Deception is My Life (Naruto Fanfiction)

Part 14

A/N: PLEASE READ! I will quickly explain the currency I'm gonna use (I apologize in advance for the mental math). Since let's say that Naruto time had yen but it's not worth the current currency conversions. For my story,
1 yen=10 USD
10 yen=100 USD
100 yen=1,000 USD
1,000 yen=10,000 USD.
Apartments in Konoha (in my story duh) are usually 500 yen, and in the richer areas with merchants, it's usually houses that are 10,000 yen. Naruto is usually overcharged 3 times the amount for his apartment to 1,500 yen(15k or so in USD conversion for my story). Reason will be explained later in the chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

"Talking"- Normal speaking

"Demon/Summon" talking

Thinking (Normal)/ Thinking (Demon/Summon)

Mindscape talking and emphasis on a certain word

Chapter 14

3rd Person POV

"I..." started Naruto as he took a shuddering breath. "Um... Can we go to my apartment? I really don't want any prying ears." Said Naruto as he looked down, ashamed. 'Let's start from there. My living conditions never got better. So he might as well get to see how everything is before anything.' Thought Naruto. Kurama who was listening to Naruto's thoughts couldn't prevent his ears from turning down and grimacing. "Kit..." He whispered.

Gaara was going to reject but he did say he was going to listen to Naruto's story, after all... 'How bad can it be compared to his?' He wondered. Naruto teleported both himself and Gaara to the front of the apartment building that Naruto lived in. Gaara immediately noticed the building had writings in it and down a few blocks he could see many strip clubs and bars.

"That's the red-light district?" Asked Gaara. Naruto looked at him and nodded as he started walking up the old and rusted staircase. Gaara followed but was careful with his steps since he felt that the stairs won't last long. Gaara looked around until he crashed against Naruto's back at his sudden stop.

"What's wrong?" Asked Gaara as he looked over Naruto's shoulder, only to see one specific run-down apartment that had cracks outside the wall, and several words are written all over the place which included cursing and names such as demon, monster, murderer and some looked new. "Kill yourself monster. Nobody wants you. DIE!" there were so many mean comments that Gaara also felt hurt.

Gaara was about to ask Naruto about the graffiti, but Naruto had dashed into his apartment and Gaara immediately followed... only to see the inside being a wreck. The furniture was ripped to shreds and turned over, the floor was broken in certain places, more graffiti inside and the cabinets were a mess. All of the food was thrown on the floor and there were several pieces of glass shattered and scattered across the whole room. But then, Gaara noticed blood stains.

"What is this!?" Said Gaara, anger in his voice as he unintentionally yelled at Naruto. Naruto ran to his room and came back with a bucket of water and several clothes. He was sobbing, but not out of sadness. Naruto was crying out of rage. "Fucking assholes...!" Yelled Naruto as he made several clones, and each grabbed a cloth and started cleaning the blood away from the floor.

"Care to explain this Naruto...?" Asked Gaara, uncertain. He grabbed a cloth and also started helping. Naruto saw this and laughed. But it was just a hollow laugh that felt cold and empty. "It's the villagers. They usually trash my place, specifically on my birthday but... They probably found out about the Chūnin exams and trashed my place while I was gone." Explained Naruto as he cleaned up the glass on the floor.