A kid, no less than 5, was running along the pathways in the village. He was praying to dear Inari-sama above that he would make it out alive. Taking his tiny legs a minute to go fast, he turns right and instantly regrets it. He had turned into a dead end.

"There he is! Get the demon!" A villager at the front yelled at his way. Tons of villagers were hunting him, only because it was the day before his birthday, also the day his parents died, and the day the Kyuubi no Kitsune was killed. Or so they thought.

They raced after him, pinning him to the wall by throwing him down. They stomped on him, beat him, burned him, and some even dared to rip his clothes.

He laid there, emotion less, asking for his pain to go away. A few tears slipped down his whiskered cheeks at he began to go into a world of unconsciousness.

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Drip

Drip drip

Splash

Naruto awoke in a sewage system, but for some reason, he didn't feel pain, not at all. He got up instantly, unaware of his surroundings, and started to pant heavily.

"Calm down.." a booming voice rang through the sewers.

"Who are you..? Where am I?" He gasped.

"It's nice and all to meet my jailer and all, but what have they done to you?" The booming voice came closer to the bars, obviously a large amount of worry laced in the voices voice.

Naruto leaned forward so he could get a better look of the voices face. The beast had rabbit like ears, black linings on his eyes and mouth, and nine tails.

"Your the kyuubi no Kitsune my dad defeated a few years ago!" Naruto said excitedly.

"Your not scared of me?" The nine-tailed fox asked hastily.

"Should i be?" Naruto asked. The kyuubi put his hand-looking paw on the bars and Naruto put his hand on it and smiled.

"That's great. " the kyuubi sighed in relief. "My name is Kurama, kit. And I know you are Naruto Uzimaki-Namikaze. Since you are clearly smarter than other kids your age, I would like to train you when you get all healed up. " Kurama said happily. Naruto nodded his head and looked around at the room that was slowly turning white. He knew he was waking up as his pain was starting to come back.

"When can I meet you again, Kurama!?" He asked anxiously.

"Soon kit, soon." Kurama smiled as Naruto left his mind scape.

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Naruto awoke to the pain in his chest slightly dulled down. He fluttered his eyes open to see a ceiling, and a bright light. He looked around the room to see medical monitors, a chair with Jiji in it, and a 7 year old with a mask on his face, and a worried expression on his face. Of course, since he was numb all over, all Naruto could do was groan in pain. Jiji instantly woke up and sighed in relief to see Naruto awake.

"Naruto! You scared the living daylight outa me! " Hiruzen said.

"Jiji, how did I get here?" He asked glancing at the masked child.

"I'll explain that later, for now get some rest. " Hiruzen said.

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