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In this chapter Naruto finds an unlikely friend in a teammate, can this person get him to open up.

Heavy Burden

"So let me get this straight." Tsunade said as she took out her medical supplies to treat the stricken blonde. "You were upset with Iruka treated you so you went to the forest to cool off, you lost track of time and ended up falling asleep and you didn't wake up till the next morning." The blonde women said repeating what Naruto had told her.

Sasuke was looking at Naruto's bare stomach with keen interest it didn't look too bad a little bruised but it was causing his blonde some discomfort. He wanted to belive him that nothing had happened in the forest, but they way he reacted when Kiba jumped on him didn't add up nor did it explain the injuries on his body.

His explanation for his disappearance just didn't add up in Tsunade's eyes ether it didn't explain how the blonde had hurt himself.

"Bull shit Naruto, there is no way you can convince me that you just lost track of time. You haven't slept at all I can clearly see that in your eyes." She exclaimed not fooled for a minute by Naruto's lame excuse.

"But it's the truth Ba-Chan, every word I swear. Why would I lie to you?" Naruto said still trying to convince her that he was telling the truth, he had to convince them at all costs.

Tsunade sighed at her blonde's feeble attempt to lie to her and Sasuke. "Naruto, you honestly think I'm that stupid. You would never have left Sasuke worrying the whole night without sending word back to us that you were ok, especially since he is still on a strict curfew. Not only that you have been acting strange ever since you were found."

Naruto looked to Sasuke ,who was sitting in a chair next to him, for some support but found none. "No chance dobe. I don't need to be a trained ninja to know you're lying to us."

Just as they were about to continue integrating Naruto when they heard the familiar sound of Sai and Kakashi poofing in to the small room.

"Yo." Kakashi said as he waved lazily at Tsunade. Sasuke obverseved that the Jouin looked like he was half asleep as he stood on the window. "We heard from Kiba and Hinata that you found Naruto safe and well. So Sai suggested that we drop by."

Tsunade nodded maybe their presence would encourage Naruto to talk to them. "Good thinking Sai maybe you and Kakashi can knock some sense into him. He won't tell us what happened to him last night. We did find him but not safe and well."

Kakashi looked towards the bed to see Naruto curled into a tight ball with the covers over his head and sighed "Why can't anything be simple."

Sai had a feeling that Naruto was holding back for a good reason and had an idea to get him to open up. Getting down from the window the pale ninja sat on the edge of the hospital bed with Naruto. He didn't say anything for the longest time trying to find the right words to say. "Naruto, I know this may sound weird coming from someone like me, but I know how you feel at the moment and I understand why you don't want to talk to us."

The blonde didn't look at the pale ninja as he spoke. "Lately I've been worried about something and I have hidden it from everyone because I don't want to cause tension between you and Sasuke.

Naruto didn't say anything but as Sai was about to leave the room when suddenly Naruto came out from under the covers. "What are you worried about?"

Sai smiled back at Naruto and sat back down on the bed. "I've been worried that I won't have a place on team seven anymore. Since Sasuke has returned it's only natural that he would be placed back on the team. I kept worrying that I wouldn't be considered your teammate anymore."

Naruto sat up on the bed quickly hurt that Sai thought he would abandon him like that. "Sai, you'll always be a part of team seven and there will always be a place for you, I'm sure we'll be put missions together. I didn't know that was bothering you why didn't you talk to one of your teammate's about this? I would never turn you away."

Sai smiled satisfied with Naruto's answer. "Thank you Naruto, tell me how did it feel when I told you that something was bothering me and I hadn't felt confident enough to tell you a close friend and a teammate how I was feeling?"

The blonde froze for a moment and didn't answer he knew what Sai was getting at and where the conversation was going. "I know you're trying to protect the people you care about. Because you don't want them to share the burden that you're carrying because you think they can't handle the weight of it."

Naruto's head shot up proving to Sai that was exactly what he was feeling inside. Before the blonde could say anything Sai continued to speak. "But, you're not protecting anyone by bolting up your fears and emotions your making them worry unnecessarily and the person that's hurt you is out there now and could be hurting someone else.

"No they won't hurt anyone else it's me they want to hurt." Naruto explained to Sai.

Sai watched Naruto's body language and could see that the thought of someone else being hurt terrified him. "Why do they just want to hurt you what have you done that's so wrong?"

The boy's body began to tremble he really wanted to tell them what happened but Sakura's threat was stopping him. "No, I can't I'll be killed if I say anything..!" Naruto covered his mouth quickly trying to prevent the name slipping out on his own.

Tsunade grabbed Naruto firmly by his shoulders furious that someone would threaten him like that. "Who said they'd kill you if you say anything?" She demanded no one threatens to kill Naruto.

"No one I just.."

"Damn it Naruto just tell me who hurt you and I swear I will beat the fucker to oblivion we can protect you from who ever hurt you." Tsunade explained trying to reassure Naruto that he would be safe.

The smaller ninja shook his head hard fearful of the Hokage's wrath. "You can't protect me she'll find a way to get to me and it won't just be me she'll hurt it will be everyone I care about as well. I don't want anyone to die because of me I would rather die than see any of hurt."

"Let her try an…" Tsunade stopped mid-sentence letting the information sink in. Naruto had just unwittingly revealed an important clue about the identity of his attacker. "She, Naruto a girl did this to you?" She asked raising an eyebrow at Naruto, she wasn't convinced a girl could hurt a physically young and fit boy like Naruto.

Looking into his blue eyes she could see the fear that resonated from them. "He really believes he'll be killed if he tells us anything."

Now that she thought about it there really was just one suspect that came to mind that could have been responsable for hurting him."It was Sakura wasn't it?"

When Naruto didn't answer her it confirmed what she already knew and she became more frustrated with him. "Naruto stop trying to protecting her, I know she's you and her have been through a lot together, but we thought Kabuto had found you, I was half expecting to find you dead in the forest this morning."

Naruto looked up at her his expression serious. "I wish Kabuto had found me and killed me it would have been better for everyone's sake if I was dead. I wish I had never been born!"

Tsunade felt hurt by what Naruto had just said. "Naruto, what makes you think for one second that any of us want you dead?"

Naruto sat on the hospital bed his lower lip trembling threatening to reveal all to everyone. Just as Naruto was about to refuse to speak anymore he could hear a faint growl coming from somewhere. He was both surprised and happy to hear the sound of the nine tailed fox inside. "Kit listen to me and listen good, you have to tell them what that PSHYCO BITCH did to you. The pale ninja is right you can't keep this inside it will eat away at you like a disease until you can't bear it anymore. Don't let her win or I'll eat you."

"But what if she hurts Sasuke?" Naruto asked concerned for the welfare of his friends.

Kyuubi sighed at Naruto. "You aren't protecting anyone by keeping this from them. They can protect you if you let them. I have to go now but we will talk soon."

With that small speech said Naruto didn't hear the fox any more Tsunade was still waiting for answer slowly Naruto began to crack under the pressure. "I don't deserve to be alive it was my fault that the Kyuubi attacked the village, if I hadn't been born then it wouldn't have happened and Iruka and so many other children wouldn't be orphans. Sasuke's clan wouldn't and planned a revolt. Itachi wouldn't have needed to kill his family. Iruka would still have his parents, Kakashi would have his sensei an…"

Kakashi wouldn't let Naruto continue to blame himself for everything bad that had happened and pulled him into a tight embrace, Naruto flinched at the contact and tried to pull away, but his teacher wouldn't let him. "Naruto none of that was in anyway your fault you had no control over that event, even if your mother hadn't been pregnant with you at the time, an attack would have still happened in some way."

The smaller boy stopped trying to pull away from Kakashi and relaxed. "But I've been such a nuisance my whole life, I've screwed up so many times on missions." Naruto was almost crying again.

Kakashi interrupted him before he could say another word. "Let's just get a few things clear before we go any further. If you hadn't been born Tsunade would be dead, the village would no longer exist, I would be long since dead, Neji wouldn't be as good a ninja, Gara wouldn't be half the person he is today, Pain would have killed everyone, Sasuke would still be out there now pursuing the path of hatred Naruto you have touched so many lives with your kindness you have been an inspiration to everyone. There is not one person in this room who wants you dead."

He held his student close to him while he cried into his vest Kakashi could feel the weight lift from the young ninja's shoulders.

Sasuke was shaking with rage behind him. "How dare she say such things to you. Naruto I don't blame you for what happened to my parents it wasn't your fault." Kakashi rubbed the boys back gently before whispering in a low and dangerous voice. "What else did that bitch say to you Naruto? Tell me everything."

"She said my parents would be ashamed of me if they found out I was nothing more than a dirty fag. She said that they would have given their lives willingly to the fox if they knew how I would turn out. " He sobbed unable to stop the words from spilling out it felt so good to get it all out. Kakashi tightened his embrace around the blonde protectively.

Kakashi cursed under his breath furious at Sakura for hurting Naruto like this. "How dare she say that, Sakura if only you could see the damage you have done. How could you be so cruel too Naruto when all he's ever done is protect you?"

Tsunade wiped his tears away and spoke to him in soft soothing voice. "Naruto I knew your mother and father every well and if they could see you now they would be so proud of you for everything you have achieved. It took a lot of courage for you to say how you felt about Sasuke and they would never say anything like that, they would love you no matter who you fell in love with."

Watching her little ninja cry like that broke her heart Tsunade was so angry at herself now for failing to protect him. "I should have protected you from her Gaki, the Kyuubi warned me about her intentions but I still failed."

Kakashi waited for Naruto's crying to subside a little before he asked his student anymore questions. "Did she do anything else to you?"

He noticed that Naruto had shuddered when he asked the question Sai spoke to Naruto again fearing that he was about to crawl back in to his shell. "Naruto you'll feel much better if you tell us. Remember it's not just you that suffers, by bottling it up. You're making everyone that cares about you worried as well."

It took a few minutes for Naruto to muster enough courage to continue the story. "I couldn't make her stop, she told Iruka about he and Sasuke to lured me into the forest so she could tell me how much I hurt her. She… "

"Go on what did she do?" Tsunade said gently urging him to open up making a quick mental note to talk to Iruka again later.

"She transformed into Kabuto and she read out loud from a file what he did to me. I could feel the pain again and remember everything Kabuto did to me it was like he was really there tourting me all over again."

"How the fuck did she get her hands on that, I keep it looked in my office only two people know where that's kept." and told me it was all my fault this was happening and she said I couldn't make Sasuke's dream come true."

"What dream?" Sasuke asked trying with all his might to keep his temper under control.

"I can't help you revive the Uchiha clan."

Sasuke felt like he had just be stabbed in the chest in his throat felt tight he knelt down so he was looking right into Naruto eye's. "Naruto, all the Uchiha blood in the world could never give me the happiness that you give me. I do want to revive my clan but we will cross that bridge together when it comes. Right now you are my baby and I'm happy with that. I want you to know here and now I don't hold you responsible for the death of my clan."

"She said she would show me what makes me and her so different, she started touching my body and then she..she…I can't say it Ba-chan." Naruto begged unable to tell them rest.

Tsunade's eyes widened in horror, the alarm bells began to ring inside her head. Suddenly Naruto's unusual behaviour towards her eailer made perfect sense. "She wouldn't no surely not, Sakura wouldn't you that to her teammate." But she had to accept that Sakura may be capable of anything. "Kakashi, Sasuke and Sai could you two please leave the room for a moment I need to talk to Naruto alone."

Kakashi, Sasuke and Sai reluctantly left the room so the two of them could speak privately.

Tsunade waited for them to leave the room before she looked at Naruto and asked him out right. "Naruto where did she touch you point to the part of your body?" She asked hoping with all her heart that she was wrong.

Her worst fear was confirmed when Naruto pointed towards his groan area the medical nin cursed loudly. "I couldn't stop her Ba-chan." Naruto explained worried that Tsunade was angry with him. "I tried but I couldn't move she gave me something to stop me from moving and blocked the Kyuubi from talking to me."

"Have you been able to contact Kyuubi since?" She asked concerned about what effect that would have.

"Just a few minutes ago he spoke to me, he told me that the drug had almost worn off."

Tsunade had never in her life wanted to comfort someone so badly, Tsunade just wanted to pull Naruto close to her and shield him from the hurt and pain, but she needed to act professionally at the moment for both their sakes. "Naruto did she do anything else to you besides touching? I'm sorry I know this is upsetting you but I need to know as soon as possible, so I can take the right course of action."

Naruto nodded understanding what she was saying. "She began to undress herself took my clothes off as well and she did things to me."

Tsunade didn't want to ask Naruto anymore questions but she had to. "What kind of things? I need to hear you say it Naruto."

"She…she had …sex wi..th me Ba-chan" Naruto stuttered forcing each word out with great effort.

The colour drained from the blonde woman's face suddenly age began to catch up with her. "Naruto, look at me. Did you want to have sex with her?"

Naruto looked at her with disbelief that she was asking him a question like that. "No, of course not."

The more she heard the worse it got. "Did you make it perfectly clear that you didn't want to have sex with her?"

Naruto nodded. "I kept begging and begging but she wouldn't stop I shouted for help but no one came."

"I'm going to need to take some blood samples and you need to have a physical examination. I promise I will explain everything to you ok."

The blonde was suddenly alarmed by her suggestion. "You don't believe me do you? All I want to do is get her off my skin Ba-chan I can still feel her all over me."

Tsunade held the blonde by his shoulders. "Naruto listen to me, what you are feeling at the moment is completely normal and you will be able to have a shower as soon as possible and I do believe you but that won't be enough to punish her. Now what she has done is very wrong Naruto you know that right, you know what she has done?"

Naruto nodded reavlived that she did belive him. "Trust me Naruto she will be dealt with, but to make sure that happens I need to get as much proof as possible." She didn't like speaking to Naruto like a small child but she had to make him realize that this was the only way.

"Please don't tell Sasuke, he'll kill her if he finds out what she did to me." He begged worried that Sasuke would take matters into his won hands and do something stupid.

Tsunade was left completely speechless by Naruto's request, even after all that Sakura had done he still wanted to protect her. "He should kill her Naruto and I wouldn't blame him, hell I would bloody promote the person who does kill her to Hokage."

The boy shook his head "It's not just that if Sasuke kills her he'll be banished or worse and I won't see him again. I don't want to lose him again Ba-Chan, Sakura will win and I'll be alone again."

Taking a deep breath she nodded agreeing that for the time being she wouldn't tel Sasuke for his benefit on one condition. "Ok I won't tell Sasuke, but I want you to do that instead."

Naruto looked up at her nervously. "Don't look at me like that Gaki you can't hide this from him. Just tell him in your own time and I would do it sooner than later."

Tsunade called her medical nin and Kakashi into the small room and explained what she needed.

"I want a guard outside this room at all times. No one gets in here without my say so, I want a full blood work done and swabs analyzed and on my desk as soon as possible if anything comes up I want to know first, and I want Yamato and Kakashi to carry out a search on Sakura Haruno's home at once.

A few minutes later the two jounin found themselves inside Sakura's bedroom they found it was dark with no light was coming in through the drawn curtains. Kakashi and Yamto looked around the room cautiously checking for any trip wires that could spring a trap. Afterall they were dealing with a very smart ninja. In the dim light they could see that the walls had something stuck on them. Yamato opened the curtains so they could see better. With light now entering the room they could see the walls were covered in pictures of Sasuke. Kakashi and Yamato couldn't belive their eyes when he saw just how deep their students obsession with Sasuke ran. She even had some of Sasuke old cloths lying neatly on the bed.

"I've never seen anything like this before. She is completly obsessed with the Uchiha." Yamato exclaimed overwhelmed by the number of pictuers Sakura had colected.

Kakashi wandered over to the bed and found a note-book under the pillow which was surprising. The note-book contained photo's of Naruto from many sources some of them from them came from files or taken. They were all mutilated in some way some with the eyes carved out or his face had been clawed it looked like Sakura had used her own nails to cause the marks on the images. others had writing scrawled on them words like monster, selfish, demon and die were written in blood-red ink. More worryingly it detailed things she wanted to do to him poisoning seemed to be her perfered method since a lot of the pages contained formulas and different effects the poisons would have on the human body. It occurred to Kakashi very quickly that every substance she mentioned would have led to a slow and agonizing death for Naruto.

While Kakashi read Sakura's poising manual. Yamato found her diary and a small bottle of liquid next to it. Sakura had hidden the two objects in a draw he was about to reach for it when he notice the faint glint of a trip wire hovering over the diary. Yamato followed the wire which led to a well concealed explosive tag on the roof of the draw. Using he wood jutsu he carefully pushed the book and the bottle under the wire so he could reach in and garb it.

carefully he opened the dairy it was at least a year and a half old which would give them a clear picture on when things went wrong. Yamato skipped to the last entry which was written the day Naruto went missing. He called Kakashi over so he could read it as well. "She really didn't want us to find this. It was protected with an explosive tag."

As the two read the entry they were left deeply disturbed.

Dear Sasuke,

I saw you last night with Naruto, I watched him as he kissed you his filthy lips touching yours and I just wanted to jump into the room and rip him off you and save you from yourself. He doesn't deserve you or anyone for that matter I wish I could see Kabuto now and ask him why he didn't finish the must be so confused at the moment, but don't worry my love I forgive you it's not your fault Naruto is so selfish. I have a plan to get him out of the picture so we can be together. I tried it the nice way but he didn't get the fucking message, typical. If all goes to plan he will be out of are lives for good in a few weeks.

Oh, Sasuke if only you knew how far I would go for you, so you an I will be free to live out the rest of are lives together.

Forever your's Sakura

Both of them were left stunned by what they had read they had just caught a glimpse of just how unstable Sakura really was."What does this mean Kakashi- senpai?"

"It means Yamato that we have a huge problem to deal with." Kakashi replied shutting the book.

"Tsunade waited nervously in her office for Naruto's blood test results, she wanted today to be all just a horrible dream. Sakura's room had disturbed her and for a Hokage that was difficult.

The shy medical nin walked into her office nervously wishing that she wasn't the one delivering the results. Naruto was like a little brother to Tsunade and ever since Naruto had returned from the last mission she was even more protective. "Tsunade-sama the examinations on Naruto have been completed and you will have those results in the morning."

"What did you find?" She asked.

"We can't be a hundred per cent sure until we get the results back." She replied.

"I asked you what you found?" Tsunade bellowed losing her cool very quickly.

The medical nin was taken back by her rage. "From the samples we have collected and the physical evidence on his body there is a strong possibility that some sort of sexual assault did happen. We are just waiting for the swab results to be sure."

Tsunade glare intensified across the desk. "Were there any marks on his body?"

She nodded grimly. "You need to see them for yourself but I warn you it's not a pretty sight." He said handing her the file containing the pictures. Tsunade took out each one individually scrtizeing every detail she saw that Naruto had bruises on the top of his arms which gave an indication that Sakura had used force to restrain him. The puncture wound on the back on his neck left by the injection interested her the most. The bruising around the entry wound indicated she had used a lot of force when she delivered the paralysing blow, but that wasn't the only thing that surprised her it was the location of the mark itself.

"For give me for asking but why would she go to so much effort to conceal the wound? We had to have the boy hold his hair up so we could take pictures."

Tsunade already knew why Sakura had chose that place to inject him and it worried her. "She wanted the mark to be hidden so we wouldn't look for it, she knew full well I would be asking all sorts of questions if I found that mark. This tells me she planned everything to the smallest detail even blocking the Kyuubi's chakra to prevent Naruto from go into his mind to escape."

"There's something else you need to see. The blood sample you took something unusual showed up."

"Of course it did. What was it?" She asked.

She passed her the envelope containing the results she feared "You need to read them." She glanced at the results shocked she had been expecting something complex but nothing like this. "This can't be right he would be dead if this shit was injected into his system. There must be a mistake run these again."

"We did, we ran them three times and the same abnormality showed up every time." Shizune replied.

They were interrupted by the sound of knocking at the door, Tsunade was happy to see Kakashi and Yamato standing at the door. "Come in you two." Tsunade called. Kakashi and Yamato walked in and handed the evidence bags to her containing the vile of unknown liquid, the diary and the book with the photo's of Naruto he and Yamato found in Sakura's home.

Tsunade held up the strange bottle towards the light curious of its content. "excellent work you two I will run a test on this in a minute but first you both need to sit down there is something you and Yamato need to know." She warned not looking forward to telling them what she knew."

"Kakashi, you are Naruto's sensei you know some of this already and Yamato you have grown to know Naruto quite well I will fill you in on the details about what happened last night in the forest."

"Is it that bad?" Yamato asked.

"Kakashi, I strongly belive that Sakura was the one who told Iruka about Sasuke and Naruto's relationship. She did that to provoke Naruto so he would try and confront her about her actions. unfortunately he did find her and he went alone like she wanted him to. She then Imoblized him with what I suspect is a new toxin that she made. With him subdued she began to break him down by playing on his insecurities.

"insecurities?" Yamato questioned wondering what Tsunade meant by that.

Kakashi explained to Yamato the full situation they were dealing with. "She told Naruto that he was responsible for the Kyuubi attack and blamed him for the Uchiha massacre. On the day the team seven was formed I encouraged the three of them to tell each other are hopes and dreams. Sasuke said that his dream was to revive his clan something that Naruto can't do. Sakura used that to cause him emense guilt hoping to break Naruto and Sasuke apart."

Yamato was shocked to say the least he couldn't find the words to describe how low Sakura had sunk. "Thats awful how could she even consider hurting her teammate like that."

Tsunade shook her head unable to give Yamato an answer for Sakura's behaviour."But it didn't end there she did something else far worse than any of us could imagine. This is why I have called you two here."

Kakashi and Yamato waited in anticipation waiting for Tsunade to reavle what she knew.

"Sakura ..."

"What did you want to tell me Naruto?" Sasuke asked the blonde closing the door behind him. He had been kept in the dark for the last few hours since he had been sent out of the room by Tsunade, leaving him frustrated and pacing outside the door most of the day. Naruto was sitting up on the bed in a hospital gown.

"Sasuke, I want to talk to you about what Sakura did to me last night before someone else does. If I don't tell you everything that happened then something could happen to you as well." Naruto answered Tsunade's words had gone round in his head for a few hours.

Sasuke stood at the door bewildered, that pink bitch had hurt his Naruto enough already now he was saying there was more. He would give anything if he could go and find her and pound her face in for saying things like that to his baby. "What else did she say to you?"

Naruto shook his head. "Its not what she said its what she did to me afterwards thats what I need to tell you."

By the way Naruto was shivering on the bed Sasuke could tell he was struggling to tell him what was on his mind. "Tell me what happened in your own time." Sasuke encouraged he didn't care how long it took for Naruto to open up he would wait there all night if he had to. He was glad that Naruto trusted him enough to tell him.

Naruto nodded grateful for Sasuke's patience swollowing hard scared to use the word to describe what Sakura did. "Sasuke, yesterday Sakura...ra..ped m.e."

Leaving it there for now, will start writing the next chapter ASAP the more reviews I get the faster I'll update. In the next chapter The people that care about Naruto the most are left reeling after the news of Naruto's ordeal. Iruka still ignores Naruto causing Sasuke and Kakashi to take maters into there own hands.

Thank you for reading looking forward to seeing what you all think.