Flames of the Heart – 02

Minato looked down and found a knife embedded deep into his side as he coughed up a bit of blood with one hand holding his wound.

The crowd quickly backed away before looking at each other accusingly.

They were unable to determine who had done such thing.

It wasn't that they hadn't done it before; it was that someone did it to an unarmed man.

Minato took this time and turned toward his wife, who was hugging Naruto and crouching on the cold cobber stone ground.

"I'm so sorry… I couldn't… protect… both of you..." Minato struggled to say while putting a hand on Kushina's cheek as her tears ran across his fingers, mixing with the blood.

Minato averted his eyes toward his son, who he would never able to see growing up.

The dying man mustered the last of his strength to give a heart-warming smile.

It was something for his son to remember him by, instead of this sorrowful moment.

Naruto outstretched his undeveloped limb, trying to grab his father face, but it was out of his reach.

His blue eyes turned dull as a layer of water began to cover it.

His mother, Kushina, hugged him once last time before laying him down on the floor in the corner gently.

Naruto also tried to grab his mother retreating hairs but failing in that as well as his grip strength was nonexistence.

His parent covered him with their body in a protective manner as the villager tried to pull them away.

Both of them spoke softly to their son, as their body was impaled by various sharp objects due to the town's people frustrations.

Never once, did the smile on their face faded away.

Naruto, even as a baby couldn't hold in his emotion any longer. He cried loudly as soon as his parent body was moved away revealing him to the mob.

His parent face was replaced by an aged old man, Hiruzen.

"I'm sorry for doing this, Naruto. But for the future safety of the village, please go with your parent," Hiruzen said. T

he child before him didn't understands his words.

Naruto just wanted to see his parent again as tears continuingly damping the cloth, and his cries overshadow the villagers' angry shouts.

The air around Naruto began to shimmer.

It was due to the rising heat from a small source. Several villagers began to feel uneasy at the heat wave.

Hiruzen didn't make much of it but he did sweat a little, and pulled out a knife from his side, readying to complete the task.

Naruto's cries got louder, as the thermal blanket enveloped him gotten denser before it began to push everyone back, shocking them with an invisible hand.

Hiruzen blinked in astonishment and dropped the knife when the wooden handle of the weapon began set aflame.

Its edge glowed slightly.

The knife bounced on the cobber stone floor, as its metal blade bended on impact.

"It's not possible," Hiruzen muttered, stepping back a bit away from the child.

It was the same with everyone else.

"He's a monster! A Demon! Kill it!" That was one of many shouts.

They were called out by the villagers.

"No… no… it's not possible. We're can't be the one who fulfilled the prophecy," the village elder shook his head in dismay while watching the baby in front of him covered in yellow and orange auras.

The airs around the villagers begin to heat up rapidly as various object around them combusted into flames, seemingly without any external aids.

The villager's clothes shrank slightly from the heat, drying any wet patches that were there previously.

"HAHHHH!" several bold villagers shouted and dashed toward the baby with their pitch folk holding high.

As the sharp metal point collided against Naruto's unprotected body, aided by the assailants moving momentum.

While the tip melted on impact, Naruto cries as he felt something blunt pushed against his side, hurting him.

With a loud scream, the child body wrapped in intense flames like the sun itself. It exploded outward, incinerating everything in its paths.

The cobber stone charred and quickly turned into magma under the intensity of the flames.

Everyone in sight set alight by the raging resulting inferno.

"It wasn't a mistake… it's not a son. It's the sun," those were the last words Hiruzen said before he too joined the mob in the afterlife, except without the screaming.

The fiery tendril-like stream of fire didn't stop there.

It spread across street and collided against every building, wrapping the towns in its clutches, swirling upward, turning into a pillar of fire reaching high into the sky.

The raging inferno didn't die down for hours as if the fire was struggling to hold on its existence, turning everything into ash.

When it finally did die down, leaving a child alive among the burnt rubbles.

The child was still crying, only barely.

The town was destroyed. Anything flammable was consumed and reduced to ash.

Objects that were not flammable were rapidly melted in the fire and joined the magma floors, increasing its volume.

Naruto sniffled a bit and looked at the blue sky above him.

It was unhindered by any sort of cover now.

The child giggled a bit as he apparently sees some sort of clouds that look like his parents.

He waved at them with his tiny arms.