Alrighty then, First Naruto fic it is. Sorry to those of you who were still waiting for updates from my other story. The road of life tore me from that story and by the time I came back into the mood of writing I had just gotten caught up with the naruto anime/manga and have turned my interest to narusaku as of late. Now I've had this chapter written for quite sometime so its about time I posted it, hope you all enjoy.

(I know its traditional to put a legend here of like thoughts, kyuubi, inner sakura blah blah but everyone uses the same shit so if you can't figure it out its your problem lol.)

===Chapter 1===

A fitting end for a dark day as it started to rain down on the valley of the end. Two figures could be made out at the bottom shoreline, one was a beaten and defeated Uzumaki Naruto, the other was a beaten but victorious Uchiha Sasuke as he looked down at his defeated former comrade. The Uchiha was going through flashbacks of his brothers words as he stood there, remembering how Itachi told him how to obtain a Mangekyuu Sharingan. However, Sasuke refused to abide by Itachi's words letting his head protector fall onto Naruto then immediately left.

While this was going on in the outside world, Naruto found himself wandering around the all too familiar corridors of his mind. Naruto sluggishly entered the room in which Kyuubi is imprisoned.

"The Uchiha is strong, no?" Questioned the deep voice of Kyuubi behind his cage.

Naruto just stood there unresponsive seemingly caught in a depressed trance.

"One would need something powerful to combat that cursed Sharingan. Using just a small portion of my power alone won't work" Said Kyuubi watching his host.

Naruto lifted his head to look at Kyuubi. "What else could I have done…" he said nearly as a whisper.

"There was nothing else you could of done Kit. You more than anyone know the extent of that boy's powers. With his background you shouldn't even be in his league yet you nearly defeated him, If only you had abilities on equal footing you would destroy him without a doubt Kit" Said Kyuubi.

"But I don't, I always had to struggle to get what others took for granted…" Naruto replied bringing his gaze back down to the ground.

"Not anymore Kit" Kyuubi replied in which Naruto raised his head questioningly to the demon.

"What do you mean?" asked Naruto with some hope in his eyes.

"I'll give you a gift, I can give you your own bloodline limit" Said Kyuubi.

Naruto's eyes immediately shot open, "What do you mean you can give me a bloodline limit? How can that even be possible!?"

Kyuubi smirked at this, "Kit did you forget that I'm an ancient demon lord, I have more talent than just having an enormous amount of chakra, I'm also not limited by the laws you humans have".

Red chakra started to encircle Naruto, this chakra was a much darker red than normal. It started to seep into Naruto which started to cause great pain to the boy.

"AHHHHHHHH, IIT HHURTS!!" Naruto choked out.

"Yes, it hurts like hell now but you'll be fine Kit"

A few moments later and all the chakra had absorbed into Naruto causing him to collapse. Naruto had lost track of time as it passed until he heard a faint voice.

"It's time to wake up Kit…" Kyuubi quietly said.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes to find himself greeted by endless white and a few bright lights.

'Am I dead?' He thought as he then turned his head to the left, 'Guess not' he thought again as he realized he was just in the hospital.

Naruto noticed that his body was pretty stiff, 'I wonder if it's from my fight with Sasuke or whatever it was that Kyuubi did… If that even happened'.

"It's from both, so yes that did happen Kit" replied Kyuubi listening to Naruto's thoughts.

'So I have a bloodline limit now?' asked Naruto.

"Yes you do, but before you ask me, not even I know what it is or does. It's something you yourself will have to figure out in time".

'Alright, thanks Kyuubi'

"Don't mention it Kit, If I'm stuck in here there's no use in me bitching about it since neither of us asked for this, might as well help each other out".

Naruto smirked at the fox's words. He then heard the door click open and turned his head to see none other than Tsunade.

"Well it's about damn time you woke up" said Tsunade as she approached Naruto's bed.

"Hey Baa-chan" replied Naruto.

"Naruto! Don't call me that!" She said sending him a glare.

Naruto only smiled replying, "Sorry Lord Hokage Baa-chan-sama"

"Naruto…" Replied Tsunade quietly but as threatening as ever. Though she lightened up noticing how he's been acting. 'At least he doesn't seem to be beating himself too much over Sasuke. I'll let him rest up before I question him'.

"I'm sorry…" Said Naruto quietly.

'Huh?' Thought Tsunade since his mood just did a 180. She looked behind her to see the cause of this. Sakura was standing in the doorway.

Tsunade remembered a conversation she had with the young girl just days before when Naruto had been brought back by Kakashi.

Flashback

Tsunade had just exited the Critical Treatment room where she had just finished up stabilizing Naruto. She noticed a pink haired girl right outside the room sitting on one of the benches. 'This girl is Naruto's teammate eh? Haruno Sakura'

As soon as she noticed Tsunade she immediately looked up, "Is he alright!?"

Tsunade noticed that she had been crying for what seemed like awhile from how puffy her eyes were. "Yes Naruto's life is no longer in danger" She said warmly to the young girl.

"Thank god…" replied Sakura quietly, at this point she was standing up.

Tsunade took a step towards the girl and embraced her in a motherly hug.

"I hate myself…" Said Sakura starting to cry again into Tsunade's embrace.

"Don't, it wasn't your fault that this happened to your team" Replied Tsunade.

"No, I hate myself for the way I've always treated Naruto…" Sakura corrected crying even harder.

Tsunade didn't say anything and just listened to the young kunoichi's confession.

"H-He always does s-so much for me… and all I've ever done is scold him!" Sakura was now hysterical.

As much as Tsunade hated knowing that Naruto was being taken advantage of, she could very well see that the girl in her arms was breaking.

"Even all this, h-he made a promise to me that he nearly died for trying to keep… J-Just to make me h-happy…"

"Sakura, as long as you truly realize your mistakes you can change them. I myself was the same way on my team, nobody is perfect. You have plenty of time to correct your wrongs. Now cheer up, I'm sure Naruto won't think any different of you and he sure as hell wouldn't want you crying like this"

"Thanks Hokage-sama"

End Flashback

Looking back at Naruto, Tsunade said "I'll check up on you later Naruto, make sure to get some rest" she then headed towards the exit but stopped next to Sakura. She put a hand on Sakura's shoulder and whispered, "Remember what I told you, you have plenty of time to correct the way you treat him" with that she patted her on the shoulder and left.

"I'm sorry I couldn't bring him back Sakura-chan…" said Naruto

"Stop!" shouted Sakura, "You have no reason to apologize to me, it's me who needs to apologize…" Sakura was now starting to cry again.

Naruto was taken back by this, "apologize for what Sakura-chain?"

"For the way I've treated you all these years! I'm horrible! You always did everything you can for me and I never showed any appreciation for it!" Sakura wailed.

"Sakura-chan…"

"L-Look, Naruto, I-I don't want you to keep that promise to me. It's not worth it if I lose you too…" Said Sakura looking down.

'What does she mean? Bringing back Sasuke should mean everything to her…' thought Naruto.

"Sakura, I won't take back that promise to you. It's my ninja way" Said Naruto looking up at Sakura giving her one of his smiles.

"T-Then I won't let you do it alone, I promise you Naruto, next time we'll bring back Sasuke together". Replied Sakura. 'I promise Naruto, I'll find a way to become stronger and support you as much as I can'.

The door opened again to reveal one of the nurses who looked over at Sakura.

"I'm sorry but visiting hours are over miss"

"Alright I'll get going then" She then looked back at Naruto, "Again I'm sorry Naruto, I promise I'll figure out how to make it up to you for treating you so coldly… rest up, bye…" she then exited the room.

The nurse then shut off all the lights and left Naruto to himself.

'Looks like your mate is starting to grow up Kit'

'Huh Kyuubi? What do you mean my m-WAIT! Sakura-chan is not my mate! She would never think of me like that!'

'Don't worry about it Kit, young females are dumb, You'll probably have to wait a couple years till she matures a bit more in order to say whether she will think of you like that or not'

'Whatever'

'You know I'm right Kit, she didn't even add her stupid "kun" to the end of his name, and trust me that she wouldn't just forget to not say it'

'Alright alright you win, I'm going to bed'

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Next Update: February 9, 2009

Ok hope you enjoyed it, if you did please review. If I got some grammar problems in here I'm sorry.

On a side note, Honestly I've failed twice with continuing stories. However this is the first story where I actually wrote about 10 pages of storyline before actually stepping up to the computer to start. I'm hoping this way I'll have hardly any writers blocks so now its all up to me finding the time which I think I have at least lol. So I'm going to try and update once a week.