Disclaimer: I don’t own naruto or any other thing in this story that I might mention…besides the plot and idea

a/n its 12 am and I’ve had a brainwave. Hope it’s a good one, based on real life. Not me, incase you think I'm abused

The tale of a forgotten Kid

5 years old, February 2nd 1997

Today was Naruto Uzumaki’s first day of kindergarten. He lives in the city of Konoha in a pretty good part of town. His mother is a successful, local designer and his father is and inventor. If that counts as a job, Naruto knew his mother didn’t think so. Anyway moving on to the story.

Hi, I’m Naruto, I’m five and today is my first day of kindergarten. I have three gold coins that my father gave me to catch the bus with. He said I needed to take the 401 right till the last stop. That’s where my school is.

When I came to school everyone had come in cars. I was the only one in my year taking the bus and I wondered why. They all had their parents there. I wish mine where there too. Kindergarten was okay I guess, my ears hurt though, I’ve had sore ears for a while now. I would tell my mum but she’s never home. You know what, I wish I could be driven home, the bus is rotten and everyone looks at me whenever I walk in. I don’t know why. I don’t know a lot of things.

7 years old, March 10th 1999

I’m tired, school is exhausting and my ear is getting worse. My earache feels like it is splitting my head. I don’t know what to do, I’m all alone and I’m scared because it hurts so bad. That’s the reason why I’ve decided to call the police, they’ll know what to do. In school we learnt about them, call 000 and they’ll help you no matter what.

The police have come, they all ran in and they look really worried. They’re asking me who I am, how old I am and who and where my parents are. I told them everything, and then they asked me why I had called. I said I had a bad earache and it hurts, when the policeman heard that he looked funny, his eyes changed or something. He sat me on a chair and brought me a weird smelling drink; he said it was panadol and that it would take away the pain. It didn’t taste nice. The last thing I remember was him putting me in my bed and staying in my room until I fell asleep. When I woke up he was gone, I wish my parents where like that nice policeman.

9 years old, December 1st 2001

Last day of school, we got to bludge for the whole day but we needed to do one thing. It was creative writing, I don’t like writing stories but today was easy. The teacher asked us all a question.
“If you were the world’s richest person, what would you buy?”
My friend said he would get the newest game boy, my other friend said he would get a Ferrari that was pure gold. Then the teacher asked me, I said I would buy myself a mother and a father who would be with me everyday, play cricket with me and who would look after me. My teacher and friends all looked at me funny, I thought that what I wanted to buy was a good thing.

December 5th 2001

School is out! And it is Christmas time! I’m very happy; I can ride a bike really well now so I can go anywhere I want without a dumb bus. Today I’m going to ride my bike to the park; I have all my cricket stuff in my backpack. I love playing cricket. Hopefully my friends will be there but there parents don’t let them go anywhere by themselves. Everyone says I’m lucky that I’m not told what to do. I don’t think I’m lucky.
(Meanwhile at home, Godfather Jiraiya came to visit)
“So where is this little nine year old nephew of mine?”
“I don’t know,” Kushina answered.
“You don’t know? Is he okay?” Jiraiya panicked.
“Calm down, he’s probably gone to play cricket,” Kushina waved her hand.
“By himself? Where?” Jiraiya asked.
“By himself and he would’ve gone to…Minato!”
“WHAT!?”
“Where is it that Naruto goes to play cricket?”
“Huh? He’s gone?”
“Oh, don’t worry! Jiraiya, he’ll come back some time,” Kushina said while pouring herself another glass of champagne.

12 years old, Januray 16th 2004

Life sucks. We’ve moved houses to another part of Konoha, my school is the same, that’s not bad is probably what you are saying. You're right, it’s not bad at all compared to the real problem. My father left. That’s right, he just up and left one day. He said he couldn’t take it anymore. I wonder what he meant, life? Mother? Me? I know how in all the movies it’s really lame how the child goes, ‘It’s all my fault!’ I know how cliché it all sounds but…I can’t help but feel rejected. I know it’s not my fault; it’s his fault and his problem. All the same I feel unwanted, not like that’s a new feeling. At least, before the divorce, I could see my father everyday. At least I had the pleasant sensation of seeing him and my mother sleeping, at least I used to have had the chance to say, ‘My father lives with me.’ When he did live with me I never realised how important that was…I never would have realised how much it would have changed things if he left. Now I know. –laughs- Yes, now I know.

13 years old, August 20th 2005

Fuck school. Fuck life. I thought life was bad when my father left us, huh, I didn’t know how good I had it. My father is gone. Really gone, as in he has left the country gone. That’s right, my father left Konoha, he’s living in Amegakure, got a new wife, got a new family. Replaced me. Replaced mum. Don’t blame him though; we two are a sorry lot. Mum is a drunko, and a psycho always has been, always will. I never noticed until now, funny how you miss things when your younger. You were so innocent back then. I wish sometimes that I were young again, when you're younger you have less troubles, things seem less fucked up. Just shows to prove that what you don’t know can’t hurt you and that ignorance really is bliss.

15 years old, April 7th 2007

Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday Naruto, Happy birthday to me. Why are you looking at me strange for? Who else do you expect is going to sing for me? My mum? She’s socialising or working. My dad? Ha. He’s been gone from my life for two years now. Never heard from him since, except for the birthday card that comes six months late every year.
Friend? Yeah, I have them but…friends don’t cut it. Everyone my age goes on about how friends are their life and how they hate their mother for packing their lunches, whenever they do that I feel like punching them. My mother and father were to lazy to even take me to school on my first day. And anyway you all know that crap about blood being thicker than water and that in the end all you have left is family. Well, what happens when you don’t have a family? Enough about philosophical shit…about today, spent it at the beach, that’s where I live, been like that since year 7. My ear is getting worse every year, especially after I swim; my mum says it’s all in my head. Like I should talk to her about these things, she is crazy.

18 years old, 26th January 2010

I’m officially an adult, I still don’t have a car but my bike will do fine. I’ve always loved bikes. I still live at home, call me crazy and I go to Konoha Uni. Today is Hokage Day and I’m going to the uni party. I plan to ask out a girl there, her name is Hinata. The feelings she gives me are…indescribable; I’ve never felt this way towards anyone before. I actually think I might love her, loving is a strange word for me to use, I don’t think I’ve ever loved or have been loved before.

25 years old 16th November 2017

I’m married, I once wondered before, if in the end family is all you have, what happens if you don’t have any family? Now I know, you make your own. I’ve never felt so happy…and safe…and comfortable before. Hinata is perfect and me marrying her means me marrying her family. I don’t mind at all, she has a father, cousin and sister, uncles, aunts and grandparents. Now I do as well. My mother came to the wedding, she didn’t get pissed, surprise, surprise. My father came down from Amegakure as well, haven’t seen him in…12 years now. We are talking via skype now, I think he is trying to build up a relationship, sorry but too little too late. He needed to be there for me when I was young and helpless, but he wasn’t, not come when I was an adult who could fend for himself.

38 years old 13th October 2030

I’m old now, 38. I’m still in love with Hinata, just the same as the day I met her, more if possible. We’ve had three children, three girls. I love them very much, they are my world now, those four girls are my world. If I ever lost them I would be at a loss myself. But they aren’t gone, they are here with me, and hopefully it will stay that way for a long time. I've lost my hearing, turns out whenever it hurt when I was younger it was actually getting worse. Now I am going deaf.
This year my mother disowned me, she says I’m not her son anymore and I haven’t heard from her since. My father and I still keep in contact, he tries to make an effort but he hasn’t seen my daughters more than three times. When it was my youngest child’s christening my mother decided she wouldn’t go, she didn’t show up and neither did anyone else remotely related to her or my father. Not even Jiraiya came; I must confess I broke down when that happened. My mother has done horrible things but…her not showing up to see my child…I…I couldn’t help but cry. Rejection, loneliness. Hinata helped me through it all and so did her family, they all showed up, Neji, Hanabi and Hiashi. I am happy with my life. I am truly blessed, people reading this may think otherwise but I choose to focus on the positives, my daughters and wife outweigh the negatives completely. I can also develop satisfaction from the feeling of making my children grow up cared for and loved. Hinata and I promised the day we had my eldest girl that we would never let them feel like a forgotten child.

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Very personal this story, from the heart.