Crimson Fox

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

The trees flew fast and frequent as she ran. Her golden tail flew behind and bid farewell to the forest as she neared the end. There was something peculiar about this flash of gold as she stopped, turned around once to find her direction and flew off again. As suddenly as she had started, she stopped just at the end of the forest. Golden eyes flicked from one end of the village below to another. Then, slowly, she began her descent to the village. Her color started to fade as the dawn came nearer. As her padded feet carried her swiftly but silently through the grass and undergrowth, her delicate ears perked forward at the sound of a small whistle that was low but sweet. She turned her head and angled her body toward the direction of the whistle and looked for the source. Her head slowly moved back and forth, then stopped when she caught glimpse of gold. She turned her head back and found herself staring at eyes as gold as her own. She walk carefully over to the caller and bent to lay down. She did so and the caller bent over and lightly scratched her muzzle.

" Thank you for coming and helping me my friend."

The golden eyes bent up in the corners suggesting that the caller was smiling.

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Naruto Uzumaki sat straight up in bed, his breath short and his heart beating at an erratic pace. He wiped the cold sweat off his forehead; he had just awoken from another one of those haunting dreams. He got up and walk over to his short, mahogany dresser and peered at himself in the mirror.

"Not much to look at," He said to himself.

Naruto took off his walrus night cap and set it down on the dresser. He then raised a hand and lightly ruffled his hair to rid it of the bed head effect. Next, he ran into the bathroom where he found the clothes that he had so carefully placed there the night before. He quickly changed and ran down the stairs for breakfast.

On his way down, Naruto noticed a flash of purple. He stopped. Then turned around and walked back to the windowsill he had just passed. Peering at it, he suddenly burst out, "You finally bloomed!"

Naruto carefully picked up a small plant, richly colored green, which had a tiny purple and white bloom on it. He beamed down at the little flower and then, as carefully as he could, set it back on the windowsill. He jumped the rest of the stairs and charged into the kitchen to cook his breakfast.

In The Kitchen

Naruto pulled out a large foam cup from one of the many cabinets lining the wall and set it on the table in the middle of the room. He went back to the same wall and chose the third cabinet to the right and the second one down and opened it. He withdrew a large tea pot. After filling it two quarters of the way full with cold water, he set it on the stove and turned on the heat. As he waited for the water to boil, he walked over to a drawer and pulled it open. He withdrew from there a small, oblong , orange pouch. He walk over to the table and unzipped the pouch. From there came two chopsticks decorated with the ANBU symbol and sky blue in color.

These Naruto set carefully beside the foam cup which he flipped off the lid to reveal Roman strands and a packet of flavor. Removing the flavor packet, Naruto walked over to his now boiling water and turned off the heat. He carried the water over to his cup and slowly poured it in.

"There. Now back to that dream."

Naruto said this with an exasperated tone. He picked up the chopsticks and began to stir the ramen.

"I wonder why I have that same dream of the girl covered by the leaves with that dog. All I can ever see of her is her eyes and her outline. And the dog is big. I wonder what kind of dog it is, and who she is. I've never met someone with long curly hair."

Just as he finished thinking this, he heard a knock at the door and an excited voice.

" Naruto-kun, Naruto-kun they're here!"

Recognizing the voice he jumped up unbelieving air and slammed open the door only to be trampled by a very excited pink haired female.

"Naruto-kun, the new ninja are here. You know, the ones from the village of wind."

" That's cool Sakura-san. Who are they?"

" Donknow, but they look cool."

" If you don't know who they are then how can you think they are cool!"

" Quit asking dumb questions Naruto. Lets go!"

Then pulling the now sulking Naruto after her, the female ran to the new house.

At the new house

Two men and a female were working on unloading things from a large cart with two brown horses, one male and one female, latched on.

" Keep going in until you reach the stairs." The female called in.

Meanwhile a wheel of dust was flying through the street toward the house. Seeing and hearing this a certain Uchiha stepped out of the undergrowthwhere he had been watching the transfer from and right in front of the path of the wheel. A few seconds later the wheel ceased to exist as Sakura stopped and walked calmly over.

"How are things going?"

"Okay from what I can tell."

Sasuke turned back around and continued to watch the move. A little later the move was complete and the horses road off, leaving the girl waving. She then turned toward them. Naruto gasped. Her eyes were a light yellow.

"Now I remember when those dreams started! It was when the Hokage told us that a ninja from the village of wind was coming here to live."

Naruto took another look. She had started to walk over to them. He noticed the long, dirty blonde, curly hair.Naruto felt his heart leap from his chest. He turned his head around to take another glimpse when,

"Hi."