"Hello? Is there something I can help you with?" Naruto begins to back into his hallway that leads to his room.

"Actually, yes." A familiar voice answers, as the figure enters the room, Yuuto comes into view. "The last time we tried to have fun with you, your buddies interrupted us." Rito and Nozomu enter behind him, "so we thought we could try again now that they aren't here."

"My friends will know that you're here." Naruto is starting to feel panicked.

"Well, I don't see anyone," Yuuto makes a show of looking around, "How about you two, anyone?"

"Nope, not a single person," Rito smiles as he looks at Naruto.

"Kid, Let me help. You're stronger then they are." The Kyuubi stands up in his cage swinging around his tails.

"No, this is happening because someone stood up, just let it be." Naruto deflates, standing in the kitchen of his apartment. "Sorry guys I might be a little late for the mission," Naruto thinks hoping he won't be too late.

"How a little bit of light torture?" Yuuto grabs Naruto's shoulder and walks him to a chair. Naruto sits in the chair and lets them take off his shirt and jacket. They turn him so that his back is facing them, "we only did the front last time, so this time we are going to do the back." Yuuto ties Naruto's Hands in front of him and pulls out some kunai.

"You're being really complaisant today. " Nozomu pulls the blondes chin up to see a sad expression on his face. "Oh, starting to regret what you did that day then?" Nozomu walks behind Naruto and carves 鬼 (Demon) in the center of his back taking up most of the space. The others join in adding other names until there is nothing left. It's been about 25 minutes, and the men aren't satisfied yet.

Yuuto walks to Naruto's kitchen and looks for some wire. He turns on a burner after shaping the wire into 狐(Kitsune) and 九 (Nine), he opened Naruto's hands, "Admit you're the Demon Fox, and we will stop hurting you."

"Fuck you," Naruto spits, "I am me."

Yuuto heats the first wire shaped into 狐 and presses it to the palm of Naruto's left hand. "Let's try this again, who are you."

"Naruto," he bites back a yell of pain, starring into the man's eyes with hate.

"Wrong." He heats the wire again and presses it to the wound. "Who are you?"

"I am Naruto." His eyes are tearing up as he holds back screams.

"Again, wrong." Yuuto heats the wire once more and presses it again. This time getting a scream from the boy. Naruto sits silently looking at the floor. "No answer is a wrong answer," Yuuto sighs. He picks up the second wire and heats it; he opens Naruto's right hand and presses the hot wire. "Who. are. you?" Yuuto asks, growing angrier by the second. Again Naruto screams and says nothing as he cries from the intense pain. Yutto heats the wire, presses it saying, "come on Kyuubi, tell us who you are."

"I'm..." Naruto whispers looking at the floor, "I'm the Kyuubi."

"Hmm, did you hear him, boys?" Yuuto looks to the others, I don't think I could hear him." The others shake their heads and Naruto panics.

"I'm the Kyuubi, I am the Kyuubi no Kitsune!" He screams, but Yuuto still brands his hand one more time. Naruto screams again and starts crying. "I'm the Kyuubi. Please, believe me. I'm the Kyuubi," he whispers into his lap, curling in upon himself.

"Good." Yuuto motions for the others and cuts Naruto free. "Make sure people can always see our art there Kitsune."

The three men leave a crying Naruto in his apartment. It's still 10 minutes before he needs to be at the gate.

"Kid," the Kyuubi says, trying to be gentle. "Do you want these as scars as well?" Naruto says nothing, he just stares at the floor, blank and unmoving. "I'll take that as a yes," he heals Naruto's wounds to scars and looks at the boy.

In the mindscape, Naruto is on his knees in the wet sewer. "You okay kid?" The Kyuubi looks worries and pushes a tail out of his cage to wrap Naruto in it.

"I'm Fine," Naruto says. He stands up and looks at the Kyuubi. "I'm the Kyuubi no Kitsune anyways." He gives a weak smile while reaching out to stroke Kyuubi's tail. "Thank you, Kyuubi."

Outside, Naruto slips on his shirt and jacket, not caring about the blood he gets all over his shirt as a result of not cleaning off. He grabs his bag and puts in some water then heads out the door. When he reaches the gates, he is the last one.

"Naruto Baka, you're late!" Sakura yells at Naruto crossing her arms glaring at him.

"Sorry, Sakura-Chan." Naruto walks past her without even looking up and starts walking out the gate. The group looks at each other and shrugs, following after him.

Naruto leads the group, walking silently with his head down. Next is Sasuke, Tazuna, and Sakura; then, Kakashi in the rear reading his book as usual.

"Is he always this quiet?" Tazuna looks at the blonde, remembering his earlier energy.

"No actually, he usually is bouncing off everything and getting into trouble." Sakura looks ahead at the boy worriedly.

"Well, I guess we are lucky then. Now he won't attract attention." Tazuna says looking to the trees.

After a while of walking, the group passes a puddle on the ground. Kakashi eyes it sensing the chakra of two people inside. Once the puddle is behind the group, two figures jump out of the water and chain up Kakashi. Pulling at the chain together, the two figures successfully rip Kakashi's body to pieces. The group looks in terror as the jonin dies before their eyes.

Naruto, thinking he was dead, yells and charges one of the two men. "You'll pay for that!" Naruto tries to stab with a kunai but misses as the man jumps over him, heading towards Tazuna.

Sakura stands in front of him with a weapon at the ready, but Sasuke steps in front of her and blocks the man's attack. "Take Tazuna ahead down the road. We can't fight if he is here!" Sasuke yells to Sakura pushing the man away from himself. Nodding, Sakura grabs Tazuna and pulls him down the road.

Naruto looks at the two men angrily, as he started boiling over, his teeth grew and his scars deepened. "I'm going to kill you both!" Naruto ran, faster than he normally does at the two men, the first one he rips out the throat with his hand, the second one watched as Naruto charged at him. Before Naruto could reach him though, the man threw a kunai, Naruto caught it only to find it had a paper bomb attached. The explosion threw Naruto into a tree, Sasuke throws three shiruken that the man and prepares his fireball Jitsu. As his shiruken make contact, the man is replaced with a log. Quicky, Sasuke turns around just as the man takes a stab at him. Sasuke blocks it and jumps away.

Yelling, Naruto pulls a kunai of his own and slashes wildly at the man in front of him. The man, not used to the speed of the genin can do nothing but dodge. Naruto slashed again and before he could land the fatal blow, Kakashi caught the boy's arm and punched the man making him fall to the ground.

Naruto, seeing his sensei alive calms down, his scars returning to normal, but his teeth staying a little longer. Kakashi walks to the living man and ties up his arms. "You two go check on Sakura while I question him." Without argument, the two boys walk down the road to find Tazuna and Sakura.

"Sasuke-Kun!" Sakura yells as she runs to embrace her crush. She lets go and looks at Naruto and gasps, "Naruto, your jacket is all in tatters."

Looking down, sure enough, his jacket is torn in multiple places. "Darn, I don't have a new one either."

Sakura thinks for a moment then holds her hand out, "give it to me, I'll sew it up!" She smiles kindly, waiting for the boy to remove his jacket. Naruto unzips his jacket to reveal his bloody shirt underneath. "Naruto are you Bleeding?" Sakura spins him to look at his back.

"No, I'm okay." He says looking at the ground.

"No you're not, take your shirt off too." She grabs the bottom of his shirt and starts to pull.

"S-sakura-Chan?" Naruto blushes and tries to stop her, but it's too late. She rips his shirt over his head to show the newest scars.

Sakura backs away covering her mouth, "What happened?" She looks at his face full of worry.

Sasuke walks over angrily, looking at his back and searching the other boy for any other new marks. He finds the Burned words into Naruto's hands, "they did it again didn't they." Sasuke rather than asking angrily looked over each new mark.

Naruto nods silently, avoiding eye contact. Kakashi came down the road at that moment and saw the blonde standing there shirtless with his horrified teammates standing beside him.

"Naruto?" Kakashi walks over to Naruto with wide eyes.

"Okay, yes I'm covered in scars, but I'm fine!" The boy takes his shirt back from Sakura, "like I said before I heal fast. It doesn't hurt." He slips his shirt back on. "Thanks for offering to fix my jacket Sakura-chan, if it is too damaged don't worry about it." Naruto Smiles at her with his eyes closed.

"No, I don't think it will be too hard," Sakura says, catching on that he just wants to drop the subject altogether.

"Okay, we should keep on moving then," Tazuna says, noting the tension in the air.

"Only if you tell us why the Demon Brothers Gozu and Meizu of Hidden Mist were after you," Kakashi turns and glares at the old man.

Hello everyone!

This was a heavy chapter, but great job making it through! This story is starting to get exciting! I know we have heard the Bridge story a million times, but hopefully, I can spice it up and make it interesting!

Remember to comment on anything you would like to see or anything you catch that needs to be changed!

thanks for reading!

Chintara-Chan