A/N

Oh, of course….I don't own Naruto or any of Masashi Kishimoto's characters, however I do own this story, so no sticky fingers!!

"Kit…kit…KIT!!"

"Wha-what?? What's going on??"

Kyuubi flicked his tail in annoyance as Naruto ran up to the gate. The boy had been asleep in the physical world longer than the fox had assumed, and he had been growing impatient.

"You've been asleep for a rather long time."

"What are you talking about? I just left the mindscape two minutes ago!"

The fox sighed. He had forgotten how tired the kid had been. He himself had taken a nice long nap after healing the boy and had woken up hours ago. "No, kit. You've been in a coma for three days. You've been asleep both mentally and physically, which is why you can't remember sleeping that long."

Naruto was still confused. "Why did you yell at me? You made me think something bad had happened!"

"In a way, something will. You've been asleep for so long that people are starting to think that you won't wake up. The doctors are thinking that you're going to die even though you're healed."

"But that's silly! If I'm okay why do they think I will die?"

Kyuubi sighed. He wanted to get to the matter at hand fast. "Sometimes when someone goes through extreme trauma, their mind won't heal. Even after all physical wounds have healed, they could be dead mentally."

Naruto couldn't understand half of what the Kyuubi said, so he simply asked another question. "Well then, how do I wake up?"

The fox grinned. He had been waiting for this moment. "Simple. Just rip off this little piece of paper on the front of my gate, and you'll wake up and be good as new!"

Naruto walked forward and took the tag in one hand. He could feel his heart beating against his chest, sounding like a trapped bird in a cage. Why did holding the seal make him feel so tense? He was shaking all over. Kyuubi grinned. He would be free very, very soon…

In the recovery ward of the hospital, the people who had been monitoring the demon child had been planning on euthanizing the boy, when the Hokage wasn't around of course. After all, they obeyed the Hokage's orders and waited for the boy to heal. But it had been three days, and the child was clearly not showing any signs of waking from his coma. The medic nin approached Naruto's bed, needle in hand.

"What do you think you're doing??"

The medic turned around to face a very angry doctor by the name of Junko Toshihiro. She was glaring daggers at everyone in the room.

"I said, what are you doing? Hokage-sama ordered you to keep him alive!!"

The medic looked like the cat that swallowed the canary. "Junko-sama!! I-I mean, we…Don't you know who this kid is? He is the Demon, the Kyuubi! Why are you defending him??"

Junko's eyes narrowed dangerously. "I know perfectly well who he is. He is Uzumaki Naruto, a hero who is wrongly blamed for the acts of the demon that is kept secure inside him!"

Everyone in the room looked confused as to why anyone would want to protect such a vile creature. Even so, as Junko gave the order for them to leave, they went without protest. Junko was the most violent doctor in their staff and wouldn't hesitate to strangle any one of them within an inch of their life.

Junko walked over to the other side of Naruto's bed and sat down on a chair close to it. Her eyes wandered from the small child's closed eyes to his stomach, where the seal was. She wondered if he was dreaming, and what he was dreaming about. Her fingers absentmindedly stroked his blond hair. "Naruto…I can't imagine how life has been for you so far…but I want to make sure you pull through."

The boy stirred, and Junko looked up expectantly. The air suddenly got heavier, a strange chakra was clogging her senses and making her cough. "It feels like poison gas…What is happening? Naruto…what are you doing??"

Naruto peeled one corner of the seal away. At that second he was hit with a massive wave of chakra that made him fall over.

"I'm sorry, kit. I should have warned you about my chakra. It's not a good idea to peel off the seal slowly; it makes the process more painful than just ripping it off." The fox was in no way sorry; in fact Naruto's reaction to just a tiny fraction of his chakra was highly amusing. It was just too bad that he would not stick around to watch the brat die; there was no way he would stay in this accursed seal longer than he had to.

Naruto regained his composure and approached the seal again. He grabbed the corner that had been peeled away and yanked.

He was engulfed in the demon's chakra as he sprinted past him. As the fox passed the child, he whipped him with one of his massive tails. "FREE AT LAST!! GOOD RIDDANCE, WHELP! YOU'RE DEAD AS SOON AS YOUR MINDSCAPE VANISHES!!"

The whole hospital room was flooded with evil chakra. The killing intent was so think you could cut it with a knife. Junko was knocked backwards by the force of the demonic chakra. Naruto woke up with a horrible scream as his entire body was covered with boiling red chakra. His body was racked with spasms as his eyes rolled into the back of his head. Junko could only look on, terrified. She remembered the other villagers calling the boy a demon. She had refused to believe this, but now…She got up and struggled against the boiling chakra to approach the boy's bed. Naruto's screams had subsided into inhuman moans and whimpers as more of the chakra poured from his small body. Junko could only look on as he shuddered and was still. The chakra dissipated almost instantly as the boy went limp and fell out of his bed.

Heheh…sorry I took a while to update. Here's chapter two.