Hiya guys! I finally decided to start the story 'Soul Fox' Enjoy the first chapter!

Chapter One

Rebirth

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, I wouldn't have toads be a primary summon. I mean, come on, toads? Who came up with that? I can understand snakes but the other two I will never be able to understand.

Sipping down the last of his drink, Hiroku stumbled out of the bar. Walking down the cold stone road, he pulled out another bottle of sake and pulled off the cork. He paused to take a long gulp before continuing down the path.

This pattern continued on until Hiroku ran out of sake. He lifted up the bottle and stared down the hole trying to figure out why no more was coming out. Finally realizing he was out, he went to go buy some from the festival that was going on.

That day was a day of celebration. It was October 10, the day the Yondaime had defeated the Kyuubi. Of course, everyone ten and up knew better with a few exceptions. They knew that the Yondaime actually sealed the demon inside a boy that was born that day.

They thought that the demon had long ago destroyed the boy's mind and was just using his mind. Keyword being thought.

Kyuubi had no control over the boy whatsoever. There were very few effects from the boy being a jinchuriki and most of them were on his physical appearance. Everyone else though didn't care and/or were blinded by their grief. That was why when the boy himself decided to come to the festival that time, all hell broke loose.

If it wasn't for Hiroku, the boy might have had a chance.

Seeing the blonde boy, Naruto, running down the street from a mob, he sneered. Glancing at the bottle and finding no more use for it, he reached his arm back and let loose. The green glass bottle flipped through the air several times before the butt end slammed itself into the side of the jinchuriki's skull.

Naruto was thrown across the stone street from the impact as several shards of the crystal-like material embed themselves along his body. Shakily picking himself up, anyone who looked close enough could see the fear in his eyes, though that was somewhat overrun by his fierce determination to not die.

He pulled some of the more painful pieces of shrapnel from his body before grabbing at a piece of glass that was from the neck of the bottle. Before he was able to recover completely, the adults had already surrounded him. He held out his make-shift knife and crouched down to get ready to respond to anything.

'What did I do? Why did they call me a demon, I never killed anyone before!' were the frightened thoughts of the boy as he awaited his execution.

Even at this young age, he already had a fighter's soul as his next thoughts showed.

'Well damn if I go down without a fight.'

As the next few minutes passed, Naruto had tried his best to fend off the mob but in the end it was useless. He found himself face-down on the cold stone with a large pressure on his head.

Even though he was 5- 'No, wait…today's my birthday, I'm 6' years old, even he knew his death was quickly approaching. Luckily, the cold of the rock was numbing his body to the pain.

This moment was short lived as the pressure, which he found to be a foot, intensified dramatically. He let out a loud, blood curling scream as blood ran into his eyes and everything went blurry. He knew something was wrong with his head since he felt a dull pain back there and as if something was slipping out. 'Well that can't be good. Wonder if that's my brain?'

He didn't have any time to ponder that thought as the last words he heard were," Any last words demon?"

Naruto thought about asking 'Why are you doing this to me?' but quickly turned it down as for the past year; nobody had answered that question for him whenever he asked.

"If I was a demon, you'd be dead already."

Those last words made the man falter which gave the blonde a little hope but it was not to be as the others in the crowd started throwing anything they could get their hands on at him. He didn't last five minutes before unconsciousness claimed him.

ooOoo

'Weeeell…Hell is certainly depressing.'

Naruto had awoken merely moments earlier to find himself in a sewer-like place. After several minutes of wandering around, he could find no way out. Figuring that he wouldn't go to heaven since he was forced to steal food every so often, he thought he was in hell.

As the blonde wondered the caverns, the most prominent thought on his mind was,' If this is hell, then I think I'm going to enjoy my time here. Even if it is a little lonely and wet in here'

These thoughts were washed away as he noticed it was getting darker. 'Wait, there's no lighting in here; how's it getting darker?'

As the darkness closed around him, he started running away from the oppressing darkness and ran towards what remained. The more he ran, the faster the darkness was growing. As Naruto was about to crash into the ground in exhaustion, he ran fast first into a big metal bar. The darkness that was chasing him stopped right in front of the bars as if they were scared.

This thought was proven somewhat true as a red aura shot out around him and pushed the darkness back slightly. Glancing back, Naruto saw that the aura was coming from behind the bar. Upon further inspection, he found that the bar was one of many belonging to a giant cage.

The bars were to closely packed for him to slip through though he bet he could break the bars. They were all severely damaged and had signs of rust layering over them. He leaned against the bar he was on and tried to catch his breath as the red fought against the black.

He sat shivering on the floor as a thought struck him. 'W-Why is it so cold in hell?'

The area around him suddenly changed colors as the red started to lose ground. From the brownish color it was before, it started turning gray. He heard a growl behind him and turned to see a giant fox whose face was locked in a snarl.

Seeing the monstrous visage, he backed away into the darkness and tried to run, ignoring that the farther he went, the more cold it became. The monster's eyes widened before they cleared as if the demon had made a decision. A whole river of the red energy was sent flooding towards the blonde.

Naruto ran faster into the depths of the abyss but wasn't fast enough as the force slammed into his small frame. The boy screamed in agony while the darkness retreated leaving the once red-brown floors with a grayish tint to them. The fox let out a short-lived roar as it disappeared. Its whole body dissolved into the energy and was absorbed into the jinchuriki.

The screaming stopped as warmth returned to the boy. The boy's last thoughts being, 'I don't like hell anymore…'

ooOoo

As the sun rose in Konoha, the day started like any other with the merchants and traders waking up early. All was fine in Konoha. Everything was perfect and peaceful. As the hokage looked over his village, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relaxation.

It was a rare time for him. On his desk, there were no papers. Not even one. This was probably one of the first times that he had ever been able to just sit there and relax without having to worry over tiny things like dealing with complaints. When he took this job, it was to protect the village, not to baby-sit it.

His moment of rest was disrupted when he caught sight of some birds flying in an irregular pattern. There were about five crows circling a spot above an alley-way near the edge of town.

Being known as the 'Professor' of the shinobi world didn't mean he only knew about ninja-arts. He was also well skilled with the workings of the world and many civilian practices. Because of this, he knew crows only circled a spot of there was a dead body there.

Seeing as there was a dead body, and the day before was October, 10, he was easily able to put two and two together and immediately called out his ANBU.

ooOoo

"Wake up Naruto"

"Five more minutes…"

"We don't have five minutes; the hokage is coming! Now hurry up and wake up!"

Naruto's eyes snapped open as his brain finally comprehended what just happened. His eyes were met by the sight of a blood-red fox that was easily twice his height staring down at him.

"HOLY SHI-"

"Calm down numb-skull."

"CALM DOWN? YOU'RE A TALKING FOX THE SIZE OF ME!"

The fox looked as if it was about to reply but instead tackled him. The two rolled a bit while Naruto struggled to get up. As they were about to roll into the wall, they did exactly that and slipped right into the solid brick.

Naruto immediately stopped struggling as a new sense was given to him. His whole body felt lighter than anything before. It was almost as if he could float. He could somewhat see through the wall to the other side before his attention was brought to the sound of running. Glancing towards where he went through the wall, He saw a huge figure walk around the corner.

Forget huge, he probably just barely went pass the newcomer's ankles!

Where the first one came, two more popped out. The jinchuriki stared out at them in fear before he realized something.

"Hey, it's one of those masked people that help me out all the time!"

"That's right. See, nothing to be scared off."

Startled, Naruto spun around only to meet face first with the fox from earlier. His eyes widened dramatically as the fox spoke saying,"Like I said earlier, calm down. I'm not gonna hurt you. Well, more like can't, but that's not the point here. After these people leave, I'll explain what's going on."

Deciding to trust the giant fox from his dreams, he turned to watch the show playing out in front of him. (Sorry but I just have to get this out of my system. I HATE TYPING THE WORD FOX! I keep spelling it 'foz' because the two letters are so close.)

The two ANBU walked over to a body lying in a corner of the alley and crouched down covering it. Since the two were covering the view, Naruto glided through the walls to get a better view.

'You know, that dead kid looks kinda familiar… though I know I should be feeling sorry, that hideous orange totally ruins it. He obviously wasn't very smart…Kami, what did that boy eat? He's huge too…Hey, wait a minute…'

His suspicions were proven correct when the two in front of the body started talking.

"Oh my god… Hokage-sama is gonna be pissed at us. How are we going to tell him that Naruto is dead?"

The moment those words left his mouth, a chill ran down Naruto's body; or rather, his soul. He stared in open shock at what was supposedly his body; his dead body. He was shocked into silence as the two ANBU continued talking.

"We? Don't you mean you? I'm not going to tell him, he'd kill me!"

"There is no way you're just going to leave me to do this by myself."

"Fine, well we got to do something…"

The two stood there for a moment before the one with a bird mask moved to pick up the body. The one with the kabuki mask immediately backed up and said," You're holding, you tell him."

Both of them argued back and forth before they both made their way to the hokage tower with Naruto's body in tow. Five minutes passed before he phased out of the wall and leaned against the wall.

He sat there collecting his thoughts before the crimson fox phased out of the wall he had came from and sat on its haunches in front of him.

"Well, to start off with, I'm the Kyuubi no Kitsune. I am now bound to your soul. Hope you don't mind a permanent roommate."

Naruto looked up at him confused before Kyuubi continued." On the day you were born, I was attacking the village. The Yondaime couldn't defeat me so he did the next best thing and sealed me into you. That's part of the reason why everyone hates you. They think you are me and are trying to kill me. Not the smartest thing ever though because if you ever really did die, all my chakra would be dispersed in one bug great boom."

"Anyways, six years later, for some odd reason I can't understand, you decided to go to the festival where there were a whole bunch of people. People who obviously don't like you. You get killed by a mob and the seal almost breaks; 'course that would mean that I would die. I tried to help you but you seriously got fucked up."

"I figured, what the hell, and partially merged myself with you. I get limited freedom and you get to live…somewhat. Anyways, knowing you, you haven't noticed you're a fox now. Well now you know"

(There's a glitch here. For some reason, this line keeps popping up. PS please read author's note)

After that particular comment, Naruto looked at himself and found what the demon said was true. His appearance was now one of a small gray fox. Really small at that. Like his earlier guess, he only went up to a full-grown man's ankle. His pelt was a silvery-gray color.

"…Okay."

Kyuubi just blinked at him and asked," What?"

Naruto simply repeated, "Okay."

Kyuubi chuckled before continuing, "Well that went better than I expected. Any questions?"

A/N: This chapter is about half as long as all the chapters I plan to make. Don't worry though, mostly everything will be explained in the next chapter so ask all the questions you want and I'll have Naruto ask Kyuubi and see if I can give him an excuse.

Also, this is the only chapter I will post until further notice. This is a side story for relieving stress and as such, I will start posting these whenever I feel like it. Sometimes one at a time and others, five at a time.