The Third Uzukage by Dark-Nate18

Chapter 20: Sasuke Opens?

Naruto awoke to a strange place; it was a simple forest line. Confusion written on his face, as he stepped through the trees, he found himself in a clearing, a large circle pond sat in the middle, a small rock seemed to stretch from the main land to just hanging over the river. Naruto stepped through the tree line, and the colour seemed to drain from the surrounding area. The whole setting turned into a deep black and white. Naruto frowned slightly and looked up into the now clear sky. Four orbs seemed to spin around in a ring in the sky. Two orbs were plain white; one was a purple colour, a rippled pattern spread across the entire circle. Naruto immediately recognised the Rinnegan, his original one. The other was just a plain blood red; Naruto frowned slightly as he moved towards the rock that was sticking out over the large pond. He sighed slightly as he stood on the edge of the rock, his eyes still lingering on the sky.

"Eerie isn't it" came a deep rumbling voice Naruto had become familiar with. Naruto watched with disorientation as the world seemed to move. He took a step forward as the world tipped. The river ended up as a mirror, the large river seemed like a gate into some horrible dimension. Naruto looked up and blanched the tree's were acting as a ring. He turned around on his spot on the stone and realised he was staring at the sky. His stomach lurched from the dizzying world. He heard a deep chuckle. He turned slowly and watched as his reflection in the mirror do the same, he felt an honest jolt of fear shoot through his body. His reflection had an evil smirk, sharp canines, blood red eyes, and the pupils were silver slits. His hair was much longer, and tied into nine thin strips. The horns were changed to ear like shapes. The reflection licked a drop of blood off of its thumb, its smirk growing wider.

"Who are you" asked Naruto, his face betraying his calm voice. The reflection chuckled, Naruto then took notice of the reflection in the water, everything was burning; black, red and blue fire consumed the entire world. Two orbs were burning, pulsing. One was bright ethereal blue. The other was plain red fire. His eyes were drawn to the reflection of himself. It seemed to turn and look at him.

"Come now Naruto, you don't recognise me" said the deep voice and Naruto raised an eyebrow as there was a flash of the Kyuubi behind the reflection.

"Kyuu" said Naruto calmly, the reflection nodded and chuckled slightly.

"Don't worry; I was as confused as you were. I started off in a cramped cage, only to be given a little world of my own to play in and do as I please." Said the Kyuubi, Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"You got me here to tell me this?" questioned Naruto, the Kyuubi snarled and banged both of his fists against the pond. It rippled and made a loud rumble but did not budge.

"No insolent brat, I am just saying be careful, for this to be happening already..."the Kyuubi trailed off, Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"You have seen a world like this before?" asked Naruto, the Kyuubi grumbled slightly.

"Three times, but only one that looked exactly like this" said the Kyuubi, Naruto nodded and raised an eyebrow.

"Are you going to elaborate?" asked Naruto, the Kyuubi chuckled.

"Maybe later, by the way, why do you call me Kyuu?" asked Kyuubi, Naruto sighed and turned around.

"You are the only constant in my life, you have helped since I was young, though for your own back I understand, but still you helped me get stronger. As such you are family" said Naruto, Kyuubi looked at Naruto's back with a strange look on his face. Kyuubi looked at the monochrome world of Naruto and wondered what it would be like to venture into that world. He could see it slowly creeping through the water. Kyuubi was a beast of pure malevolence, hatred incarnate.