Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto…

Nine red tails swooped harshly on the ground as the creature howled into the night. Its fiery gaze fixed on the boy with blonde erratic hair before him. Its never-ending hate for him filled the green pastures and mountains around him as it lifted its paw to strike the boy.

"You are nothing, Naruto! Everyone hates you even me! Die, you pathetic little creature!"

Naruto woke up from his sudden nightmare as he quickly sat up so that he could catch his breathe. He felt the starch and itchy cotton from the bed cover against his body and felt the extreme heat that was causing his to sweat, and probably caused the nightmare. He slowly brushed off the cover and laid back onto his bed as he felt the breeze of cold wind blow upon him from the window. It had refreshed him until he noticed that he didn't open that window. He never opens that window ever since kids from across the street began throwing rocks into his apartment. He decided to leave it open since the nice coolness from the wind was comfy and that he would close it when he woke up. But something still bothered him. He just couldn't remember opening that window and something even more strange bothered him, no more wind was blowing from it either.

Naruto was tired and he felt like this inner argument concerning certain paranoia wasn't worth losing nice beautiful sleep. He shrugged it off and closed his eyes when he felt the warmth of a shadow over him. He quickly opened his eyes to see a shadowy figure over him. He hadn't recognized the figure until he saw the eyes, the red eyes of a Sharingan user. It reminded him of that gaze from the fox in his nightmare. It was equally hateful. He then felt another shadow from the other side of his bed. Naruto couldn't see this figure's eyes but he could make out the huge object on his back.

It wasn't long before he had noticed that these figures were Itachi and Kisame. They probably came to kidnap him but Naruto was completely helpless in this matter…

"It seemed that you were having a nightmare, Naruto," Itachi spoke softly in his cool manner as always.

"The irony, having a nightmare right before another one begins!" Kisame blurted out in ill-humor that struck fear into Naruto's mind.

"It's time that we extract the nine-tailed fox out of you, Naruto…"