Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
He was dying.
For the first time in his life he felt what death was really like.
It was weird, his body being warmed against his own blood while his actually body heat was becoming colder by the second.
But there was another feeling there, fear. Fear of what death will bring, fear of what might happen next, fear of what his friends will think.
Friends…you know, when he was younger that word was foreign to him. All the kids stayed away from him and called him demon behind his back. But they did not call him that because he did anything bad to them; they called him such names because they were just mimicking their parent's behavior.
Now one of his "friends" plunged their chakra infused fists in his chest. Though it scraped his heart, it was of no use. The power from the chakra was enough to stop his heart.
Well, at least it would have stopped his heart if not for the demon within his chest that was frantically trying to save his life. No, it was not out of worry that he, the vessel, would die; it was because the demon didn't want to die.
"Oi, kit you alive?" That voice, the voice of the demon inside his stomach. Was it really worried about him?
"No, not really." The boy responded with a hint of amusement in his voice. He had to live up to the number one most unpredictable ninja as well as the number one jokester.
"THAT IS NOT FUNNY NARUTO! IF YOU DIE THEN SO DO I AND I HAVE NO PLANS OF DYING ANYTIME SOON! Besides I'm still too young to die, I haven't even hit 10,000 yet." The last had a bit of amusement as well; looks like Naruto had rubbed some of himself on the demon.
The boy was in shock, "Did you just call me Naruto?"
"Listen here brat, just shut up. The more you talk the more energy you're using up. Just stay quiet until that masked one gets here and takes you to a hospital. "
The boy frowned, "What happened to the Naruto part? Man, I felt like you and I were actually becoming friends there." He coughed up some blood.
"WHAT DID I SAY FIVE SECONDS AGO!?!" It was obvious the demon didn't want Naruto to die, whether it was because the demon didn't want to die or because the demon was worried about Naruto was still a mystery.
"Kyuubi…just give up. You and I both know that I won't make it. God damn it Sasuke why the hell did you have hit me a little bit to the right? God it hurts."
The Kyuubi was in shock. Did he just say give up? That's not like the kit at all. Seconds later the Kyuubi found Naruto appearing in front of his cage. The boy's blood was still running out of his body fast and it floated above the water that littered the sewers of his mind.
Naruto was on his back looking up at the ceiling. With his remaining strength he turned over on his belly and stared to crawl towards Kyuubi's cage.
"Brat what are you doing?" Kyuubi had given up trying to console the poor boy. It was clear that the always cheerful boy had given up all hope. But the demon was curios as to what he was doing.
"You know I was always wondering what would happen if I took of that seal. Now that I'm dying I guess it's sorta my last wish." He continued to crawl till he was at the massive gates.
The Kyuubi chuckled, "Well isn't it obvious? I'll be set free."
The boy smiled, "I doubt that you'll actually be set free. I mean the fourth Hogake made this seal, there has to be some extra safety on it or something." The boy had grabbed onto the bars. He lifted himself up until he could reach the seal with his arm.
"You do realize that once you rip off that seal you will be killed?"
"Like that's not happening to me already." The boy had placed his fingers of his right on the top of the paper while his left arm was hanging onto the bars.
"Kyuubi, if…no, when you are set free please promise me one thing, don't go off killing the leaf village. I don't know why you did that in the first place, but at this point I don't care."
"What about the boy that killed you?"
Naruto laughed a little, "Yah, him too. But if you can bring him back to the village please do, even if you have to break all his bones."
The demon smiled and chuckled, "That's more than enough of a reason to go off and find him."
Naruto smiled, "Thank you." Naruto closed his eyes and his body fell backwards toward the floor, along with the seal that he was holding. He hit the water with a splash as he landed on his back.
With the seal removed the gates opened allowing Kyuubi and his chakra to flow freely through out the boy's body.
Kyuubi first thought he would let his chakra flow through the boy's body and try to destroy him as he burst out of the Naruto's stomach, like he had dreamed of doing when he was first put in this body. Yet he kept his chakra in check and calmly walked over to Naruto's body.
The boy laid there motionless, not a single breath coming from his mouth. Kyuubi shrunk his massive fox form to a smaller one, the size of a grown horse. He stood over Naruto's body, looking at the poor boy with pity.
Here laid a young child who only wanted recognition of his existence. Yet the people in his village denied his existence, his life. Oh how Kyuubi wanted to march right over to Konoha and kill all that lived there, but this boy wanted them to live, and he would not let his wish go in vain.
Unaware to Kyuubi there was a massive amount of blue chakra heading his way, to massive to be Naruto's. It traveled on top of Kyuubi's red chakra, not disturbing it from exploring the new space that was Naruto's mind.
Once it reached Kyuubi it launched itself at Kyuubi. Kyuubi, not knowing it was there, was caught off guard as it began fusing with him. The fox tried to bat it away with his tails, running around in circles, even banging against the walls, but it never let go of him.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Kyuubi stopped struggling. His voice, it changed to the brat's voice. Looking at Naruto's body it began disappearing, but the sewers remained. Looking at his reflection in the water he could see his ears fusing into his head while he grew two human ears. In fact his fur, teeth, claws, everything fox like he had was disappearing being replace by a humans.
When Naruto's body was completely gone the Kyuubi looked at himself in the water stunned; blonde hair, tan skin, blue eyes, not to mention the orange clothing.
He had become Naruto! That is, physically. He still remembered his life before the sealing, the battle at Konoha, the likes. But he had inherited Naruto's memories and feeling as well.
He had also received the pain from the gaping hole in Naruto's chest.
"HOLY SHI-!" The Kyuubi fell to the floor grasping his chest with both of his hands. A hole appeared and blood came from it, but unlike the previous Naruto Kyuubi had nothing preventing his healing ability from optimizing at full efficiency. The blood quickly stopped and his heart, veins, skin, everything that had been affected be the wound was now healing at a rapid pace. But not fast enough for Kyuubi.
"GOD DAMN MOTHER F#CKER PIECE OF SH!T…!" His rant went on for minutes. It seems this was the first time Kyuubi's ever felt pain like this.
Outside Kyuubi's newly inherited mind a white-haired man and a small dog appeared before Naruto.
The man looked at Naruto, "Naruto…Why like this?" He kneeled down to get a better look checking the boy's vitals. It pleased him that he was still alive.
The dog began sniffing the hiate on the ground beside Naruto. The dog looked up from the slashed headband.
"Sasuke's..." That was all the pup needed to say to his master. The man could figure out the rest.
The man picked up Naruto in his arms as well as the hiate.
"If I wasn't in time…I'm sorry…Naruto. Was your fate…inevitably death?" Not bothering to say anymore the man swung Naruto onto his back and, giving one last look behind him, jumped into the forest on the way back to Konoha.
A.N: Nice little prologue if I do say so myself. Will I continue it? Doubtful since I just wanted this out of my head. But if another author wants to adopt it and make it their own then please tell me. I'll give you this document as an email attachment so you won't have to make the first chapter again. You can even edit it.
Bye for now, RR.