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Chapter one: The price of friendship

Naruto looked at the statues; he recognized the 1st Hokage immediately but the other figure was new to him he couldn't tell who this historical figure was but could tell that a battle had happened here and that bonds of friendship had been destroyed. He didn't know how he knew this but after fighting in a brawl that determined life or death between him and his best friend; whom he considered a rival and a brother he could feel it the valley even with its waterfall couldn't wipe away the bloody history. The red chakra had already healed most of his serious wounds but he had reached his limit with the red chakra and his body wouldn't be able to take much more without it causing damage, the kyuubi knowing this had stopped supplying the red chakra. His lungs felt like they were on fire and his right arm felt heavy and blood trailed down his arms reaching his finger tips and mixing into his finger nails which already had the blood of the young ninja he had fought with.

He decided to look at the surroundings; maybe he was doing this so he wouldn't have to look at the body of the young ninja who lay on the floor. That damage from the last Rasengan was critical. He remembered as they had eyed each other down before the attack that had determined the fight looking at each other neither of the boys were willing to back down and all of their surroundings were blocked out as they only concentrated on each other, Naruto almost forgetting the purpose of the mission as the killing intent from his opponent had drew out his vicious side. Naruto didn't even bother checking to see if Sasuke was alive he feared that he might be dead but another darker side to him hoped that he was. Naruto was surprised when he heard a familiar voice behind him it was the voice of his sensei Kakashi.

"Naruto are you alright?" Kakashi asked voice full of concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine" Naruto replied "I'm not sure if he is though...I'm not even sure if his alive."

At this Kakashi was surprised the usually cheerful boy was sounding like a Jounin ninja that had seen hell and had come back. Kakashi dashed to Sasuke and checked for a pulse, it was there and Kakashi was going to signal to Naruto that everything was alright but Naruto had his back faced to him as if he didn't care.

Kakashi asked "what happened Naruto?"

"He tried to kill me can you believe that? Just so he could obtain more power the fucking bastard!! He attacked me and said he wanted to cut our bonds and said by killing me he could obtain more power" Naruto spat these words out hate expressed in every syllable.

Kakashi walked up to the blonde boy and put a hand on the thick blonde hair and was about to say something but even he was lost for words he looked at Naruto, the fox had already helped heal Naruto but the injury was still great and no normal Genin or Jounin would still be standing, but this was after all the most unpredictable ninja of Konoha; Uzumaki Naruto. The boy had blood dripping down his arm and his shirt had ripped in several places. His hand looked a little burnt and his fingernails were a deep shade of red coated with blood. Kakashi instinctively turned his head around and a few seconds later a medical ninja appeared "I asked for 2 medical ninjas and they decide to send one" Kakashi thought out aloud then he looked at the medical ninja "hurry up and attend to Sasuke, then heal Naruto" The medical ninja gave Naruto a dirty look as he was after all the kyuubi container, this wasn't missed by the silver haired ninja, "that's an order!" under the powerful gaze of Kakashi the ninja succumbed and got to work.

Kakashi sat next to Naruto and looked at him his orange jacket was torn up and lay discarded at the side and his headband had been wrapped around his right arm to cover a bleeding wound. Kakashi looked at Naruto the boy was deep in thought and probably conflicting with different emotions. Kakashi sighed and then placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder "you did what you had to do" at this Naruto looked at Kakashi his one eye stared back at Naruto and he nodded. The medical ninja came over and said something to Kakashi, Naruto didn't care he wanted to take his time before heading back to Konoha, he was pushed out of his chain of thoughts as the medical ninja came up to him and started to heal his wounds. Kakashi put Sasuke onto his back and waved at Naruto he needed to head back to the hospital, Sasuke was in a stable condition for now but it could become critical at any moment so he hurried to the village with speed.

Kakashi thought to himself the friendship between Naruto and Sasuke had a price, which was Sasuke becoming obsessed for power as he felt inferior to Naruto as he had become so much more powerful in a short amount of time.

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