Always together by love-kyuubi

I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. I hope you enjoy.

Talking: "Hello."

Thinking: 'Ummm... ok.'

Kyuubi talk: "Stupid kit."

Kyuubi thinking: 'Silly girl.'

Chapter 1

It was raining as a five year old Naruko ran through the streets of Konoha. She was being chased by three villagers. She ran as fast as she could trying to lose them. She look a sharp right down an alley way, but she soon realized it was a mistake. It was a dead-end. Naruko turned around hoping that she had been far enough ahead of the villagers that she could quickly run back on to the street, but as she was about to move to the entrance of the alley the three villagers had caught up to her blocking the exit.

Villager one looked at her in hated disgust saying "We finally cornered you, you stupid demon bitch." They started walking closer, backing her against the back wall, trapping her. Naruko was panicking. Her sunny blonde pigtails whipped around her as she looked for a way out. As the villagers got closer, almost pinning her to the wall. Naruko desperately kicked against the wall trying the get passed. Villager three caught her by her short pigtails, holding her in place. She sneered at Naruko saying "Awe look, the little whore thinks she can run from us." Naruko silently whimpered from the pain of having her hair pulled. Villager two smiled cruelly at her pain. He laughed raising his hand up to strike her. She made a small sound as the hand came down across her face. Naruko felt blood trickle down her chin, they had split her bottom lip. She looked at the villagers around her and could see the pain she was about to receive from the two men and one woman. Naruko closed her eyes and escaped into her mind. She sat in the small meadow talking to a few stuffed animals about the weather and her day, as the villagers outside her mind slapped, hit, clawed, and cut her body.

After a few hours Naruko laid there in a puddle of blood and mud cut, bruised, clothes tore and stained with her blood. The rain got a little heavier as if trying to wash her clean. The villagers were still there, standing around her tired but proud of what they have done to her. Villager three leaned down next to her chuckling saying "She hasn't made a sound or move to stop us. The demon knows she deserves this. Don't you bitch?" Naruko didn't say anything just laid there. The villager was getting a little mad. He hit her saying "Hey, you fucking garbage I'm talking to you!" He lifted his hand to strike her again but villager one caught his hand. He had a horrible glint in his eyes saying "Stop, I have a better idea, and she'll never forget her place and what she is." He pulled out a knife and knelt down adjusting her clothes. He started cutting into just below her left hip. The pain pulled Naruko from her mind and she screamed and cried. She tried to get away but the other villagers held her in place. After an excruciating long hour they stopped. She was lying silently crying as they stood up and looked down at her. They smiled and laughed about what they had done to her.

"Hey, what are you three doing?" someone yelled from the rooftop above. The villagers ran out of the alley hoping they wouldn't get caught. A silver haired ninja with anbu mask on dropped down from the roof. He looked at her and then the retreating villagers, then back at her. He knelt down and with a puff of smoke their was a pug in front of him wearing a ninja headband. The silver haired anbu said something and then the dog ran off. The anbu looked at Naruko and said "Stay still, someone will be here soon to help you." then he ran after the run away villagers. As soon as he was out of sight she slowly got up slightly whimpering from the pain and started limping home. 'Sorry mister anbu but I'd rather go home then to the hospital. Plus I don't want to have to deal with Gramps trying to put ninjas on nanny duty over me.'

As Naruko limped into her apartment she went into her kitchen and boiled water while finding her favorite ramen. She poured the hot water into the ramen bowl to steam. She walked into her bathroom and turned on the bath. She removed her dirty torn clothes and threw them away. She slowly slipped into the warm water hissing as it washed over her injuries. She sat there in the water relaxing her sore body, then she started crying. She cried till the water cooled. She shivered washing the mud and blood off her. She scrubbed and scrubbed till her skin was a tender pink. She got out of the bath and dried off. She looked at herself in the mirror wondering why the village hated her. Naruko was about three foot five inches tall, her hair blonde hair was down and brushing the top of her shoulders, her cerulean blue eyes looked sad and empty, her body was a bit slimmer then most children, her sun-kissed skin was usually smooth and clean besides her six whisker marks on her face was now bruised, cut, and angry looking. She looked to where the villager had cut her.

Under Naruko's hip was a crudely drawn fox cut deeply into her. She wiped tears from her eyes and grabbed the first aid kit and patched herself up a best she could. She went into her room and put on her underwear and a over sized adult white shirt with small red and orange swirls on it. Naruko walked back into the kitchen and ate her dinner. Her stomach ached but she ate it all. She went around her apartment making sure all the widows and doors were locked and turned off all the lights. She crawled into her bed and her thin cover up over her head whimpering and shivering at the cold October night. She laid there crying, wishing that someone was there to hold her and tell her it'd be okay. She slowly fell asleep.

Naruko was in her happy meadow. It had beautiful green grass everywhere, all kinds of colorful flowers dotted the area, a few tall climbable trees, a few stuffed animals, and a small pond. She was sitting next to the pond with a couple of stuffed animals watching blue butterflies float on the lazy breeze. Her attention drifted to the biggest tree when she noticed an old door next to it. She got up and brushed off her pretty white dress with small orange flowers at the hem. she walked to it and slowly opened it. Naruko walked out into the dark hall leaving the door opened behind her. She walked down the hall humming, unafraid cause she knew it was her own mind. As she walked for about fifteen minutes she came across a door.

Naruko peeked in and saw a big library, she walked in and looked into a book. It seemed like the books held here were memories. 'Hmm, I'll come back here later and look through these.' She put the book down and walked out to the hall. After ten minutes of walking she came to the end of the hall and found a staircase. Naruko walked and walked down the stairs, it getting darker and darker. She finally got to the bottom after thirty minutes. She stood there in three inches of water letting here eyes adjust to the darkness. Naruko sighed at seeing another hall but this one curved at the end where she saw lights. She walked down the hall towards the lights. She walked into a giant room that had red wooden bars and a big gated door with lit lanterns here and there. "Wow!" gasped Naruko. She walked up to the bars and toughed them. She felt the power in them and pulled her hand back quickly.

She heard a growl and looked passed the bars and up at the huge reddish orange fox, with nine long tails, and red slit eyes. Naruko gasped at the growling fox that appeared out of nowhere. She was wide eyed looking up at him, mouth slightly open. She pointed at him then yelled with glee "Kitty!" The Kyuubi almost fell over. "I am not a damn cat! I am a fox, you little brat!" Kyuubi growled. Naruko gasped and covered her ears yelling "That's a bad word!" The fox inwardly laughed. "Yes, damn is a bad word, and so is hell, shit, fuck, and cu-" Naruko stomped her feet angrily, splashing water. "Stop it. No more bad words! This is my mind Kitty, and I will not have them said in it." cried Naruko. The Kyuubi's eye twitched at the high pitch yell. "I am a FOX not a stupid cat." Kyuubi said annoyed. She looked up at him and tilted her head. 'She looks a little cute, like a lost kit... What the hell am I thinking! I hate people, especially children. Grrrr I gotta get my head together.' Naruko sighed saying "If you say so but you look like a cat, Kitty." Kyuubi's ears lowered and he growled "Why are you here brat?" She looked at him like he was stupid. "Umm... It's my mind stupid Kitty. Why are you here?" She looked up at him waiting for his answer.

Kyuubi was started to get ticked off. "I'm here cause it's my prison, so leave me be Kit." The huge fox turned away from her and laid down, signaling the end of the conversation. After a few minutes he didn't her anything and thought she had left. He had started getting comfy so he could sleep, when he felt something touch one of his tails. "Wow, Kitty you're really soft." Naruko said in delight. Kyuubi swiftly turned around and snapped at her, making her squeak and fell back on her butt. "If you put your hand through those bars again Kit, and I'll bite it off. Now leave me alone to my solitude." said the angry fox. Naruko stood up with teary eyes and walked out. Kyuubi waited making sure she was gone before he set his head back down to sleep. 'Finally, maybe now she'll leave me alone so I can sleep and plan a way out of here.'

Forty minutes later he was almost asleep when he heard splashes coming back to his cell. Kyuubi opened his eyes slightly and watched her walk up to his cell. "Here Kitty, since you say you're a fox I brought you my fox, Kitsu, so you won't get lonely, but I'll want her back. So don't be mean to her and hurt her... You may be mean but you're not as mean and hateful as the villagers. Plus I think your mean cause you're lonely, so that's why I'm letting you barrow her." said the small girl softly. Naruko went to set the fox down then remembered the water. She looked around for something to set the toy on finding nothing. She sighed and wrinkled her nose concentrating. A small table slowly rose out of the floor in his cell. Naruko set the toy on the table and looked over at him.

She frowned seeing the fox laying in the water. She scrunched up her face and a platform rose in the back corner of the cell. When it reached an inch above the water then a giant plush red pillow came out of the platform to rest. Naruko let out a big sigh and fell back on her butt breathing hard. Kyuubi looked over at the big pillow then at her. 'Well that makes it a little harder to hate her, but why'd she do that? I'm a prisoner.' The fox looked at her then saw her dream body waver a little and saw a purple colored little girl shivering, but it was only a flash, then the smoothed skinned happy little girl was back. Kyuubi focused on her harder to see passed her dream-self and saw she was bruised, cut, and cold. 'Grrrr those villagers are beating my container...I have to calm myself cause I can't do anything till she calls on my power, and only then she has to draw on it enough to lose control.' Naruko slowly got up and left, softly saying "Good night Kitty." Naruko got back to her room shutting the door and not noticing the old door vanish as she ran after butterflies.

Kyuubi waited making sure she wasn't coming back. He slowly got up and walked to the toy ox on the table. The fox had red fur, with a white on its chest and the tip of it's tail, it's ears and feet were black, with amber eyes, and a baby's breath and buttercup flower collar. He looked to his own body and tails that was a solid reddish orange. 'If she thinks all foxes looked like this one, now i know why she thinks I'm a cat.' He sighed and nipped the toy's tail softly and carried it to the huge pillow, using his chakra to dry his fur as he laid on the pillow. Kyuubi sighed again at how comfy it was and laid the toy next to him on the pillow, laying eight tails around him and the toy. His ninth tail he let dip into the water so his chakra could seep out into her body to heal and warm her as he slept. 'It's all I can do for now Kit.'

Outside Naruko's body a silver haired anbu was about to pick Naruko up to take to the hospital when he seen her body glow slightly and her wounds heal. He sighed and was about to leave when he noticed how thin her blanket was. He took out a scroll and unsealed his winter traveling blanket and spread it over her, then left her there.

Hey lovely peoples! I hope you all enjoyed this so far. I know some of you are mad that Kakashi just left her their but what i didn't know how to write in was that Kakashi had just came back from a mission and was low on chakra. So He did what he could, (he honestly didn't think she could move, plus the ally was pretty hidden) plus he was super mad at the villagers and wanted to catch them himself. Lets just say in his report they resisted arrest and he had them sent to Ibiki. Went through and fixed some of my mistakes. It'll take a week or two for me to post. So please review I'd love to here ya'lls opinion. Please don't be cruel. Thank you for reading! ^.^