Disclaimer: I DONT OWN ANYTHING! Well actually Yayoi is my own character so I suppose I just lied didn't I?

"..." normal speaking

'...' thoughts

'...' kyuubi's thought/words

CHAPTER ONE: "As They Were"

"They always say that one must start the story at the beginning, but to fully understand this story, you must understand everything, even things before the beginning. Some of the most important things are the ones most forgotten."

-Then-

The young boy cried out when he was hit, by a younger girl none the less. The little girl was going to hit the boy again but an older villager stopped her. "What is the meaning of this?" the woman yelled, roughly yanking the girl away. The girl glared at the boy, as if saying 'I'll deal with you later'. Her attention turned fully to the older women.

"He said something bad about my eye and insulted my family, so I hit him." she said while doing her best not to growl. The older women did not look impressed, in fact she looked rather angry. "Your eye is strange, gross at best. He had every right to talk to you that way, you know better, especially after what your family did-"

The girl tuned out the rest of the woman's rant; it was always like this, no matter what she did. If it wasn't bad enough that she was alone, everyone had to hate her for what her family did, never mind that she had nothing to do with it. She was completely sick of it. She wrenched her wrist from the older women's grasp, making her stagger in the process.

"You're just like everyone else you old hag! You only see my last name and not me! You'll regret this when I'm older and stronger!" she snarled.

"You will never be allowed to get any stronger you little brat! God willing you'll be taken in the chuunin exams!"

The girls eyes glistened with unshed tears. She would not cry, she would take the abuse, just like every other time. But this time would different she decided, this time she would leave. "One day I will come back and you will all be sorry. I will make sure of it!" the women gasped and cried out when the child knocked her down and took off in the direction of the gate.

The child was forbidden from ever leaving the village; for fear that she would do more harm that her family had done. But in there ignorance they had begun to create the monster they all feared.

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-Now-

"Naruto! What are you doing! Leave Sasuke-kun alone!" sakura yelled. Naruto stopped after he had thrown a few kunai and turned to her. "But why he started it-" Naruto was cut off by the arrival of their sensei. "Yo!" Kakashi said, walking slowly as if he had not just arrived 2 hours late. Both Naruto and sakura turned to him "YOU'RE LATE!" they screamed.

Kakashi put his hand behind his head "Well you see it was such a nice day i decided to go for a walk and i lost track of time-" Sasuke tuned them all out. It was like this everyday, why his stupid sensei couldn't come on time like the others he would never know. But it would be better if his teammates didn't yell about it every day!

Sasuke snapped back to attention when Kakashi mentioned another mission. It would of course be an easy one, even after the mission they had completed in wave country.

'When will we do something challenging, I can't complete my goals if I am this weak!'

Sasuke frowned deeper at the thought, almost growling in irritation, but catching himself at the last second. He stuffed his hands in his pocket and slouched forward not noticing his teammates eyes on him.

'Hmm.. I wonder what's bothering him now? There always seems to be a problem that irritates him.. Great... This just means that i'll end up getting in trouble again, I always do when it comes to him!'

"Naruto pay attention!" Kakashi said with a sigh. Naruto jerked his head up and laughed uneasily.

'Maybe you should stop thinking about him kit' a voice said.

Naruto looked around trying to figure out who had said those words. Sakura looked at him strangely so he smiled at her. She got a disgusted look on her face and turned back to Kakashi who was also looking at him.

'Say something to them or they are going to think that you are crazy.'

Naruto fought the urge to look around him.

"WHAT!" he growled, more at the voice than his teammates. Kakashi went back to explaining the mission after he gave Naruto another strange look. Sasuke however, kept stealing glances at him.

'I think you are right, something does always happen when your attention is on him' the voice said.

'Great how am I supposed to become hokage if I'm going crazy?' The voice just laughed.

'You do not realize who I am do you young one?'

'Yup going crazy...'

Sigh 'Concentrate hard on my voice and you will see'

Naruto found himself complying with the voices demands, the faces of his team were suddenly replaced with a large dark room. He walked forward until he was standing before a large grey barred cage with lots of chains on the door.

'What the-'

'Hello kit. Do you recognize me now?' the voice whispered.

'You're the Kyuubi No Kitsune!' he yelled.

'Come closer kit and I will tell you a story...'

As if he was being controlled he moved closer until he was right in front of the bars. The fox smiled, its teeth showing as its lips curled back.

'Now I will tell you what really happened all those years ago... back when they sealed me in your body.'

Back outside of Naruto's mind his team was gathered around him, his body lay out on the grass. Kakashi was at a loss, one minute the boy was standing and the next his eyes rolled up into the back of his head and he was falling to the ground. He had of course gotten a glazed look to his eyes before falling but Kakashi wasn't quite sure what to make of it.

"Sasuke, Sakura. You two complete the mission by yourselves, it's not difficult. I will take care of Naruto. When you are finished meet me outside of the Hokage's office." The two genin nodded at their sensei before taking off to complete their D class mission. With his other students off, Kakashi's attention reverted back to Naruto.

"Just what have you gotten yourself into now..." With a sigh the jounin picked up his remaining student and headed to speak with the hokage never knowing about the trouble brewing inside of the young boy.

xXxXx

'So you're saying that it was all just a miss-understanding and they sealed you up for no reason? Is that it?'

'That is correct. So you see I really am of no danger to you or your village. I never meant to harm anyone. You could let me out..?'the kyuubi spoke softly, gently nudging at the cage door.

Naruto hesitated. The story did in fact make sense to him.. but there was this nagging feeling in the back of his mind telling him to be careful.

'Why should I trust you? You could be lying to me...'

'Why would I lie to you, I am not like everyone else you know. Have I ever given you a reason to doubt me, kit?' Kyuubi said soothingly.

Naruto didn't reply, the kyuubi's smile widened.

'I guess I could trust you.. but for now I'm only going to make the cage bigger... I'm just not sure how...'

'It's just like everything in your mind kit, all you have to do is close your eyes and think. When you feel the tug on your chakra picture the cage expanding. It will be the same process if you let me out...'

'I... Ok... Give me a second to try this...' Naruto mumbled.

XxXxXxXxXx

The hokage sat back in his chair. "This is interesting at the very least..."

His eyes were focused on the boy before him, who was mumbling quietly in his apparent sleep. The seal on the boy was untouched and unchanged so there seemed to be no need to worry about the kyuubi right now. Trying to figure out what had caused the boy to abruptly collapse was their current problem. If it was something that could weaken his body enough for the seal to be broken than it needed to be fixed right away, however it was not proving to be an easy task. Without Naruto awake it seemed that they had no answers to their questions.

"Hokage-sama?"

He was drawn back from his thoughts by naruto's sensei, who was giving him a questioning look. He motioned for Kakashi to sit down.

As the jounin was seating himself he spoke.

"We will just have to wait and see what happens. Nothing can be done until he wakes."

Kakashi frowned under his mask. "So we wait." he said with a sigh.

'Sasuke and sakura are not going to be happy...'

Shadow Note: ok, ok I know I said this chapter would be better... sigh what can I say... I blame it on the coffee...I will seriously TRY to finish this story unlike all my previous ones...Review if you like...

(8-12-08 AN: I am going through this fic and trying to edit it so if there are errors just be patient, I didn't have a beta when I posted the first few chapters in 2005 so they are the worst…)