Naruto laid on his bed, eyes stairing aimlessly at the celing. The hum of his air conditioner distracted from the pounding of the rain outside his room. He rolled over his gaze falling on a pile of lop-sided folders and journals, filled with stroies that he'd written.Most involved his two friends and him going on dangerous missions. His soft smile faded, he'd never been the outgoing person that he was in his stories. Though when the pen touched paper, Naruto was transformed into the hyperactive ninja who could take on the world.
He slipped out of bed and walked over to the pile, and picked one up. As he skimmed over the story he realized this had been the one that he stopped on. He'd written one of his friends, Uchiha Sasuke, had taken an offer from Orochimaru and had left the group. After that it seemed as though his insperation had left him as well. Sure he'd written after that but they where just short stories, he couldn't make himself write more.
Outside his door Naruto could hear the padding walking of his mother as she neared the door for her rutinely 'iGo to bed/i' Even though he just tell her ok then stay up later if he wanted to. The door knob turned as a blond head appeared from around the door. "Honey, it's time to go to bed." She smiled softly one of the traits he'd given to the shy, timid Hyuuga Hinata.
"Aright I'll go." He sighed as he pretended to get up, then sat back down as she closed the door. Naruto held his thumb on the last written page. The last sentence read.
Then he turned his back on the bloodied kitsune, and left into the shadows.
Naruto thought and thought, but to no avial. The rain still beating at his window along with the hum of the a/c began to lull Naruto to sleep. The blond fell into a deep slumber his finger still holding the last page.
"NARUTO!! WAKE UP!!" Naruto jerked his head up wide awake. iAw crap I'm late for school!!/i He hurriedly rushed around the room grabbing anything that was close. He rushed out of the house not noticeing that it had changed signifigantly since he'd fallen alseep. He opened the door and stopped mid-step. A shy meek girl with his mothers soft simle standing next a flambyant pink-haired kounochi, and a teen who complained that everything was too troublesome. The last Naruto remebered Hinata was outgoing and she didn't have his mothers soft smile, Sakura had black hair, and as for Shikamaru... well not much had changed there.
"One second!" Naruto raced back into the back room where he'd awoke. He stooped over and picked up the folder that he'd been holding when he was alseep. He flipped to the last page and read the last sentece.
The blonde smiled as he drifted off to sleep dreaming about distant lands.
'That's it! I must be alseep.' Naruto grabbed a nearby pocket knife and cut his finger. As any cut would do it bled then came the searing pain. 'Well that must mean the other world is the dream, 'cause I know you can't get hurt in dreams.' Naruto nodded with new resolve as he walked out the door to perform his daily tasks around Konoha.
For most of the day Naruto's mind kept wondering back to his mother. She who'd been kind and caring, she seemed too life-like for it just to be a 'idream/i'. Sure he'd envisioned a mother who was nice but she never seemed that real.
Later that evening when all his tasks had been compleated, the blond sat stairing at the small pile of books thrown carlessly into his bedroom corner. He sighed wondering if this was just some cruel trick his mind had played on him. When he felt a sharp pain throb from his neck, he fell towards the wooden floor below him. Everything fading into darkness.