Turmanarmo: Okay here is my promised second chapter.

Sai: That's all you're going to say about it, I can't believe Dickless believed you when you said you weren't putting him in any awkward situations though.

Turmanarmo: No, I'm not trying to spoil the story or anything, and if I had told him what he was in for he might have freaked out, you know how he gets. Thanks by the way guys for reviewing, having never done this before I was surprised how anxious I was until I got my first review and how happy I was that one even contained some constructive criticism. (Happy dance)

Sai: I guess you really are pitiful.

Turmanarmo: Ouch Sai, that really hurts. Anyways, why are you here, I distinctly remember calling for Kakashi to come help me with the disclaimer.

Sai: Oh, that might explain why Kakashi suddenly appeared in front of me and told me I had an important mission to do and handed me the map to this place. So I guess I will get on with the disclaimer. Ahem. This baka doesn't own dickless or the manga/anime about him. Because of this he may be even less of a man than he usually is, so if you want to support my friend try supporting the official release and stop wasting your time with this story. (Creepy smile)

Naruto looked across the room into the pair of eyes staring back at him uncertainly. "Thanks for coming, I'm sorry about not telling you what this was about but I have something I need to talk to you about. Tsunade no Bachan feels I need to tell all of my friends something so I am going to do just that."

Naruto looked away from the piercing eyes nervously, "I know you must be wondering what could be so important that Bachan would get involved but trust me, and once I am done you will know why. I suppose I should start at the beginning, you know about the Kyuubi attack on our village that took place 15 years ago right? Good, well what you don't know is that bijuu cannot be killed. Since they are made of pure chakra even if they were destroyed they would eventually reform so a long time ago the villages came up with another way of dealing with the bijuu, they would seal them inside something else."

"Unfortunately to properly contain them the container they are sealed into has to be a living being and the best option is a person. Unfortunately it is also best if the host is fairly young and so many times the host chosen is only an infant."

Naruto Scratched his head nervously, "The host chosen for the Kyuubi was actually born on that day and the Yondaime sacrificed his life to perform a sealing technique to seal the Kyuubi away in this infant. And before you ask, the reason why I am the one telling you guys this is because I was that child born on the tenth of October."

An awkward silence developed in the room and Naruto fidgeted restlessly before blurting, "That is why the Akatsuki is after me, they want to extract the Kyuubi from within me like they did to Gaara since he is, or was I guess, the Jinchuuriki of the Ichibi."

Again silence fell until Naruto sighed and said, "If you don't want to be friends anymore I understand, most people who know about this hate me already so I get it."

Suddenly Naruto stiffened up when a voice penetrated his empty room, "You know they won't hate you Naruto, they are smart enough to see you are the scroll and not the Kunai. And really Naruto, practicing in front of a mirror is so unlike you. I've never known you to be one to be this timid about something, why can't you trust that we know what we're talking about and that your friends will not abandon you."

Naruto twisted around and glared at the intruder, "You can't know that for sure Kakashi-Sensei, none of you understand 'tebayo, I was alone for so long and had no friends, despite how much I tried. I can't go back to t-that p-place."

Kakashi sighed as Naruto's voice hitched and he fell silent, "Naruto, we get that this is hard for you, but you need to have more faith in your friends. If we were talking about telling them back in the academy I could understand why you would have reservations about a few of them, but now. They have matured quite a bit, just like you Naruto, and they will understand, honestly I am willing to bet at least a few of them will have the exact opposite reaction and any negative emotions that come up will be directed towards the village for how they treated their friend."

Naruto looked uncertain as he asked, "Do you really think so Kakashi-sensei?"

Kakashi nodded in response before he said, "Why don't we go get some ramen, moping in your house is so unlike you."

Naruto instantly perked up at the thought of getting his favorite food, "All right, that sounds great, you're paying Dattebayo." Naruto smiled cheekily and promptly left with Kakashi in tow.

-Ramen-Ramen-Ramen-

After eating their fill at Ichiraku they started walking around town in silence until Naruto finally asked, "Hey Kakashi-sensei, why were you at my house earlier?"

Kakashi eye smiled™ before answering, "Well Naruto, you had us a little worried when you stormed off like that and I volunteered to make sure you were okay. Though I have to say I did not expect to come across you confessing to a mirror. So while I am thinking about it, have you decided how you are going to tell them?"

Naruto looked up sheepishly, "Well when you say it like that it makes me sound really lame, and I was trying to decide that when you dropped in on me. I am not sure whether I want to give them a prepared speech or something more informal and I am not sure how I will handle it if they have a bunch of questions. I was also considering for a bit if I wanted to have someone there to help explain some of the bits I don't understand very well. But the main thing I was thinking about was whether to tell them individually or as teams but I am not sure yet. If I tell more of them at once I don't have to go through it as many times, but if I tell them individually I will be able to get their full response since it won't be tainted by the presence of their friends, but I am still slightly afraid of what those responses will be."

"Naruto" "Don't get me wrong sensei, I want to trust them, but it is so hard when I am so afraid of being alone again. I mean I know I have you, Ero-sennin, Bachan, Shizune-neechan, Iruka-sensei, and the Ichirakus but that still doesn't change the fact that it would be horribly painful to lose even one of my precious people because they have become almost like family to me. It would be like losing Sandaime-Jiji or Sasuke-teme all over again."

Kakashi Sighed as he saw Naruto falter and look away as he thought about his precious student and wondered how to help him. Finally Kakashi just decided to remain silent as he affectionately ruffled Naruto's hair before laughing at Naruto's indignant look as he swatted Kakashi's hand off his head. Kakashi grasped Naruto's shoulder and proceeded to shunshin them up to the Hokage Monument right on top of the Yondaime's head.

Naruto glanced over at Kakashi before questioning, "Why did you bring us up here Kakashi-sensei?"

He answered with an eye smile™ before saying, "Well I know how much you like to sit up here and I felt that our conversation should be had in a more private place than the street so I took you up here."

"Oh, thanks sensei. . . . Hey sensei, what if you guys are wrong, I mean most of my friends were just as mean as the villagers when we were in the academy and you can't just say that it is because they are ninja now cause most of the ninja's in the village are indifferent about me at best. I can't take the thought that even one of them will decide to stop being my friend or even hate me. I don't want to go back to the lonely dark place, I'm not as strong as people seem to think, and I'm not as strong as someone like Gaara who can somehow take a village where everyone hates your guts or are simply terrified of you like his siblings and turn that around and remain sane."

Kakashi looked over in concern as Naruto went from ranting to slightly hyperventilating as he freaked himself out. Kakashi was reminded once more that there was more to his student than the hyperactive sometimes dense child that he was most of the time. If you looked underneath the underneath with Naruto you would come across a wounded child who clung desperately to every bond he could make. Due to this and the fact that he had just started making most of these bonds in the last 4 years of his life Kakashi could imagine it might hurt Naruto more to lose these bonds than it would for any other 'normal' person. Looking at himself, how well had he gotten over the loss of his precious people, and none of his had turned their backs on him, they had simply gone the way of the Shinobi and died protecting what was important to them.

As Naruto managed to get himself under control he looked down at the ground and muttered, "Sorry sensei, you must be so ashamed of me for being so easily overwhelmed by my emotions."

Kakashi looked up, "Hmm, did you say something?"

"Sensei!" "Sorry, sorry I couldn't resist Naruto. But seriously, I am not ashamed of you Naruto, if anything I am proud of you for being as strong as you are, sure Gaara turned his life around and managed to get the recognition of his village, but he only did that because he saw how you lived and valued bonds. I am proud of you, because unlike Gaara you did not decide to become a homicidal maniac because everyone was mean to you growing up."

"I am proud of you because, despite the fact that I know that some of the time you're happy go lucky actions are just a mask to hide your pain, you are often genuinely happy, and you have made this happiness by turning the hearts of the people you now consider precious. And on top of all of that I believe in you, that you will continue to grow and will someday achieve your goal of becoming Hokage and along the way you will prove to all the ignorant people of our village that you are Uzumaki Naruto, not the Kyuubi. And if any of your friends are foolish enough to not see you, then they are the ones who will be losing out on a friendship with one of the most caring and devoted people I know."

Naruto looked shocked as Kakashi finished his little speech and asked, "Really Kakashi-sensei, do you mean that?"

Kakashi sighed and said, "Of course Naruto" before he was tackle hugged by an emotional teen.

-Later-back-at-Naruto's-apartment-

As Naruto walked through his door he looked back at his sensei and said, "Thanks sensei, for believing in me, I will start telling my friends tomorrow."

Kakashi waved before saying, "No problem, I was just happy to help my precious student. And if you want my suggestion, I would start with someone like Shikamaru or Shino as they will be less likely to freak out initially when they find out about Kyuubi and might be able to help you gain the courage to tell the rest of them."

Naruto nodded, "That makes sense, Thanks again Kakashi, good night."

-The-Next-Day-

Naruto was milling around his house and had just finished getting ready for the day when he suddenly heard a knock at the door. As he went to answer it he was surprised to find Shikamaru at the door and before Naruto could ask why he was here Shikamaru said, "I know it's troublesome but Kakashi-sensei came to my door this morning and told me you had something to tell me about …"

Bwa ha ha cough, hack, wheeze sorry about that, It wasn't my initial intent to do a cliffy but when I got to that part in the story I felt like Kakashi would so tell Shikamaru to come over just to force Naruto to do it and since I had not intended for the actual reveals to come till next chapter I decided to tease you lot a bit and end it like that.

Anyways, hopefully you guys like this and hopefully these keep going well, thanks to my second reviewer CressidaRene for your honest opinions about how my first chapter went and hopefully this one is as good if not better. I enjoyed writing this so far and if I am honest the mirror scene was actually supposed to be in last chapter but I felt like the chapter needed to end when it did and that flashback took up most of the plot for that one. I wonder how many of you honestly believed Naruto was talking to one of his friends (maybe Shino or Hinata since they are so quiet) and how many of you realized he was practicing. Tell me in a review if you think I made Naruto and Kakashi too OOC cause that is what I am most worried about and the next couple chapters where he is talking to his friends is going to test my ability to portray these characters correctly.

Story is 1870 words long, so only a little bit longer than originally but I did not feel like this chapter needed much more to it. I added a few words and fixed a few grammar mistakes I noticed but honestly I was mostly happy with this one. If it weren't for the fact that the first two chapters felt good split where they were they should have probably been together which would have solved their short length issue ah well.