Hello readers, still getting the hang of writing stories and actually finishing them. I will try my hardest to regually update. As i'm still new to this i hope you will review this story and tell me both good and bad parts which will help me improve.

I don't own Naruto or any of their plots or characters but i do own any of my own characters if i ever get round to making some.


Chapter One: Beast Within?

Loneliness, few have ever truly felt its dull sting, one such person resides in the famous village of Konohagakure, the village hidden in the leaves. This person is famous, there is not a person that does not know the face of this individual. So, one may wonder how they could possible be lonely? The truth is this individual, while famous, is the outcast of society.

This is a story decided by the events seven years prior. Seven years ago as you may have already heard, a nine-tailed fox appeared within the walls of this great village. Much damage was caused an many lives were lost, civilian and shinobi, but none will be as greatly missed as the hero that stepped up to face this demon. This hero was their forth Hokage, A beloved man who on that day sacrificed his life to destroy the demon.

However, a tailed beast is pure chakra and cannot be destroyed. After a long trying battle, of which the forth stood victorious, the demon laid dead. But the problem is that a demon never truly dies, and in the place of this mighty fox lay a small cub. This small cub was the reincarnation of the once powerful Kyuubi. Fearing this as a resurrection the forth hurried to seal it away and on that night, October 10th, this small cub was sealed inside a newborn child.

This child, this poor child, was sacrificed in vain. The small defenceless fox cub was sealed inside the only child of the forth Hokage, killing him thus leaving the child an orphan. The child was supposed to be viewed a hero and a savour by all, supposed to be. Instead this child was viewed as the monster that killed their families and destroyed their homes.

Those events led to the brutal treatment of one poor little girl. Yes, the forth's child was a little girl called Naru Uzumaki, and she was treated with contempt. Ever since she could remember she was alone, surrounded by enemies, it was a happy day when she wasn't beaten or when she could get her hands on food no matter what condition it was in. She never knew why she was treated the was she was but knew better than to stop and ask an angry mob. The worst of it always arrived on her birthday, October 10th, where a mob of almost everyone that wished revenge upon this poor girl would form to perform what they had come to call it 'The Great Fox Hunt'.

Today is the day of the 'great hunt' and the focus of this story resides in the corner of a dead-end alley. On one side of this alley lies a bloodthirsty mob consisting of drunk civilians and shinobi, and on the other is a small seven year old girl trying to hide amongst the bins and rubbish.

Usually, when she wasn't this pale from fear or muddy from the alley, Naru would wear a grey kimono with patterns of leaves falling and other traditional floral decorations. Not that she knew what it was called or that it was for formal occasions, it was the only store she could buy from and even then she got the ones nobody wanted at unreasonable prices. Her beautiful long white hair would make the grey look darker and her red eyes would contrast everything, except the blood.

'Maybe if I stay perfectly still, they won't notice me' She tried to delude herself. It was no use, the mob was quite aware of where she was and did nothing but jeer at her pitiful attempt of hiding. Then almost as if some starting sign had been giving the entire mob charged at the poor girl in an attempt to kill 'the demon'.

The beating that little Naru received lasted longer than ever before and she truly believed that she was going to die. She was kicked, punched, stabbed, then kicked, punched, stabbed again. She was crying out in pain the entire time until she heard a voice, a quiet voice amongst the screams for blood. The more she focused on the voice the more she lost consciousness of her surroundings.

As you can probably guess she focused on the small quiet sobs that she could hear to try to ignore her surroundings, but this proved harder than first thought until something collided with her head leaving red streaks in her white hair and down her face. While leaving everything red, it also left everything black for her as she passed out.

She awoke to the sound of crying, small sobs echoing around her. As she looked around from where she laid she found herself in a dark dimly lit corridor with passageways leading in every direction. As she stood she decided to find out where the crying was coming from. As she walked down corridor after corridor she had one thought on her mind, 'Maybe I can cheer them up and we can play, and hopefully those people won't bother us.'

Eventually, after much walking, she came across massive bars, 'Wonder what's behind them, must be pretty scary and dangerous, I hope I don't meet it'. But as often the case with prayers, they're left unheard. As she walked up to the bars, close enough to touch them, the crying stopped. Naru was about to turn around and look a different way until a small voice made itself known.

"Wait, please don't leave. I don't want to be alone anymore." As this was said, another girl about Naru's age rushed to the bars. Tears clearly running down her face, her red hair a mess, how could she ever leave this poor girl here by herself. Naru stepped closer to the bars before passing right through them, her only objective to comfort this girl in front of her that was clearly in need of her.

It was just as soon as she passed through the bars of this cage that she notices the two black ears on top of her head, these were not human ears, then her attention was taken by the black thing swishing behind this distraught girl, it was a tail. In surprise Naru leapt backwards out of the cage a safe distance away, this was new and Naru didn't like new.

To her surprise the girl in front of her broke down into a mess of apologies and tears. The girl fell to her knees propped up only by the bars of the cage that restrained her. Naru instantly tried to apologise, trying to say she was just surprised, but the girl couldn't hear her. So in an act that surprised even herself, she stepped through the bars once again and embraced the girl in front of her, that had reduced to sobbing once more. As she placed her arms around this girl in a rather clumsy hug she felt her stiffen in her arms. As she felt her relax into the hug, she thought she heard the girl whisper a simple question to her, "Why?". She was about to ask her if she said anything when she noticed that the girl in her arms had fallen asleep.

"How could I not? How could I leave you here alone like this? Why are you here? Where is here? Why do you look like that?" These were just some of the questions that plagued her mind that night waiting for her to wake from her deep sleep. She also took this opportunity to get a closer look at the being in her arms. The girl had even longer dark red hair, it wasn't some vibrant red but a dull colour, like it was once a vibrant crimson but now coated with a layer of dust. Her eyes were a jade green colour that seemed to glow in the dark, her left ear and tail were tipped with an eerie blue. She was wearing a red jump suit that seemed very familiar, but she couldn't remember why.

Hours passed and the girl showed no signs of waking, and her own eyes became heavy. Naru soon joined the girl in slumber.

Dreamless hours passed until Naru stirred, she woke to find herself face to face with the girl from last night. Jade eyes studied her carefully, she suddenly felt very self-conscious, realising she had probably been watched even while she slept. She began to feel more and more nervous until the silence was broken.

"Why?" The simple question that she thought she heard before the girl fell asleep. This question confused Naru, it had no answer on it's own.

"Why what?" Naru groggily asked, she never was a morning person.

The girl in front of her erupted, "Why are you here? Why were you kind to me? Why am I here? Why am I locked up? Why have I never seen you before?," they questions left Naru speechless, she didn't know how to answer any of these, but then one of then started with who, and she knew how to answer this one, "Who are you?"

"My names Naru Uzumaki, who are you? I don't know anything else, last thing I remember is, is, loosing consciousness and waking up in these tunnels." Naru told the girl hoping it would help calm her.

"I'm Kit, I don't know how I know that but still, that's my name." The girl seemed brighter, almost cheerful, until she looked closer at Naru and asked curiously "Where's your tail?" This question surprised Naru.

"What do you mean? Why do you have them, is it a jutsu?" Naru looked curiously at Kit's tail, and reached out to touch it, only for it to be moved further out of reach. Tempted to reach for it again, she thought better of it noticing the weird look on the face of this strange girl in front of her.

"What are you doing, you know touching a kitsunes tail is only done between mates right? All fox's know that. What kind of fox demon are you, I've never been able to hide my fox features in human form can you teach me?" The strange girl in front of Naru was almost jumping up and down with the excitement of meeting someone new, even if they didn't hold all the answers she was wishing for.

"What do you mean fox demon? I don't have fox features, I'm not a fox. Why are you here?" Naru had decided that it was time to turn the table and ask some questions of her own.

"Aren't you a fox demon? Would explain why you have no fox appendages. I've been locked in here in this cage for as long as I can remember, you're the first person I've seen." Naru herself was pained by the empty expression on Kit's face, one she was quite familiar with, and it made her want to befriend this strange girl all the more.

"You've not left here or seen anyone else for as long as you can remember? Why don't you slip between the bars like I did? You can come with me and we can look for a way out together." Naru was curious as to why she hadn't left, I mean this was a cage but something as small as them would have no problem slipping in and out at will.

Kit looked at Naru with the same sad eyes and was about to open her mouth to say something, when her face lit up like a christmas tree. She went from sombre to hyper in seconds. When she had calmed herself down enough to tell her new friend her plan, "I can't go through the bars they prevent me from passing, but you can, you can pass through the bars and tear off the seal and free me." Kit tried to keep a smile on her face but deep down she was worried, worried that Naru wouldn't help her, that she would leave her alone.

Naru got up and walked just outside the cage looking for the seal, while Kit watched her from inside hoping she would decide to release her. Naru finally spotted it far out of her reach. Turning to Kit, "How am I supposed to reach that? Why does it have to be so high up, I wish it was lower." Before Kit could reply the seal dropped down to Naru's height, they exchanged confused looks but couldn't explain what happened. Naru reached for the tag and just as she was about to remove it, a white light appeared engulfing everything until it faded.

A man now stood behind Naru, he had yellow blond hair and a long white coat with red flame patterns around the bottom over a standard shinobi vest. He was instantly recognised by Naru as the forth Hokage, but that was not to say she wasn't surprised and confused to see him, but she was doing better than Kit who didn't even know who he was. Kit who was scared by the entrance of this new appearance had resorted to hiding behind the bars of her cage.

Naru's grip tightened on the seal tag while she focused on the new arrival as he surveyed the surroundings. He noticed a tail swishing back and forth behind one off the bars and he noticed his daughter staring at him with her hand on the seal he sacrificed himself to create.

"Naru, do not tear off that seal. I do not know what has happened but you cannot let that bloodthirsty monster out, no matter what she told you. I sealed her inside you as I trust you to prevent her escape." The chakra ghost of the forth Hokage tried to reason with Naru but everything he said only helped Naru make up her decision.

Naru had had enough of the way people treated so called monsters, she'd had enough of people judging others unfairly without even getting to know them. In one sharp movement she had ripped the seal off from it's place on the cage. In seconds Kit had dived through the bars of her cage and tackled Naru into a massive hug, while the chakra ghost of the forth Hokage started yelling at her, "Noo, what have you done? You've set the demon free, her chakra is too much for your body it'll kill you as it leaves. It'll kill everyone, how could you?" He fell to his knees in defeat mumbling something about how his daughter betrayed him, but Naru was too busy trying to breath as a recently release Kit started squeezing the life from her.

As they were all engulfed in their own activities, nobody noticed that the world they were in was getting smaller and smaller, becoming darkness. Soon though, the darkness surrounded them all and they had little choice but to notice it. They grouped together as the darkness slowly approached on all sides.

While this was all inside the mindscape of Naru Uzumaki, that did not mean it was safe. Many traps lay in the seal ready in case the fox ever got out. The Forth knew this and that there was only one way anyone would leave alive. He would simply have to undo the seal, but when the seal contains what's left of your soul it's not quite so easy. He also knew that intentionally or unintentionally the chakra of the demon would kill Naru even if they survived this trap. So it's a good thing he was considered a genius.

As soon as he finished tampering with the seal, the girls watched in amazement as he erupted in the same white light that he appeared in. This light forced back the darkness and left the girls drowsy.

"I don't know if what you did was the best decision or the worst decision you'll ever make but I can assure you nothing will be you same for you, either of you. Kyuubi, please look after her, look after each other." With those last words he faded away to nothing and they lost consciousness.


That's all folks, for this chapter anyway.
I'll hopefully be back with more, and hopefully you'll also be back for more.