Hey ya readers! Sorry I haven't updated in over a week! Gomen! I have had a crap load of homework to do and haven't been about to write much.

I know you are all excited to see who it was at the door in the end of the last chappie, hee hee hee, you'll know soon enough.

Enjoy

Disclaimer: Unfortunately Naruto isn't mine.

New and Old

Naruto walked slowly down the street. He was all happy and relaxed until Kyuubi had called him and told him that story, then yelled at him! The blond sighed, I'll show him. Naruto decided to take the longest route to the Uchiha's home instead of heading straight there.

His detour had lead him to a park where the grass was soft and deep green an amazing contrast to the dusk sky. Kid's played on the colourful playground while their parents watched, staring lovingy at their children as they chased eachother around. It made Naruto smile. He remembered when Kyuubi used to chase him aorund and play with him.

"Ahh, Kyuubi! Stop it tickles!" Naruto yelled.

His brother laughed and let him go, the seven year old ran around the furniature trying to escape his brother who followed him.

Naruto laughed at the memories and kept walking. Three small kids ran over to him and ran circles around the blond. Naruto crouched down and the kids lined up in front of him.

"Hi mister!" The smallest girl said.

"Do you wanna play ninja with us?" The second said.

The little boy looked into the blond's eyes before saying, "Please, we need another player."

He thought about it for a minute. It could be his oppoertunity to get back at Kyuubi. "Of course, I'll play," He said, grinning from ear to ear. "I'm Naruto."

"I'm Fyumi." The smaller girl was around six or so with brown red hair and blue eyes her little friends weren't much younger.

The little boy introduced himself next, "I'm Toya and my brother, Harou." He had dark hair and peircing grey eyes, his brother was a little younger but looked the same.

Naruto stayed and played with the kids for a while until it got dark and their parents took them away. They hadn't wanted to go at first but they were soon convinced when they were promised to come back the next day. The three smiled and thanked the blond for playing with them before running off.

He'd enjoyed the time he spent with those kids, it made him feel like he had a family, or what he imagined younger siblings to be like.

Walking on, Naruto finally found himself on the right street and started walking towards the Uchiha's house. Or, at least, he intended to when a storng feeling of dread started to creep up his spine.

"Hello, Naruto," A cold familiar voice said from behind the blond. "Or should I call you Jinchuuriki?"

"Hello, Uchiha Sasuke, it has been a while hasn't it?" The newcomer said inviting himself in.

"If you count a few hours as a while," The raven muttered. "Wait, Kakashi, what are you doing here?" The masked man was a long time friends of the Uchiha family and he was quite close with Uchiha Fugaku when he was alive. Little did the raven know was that the silver haired masked man was also close with the Uzumaki's, Namikaze Minato being his former Sensei and all.

"I came to say hello, is it wrong to want to stop by to see my favorite little nephew?"

"Outside of school, no," was all Sasuke said.

Kakashi smirked behind his navy blue mask. "Who said I was talking about you?" He winked and walked into the living room. "Kyuubi! I wasn't expecting to see you here!"

"Of course you weren't you rarely come to see Naruto and I, so why would you want to see us here?" Kyuubi replied.

Kakashi waved his hand. "Come now, I call don't I?"

"The last time you called was three years ago!" The redhead retorted. Now, Sasuke was very confused.

"What's going on?" He blurted. Great, very un-Uchiha. "You know each other?"

"Yes for a while," Kyuubi said. "My father was Kakashi's Sensei."

Naruto spun around to see no one, only the faint puff of dust from the pavement. Thunder clapped overhead and rain started to fall. The old creepy scene in the rain. Naruto quite liked storms he didn't know why, maybe it was the way they were unpredictable, or that they slowly got louder or that it reminded him of a loving home snuggled around a burning fire.

But just because he liked storms, didn't mean he liked being in them.

"You don't know do you, little Jinchuuriki?" The voice asked again, sinister and cold. "My lord has asked us to convey this message, tell you of what you are and offer you a deal." The voice came from right behind him, so close he could feel the other's heat radiating across his back and neck.

The blond spun and jumped away, he couldn't really make out the features of the men, but for some reason they both sounded familiar. "Uzumaki Naruto, you know of your heriatage, do you not?" The blond nodded. "Good, you know who the Jinchuuriki is from the Uzumaki's?" Naruto shook his head. The other laughed. Lighting crackled somewhere behind the blond giving him a quick view of the men. One he recognised instantly as a former friend of Iruka-Sensei. Mizuki his shoulder-length blue white hair was dripping with water, as Naruto's own was, his grey eyes looking amused and sinister. The other man had glasses and grayish hair but looked young. He was definitely familiar, Naruto recognized his black eyes from somewhere, though he couldn't pinpoint it exactly.

"You, stupid brat, are the Jinchuuriki for the Nine-Tailed Fox," Mizuki hissed. "My lord has asked us to offer you a deal and-"

"Pass the message, yeah I got it the first time," The blond snapped.

"As feisty as ever, Naruto," The other said. "We have been told to give you this deal: work with our master and in return you and your brother will never be hunted again."

"No, never," Naruto said immediately, yelling over the thunder that boomed. "We don't need your help, we are doing perfectly fine by ourselves!"

"Kabuto, he's not being reasonable," Mizuki said. "Do it."

"Don't tell me what to do, Scum, I obey Lord -" Thunder boomed. "Only, not you." The shorter of the two men ran at Naruto and, before the dobe even had the chance to dodge, pain shot through him, starting at his abdomen and spiking up to his heart, then his brain. He dropped to the ground, legs failing their job, gravity doing it too well, and screamed.

The pain didn't stop, clutching his stomach, Naruto dry heaved, coughed and passed out, right there on the pavement. "Let's go, Lord Orochimaru will be expecting us back soon." Was the last thing he heard before he wan't limp, soon to be found by Kyuubi, Sasuke, Itachi and Kakashi who all heard his scream.

The blond was in some kind of sewer, the water that covered the floor, reaching his ankles. There was a low rumbling coming from further in the dark cavern. Looking around Naruto took in his surroundings. Thick and thin pipes wound around each other across the ceiling, occasionally dripping some substance or another, Naruto preferred not to know. He walked down the corridor his footsteps making noise in the water, ripples forming around his legs.

The rumbling soon turned into a growl as Naruto rounded the corner to find himself in a large room, half blocked off behind a massive cage. But it was what was inside of the cage that made Naruto want to run for his life.

On the other side of the bars lay a huge red fox. Black fur surrounded the beasts eyes and ran to the insides of it's ears and the thing had nine tails! All of which were swinging and twirling behind the beast as it slept.

Suddenly the creatures eyes opened to reveal large blood red orbs with slitted pupils. "Naruto, you sure have taked your time getting here," The beast said."To think that you needed that snake's help to find me proves how weak you really are." It laughed, a wicked grin revealed long pointed teeth.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked.

"Kurama is my name, I am the embodyment of hatred. I have long been trapped inside of you Uzumaki's and longer been hunted by the damned Uchiha's."

Naruto said nothing.

"So, Kit, why have you come here?"

"I don't know, I woke up and bam! Here I came."

"You are here because you are weak, pathetic, to think that Kabuto could loosen the seal so easliy adn you did nothing, no wonder you are here."

"How did you know about what happened in the rain?"

"What you see I see, Kit. Same deal applies if you get killed. I heal you when you get injured and now, I, slowly can release my power and control you."

"No you can't." The blond's hand tightened into fists.

"Such false bravado will do you no good here, Kit."

"Shut up, you damned fox!"

"I can lend you my power, should you desire."

Naruto looked up into the fox's eyes. "Power? What do I need it for?"

"You remember all of those people who called you and your brother monsters, claimed you were cursed, said you killed your family, tried to kill you, hunted you?" The fox waited for no answer, he already knew. "That is why you need power, you lack in it, your hearing and speed may be above human standards, however, you vowed to protect him, your brother, didn't you?"

Naruto nodded, he wanted to be able to do something for Kyuubi, something to repay him after everything he did for the blond. He gave up his life to care for him and Naruto needed to repay him, so on his twelth birthday he wished, vowed, promised to always be able to protect his older brother. And Uzumaki Naruto never goes back on his word.

"For this reason, you need my power, without it, both you and your brother," The fox laughed at how easily the kit was being manipulated by him. "Will die. So, what about it, Kit, you want the power, you want to protect him? How can you call yourself a Jinchuuriki, how can you protect anyone, if you can't even keep a promise?"

Naruto looked at the floor and thought about all the people we wanted to protect, about Kyuubi and Itachi, how happy thay were together and how worried they both got when Naruto got hurt four years ago. He thought about Iruka-Sensei, Kakashi-Sensei, Pervy Sage, Granny Tsunade, Kiba, Gaara, Shikamaru, hell, he even thought about the Teme.

He looked up, blue eyes alive with fire. The blond walked forward and stopped at the bars of the cage.

"Fine."

Kurama laughed and let his red hot power overtake the defiant young Kit, his power devouring him.

"Power, Kit, this is what power feels like," He said as the blond's face distorted in pain before he looked down at the floor and held his stomach. "Feel's good doesn't it?"

The blond stood again, looked up, and opened his eyes, they looked identical to the fox's and his whisker marks were more defined, more fierce.

"Yeah, feel's great."

SOOOO? What'd you think? Wasn't who you were expecting at Sasuke's door was it? hahaha! I really love writing this story makes me feel all giddy inside.

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Ja Ne ~ Jayce