This is my first Naruto Fanfiction, I don't own any Naruto or else I would be rich as hell...:-( This is a three part story called the Konoha Chronicles this is Part 1: Called the Sasuke Returns Arc, please R&R n tell me what u think

Loud sirens were heard in the distance as a massive group moved as fast as they could. Everyone ran out of their houses to see what the commotion was. A large group of medical ninjas holding countless of bodies in stretchers stopped in front of the Konoha medical center where the head doctor stood. The doctor looked around and saw all the wounded some more serve then others.

"Are these the bodies from the Orochimaru battle?" The doctor asked.

"Yes. We don't know how many are alive and how many are dead." The doctor nodded and turned to the doors where the nurses were standing.

"Escort them to the emergency room we're gonna have a long night. I need someone to locate Kuroki Kasumi I will need her help." She order and everyone dashed off in different directions. She then looked straight ahead of her and saw Jiraiya holding up a familiar young man in his arms that looked the worse of them all as they walked to the medical center together.

"Sakura." Jiraiya said as she ran to them.

"Naruto-Kun." She whispered softly. He slowly picked up his head revealing all kinds of cuts and gashes.

"Hello Sakura-Chan." He smiled before passing out.

"NARUTO!!"

He slowly opened his eyes and saw a young woman with long black hair fixing his sheets and pillows.

"K-Kasumi-Chan." He whispered. She jumped and slowly turned to him. She smiled and bowed her head.

"Naruto-San you woke up. That's great." She opened the blinds a little to reveal the sunlight.

"Where's Sakura?" He asked feeling very weak. She sighed and turned to him looking serious.

"She's still in the emergency room. Some of the ninjas had very serve injuries." She told him. He looked down.

"I see. How's the others?" He asked. She sat down on the bed and sighed.

"Well, Choji-San, Neji-San, Lee-San, Kiba-San and Kankuro-San were all hurt pretty badly but Sakura-Sensei healed them up. They're out of intensive care and are in the recovering room. As for Shikamaru-San, Shino-San, Kakashi-Sensei and Jiraiya-Sama they're injuries weren't too bad. And Gaara-Sama was healed and sent back to the Sand Village this morning." She briefly explained. Naruto looked down before looking back at Kasumi.

"Sakura-Chan healed them all that quickly?" He asked sitting up as a confused look came across his face. Kasumi sighed and shook her head no.

"Naruto-San you've been out for over a month. You had the worse wounds it took Sakura-Sensei all she had to revive you." She told him as he looked down.

"I see." He sighed and covered his face. That was one hell of a battle and even though they won a part of him didn't feel sweet victory on his side mainly because he didn't keep his promise. He couldn't….

Kasumi saw the distraught look on his face and gently placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Rest Naruto-San, you have a while longer to stay." She told him standing up.

"Kasumi…why do you insist on calling me Naruto-San, you don't have to be so formal. You're my friend." He smiled at her. She began blushing and nodded her head.

"I'll try to remember that." She smiled and walked out the room. Naruto sighed and looked out the window. He was out for a month and Sakura did everything in her power to revive him. He sighed and closed his eyes.

The door to the room opened and closed. He saw Jiraiya staring at him. Naruto sighed again.

"I couldn't do it. I failed her. I couldn't keep my promise." He covered his eyes as he choked back his tears. His Sensei walked over to him and sat down on the bed. He pulled Naruto into a hug.

"It's alright, she'll understand, what happened couldn't be help. You did what you could." He whispered as Naruto cried on his shoulder. He hugged him tighter. "It's alright." He whispered again to reassure the boy who grew to be a son to him.

Sakura sighed as she stood outside the intensive care room. She looked at Kasumi.

"All we can do it wait. Everyone was in bad condition. In way I kinda see why they didn't want the women to come." She sighed again and crossed her arms. Kasumi looked down at her hands.

"Sakura-Sensei, Naruto-San has woken up." She told her. Sakura looked at her and smiled.

"He has?"

"Yes, I don't know if he's asleep or not but why don't you go and see him." She smiled softly. Sakura nodded her head she then handed Kasumi a piece of paper.

"That is part of your training." She smiled as Kasumi moaned. Sakura chuckled. "Didn't think I would forget did you?"

"I kinda was hoping you did." They both chuckled before going their separate ways. Sakura stood at a mirror to look at herself. She sighed, she wasn't too happy with her appearance she looked stressed and worn out. She was up at strange hours of the day and night trying to get everyone back to normal again. She ran her hands through her short cut pink hair. She decided to keep it short. She liked the look better.

She then ran down the hallways to her friend's room. She slowly opened the door and saw Naruto sitting in the dark lookin out the window. She wouldn't have seen it if it wasn't for the bright moonlight shining in his room.

"Naruto." She whispered. He looked at her and smiled.

"Hello Sakura-Chan." Tears fell from her eyes and she ran over to him hugging him tightly.

"Naruto." She cried as he hugged her. "I was so scared. I-I didn't know when you were gonna wake up. I'm so glad." She whispered. He smiled.

"Of course I was going to be fine you are the head doctor after all." She smiled at him and looked down at her hands.

"Naruto…"She began.

"Wait." Naruto cut her off. She looked at him he then sat on his knees on the bed and bowed at her. She gave him a confused look.

"Naruto."

"Sakura-Chan forgive me." He whispered. "I couldn't keep my promise." Her eyes widened a bit. "Sakura-Chan, Sasuke….is dead."

Sakura began shaking as Naruto held his head down to her.

"Dead? He's dead?" She whispered staring into space. "Did you kill him?" She asked softly. He looked at her and shook his head no.

"No, I was going to." He began and sat straight. "But I was able to knock sense into him and he ended up helping us fight Orochimaru but in the end he lost his life. He lost his life saving me." He closed his eyes and he began trembling. "I was supposed to be the one who was dead but instead Sasuke saved me." He tears fell from his eyes. Sakura stared at him she never seen him cry before. Seeing him cry made her own tears fall from her eyes. She then hugged him.

"At least we know he realized where he belonged before he died. He can rest in peace."

"But that's the thing." He said moving from her and wiped his tears away. She looked confused. "His body…we can't find it. We looked away to help everyone else and when Kakashi and I went back to get his body it was gone." Naruto told her. She looked down.

"Oh…I see."

"Maybe he's still alive." Naruto said with hope in his eyes. Sakura looked at him. "Come on now Sasuke can't die, he's Sasuke the sole survivor of the Uchiha Clan. He won't let himself die. I will keep my promise to you Sakura. I will bring Sasuke back to you like I promised." His blue eyes stared into her jade eyes.

"Naruto…you're too much for your own good." She whispered. Naruto looked out the window.

"That's what you do for people who mean everything to you." He said. She looked at him in shock before smiling. She then hugged Naruto tightly and kissed his cheek.

"Thank you."

A couple of weeks later Naruto walked into the Hokage office where Tsunade, Shizune and Jiraiya were located.

"Naruto, what are you going to do now?" Tsunade asked him.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm going to go find his body." He snapped. Tsunade stared at him.

"So let's say you find him and he's alive what do you think is going to happen Naruto?"

"Nothing, I will have fulfill my promise to Sakura and everything will be the way it was again."

"Naruto, that's your problem!" Tsunade snapped at him. "You believe everything will fall back to the way it was but it can't." She told him.

"Why not?!"

"Because Sasuke is an S Class Criminal, if he is alive and brought back here, he will be killed." Tsunade told him.

"You can't do that!" He yelled.

"I can and I will! I'm the Hokage!" She yelled at him standing up. He growled and balled his fists tightly. "You can do what you would like. If you choose to bring a living Sasuke back here he will be killed, if you bring a dead Sasuke back here his body will be burned to ashes. The choice is yours."

Naruto didn't say anything else he just turned to leave. He then stopped at the door and turned back to Tsunade.

"Before you go jumping saying let's kill all bad people. Sasuke risked his life to save mine and he helped kill Orochimaru so you tell me if it's so wrong to give someone a second chance when they realized they were in the wrong." He said before leaving out the office. The room was painfully quiet as Naruto's words sank into the three adults heads.