Belgarion363

Hey this is Belgarion363 this is my first shot at a story so tell me what you think thx, possible pairings but I haven't decided and there is an OC and if you don't like him too bad. By the way I'm going to have Naruto smart when alone and an idiot around people just because I can. :P

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto I'm just doing this for fun and something to do in my spare time so don't sue! Also please read and review if your of mind, flames will be ignored or sent back with my own personal spite (you have been warned.) any way on with the chapter :)

A Wolf's Tale

(Title subject to change, (Because I'm picky so there))

*flash* Sasuke standing on a cliff, *flash* Sasuke in front of Kyuubi in the sewer, *flash* Sasuke vanishing in fire with Orochimaru.

With a gasp Naruto sat up panting. It was that dream again the dream about Sasuke standing there with that snake bastard Orochimaru; that dammed dream kept haunting him, why Naruto couldn't figure it out ever since Sasuke entered his mind he could see it, his face the face of his friend flashing before his eyes and burning away like that it left Naruto with an awful feeling in his gut.

Naruto tried to calm himself but failed finally giving up on trying to get some sleep he got up to go over to the stream nearby to wash the sweat from his face and hopefully feel better, he left the wooden house that Yamato taicho had built for them and wandered over to the stream and began to splash his face with water. When he was finished he stared at the rippling surface of the water his distorted reflection staring back at him he sighed and decided to take a walk.

The night was cool and the welcoming darkness seemed to envelop the surrounding trees seemed to draw in the light and smother it, a cool summer's breeze lightly brushed the leaves around him and seemed to create its own natural rustling music that accompanied the symphony that is the noises of the night. The low chirping of a night bullfrog lifted its voice to the nightly orchestra around the lonely wanderer that dared to trespass in the grand stage that is the night.

Naruto slowly wandered through the woods his feet making little noise as he passed; the sounds around him fell on his deaf ears as he cared not for where he was going or why or what was around him. As he wondered through the night Naruto found himself thinking over the last few days and continuously berating himself for not being stronger to bring his friend home, no not his friend… his comrade… his brother. Yet no matter how he cursed himself he could not shake the feeling that Sasuke did not want to come home, no he would not think that for to think that way would mean giving up and Naruto never gave up especially on a friend.

The further Naruto walked the less he recognized where he was and realized that during his wool gathering he managed to get lost "just perfect" he mumbled "now I'm lost and I have no idea where I am or where I'm going." He began to chuckle to himself half heartedly as he realized that it did not matter, because he knew that that was the way things always were for him his entire life. He began to look around to try and find out where he had come from to find his way back when he heard a rustling in the bushes, Naruto froze and reached for a kunai only to realize he had left them back at camp "well shit" he swore as he got into a fighting stance hoping that whatever was there was just an animal he could handle.

Naruto waited for whatever was there to come out, as he waited he could feel his sweat begin to build from the tension and roll down his neck. Just then a shadowy figure fell from the bushes in front of him and collapsed, Naruto jumped back a little getting ready to fend the thing off if it got to close but as his eye's adjusted to the light he realized it was a man badly wounded, Naruto cautiously moved forward to get a better look while at the same time keeping alert in case it was a trick, as Naruto got closer he could sense no illusion or ill intent so he finally dropped to the figures side and checked him over, and to put it simply he did not like what he saw, the figure had many cuts and bruises on his body and what appeared to be a broken arm, or at least that's what he could tell because he knew at the very least that an arm should not bend that way, Naruto carefully turned the figure over and realized it to be a younger teenage boy not much older than him. (Naruto is 16 for those that don't know.)

When Naruto to turned from the strangers face his eye's went wide as he saw the massive wound in the teens chest with part of a kunai that had broken off still the boy's chest, Naruto panicked and began picking the teen up to bring him back to Sakura for help. It was then that he realized that he was still lost, Naruto made a quick choice and made three shadow clones two to pick up and carry the boy as the third transformed into a stretcher to carry the boy. Naruto carefully placed the injured boy on the stretcher doing so as gently as possible so as not to aggravate the young man's injuries. With that done Naruto took to the trees as high as he could to get a look around. After a moment of searching Naruto caught the scent of burning wood, that smell most likely came from the fireplace of the cabin they were staying in. once he had pinpointed the direction Naruto leapt down and motioned for his clones to follow him in a general north easterly direction.

Three minutes of walking later they came to the small clearing where the cabin was. When he got there he found captain Yamato waiting for him with his arms crossed with a questioning look on his face. "Where have you been Naruto?" Yamato asked.

"I was taking a walk to clear my head because I couldn't sleep," Naruto said in a rush. "But while I was wandering around I found this guy all beat up he needs help he has a broken arm and a stab wound in his gut, we have to help him!"

Yamato looked past Naruto to the clones behind him holding the stretcher with the young man lying on it, and then back to Naruto's pained face. Yamato turned and motioned for Naruto to bring the boy inside. "I'll go wake Sakura we'll need her help." Yamato said.

"Hai"

Naruto quickly instructed his clones to bring the boy in to the cabin and into one of the empty rooms so that he could be looked at. Moments later Sakura came in with her medical pouch with a, no nonsense look on her face and motioned for Naruto to move aside, her hands already flying through the motions of a medical jutsu. The first thing she did was stabilize the wound in the youth's abdomen so the bleeding would slow so that she could carefully remove the broken kunai head that was still stuck in his wound, as she pulled the broken piece of metal out, her patient gave a grimace of pain even while unconscious.

While Sakura worked on the unknown youth Naruto could only stare with rapt fascination at the boy's face although not sure why he felt a strange recognition in him but could not explain why he felt this, for he had never met the wounded boy before. Yet Naruto could not look away something compelled him to look. As Naruto looked at him he saw a small glimmer at the boy's throat, when Naruto leaned in to look he saw that it was a small medallion not much bigger then a midsized coin, but it was not the disc itself that caught his eye, it was what was on the medallion that truly made him stare. On the surface of the small silver disc was the image of a wolf sitting on his haunches lifting its head in a howl. Naruto carefully reached for it and turned the small disc over, and found the kanji word for seal on the back.

"Just who are you" Naruto said to himself.

TBC.