Hi there, this is my first attempt at writing fanfiction. I've read lots but never tried myself... well until now. Sorry for any mistakes, but english is not my first language and I do not have a beta yet. I'd be glad if you'd point out my mistakes or would like to beta future chapters:)

Ok, now on to the story.. ah.. and of course I do not own Naruto.

Please R&R:)

Once upon a time
somewhere far away
there lay an ancient scroll on a table
in an empty, old, dusty room

Prologue

Concentrating her chakra all around her patient, Sakura watched Naruto glowing in a dim blue light. He had lost consciousness once again and lay limply on the floor that was decorated with ancient symbols. Naruto was in his ANBU uniform, fox mask lying next to the lone chair in the dark room on a small table. In the aftermath of yet another Sound attack the two of them were left to take care of themselves.

Godaime was desperately required at the hospital to look over the injured, making sure that no more of her subordinates died. Konoha had already suffered great losses in the past year of Orochimaru's never ending raids to destroy his former hometown. She had instructed Sakura with the care for her teammate, as she was the second best medicnin available.

There only was one problem. Naruto fought in his demon form and even after he lost unconsciousness did not revert back to his normal self.

The sight was scary.

When Sakura had removed his ANBU-vest, she discovered that the seal on his belly had spread all over his upper body and seemed to glow. The worst thing was that he was rapidly loosing chakra as well. If she did not find anything in time he'd die for sure. His constitution was bad and the Kyuubi was not helping much apparently, but the enormous amounts of Kyuubi-chakra bought her time.

Sadly Sakura did not know enough about ancient sealing techniques to fix him up properly and waiting for Jiraiya, who had fixed Naruto's seal once already, was not an option either. The Legendary Sannin was on a diplomatic journey to the Mist and they had no means of communication. He probably didn't even know about the attack.

That was how they ended up in an very old and seemingly never used examination room that was utilised as archive for seldom needed scrolls as well. Sakura hoped to find something there to help her teammate. So she stayed up all night and day looking through the dusty scrolls and monitoring Naruto who grew weaker by the minute.

In the late evening hours she found something that she thought could be used, at last. The scroll explained the theory of "strengthening a seal" by giving much chakra to it.

"Dog, Horse, Dog, Tiger, Mouse, Horse, Tiger" her hands flew speedily in the unfamiliar seal combination. "Kyouko no Jutsu!"

She pumped enormous amounts of chakra into and around her teammate, her eyes closed in concentration. The glow grew stronger and she did not realize immediately that the light began to illuminate her as well. As soon as she saw what happened she tried to stop, but the moment she did, a bright light flashed and the Kunoichi was nearly blinded.

Shocked she looked at the floor trying to focus her eyes.

Naruto seemed to sleep peacefully when she recovered enough and finally looked at him.

A smile crept on her lips. 'At least it worked' were her last thoughts before collapsing from chakra depletion. Right next to her teammate, who now was back to normal.

Outside Konoha lay silent, only the Moon seemed to have changed.