The Newest Member (A Naruto-Akatsuki Fanfic)

Chapter 15: The Mind's Limbo

Like his heart and emotions, the world was dark. his tears joining the lake of water below. He was knee deep in the dark water's, his body hunched over as if he fell asleep praying to a god that forsake him long ago. His conscious slowly faded into an awake state, he lifted his damp head, which felt like a hundred pounds heavier. The chamber was large, across the room was a large iron barred gate. The Kyuubi chamber had become very familiar over the last few years, sometimes flowing with water, sometimes dry as Suna.

"He's ... gone"

As if needing to hear the words himself to believe it, his body went limp and slumped into the water. His body wretched and writhed in the water as his emotions that shock had bottled up, broke and spread like wild fire. He slammed his fist's down on the ground, creating large splashes and ripples. With each strike of his fist's, he collided with the concrete floor, turning the water around him slightly red with the oozing blood from his cut hand, although he was in his Sub-conscious mind, he could feel every blow as if it were real.

"Dam it ... Dam it ... DAM IT !"

His speech stuttered as he tried to hold onto something that only resembled speech, his sadness contorted into rage and pure anger as his fist's began to crumble the floor beneath him. Each blow raised his voice louder and louder until he was screaming at reality itself. He felt something stir in the chamber and rose to his feet, he needed someone to take his anger out on.

"Naruto ... This is the hate you need, no ?"

"Kyuubi ... What the hell do you want ... Cant you see i'm busy ... Leave me to my grief"

"You have changed over the last few week's ... We used to hate each other .."

"I DO HATE YOU !"

"No ... You only hate me because I am the only one here ... Were a Konoha Ninja here you would feel ... Oh so much different. Face it Naruto, you want my power ... you want my will ... you want the vengeance only I can provide. It's only a seal away ..."

"The day I let you take full control is the day I die ... I'm not dying anytime soon ..."

"What do you think kept you alive when you had your little cry hmm ? Who do you think truly helped you then ? You are nothing without me ... I kept you alive just so we could finally work together ... The village did not throw you out .. The village threw us both out"

"You ... You kept me alive ... WHY !? you could have been freed from my body and reincarnated somewhere else !"

"Because ... I've grown to admire you ... it would only be a matter of day's before I am hunted down and sealed in some other child ... Then I would be trapped yet again"

"So you want to stay ?"

"We both share the same goal now dont we ? It's only natural to form alliances with those of common interest ... Isn't that why you joined the Akatsuki ? Nagato being your uncle is but a bonus ..."

"Kyuubi ... I'm so lost ... I don't know what to do ... I am an emotional wreck right now ... "

"You have hatred do you not ? I feel it in you Naruto. You are also forgetting ... Both Nagato and that girl have Hatred just as intense .. they will follow you to the underworld if need be ... I can tell the girl loves you ... Call it animal instinct, do you not love her back ?"