Light, brighter than Naruto remembered it ever being, shone through the hole. Several voice yelled out to each other.
"Here he is! We found him! Tell the Hokage we have him!"
A warm hand touched his neck, then his chest. His eyes were opened, and a face looked at him.
Blackness.
"He's barely breathing. I can hardley feel a pulse. Get him to the hospital, quickly, or he'll die!" A pair of strong arms picked
him up. A face not all that foreign stared back at him. A scar underneath his eyes.
Blackness.
A soft bed, an even brighter light. Voices, more and louder than before, pounded his ears. Then something cold was against his side and another near his heart.
Blackness like before, not the blackness of sleep, but the blacknes of emptyness. The same black, infinite world.
Naruto... Naruto...
He was lieing down, his back touching nothing. It was like he was floating in water.
Naruto! Live Naruto!
But its so peaceful, like before. I just want to rest.
You can't Naruto! You have to live! Live so that you can be Hokage!
Hokage...
Hokage...
Hokage...
Hokage...
The word made him open his eyes. Smething was in front of him, but he couldn't see, no matter how hard he strained his head. As if in response, his body jerked to what he assumed to be vertical and he stared at what he assumed to be the source of the voice.
A large grassy knoll had appeared out of nowhere, and a beautiful woman with black hair and a red kimono sat on a large rock covered in grass, twirling a red and pink umberella in between her fingers. She looked up at him and he fell onto the grass. Brushing himself off, he stood and walked over to her. "Who are you?" he asked.
"I don't have a name that you could say, Naruto. But you can call me Kyuubi."
"OK, so who are you?" he said this as he shuffled around her slightly, first to the right, then to the left.
"I'm..." she sighed, "I'm the reason everyone hates you." He gasped a little, eyes open in shock. But reason took a hold of
him, and after he sat down next to her, he asked:
"What? But I've never even met you before! Why would everyone hate me if we've never even spoken before?!"
"To the people, Naruto, that doesn't matter. Humans are notorious for hating what they don't understand, even if they understand the reason or are told not to."
"What do you mean?"
"I may look human, but I'm not. Seven years ago, I was in your world, in the form of a gaint fox. While I look back on my actions with disgust, I cannot deny that it was fully my fault. As a monster fox, I had no emotions, no love or compassion, just a need, no, a love of destruction and death. I killed many people, until one brave man stood against me. He sacrificed his own life to seal me into a new born baby." She looked at him with compassion and love. "You."
"What?.." Naruto realed.
"I realize this may be a shock to you, but eventually you would have to learn. After all, you can't go on living with a gaint monster in your stomach forever."
"So, I'm a.. monster? I'm really a monster? Just like all those people said I was?" He looked down at his hands as if they weren't his own. They trembled, until the woman's own hands slid into his.
"No, Naruto. You are not a monster. You a boy with a very special gift that can change the world." He jerked back, and tumbled off the outcropping, starring at the woman.
"I'm a freak! Because of you!" She sighed again.
"Obviously you are not ready to deal with this. You will wake up and not remember this, but I will come back when you need me. Good luck until then, Naruto."
Light.
