Naruto One-Shot (Yaoi)

Surprise

By: Naomi Matatabi

He was up to something. Kurama just knew it. There was no way that Uzumaki Naruto was being quiet, calm and thoughtful. Yet the energetic blonde was being all three of those things. He was just sitting there, on his bed, staring into space, not doing a thing. This fact worried Kurama. His blonde host never acted like this, EVER. Even during the war he was a giant ball of energy.

'What's wrong with him? Is he sick or something?' Kurama thought to himself.

'No. He's not in pain or complaining. Maybe he lost a bet with Sasuke.' Kurama thought for a second. 'No. Then he'd be pouting or ranting about how he needed to beat the Teme. Maybe he's deep in thought.' Kurama paused. This was Naruto he was talking about.

Finally Kurama couldn't take it anymore. He pulled Naruto into his unconscious. The area had done a great deal of changing since Kurama had been released. Now, instead of a dank sewer with bars of a cage, a sky reigned above and a grass hill composed the main feature of a large unused field. Kurama found it most comfortable to sleep on the grass hill and resided there currently. Naruto sat in the same cross legged position that he occupied in the physical world. He didn't seem to have noticed that he had changed location. Kurama rolled his eyes.

"Naruto." Kurama said, trying to break the ninja from his thoughts.

"Naruto." He called again when he didn't receive a response.

"Naruto!" The only reaction his yell had achieved was a blink.

Kurama growled. He considered throwing a Tailed Beast Ball at the kid, but figured it'd just be a waste of chakra. Lazily, Kurama moved one of his tails and lifted the boy upside down from his ankle. Amazingly Naruto stayed in his same cross-legged position, still deep in non-existent thought.

Kurama sighed. "Fine. You asked for it."

With a flick of his tail, Kurama sent Naruto flying off past the horizon of his mindscape, a plumb of dust the only sign he had landed. Kurama waited. He didn't hear anything. Maybe he should have tried something else to wake the boy up.

"What the hell?!"

Kurama smirked. 'Nope, he's ok.'

Naruto appeared from the crater he had created upon impact and stomped up to Kurama.

"What the heck was that for ya' stupid fox?" Naruto demanded.

"Tch. You were the one who spaced out." Kurama shot back.

"So you threw me across my own mind?" Naruto asked, exasperated.

"No. I threw you across your own mind after calling you thrice."

"I don't care about your stupid rice! It doesn't give you an excuse to use me to damage my own mind!" Naruto yelled.

"I don't think it's possible to damage it more than it already was. Before I got free this place was a gutter; a literal gutter. It's no wonder you fit in with all those perverts." Kurama huffed.

"I do not fit in with them! Just cause I was trained by Ero-sensei and Kakashi-sensei does not mean I'm one of them!"

"Then explain the Sexy-no-jutsu you created before they even trained you."

Naruto paused. The fox had a point.

The two lapsed into silence as Naruto seemed to return to his thoughts. Kurama was just about to threaten to through Naruto again when the blonde asked a question.

"Hey, Fuzzbutt, when were you born?"

Kurama growled. It was a sad day indeed when the great Nine-Tailed Fox was referred to as Fuzzbutt by a sixteen year old brat. Kurama sincerely hope Shukaku never found out. He'd never hear the end of it.