"Sasuke, are we going to make it?" sakura asked looking at the limp and dying

body of their teammate. 'Hah! Serves the baka right!' 'Shut up, he's dying and he's our teammate!'

Sakura yelled at her inner voice. 'When did you start acting all nice and

defensive towards him?' Inner sakura questioned. 'Since he protected me even

though I was a bitch to him.' She said.

She turned to Sasuke and noticed him staring at her while she had her mental

battle. She blushed. "So?" she questioned.

Sasuke just bit his lip and shook his head. Sakura gulped and looked down,

because if Sasuke wasn't certain, then nobody knew.

"Shit." Sasuke thought, looking down at Naruto. Said boy's breathing was very

shallow and was worrying &Sasuke greatly. 'What am I doing? Uchiha's don't

worry.' He looked back down at Naruto and his eyes softened. His eyed then

widened and snapped his head up and focused on their path. 'If we keep running,

we can make it by morning.'

"Sakura, let's go." Sakura nodded and they increased their speed.

•_•_•_•_•_•_•_•_•4 HOURS LATER•_•_•_•_•_•_•_•_•

Izumo and Kotetsu looked up as Sasuke and Sakura sped through the gate, Sasuke

carrying and bloody and clearly dying Naruto in Sasuke's arms.

"Hokage-sama!" Tsunade looked up and saw Sakura, Sasuke, and her eyes widened

when she took in Naruto's beaten, bloody, and drained form. When she saw him she

immediately went into action.

"Medics!" She yelled.

5 Medic-nins rushed in and took Naruto from Sasuke.

Sasuke and Sakura looked at the whirl of activity. Medics rushed around.

Hooking up naruto to machines, pumping his chest, placing blue hands on

different parts of his body, which Sakura and Sasuke knew they were putting

chakra into his drained body.

"Hokage-sama" Tsunade looked up at the Medic-nin that didn't have a problem with

Naruto. Unfortunately, she couldn't say that for all of her staff. She sighed

"what is it?"

"Naruto-kun isn't responding to our treatments" Tsunade smiled a bit at the kun

suffix but started as the rest registered.

"What!" she bolted to the room Naruto was in and demanded what was going on. The

Medic jumped and gave her a description of what was going on.

"Um, Naruto's injuries aren't healing and when we try to heal his wounds they

don't heal, they get even worse!"

Tsunade pressed her lips and walked over to him and healed one of his many

gashes. It closed up and that was that. But when she went to yell at the Nin

when Naruto's gash reappered and his heart rate dropped and blood started

running out of the wounds they had just closed. 'What the hell?' she thought.

"Get Kakashi over here now!" she snapped at a random Nin who shot up and hurried

to do her bidding as she hurried to stop the bleeding. She didn't touch the gash

for fear of a repeat of what just happened.

"You requested me, Hokage?" Kakashi said as he poofed into the room.

"Yes, I need you to look at Naruto's body to look for anything that could be

preventing him from healing." Tsunade replied still trying to stop Naruto's

bleeding.

"Of course" he said while simultaneously lifting up his headband, activating his

sharingan and looking into Naruto's body. He started when he saw a red chakra

eating at his light blue chakra. He then felt a sucking sensation and all of a

sudden Kyuubi in front of him grinning.

"Son of White Fang, what do you want?" Kyuubi growled.

"What are you doing to Naruto?" Kakashi demanded

Kyuubi chuckled. "That brat, deserves to die. But I'll tell you what i'm doing

to him. Every time those damn Medics heal him I re-inflict twice the damage.

Simple enough, even you can understand that, right?"

"Why, why are you doing this to Naruto? You're supposed to be healing him, not

inflicting twice the damage."

"Shut up! He's my vessel, I can do whatever I can d whatever I want to him."

Kakashi gritted his teeth and made a few hand seals and a ribbon appeared in his

hand and he shoved it into the wall and attached the other to Kyuubi's paw.

"Brat, what are you doing?" Kyuubi let out a great roar and it was so powerful

it blasted Kakashi out of his 'meet

ng' with Kyuubi.

"shi... Kakashi!" Kakashi opened his eyes to Tsunade shaking him.

"What." he groaned he blinked at the harsh white light glaring at his eyes.

"Did it work?"she asked impatiently.

"It should have." he answered.

"Well let's see." she briskly walked over to Naruto and healed a small wound.

They stood still for a couple minutes and when nothing happened she breathed or

a sigh of relief.

"Come on, we should tell Sasuke and Sakura." Kakashi nodded and they went out to

the waiting room where a very high strung and impatient Sasuke and sakura

waited.