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Warning: For as much as it pains me to say this AGAIN… I do not own Naruto. Rated "M" for language and adult material.

A/N: I would like to give a BIG shout out to ShyTan'ith! Besides being the one reader to review the MOST, she has become a good friend and has helped out when I get stuck. Sometimes it takes another set of eyes to look at a chapter tell me what I'm doing wrong or point me in a different direction. She has done it on a few occasions for me, and I thank her profusely.

Now… Let the plot thicken…

Chapter 51:The Truth Comes Out

"Next time?" Naruto had a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, next time." Myra smiled. There was a low rumbling growl as the girl walked towards the cage.

Naruto walked over to Myra. "What's this about a NEXT time? When was there a FIRST time?" the blonde spat venomously.

Myra looked towards the cage. "The morning I snuck into your apartment."

"Careful girl," The Fox snarled. "You wouldn't want to break your oath to that Uchiha bastard now, would you?" The great beasts head came into view on the other side of the bars.

Myra allowed her lip to curl into a smirk. "I haven't said anything that would jeopardize that promise. Please, remind me, Oh Great and Powerful Lord of the Ethereal, what was it that I promised my dear cousin anyway?"

Naruto was standing back from Myra and the cage. He didn't know how or why the teme would come to his house, but he had some how been there. Naruto went over the events of that day. He had left the clone plushie of himself in her arms to alert him when he was awake. He had gotten back to his apartment in a matter of minutes. She was in the shower… "WITH THE DOOR LOCKED! Could Sasuke have been hiding in the bathroom?" That thought nearly made his heart sink further into a pit of despair. Naruto let his thoughts wonder further down these dark paths while he continued to listen to the conversation between Myra and the Fox.

"You know all to well what promise you made that bastard Uchiha, young lady!"

"Do I?" Myra kept her smirk. "Won't you kindly remind this lowly maiden, which promise the wise and wondrous Kyuubi no Youko is referring to?" Myra bowed low before the cage.

"That you would not tell Naruto that you can find Sasuke anywhere and at anytime." The Fox said with smug tone.

Naruto stood staring at Myra. When she turned to him looking like the cat that ate a canary, Naruto looked away. He didn't know what he was feeling at the moment. It teetered on the boarders of anger because she didn't share than kind of information, confusion as to why she could find Sasuke, and jealousy of the possibility that she and Sasuke… He wasn't going to think that. Myra was HIS RABBIT, but that didn't stop the flood of emotion.

Myra's heart sank and she turned back to the Fox. "And I didn't tell him."

The Fox shook his head. "Cleaver girl," the beast growled angrily. "The arrogant fowl know-it-all taught you well. You had me tell the Brat." The Fox chuckled.

"You know where Sasuke is?" Naruto sounded rather angry.

Myra kept her gaze on the Fox. "Before I was unconscious, he was staying about five miles outside of the village. The night before the accident, he was two miles to the Northwest of our camp. I don't know where he is right this second. But if you must know, yes, I can find him with ease."

"You're in for it now girl. I am going to enjoy watching the misery you have brought him." The Fox grinned.

"For years I have chased that teme. Every time I got close, he would disappear on me and I would have to start over." seethed Naruto. "Him and his goons nearly killed me, Sakura, and Kakashi the last time we caught up to them! You're here two days and he was on my DOORSTEP!"

"Actually he was in my dreams, or his nightmare, I haven't really figured out who called to whom." She turned to look at Naruto with a sad smile. He wasn't taking her confession as well as she had hoped.

"YOU DREAM ABOUT HIM!" The blonde yelled and the chamber shook.

Myra flinched and took a step back. She had never seen him this angry and it was a little unsettling to her. "Well… Yes… But is it isn't what you're thinking."

Naruto turned his back on her. "Do you love him too?" he braced himself for the truth. Myra had become one of the mass fangirls that fawned at the ice bastard's feet.

"Of course I love him! He's family. He is, for all purposes my BROTHER, in more ways than just the blood running in my veins." She tried to reach out to Naruto.

Naruto rounded on her pushing her arms away form him. "Then what am I to you?"

Myra looked at him and showed him a smile that brightened the room around her. "Everything. The sun in my day, the rain in my desert, the noodle in my ramen, the very air I breathe." Her voice was shaky and teary. But it was the truth that came from her heart.

"I may be sick." The Fox gagged.

Naruto ignored the Fox and took a step closer to Myra. "Then why didn't you tell me that you could find Sasuke?" Tears were threatening to spill from his eyes. Naruto didn't understand why she wouldn't trust him.

Myra hugged herself and looked away from Naruto. "You were right on the monument that evening we got in the fight because of Sasuke. I don't like being compared to other people. I am my own person. Course I understand now why my grandfather would tell me I was a lot like my great grandmother." She smirked sadly for a moment. Then she turned to the Blonde, a slight anger in her eyes. "But everyone, including you, was making a big deal about Sasuke, like the sun shines out of his ass and how I should be JUST LIKE SASUKE! I honestly didn't want the fucktard around."

"Well said…" The Fox chuckled.

Naruto shot a nasty glance at the Fox. "No one asked your opinion."

Myra leaned up against the wall. "Then I got to know you a little better and I got to know him a little better. He has his journey, you have yours, but now is a time when those paths have to cross." Myra seemed gloomy.

"Madara…" The Fox growled.

Myra turned around to the Fox, putting her hands on the bars. "He knows I exist."

"Who's Madara?" Naruto asked.

"The short explanation is he's THE big bad nasty." Myra chuckled.

"I know I'm asking a lot of questions here, but why should this Madara person care that you exist?" Naruto shrugged.

"Uchiha blood runs in Myra's veins. Her sharingan abilities may not be as strong as Sasuke's, but she does have abilities that compliment the sharingan nicely."

Myra hugged herself again and shuttered. "Miyako had some gross ideas on what he might do to me."

"W-wha-What w-would he do?" Naruto asked apprehensively. He didn't like the sound of what Myra was implying.

Myra took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "Take possession of my body at best. I REALLY don't want to think about what the worst could be."

The Fox snarled. "If you can find him girl, I will kill him once and for all and I will make sure there is no coming back from what I do to him."

"I don't want to find him. That's the point of all this. Miyako said I should stay close to Naruto, you…" Myra opened her eyes and looked directly at Naruto. "AND Sasuke. Which is why I have to tell my father, then I have to confess to Tsunade. It isn't going to be fun and I am going to need help. I don't know if Sasuke is ready to come back to the village yet." Myra took a step closer to Naruto. "But I don't think he's got much of a choice."

"How long would it take for you to find him?" Naruto grinned.

"A few minutes, depends on where he is." Myra shrugged.

"When do we leave?" The blonde gave Myra a cold look.

"He goes… I go… Myra, do you think Sasuke will put up much of a fight?" The Fox seemed agitated and started to pace the cage.

"I don't know." regretted Myra. "I'll just have to ask him the next time I see him." Myra was going to take another step closer to Naruto when she started to wobble. Naruto moved to catch her and he was standing back in the kitchen.

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The blonde wrapped his arms around Myra and found that she was still very cold. He made sure she was steady on her feet and then pushed her to arms length. He was still angry and confused, but he wasn't going to turn his back on her. "You're going back to the hospital."

Myra shook her head. "I'm just very hungry. A little food and I should be ok."

Naruto sat her at the dining room table. "Damn it girl, you WILL go back to the hospital after you eat something." Naruto glared at her and his tone was extremely commanding. Myra thought about protesting.

"I agree with him, you don't look so good."

Myra knew that voice, and kept calm. "Alright, I'll go back to the hospital after I eat something."

Naruto walked over to his stove and turned on the water. "All I have is ramen."

"I told you not to tell me that." She groused. Myra's hairs on the back of her neck went up and she could sense Sasuke's presence on the balcony. "And you call me crazy."

"I wanted to be sure you were ok." Sasuke smirked.

"I'm touched. How long have you been in the village?" Myra knocked over the sugar jar on the table and started to draw circles.

"Off and on since your accident. I saw the dobe's chakra flare out and knock you half way across the clearing. I was… worried and I didn't like it. I came to check on you every once and a while. Damn Ino nearly followed me to the west gate. There is something that's been bugging me and I can't help but think something's different." Sasuke kept to the shadows of the balcony so not to be seen. He was keeping his chakra suppressed so Naruto wouldn't notice. Sasuke had already conceded that Myra could sense him no matter what he did.

Myra stretched and yawned. "There is a lot that's different now."

"I need to ask you about something." Sasuke did a quick sweep of the area to make sure there was no one around.

Naruto was opening looking through his pantry of ramen. "Pork, beef, miso, what kind of Ramen do you want."

"Surprise me." Myra let out a long breath. "Sasuke, there is only so much I can do for you while you're still a missing nin. If everyone works together we may be able to find things faster. You've obviously come to a dead end. You've been sitting around the forest sulking for God only knows how long. What harm would it do you to ask for a little help from your friends?" Myra smirked at the table.

"I can't come back. I burnt that bridge a long time ago. I thought I had broken those bonds, I had to, and I know now it was a mistake. I nearly killed Naruto and Sakura getting away from them. They aren't going to want me back." Sasuke hung his head.

"Pick one?" Naruto was holding the pork and miso behind his back.

"The left one." Myra was looking directly at Naruto. "I wouldn't be too sure of that. Sakura did say she would always love you. Dream or not, Brother, it came from her heart. I can feel your remorse, your love for her, and how much you actually miss Naruto's antics. Mostly your love for Sakura, it's kind of overwhelming. The emotions you've been denying yourself for so long have become a fire that will not stop spreading. You weren't in the village because you were checking on me; you were in the village to see Sakura. I was just the excuse."

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Naruto gave her half a smile. "Pork ramen it is."

"There is something you need to know Brat." The Fox sounded warm for a change.

"Great more news." Naruto was still confused about everything that was going on. His world had been shattered the moment Myra had ran into it, now everything was continuing to spiral out of control. He was standing next to the stove waiting for the water to boil.

"She needs you, now more than ever." The Fox said with a note of concern that startled Naruto.

"Out with it already, you do care… Not that I blame you." Naruto kept still as possible so not to alert Myra he was having a conversation with the Fox.

"It goes much deeper than you think Brat. I do… Care… Don't go spreading it around. You'll ruin my reputation as a merciless demon." The Fox hung his head.

"I don't get any of this shit." Naruto heard the sounds of the water beginning to boil.

"Long story Kit. All of it, centers around Madara and his greed for power. I became a pawn in his power scheme." The great beast growled.

Naruto chuckled internally. "You a pawn? I thought you were a King?"

"Rage blinds us to the truth. I was not in my right mind when Madara put his collar on me." The Fox snarled. Being so honest with Naruto wasn't what he wanted to do, but Naruto needed to hear. Though the Fox didn't want to admit to anything, he had become slightly attached to his host.

Naruto started to make the ramen for Myra. "What changed you?"

"At the first test of trust, the woman I loved hesitated and my human heart shattered. That is all you need know about that. Madara used my own anger and contempt for humanity to fuel my desire to destroy what I once protected. I still do not trust mankind."

Naruto stopped pouring the water into the bowl. "Wait… You were human?"

"Enough for now Kit… See to Myra. She needs you right now. I will always be here." The Fox's voice sounded ominous and faded behind the mental doors. Naruto blinked. Something didn't sit well with the Fox's words. It was almost like a warning.

Naruto shook it off and looked over at Myra at the table. She was looking rather please with herself drawing something on the table. Naruto picked up the bowl of ramen and walked over to her. Myra made no movement and said nothing. She quickly removed her hands from the table before Naruto set down the bowl of ramen.

He looked down at the table. On the table, written in spilt sugar was "Open the balcony doors, quietly, quickly, and don't say a word until AFTER you open the doors". Naruto looked back at her and she glanced at the doors. The blonde tilted his head.

"Thanks for the ramen." Myra smiled and started to slurp.

Naruto didn't get why she would want him to open the doors, she could have gotten up and done it herself. He shrugged and opened the balcony doors.

Sasuke stood on Naruto's balcony with his arms crossed, looking cocky and uncaring as ever. He shook his head. "Crazy bitch…"

"Silly Fucktard…" Myra grinned.

Naruto glared at Sasuke and growled. "TEME…"

"Dobe…" Sasuke chuckled.

"BULLWINKLE!" Myra shouted and started laughing hysterically.

Naruto and Sasuke turned slowly to stare at Myra with a raise eyebrow. Myra stopped laughing and looked a little sheepish. "Look… I found him." She said with a wide toothy grin.

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contest: Ok people.. Thought of something fun I might do... If you can tell me where the end scene of this chapter came from in the review... You get a sneak peak of the next chapter. If this works out, I might come up with another contest like this. Meanwhile... Have fun and keep reading.