A/N: This is only my second story so please go easy on me. Anyway my first story is on a small hold while I get out of my writers block. And thank you Seeking-Truth-Darkness for helping with the editing of this story.

I'm not Japenese so i can't own Naruto

Summary: Naruto isn't found by Kakashi after the fight with Sasuke at the Valley of the End. Instead, he falls into the lake and goes down stream. Sasuke returns to the village thinking he 'killed' Naruto. But Naruto isn't as dead as people think, he was found by a passing stranger.

"Kyuubi talking"

Chapter 1

It was raining at the Valley of the End, but Sasuke didn't care. He had just killed his best friend. After Naruto had fallen into the lake, with a hole though his chest and lung, he was swept down the river. Sasuke knew that he was dead. No one could survive that, not even Naruto.

He looked up when he heard a sound in front of him. From the row of trees came Kakashi with Pakkun.

"Sasuke, where's Naruto?" Kakashi asked.

Sasuke just looked at him with glazed eyes before he looked back towards the river.

"He's gone. I killed him and he went down the river, so there is no body." There was no emotion in his voice; the shock was still keeping reality at bay.

Kakashi looked at the Uchiha then at the spot Sasuke was looking.

"Well then there's nothing we can do right now. Let's head back to Konoha and let the others know about this."

A Few Days Later

A boy with tattered orange clothes washed up on the shore of the river. He was as pale as death. The hole in his chest was covered in red chakra as the demon sealed inside him tried to save him.

Kyuubi was starting to panic. His kit was lying in front of his cage, motionless with only ragged breathing to show he was alive. The hole in Naruto's chest and lung was not healing fast enough, his kit needed medical attention.

Kyuubi suddenly sensed something he hadn't felt in years. This something, or rather someone, seemed to be a mixture of human and canine, if not more canine. Taking a chance of thinking of whom he thought it was, he sent out a wave of youkai.

A couple of feet away a tall man in nothing but baggy pants covered in pockets and chains paused. This caused his companion, a pure white wolf, to stop and look at him.

He knew this youkai, it belonged to an old friend who had disappeared years ago. Turning around he sprinted off in the direction it was coming from. The wolf followed beside him.

Within minutes he stopped at the shore of a river. Looking around he saw a heap of orange, ripped clothing. Walking over to it the mysterious figure noticed that the heap was a child, and a horribly wounded one at that.

Picking the child up, the man looked at the wolf next to him and said "Lets go" in a growling voice that showed the anger he felt for who ever did this. Turning back around he sprinted as fast as he could back towards his village.

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A/N: I know it's short but i promise to try and make the chapters longer. I already have some of chapter 2 done. Please Read & Review.