One-shot. He finally understands why people don't look at him that way - it's because no one loves him. No one even likes him. Naruto knows that, he had more than five years to get used to it - but it still hurts. It hurts that no one will ever look at him that way. It hurts that no one loves him. However, even that isn't what hurts the most. It is that not even Naruto can look at himself that way. What hurts the most is that not even he loves himself. - Or, in which Naruto learns to love. --------------------------------------------------------- Trigger Warning: Self-deprecating Thoughts ---------------------------------------------------------- Cross-posted on AO3 and Fanfiction.net