Read and Review please! First fanfic…

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO, OR ANYTHING RELATED TO THE NARUTO MANGA.

THIS IS YAOI. With the pairing being NaruSasuNaru. DON'T LIKE IT? LEAVE.

STRONG CAUTION TO YOUNGER READERS, MATURE CONTEXT. VIOLENCE NOW, SEXUAL THEMES MAYBE IN LATER CHAPTERS, ECT. TO YOUNG? LEAVE.

ALL FLAMES WILL BE SCOFFED AT.

(begins scoffing)

This Story starts off from around chapter 395, SPOILER WARNING.

'blah' thoughts

"blah" speech

Enjoy.

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The fight was interrupted. Tobi, Naruto, Yamato, Kiba, Akamaru, Hinata, Shino, Sakura, and Kakashi all listened to Zetsu.

"Uchiha Sasuke has killed Uchiha Itachi."

Naruto felt a pang of shock, news of his best friend, and apparently good news too.

Tobi's voice was muffled through the mask, " As expected."

The plant man spoke again, "But Sasuke passed out shortly after Itachi died. He'll follow after soon." His alter ego grinned at Tobi, "Can we eat him?"

An Earth shaking roar erupted from the ground below the Akatsuki. Furious blue eyes tore in to the slightly surprised ninja in the tree. Rage flowed through the voice of Naruto, causing shivers of unidentifiable fear in his teammates, "WHERE IS SASUKE?!" Anger seeped through his defenses, and the fox's powers were awakened. Sluggishly red chakra swirled around him, formed a dreaded fox.

"Don't loose control Naruto!" Yamato yelled, "You'll kill us all!"

Naruto stiffened. "I've got it under control!" he snarled. His teammates stepped back away from him, and his red slitted eyes glared up at the Akatsuki as his chakra tail lashed back and forth. "WHERE IS SASUKE?! I HAVE TO SAVE HIM!" came the deafening roar as Naruto stomped his foot and continued his death glare at the Akatsuki.

Tobi laughed, but an instant later sprang from the branch where he and Zetsu were. Just as a chakra hand grabbed the plant man. Wrenching him straight out of the tree.

The fiery hand squeezed as the man screamed and burned. The hand in a flash of movement too fast for the eye was in front of Naruto. The burning Zetsu and Naruto stood face to face, so close that Naruto's clothing was being singed by the intensity of the flames. Naruto watched calmly Zetsu writhein pain as his shrieks of agony split the air. His face split with a fanged smile.

The flames stopped and Zetsu slumped forward and continued to scream. "Where is he?" Naruto whispered chillingly even in the remains of the fiery heat. The manic smile creot further along his face distorting the normally friendly features.

The charred man shook his head, sending cinders falling, "I won't. I won't say…"

"Oh really now? You won't say will you? My my its gonna get toasty in here…" Naruto growled merrily, clicking his fangs together. The flames returned as Naruto cranked up the heat. His friends watched in silent horror to the man being burned and crushed alive as the smell of burning flesh perforated the air. No trace of the Naruto they knew was in the furious eyes.

The fire stopped. "Where?" asked Naruto.

Zetsu turned to Tobi pleading with his eyes. "Master, master!" Zetsu cried out in anguish, "make him stop!"

"Tell him, just him." Tobi said, his intentions hid behind the swirled mask.

Relief flashed on the plant man's face. The fanged grin on Naruto's face twisted into a gleeful feral smile, further contorting his image as the Akatsukiwhispered the directions to him. As soon as the man stopped talking though, the flames returned.

"Naruto!" screamed Sakura, 'I won't lose him to Kyuubi again. I've let this sick display continue for far too long.. But what can we possibly do?'

The fiery hand quickly burned so brightly that the shin obi had ot look away, and with a nauseating crunch the hand clenched shut. A few moments later it opened to scatter the ashes of the dead Akatsuki onto the ground.

Naruto turned towards his teammates as the fiery chakra ebbed away. 'I know where Sasuke is! We have to save him. NOW! Wait… Why are they looking at me like that? No… oh Kami no. I'm not a monster… am I?' His eyes flashed blue at the realization that he was the cause of their thick fear. Here before him were his friends, who had just witnessed his gruesome loss of humanity. He stepped toward them to show it was okay.

They leapot and darted back, skittering out of his reach. Fear and horror splayed out on their faces. Hinata screamed, tears ran down Sakura's face, Akamaru growled, and Shino's bugs buzzed defensively.

"No… no… no…" whispered Naruto, reaching out again to his friends.

"Don't move Naruto!" Yamato ordered.

"I'm not… really, I'm fine now… honest…" Naruto pleaded, "Please don't do this… please… don't be afraid…"

"Naruto." It was stern order laced into Kaakashi's only word for Narutio to obey Yamato's orders.

"Can't you truyst me?" Naruto cringed at their fear. He took a step forward. Yamato's hand movement was all the warning he needed, in a flash he took off.

"Where did he…?" Kiba questioned.

Shino sighed. Years of deciphering Shino-sighs answered Kiba's question.

"Oh, Sasuke," Kiba whispered.

Kakashi looked up. Tobi was gone. A new threat to Konoha had emerged. "Rescuing Sasuke must wait. Many more lives are at stake. We have to warn Tsunade-sama. The seal is indeed weakening. Its as we knew… and feared."

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"Sasuke!" Naruto screamed as he ran through the rubble of the Uchihas' fight. He reached the man and slumped to the ground beside him. Feeling for a pulse, his fears were met with a slow erratic beat. "Oh Kami oh Kami oh Kami oh Kami, Sasuke you can't do this. You can't do this to me. You Can't leave me here al alone… so alone…"

Sakura had given him basic medical nin training, but what he was best at was chakra transfusions. Because of his immense reserves of chakra, it was best suited to him. Even Sakura would sometimes ask him specifically to perform it instead of her for this very reason. He just had so much, His energy had to balance with the escaping chakra of the Nine Tailed Fox that got through the seal.

And a chakra transusion was exactly what the last Uchiha needed.

Naruto opened Sasuke's shirt. With th eappropriate hand seals, his hand started to glow blue with a thick amount of chakra. He continued to force his chakra into his hand until it was so energized it burned.

"One. Two. Three. Clear!" Naruto grunted slamming his hand onto Sasuke's chest. Thrusting the massive store of chakra into the unconscious man.

"Oh Kami. Oh Kami. Oh Kami. Sasuke, Sauke… please don't go.." Naruto whimpered and crouched closer to him. "Please… don't leave me here all alone…"

With a strangled gasp the raven haired man jerked into consciousness. 'It feels like a horse kicked me in the chest…wait make that ten Clydesdales kicked me there.' "Thank Kami." Sasuke heard a relieed voice say. He blinked and tried to sit up but a rough calloused hand pushed him back down. 'Damn, don't touch the horse injury…"

His eyes followed the tan hand on his bare chest to a figure he never thought he'd see again. "Naruto?" he gasped. The crystal blue eyes shimmered, and a soft smile met his gaze.

"Yeah, Sasuke. It's me, Naruto." the blonde whispered.

"Why?" Sasuke asked, charcoal eyes full of confusion and pain.

The blue eyes warmed, "Because, teme, you're my best friend. My only friend." 'I've scared away and scarred the rest…'

Sasuke tried to get up again and Naruto helped heft the man to his feet. Sasuke still didn't understand. 'Why Naruto? Why? For friendship? What kind of friend am I? How can you be so forgiving of my transgressions?'

Naruto tried to explain Sasuke's current styate to him, "Sasuke, I gae you a chakra transfusion. So you can't fight or use your chakra for about three hours. Its only temporary until your chakra stores rebuild. I gave you most of mine so you'll be fine though. See?" Naruto pointed to a healed injury, "My chakra heals thanks to the damned fox's influence. So you're al set." A grin broke out on his face, "Sasuke let's head home to Konoha."

"But I betrayed Konoha. I'm a missing nin. Most importantly how can you act like this? I betrayed you. I tried to kill you. I abandoned team Seven in a lust for power. Why do you still care about me?"

Naruto paused, "I don't know. But I do care… Sasuke when… when I thought you were …" Naruto nearly choked, "when I thought I was too late to save you… I … I was so… anguished, alone. But Sasuke, about Konoha…" Naruto tried to explain about the fear on his friends' faces, "things have changed…"

Sasuke didn't understand the blonde's pained look. 'What happened? Where is the happy-boisterous-annoying-as-hell-idiot I left so many years ago?'

It was silent as they began to walk back. Darkness began to fall. Naruto demanded to take first shift of watch after Sasuke promised not to run off.

"Hey Sasuke. You promise you won't try to run away anymore, right?"

"I just said yes usuratonkaichi. Anyways, why would I? Where do I have to run to? Or from? My life goal is accomplished. I have nothing better to do I suppose."

" Is that really the reason, Sasuke?"

"Supposing, maybe, that I'm tired of being alone. Being utterly alone, living off the pain and suffering of the past, and now with no future set before me… I'm just tired. Tired of all of it. Everything. You probably feel the same way, right?"

"Yeah, I know how you feel."