Visions plague his unconscious mind.
Sakura takes a kunai to her back and falls over "NO! Sakura!" he yells as Sasuke begins to laugh. "You're still weak Naruto. But you are powerful enough to let live. Sakura is worthless. Let me kill her and I will spare you." Anger. Is that why these visions haunt? "You're a fool Sasuke. You've been blinded by your quest for power! I used to pity you for that. But now… NOW ALL I FELL IS RAGE! YOU THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN EVERYONE MEANS YOU CAN KILL ALL OF YOUR OLD FRIENDS? WELL IF THIS IS HOW IT'S GOING TO BE THEN LEAVE EVERYONE ELSE IN KONOHAGAKURE OUT OF THIS! THIS IS BETWEEN YOU AND YOU'R CURSE MARK AND ME AND MY KYUUBI ONI KITSUNE! And I will not hesitate to use 4 tails if I have to." Yes anger. Anger and sorrow. Anger at one whom he once trusted and sorrow that he could not protect that whom is dear to him.
On the verge of defeat. He taps into power that could mean the end of his life. 'Four tails is too much. Two tails I'm on right now. Three will have to do.'"HRRRRUAH HYA HUHU YA!"
Anger, Sorrow and happiness.
"We did it! We did it Kitsune! We beat Sasuke to a pulp."
Short lived happiness.
"Naruto watch out!" she screamed as a giant kunai is driven through his chest.
'The pain. The pain is the last thing I remember before… well I don't know where I am right now. Wake up. I've got to wake up.'
He wakes up. Realizing he's in a wooden container of some kind he quickly substitutes himself for a shadow clone that he created on a nearby rooftop that just happened to be there. Looking down on where he had been he realizes it was a coffin. 'So everyone thinks I'm dead. Not that I can blame them. I guess I have you to thank for this Kitsune but that'll have to wait. If we wanna live to say another day outside rather than an ANBU interrogation cell we need to get out of the village. And fast.'
Heading back to his apartment to gather supplies for the trip to who knows where he passed Ichiraku ramen and ,after a cursory inspection, decided to come back with his bag and loot as much Ryou and Ramen as possible.
As soon as he reached his apartment he found it under heavy guard by ANBU as they searched it for anything that might help explain what he and Sakura had been doing that fateful day. Noticing his bag and wallet he decided to go for it using the transparency jutsu that Jiraya had taught him. A few minutes of ducking and weaving past ANBU operatives later he managed to nab his bag and frog wallet and raid Ichiraku's.
'From here it should be smooth sailing. One more pit stop and then we can leave.' He reached the yamanaka flower shop and spelt 'Take care All members of the rookie nine. Will see you in five years. Naruto.' In the flowers and left a note in the cash register for Ino to find reading ' In five years stand on top of the Yondaime Hokages statue at 9:30 pm. I'll be waiting.'
' All right. Messages left, provisions set,. Time to make like a tree and Leave.'
Running up to the gate of branches he saw that it was heavily guarded. As were the rest of the gates. 'Probably due to the funeral.' He thought. 'Well time to scare some people.' He thought as he activated his transparency jutsu to half way to make him seem half translucent. He ran up the wall and stood next to one of the guard nins scaring the other guard into fainting before the guard nin looked next to him saw the 'ghost' and fainted too. 'Well that was easy' he thought ' A little to easy. Oh well. Time to go.'
And with that he jumped down from the wall and headed towards Sunagakure.