Chapter 2

Where the Hell Were You?!

Naruto woke up the following morning, not realizing he had fallen asleep. He had apparently slept in for some time, due to the fact that the sun was shining brightly outside. He got up and looked around in his partially destroyed house.

"Story of my life huh. "

Making the hand sign, he made fifteen shadow clones. "I need you guys to clean the place up and get rid of all this garbage. We cant be living among this can we now?"

"No boss, we'll take care of it!"

"Thanks guys, I really appreciate it."

The clones stopped somewhat and looked at each other once the original left the room to go shower. One of the clones said "he never stops to thank us, I mean we are just his clones. What's up?"

Another clone answered "Boss is really bummed out right now I guess. Lets clean up so he can take it easy."

The clones got work as fast as they could while the original was taking a shower. About fifteen minutes later, an unexpected visitor arrived at his front door, clearly appalled by the damaged apartment and what little mess there was left of the root patrol remains from the night before. She didn't notice one of the clones addressing her until a pair of fingers snapped in front of her fingers.

*snap snap!* "Ino! Hey, you ok?"

Ino Yamanaka had apparently been lost in her own world because when she focused her attention back in the real world, she saw that all of the clones were looking at her with a hint of worry on their faces.

"Oh, uh, sorry! I was just wondering where Naruto was. Lady Tsunade needs us at the tower."

"Oh! Well why didn't you say so! Boss is in the shower right now. Want us to go get him?"

"Oh not that's ok," said Ino. Feeling a bit of her girly/troublesome side of her switch on, she said "I'll get him. You guys just keep on doing what you're doing…by the way, what ARE you doing? OH MY GOD IS THAT A FUCKNG FINGER! WHY IS THERE A SEVERED FINGER IN HERE! WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DONG! WHERES NARUTO, I'LL-"

"whoa whoa whoa, calm down Ino!" one of the clones said hands up in the air in a calming motion.

"Boss was attacked last night but he took care of it. Nothing to worry about, ok?"

"O-o-okay, but…but clean this mess up right now, you hear me!" Ino yelled a little shakily.

"Uuuhhhh, yeah, that's what we were kind of doing Ino," one of the clones said bluntly.

"Ugh, just let me through," huffed Ino. She went by all the clones and went down the hallway towards the sounds of running water. She knocked on the bathroom door yelling "Hey Blockhead, lets go! Lady Tsunade needs us, come on!"

She knocked a few more times and still received no answer. Remembering what the clones said about the attack, she began to be a little worried for her fellow blonde haired ninja. Opening the door slightly, she peeked her head inside and called out "Naruto, you in here dummy? I said we gotta go!"

Still getting no answer, she walked inside the bathroom. The hot water was apparently on full blast, due to the entire room being filled with hot steam. She looked at the closed shower doors, but squinted a little bit, because she thought she saw a little red on the doors. Seeing that she wasn't just seeing things, she rushed to the shower doors and forcefully opened one of them. What she saw next she was not ready for.

There sat Naruto, completely naked, cuts all over himself. Cuts littered his arms, legs, chest, even one across his throat. Even though she could visibly see the wounds slowly healing, no doubt due to the Biju's chakra inside of him, he still looked like death itself. She looked up a little bit and saw what she thought were red marks on the shower doors earlier. They were actually words on the wall, written in Naruto's own blood.

I AM NOT A DEMON!

WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE ME?

WHAT DID I DO TO DESRVE THIS?

I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE

I WANT IT TO END

LET ME SEE MY PARENTS

LET ME BE AT PEACE FOR ONCE

LET

ME

GO

Ino just stood there for moment, not believing what she was seeing. Doing the only thing her body would allow her to do for the moment, she screamed.

"NAARUTOOO!"

Sounds of stomping feet came closer, and Ino heard the clones come to the door.

"Ino, what's wrong!" one of the clones asked.

She turned to them and yelled at them "Two of you go get lady Tsunade now! The rest of you help me carry him to the hospital! He's hurt himself bad! He's healing but I don't know if he'll make it! Lets go now!"

Two clones left immediately while two more came inside the bathroom and helped her retrieve the self injured ninja. Carrying his dead weight out of the bathroom and into the living room, she and the clones set him down on the now clean floor.

"I'm going to try to heal him as much as I can," stated Ino. "The rest of you go to the hospital and make sure they have an operating room ready to go. Go now, hurry up!"

"Gotcha Ino!" one of the clones said.

As the remaining clones left to go perform their own tasks, Ino got on her knees to perform hers. She put her hands in the ram sign and began to channel as much chakra as she could.

For wounds like this, and as many as there are, I have to get as much chakra as I can to heal him quickly, she thought.

She then put her hands out towards the body of her friend once she had enough chakra ready. Her hands emitted a large green glow that covered his entire form. After a few minutes, all of Naruto's wounds were gone, but he was still out cold. Just then, Tsunade, one of the legendary Sannin and fifth Hokage, walked into the apartment.

"Ino, what the hell happened?! Move aside!" ordered Tsunade.

Ino moved over to the other side of Naruto while Tsunade performed her own diagnostic check on the blonde.

"I don't know! I came to tell him to go to the tower, I found his clones cleaning up the place from some attack on him last night, heard him in the shower, and I found him like this! His clones and I dragged him out here and I healed him as much as I could, but I don't know if I was good enough!"

"What? He was attacked and didn't report it? Oh well, we'll worry about that later," said the Sannin. "And Ino, you did a marvelous job. All of his physical wounds are healed perfectly. Well done."

Ino smiled in relief. "oh thank God", she wheezed out.

"However," said Tsunade, "I can tell his mental psyche is down for the count. I'm not sure why, that's not my clan's specialty. Ino, I need you to go in his mind and see what's causing him to stay down, I can't have on eo f my finest down from a coma."

"Hai, Lady Tsunade."

Ino performed her clans jutsu and went into Naruto's mind. When she got inside, she didn't expect to see what she did.

Right there, staring her square in the face, OUT OF HIS CAGE, was Kurama, the Nine Tailed Fox.

She stood there, trembling in fear of the giant Biju. "Uuhhh, hi?"

"RRROOAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"

Ino fell flat on her bottom, blown back by the sheer force of sound from the fox. She looked up again at the fox who had walked way too close for comfort. Each of his front paws, easily the size of two Hokage Towers, were on each side of her, and his muzzle was mere inches from her frame. If he was going to eat her, there wasn't a thing she could do about it. She felt the hot breath from the creature wash over her as he let out a long, low, grumble. He bared his huge fangs and suddenly yelled out:

"WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU! WHERE WERE YOUR FRIENDS! WHERE WAS EVERYONE! NARUTO IS MY KIT! YOU ALL LET HIM SUFFER FOR TOO DAMN LONG! ONE!JUST ONE! JUST GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON WHY I SHOULDN'T EAT YOU RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW! YOU HAVE ONE CHANCE GIRL!"

Ino sat there, almost shitting herself from absolute fear. If she thought she had felt fear during the war, this fear in its most potent form.

"Uuuhhhhhh….." she stammered.

"ANWER ME NOW YOU INSIGNIFICANT BRAT!"

"Kurama, relax."

"Ino looked to her left and saw Naruto suddenly appear out of no where.

"If what I felt is correct, Ino is the one who just healed me," said Naruto.

"KIT, SHE, ALONG WITH THE REST OF THIS RETCHED PLACE, BLATANLY IGNORED AND BEAT YOU YOUR WHOLE LIFE. HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU JUST SAY RELAX WHEN I FINALLY HAVE ONE OF THEM IN MY GRASP TO SUBDUE SOME OF THE FIRES OF OUR REVENGE?!" The Biju Lord asked.

"Because she healed me, Kurama." Naruto replied.

"Naruto! If you're here and ok, how come you're not awake?" Ino asked.

"Because I'm tired of the bullshit," was the simply reply.

"What? I don't understand?" said Ino.

"Look over there Ino. You see that pitch black doorway? That is my access to all of my memories. I can't explain them, it's too much. If you REALLY want to understand, then go in there or as long as you can."

"Naruto, what are you even talking about?"

"Like I said, I cant explain it. Whatever questions you have, I'm sure they will be answered if you go in there. Don't ask me again. I'm tired of reliving it all."

Kurama looked at Ino and said "YOU HEARD THE KIT. YOU AWANT TO KNOW THE ANSWERS, WHAT HAPPENED, WHATS GOING ON, WHY HE IS THE WAY HE IS RIGHT NOW, THEN YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. EITHER GET IN THERE, OR GET THE HELL OUT. YOU ARE WEARING OUT YOUR WELCOME VERY QUICKLY BRAT."

"Okay okay, I'll go inside." Ino said. "And I'll be back before you know it dummy!"

"Tell you what Ino, I'll make you a deal," said Naruto. "If you go inside and come back out like you are now, unphased and perfectly fine, then I'll go back to the outside world with you. If not, I'm staying right here, with the Kurama, pretty much the only one in my whole damn life who was by my side the entire time."

"Naruto you blockhead, you really aren't making any sense of this," argued Ino.

"Once again, and for the last time Ino, if you want answers, proof, whatever, its all in there."

"Fine, I'll see you in a bit."

"GOOD LUCK BRAT, YOU'RE GOING TO NEED IT." Said Kurama.

"Yeah, whatever."

"Ino, just one thing before you go," said Naruto.

"yeah blockhead?"

"When you get back, I want you to answer me one question,"

"Yeah, what is it?"

"When you get back, I want you to answer me this question…..while of that was happening, where the hell were you?"

A/N: Hey guys Roku here again! I noticed I kind of screwed up the last chapter a little bit, so hopefully this one is a little better. Guys, I need your feedback! Is it good? Is it bad? Did I miss something or should I add something? This story is for my readers, so tell me what you want to see! I won't go too much off of my story that I have semi-planned , but if it's a good idea and goes somewhat with the story, then I'll try to incorporate it in there somehow. Let me know what you guys think! Roku out.