Thanks to: iloveme5895, escape5, Ore no Naruto, ExplodingChickenOfDoom, and PirateCaptainBo for reviewing. I hope the wait wasn't too long.

Even bigger thanks to: ExplodingChickenOfDoom and Ore no Naruto you are the only two that passed and I love you for it. Everyone else you got a 20 if you ask me that's pretty lame, but I'll let you pass too.

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Naruto and Sai walked in silence. It hurt Naruto to see the way the villagers shied away from him as though he had some deadly disease. The malice in their eyes made him uneasy and he was glad that Sai had volunteered to walk with him. It was ridiculous, but Naruto was afraid to walk down the streets' of his own village. He turned to thanks his teammate for walking with him and discovered Sai was gone. Panic welled up in Naruto as he glanced around the crowded street. He could hear the whispers, he could feel the glances, and he knew these people could be dangerous. He decided it would be best to see the Hokage and get out as fast as he could, but he still wondered where Sai had gotten to. Just then he saw the man in question.

"Sai!" He called out waving, but even as the words left his mouth he knew something was wrong; Sai wasn't smiling. The boy with the forever smile looked repulsed by Naruto addressing him.

"How can you have the nerve to talk to me?" Sai spat and Naruto looked confused.

"What are you talking about? I was just looking for you. We're supposed to go see the Hokage together."

"I heard you and that, that demon" Sai spat the word, "Talking! Do you want to be Hokage so badly you'd destroy half the village for it?" It hit Naruto then, Sai was acting and he was good at it.

"I would never do anything to hurt this village and neither would Kuro." Naruto was more than upset by the accusation he was frightened by it. Judging by the murderous looks the villagers were giving him it was only a matter of time before they got violent.

"Kuro," Sai mocked, "Why don't you call him by his name? Everyone here knows it."

"Sai please this isn't funny." Naruto pleaded.

"No, Naruto, it's not. There is nothing funny about plotting with the Kyuubi to destroy your village simply to gain personal glory. You sicken me; too think you would sell not only your body but your soul as well to that murder." Sai face turned very dark and he stepped closer to Naruto and lowered his voice so that the crowd had to strain to hear.

"But you know what? I'm not going to let you do it, and I'm sure these people aren't either." Sai turned to the crowd and shouted, "He was on his way to kill the Hokage!" There was an angry buzz in the crowd, and a voice called,

"You should have let him the Hokage could destroy a lowlife like him any day!" There was loud support of this until Sai smiled and called over the top.

"If he challenged her openly yes, but do you really think a demon-whore like him has enough honor to do that? No! He knows she trust him and he was planning on killing her before she even had her guard up!" The crowd hissed and moved forward with Sai. At some point someone had thought to gather the children away from the growing mob and Naruto could see them their eyes wide with fear and confusion as they looked at him.

"You don't believe him do you?" Naruto asked hurt raw in his voice, "You know me! You watched me grow up! This is my home! Do you honestly think I would betray you?" Whispers of demon, traitor, and murder flew through the crowd. Naruto through one last desperate glance at Sai and founded him smiling.

"Yes," He didn't raise his voice but it carried all the same, "You watched him grow up. You knew that Kyuubi's soul lay next to his, poisoning him, corrupting him. Then by some miracle he was freed from his demon, but did he let it go? Did he kill while it lay next to him in a soft human body? No! He gave himself to the demon, became its willing lover. Brought to the village, let it walk among you and you're children. Plotted to destroy your way of life, and he would still call this place home."

"It's not true!" Naruto cried, tears streaming down his face.

"Did you know that your Kuro was a demon?" Sai rounded on Naruto. Caught off guard opened and shut his mouth. Sai sneered,

"Did you tell the Hokage what you knew?" Sai took a step forward.

"I-I" Naruto stuttered and Sai cut him off,

"Did you let him stay at your house?" The crowd was pressing closer now.

"Sleep in your bed?" Naruto couldn't deny any of it; he had never been good at lying.

"Didn't he say he'd kill any number of people for you? Even the Hokage?" Naruto tried to take a step back and founded a wall of people.

"T-that not what he meant and you know it!" Naruto cried. Sai leaned closer so that only Naruto could hear him.

"You couldn't save your best friend and now you can't save yourself. You really are a worthless ninja." Naruto lunged, it was a stupid thing to do, but thinking things through was another thing he wasn't good at. Sai smiled as Naruto blade cut his face. The crowd surged forward dragging Naruto beneath them. The boy snarled and fought, but found himself overwhelmed.

AN: So I lied and didn't end this chapter. Sai was too long winded and OOC. Oh well next time! It's more fun to let you wait to see what Kyuubi is going to do. Thanks for reading. -Morana