His chest was hurting, he could feel a small amount of blood dribbling down his lips to his face and all the way down to the ground where it began gathering. His first instinct was to wipe it away and think nothing more, but then he felt the kunai in his shoulder. The pain was to over powering and he stood still, not moving besides lightly shifting eyes and a slowing breathing rate that forced his chest up and down. 'Damn it… I really messed up. I'm seriously injured and I can't move… I can't even feel my legs.'
He opened his mouth to call out and was astounded by the silence. He tried again and began hacking and more blood came out. 'Don't let me die here, not yet… a few more minutes, let someone find me. I need to tell her…'
"NARUTO!" Sakura said crushing a wall down and rushing over to his side and began healing him. "Don't worry; you'll be fine, alright." She said between gasps of breath as two small streams of tears came down. "Everything's going to be fine okay."
"Saku…" Naruto managed and lifted his other shoulder and rolled over facing her.
"Stay laying down, it's harder to heal you this way." She said trying to force him back down. His good arm reached up and quickly pulled the kunai out and dropped it. "You're stressing you're body Naruto."
She tried to push him down but he grabbed her hand and forced it away. He used what he hand of her arm and forced himself onto his unfeeling knees and leaned over on her and began crying. "Sa…"
"You really need to let me help you." She said trying to hold her breathing steady. She pulled him into her arms and began healing his back. "You're not supposed to get hurt like this." She said lightly and began weeping.
'I can go now, you don't have to keep trying. At this point, you're just wasting chakra. Sakura… just stop.' Naruto's body convulsed and he coughed up a large amount of blood and fell limp in her arms.
"NARUTO!" Sakura yelled and lowered him onto the ground below carefully. She began healing and hacking on her own tears. "DON'T DIE ON ME! NARUTO! CAN'T YOU HEAR ME! DON'T LEAVE ME ALL ALONE! YOU JUST CAN'T DIE!"
"Sakura!" Yamato said trying to pull her arm away, "Sakura it's too late. We have to…"
"I have to heal him! He just can't die on me." She said as Sai joined them on the other side of Naruto and put to fingers to his neck. Sai looked up at her and she looked back seeing his expression. Her face bunched up and she closed her eyes shaking her head as her chakra stopped. She lowered her head onto his chest and waited there, hoping to here a pulse, a sign of life, a breath.
She stopped for a second and screamed as all the others on their side joined around throughout all the havoc and destruction, from the fighting, to witness the death of Naruto Uzumaki and his mourning by Sakura Haruno and all those who saw the young girl crying over her best friend's still warm corpse.
After a few more seconds of crying she pulled back and ripped his jacket opened and began pressing on his heart. "I'm not letting you die on me." She tilted his head back and shoved their mouths together forcing breath into him and then went back to pounding on his heart. "You're not going down without a fight!"
"Naruto, you have so much to live for… so live!" Kyuubi said as he watched the body of the boy float ever closer to his cage. "I do not want to die in here! Naruto, I command you to live."
"Kyuubi…" he said softly and stopped in mid-drift and landed on his feet falling to his knees. "It's better this way. I will sacrifice myself… to destroy you." Naruto reached behind him and pulled out a kunai and held it out in front of him. "I'll see you in Hell Kyuubi." His hand began to move.