"Normal" spoken word

"Italics" Thoughts

"Bold" powerful non-human spoken word

"Bold-italics" powerful nonhuman thoughts

Starless Night

By OS

Chapter One

Grass, trees, sky, trees, ground.

He was tumbling, rolling sideways fast.

Trees, hands, sky, trees, rocks

Rolling down, down, down, the back of the monument with surprising luck as he hadn't hit any trees yet.

Trees, sky, trees, dirt, legs

He'd been spending some time in his special place at the top of the monument, when he was barreled over and tossed over the side of the monument that was just untamed forest.

Sky, trees, dirt, rocks, bushes, trees, sky

"I think I'm bleeding… and I don't think my fingers are supposed to bend that way. No time to think about it now."

Trees, sky, dirt, bushes, sky… air?

"cliff!?"

Now he was twisting in the air, trying valiantly to gain his bearings, then there was the tree.

A resounding crack, bark warping, tree compressing inwards under his body.

"Are my arms supposed to bend that way? Are my legs supposed to bend that way? Am I supposed to bend that way?"

His last sight in the world of the living was that of the full moon.

Naruto came to on top of a protruding rock, gazing over what seemed to be a surrealized(sp?) version if the elemental countries. Sorta like he was looking at a map, in real life, but he could pick out land marks of the cities, so they seemed way too big.( you know the parts in twilight princess where you have to howl with the gold wolf? Imagine that setting)

Able to think clearly now, he checked himself over

"Not a scratch" He thought, puzzled as he patted himself down.

He looked back off the island of rock he currently inhabited to find that after about ten feet, the protrusion disappeared into a thick mist that filled him with foreboding.

He looked out over his view of Konoha to find that there were other protrusions of rock unoccupied and hovering in that same mist, over the other counties.

Naruto decided to chance it with the mist when he heard a howl, he turned around to see a white wolf on the closest protrusion to him, what looked to be the other side of Konoha.

"Hey"

"Uhh… hey?"

The wolf tilted his head, indicating something behind Naruto, "Meet me on the other side of the mist"

With that the wolf bounded off into the mist on his bit of stone

Naruto shrugged and began to walk at a much more sedate pace through his own mist

He thought about what has led to this series of events, and came to the conclusion that he was probably dead.

Flashback (sorta)

Naruto was looking at the whole city, from his favorite spot atop the Hokage monument. Tomorrow, he'd be taking his second Genin exam, he knew he was gonna pass this one.

Then there was a growl, and that thing came out of know where and attacked him. He was sure he was going to die, but then that rock gave way under them, and the monster was forced to abandon it's attack to save it's own skin.

END

And now he was sure he was dead. Well, at least death was interesting.

The mist thinned, and he found himself in a rocky field at sunrise, full of wild grasses and flowers. Naruto was surprised when he spotted the wolf, the 'normal' wolf from before had gotten bigger. It had arms and thumbs now and looked like it could stand on two legs. It was wearing a light shirt, and pants, with leg armor over them, this puzzled Naruto, because it had leg armor but nothing but a light shirt on over its torso. The wolf was sitting on a rock, staring into the sunrise with a spear in one hand, and a knife on it's hip.

"We have much to discuss, are you through staring?" the wolf spoke to him, still observing the sunset.

"Y-yeah, sorry" Naruto answered, a bit unnerved

"Then, come have a seat" the wolf gestured to it's general area. Naruto walked over and sat on the grass, Indian style.

The wolf turned, fixing its gaze on him. Naruto was surprised to find that the whites of it's eyes were black, and its irises were a piercing yellow.

"You are in my domain" the wolf made a sweeping motion with its arms", because, you have been exposed to the blood of my kin, and now it flows through your veins."

The wolf held its hand up to deter any protests. While it regarded him apathetically with its yellow gaze

"With work, you may become something great. Your heart is kind and your wit is sharp. You have the potential to be my protégé."

"So…"The wolf hefted it's spear, "in the conscious world, you have twelve hours before your body mends from that fall, that means, you have about twelve months to spend here in my domain. So, let us train."

Naruto could only nod, grinning from ear to ear.

Starless Night

Morning, He'd awoken at around Ten thirty in the morning fully healed and stronger than ever… still, it didn't mean he could beat that damn wolf, ever.

Still he was glad for his training, it was mostly improvised weapons, with strength and endurance and tactic thrown in mostly as an afterthought. Sensei was so flaky sometimes.

He couldn't call the wolf by any other name except for sensei, when he'd asked for its name around the third month he was there, it had said

"Best me in a fight Uzumaki Naruto, and my life shall be an open book, before then, however, you will know nothing about me save what you can glean from my actions."

Jerk.

He looked up at his apartment building, to see nothing but a smoldering frame, made up of ashes.

He set his head in his hands, and sighed, he was more annoyed than anything else; this hadn't happened before, but he knew it was a matter of time.

Naruto shook himself; he really was thinking more clearly, sensei was right when it said

"Your mind is split and distracted, from trying to contain that beast in your navel, you will think more clearly if you can resolve that problem"

Naruto scratched is head, he hadn't really resolved anything, more like he'd just put up anther wall in his head, to keep it from getting out.

Maa, back to his apartment, he'd decided that he was upset... but the villagers really didn't know any better, so he figured that he may as well do something productive while out of a place to sleep.

Starless Night

Morning came hectically for the residents of Konohagakure no Soto when they awoke to discover graffiti everywhere, and not just any graffiti, names covered every square inch of space on buildings, kanji written in different colors and patterns to make up faces, a new face for every two square feet.

They were easily recognized, being the faces of the deceased. Every face belonged to a name on the memorial stone, those who fell in battle. A surprisingly sober prank for the (in)famous village prankster. And where was the culprit? Why nearly napping atop the newly painted hokage monument, too tired to even notice the ANBU that spirited him away for holding.

Starless Night

Naruto went through his trials hog tied and gagged, his 'civil defender' pleaded guilty for him, and he was sentenced to 1 to 3 years in the Elemental countries maximum security correctional facility.

So here he was, prisoner 00100-30050, two days into his stay in prison, lying on his cot in his puke-green fatigues, contemplating what he was going to do now.

AN: so here you go, not so much werewolf yet, the first two or three chapters will be prologue, basically, his time in prison, and what he does there.

The prison its self is the combined effort of all the elemental countries, it's a ninja prison, so regardless of their crimes; it houses all those prisoners who can use chakra. It's maximum security because the lowest level guard would be high Chunin.

New AN:

booga booga booga, back from the grave, and more than a little upset rises OS.

so I changed it from bank robbery (which entails a sentence of 10-25). to tons of meaningful graffiti. Who's to say if my return will last, but you guys should at least get one more SN chap outa me, maybe more, it just depends