Naruto woke up somewhere he'd never been, but was at the same time incredibly familiar. "What the..." he muttered to himself, standing up in the ankle high water at his feet. He followed a path he somehow knew to be his destination, as if it were always in his head.
Naruto stopped in front of a large set of bars. A rumbling voice, familiar to him, stopped the words about to escape his lips.
"Kit... It's good to truly meet you," the voice he'd heard for years in his head rang out from behind the bars. The large eyes of the Kyuubi no Yoko gazed out at boy. He wasn't sure what to expect, and it certainly wasn't for Naruto to run into the cage and hug the giant fox's face.
"Kurama! You're not just a voice in my head! I can sit down and talk to you, and, and, and..." Naruto couldn't help but sob into Kurama's fur.
Kurama wrapped one of his tails around the little human, his equivalent of a hug. "Thank you, kit..." he whispered softly. "Whenever you need my power, it is at your disposal. Whatever I can do to help you, all you need do is ask. After all, we're friends, right?" That caused Naruto to sob louder.
"Friends..."