Despite the encouraging amount of reviews and story alerts, I decided to continue on with the story.
Disclaimer: I own Naruto. Beat that.
Same style as last time
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Chapter 2: Revelation
"Get back here you little fucker!"
A tomato from the fruits seller followed the words and smacked Naruto on the head. It squished, distorted horribly, but bounced up in good shape over his head and fell comfortably into the palm of a small hand.
Naruto whooped, and bit into the tomato. Juices spilled out around his small incisors and stained his chin red, but he could care less.
He could, really.
He sneaked a look behind him and saw the seller climbing over the broken crates he'd pushed over a moment before, red faced and plump.
Just like the tomato. Naruto sniggered.
He spun around doubled up in laughter, and ran straight through the rotted fence separating the short alleyway and the back gardens of an apartment complex.
Through the descending haze over all five senses, Naruto could vaguely make out a startled splash of water, then a slender arm moving, trailing the haze- mist? He stumbled forward, through water vapour, he realized from the soft, warm touch on his cheek.
His foot caught on wood, and his balance was shot. He tried to compensate, twist his trailing leg into position, but with the muted cover of steam Naruto found his leg a second too late.
He tumbled, hands reaching out desperately to avoid impact, to push away what was coming. Water fit snugly around his fingers, quickly coming up to his elbow.
Until he reached bottom and felt something give, yield. Warm silk, like flesh. His other hand hit a hard surface, fingers outstretched and stubbed against solid, grainy wood.
Must be flesh then.
Naruto panicked, pushed up desperately to regain his feet. Both hands clutched involuntarily, and a yelp came from near his ear. He snatched back his arms, but his new position left him falling again.
But he was in water, right? And water didn't hurt when it-
His face thunked against a hard edge.
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Eyes gradually strained open, and Naruto gasped at the sight.
He pinched himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming. He wasn't. Or was he? Hard to tell sometimes. Maybe a little harder. Nope. Still his bedroom, tidily messy, sheets ruffled but clean, clothes strewn but mostly in the same area.
He could only think one thing: 'How?'
He was soon startled because he heard someone say "Because of me."
Naruto looked around and saw no one in his apartment. He was again startled by the same voice that said, "In your head, stupid."
Naruto yelled, "I'm not stupid and get out of my head!"
"Then why did you yell it out when you could have simply thought, seeing as I'm in your head?" came the reply.
"Does it matter? You still heard it."
"Touché. I suppose you want to know who I am and why I'm in your head. Just think really hard. Don't talk. I wanna try this out."
"I can do that," Naruto said slowly, "so you better have the answers ready."
Well, who are you?
I am Kyubi.
Really? Fucking A, that's awesome. Can you teach me how to… err…
You don't know who Kyubi is?
What? No, of course I know Kyubi. Immortal demon, right? Faster than a speeding kunai, stronger than the most power doton jutsu. Totally bitching, am I right?
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Whoa. How'd you do that?
Not worth it. Kyubi thought privately.
I killed your parents.
You… Well, you killed a lot of people on that day, didn't you? Probably seemed like ants up there. I've killed ants before. You can't really tell which one's which until you get up close. And then they bite your nose. Well. Probably even worse for you with all our jutsus.
You're taking this remarkably well.
Am I? I'm talking to a voice in my head and making jokes about Kyubi killing my parents. You tell me.
Humph. Well, I'm Kyubi. I killed your parents under the control of an evil man. You have every right to hate me... but, I can do something to lessen the hate.
You're really the Kyubi?
Yes
Can you bring back my parents? And all the people you killed?
No. But I can train you to. It will take a long time. Longer than you'll probably live Kyubi added to himself.
But until then, I will help you become strong. Do you accept?"
Naruto thought about this. He was not deciding whether to trust Kyubi or not, not planning out his future path. He was living some kind of really vivid daydream. Some aftereffect of cranial trauma, a delusion, maybe shock-induced. Kami knows he'd had plenty of those before. It didn't take long to decide, so he said a single word.
"Yes."
Kyubi smirked and said, "Good. We start now."
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Ok. I know I promised a pairing decision this chapter. Well I haven't lied. Reread this chap if you don't believe me. Yeah.
In other words, I'm going to let you guess what the pairings are.
Um. So review. Tell me what you liked. What you didn't like. Tell me about yourself, if you want to.
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Oh wait, there's a profile section?
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Later.
