NARUTO POV:
Naruto woke up standing in a large sewer like place. "Where in the name of Ramen?" he muttered as he looked around, trying to figure out how he even got here. "I was at the Uchiha district and then... I got knocked out, so how am I here dattebayo ?" Naruto said looking around.
"Sasuke!" he said, realizing that Sasuke was alone with the person who had most likely killed everyone from the Uchiha clan and no one would most likely notice until someone happened to go to the Uchiha district or till morning.
He started running around, trying to find a way to leave this place and get back to where he had been before he came to wherever he was.
"You realize you just ran in a circle like 4 times right?" a deep voice said, sounding slightly amused.
"Who was that?" Naruto screamed, unnerved by the echo which made it seem like the voice came from everywhere.
"Me" replied the voice.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked.
" Follow the red chakra to find out" the voice said. Naruto looked around until he saw a red line inside the yellow liquid he was standing in.
Shrugging, he followed it until he reached a huge gate with a paper with the words 'SEAL' written on it.
Inside the cage was one huge red eye staring at him. "H-hi?" Naruto said, feeling kind of put off by the eye.
"Hello my warden, I see you finally visit me" the voice rumbled from inside the cage. "You asked me who I am? Why I'm sure you already know who I am."
Naruto saw its whole body. Its orange fur and its nine tails. "Y-you're the-" the fox looked expectantly at him "THE EASTER BUNNYS WORST NEMESIS DATTEBAYO" Naruto said dramatically.
"H-huh?" the fox said, looking confused as hell. "NO, I AM THE NINE TAILED FOX, THE STRONGEST OF ALL BIJUU" he said, even giving a huge roar at the end.
"Oh." Naruto said, looking disappointed "WAIT WHAT? DIDN'T THE FOURTH HOKAGE KILL YOU? OH MY GOD DOES THAT MEAN I'M DEAD? I STILL HAVEN'T BECOME HOKAGE" Naruto freaked out.
"YOUR NOT DEAD...yet" the nine tails roared " AND AS FOR THAT FOURTH HOKAGE OF YOURS, HE COULDN'T KILL ME FOR I AM TOO GREAT TO BE KILLED BY A HUMAN. SO, HE SEALED ME INTO A NEWBORN UZUMAKI BABY WHOSE COILS HAD NOT EVEN BEGUN DEVELOPING, BECAUSE ONLY AN UZUMAKI CAN CONTAIN ME!"
"Ohhhh..." Naruto said looking like he sort of got it.
Giving up on escaping for the time being he sat down cross legged in front of the cage, "So where are we anyway dattebayo?" he asked.
"In your mind." the fox replied.
"I see...why am I here though this has never happened to me before, even when asleep?" he asked.
"The Uchiha boy threw you into the wall, this you remember?" at Naruto's nod he continued " The debris entered a bit through your left shoulder and you have a massive concussion. Because of the seal I can lend you chakra or extra healing when you are in life or death situations. Of course, I did not wish to, so here you are while your body outside bleeds out."
Naruto paled. " AHHHHHHH I DONT WANNA DIE IM TOO YOUNG TO- wait a god damn minute dattebayo. If Your inside me won't you die too?" Naruto asked.
"Sharp aren't you " The Nine tails said. "But I cannot die. I am a being made of chakra so I would simply reform, maybe in 5 to 50 years."
Naruto gaped at him.
"Well, that would be inconvenient for me though. I want to get revenge on that blasted Madara after all. "
"Who is this Madara?"
"HE was the real culprit for my attack on the leaf village on your birthday. I do not attack villages on a whim, except that one time when they tried to eat me. Anyway, he controlled me with his blasted Sharingan and forced me to attack. I only regained myself moments before being sealed."
"Wait so that's why all the villagers hate me? Because they see you as me? And they hate you because of that Madara. So that Madara is the reason I've been alone for so long since my parents also died during the nine tails attack." Naruto thought, feeling more rage than he ever had before.
"Hey Mr Nine tails, wait that's not gonna be easy to refer to you with, what's your name?" Naruto asked innocently.
The Nine tails was shocked at this.
'The heck is wrong with this kid? First he associates me with some rabbit, then treats me as a person. It does somewhat makes sense. His mind never got polluted by the rest of the humans, so the thought that a tailed beast like me is to be treated badly never crossed his mind'
"My name is Kurama"
"Well then Kurama, will you please help me get stronger so I can take down this Madara" Naruto requested with a bow.
'To think there would be a day where a human would ask instead of just take.'
"Well while I have nothing better to do , and you don't seem like the type of person to misuse my powers, your body is still a bit too small for me to put My power into. I can at most dribble around 1 tail worth if power by the time your academy ends."
"Well then, looking forward to working with you" Naruto said, offering his hand for a handshake. Kurama fit a hand through the gap and made a fist. Naruto bumped it with a grin.
Kurama then instructed him to tear a bit from the paper so Kurama could easily channel chakra or thoughts to him without much problem.
"Seems that you are waking. Your little vixen seems worried."
While confused at what a vixen was, he nodded and said " How do I leave?" After being told to just 'imagine a door and leaving through that' a door materialized into a wall there. Saying thanks, Naruto left his mind.
He woke up to see the tearful face of Sakura as she gasped and screamed for a doctor.
SAKURA POV;
Sakura had been very worried for the past 8 hours. She had found Sasuke on the ground near a lot of dead bodies and Naruto in a cracked wall with blood coming from a Slight hole in his shoulder while walking to Sasuke's house to see why Naruto had not gotten to her home for dinner yet.
She had tried to wake Sasuke up and had tried to peel Naruto off the wall but was too afraid to deepen the shoulder wound by moving him. In the end she ran until she found an Anbu and quickly ran back with her to get the two to a hospital.
While Sasuke had only been said to have mental trauma and that he would wake up in some time, Naruto had to be rushed to the ICU for immediate treatment.
Only one hour ago he had been declared out of danger and she had been allowed to see him.