Naruto doesn't belong to me. Okay, by the advice of a certain reviewer, I made this chapter longer...Don't be upset over Naruto dying. He's basically alive now.

Naruto stirred, which in turn caused several trees that came crashing down. He cracked one eye, and was met by Red fur.

Wait…red fur?! Naruto looked about and made a conclusion: he was in the body of The Kyuubi Kitsune, The nine-tailed fox.

Naruto…um, Kyuubi…(let's call him Kyuubi Naruto) jumped up in shock, which caused several more trees to fall down.

Naruto Kyuubi knew he was somewhere near Konoha, but he wasn't sure how he knew. He started running in the direction which he knew the village was in, but he was stopped by a sudden thought.

The villagers won't recognize me! If I just go trotting in like I belong there, The shinobi would definitely start attacking me. Kyuubi Naruto tried to think of something, but there was nothing he could think of…

The transformation jutsu! KyuubiNaruto started forming hand seals, and then was enveloped in a giant cloud of smoke as the jutsu activated.

He had turned himself into Naruto, the other one before he had died. But he figured that that wouldn't work either, since everyone in Konoha (he assumed) thought he was dead. If he walked in as his former self, everyone would freak out.

"This is so annoying!" Kyuubi Naruto said. But it sounded more like a roar. "If I come in as myself, everyone would freak, but if I come in as the Kyuubi, every ninja within two hundred miles would try to kill me!"

So he transformed again, this time into another boy.

This boy looked like Sasuke except it didn't have that sticking-up thing in the back of his head. He also had reddish hair. He was dressed in a white T-shirt and black knee-length shorts. The only hint it was him was his bright, blue eyes.

He pretty much ran like he was still the fox up to the city walls. He wasn't in sight of any shinobi, and it was night. He peeked over the wall, and saw that no one was down there. So he used chakra to climb down the wall and into the city.

He hurried into the alleyway to see what was different about it. Nothing had really changed except it was more repaired from the Orochimaru invasion. In fact, it was almost totally repaired. He guessed he had landed a little more than a day off from his death. And so he crept up the alleyway to a place he assumed was a safe place to sleep.

He assumed wrong.

Only five minutes later, a shopkeeper whom Naruto (That's what I'm calling him in his human form) recognized but didn't know was chasing him down the street, yelling something about wild dogs and ramen.

Naruto thought it would be good to just wait until daylight, then gather some information on his time period.

It was the longest night of Naruto's life. When the sun finally came up, he felt like jumping up and scream.

"I'm gonna have to find someone I know, like Sakura or something…" Naruto said.

He hung out by Ichiraku Ramen waiting for someone to come by. Maybe even Lee would do. Anyone, please. Naruto thought. But he was jerked out of his thoughts by a voice from that morning.

"Hey, are you new around here, kid?" He asked. It was the voice of the person that worked at Ichiraku, and who had treated Naruto kindly in his youth.

Naruto whipped around. "Um, no…" he said. "I'm…uh…Daisuke." Naruto randomly made up a name.

"Oh." He said. "I was wondering why you've been sitting here for a good hour. You hungry? I could spare some ramen."

"Are you kidding?" Naruto asked. "a free meal?"

"Well, sure."

So Naruto ate well, then went back to scanning the road. He told the man he was waiting for someone.

Then, finally, a person he knew; Haruno Sakura. She was casually walking down the road. She didn't look that much older. At least she wasn't in her forties.

So As Naruto stood up, (he was very excited, so he jumped up with great force) He hit his head. Hard. And then everything went black.

He awoke to the sight of the guy from Ichiraku and Sakura looking at him.

"What happened…?" Naruto said.

"You hit your head. And hard, I'd suppose. You have a little concussion…" Sakura said.

"Um, thanks a lot. My name's Daisuke, by the way." Naruto said, blushing.

"My name's Sakura. You gonna be OK?" She said.

"Uh, yeah. But this question might sound…um…strange, but I've heard of this kid who died. I think his name was Karuto or something…how long ago was that?" Daisuke asked.

"His name…" Sakura said, suddenly turning mournful, "Was Uzumaki Naruto. I was actually in his squad. He had a big fight and…he died, two and a half years ago."

YAY! I got it done! my procastitive self got it done!