Hello and welcome to my story. It's not my best but I figured that some of you might like it.

Hope you enjoy,

Trouble 1

No, I don't own Naruto...if I did, I think I would be more addicted to ramen than I already am.
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NARUTO

I was having trouble opening my eyes and couldn't figure out the reason behind it. I also couldn't understand why I had such a weird dream. Normally my dreams involved Sakura somehow, usually with the two of us going out on some kind of date with maybe a kiss or two before all was done. But this dream didn't have her in it at all. It was about ramen. I was just sitting there eating a cup of ramen when it started to grow. At first I didn't mind too much, I figured that it just meant that I had more ramen to eat. But then, about the time it was the same size as me it came alive. The noodles shot out of the cup and wrapped themselves around my arms and legs like I was going to be its captive. Then they picked me up and as it grew larger, a huge mouth appeared. I then found myself being lowered into said mouth and just as those sharp teeth were about to close around me, I woke up.

I've had this dream before but it was only when I was knocked out for a while but I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what had happened to knock me out. Was it due to overworking myself on a new technique? I did that a lot but I couldn't remember developing a new one lately. For a moment I feared maybe the fox had come out to play. It would have explained why I was having trouble remembering, but I hadn't run into anything that would have set me off so it just wasn't possible. The last thing I remembered was going on a mission with Sakura, Hinata, Kiba, and his extremely large dog, Akamaru then…

My eyes shot open when I remembered the ninjas. Our mission was supposed to be a simple B rank mission. We were only needed to assure the safety of a small town lord that was passing through the lands of fire to the land of waves. He had personal guards and all but he was an overly cautious man. I called him the Twitchy guy because the man jumped at every little sound, thinking it was a group of thieves that wanted to steal the little bit of gold he had with him. Kiba said he was just paranoid. We were barely five miles outside the land of fire when the attack happened. There were so many ninjas, no matter how many each of us took out there had been several more ready to take their place. Eventually we had been knocked unconscious. So that was the reason I had my dream.

I sat up and was on my feet before I realized how dizzy I was and fell back to the floor with a thud.

"N-Naruto-kun!" I heard Hinata say as I blinked a couple times.

"Itai." I said slowly rubbing my head where I hit it when I fell.

"Baka, are you trying to knock yourself out again?" Kiba asked, sounding as if he was on the grumpy side of things. Good thing his voice was far from me.

"Careful, Naruto. You're still disoriented from being knocked out. You shouldn't try and stand until you're not dizzy anymore." Sakura warned from the same direction dog-boy's was.

"Maybe you should have told him that before he got up and found out for himself."

"Kiba, I understand that you're worried about Akamaru. But that is no reason to be so nasty towards everyone else."

"My dog could be dead and you want me to watch my words? Well, I'm sorry if there are a few more important things on my mind than playing nicey-nice with my comrades!"

"You can't do anything about it now, can you?" There was silence for a bit before Sakura spoke again. "Akamaru can take care of himself. He's probably halfway to the village by now in order to get us reinforcements. So let's worry less about him and more about now we're going to get out of these cages."

"Cages?" I opened my eyes and sat up again to see what they were talking about. Turns out we were in a dark room, locked in two separate cages. One had me and Hinata, the other held Sakura and Kiba. "Sakura-chan! Those asshole ninjas put us in cages!"

"Yes Naruto, we know." She answered looking back at me again.

"With bars!"

"Most cages come with bars now a days." She was starting to sound a little annoyed now but I was kind of ignoring it. Instead I got to my feet and despite the fact that the world was spinning faster than it should, I made my way over to the door. I gave it a shake to try and open it.

"They locked us in!"

"People tend to do that when they don't want their prisoners to escape." I didn't quite notice the warning tone in her voice.

"We need to get out of here!"

"WHAT DO YOU THINK WE'VE BEEN DOING WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, BAKA?!" I waited for her fist to connect with my face, but when that didn't happen, I peeked to see her angrily searching for something to throw at me. It was then that I realized that her cage was too far away for her to reach me. I grinned slyly as I thought that maybe these cages weren't such a bad thing after all. I could say whatever stupid thing I wanted without getting hit for it.

"Hey Sakura-chan, do you think they'll give us ramen?"

"Naruto!" She yelled as she looked around more frantically. "What would they give us ramen!?"

"I don't know that's why I was asking you." Her search intensified as she got even more angry. I found this hilarious and was grinning like an idiot, until I saw her make eye contact with something behind me, which made her grin.

"Hinata! Hit Naruto for me!" I spun around to see the girl's eyes go wide and her face start to turn red. "Just once! His brain needs a jumpstart!" Hinata sputtered a bit, like she was trying to say something. But before she could get the words out, a door at the end of the hall opened and several men came in. There were three of them. The one in the middle was obviously in charge. His dark hair was slicked back and his dark robes looked like an Akatsuki coat without the red clouds or the high collar. With our previous conversation forgotten, we instinctually got into defensive stances.

"So you're all finally awake. Good. Now I can give you all the rules and regulations." The leader said to us, sounding kind of bored.

"Who the hell are you!?" I demanded angrily.

"First rule, no questions."

"I ain't listening to your stupid—" one of the men made a quick hand signal and with a bold of lightning, I went flying across the cell into the brick wall behind me.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata exclaimed, I blinked and saw her hovering over me with a worried look on her face. I gave my head a little shake to get rid of the static, and sat up to glare at him. I didn't dare try and stand up considering I couldn't feel my own feet let alone stand on them.

"Second rule, take these rules as seriously as you would your own life." he continued as if nothing happened. Everyone stayed quiet to keep from being zapped themselves. I would have said something if I could think of anything to say. Plus, I'm pretty sure that if I did say something, there was the possibility that Hinata got caught in the crossfire. I might not care if I get hurt but there is no way I will let my comrades get hurt too, especially her. She was always hurt so easily, she's so…breakable. I mean, come on! She was almost killed in the chunin exams by her cousin. I didn't want her to almost die here as well. So I kept quiet and listened to those moronic rules.

"Rule number three, you will not try and escape. It's a pain to find unique genetic traits that you might possess. Rule number four, there is no need to hope for a rescue, none of your friends can find this place. None ever have before." He paused for a moment, to let us think on what he said. To tell you the truth, I didn't believe him. Plus, I'm pretty sure that those others that tried to find this place, never had Akamaru on their side.

"And the most important rule, rule number five is that my word is law. You disobey me and be prepared to feel a massive amount of pain. There will not be any permanent damage to yourselves, of course. But I assure you, it WILL be painful." I got to my feet, a bit curious about what he meant by painful. Making sure I was a pretty good distance away from Hinata, I opened my big mouth again to see what he had in store.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked him, the shocking one from before went to make another hand signal but his boss stopped him. "If that's all you got than I think you're crazy to think you can control us with it. I've been hit by stuff more powerful than that and STILL won in the end."

"That is not even the least of the powers at my disposal." He said with a smirk that could freeze people in an instant. "So I suggest that you do not test me or you will find out for yourself."

"If you say so." I turned my back to them, mostly to hide my hand signal than anything else. "Kage bushin no jutsu." I said, not really yelling, but not trying to whisper either. About a hundred of my clones popped into existence outside the cell. They immediately attacked the three of them, using several different of my special jutsus including several rasengans and a few different wind techniques I had picked up from Asuma before he died. Unfortunately it took the three of them only about a minute to take them all out, without the leader having to do anything.

"So there's a fighter among you."