Naruto really wished he wasn't outside right now. There was rain, lightning, thunder, and it was dark. Even if there was a fence between him and the forest it still scared him. It always sounded like someone was right outside of the fence walking around, watching him. The light from the deck didn't stretch out far enough to see into the forest, hell there wasn't even enough light to see midway into the backyard.

He had already gotten Akamaru inside the house, but Kyuubi kept barking at something outside of the fence and wouldn't come inside.

"Come on, Kyuubi, time to come inside!" Naruto yelled clapping his hands waiting for Kyuubi to run up and jump on him. Still no luck, Kyuubi kept running around barking his head off.

"You want a treat, Kyuubi?!"

Usually the word 'treat' made Kyuubi come running, but the scary part was that it didn't. Naruto kept telling Kiba, Gaara, and Shikamaru that he didn't like going outside at night. He didn't even like looking out the window! How they convinced him to take the dogs outside at this time of night seemed unfathomable to him at the moment.

Kyuubi seemed to have shut up and ran toward Naruto with his tail in between his legs. "Finally," Naruto whispered. To Naruto's dismay a few seconds later a black figure jumped over the fence. Naruto's eyes widened as he turned to run into the house, he felt Kyuubi nudging his leg to make him hurry.

Naruto slammed to door and locked it as soon as Kyuubi was through the door. He turned off the deck light and at that moment Kiba looked up at Naruto while he was petting Akamaru's head. "You better not get too much water on this damn carpet you hear me?"

"Guys there's something out there! It just jumped over the fence, we have to lock the front door!"

"What the hell, Naruto? There's nothing out there! We've been telling you that ever since you moved in," Kiba said.

"Yeah, Naruto, your just being troublesome again."

"No! I'm seriously telling the-" banging from the door behind Naruto cut his sentence off. Shikamaru, Kiba, and Gaara looked up at Naruto a little startled. Akamaru began to bark, Kyuubi ran up the stairs as fast as he could, Kiba ran and locked the front door and tried calming Akamaru down, Gaara turned off the television, Shikamaru turned off the downstairs' lights, and Naruto ran upstairs and waved for the others to follow in the darkness. In a matter of seconds everyone was upstairs looking out the window.

Black figures were circling the house. A few seemed to be giving orders and others were staring up at the house. The banging on the door had stopped, but there were still many noises that had begun around the outside of the house.

"What are we going to do?" Kiba whispered.

"Who are these creeps anyway?" Gaara whispered.

"I don't know and I don't know," whispered Naruto answering them.

"Naruto," Shikamaru whispered nudging Naruto's side.

"What?"

"Do you remember those stupid hiding places you made because you were bored last summer?"

"Yeah.. wait are you saying we should hide in those places?" Naruto looked at Shikamaru in disbelief.

"It's the only way we might not have a chance of being found it they decide to break in."

"I'm in for whatever might save us!" Kiba whispered a little loudly.

xxKibaxx

Kiba had grabbed Akamaru by the collar and ran into the bathroom. He opened the bathroom's closet door and shoves himself and Akamaru into it. His hand slid across the side wall of the closet and found the barely big enough door he pushed Akamaru in first. Once he was inside he closed the door quietly and commanded Akamaru to go up the few steps on the small staircase there at that point there was a small boxed room to the left he slid himself in first. He pulled Akamaru, his medium sized dog, onto his lap and removed his collar so they didn't make so much noise.

"Damn, how bored was Naruto when he made this?" Kiba whispered to Akamaru.

xxGaaraxx

Gaara entered the computer room and moved one of the desks placed by the wall. His fingernails gently pulled open a part of the wall and crawled into the dark looking box. He shrugged and pulled the desk back closer to the wall and gently placed the wall piece back in.

It was getting pretty hot in there.

xxShikamaruxx

Shikamaru was in his room standing on a table feeling up the wall. He clearly had made up his mind that he was going to kill Naruto. Finally after fumbling for a few moment he found the door like thing in the wall. Shikamaru gently opened it and tried getting into it, but it seemed harder then it looked to get into it.

Unknowingly getting into the room Shikamaru finally calmed down and closed the door. He wasn't even paying attention to what he was doing anymore, he was afraid something major was going to happen.

xxNarutoxx

Naruto pulled a square piece of carpet from the floor, underneath it was a door made up of the floor boards. Naruto unlocked the door and it swung downwards, Naruto took Kyuubi and gently placed him in the room. Naruto jumped down into the little room himself and popped the carpet back into place. Then while Naruto was trying to place the door back into place the entire house began to shake. The doors sounded like they were being torn off of their hinges. Naruto quickly put the door back into place and locked the door from the inside. He began to pet Kyuubi on what he thinks was his head to calm him down. Kyuubi may have been barking outside like a bad ass, but he was still a puppy and was scared.

A few moments later the house stopped shaking after a loud bang and there were muffled sounds of footsteps walking around. Naruto began to tense up, he was afraid. He was hoping his friends found their spots in time and were hiding. The footsteps began to spread out and walk around. A few pairs of footsteps began to swiftly run up the stairs.

Kyuubi began to whine and tried to turn in circles in the small room. Naruto tried shushing and grabbing onto Kyuubi to make him stop. Kyuubi quieted down, but didn't stop. The footsteps were coming close to Naruto's room and that made him nervous.

Step. Step. Pause. Step. Step. Pause. Step. Step. Step. Step. Pause.

It was driving Naruto crazy when finally the footsteps were right on him they stopped. Kyuubi stopped whining, but instead started shaking. The footsteps moved to beside where the boxed room was and then Naruto heard the sound of the carpet sliding off of the door. There was a light that seemed to cut right through the lock The door swung down and...


This story is dedicated to my friends... because right now their at an anime convention... without me. Please review, it will make me happy.