Prologue – Part I

(Authors Note: This is my first fic...go easy on me...please)

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto...

The moon was bright that night, just like it was the night Kyuubi attacked Konoha. Deep in the forest of Konoha, human cries could be heard in the distance.

"Kill the DEMON! Kill the DEMON!" a drunken villager of Konoha repeated belligerently.

"Yea GET IT, GET IT!" another replied ominously.

Four drunken villagers from Konoha where kicking, punching and slashing with Kunai at a small sack about 4 feet in length. The sack was tied with a rope to keep whatever was inside from getting out. The bag seemed to move with every crushing blow and the cry of a human being could be heard from within… the voice sounding much like a small boy's.

"AAAHHHHHH! WHAT DID I EVER DO TO YOU!...cry…sob…sniff, ALL I WANTED WAS SOME FOOD!" the boy cried; scared, beaten, bleeding, hurting and hungry.

"Let's drown the bastard in the lake!" the one holding the Kunai said with a ferocity he himself had never heard before.

"Yeah, let's just kill the prick!" the one that was kicking him shot back.

All of the men nodded in agreement and picked up the sack containing the boy whom no one apparently wanted. They took a few steps over behind a couple of trees and some rather large boulders to come across a lake. The lake was about 100 feet long and 135ft wide. The men from the village of Konoha took one final look at each other and then tossed the sack into the lake, taking with it the boy held within. The boy would soon suffocate since the sack was now being rapidly filled with water. With the air gone and replaced with water, the boy let himself slip into the peaceful state known as unconsciousness.

The boy awoke to the sound of dripping water. His eyes steadily opened and his hair was soaked in water. He was lying on his side gradually lifting his head and body from the 4 inches of water on the ground. The blond boy looked down on his reflection in the water. He blinked twice in confusion and slowly got up. The boy was about 3 feet and 7 inches tall and had wild, spiky, blond hair and ocean-blue eyes. But the most peculiar thing about this young boy were the whisker-like birth marks on his cheeks. He wore a white T-shirt with an orange swirl in the middle and black long pants. He had black ninja sandals and white wrist-bands with a red kanji symbol for fire in the middle of them.

"What? Where… am I?" The boy squeaked from his lips.

This place was unfamiliar to him. It looked like some sort of sewer with dripping pipes. He heard a noise emanate from the corner of the room that caught his attention. The noise was unlike any he had heard before. It sounded fearsome, dark, vile, and monstrous. He was indeed terrified but for some reason unknown to him he felt himself drawn to it. Against his better judgment, the boy decided to walk towards the sound.

"Hello? I-is anybody there?" the boy called out, but there was no response.

He kept walking until he reached a rather large cage with the kanji symbol for seal embedded upon it. He looked inside the cage from a notable distance of about 40 ft. He couldn't see anything inside the cage because it was so dark… but not just any darkness, it was pitch black.

"Hello?" the boy questioned yet again, feeling very nervous about the situation.

This time he was met with a pair of eyes that seemed as big as he was. They were blood red and had slit pupils, making the eyes have a rather feral look. The figure looked down from the shadows within the cage and stared at the boy. Utter silence was filled the room, and the boy was now petrified to speak. He also found himself unable to run away from the monster that lay before him. His mind told him to run away as fast as he could, but his body would not respond.

"YOU!" the creature within the cage growled at the young boy, its red eyes narrowing in visible anger. The creature also bared its large sharp teeth, which were the size of the boy's arm. "WHAT DO YOU WANT?"

The boy couldn't bring himself to answer. He was so mortified by the creature's presence that he couldn't even begin to from words.

"WELL?" the creature snarled questioningly. As the creature said this, an overbearing darkness started to fall from, what seemed, out of nowhere. Whatever creature was inside the cage quickly took notice.

The boy snapped from his stupor and noticed the coming darkness as well. "What? What the heck is going on!" he yelled in confusion.

"AH! SO IT CAN SPEAK!" the creature said with a hint of amusement in its voice. "AND HERE I THOUGHT YOU DIDN'T HAVE A BACKBONE TO COMPLIMENT YOUR SMELL OF FEAR AND UTTER LOOK OF STUPIDITY."

Something sparked inside the boy. He felt very angry, no, infuriated at this thing, whatever the hell the "thing" was. He would not be disrespected by this creature that wouldn't even come out of its own cage. He felt all of his fear leave him and summoned up all of his courage and spoke again.

"JUST WHO IN THE 7 HELLS DO YOU THINK YOU ARE! I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE FUCKING GODZILLA! NO ONE DISRESPECTS ME AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!"

"HAHAHAHAHA! THAT REMAINS TO BE PROVEN LITTLE ONE. YOU'RE A RATHER INTERESTING SPECIMEN... WHAT'S YOUR NAME KID?" the creature questioned.

"I'm UZUMAKI NARUTO" the boy replied still staring straight into the eyes of the beast within the cage.

The creature narrowed its eyes at Naruto and immersed itself within the cerulean eyes of the boy. It was somewhat impressed. The boy had been emanating pure fear only a few minutes ago, and now there was no sign of it. The boy was either truly unafraid, or very good at hiding it. The creature approached the bars of the cage and slowly walked out of the shadows. As his body leaves the shadows, Naruto can finally see the shape of this caged beast. Naruto was now staring at a rather large fox with nine tails behind it.

"K-Kyuubi?" Naruto's eyes widened as he recognized the Legendary demon that stood before him.

Kyuubi smirked at the boy, "I SEE MY…REPUTATION PROCEEDS ME" he said rather proudly. "TELL ME, HOW OLD ARE YOU KID?"

Naruto stood once again fearless at the nine-tailed fox demon and responded in a loud voice , "SIX AND HALF!...WHATS IT TO YOU, FUR BALL?"

"HUMPH! YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR TONGUE BOY. YOU'VE GOT GUTS KID, BUT THEY AIN'T ENOUPH FOR WHAT'S HAPPENNING TO US!" Kyuubi replied with a smirk.

"Us? What do you mean us?" Naruto was both confused and rather pleased at the Kyuubi's statement. He was standing in front of the demon of all demons and was actually getting praised, however small, by him.

"YES, US. YOU AND I ARE CONNECTED FOR BETTER OR WORSE, UNFORTUNATELY," he said rather displeased at the fact. Kyuubi took one last look at Naruto just to see the courage in his eyes. 'HMMM... THIS KID, HE HAS SOMETHING… DIFFERENT THAN ANY HUMAN I HAVE EVER SEEN. MAYBE IT'S JUST ME, BUT THIS KID IS VERY INTRUIGING. I COULD HAVE SOME FUN WITH HIM… FOR THE TIME BEING…' The century old demon thought to himself in amusement.

Naruto was beginning to lose his patience with the demon. He yelled out to his tenant, "Hey! Are ya going to tell me what's going on or what!" The demon-fox looked at the boy and gave a malicious grin, showing of all of his pearly whites. Naruto stood his ground but very slowly started to falter.

"LISTEN UP KID! WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, WE'RE STUCK TOGETHER FOR THE MOMENT, SEEING AS I DON'T THINK YOU WISH TO DIE HERE. I'LL GIVE YOU A SMALL AMOUNT OF MY POWER, AND IN RETURN YOU'LL GET US OUT OF HERE. AS FOR YOUR QUESTION, I'LL ANSWER IT THE NEXT TIME WE SPEAK." Having said that, Kyuubi prepared to leak some of his chakra to his jailor.

Naruto was confused and prepared to say a few words. Thy never came out because he noticed red energy, almost like an alive mist, swirling around himself. He then began to feel something he never could before. Something great something powerful, something… primal. He closed his eyes in bliss and awoke within the sack, once again feeling himself drown in the water and darkness. He closed his eyes and instinctively gathered the nine-tails's chakra. His entire body was resonating and red flames burst through the sack. His whisker-like birth marks had become more defined, now almost like tiger stripes. His hands were now claws and his hair was more wild than it had been a short while ago. His mouth now bared large fangs. He narrowed his eyes and opened them to reveal a pair of ruby red eyes with slits for pupils.

As the villagers were about to make their way back to Konoha, the one that had slashed Naruto with the Kunai looked back and noticed a faint red glow emanating from the center of the lake.

"Hey guys, look at that!" He almost shouted, attracting the attention of his other three companions.

"Hmm…? What the hell is that?" another questioned as he looked at the lake as well.

At that moment, a light tremor began to shake the area where they stood. The four men looked at each other and began to stare at the lake. As they did, a red sphere emerged from the water, causing the surrounding water to create whirlpools, rough waves, and cyclones. The sphere stood on the surface of the water and steadily made its way towards the edge of the lake. It reached land and then it subsided, revealing a large fox-like shroud with nine tails. The four men, now fully sober from their previous drunkenness, stared at the shroud in fear.

fear at what they saw.

They turned tail and ran faster than humanly possible back to their beloved Konoha. When the men where out of sight the sphere died down revealing the body of the six year old Naruto Uzumaki. In an instant, he disappeared from sight to reappear in his apartment only moments later.

The flames making the shroud die down and dispersed into the air, leaving a weakened Naruto on the floor of his house. Back to normal, dried and healed from his previous torture, he once again drifted into unconsciousness.

(Authors note: ...well what do you guys think? I don't care if people flame i just want your honest opinions)