Camisado: Chapter 1

*Disclaimer- I do not own anything having to do with Naruto, heck, if you want to take the plot of the story go ahead, I own nothing*

Ok, this is my first story, and it may die along the way, I have a habit of not finishing things, but who knows? If that many people want it to continue then I'll try my best…. (This is set about 6 months after Naruto and Sasuke's fight, and I'm going to say that everyone in rookie 9 is either 12 or 13).

Sasuke was back. His teammate, best friend, brother was back home…why wasn't he happy? He should be, everyone else was but… now he felt more alone than ever, even though he was around Rookie 9 almost every day celebrating the fact they were whole again.

Maybe he's just in shock still-yes. That's what it has to be. He's just getting used to team 7 being back together. He'll be smiling like he used to in no time at all, but for now he can just stay quiet in his room, twirling the first Hokage's necklace between his fingers.

Rookie 9 was out eating lunch right now, but saying he wasn't feeling well, Naruto decided to go home and lie down for awhile.

Maybe I should go meet up with them. He thought to himself, but the thing that was really worrying him was he didn't want to go with them.

He sat up quickly, not wanting to be left to his thoughts anymore; he needed to get his mind off of things.

I'll just go train for a little while….

He slid out of his bed and headed out to team 7's training grounds, leaving his jacket off since Konoha had been experiencing a freak heat wave for the past couple of days, it was almost always above 95 and Ino's flower shop was suffering along with any agriculture shop seeing as they hadn't had a drop of rain for weeks.

Upon arriving at the training grounds, Naruto realized he had left all his weapons in his apartment.

Great. Naruto thought, flopping onto the ground with a thud while closing his eyes and letting the wind and grass tickle his face.

It's your own fault, if you actually thought occasionally idiotic moments like such wouldn't happen.

His eyes snapped open and he scowled.

Of all the times you could irritate me, why do you choose the one peaceful moment I've had all week?

Because that's when it's the most entertaining.

Naruto sighed heavily and lay back down.

Hey… Kit…this is usually the time when you snap at me….

Shut up, I'm not in the mood.

There you go.

There was more silence.

Now it's just annoying. What's wrong with you? Rejected by Sakura?

No.

Failed a mission?

NO.

Finally realized you're gay?

KYUUBI! For the last time SHUT UP! I'm not in the mood for jokes.

Kyuubi sighed and fell back into the dark corners of his cage where he knew Naruto couldn't sense him as much.

Now, normally he couldn't really care what the kid was doing or how he was feeling, but the way he was feeling now was just…off. He couldn't find a trace of the usual luck-go-happy emotions he had unfortunately gotten used to over the years. All that was there was confusion and emptiness, something that made even the feared Kyuubi no Kitsune weary.

He curled up into a ball much like any other dog would do when about to go to sleep. While he was in fact a demon, he was also a fox, and even those little dog-like instincts wouldn't leave him, and lately regressing back to his more dog-like days had been a great comfort to him. He could almost feel the other Bijuu dying, with the Akatsuki at the source of it.

So far, or as far as he could tell, he was the last one left.

The last one….

We were supposed to be the strongest of all of them! He thought. How the hell did some mere mortals take them down so easily?

What?

Kyuubi's eyes widened when he realized his mistake of letting the Kit hear his thoughts.

Nothing Kit, just go back to sleep.

…Well I can't now, who were the strongest?

Kyuubi debated whether or not to tell the kid what he was talking about, but had a feeling that if he didn't he would be badgered endlessly for the next couple of days and finally began to talk.

The other jinchuurikis…I don't think that their…with us anymore….

Naruto remained silent, looking down and grabbing fist-fulls of grass out of the ground.

I felt that too, them getting killed.

Oh.

What else was he supposed to say? For the first time ever, Kyuubi actually felt for his container. Then again, for the first time his brothers and sisters were getting killed off by a group that was sure to come after him next.

Hey, Naruto-

Naruto?

Whatever, Kit, how do you feel about the other containers?

Naruto looked away, even though he couldn't actually look at Kyuubi when he wasn't in his mindscape.

I didn't know them at all.

But….

…But I felt like I did. They were like my family, I guess.

That's because all demons are mentally linked to each other, that's what makes us so close to each other. All of us feel devoted to each other whether we've met each other or not.

Is that good or bad?

In this case, bad.

…I saw them dying.

I know, I-

"Naruto! I thought you said you didn't feel good!"

Naruto was snapped out of his thoughts and turned to find Sakura and Ino standing behind him.

"I didn't, I decided to get some fresh air." He lied quickly (recently he's been able to hold his face still and calm when he was lying, compared to a month ago when he fidgeted and rubbed the back of his neck nervously).

"Well you missed dinner at the B.B.Q place." Ino said, "But then again the only who really ate was Choji, as usual."

Naruto smiled at that.

When Sasuke was away, he, Choji, and Shikamaru hung out together more often than before. It seemed as if he had been accepted into their group.

"Choji will be Choji." He said, still smiling.

"If you're really not feeling good you need to go see Lady Tsunade." Sakura said, crossing her arms. "We don't need a weak teammate while on a mission, and now that Sasuke's back team 7 will be getting a LOT of missions."

Since when was she EVER a strong teammate, she would need 100 shadow clones to do what you normally do Kit.

Hey, be nice, she's a good fighter…well; she's good at taking hits. Lots of hits….

"Naruto!"

He snapped back again.

"Go see Lady Tsunade, now your drifting off!" Sakura demanded.

"Sakura-chan, I'm fine real-"

He was cut off when Sakura cracked her knuckles.

"OK! I'm going!" He yelled, running in the direction of the village.

"Man, why does she always get so worked up?" Naruto asked himself while walking through the village with both hands on the back of his neck.

He wasn't walking to the Hokage tower though, that would just cause him to miss an hour of free time because Tsunade would get worried and give him every test known to man trying to find out what's wrong with him.

And we don't need that, there are more important things to do right now.

Could you stop listing in on my thoughts?

Kinda hard when I'm in your head.

Oh, right.

Anyways, Kit, you know what I'm going to say don't you?

Umm, no.

I'm the last of the Nine, and we both know it's only a matter of time before the Akatsuki comes after me, and you.

If Tsunade would just train me some more advanced jutsus-

She's not going to.

Why wouldn't she?

You really think the council would let her? Kit, half of the people there hate me, and you not to mention. They aren't going to train something their afraid of.

Oh, I've never really thought about that.

Honestly, why they haven't disband the council yet is far beyond me, they get the Hokage to lead the village and then those old-hag-spoiled-civilians go in to untie all the knots. They should only allow shinobi to vote.

I didn't know you were political.

I'm over 1,000 years old, I'm a little bit of everything by now.

So what do I do?

Well, the training part of that is easy, I'll train you.

And you would do that how? I don't know if you've noticed or not but, you have no body.

Really? Of course I've noticed that idiot-

No need to be rude.

-but I can still instruct you, not to mention on the road you'll be able to fight with plenty of people.

Whoa! Wait a second and back-track a little bit, ON THE ROAD?

That's the not-so-easy part. Where do you think the Akatsuki will come first to look for you?

….

Exactly, here. In order to protect the people closest to you, you have to get away from them. Right now anywhere you live is basically condemned.

But, I'll be labeled as a missing nin-

And Lady Hokage will send ANBU members after you, your first fight.

-They'll try to kill me-

I guess you better start training.

-I can't come back till all of this is over….

…Your right, you can't. But, Naruto, if you stay, all of this, this street, that girl, that stand, that shop, all of it will be gone. Destroyed.

Naruto stopped and looked around him.

True, this wasn't the best part of town, but this was his part of town.

New couples were here, freshly wed and low on money. Kids were running around in the street playing tag, merchants we trying to sell their products and produce. This was home. His home.

You don't want all this to go away, do you?

…What do we have to do?

First, we need you to get stronger, much stronger. Running away will be pointless if you're just going to get caught by the ANBU squad sent after you.

And the demonic fox in my head will teach me right?

For the first time in over 300 years, Kyuubi laughed, not evilly, it was much lighter than that.

Exactly, now go back to your house and grab your jacket and weapons.

Why my jacket? Its 95 degrees outside! Naruto said, leaping onto a nearby rooftop, causing a couple of people to glance his way.

Perfect weather to sweat off fat.

Naruto stopped in his tracks.

FAT? Seriously? Have you seen me? I'm the perfect bill of health.

Really? I see someone whose been stuffing themselves full of ramen for the past 13 years. Go get your jacket.

Naruto continued his leaping while mumbling "I haven't been sitting on my ass in a cage for the past 13 years unlike someone I know."

Watch it Kit, I'm not one to be insulted.

Naruto rolled his eyes and reached his apartment, swinging into the hallway while nearly hitting Iruka.

"WHOA!" He yelled, ducking to avoid being kicked.

Naruto lifted his legs up, missing Iruka's head by a few centimeters. Unfortunately he wasn't able to save himself from skidding across the ground and into a wall. He heard his back hit it with a thud while the air was knocked out of him for a split second.

Iruka quickly ran over to help him up, making sure he was okay.

"Well today was a crappy day to choose not to wear a jacket." Naruto said, looking at his arms which were now badly scrapped and bleeding.

"Even as a trained Ninja you're still a walking disaster Naruto." Iruka said, opening the door and letting Naruto walk in as he followed.

He went to the sink and wet 2 cloths with cold water, and then gave them to Naruto to clean off his arms.

"Thanks." Naruto said, grabbing them and placing them over the scratches.

"Any on your legs?" Iruka asked.

"None that are worth any attention." Naruto replied. "So, was there something you needed to talk to me about?" Naruto asked, lifting the cloth and seeing the cuts healing.

"No, I just heard you weren't feeling well and decided to pop by to make sure you were OK." Iruka said, watching his student.

"I'm jumping around roof tops, I think I'm OK." Naruto said chuckling.

Iruka laughed, "Your always jumping on roof tops so I can't really tell."

"I'm fine." Naruto clarified.

"What was the rush to get home?" Iruka asked curious.

"Just grabbing some things for training, I managed to forget my weapons this morning."

"Good one. Is Kakashi going back to training you guys already? I thought the council would still be arguing about Sasuke's schedule now."

Naruto nodded, "They are," he said, "I was just doing some stuff on my own, Sakura thinks we'll be getting more missions and I haven't been working out that much lately so I thought I should start again."

"Ah, to say the least I'm surprised you're planning ahead."

"Sasuke won't stand the slightest chance against me next time he decides to go crazy." Naruto said smirking. "Believe it."

Iruka smiled at his former student's enthusiasm, "And for a second there I actually thought you were becoming more mature." He said.

"Why in the world would you ever think that Iruka-sensei?" Naruto said laughing.

Iruka rolled his eyes.

Earlier in their conversation, Iruka had noticed a calm about Naruto that wasn't there before, he wasn't as loud or annoying. He had thought that bringing back Sasuke had matured him even in the slightest way. He was sure something had changed, but he was glad that Naruto was still himself. Quite honestly, he had started to worry, he didn't talk when he had been celebrating with rookie 9, but his friends hadn't seemed to notice. Well, Shikamaru probably did, that kid was sharp as a tack, but he didn't seem to say anything, which is what he would normally do.

"OK, looks like their better." Naruto said, inspecting his now healed arms.

"What I would give for healing like that." Iruka said dreamily looking at the faint lines that were the only sign anything had happened, and even those were fading before his eyes.

"Oh yeah, all the rouge knives that go your way on the first weeks of class." Naruto said snickering at his teacher's misfortune.

"You still hold the prize for the most cuts anyone's given me due to horrible aim, but this new kid Shishu may just beat you. That kid can't tell his left from his right." Iruka said.

"No one can ever beat me." Naruto said grinning ear-to-ear. "Nice talking to you Iruka-sensei, but I really got to go train!" Naruto said, quickly grabbing his weapons and jacket while dashing out of the door.

Wait, JACKET? Iruka thought.

"Naruto! Don't wear that you'll get a heat stroke!" Iruka yelled out the door way.

"Yeah, sure thing!" Naruto yelled behind him, smiling back at his teacher before once again leaping onto the roof tops.

Iruka smiled, locking Naruto's door behind him.

Sometimes I worry about that kid.

End-Chapter 1

*Authors' note*

So, that was my first chapter ever, what'd you think? I'm sorry if some of the characters are OOC, but in this story I'm going to show a darker (not evil) more mature side of Naruto. He's starting to feel the effects of being the last container if anyone was wondering in the begging, and in this he was able to feel the feelings of the other containers, causing him to feel as if he knew them and they knew him. I really hope I got Iruka right, it's hard to write from a fatherly man's point of view considering I'm not a parent…or a man.

If anyone was wondering, the title "Camisado" is not only the title to one of my all time favorite songs by P!ATD, but it also is when an enemy attacks you in your sleep.

Does anyone know any super awesome jutsus for Naruto to learn? I'm not a genius when it comes to those kinds of things….I think I'll make a couple up (i.e the ability to control someone's blood, an idea from Avatar the Last Airbender, if anyone recognized it )

And also the pairing! I'm planning on it to be a Narusaku, absolutely no Hinata (I just feel as if she's not that much of a main character, we saw her crush, some of her back story, she disappeared for half of the shippuden, and then she declared her love for Naruto, don't get me wrong, I have nothing against that couple but I can't write Hinata, so there for I won't make you suffer through it). But, if a lot of people absolutely can't stand the thought of Narusaku, I'll consider changing it, but if that's the case it'll probably be an OC, so be warned….

Also, this was a pretty long chap, but I don't think I'll be able to do many ones as long as these, so this is just to get you hooked I guess. I already have the second chapter complete, and once I get a couple hits and at least 1 review, I'll put it up, even if it's just a smiley face, review it! XD

Thanks for reading!

-saxophonefreak1233