Chapter 3

A/N: Sorry for the late update, school caught up with me and my beta reader. So for now this is not beta-ed, please forgive any and all mistakes.

"Kyuubi talking"

'Kyuubi thinking'

'Naruto thinking'

"Naruto talking to Kyuubi"

To say Naruto was surprised would be like saying Shukaku was a little unstable, a huge understatement. "H-How do you know about Kyuu?" Naruto was beginning to panic.

'Not again. I will not be a scapegoat again.'

"Calm down Kit, no one here will hurt you."

"And how do you know that?"

"Just watch," The blond could feel the fox's smug smirk when he retreated from Naruto's mind. It didn't take long to figure out what he meant. A cloud of red chakra formed next to the panicking ninja.

The chakra soon took the form of a man just as tall as Wolf with deep red hair, blood red eyes with slit-pupils. He was wearing a flowing kimono with flames decorated on it. Naruto was speechless.

He knew the over grown fur ball could leave his body but he had never seen his human form. Naruto decided to ignore this for now and get back to the point of their argument.

"How does this tell me how he," the blond pointed at Wolf, "knows you?"

Kyuubi walked over to a smirking Wolf and placed an arm around his shoulders. "Kit, meet an old friend of mine." (1)

This was not an answer Naruto had been expecting so he blurted out the first thing that came to his mind, "You have friends?"

Kyuubi scowled while Wolf burst out laughing. "Yes, I have friends. I explained things to you. Remember I'm not evil, the only reason I attacked Konoha was because I was being controlled." (2)

Naruto quickly apologized knowing Kyuu's temperament. "You always did know how to guilt trip someone Kyuu-chan." Wolf said with a chuckle.

"Don't call me that" Kyuubi growled.

"You're no fun Kyuu-Chan" Wolf and Kyuubi started bickering while Naruto sat back and watched. He was still confused on what exactly was going on but figured that he would be told soon.

What Naruto was really trying to understand was the fact that the fox really did have friends. 'He told me about some friends he had. But hearing about it and seeing it are two different things.'

Naruto was snapped out of his thoughts by a solid and very loud "thud!" When he looked up he saw Kyuubi and Wolf holding their heads while another red-head stood behind them holding a book.

As the ninja watched, the unknown man put the book down and glared at the two taller men. "Have you lost your minds, you don't yell in the hospital unless you want Earth to come in here."

Naruto could now see this man's eyes and realized that his eyes were a blue deeper in color than his own. But he only paid half a mind to it, the rest was focusing on the Earth comment.

'What does Earth have to do with anything? He seems harmless enough.'

He must have thought that louder then he wanted because Kyuubi looked over at him and let out a silent laugh. "Don't be fooled by him, Earth happens to be the head interrogator as well as head healer. Hell some of his torture methods would scare Ibiki."

Before Naruto could respond to this the shorter red head had finally noticed him. "Hey, who's this?"

Wolf's face lit up "Oh right I almost forgot, Naruto this is Phoenix. Phoenix this is Naruto Uzumaki, Kyuu's jinchurriki (3)."

Right after Wolf said this; there was a loud "crash" from the hospital lobby. The three adults in the room froze, then in unison, smiled (which freaked Naruto out).

When they ran out the door Naruto followed wanting to know what was happening. It didn't take long to get to cause of the commotion.

Coming to a stop Naruto saw a raven haired man with violet eyes holding back a very pissed off Earth. Phoenix stepped forward "What the hell is going on?" Him, Wolf, and, Kyuubi were smiling.

The answer Phoenix got from Earth was in a language Naruto didn't know, and tried to get out of the hold he was in (arms pulled spread eagle so his hands couldn't grab anything).

"Oh, nothing Phoenix," it was the man holding Earth, "just trying to keep our little brother from killing a jackass."

"Ok….so what happened?" When Earth opened his mouth a hand quickly covered it. And from the muffled words Naruto knew that was a good thing. "One of the nurses dropped a tray of antidote."

"Well Shit" "Oh that's not the worst part."

There was a moment of silence as this was processed. Wolf finally asked "Okay, I give up. What's the worst part?"

"The bitch that dropped the tray wasn't from our village." This was met with shocked silence.

A/N: well that's the end of chapter 3, sorry it's so short. The next one will be posted soon.

(1) – when Kyuubi is talking in human form his words will not be bold.

(2) – clichéd I know but it fits the plot

(3) – not sure if I spelled that right, let me know if you know the right spelling.