Author's Note: Hey guys, I'm having a bit of a writer's block on my other stories so I'm giving you this one while you wait. Hope you enjoy, NARUXSAKU4LIFE!!
Clang! Naruto deflected another one of Sasuke's sword thrusts with his kunai causing Sasuke to stumble back a few steps. Sasuke charged another chidori in his hand and charged at Naruto, Naruto easily pushed his arm the right and hit him with and right hook. Sakura sat with her back against a nearby tree healing her leg from Sasuke's earlier attack on her. Sasuke had earlier tried to infiltrate the leaf village but Naruto and Sakura we're able to push him out to a small meadow about a mile outside of the village which is where they now fought him. Sasuke wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked up at Naruto. "You've gotten much stronger Naruto," Sasuke gave Naruto a quick smirk. "But I'm still on a whole other level." Right as he said this he activated his sharingan caught Naruto. Naruto started to blank out, the last things he recognized was Sasuke coming at him about to put his sword through him and Sakura running at him with tears running down her cheeks. Sasuke drove his sword through Naruto's stomach and he fell to the ground. "Sakura, heal him if you can, I would hate for him to die, I'll give you hint, if you don't act now, he'll be taken down from the inside. I look forward to our next encounter. My mission is done here." Immediately after Sasuke left, Sakura started healing Naruto's wound.
Tears poured down Sakura's face as she pushed all the chakra that she could into her hands. Sakura wanted to grab him by the jacket but she didn't want to harm him any further. "You can't die Naruto! You're the only thing I have left! I have so many things left to tell you!" Just then a group of five anbu members jumped down from the trees.
The leader of the small group came over and kneeled next to Sakura. "What's the situation here?"
"Anbu leader, listen to me very carefully I need you to go back to the leaf village and bring me Tsunade, Shizune, Kakashi, and Jiriya. Do you understand?"
"Yes mam, we'll get right on that." The anbu leader went over to his small squad and gave a few short directions before they got into formation and left. Sakura continued to push all of the chakra that she could into Naruto's body but she knew that she could only stall his death. To truly save him she would need help from the sannin, especially Jiriya. Sakura once again looked down at where Sasuke had gotten Naruto, it was a perfect shot. Sasuke had gotten him right where she thought was his intended target, right in the center of the fox seal on his stomach. That's why she needed Jiriya, he needed to see if Sasuke was able to break part of the seal with that sword, she needed Tsunade and Shizune to help her with basic healing, and she needed Kakashi to check if Sasuke's sharingan attack had been anything serious. She had already cured most of the internal injuries and was now try to stop the blood loss.
"Who did this?" Sakura turned around; Jiriya was literally shaking as he walked over to Naruto's fallen body.
Sakura talk her hand off of Naruto to wipe tears from her face, "It was Sasuke, he did this to Naruto. Master Jiriya you need to tell, is Naruto going to live through this or not?"
"Well Sakura, death is certainly a possibility if we don't start working on him immediately, but we're going to need Tsunade. First though, I need to know exactly what happened right before this injury."
"Well, Sasuke started talking to Naruto a little bit and then he activated a kind of sharingan that restrained Naruto and then he charged at him and did this to him."
"Well, it's quite obvious to me that he but Naruto in a form of the Tsukuyomi which is bad because that already puts enough strain on the seal. I think Sasuke came here with the mission to break Naruto's seal, let's hope his mission wasn't a success." Just then Tsunade and Shizune came down from a tree with TonTon not far behind them. Nobody had to say anything for Tsunade and Shizune to know what was going on, they just knelt next to Naruto and started using healing jutsu that Sakura did not know. After about five minutes Tsunade mutter a few words that Sakura did not understand and press her hand against Naruto's stomach.
"Ok, we can take him back to the village now." Tsunade said.
Sakura yelled, "You mean he's going to be okay?!"
Tsunade chuckled to herself, "You crack me up Sakura. If he tried to stand up right now he could die. We're just taking him to the hospital so we can start the real surgery. Sakura would you like to carry him?"
"Of course Jiriya-sama," she put her arm around Naruto's head and the other arm under Naruto's legs. She picked up as gently as she could trying not to further injure him. She ran a little behind the rest of them as she repositioned Naruto in her arms. Finally, they got to Konaha hospital and Sakura ran into the lobby, they had already made arrangements and had a stretcher waiting for him. Tsunade and her medical assistants rushed Naruto in to the operating room and closed the door behind them. Sakura sat down in a chair in the waiting room and immediately started to cry. It just hit her that there was a good chance that Naruto wouldn't come out of that room alive, she cried until she looked up and saw Ino and TenTen. Ino came over and hugged Sakura and started crying too.
"We came as soon as we heard, how is he doing?"
"Well, the doctors say that there's a chance that he isn't gonna come out of that room alive."
"Oh I'm so sorry, but don't worry, me and TenTen are staying here with you until he comes out of there." So they started talking about things trying to take their minds off of the things going on in the operating room.
About 8 hours later:
Ino was asleep on Sakura's shoulder when the doctor came out. His suit was covered in blood as he walked up to Sakura. "Sakura, Tsunade said that you should be the first one that I tell about Naruto Uzumaki's condition. Well Sakura, the good news is, he's going to live." Sakura started crying tears of joy and Ino came up and hugged her. "But, he is in a coma right now and we can't see the extent of his injuries until he wakes up, would you like to go to his room?" Sakura didn't say yes, she just pushed past the doctor and went down the hallway to Naruto's room; she pushed open the door and went inside. Naruto looked just like he was sleeping, seeing him in this bed made her remember all of the times that he had pushed out of the way of an attack or jumped in front of it for her. It made her think, maybe she liked Naruto in a little more than a friendship kind of way, but it was a shame that he wasn't awake for her to tell him. The doctor walked in as she sat next to Naruto's bed. "Sakura I think you should be getting home, its pretty late."
"Don't worry about me doctor; I think I'm going to stay here with Naruto tonight." The doctor left and closed the door behind him leaving Ino, Sakura, and Naruto in the room alone.
"Sakura why are you crying?"
Sakura looked up at Ino, "If I would have gotten involved in the fight then it would be me on that table instead of Naruto, I could have saved him."
Ino shook her head, "Sakura you have to see this from Naruto's point of view, who do you think he would rather have on that table right now you or him? Besides if you would have gotten involved you would probably be on that bed with him. Besides Sakura you heard the doctor, Naruto is going to be fine."
"We don't know that yet Ino, he could be in a coma for three years." Sakura put her face in her hands and again began to cry.
"Or, he could be in a coma for three minutes. Sakura you just need to calm down, I'll go get us something to eat."
Ino closed the door quietly as she left. When Ino was gone Sakura turned to towards Naruto and picked up his hand. "Naruto I know you can't hear me, and if you could it would probably sound a little weird, but I think I might like you. It might not be true but," Sakura dropped Naruto's hand, "look at me talking to you when your like this, I think I've finally gone insane." Sakura thought to herself as Ino walked in the door.
She handed Sakura a plate of food and a hot cup of tea. "Sakura, I know why your so worried about him and why your still here. It's not just because you've been great friends with him, well its that and… that you like him don't you?"
"How did you guess?" Sakura looked up at Ino with eyes full of curiosity.
"Come on Sakura, you weren't even this concerned when you learned that Sasuke had his life in danger, and the way you always look at Naruto with that certain spark in your eye. I am your best friend, and I know when something's up."
Sakura chuckled a little; it was the first time since Naruto had gotten hurt. "Wow Ino, you're pretty good, but how am I supposed to tell him if he's like this for a long time?"
"Well Sakura lets just hope that he doesn't then." Ino put her arm around Sakura's shoulders to comfort her.
A few miles outside of the leaf village
Sasuke was leaned up against a tree waiting for someone; finally, a cloaked man came from the trees. "So, is that annoying piece of crap finally finished once and for all?"
"I'm sorry Sasuke-sama but no, he's only in a coma, and the mission is a failure."
"Well if he's in a come lets go finish him know, he won't be able to get away this time."
"Sasuke I'm sorry but if you want to live through the day, just head back to the sound village now. This is Naruto in the hospital that we're talking about; he is surrounded by Jiriya, Tsunade, and almost any other top ninja in the leaf village. Sasuke-sama, the mission is over."
Sasuke cut the tree behind in half in anger, "fine Kabuto, it can't be helped; we'll get him another time. Let's get going, I want to get back to the sound village before it gets dark," and with that they were off.
Sakura woke up when she heard a violent shaking coming from Naruto's bed, so she got up and ran over to him. "Naruto, oh my god!" Naruto was shaking wildly and his eyes had turned a bright orange. Red chakra was pouring from Naruto's open mouth and his hair was turning dark orange. Sakura ran out into the hallway, "Jiriya, Tsunade, Kakashi, somebody help me!" Nobody came so Sakura ran back into the room, but Naruto wasn't there anymore. Instead, there was a small nine tailed fox in his place; Naruto had transformed into the demon fox.
"Sakura wake up, wake up." Ino stood over Sakura shaking her. It had been a week and 2 days since Naruto had been put in the hospital.
Sakura finally awoke, "Oh thank god, it was just a dream."
Ino was looking down her with a huge smile on her face, "good thing you woke up. A certain blonde ninja just woke up and would really like to see you."
"Naruto is awake!" Sakura tore off the blanket that she had fallen asleep under and ran out of the hospital room that then hospital had let her use to stay there. She ran down the hallway to Naruto's room and knocked on the closed door.
"Come in," that was definitely Naruto's voice; Sakura ran into the room and almost tackled Naruto. "Hey Sakura, wait are you crying?"
It was true; tears had started to pour down Sakura's face when she saw that Naruto was sitting up. "I'm sorry Naruto, I'm just so happy to see you. Naruto did they tell you when you'll be able to leave the hospital?"
"Yeah, they said I could leave tomorrow after I let them bandage my stomach, why do you ask?"
Sakura turned a light shade of pink, "well I was wondering if you would want to go get some ramen with me tomorrow?"
"Of course Sakura, but why do you ask do you like me?" Naruto laughed; of course Sakura knew that he was just joking around.
Sakura smiled, "maybe I do." She leaned over and gave Naruto a kiss on the cheek, "I'll pick you up at eleven tomorrow, see you then Naruto," she blew him a kiss and closed the door behind her.
Naruto smiled and touched his cheek, "Wow."