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Chapter one: The end of normal
Sunlight.
Dreaded enemy of the sleeping young.
It was this dreaded foul creature that woke him. It was not by choice or need but just because.
He rose slowly from his bed and looked at the clock. Six a.m., the same time as yesterday and the day before. Always the same, and today even being the day it was, was no exception. No one knew what today was. No one had ever cared to ask but to the young blond just rising from his single bed in his tiny apartment where he lived alone it was a terrible reminder of his loneliness.
Today he would be twelve. Today he was a year older and that was basically all it meant, and it nearly crushed his spirit as it had on all the previous eleven that no one even knew or bothered to ask. And to day had no reason to be any different.
'They never even ask' thought Naruto bitterly. 'Not once has any one asked when my birthday is'. He looked into the mirror as he brushed his teeth. "Don't look any older," he said to no one.
He finished his morning cleaning routine and picked out a clean black undershirt and his classic orange jacket pants combo and left his apartment heading toward the academy lacking his usual flair and looking for all the world like a completely normal twelve year old. Any who knew Naruto would immediately realize he must be quite sad and even depressed to act like this but then he could count the people who had actually taken the time to get to know him on two fingers.
Technically there were three beings that really knew him but he had long since chosen that, while a stead fast friend and often voice of encouragement, the fox demon was simply not a person and not really able to help him through his life as he had often wished.
Unbeknownst to Naruto the fox sealed in his belly was likewise wishing she had the ability to help him.
(AN: the rest of this chapter will be devoted to the back story so feel free to tell me if you like the concept or not, flames will help me to get to what you like so feel free)
Twelve years earlier she had been summoned onto this plane by an odd pale man with yellow eyes and ordered to attack and destroy the hiddenvillage Konoha. When she had refused he had used an incredibly powerful genjutsu to drive her into a violent rage, then pointed her towards the unfortunate and unprepared village. Blinded by her rage she attacked the village and killed many, but just as she neared the main residential areas of the village she saw a young man running toward her. It was strange to her but as he drew closer she saw that he had a small odd shaped bundle wrapped up and tied to his back. There had been a flash and then everything had gone dark.
But the fox in the boys belly knew nothing of this. During the sealing process both the fox and the boy had lost their memory. As the boy was only hours old at the time no one knew any of this was to happen.
So inside her seal the fox demon had been reborn with no knowledge of anything. The lack of knowledge caused her to emulate the first thing she saw and that was Naruto. The body and gender of the fox remained the same but the intellect and perception became that of an infant. This perception caused the fox to take on the form of an infant girl.
As Naruto grew so did the fox inside him. Their continued existence was unknown between the two of them for the first three years of Naruto's life. Then during the summer of his third year, an angry shinobi who had lost a brother to the fox's attack had finally snapped and chosen to find his revenge by killing the boy who held the fox within him. The man snuck into the orphanage where the boy was staying and found his room. With out a sound the man drew a kunai from his pouch and stabbed the boy straight through the left lung. Thinking the boy must surely be dead the man quickly fled the scene in a puff of smoke.
The boy for his part was not dead but the shock drove him into his own mind. Seeing the little boy again raised the spirits of the fox immensely as she thought he had forgotten her. But as she saw the condition the boy was in her stomach dropped and her smile faded instantly. She rushed to the bars of her cage and even though her body appeared small enough to fit through for some reason she could only reach out. She stretched and stretched as far as she could and begged him to be all right, and just when she thought he was gone he reached forward and dragged himself the last bit forward and placed his hand in hers. She wasted no time and pulled him into the cage with her.
The moment he crossed into the cage, there was lightning everywhere. It hurt her to hold his hand and at the same time she couldn't let go. The lightning passed from her into him and it was at once the best and worst feeling she had ever experienced. She finally managed to let go and was shocked when he flew straight back out of the cell. She saw that his body was beginning to smoke and steam and was overrun by worry. Had she hurt him? Was he going to be ok? Was he even alive? Her worry turned swiftly to fear. How had he got here in the first place? How had he been injured?
And with that final question to her self the fear turned to anger and further to a rage she had never felt since after her memory loss. 'Someone has hurt him,' she thought. Some one had caused the wound in his chest and it was causing him great pain, maybe even killing him. 'Who hurt him' she thought. 'I'll make them pay!'
The young boy had been the only one to ever visit her, even though he had only come once. It was her first and fondest memory. For some reason she was stuck here in this cage and all alone, but the first thing she had seen was a tiny boy lying in the water just outside the her prison, crying his eyes out. That memory had kept her going in the hope that maybe he'd come back and see her again.
Now he had come back to see her but someone had hurt him, possibly killed him. This couldn't be allowed. She couldn't let him die. Some how she just had to keep him safe, she had to make sure he would be ok. To do that, she had to get out, get out and make the one responsible sorry he was ever born. These thought ran through her head and then suddenly she was out.
No bars, no hallway with water allover the floor, no cave, just a small room with a large (in her eyes) bed. But what really caught her eye wasn't the bed but the large red stain on it. Blood. His blood. She could tell by the smell that it was his. And she could also smell a trace of it heading out of the room.
'The one who hurt him' she thought. 'I'll hunt him down!' With that she hoped over to the window and with an inhuman growl she was off.
She awoke back in her cage content that the bastard responsible for the boy's injury would never be able to hurt the boy again. She looked out through the bars and was elated to see the boy watching her from a corner propped up against the wall. She smiled a wide smile at the boy and waved a little hand.
The boy returned her smile and wave as he pushed him self up, and waddled over to the bars.
"Where am I?" the boy asked.
"You came back to visit silly" replied the fox.
"I was here before?" asked the boy.
"Yep!" she replied with a smile and a nod
"Ok then," the boy smiled "I'm Naruto, what's your name?"
"Umm," she nervously bit her lip "I don't have one" she looked at the floor embarrassed and sad at her lack of a name.
"Well that just crazy!" yelled Naruto "Everyone needs a name! How come you don't have one?"
"Well no one ever gave me one," she explained "and the only one to ever come visit me is you"
"Ok then we'll have to think of one," smiled Naruto" you look kind of like a fox, I heard of a really powerful fox named Kyubi, how's that?"
"Wow," she exclaimed with little sparkles in her eyes " that a pretty name, you really think I could have that name?"
"Sure, it's not like anyone else is using it," he smiled a smile so wide he had to close hi eyes.
"Ok then," smiled Kyubi, " if you think it's ok then I'll make it my name,"
"All right!" Naruto whooped and he leapt in excitement "that's great Kyubi-chan, but it's late and if I don't get back to bed the old lady of the orphanage will be mad"
"Will you come back tomorrow?" pleaded Kyubi her face and hopes falling.
"I don't know if I can but I'll try," he promised. "Night Kyubi-chan" he called out as he faded away.
The next morning when he awoke, Naruto felt an odd presence in the back of his mind.
'Who's there?' he thought.
'It's me, Kyubi' came the voice. 'I'm not sure how but I think I'm in your head' her voice cam in light and happy. 'Let's be friends ok?' she asked
'Really? You'll be my friend?' Naruto asked. He had never had a friend before, as all the other kids were scared of him for some reason and the grownups were always glaring at him.
'Of cores I will!' came the reply with a mental smile. 'If … If you want me to' she voiced shyly.
'Hooray!' thought Naruto. 'I've always wanted a friend!'
'Well now you've got one!' came Kyubi's happy voice with another mental smile.
AN: ok how was that? This is my first fic so I'm going to start slow plus with school and stuff so if you like it tell me and I'll try to get it updated for you.
I've read a few fics where the Kyubi is female and I had this idea that maybe it wasn't always evil. Pleas forgive me if some people are out of character but I'm kinda changing the whole time frame here.
Next chapter will return at the gennin exams.
I'm trying to decide if I want to pair Naruto up with an already existing girl or if I should find a way to brin Kyubi out of him and pair them up. Let me know
R/R pleas. I need feedback!