Chapter 24:Deal of the Demon Part 1

(Italics: Thoughts/Flashbacks/Dream sequence.Bold: Title and Kyubi's / Demon's / Inner Naruto's / Inner Sakura's Speech. Underline: Time Skips

After Naruto and Tsunade finished catching up Naruto said his farewell and without a second thought leaped out her open office window. Naruto had a plan of what he wanted to do the only problem was he couldn't figure out what order he wanted to do them in.

He wanted to see all of his friends, he wanted to eat at Ichiraku's, but above all he couldn't wait to see Ino again. Naruto in the last six months had no time between his missions besides the necessities, namely sleep and preparation for the mission so in reality he had not seen his lover nor any of the Rookie Nine in six months and isolation was starting to eat away at him

His thoughts were suddenly interrupted however as a Demonic Voice spoke in the back of his mind:

My vessel the time has come for you to repay your debt to me... If not for my eyes you and that girl would have died or worse...

Naruto winced at the Demon's words and as much as he wanted to see all his loved ones and eat Ramen he owed this demon a great debt and made a deal, and his Shinobi way kept him bound to this because he never gave up or went back on his word.

Naruto sighed and jumped down to the forest floor, sat down, leaned against a sturdy tree for support and began to meditate.

He breathed deeply as he entered his inner world.

Naruto walked up to the enormous cage and looked up in the Kyubi's eyes and said:

"Alright I'm here now what do you need me to do?"

The fox snickered and narrowed his eyes as he gazed down upon his vessel and replied:

You will travel deep into your subconscious and obtain a certain item of mine that the fourth Hokage stole from me and sealed it elsewhere in your body. You will notice the seal because it is one of your clan. Now get out of my sight and achieve your goal!

With those words a portal manifested out of the solid stone walls surrounding the Kyubi's imprisonment. The portal was a large circle and as Naruto passed through it he felt the sensation of not being able to breathe and forced under extreme pressure as he resurfaced on the other side.

Naruto fell to his knees and gasped for air for a few moments before he got up, he looked around and his eyes widened in surprise as he said:

"What the hell-?"

Sakura was jumping from tree branch to tree branch looking exhausted as she returned home from one of Tsunade's extreme training sessions.

She panted and decided to drop down to the forest floor for a short break, she landed on the ground and dropped to her knees and sighed as she leaned against a tree very suddenly.

This motion caused the other person leaning against the tree to fall over.

Sakura jumped up in surprise with her Kunai in her hand but with further inspection she found the unconscious form of Naruto lying on the ground.

She shook him and tried to wake him but nothing seemed to work. Out of panic of not knowing how to help him Sakura picked up Naruto's body and ran to Konoha hospital as she thought:

Hold on Naruto...

Naruto looked around and seemed to be in a dream world version of Konoha, the only part different was the fact that it was completely empty without a person in sight.

Naruto quickly found his resolve and summoned his Ego clones and ordered them to split up and look for a place where the Fourth Hokage might have sealed the object the Kyubi spoke of. After twenty minutes of searching Naruto sighed and thought:

Let's see if I was the Fourth Hokage where would I seal something I took from a demon?

Naruto gazed up at the Hokage monuments and his eye rested on the Fourth Hokage's head as he said:

"Hehe Bingo."

Naruto gathered chakra in his legs and sped up the Hokage Monument, looking around the face of the Fourth's head for some kind of sign of where the seal could be.

Naruto sighed and gathered chakra into his eyes and opened them suddenly as he said: "Uzaraghan!"

The neon green orbs began to spiral around his pupil as the whites of his eyes turned a bright Magenta.

Naruto scanned the monument and inside it was a small cavern. Naruto smashed his fist into the Hokage monument and grinned as he looked down on his prize and said:

"Well, well what do we have here?"

Naruto walked into the cavern and on a small altar was a scroll with a chakra lock sealing it shut. Naruto grinned and performed a quick few hand signs and said:

"Uzumaki style! Chakra lock release!"

The lock of chakra disappeared in a bright blue light and vanished. Naruto walked up to the altar and picked up the scroll and opened it and took a look at it.

Naruto grinned and rolled the scroll back up and began to head back toward the portal as he dismissed his Ego Clones as he thought:

No wonder the Fourth Hokage sealed this away elsewhere...

His thoughts were interrupted again however as a barrage of Kunai landed right in front of him. He looked around and a voice called out from behind him:

"Hey what do you think you're doing!"

Naruto turned around to see this female warrior cloaked in a mask and all dark clothes charging at him with her blade in her hand, Naruto quickly unsheathed his sword and intercepted and blocked her blows as he said teasingly:

"You know you're pretty good."

She glared at him and said: "Put the scroll back now!"

Naruto who was still in the middle of blocking the her blade with his own looked at her in confusion and said:

"Scroll? Oh you mean this?"

Naruto held the scroll out in his hand and kept pulling his hand back every time she reached for it. She looked at him in frustration and said:

"What are you planning to do with it then? Because if the Kyubi put you up to this you've been tricked."

Seriousness filled Naruto's facial expression as he asked: "What do you mean?"

She sighed and said: "Do you know what that scroll is?"

Naruto looked at her and said: "Wasn't it a family heirloom of his or something?"

She glared at him for his stupidity and said:

"No you idiot! That's the summoning scroll for the Kyubi! If you give him that he'll release the seal and free himself!"

Naruto looked downat the ground and grinned as he said:

"Thanks for telling me now I can have some persuasiveness over that stupid fox."

And with those words the form of Naruto the warrior had been fighting vanished in a cloud of white smoke as a orange blur passed through the gateway like a speeding bullet. The Gateway immediately closing itself behind him.

A/N: Yeah a crazy idea I had about Naruto's deal with the Kyubi, but also remember the deal word for word, he said he's bring him the object, he never said anything about giving it to him to use, in the next chapter Naruto is going to make a deal of his own...

As for that crazy inner dream world I will go into detail on that later.

Oh yeah and since Naruto's unconscious during all this his loved ones are going to think he's in a coma giving the story a light touch of pseudo drama. Anyway REVIEW if you care!

Peace! - DemonicLove555