Kakera7: Yozu... Matta boku. So, time to give the you 36 people putting my story on alerts a wake up call huh? -stretches- Icould use one too... -checks my story stats- Wow... 6 review from same people... -deadpan- I feel motivated... -eye brow and smile twitches- You guys really know how to motivate a author... Whatev... At least you guys read... hope this makes up for lost time.

Oh, btw... This one is a less bit of humor... I'll put funny stuff on the other chapt... I felt like this chapter was a needed... So N-joy


IV-Chapter 4-IV

New Fear

.::l-l-l-::Dream begins::-l-l-l-::.

Naruto stood out side the fence of a fairly large house made of large oak tree. Eagerly waving his hand at Sasuke sneaking in from a far.

Naruto bounded towards the raven wolf knocking both of them into the bushes.The golden fox greeted him with soft purring growls. Sasuke did the same.

"I missed you Sasuke!!" Naruto whispered hugging his neck.

"Me too... Naruto..." Sasuke sat up wrapping his arms around them and nuzzling through the soft hair.

"Come on!! Let's go before mom finds out!!" Sasuke heard padding feet and sound of mild alarm arising beyond the fences. He quickly agreed as both of them made way to a clearing not far way but far enough from their scent being caught.

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Naruto curled on Sasuke's chest and enjoyd the wind brushing across the grasslands of the Blood Fire Territory.

"Hey, Sasuke..." The fox tilted his head alittle to meet Sasuke's eyes.

"Hn?" Was Sasuke's response.

"Why does mom hate you?" He asked tucking his ear back with a pouting face.

"Heh, Naruto... I don't think he hates me... I think he just doesn't like me." Sasuke chuckled a little.

"Why?" The fox ears perked up at him in curiosity.

"Well... Think of it this way. You've been watching your precious kit grow up and someone tries to take him way to be their mate. Wouldn't you feel a little angery and sad that your kit is parting away from you?" Sasuke had a slight blush lofting on his cheeks. Naruto took some time to register what was said.

"Oh... I think I understand now..." Naruto went back to snuggling. "...But I'm not gonna be a kit anymore. I'm gonna be a full fledged kitsune soon!"

"I wish it came sooner so that I can finally claim you to be my mate." Sasuke sighed, nuzzeling through his blonde hair. Moments of peace slowly settled in, until a sudden explosion sent a gust of unpleasent scent washing over the two, alarming both of them. They didn't need words to know something had happened to their village.

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As Sasuke and Naruto skidded into the village shock riled both. Humans were running about fighting the beast form of the Blood Fire Clan. The whole place was painted thick with metallic scent of blood and burning corpses of humans. The forest was burning with sound of pained screams, agonized howls, and clashing battle. Recognazation hit them both as a huge golden furred kitsune with supporting red flames on the feet and edge of the nine tails flew into view.

"NARUTO!! Oh, thank all nine gods you're alright..." The kitsune wrapped his nine tails around Naruto and rested a muzzle on him.

"Mom, what happened?" Naruto asked hugging his soft thick neck fur for comfort.

"Humans ambushed the entire village and surrounding it." A different gruff voice answered behind them.

"Dad!! You're OK!!" Naruto was relieved to see the blood red kitsune with stiff fur supporting orange flame.

"We can talk about the details later... We need to fend off these fiends first... Too many elders are dead and more than enough are captured by the filthy hands..." He growled glaring back at the war zone.

"Why are they capturing our clan for?" Sasuke inquired with a raised brow. The sleek canine head turned and the cold hard icey blue eyes bore into the charcoal ones.

"I don't know but it involves Itachi leading them here..." Sasuke's eyes widened in shock.

"A-aniki...?" The blood kitsune was opened his jaws to speak but was interupted.

"Leader!! We are ready for the 2nd charge." A silvery black wing wolf(1) had jumped in.

"Right." The blood kitsune's attention turned towards the raging spar. He let a howling battle cry as he dashed forward with many following behind.

"We need your help too, Naru-chan..." He nuzzled Naruto and the jade eyes caught the shocked Sasuke standing there. The soft worried expression changed to a manacing snarl as the green eyes bleed into crimson slits. "If it wasn't for the humans causing a bigger mess I'd be beating the shit out of you..." Snapping the raven wolf into reality with lowered eared and tail. The still angery eyes looked down to Naruto. It softened slightly. "We will discuss this matter later!!" With that the golden fox leapt off into the goring feilds.

A blue flame flashed engulfing Naruto's body. Storming at the spot until a platinum blonde fox with white flames appeared from it.

"Sasuke! Come on we have to help!!" The black haired wolf nodded and a scarlet flame flashed and revealed a blue-ish black wing wolf. Both leaped into the war.

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As they ran Naruto's eye had caught something. One word breathed out of his jaws. "Itachi??"

Sasuke's ears perked at this and pursued after the blonde fox straying off from the rest of the warriors.

Naruto chase after the tip of the jet black tail with Sasuke gracefully following. Naruto was abruptly stopped as he stared, confused by the sudden disappearance of the pursuited tail. They were surrounded by an unnatural fog. Naruto's ears flickered about. Sasuke felt a shiver run down his spine. Silence took place as a silent black figure crept towards the nervous two canines.

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Naruto yelped as a bite peirced at the back of his neck, Sasuke leapt at whatever it was attacking the white flamed fox. The attacker lost control of the fog but manage to slam the raven wolf down to knock the wind of him. Gasping Sasuke rolled on to his feet to take a look at the ambusher and the shock came back.

"ITACHI!!!" He half screamed and half growled. Anger started to boil within as he saw Naruto by his feet unconcious in his normal humanoid form. Blood trickled from his neck. Shaking tension grew in his body but his legs wouldn't move from the shock of truth. Sasuke quivered with mixed emotions as he spat out his words. "So... It was true... Why are doing this, Itachi? The Blood Fire clan!!Your own blooded family is being killed from the war!! What do you get from all this?"

A low chuckled rumbled from the throat of the jet black wing wolf standing over Naruto's body. "Foolish little brother... Can't you see it? From all the events caused in the past I thought you'd figure it out by now..."

Sasuke's legs finally recovered as he lashed at the other wolf. The elder easily dodged him jumping back. The red flames ate away his wolf form and back to his normal ones. Checking over Naruto's wound and quickly ripping a piece of cloth he wrapped it around the neck to stop the bleeding.

"Aren't you desperate to rip your own fur to protect that pathetic fox..." Itachi flared down into his normal form and earned a raging glare from his little brother.

"You've gone through many crimes lately... What is the matter with you? You were the best brother anyone could ask for... Now you've turned into an devil itself... Why?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... Isn't it obivious? All for the sake of power."

"What?"

"How foolish can you be? The world revolves around power! Power is the element that allows you to take control over the whole world!! I've ben seeking for that thrill of power long ever since. I've finally found it, brother... I've found the power I seeked with the humans. They've been ruling the vast earth beyond the borders of our secret lands. They can make us even more powerful then we were!! Join us brother... So that we may live a better life than one with nothing but peace and secrecy... A life of thrill!!"

"If that is truly how you feel... You're already human yourself!! I would never join these feeble humans, and they will never be able to defeat all of the Blood Fire!!"

"Not with man power alone..." A new hoarse voice sounded from Itachi's side. A long black haired human with snake like eyes and pale skin stepped into the view.

"Ah, Orochimaru-sama..." Itachi short nod to acknowledge his presence. "I presume the preparations are ready?"

"Yes..." He hissed lowly. "It best that we get out here soon... We've gained quite a collection to work with... I would rather live in order to use them for my experiments"

"As you wish." Itachi turned a heel to start after the creepy human and glanced back to smirk down at Sasuke. "Hope to see you in Hell..." With that Itachi was gone as whole forest bursted into an exploding fire.

.::l-l-l-::End of Dream::-l-l-l-::.

Sasuke was jerked awake as his eyes shot opened with his breath heaving from his nightmare. Weeks had passed since the event but his mind remebered it clearly and it plagued him so. His slowly sat up to check up on Naruto. Thankfully, he was still asleep in peace. He looked around to retrace his memory of fresh events. He looked over to spot the silver haired man still reading the orange book. The nightmare of the that day still floated amist his mind. A scowl surfaced his face. 'Humans...' He thought as Naruto stirred and the four nins turned their attention to them.


Kakera7: Cutting it here!! Oh, and yes... Naruto's mom's a "he". More explaination comes with time... If any of youz are interested I have a sketching of Naruto for this story in my profile. Go take a look if you want. I'll be doodling more. BTW, I know aleast 36 you are watching this... REVIEW!! Or at least a "hi" would be good...

(1) for wing wolf... Yeah,,, It's a wolf with wings basically... I think there might be a name for a mythical beast like that but I'm flat out lazy... So I'll go with wing wolf. Kz?