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Naruto Uzumaki pt. 2
Background History: Naruto was born to a young couple who lived in a small house with only one level, two bedrooms, and one bathroom. Some less-than-desirable characters on Naruto's father's side of the family lead to the couple taking Naruto's mother's last name: Uzumaki. They were happy, like many young couples with a new baby, and by the time Naruto turned one, his parents were trying for another baby. They were both photojournalists working for the local paper, neither well known but both talented. They promised Naruto a modest life filled with love and support. One day, while Naruto was at home with a babysitter, his parents went to the doctor to confirm a second pregnancy and on the way back home collided with another car. Naruto's mother was dead by the time the paramedics reached the scene, and his father died while being rushed to the hospital.

Being so young, neither of them had left a will, and their families bickered over their meager belongings. Naruto, still an infant and unaware of the great tragedy in his life, was placed in a Christian orphanage in a rural town in Nevada, the state he had been born in, to be coddled by overworked nuns who didn't like to see any child left behind. Naruto had a bad habit of crying all night long, drooling all over everything (and everyone), and chucking his toys as far as he could manage. As he got older, Naruto was one of the last children to stop gurgling and start saying words, but one of the first to pull himself up just about everything. Temper tantrums became a norm for him, and long after potty training he constantly wet himself, and just about every night, wet the bed. Though the nuns meant well, but weren't superwomen by any means (many of them were elderly, in fact), Naruto didn't get as much attention as he required and began to act out even more when his tantrums didn't get him anything but time out in a corner by himself. He would play tricks on the nuns, or on his peers, or would refuse to do his chores. The attention he got fueled him, but it was almost always negative. The older he became the more severe his punishments grew, most of which were corporeal paired with his privileges being taken away. He was the boy no one wanted to talk to at school and at home, and his grades impressed no one.

When he turned nine and no one even remembered his birthday, Naruto had just about had it. After sitting in his closet (since he shared a room with ten other boys) and crying to himself, Naruto got a great idea. An idea that would show everyone he was someone who couldn't be forgotten. The orphans usually ate breakfast and dinner together, and after dinner Naruto stole a book of matches and hid them beneath his mattress as soon as he could. As usual, he got ready for bed when they were required to and settled down in his bed to pretend to sleep. Not according to plan, Naruto actually did fall asleep, but woke up in the middle of the night to a darkened, silent room. He glanced at the clock to see it was around two AM, and decided he could go through with his plan anyway.

Grabbing the matches, he tiptoed out of his room and went downstairs to the sitting room where there were large, heavy curtains. It took a few tries, but Naruto managed to get one of the curtains to catch the flame. The orphanage had fire drills every Friday, so Naruto was confident everyone would know how to get out of the burning building safely. Leaving the curtain burning, he went back upstairs and climbed into bed, feeling satisfied with himself.

Chaos ensued. Eventually, the fire began to spread. Many of the fire alarms had long since run out of battery, and the ones in the back of the large building finally picked up the smoke after the fire had gotten extremely large. Despite the general panic, most of the nuns and orphans were able to get out unharmed. Some were burned, but not fatally. There, however, was one death: the eldest nun, and the one who dealt with Naruto the most often.