Well, this is the rewritten version of Grey Moon Howling, the first ever story I wrote on this site. It's the same basic idea for the beginning, the part about him getting bitten, but I'm changing the rest of it. Therefore, I made a new title.

Here's the story...

Summary: Uzumaki Naruto was an orphan, living on the streets of Konoha his whole life. By chance, while digging in the trash for something valuable to sell, he finds a necklace. It soon gets stolen from him and he is beaten, as the Kyubi brings him to his mind and explains to him his situation. It is too late however, as the necklace had called the Kyubi, it has also called others. The moon is full that night and the hunters are on the prowl…

Disclaimer: I do not own anything you might recognize here, unless I thought of it, then I own it by law…I think. Story also has the possibility of being crueler and more violent than my other stories. I guess you've been warned.

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Chapter 1: Prologue of Sorts

He held up the necklace he had found in the trash can he had been digging through.

It sparkled in the sunlight, and he had to shield his eyes from the light that was reflecting off of it. It soon died down, and he looked at it once more.

The necklace part of it was just a simple black string, which felt like hair in his hands. Rough hair. The ornament which was on the string was what had reflected the light. It was a fang, around two inches long, and an inch wide. It was a dull white in color, and when he put his index finger to the point of it, and pressed lightly, his finger not bleeding despite the sharpness.

"What you got there, gaki?" a snide comment reached his ears.

On the inside he groaned, and quickly thought of a plan to escape. He turned around, and saw his goons had surrounded him. He moaned out loud, and quickly stuffed the necklace with a fang down his shirt.

"Nothing, Asuku-teme." He said, turning around and looking up at the older and much bigger boy.

Asuku was another orphan living on the streets, just like him. While he had almost no brains, which Naruto was practically made of, he made up for it in sheer strength. Unlike him however, he was a delinquent, stealing his things and beating people up for money. At the age of fourteen, he was even the leader of his own gang, who was currently surrounding Naruto.

"Nothing, eh?" He remarked, sneering at him. He got his face close to Naruto's, and he could smell his horrible breath. "Are you sure?"

Naruto refrained from making a snide comment at him, and only nodded his head. He wasn't afraid of these kids. He wasn't at all like them. He earned and found his stuff the fair way. By working.

"Are you really, really sure?" The threat was evident in the boy's tone of voice, "Because I can check if you want…" He crept his hand along Naruto's face, who had almost jumped from the contact.

"I said I don't have anything, Asuku-teme." Naruto said, grinding his teeth together.

"Are you sure?" He pestered him again, letting his hand fall to his side.

"You've already asked that question, Asuku-teme, and I've already answered it," he said, narrowing his eyes at the much bigger boy, who was now looking confused. "If you're going to ask something, make sure it's not something you already said."

Asuku looked down at him, anger on his face. "Are you saying I'm not smart enough to know when I haven't or have asked the same question before?" The boy balled his hands into fists, but that didn't stop Naruto from answering.

"Yes, I am." He stated bluntly, looking up and staring straight into the older boy's face.

"Are you sure?" He questioned again, to the snickers of his gang. "Are you really sure?"

"Yes, I'm really sure. In fact, you just asked the same questions twice more." He wasn't going to take Asuku's bullying him anymore. Every time he did, Asuku would steal something from him, something he had worked hard to get.

For some reason, not many people would give jobs to the four year old boy, always saying that they didn't need anyone when the signs outside their doors said help wanted. Even if he did find a job, he would soon lose it, from reasons such as, "You don't work hard enough," or "That's not how it's done," despite the fact he worked harder than every other employee, and did a better job at it. Every time he did earn money though, Asuku would always ask for "payment," which usually resulted in him not having anything left over.

He always handed the money over, knowing that one day Asuku would get his. This time, he would not let the necklace go. For some reason, it seemed very important to him.

"Are you sure about that?" Asuku questioned him once more, to the full blown laughter of the rest of his gang. He silenced them with a glare and turned back to Naruto, cracking his knuckles.

Naruto just looked at him defiantly, and Asuku gave the motion to attack.

Naruto was smart, and able to anticipate where the first one would strike. He ran straight to Asuku, who hadn't expected that, and head butted him, knocking him to the floor and evading the attack that would have come from behind.

He then moved his head to the left, and a fist came soaring past his ear, missing him. He kicked out, hitting the boy that had tried punching him in the groin, causing him to drop.

In all the fights he had witnessed, he had seen the same things being used over and over. If you were surrounded, the first attack most likely would come from behind. Most of the time, people aimed for the head, thinking it would be the easiest part to hit, and hoping for some one hit K.O. move that would instantly drop your opponent. What they didn't seem to think of, however, was the fact that someone's skull is a hard part of their body and was a small target to hit.

In front of him, a boy rushed towards him and jumped into the air, attempting to do some sort of karate kick. It failed, when Naruto pressed himself against the wall, and the boy landed where he had once stood. He ducked, as the boy tried kicking him again. Because of his short stature, he was able to effectively dodge it, and his he brought his knee up, hitting this man in the groin, dropping him.

He wasn't embarrassed at all by hitting someone in such a dirty place. "If it works, it works." was his personal motto.

Another boy came up this time, and Naruto couldn't avoid being hit by him, as he came barreling into his side. He was knocked to the ground along with the boy, who had started hitting him with his fists soon after. A punch caught him in the stomach, and he cried out in pain, his small body not being able to fully handle it. Another punch caught him, this time in the face, as he spat out blood. Another person joined in, laughing as he kicked his ribs, the breath being knocked out of his body.

He opened his mouth, and the boy punched it. He felt some of his teeth being chipped, and it hurt like hell. Luckily, it served an excellent purpose for him. The boy who had punched him had cut his knuckles on his teeth, and had pulled back in shock.

This gave Naruto his opportunity, as threw his head forward and sunk his chipped teeth into the boy's ear. He screamed, and Naruto quickly ran out from under him. The boy that had been kicking him in the ribs followed Naruto, chasing him down.

When a person usually tried attacking a running person from behind, they don't normally throw themselves at the person. They usually try to match their speed, and punch them in the face, adhering to their natural thought process. Just as he predicted, the boy was coming up on his side, his fist raised.

Naruto dove in front of the boy suddenly, just as he was about to punch him. He tucked his knees in, like a turtle, and the boy couldn't stop in time, as his momentum forced him to run into Naruto's back, tripping over the fallen boy and hitting his skull against the ground in a daze.

Naruto got up, cracking his back a little. The boy's shoes had hurt his spine a lot, and he seemed a little damaged.

The rest of the boy's surrounded him, all holding pocket knives in their hands. Their eyes glinted dangerously, looking at the small boy with an almost predatory expression on their faces. They circled around him, waiting for any move.

Statistically speaking, there was a nearly fifty percent chance the boy's would attack all at once, or a fifty percent chance that they would try the same tactic, and try to attack him from behind again.

Thinking quickly, he got onto his hands and knees, crying and letting sobs rack his small frame.

"Please," He cried to them, "Don't kill me!" He put his hands onto a prayer position, and started bowing to the boy in front of him. There was too much of a risk there, if he chose wrong. It was better to not risk it. "Live to fight another day, if you survived the fight yesterday." That was another of his self-made mottos.

"Please." He told them, begging. "Don't kill me."

"Now the little baka begs for mercy." laughed Asuku, only now picking himself off the floor and rubbing his head where Naruto had hit him. "Maybe we should spare him, eh boys?" He yelled to his gang, who laughed in response. Turning back to Naruto, he grinned, then spat in his face. "That hurt, you little prick." He told him, putting his foot on his head and pressing down.

"Gomen, Asuku-sama." Naruto apologized quietly, seething on the inside. If only the risk wasn't so small, then he could….

"I didn't hear that, Naru-chan," He chuckled to the boy, pressing down Naruto's face even harder into the ground, causing him to hiss in pain. "Speak up." He commanded.

"Gomen, Asuku-sama." He said once more, louder into the ground.

Asuku pressed his foot down even harder, and Naruto couldn't help but scream, as his face was being crushed. "Say it louder!" He yelled down to him, laughing merrily.

Though both ears of his were being pressed against something, he could hear the sound of laughter coming from all sides of him. "Gomen, Asuku-sama!" He cried out, louder this time. It was for his safety. He was being realistic. If he tried to fight all of them, he would surely lose, and possibly suffer even more.

Asuku picked his foot up as Naruto sighed in relief, and hauled himself up with his hands. It seemed the bastard was finally done.

"SAY IT LOUDER, NARU-CHAN!" Screamed the psychotic boy, slamming his foot straight into Naruto's head, causing him to go straight back down into the ground again, his skull nearly cracking at the sheer amount of pressure the boy was putting on him. "SCREAM IT SO THE WORLD CAN HEAR IT!" He cackled insanely, rubbing his foot into the back of Naruto's head.

Naruto started crying, his mind holding onto the only thought keeping him conscious at this point. 'Just take it. At least it's only him, and not the rest of his playmates.' He thought, his eyes tearing up.

"GOMEN, ASUKU-KAMI!" He screamed into the ground, warm sticky blood coming from his broken nose. "GOMEN, GOMEN, GOMEN!"

Asuku leaned close into Naruto's ear, whispering, "Sorry for what?"

'At least take your foot out so I can answer you properly,' He thought on the inside, crying on the out. "F-For making fun of you." He sobbed, trying to move his head.

"And why are we sorry for that?" He asked him, his words full of an under laying threat. He was expecting Naruto to answer exactly, or else.

"B-Because you a-are the g-greatest, A-Asuku-kami." He whispered back, as the older boy picked his foot off of him, wiping the blood from it onto the ground.

"That's right, Naru-chan." He said smugly, spitting on the boy's head, "I am the greatest. I am the best, the one and only, Asuku-kami. You'd better remember it, chibi-Naru. You're going to be living with it the rest of your poor, short life." He chuckled, turning to his follower, giving them the signal to leave.

Naruto had picked himself up off the floor, just as Asuku and his gang were leaving. He felt something cold slip down his shirt, going over his bloodied chest before thudding onto the floor.

The sound of the impact upon the floor was unusually loud, as Asuku turned around, looking for what Naruto had just dropped.

"Chikishou…" He cursed silently out loud, throwing his body to cover up the necklace. It was too late, however, as Asuku and his gang had come rushing up.

"What was that, Naru-chan?" Grunted Asuku, kicking Naruto in the ribs, with all the force he could muster.

"Come on, Naru-chan, you can tell your oni-chans." Another member of Asuku's gang taunted, kicking Naruto in on the other side of his ribs.

"Tell us, chibi-Naru." A smaller member of the group called to him mockingly. "You can tell your oni-chans everything."

He had curled up into a ball, his head protected by his chest, and the fang necklace right in front of his head.

"Go on, Naru-chan, tell us." They chanted, kicking Naruto wherever they could get their feet to.

A foot broke through his position, and slammed into Naruto's head, but he still didn't budge. This necklace compelled him to protect it, telling him to not let it go. Another foot broke through, slamming into the other side of his head. He cried out, as he felt something long and hard slam into his spine.

He uncurled himself, gripping the necklace within his right hand, in a vice-like grip.

The long and hard metal thing came again, slamming into his exposed stomach this time and causing more tears to leak from his eyes.

"Yameru," He whispered to the sky through his blurry eye sight, hoping that whatever god was listening would answer. "Yameru kudasai (please stop)."

"Stop what, Naru-chan." snapped Asuku, slamming the metal pipe he held in his hands straight into Naruto's chest. "What do you want us to stop?" He raised the pipe again, and slammed it down once more, landing straight into Naruto's stomach. He coughed, and sputtered, as blood came shooting out of his mouth, landing on Asuku and some of his men. "Looks like little Naru-chan's bleeding everyone." His eyes wide with excitement.

"You're right!" one of his men shouted, catching Asuku's drift and laughing out loud, "Maybe we should help him clean up!"

The others agreed, pulling down their pants.

Naruto could feel the cold liquid dripping onto him, burning deep into his wounds with their slightly acidic content.

The liquid stopped, and through his moans and groans of pain, Naruto could hear them all pulling up their pants. "Now that we've so graciously helped you clean, chibi-Naru." Asuku grinned, the maliciousness intentions hidden lightly in his voice. "Why don't you be a good boy and tell us what you've got?"

Naruto only groaned and shifted to the right side, holding his right shoulder in pain, as blood drained freely from it and onto the ground. He still kept the necklace tightly gripped in his hand though, the desire to project it now more important than his own injuries. Opening his mouth and feeling his jaw crack, he rasped out, "No, you teme."

Asuku froze, hearing the words Naruto spoke, despite his voice volume. "Repeat that, Naruto." He asked him coldly, all teasing and playfulness gone from his voice. He was getting serious now.

"I said no, in case you were deaf, teme." Rasped out Naruto louder than before. His mind was being filled with senseless thoughts of the fanged necklace, and protecting it from whoever wanted to take his precious from him.

"Repeat it again, Naruto." Asuku said once more, gripping the metal pipe tighter in his hands. "One last time, so that everyone can hear."

"No, ikeike (roughly meaning bitch). I've said it twice before, baka. I'm not going to say it again, just because you can't hear." The rest of Asuku's gang gulped, watching as Asuku's face turned a bright red. The boy was getting mad, which was when Asuku's wrath was truly incurred.

"Don't make a fool of me, Naruto!" He screamed, raising the pipe high above his head with both hands and then slamming it down with a considerable amount of force, with the laws of gravity also acting on it, into Naruto's stomach.

He yelped out in a high note of pain, a geyser of blood coming from his mouth as the pipe slammed into him, his right hand going imp for a moment, exposing the fang necklace held inside for a mere second, before Naruto closed it tightly.

"What was that?" questioned Asuku, glaring down at the broken body of Naruto.

"You saw exactly what it was, baka-Asuku." Naruto muttered, his eyes closing and opening in pain, as bright flaes of red swarmed his vision.

"OPEN YOUR HAND!" He yelled, over and over, as he forced the metal pipe onto his right arm, over and over. He still did not let go, as the pipe kept going down on his arm. "OPEN IT, TEME!" He yelled, his eyes rushed over with bloodlust. "OPEN IT!"

He would still not let his hand open, no matter how many times the pipe went down on his arm, overriding his common sense, which was desperately and futilely telling him to let go, so his arm would not become even more damaged.

"WHY WON'T YOU SHOW ME!" yelled Asuku, before slamming the pipe on a nearby brick building. The pipe crashed against it, and broke off into two pieces, with one piece still in the possession of Asuku, the other one laying not that far away from Naruto. He sauntered over to the laying form of the boy, raising the broken pipe over his head, and thrusting it straight down, into Naruto's wrist. He cried out in pain, and by reflex not even the fang could prevent, let his fist go limp.

The members of the gang looked to be ready to throw up. They had never seen their leader acting this mad, or this dangerous. The boy's arm was broken, and bits and pieces of bones stuck up from odd places on his arm. They didn't understand, until they saw what was held in Naruto's hand, laying there glittering in the sun.

"What's this?" smirked Asuku, leaving the pipe held in Naruto's arm and picking the necklace from the boy's hand. He let the light wash over him, and felt himself becoming empowered by it. It was an amazing sensation, akin to sweating all day in the warm heat, then walking inside to take a cold shower and coming out completely rejuvenated. It was that amazing. "So you lied to me." Asuku whispered, not even paying attention to Naruto, who was violently thrashing on the floor. "You lied to keep this precious gem for yourself." He moved the fang around in his fingers, moving it around admiringly.

"Let go of my precious!" screamed Naruto, moving on the floor in an attempt to move closer to Asuku, who was admiring the necklace from far away. "Let it go! I found it, so it's mine

Asuku just waved him off, still staring at the fang. It was so incredibly real, like it had actually come from some once live thing. The tip of it looked so sharp, and he reached his finger out to prick his finger on it, like it was willing him to do so. He pressed down hard on it, blood welling up on said finger. His disposition changed, and he was back to his normal self.

"So you lied to me, eh Naru-chan?" He snidely remarked, staring in disdain at the still struggling boy. He leaned down and whispered into his ear, "You know you shouldn't keep such valuable things from Asuku-kami." He then gave Naruto a sharp kick to his ribs which did nothing to stop the boy's struggling. Shrugging, he wrapped the necklace around his neck, and walked away, motioning for his gang to follow. "I bet this will get a humongous amount of money at the market, eh boys?"

The boys yelled a hoorah, and followed their leader, who was walking confidently through the streets.

He struggled more, the need to regain the fang more evident than ever. He moved this way and that, forcing the hole in his arm to grow bigger, and more blood to spill from him.

"Calm yourself, kit." A voice resounded in his mind, doing nothing to stop the boy's insistent struggle to escape the object pining him to the ground and go after the bigger boy. An audible sigh was heard in his mind, before Naruto felt something warm hook around the back of his spine and pull him back, into a wet and dark sewer. He a large gate in front of him, a written piece of paper stuck to it reading "Seal". Behidn the gate was a thick fog, so much he couldn't see through it.

He violently moved, getting off the ground and ignoring the fact he seemed good as new. The only thing running through his mind was the need to find that fang, and kill the person who had taken it from him.

The large sigh was heard, as Naruto ran up to the bars and gripped his hands tight around them. He tried to pry them open, to no avail.

"I said, CALM YOURSELF." A loud booming voice called to him, as a large red tail of red energy shot from the gate and wrapped itself around Naruto. He suddenly felt the urge to regain the fang dissipate, as his thinking became clearer and his mind returned to sanity.

"What is this?" He asked himself. The tail of red slowly let go of him, as if it weren't so sure of trusting him with himself. "Where am I?"

"Are you better now, kit?" The voice asked, softer this time.

"Hai. Thank you for that, voice-san." He called out, not sure of whom he was speaking to. It was obvious however; that the thing behind the bars was what had saved him from his mind.

"I would rather have a sane container who has brains than to have one whose mental stability is questionable." The voice chuckled, which resounded throughout the large chamber they were in. "At least you're not like my last one."

"Container?" Naruto said through the bars, confused. "Container for what?"

The voice chuckled once more, a dark figure moving through the fog. Not for what, my young kit. For whom." Something came walking through the fog, on all fours. It grew bigger and bigger, as it drew closer to the gate. From where Naruto stood, he could see nine swishing tails behind the figure, which was walking on all fours. A red light came from the fog, and Naruto had to shy his eyes away from the intensity.

When the red light had gone, he looked forward in shock, disbelief also etched on his face.

"Y-Y-You're t-the…" He pointed with his right hand, missing the nonexistent hole in it, at the giant fox.

The fox grinned, his large white canines glinting, "Yes kit, I'm the Kyubi no Yoko."

Naruto resisted the urge to scream, and let loose his reasoning.

'He's supposed to be dead. The Yondaime killed him three years ago on October the Tenth, when he attacked Konoha…' A word stuck his mind, putting a more something more into his mind. "October 10th," He whispered out loud, to the smile of pride from the fox. 'He attacked the day I was born. He said container so that means….' His thoughts trailed off, realizing what he had just discovered.

"The Yondaime never did kill you." He whispered to the fox, who had nodded, still smiling in pride. "The day I was born, October 10th. That was the day you attacked." The fox nodded once more. "If my assumptions are correct, then…"

"They are correct, kit." The fox smiled down at the boy, "I attacked the day you were born. The Yondaime Hokage, Kazama Arashi, met me in battle riding a giant toad, holding a baby in his hands. We never got the chance to fight, as he had soon summoned the Death God. He sealed me within you, as the Death God cannot devour the souls of the tainted."

"Then…" He trailed off once more, deep in thought. It explained so much. The sneers of the villagers. The contempt of the shinobi. The way he was always kicked out of shops or why no one refused to give him jobs. The way random people on the street just backed away hissing as he walked by. "It's all your fault." He whispered. "It's your fault it's hard for me to live."

The fox out right laughed, to the disdain of Naruto. "IT'S YOUR FAULT!" He screamed at the still laughing fox. "YOU'RE THE REASON WHY I HAVE NOTHING!"

The fox suddenly stopped his chuckling, a tail shooting out from behind him and wrapping around Naruto. "My dear kit. It's not my fault. With your brain, I would have thought you would have figured that out."

Naruto went still, and back into his mind, thinking.

"You're right," He said, a little grudgingly. "Gomen. There's no one to blame."

The fox let go of Naruto, impressed. "Good. You have already learnt that humans have a tendency to want to blame someone, no matter how unreasonable it sounds."

They both stayed there for a while, examining each other. The fox's eyes were red, looking deep into Naruto's blue ones. They held something in them, something only the fox could see. It was not revenge, nor was it hate, as it could have possibly been had he not been intelligent enough to understand. It wasn't fear, to be looking upon the famed Kyubi no Yoko, the Great Nine Tailed Fox. It was curiosity. The desire to learn, and find, steaming from the Kyubi himself.

"Why have you brought me here?" Asked Naruto, breaking the silence. "And what is this place?"

"Blunt, aren't you?" The Kyubi said, chuckling as he did so. It seemed he always chuckled a bit after ever sentence, or while speaking. "See if you can use that mind of yours to figure it out." He challenged him, looking for his reaction.

He only nodded, and sat down cross legged, putting his hand on his chin, and scratching his chin. Before asking himself why the Kyubi brought him there, he would have to know where there was.

'Seems the place is dark and damp. It looks like it's a little dreary, so whoever made it must have the personality of a depressed man, assuming the one who made this place was a man. There is a level of water on the floor of the chamber, so the place must be in some kind of sewer. The cage to the Kyubi is here, but there is a fog inside it, somehow keeping itself inside the cage even though there are bars. That signifies the cage is just a form of a seal.' He looked to the Kyubi's cage, and saw the paper once more. 'Correction. The cage is the seal. But what does the cage do?'

He shook his head in frustration. He was creating more questions, questions that he didn't need answers to at the moment. 'A more useful question would be, where is the cage?' He thought for a moment, before his stomach grumbled.

"It seems even here you can get hungry." laughed the great Kitsune.

Naruto just nodded, patting his stomach in a attempt to get it under control. It grumbled again, and he kept patting it. The water level seemed to be dropping, and the walls seemed to be contracting. Suddenly, he stopped and lifted up his shirt with his hands. A tattoo was on his stomach, something he had ever since he had been born.

"Is this it?" He asked himself out loud. "Is this where this cage is?"

The Kyubi laughed, nodding his head. "That's right. We're in your stomach right now, however crazy that may sound."

"Then, why did you bring me here?" He questioned to himself, thinking of the reason why. "Did you want to talk to me?"

"No kit. I didn't want to talk to you. I needed to." The fox said solemnly, sitting down inside his cage. It's about that necklace you found."

"What about it?" The boy asked. He seemed to always be full of questions. "What is the purpose of it? Why did it make me want to protect it? Why did Asuku bleed when he pricked his finger on it? Why did I not?"

The fox merely laughed, louder and longer than the previous ones. "That necklace chooses who can have it, and he bled because Asuku was not enough to hold it."

"Chooses?" Naruto asked him. "Inanimate objects cannot…"

The sound of the Kyubi's laughter interrupted his words, as he stared curiously at the fox. "Let your mind focus, kit. Do not let it filter with questions that will eventually be answered. Do not think with reason, and do not think with logic. This world is as unpredictable as women." He laughed a little at this, which the young Naruto could not understand. "Think only with your mind, not with your thoughts."

Naruto nodded, understanding most of the fox's words, except for the part about women.

"Now, it is better that you have had the necklace taken from you." The fox snarled for a second, before continuing. "It is a powerful object, and I fear you cannot handle the responsibilities of possessing it."

"What do you mean?"

"That fang at the end of the necklace, and the string of the necklace itself, came from the hunter god, Hecate. He was a powerful beast, and the first of the werewolves."

"Werewolves?" Naruto's eyes widened, realizing the truth of what he had just heard. "Real werewolves?"

"Aye, kit. Werewolves exist in this world. You'd be surprised at what else actually does." He sat up, and walked straight to he bars, looking at Naruto through them. "There are things in this world that would make your most horrible nightmares look nothing but a good dream. There are things that go bump in the night, kit. The only problem is, they don't always just bump."

Naruto listened, absorbing all the information the Kyubi was feeding him. This might prove useful, in future encounters. "Who is Hecate?" He asked him, "Is he someone like you?"

The Kyubi snorted, though it looked sort of pathetic. "Hecate is a powerful being, coming close to even 1. He has lived longer than I have, far longer. It's been said that he is a fallen God, someone sent to live life out as an immortal on this planet. If you ever have the misfortune to meet him, be thankful that your death will be swift."

"Do you fear him?" Asked Naruto quietly.

The Kyubi didn't respond for a few moments, and Naruto had thought he had overstepped some sort of boundary. "Hai." was all the demonic fox said.

"Why?"

"It is not him I fear. It is what he represents to me."

"What is it that he represents to you, Kyubi-san?" pestered Naruto.

"Power." was his single word response, before turning back to the conversation about the necklace. "That necklace was originally made by the by, which he then gave to the werewolves. It was by pure coincidence that you found the necklace and it chose you. It was also by pure coincidence that I was sealed within you, the one who found the necklace. I will help you control your urgings."

"Urgings?"

"You felt compelled to safeguard that necklace, am I correct?" He said, to which Naruto responded with a nod. "That necklace will twist the mind of any mortal who comes into contact with it, and bend it to its will. It contorts the mind, and makes it do what the fang wants. When you pricked your finger on it and did not bleed no matter how hard you pressed your finger into it, it chose you as its master, the one who could wield it's power."

"Power?" Another one of Naruto's one word questions echoed through the chamber.

"All power comes with a price, kit. Sometimes, the price may be too high." He winced, as if remembering something.

"What price would be for this power the fang holds?"

"Your subservience, and the deaths of innocents." The Kyubi answered grimly. "Even the tailed beasts cannot resist the fang's promise of power. It has even driven one of our own mad with it, and he holds almost no chance of regaining his sanity. I," He paused thinking if he should tell the boy this.

"Have you fallen by its power once, Kyubi-san?"

"Hai. Not even Kami himself can resist looking once at the cursed object, before falling to it."

"It's that powerful?" asked Naruto, staring some other direction. He was ashamed. He had fallen to the fang, and if the Kyubi hadn't helped him, he would have fallen to it.

"No." The fox said, to the confusion of Naruto. "The fang is near worthless. It is the one the fang comes from that truly holds the power. His whispers and promises of power will whisper into your ears, forcing you to listen. Every time you sleep, his eternally grinning visage will seep into your mind, calling you to him. Every time you blink, flashes of red will go across your vision, and you will start imagining things. Even in death, he will haunt you."

Naruto shook in fear, as the Kyubi looked at him and laughed. "Don't worry, kit. Holding the fang for the short amount of time you possessed it will not make you possessed by it. After all, it is gone now, taken away by that horrid boy."

"But what about Asuku-teme? His entire attitude changed when he saw the fang, and when he pricked his finger against it and it didn't bleed, he went back to normal. Why?"

"The fang seemed him unworthy. Though the fang will call, and many will answer, few will be chosen by it. The fang will only take those whom it senses will carry it effectively. If it took on a weak host, not amount of power could possibly make them strong."

"So, what do I do now?"

"Not just you, kit. Your body and mind holds two, so it will be us from now on." Naruto slowly nodded, "For now, you must rest. My chakra is healing you, and it will take a couple of hours for you to fully heal."

"Chakra?" questioned Naruto, looking at the Kyubi confused. "What's that?"

"It is the basis for all living things, save for a few who can barely considered living. It fuels us, and is capable of many things."

Naruto just muttered oh, and looked around, content with the answer. "So what now?"

"For now, you shall learn." He responded, sitting himself down before the cage, closer to Naruto so he wouldn't have to raise his voice to talk to him. "After all, you're mind is getting sharper and more accurate everyday, thanks to me."

"I don't understand…"

"As I've said before, chakra can do many things…"

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Well, there's chapter 1 for you. I'm currently writing chapter 2, which was originally part of chapter 1. Then I thought, "But what about the people who might think nearly 10k words for the very first chapter is too long?" I'll admit, I sometimes think that, when I'm not in the mood for reading. Lately, my thirst for reading fics has waned, stemming most likely from the fact I might be considered an "author" now. Thinking back to these experiences, I've realized something, a connection of sorts from other fics and developed my theory.

I'll place my theory in the next chapter, which I hope people may respond to, and see if this is how others think. I'll also put it in my profile soon for those of who don't want to wait for the next chapter to see my theory on how a fic gains some metaphorical "steam". Who knows, it might even get you thinking on how you write your fics altogether...maybe...

Anyways, tell me if you have any suggestions, see anything wrong with the fic, or just want to say something,

Dokugin

Word Count: 6,221

Page Count: 13

Time: I wrote this fic inconsistently, which basically means I don't really know how long…