Disclaimer: I by no means own any of Naruto, for its the product of Anbu and AnimeOne... VV now im all depressed but eh oh well, on with the story...

Setting: This piece is not really placed in a particular space in the time line; just one of those random days where Naruto has finished training with Sasuke and Sakura in the woods. Naruto had just run off into the woods in a blaze of anger because he just wanted to get as far away as possible from that Sasuke.

The Illusion

"BAKA BAKA BAKA! Why is Sasuke ALWAYS in the DAMN spotlight? BAKA!" An angry Naruto was yelling at no one in particular. The birds that were chirping stopped because of the sudden outburst that cut the silence. He was sore that Sakura had stood up for Sasuke from the training session earlier when Sasuke and he got into a heated debate. Depressed at the thought that Sakura liking Sasuke, Naruto shook himself out of it and started to think about being the future Hokage.

"When I'm the Fifth Hokage, Sakura-chan will have to acknowledge me, including the rest of the Konoha Village! Then, Sasuke will be nothing and I'll step on him like an ant!" Naruto said as he started to stomp indicating him stepping on Sasuke.

As he was walking, he hadn't noticed the sun had begun to go down and the forest started to get darker and darker. Pretty soon, Naruto found himself lost in the woods, something not surprising to Naruto.

"Heh heh heh." Naruto chuckled to himself at the thought of him as the Fifth Hokage and ordering Sasuke to many C rank missions, and Sasuke was a Jounin in his daydream. "Clean up the stables Sasuke! Watch over Shikamaru's kids! No Sasuke, you can't have a A rank mission yet!"

Naruto grinned childishly at his thoughts. So caught up in his day dreaming, he didn't notice the hole in the floor and fell in.

"WHOAAAAA!!!!!!" Yelled Naruto as he fell down the hole. Any reasonable genin would of thought of something to stop falling, but this is Naruto. He fell for a good 40 seconds and landed with a "Ooomph" on his face.

With a face full of mud and dirt, Naruto mumbled into the ground, "Damn it. No wonder Sakura-chan would never like me. I'm such a bakahead."

Naruto pushed himself up and sat upright and brushed himself off. Then he slumped over and sighed. He closed his eyes and started to reminisce about the times with Sakura-chan, but eventually Sasuke's smirking face kept popping up and then he imagined Sasuke and Sakura running away together hand in hand from a fallen naruto, who was on his knees begging Sakura to stay. Then his head began to swim with harsh comments from Sakura.

"You're always such a screw up Naruto! Why can't you be more like Sasuke? He's smarter and stronger than you'll ever be..."
"You're so annoying! I hate you Naruto!"
"You're ALWAYS getting in the way Naruto!"
"I'd NEVER date you Naruto! NOT EVER!"

Those were almost everday comments, and though he smiled them off when she said them, they still had a pang against his heart. Naruto held back the stinging tears he felt that were beginning to submerge. The many images of Sakura's smiling face began to fade away. They were replaced with flashes of Naruto reaching out but Sakura's back was always turned to him and she was walking away...and finally he was left on his knees and Sakura had walked away to the other side, right in to the arms of a awaiting Sasuke. She glanced back with a content smile, and Sasuke, who hardly ever smiled, had a very content smile as well. Naruto decided then that he should just forget about ever getting Sakura to like him, she was always after Sasuke anyways; he looked with a half open eyes and just stared at the ground with a depressed look. He didn't know when, but he had fallen asleep at the bottom of the pit with his back against the wall.

Scrith Scrith

He was awoken to the sounds of someone rustling above and opened his eyes slowly. It was nearly pitch black in the pit and the only light was coming from the night sky which could be seen clearly from the hole at the top. Naruto blinked his eyes until they were able to focus in the dark. Suddenly, a cloaked shadowy figure leaned over and peered into the hole; it's eyes gleamed in the dark. Naruto felt fear overtake him and his heart beat so fast it felt like it was going to pop out of his chest at any given moment. Finally pulling himself together, he opened his mouth and tried to sound all courageous by yelling at the figure.

"I hope that's going to scare him off and leave me alone. From the training earlier, I used up all of my Chakra and even now I'm pretty drained. I don't have anything to fight with."

"GET THE HELL AWAY OR I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS! I'M WARNING YOU! I'M ONE OF THE BEST NINJA'S OF THE KONOHA VILLAGE!"

Naruto had barely breathed a sigh of relief when the shadowy figure returned. Feeling the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end, Naruto looked up and the shadowy figure with the gleaming eyes returned.

"Shit! He might of brought back reinforcements. I'm in big trouble now! I've gotta try using the Kagebunshin no Jutsu or else I'm going to be in big trouble." Naruto summoned up whatever Chakra was left, along with the hand seal, and screamed out:

"KAGEBUNSHIN NO JUTSU!"

Poof

What looked like a boneless Naruto skin appeared right next to him on the floor, similar to the one he tried to do at the academy for the graduation test.

Facefault

"Crap! I don't even have enough for one good clone! I'm screwed! DAMN!"

What Naruto hadn't noticed was a vine was dangling next to his face and only realized it when it brushed against his cheek. Naruto stared at the vine, deciding whether to take it or just stay down there.

"If I stay down here, I'm at a worse disadvantage, so I'm going to go up there for a better fighting chance."

Naruto gingerly grabbed the vine, and then gave it a few good yanks before climbing the vine. As he neared the top of the vine, he jumped out in hopes to surprise the mass army up there, with his shurikens in his hand and ready for throwing. However, as soon as he got up there, he saw no one but the one cloaked figure who was standing there, and even the cloaked figure didn't look like he was going to battle. Naruto landed and put his shurikens away, except one which he had just in case something were to happen. He approached the figure slowly, inching closer and closer, but stopped stone cold when he heard him speak.

"Uzimaki Naruto, I've had my eyes on you."

Naruto eyes open wide at the mention of his name. Who was this stranger and how did he know Naruto's name?! Tune in next time folks =) I wanna know how I'm doing so a few reviews would tell me whether or not to go on...