Chapter 5 - Revenge

Not everything is a sea full of flowers, and the huge village known as Konohagakure, which experienced three wars through its creation, is not different. Sacrifices were made, some rewarded fairly, some rewarded unfairly.

Some paid for their lives and had their close ones living in misery, while others were going to pay for their future by annihilating their clan.

There were rumors throughout the entire village saying that one of the three legendary Sannin, Jiraiya, had left the village. It was said that internal fighting happened, and so one of their most important Ninjas left. [Note 1: Hehe, I decided to keep the meeting a secret for the time being. Till the time comes, it's a secret!]

Such news was of course known to all villages that had a spy on Konoha, so it didn't take long before the other Four Great Villages knew that Jiraiya left. Of course, with the exception of Kumogakure, none of them believed it.

As for why Kumogakure believed it...

Because Ay knew that Jiraiya was Minato's sensei, no different from a father to the deceased Fourth Hokage. It was very simple to link the disappearance of Naruto from Konohagakure, to Jiraiya leaving. For anyone who knew what happened recently, coming to such a conclusion is nothing surprising.

Meanwhile, within Kumogakure, a training ground.

A young man with somewhat dark skin, blonde hair, and sunglasses was observing a boy about 4 years old. The boy had fair skin, blonde hair, sky-blue eyes, and three whiskers on each side of his face.

After a few days on Kumogakure, Naruto was slowly adapting to the new environment, but it wasn't too hard. He didn't need to fight for a scarce amount of food, nor did he need to get worried about being beaten. The young boy didn't meet the villagers yet, because it was too soon for that.

His previous spiky, messy hair was neatly brushed backward, leaving only a long strand of hair on the right side of his face. [Note 2: For a more precise understanding, imagine it as our ''modern'' haircut]

If not because of his extremely fair skin, no one would doubt him as a native villager of Kumogakure. A pair of sky-blue eyes stared back at B, and it seemed that lightning coursed through them, causing them to glow slightly.

They were both silent, but the sound of thunder suddenly reverberated all-around. Lightning crackled throughout the young boy's body, and he instantly appeared two meters away, with a speed akin to an extremely short-range teleport. B's eyes followed the boy closely, and satisfaction appeared in his eyes.

In a disciplined way, Naruto returned to his previous position, almost tripping on a stone, and so his body shook from side to side, ''Pffft!''

B almost couldn't hold back his laughter, before quickly adjusting his face to a serious expression, ''Yo, Naruto, you are doing good! We've helped you to control your power, now you're going to shoot Lightning powder!''

'???' Naruto was slightly confused, before shaking his head. In the past few days, these weird, incoherent raps were made constantly by B, and so the boy was already accustomed to them.

Shamelessly ignoring the blank gaze on Naruto's face, B continued to talk, ''We will start to train you officially, we have already discovered your current limit to that ability. Basically, your own strength is limiting your use of it.''

''And above all, your talent is off-limits. However, we can't start training you physically as of now. Your body has severe malnourishment, honestly, if not because of the Kyuubi sealed inside you, surviving would be a miracle by itself.'' B's tone carried a rare seriousness, but also anger.

He sighed slightly before continuing, ''Due to Kyuubi's yang chakra having extremely strong healing properties, you have no internal or external injuries. It even looks like your body is normal, but both you and I know how serious your situation is at the moment.''

Naruto is a smart boy, and he immediately understood that B knows that his external appearance is nothing but a false one.

Because his insides were screaming, his body wanting to give up, as if his consciousness was about to fall into a deep sleep at any moment. It was the only thing Naruto never let anyone know because it was the most physical expression of his pain.

Despite the 'pain', he never lacked a smile on his face.

Even so, everyone only knew how to hate him.

At every moment as of now, his body was still malnourished despite eating well these days. The Ay and B's siblings were really treating him as family, giving him the best treatment they could. Naruto was enduring physical sufferings and psychological torture from the past.

Driving them as motivation to get stronger.

It was a horrendous sight to see on a young boy about 4 years old, but Naruto's eyes seemed to glow strongly because of the violent lightning that flickered around him. His motivation wasn't only to get stronger, but also for revenge.

Revenge against the village that mistreated his parents' effort to protect it, against the village that mistreated him. His future revenge against the village that made him suffer during his short 4 years of life.

A boy with a heart as pure as the clear blue sky at daytime, only knew what hate was during his short existence. And the result of that was that all hate was mixed inside a genius who possessed the absolute power to control Lightning, and the strongest Bijuu sealed inside him.

There is a saying, ''Hate was only born to protect love.''

Maybe, in the future, Naruto would grow to understand this sentence, because the two contrasting emotions inside him would mix together. Hate towards Konoha, Love towards his family.

It was unknown to Konohagakure, but what they did wasn't as simple as creating an enemy towards them. They gave the wings to a tiger that wished to prey on the flying birds.

They created their most dangerous enemy, one that wouldn't forgive them.

[1] I decided to explain a bit more about Naruto's feelings to avoid inconvenience - He won't, I repeat, he won't forgive Konoha.