Dark, it was so dark, everything was black.
Naruto reached his hand out.
"Hello?"
"Is anyone there?"
He gasped as he saw around twenty people running towards his direction.
"GET THE DEMON!!!"
"KILL IT!!!!"
"OH NO, NO DON'T YOU, IT'S MINE!!!!"
Knives.
Those eyes.
Those smiles.
Naruto's eyes widened.
They passed through him.
"Huh?"
He turned around and saw those people kicking a small blonde boy.
That boy looked so familiar. But who is he?
"Help!!!" The boy cried out to him. "Help, please!!!!"
Naruto's finger twitched.
He stepped forward, fingers continuing to twitch as he passed through the people quicker and quicker, hand reaching out to the boy.
The boy grinned in relief.
Until.
He couldn't breathe.
Naruto was choking him.
Twitch. Twitch. "Die, you bastard, bastard, bastard, bastard..."
"N-No...N-NO!!!!" The boy choked out.
The crowd cheered.
Naruto growled. Why is he choking him? He should be helping him.
But he wanted to kill him so bad, he's itching to kill him.
That look of helplessness, Those dull, empty eyes, that small thin body, so fragile.
It reminded him of himself when he was so weak.
The weak is trash.
He choked him harder.
Trash must be eliminated.
The boy's neck snapped.
Naruto panted heavily as he woke up from his nightmare. He couldn't breathe, couldn't breathe, couldn't breathe, it was like he had just been suffocated.
He felt the intent to kill.
His finger twitched.
What did he dreamed of again?
He couldn't remember.
His finger twitched.
He felt like grabbing something. Twisting it, snapping it.
A neck.
"Bye, Naruto! You sure you don't want me to walk you home???"
"I'm not a girl ya know!!!!"
"Yeah, yeah, okay. Bye!!!"
"Bye!!!!"
Naruto was walking on the streets.
He blinked. What day was it again? It's 10th of October. His birthday.
He had a bad feeling.
He walked faster, eyeing those men who sent glances his way.
"Hey, let's go."
"You got yours ready?"
"Yeah."
One step.
Two step.
Three steps.
"Now, now, what do we have here?"
Naruto spun around in fear.
Why were they here? Why are they all gathering here?
"So being the kind people we are, we decided to give you a very nice birthday gift. You want to know what it is?"
Naruto shook his head quickly, taking a few steps back.
"Let's play a game of cat and mouse. We'll be the cat, and you'll be the mouse."
"If the mouse is caught, the cat shall kill the mouse."
Pain.
It was all Naruto felt as he was kicked and beaten up by those civilians living in the same village as him.
He was their jinchuriki.
Their hero.
He should be lying in bed with a servant fanning him right now.
Why are they doing this?
Maybe they're right, he really is a demon.
But even a demon doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.
Naruto cried out it pain as his hair wad yanked upwards.
In the distance, he could see a cat scratching a mouse, biting on it.
Is that what would happen to him too?
"Weak."
Huh?
His eyes rolled to the back of his head.
In the distance, he could see a dog killing a certain cat.
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✔️ Sweet Nightmares (Insane Naruto AU) ✔️
Fanfiction[sequel / alternate universe of shatter.] 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤. Death was five steps away. He deserves to rest. But no, Naruto will never give up just like that. And so he endured. He endured a...
