"Where am I?" Naruto asked himself. He was in what looked like a lot of buildings bunched together. He himself was standing on a building, sideways, but standing is standing is standing right?

"What do you mean where are we?" Naruto turned towards the voice that spoke to see...an older version of himself? "We're in your mind!" Naruto said nothing, just studying the older him. The only difference between them was the much more jagged whisker marks the grey one sported. This guy could pass for his older brother...if he wasn't gray from head to toe. Even his hair and skin were gray. His eyes were yellow and the whites of his eyes were filled out black. "Who are you!?" Naruto decided to ask.

"I'm the other you. And we have A lot to discuss." The grey Naruto stated, all traces of humuor gone.

"How do I know you're not the kyuubi?" Naruto asked, slowly coming to terms with all of this.

"Cuz he's over there" Grey Naruto stated, jutting an finger over at an tower. Naruto could see an huge fox that was covered in an purple bubble.

"What's with the bubble?" Naruto asked.

"Listen up cuz I'm not repeating myself!!" Grey Naruto stated. Waiting a couple of seconds for Naruto to sit down, he began to speak. "When you were fighting the hebi-teme, you unleashed Kyuubi's power influencing you. Remember? At Naruto's nod. He continued. "Well he sealed his chakra off from you, but since you were USING it at the time, all the excess chakra had to go somewhere. It couldn't return because of the seal keeping things out, and contained in it. So...I was formed from the kyuubi's chakra. And to answer your second question I am a hollow...or spirit. Any other questions?"

"What's a hollow?" Naruto asked, making the grey Naruto facevault.

'Course, how would I expect him to know what a hollow is?'

"Okay...A hollow is an spirit that's gone bad basically. All they do is eat the souls of regular spirits, turning those new spirits into hollows."

"Why?"

"Hollows eat spirits to ease their pains. You know how widows die after their husbands? It's cuz the hollows eat them."

"EHHHHHHHH!! You're bad then!!" Naruto stuttered, backing away from Grey Naruto.

"Ninjas kill too you know. Does that make you bad? Besides, I've only been here for about an hour." Grey Naruto stated, smiling at Naruto.

"I guess that's true. So what's your name?"

"Hm...You can call me...Minato."

"Okay...Minato...should I get the kyuubi unsealed somehow?"

"No. It's better if you don't. It'll hurt you now...but'll it'll be better in the long run."

"Okay...Why are you helping me then?"

"huh?"

"If you're a hollow, shouldn't you be all malevolent and stuff?"

"I'm surprised you know the word malevolent." Minato stated. "But anyway...I'm an higher level hollow. All I want is to fight and kill. You're a ninja. You're gonna killing and fighting sooner or later. As long as you do those things I'm happy.

"That makes sense I guess."

"You'd better wake up. Looks like something's going on." Minato stated, looking at nothing in particular.

"EH!! I don't know how to wake up!!" Naruto yelled, quickly getting on Minato nerves.

"Like this!!" Minato stated, shoving Naruto off the building he was on.

"DAMN YOU!!" Naruto cursed as he was falling.

"hehehehehehe..." Minato snickered as Naruto fell.

"Was that really necessary?" An female voice asked.

"Hn...I was wondering if Naruto got an zanpukto along with me...guess he did huh?" Minato stated, staring at the figure. She was short, maybe a little bit taller than Naruto. Her hair was an dark red, and only went to down to her shoulders. Her face was rounded, and her eyes disinterested and green. She wore and orange and black long sleeved shirt with orange pants. She wore those same black sandals that all shinobi Minato's seen (i.e Naruto) wear.

"No. But I felt like it. So what's your name?" Minato asked conversationally.

"My name's #!"

"Knew it. I can't know your name until Naruto does eh..." Minato muttered to himself as his body dissolved, leaving the redhead alone to herself.

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"You take such pride in your arms...time to bid them farewell." That was what Naruto woke up too. 'Is that Sasuke?' Naruto thought to himself. Slowly getting up, he heard an sudden snap, and an unknown male screaming which quickened his pace. What he saw confused him. He saw Sasuke standing over an sound ninja, covered in purple marks. The sound nin girl was out cold, and slowly coming too. And the mummy dude was staring at Sasuke. Naruto looked around more, noticing Shikamaru, Ino, Chouji, Sakura and Bushy Brows looking battle worn. If he strained his senses he could detect two people above him too.

"What's going on?" Naruto asked at the same time Sakura hugged Sasuke from behind. Naruto tuned this out though. He felt...different. What had happened to him. Before he remembered meeting Minato and all they discussed.

"What'd I miss?" Naruto asked Shikamaru, who was closest to him.

"It's troublesome...but those guys" pointing at the sound nin "attacked your team to kill Sasuke. Lee interfered, then we did, then Sasuke got up all crazy and annihilated then. Then you woke up."

"Okay I got it. Thanks!!" Naruto told them, running off to Sasuke and Sakura, Lee and Ino.

"Hey Chouji...does Naruto seem different to you?"

"Munch munch munch"

"Nevermind" Shikamaru said, sweatdropping.

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"Hey Sakura!! What happened to your hair?!" Naruto asked, as soon as he got close enough for them to hear him.

"Oh this? I just wanted a new look...besides traveling in the forest with long hair...kinda stupid don't you think?" Sakura covered quickly.

"Really..." Naruto stated, not missing nor ignoring the looks on Sasuke's and Ino's faces.

'They're lyin. You missed SOMETHING'

"EH?!" Naruto cried out, scaring the crap out of everyone close. "Uh...It was nothing...I'm just seeing things." Naruto explained quickly rubbing the back of his hands.

'When you're talking to me...just think your thoughts. Makes you look less crazy'

'What are YOU doing here?' Naruto asked annoyed.

'I live in your mind...where else am I gonna go?'

'...'

'Exactly. I've been looking at your life so far...and let me tell you what I think...'

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Timeskip

Sasuke and Sakura wouldn't admit it, but they were worried about Naruto. Ever since he had woken up three days ago, he's been acting different. He didn't yell as much as he normally did, or at all. He just moved along with them silently, like he was thinking about something. And when he did speak to them, he no longer called Sasuke a teme...or add chan to Sakura's name. They had no choice but to sit back and watch for any new developments in Naruto. And hope that he goes back to normal soon.

"Naruto. It's my turn to watch." Sasuke came up to relive Naruto of watch duty. Not like he was sleeping anyway. They both knew it, and neither one cared.

"Okay. Thanks." Naruto went to his own tent, and was out in seconds.

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"Hm...I'm getting used to this." Naruto muttered to himself.

"Welcome." Naruto turned at the voice to see an redheaded teen that somehow reminded him of...well himself.

"Hey!! I'm Naruto!! What's your name?" Naruto greeted, full of cheer.

"My name's (#!" The woman stated proudly.

"Huh? I didn't catch that." Naruto told her, making her slightly depressed.

"I see...you're not ready yet. You're getting closer though!" The teen stated, cheering up slightly.

"What are you talking about?"

"Nothing" The teen stated, shaking her head. "Either way...do yourself a favor and wake up" She stated flicking him on the forehead.

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"That was...new." Naruto admitted when he woke up. For the past few days Minato taught Naruto what he knew about shinigami arts. He wouldn't admit that the redheaded teen was teaching him the stuff as he taught Naruto. All Naruto could and wanted to learn was shunpo. He managed a weak one in his mind...and an even weaker one in the physical realm.

That was all either one of them wanted to learn, so they were working on stregthening.

'Who was that? How many people do I have in my mind anyway?' Naruto asked himself. Surprisingly Minato didn't answer him. He got dressed and came out to see Sasuke challenging Kabuto.

'Those two...didn't wake me up for breakfast' Naruto thought, quickly becoming annoyed. But he held his tongue, he could annoy the crap out of them later.

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'He's different from the cards indicated.' Kabuto thought. According to his reports Naruto was an deadlast who was no where near close enough to be considered an shinobi. Yet he seemed just as serious as Sasuke! Well maybe not that serious...but serious nontheless! All through the journey Naruto kept watching Kabuto carefully. He expected Naruto to except him first, but Naruto treated him like an stranger, polite and cautiously. 'What's your secret Uzumaki Naruto?'

'You're walking around in a circle Naruto'

Naruto slowed down, enough that no one would see him. He discreetly made a seal, and formed a kage-bushin.

"You know what to do." The shadow clone opened it's eyes, and Naruto was shocked to see that it's eyes were pale yellow.

"Got it Naruto..." Minato clone stated and shunpoed off.

'Was that...Minato?' Naruto asked himself, before speeding up.

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'I changed my mind. As long as Naruto can make these clones...I'll stay on his side.' Minato thought as he shunpoed through the forest. 'With this move I can train Naruto even better!!' Minato was so lost in his thoughts that he almost the shinobi he was looking for.

'It that dork from earlier.' Minato thought seeing the guy that tried to jump Naruto's team earlier in the exams. Without a word he shunpoed down there and successfully knocked out the 3. "Don't drop your guard just cuz you're attacking idiots!!" Minato told them before searching their stuff for a scroll.

'Jackpot!' Minato smirked to himself when he pulled out an Heaven scroll.

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Naruto sensed it immediatly when Minato returned. Minato tossed him the scroll and poofed away.

Naruto was suddenly sent with images of Minato moving through the forests and knocking out the shinobi. "Those guys suck. Wait...why do I know that?'

'looks like you get the memories of whatever your kage-bushins do. This'll be useful.'

'How could I have never noticed that?!' Naruto asked himself mentally.

'It's cuz you're stupid. Don't worry, we'll work on that.' Minato told Naruto with an edge in his voice.

Naruto gulped, he wasn't looking forward to training his mind. "WE'RE HERE!!" Sakura yelled out when they got to the tower.

'And I'm the loud one?'

'Damn she's loud.'

'Shut up.'

"Welp...here's where I part ways from you guys. Good luck getting a scroll!" Kabuto told them, reminding Naruto that he forgot to tell the team about the scroll he got.

"Wait a second!! I have an heaven scroll!!" Naruto said rapidly before Sasuke or Sakura could move away. Both of them blinked and stared at Naruto.

"How'd you get that dobe?" Sasuke asked, switching back to calling Naruto an dobe.

"What's it matter?" Naruto informed them evasively. Neither one was in the mood to challenge Naruto, knowing how stubborn he could be and just opened the scrolls.

Iruka popped out and explained to them the purpose of the Heaven and Earth. Naruto tuned out the unimportant stuff and began speaking to Minato.

'I need new clothes don't I?'

'What do you know? He is learning!! Either way you should be listening. Apparently you're going to be fighting in a preliminary match to advance to the finals.'

'Really?' Naruto looked around and noticed all the other genin around him. 'Where'd all these guys come from?!'

'Hn...there's something else we need to work on.' Minato thought with a sweatdrop.

"Okay...cough...the first match will be..." The sickly looking jonin, (Naruto didn't hear his name) motioned towards a video screen where some names were flashing through

Sasuke Uchiha

Vs.

Akadou Youroi

'Who the hell's Akadou?'

'No clue.'

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Okay. That's the first chapter. If anyone could give me an idea for the name of Naruto's zanpukto? I'd appreciate it.

The pairing for this story's Naruto X Sasame

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