Naruto Uzumaki ran. Ran for his life down the dark streets of Konoha Village. Pursued by dozens, no, hundreds of swiftly moving shadows. Up ahead more shadows were coming his way.
"God dammit, how do they do that". Naruto thought as he desperately looked for a way off his current street. "Right" he thought as he spotted a side street.
The shadows, undeterred at his attempts to lose them kept following at striking speeds.
Naruto kept running, the only thing he knew was that he needed to get out of the village. He needed to get away from those things behind him.
Must get out. He turned right
Must get out. He turned left. He saw Konoha's gates up ahead.
MUST GET OUT. Just a bit further.
His heart suddenly dropped like a stone as shadows en mass emerged right in front of the gates right in front of his exit. NO!
He came to a skidding halt just before he hit the shadowed wall.
He looked desperately around, left and right, left and right, looking for some kind of gap in the mass of shadows but to no avail.
Just then one of the shadows detached itself from the mass and stood before Naruto. Naruto recognised him, even though he had undergone some major changes since.
"Sasuke" Naruto pleaded, panic evident in his voice. "Don't do this."
Sasuke looked at Naruto his red eyes somewhat demonic. If any evidence that the man who stood before recognised him showed on his face, Naruto couldn't see it.
He pulled back his lips, his fangs flashing in the moonlight.
"The queen will see you know, Naruto." He said almost sadly.
Naruto then felt a blunt weight hit strike the back of his head, and he fell down, down into bloody darkness.