DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO, JUST MY ORIGINAL CONCEPTS (when they show up) AND IF I SEE YOU USIN' EM' IM A' GONNA COME FIND YOU AN' SMASH YA' KNEE IN! YOU HEAR ME!

(how's that for a disclaimer? Maybe I should include a medical one should anyone cross me and the law becomes involved)

'never alone'

CHAPTER 2……ok…more like 1 and 1/2

Sitting up and wiping the sleep from his eyes, Uzumaki Naruto awoke to the world. Looking around, he found himself in what appeared to be a long, dark corridor that had, to his dismay, seemingly horrible plumbing. That reasoning of course coming from the fact that our young hero was sitting in no less than a foot of water and was now sopping wet. Naturally, of course, Naruto voiced his disress. " NANI? WHAT THE HELL? WHERE AM I? HOW THE HELL DID I GET HERE!"

Abruptly standing up and putting himself on guard Naruto prepared himself for the worse. After remaining tense for a few moments he calmed down and took the time to examine himself. After a once over, Naruto noticed that all of his wounds were healed. ' I guess that funny light thing worked again.' sigh ' That's the only time the really bad wounds heal this fast. I wish I knew what the hell caused it. Maybe it could help me with some other things. Maybe, even… it could help me become stronger?' Naruto paused to think about it.

'I was thinking about it before, maybe I DO have a bloodlimit and I just don't know how to use it. I mean, It's not like anyone would tell me about it and I doubt they'd want me to know about it if it made me stronger..afterall it's harder to beat someone if he ycna put up a fight…' Naruto contemplated the past occurrences with the red aura for a moment and then came back to the matter of his surroundings. 'Oh well, that's for later. I gotta find out where I am…AND how to get the hell back… to…….home.' Thinking of returning to his home, Naruto couldn't help but recall the events of the night before and the realization of the sad fact that ,for all intents and purposes, he no longer had a home… His anger began to surface; he could still vividly recall what had happened…

Still hiding behind his cover of assorted pieces of trash, Naruto stared out at the mob, acutely aware of his predicament. ' Oh man, what am I going to do! ..if..if they find me.. they….they'll kill me! They just won't stop at the normal stuff. They're for REAL this time! Oh man, oh man, oh man, this isn't happening, this isn't happening, this isn't happening…'.

A shell-shocked Naruto continued his mantra of self-denial while the throng scoured his apartment complex. Naruto only broke out of his mental block after hearing the breaking of glass. Once more, Naruto gathered his strength and peered out through his single hole to see what had happened only to have his heart broken once again. The only birthday gift he had ever received, a ramen bowl given by the old man hokage, lay shattered on top of the pile of debris that once made up his few earthly possessions. He wanted to cry out, to yell, to shriek, to ask WHY but Naruto bit his tongue and stayed silent.

Having swallowed his outrage and anguish knowing it would be the end of him, he continued to look on as slowly everything he had ever owned ended up in the pile. His clothes, his few books and scrolls, his bed, his curtains, literally everything... He figured that he could at least rummage through what was left once everything settled down but his hopes were crushed when an irate villager with a torch approached the pile and set it aflame. Shocked by the sheer animosity of the villagers he entered a sort of emotional shock. 'Well' Naruto mused to himself, 'I guess at least tonight I won't be cold…Still, it's going to suck having to clean up the house. Heh heh heh. It's going to be painful sleeping on the floor too. Maybe I'll…'.

Naruto trailed off in his thoughts as his eyes widened in horror. Spurred on by the sight of the bonfire, the villagers had decided to take the initiative and erase all signs of his existence…by burning the entire complex down. Too shocked to even think , naruto slowly closed his eye hole and leaned back against a dumpster. Considering his security, he realized that in all scenarios his best option was to stay still until things died down…way down. He was close to where they thought he would eventually return one way or another and he knew he wouldn't be able to outrun them. 'the old man..' he thought ' he was always able to find me no matter what…I…I just.. I.just have to wait till he finds me. ..He...he can fix this. He...he always can…I ...just ... I..just have to wait for him to find me..'. Exhausted and tired from the strain of the day's events, Naruto slipped off into sleep, but not before he noticed the familiar wisps of red beginning to evelop his body…

'yeah' Naruto thought , ' Well I still have to find out where the hell I am and how to get out of here. By now, maybe Ji-san is back…' A spike of rage coursed through him,' Goddamn, villagers! I oughta go and burn THEIR houses down!' Realizing his thoughts were clouded by anger, Naruto calmed himself and made his declaration to the open air. "No…no revenge …is…not the answer. Ji-san has taught me that much! If I am to become Hokage and PROVE to these BASTARDS that I'm not some monster I have to move beyond this. I won't let them turn me into a monster. I AM UZUMAKI NARUTO DAMN IT, THE FUTURE HOKAGE, AND I AM ABOVE THIS!"

Heaving slightly from having shouted his declaration to the world… and at the same time emptying his lungs of all air, Naruto decided to go ahead and see just was down at end of the hallway. Afterall, he mused, it's not like they don't know I'm here… at least not now anyways. He scratched the back of his head. 'Yeah'…' Let's go!'. With that, he put one foot in front of the other and made his way down the hall.

Looking around, Naruto realized that wherever he was, it definitely sucked. 'Man, I hope this isn't a dungeon or something… hell…probably is. Those sick shits!'Naruto took a moment to stop and catch him self. 'Whoops, I gotta stop that. Ji-san got on to me about cursing like that all the time.' Grumbles to him self 'If it was anyone else I'd tell em' to…well…. To do stuff...probably to themselves… or a dog .' Snickers 'Oh well, I gotta stop… But seriously! They probably want to torture me some more before they end it all… Then again, now that they have me in here…wherever the hell this place is… they might just try to keep me alive and torture me all the time… To hell with that! I'll find a way to end it MYSELF before I let that happen to me!'

Naruto continued his mental rambling with the thoughts on his current whereabouts and future getting progressively worse. He began to tire from his trek and began looking for a semi-dry place. He was starting to contemplate the idea of crawling up into the pipes above him or to the side when he came across a large open dry raised area with horizontal bars going from the floor to the ceiling. Inspecting the bars he saw what appeared to be the gate that could allow him through. Noticing a piece of paper that seemed to be just out of his reach he moved to read it. Inspecting it, he discovered that it read 'SEAL' . 'I wonder what in the hell that means? Oh well, I'm tired, I think I'll rest here a bit before I plan my next move.' Turning around, Naruto sat down and braced his back against the gate. Naruto enjoyed being able to sit down and said as much to no one in particular, not expecting a response. "Wow, it feels good being able to sit down after that damn walk, it took forever to get here."

" Yes, it did. I was beginning to wonder if you'd ever make it…"

Hello to anyone reading this fic. Thanks for the support so far. I appreciate the comments and I'll try to address a comment or two.

Naruto is not going to be evil in this fic nor is he planning to destroy Konoha. He has stated that he's goingto become Hokage and damn it, Uzumaki NAruto never goes back on his word.

Uh…sorry, that was the only question that really came up?

Well, I guess that about does it for this chapter. Sorry if it's taking too long for you guys to even get to the good stuff. I'm just trying to be descriptive. Perhaps I'm a little too wordy? Well, oh god, just wait till we get to the battle scenes neh? I've got most of the plot outlined and a slew of technique, training, and character interaction ideas. I'm most proud of the original concepts I've come up with. You'll see a couple few of them (the most important ones at least) come up in the next few chapter. Right now I've got major problems with technique/skill translations so if my translation comes of jittery ( as in absolutely deplorable) let me know how to fix it. Thanks again for any comments or any insults for that matter, in fact, if you can, please do insult me. I like to collect them and use them on the other really bad fics I read here and there. Ha ha ha….ha ha ha…ok…moment over. See ya