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Chapter One

   It is now about eight years after that beating that he received when he was four and he decided to wear an emotional mask so that people would not see how strong he really was. The other reason was also because the villagers would rather have a weak demon than a smart and cunning demon.
   As long as he was a ninja and still treated like a demon, he swore that he would never show his true emotions,even though he has started feeling anger and has experienced flashbacks to some beatings. The beatings were enough to keep him up at night, so he had insomnia also.
   He was also not able to handle as much food as people thought he could. You would think that by all the ramen he ate that he would have a full stomach everyday,but he did not.
   He barely got by on the money he got from missions also because the landowner always made him pay two times the rent.
   To put it simply, he was always broke. When he did have money left over he spent it all at Ichiraku's because that was the only place that he was allowed to eat at.
   Now that we know about the living conditions for our blonde hero, let us resume to when he finally gets to his apartment after a rather horrific beating.
   He rushed to the bathroom to grab some bandages for the wounds that had still not healed. For some reason Kurama wasn't able to keep all the wounds from scaring, only the ones that would be visible on his hands and feet.
   Naruto was going to be about an hour late after Kakashi-sensei usually was so the others probably would've left on a simple D-rank mission since he was unimportant.
   'Kit, that is not true. Stop telling yourself lies,'Kurama said in Naruto's mind.
   'It is true, and there is no denying it,' Naruto replied to his friend.
   Kurama still didn't know as much about Naruto as he would like. All he really knew that nobody else knew was that Naruto faked his emotions. The people that he bonded with were really people that he could care less about. The only thing that really keeps him sane and in Konoha is Team 7 and a certain someone. Sure, they might have fake bonds, but they are the closest thing that feels like a family to him, and he didn't want to go and destroy that.
   Anyways, back  to the matters at hand.
   He walked to the Hokage's office to go see Baa-chan since he was certain that his team would probably be there waiting for him.
   There was two bad things though.
   The first one is that he can't stop limping.
   The second issue is that his mask was falling off since it is around his birthday. Actually, it is his birthday.
   Naruto finally made it to Baa-chan's door and tried to plaster a smile on his face.
   Key word:tried.
   Apparently, his face was just not into it today.
   Also as he walked into the room, Sakura just decided to try and punch him for being late.
   But, her plan didn't go exactly as she wanted it to.
   As soon as her fist went straight for his head, Naruto grabbed her hand and judo flipped her, about done with her and her banshee like attitude.
   What he didn't notice was that rookie 12 was also in the room, along with their senseis. Once Naruto noticed that they were there he froze up and a smile suddenly showed up on his face as he apologized to Sakura.
   "Okay, so I am assigning you all to have a mission so that you can get to bond more for teamwork. You should leave in about an hour so leave and go pack up. You will be gone for two weeks at most and one week at least. Hope you have fun!" Baa-chan says as she shoo's us out of the room.
   'A BONDING TRIP! I AM DOOMED!' Naruto yelled at Kurama as he started freaking out on the inside. On the outside, his smile was faltering and eyes started twitching creepily.
   'Kit, you'll be find. You should be able to deal with this, and it might be able to help you a bit,' Kurama replies as Naruto goes to his apartment to pack. At least he wouldn't be there for the beatings that night during the fox hunt.