Lionheart: Another chapter. This time, Kyuubi takes a much bigger part, as some of you may have guessed.

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Chapter 1

Kyuubi Intervenes! "I'm Not Ready To Die Yet"

"Ugh…where am I?"

"Wake up baka," spoke a familiar voice. Naruto opened his eyes and sat straight up taking in his surroundings. He was inside a black area, that seemed to stretch forever.

"About time you woke up, Naruto. Thought for a second you were 'dead.'

Naruto turned his head to see a familiar face smiling at him. Naruto nearly tackled him over in excitement.

"SASUKE, YOU'RE ALIVE!" Naruto jumped and hugged him, startling the Uchiha. "Get off me, baka," he shouted, trying to shake Naruto off. Naruto finally did, and let go, grinning at him.

"Anyway," started an irritated Sasuke, "I don't know if we're alive or not. There's nothing here but empty space, and I'm wondering if were like in some dead place or not." "D-d-dead place! Are there ghosts," asked Naruto who paled. Sasuke sighed, and slapped his hand to his forehead. "I doubt it," he said, annoyed.

"AND YOU'RE RIGHT," boomed a voice. Naruto and Sasuke turned about totally startled. Their hands instinctively went for their kunai, which they were glad to discover were still there. Their eyes fell upon a miniature version of the kyuubi which glared up at them. Naruto and Sasuke exchanged a look and broke out laughing, making the kyuubi growl menacingly. Sasuke soon stopped after, his face bright red. He wasn't supposed to laugh like that.

"Stop laughing…you know I still have so much energy to kill you pieces of trash ten times over." Naruto rolled on the floor in hysterics, "You're so…so…small…" he managed in between bouts of laughter. "Shut up brat, at least 'I' wasn't the one who got beat by some idiot ninja.

Naruto shut up instantly turning beet red. "Yeah, well, maybe if you let me use some more chakra maybe I wouldn't have gotten so tired so fast." "WHAT," screamed the kyuubi. "You know very well I gave you almost all the chakra I could spare." Naruto looked skeptical, but Sasuke stopped him from making a reply.

"Anyway, let's stop, this isn't doing us any good. Now, what are you doing here, kyuubi, and where exactly are we? I thought we were dead?" Naruto crossed his arms and looked away, but it was obvious he was interested as well. Kyuubi smiled before answering. "We are in kind of a space where time does not exist, and I'll explain that in a second. Now, about you guys dying, it's kind of like this…you're not dead." Both and Naruto's jaws dropped and their eyes nearly popped from their sockets. Kyuubi continued oblivious to all of this.

"No, I used up the energy I stored up knowing Naruto would lose to that guy, and used it to keep both of you alive. It's a special jutsu only I can do, but it used up the spare chakra I stored for thousands of years."

Naruto and Sasuke both stared at Kyuubi, their eyes full of confusion. "What are you talking about," asked Naruto stupidly. Sasuke sighed, "Baka." Kyuubi cursed at Naruto before continuing.

"Anyway, like I was saying this special jutsu keeps both of you alive, but the aftereffects of this jutsu is you have to start over with your life around the age of twelve. Roughly about when you guys passed that stupid exam and became what you mortals call 'Genin.'

Sasuke and Naruto exchanged another look then looked at Kyuubi. "Twelve years old," complained Naruto. "Damn, I need to kill Itachi all over again," whined Sasuke. Kyuubi twitched slightly, wishing to god he could kill them, "Hey, brats, you two should be glad you're not dead. And even if you're not, too bad. I'm not ready to die just yet, I still have to kill you, Naruto." Naruto laughed at this, "Hehe, good luck with that."

"So, will we retain are powers and techniques if we go back in time," asked Sasuke. Kyuubi looked uncomfortable. "Well about that…yes you will be able to retain your memories of this time and all your powers." "AWSOME," shouted Naruto punching the empty space. "Well…problem is you will not retain your bodies. You will need to train to rebuild your strengths and in theory relearn all your techniques. This is because you old bodies do not know these techniques. Basically, you have the knowledge of doing these techniques but you need to train your bodies up to it. Remember how long it took you to learn Rasengan, Naruto?"

Naruto nodded, frowning slightly. He could see the problem now.

"YOU MEAN I HAVE TO WORK HARD ALL OVER AGAIN!" Kyuubi was about to retort, but Naruto continued. "FINE…I'LL DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN AND BECOME HOKAGE. AND THIS TIME I WILL DEFINETELY MAKE SURE TO PROTECT EVERYONE." Naruto automatically adjusted his leaf village headband as he did every time he talked about become Hokage. Then, he flashed them a 'Gai' like smile, but Sasuke and Kyuubi paid that no attention. They were both impressed with Naruto's determination. "Baka," whispered Sasuke, though he felt the motivation to do the same. Kyuubi spoke soon after.

"Anyway, luckily for you, I will help you along the way first by teaching you new jutsus. I'll be able to communicate with both of you since I'm literally living off your chakra now due to the fact this jutsu used up all my energy like I said before. I will also link the three of us together so we can mentally talk to each other."

"I'll be connected to Naruto," repeated Sasuke unbelievingly, though he didn't mind all that much. (A/N: Don't worry this isn't yaoi.) "I have to be connected to Sasuke, aww crap," whined Naruto. "Yes," said kyuubi, who was beginning to get impatient. "And you will both be connected to me, which means if one of us dies we all die, so you will have to work together."

"Great," said Sasuke and Naruto simultaneously. They both looked up and instantly looked away, smiling slightly.

"So when do we get back," asked Naruto. Kyuubi appeared to think. "Well, we should be arriving soon." Sasuke nodded and sat to think about how his new life would be like. He would definitely avoid Orochimaru this time; now that he and Naruto knew how to train they could relearn their techniques. A whooping Naruto interrupted his thought process.

"Hey, Sasuke, this time we should be able to get those bells from Kakashi-Sensei." Sasuke looked up surprised then grinned imagining his sensei's face when Naruto and him took those bells. "HA," cried Kyuubi, "You guys will have to do a lot of training if you hope to do that. Remember you need to relearn your techniques and relearn how to move like you can now.

"Easy," said Sasuke. "I'll definitely train hard," shouted Naruto proudly. Kyuubi stared at the two somewhat impressed. "Hn, we'll see," he said with a smile. "Wait Kyuubi," said Sasuke looking up. Naruto stopped 'whooping' and looked towards them too. "What's wrong Sasuke," asked Naruto.

Kyuubi looked oddly at Sasuke. Was the boy going to say what he thought he was going to say? 'No he can't,' thought Kyuubi. Sasuke paused before continuing his question, "Can we tell anyone we know the future?"

Kyuubi sweat dropped, but quickly regained his composure. "Of course not, what do you think would happen if other people knew. They would probably panic and then the future might be terribly changed. Remember we're only trying to change a few things." To himself, Kyuubi thought 'And you call Naruto a baka.' Sasuke nodded, "I see." "Yeah, next time we face that guy we'll definitely win." Sasuke nodded.

"Geez, how long is this going to take, we've been sitting here for hours," said Sasuke. "I wanna see Sakura," whined Naruto. Kyuubi sweat dropped and nearly sighed imagining what Naruto would be like when they got to the past. 'We're screwed,' he mentally thought. Good thing he wasn't connected to Naruto quite yet.

The group remained in an awkward silence after that, each with their own thoughts. Suddenly light broke through the darkness, blinding them all. "We're here," said Kyuubi cheerfully, before he, Sasuke, and Naruto fell unconscious.

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Lionheart: well that was a little longer. Took 5 pages on word. Hope you guys enjoy the story so far. I'm not sure about pairing yet, but im looking at a Sasuke/Sakura/Naruto triangle now.

Next Chapter: The Academy! Time To Relearn Everything.