So, sorry its been so long since an update, but my other two stories sort of got priority and I have other story ideas I've been working on that haven't been uploaded yet.

So, here is the next chapter. Hopefully you all enjoy it, and the next chapter I'm going to try getting out sooner.

Enjoy the chapter, and let me know how you like it!

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I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones. Enough to make my systems blow. Welcome to the new age, to the new age. Welcome to the new age, to the new age. - Radioactive by Imagine Dragons.

Kitsunemūn.

Chapter 2: Waking Up Inside.

Two years (nearly three) had passed since Kagome had found Naruto unconscious and injured on the shrine grounds by Goshinboku (The Sacred Tree, or Gods Tree all depending on who you asked).

To everyone's surprise she wasn't quite as badly hurt as they'd first thought, once they had cleaned her up some. She also seemed to heal at an inhuman rate, much to their shock, and Grandpa Higurashi's suspicion (at first anyway).

After a week she was awake and didn't have a scratch on her, what had surprised Naruto was that she'd slept so long.

'Where...where am I' she thought to herself, looking around curiously.

The room was strangely decorated, but at the time bare. As if no one usually dwelt in it. She'd take a wild guess, and say guest usually stayed in it.

"Oh, you're up!" a young girl exclaimed as she entered, smiling brightly.

The girl was younger than her, with long black hair and large brown eyes.

"Where am I? Who are you?" Naruto asked.

"You're in Tokyo, in my home at Higurashi Shrine. My name is Higurashi Kagome, and I found you injured a week ago," Kagome said, walking over.

In her hands was a tray with food and a tall drink of what looked like juice on it. She wondered if the girl, Kagome, did this everyday. Just in case she woke up. Or if they'd found a way to help her eat while asleep – very unlikely, and it didn't much matter. She could go without such things for close to two weeks comfortably, thanks to Kurama.

Of course, that didn't mean she liked to go without that long, it did weaken her, not having eaten in a while.

"In... Tok—yo?" she questioned... "I don't understand. Is that a village?"

Kagome looked at her with wide eyes, mouth agape as if she'd sprouted fox ears and nine tails – which was quite possible considering what Kurama had prepared her for when his chakra and yoki changed her from human to Hanyō.

That was days ago, and what Kagome had told her next had surprised her, but nothing prepared her for what Kurama had explained later.

According to her fox tenant the Elemental Countries were not all there was to the earth. Far from it, in fact it was simply a large cluster of islands which were hidden by a barrier of sorts, similar to a mass Genjutsu, but stronger and permanent, which is why the villages were originally called Hidden Villages.

People could come and go, but very few knew anymore that there were lands beyond the Elemental Colonies.

When Sasuke had went in for the death blow, Kurama had used the last of his strength to transport them out of the Colonies, and to the first safe place he could find. That had turned out to be Higurashi Shrine.

Apparently, something had called to him. Allowing him to latch onto a signature of sorts, similar to chakra, so he didn't accidentally drop them in the middle of the ocean to hear him tell it. That power, he told her later, came from Kagome but was faint. Untapped, and unused. It wasn't chakra, but close enough that he could sense it.

Higurashi Shrine itself felt of this energy, just as faintly.

At the time of Naruto's arrival she'd been seventeen, nearly eighteen and had nowhere to go and a whole new world to get accustomed too. The Elemental Colonies were ruled much like the Feudal area of Japan, yet they had more modern technologies as well.

Naruto could recognize some things, weapons that were similar to what she knew, and the TV and such. But there were a lot of things, like cars, she'd never seen before in her life.

High School was also something she was not accustomed to. There hadn't been schools besides the Academy in Konoha or the Elemental Colonies. Things such as reading, writing and other things were taught by your parents or tutors that were paid to do it.

The Orphanage had a class-like set up similar, where the staff taught the children such things, but she'd never really been taught by anyone but the Sandaime because he was the only one willing to help, besides the few ANBU who were chosen to guard her. They did this despite the fact ANBU where not supposed to be seen in most cases.

It was true that the classes at the Orphanage did teach her some things, but they didn't try to help her understand it or anything, unlike they did for the other children. It was similar when she started the Academy, but once she was placed in Iruka's class not so much.

But High School had come later, after she'd explained everything to the Higurashi's.

It had been pretty funny to see Grandpa Higurashi overreact at first when she admitted to becoming a Hanyō in the next few years, because a giant fox demon was sealed in her gut at birth. He'd tried to seal her or exorcise her with these seals, which were not like most seals she'd seen, and failed miserably.

From what she saw, they were little more than paper with drawings without the proper energy added. Energy the old man had little of in his old age. Even then, they probably would have only stunned her for a few moments since bijū were demons different from the ones of old times.

According to the Kyuubi, the Biju had been around in a lesser active state for many years before demons even populated the earth, back many years before the Hidden Villages had really been set up. Or thought of for that matter.

True they had been created, but were only home to people with what would soon become chakra.

Naruto didn't like history lessons, and Kurama's stories might have been more interesting, but they still put her asleep. So she never really paid much attention to them in the end.

Demons that had been descendants of the Biju, and Jubi before the nine bijū were formed, no longer roamed as freely, but were still around. Demons had very, very long life spans after all.

But she digressed.

The point was Mama Higurashi, as she'd called the woman in the beginning, had decided to adopt her into the family, though Naruto had decided to keep her own name of Uzumaki to honor her parents.

It wasn't like she had much choice of anywhere to go in the foreign place.

Though she wanted to go home, she also didn't. Kurama had assured her her precious friends had been alive when they'd left, though injured they may be. He had also suspected Sasuke might not give up trying to find her if he was so far lost in his own insanity to think killing her would save her.

Obviously Kurama had a long history with Uchiha's and their insane ideals.

One day she may be able to visit, but Higurashi Shrine and the people there had become family to her as well. She'd always wanted one growing up, but because of her status as a jinchuriki she was never allowed to be adopted.

Now she had a mother, grandfather, little sister and little brother.

She could have hugged Kurama for sending her to the shrine, if not for the fact he might have decided to kill her for such a show of affection on his person.

Though they got along well now, he was still an arrogant demon lord, apparently they didn't do human emotions often or at all.

Hugs were off limits apparently.

Truth was, she was torn when it came to her home away from the Elemental Colonies and where she was. She could only hope this didn't make her a missing-nin if she ever did return for a while. Technically, she was still a shinobi of Konoha, one that was probably termed MIA.

Two years had changed nearly everything though.

Kagome was older now, turning fifteen soon. She herself had finally gotten away from the torture they called High School after a year. If not for her mama's help she'd have not gotten into a high enough class to graduate after only one year. Naruto was nearly twenty now, which was the age Kurama figured the transformation from Human to Hanyō would be completed.

Currently she looked as if she hadn't aged since she was eighteen, but that could have been the fact her mother's blood gave her longevity to begin also tended to slow the aging down in shinobi, though never by much.

"Pickles...so much history..."

"They were gifts from visitors, weren't they?" Kagome asked dryly.

Naruto chuckled, lowering her chopsticks. If anyone in the family loved talking about history it was gramps, and unfortunately to him everything at the shrine had some sort history.

"Naru-chan," Mama began. "You were thinking of looking for a job tomorrow, weren't you?"

Naruto nodded.

"Yeah, I figure I should get one sooner or later. I think I've gotten the hang of things around here, though it's still so different from the Elemental Colonies."

Getting a job was the least she could do. After all, they had taken her in, treated her like family. Even accepted that fact she was soon to be a half-demon. She doubted even her home village could have completely accepted that, if and when they found out.

It was a good thing Kitsune's were masters of fox magic or illusions.

She might suck at genjutsu's, but Kurama did say her natural ability to spot them, and shake them would go up after the transformation. An illusions to make her appear completely human would also be natural since it was part of the Kitsune package. It was very similar to a henge, but could not be dispelled by anyone other than herself.

Dinner was a short conversation on her plans after that. After dinner she helped Mama with the dishes and said goodnight to everyone before heading to bed.

Laying back in her bed, a room over from Kagome's, which had once been a guest room and the room she'd woken up in two years before, she had no idea what the next day (her sisters birthday) would bring.