Naruto: A New Perspective

Chapter 20

Disclaimer:I don't own Naruto if I did this would be the real story

Naruto blinked, no longer was his mind trailing the tendril of chakra that he had released during his attempt to enter a full meditative trance. Instead he was viewing what appeared to be a sewer, and he was knee deep in the brown hued water.

"What the hell...?" Naruto whispered, testing his arms and hands. Everything seemed to be working, but how did he get here from the waterfall? A sewer? There were strange pipes running along the walls, many were blue, and a few seemed to be red as well...

Come...

Naruto's head turned down the sewer's corridor, the direction that the strange hypnotic voice had come from, and the way the sewage's water was flowing. With a deep breath, the blond began to drag his feet through the knee deep water, following the voice as if under a spell.

Come before me... human...

The blond trudged along, half wading through the knee high water, for some reason he needed to reach that voice. To view its source... to understand where he was, it had the answers, he was sure of it. Naruto reached the end of the sewer's dark tunnel and entered a large well lit room.

The room was a dead end, and the far wall was dominated by a cage that dwarfed Naruto in size by a great deal, Naruto shivered as heavy killer intent struck him, why did he come here? He didn't want to be here... he didn't want to know what was in that cage; he didn't want to accept it...

Yes... you understand.

Naruto whimpered in horrified fascination as two huge glowing red eyes suddenly appeared behind the bars of the cage, and almost lazily, tendrils of red chakra and killer intent floated towards him. But it was okay, the thing, it was behind the cage... he was safe-

Pathetic human... foolish ninja, you are never safe... now come closer...

The boy obeyed, he was drawn to the voice, his subconscious had figured out what this thing was, it had always known it was there, lurking. His conscious mind hadn't caught up; it still didn't understand what Naruto was truly facing, what was in this horrible place, this jail.

Naruto still drew closer, ignoring the screaming of his better instinct, which was telling him to run and never look back. His pants should be wet, he dimly realized, he was in water but they didn't feel wet, they didn't feel-

WHAM.

A huge paw tried to slam through the cage to pierce him on its fearsome claws, which were so large that Naruto couldn't even see then end of them through the bars of the cage. The boy's subconscious mind had been the only thing that saved him, it was already aware of the danger... it was forever aware of the danger, and had fought against it from the very beginning, since Naruto's birth.

This evil place... this chakra, it could only be one thing.

"The Nine Tailed Fox..." Naruto whispered, with almost horrified reverence. He still sat in the water that somehow did not stain his clothes, didn't make him cold... yet he was shivering, but it wasn't from the cold, it was fear.

Near death you understand... near death you will always understand. I see your mind, pathetic monkey, it is disgusting.

"S-Shut up." Naruto stammered, rising slowly, still shaking. This killer's intent was worse than even Zabuza's was, and it didn't seem like the beast was even trying.

The Kyuubi's red eyes glowed, promising unending pain and torture for any who dared to cross him.

Tell me boy, do you desire power?