Original: 4/11/14 rewrite: 4/14

Turmanarmo: This story is set shortly after the events of the first meeting with Sasuke in Shippuden so that gives you a general idea of what Naruto has been through up to this point.

Naruto: But I was busy for most of that Training to learn the Rasenshuriken, and then I fought Hidan and Kakuzu, and then I was in the Hospital, and then we went after Itachi, and then we were preparing for Pain, and then …

Turmanarmo: OKAY I GET IT, you were crazy busy for a really long time. However for the purpose of this story it is an AU where you are given a break shortly before learning Rasenshuriken.

Naruto: Okay now I just need to find out what sort of a story you are writing about me Dattebayo!

Turmanarmo: Don't worry Naruto, it's not like I would put you in some sort of a painful or awkward situation just for my amusement, and besides get on with the disclaimer already.

Naruto: Fine, Turmanarmo does not own me or the Manga/Anime that Shares my name which is great because otherwise my life would probably be ruined 'tebayo.

In a slightly rundown apartment in Konoha there was a Young male with wild blond hair and shining blue eyes contemplating what to do. He had nothing official to do today but unlike a certain lazy friend of his he was not very happy about his time off. You see this teen's name was Uzumaki Naruto and he had never been one for lazing around when he could be training to achieve his goals, which in no particular order were to save his friend, get the girl, and become Hokage 'tebayo!

Oddly enough though, the lack of things to do was not what had him down today, rather his mind was focused on the conversation he had earlier today with three of his precious people.

-Flashback no Jutsu-

"Good morning Naruto," Tsunade said, "I brought you here for two reasons, one was to tell you that you and your friends have all been given the week off-"

Naruto couldn't believe what he was hearing and promptly yelled, "WHAT I can't take a day off Bachan, I need to keep training to catch up with Sasuke-teme and to be able to protect myself when Akatsuki comes after me like they did Gaara Dattebayo." He suddenly had to dodge an inkwell chucked at him by an irate Tsunade.

With an eyebrow twitching prominently Tsunade shouted back, "Listen here Gaki, you need to take a day off, you can't train all the time or you will just run yourself into the ground and besides, that is not the main reason why I called you here, we also need to talk to you about something important, not argue about your bullheaded work ethic."

Naruto visibly deflated and looked back up to question what was so important that it required these people to tell him. "Bachan, what is so important that you need to have both Kakashi-sensei and Ero-Sennin here to talk about, is something wrong, do I have to leave the village again, or did one of my friends get hurt, or am I sick, or ... " he paused for a second when he noticed their faces. Kakashi-sensei seemed faintly amused based on his eye smile™ and Ero-sennin looked smug while Tsunade-Bachan had an ever growing tick mark on her forehead, so he decided to stop talking and gave them a questioning look while asking, "what?"

Kakashi was the first to react saying, "Sorry Naruto, before you came in Tsunade-sama and Jiraiya-sama made a wager over how you would react to us needing to talk with you, and well, you can guess who won that wager. Anyways, what we had to talk to you about is in regards to your status as the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki."

Naruto froze, "What about it?"

"Well," Jiraiya picked up, "we were wondering if you have told your friends yet, with Akatsuki coming after you like they are it is only a matter of time before they start asking questions about why they are after you. Honestly we wouldn't be surprised if one or two of the more observant ones haven't already."

"WHAT, why would I tell them about Kyuubi, I don't want to lose my friends, and anyways they can't be told, Jiji told me that he made a law that made it illegal to tell anyone about it." At this Naruto crossed his arms and tried to look smug as he continued, "If they want to know why Akatsuki is coming after me you can just tell them it's a village secret or make something up, I don't care you can't tell them." At this point Naruto was struggling to keep acting like he was in control instead of pleading with the adults in front of him to not to do what he was sure would ruin his life.

Tsunade sighed and had an understanding look in her eye, "Naruto, I understand your hesitation, but that law never applied to you telling them yourself and if I wanted to I could remove the law anyways since I am the Hokage. Besides Kakashi tells us that you have already told Sakura during the mission to save Gaara and like I said some of your friends like Shikamaru are smart enough that they would take very little prodding to start questioning it."

Tsunade shook her head as she continued, "Plus if you must know Sakura already knew about your status before you told her. During your time away she became suspicious about why the Akatsuki was after you and why you left to avoid them. She came to me and informed me that she had done some investigating on her own and had determined there was some big secret about you given that no one would tell her why you were being hunted and as far as she knew you didn't have any Kekkei Genkai that would make you a target."

Tsunade looked apologetic as she explained, "I normally would have told her to talk to you about it but since you were gone and were not due back for quite some time yet I decided to tell her and despite her initial shock, in the end she was fine with it, so why do you think your other friends will be any different."

Naruto looked subdued as he tried to maintain some control by saying, "Sakura-chan is different."

Kakashi cut him off to point out, "How is she different Naruto, sure she is your teammate but the rest of your friends have known you for quite some time as well and several of them are just as inquisitive as she is. And anyways if they stop liking you because of this, which we are sure they will not, then they weren't …"

Naruto glared at his sensei with slited but thankfully still blue eyes as he hissed, "Don't finish that sentence Kakashi-sensei, don't try and tell me that even one of my friends aren't worth having. I can't go back to that dark place of having no friends, I just can't do it. I don't see why this is so important anyways. I mean they have gone this long without ever being told, why can't it stay that way. Why don't you understand how important they are to me?"

Ero-sennin laughed hollowly as he said, "Oh we can see that brat, but we also want you to understand how a friendship with this big of a secret hidden inside it will only cause your bond to stagnate. If you want to continue your friendship's growth you would be wise to be honest with them."

Kakashi tried one last time to reach his student by adding, "In addition to all of this Naruto those of us who know the real you realize how much you cherish your friends, well we also think that it is time that you let them see you for you as well, don't show them the masks. Be honest with them and they will realize as well that regardless of anything else you are Uzumaki Naruto."

Naruto huffed as he was dealing with a storm of emotions, sure they had good points, but they were missing the big point, if even one of his friends abandoned him over this he would be devastated. As his emotions rose higher two took center stage and Naruto decided to latch onto anger at this moment instead of despair as he shouted, "Fine, if you insist I will tell them, but when they reject me and I lose my friends you all know whose fault it was." And with that said Naruto proceeded to slam the door as he marched home.

-Back in the current time-

After settling down a bit Naruto began to contemplate how he was going to tell his friends and how he was going to survive once he lost so many of his precious people. Part of his mind acknowledged that maybe they were right and his friends would accept him. After all, Gaara was doing fine now and his whole village had always known what he contained. However the part of his mind that was wining was pointing out that despite the fact that he hadn't ever hurt anyone like Gaara used to, he was still hated and shunned by the villagers as a child and only a few of them had changed their mind about him after all these years so why would his friends be any different. Surely they would all hate him too.

However, in the end he would have to get over it, he had told them that he would inform his friends and he never goes back on his word, so despite its inevitable outcome he would do as he promised and tell his friends.

He just hoped at least one or two of them would be able to see him as more than a demon afterwards.

There we go, that ends the first part of this story. I love these stories where Naruto tells his friends about his burden but there are not a terribly large number of them and even less of them are good so hopefully this story does not fall into the bad category, but if it does oh well I guess.

Well the rewrite largely focused around a grammar check and hopefully there are far less of those issues now. The main area I extended was the flashback and I only added a few more lines to hopefully make the explanations and rebuttals make a bit more sense, you will have to tell me how it turned out in a review. Story is 1475 words long, so about 300 words longer than it originally was but I couldn't really see where else to extend it so it and the second chapter will probably just stay short.