Why The Mask

Chapter 2

Naruto's POV

They've been at it for hours, I thought to myself as I felt yet another shuriken pierce through my skin. Are they ever gonna stop?

After they had found me in the alleyway, they had picked me up and carried me to a far off training ground despite my thrashing around. After realizing that there was no way that I was going to get out of this I just let them do as they pleased, not moving a muscle or making any noise whatsoever.

Once we got to the training ground they found a thick, sturdy tree and pinned me to it. One of the shinobi of the group had forced their kunai clear through both of my hands, shattering the bones of my palm while doing so, and pinning them above my head, after he had done that he had moved onto my ankles doing the same thing there shattering those bones to.

It took everything in me to not scream out in agony as they did this to me, but I didn't. The closest reaction to pain they got was a slight twitch of the lip. Other than that they got nothing.

I may not be strong enough to fight them off like I would like to, but that does not mean that I don't have a strong will. And once I set my mind to something I will not give up. I never go back on my word, and I never break a promise. And I made a promise to myself that I would not give them the satisfaction to see the pain that they cause me. Even if it costs me my life!

So that's why they've decided to make my body their own personal target. To see who could make me cry first. To see which one of them would be the first to make me gasp out in pain.

I just stayed there pinned against the tree, not being able to do anything about it, and watched them as they switched between people and threw more and more shuriken at me. There were now around eighteen shuriken pierced into different areas of my skin when one of the men started to get angry.

"Why won't you cry you demon! You really are a monster aren't you!?" He asked, as he grabbed a kunai out of his weapon pouch from his hip. I recognised this man to be the first one who had found me in the dark alleyway. By the looks of it i would say he was from the legendary Uchiha clan. "Let's see how you like this, you little bastard!" He yelled, throwing the kunai at me with a chakra powered throw.

I had just been getting used to the pain of the shuikens getting thrown at me, seems how they only went about an inch deep.

But as soon as I felt the kunai go through my stomach, feeling the snap of one of my ribs as it did, and clear through to the other side until the tip of the blade was buried into the wood of the tree behind me, just like the other four kunai that they had stabbed through my hands and ankles to  hold me up to the tree.

I shot my head forward as my eyes widened from the unfamiliar pain. My breath got caught in my throat as I tried to keep my breath steady. The only noise coming from me was my ragged breathing as I tried not to choke on my own blood.

I could hear as they all started to laugh, as they finally got a reaction out of me. That was until they saw the blood dripping from my mouth onto the ground in front of me.

That's when all hell broke loose.

"WHAT THE FUCK!?"

"HOKAGE-SAMA IS GOING TO BE PISSED."

"WHAT DO WE DO?"

"DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO AIM!? NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!"

"Is he dead?"

At that everyone shut up. I could feel all of their eyes on me as I heard a pair of footsteps coming towards me. As soon as I felt the man close enough to me I folded in on myself pushing my back side against the tree as I forced my arms, torso, and legs outwards making the five kunai go the rest of the way through me while still being stuck in the tree.