Regret

Chapter 3

Flashback

The Konoha 11, Shizune and Tsunade were all headed to the academy, looking for a certain chuunin teacher.

For the past couple of months, things haven't been going all that well in the village. When news of what happened reached their allied countries, they were beyond pissed and pulled out their treaties and alliances and said that they would only renew it when Naruto would come back. They had lost face in the shinobi nations and ere frowned upon. Within the village, suicide rates started getting high as they all regretted the life they put the son of their precious Yondaime. The village had declined for a bit and their reputation down the gutter. Tourist that were there that day and heard everything spread the word and they don't have the best face right now. On top of that, Oto had declared war on them along with Iwa and a bunch of other little countries/villagers.

They were headed to the academy because they tried to get as much as information of the real Naruto as they could, but it seemed like no one knew except Anko, who told them to get lost as she lost the one person she considered family and understood her pain. They knew Iruka was close to him and wanted to asked if he knew.

"Hello Hokage-sama and everyone else. Is there something wrong?" Iruka asked as he just finished for the day.

"We need answers!" she exclaimed.

"What Tsunade-sama means is did you know the real Naruto?" Shizune asked trying to make him understand what her sensei meant. Iruka looked at them and smiled.

"I suppose its time for people to know." he said, making them look at him curiously.

"You know." Kakshi stated.

"Of course I did. He's like a son to me."

"Can you please tell us, we want to know." Sakura pleaded.

"Hmm, well I met Naruto a year before he entered the academy. I knew he had the Kyuubi sealed within him, but I was curious. I knew everyone hated him, but I knew the difference between a kunai and a scroll. I saw him one ay on the swing outside the academy with a sorrowful expression. Everyone was pointing at him and whispering, glaring but they couldn't break the law. At that time, I didn't see a demon, I saw a lonely boy who needed some one in their lives, so I approached him and we became friends. He was on guard at first, but gradually started opening up. Everything changed when he entered the academy." he said with an angry expression. He clenched his fist and they saw the hate in his face.

"What happened?" Chouji asked.

"Naruto's a smart child. He's genius, a prodigy. A couple months before he started the academy, he told me about his mask and how only the Sandaime knew about. He also became friends with the Kyuubi named Kurama. At first, I was worried, but the Hokage reassured me and Kurama himself apologized about my parents death. It honestly wasn't his fault, seeing that he was being control." he said, shocking them. "He also knew about his parentage, but the Sandaime made him hide it due tot he council."

"W-What happened when he started the academy?" Sasuke said.

"You all remember the enterance exams right?" he said and they nodded. "Well Naruto had perfect scores on everything, beating the previous highest record in the obstacle course. He wanted to do well in the academy, but then....the incident happened." he said, shaking with anger.

"'Incident'? What incident?" Chouji said as they all began to worry. Iruka didn't say anything as tears threatened to fall.

"I-Iruka, your scaring us. What happened?" Tsunade asked fearfully.

"They cornered him. If they were only civilians, then he could have avoided it, but jounin and chuunin joined. They tied him up, put a drug in his system." he said looking down