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"Kyuubi Speaking"

Kyuubi Thoughts

Regular Thoughts

"Regular Speaking"

Naruto's Traveling Band

Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any characters depicted in this fic unless later stated, but if I did... I would be rich!!!

Why...

This pain...

Everywhere...

Wait...

My arm...

I cant feel my arm...

Help...
Someone...

Help me...

Blue eyes were slowly seen under the waking eye lids, they slowly looked around the room not registering any shapes or lights. Slowly they receded back under the eye lids and sleep was known once again to the blue eyed boy.

3 Hrs Later, Hokage's Office

Tsunade sat with her back to the door looking out through the window over looking Konoha, her head softly resting in her right hand. She picked her head up and looked down and slowly up her bottle of sake and spun it in her hand.

"Okay, I know there has to be something wrong with you when you can't even drink."

Tsunade sighed and set down the bottle going back to resting her head in her hand, "Jiraiya, I have some bad news..." She slowly looked up at the man who had slowly become her secret over the years, yet she would never admit it.

Jiraiya raised an eyebrow and slowly moved over to Tsunade and leaned against the desk next to where she was sitting, "Yeah, Tsunade what is it?" He watched her movements all trace of amusement out of his face. She looked up and stared into his eyes a tear falling slowly from her face hitting the ground with a quiet pop that both sannin heard, causing him to move down on his knees getting eye level with her placing one arm around her shoulder.. "Tsunade, what is it? It can't be that bad is it? I mean its not like someone died!" He chuckled nervously to relieve the emotional tension.

She looked down, "No, but he almost did..." She turned away pulling out of his grasp and stood up walking over to the window with Jiraiya following her slowly not speaking. "Jiraiya, I don't know how to tell you this so I am just going to say it so please don't interrupt or I might not be able to finish." She took a moment to compose herself then looked towards Jiraiya with tears still welling up in her eyes. "Its Naruto..." She took another few moments to compose herself holding up her hand to stop Jiraiya from speaking. "He lost most of the muscle in his right arm and has lost all of his sight, the surgery if I were to attempt might kill him, however we don't know about the Kyuubi, its chakra could still be able to heal his wounds... Only time and patience will tell."

Jiraiya looked at Tsunade like she had grown a second head and slowly started staggering having heard the news and slowly fell to the ground looking up at Tsunade as his vision slowly filled with darkness. She sighed and just shook her head picking him up and taking him to small couch in the corner of the room while placing a towel over his head.

2 Hrs Later

Jiraiya groaned and sat up slowly, seeing Tsunade staring out of the window just like she was earlier. "H-how long have I been out?"... He waited for about five minutes then got up and walked over to Tsunade and poked her shoulder only to hear her snore... He just sighed and picked her up and carried her to his home not wanting her to yell at him for searching her to get the key to her house, and well it would be some fun...research... to see how she would wake up.

Same time, Back at the Hospital

A raven haired figure sat next to the hospital bed with a sleeping Naruto on it, with tears streaming down his face. "Naruto..." Sasuke looked down at the floor and punched his knee, "Naruto, why did you have to be the hero... why couldn't you just of let me go to Orochimaru, none of this would of happened...WHY!?!?!" He stood up and walked to the wall looking out into Konoha. "You should of just killed me and I wouldn't of done this to you... I can't believe I did this to you... For once in my life I had true friends, and now look at this... I can't even blame that bastard Itachi for what I did to you... My own self sadistic means did this to you, my own true frien...

"You have no right to be here Uchiha, you have NO RIGHT TO EVEN CALL HIM YOUR FRIEND!! The only reason why Naruto didn't kill you was because he was your friend... You should leave before I kill yo-..."

Sasuke pinned the speaker up against the wall with enough force to crack the wall. "Listen here Kiba, Naruto was the... no he is the only one who can understand the feelings of loneliness better than me... He is me on a higher scale, he even held back on that rasengan against my chidori. I owe him more than my life, he brought me back from the worst place I could have been..."

Kiba was about to speak when a small groan was heard "...ugh... my arm..."