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This chapter is based off of Chapter 570 in Naruto many of the lines come from there so I don't really claim this chapter as completely original :) You will still understand everything but it will spoil some things….sorry…. Ok now really time for the story:

When people die different ideas of what they feel or see are always told. A light at the end of a tunnel or a cold dark sinking feeling. Some are worse than others but none the less something is happening. I felt nothing, thought nothing, remembered nothing, saw nothing. It was like those times when you're so tired you pass out on your bed and then what feels like two seconds later you're alarm is going off signaling you to wake up. But this time there was no waking up. Maybe that is what is so scary about death. When you die, there is nothing. However sometime during my state of emptiness I began to feel. It wasn't a strong sensation, and I couldn't tell you what it was even if you asked, but still the sensation was there. Time passed but I still didn't stir. No thoughts were rushing through my head, there was just a very dull sensation.

More time passed and soon my thoughts returned. Who was I? Where was I? Where do I go now? Like a trickle of water I began to remember slowly. I was Naruto Uzamaki and I was dead.

I felt as though I was waking up from a heavy sleep, my thoughts coming so lethargic. However the more 'awake' I became the more aware I was of the sensation. I easily became frustrated when I couldn't figure out what it was rubbing all over me. No…not all over but rather my entire backside. No…it wasn't a rubbing sensation but almost a gliding one….where the hell was I? I wanted to open my eyes but quickly realized that they wouldn't open. I reached my arm up to rub them only to realize they too had become paralyzed. Now that I had thought about it my entire body was paralyzed and I became frightened.

I realized what being dead was about. You don't just get up later and shake it off saying, 'I'm tired of being dead now'. Once you're dead, you don't have anymore options. I died and I didn't feel good about it. Why did I die? Who killed me? An image of a beautiful baby girl ran through my mind and it all clicked. That was right; I died giving life to that beautiful baby. I wanted to smile but even my facial expressions wouldn't budge.

Time continued to pass but I was slowly becoming more and more aware of the sensations around me. I was floating on water. Not like an ocean but more like a clam quiet lake that I continued to drift to wherever it would take me.

More time passed and I wondered how long I had been drifting along the currents; days, months, years? Ignoring the constant nagging in the back of my head that wondered when I would get up, I focused on moving. I worked on my fingers first, trying to make them at least twitch but failed. However, the more I tried the more movement I got, and by the time I could curl my fingers into a fist I noticed some of my facial muscles were moving as well.

I continued floating for an endlessly short amount of time. I continued to focus on my fingers, my toes, my hands, my knees, my arms. However my concentration was brought to a halt when I softly bumped into something, making my constant drifting finally come to an end.

"Huh…so you lived did you?" A deep voice rumbled making it seem as though it was resonating. It took me a while before my eyes cooperated and began to slowly open. I could see colors at first, but my vision was so blurry that all the colors seemed to mix together. Finally, after mustering all of my concentration that I could, I forced my eyes to see shapes. It looked as though I was in some sort of cave. I lifted my head to look around but a wave of dizziness hit me and I had to plop my head back down into the water.

"Pathetic." The voice rumbled once more. Very slowly I raised my head again and found myself looking straight into the cause of my death.

"Kyubbi…" I croaked out, my throat incredibly dry, which was funny considering I had been in water this entire time but I would think about that later.

"Hn." He grunted and put his head back down as though it was too much energy to keep it up. I shakily pushed myself to a sitting position looking straight into his eyes. This was the demon that caused me so much heartache and made me shunned from my own village for so long. His glare intensified as I continued to observe him. I should have felt hatred and anger towards him, and yet I didn't. I had already conquered the darkness in my heart, and even though the Kyubbi seemed to have his own agenda, he gave me more then he took away. Kyubbi looked me over once more before snorting.

"You look like you're about to drop dead." He said with no concern but I could see him watching me from the corner of his eye. I rolled my eyes at his blunt statement. I pushed myself onto my shaky legs, falling once or twice but somehow managing to stand up.

"Just…you watch me…" I panted while a smirk crept onto my face. Kyubbi snorted again proving how much faith he had in my words. I ignored it and focused on gathering my energy.

It was silent after that, my breathing being the only thing that filled the air around us. I continued to think about everything that had led me up to this point in my life. Being shunned by Kohona as a child, becoming part of team seven, Sasuke leaving, fighting tooth and nail to bring him back, meeting Jiraya, fighting Kyubbi and gaining his Chakra, Sasuke coming back to Kohona, our futile attempts to defeat Madara, Sasuke making love to me, becoming pregnant with baby Itachi, breaking my own heart countless times, Sasuke loving me, Itachi being born; all these things created me and as strange as it sound without the Kyuubi I never would have become the man, the ninja I was today. Though it came with a lot a pain, in the end, it brought a thousand times more happiness.

"Psh you can barely stand." Kyubbi finally stated breaking the silence and my thoughts. I looked at him again before a smirk crossed my face once more.

"You know…You're pretty talkative today." I panted looking up at him while trying to gather the energy to remain standing. The Kyubbi looked flabbergasted and a little flustered. The look soon vanished and was replaced with a glare while he growled at me. I found myself chuckling at his glare but forced myself to become serious.

"Hey listen…I know you don't like me very much," I took my assumption as correct with the snort he made after the sentence. I almost lost my temper but somehow managed to keep it in check.

"Anyway, I know you don't like me, but I wanted to thank you." I said making him stutter.

"W-what?" He snarled as though I just told him he was trash. Funny how people take compliments sometimes….

I looked right into his eyes refusing to let his gaze escape mine before I smiled a sincere smile.

"Thank you…Thank you for giving to me what you have…"

"Are you that much of an idiot? I was trying to kill you to be set free and you're thanking me?" He growled right back. Annoyed I pointed my finger towards his face and yelled right back.

"I was thanking you! Why the hell are you getting mad at me! I don't care if you keep glaring at me but the least you could do is fix the way you respond to people!"

"What you hated and feared me before didn't you?" He sneered.

"Yeah…I guess I blamed you for things that you honestly had no control over…but…it wasn't your fault what happened to me as a child…"

"Then whose fault is it?"

"No ones…" I said so simply that it even caught the Kyuubi off guard. He growled once he regained his composure.

"How is that possible that no one is to blame?" I thought about my response for a moment before I answered him.

"Well think about it…everyone did what they did for a reason right? It wasn't like they were trying to be malicious they were protecting themselves and their children and you weren't really trying to hurt anyone either. You just wanted freedom right?" He looked me up and down for a moment as though measuring me up before he turned his head away.

"Whatever." And even though the response wasn't necessarily positive I found a smile find its way to my lips.

"You know Kyuubi…I want to get rid of some of that hatred you have and become friends." I said while flashing my cheesy smile.

"What?" He roared and yet I only found my smile becoming larger.

"You know like how eight tails and Bee are! They fight and talk to each other about their problems… I want to become like that! I'm so incredibly jealous of their relationship! I want the two of us to become really good friends too!" I exclaimed. Kyuubi just stared at me for a while before looking away.

"Are you an idiot?" He asked. My smile faltered from the shock of hearing his once rumbling voice turn into a mumble. However the smile easily found its way back on my face before I scratched the back of my head.

"So I've been told" I laughed, continuing to scratch my head. An awkward silence engulfed us as I struggled to figure out what to say next. But all I could think about was my little baby girl and how cute she was…hmmmmmm…well… he kinda did help in that whole baby making process…Wait would that make him the god father…? Well he was involved in her life whether he wanted to be or not! Wait did he even know her name?

"We named her Itachi you know…" I blurted out before I even could think about it. He looked surprised for a moment before his composure returned and he rolled his eyes.

"I didn't ask."

"Yeah I know…I just thought that maybe you would want to know…" I said right as my knees buckled with exhaustion.

"Hn. You look like crap." He stated and I glared back up at him.

"I bet you aren't much better with all the chakra you used trying to escape!" I shouted once again pointing my finger at his face.

"Psh I stored extra chakra knowing that stupid Hokage would try to keep me at bay. However, once I realized that Madara was there, I stopped using chakra all together. So I have all my chakra in tact." He finished explaining and I found myself nodding in awe. But one word brought me straight back to reality.

"Madara…" I whispered out loud when the memories of him coming in right before I lost consciousness flooded my brain. He was endangering everyone I loved, Kohona, and the whole country. I willed myself to get the energy to wake up but it was all in vain. I was out of chakra.

"You can't seriously be thinking of going back and fighting in the state that your in." Kyuubi said as if he could care less but I could tell he was …concerned?...maybe….

My expression hardened and I looked into his eyes, my gaze unwavering, showing that yes I was completely serious.

"You're going to seriously die in the state that you are in." He argued again.

"I don't care I have to protect everyone…I have to help." I stated trying once again to muster up all the chakra and energy I had left in my body. It was silent after that before the Kyuubi spoke again.

"If you want me to lend you my powers I could you know…Naruto…" He said softly and I had to run the sentence through my brain a few times to make sure that I wasn't going insane and hearing things.

"Wha-"

"Don't think that I'm offering because we're friends or anything! I'd just rather be under your control then under Madara's! That was all I was thinking about! And I just want to see you fight a little bit! That's right…I just want a good way to kill time!" The Kyuubi shouted as his defense.

"Hey I thought I already told you to work on you responding methods! They suck! And why are you getting so defensive I haven't even said anything yet!" I shouted right back at him. I huffed and crossed my arms over my chest my eyes closed in defiance when I heard him give a huff of his own. However my eyes snapped open when I sensed movement from behind me. I quickly turned around to him that from between the bars of his cage, the Kyuubi had extended his arm until his fist was in front of me. I was about to ask what he wanted while staring at the huge fist before me when he answered my unspoken question.

"Mold your chakra with mine." He demanded. I felt my heart pound at the thought of what could go wrong if he instead tried to take over my body.

"Not that I'm not happy about the offer but this isn't going to turn into another chakra tug of war is it." It was terrifying to trust someone who you had never trusted before. I continued to switch my gaze from his fist to his eyes hoping to see whether his offer was legit or not. He smirked before answering.

"Idiot, you don't have to do that this time, though I'm a bit bored so if you want to play I wouldn't mind." He said keeping his fist in front of me. I looked at him for another moment really wondering if I should trust him or not. As I analyzed his gaze I realized that if I didn't take a chance and trust him there was no way that the Kyuubi would ever trust me.

Slowly I reached my fist out to his heart pounding the entire time until it finally bumped his. I paused waiting for something to happen but was a little surprised when I felt his chakra flow into my body. I smiled from relief and excitement about the right choice of trusting him. I held my hand to my stomach and undid the lock for Kyubbi cage. As the it began unlocking I thought about the time that I was first acknowledge. Iruka's words ran through my head as the lock to the Kyuubi's cage opened.

"He isn't a fox-monster anymore. He is the leafs village's Naruto Uzamaki."

"You aren't a fox monster anymore…" I found myself repeating the same words, hoping that they would save him as much as they saved me.

"You're one of my teammates from the leaf village…" And I meant every word. I didn't turn around to see the Kyuubi's face, but the silence let me know that my words had reached him. The lock had finally completely opened and as I shoved the gates wide open for the Kyuubi to be free I heard him scuff in the background. I smiled and pointed forward.

"Alright Let's go!" I shouted.

I snapped my eyes open, ready to take on whatever stood in my way.

Muhahahahaha! Alright so who expected that! Hahaha jk AAAHHH I'm gonna be a roasted Bunny by the end of this! lol But at I let him live! Be thankful! Cough cough Angelling cough cough :) Oh Sasunarulover! I'm so glad that you like my story and please keep reading and reviewing! :D I'm so flattered that you check everyday! :) The reviews that you guys leave are just so inspiring! Thank you so much :) I hope to receive lots more :D Oh and about baby Itachi…I have finished drawing her! Hahaha but right now I am working on the background and I am having a hard deciding what it should be…..Hmmmmm ah the troubles of yoai fan girl lol :) Alright please review and tell me how you liked this chapter! I love you guys! Oh and only TWO chapters left….and then it's over…..*sniff sniff* I love you guys!