-1A/N: First Naruto fanfic. Plz don't kill me.

"person talking"

Person thinking

demon talking

demon thinking

Disclaimer: So I was sittn here when all of a sudden, someone threw and egg at me! Try as I might, I could not dodge. It exploded, as all eggs do, and the following words attached themselves to mine noggin- "I don't own Naruto….P!ss off." I do wish the "i" wasn't upside down.

Darkness. It encompassed his senses, for it encompassed his being. In a feeble attempt to orient himself, Naruto rose from the damp floor of the…sewer?

"No, that can't be right." he voiced allowed. He was supposed to be on the street, in his village, beaten to a bloody pulp. But here he was, in some strange hallway, stretching far into the distance. Shaking his head in an attempt to clear his thoughts, Naruto looked about himself, taking a fuzzy account of his surroundings.

He found that he had in fact been quite accurate in his original assumptions, for he was in some kind of sewer, though it was like no other he had ever seen. The walls were made of what appeared to be cement, solid and hopefully sturdy, tinted a slight green, no doubt due to the likely presence of molds, which were known to thrive in such wet and dark places as this. Rusty pipes spanned the ceiling and upper walls, which rose a good ten feet from the ground.

As Naruto took a few steps forward, in an attempt to understand where he was, he noticed something he hadn't seen before. Along the walls, at irregular intervals, colossal metal doors were set into the rock. The stretched from the bottom of the floor to nearly the very ceiling itself, and were as wide as Naruto was tall. Curiosity overtook him, and Naruto began to move towards the closest door to him. His hand was stretched forth, ready to turn the aged handle, when he felt a strong and unexpected pull at the base of his skull. His hand stopped in mid air as he turned his head toward the end of the hall.

"What is that?" His curiosity piqued, Naruto head off down the hall, all thoughts of doors and handles gone from his mind. It was as he rounded a corner, a long ways farther into the darkness, that he found himself walking through shallow puddles of water. He went on, mostly uninterested by his discovery, until a point that the liquid began to rise up past his shins. He slowed his pace, contemplating whether or not to go on. However, all ideas about halting were shattered when the sewer suddenly began to shake. Fearing that the walls would not hold up, Naruto raced forward into the quivering darkness.

Rounding another corner, Naruto suddenly stopped. The shaking was…different. It almost had a rhythm to it, escalating in intensity and then dieing back down, only to return with as much ferocity as before.

"It's almost as if someone is…" His eyes widened in surprise as his ears picked up something that they couldn't before. Was that laughter? "No," He though to himself has he once again began to race down the corridor, "There's no way that someone can make an earthquake like this, just by laughing. But it sounds just like it! Damn it, what in the hell is going on?"

Rounding one more bend, Naruto suddenly found himself gazing at an awesome sight. He had stepped into an open chamber, whose walls stretched up far beyond his vision. Set into the far wall was a gate, which followed the walls into oblivion. It reached as far across as one of the rooms other walls, and lead of into a deep and frightening darkness. Its bars were of a dazzling bronze, a stark contrast to the rest of the sewer. As he neared it, Naruto examined the gate more closely. It was made of two separate gates, or doors as it were, which were set on hinges and joined at the center. At this focal point, a single piece of paper was attached. Upon it lay the kanji for seal. Puzzled, Naruto moved closer to examine it. Suddenly, and without warning, A gigantic pair of eyes shot open right at front of the gate. Taken aback, Naruto stumbled and landed on his hands and knees, his neck craning backwards so that he may look up in shock at the pair of glowing red eyes. They were silted like a cats, and red veins shot through its whites. Then, suddenly, slowly, a mouth began to curve into existence. White teeth glistened impossible, for there was no light to shine upon them. The were sharp and deadly, matching the eyes with frightening perfection.

Stunned as he was, Naruto was no fool. This was obviously dangerous. He tried to move away but his body would not respond, seemingly content with kneeling helplessly in the cold water. He couldn't even muster up a scream of terror as the eyes and mouth moved down towards him, grinning through the bars. Then, a voice rumbled up from behind the gleaming white protrusions of death. The teeth parted and the sound that followed was enough to wake the dead.

"Hey kit! WAKE UP!"

A/N: So, how'd ya like that chapter where nothing really happened? I liked it a lot, cause it was a nice way to ease myself back into the story. Hey, maybe I'll starting getting serious about writing this! Well, we'll see wont we.