Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto in anyway. I'll let you know when I do.

Thinking

"Normal talking"

Be warned, both Naruto and Sasuke get beat up. Just so you know.

To get you back into what's happening, I'll put a little flashback from the story first.

Flashback:

A black orb had now surrounded Naruto from his burning skin and drops of his blood. After a few minutes, the orb disappeared and only Sasuke was surprised when he saw a miniature Kyuubi with four tails; everyone else there had already seen it.

Sasuke could feel how powerful Naruto was now, so he knew that he would have to kill Naruto on the spot before he was injured. He quickly charged a Chidori through his katana, so now it would be able to cut through anything.

Chapter 2: Burning Injuries and Sai's Nap

He recreated the exact move from before; pulling a disappearing act until he made it behind Naruto. Yet again, he plunged his katana towards Naruto's heart. Since the katana was now charged, though, it cut through the Demon Fox's Cloak.

Much to everyone's surprise, though, Naruto had moved slightly so that Sasuke's katana cut just a few inches to the right of his heart. Sasuke smirked. Even if he hadn't hit Naruto's heart, he would bleed to death anyway. Sasuke didn't care how he died, as long as the nuisance was gone from the mortal world.

The chakra surrounding Naruto did not act like a normal human body would after being stabbed so close to the heart. In fact, it reacted in the exact opposite way. The chakra forced Naruto's body to turn sharply, forcing Sasuke to stand only a few inches from him. Sakura gasped when she saw that the katana had sliced through Naruto and was sticking out from his front, dripping his blood methodically onto the ground in front of him.

A clawed hand of chakra ran itself across Sasuke's torso, ripping long gashes into his flesh. The poisonous chakra started working immediately. Sasuke felt like his body was on fire; and Naruto had already attacked him a few more times. Sasuke's body was reacting slowly, but he managed to jump away from Naruto and charge a full-powered Chidori in his hand.

He ran up to Naruto and felt his hand sink into and through Naruto's already bleeding flesh. Sasuke gritted his teeth against the pain that the new burns he had along his arm caused him. When he looked at where he had hit Naruto, he was even angrier than before. Yet again, Naruto had hit Sasuke's hand out of the way of his heart, the same way he did two and a half years ago.

Sasuke ripped his arm away and jumped back. He decided not to attack anymore. Naruto, stuck inside of that chakra, was dying; there was no stopping that. But he could feel his own body weakening; the burning he had felt earlier was even more so than before.

"Naruto! Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled, snapping out of her trance. They were both nearly dead, and she doubted that she would be able to heal them both.

Yamato decided that now was the time to intervene. He jumped in front of Naruto and slapped his hand onto his chest, surprised when he didn't feel the necklace. He was just a copy of the Shodai, so he knew he would be able to somewhat suppress the chakra. Not completely, but probably enough. He jumped back while several pillars of wood rose up.

"Sakura," he yelled, "I need you to go find Naruto's necklace! When you do that, come back here immediately. Hurry!" Sakura nodded and jumped off to go find it.

Sasuke managed to stand up; he needed to finish the job, he needed to kill Naruto! However, as soon as he managed to stand up, the burning pain he felt was much more severe, and it made him fall to his knee. Dammit! I can't stay this weak! he yelled at himself, gritting his teeth. He fell forward, unable to support his own weight. The wounds that Naruto had given him felt like they were burning a hole deeper into his flesh. He yelled in pain, distracting Sakura from what she was doing for a minute. Sasuke-kun…she thought, searching even harder.

Sakura had searched everywhere she could have at least once. I can't even find a stupid necklace! I am just a nuisance…

Yamato had forced back nearly half of the demonic chakra. However, now Naruto was yelling in pain too. The chakra was still burning him and his inner Kyuubi chakra was probably now too weak—too busy trying to fix his wounds from the Demon Fox's Cloak—to try and fix fatal wounds that Sasuke had given him.

Sakura continued to search and couldn't help but wonder where Sai had disappeared to.

Sai had woken up several minutes before he heard a yell and felt a massive surge of chakra, so he decided to stay where he was and not get involved. Now that he was making decisions for himself, he thought it was a good first decision.

He stood up and looked around, seeing something that caught his attention. He walked over to the small glint he had seen and picked the object up. He turned it around in his hand. Hm. Such a pretty necklace. Maybe I can give it to Sakura-chan like the book said. 'Presents can help build a friendship,' he remembered. Sounds like a good idea. He thought, forcing a smile. "Although, I wonder who it belongs to," he mumbled to himself.

He stuck the blue-green necklace into his pack and decided to hide for a while; it was a much better idea than getting involved in the fight. He cloaked his chakra and hid behind a small outcropping of rocks.

He leaned back against a rock, not realizing how tired he really was until his back hit the cool rocks. He closed his eyes and sighed slightly. No harm in taking a quick nap, right?

Sakura looked around quickly. She still hadn't found the necklace and she knew she had to hurry. Both of her old teammates were yelling in pain, and she knew how bad of a condition they were in. She saw an unfamiliar outcropping of rocks, so she decided to look there. Better safe than sorry.

"Sai?!" she asked, surprised to see the boy behind the rocks, napping. Quickly, though, her surprise turned into anger.

WHACK! Sai sat straight up, rubbing his head. "Ow," he said simply. "Oh," he said, seeing Sakura, "what's the problem, Sakura-chan?" he asked, standing up.

Sakura glared at him. "The problem is that you're sleeping at a time like this!" she yelled at him. "Now, be useful and help me find Naruto's necklace. Yamato-taichou needs it for some reason." Sai nodded; sure he didn't want to ever get on Sakura's bad side again.

"Does it look like this?" he asked, fishing around in his pack for a minute before showing the necklace he had found to Sakura.

Sakura's eyes lit up and she grabbed the necklace from his hand without even saying a quick thanks. She jumped off and left a puzzled Sai standing there. He sighed and shrugged. Might as well continue that nap, he decided.

Note: alright guys, I know this chapter's pretty short, but quite a few things happened, so yeah. Also, sorry for the beating up of Naruto and such, but it's how I write. Don't worry, it'll probably only happen a few more times.

I know, I'm not very good at writing fight scenes.

I was pretty surprised at the turnout of the first chapter, so I hope this one will have an even better turnout. So please read and review!