Chapter 7: We

A/N: Hello my peeps! Sorry, I took so long but here is the new chapter! I really wish I could speed things up already, but I kind of need to explain some things before getting to the actual plot

So on with the story!

I do not own Naruto

"You are not going to be Nameless anymore," I say. "Your name is going to be Wind from now and on." I happily state.

I see that the rising sun not only shows her imperfections, but it also lightens up her eyes and smile as we both know that it made her day. Just like she made mine.

She made my day in the night, and I made her day in the sun. Yeah, we will be good partners.

"Thank you," we repeat these two magic words that have the ability to transfer our true feelings over and over again.

"Wind," she slowly says her name as if tasting it. "I like it!"

And I know she does, as I look at her brilliant smile. Her smile is so wide and bright that shows her yellowish teeth but that does not overshadow her true happiness that she is feeling right now. This probably is her first given name…ever.

"Yeah, it totally suits you!" And it seriously those, I mean, she is like the wind…she is all over the place! This is the most fitting name I have ever heard on a person, other than Sakura and her pink hair, but still. Although now I wonder where I got my name from, well, it's not like if it's very common. In fact, I have never heard the name Naruto before. Where did it come from?

"Yeah!" Wind screams close to my ear startling me and bringing me back to reality. She jumps up and throws her hands up in the air, while screaming again, "Wind!" And just like if it was called, a strong gust of wind hit us pretty hard. I'm sure if I were alive, it could've hurt…bad.

Everything around us goes crazy. The trees lean from side to side as if they were being climbed by a bunch of hippos. Her tattered and bloody piece of cloth moves like if it was hanging on a stick, which makes me notice more of her terrible health. Our hair shuffles crazily, but especially Wind's wild, curly hair covering her head completely with a mass of crazy hair. Because of her insane frizzy hair, I can barely manage to witness her sad smile. Then I suddenly remember what she said about the wind. She has the ability to hear what almost nobody hears. She hears what the wind brings. My curiosity heightens as I try to imagine having that ability. What would it feel like to hear the cry of help from others? To hear their happy laughter or their painful cries, and for an instance a cold chilling-sensation runs all over me as I think about it. That might not be the best ability, as I realize to what that can imply. Just by looking at her grim smile and the crease in between her brows, her wild hair, her piece of cloth ruffling erratically makes me hesitate on that wish. It would be fascinating but at the same time disturbing in so many ways to not only hear your own troubling thoughts but somebody else's too. Which unfortunately reminds me of my previous troubling thoughts.

The Kyuubi.

My mind begins to darken just by thinking about It. I do not wish to disturb Wind's interaction with the unknown, but the Kyuubi is a matter that should be attended immediately.

I walk towards her and put my hand on her anorexic shoulder startling her. "We need to talk things through," I say seriously.

Her wide eyes stare at mine and even though she doesn't say anything, I know she is excited and scared about this. "I know, but first things first," she starts saying as she walks down the hill towards our previous position near the creek. "Tell me about this Kyuu-bee…after we gather some food for the living." She says while running down the hill happily. And for a moment, I wish I could feel hunger once again.

After frying the fish she managed to catch, I begin telling her the few things I know about the Kyuubi. I tell her about the terrible day when the Kyuubi almost destroyed Konoha and the Fourth Hokage's decision. I tried my best to keep the Kyuubi's subject to just that, the Kyuubi. I don't want to replay the effects of the decisions from the previous two. Once I finished what I know, I realize that I know almost nothing about the Kyuubi. I mean, he is living inside of me, right? I should know more about it! Why can't I just get the answers? Ugh, this is so annoying.

"Ok, recap time!" Wind says after I finish my short explanation. "Sooo, this thing came to your village and destroyed almost half the people and place from your ex-Green-Village, right?" I nod dumbfounded at her silly name for Konoha. "Anndd, this powerful man sealed the thing inside you because the thing was too powerful to get killed, right?" I nod again. "Interesting," she says while rubbing her chin with her index and thumb like if she had a beard. "Although I gotta say that there is something fishy with this whole thing, but just can't put my pinky on it," Pinky? I thought it was 'finger'?

Anyway, I repeat in my head, since trying to follow Wind's thought process will only make me want to laugh instead of figuring this shit out. Unfortunately there is not much humor here. Whenever she says "the Thing" while referring to the Kyuubi, there is some sort of stirring going around inside of me. It's weird and it makes me feel slightly…dark?

"Is there any way you can talk to him?" her question interrupts my weird train of thoughts.

"Umm… I don't know? Or could I? I mean I don't even know how it looks like!" Ugh, I'm starting to get a dead-headache.

"Well," she starts with a curious look. "If It lives inside of you, and it was able to partially come out yesterday –" I shudder as I remember when she told me about the Kyuubi's escapade, " –then there should be a way for you to communicate with him, right?" She half-screamed.

"Yeah, of course," Realization hits me once again. "Of course," I say again stupidly, "before the attack, It was saying things that I knew were not my thoughts. This could be him!"

"Really? What could've happened for It–" another weird sensation in my stomach "–to communicate with you? What were you thinking before it happened, do you know?"

"Umm…let's see…we were talking, wait no! We weren't…I was thinking, yeah!" I excitedly look at her, but her pursed lips and squinted eyes with a look saying 'are you kidding me?' appears on her face.

"Really?" she says.

"Hey don't blame!" I reply indignantly. "I have never been good at remembering things!"

"Ok, Ok…just keep going" she sighs.

"Fine! Ok, I was kind of sad about something and then I heard laughter. It reminded me of the people from where I come from, which made me so mad and very sad at the same time. It also made me feel lonely once again."

Silence followed my statement and I wish Wind could say something. I don't really trust my voice right now.

"Then that is it," she whispers seriously. "Your emotions are the key." I look at her confused. But her statement does not sound so farfetched. I mean it could be true. Ever since I met her, I have felt various courses of emotions that I have not felt before …ever. I used to feel sad and lonely, while now I feel happy, overjoyed, irritated, extremely mad, content, tired, shy, and other weird things thanks to my deadness. This could've triggered something inside of me and caused the Kyuubi to speak to me and to eventually come out!

"Let's try something," Wind says. For some reason her serious tone of voice frightens me a little.

"What?"

"Well first: the key is your emotions, right? Especially if they are strong, right?" I nod again. "Then why don't we do something that can cause you to feel something strong?"

"And how are we going to do that?" I ask a little skeptical…and scared.

"I don't know, what bothers you the most?" Such an innocent question with such a simple but complicated answer that now I have to answer.

"I –I well, you know–" great, now I stutter. Why did I let her come to this? This is a kind of touchy subject to me, and I feel awkward when someone asks about me…about my feelings. No on as ever asked me that. No one has ever cared about me to even talk to me nicely. This is the first time I have ever had a full conversation with someone! I have always been alone that I stopped caring, but now Wind comes and ask me 'what bothers me'? That's crazy. But she is asking me, right? So what does bother me?

"I hate when people look at me," I start off timidly. "I hate when people talk behind my back," I pause thinking about more things that bother me, until a sudden chill runs down my back and I begin to understand more things that bother me. "I hate when they laugh at me. I hate when they glare at me. I hate when they 'accidently' hit me. I hate when they gather around and discuss about me while I'm right in front of them. I hate when they begin to beat me. I hate when they don't let me in their stores. I hate when they chase after me. I hate when they break me. I hate the hospitals because they never attend to me. I hate the stores. I hate people! I hate the council! I hate the hospital! I HATE everyone! I HATE EVERYTHING!" My chest heaves rapidly. A hot feeling sensations runs all through my body making me feel warm. Why do they have to hate me? Why were they so cruel to me? I did nothing. My cheeks have this warm-feeling and I already know why that is. I'm mad, but I'm also crying…again. Shit, why do I always have to cry in front of her? I stop my rant and look at the ground with shame. Now she is going to hate me like everyone else. Like those bastards from Konoha.

Fine, like if I care! But I know deep inside I do care. I do care what she thinks about me.

"Why?" 'Why' she asks? How could she?

"Why?" I yell with rage. "Why? I don't know maybe because they don't like me! Because they think I'm some horrible monster that can attack them again, but I didn't do it!" I know that I'm screaming, but who cares? "They hate me! Can't you see?" I ask. I stare at her face in disbelief but it is expressionless for the first time, which freaking infuriates me even more. "Don't cha see? I'm a monster! I destroyed them once and they think I will destroy them again."

My chest moves up and down, I start to breathe really fast even if I don't need it, and my breathing comes out raspy and loud. At the pit of my stomach, I begin to feel a weird swirling sensation like if my stomach was reaping apart, my muscles start to tense and tremble.

"They hate me," I said in a small voice. "They will always hate, like the monster inside of me. Everybody hates me." Then I brake. I sob and cry.

Yes!

I swerve my face towards Wind making my neck crack in the process. She flinched by my movement and stares at me curiously. Her eyes turn frantic as I don't say anything, then frightful wide eyes begin to stare at me.

"Naruto," she steps back and puts herself in a stance.

"Wind, what's g –" then I feel it. The warmth. It is not a nice warm-feeling, but a dark one. It's the Kyuubi! My mind starts to become blurry and my head feels like if it weighs more than usual. I hear Wind speak but cannot comprehend a single word she says. "wazsh haffeni?" I say, and then everything goes dark.

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I open my eyes and stare at a dark endless ceiling. The stifling warmth makes me want to gauge and my body appears to be submerged in a bubbling surface. This is definitely not the creek where I was with Wind. Wind? Where is she? Where am I? I look around but the red-ish darkness is everywhere. I stand up and –amazingly –it looks like if I were using chakra to walk on top of the water surface. Though ever since my deadness, I also found out that I could not use chakra anymore, so walking like this now is…strange. I turn my head from side to side, but nothing, until a dark chuckle makes my skin crawl in fear. There in front of me is an enormous gate with piece of paper in the middle. Red eyes appear behind the gate and chuckles once more.

"This really is a huge joke. How could the Fourth seal me in such an insignificant and weak boy? It's disgusting." The large thing behind the bars concludes.

"Hey!" I yell indignantly. How could he…?

"Listen you little boy," the thing says while rising from where he was. Without hiding, I can clearly see that this is The Kyuubi. His majestic height and his multiple tails –nine tails – make him more freighting than what I imagined. Why nobody ever told me that it was a fox? I always thought that it was some deformed monster with nine-tails, but not a fox? "Your poor insignificance to the others caused your annihilation. Fortunately enough for me, you are kept in this limbo which kept my existence alive as well as yours." His aggressive voice brought me back to the topic me and Wind were discussing.

"What do you know about it?" I ask determined to get an answer.

"Haha, I shall tell you once you take this seal off the gates," the Kyuubi chuckles darkly. There is something fishy about this. I may be dense but I know that it is not as simple as he makes it seem. "Hurry up gaki!" He growled. "I don't have time and I know you don't have time."

"Oh yeah? Then what's the hurry?"

"Just fucking rip it off," It growled again as he slammed his head to the gates with such force that the sound vibrated off the walls loudly scaring the shit out of me.

"Why?" I press again but with less confidence than before.

"Just take it away, so I can bite your head off!" he once again slammed his head to the gates adding but adding one of his tails this time.

"Ahhh! I knew there was a catch!" Oh yeah baby, I knew it. "Now, tell me what you know about this whole world thing."

"Don't make me lose my patience gaki," he sneered. After a long pause, he says; "You bastard, look around you. That stick you met knows much more than she lets on or perhaps she is too stupid to realize."

Stick? I think he is talking about Wind. "Wind?"

"You really are testing me my patience. You have already realized that she is able to see you and even touch you. Now the question is why."

"How do you know?"

He laughs demonically. "I am you and you are me." A bucket of icy water-feeling falls on me. I don't like those words. "Do not forget that. Like it or not, I have to be attached to you until I get free from this weak body of yours. Now leave me alone. The more I see you the more I get reminded about the bastard of your Yondaime Hokage."

"Wait! What else do you – "

"Leave my presence now," and he slammed himself towards me again, but the gate interfere by electrocuting him with some sort of blue chakra. My mind starts to feel all fuzzy and the Kyuubi's red eyes full of hatred begin to fade into the darkness and the chilling-sensation fades.

A/N: OMG, did anybody think about what happened to the Kyuubi? Oh well…

I know it took me while to update but guess what? I graduated on Friday! OMG I was freaking out …and now time to get another job T_T oh well, I guess that's destiny!

So please review and tell what you really think, even a smile could make me happy :)