It was everything he ever wanted in a house. It was a house of dreams. Naruto simply stared at the giant estate. It was surrounded by the forest and only if you knew where to look could you see the house. It wasn't as grand as the Hyuuga's or as spacious as the Uchiha's but it was.... majestic. Just by looking you could tell it once housed the strongest and wisest of all shinobi. Its three stories were supported by decorative banisters that made it blend into the surroundings. As Naruto stepped up to the perimeter her felt a force that made him unable to continue forward. Frowning, he pushed against the force only to be shoved back a few feet. He heard a slight snickering from the bushes and he frowned further. Those kids had followed him, wanting to find out where he lived. He gritted his teeth in annoyance. He should have picked up on them the moment they started following him, not now when they made a mistake! He was lucky he didn't talk to Kyuubi using his real name. He muttered a string of curses under his breath. Kyuubi bounced up to Naruto and gave him a pleading look. Naruto smiled.

"Don't scare them too bad." He said in answer to the look. Kyuubi yipped in joy and ran off into the forest. "Have fun!" he called after the fox. Smirking he returned to the barrier around his new house and brought out a kunai. He pulled back his sleeve, baring the flesh of his arm and brought the razor sharp blade down.

Sasuke was pissed. The pink and blonde kunoichi, known and Sakura and Ino, followed him everywhere nowadays and now he was trapped against a rock face by the blood red fox that was following that suspicious blonde guy around this afternoon. The fact that Sasuke was following him is irrelevant, He was Sasuke Uchiha. He had the right to know anything that happened near his home.

The fox grinned playful and nipped at Sasuke's feet, causing him to stumble back, his back hit a stony wall. He was alone in facing this creature. The others had fled the minute the fox had shown up in their hiding spot, hoping to find out something about Naruto, growling menacingly at them. Sasuke was the only one who stayed to fight the beast.

Sasuke threw a handful of shuriken at the beast, all aiming for vital points. Kyuubi neatly dodged them all and leaped at the boy. The fox opened his jaws, presenting a line of deadly fangs, and held them a breath away from the child's throat. Sasuke froze in fear.

"Is this where it ends?" he thought to himself. "NO! I still have things to do! I must avenge my family and I must kill him!" were his last thoughts as the fox descended.

"FANG!!" yelled a voice. "Fang, come look at this! You won't believe the stuff I found!" The fox paused, his teeth seconds away from piercing Sasuke's neck. A whine came from the fox, when the blonde haired boy emerged from the tree. Naruto took one look at the scene before collapsing with laughter. Sasuke was shocked. He wouldn't admit he needed help, but to just laugh at him when he is about to be devoured by the boy's pet, is beyond cold.

"Hahaha, are you getting soft in your old age, Fang?" wheezed the boy when he finally got control of the mirth that racked his body. At this the fox lifted his head, snapped his mighty jaws shut, and growled at the boy. Naruto stopped laughing and studied the boy.

"You're right he doesn't, does he?" he answered an unvoiced question. The fox nodded his head as if he understood what the boy said. "Naw, and here I thought I would finally have some blackmail material on you," pouted the child. Sasuke was beyond confused at this one sided conversation.

"What the hell are you on about?!" he demanded, interrupting Naruto's conversation with himself.

"Oh yeah, you're still here," he mused to himself. "I was just teasing Fang about not scaring you off properly, but apparently you didn't run when the others did and fought back. He likes you, that's why he played with you for a bit'" he said to the black haired boy.

Sasuke stared at Naruto, his mouth hanging open slightly.

"That was playing?!"

"Hahaha yeah, otherwise you would have been dead already without even seeing him," smirked the boy, amused at Sasuke's disbelief. Sasuke quickly looked at the fox that had an evil grin on its face, before it whipped a tail in its face and raced over to its master.

"Well what did you mean when you said 'he doesn't, does he?'?!" demanded Sasuke. Naruto quirked an eyebrow at his arrogant attitude.

"And, pray tell, why should I explain myself to you? When you're the one stalking me and fighting with my beloved pet?" Naruto countered. Sasuke was about to retort to this insolent question when a low menacing growl interrupted him. The fox, 'Fang' had turned his head towards the blonde haired boy and had lifted up its hackles at the last statement.

"What's wrong with it now?" questioned Sasuke warily. Naruto just smiled goofily.

"He just doesn't like to be referred to as a pet. He thinks he is the almighty, great lord fox and people should worship the ground he walks on for they are no better than flee-ridden meat sacks good only for stating his pompous appetite," announced the boy grandly, as if he were introducing a noble at a ball. The effect was lost by the heavy sarcastic tone and the boys multiple eye-rolls. Sasuke snorted at this which made Naruto gasp in surprise.

"Oh! So you can laugh! I thought the stick that you so righteously shoved up your ass was stuck there permanently!" grinned the boy. Sasuke frowned at this. "This guy is an idiot" he thought to himself.

"No. I was simply laughing at you for thinking that a mere animal can understand you," shot the steely eyed Uchiha. Naruto lost his grin and looked at Kyuubi with caution.

"He dares to call me a mere ANIMAL?!" roared the demon in Naruto's mind.

"Now, now he doesn't know who he's talking to." Quickly said the blonde in an effort to calm the raging creature.

His pleas fell on deaf ears. Kyuubi had his head lowered and legs crouched in preparation for launching himself at the insolent child. His eyes glowed red and his pupils were black slits. White fangs were bared as the growl increased in volume. Sasuke stared at the fox and fear blossomed in his chest. 'Maybe insulting the beast was a bad idea,' he thought to himself before the kitsune let out a soul-shattering roar. Never before had the Uchiha heard anything so cold and blood-thirsty. The sound was layered with hate and contempt and frightened Sasuke to his core.

"Ah, there it is" Naruto said quietly, cutting off Kyuubi's roar. The fox ran up to Sasuke and stared into his eyes, before giving off a little yip of approval and licking his cheek. Naruto smirked at this but decided to tease the fox about it later. Right now he needed to deal with the very confused Uchiha in front of him.

"What's there?" asked Sasuke when he gathered his thoughts. The roar had shocked him but the lick on his cheek shocked him even more. Still grinning, Naruto sat down in front of the Uchiha and Kyuubi laid down beside him, wrapping his nine tails about the boy and resting his head on his paws.

"Fear," Said Naruto simply. Sasuke furrowed his brow as he tried to understand what just he was saying. Seeing as the boy was getting nowhere Naruto decided to elaborate.

"Fang hates to be belittled and under-estimated. Plus you intrigued him when you showed no fear of him as he was about to break your neck. So he decided that he wanted to scare you enough to show that you should fear him. He probably wants you to revere him as well but he knows that's never gonna happen," he explained. "Oh and he can understand you, and is probably smarter than any person you've ever met so I advise against calling him a 'mere animal'" finished Naruto chuckling slightly.

Sasuke was dumbfounded with this new information about the fox. Who right now was following a butterfly's flight pattern with his nose.

"Who are you?!" asked Sasuke again, this time a little less arrogantly. Naruto sighed.