Emi: ahahaha :hides from readers:

Sasuke: she really blew it this time. Hn.

Naruto: well, she has been a busy person. But thanks to a review alert that she got in her email, she decided to continue this fic. So reviewing DOES help when you do it. Haha

Emi: I'M SORRY GUYS WAHHHHH

Sasuke: :hands tissue:

Emi: :blows: thanks ;__; on to the fic….

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"SASUKEEEE" Sakura yelled as she and Kakashi had finished their long battle with Kisame. After their fight, they both looked around the base for their comrades, with no luck.

"Sakura, come look at this." Kakashi went to a table picking up a big rusty book along with tons of tiny bottles of different types of bottles. Sakura went to his side and looked in the book.

"Sensei, this looks like a book on how to create poisons. Maybe this is the book Itachi had used to make Naruto loose his memory in any way?"

"hmm..it could be, let's take this with us just in case and have the 5th Hokage take a look at this."

After more searching, they had stumbled upon seeing Sasuke carrying Naruto upon his back.

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Chapter 6: Hope

After the short but tiring battle with the 2 akatsuki members, Itachi and Kisame, team Kakashi was able to successfully return naruto to their home, Konoha.

Sounds of footsteps were heard all over konoha hospital as yelling and screaming was heard in and out of the hospital. That certain yelling and screaming was by no other than Uzumaki Naruto. Restraints were put all over his body, making him unable to move allowing only struggles.

Kakashi, Sakura, and Sasuke were all trying their very best to calm Naruto down, but all their attempts failed. Sakura was soon asked to help with the antidotes for it was very difficult to decipher. With Kakashi and Sasuke inside the room, Kakashi had no choice but to punch Naruto in the stomach, shutting him up…in a way. Sasuke stared at Kakashi in disbelief.

"Kakashi! What the hell was that for? Sure it shut Naruto up but couldn't you have done something else to do so?"

"Well, I tried to do some jutsu's on him but none of them worked, didn't you see it yourself Sasuke?" Kakashi sighed as he finally got to pull out his book, and began to read on the side.

"Yeah I did. But…" Sasuke was lost for words, he really had no choice but to accept that what Kakashi did was right. He looked at naruto's now calm face as he finally slept.

After much of the silence went by as time clicked away, Sasuke couldn't stand it anymore. He got up from his seat near the door and went out. Kakashi slightly glanced to Sasuke as he had left the room then looked at naruto's sleeping form.

"It seems that Sasuke really wants you to wake up…Naruto".

Sasuke was very impatient. Not only did he just want naruto to wake up, but he also wanted naruto to remember everyone, and him. 'What the hell is sakura doing. She should hurry up already. But what really bothers me is…why did Itachi leave that book for us to take? That was not a very clever thing to do as a S-ranked ninja.'

"I THINK WE GOT IT!!" Sakura yelled as she quickly "walked" to Naruto's room. She looked at Sasuke first, who was standing, before going into the room shouting to Kakashi the news. Sasuke quickly went into the room after Sakura to see that Naruto was still fast asleep. Kakashi must have hit him really hard…

"The chemists, researchers, medic nins and I worked hard to decipher what that book was about, and it definitely had that potion of what was used on naruto. No antidote was found, so we had to use a couple of samples from naruto's blood."

"Sakura, seeing that all those people worked together on this, we have no choice but to trust you." Kakashi said as you looked at the antidote, as sakura has claimed it to be. Sasuke just looked on as Kakashi allowed sakura to put in the shot into naruto's arm. As the shot with the antidote was finally done, Sasuke went to sit down next to naruto.

"You idiot (usuratonkachi), you better remember me or I'll have to knock you out harder than what Kakashi did." Yet even though Sasuke said that, all he really wanted was that naruto would become the bright and cheerful naruto again. The Naruto that…he deeply cared about.

"Well Sasuke, I'll just go to see the 5th hokage immediately to tell her the report of our last mission. I can trust you to stay here with naruto. Jya." And he poofed, smoke disappearing with kakashi's body no where to be seen. Sasuke just looked back at naruto's sleeping face and before he knew it, quickly went to sleep.

As time went by, Sakura went back to the room seeing Sasuke deep asleep next to naruto. She silently put over a blanket over Sasuke and turned off the light. She was just happy that Sasuke was able to calm down after retrieving naruto. Yet she couldn't help but feel a little jealousy.

She wanted to be with Sasuke. But there were so many reasons why she couldn't be with him. First of all, he didn't like her like that. Whenever the atmosphere was good, she would take advantage of it. Asking him to go out with her, then the attitude of Sasuke would totally change and he would reject without a thought. Another thing that she couldn't help was that Sasuke had told her…that he already has feelings/thoughts for someone else. And that dating was of no interest for him at the moment.

She wanted to touch him…just this once. Sakura reached out her hand to touch sasuke's head. Yet something interfered her to do that. A hand had grabbed her wrist, roughly.

That hand was no other than Naruto's.

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Naruto and Sasuke: :animefall:

Emi:…WHAT?!

Sasuke: that was fucking short.

Emi: what do you expect? I really need to go now, and I thought that would be a perfect ending.

Naruto: that's more like the worst cliffhanger ever…

Emi: THEN THE READERS WOULD LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT CHAPTER!?

Sasuke: she got a point…

Naruto: Well, if you guys want her to continue, write reviews! She'll get MOTIVATED!!! BELIEVE I-

Emi: :covers naruto's mouth: oookay. We get it Naruto.