Naruto groaned as he woke up, the last thing he remembered was getting completely overpowered by the intruder. He sat up and looked around at his surroundings, the walls were wood and on the wall hung a bear's fur. In front of the bed he was in was a fireplace surrounded by stone. Next to the fireplace was the intruder who defeated him, the man had long brown hair tied up into a ponytail and a little bit of a beard. He wore a collared white shirt with a dark red vest on top of it. On the side of the chair was a brown jacket that looked brand new. Naruto looked down at himself and noticed he was wearing something similar. The same white shirt, albeit a few sizes smaller, and a brown vest. The man was reading a book and had not yet noticed Naruto. For some reason Naruto thought he would be able to sneak out. As he removed the cover and shifted his feet off the bed a loud noise came from the direction of the man. He had slammed his book closed and was staring right at Naruto.

"Heh quite the twist ending that was, I would recommend it assuming you know how to read."

Naruto looked at the man, his voice was, well, friendly and similar. He couldn't sense any malice in his words.

"I don't know if you remember me but I remember you, Naruto. My name is Takeshi if can't recall it. Now boya why don't you tell me what you were thinking in robbing merchants and villagers coming into the village." The man continued to stare at Naruto waiting for a response.

All Naruto did was stare at the floor. To Takeshi it seemed as if he was debating within himself on whether to tell him something.

The silence was broken by the opening of a door, standing in the doorframe was Gina. Takeshi unfolded his legs, stood up from his chair, and walked over to her. They spoke in whispers so Naruto could not hear them.

With a nervous glance towards Naruto, Gina started off the conversation, "Well, how is he?"

Takeshi let out a sigh, " Fine I suppose, he just woke up and isn't saying anything."

"He's probably just scared, let's leave him alone for now, maybe he'll talk later."

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Naruto was still in the same position on the edge of the bed.

'Im telling you brat you have to find a way out of here! These people, these people! They do not care for you! They only want your power! They are deceiving you with their kind words! Go over to the window there and break it, jump out and run! Trust me, for I am the only one you can trust in this world!'

This voice was just in his head, Naruto didn't know why it had suddenly decided to intervene but It had guided him in surviving and in training, that was more than anyone had done for him in his whole life! The voice told him to call him 'Kurou'.

'But Kurou I've barely even spoken to them, there is no way you could say they are good or bad people. From what they have done they have only been nice to me!'

The voice, 'Kurou', thought for a second before responding. 'The man's name was Takeshi, no? Do you not remember who it was who left you to die? To freeze to death in the middle of nowhere? It was him!'

Naruto took no time to formulate his response, he stood up and told Kurou, 'Yeah it was him! I need answers, screw escaping i'm going out to find him right now!'

Ignoring the warning from in his head Naruto stood up and walked out of the room. It was a long hall with several doors all with a plate labeled with a number. 'It could be any of these doors! How am I ever going to find him?'

'You're not, now leave'

'Shut up Kurou'

Naruto looked up and down the hallway again until he suddenly closed his eyes. He focused in on the smell he could remember from earlier. When he reopened his eyes he could almost imagine a trail of the smell in the air. He sniffed it one more time to confirm it was the smell he remembered, and surprisingly, it was. Naruto looked at the trail and walked through it. It down a set of stairs, through a couple doors, and into a large room. At the very front of the room was a set of double doors, light coming in through the sides. His body was attracted to the doors, it was screaming at him to go through them. With a shake of his head Naruto regained his focus, he continued looking around the room. On the far side was another set of doors, the smell trail led straight into them.

Naruto, by nature, was very stubborn and he had made his decision already, he walked over to the doors leading to where Takeshi smell led. He grabbed the door handles and opened them up slowly. Inside was another large room. To the right was a bar with a line of stools along the side. The rest of the room was just a bunch of scattered wooden tables with chairs surrounding them. The doors were quite squeaky so everyone was alerted immediately to Naruto's presence.

Three people, Naruto observed. Two of them were sitting at a table eating breakfast, one was Takeshi, the other being the silver haired women from early. "Gina", Naruto think he heard Takeshi say. The last one was behind the bar cleaning a cup, he was clearly very old. The man had grey hair sprouting out from his head and an eyepatch covering one eye and three scars running down the same side of his face. He wore a traditional bartenders outfit.

After taking a bite from a sausage on his plate Takeshi smiled and gestured towards the empty seat next to him. "How nice of you to join us Naruto, have a seat."

Naruto walked over to sit down, while doing so he noticed the bartender glaring at him with his one eye. If there was one thing Kurou taught him it was to never waver to intimidation. Naruto pulled the chair out and sat down.

"Are you hungry?" Takeshi asked. With a quick nod from Naruto he continued " Ryuunosuke fix up another omelette would ya?" The bartender scoffed and walked into the back. A few minutes later he came back out with a omelette, still steaming. Takeshi stood up and grabbed the omelette from the bartender and placed it in front of Naruto.

Naruto just stared at the omelette, after a few second he started to poke the omelette with his finger. Naruto then brought his head down and started to sniff it for some reason. Deciding it was safe Naruto picked up the omelette and started to eat it. Gina was disgusted by what she was seeing, Takeshi just smiled, Ryuunosuke was furious.

"Have you already lost your manners after living in the forest for five months?" asked Takeshi not knowing Naruto never really had that great of manners to begin with.

Naruto didn't even acknowledge what had been said until after he finished. "Oh my bad" he said scratching the back of his head, "Ya know living with foxes and all."

Now that Naruto was fed Takeshi decided it was time to start the questions and to plan for what's next.

"Naruto, why did you live with the foxes rather than coming to the village like I said?"

"The foxes helped me survive, I felt at home with them. I thought the villagers would hurt me, throw me aside like before."

The same question was going through the mind of the three adults in the room, "Who is this kid?"

Takeshi continued with the interrogation, "Do you remember who you are? Do you know how old you are or where you are from?"

Naruto sat still for a second, debating whether or not he should tell these people. Kurou screamed no but Naruto couldn't help his trusting personality.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, I was 12 but i'm pretty sure my birthday has passed so I think im 13. I'm from Konoha but after being beat up I blacked out and woke up here with Takeshi."

"Konoha eh? That's quite... troublesome." Takeshi said, he sounded quite shocked. "Do you know anything about the second attack from the Kyuubi?"

If Naruto was drinking something he would have spat it out in surprise. Naruto jumped out of his seat and started to yell, "Kyuubi?! Second attack! When was this?! Was anybody hurt? Is Konoha ok?!"

"Calm down kiddo the attack was much less severe than the one from 13 years ago, Konoha is fine but after the attack they have secured their borders, the third hokage was killed and a man they call Danzo replaced him. The rumours say he is very strict but the citizens feel safe."

"So Jiji is dead…" Naruto looked like he was about to cry, but he maintained his composure. "What else do the rumours say!"

"It's kinda odd, they say the Kyuubi was sealed within a child but the kid lost control and it got released. The third hokage then, like the fourth before him, sacrificed his life and supposedly took the Kyuubi down with 'em"

Deciding to speak the old bartender Ryuunosuke said, "Pfft as if, a tailed beast could not be killed. It would just reform, it is just merely chakra."

"And how do think that would take Ryuu?" Takeshi asked, he knew a little of the tailed beasts but Ryuunosuke wouldn't tell him anymore since it was "not necessary for the time". It was rare that Ryuunosuke spoke about what he knew, and Takeshi wanted to milk it since it happened so rare.

"I have no idea how long it would take, but however you need not worry. The Kyuubi won't be reforming."

This time it was Gina who spoke, "How could you possibly know that? I know you're smart and all but it is pretty accepted that the third hokage did destroy the Kyuubi. Are you saying he did such a good job that the kyuubi was just destroyed?"

"No...I'm saying that because the Kyuubi was never destroyed"

"But how could you know that!"

"It's because he's here, in this very room with us!"

The room went silent. Not a sound could be heard. The three adults were all staring at Naruto and Naruto was stunned. Naruto may not have been the sharpest tool in the shed but it didn't take an idiot to figure who the kyuubi was in the room.

Naruto tried to speak but his voice cracked. Nobody was saying anything.

'Kurou do you know anything about this? Am I really, am I really the Kyuubi?'

Kurou was silent, he didn't know what to say. He could lie and say that Naruto was Kyuubi reincarnate but if that Ryuunosuke knew Kyuubi was sealed in Naruto he would tell Naruto otherwise immediately.

'No you dumbass, i'm the Kyuubi! I've been sealed within you ever since your birth! Hate me! Fear me!'

Kyuubi then cut off the connection between the two.

'But Kurou, I don't think I could hate you. You're my friend'

Naruto was broken out of his thought by Takeshi's voice, "So you are the Kyuubi? Explains why I was hired to drop you off out here"

Naruto just looked down at the ground.

Ryuunosuke interrupted to correct what Takeshi said, "Takeshi my boy, he is not the kyuubi you fool. Merely his captor. Tailed beasts have sealed into people for as long as I can remember, it is not something widely discussed today though."

"It is interesting" Ryuunosuke continued, "I've never heard of a jinchuriki ever surviving a full takeover at such a young age, your will is strong boy, i'm interested to you see what you will do in the future."

Naruto looked up, tears were in his eyes. "So..so you don't hate me?"

"I can not speak for Gina and Takeshi but no, I do not hate you."

"I don't hate you either" Takeshi chirped in.

"I don't hate you as I have not come to know you" Gina added.

This was just too much for Naruto, he broke out into tears and started to cry.

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So yeah, that's chapter 2. I felt like it was a necessary chapter but not a very interesting one. That aside I have a pretty solid idea now for where I want to take this story so I'll probably pump out another chapter very soon since I like where it is going. So that's that.

~Saoni