Wifey: Open up this damn door! Quit playing that damn game!

KG: But, but it's sooooo good!

Wifey: I don't care! You haven't been to work in two days! I'm not your receptionist!

KG: Hang on, I know I can make a Fanfiction out of this!

Wifey: YOU STILL HAVE OTHER SHIT TO WORK ON!

KG: Ah yeah, yeah, they'll understand. You can't stop imagination when it comes flooding out!

Wifey: I'm going to strangle you!

KG: The Maw will protect meh!

Music of the Week: Light by James Paget.

Quote: "I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death," by Leonardo da Vinci.

"Devour!"

"Devour them!"

"Devour them all!"

"Why do you hestitate? You know you want it! You want it all! You want to release every single desire that is within you. Why would you fight for them? Why do you need to prove yourself to people who would dare cast you aside? What does she know about how special you are? How is he better than you just because he came from some special clan? What do they know about you? What would they know about your greatness?! DEVOUR THEM ALL!"

Bright blue eyes fluttered awake. Their gaze was hazy and unfocused. The body those blue eyes were attached to felt uncomfortable. What it laid on was very hard and very cold. A sea of blond hair waved across the body's head. By the build of the body, it was a young man. His clothing was in tatters. Bruise after bruise littered his body. His bright orange jacket had been torn to pieces.

He groaned as his eyes focused. It was dark. It was so dark he could feel its weight upon him. His head was pounding and his body felt weak. The last thing he had remembered was…fighting his former friend, Uchiha Sasuke, because he had ran from the village. He widened his eyes and pulled himself up to his hands and legs. "SASUKE! Argh!" The voice of Uzumaki Naruto said as he touched his head. He had a splitting headache.

His vision slowly began to grow accustomed to the darkness. He quickly took note of his surroundings. "What? Where am I?" Naruto asked. He noticed iron bars in front of his face. Naruto grabbed the iron bars. They were cold to his touch. Naruto couldn't see anything in front of him. It was too dark. Plus, Naruto found his gaze unsteady. His hands were shaking and so were his legs. Naruto was actually surprised that he was moving at all. He felt like he could throw up at the moment.

Naruto pushed himself off bars. His legs gave out on him and Naruto fell back. He was short of breath and he was sure he was about to pass out again. Naruto felt his eyes slowly begin to drift off. Naruto wondered if his ears were playing tricks on him because he heard whimpering. Naruto heard scraping and just before he passed out he was sure he saw a massively long hand reach across his field of view. Naruto laid his head on the iron wall and passed out from his injuries.

Naruto didn't know how long he had been sleeping, but his stomach had been grumbling. It had grumbled so much that Naruto felt even sicker than he had been before. He felt like his entire body was trying to eat itself. Naruto scrunched up his body and opened one of his eyes. Naruto widened his eyes when he noticed a piece of bread and a piece of meat in his cell. Naruto didn't remember hearing anyone near the bars when he had been sleeping. Naruto couldn't explain how badly he wanted to reach for the food, but Kakashi had literally drilled it into his head to be cautious.

"Devour!"

Naruto felt his stomach lurch. He panted heavily. His forehead was starting to sweat. Unbearable pain began to form in his body. Naruto tightly held onto his stomach. Naruto crawled towards the food and he picked up the bread. He decided to think about it in the way of if whoever had caught him wanted him dead then they would have killed him when they saw him and not gone through the risk of capturing him.

Naruto grabbed the bread and he ate it hungrily. He swallowed it and he then turned to the meat. It was cold and hard, but food was food. Naruto ate and swallowed it leaving nothing behind. Naruto breathed a sigh of relief. The pain in his stomach had left him almost instantly and he felt much better.

He was still injured, but at least he wasn't injured AND hungry. That was a scary combination. Naruto leaned his head against the iron wall at the back of him. He wondered what kind of cell this was. It was very small, like very, very small. Naruto honestly wondered where he was. He couldn't remember much. He remembered fighting Sasuke, he remembered seeing Sasuke's transformation, and then he remembered them colliding in that enormous explosion. Now, he woke up here, in a cage, with his clothes in taters, and his body was as messed up as his apartment. "I'm low on chakra too. Probably burned it all on that ass," Naruto said to himself.

Naruto struggled to bring his feet together. They were still a little shaky and a little sore. Yet, Naruto did not like being captured by anyone! "Especially not since that last time," Naruto said. A frown marred his face. He remembered something he would have liked to have forgotten. A memory of Konoha that he loathed. A memory of Konoha that made him work so damn hard for the village. For those bunch of PIECES OF SHIT!

Naruto gasped and shook his head. He didn't know why he felt angry all of a sudden, but he tried to pay it no mind. Naruto clipped the back of his shinobi sandal. Out of the back came a razor-sharp iron cutter. Naruto remembered buying it. He was it came with the gear otherwise it would have costed him big time. Naruto remembered how Kakashi talked about how crucial those items were. Naruto still remembered it coming in handy that one time during his journey to the Land of Snow. He had no idea it would have been useful at the moment.

Naruto pulled himself over to the cage until he was in front of the bars. Naruto noticed a lock on the door. Quickly, Naruto maneuvered his hands around the iron bars. He slipped the iron cutter into the keyhole. "Kuso, come on! Open you damn keyhole!" Naruto snarled. It was way too dark and he was sure that all he see was the iron bars of his cell/cage.

Naruto continued to toy with the lock. He tried to find the right angle to unlock it, but he was having no luck with it at all. Naruto suddenly felt pain soar through his body and he dropped his body back into the cage. Naruto huffed as his sore, bruised muscles punished him for his overextension. Naruto growled and slammed his cutter on the cold, metal floor. "KUSO! This is all your damn fault Sasuke! Why'd you have to go and leave the village? You always had to be the fuckin' drama queen. If only I had a light I could get myself out of here!" Naruto exclaimed.

Naruto's ears picked up on noise. Small pattering footsteps he heard pounding on the metal around him. Judging by how the footsteps vibrated, Naruto was sure that his surroundings were metal as well. Wherever he was, there was going to be a lot of clanking in his footsteps if he could escape. Naruto focused his gaze and he noticed a small fire. It was floating, but it made its way to him. Naruto narrowed his eyes as the flame came closer and closer.

The flame's little light granted him vision. He finally noticed just the bare minimum of his surroundings. He saw a dark, cold metal floor and he saw many, many cages around him. Some were empty and others were full of children younger and older than him. Naruto turned back to the little light and he found that it wasn't floating like he had assumed. It was being held. Naruto saw the light rest at the lock. It cleared showed him what he was working with. Naruto looked at the source of the light and he noticed a girl, he assumed, in a yellow raincoat. Her face was hidden by her raincoat, but Naruto really hoped he was right this time and this was not another Haku moment.

This girl said nothing to him. She just continued to hold the fire, which Naruto now noticed came from a small lighter, near the lock. Naruto didn't know why she wouldn't say something to him, but he struggled back towards the iron bars. She gave him a look at his lock so he was glad for that. Naruto grabbed his iron cutter and, with some strain on his body, pulled himself to the bars. Naruto worked on the lock once again. Both could hear Naruto work as the cutter clicked and clattered on the lock's mechanisms. Naruto turned to this little girl in front of him. "Hey, can you…lift the lighter a bit more up?" Naruto asked a bit more quietly than was known for him.

The hooded girl raised her hood just a bit. She then nodded her head and lifted the lighter to help Naruto's vision. Naruto turned back to the lock. He grinned when he felt his iron cutter break through something important. Naruto heard the lock unsnap and the shackle and case separated from each other. Naruto breathed a sigh of relief. The hooded girl removed the lock and opened Naruto's cage.

"Devour her!"

"Survive!"

"Devour Her!"

Naruto groaned as he touched his head. His could feel the pressure on his mind. His mind was filled with images. He could see himself taking the girl's lighter, as he wrapped his hands around her throat. He could see himself chuckling as she laid there on the metal floor lifeless. Naruto could see himself standing amongst the corpses of every last person in Konoha who dared mock him. He could see himself stepping on all of them who laughed at him, made fun of him, angered him! He could…

Naruto shook his head and got rid of those thoughts. He calmed his nerves for a moment and tried to think back on the situation at hand. Naruto looked at his freedom and he struggled to stand to his feet. He did so and he took a walk forward. Naruto gasped as his legs gave out. He fell forward. The hooded girl gently caught him by his arm and eased him on the ground. Naruto grunted. "Sorry, just give me a second." Naruto said with a heavy pant. The girl just held him without a word of complaint.

Naruto gathered himself and, with the yellow hooded girl's help, stood back up to his feet. Naruto, now standing albeit with a little wobbling, turned to the hooded girl next to him. On notice she was shorter than him. The top of her head came up to his neckline. The two didn't say anything for a moment. The girl then turned around. She motioned for him to follow her.

Naruto watched her run off. Naruto proceeded to follow her. He had no idea what was going on or where he was. She was the only one who seemed to have any semblance of the place. Naruto's sandals clanked on the metal floors. "You should give up. Dying is much better than trying to escape from here. Lots of tried. No one has done it. Better yet, kill yourself. That's all life amounts to here. You haven't been here long so you don't know. How lucky for you. Get back in your cage and stop wasting your time," Naruto heard. He turned around and he widened his eyes when he saw cages the cages filled with people again. Naruto then noticed that the girl hadn't tried to save any of the others.

Naruto gave a harsh glare to the boy. "Give up? I never give up against anything! You wanna die? Fine, then go die like a sob story. I'm not going down with you dattebayo! As long as my chances of escaping aren't zero, I'll make sure I get away!" Naruto said.

His words moved no one. Most of what he saw either remained silent, or continued to cry and whimper. The voice that spoke to him only chuckled. It was a chuckle filled with dread, sorrow, fear, and helplessness. "You will learn. You will learn that there is absolutely zero chance of escape from here. All you can do…is die like an animal," the voice said. Naruto growled, but his body punished his anger and he could feel the soreness returning. Naruto just snorted and followed after the yellow-hooded girl. A lot of the other child prisoners watched as Naruto ducked under a hole in the wall and vanished towards the other side.

The voice to a young man older than Naruto sighed. The others heard the massive door to their left jiggle open. Children of all ages cried and wept as long, slender, inhuman-like arms crawled into the room. Those arms felt around one of the cages, picked it up and then pulled it, crying child within, towards its door. It's second arm grabbed another child and pulled them as well. The young man placed his head in his hands and wept. He then gasped as he saw one of the arms reaching for his cage. He was next along with the others taken. This place, there was no need for hope, for faith, for prayers. It was already certain that there was no chance of escape. There…was…absolutely…ZERO…chance. He was pulled away into the darkness as well.

-x-

Naruto pushed himself through the crack in the wall. He grunted from the pain of his injuries. Naruto took off his orange jacket and tied it around his waist line leaving him in a black shirt. Naruto noticed the with the lighter waiting for him. He gasped in exasperation. There was no problem that she was waiting for him. He was kind of glad that she did, but the fact that she was waiting for him near an airduct was the problem!

Okay, Naruto knew he was short. Hell, he figured he was the shortest of his graduating class, but there was literally no way that he was so short that an airduct was bigger than him. "What the hell is going on with this place?" Naruto wondered to himself. Reservations aside, Naruto walked up to the girl. She looked at him rather curiously, he noticed.

"Listen, not that I don't appreciate it. But why did you save me and not anyone else?" Naruto asked. The hooded girl just looked at him. She didn't reply to his questions. Naruto was too tired to get upset. He was also too hurt. "Okay, can you at least tell me what this place is? Or where we are?" Naruto asked. Now, he got a response to that one. Unfortunately, it wasn't one he liked as she shook her head.

Great, so not even his savior had an idea of where they were. Naruto wondered what Kakashi would do in this situation. Naruto released a sigh which had his body not agreeing with his movement. He felt a tad stiff, but Naruto persevered through his pain. He was used to situations like this. "Okay, I guess can you at least tell me your name? Name's Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage of Konoha, dattebayo!" Naruto said. The hooded girl said nothing once again. It made Naruto wonder if she was just being that Sasuke-ish type or if she just really couldn't speak.

He watched her walk over to him. She stood before him. Naruto and the girl stared at each other for a moment. She grabbed his hand. She then opened it. Naruto watched as she pointed at all five of his fingers in his right hand. She then opened his other hand and pointed on his thumb. Naruto was confused by this action, but her emphasis on his number of fingers had him counting. "One, two, three, four, five…six? Six?" He asked. She slowly nodded her head.

Okay, Naruto was even more confused than he had been previously, and Naruto had been pretty damn confused about where he was currently. Her name was…a number? "Your name…is a number?" Naruto asked. The girl named Six nodded her head through her hood. Naruto just nodded. He wasn't about to think about the hows or the whys of parents naming their children a number, but they had bigger things to worry about.

"Right, so what now? Obviously, we gotta get out of here. I figure you would know the way, but since you haven't left and you rescued me, then I don't think you know the way out either. What do you want to do?" Naruto asked. He saw Six point towards the airduct. She obviously wanted them to go that way. Given that neither of them had a layout of…wherever they were. They both decided to play it by ear.

Naruto watched Six as she grabbed the edge of the of the airduct. She pulled herself up into the hole and Naruto shifted his body to get as comfortable as he could. Naruto turned back. He worried about leaving those other kids, but he didn't have a luxury of trying to get them all out. He only hoped he could come back for them later. No matter how much of an ass that voice was.

Naruto gritted his teeth from the pain in his body as he willed his body to climb into the airduct after the girl, Six. Six turned and helped Naruto into the airduct. Naruto and Six crouched down with Six pulling out her lighter to give them a better view. Naruto could feel the cold hum of metal as their surroundings creaked with noise. Wind howled through the ducts. Naruto and Six kept on moving.

Naruto couldn't believe he was crawling through an airduct. He shouldn't have even been able to fit into an airduct! Yet, here they both were making their destination to a place that Naruto didn't even think existed. Then there was this girl, Six. She was younger than him. He could tell that much, yet…she seemed different from the other kids Naruto had seen just moments ago. Naruto wondered how Six got away or if she was even a prisoner. Perhaps she was given that she wanted to escape, but Naruto couldn't have known for sure.

"Devour her! Make her yours! Take her everything! Devour her," Naruto's head began to ring as mutters and murmurs filled his head. "ugh!" Naruto breathed a hard sigh. His body was killing him and he was sure that his head was hurting as well. He felt like Sakura had just bashed him over the head at least ten times in rapid succession. That wasn't a pleasant feeling.

Naruto panted and breathed a sigh once the string of whisperings stopped. He glanced up to see Six patiently waiting for him. "Sorry, minor headache. I'll be alright, dattebayo! Let's keep moving," Naruto said. He crawled forward and moved past Six. Six followed him.

If you asked Six, then she would have told anyone that she wasn't sure why she bothered saving this one. She remembered seeing him brought in a cage before she had gotten separated from the other children. He seemed so different from the others. He had been injured beyond belief. She was actually surprised when she saw him moving around for a couple times. Six didn't like diverting from her plan. She wanted to get out of the place, plain and simple. All the other kids who had given up and were ready to become someone else's lunch was not on her agenda. She didn't sympathize with them. If they wanted to die, then she would let them. Yet, when she looked at him from afar she felt like she understood. Six felt like if it was with this person next to her then she would be able to escape this place. Which was why she did sympathize with his pain, but…if he ever slowed her down too much then she would not hesitate to leave him. She liked to have the odds in her favor, but she didn't need them to be that for her to get what she needed.

After some time, Naruto and Six noticed a large hole. It was most likely the exit for the airduct. Six made to crawl out of the airduct, but Naruto quickly stopped her. She turned back to him curious as to why they were making another stop. "Hang on, don't go out just yet." Naruto said, as he crawled up to the hole.

Naruto peeked out of the airduct and looked into the room. There was a number of multiple ripped boxes and the floor looked massively beat up. Metal pipes ran along the corridor. The floor was also wooden. There was just one light shining in the middle of the room. Naruto looked up at the light and he widened his eyes. He nearly felt himself choke on his own air when he saw legs dangling in the middle of the room. They didn't sway at all. Naruto had never seen such a thing before.

"Hang on, we gotta check our surroundings. We have no idea what's going on here. So, we gotta be careful. I don't know about you, but I'm not looking forward to surprises this time dattebayo," Naruto remarked. Six nodded. She couldn't deny that she wasn't in the mood for surprises either and dangling man's legs were not what she liked to see either. Naruto noticed across the room was a large wooden door with an eye on it. Naruto didn't like the look of that eye.

Six watched Naruto carefully pull himself out of the airduct. She watched Naruto grimace in pain as he held his side. She followed after him and jumped out as well. Naruto helped Six to the floor. Both stood in the room. Upon helping her down, Naruto noticed her scrawny complexion via her feet and hands. She was rather pale, he noticed. She was kind of like him in a way. She looked like she hadn't gotten a whole lot to eat. Naruto knew that better than anyone. Yet, he kept these thoughts to himself.

Naruto and Six could hear the wooden floors creak from their footsteps. Naruto noticed nothing out of the ordinary in the room, aside from that eye on the door. Naruto didn't like it. Naruto moved across the room. That wooden eye on the door, he felt it following them. Naruto could feel it watching them though it was unmoving. He also didn't like the look of this enormous man hanging from the ceiling.

Naruto wasn't about to say why he felt something was wrong. Naruto didn't know whether it was the man above them or if it was the eye on the door or if it was both. Naruto couldn't explain it. This felt some of those times around his birthdays. Naruto never liked his birthdays. His instincts and his senses during times around his birthdays had been one of the reasons he could claim that he was even alive at this point. Generally, the village left him alone, but on his birthdays…it was not the best feeling in the world. And being in this room, Naruto had the exact same feeling. Naruto stared into the eye and he could feel it stare back at him.

"Demon! Trash! Scum! Why don't you just die?! HA! Someone like you becoming Hokage? The only thing you're good for is acting like a damn dog! You fight for us! No Sweetie, don't go near that boy!"

"Stay away from him! Why does Hokage-sama keep him around? That goddamn demon! He killed my wife! He killed my Husband! I lost both my kids to that damn piece of shit and he gets to walk around! Don't worry. When he gets home, he's going to be in for a nice surprise. One fit for the demon! Get OUT! DIE!"

"Shut up! SHUT UP! What the hell do you all know about me? I did nothing to you! All I wanted was some damn attention! All I wanted was some damn friends!" Naruto growled as he stared at the wooden eye. Its stare was condescending. It was just like those damn villagers! It looked down on him. It told him what he could and couldn't do. It mocked him!

"Yes, devour them all! Shut them up! What do they know about the greatness of Uzumaki Naruto? You don't need approval from them. All their approval amounts to is the shit that anyone would step on in the streets! Devour them all! Show them what you can really do! Uchiha Sasuke isn't so great! Haruno Sakura's just a fuckin' Uchiha slut unworthy of your affections! How dare she make you chase after the Uchiha just because her useless ass couldn't stop him? You beat Neji Hyuga without anyone's help! You beat Kiba Inuzuka without anyone else! YOU BEAT GAARA AND A BIJUU WITHOUT ANYONE'S HELP!

"Yeah, I did that, didn't I? Ero-sennin nearly killed me by pushing me off that cliff! I had to fuckin' turn into a girl just to get his ass to train me! Kakashi-sensei sold me off to that closet pervert! Sure, I learned the Summoning Technique, but I could have learned so much more than that! I didn't use that to beat Neji! I am not a waste of time!" Naruto growled. He stood before the people who mocked him. He chuckled as the people tried to attack him. He dodged a punch to his chest, he then flipped over a woman who tried to kick him. Naruto punched one person in the face and then he slammed his foot into another person's mid-section sending them to the ground in pain. Naruto grinned as he grabbed the person's throat! His grip strength increased as the person gasped for air. Naruto choked the person tighter and tighter.

"Who's the demon now, huh? Talk now! SAY SOMETHING NOW!" Naruto said, a sickening smile coming across his face. His eyes red with anger, his pupils slitted from his anger. Naruto felt so much joy that he couldn't contain himself. For once, it didn't matter what people thought about him. He was stronger than them. He was better than them. He was better than Sasuke. Sakura wasn't worth his time! Kakashi didn't shrug him off anymore! No one laughed at him! No one mocked him! Naruto Uzumaki was better than all of you!

Naruto felt someone shake him and he gasped as he found himself still staring at the eye in the door. He glanced at his shoulder and he noticed Six looking at him. He couldn't tell if she was worried or not due to her hood. Naruto placed a hand on his face. He could feel the drops of water on him. He had been sweating. Naruto huffed and closed his eyes for a moment. "Sorry, I just had a bad feeling about that door. Didn't mean to waste time. Let's just get moving," Naruto said. Six seemed skeptical of Naruto's words. Naruto could sense her uncertainty.

"I promise, I'll be okay. Here, let's just open the door and move on," Naruto said. Six slowly nodded. She still wasn't convinced, but she didn't bother with trying to get anything out of him. Granted she could, but she felt it would be better to keep moving. Six moved towards the other side of the room while Naruto glanced back to the man hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the room.

"Hey Six, you know this guy?" Naruto asked. Six turned around and looked at the hanging man. She shook her hooded head. Naruto frowned and glanced up at the legs that hung in the air. The man was too big and too tall for Naruto to see his face. Just craning his neck upwards had Naruto groaning in discomfort. He stared back at the door. He released a sigh. Naruto hoped it was just his nerves getting to him. As far as he knew, Six was the only person he could rely on right now, even if she said next to nothing. He shook his head and moved from the center of the room. Naruto met up on the other side of the room with Six.

Six and Naruto looked at the handle of the door. Naruto tried to massage his body for a moment. "Here, I'll lift you up. You open the door, but open it slowly and quietly. I guess I don't have to tell you that," Naruto said. Six nodded and Naruto knelt down with his hands open. Six stepped into his hands and she heard Naruto flinch as pain filled his body. Six looked at Naruto, but Naruto shook his head.

"I got you. I'll just push through it. I'm tough dattebayo!" Naruto remarked. Six didn't know what to make of her apparent 'partner's' bravado, but she did hope he wouldn't fall apart on her. While she hadn't gone through exactly a lot of effort to get to him, she had not wanted to deal with what she was beginning to see from this place. This place scared her and every step she could made her want to turn around and hide back in that briefcase she had been in, but she wanted to get out of her and escape. She was not going to be like the other kids here.

Naruto pushed her up and thanks to his height, plus hers, Six reached the doorknob. She pulled on the doorknob. The door unlocked, but Six pushed it slowly. Naruto could see into the next room. There didn't seem to be anything in it. The room was a lot larger than then one they were in at the moment. "See anything out of the ordinary?" Naruto asked. Six couldn't help looking at Naruto. Naruto noticed her gaze on him. He was aware how his question sounded in his head.

"Okay, see anyONE out of the ordinary?" Naruto asked. Admittedly, that 'anyone' would have literally meant anyone moving in the room because Naruto wasn't about to take his chances and neither was Six. Six didn't see any people or…whatever was in this place. Six didn't find anyone and she decided to push the door open fully allowing them access into the next room.

Naruto held Six for a moment before he slowly brought her down. Six held onto Naruto's shoulders. Six stared at Naruto for a moment before Naruto gently placed her back on the ground. Six straightened her hood. She hated how cold the ground felt all of a sudden. Six and Naruto strolled into the room. It was even bigger than the room they were in previously. Naruto closed the door behind them.

Both could feel the wind blow from a massive fan just to their left. The lights atop the ceiling allowed for as little light as possible. Their florescence lit up part of the grand area. Naruto could see a couple patches of light. They were easily accessible if Naruto could find a way to get up there, but that didn't seem to be the case.

Naruto suddenly felt his legs shift slightly to the right. It surprised him and he could tell because there had been some added weight to his legs that he was trying to keep off of them. "Hey Six, did ya feel that?" Naruto asked. Six gave Naruto a glance and she watched him take a step forward. "This place just moved to the right. It wasn't by much, but I felt it. We might be on water somewhere," Naruto said.

Six hadn't felt the place move, but Naruto had claimed it did. She did her the place creak from time to time, but she had assumed that to just be the machinery. If Naruto was right and they were on water, it would mean they were on a boat or ship of some kind. Whatever it was, Six didn't like it.

"Any just something I noticed. Come on, let's keep moving." Naruto said. Six agreed with that decision. The two pre-teens walked into the large room. Naruto and Six stood close together. They didn't feel like getting separated. Naruto and Six slowly walked around the room. Six turned out the fire from her lighter.

Naruto looked around the room. His covered his eyes from the light to get a better look at the top of the ceiling. Meanwhile, Six explored the other parts of the room. She made sure that Naruto was in her sights. She couldn't afford having him pass out on her from his injuries. At the very least she would have a place to hide them if he did. Granted this progress was a lot slower than it would have been if she was by herself, Six was willing to make those sacrifices as long as she got out. Yet, if Naruto ever turned out like those others then Six would make sure he never got out of here if he slowed her down. She doubted it would come to that however.

Naruto walked over to the massive fan just a couple of feet away from them. He pushed some junk out of the way of his path. Naruto couldn't believe how junky each room was. Granted, he was sure that wherever they were, they were in the lowest level of the place. Still, someone had put him in a cage and locked him up and then there was Six. Too many questions and not enough answers were in Naruto's head.

Naruto kept his face a safe distance from the fan. He watched its massive rotor blades spin around and Naruto. Naruto's vision took him past the fan and he looked to see if there was anything else they could make use of. Naruto only noticed a massive hole which led to some other place. The darkness was so heavy, but Naruto saw no reason for them to go down there.

Suddenly, Naruto heard a rather girlish gasp from across the room. Naruto turned around. "Six?" Naruto asked. He groaned as he turned his body. It didn't agree with him, but Naruto didn't have the time for it to agree with him. He jumped off the ledge that the fan was on and back onto the floor. "Six?!" Naruto called. He got no responses.

Naruto cursed as he moved as fast as his beaten-up body would allow him to. Naruto moved into the center of the room. It was there that Naruto saw Six on the ground in front of a massive refrigeration unit. Naruto knelt down to Six. "Oi Six, are you alright? What happened?" Naruto asked. Six turned to Naruto for a moment. She seemed to gather her thoughts before she turned and pointed. Naruto noticed her point to a sharp, yet open area in the wall. There was a broken piece of metal which led to another area.

Naruto frowned. He looked around the room, but he found nothing that he could use as a weapon. Naruto just decided to pick up a small piece of sharp metal. Naruto growled, but he fearlessly moved over to the wall. Naruto slid into the wall with Six behind him. There was a dark tunnel that they crawled through. Naruto pushed himself out of the wall on the other side. He turned around and reached out his arms for Six. Six jumped into his arms and Naruto gently let her down.

Naruto and Six looked around the room. It was dark, but Naruto could tell that there was another person in this room. Naruto couldn't remember how many times at the Academy he and the other students had been placed in the dark while trying to find their assigned partner. Naruto hated that particular exercise. It was almost as bad as homework.

Naruto and Six moved through the room. Naruto had no idea what had riled Six's senses, but it had been the thing in this room. Naruto turned for a moment, but he didn't see anything. Naruto felt his feet kick something hard. His eyes glanced at his foot and he noticed an oil lantern. It was old, rusty, and a little beaten up, but it looked like it still worked. Naruto leaned over and pushed up the lantern. "Yo Six, light this. It can give us some better light around the room instead of us stumbling around in the dark," Naruto said. Six glanced at the lantern and she could agree with that.

Six quickly lightened the lantern. The fire ignited and the light it provided filled up the room. The darkness was pushed away granting Naruto and Six more vision. Naruto noticed looked around and his eyes focused on a small creature. It shivered in the corner of the room away from them. It was even smaller than Six was and it was even skinner. It looked very…wrinkly. Perhaps it didn't eat or perhaps it hadn't eaten in a long time. The way the cone-shaped hat…thing rested on its head made looking at its face impossible.

Naruto walked over to it. It looked so small, and so vulnerable. Naruto couldn't feel even a single amount of anger or evil in this creature. Naruto noticed Six come up behind him. Six seemed surprised at the creature. "You look like you know this guy," Naruto said. Six slowly nodded. She didn't particularly know it…him…her, this thing, but it or its family had been nice to her despite its general fear of the unknown. She did have to admit that it was odd that one of them followed her for a while, but they usually only did this when they were really interested in what she was doing. They usually left when they were bored. Six was fine with that.

She had opened the refrigeration unit. It was tall enough to get towards the next platform. Six was planning to have herself and Naruto make their way out of the room and towards their next destination. Yet, she was surprised to see this guy run right past her. It had surprised her a bit more than she wanted to admit.

Naruto turned back to the tiny…thing and knelt down to it. The way it leaned its head back made Naruto wonder if it was looking at him. Naruto took out his hand and gently touched the cone off the...creature. Naruto gently massaged it. The creature leaned into his touched unexpectedly. It didn't try to strengthen the touch from Naruto, but it definitely didn't shy away from it. "Hey little guy, you mind helping us out? Can you at least get us to the next room?" Naruto asked. The creature seemed unsure for a moment. It seemed to contemplate Naruto's request.

"I promise, we'll leave you alone if you can just do that for us. You have my word, dattebayo!" Naruto said as he pounded his chest. Six watched Naruto interact with the Nome, that's what she decided to call them. The Nome then nodded. Naruto gave a wide smile. Six was a little surprised and both watched the Nome stand to its feet. It pointed them to a massive case of stacked wooden boxes. It quickly began to climb the boxes. Naruto and Six followed the Nome.

Six and the Nome watched Naruto try to keep pace with them. They were obviously seeing him struggle, but Naruto did as best he could as he climbed the boxes. His body burned, but he wasn't going to get left behind and he didn't want Six helping him if it slowed them down too much. Naruto remembered when he had felt like deadweight. Naruto was never going to feel like that again. Yet, he couldn't deny how much his body was killing him. What he wouldn't give for Shizune-neechan or Baa-chan to heal him at the moment. Naruto panted and huffed, but he kept up with Six and with the Nome. Honestly, Naruto wondered what the hell the damn fox was doing. Did it really take him this long to get better?

As Naruto was contemplating this, the trio made it to the very top of the boxes. The Nome creaked out a sound that neither Naruto nor Six could identify. They only watched it point to another airduct. Naruto sighed. Airducts again? He hated all this crawling. It was killing his back in the worst kind of way.

The Nome bent over and went into the airduct. Six and Naruto followed after it. Six opened up her lighter for the three, but the Six and Naruto noticed the Nome suddenly panic. It waved at her madly. It kept swinging its arms back and forth frantically. Six was a bit confused as was Naruto, but Naruto discovered the point first. "I think he wants you to turn off the lighter. Wherever we're going, I don't think we want to be seen," Naruto said. The Nome eagerly nodded. Six nodded and turned out the lighter.

It was very dark in the ducts, but the group kept moving. With time, Naruto, Six, and the Nome noticed a light up ahead. The light was at the top of their ceiling. The Nome swiftly passed under it. Six followed after it. Naruto stopped just underneath the light of the grate above him. Naruto turned his head upwards. He noticed a room, it was a lot cleaner than where he and Six had been traveling. Naruto could make out a workshop of some kind. He noticed a table filled with tools and a steel container next to the wooden table. Naruto frowned. "Oi Six, wait a minute." Naruto said. Six and the Nome glance back. Naruto noticed the Nome seemed very anxious all of a sudden when Six took a place next to Naruto and looked out the grate as well.

Naruto and Six observed the room that was above them. Given that they were in the ducts, and had been traveling for about ten minutes, they weren't sure what floor this was supposed to be, but it didn't look good. Naruto and Six heard the Nome with its gestures ask them to leave with it. It practically begged them to keep moving. Naruto never saw it so scared. What did it not want them to see?

It was then that Six and Naruto heard footsteps. Their sounds were on wooden floors. The floorboards creaked above them. Naruto and Six concentrated their gaze while the Nome hid in the shadows of the airduct. It sat there and shivered. It rocked back and forth, scared senseless.

Naruto had only been in this place what he believed to perhaps be a half an hour, if he had to hazard a guess or so. Maybe he was even here for an hour, but Naruto knew he would never forgot a feeling of fear. He would never forget the image of the thing that was burned into his brain as long, monstrous limbs passed over the grate. The long limbs in contrast the short, hunched body of the creature who's face he could never identify made his skin crawl. Its skin covered pushed so far up that it covered nearly its entire face. The way its eyes were covered and those enormous ears. Naruto and Six could see that it wore a trench coat off some kind along with a hat. Its teeth clicked against each other making it give grunting noises. In its hand was a box. Naruto noticed one of the captured children inside it.

Naruto and Six watched as it placed the cage on the table to its left. It then opened the cage with a key from its pocket. Naruto was frozen, unable to move his body and his eyes couldn't move from the sight in front of him as both he and Six heard the sound of the lock unsnapping. It fell to the table and the thing opened the door. Naruto and Six stood motionless and speechless. It was at this very moment, Naruto truly realized the depths of how dangerous this place was. For this day, Naruto Uzumaki could not look away as he watched the…thing pull out two needles. The death of the child was swift and painless as it jabbed one needle into the child's forehead and the other into the child's throat. Sweat dripped off Naruto's face. Six just stayed next to Naruto, her eyes transfixed on the image in front of her.

As they both watched the…short grotesque…thing wrap up the body of the child, Naruto and Six truly understood. Escape from this place was no longer a desire. Escape from this place...was urgent!

KG: Sigh, Finally, my craving has been sated.

Wifey: You have been playing that stupid game like 3 times! Give it a break!

KG: Hun, one does not just stop playing Little Nightmares!

Wifey: I feel like I might as well call you a Little Bitch given how many times I had to convince you to actually MOVE FORWARD!

KG: Those leeches are fuckin fast okay?!

KG: Anyway, that's all for now guys. I can't wait for that dlc to come out. Anyway, Stay Breezy, protect what's important to you, review, and SEND ME CREAM SODA!

KG: Also…FUCKIN PLAY LITTLE NIGHTMARES! IT'S FUCKIN AMAZING!

KG: Oh, yeah, yeah respect the cream and all that. Whatever.

*Goes back to playing*