Eek, you've found me! Well, guess I can't hide this chapter forever so here you go… But beware, next time I will hide harder so you can't find me at all! MOO HAHAHAHA, er; hopefully I'm just kidding -sweat-.

Dear Kyuubi Madness,

We are deeply sorry to inform you that you do not own the show Naruto in any shape or form. Masashi Kishimoto does and always will.

Our deepest sympathy,

The Naruto crew

The Never Ending Gaki Story

Chapter 9

Naruto was running for his life, once again.

The leaves of the trees came at him fast and they whipped his face and his hands that he held out in front of him.

The blond haired boy heard the wolves catching up to him, their snarls echoing off the canyon wall that lay beside him.

Naruto knew he couldn't out run the animals so he decided to stop and turn around.

Why run when the end was sure to come anyway?

The wolves burst through the bushes that Naruto was staring at. The eight-year-old jumped slightly, although he had been expecting it they still frightened him.

The wolves began to circle him.

He and the wolves were in a clearing where the trees formed all around them in a circle. They loomed above the ground casting sharp and spongy looking shadows upon the dark, misty forest ground.

Naruto suspected that he must have entered their territory at some point and that's why they were chasing him, otherwise he was certain he would already be dead.

It seemed there was a new leader wolf, since the other one had knocked right into the cliff's wall. It was directly in front of Naruto while the other wolves continued to circle him.

Naruto wished there were some way he could communicate with the animal, so as to tell it he wasn't doing anything wrong. Though he was certain they wouldn't understand human language he tried anyway…

"I wasn't doing anything!" He croaked and continued to stare into those unblinking eyes of the leader wolf's.

"So?"

Naruto jumped as the animal spoke quietly.

He pointed, his mouth agape, at the wolf. "You, you can talk?"

There were various growls from the wolves all around Naruto. The leader wolf barred its yellow teeth.

"Of course I can, you bloody idiot! I'm a demon!" It snarled and Naruto couldn't help but step back a couple paces.

The trees rustled in the midnight wind and that same owl hooted off in the distance.

Naruto shivered, not because it was cold, because of the situation he had found himself in.

He took in his surroundings and tried to figure a way out of this mess, but the wolves continued to circle around him and escape seemed impossible at the moment.

"W-Well then Mr. Demon Wolf sir, could you just let me go… please?" Naruto whimpered and began to fumble his fingers together.

The leader wolf walked closer into the moonlight from the open clearing and Naruto was able to see what he looked like up close.

He was mostly black but in some places it was gray and shaggy looking, like he had been in a lot of fights. Both his ears were torn in places and moving down his face Naruto could see a deep long gash from the top of his head and line across his face all the way down his muzzle. It looked like it had been very deep wound but it seemed that it was a white scar now.

It's eyes were a dark greenish yellow and they lit up his furry face in the darkness. When the wolf walked it seemed to have a slight limp to it on it's left leg.

The leader wolf laughed a rough sounding laugh. "Heh, well aren't you polite?" It snarled while Naruto continued to fidget with his fingers nervously. "What makes you think we would leave you alone when you've so willingly walked into our territory?"

Naruto thought for the right words.

"W-Well you see, Mr. Demon Wolf sir, I've had quite a lot of drama these past few days and I'm trying to get back to my family." Naruto stuttered and when the demon didn't seem convinced he continued. "Don't you have a family that you care about? Wouldn't you want to get back to them after so many days of complete horror? How would you feel in my situation?"

"That is all real tragic and all, but I don't give a damn!" The wolf snapped and lunged forward towards Naruto, who squealed and ducked but there wasn't anything the demon wolf could knock into and it landed softly on the ground behind Naruto with a small thump.

"You can't do that stunt again like you did to my brother, Yabun. For one, I'm not as dense as he is and for two there's nothing for me to hit. You're done brat! Give up!" He growled and snarled at a few wolves to get back into the circle.

It seemed that they had come in to help they're leader but he refused and they sulked back into the pack of circling wolves, leaving the leader wolf and Naruto alone in the middle again.

Naruto wasn't too ready to give up. He had escaped death a few times before, so why not try it now?

The blond kid turned around to face the demon again. "You're the second demon whose tried to kill me!" He wined and winced, as the demon looked ready to pounce again.

But the animal didn't pounce.

Naruto straightened up and stared at the wolf, which stared back at him, seemingly thinking about something.

"Second demon you say?" It asked, its tone of voice now much softer and less intimidating.

Naruto nodded violently but didn't say anything, if he had he was sure he would have vomited he was feeling very queasy now because of the situation he was in.

It cocked its head to the side, like it was wondering something.

The other wolves stopped circling them and sat down on the spot, staring at the two in the center.

Naruto wasn't sure whether to feel relieved or not at this new action. He only hoped that this was his opportunity to escape and began to search around the clearing for any means of escape, while still fumbling with his fingers and breathing heavily.

Then suddenly the demon wolf spoke. "Was it, Kyuubi?"

The tone in his voice was soft and quiet but Naruto sensed a dark loathing within it and hoped that his reply wouldn't make him angrier.

"Yes…"

Naruto nodded and waited for the demon's reaction.

The demon wolf's mouth broke into a large, twisted grin that sent shivers down Naruto's spine and the demon went into hysterical laughter.

It lifted its head high into the air and laughed and laughed while the other wolves around Naruto began to howl and the blond academy student wasn't too sure whether to pee himself in fear or rejoice because this was his chance to escape.

He decided he would wet himself later and dashed for the nearest exit, between a pair of howling wolves.

He got through the animals all right and leaped over a bunch of berry bushes, the demonic laughter bellowing behind him, getting quieter and quieter as he ran through the trees, once again.

Frightened he dove over a small stream covered with slippery rocks. He began to follow the stream, knowing it would take him back to the large lake stream thing he had fallen into earlier.

His heart was beating a million times an hour but he was just glad that it was still beating, he was almost certain he would have died back there if he hadn't brought up the 'demon topic'.

The small rocky stream was beginning to widen and Naruto felt alittle happier, knowing he might just make it out of this alive.

Suddenly, he ran over a particularly slippery rock and felt something crack in his ankle. He was on the ground among the rocks before he could pull his hands out to stop himself from falling.

Warm pain was erupting from his foot.

His hands instinctively went for his foot, holding his ankle tightly he rocked back and forth on the watery rocks in pain.

He cringed and bit his lower lip in agony. Why now, WHY NOW? He asked himself, cursing his bad luck.

"Ouch that looked like it hurt."

The wolves were back and they formed around Naruto once again.

The demon wolf walked up to him; its left leg causing him to limp a little as he walked slowly over the slippery rocks. The black wolf stopped when he was inches away from Naruto who was still on the ground, holding his swelling ankle.

The leader wolf's grin became wider and it leaned its head forward, so that it was only an inch away from Naruto's wincing face.

Naruto could feel its hot breath on his face and he could smell the sent of dead things with every hot breath.

Naruto winced even more, until his eyes were just about shut.

He then noticed he had begun to shake in fear, he tried to stop but he couldn't and he waited for the wolf to bite his head clean off.

But instead of biting his head clean off the demon spoke to him.

"Take me to where you found Kyuubi and I won't kill you."

Naruto's eyes shot open and he stared into the demon's piercing greenish eyes.

"B-But I'm lost, I don't know h-how to get back up the cliff!" Naruto stuttered and tore his eyes away from the demon's and looked down at the rocks he had slipped on, watching the small trickle of water dance through the crevices in the rocks.

"Heh, its simple to get back up the cliff, brat. So you'll be able to show us Kyuubi's hiding place."

Naruto swallowed hard, it felt like there was one of the slippery rocks lodged in his throat making it hard for him to swallow, or even to breath!

The wolf demon cocked its head to the side, as if to ask Naruto what his answer was.

Naruto nodded in agreement knowing that if he had refused he would be dead right now or severely injured until he agreed to take them to Kyuubi's canyon.

The demon grinned in satisfaction and in one swift movement grabbed Naruto's shirt collar and roughly pulled him to his feet.

"I'd prefer it if you called me Yami rather then 'Mr. Demon Wolf Sir' seeing as it's kind of long and all." The demon wolf named Yami snarled at the boy.

Wincing because of his twisted ankle, Naruto stood next to Yami.

And for the first time, he wished he were back with Shio.

Chapter End

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