Come the 9th day Naruto was in pain, and he would be in pain till midnight. His whisker lines were showing now, and he started to look more animalistic with his hair frizzing out.

Sasuke starred up at the daylight sky starting to actually fear the night.

When Sakura went to the village nearby for supplies she'd come back, and told Sasuke what was happening. Apparently a giant snake had snuck into the castle, and directly attacked his mother.

Just one problem with that Itachi was still there. He killed the snake saving his mother while his father was away with Kakashi, and Gaara setting up defenses around the castle.

He wanted to go home, and help, but his home was here for now. He looked back at the cottage where Naruto lay groaning out in pain.

He was trying to find something in the book that would help ease the pain, but he found nothing. It was so odd to see Naruto happy while in pain.

He'd mastered most of his gifts while he also tried to learn about Naruto's. During those days where he had to chase the blond he was particularly good at hiding which caused Sasuke to have use his sight.

So they were pretty stealthy. Agility was defiantly a yes because damn the blond could run. Love was defiantly there, but power didn't make sense to him.

The book wasn't too detailed. All it said was power. Power of what?

The raven thought back to when he had over exerted himself, and started to cough up blood. Naruto saw this, and touched his chest, and it stopped. He didn't know what the blonde did, nor did Naruto but it worked.

So their power must be some kind of healing agent of some sort. He grumbled, and tried to find something else in the book, but failed.

He gave up, and headed back inside to see the happy crying blond. His stomach had grown out more like an inflated gumdrop.

Sasuke took a seat beside the boy. They'd made a makeshift bed downstairs, so they wouldn't have to go up, and down.

He took hold of the blonde's hand, and squeezed it lightly letting him know he was there.

Naruto smiled through tears, and winced at the painful feeling growing in his stomach. Sakura came with some cold water, and rag to place on the blonde's forehead since he was burning up.

"So how is he going to...you know?" she asked as she took a seat on the opposite side, setting the bucket down, and wetting the rag squeezing some of the water out, and placed it on his forehead.

"Book doesn't say" Sasuke said as he looked over the whimpering blond.

"All it says is that the moon will turn red" the raven said as he kissed the boys hand wishing he could stop his torment.

"Nothing for the pain?" she asked as she had tried herbs, and such, but it did nothing.

Sasuke shook his head, and looked down feeling as if he failed.

"Hey..you did good" Sakura said as she removed the rag to re-soak it.

Sasuke smiled, and nodded as he looked up at her.

"Thank you….for everything you've done. I'm sorry for what I said to you" Sasuke apologized with a slight nod/bow.

Sakura blushed, and placed the rag back on the blonds head after squeezing the water out again.

"No need" she said as she giggled slightly tending to the blond. Sasuke looked out the window at the day that seemed to be going slower, and slower. Now he wished for the nightfall to hurry.

~oOo~

"So shall I take out the Uchiha now?" Kabuto asked as he poured the purple vile onto a blade.

"Wait till the child is born. That way if Sasuke kills you, at least it was for something." Orochimaru said rather pissed off as he tapped his fingers along his chin.

He was quite annoyed his snake was killed it took allot of strength to summon that damn thing.

"Sorry about your snake" Kabuto smirked out as he looked over the blade. He loved messing with his lord.

"Watch it. Luckily there still going to war. Their kingdom will fall, and I'll have the child. Come midnight we strike"

~oOo~

At the kingdom Itachi told Gaara about the different gifts that everyone possessed, and how dangerous his was to use. Gaara couldn't help, but wonder about his sand peoples gift actually working.

So he tested it out. His gift was of the raccoon. The gift of earth. Which was all they needed to be happy. Gaara, and Itachi secretly practiced.

They found out he could even move a mountain if he trained hard enough, but also found out their enormous strength led to their downfall.

Since Gaara was the only one of his kin left technically he had to be careful for his sake, and his new fiancé's sake (LEE XD).

Sooner or later the red haired man could bend sand to his will. There wasn't allot of sand around the place, so they took what they had, and laid it out around the castle.

He then began to practice moving boulders with little success.

Fugaku had to except the help of their gifts, so he trained with them on the side while Kakashi trained the men more. Mikoto didn't know of their training, but she trained herself hiding it from the boys.

They were going to prepared, and fight to the death. The other kingdoms had issued war to take place at nightfall guessing they'd have the advantage when they wouldn't.

Uchiha's see better in the night, and the earth is more awake at night.

Authors Note: I almost made Gaara The Avatar for a sec. O_O just had to share that lol. Didn't know if anyone thought of Avatar Gaara fic before…if so forgive me I'm slow, and I would like to read it xD. lol