A/N: Hey, a little while since I last posted. But anway, school has started again so I should be able to write more (Cause what else am I gonna do during classes?).and I don't really have anything to say except for check out EvilCuttlefish's story and Darkbeast42's stories. I recommend them all. Anyway, remember to review on how you think the story is and enjoy!

The ANBU patrols were getting very annoying to avoid. Who knew leaving the village would be so much of a hassle?

Naruto let out the breath he had been holding as yet another patrol passed him, the third one in the last 30 minutes. At the rate they were coming he wouldn't be able to get out of fire country for another week or so. It had already been 3 days since he left. Couldn't they just leave him alone?

He looked up at the sky and saw the moon. That shocked him. He hadn't even noticed the day had turned into night.

'Should I sleep or continue on?' Naruto contemplated. On one hand, it had been 2 days since he got any rest. On the other, he didn't want to get caught by the patrols still coming.

He made up his mind. He was going to continue going. It was the only way to ensure that he didn't get captured. Nodding to himself, Naruto got up only to fall right back down. He chuckled to himself. 'I guess I'm more tired then I thought.' He looked around once, making sure there were no ANBU nearby. 'I guess taking a rest wouldn't be too bad.'

He ran up the tree he was just a moment ago taking shelter behind and found a suitably branch to sleep in. It was comfortable and out of sight if anyone that was passing by looked at the tree. He sat down and immediately tied some ninja wire around himself and the branch. He learned about sleeping in trees from his last experience and falling into the water. 'Who would've thought that I'd think of this because of one bad experience while sleeping in trees?' He thought in mild amusement. He settled down after that and pulled out two kunai. One for each hand. He only had one last thought before he fell asleep.

'I wonder how Itachi and Akira are doing?'

Earlier that week

Naruto was humming as he made his way out of the Hokage tower, a place he had not been to in a little over two years. 'So we steal the scroll, get Mizuki caught, make off with a few of the techniques, and still hopefully get put on the same team for our teamwork.' Naruto thought before he grinned wickedly, a thing that looked slightly demonic on his visage. People moved out of his way when they saw him. That didn't stop him from grinning though.'No way this can go wrong'

Why was Naruto walking out of the tower? Well, today was the day that they decided to scout it out. That way when they raided it the next day they would be able to do things quickly and efficiently. The only thing they actually had to look for when they were scouting was the extra documents Mizuki wanted. The Forbidden scroll was rather easy to find. It was in a safe secured by seals in the Hokage's office. They had no idea why he wanted documents from the Kyuubi attack, but they also didn't really care.

He had to withhold a laugh at the thought of Mizuki. He couldn't believe that Mizuki thought that he was pulling one over on the three of them. He couldn't wait to see the look on Mizuki's face as they turned the tables on him.

He couldn't wait to tell his friends what he found out from the tower. That the security was ridiculously pathetic. So much so that he believed they could probably just stroll in, take what they needed, and leave.

He kept smiling as he made his way to their designated meeting spot, training ground 53. They chose the place because it was one of the few that genin could work at without jounin instructors. It was also chosen because of the convenience that they wouldn't have to stop training to talk with the person whose turn it was to scout out the tower.

Naruto's smile didn't break until he reached the training ground where he saw something that shocked him. Itachi and Akira were kissing, something he found weird for two reasons. 1) they were only 10 years old and because 2) Itachi and Akira? Really?

As Naruto's young mind processed this new information he could only come up with one conclusion. He was the third wheel in their friendship. 'I'm being left out again.' He thought with a sigh. 'It's going to be like with them except far more painful. And when it's all said and done I'm going to have nothing again.' He slumped down on the branch he was on. It was a lot to take in. His friends were together, and the only thing he got out of that was that they wouldn't need him anymore.

'No' he thought. 'I refuse to be the third wheel. I'll show them that I matter. But how ca-'

"Did you find out what we need to know?" Itachi interrupted Naruto's chain of thought, almost making him jump.

"Yeah, and I must say. The security, if you can even call it that, is arrogant enough to believe no one would attack the tower that hey don't even pay attention to what's going on in it." Naruto said calmly while trying to slow his racing heart. 'Kami, how'd he get up here that fast? When did he get up here?' He thought.

"Oh? Really?" Itachi said in his monotone voice, though if one knew him well enough they would have heard the mirth behind those words.

Naruto just nodded and jumped down. "So where's Akira?" He asked after Itachi followed him.

"Around here training somewhere, why?"

"Oh no real reason," Naruto replied, waving off the curiosity he got from Itachi. "I just wanted to let her know too so I thought 'why not right now?'."

Itachi merely nodded before turning away. "I can go find her and tell her about the terrible security. We can go over it in more detail tomorrow at noon back here."

Naruto lazily waved to Itachi that that worked before he jumped off to find someplace to think.

'What's his rush?' Itachi thought while narrowing his eyes in the direction his friend left. He stared for a second before shaking his head. 'Probably just problems with his family again.'

With Naruto

Itachi was right when he thought Naruto was having problems with his family. He just had the wrong family in mind. It wasn't his biological family that he was having problems with, it was his true family, Itachi and Akira, that he was. He just couldn't get the image of those two kissing and the repercussions that left him.

He had been turned into a third wheel, at least to best of Naruto's limited dating knowledge he was. It was also because of this little knowledge that he was left with the image that he would be unwanted and unneeded by them anymore.

Simply said, he was sad. Sad and angry and scared and a multitude of other emotions. None of them out shining another, all of them wreaking havoc in his mind.

To try and ease himself of the emotions, he decided he would practice with the flute he was gifted. Earlier he had gone and gotten books on how to play that included a couple of songs in them. He decided to forsake the songs that they had given him and just play.

It had not been the best idea on his part. Yes, at times the sounds he produced from the flute were beautiful, but for the most part it sounded almost like someone was scratching a chalkboard. He didn't regret his decision though. It cleared his mind and let him know how not to play a flute.

Breathless, bored, and now clearheaded, Naruto looked up at the sky just to see the sky changing colors as night came. 'How come this is always happening lately?' He thought before shrugging it off. 'Meh, whatever'.

He then looked around the clearing in whatever random training ground he ended up in. There wasn't anything there. It was so normal he almost felt disgusted that he ended up in it. Naruto quickly shrugged off the thoughts off the clearing, they weren't going to help him decide what to do in his supposed situation.

He laid down deciding the answer would come to him while watching what he could of the sky as the day turned into night. After a couple of minutes of calmly watching his eye lids began to droop before he finally gave in and let sleep overtake him.

Naruto's Dream

It was was his first observation upon opening his eyes. The next was that it felt like he laying down in water. He took a moment to look around and realized it wasn't dark and that he was just looking up at the seemingly never ending ceiling. He was actually in some type of sewer that had weird pipes running along the sides. There were big and small ones, red and blue respectively. He frowned, the place felt vaguely familiar but he just couldn't place it. He kept frowning as he got up and looked around with a more analytical eye. The place didn't actually have any lights, it just was light.

'What is the place and why does it feel familiar?' Naruto thought before shouting out to see if anyone was there. His voice echoed for a little before he received an echo of a growl from behind him. His frowned deepened when he heard it. It felt so familiar and yet he couldn't place it.

He debated for a moment whether he should find where the growl came from for a moment before the choice was taken from him. Without any warning Naruto was pulled to where he heard the sound come from. It wasn't a pleasant experience for the redhead. It had felt like a roller coaster ride, if that ride didn't care for your safety by hitting every corner available to it and going far beyond a safe speed.

When the pull stopped Naruto splashed head first into the water on the floor and groaned. Why did weird things always happen to him? He groaned and got up, being flung into walls hurt apparently. After he was back on his feet, he decided to take a look around at the place he had been deposited. It only took him a couple of seconds to figure out why he was brought there and why it seemed familiar. He was standing in front of what looks like a jail cell that had the mysterious red pipes from earlier entering it. He thought nothing of the pipes though and focused on the giant golden bars that seemed to stretch forever into the black abyss known as the ceiling. The only thing that seemed to hold the two halves of the bars together was a simple piece of paper that said seal on it.

He was in front of the Kyuubi's cage. He had been there before, but not for a long time and because of that he couldn't help but wonder what brought him there and why the cage looked empty. There were no giant, red eyes nor was there the normal background noise of the Kyuubi's slow, steady breathes. No, there was nothing except for black, much like the ceiling.

He moved toward the cage and peered inside. The light only went in about 3 feet before it just stopped, something that made no sense really. There really wasn't much to look at outside of the black, how did the Kyuubi do it all the time? 'Maybe the dark is more of a curtain.' He thought, 'and there is more behind it!' He quickly got excited as his imagination ran wild with all the things that could be behind there that could keep the giant demon fox entertained. Giving the. Age another quick look to make sure the Kyuubi wasn't, he darted in.

As he past the bars and entered the darkness he missed the red eyes that opened on the far side of the cage. 'So my warden has finally come back,' the chakra construct thought before it's gave a malicious smirk, 'and he walked into my domain.'

Naruto was stumbling around in the black as he was slowly realizing that all the beast did was sleep all day. 'Motherfucker,' he thought,'now I have to find my way out of this abyss.'

As he started to retrace his steps to the best of his ability in the dark place, he immediately ran into something soft and fuzzy.

Wait, what in a cage of a giant demon fox could have something this soft and fuzzy?

Naruto froze. That would mean that the Kyuubi was in front of him. That this probably isn't a dream. That he let his logic fail him at the worst possible time. He summed it all up in one word.

"Fuck"

He jumped back only to find himself in a small circle of light. He looked around frantically while moving towards the center of the circle. His heart was beating a million miles a minute. He couldn't believe the situation he had gotten himself into. 'I had fallen asleep, how'd I get into my mindscape?!'

'There.' He thought turning around just to see something slink back into the darkness. He backed up a little more and ended up going past the center of the circle before his back hit something soft and a warm breeze started hitting him, almost like it was breathing. He gulped and turned around just to see the Kyuubi's malicious grin and glowing red eyes.

"So the warden has come to see his prisoner for once." The Kyuubi spoke before his smile seemed to become even more malicious. "How thoughtful."

Naruto did the only thing any sane human would have done after seeing the sight of such a smile on the great beast.

He fainted.