Disclaimer: I do not own naruto.

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Beep, beep, beep.

All the alarm clocks in the base rang in unison. Orochimaru programmed all the alarm clocks to ring at the exact same time, so all his pawns would get up and prepare together. From his burrow in the couch in the common room, narutos eyes shown with black rings from insomnia. He had never been very good at sleeping, even when he was in prison.

He guessed it came from the four years that he was asleep. He was born pre-mature when his father sealed the Kyuubi into his stomach. unknown to the doctors, there was a small tear in his mothers womb. she bled out before anyone suspected anything. It came as a surprise to everyone when he did not wake up. The doctors said he needed the years of rest for his body to catch up.

"Naruto-kun." a surprised voice reached his ears. "What are you doing up?" it asked. He turned around to Orochimaru looking at him, holding a cup of coffee. He stared at the brown substance for a good minute before he answered.

"I don't sleep very well…err…at all." Orochimaru casually took a sip of the coffee.

"Hmm…."

"…"

"…"

"…"

"…"

The silence was starting to get to him but he didn't say anything. Orochimaru seemed lost in though. But then again so was he.

That's how Tayuya found them. Naruto his hat absent, sitting on the couch staring at a wall, and Orochimaru standing and staring at his coffee. She glanced at them but said not a word, and strolled to the main kitchen. She rifled through the cupboards looking for anything edible. Finally she found a loaf of bread. She checked the date.

March, 23, 09.

It was not stale. She moved over to the overly big refrigerator, not before stubbing her toe on the door, and searched the drawers. There she found a carton of eggs and a jar of jam. She turned on the stove, and pulled out a toaster from a cabinet. She shoved three pieces of bread in the toaster, and put a frying pan on the stove. After she was done she ventured out into the common room, just to uncover….nothing.

Naruto was still staring at a wall and Orochimaru was still staring at his cup of coffee. She glared and walked back into the kitchen.

'So uninteresting.'

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"Hey Kyuubi- ACK!." naruto yelled after materializing in his mind. Red hot whips of sound bombarded his ears. He covered his ears with his cloth covered hands and screamed.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?"

Kyuubi looked up from its fetal position. Its ears were drooped against its head in agony.

"I don't know, they showed up when you got out of that cell, and do you know how much this hurts? alot!"

Naruto glared. "Hey! This hurts my ears too!" he yelled over the load voices, his eyes closed. He could feel a headache forming within his mind.

Kyuubi snorted sending naruto skywards. "Silly mortal, your pathetic brain could not even fathom the sensitivities that come from being a demon."

Naruto rolled his eyes. He had to put up with the 'mightier than you' speeches that came with demons, for twelve long years. Were all demons so stuck up and snobbish.

"Just stop the voices!" he yelled. His developing headache was starting to get on his nerves. Kyuubi's eyes narrowed.

"I don't know how too, this is your mind, you should know how to fix it!" it barked.

Naruto glanced around the wide sewer they were in, until he found a small door. He ventured over to it and tried to open it. There was a huge lock wrapped around the door handle. He pulled and pulled on it for about two minutes, but the lock was resilient and did not give in. A vain appeared on his forehead. 'fuck it' he though and a blast of Kyuubi's chakra broke the lock in half.

The chains slide off and fell to the ground, creating a load 'thwack' to sound all around the room. Kyuubi watched with anticipation as naruto painfully slow opened the door. The doors hinges creaked with every movement.

Naruto had opened the door halfway when it slammed open. A gush of steaming hot air hit naruto face, creating a burning sensation. A dozen more booming voices flew into the big area. The wind spun around in the center of the room creating a twister. Paper appeared and gathered in the twister. All of the voices chorused in an ear splitting shriek that sounded all over he room. Naruto was blown back onto the bars of Kyuubis cage. He gripped his ears tighter. The shriek was getting louder each second.

Kyuubi was alarmed. His ears flattened on his furry head. "Look at what you've done!" it screamed out in agony. Poor Kyuubi.

Naruto eyelids lowered in a sleepy position. He couldn't believe himself, he was sleepy when a thousand faceless beings were crying out to him. Suddenly his eyes snapped open.

It all came back to him, the memories, the anger, and the shame.

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Tayuya entered the unknown dark abyss that was Kidomarus room. Various magazines and manga covered the ground, and clothes were strum around the desktops. Drawers hung open ready to fall on someone's foot. She crept over to Kidomarus bed, careful not to step on any food wrappers. He lay backwards on his bed. his limbs were twisted up all over his bed. She stood next to his sleeping form, a bucket of ice cold water hung loosely off her hands.

The red head smirked. He deserved this for the incident from yesterday. She carefully held the bucket up over him, and slowly tipped it forward. But something willed her to just dump it on him. So she did.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" echoed all over the base. Tayuya grinned devilishly from the kitchen. Her clone sure was a naughty one.

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"Naruto, I want to help you. Just let me have knife." an old man wearing red and white regal robes asked. His voice held compassion, but he did not trust him. He backed up until his back hit the bare wall.

"No! go away." he yelled in fear. He held a knife tightly with his small hands, pointed at the old man. Naruto realized that the old man was the hokage. The one who imprisoned him for no real reason. The small naruto gripped the knife tighter with anger. His eyes shown with tears.

"Naruto please," the hokage said wearily. "Put the knife down, I can help you." his hand reached out in a friendly manner. Naruto looked at the hand in fear. "No! I don't want to go!" he yelped, and charged. The knife met flesh when naruto stabbed the hokage in the thigh. The old man yelped in shock. His arms struck out in a desperate attempt to capture naruto. The boy zoomed out of the white room, and into the busy streets. The hokage called out to him, but received no answer.

"Naruto wait!"

The memory faded away. Naruto eyes widened. His head swiveled around franticly. He was back on the couch in the base. Orochimaru stood in front of him staring at a cup of coffee as if he was frozen. Naruto thought, for a moment, that the world had stopped when entered his mind. But his thought was rejected when he herd scuffling from the kitchen.

A wave of nausea hit him. His stomach lurched, and so did his whole body. Orochimaru woke up from his staring contest with his coffee, and noticed naruto clamp a hand over his mouth.

"Are you okay?" the sanin asked. Naruto shoke his head, and rushed out of the room. Orochimaru shrugged and turned to enter the kitchen.

"Man…that must be one huge case of explosive diarrhea." he muttered shaking his head.

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"HUUUURRRGGGG" was the sound coming from behind the public bathroom door. Kidomaru stopped walking in front of the door. "Hah..nice going man." he laughed and ran away. He thought that was jirobou in there hurling up his lunch. Kidomaru challenged the orange haired friend to a hot dog eating contest yesterday.

Naruto sighed in contempt, and slide down the floor by the sink. He hated throwing up, but then again was there anybody that enjoyed to puke. He laughed, thinking of some random guy throwing up in a toilet and smiling about it.

He sighed again. All laughter lost from his eyes. That memory, he didn't remember doing any of that as a kid. Maybe he was imprisoned for a real valid reason. He decided he'd ask Kyuubi about it later. He hoisted himself up slowly and looked in the mirror above the sink.

He stared unemotionally at his own eyes. The ocean blue shining brightly even if dimmed a little by his demeanor. His hair was left uncombed. And his shirt hung on his small frame. His eyes wandered to the name tag pinned on his shirt.

Hello, my name is naruto. It read. The tag brought back bad memories. But he quickly blocked them, and tried to think of good times. 'Konoha' he thought bitterly. 'you will burn' he smiled happily brushed his teeth with a new toothbrush, and skipped all the way to the kitchen.

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Naruto skipped into the kitchen. Orochimaru turned his gaze away from the newspaper and asked.

"Are you okay naruto. You looked really sick this morning."

"Uh…yah, I'm okay now." he seemed bewildered that someone cared that he was sick. He sat down and poured himself a bowl of lucky charms. he picked at the cereal, eating only the marshmallows. He felt a weird sensation on his face. He stopped eating and looked up to find that Kidomaru was staring at him. The spider summoner's eyes squinted.

"So you where the one barfing in the bathroom."

"Okay that was fuckin creepy." said Tayuya looking up from her eggs.

"What? I just wanted to know!" he defended.

Naruto raised an eyebrow "Yah.. I heard your comment."

Kidomaru looked alarmed. "I thought it was jirobou in the bathroom. We had a hot dog eaten' contest the day before ya know." he said in the defense position once again. By now naruto was done eating his lucky charms.

"Contest?" he looked up.

Kidomaru smiled mischievously. "Yah, me and jirobou used to compete in a lot of things. But now its like he doesn't enjoy it anymore." he frown, lost in thought.

"No one else want to play." he sadly said. A smile bloomed on naruto's face. His whisker marks stretched across his cheeks.

"I'll play. What kind of games."

Kidomarus eyes were wide open in shock. No one ever wanted to play. His smile was getting bigger by the second. "Well we try to push our limits, like how long we can run, or fear challenges."

Naruto smirked. "I bet I can win the first challenge you throw at me." Kidomaru also smirked.

"Oh really? I bet you can't." the smugness in his voice was thick. Tayuya looked back and forth between the two. She could tell both were very confident in there own skills. She stuffed the last piece of bread in her mouth.

"I'm in on this too." they broke apart there glare to glance at her. "Really." "Wow Tayuya you usually never bet on anything." Kidomaru laughed. "But that's probably because you always lose!" he finished. A tick mark was forming on her forehead.

"Fine if you think that then I bet on him." she pointed at naruto. A heated glare was pointed at Kidomaru.

Naruto smiled and struck a pose. "Don't worry tayu-chan, I wont lose." a fist was brought down on his head courtesy of a fuming red head. "Don't call me that you butt crack!" Kidomaru fell down laughing at the blonds misfortune. naruto climbed onto a chair, and rested his throbbing head.

"What's the first challenge." he asked after getting Kidomaru to stop laughing. Kidomaru stroked his imaginary beard. The pineapple headed boy reminded naruto of someone from his past but he couldn't remember who. The spider boys voice broke into naruto dream like state.

"Ummm…what about weight lifting, where we see who can lift the most weight."

"Yah that sounds about right." Naruto answered.

"Weight lifting challenge it is" Tayuya got out of her chair and walked to the revolving doors of the kitchen. She looked back. "Come on, I know this place that has tons of different sized boulders." naruto and Kidomaru exchanged a glance and got up and followed her to the unknown location.

Orochimaru looked up from his paper. This challenges they faced was just the thing he could use to test Narutos skills on. He smirked like a snake that had set its sights on its juicy pray.

'perfect'

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"Boooooooooooommm!" 'squawk, squawk, squawk"

"GOD DAMMIT!!" Kidomaru yelled to the heavens above. He had lost there first challenge. One little misplaced hand and the twelve ton bolder he was holding up, came tumbling down, and almost crushed his foot. The birds in the area flew into the sky creating a shadowy atmosphere. Naruto threw down his own twelve bolder and jumped around like a lunatic.

"YES, YES! Oh yah! Who's the king!" he skipped over to Kidomarus wilting body. "I think a certain someone owes another certain someone twenty bucks." Kidomaru looked up defeated. Searched his pockets for the money and gingerly gave it to naruto.

Tayuya smirked up in the tree she was resting on. She jumped down from it and trotted over to the sad Kidomaru, and held out her hand.

"Pay up loser." Kidomaru was almost in tears by then. He gave her the money, and fell to the ground letting out a sigh of defeat. He had lost forty bucks in five minutes.

"Lets go back to base before some dumb konoha fucks come, and try to capture us." the red head of the group insisted. Naruto nodded happily, as he hefted Kidomaru up on to his shoulders. He grabbed a tootsie pop out of his linty pocket, and popped it into his mouth. The group started there track back to the base, with naruto humming a song that sounded eerily similar to the McDonalds commercials.

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Nearby in a bush covered by a high level genjutsu, Kabutos eyes gleamed behind his glasses. No one had noticed ,but him, that the bolder naruto was holding up had cut the boys arm leaving a slice mark. Kabuto watched in awe when the mark disappeared leaving nothing. No scab or scar.

He bellowed out a happy laugh, and wrote something down on a clip board.

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Okay I know there no McDonalds in ninja land but I couldn't help myself and put it in anyway. Hopefully I update my other stories but I'm not sure. I eat only the marshmallows of the lucky charms. I try not to, but i fail every time. Its such a waste of cereal.

Review please! I know you want to...