Okay, well I'm hoping all of you are still liking my story! If theres anything you think needs help with, or you want to chuck some ideas at me....-image of getting pelted with ideas- well maybe not chuck, I'm not good with pain, but some ideas thrown out there -points to dot on the horizon- in that basket, and I'll pick them up and see if I can't fit some of them into the story. Also, THIS IS IMPORTANT!! I'm thinking that there MAY be some CHARACTER DEATH, now. Not as in this chapter, but later on in the story!!! But for some reason, I'm thinking sequel now....odd isn't it? The story hasn't even gotten halfway through yet and I'm already thinking of A sequel?! But now that I've gotten done with my rant and my important authors note, I'll get on with the story.

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When Naruto had gone to bed that night, he had come across the being in his dreams. But this time, he was following it toward the end of the Hall of Memories.

"What are you?" He asked in monotone.

The being now looked like the Naruto that Sasuke had seen when he had tried to pull Naruto out of his thoughts. Only instead of being solid, he was transparent like a spirit.

"I am many things. I am a father comforting his child. I am a Shinobi that has killed. I am the eagle that soars the skies. I am the fish in the deepest ocean." he said with an air of mystery. "But what I am does not matter. It is you who we shall focus on."

They reached the end of the hallway when the Naruto turned to the spirit and spoke, "Why is it you're here? Why are you helping me?"

The spirit only put his hand on the door that appeared when Naruto asked this.

"Because," he said and started to push on the door, "You called for me."

Naruto was then pushed into the doorway and he landed on a small cloud.

"You are to find out who you really are, Naruto. And when you do, come find me. I shall either be the light that guides you, or the darkness that swallows you whole." the spirit yelled at him.

The door promptly shut and dissipated.

Naruto gave the space where the door was a sour look. "I didn't even get a name." He muttered to himself.

"You know, talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity." an irritably cheery voice said.

Naruto looked at the cause of the voice and saw the only thing that scared him in his younger years.

A pink spider was floating in the air next to his cloud. But this thing was possibly bigger then Akamaru was as a puppy.

"What the hell?!" he shouted and backed away from the arachnid. "I hate spiders!"

The spider looked at itself and then smacked itself on the head. "Oh yeah, sorry about that give me a second." it said before a cloud of smoke encased it. "How's this form?" it asked.

Instead of a spider, there was a pink fox that had purple around its eyes like a mask.

Naruto calmed at the sight of the fox, "Hn." he said before nodding his approval. "So what are you?"

The fox only looked at him with a smile, "I'm one of your emotions!" it said.

"Which one?"

The grin on its face got darker. "I'm Vengeance. I'm a part of the hatred department! I deal with revenge if you couldn't tell."

Naruto looked down and saw what looked to be a small hidden valley. He then jumped from his cloud and found that it wasn't very high up.

The pink fox had followed him and when Naruto looked toward the tree line, he saw it.

In one large oak tree were many different animals. They looked as though they were trying to free themselves but were unable to do so.

"I see you've found the rest of them." Vengeance said.

"Vengeance, how the hell did you get out there?!" an orange cat called from the tree.

"How should I know? I just jumped out of the branch I was in. But enough of that. This is Naruto-sama." Vengeance said to them. "How about all of you introduce yourselves?"

The cat just gave him an envious look. "I'm Envy. It's not fair, why does Vengeance get out of the tree and I don't?" it said.

A large gray bird just looked at the cat, "Oh come on Envy! It's not that bad being in this tree! Look on the bright side, we've got each other!" it looked like it smiled before it turned to Naruto, "I'm Happiness! Nice to finally meet my host!"

Just then a wolf stood at the base of the tree. It's fur was black and it had piercing yellow eyes, "I think it would be best if you ignored some of them. They don't really pay much attention to what they do most of the time." it said and trotted toward Naruto. Upon getting to his feet, the wolf bowed and laid down on its stomach. "I am Loyalty, Naruto-Sama. Pleased to finally meet you."

"Hey Loyalty. How's those fleas going?" Vengeance asked.

"I believe you already know how I get rid of them correct? If so, then you do not need to ask." Loyalty responded.

"Hey, Vengeance! How's life going for ya?" a deep blue horse with an orange tail called from behind another tree.

"I'm fine, thank you. This is Retaliation. He's also in the hatred department. He does more then I do cause I work with the more dramatic things. Things like someone killing your best friend or lover or something of that sort." Vengeance explained.

"I'm the one that makes you want to pull pranks on people, since thats really the only thing I work with as Retaliation. But I do get help from Creativity with most of the pranks." he snorted.

Naruto looked around him at all of the animals. 'This has got to be the weirdest thing I've ever seen.' he thought.

"Naruto." a voice called.

'Is that Itachi-kun?' As soon as the voice called, Naruto was looking up at the stoic Uchiha.

"You were groaning in your sleep. Loudly." Itachi said sounding slightly irritated.

Truth is, hearing the blond groan in his sleep had worried his inner 'Angel' causing him to go check on him. When he got there, his inner 'Devil' had burst into perverted giggles at the sight. There was Naruto sleeping curled up into a ball on his side, looking rather much like the fox that was sealed inside him. Itachi moved to the side of the bed and knelt down beside him. A small smile graced his lips and he moved a lock of hair out of the boys face. He kissed the boys forehead and felt him stir slightly. Immediately standing up and putting his emotionless facade back into place, he called to him, leaving the two in this position.

"You're point?" Naruto asked with an eyebrow raised.

"You woke me up."

"That's nice. I'm going back to bed now." he then turned away from Itachi.

Itachi could've sworn that he was asleep before he was completely on his stomach. He swore he saw a few shivers pass through Naruto.

'It is pretty cold in here.' he thought. Steeling his resolve, he grabbed the extra blanket out of the chest at the end of the bed. He threw it on Naruto, before climbing in beside him.

Naruto feeling the warmth as he slept, unconsciously rolled over next to Itachi, placing his back against the ravens chest.

Itachi gave a smirk at this and wrapped his arms around Naruto's waist, pulling him close.

Inside of Naruto's mind, Kyuubi was grinning like a madman. "Just a little bit more and Naruto will be closer to having a mate! Now, how to get them to mate is the hard part."

When morning came, Naruto would be in for a large surprise.

Not including the one currently rubbing up against his ass.

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Well, I couldn't resist adding the little bit of fluff! If any of you have questions, don't hesitate to ask! One person had the most random question ever: "What was Itachi cooking?" I've already given you your answer so you know what I think it was. I believe you also asked, "What is the being that keeps talking in riddles? When will Naru make a move on Itachi?" I've already answered those, but if any of you would like the answer that I gave MadMonki just send me a PM asking! ^-^

Now that I think of it, 'Hall of Memories' reminds me of Kingdom Hearts 2 Chain of Memories.....that was totally unintentional for them to sound alike....