They followed; at the end of the hallway they could see a dark room. Naruto stopped and turned and put a finger to his lips.

"Shhhhh… don't draw attention to yourselves"

Sakura gulped, Sasuke nodded. Naruto whispered, "Come on" and they continued into the room. When they got past the door both of them gasped. They could see a huge door; there was a piece of paper that said "seal" that was holding it closed. They could hear something behind it even if they couldn't see it yet. Naruto motioned for them to stand behind him. Sakura rushed forward and clung to the back of his shirt, Sasuke just stood behind him, though he obviously looked a little scared now. Naruto's voice startled both of them.

"Kyuubi" he was calling someone

They looked at Naruto but he was looking up at the door. They slowly turned to look with him, suddenly a row of sharp teeth and 2 glowing red eyes appeared. A deep growling voice echoed around the room

"Why did you call me brat?"

Sakura opened her mouth to scream but Sasuke slapped his hand over her mouth. Unfortunately the small sound and the movement caught the fox's attention.

"Well look at this… the brat brought his friends for a visit"

"No, they want answers"

"Oh really… and what makes them think that they are entitled to answers"

"They're my friends" he turned to face them "right...?" there was desperation in his voice

Sasuke released Sakura and tried to find the voice to answer him.

"Doesn't seem like it"

Naruto hung his head, Sasuke finally found his voice and opened his mouth to speak, but…

"N-naruto, m-maybe you s-should tell us w-why y-you…" Sakura was shaking with fear but she was still attached to Naruto's back.

"Have this 'thing' inside you" Sasuke finished for her

Naruto lifted his head up. He let out a shaky breath.

"Today, my birthday is the anniversary of the defeat of the 9-tailed fox. The forth Hokage didn't kill the fox, he sealed it… he used… no he sacrificed a newborn baby to seal the fox. That baby and all the younger generation of Konoha grew up not knowing what happened. The third Hokage passed a degree, nobody was allowed to speak of the event either, but that didn't stop people from tormenting the child."

"And that child, would be you"

Naruto looked up at Sasuke

"Yeah"

Sakura whimpered slightly but kept stayed attached to Naruto's back

"I hate to interrupt this touching moment"

They spun around to face the fox

"But if you think you can come in here and leave unscratched, you must be stupider than the brat here"

Chakra started leaking through the bottom of the gate. It moved rapidly toward the trio. Naruto quickly released the trance that he had on Sakura and Sasuke, or at least he tired to.

"Don't look so surprised brat. Your in my domain now"

Naruto turned toward them

"RUN!!!"

Together the three of them ran through the hallways of Naruto's mind. The further away from the fox they got the nicer the surroundings got. There was no water on the floor and there was just on hallway now. They came to a door at the end. Naruto hesitated; he didn't want to let them to far into his mind. But when he looked behind him he could see the red chakra coming toward them. He yanked the door open, shoved Sasuke and Sakura in and then slammed it shut.