Disclaimer: I don't own It, him, them, only the plot.

a/n: the final chapter!!

I seriously needed to have this chapter beta'd, but I cbf, and just wanted it to be posted. So excuse the crappiness.

WARNING: there is some violence and definately a tragedy. Read at your own caution.

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When he opened his eyes he was greeted with a breeze, the shock of pain from his ordeal and from his previous chidori attack. He gasped in pain several times as he forced his heart to calm down. When he did that, he felt his eye lids droop, his body was way past exhaustion. It was screaming to be put out of its misery. And he planned to do just that. He now had enough reason to complete his mission his way. He shakily raised his hands and performed a jutsu that he remembered Tsunade perform years ago, that revived her body, yet consequently shortened her life-span. Once he did that, most of his injuries were gone, he was able to move but it still hurt to do so.

He glanced at Sasuke, finally taking notice of him, his wings sprawled around him, the curse darkened till it now fully engulfed his body with tattoos. Naruto jumped back, away from Sasuke as the raven head's inhuman eyes shot open, a dark murky black, no longer sharingan, and flipped back onto his feet.

Naruto reached his decision; he decided that he could go ahead with his plan without breaking his oath. He turned on the radio for the first time.

"Sakura, are you there?"

"Hai! Are you alright?"

"Yeah. Listen carefully, I need you to call off all back up and evacuate the premises. Make sure you are at least 100 km out of range."

"You're going to do it, aren't you" stated Sakura.

"Yeah I am. Can I ask you a final favor"

"Anything"

"Take care of him. He will need to heal. It will take time. Only you can do it."

"H-hai" choked Sakura

"It's been an honor Haruno" said Naruto cheekily.

He heard a sob on the other line, his face softened as he spoke his final words with no regrets, before switching off the radio. "Good-bye, Sakura-chan.

Sasuke did a series of hand seals then let out another mouth of fire. He smirked as he watched the blonde scream in agony, but then scowled when he also saw a puff of smoke.

It was a shadow clone.

He looked around him for his opponent. He let out a shriek as he felt his body sink into the floor, while Naruto rose above it. Naruto smirked and silently thanked Kakashi for teaching him that technique. But Naruto did not waste time. He did a long serious of handseals, then smashed his hand into the ground, yelling "Mokuton Hijutsu: Jukai Kotan" Wood Release Secret Technique: Birth of Dense Woodland. Naruto let out a burst of chakra as he created the sapling of a great tree, and then fed the tree with more chakra. He watched it grow, twist and wrap around a stunned Sasuke, trapping him in its branches.

He watched Sasuke squirm and writhe, but unable to escape. As long as Naruto was alive, he would not be able to escape from the wrath of the tree. This bought Naruto time. Naruto bit his thumb, drew enough blood to cover his hand and resealed his demon inside him, making sure that it would never leave his body, no matter what. Then using Sasuke's blood, from a blood puddle, he spent a minute doing complicated hand signs in forms of a seal, then placed his bloodied palm over Sasuke's cursed seal.

A painful roar left both of their mouths.

Naruto and Sasuke both kneeled over, their mouths wide open, grieving from the pain as their chests strained to heave. Naruto felt an unbearable burning sensation slowly trickle up his arm and into his body. It was the poison of the curse. It made his body wince and tremble from the pain of feeling on fire. Naruto, through his roaring and tortured tears, began to struggle with the control of Kyuubi. The demon within him was using all is power to escape the plague that threatened to annihilate him. Naruto, gasped as he felt his insides shake violently and his head throb as if it had been pounded. There was an ongoing battle occurring within him. The kyuubi wanted to get out, and his body wanted to refuse the poison, two things Naruto was dead against happening. Naruto willed more of the curse to flow into him, destroying his cells, as the curse was foreign to his body. He felt his sanity flee him, his mind was slowly slipping away. His body was screaming, telling him to let go. But he wouldn't, he willed himself to hold on for a little bit longer, to cure his friend. The hand on Sasuke's shoulder, no longer resembled a hand. The flesh had burnt away, smell was so strong, but it didn't stop there, he realized that all his skin was burning, stinging from the pain. It was pure agony.

Naruto's screaming had stopped as his throat was filled with a thick liquid, forcing him to cough up his blood. He felt Kyuubi's immense power trying to break out, to take control of the situation, but he forced it back. He had no desire to let this end in any other way but his way.

Naruto's body never numbed from the pain, his hand started to pull away, unable to withstand anymore pain. It wanted to give up, he wanted to give up. Naruto jerked his head, and forced himself to concentrate on Sasuke, and his determination to save him. Sasuke hadn't stopped roaring, his head pushed backwards, and his mouth tattooed open. But change was happening. Naruto watched as humanity and sanity returned on his friend's face, no longer looking crazed and blood thirsty, or the fact that the extracting was almost complete because the curse no longer embedded itself on his body, and his eyes no longer darted like a monster, but remained steady, focused on his. While he still could, Naruto used his own blood as ink with his fingers and marked Sasuke's chest, the blood immediately dried, plastered on the chest from the heat of the curse.

When Naruto felt the last of the curse flow into him, he retracted his hand from the now redeemed Uchiha and let his thick tears flow from the pain that he still endured from the jutsu. Naruto watched as a tear splashed on Sasuke, and realized that he was weeping blood, and the worst thing about it was that it didn't stop there. Naruto lost his sense of hearing as he felt blood not only rush to his ears, but out of it. He couldn't breathe as the thick liquid flowed from his nostrils and mouth, suffocating him. Not only that but he could steel feel Kyuubi, like a war hammer, rattling the cage he was trapped inside, trying to escape, and the curse was trying to dominate his body and trying to overcome Kyuubi's resistance. Naruto began to lose focus and sight as the internal pain had become unbearable and the blood blinded him. He felt himself lose sanity, as his lips turned into a snarl, and his memories began to fade, replaced with a lust for blood.

Naruto turned to look at the gasping, bewildered Uchiha and because of his inability to speak, Naruto gave his friend a final, painful smile as blood poured from his pores, making him almost unrecognizable, except for the patches of blonde from his bloodstained hair.

Naruto then closed his eyes, which felt as if they were bulging from the continuous oncoming flow of blood, and jumped several hundred meters from his friend. Naruto shakily raised his leaded hands and made his final jutsu, his final seal. With his remaining chakra, he placed the seal over his heart and roared with agony of the torture as he felt himself being ripped into pieces and oblivion.

Sasuke watched from afar. His senses were slowly returning, but his body wasn't properly responding to his commands. He felt as heavy as lead. He was confused, his mind was blank. Something had happened, but he couldn't remember. He didn't even understand why he was in such a state. He looked into the distance and watched as a familiar pained roar echoed. He watched as the body hovered above the ground for a second and then disappeared into oblivion, but not before the cloak of a demon consumed the familiar black winged beast, and then unwillingly following it's container, never to return.

Sasuke turned and stared at the burnt trees and the destroyed landscape. Slowly and painfully his memory returned. He felt his head throb from the sudden migraine and whimpered as it intensified. He felt as if his head had cracked open. Sasuke was overwhelmed by the physical and emotional pain that followed at the realization of his previous actions, and the fact that he'd condemned his once best friend to his death. When he glanced down at his wounds he noticed blood left in a cryptic manner on his chest. There in his friend's blood was a message left for him. When Sasuke read the final message from his savior, he let out a choked sob as a wave of guilt and regret hit him, leaving him gasping for air. He found it so hard to breathe because of the realization and outcome of the events. His mind was set in overdrive. Sasuke turned to the side and felt his stomach heave whatever was left in it. He vomited, trying to cleanse himself of the guilt, of the pain and regret. When the thick waves of emotion did not subside he felt his vision darken and blur. Then his body fell to the ground in shock, leaving him unconscious.

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When Sakura arrived with several ANBU, several hours later, several hours too late, she took in the battle scene that stood before her in utter shock. A sob escaped her throat as she took note of an unconscious Uchiha, in pools of blood that was his, and blood that wasn't. Sakura ran to him and sighed with relief when she heard his ragged breathing and speeding pulse, but cried harder when she didn't feel the chakra presence of her favorite blonde. She searched for the second body, afraid of what she might find, but in fact didn't find anything. Later, after grieving for what was lost, she would understand from Tsunade why there was no body. Sakura ran her fingers through Sasuke's blood clotted hair and glanced at his body, searching for fatal injuries. When her eyes found his chest, imprinted with blood with her favorite blonde's familiar writing, she cried even harder, as she felt a little piece of her heart break from the grief as she cradled her remaining team mate for the first time in 7 years. While doing so she repeated the message scrawled on his chest over and over again, out loud and in her head as tears continued to flow down her face and onto Sasuke's, leaving wet tracks on his unconscious pained face.

"Come back home, Sasuke"

THE END

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TA DA! Was it a good ending? I would really appreciate if people reviewed and shared their thoughts. I did warn you guys. This was gonna be a tragedy.

R&&R.

p.s

I think it will be a while before I post anything up after this because school is taking its toll and mid year exams are coming up. But if anyone wants a little one shot, you provide the story-line and I'll write it up…someday. Or maybe a sequel to this? I dunno. Let me know.

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