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Kurama Kamikaze woke to his loud cell phone ringing. It was after noon and he was still in bed. He sighed irritability , reaching his arm out of his warm covers to his bed side table his hand searched blindly for the device then finally grabbing it, flipping it open holding it against his right hear, not bothering to look at the caller id.

"Hello?" he asked tiredly to the receiver, rubbing his crimson colored eyes. He heard a woman on the phone.

Kurama had given up hope for his little brother being alive. He knew he was dead now and it was his entire fault. When he heard the woman on the phone said they had found his brother, at first he thought the police found a body of a child buried in the woods or something that he will have to go and identify it. But when the woman on the phone said his baby brother was alive,

alive!

Kurama's blood red eyes widen in shock and hope. And he quickly got dressed and ran out the door of his small rundown apartment. It was a 2 hour drive to the Konaha's police station but he didn't care. He wanted to cry, scream and kill who ever did this all at the same time.

At the Konaha general hospital, Naruto laid on the bed motionlessly, the sterile white sheets draped over his thin shoulders. Sasuke sat next to him watching his chest rise and fall. The blonde was very pale almost matching the white sheets he was also sweating and breathing unevenly. He thought Naruto was fine, in the morning the kid didn't even have a fever anymore but now he completely relapsed and Sasuke couldn't help but feel guilty. Tsunade had said Naruto's brother will be there soon. He sighed thinking about one good thing that happen today, the team he sent out found a grey haired man unconscious in an abandoned warehouse in the area where Naruto had said. He stared at Naruto's sleeping face shrugging up in pain. The doctors said that he was very thin and malnourished and once his fever breaks and goes back to a normal temperature he can leave.

Sasuke felt buzzing in his front pocket. He reached down taking his phone out, seeing it was Kiba and flipping it open.

"What?" he asked coldly, walking toward to the window to not disturb the sleeping blonde. Kiba told him the man they found was Kabuto Yakushi that bastard's right hand man and assistant.

A grey haired man sat in a small questioning room. He leaned back in his chair and stared at the cop that stood before him. He Sighed the man knew he was going to jail for probability for the rest of his life, but he was just happy orchimaru-sama didn't get caught too.

"Kabuto Yakushi." Kiba stated sitting down in front of the man.

"yes?" he asked mockly to Kiba.

"Are you ready to talk?" Kabuto smiled to the man then pushed his round glasses with his middle finger.

"Sure I guess so." He said with a wave with his hand.

"Why did you kidnap Naruto Namikaze?" Kiba asked seriously.

Kabuto closed his eyes then opened them again, Kiba watched him do this waiting for the answer trying to look clam as possible but failing miserably.

"he witnessed some unfortunate things and we couldn't just let him leave the kid could have told someone and that would be very bad."

Kiba listened to the man then a question popped into his head.

"After you took him what did you people do to him?"

Kabuto grinned at the question ready to see the young man's face morph with disgust.

Sasuke's hand shook has he clenched his phone has he listened to what Kiba was saying. The raven flipped the phone closed after Kiba was done, and then put his phone back in his pocket.

Those bastards! That was all he could say.

He sat back down again next to the bed.

He felt so angry, so disgusted with those kinds of people, people who take pleasure in hurting others and felt no guilt afterwards. To take away someone's freedom and treating them like animals. Sasuke knew that Kabuto will have life in prison and he smiled at that he deserved it all. But what he was concerned with was Naruto himself. He will have to be reintroduced to the world, the boy hasn't been in civilization sense he was 7 years old and what had the kid been through he was amazed he wasn't really messed up and Naruto is kinda his responsibility because he was the one who found him.

Sasuke stayed there for another hour just listening to Naruto's breathing until he heard fast foot steps then the door slapped opened.

Kurama parked his car and practically ran into the hospital. Tsunade had called him and said to go to the hospital instead of the police station she didn't gave him much detail just saying when he got there someone will be there and explain everything to him then and that just made the red head even more anxious. Kurama actually yelled to a nurse to tell him what room his bother was in. He knew he was acting like a crazy person but didn't care at all. He made his way to the elevators and hurriedly pressed the button but it was being to slow and Kurama didn't have the patience to wait but luckily the stairs were right next to the elevators. He run up 3 flights of stairs not stopping until he reached his destination, room 324 he stood there for a moment trying to compose himself. He needed to be strong for his baby brother; with a deep breath he opened the door.

Kurama saw a figure on the bed with messy blond hair, he looked so small and fragile like if he touched him he'll break.

He slowly walked closer to the bed, seeing his only family sleeping in front of him. He glanced over to see a raven haired young man and sat down next to him taking his brother's limp hand into his feeling how small and warm it was. It was almost unreal to him having his brother's hand in his he almost thought it was a cruel dream that he will wake up from any minute.

Sasuke decided he will be the first one to talk because Kurama seemed to shocked to start.

"I'm Uchina Sasuke, I am the one who found him." He said

Kurama didn't look at him he just kept watching his bother sleep.

"I'm Kurama Namikaze you can call me kyuubi if you want, that's what my friends call me."

Sasuke nodded and told him everything that happened. Kurama stared at Naruto's face

"those scars on his face, who did this?"

"his name his Orchimaru"

"And he's been caught right?"

"No we haven't but we did catch his lackey who confessed helping kidnap Naruto and abused him he will be facing life in prison."

Kurama face fell when he said that. He started to think about his parents and how happy they would be if they were still here.

Naruto's face was now longer and more boning, he still looked like his brother but something was different.

He could see his collar bone that jutted out a little to far.

"The doctors say he's about 20 pounds under weight and will have to go on a diet plan to gain those pounds back." He nodded in understanding" he also has a fever that hasn't broke yet." He squeezed Naruto's hand gently.

"Did he seem okay when he was awake earlier?"

"I guess so but we can tell there is damage he acts like a child and is scared of strangers but it makes sense what he been through." Sasuke said a little sadly "he told me he wanted to see his parents and his brother and go back home, Naruto doesn't know about it yet we thought it wasn't a good idea right now." Kurama nodded and looked at his brother's hand sadly" yes I'll tell him when he's ready."

Then he felt his hand being weakly squeezed his eyes widen standing up to lean over to see better.

"Naruto?" he asked

Then seeing Naruto's eyes flutter open

"Neesan?" he whispered Kurama smiled and smoothly running his fingers through the boy's soft blond hair.

"Yes Naruto I'm here." He watched his lips curve into a very small but happy smile.

"Where's Mom and Dad, they here too? He asked innocently and softly not missing has his big brother's eyes shined a bit.

He shook his head and sat down on the edge of the bed pulling his brother close.

"I'm so sorry Neesan. I'm so sorry Neesan…" Naruto repeated has tears ran down his scarred cheeks he clenched his brother's shirt tightly.

"Shhhh now, it's okay now, it wasn't your fault it was mine, I'm so sorry Naruto."

Sasuke stood up deciding he will leave to give them some privacy, he'll go and get some coffee. He shut the door behind him. He walked into the hospital lobby and saw a small Tv on securdry desk it was the news on the bottom of the screen it was labeled 'top story'

"Naruto Namikaze was kidnapped 12 years ago only when he was 7 years old disappeared on his way to school, it sent shock waves across the nation." A female reporter said in a dramatic voice," he was found yesterday night and is currently at Konoha's General Hospital, more when we come back," Then cutting to a commercial.

Sasuke sighed has he walked out of the automatic doors. The raven saw a news van parked next to the sidewalk. And also saw a young looking woman in a work suit with long blonde hair tied tightly in a pony tail with a microphone in her one of her hands and quickly walking toward him a cameraman following her.

Sasuke knew what was coming.

"Hello you must be Sasuke Uchina." The woman said he nodded and began to walk away.

"Wait!" she said," would you like to say something, Uchina-san? How is Namikaze-san condition?" the woman asked holding a microphone to his mouth. The camera aimed at him.

"Fine" he sighed.

"Mr. Namikaze is currently stable." He answered with the least words possible. She nodded," can I ask you another question?" he nodded, " do you think he will have a normal life after this, taken away from his family at such a young age?"

"we'll have to see that will depend on himself, but I think he is strong enough to get through it." Sasuke sighed to himself answering in more words than he wanted. She nodded again and the cameraman turned away and sighed.

"Thank you for your time, Uchina-san." He nodded walking away to go find his car.

The sun was coming down when he walked in to the hospital room with 2 cups of coffee in his hands. Seeing Naruto sleeping again and Kurama sitting next to him. He looked at the ground didn't seem to notice Sasuke. The raven sat next to him and held out the coffee to him. Kurama looked at him and put on a wan smile.

"thanks." Taking the cup and sipping it slowly.

"He fell back asleep a while ago, he's exhausted." The redhead said and leaned back in his chair taking a sip of coffee again.

"Kurama, can I ask you something."

"Sure, what?"

"why did you say it was your fault?"

and that's it.

I plan on updating every month and i thanks for reading and please review ... no flames please.