Excerpt: Flames of Chaos.

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Only to open them moments later. He wasn't in his hospital bed anymore. Instead, he was laying in inch deep water, staring at the roof of a sewer system. Not just any sewer system either, it was the system where the Kyuubi was held.

Before he could get up, an all to familiar, booming voice was heard from directly behind him. "Kuzo! Don't waste my time by staring at nothing. Get up, I have a proposition for you." The mere force behing the Kyuubi's words was enough to put Naruto on his guard, as he stood. And the guard wasn't without reason once he viewed the cage.

Instead of the shadowed, fiery face made of chakra, the Kyuubi now looked more like it's name-sake, a giant version of a fox. However, further back into the cage, it's body was still veiled in shadow, with but a faint, red hint of it's nine tails. Willing his confidence to the front, no matter the beast's change, Naruto spoke, "I don't have time for you, Bastard Fox. Now let me the hell out!"

While impressed, as always, by the kid's bravado, Kyuubi snarled at the impudent brat. "Silence! You may be my jailor, but I'm still the greatest of the Tailed Beasts! I hold power that you couldn't comprehend. Power, that you could use to wield rasen-shuriken without injury."

Naruto was at first shocked, and dumbfounded at hearing that last bit. However, he still gave the Kyuubi a sneer of his own, before his reply. "You may be powerful, but I'm still stronger. You can't break free from me, without killing yourself, you Bastard F-"

A booming laugh silenced the young man, and nearly blew him away. "You think I'm unable to escape? You think death will take me, as it will you, if you die? I promise you, Child of the Prophecy, that you are my jailor by choice, not force."