Yay I'm back, a bit longer than expected but my internet was down, so I was late sending it to my beta, Kuromizo no Ariana, big thanks and hugs by the way, but its here now right?

The rating will change slightly in this chapter and probably from here on out, from a T to an M, I think this is right, I'm not very good at th ratings, so if its wrong could someone please tell me?

Also thankyou to my reviewers: mangalover248, densetsunosannin, MrsHellman, BlackFoxDemon and of course Kuromizo no Ariana.

And on with the story.


Chapter 2.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes to see…nothing. He blinked and shook his head wondering if he still had his eyes shut. Once he was sure they were indeed open he raised his head a few inches off the ground and was startled to find that he was lying in water.

Grimacing in distaste, he pushed himself to his feet and peered through the darkness trying in vain to see something, anything, some shape or form to tell him where he was. As far as he knew he had been lying in his bathroom when he had blacked out thanks to that stomach pain.

Wondering what he should do, he wasn't able to sense any other chakra signatures besides his own, as far as he could tell he was alone; vaguely he picked a direction and began walking.

His feet splashed through the shallow water that covered the floor, he tried calling but his own voice just returned to him in an eerie echo accompanying the steady drip of water that he had been hearing since he woke up. Feeling suddenly afraid Naruto picked up the pace and began to run, sending water flying up behind him. Some distant part of his brain warned him that running blindly in an unknown place wasn't a good idea but it was silenced by his fear and his compulsion to get away.

Dimly he realised that the unending black was getting a little hazy, sort of fuzzy around the edges, spots of sooty yellow were looming up out of the darkness. As Naruto neared he realised that torches were set into high metal brackets in stone walls, they light provided by these showed him that he was running down a corridor made of stone bricks.

Naruto's eye widened with realisation as to where he was; he did not come here often, the last time was when he was off training with Jiraiya for two and a half years. He had entered the seal; he was in the lair of the Kyuubi.

Naruto, armed now with the knowledge of where he was, although not what he was doing there, began walking once more. He would eventually end up in front of the sealed gates containing the demon no matter which way he walked.

The first time Naruto had entered the seal had been when he was twelve and the pervy sage pushed him off a cliff. The sides of the cliff had been too slippery and he had been falling too fast for him to grab on with his own chakra and he had needed to call upon the foxes. Entering the seal he had challenged the fox to give up some of his own chakra and the fox had acquiesced, although grudgingly.

Since then he had found out that the foxes continued survival depended on his own, so it was not surprising that the fox had saved them then, and it had not entirely been the manner with which he had dealt with the fox. He supposed that loud and abrasive would be something the fox would respond to, well more so than pleading anyway, that manner was also a defence mechanism he hid behind when he was feeling anxious or scared, so in this circumstance it would serve him well.

However, the second time he had entered the seal, when training with Jiraiya, the demon had spoken to him properly, albeit scathingly, about what was going wrong with his jutsu. The fox warned him to back off his chakra as he was using too much, which was not only causing the jutsu to fail but also him to lose consciousness due to chakra overload which was how he ended up in the seal.

He hoped that the fox would be in a similar mood now, and would give him answers as to what was going on. The dream he kept having felt like a memory, although it was not his own, so Naruto supposed that it must therefore belong to his unwelcome tenant.

"Naruto," the deep voice purred out of the darkness, drawing out his name. He had arrived at the great gates of gold, held tightly shut by the Fourth's seal.

Naruto stepped up to the gates and fixed his blue eyes on the single red one he could see in the darkness beyond. The huge eye narrowed as it stared back malevolently. "How am I here?" he demanded.

"How are you here," the demon echoed mockingly, his voice a hiss in the dark.

Naruto scowled, "Don't fuck with me fox-bastard," he warned. The demon growled, low and menacingly. Naruto shivered involuntarily, the tiny golden hairs on his arms and at the nape of his neck stood up. "What do you know of my dreams?"

The Kyuubi's eye narrowed to a slit, "Your dreams? Why would I bother with such trivial matters?"

Naruto snarled, "They're memories and they're not mine."

"Indeed, so you accuse me?"

"You're the only other one here," Naruto ground out through clenched teeth.

"The fox sighed, "True, alright boy, what are these memories?"

"I see them from the point of a man, atop Gamabunta. He's holding a baby and he's fighting you."

Naruto stopped as the demon hissed, his eye growing large. He leapt back suddenly as one of the foxes mighty tails lashed out against the gate causing the seal to glow. "Minato!" The fox snarled angrily, "Let me guess, the Shinigami rose and I was sealed."

Naruto blinked, "Yeah, are they your memories? Who's Minato?"

The demon laughed, Naruto shuddered, it sounded much like nails scrapping down a chalk board. "Use your head brat, if I was in the memory how could they be mine?"

Naruto bristled, "But if I was seeing your sealing, then…?" He gasped, "The Fourth Hokage." The Kyuubi growled. "But how am I seeing his memories?"

"It would appear," the demon purred, "That your seal is weakening."

Naruto simply stared for a second before that statement hit him, "WHAT? What do you mean the seal is weakening? Bastard fox! How did you get that conclusion?"

"The deal between the Fourth and the Shinigami was his soul in exchange for me being sealed. If he's starting to break through then I must be busting out."


A little longer than previous chapters, but still not very long.

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