A/N: so I was gonna start trying to write a little everyday, but then I just kinda didn't. Oops. I feel like I have something else to say, but I can't remember what so it must've not been that important.
Still wondering about a anyone wanting to Beta.
Anyway, on with the story.
Naruto was done with people. That was the decision he made as he ran from the place he had begun to call home. A place he had loved. And yet he had run without a second thought.
He was running so hard, and after he had finally settled. All because of one little man and his greed. But now, now he was tired. He didn't want to run anymore. It had been such a long time since he stopped to rest. But he knew that if he did stop he wouldn't start again.
With that in mind. He kept running. He didn't stop for hours, using chakra when his stamina failed him. When the chakra failed, sheer determination.
But, all those can only get a person so far. And it's by those restrictions that Naruto finally stumbled to the ground under a tree and began to weep.
'Kyuubi?' Naruto thought to the beast he housed. 'why?'
'Why what? Why are you so pathetic? That answer has a simple answer I'm afraid. Because you won't do as I say.'
"This isn't the fucking time Kyuubi!" He shouted in angst. "Just tell me. Why? Why did it happen? Why did it have to happen?"
'Getting feisty are we, warden? Shouting out loud to talk with me is so unlike you.'
"I don't care. Just tell me, why did they have to kill him? Why couldn't I do anything about it?"
The Kyuubi sneered in the back of Naruto's mind. 'You want to know the answer? Fine then. It's because you're weak. Oh so weak. People should fear you, tremble at your feet, bow down to you for mercy. But what do they do instead? They step on you and push you around. And yet all you have to do to stop it is to become strong.'
Naruto didn't respond, choosing to instead keep sobbing in the middle of the forest.
The beast snorted. 'But what could I expect from you. All you do is run from your problems. First Konoha, now wave. What's next? Are you going to try to run from yourself? Deny who you are and give up your own choice in things?
Naruto slowly shook his head and stopped crying at the end of Kyuubi's rant.
"N-no." He finally responded, a bit shaky from the emotions he was feeling."I...I won't run away. Not anymore. I'm going to become strong, because that's what's important in this world.
'Oh? It has an opinion?'
Sniffing, Naruto stood up.
"Yeah. I do. And I say go die Kyuubi. I'm going to become strong without you. Just wait. Then I'll be the one laughing."
Kyuubi reared his head back, his booming laughter reverberating through Naruto's skull.
'If you think you'll ever become as string as me, you've got another thing coming warden. I'm a millennia old. I've seen strong, and you are not it.'
Naruto growled. "Shut up. You don't know anything."
'But don't I? I know that a strong person would always go back to what he loves, no matter the problems. A strong man wouldn't let themselves be pushed around by the will of others. A strong man isn't you. Is that your problem with your dear old prisoner? He tells you how much you truly aren't something and you can't take it.'
Naruto felt relief at the normalcy of it all for a moment, before he realized why it wasn't normal.
'Inari's dead. That's why.' He thought to himself.