Always with you (Naruto Fanfiction)

A Name to Call You

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto does.

Warning: Some OOC character. Grammar error and misspelling

Summary: Does anybody wondered 'How Naruto know Kurama's name?' This is the answer. This is a (belated) New Year gifts from me, an omake. Happy New Year :3

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It had been a few days after the incident in the park. The fox never talked to Naruto ever since. It made the four years old quite sad. He hadn't spoken to anybody these past few days.

"Um... a-ano..." the little boy peeked inside the cage. This made the huge fox snarled at him. Naruto shrieked and hide behind one of the big pillar. He persisted though. After all... today was kind of special.

"Um... Mr. Fox?" Naruto peeked once again. This time, the fox turned to look at him.

"What is it, kid? Go back to sleep," the fox said.

"But... aren't you... sleeping... these whole... days? Haven't you... enough?" the boy asked once again. He's a bit shaky, but he was very happy to finally be able to speak to someone, even though it's not human.

The fox looked at the blonde suspiciously. For a kid his age, he sure is slow in his speaking skill, or that's just because he's a human... No matter. It's not his business anyway, "And how that's any matter for you?"

"Um... accompany me... pwease? I wanna... wake up till midnight!" Naruto said energetically. He's feeling a bit braver toward the fox.

"What for?" the fox snarled.

"It's neeuu yeer! Eveiionee does that. Pweasee?" Naruto pleaded.

"Forget it. Sleep. You're going to sleep in ten minutes, anyway," the fox scoffed, curled its body once more.

"I'm a big boy. I can wake up until midnight!" Naruto said stubbornly.

"You won't," the fox closed one of his big eyes. He's doing a ten minutes countdown in his head.

"I can!"

"You~ won't~ be~ able~ to~" the fox dragged every syllables, teasing Naruto. How he love to see his pouting face.

"I caaaannnn!"

Naruto slept exactly ten minutes after the fox started counting, tired from his bickering with the fox. The fox chuckled at his antic. There's just no four years old that would be able to wake up until midnight.

When Kurama looked at the sleeping body on the floor, he decided to be a bit nice today. He seeped his chakra toward the boy, materialized it into the real world, and started to change it into a hand shape. Slowly, he picked up Naruto's body and gently put him on his bed.

Another bed materialized in their shared mindscape. The fox looked at the boy closely and smiled. A little words escaped from his big jaw before he too, started to slumber.

"Happy new year, Kid... I hope you'll find happiness in this year and after, just like your parents want you. Good night..."

It was the start of a friendship between the fox and the boy that was his host... A beautiful friendship that would last for years... A friendship that was started at the beginning of a new year...

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"Mr. Fox..."

"..."

"Mr. Fox...?"

"..."

"Miesssteer Fooooxxx~" Naruto dragged his words so long until the mighty nine tailed fox groaned from hearing it.

The fox turned his big head toward the little boy and snarled, "What do you want this time, kid?"

"I wanna knoo you name," Naruto answered happily. He stood so close at the fox's cage. Not afraid anymore. He had spent most of his time with the fox after all.

"That's none of your business, kid. Go went somewhere else. Stop disturbing me!" The fox yawned lazily.

"Hmm..." Naruto put his hands behind his head, pouting. "That's no fun~ I wanna knooo!! Tell me, tell meee~"

The fox lowered his big ears and put his paws atop of it. Why did he agree to be sealed inside this annoying human, again? Oh right... he didn't have any choices...

"Tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me TELL MEEE!!" Naruto stubbornly asked.

"Graaahhh, enough!" The fox howled. He finally snapped. "Just call me anything you want. Stop disturbing me!"

"Really? I can call you whatever I want?!" Naruto beamed at the fox's answer.

The fox suddenly had a bad feeling about his previous answer. He wanted to take it back, "Now that I think about it again-"

"I'll call you grumpy old man then," Naruto started to make some names for his beloved fox.

Wait. What?

"Oh! Maybe the furious nine tails is better? It sounds so cool!" Naruto just continued his blabbering, blind to the fox's growing anxiety.

Is he trying to name me?!

"Or maybe I'll call you-"

"Kurama."

"Huh?" Naruto awoke from his reverie. He looked up at the fox that had looked at him dead in his eyes.

"My name's Kurama," the fox continued. "Don't ever think to call me with another name, kid... understand?" Kurama then looked at Naruto with the eyes that said call-me-something-else-and-I'll-eat-you.

"But-" Naruto frowned. It's not that he didn't like the name... but why Kurama?

"That name was from my old man..." Kurama answered Naruto's unspoken question sheepishly. He turned his head slightly to hide his blushing face. The kid didn't need to know about this.

"Ah... OK!! I'll call you Kurama from now on, nice to meet you, Kurama!" Naruto beamed happily, a wide smile on his face. He jumped around that little place before he went out somewhere, probably too happy to stay at the same place.

"Nice to meet you too..." Kurama answered slowly. He waited until Naruto went out from their shared mindscape before he added with a very low voice, "Naruto..."

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A/N: Aaaand that's it! I hope you enjoy this one. Thanks for the 416 views, 15 votes, and 12 comments for this story XD ... They mean so much for me :3

Let's see... what do you think about me expand this story? I really want to write about that part Naruto trained by Jiraiya XD. No promise though. As you may already know,I'm not very good with fast update :'v