"The Ante"

"Alright, child... this is what it boils down to. You can find him but you have to give a small piece of your body to me to do it." He saw Naruto about to object. and quickly intervened. "Shut up child or this bet will not be any fun. Your ante is to give me... an eye. With that, you will be able to find your oh so 'precious' brother that you managed to lose so quickly. My ante is to enhance that eyeso that it will allow you a direct connection to that fox... and to me. Him through his eyesight... and me through a portion of my chakra... meager to myself but to you it would be.... Rather substantial. Remember brat. When it dies, your body belongs to me! Naruto looked right back into the fox's evil eyes. "And when Amane lives... you... will grant me One favor of my choosing."

"WHAT?!? FOOLISH BRAT, DO YOU THINK I WOULD LEAVE THAT MUCH ROOM FOR YOU TO—"Naruto interrupted him speaking just as loudly as the angered demon."I wagered my life AND my village. It's time for you to wake up and see Everything that I wagered ya Damn Fox." Kyuubi growled in fury, knowing that what he said was true, but not thinking the boy would have realized it. "Very well Brat, You won't make it anyway! The fox roared triumphantly as Naruto fell to his knees in the real world.

Clutching his left eye in pain as a searing and stabbing sensation flooded his nerves, he clawed his fingers into the dirt to help deal with the pain. The thin lines on the side of his face became a darker, more apparent red (NOT growing, just becoming more pronounced). He opened his altered eye and immediately recognized where the kit was. More importantly, he saw the dark figure with chakra wrapping around him... approaching the young kit with a kunai in hand. "SHIT!" Naruto crouched low to the ground and didn't even bother taking to the trees, because it would only slow him down. He felt the fox's chakra flowing into his feet, pushing him faster and faster, imagining to himself later on that this might be what Lee felt like when he ran circles around Gaara. Trees flew into and past his field of vision... animals could only watch as they saw a human go screaming past them. 'Faster... quicker...He's almost there! I have to go FASTER!!' "HAHAHAHA, better hurry child... it seems you might lose yet another member of your family," the fox mocked at Naruto. 'You heard him legs...get going... or we will have lost a precious someone... go...Go... WHAT'S HOLDING ME BACK?!?

Suddenly as if his whole body were screaming in desperation, he began going faster than he had ever gone... and even faster than he had ever seen... his eyes hadn't been used to that speed and tree limbs, thick and thin, strong and weak tried to hold him back. His body didn't even care as he barreled through all of them, snapping them easily and not slowing down. He left a trail that later the people of the town would dub 'the Path of the Demon'.

He broke out of the last set of trees and into the final clearing, the kunai leaving the hand of the figure that suddenly saw the newcomer. He watched the blonde boy block the path as kunai imbedded itself deep into his shoulder. His Blood tried to slowly escape and soak into his jacket. The spirals of chakra slowly ebbed away and disappeared from the dark haired boy. His Sharingen stopped spinning and the last thought the surviving Uchiha had was 'This is Naruto?? This is dead last?' before a palm landed on his chest and threw him several yards back, and imprinted him into a tree, knocking him to the ground unconscious.

Naruto cradled Amane close to his chest, leaving the dagger in but holding the kit so that it didn't even move. He sped towards the gate and shouted to the guards through the wall "MY NAME IS UZUMAKI NARUTO! I AM TO BECOME THE NEXT HOKAGE!! OPEN THIS GATE NOW, OR I SWEAR TO YOU KONOHA WILL FALL UPON A WRATH THAT HAS BEEN CAGED AWAY AND HIDDEN FOR 13 YEARS!!" (not sure on the year number, but it was describing the times of Kyuubi's assaults upon Konoha) 'Baa-san will kill me for this.' The gate opened enough for two people to pass through, one guard attempted to block the entryway, but before the other could fill in the gap, all that remained in front of them was dust, as Naruto had already flown past them, looking for a particular house.

Three intersections later, he arrived in front of the door and pushed on it, cracking it off from the hinges. A large dog looked at Naruto and growled, until it saw Naruto's left eye... and hid in the corner cringing. A smaller dog upstairs began barking and the ninjas guarding the gate approached him from behind with weapons drawn as the Mother, Father, and Son came down the stairs ready to kill the intruder. Kiba was the first to notice the strong scent of a fox, and just dropped his weapon upon seeing the eye. Naruto walked right up to Kiba's parents and stated without turning around. "This fox Must live... or you will have more than just nightmares about this eye." The guards kept approaching closer from behind, extremely cautiously until Naruto turned his head to face them. They looked into his fiery colored, slitted eye and dared not approach another step.

Author's notes: Okay, that's all you get for at LEAST this week. MWUAHAHA. So whatcha think? Does it rock? Does it suck a big one? Leave your thoughts peepz. And if they're negative thoughts...  then please at least make them constructive.