I do not own Naruto or any of the character's mentioned from Masashi Kishimoto's work. I really wish I did though, but I'm not that talented.

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Why am I still alive?

What is my purpose?

Who am I?

A faint low growl sounded off somewhere in the recesses of a small boy's mind. It made the child jump slightly and look all around him, but he could not find anything that could have caused the sound. He just ignored it and continued to sway back and forth on the swing while observing the boys and girls running around with their mother's and fathers. It was something that was a little heartbreaking to the boy, so he avoided everyone that might was to talk to him. It was the best he could do to stop the hurt in his small chest.

The source of the growl, on the other hand, was furious at the people that ignored this child, the one burdened with having a powerful creature inside of him. The nine-tailed fox demon was trapped inside the body of this child, Uzumaki Naruto. The demon fox only felt sorry for the villagers, thinking that a helpless child that would not know anything about anything that happened when he was a child, could hurt them. It only made him angrier and want to jump out of Naruto and tell them all to leave the poor boy alone.

Kyuubi sighed as he lay in the cage in the back of the small blond's mind, tail's swaying every time Naruto would on the swing. He had to find a way to communicate with the boy. He could only get the boy to hear his growls or grunts. Those only made the boy sadder, because he seemed to think of himself as crazy. Kyuubi needed to get the boy happy and possibly out of the village that everyone hated him.

Why do they always glare at me?

It hurts so much... I just want to hide for the rest of my life, so I don't see their glares.

Kyuubi knew he could not let the boy stay in the village for much longer if things did not change. As much as he hated to admit it, he grew feelings toward the boy as he watched him grow up from inside his mind. These feelings made him want to protect the boy but until Naruto grew older, it would be impossible to communicate with him. He began thinking of ways to get the boys attention and convince him to leave this area of hatred.

Startle to the point of almost sneezing (he does this when he is surprised making Naruto sneeze at the same time), the fox heard a new voice. It was the black haired kid that Naruto liked to play with sometimes. He looked just as alone as Naruto felt. The boy's expression made Kyuubi feel uneasy; he was up to something. A smirk put itself on the boy's face and he pushed the blonde off the swing hard. Naruto felt like crying, but just forced himself to run away to his apartment.

'Kit...' Kyuubi said to himself trying hard to reach the boy's attention. He knew it must be hard for the little one, so he wanted to comfort the boy. The fox knew he could cheer the boy up.

"W-who is there?" Naruto asked, looking around in his apartment for the source of the voice he's just heard. He was slightly scared since it reminded him of the Bogey Man's voice he's heard in a movie once. He was too scared to even move from the living room.

'Great, he thinks I'm the Bogey Man.' Kyuubi said, feeling like he was just demoted.

Naruto started to shake, scared of what the creepy voice's owner could look like. The blonde looked to his side and grabbed the kunai his instructor had given him a few weeks ago when they started training. He quickly said, "Who the heck are you and how did you you know I thought you were the Bogey man?"

Kyuubi was surprised. This was the first time time the boy could understand what he was saying without it just sounding like grunts inside his head. 'You can hear me? You can finally hear me inside of your head?'

"What? You're inside of my head? So, I'm talking to myself?" Naruto said very confused. Naruto banged his fists on his head, uncaring that the sharpened kunai was still in his hand and able to cut pretty far into his soft flesh. He started to cry knowing that this would probably make more people from Konohagakure Village would hate him more. If the other children found out that he was hearing voices, the glares would become harsher, the children would be meaner to him like his friend Uchiha Sasuke had been.

'Kit, calm down, calm down. Everything will be alright. Just listen t-' Kyuubi began, but was interrupted by a sobs.

"Nothing will be OK," Naruto yelled out loud, probably disturbing his neighbors which Naruto could care less about. He continued with anger in his voice, "They hate me. I didn't even do anything, and they hate me so much. You aren't gonna make it better. They're all going to call me crazy and hate me so much more and, and I'll have to d-deal with all of it.." Naruto sobs became louder and he held his fists tightly to his head.

'Just leave the village,' Kyuubi blurted out trying to get in before Naruto started babbling again. He could not believe that out of the many years of Naruto being pushed so far with insults and glares, that he had been the one to make the boy cry so much. He knew it was partially that Sasuke kid, the kid that Naruto thought he could be the closest of friends with.

"Where will I go?"

'I have the perfect place, but we're going have to do something first,' Kyuubi said, scheming something up in his fox-like mind. He started to tell Naruto in detail what they were going to do. He would tell the blonde exactly what moves to make, exactly what to take and exactly how to get out as fast as he smirked and examined his claws as he sat in the metal cage in Naruto mind.

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"What, scrolls are missing? And so is Uzumaki Naruto?" A very angry ANBU whispered to another sitting next to him. He was angry enough to tear down the walls and chase after the stupid boy. He remembered watching his father end his life trying to stop the demon fox from destroying the village.

"What are we going to do?" An ANBU in the back of the room yelled. They were all pretty much angry at the fact that Naruto, the fox demon's holder, could have escaped with important scrolls. None of the men or women in this room could ever like or enjoy Naruto presence. They would never trust him either.

"Silence!" The Third Hokage had yelled to silence the room of its whispers and angry yells. He held his cane in front of him as he sat down and thought for a moment. He quickly said, "the scrolls that the child has taken are not that dangerous and would take him years to learn. With seal place on him, he cannot use any of the power of the fox, so that is of no concern to me and should not be to you." He paused to think once more. "We will send out a search party in the morning. Cat, Dog, Mouse, and Bunny will go on the search. If Naruto is found, he will be brought back alive. He is only seven, after all. Am I understood?"

The Hokage sighed in his hand. He really wouldn't send them. He knew why Naruto was running away and did not want to stop him. The boy had suffered enough and deserved to be away from all of the hatred.

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Naruto stood at the gate of the village, he had used one of the sleeping gas bomb from the scroll house to knock out the guards. He frowned afraid to leave and afraid that would miss the village that he had once dreamed of becoming Hokage of. He was not sure if he should leave, but he heard Kyuubi urge him to go on. They had introduced themselves to each other right before Naruto left to go get the scrolls. The scrolls made no sense to Naruto, and he wondered what a piece of paper would do to help him.

"Goodbye Konoha," He said as he ran out the gates and to the place that Kyuubi had wanted him to go. He felt tears leaking from his eyes as he ran, but they were tears of joy. The most amazing tears he had ever felt in his life. Naruto was so happy to be free, free from all of the glares, bullies and insults it made him relax just a little bit. A smile placed itself on the boy's face.

I'm feeling so free... Thank you, Kyuubi.

'No problem, Kit.'

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