Yeah... So... This is my 3rd Naruto Fanfic... Hope you guys like it!

Summary: Naruto has an incurable illness, and his only hope of surviving is to find the Sannin. All 3 of them.
Disclaimer: Naruto, the characters and the settings (and some of the plot line) all belong to Masashi Kishimoto. I own nothing! So don't sue me!! please?

On we charge!

Naruto had known of Kyuubi being sealed in him since he was 2 years old

Naruto had known of Kyuubi being sealed in him since he was 2 years old. He remembered the first time he had ever "met" the demon fox; his guardian at the orphanage had poisoned his food, and he passed out…

-FLASHBACK-

The darkness that had consumed his vision only moments before slowly faded, revealing a place with likeness to a sewer – a wide tunnel, pipes running along the surfaces, the floor damp, and water dripping down the walls. It was dark, but he walked forwards, slightly afraid. Every step he took echoed off the walls, floor and ceiling, giving it a hollow, tinny sound that pierced his ears. He noticed that he could see quite well, even in the darkness, and he could feel each individual tile beneath his feet. Every one of his senses had increased…

The young boy heard a low rumble, and headed towards it. Soon, the tunnel stopped, and Naruto found himself in a huge room, with iron bars running across the middle, floor to ceiling. As he stepped forward, the rumbling grew louder, and he realised the noise was actually a continuous growl. He noticed that there were two bars touching each other in the middle of the row, with a small piece of paper attached. There was a single kanji on the paper that read "seal". Yes, Naruto could read. He knew his IQ was higher than most people in the village – almost impossible for someone his age – and he had learned the hard way that he needed to show the villagers that he was an idiot. If they knew he was smart, they'd deem him a threat, and the attacks would only increase.

He raised a hand to the seal, and the growling grew louder. Suddenly, a huge pair of blood red eyes appeared in the darkness behind the bars. The pupils were slitted like a cats', and Naruto immediately thought "evil". He let his hand fall back to his side, and the eyes didn't disappear.

"Who are you?" The voice was low and threatening, with a certain undertone to it. Naruto couldn't quite place a name to the feel of it.

"Naruto. Uzumaki Naruto." The red eyes widened ever-so-slightly.

"Naruto. Hm… How did you get here, Uzumaki Naruto?" Naruto felt tears well up in his eyes as he recalled what made him pass out.

"I… I was given my daily meal… But… The Matron put p-poison in it… I felt ill, and passed out… Then I was in a huge tunnel, and I walked for ages… That's how I got here…" The voice was silent and Naruto took the time to think over what had happened. The tears started leaking from his cerulean eyes , and moments later, his knees buckled, and he fell to the damp ground, crying. He felt his muscles start to shake, and was confused.

'What's happening?' He thought. He heard the thing behind the bars growl again, but this time it held concern. His entire Nervous System felt as if it was on fire. I was agonizing. Naruto felt his eyes roll back in his head, and suddenly, there was a flash in the dark room, from behind the bars. In the moment of lucidity before darkness claimed him again, the young blond caught sight of the being behind the bars.

A huge fox, completely red, demonic eyes holding un-heard sorrow, and nine long tails waving around behind it.

'The Kyuubi no Kitsune,' he realised, 'is sealed within my body!' And with that, he felt himself float into unconsciousness for the second time.

When Naruto awoke, he had a raging fever, and he could feel the muscles throughout his body still quivering. The pain had subsided slightly, but he could still feel the sensation of boiling water being poured directly onto his nerves. All he could do was lie there and wait for both symptoms to subside to a tolerable level. It only took a few minutes, but when he tried to get up from his position on the floor, he found that his energy had abandoned him.

'Kuso!' He cursed in his mind, and heard a low chuckle. It seemed to originate in the back of his awareness. 'Kyuubi,' he concluded. The fox could, no doubt, read his thoughts, seeing as how they were connected through the seal tattooed on his abdomen.

'You're the Kyuubi no Kitsune, aren't you? Strongest of the Bijuu, leader of Yokaigakure, supposed creator of Makai?' Naruto sent his thoughts inward, aiming them at the demon. He felt the Fox's surprise.

'Yes, I am, gaki. How do you know all this though?' Naruto mentally smirked. He knew more than anyone could imagine.

'I studied you just a few weeks ago. The Yondaime sealed you inside a child, and it cost him his life... It cost my father his life...' He could definitely sense the demon's shock now, but it was underlined with sorrow and guilt.

'I see. Well, kit, it looked like I have an awful lot to make up to you.'

'"Kit"?' Kyuubi chuckled in his mind.

'We're going to be spending an awful long time together, so I might as well treat you nicely, and take care of you. So I call you "Kit", as a form of mutual understanding and trust. Agree?' It took Naruto a mere three seconds to process what Kyuubi had said, and when he was done, he agreed wholeheartedly. 'Good. Now rest. I'm going to heal you from the poison and get rid of your fever… But I can't get rid of your Epilepsy. Gomen nasai, Kit…' Naruto was confused.

'Epilepsy? What's that?' He heard the Kyuubi sigh, and waited for the answer.

'It's when the muscles in the body go into spasms, causing the whole body to convulse. That's called a seizure. There are many things that cause seizures, and you have the one called Epilepsy. The poison probably triggered it… Unfortunately, it's incurable, and as time goes on, the fits will increase in frequency and severity, causing you to black out, and feel the side-effects more dramatically when you come to. That is, unless you get medication, and soon.' Naruto sat it shock. He had an incurable illness. But he was only two years old! He broke down completely, curling himself into a ball – with much effort and protest from his aching muscles – and cried himself to sleep. He found himself in front of the steel bars. Cage, he thought.He carried on crying, and felt a warm, fluffy thing wrap around him to gently pull him into the cage with the demon. He realised it was one of Kyuubi's tails. He snuggled into Kyuubi's fur still crying openly at his discovery. He felt the ominous shakes in his body again, and panicked. He didn't want to have another fit so soon – he knew they were inevitable, but he was still afraid.

"Kit, calm yourself down. It'll help. Trust me." Naruto nodded slightly and forced himself to stop crying, and relax his body. The spasms continued for a few minutes before slowly fading, leaving Naruto exhausted and in pain. "Well done. Now sleep. You need it, Kit." Naruto nodded and snuggled into Kyuubi's fur once again. Sleep quickly came to him.

'Why did it happen to you, Naruto? You would have broken eventually because of me… But so soon? And from such a simple mortal disease? And I can't save you. I'm sorry… Truly sorry…For everything.'The Fox stared at the boy curled up in his tail. 'He looks just like you, Minato-san. I'll take care of him – I'll get him through this… We just need to find Jiraiya-san and Tsunade-san… They'll stop your son from breaking and further; maybe even repair him a little… We can only hope, and pray.' With that, the demon closed his eyes and slept, keeping Naruto close to him.

Miles away, a certain white-haired Toad Hermit sneezed, alerting the ladies in the bathhouse to his presence. 'Kuso!' Scrambling to his feet as fast as he could – which was quite speedy – the pervert ran away from the horde, shrieks of "Pervert!", "Hentai!" and other synonyms chasing him.

Several minutes, and close misses later, a bruised and beaten Jiraiya sat, crouched behind a barrel, realising he could have teleported away and saved energy. He sighed, then cursed and ran again as the unnaturally keen ears of one of the women caught the almost inaudible sound.

And so the chase began again.

"Sumimasen, Shizune-san." The buxom blond gambler said after a harsh sneeze.

"Are you okay, Tsunade-sama?" The dark-haired apprentice asked her sensei. Her answer was a nod.

"Probably just someone talking about the Legendary Sucker!" Tsunade cast her eye over her cards. "I call it." She laid the cards down on the table. "Three fives, two sixes." Her opponent laughed, laying down his own cards.

"Bad luck, Tsunade-san. Royal Flush." Tsunade groaned and handed over the money she had gambled. "Better luck next time." Tsunade's face grew harder.

"You're on, Teme!" With a smirk, Tazuna dealt the cards. And so the cycle began again.

-END FLASHBACK-

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