Naruto, and the boy quietly gave the backpack to him. Kuma sighed as he jumped to Naruto's balcony and put the backpack there. No one would steal it anyway.

Naruto opened his mouth to protest leaving his backpack there, but Tori hoisted him up onto his shoulder like a sack of potatoes before

"You're in trouble, Naruto-Kun," Tori stated in a stern tone as they took their first leap to the Hokage tower.

"But Toriiiiiiiiiiiiii," Naruto whined. Tori was the only ANBU of the squad who talked to him. It was not like the rest of the squad was not allowed to speak, but Tori was the spokesman of the squad. But throughout his childhood, Naruto could discern from their body language what they convey. If they crossed their arms with a lifted chin or tapped their limbs that meant he was in trouble and was going to get grounded. My shoulders shook slightly which meant he had done something that amused them.

"No buts."

Naruto had read the rest of the note Hiragi left, including the part that asked him to keep the scroll a secret. Hiragimeant for the scroll to be for Naruto alone, not Konoha. If they knew about the scroll it would be taken away from him, and while the child was warned of that prospect, he was torn between telling Hokage-jiichan and lying to him. TheHokage had always been kind to him and had even assigned an ANBU squad to protect him. Naruto owed the Sandaimea lot and the least he could do was be honest with him.

But...

Sandaime-jiichan never told him anything about his parents, and whenever Naruto asked, he swiftly dodged the question. The only thing Naruto knew was that they had passed away as heroes, but how they were heroes was never explained. He also never told him why he was shunned by everyone either.

"I fell asleep in the forest." Technically it was true. He had been sleeping, but it was in a sake warehouse on the outskirts of Konoha. "The weather was nice and when I woke up was it late," he mumbled. Since Sandaime didn't trust him with a number of things, Naruto thought it was only fair he kept some secrets, too.