Fox: Hey, just so you know this takes place abought a month after Team 7 got back from there mission to the Wave country.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Warnings: Yaoi in later chapters.

My Kyubi

A boy with blond hair slowly opened his eyes. He tried to sat up but fell right back down. 'Why do I feel so weak?' He thought, then he noticed movement in the corner. "Good to see you're awake. Feel any better?" Iruka asked.

"It feels like all my strenght is gone." The boy said softly, Iruka gently stroked his hair as if worried he might break.

"She said it would take some time for you to adjust now that the monster's gone." He said gently, "don't worry Naruto, I'm here for you."

"Then it wasn't a dream?" Naruto asked. 'More like a nightmare.' he thought.

"Nope, it's really gone." Kakashi said appearing at the door. Sakura and Sasuke we're right behind him. Naruto looked around now and realized he was in his own room. He then closed his eyes and went back to sleep. The next day Naruto walked slowly down the road, Kakashi walked beside him and caught him when he stumbled, Naruto let him help him and then continued, unsure what he was doing.

'I wish I could think clearer, without Kyubi I can barely even stand. I don't even know how to act now, do I let them help me or do I push them away. That sounds better, this is there doing after all, they got rid of Kyubi. They betrayed my trust, all of them, even Iruka, my adopted father.' Naruto though as he stumbled again, this time he lightly pushed Kakashi back when he caught him. They soon made it to the training area, both Sasuke and Sakura ran over to see how Naruto was, he just looked away before they could say anything.

"What's wrong Naruto?" Sakura asked then she turned to Kakashi when he didn't answer. "Is he okey, Master Kakashi?"

"The monster that was removed from him affected his personalty, now we'll see what he's really like." Kakashi replied. Naruto slowly looked at them, clear confusion in his eyes, then it was gone. He showed no emotion at all, even his eyes were blank. They started training, but it wasn't long before Naruto had to stop and rest.

"I hope he'll be okey, he hasn't said a word all day." Sakura said, she walked over to Naruto as training ended and sat down. "How are you felling Naruto?" The blond haired ninja looked at her then at his reflection in the water, he couldn't lie anymore.

"Kyubi's really gone, isn't she?" Naruto said sadly, it wasn't really much of a question.

"Naruto, you don't sound very happy about it." Sakura said putting her hand gently on Naruto's arm.

"She wasn't as bad as everyone thought. Kyubi helped me all the time, she comforted me. She even gave me a small amount of her power, more as I grew but never to much for me to handle." Naruto said. "Do you remember in the wave country, when we fought Zabuza and Haku? When all seemed lost Kyubi gave me the power to keep fighting, and even put some of her own abilities into the fight." Naruto said, he was nearly whispering now as he thought back to that battle. Kyubi had always been his friend, but now she was gone.

"If Kyubi meant that much to you, why don't you find her?" Sasuke said, Kakashi was busy picking up the targets they had used for practice. Sasuke sat down on Naruto's other side (away from Sakura) and joined the compensation.

"I don't have the strength, I can barely even walk and the path is full of bandits and missing-nin. It's impossible." Naruto said.

"So Kyubi gave you conference as well. Don't worry Naruto, we'll go with you. Together we can do anything." Sakura said, Naruto just stared at his reflection before leaning back against the tree behind him. He closed his eyes and fell asleep, exhausted from training. Kakashi carried him home when he was done with clean up. That night Naruto thought abought what the others had said, he slowly climbed to the roof and look at the stars. He spotted a constellation that looked like a fox.

'Kyubi, please wait up fo me, I'm coming to find you.' He thought as he slid back into his window and went to bed, he could feel his strength increasing as he adjusted to less energy. The next morning he told the others he was ready and they left before practice, fully packed for the journey. Naruto lead the way and the going was peaceful for abought three hours, then the bushes to there left shook and out came a bandit.

"Well, it's not every day that three little kids wonder into this area." He said as abought eight more bandits entered the clearing.

"Nine on three, think you can handle three of them Naruto?" Sasuke asked, Naruto nodded and the battle began. Naruto managed to knock to of his out, but the third pinned him to a tree. He raised a knife above his head and brought it down.

To be continued . . .

Fox: I Modified this story to fix any confusion, I'm already working on chapter two, hope it's easier to read.