White Haired Wolven here, or you can just call me Wolvie.

Disclaimer: You all know the drill; nothing related to Naruto is mine

"Naruto" – Speech
'Naruto' – Thought
Naruto – Sound

I just couldn't finish like that, so I did this because I just love happy endings.

Drip, drip

'Huh?' Naruto thought as he slowly blinked, trying to wash away his blurred vision 'Aren't I dead?'

Drip, drip

'Kami that's annoying' Naruto tried to get up, but as he moved he suddenly found himself in shallow water, bobbing just above the concrete below "Oh please, anywhere but there"

"Look's like luck isn't on your side brat" A low and menacing voice echoed through the dimly lit, flooded concrete corridors.

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me" Naruto yelled, his voice reverberating across the walls "Even after all I've done, my ultimate sacrifice, and I still didn't get rid of you"

"Fat chance brat, I'm here to stay" The voice chuckled

"Ah go to hell Kyuubi" Naruto suggested defiantly

Buried within the shadows, a pair of giant eyes opened, revealing two crimson, cat-like pupils. As the lights flickered slightly, the shadows retreated back to show a giant cage, the bars shut tight with a tiny but powerful seal acting as a lock. Inside this prison dwelled the mighty demon fox, his nine tails flapping lazily as the giant sat, looking at Naruto with an amused expression.

"Aren't we already?"

"What?" Naruto said "But, if you're still here, then I didn't die"

Kyuubi snickered "Wrong again you idiot, you're quiet dead, as well as that little Hyuuga that you care so much about"

That information hit Naruto like a fist, a wave of guilt washed over him.

"Hinata" He sighed

"Yes, that's the one" Kyuubi said "A shame you'll never see her again"

"Grr, you bastard" Naruto growled "I wish you could come out of that cage so I could kick your arse personally"

"You're wish is my command" Kyuubi laughed as he swiped at the bars.

"Tch, you've tried that before, baka" Naruto stated

Before another word could be exchanged, the seal on the bars slowly ignited, burning up as it was devoured. When the last of the seal turned to ash, the bars now had thin, red lines forming on them, and as less than a second had passed, the bars fell into pieces.

"Uh oh" Naruto said with a blank expression.

"Oh yes" Kyuubi said as he took his first step out.

As the red paw touched the flooded area, steam started spewing out under him, and with each massive step he took, more and more steam was created. Taking this as a very, very bad situation, Naruto drew a kunai from his pouch and stepped into a defensive position. Closer and closer the massive fox came, each footstep shaking the surrounding area, causing the lights to flicker violently. Like a crimson wave, the Kyuubi pounced at Naruto, his massive paw catching the black-clothed child and slamming him into a wall.

"Ba-Bastard fox" Naruto coughed, his head the only part of his body not being crushed by the gigantic appendage.

"Heh, I have to admit boy" Kyuubi smiled, adding more pressure "You've made my stay somewhat amusing, I love a good ending"

"It was all a game?" Naruto asked "My torment was all just a cheap show for you?"

Instead of replying, Kyuubi turned away, for some reason he couldn't look the boy in the eyes. Relaxing his hold, the demon withdrew his paw, sending the boy sliding down the wall and into what remained of the water.

"What?" Naruto gasped, completely bewildered.

"I never said that kid" Kyuubi said, sadness in his voice.

"What the hell has gotten into you?" Naruto asked.

Curling into a ball and crossing his front paws, Kyuubi faced Naruto and sighed, the exhaled air almost blowing the young shinobi over.

"Watching you, through your eyes" Kyuubi began, his voice reeking of power and concern "Those eyes, not even I could ignore something like that"

"What?" Naruto was astonished at the amount of compassion this demon was showing.

"Those eyes were meant for me, not for you child. I may be a demon, but there are some evils only man is capable of" The fox demon went on "You were caught in the cross-fire kit, if it means anything, I'm sorry for what happened to you"

"Has being here completely screwed your head?" Naruto asked, "You're a demon, demons don't have compassion, demons don't give a-"

"ENOUGH CHILD" The Kyuubi growled, silencing the boy "I may be a demon, I may have tried to destroy you're village just because I relish in the power, but saying I don't feel. To your eyes I may be a monster, things change, being caged like an animal made me change"

"Kyuubi?" Naruto said softly, the first time calling him by his given name

"Don't feel too bad kid" The demon sighed, "I probably deserved hell, I shouldn't have tried to break free"

"So you did try and break the seal, you're the reason we're both down here" Naruto yelled, pent up emotions breaking out.

"Indeed" Kyuubi said, "For the first time since my imprisonment, I felt like I was going to go completely insane if I didn't get out, I'm sorry it resulted in this though"

Naruto was silent. The conversation couldn't have gone any further, things had been explained, the Kyuubi apologized for his sins (This was a great shock to Naruto), so there really wasn't anything else to stay. For a while, the two sat in silence.

"Hey Kyuubi" Naruto finally spoke.

"Hmm?" The might fox grunted, his eye's looking up at the small shinobi.

"What happens now?" Naruto asked.

"I don't know kit" The monster sighed.

"I just wished I could have properly said goodbye" Naruto said sadly.

Kyuubi felt even more guilty.

"Hey brat" The red fox said.

"Yeah?" Naruto answered.

"We may be trapped here, but there is something I can do for you" The demon said, watching as the boy's face rose in excitement.

"Really, what is it?" Naruto asked excitedly.

"You want to see your friends?" The Kyuubi began "I can give you a gift to let you see them".

"Truly? Thank you Kyuubi-sama" Naruto thanked the massive fox politely.

"Then receive my gift, EYES OF THE SHADOW FOX!" With his eye's glowing brightly, the kitsune demon shot two red energy waves into Naruto's own eyes.

Naruto screamed out in pain as the beams hit, cramming a truck-load of pain into his skull. After a few of the longest seconds he ever experienced, Naruto's head finnaly cleared, and as he opened his eyes, he found himself not in the dark room he was once in, but in the overcast streets of Konoha.

'What in the world?' Naruto thought to himself.

'You're not really here kit, merely an astral form' Kyuubi's voice echoed in his head 'Explore all you want, and then call me when you want to return'.

Not needing another word, Naruto set off.

'I wonder how Iruka-sensei's doing?' Naruto thought.

Arriving at the Konoha acadamy, Naruto proceeded to enter the familiar class-room. Looking around, he saw the newest group of ninja students, Konahamaru and his gang amongst them. Turning to face his sensei, the blond shinobi was startled to see a steady flow of tears streaming from the scarred chuunin's eyes.

"Iruka-sensai?" Moegi, the girl in Konahamaru's gang raised her hand "Why are you crying?"

"I'm sorry class" Iruka began, trying desperately to stem the flow of tears "It's just the death of a very close friend has affected me so much"

"That Naruto guy?" A student said aloud "But my daddy said that it was a good thing that guy was gone, he said that he was an evil kid"

Before Naruto could shout out, the sound of breaking wood could be heard. The cut and bruising fist of Iruka was clearly visible through his desk.

"THAT'S ENOUGH" Iruka shouted, scaring the boy greatly "NO ONE SHALL EVER SPEAK LIKE THAT AGAIN, DO YOU HEAR ME!"

The class was silent and shivering in fear.

Looking at the cowering child, Iruka sighed as he slowly pulled his hand out of the desk "Classed dismissed" he said softly.

As most of the kids filed very quickly past the spectral Naruto and out of the class room, a sombre Konohamaru took one last glance at his teacher before leaving himself.

"Iruka-sensai" Naruto whispered as he watched the grown ninja collapse on his desk and cry.

Leaving the crying man, Naruto vacated the acadamy and proceeded to visit the remain team seven members. Thinking that they would be at the hospital, the blue eyed shinobi was surprised to find the room Sasuke once inhabited clean and tidy, and obviously empty of patients.

'Oh well, I'll find them later' Naruto decided as he set off to see his other friends.

With each one he visited, the watched from the side-lines the same reactions from his friends. Kakashi was training madly, his hand having multiple chakra burns from the chidori technique.

"How strong must I become before the people I care for cease to die?" Naruto heard from the grey-eyed jounin before he launched his sixth chidori at the massive boulder.

The same was with Neji, Naruto realised, watching as the byakugan user almost fell to the floor from exhaustion.

"Naruto, Hinata" The branch family member whispered "To go so far and pay the ultimate price for the people you care about, that's what I want to feel" and with that, he threw himself into another complex Jyuuken kata.

As Naruto moved on, he witnessed first-hand the negative effects his death had caused. Shikamaru had locked himself in his room, desperately trying to figure out Hinata's connection with Naruto's death.

"There's got to be a connection somewhere" The tired, sweaty and dirty boy sighed frustrated, scrunching up a page of theories and tossing it into the large pile of already scrunched papers.

Kiba had sunk into a depression, all he did was sit at the same swing he and Naruto used to play on with the others all day, a sombre Akamaru at his master's feet. Chouji had also sunken into a depression, downright ignoring any food that was offered to him. Shino seemed the same as Neji and Kakashi, throwing himself into viscious combat with several bug-bunshins. Ino herself was greif stricken at her friend's deaths, she tended the flowers like usual, but the difference was that she was destroying them, finding their destruction a way to numb the sadness. Ten Ten, a close friend of Neji and in turn Hinata, had all but given up on being a shinobi, absent-mindedly throwing a kunai at a target, only to hear it clutter to the ground, obviously missing it's mark, but the brown-haired girl only gave a small sigh and left the training area, her weapons still lying on the ground. Lee was also greatly sad, the greif actually made him break him his 'my-rules' training.

"What's the use, my hard work couldn't save a friend" Lee sighed as he left the beaten log.

'Kami this is painful' Naruto thought as tears of his own fell to the ground.

The blind shinobi continued seeing all his friends. His next stop was the hokage Tsunade and his old teacher Jiraiya.

Walking slowly to the main office building, Naruto passed a small bar and heard a small 'hic' from a woman patron. Instantly realizing it was Tsunade, Naruto rushed in.

After two seconds, he wished he hadn't.

There she was, the leader of Konoha and proclaimed strongest ninja, drinking her ass off, she looked so pitiful.

"That bloody kid" Tsunade slurred "Caused me nothing but trouble, OH GODS HOW I MISS HIM"

"There there Tsunade" Jiraiya said as his old friend wailed into his chest "Naruto's death is hard, I know that, but life goes on"

"WHAT'S THE FREAKING POINT?" The blond woman wailed "NAWAKI, DAN, THEY ALL DIE, AND IT'S MY FAULT, THAT BLOODY NECKLACE, I SHOULD HAVE NEVER GIVEN IT TO NARUTO"

"Come now, you don't mean that" Jairaiya cooed, rubbing the woman's arms soothingly "I think you've just had too much to drink"

"DAMMIT I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'VE HAD ENOUGH!" Tsunade yelled as she slammed her fist on the bar counter, breaking it in an explosion of wood chips.

Naruto couldn't take any more, he had to leave before he went mad with grief.

'Just Sakura-chan and Sasuke to go' Naruto thought.

Knowing Sasuke, he would probably be the same place Naruto had left this mortal coil. As he exited the familiar gate, Naruto eyed the main headline on the Konoha Newspaper. Apparently his death had affected not only the hidden leaf village, but the sand as well. As he read on, Naruto found that after hearing about his death, Gaara had lost all the hope Naruto had given him, sending the sand shinobi over the edge, and allowing the sand badger to be free, proceeded to demolish the entire sand village, before turning on himself and ending his own life.

Making it to the massive waterfall as fast as he could, Naruto pushed a few bushes away to reveal his two team-mates, Sakura looking sad, while Sasuke holding his usual cold expression.

"This is where he killed himself?" Sakura asked.

A the emotionless face of Sasuke nodded.

"To go that far, Naruto was a true hero"

Naruto's mood brightened a small bit from that comment.

"He was a fool" Sasuke responded, kicking a pebble off the cliff.

"What?" Naruto and Sakura said simultaneously, though Sasuke couldn't here Naruto.

"If he wanted to die, he should have done it in combat, against me" Sasuke clenched his fists so much that the wounds on them opened and freshed blowed flowed between his knuckles.

"But Sasuke, Naruto, he" Sakura couldn't form a complete sentence.

"I'm leaving" Sasuke said, turning away from the cliff.

"Alright, I'll see you in Konoha later" Sakura said.

"No, I'm leaving for good" Sasuke responded.

"What?" Sakura was shocked.

"I must avenge my clan, Itachi must die, and only one man can grant me the power I need" Sasuke stated, continuing to walk off.

"No, I'm not going to let you go" Sakura said, stepping infront of the dark boy.

"Move" Sasuke growled.

"No, we just lost Naruto, I'm not going to let you leave too, I don't want to be all alo-" Sakura's tear argument was cut off as Sasuke rammed a fist into her stomach, effectively sending her to the ground unconscious.

"You're a fool, and you will die sooner or later from your emotions" Sasuke said before continuing to walk off.

Witnessing all this, Naruto ran up to Sasuke and threw a punch at him, only for it to phase through him.

"Enough" Naruto cried as he slumped to the ground "I've seen enough, just take me back"

For a while, Naruto could only see darkness, but as the dark cleared, he opened his eyes to see the Kyuubi in front of him.

"I saw it all kit" Kyuubi said.

"It's horrible" Naruto whimpered.

"I agree" Kyuubi said, standing up "And because of that I hoped I hadn't had to use this technique"

"Huh?" Naruto asked.

"It will end my life, neigh my entire existence, from this time and all time, but if done right, will set all things right" Kyuubi answered

Naruto was speechless.

"You do not need to worry kit, you will vanish as well, but your life will not end, merely restart, but in a time where I do not exist" The red demon continued.

"Kyuubi" Naruto sniffled, tears dotting the ground below him "You would destroy yourself for me"

"Don't get sentimental kid" Kyuubi smiled "You're ruining my reputation"

Naruto continued crying, but looked up and smiled at the massive fox.

Fanning his nine-tails out, Kyuubi began to focus all the chakra he possessed. The amount of energy being generated by the massive fox shook the very foundations of the room, and soon after, the red flames of chakra glowed against the fox's red fur.

"This is it kid" Kyuubi said over the booming chakra "I'd like to say I hope we'd meet again, but we both know that isn't going to happen" and with that, a massive explosion of light hit naruto.

"Kyuubi" Naruto thought as his vision became nothing but red "For once in my life, I'm glad you were sealed inside me"


"What a beautiful boy" The mid-wife known as Tsunade said as she held up the wailing baby "But by Kami, what a pair of lungs"

The father of the boy just laughed "Just like his old man".

"I'm glad you find it funny" The blond woman in the bed said "You're going to be hearing that at 2 am for the next year".

The two ladies laughed as the blue-eyed man's head sunk in defeat.

"How's things going in here" An aging grey maned man asked as he entered the room "What's that ungodly noise".

"Your god child's screaming" The new father laughed.

"God child huh?" The old man thought as a small trail of blood dribbled out from his nose "I need a new apprentice to help me with my newest book, to distract those bathing beauties while I jot down notes".

The death glares from both mother and mid-wife sent shivers down his spine "Okay okay, I was just joking, sheesh".

"I just got a great idea" The father said as he snapped his fingers "Why don't we set him up later with Hiashi's girl, she'll be born soon".

"Hokage or not" The new mother warned as she glared at her husband "You will not be making marital arrangements after 2 minutes after birth".

"Okay okay" The Yondaime laughed, sweat drops forming on his forehead.

"Um kids, as much as I hate to break up this lovely argument, we still have one thing to work out" Tsunade said as she handed the now quiet boy back to his mother "A name for the little tyke".

Both mother and father exchanged knowing smiles as they both turned to the female sennin.

"Naruto".

What can I say, I just love a happy ending. I'm sure you're all just dying to review……. Well, what are you waiting for, get cracking - Wolvie.