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"Speech"

"Whisper"

Stressed word

'Thought'

Demon's speech

-Complications-

Naruto arrive to his apartment and stepped inside, at least that's what he last remembers, well that and the hallway of his apartment spinning before with everything going black. Looking at the current surroundings he found himself in a huge sewer system, this was definitely not his house. A loud clanking and splashing sound echoing from deeper within drawing his attention.

"Where the heck am I?" The boy stood and took a step, nothing but the clanking and the slush of the water was heard, he took another, still more of the same. Eventually he was steadily walking down the only path available. 'Did someone knock me out and throw me down into the sewers again?' He looked around, something was different, out of place; then it hit him. "It doesn't smell.." He took a large whiff. "At all."

Moving further down the path he felt something growing, something like the killing intent he was so used to receiving in his village, though compared to that this was far worse, it actually ha a heaviness to it as well a a chilling effect. He was getting an idea of where he may have wound up. "Wet and dark, I am a jailer after all, what better place to keep the jailed."

It made sense, the water was too clean to be the Konohan sewers and he hadn't seen a rat yet, but he had to be sure. Quickening his pace he soon arrived at an enormous room, huge metal bars lined the far wall vertically, like a cage. The floor dipped down slightly meaning it was deeper water he had to wade through, not that he was paying much attention to the floor; what demanded his attention was behind the cage before him.

'Well for the first time in my life I'm right...' Stopping it's claw in mid-tap the beast behind the barrier opened a single crimson eye to look at the blond, a grin moved up it's muzzle.

"Ah my renowned jailer, this is sure the surprise, you're quite well know within this sewer you know." A voice that cut right into him echoed through the room, the enormousness size and unmistakable nine tales defined this as the strongest known being to tread the earth and what resided within his body.

"Y- yea..." Naruto wasn't scared for his safety, if it could do anything he would be dead by now, but the sense of security didn't make the biju any less terrifying he really didn't want to deal with this now, striking up a conversation with an all powerful fox was the last thing he wanted to do.

"Yes the very thing that holds my great power away is smaller than my paw, a mere kit at that."

"But..." The second eye opened and both glared at the Uzumaki, killer intent just visible behind the annoyance of the eyes.

"What you seek from me: my power, the answer of questions, my freedom?" The last part held a tone of mock hope.

"I don't even know why I'm here, this is an accident."

"So you don't seek anything from me, have you've come just to annoy me then with more of you constant yelling?"

"I..." He didn't plan on starting a conversation but it had happened anyway, might as well talk. "I want answers... why... why did you attack, why did you ruin my life!"

"So you do have a reason to be here aside from wreaking my ears, very well... but this is a two way street."

"You want to know something, what could I possibly explain to you?"

"Well... I've seen your life through your eyes, I know likes, dislikes, so called loved ones, the hatred directed towards you, but I have to ask, why even stay here? Why not escape this place, this pain, wouldn't that be easier? Naruto chuckled at the question.

"It's true that this place is against me and it would really be easier to just run away, but I'm no traitor..." The thought of him leaving the village just because things didn't work out for him left a bad taste in his mouth. Doing something like that would just show how weak he really was. "Running away won't solve anything, I'll get hunted down and killed even if I try, I'm going to prove to all of those idiot villagers that I'm not what they always told me I am, I'll show them I am not a worthless monster if it's the last thing I do!"

"As idiotic at that sounds... I suppose that will suffice, very well, I came to this village to destroy it, I can't remember much before that but I had an urge to burn this place to the ground, as simple as that. After I've seen what they've done to you, a kit, I now have reason behind an attack."

"Y- you can't do that, this is my village, my home, my friends!"

"What friends, the old man, that teacher, those ramen chefs; that is all you have, nothing more!"

"But..."

"Do not insult me by bring up that pink haired brat, the very thought makes my ears burn."

"That's Sakura-chan, I love her!"

"You can't be serious right, you're still saying that, I bet you can't even explain why?"

"She's beautiful just my type, she can be a little mean but..."

"I know you're lying through; in case you've forgotten, I've been here as long as you've been alive, you've already hit puberty, I've seen what inspired your original jutsu, tell me why you insist on this farce."

"W- what...?"

"Come on tell me, I hate not knowing an answer." The fox was prying, trying to get to him, and while even the blond could see the attack on his emotions, it was no less effective.

"It's..." He didn't know, when he actually thought about it he really didn't know. "It's none of your business!" He ran away, down the endless halls, to be honest he was still scared of the beast, he didn't even really know why he opened up to the demon, intimidation maybe? Now there was another thing on his mind. 'I don't know, why do I love Sakura, how did it start?' This scared him, there was no reason the demon was right; he quickened his pace. As weird as the fox seemed it did have a point, he was a health teenage boy, hidden in a henge to look twelve, but a still teenage boy.

The henge was originally applied to stop the smarter of the younger generations from connecting his age and birthday to the night of the attack and questioning it, but now he realized that he had grown too attached to this disguise. He had made his own personality around his henge and while certain mentalities of his true age showed through, he made himself three years younger than he actually was.

'Was that where it started, the thought that I would be accepted if I became younger... but I wasn't either way, in this place I'll never be accepted, not unless they forget about the attack.' He stopped staring into the dark passage thinking over the fox's words. 'No I'm no traitor acceptance or not, I still want to protect my home and the few loved ones I have, now minus one...' The blond shuttered; he couldn't like someone like Sakura she was too cold hearted, let alone love; she had insulted him for simply getting in her way or just speaking towards her, she was just another fangirl.

'And how easy it is to say that, like I've known it my whole life, ahhhh! I've been lying to myself for who knows how long without even realizing it, and why even Sakura in the first place... I should have questioned it, I guess when she knocked me from that seat a while ago I kind of did, but if the fox hadn't asked that how long would I hav-'

The feeling of danger gave Naruto his only warning, rolling to the right he was able to dodge. Where he was just standing now stood a menacing crimson spike, it looked like it had fallen from above.

The teen looked up to inky darkness, a small line of blue light moved down the passage, a faint red one flickering every now and again."Where the heck did this come fro-" Again he moved, jumping to the side. He couldn't avoid this spike as well as the last, the jacket he was wearing now had a gash in the torso. 'That one came from below, what's doing thi-' He fell to his back, this one had come from the wall horizontally aiming a his side.

"Kyuubi!" As if in response a fourth spike came from above, aiming for his naval, rolling to the right once more he dodged, getting to his knees Naruto began crawling for his life, spike after spike shot from the walls floors and fell like rain from above. Gaining a footing he got to his feet and took off running down the halls hoping he was going towards the beast he held.

'How is this happening, why didn't it happen before this, why-' "Gah!" One of the weapons had cut into his shoulder, he grabbed it in pain. Distracted he wasn't able to dodge the next spike as it fell from above cutting into his back.

"Stop..." One caught his side. "Hitting... " Another dug deeply into his thigh, coming from the wall the final spike would pierce his skull from the left cheek. "Meeee!" His eyes flashed red, his whisker marks darkened and his injuries closed, above the pipes behind the blue shone a bright menacing crimson. It lasted for only a second before things returned to normal. Not noticing what had taken place Naruto trudged forward intent on getting to the fox, the pain still coursing through his body. He could soon see the gate growing larger with each step, almost at the room he was slammed in the wall, his jacket was caught near his neck.

As quickly as he could the blond ripped his shirt off and jumped into the room before him, he landed with a dull splash and looked around frantically- no more spikes seemed to be coming; turning to his jailed he asked one simple phrase.

"What the heck!" The beast however, didn't seem to hear him, it was scratching on the wall with it's claw. "Kyuubi!"

"Oh kit... you survived..." the response was bored, and uncaring. "Now what am I supposed to do... hmmm."

"You just tried to kill me!"

"That's not true! I just tried to wipe your soul out of existence and take over your corpse, I guess it failed."

"That's just as bad, haven't you already done enough to me!"

"I really wish your village would have not beaten, shunned, and hated you, I really do, I actually feel bad about putting you through all of it; but I am the demon fox, king of the Biju, do you really think I wouldn't try to escape, be your good little prisoner. Bah, I want out of this place as soon as possible! What do you say let me out and let this old fox have it's life back, I'll even spare the old man, teacher and chefs; you'll die happily if I agree to that right?"

"I don't know how you were able to attack me but don't think your tricks will scare me, I'm ever going to let you out no matter what you do!"

"We'll see about that... you just need to let your guard down again." 'Well that trick worked as well as I could have hoped, he's drawn on my power making this seal weaker, I wish my illusions would have been enough to persuade him to release me, oh well... he'll break eventually I just have to keep feeding him my power, my will, keep him paranoid, and soon I will be free, hehehe...'

"YOU'RE NEVER GETTING OUT, NOT WHILE I'M STILL BREATHING!" Looking around Naruto saw the familiar apartment he had grown up in. 'I sure hope no one heard that.' Getting to his feet he rubbed his eyes, it was was brighter here than it was in his head.

"Wait a second, if the suns out then... it's already tomorrow!" His entire night was gone; looking himself over he realized that his jacket was still intact and that his flesh had none of the cuts from the spikes even if it still felt like the gashes were there. "So if I get hurt in my mind then my body isn't effected yet I keep the pain... weird." He would have thought it over more but his eyes accidentally passed a clock "I'm going to be late!" Turning around he ran out of the door, moving as quickly as his legs would carry him.

Sprinting down the street was always annoying, the people just don't move, shoving another slow pedestrian out of the way Naruto continued his rush towards the academy. Around a group of civilians, over a couple children, under the trash thrown at him by other angrier civilians; he had to shake his head and laugh at how easy it had become to dodge, but not paying attention would cost him, he ran right into someone sending both down to the streets.

He lay there dazed for a second or two before shaking it off, the stars that had circled his head disappeared to who knows where until his next head injury, he pushed himself up with his arms.

"Hey, sorry about that..." He then realized who he had run into, that purple haired teacher that had looked pissed yesterday was now laying under him and glaring, moving his gaze down his arm he found that his left hand was pushed into her fishnet covered stomach. He jumped off of her faster than some can blink and fell on his knees to the ground.

"I didn't mean to; please forgive me; I'm not ready to die!" He was rambling apologies as quickly as he could. Anko got to feet, she should have felt anger from what had just happened, she should feel negative emotions to everything when out in public and not under watch; But looking at the frantic boy she couldn't help but feel confusion.

'I'm used to fear and begging sure but how in the world was this kid even able to run into me... whisker marks... so it's that kid, still to be able to hit me...' She was now just staring at him the glare gone, her face stoic, and out of everything Naruto had encountered with women this had to be the scariest.

'What's she thinking; why is she staring; is she thinking over ways to torture me...' She was still staring blankly at him lot in her own thoughts; the blond could only stare back slowly becoming more paranoid.

Deciding that whatever could possibly take that long to think of would probably end him up in a body bag, the boy decided to just cut his losses and run. "Sorry again!" He moved past her faster than he usually moves when running from the anbu, Anko turned to watch him leave.

'Maybe there is more to that kid than I thought...hmm.' Anko would kill anyone who said it out loud but in some ways she did take after her master Orochimaru, one of the most prominent traits would be curiosity. She would always try to find out how jutsu or other things worked, especially if they interested her - maybe that was why she was so good at interrogation, the human mind was one large puzzle - and now that blond that she had been hearing about recently had become a point of interest that she couldn't ignore. The woman began walking with a small grin on her face.

'Looks like I found some prey, maybe this teaching thing won't as boring as I thought.'

'Too much has happened...' Naruto had his head down on his desk, the lecture drawled in the background not even reaching the boy's ears, he just wanted to sort out his crumbling life instead of dealing with studies, he just had to show up after all. To think, a little over a month ago he was almost a genin ninja, now with on unfair decision he was back to sitting in the academy, the only thing he had gotten out of the entire mess was the shadow clone technique, he could make an exact solid replica of himself at will.

He hadn't used the jutsu since the survival exam, for the first week back into lectures he had mused over using it to skip classes but quickly decided against it, it wasn't like a clone wouldn't be found out in a ninja academy, these were all at least middle classed ninja teaching here, it wouldn't last a week.

'But I haven't really tested the shadow clones to their fullest, who knows what their capable of.' Once again that fated exam came to mind. 'I know that they can at least be used to collect information and as solid distractions, maybe I could use them to train with.' While he was stuck here for another five years he might as well try to improve on what he's been given and try to sort out his psychological problems.

For what felt like the thousandth time that day Naruto groaned and buried his head deeper into his arms, his life could have been so much better had he had just grabbed one stupid bandanna. 'I'll get stronger, I'll be the greatest ninja in the world, I'll make it so I can finally call my life a good one, I just don't know what to do!' He was at a loss, the whole reason for becoming a genin was to learn under a jounin. The Blond knew everything the academy taught - or at least everything they actually taught him that related to fighting - but other than practicing those jutsu he already knew, paying attention to the boring lessons on ninja facts and theory and the shadow clone there was nothing left to do.

'The others are probably being taught amazing techniques and advanced conditioning, learning from a master, absorbing the informat-' Then it struck him, he was stuck here, using clones to take his place in class would be suicide but... 'If I send them out to follow the genin teams I could learn from all of them at once!' The idea seemed wrong, like it was cheating something, then again that survival exam was unfair and completely against him, he deserved to learn. 'It's not like I'm copying their justu, just learning what all the other genin do; ok, I'll send them out at lunch.'

Raising his head a small grin showed on Naruto's face, he finally felt like he was going to get somewhere. Sure his life may have fallen in a hole but no he'd found a way out. Someone else noticed his sudden change in emotion... his homeroom teacher.

"Well you look confident Uzumaki, care to answer the question?' He pointed to the blackboard and read from it. "What is the oldest age a person can become without searching for their chakra before it become no longer accessible?"

"Uh..." He looked around the room frantically, he didn't know, he'd already unlocked his own chakra why care about the deadline for it. "24!"

And done, it may be a bit slow now, but thing will pick up, come on have a little faith, what's the worst I can do? FlareXD.