' -' Are thought bubbles from Naruto's thoughts or mind.

"-" Talking obviously.

A/N: This is my first story. I'm pretty excited to post this so all reviews are accepted. (Such an overused chapter name I know. Deal with et~)

No Beta. You've been warned.

Declaimer: I do not own Naruto, though I wish I did because if I did, Sasuke would have a new hokage ranking him up to Anbu if you know what I mean.

Chapter one: Before the Storm

Where there is desire
There is gonna be a flame
Where there is a flame
Someone's bound to get burned
But just because it burns
Doesn't mean you're gonna die
You've gotta get up and try, and try, and try
Gotta get up and try, and try, and try
You gotta get up and try, and try, and try

Pink ~ Try

"It's not working!"

"What's not working?"

"None of your goddamn business, teme! Dattebayo!" (1)

"Tch! Idiot, just let me see the stupid scroll!"

"No, stop it!"

"What are you two boneheads fighting about now!?" Haruno Sakura strided over to the two boys, she was the girl with shortly cut pink hair; she tends to cut off the ends of her hair with her Kunai when it gets too long; which she was doing before disturbed by the yelling of the two arguing boys. Well, maybe just Naruto.

She was the one who kept the group together. Short and simply, Naruto has a major crush on her. But she shot him down terribly. She has a 'love' thing going on for Sasuke it seemed.

'I hate him.' Naruto thought bitterly. Who wouldn't? Naruto thought of him as a huge jackass and from his point of view, he was perfect in everything and had everything Naruto lacked...

Going back to the scroll, Naruto pulled the scroll again and gritted his teeth together as he attempted to get the raven to loose his grip, "Sasuke - won't - let... GO!" Naruto; who had the scroll, flung backwards onto his butt rather painfully and growled boy above him with the scroll now in his taunting hand. He tossed the scroll up and caught it swiftly with a smirk gracing his features. "You'll pay!" the blonde snapped.

'Again, did I say that I hate him?!'

Uchiha Sasuke was the pretty boy of Konoha, his raven, black hair spiked in the back and to Naruto, it resembled a ducks butt. His hair was probably the only thing that made him so popular. It stood out against the perfect porcelain skin and fell neatly at the side of his face. The metal plated headband blocked his forehead from view but matched him just fine. 'Disgusting.' The dark, ebony eyes was also an Uchiha trait along with the Sharingan the boy was yet to master. Sasuke looked cockily down at him and caused a stirring flare to be hit with gasoline.

'What a teme! He gets nearly all the girls in Konoha drooling whenever he takes a shit. Not that I watch him or anything, just the basic 'Oh-he's-so-hot-and-Its-love-at-first-sight' thing going on with all the ladies. He thinks he's all that and I for one, think he needs a major makeover in his personality.' Naruto mused slightly.

"Hn, loser."

'There he goes again. I wonder what would happen if I were to cut that duck butts hair right off!' Naruto's eyebrow twitched slightly as he slowly moved to rest his weight on his elbows. "What did you say, jackass!?" Not that he didn't hear him, but if he was going to retrace his wording, that would be a big relief to him and his chance to rub something in his face. One could hope. Naruto shifted from his elbows and jumped back to his feet swiftly with his tan fist catching and entwined in the collar of his blue shirt. 'It was a hideous shirt if I didn't mention. Uchihas had bad taste in clothes.' He added mentally.

"You heard me, dobe." He hissed back now noticeably irritated . Naruto also failed to notice Sasuke's hand gripping the front of his shirt as well. You'd think he'd be used to it by now for how many fights they always ended up getting into.

'I admit, he's fast.' Naruto thought when he noticed the choking feeling he got from the restriction. He deepened his glare. "You are such a.. a.. smug asshole! A dirty , dirty ug-"

"Mind not spitting in my face, loser?"

'He's asking for it. He's clearly asking for it.' The blonde tightened his grip trying to inflict some sort of reaction other than insults; trying to choke him out of his Uchiha body. If he could, he'd tape his mouth shut.

"Naruto! Don't bother Sasuke with your idiocy! Come on, break it up!" Sakura pushed her way in between the two and provided a large space in the middle of the clearing. Naruto was surprised she didn't punch him like usual to be quite honest. She had one hell of a punch and Naruto was always surprised by it. "You two are just fighting over a stupid scroll. What on Earth does it do anyways?" She snatched it quickly from the irritated raven, (who gave a dirty look) and opened it.

The shorter blonde couldn't help but grit his teeth and stare at him, 'He thinks that stare will make me back down? That's not happening.' Naruto snarled, "You're a bastard!" he shouted.

"And you're an annoying nuisance who needs to keep his mouth shut before my ears start to bleed." He uttered as if he was in a boring conversation; his attention turning elsewhere in Uchiha Sasuke world.

"I'm going to screw you up!" He shoved past Sakura and flung himself at the raven, tackling him down blindly and recklessly.

In a blink, Naruto's back hit the dirt harshly with a weight falling perfectly aligned to his.

"..." Sasuke's dark onyx gaze glared heavily. Swimming in such a stare could have caused your last breath to escape your body completely. Intensity; violently speaking unknown words.

"..." Naruto dared to opened his eyes completely and was shocked when Sasuke had his knuckles punched down on either side of him and leaving gaps. His weight pressed and pinned him were he was; his glare leaving Naruto utterly helpless. The blondes thoughts were empty, dramatically, he was lost in his terrifying stare; his glare cutting into Naruto like a sharp knife. Naruto gaped and tried to remember to breathe. Naruto finally blinked and snapped back to reality. "Get off me! Get off!" The boy yelped, not quite gaining his clear thoughts back yet.

"Hn." Sasuke grunted and wordlessly stood up before wandered over to a tree and rested his back against it with his arms crossed. He was no longer interested.

'He hesitated to hurt me.' His eyes landed anywhere but near him. He felt angry but completely flabbergasted. Never once has Sasuke backed down from a fight. But after a few months of being on the same team, Naruto had to wonder if Sasuke was actually accepting him more. It was to frustrating to him, he didn't want that but then again, he didn't know what he wanted. If he didn't return the attack tenfold, was that implying that he was too weak to fight? This pissed him off even more but he kept calm none-the-less when he realized other importance.

Naruto couldn't help but turn his slight attention back to him. 'That damned bastard.' he sighed as he stood up and brushed off dirt from his backside.

Sakura was quite used to the fights between them and after awhile, it truly did get tiring to her. So with that, she continued to try figuring out blank answers, "I can't seem to read it very well.. It says… Natures power… Clear senses... " Naruto's gaze shifted to the pinked haired girl and he pushed himself forward. He chose to ignore the dark figure looking off into space and he also ignored the lingering questions. Naruto grabbed the scroll from Sakura and looked for were she found those words on the scroll. "Naruto!" She returned a nasty look that he didn't quite take mind to since he was to busy trying to figure it out.

"What kind of power is this?" He peered harder at the text and placed the scroll on the ground and keeled, "Let me try this scroll again." Naruto used the hand signals written on the top and watched as… nothing happened. 'Hell?'

"No, you did it wrong, baka." She shoved him out of the way rather harshly and attempted the hand signals. Naruto frowned but stood right back next to her, it was easy to tell she grew frustrated when she failed. "There has to be a key to it…" she muttered.

"Hn, amateurs." Sasuke snatched the scroll from the ground seeming to have his attention caught and read carefully before trying the same technique as swell. It was rare to get curious twice about something so Naruto snorted lightly at that. He was human afterall.

"..."

But there was luck in the scroll. Without another try, he glared at the paper and threw it aside without another thought, "It's a dud." He muttered.

"Maybe we can -" Sakura was cut off as a swift sound and figure appeared at the corner of the forest.

"Sorry I'm late, I-"

"Save it!" The three snapped in unison.

"You were supposed to be here twenty minutes ago for our mission completion!" Sakura complained and put her hands on her hips in a motherly fashion. Since they just completed a mission with escorting a small group of travelers, they were told to meet him outside of the small villages' premises in the woods while he met up with them.

Kakashi smiled under his mask and chuckled, "I'm a busy man."

"What the hell could you have ever have been doing for 20 minutes in the damn wood-!... Don't answer that." Naruto muttered at the end of his bellowing. 'Of all meteors, why did it have to be him?' Naruto thought annoyed.

Hatake Kakashi was team sevens squad leader. To put simply, he always carried around a perverted book called, Icha Icha Paradise. Naruto stared at the pervert. Not to mention, he was always late. Not that Naruto minded sometimes since he was late at times as well... He never seemed to take anything serious with them, unless he is in a serious battle that is.

"Well, what do we have here?" He picked up the abandoned scroll from the ground and looked over it with his face neutral as always. His grey eye skimmed quickly and Naruto could have sworn he saw a flash of some sort of something in his expression. "Hmm… I'll just hold onto this." He stated and turned around and started to lead forward; following the river back to Konoha.

"Sensei, what doe-"

"Well... I don't think I could lie to my young disciples," Kakashi cut, 'He's so full of himself.' Naruto glared in suspicion, "Right to the point, one of you seemed to have activated the Beast Scroll. I hope it was just one of you trying this scroll," he looked at the blonde who returned his look by sticking out his tongue, "And I'm sure I have taught this team better than to mess with scrolls you don't know…Especially if you couldn't read it never the less. Now, how about I treat to Ichiraku's after I report to the Hokage with a mission completion?"

'How dare he look at me! I mean.. yeah it was me who found the scroll and tried it… but still!... Did he say Ichiraku's?' Narutos face lightened up at the idea or Ramen.

"Wait a second! What would happen if… Say all of us tried this Beast Scroll, Sensei?" Sakura's eyebrows furrowed, she looked at the Uzumaki from the side of her eye with a promising look of 'You better not have gotten us in deep shit'. Naruto caught her gaze and frowned.

'It's not all my fault! … Maybe...'

"Oh, well… You'd have to find out. If the Beast scroll was done by only one, a ... per-say 'Lone wolf' effect would happen and randomly, the user would have turned to a certain animal of the scrolls choice. Of course, it would wear off eventually…" He turned his head towards them, "But…"

"But?" Sasuke was the one to question. He scrowled, already knowing he wasn't going to like the answer.

'Ha, he said butt. I knew he was gay.' Naruto chuckled quietly to himself.

"Kakashi?"

"Oh, sorry, I spaced out.", 'Of course.', "But, if a party of three or more has performed the scroll, a pack would form and they'd stay an animal of random choice till a cure was found. All animals vary in a cure."

"WHAT!?" Team seven froze with wide eyes. Sakura facepalm while Sasuke clenched his teeth.

'He had to be joking! When did it take effect? He was kidding, I know it. No way would I want to be stuck in a pack with Sasuke!' Naruto rubbed the back of his neck and groaned.

"When does that scroll take effect…?" Sasuke spoke dangerously, blaming Naruto with his dark eyes. He growled in return.

"Why? You three didn't try it, did you?"

'That creep already knew the answer!' Naruto took a step towards Kakashi, "Answer the question!" he demanded.

"Oh dear, seems we have a problem now. How about I tell you after lunch. I'm starved."

"KAKASHI!"

The troubled blonde glared at Sasuke's back, his hands shoved deep in his orange pant pockets. Kakashi wouldn't budge no matter how many times they'd asked him. Team seven followed behind like a line of ducklings as the said man strolled towards the entree of Konoha and exiting the ground path. Naruto walked forward past Sasuke and Sakura and next to Kakashi. "Will you tell us now?" he asked hopefully.

"I told you, after lunch. Now," he turned around abruptly and smiled under that most irritating mask of his. Well that's what Naruto was thinking, "I'll meet you there at Ichiraku's. I'll be there to pay for your meals instead." He quickly turned away and vanished off in a flash.

'He's acting strange. More than usual.' Naruto observed.

"Great, all because of you, I'll be stuck with you as a packmate. What a waste of time." Sasuke grumbled, glaring at nothing in particular. The blonde clenched his fists and turned around and started to walk backwards while leading the two deeper into the village, "Shut up! You were trying to take the scroll form me in the first place!"

"Hn." He closed his eyes and slowly smirked as the blonde continued to walk backwards, "Watch where you're going."

"Hu-" Before Naruto could turn around, he roughly hit and collapsed backwards into many barrels and crates. 'Shit!'

"Loser."

The boy winced and felt around himself to find ground without getting splinters in his hands from the destroyed crates. He stood up and looked at the mess he fell into.. 'Well.. the mess I made.'

"Get out of here!" An elderly voice scolded.

"Look what that imbecile did!"

He gave a small guilty expression as Naruto tried fixing everything but stopped when a potato was thrown at his head.

"Just go you monster!"

'I would have fallen right next to potato stand.' Naruto thought bitterly.

Sasuke stepped away from the scene to stay out of the curious gazes from the villagers. Sakura extended a hand but brought it back. She was never one to be disrespectful to adults or question their authority and get involved in things that didn't involve herself. Weakly, she stepped back and watched.

The blonde felt his anger boil up at everything happening around himself, "Fine! I wasn't going to help anyways!" he screamed.

"Go away!"

"No one wants you here!" An younger woman or man, threw another potato. Naruto stuck his tongue out rudely and waved his hand goodbye at them in a 'whatever' motion and turned around, running the other way. 'Whenever I do anything, everyone overreacts. Yeah, nice.'

Naruto kept going his own direction to Ichiraku's, running into a few other villagers on the way and ignoring the angry comments they sent his way. The boy cut through alleyways and jumped over trashcans to get there the quickest way he could. The fox-like boy skidded to a stop and started to walk at his own paste with small pants.

'It's not like I didn't try helping. I'm not sure why I even try considering I always get yelled even for trying to help. I'm not liked by the villagers. It's because I was a orphan. I am a orphan. It was so pathetic. I refuse to think of myself as being any less than human.' Naruto slowed down as he approached the stand, 'And anyways, I don't have to be late now. Early bird gets the worm I suppose.'

He let a grin appear on his features as he approached his favorite food place. No use in getting upset about thing you had no control over of at the moment. Naruto strolled in and sat down in the center; ignoring the customer who scooted one seat farther away from him childishly.

"Hi Naruto, what would my top customer like today?"

"The usual, Miso Ramen with extra chashu!" He exclaimed with his well known expression.

"Miso ramen and extra chashu coming up." His daughter Ayame nodded and got busy straining noodles with a small scowl on her face. Naruto rested his cheek in his palm as he waited patiently for his meal to be made. But a question was bugging at him as he stared at the small posters in the small place. The questions were gone for the while, but ever since he graduated from the academy, he was yet to get any answers and he wanted to know. "Hey, Ichiraku guy?" Naruto looked up at the older gentlemen.

"It's Teuchi, and what is it Naruto?" He crossed his arms on the table and gave his full attention.
'It felt nice to have someone like that.' Naruto thought quietly.

"Well, I was wondering if you knew anything about my parents.. y'know.. since you've been here so long." He played with the jar of chopsticks as he asked his question.

There was a flash of concern in the older mans eyes, but he shook his head softly, "No, you're asking the wrong person. Sorry kid." He smiled sadly and turned around to help out in finishing orders.

The boy sighed and turned in his seat slightly to looked at the street under the curtains. He spotted the approaching feet of customers as they started to walked in and gave the kid a dirty look before ordering their picks on the menu above the old mans head. Naruto took notice at how they sat two seat away from him. He let his mood fall for a few seconds before he started to smell the delicious scent of miso ramen. Naruto picked his head up and smiled a toothy grin and watched, (which seemed like forever) before Teuchi placed the large bowl in front of him. He snapped his chopsticks apart and licked his slightly dry lips, "Thanks old man!" The hungry blonde wasted no time before he stuffed his face.

The taste was always what made him forget everything for the while. The smell devouring his senses as the ravenous blonde slurped up the noodles. The warmth of the noodles slid down his throat quickly. As Naruto inhaled his meal, he turned his head to find Sakura and Sasuke joining in with their blonde teammate.

'Great, Sasuke.' Naruto stopped slurping for a mere second before turning back to his bowl and bit off the string of ramen and turning in his seat to face Sakura, "Hey Sakura! Sit by me." She rolled her eyes gently but sat down next to him anyways and looked up at the menu.

"Childish." Naruto ignored what Sasuke said and smiled at Sakura. Her left eye twitched slightly as she pushed his face away with her soft hand.

"Naruto…" She growled dangerously, The blonde smiled guiltily and took the hint and turned forward.

"Eh, sorry Sakura." He muttered before going back to his nearly empty bowl. He figured he should order another.

Sakura knew she shouldn't be completely heartless with him since he had just gone though name callings and uncalled for hostility. Though she was still to immature to completely understand his pain, a part of her still was hostile to him on her own part and fairly wary of him. She thought of him as annoying still and she didn't think that would change. But because Naruto was still her team mate for now, she had to try and get along with him the best she could. But it didn't mean she had to involve herself in his drama.

Sasuke and Sakura eventuality ordered and for the moment, it was quiet. Sakura sighed and her gaze moved over to stare googly eyed at Sasuke, and Sasuke.. well was doing what all Sasukes' do with the staring-at-nothing thing. 'Well, I hope there was just one Sasuke...'

Naruto wondered when Kakashi would be here to pay for their meals, and a voice in the back of his head told him that he might not even show up. Naruto watched as Sakura and Sasuke got their meals. Sasuke picked at his food; not impressed with the noodles. 'Just like him.' He sighed and ordered another bowl and followed after four more.

Kakashi should have expected that of the blonde.

"I knew he do this…" Naruto frowned as he looked at his little green froggie purse; in which was empty because his so called sensei didn't meet with them like he promised. He even payed for Sakura and had no choice but do Sasukes since he left to go home without a single word. 'What a jerk.' Sakura gave a small thanks to Naruto, but he knew it was halfhearted. She just gave him a small smile before she took off to her home. But Naruto decided that was enough for him. But he also had a bruise on his arm when he asked her if that was considered a date. 'I won't be dreaming long.' Naruto smirked at the thought. 'She just hasn't seen how awesome I am and how greater than Sasuke I am. Soon.'

Naruto started walking towards his apartment in the lower regions on the village and tucked the wallet away. The day was tilting closer to dusk and he couldn't help but feel his stomach fall uneasy. He felt like something wasn't right , like his body was shifting on the inside out. "I guess It was all that Ramen I ate…" He muttered to himself.

Naruto was used to getting some sort of reaction from his stomach since he wasn't completely a black hole for Ramen. But it wasn't that unsettling.

After some more walking, the feeling eased and he blamed it on the fact that maybe a clump built up there in his lovely belly.

He locked his hands behind his neck and sighed carelessly. The back of his head growled, he still wondered why his thoughts tended to take the voice of a weird feral animal.

'Kit, what have you done. You fool.' It said in the back of his mind. He never got why his mind played tricks like that, in that voice never the less. But he felt the need to just sleep it away and have the dream about being outside a large cage with a red kitsune guarding over him… 'If you could call it that.' Naruto's dreams always had a strange demon looking fox growling at him. It was always a different scenario of what the fox would do, but the same place nevertheless. He figured he'd never truly understand. 'Not like I had anyone to talk to about it.' he thought bitterly.

'Don't ignore me.' The feral voice growled.

"Not now… I'm in public. I don't need people thinking I'm insane." He gave in. In a screwed up way, Naruto enjoyed his own company and conversation with his strange subconscious. People did say to listen to your subconscious, right? It was like someone else was in his mind. No matter how strange it was, it was almost comforting to him too. But he had to had that even sometimes, he, himself was non-accepting of himself. The thought made shivers run up his back, but he refused to think himself low.

'Hmm.' It growled.

Naruto made his way towards the third level and grabbed his keys from his pocket and unlocked the front door to his apartment. When he stepped in, he was reminded of how filthy and dirty it was. It was empty; lonely. Clothes were highlighted by the illuminating suns orange glare from the window, they were thrown on the kitchen table and packets of Ramen rested on the counter along with bowls stacking in the sink. Naruto faltered as he made his way to his room and threw his jacket on the counter; thus pushing over the picture frame of the team seven picture.

Naruto lazily stepped out of his orange jumpsuit pants and left them on the ground near his room door. He enjoyed the bright orange color. As he stepped over the garbage and mess, (and tripping over some objects that were brutally kicked away) he flopped down on the bed with his head buried in his pillow and he let out a long sigh. No one cared to come by and clean anymore since he was mostly out now for missions. He wasn't considered a kid anymore to the eyes of the landlord and he was responsible for it now.

His bed was comfy to him and he turned to lay on his back. "I wonder if Kakashi was lying about that scroll.." Naruto was reminded, he brushed off the situation as soon as he had the taste of ramen. "Seriously, does he expect us to believe that we'd turn to beasts out of nowhere and not be able to change back human?" He snorted at the idea and turned on his side to look out the window. He stared at the window and continued to drown in his thoughts.

'I wonder if I should be training right now.' he pondered.

'Kit…' The voice growled, but it sounded like if it had an expression, it be an devious smirk. Nothing followed after his unfinished sentence though.

"Leave me alone." Naruto muttered. He sat up on the bed and wrapped his arms around his limbs with his cheek resting on his knee. Naruto continued to stared out the window, "Why are you talking to me all of a sudden anyways?" he questioned, not thinking of how weird it was talking to himself anymore. It has been awhile since he heard his subconscious clearly make itself known. After joining team seven, he got busy training and kept his anger and frustration on surpassing the Hokage.

Naruto received no answer. He figured.

'Someday...' He gazed at the dusk clouds, most of it was covered by the roof of his apartment. 'They'll all acknowledge me.' Naruto smiled and stared at the front of his room. After a few moments of silence, he advanced towards the window and cracked it open and felt the burst of wind slap him in the face. Naruto pushed it far enough so he could escape the forsaken room. He pushed his legs through first before sliding completely out and jumping from the railing to the roof.

He stumbled and quickly regained his balance and sat on the flat surface of the rough material. He felt a cooling breeze hit him with a nice touch that whipped his hair forward. The blonde boy chuckled at how dramatic it all felt. His lips gracefully turned upwards as he watched different sections of the village in motion.

His optics soon caught sight of the Uchiha grounds. His eyebrows furrowed as he tried to figure out which one held his other teammate in. Naruto had always wondered if a friendship with him would be better then what he made to be. He know he has suffered the same pain as he had. His eyes hold anger and vengeance. A part of Naruto wanted to trap away his anger and replace it.

And he never questioned himself for the thought.

His mind wandered to earlier in the day when Sasuke did in fact show him his ebony eyes that held his emotions all in one after Naruto's said tackle attack. He hesitated. And he didn't give him the blow of his fist like Naruto should have received. 'Eventually, it would have turned into a huge fight…'

'Maybe he was just avoiding another fight.' Naruto deadpanned. 'Even though he started it..' He added and pouted slightly.

The only way to get even momentarily close to him is when they trained or battled together. Naruto smirked at the idea of a battle out in the training grounds with Sasuke right now. Sparring was one of the only things they got along in. If you could call bickering and teasing getting along that is. But it was there anyhow. Not that Naruto could truly understand it yet.

When Naruto caught movement near a clear glass door of one of the Uchiha manors, he tried making out who was walking out to the balcony and realized quickly it was the duckbutt. He was still in his usual choice of clothing, the blue collar shielding his neck and just touching his chin. Sasuke's black locks fell and contrasting against his pale skin in the dusk and framed the side of his face. He didn't have his headband on either.

Naruto pulled at his own from the back tie and took it off. He stared at the reflection of the shiny metal and caught his own reflection. The whiskers standing out more than anything. He looked back and watched as the raven crossed his arms over the railing of his balcony and staring at nothing in particular but seemed to be drowned in deep thought.

What was he thinking about? It was obvious Sasuke was alone like himself emotionally. One of the reason Naruto found himself drawing to him even if he refused. Naruto hated the fact that Sasuke had everything he had , yet he was unhappy with it. Naruto would do anything to be in his place and embrace the attention he got. He didn't get why he had to be like that and that's what irritated him. Couldn't Sasuke just embrace his attention and move on? But Naruto would never understand how it felt to lose everything while he was conscious. He had nothing from the beginning.

Sighing from his thought, he cocked his head to the side and wondered, 'Is now a good time to bother him for a battle?' he kept his thoughts on the idea. If sparring was the way to keep their lingering thoughts at bay, he'd do it.

Another gust of wind chilled him. At the same moment, Naruto caught the Uchiha's attention from across the grounds. He looked at Naruto darkly, but then slowly smirked. Naruto lifted a thin eyebrow.

'What the hell was he smiling at? I wasn't stalking him!' The fox faced boys face showed his obvious confusion but he quickly blushed when he realized he was in his boxers and he never cared to put pants back on before he climbed out on top of his roof in all his boxer glory. He slid down and pushed himself through the window quickly. 'Good thing it's dusk.' He sweatdropped. He didn't mind to much of other people seeing him, but for Sasuke, it was different since he could just feel the teasing looks he gave.

Naruto grumbled to himself for letting himself become exposed in his red and white heart boxers. He shook his head to down the embarrassment and grabbed his orange pants from the ground and slid them on. 'Hope the damned pervert liked what he saw.'

Naruto placed his headband on his bed and he sighed as he closed the window with rather cold hands. He gave a scratch to his cheek, "Maybe a break from training tonight.."

As Naruto strolled into the kitchen and flicked the light switch on, he was deciphering whether or not to clean, but the lazy side of him thought otherwise. Because he just ate not to long ago, he decided to take a trip to the training grounds to just wander instead of train. He didn't care to grab his jacket, but something didn't settle right as he felt his stomach clench. It felt like it was turning in a painful circle and the boy felt like he had to hold something down.

'Tell me if this hurts, Kit.'

'What?' Naruto opened the front door but found himself holding onto the doorknob tightly before he could think; his knuckles started to turn pale white at the pressure of his grip. His left hand grabbed onto his stomach, it was painful, ripping and felt like it was tearing. Naruto winced with a gasp and lowered to his knees as his legs buckled beneath him. When Naruto looked down at his abdomen, his shirt was ripping, his clothes splitting just like his insides. Instead of what Naruto thought he did; scream, his vocals howled out loudly nearly deafening his own ears.

"Stop!" Naruto didn't know who he was talking to, he couldn't understand what was really going on in the first place. The boys eyes began to water and he shut them tightly. His middle felt warmer, and his body shifted a bit more and after what seemed like forever, the burning in his stomach stopped. His head was on the wood platform where his apartment room was. All he could think about was what was currently happening to him. But he couldn't wrap his mind around anything at the moment as he felt his arms break to form into something more stiff. Naruto couldn't pull himself together enough to shout, or scream. 'Unbearable pain.'

His legs tried curling up into a ball but refused otherwise as they too broke painfully and were replaced like his arms.

"What's going on, Make it stop!?" Naruto heard another voice in his head, but this time, it wasn't the feral voice he was used to, It sounded more frantic and familiar.

'That was not my subconscious!' Naruto blinked his eyes open and tried to push himself up, but he fell on all fours as if instinctively. His mind felt hazy. 'Was that Sakura?'

"Point out the obvious… dobe."

~To be continued~

**Authors note**

Your Japanese vocab~

(1) Teme is a word Naruto refers to Sasuke as, meaning "bastard" or "idiot".

Same for Sasuke who calls Naruto dobe; which means "idiot", or "deadlast".

Dattebayo is used by Naruto meaning "believe it" or "y'know" to say simply.

This chapter is short for the first. They will get longer. And the interesting stuff shall be in the next chapter.

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