Naruto stared at Kankuro silently as he touched the white puppet in various places.

"Naruto, there appears to be an absence of powering chakra here." Kankuro said quietly, seemingly afraid of waking up the puppet.

"So what do you suggest we do?" Naruto asked whispering.

"This" Kankuro rapidly responded.

He then proceeded to push as much of his chakra as he could into the unmoving puppet.

"It doesn't appear to respond to me, you try." Kankuro said lightly out of breath.

Naruto stepped forward and tried to push his chakra in but it didn't move at all from its position.

Slowly he formed a plan and began pushing the Kyuubi's chakra into the puppet.

It began to respond to this slowly moving its sticklike limbs until they began to flesh out taking on a more human shape, until the Kyuubi forced itself into the puppet.

"Are you sure that was a good idea?" Kankuro asked as the Kyuubi/puppet rose to its feet.

Naruto began questioning that himself when the puppet appeared to fold in upon itself falling to the floor.

Naruto hesitantly approached the fallen puppet and lifted it up.

"I'll just go." Kankuro said as he slowly backed out of the room.

Naruto looked at him for a second before returning his gaze to the body in his arms.

The face that looked back at him was slight and pale; it stared intensely into his eyes before dropping its head.

Naruto pulled it to his room and laid the slight form onto his bed.

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Outside the city gates the guards sat playing their usual game of cards, paying little attention to the road. Quietly a large man approached his face obscured by a mask of bone. As he passed the guards a trail of black liquid followed him in.

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Itachi stood on the wall surrounding his old home with Kisame beside him; finally they were going in to get the boy.

Itachi stared for a moment at the buildings before noticing the figure that had just come through the gates.

"Kisame, this is going to get bad, we have to hurry."

Kisame nodded and they leaped towards Naruto's apartment.

Outside of Naruto's apartment silently stood two people looking at the door. One not much taller than the other had an extremely pale face, while the other stood silently in its wrappings waiting for the orders the other was sure to give.

Orochimaru slowly grabbed the handle and began entering the room on the other side of the door when a slight cough from behind him caused him to turn around.

Behind him stood a creature with a pure white skull on the front of its face.

It coughed again and shuffled past Orochimaru making its way up the stairs, Orochimaru was about to follow when he noticed the black slime sliding along the ground behind the creature.

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Naruto heard someone coming up the stairs from his room and began making his way to his door. As he approached it he began listening as slight footsteps on his roof brought him to full attention. He leaped away from the door the whole thing shattering as a large black four armed… creature burst through his door. A long tongue hanging from where a jaw may have been long ago, the creature eyed him with its bright glowing orange eyes, it tromped its way towards him and he threw himself at it.

The creature grabbed Naruto out of the air and threw him at Itachi as he broke through the window.

Orochimaru peeked into the room only to have his face grabbed and his whole body pulled into the room. The creature pulled Orochimaru about the room dragging him around until Sasuke jumped in and hit the beast with a Chidori. It turned slowly to face him then smashed him across the face with its bony arm. Sasuke smacked into a wall and cursed as he passed into unconsciousness. Orochimaru noticing its distraction formed a handseal and caused a snake to climb out of his collar and bite the monster. Without even flinching the beast grabbed the snake and crushed it in its hand.

Naruto was in a flurry of motion trying to get up to his apartment to stop the creature from wrecking his place entirely. As he leaped through the gaping hole in the wall he noticed the creature searching about his apartment for something a silent Sasuke leaned up against a wall, while a desperate Orochimaru struggled to get out of the creatures hand.

Naruto dashed at it creating a rasengan rapidly as he approached the creature. It looked at him and suddenly the Naruto felt completely drained and fell to the ground. The monster dropped Orochimaru and slowly approached the fallen Naruto and lifted him slowly off the ground.

It stared piercingly into his eyes and slowly Naruto lost concentration.

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Haku slowly approached her home after her shift at the hospital when she noticed something amiss. There was no chakra at all in the area around Naruto's apartment, she rushed up the stairs into his place.

Silently she watched as a large creature held Naruto over its shoulder she readied herself and threw senbon madly at the creature.

It turned slowly towards her and an increase of drool began dripping from its loose tongue. It charged her its bony legs clacking as it moved so quickly.

It grabbed a hold of her arm as she turned and it's deceptively long tongue snaked around her neck.

"Stop there foul beast" Screamed the Kyuubi from its new body.

"I did not save her from death for you!" She continued yelling.

The creature turned still holding Haku and Naruto, and dropped them both before charging loudly at Kyuubi it's arms smacking together as it approached.

Kyuubi charged right back using all her chakra to smash into the creature. It stopped and looked silently towards the blue figure standing next to its target and leaped right at him

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Kisame had hardly expected the creature to be able to notice him, he expected even less when it smashed into him knocking the breath out of him and surely cracking a few ribs.

The creature then started clawing at Kisame tearing chunks of flesh off of the Akatsuki member.

Itachi kicked the creature off of Kisame quickly and pulled his team mate out of the room.

Kyuubi smashed the monster across the room, as it got out of the rubble where it had landed it leaped through the roof and jumped away from the building.

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Naruto awoke staring at a too white ceiling, knowing himself to be in the hospital he began to move to get out of bed when he noticed two forms on top of him. Looking at the red and black hair he knew who they were. The Kyuubi and Haku, as he thought her name the Kyuubi looked up at him.

"Yes, Naruto?" Kyuubi said quietly.

Naruto stared at her for a moment before responding.

"I didn't say anything" he replied.

"I know that." She said snuggling back into his chest.

Naruto sighed and began to drift back into sleep when Tsunade barged into his room and began going through her usual checks.

Naruto sighed contentedly and waited until he could get back to sleep.

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Temari walked through the hospital sighing unhappily Kankuro had to visit someone here, and knowing him it was going to be a tedious experience. She wasn't even sure why she went with him, but she did and now she was wandering through the blindingly white halls of the hospital following her idiot brother.

As he entered a room she silently followed, not wanting to see his idiot friend. When she looked at the bed and noticed who was there she practically jumped on top of him, though it surprised her that Kankuro was visiting her Naruto.

Of course she then noticed the two on top of him and grabbed them by their collars and lifted them off of him.

"What were you doing to my Naruto?" she said in a voice full of malice.

Slowly Kyuubi moved into a fighting stance as did Haku.

"They were sleeping, Temari-chan." Naruto said groggily as he awoke.

Temari leaped onto the freshly awoken Naruto squeezing the air out of him.

Kankuro just stood in the corner chuckling to himself over the fact that his tomboyish sister was acting so much like a girl with her first crush.

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Okay I really apologize about the lateness of this, but between being thrust into a job and having my car break down I sort of forgot about it, so please accept my meager apology my readers.

Anyway read, and well do whatever you want review or, something else, whatever, and expect more updates faster from now on.

an author i enjoyed and recommend to anyone reading this, would be Ravercozy. okay...