Memories part 1
3rd POV
Five minutes before Kakashi found Naruto.
"Come child. You'll be safe with us." The orange fox demon coaxed from the scared child's mind.
Having lifted his head from his humanoid clawed paws he carefully brought the small blonde down into his deep green forest-like mindscape, keeping his mental being safe while his physical body was used for disgusting acts. Minato and Kushina stood inside the cave the Kyuubi resided in watching their child cry himself dry. The red haired Uzumaki princess slowly walked up too her son and cradled his sobbing form too her chest. Kira a wrapped one of his tails around them both and looked at Minato who was watching his beautiful boy break. The fox huffed and caught the Yondaime's attention.
"Minato, please May you summon the Old man and the others? I feel we may need their expertise too... seal away the unpleasant memories." Kurama asked softly.
Minato just nodded numbly and preformed the necessary hand seals before shouting "SPIRIT WORLD JUTSU". A white portal opened from behind the yellow haired Hokage and four figures stepped out. Hashirama Senju was the first to emerge and was immediately by the, albeit softly, sobbing child looking absolutely livid. The second figure was Tobirama Senju who looked more than irate but stood by the Yondaime's side. Madara was third too appear and to say he was furious would be a grave understatement. His glare could have killed a thousand people easily and literally since his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan was activated subconsciously. The sage of six paths was the last too walk through the spirit portal and he wasn't happy. No, non of them were. The Sage looked up at the sorrowful Biju and spoke.
"What Happened here Kurama. Why is our little fox crying?" the Biju just shook his head.
Kurama raised his head and growled low in his throat. Naruto had stopped crying, now blinking drowsily in the arms of Hashirama, Kushina and Minato with Kurama's tails wrapped around them, looking contentedly up at them with half lidded crystalline eyes. Madara and Tobirama stood by the Sage glaring at the fox waiting for an explanation as too why their little sunshine had been so distraught.
"Those village bastards decided that they would have a little..." Kurama grimaced, his brain searching for the words that could explain the horrible situation best without tainting the child. "fun with his body. I pulled Naruto from the outside world before he got too traumatized but I don't think I was fast enough." Kurama snarled looking at the whiskered boy sadly.
Tobirama face vaulted and Madara let out an animalistic snarl on par with the giant Kitsune himself. Hagoromo's eyes darkened considerably.
"How f*cking dare they. Those sick and twisted sons of b*tches, How dare they put their hands on my Kitling." Tobirama and Madara just looked at Hashirama, slight surprise showing on their normally composed and bleak expressions.
Now, Hashirama was usually a very calm, happy and carefree person so when he swears you know its bad. Tobirama blinked before turning back towards the fox. He stepped beside Madara and pulled Minato from Naruto gently, patting the kids surprisingly soft golden locks before he retreated.
"Where are his memories Kurama? Madara, Minato and I will attempt too seal them away. With our sealing knowledge I think we should be able too do it." The pearl white haired man stated.
The Kyuubi jerked his nose in the direction of a corridor.
"The Kits memories are down that hall. At the end you'll find three doors. A white door, a blue door with bluebirds painted on it and a door with a floating island painted on it. The white door leads too the Jinchuuriki room so don't go in there or you'll be sent back too the spirit realm. The blue door contains his happy memories and the floating island holds his bad ones. Once you enter you'll enter an abandoned school corridor, there you should see numbered lockers. Locker number 126 should be the memory of this unfortunate event. There have been incidents like this before. some lockers are not too be opened as I have sealed some of his worst memories away before. If you open them, even by accident you shall be forced to watch them and Naruto will relive his terror and pain. If you open one of those lockers then you have too reseal them as quickly as possible, do not watch all of the memory or you and him will be seriously hurt. The numbered lockers that are not too be opened are 45, 782, 334 and 99. 99 is especially bad, it was his first fox hunt and... well, under no circumstance are you too watch that memory."The Kyuubi directed.
Minato winced at the amount of bad memories his child had and The Three grown men vanished down the dark corridor leaving Hashirama, Kushina and the sage too watch over Naruto and Kurama. Naruto sat up soon enough and reached for Kurama.
"Kura-Nii, why do they hate me? They obviously can't hate you! You're so nice and fluffy, no-one could hate you." Naruto spoke quietly into the fox's orange fur. The Kyuubi wrapped a tail around his host and looked sorrowfully at the sunset Naruto's mind was mimicking.
"If only you knew, Kit. If only you knew." Kurama rumbled in his own head as he felt Naruto become dead-weight on his tail, sleeping.
Hashirama and Kushina looked on sadly as they had also heard what the child had said. They knew that the villagers hated Naruto for the giant fox. They knew of the destruction he had caused. They knew of all the suffering and deaths the feared Kyuubi No Kitsune had reaped and sown. They knew that their little fox had not been exposed too the Kyuubi's bad side and so had no reason too understand. The Kit was 5 for heaven's sake, he shouldn't have had to deal with this. They all curled around the exhausted child and slowly drifted off, promising too do whatever they could for the injured and tired kid before them in all of his broken glory.
With Minato, Tobirama and Madara
"How do you think Naruto's going to be when we get back. He's already gone through so much pain and he's only 5." Minato asked quietly as Madara used his Katon abilities too light up the dark corridor.
They had passed the white door, the Jinchuuriki room, and had heard the laughter of three Jinchuuriki's. They could deduce that there had been one female voice and two male voices, one the same age as Naruto. They smiled, hoping that their lives weren't as harsh as their Kit's. They had passed the bluebird door and had heard the alluring tune of a song Kushina used too sing that drew them all closer. Unable to resist the temptation they cracked the door open a little too see a grey haired ANBU holding a very small Naruto swaying softly from side too side quietly singing him too sleep while his team watched.
"Aoi, Aoi ano Sora~" The three watched with small smiles on their faces as the grey haired man lifted his mask a little and pressed a quick affectionate kiss too the sleeping child's temple. "Yoi yume o, Naruto. I love you."
"That's Kakashi! My former student! Ano, it's nice too see that he's taking care of my son in the real world." Minato sighed contentedly.
Madara and Tobirama had small genuine smiles on their faces and nodded. They pulled away from the door and continued onwards, steeling themselves for what was too come. They got too a tattered run down door with a floating island painted on it in faded colour. Tobirama stepped forward as the other two hesitated and opened the door. It gave off a loud screech before a rush of Cold air and whispers rushed past them. Madara turned up his flaming hand even more and stepped inside. Row upon rows of broken and shambling lockers filled their vision.
"Creepy" Minato commented as they stepped inside.
The door swung ship up behind them. Tobirama and Madara walked forward looking for number 126. They noticed there was a date on each of the locker doors. Minato, being the clumsy Hokage he is, tripped and slammed into a locker, accidentally popping it open. The other two whipped around so quickly they would have broken their necks had they not already been dead.
"What did you do..." they both glared at Minato as dust and blood started too pour out of Locker 99.
Minato, Tobirama and Madara only watched in horror as the bloodied dust swirled around them and the landscape changed. They couldn't move, their legs wouldn't listen too the,. It was as if something had cemented their feet too the ground. When they looked up they saw the streets of Konoha. Tobirama looked too his left and saw a two year old child with golden hair peeking into the streets.
"Hey, look! It's Naruto!" He pointed out.
The child snuck out from behind the wall and ran straight through the three men too get too a place on the other side of the street. He didn't get very far as a knife from the butcher next door flew past Madara and struck Naruto in the leg, the blond crying out in pain as he fell too the floor, bleeding heavily.
"There is the Demon! It's shown itself, this must be a sign! Kami granted us a chance too kill the demon once and for all.!" The butcher called.
Madara, Tobirama and Minato paled as much as a ghost can. The two elder men turned towards Minato.
"Which Locker did you open again?" Tobirama asked slowly.
Minato gulped and looked too the scene in front of them which now had changed too show the villagers closing in on a now terrified Naruto.
"I might have accidentally hit no.99?" Minato squeaked.
They all looked at each other and one thought passed through tier heads at the same time.
'Oh fuck'