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Kyubbi's thoughts

Naruto's thoughts

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Ch.7

Why does my body feel so terrible and why is this bed so hard I know it was a cheap mattress when we bought it but god it feels like I'm lying on cold stones here. Maybe I'm just sick if I am I'm definitely not going to school or work today.

Kyubbi starts to shiver

Naruto must of taken the cover during the night he such a wild sleeper

Kyubbi reaches over to where Naruto usually is but his hand doesn't touch anything but air until it falls and hits a hard surface

I didn't fall off the bed at night did I?

Not feeling like opening his eyes just yet Kyubbi starts to feel around feeling nothing related to his room or his bed except for cold hard stone?

Where on earth am I? I know I'm not still asleep.

Kyubbi starts to open his heavy eyelids

The all he can see at first is blurriness but after a awhile his eyesight sharpens and he sees a flickering dim torch light above him giving him just enough light so he could tell he was definitely sleeping on a floor, but not the old worn wood paneling in his room but a hard cold cobble stone floor.

Da Fuck?

Hoping he was just tired Kyubbi tries to sit up which was a horrible mistake because once he does all the pain of his throbbing headache and tidal wave of sickness in his stomach hit him like a brick wall. After heaving up the last bit of his stomach onto the floor beside him all Kyubbi could think was

How in the hell did I end up like this and where the hell am I exactly. Breathe Kyubbi breathe deep breathes. Now try and remember something about the last time you were conscious.

Kyubbi closes his eyes and rubs his temples trying to clear the fog from his head and relieve some of the pain.

Ramen… I made some ramen for me and Naruto…Naruto!

Kyubbi starts to look around for his brother but the dim light making it hard to see much far away. Suddenly Kyubbi sees a curled up mass on his far right side trying to squint Kyubbi still can't tell if it's Naruto or not. So not yet ready to stand up Kyubbi gets on his hands and knees to crawl over to the bundle. As he moves though he hears a chain rattle, looking down Kyubbi sees that around his ankle is a heavy thick chain.

What in the

Before Kyubbi could inspect the chain on his ankle the mass starts to move and a shock of blond catches Kyubbi attention.

"Naruto…Naruto…NARUTO!"

The bundle rolls over and groans

"Not yet Kyubbi ten more minutes, and pass over the cover."

Kyubbi couldn't help the relief he felt knowing his brother is there, not safe and surely sound, but at least he wasn't alone.

"Stupid wake up we're not at home."

Naruto groans dramatically but soon starts to get up like his brother said but as he sits up all he wants to do is lie back down.

"Da hell, am I dying? Kyubbi I'm dying so leave me alone and let me die lying down."

Kyubbi rolls his eyes at Naruto

"Stupid, you're not dying."

"Then why do I feel like shit it's like that time I fell out of that tree and landed on my back but a thousand times worse. I feel as though I deserve a day in bed."

Kyubbi asks the obvious question

"What bed?"

"What do you mean 'what bed'?"

"Naruto look around we're so not at home."

Naruto starts to actually look at his surroundings. Taking in the fact he is definitely not lying down at home. After looking around he asks Kyubbi the obvious question.

"So…Where exactly are we?"

"I have no idea and before you ask no obviously I wouldn't know how we got here either."

"Naruto what do you remember from the last time you were awake?"

"I don't remember much but I do remember something about roasted marshmallows…?"

Kyubbi starts to feel hopeless. Neither he nor Naruto have any idea on how they ended up chained to somebodies dungeon wall. Kyubbi starts to rake his hand through his head since he just realized that a part of it is feeling really itchy.

Kyubbi pauses as his hands bump something smooth with fur like a dog's ear. When it moves Kyubbi starts to freak out.

Breathe Kyubbi breathe there is no way that you suddenly grown animal ears on the top of your head

Naruto senses his brother troubles

"Kyubbi what's wrong and why are you breathing like that?"

"Naruto do I have ears on my head!"

Kyubbi hates how his voice cracked at the end like he was freaking out.

"Duh, of course you do every one has ears but I wouldn't call them on your head exactly... maybe on the sides of your face sure... Wait why are talking about ears anyway?"

Kyubbi is almost stunned by his brother's stupid answer.

"Of course I have ears on the side of my face. I can hear you can't I? But that's not what I'm asking you now come over towards the light and tell me if I have ears on the 'top' of my head."

"Sheesh no need for the attitude today we seem to have enough problems as it is without you having a hissy fit every minute."

"I do not hissy fits I merely express my anger freely rather than have it bottled up inside of me."

"Tomato potato it all means the same. I just don't feel like being called stupid ten billion times a day. And why are you so now interested on the possibility that you have 'ears on the top of your head'?"

"Narutooooo." Kyubbi groans trying to be patient with his brother. "Please will just humor me for a moment and check?"

"Ugh fine."

Chains start to rattle as Naruto gets on his hands and knees to crawl towards his brother when he feels the brush of something over the back of his legs

"What was that?"

"What was what and why did you stop?"

"No reason I thought I felt something with fur brush my leg."

"Eww don't think about it. It might have been a mouse or some other type of animal down here crawling around."

Naruto rolls his eyes and continues to crawl slowly towards his brother warily now of the creatures in the dark corners

"Thanks for the image Kyubbi I feel so much reassurance now."

"Great now hurry over here before the furry creature comes ba- Omg."

Naruto looks up from the ground as he comes into the dim light near his brother

"What on earth are you so surpris- Omg."

Both brothers stop mid-sentence and look at each other hoping it's the effects of the dim light and shadows that make it appear that they both sprouted ears and fluffy fox tails

Naruto reaches out towards Kyubbi's head and feels the ears on top of his brothers head soft like velvet or soft cassimere.

"Kyubbi in answer to your former question yes you do have ears on top of your head."

Naruto sees something move behind Kyubbi and stretches his neck to see what it is and gasp when he does

"And apparently a tail to match."

Kyubbi comes out of his shocked state enough to reach his hand out and tug on Naruto's own pair of ears

"Look at yourself you got em too."

"Ouch that really hurt...Oh my god what happened to us."

Naruto starts to hyperventilate

"Calm down Naruto calm down."

It's hard to calm down a person when you're freaking out yourself

"Calm down? CALM DOWN? How can I calm down when I have animal ears sticking out of my head and a tail out my back, chained to a wall in god knows where by god knows who, with critters in the corners, and I have no memory of the night before except for ROASTED MARSHMALLOWS?... I think I'm gonna throw up."

As Naruto breaths heavily Kyubbi looks at his brother lying on the ground having a mental breakdown and all he could think of was how somewhat the ears and tail suited his brother

"Are you done now Naruto?"

Naruto gives a meek and muffled "yes" with his arm covering his head on the ground

"Great. Now get up before any of the actual creatures in the corner come out."

Kyubbi looked at his brother and to tell the truth he looked terrible with dirty almost matted hair from sleeping on the ground and red ringed eyes with crust still in them and snotty nose from his breakdown just know, and Kyubbi could assume he was in the same state

"We're alive and are together aren't we? Things could be so worse."

Naruto sniffled and wiped his nose on his dirty shirt

"I don't see how things could get much worse."

"Well...We could've be kidnapped by Telly Tubbies and forced to eat Tubby custard until we actually turned into one forced to sing their songs for all eternity. Wooo scary huh?"

Naruto couldn't help but laugh at his brother

"You're so stupid Kyubbi."

"What I'm serious. Who wants to live that sad life popping in and out of tunnels with a vocabulary that consisted of 'Et Ow's and praying to a baby sun face god stuck in a endless field of grass and flowers."

Both the boys start laughing hysterically trying hard not to think about their all too real current situation.

After a while the boys turn silent and Naruto looks over to his brother and asks the question they both were thinking

"What are we going do Kyubbi?"

Kyubbi answers truthfully

"I don't know Naruto. I just don't know."

They fall into another lapse of calm silence listening to the drops of water falling from somewhere and the silent skitter of tiny paws scraping across the floor

Kyubbi starts to hum a lullaby their mom use to sing when they were scared

Naruto starts to sing along with Kyubbi remembering the warm embrace of their mother chasing all their monsters away

"Don't be scared of the thunder boys"

"We're not afraid." Both young Kyubbi and Naruto reply standing in their mother's room clutching each other's hand

A sudden crack of lighting and boom of thunder cause the power to go out and both boys ran and hid under their mother's blanket

Their mother looked affectionately at the two small forms shaking under her cover

"Oh Naru... Kyu... Where have my two courageous little pups disappeared to? Well I guess I'll just have to tickle these two pillows."

The boys started laughing so much they had tears in their eyes.

"We're here we're here."
"Haha stop mom haha."

The boys lay with exhaustion after the tickle war until another flash of lightning and rumble of thunder had them cowering under the covers again

Their mother gently moved the covers from their faces

"You know what would make you guys feel better?"

Both boys are intrigued and ask

"What?"

"A song."

Both Kyubbi and Naruto look skeptically at their mom

"A song?"

"Not just any song but a magical song that is sure to chase any fears away and keep your loved ones close to your heart."

The sparkle in the boys eyes told that they believed and trusted all the words their mom said

"Teach us teach us!"

Their mother laughed at their eagerness

"Alright alright I'll show you it goes like this."

She gathered the boys close to her so they could lay down and as her eyes closed her sweet voice soprano voice rang high and above the thundering storm soothing Naruto and Kyubbi

"

Quando sei lontana
sogno all'orizzonte
e mancan le parole,
e io si lo so
che sei con me, con me,
tu mia luna tu sei qui con me,
mio sole tu sei qui con me,
con me, con me, con me.

Time to say goodbye. - Con te partirò.
Paesi che non ho mai
veduto e vissuto con te,
adesso sì li vivrò.
Con te partirò
su navi per mari
che, io lo so,
no, no, non esistono più,"

Silent tears streaked down their mothers face Kyubbi and Naruto affectionately wipe them from her eyes

"What's wrong mom I thought this was a happy song."

She looks affectionately at her little boys

"It is Naruto. It is."

"Then why are you crying?"

"Because I'm happy Kyubbi."

The boys look confused.

"You boys will understand when you get older. Now will you sing with me? This time in English."

As confused the boys were they sang with their mother forgetting about the thunder and lightning outside.

"When you are far away
I dream of the horizon
and words fail,
and, yes, I know
that you are with me;
you, my moon, are here with me,
my sun, you are here with me
with me, with me, with me.

Time to say goodbye. - I'll go with you
to countries I never
saw and shared with you,
now, yes, I shall experience them.
I'll go with you
on ships across seas
which, I know,
exist no no longer,

Suddenly a part of the wall opposite of the brothers starts to move with a blinding light and two figures standing in the apparent open doorway. Naruto and Kyubbi eyes try to adjust to the sudden intrusion when one of the figures starts to speak in an accent like that of snake frightening, slick, untrustworthy, and dripping with venom.

"Well isn't this lovely my two new pups can even sing so heavenly. I can't wait to see the other ways you two can please me."

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