CHAPTER 9 Friend

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"Hey Fox. You ever figure out who the little girl belonged too."

The nine tailed fox just bats his tails around, finally covering his face. "Nope. She won't tell me. She keeps saying Mommy made me promise not to talk to strange talking foxes."

"Hah, smart mother. I wouldn't talk to you either if I could avoid you."

Kyuubi growls a slight hatred. "Ungrateful brat."

Naruto sneers. "Hn, and you're an ungrateful fox. Don't forget, I am allowing you to live."

Kyuubi growls as his tails crash against the cage. "You're dead once I get out."

Naruto laughs. "Psh, that would be nice. Thanks to you I can't kill myself, and thanks to this stupid chain even others can't kill me. Why do you have to heal me fox?"

Kyuubi glares. "Because I want to live you emo bitch."

Naruto laughs. "Hah, you want to see emo?"

Naruto whips out a kunai, slashing it up and down his arms in a swift motion. He then moves across and diagonally, making the blood splatter from his arm he lets out a small smile from the pain. "Ahhhh So nice."

"Gah! Stop that you little bitch! Grrr." Kyuubi begins healing Naruto's arms as he glares at Naruto, who just smirks in the control he's gained over the mighty Kyuubi no Kitsune.

"Your desire to live is what makes you weak."

Kyuubi finishes healing Naruto's arm before receding back into the back of Naruto's mind, leaving him to look up in the trees as the violet eyes glaring back at him.

Naruto waves his hand in a friendly hello. "Hey Kimi-chan."

The purple eyes jump down revealing the blue haired, thin framed girl. "Naruto-kun what have I told you about teasing Kyuubi-kun? Be nice."

Naruto shrugs his shoulders. "Whatever, he brought it on himself."

Kimi glares. "If you're going to be a daddy then you better start behaving normal."

Naruto rolls his eyes. "I still say I never fucked you."

Kimi grins. "You so know you did, now shut up and lets get home."

Naruto drops his head. "Yeah sure, whatever. I still say you're lying and you just drugged me that night and slipped in the bed with me to cover for your pregnancy."

"I second that. But I can't help but feel part of me is missing like you have a child in this world, and she is pregnant after all. I noticed this feeling the morning after you woke up with her."

"I know, I know. Sheesh, well Sakura-chan is probably fucking teme so what does it matter."

"Hey, I think she's not that slutty yet."

"Hah. Yeah right she accepted his proposal right after fucking me. I bet she just fucked me to get some practice. I was always just a toy to her."

"Kit…"

"Don't kit me Kyuubi. You know full well I was always second place to her, and I always will be."

"Whatever."

Naruto walks in silence with Kimi as she breaks the silence while looking up at the sky. "It's almost been two weeks since we've started traveling together."

Naruto frowns. "You haven't taught me any ANBU tricks other than speech."

Kimi rubs her head. "I did promise you I would if you stuck around didn't I?"

Naruto nods his head. "Yep."

Kimi lets out a sigh. "Tomorrow, we are almost home, and it's going to be late."

Naruto lets out a sigh. "Fine."

Kimi frowns a little. "Hey Naruto-kun, do you remember when we first met."

Naruto nods his head. "Of course. It was just a few weeks ago."

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Naruto ran from the village at full speed. His clothes covered in Kakashi's and Jiraiya's blood, tears still flowing from his eyes. He stops on a tree branch, looking up at the sky that seems to be gathering its clouds for a large storm. He shuts his eyes, letting time simply flow around him. The cool breeze brushing against his cheeks, the lingering scent of blood on his clothes, the twirling of leaves. "I killed Ero-sennin and Kakashi-sensei…I killed them...they where just trying to cheer me up and I killed them."

Naruto opens his eyes, letting his tears spring faster down his eyes as the rain seems to help him cry his endless stream of tears. He listens as the distant sound of bushes seem to rustle. Naruto flips around as his blue eyes come face to face with deep purple eyes. The girl appears to be a root ANBU, yet she cries just like a normal person.

Naruto lingers his gaze, matching hers. "Are you here to return me to the village as well?"

The girl speaks in a strict voice. "Who are you? Why are you out here crying?"

Naruto turns around. "I'm leaving the village. Who I am is no concern to you."

The girl's eyes widen. "You're that boy everyone's chasing after, Naruto."

Naruto nods his head. "What's it to you?"

The girl frowns. "You're never going to escape. Even the Kazekage and Hokage are after you."

Naruto frowns. "Thanks but I'll escape. I'm never going back to that rotten village."

The girl looks behind her as she feels the incoming chakra sources. "I'll help you escape if you stay with me. I'll even train you to be an ANBU."

Naruto frowns. "Fine, you better train me."

The girl nods her head. "Follow me, they are only a few minutes away. We have to flee to rain country, they won't dare go there."

Naruto nods his head as he follows the blue haired ANBU girl. He slowly feels something other than the rain crashing against his cheeks, he notices that the girl is actually crying. "Why are you crying?"

The girl shakes her head. "I don't want to talk about it, but I do owe you a great favor. Thanks to the commotion you caused I was able to flee the village."

The two pick up speed, moving faster and faster as the girl moves with incredible speed, even out running Naruto. He notices she's barely even broken a sweat while he's already started relying on the kyuubi's chakra. "You're fast."

The girl nods her head. "You're not to slow yourself."

Naruto looks behind noticing that they have traveled more than half the way to rain country. "What's your name?"

The girl looks at her hand. "Kimiko...Kichi." She grabs the gold band around her finger before sliding it off. "Naruto-kun if there is anything you wish to leave behind, do it now. Once we cross into the rain country we will officially be missing nin of Konoha."

Naruto shakes his head. "All I have are my clothes and a few kunai."

Kimi turns her head looking at Naruto. "What about that chain on your wrist."

Naruto looks down to his wrist. "Huh…when did I get this...? Who cares."

Naruto shakes his head. "Nah I'll keep it. It reminds me that I have broken my bond to the village."

Kimi nods. "We need to get you a change of clothes. I'm surprised they ever let you wear that get up."

Naruto nods his head. "It's another horrible trinket of pain."

Kimi nods as they spot a small abandon hut. "We will stay here tonight. Its an old abandoned hut I found one time during my travels when I was younger. Tomorrow we will go to another place, this is just the midway point."

Naruto nods his head. "It seems you've run away from the village before."

Kimi nods her head. "Hai, this is my second time. Last time I was captured by a special ANBU unit. But I know how to avoid them this time."

Naruto drops down entering the hut. "Why did you leave the first time?"

Kimi looks down at the floor. "The council murdered my brother for trying to protect me."

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(AN: Whats with the gold band... The crying... Why did she really leave Konoha... Who will know... Only time will tell.)