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Naruto's little fox problem

The sun slowly sneaked up from behind the horizon. Its light slowly turned the sky a light blue from its inky black. The rays of light fell upon the mountain with five faces which towered over the little village in its shadow. The streets were all deserted and all the lights were still off in all the houses even as dawn fell upon the village.

Soon, the sun was high enough in the sky to throw light uon the village from behind the mountain. The street was already bustling as people walked up and down it. The commotion was still not enough though, to beat down the wind and birds. However, if the commotion in one particular street was there in all of them, then the wind and birds would have to go somewhere else.

'Yeah! It's me, Naruto Uzumaki of to his first mission of the day!' and the boy went walking up the street as though he was the cheif of the village. As he walked by the people who were glaring at his loudness, he noticed that there was something different about the day. The sunlight was slowly fading as dark clouds from nowhere appeared and the wind had given up blowing. There were less people too, in the streets. The lights were lit all over as the day almost became night. However, storms without wind wasn't going to stop him from his mission. He stomped all the way up to their usual meeting bridge.

'Good morning Sakura-chan, good morning Sas--' and Naruto stopped in mid sentence. Both Naruto and Sasuke glared at each other and looked away. They waited for about half an hour and then, late as usual, Kakashi turned up.

'What's with you , Kakashi-sensei! Don't tell us you were lost again!' Naruto shook his fist at Kakashi.

'Well I was at the--'

'You don't have to tell us.' said Naruto, glaring at him.

'Well, anyway, I just got today's mission from-- Naruto! Something wrong?' Kakashi asked, jumping forward as Naruto had suddenly collapsed on the ground, twisting with what was clearly great pain. Then he suddenly stopped and lay still as a corpse. But he was still breathing.

'Just unconcious. What happened to him?' Sasuke asked Kakashi afte checking Naruto. But Kakashi didn't answer. He was staring at the seal on Naruto's stomach which was visible from under his shirt.

'What's wrong, Kakashi sensei?' Sakura asked. Kakashi went down on his knees in front of Naruto and brought him to a sitting position. He lifted his shirt enough to see the seal in its entirety, except that it wasn't as entire as it was before. Many parts of the seal were missing. This definitely wasn't good news, Kakashi told himself.

'What the-- what's happening to the seal?' Sasuke asked, staring at it too.

'It was already weakening after all that training with Jiraiya-sama. The Kyuubi must have found some way to break through it or maybe the seal was getting weaker as Naruto started to rely too much on it's Chakra. If this keeps up, we'll find ourselves facing the Kyuubi once again. And there isn't anybody as brave or great as the 4th Hokage-sama anymore.' Kakashi said.

'Yeah, but there'll be somebody who'll be able to seal it this time, won't there?' Sakura asked.

'Yeah, but what if we can't seal it again?' Sasuke asked.

'How can that be? If you've done it once--'

'You might not be able to do it again because it'll be aware of it this time and'll be careful.' Kakashi said. 'Anyway, you two just watch over Naruto. I'll go to Tsunade-sama and tell her about this. I'll be back soon. Stay here and don't take Naruto anywhere. We've got to be careful. Oh yeah, and don't tell Naruto about the seal yet.' and he disappeared.

'Could the weather have something to do with this, Sasuke-kun?' Sakura asked, staring at the sky.

'Dunno...' he replied staring at Naruto. If the seal disappeared, what were they supposed to do? And just then, Kakashi already arrived with Tsunade. She went upto Naruto and stared at the seal.

'It really is weakening. We still can't afford to let it break loose.'

'Duh.' said Sasuke silently, rolling his eyes.

'So, what're we supposed to do?'

'We'll keep him under watch. Take him back to his house, Kakashi, and watch over him for the day. I'll send someone over for the night. Meet me then.' and she disappeared.

'What's with the hurry?' Sasuke asked.

'Sorry, guys, I gotta go. There'll be no missions for a while.' and he grabbed Naruto and disappeared.

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A/N: sorry for the shortness, but i've gotta shut down and do my homework now, so then next chapter'll be longer as it'll have what was supposed to be the end of this chapter. so review please and about the deleting and rewriting, i'm talking in the next chap for the old readers.

Kai Hiwatari II