Hello people! ComeComeParadise here! I am sosososoSOOO thankful for all the feedback and reviews that I have received! Yes, I know that the other chapter was kind of….wierd, but I seriously tried! In my opinion, the humor came out sounding…forced, and I apologize. Well, not much humor in this chapter, but it IS longer so I guess that that's what really matters. (Other than the quality of course!)

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Tsunade was having a hard time in the back of the battle lines. When her protégé finally showed up, she was relieved.

"Sakura! Hurry up and get over here! There are many wounded ninjas and we need you to heal them!"

Sakura quickly obeyed her commands. Right away, she went over to a severely wounded man and started to heal him. He was bloody all over. There were gashes and wounds everywhere on his body. As she continued to heal the man, she couldn't help but notice how bad his injuries were. She immediately began worrying about Naruto, Kakashi, and all of her other friends. If this man was so badly wounded, then how were they holding up? Upon closer inspection, she realized that the man had to be at least twenty-three years old. A man that age was in his prime. After healing the man, she moved over to help her next "patient". There were many injured and half-dead Konoha ninja that needed healing. As she continued to heal the ninja, she began to anxiously wonder if her next patient would be one of her friends.

Of all the people that Sakura had healed, all of them were fatally injured and or wounded. She silently whispered a prayer as she hoped that her friends-and Sasuke would be safe.

Her thoughts were interrupted when Tsunade's authorative voice pierced through the sounds of the ninja around them.

"The Sound nin seem to be a lot stronger than we had anticipated. We need more assistance!"

"B-but, we already have more than half of the Konoha ninja population attacking Sound and defending Konoha! We barely have enough medic-nins, and we can't afford to send any more ninjas up to the front line!" Shizune said.

Sakura couldn't help but gasp. Was Sound really that strong? Just a while ago, when she fought some Sound ninjas, she couldn't help but think that they were pretty weak. Why were they so strong all of a sudden? Did Sasuke decide to stick with Sound after all? What was going on? Suddenly, she came up with an idea.

"Tsunade-sama! We can ask the Kazekage for help! I'm sure that we can trust him this time, and I know that they will be of great assistance. They are very strong, and we get along pretty well!"

Tsunade considered for a moment. We need help NOW. Those desert-kids will be coming from Sunagakure! After letting out a sigh, she finally replied,

"I suppose that some help would be better than no help at all…but we need them to come ASAP. Shizune! Send a message to the Kazekage that Konoha needs Suna's assistance! Tell them to arrive as soon as possible!"

Shizune nodded and ran off. Any minute now, Sunagakure would be involved in a war with Konoha against Sound.

Sakura felt some of her feelings of worry lift. Gaara…Temari…Kankuro…please help us…

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Meanwhile, Naruto is looking for Sasuke…

"BASTARD! Where the hell are you?"

He was running around looking for our favorite raven-haired avenger. Immediately, he was stopped by a giant snake.

"Holy shit!" holy shit! That's the snake from the chuunin exams that almost ate me!

As if it were reading his mind, the snake dove at Naruto and swallowed him whole.

Ugh…damn! Not again!

Just like in the exams, Naruto used his shadow-bunshin jutsu and made the snake vomit him out and explode. (this is my fic, so the snake explodes! BOOM!)

"EEEEEEEEWWWWW!" he quickly and roughly brushed the snake's vomit off of his clothes. For the first time in who knows how long, Naruto analyzed the situation. (It's the apocalypse! Nooooo!)

Wait just a sec. The last time that snake was here, Orochimaru-teme was here, too! That snake was just here, so that means that he must be here too! Who's he gonna brainwash and molest this time? Hopefully Neji since he has long hair and looks more like a girl…

(a/n: well….at least he got some of his conclusion right…)

He finally snapped out of his thoughts. When he returned to reality, he found a dozen shuriken flying towards him. He quickly dodged them.

"Show yourself whoever you are!"

He heard a slight chuckle. The chuckle soon turned into laughter, and the laughter grew louder as the enemy drew near him. Naruto couldn't help but feel shivers go down his spine upon hearing the laughter. It made the hair on the back of his neck stand up, and it made him tremble. He felt a massive chakra approaching. When he finally saw his enemy, his eyes grew large.

"Wh-what the hell! You!"

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After several hours of non-stop healing, Sakura couldn't take it anymore. She was too worried about her teammates and Sasuke. She wasn't sure if they were alive. She ran up to Tsunade.

"Tsunade-sama! I want to go out there and fight! Shizune and Hinata are fine now, and there aren't many people left that need healing. Please! Let me go out there and help!"

"Sakura…we need you here in case more people come back injured. Your role in helping is staying here to heal people."

"B-but"

Tsunade silenced her student. "I know that you are really worried about your teammates…..and about him."

"…I am…"

"Kakashi, Naruto, Shikamaru and the others are fine. They are the best of Konoha and I have nothing but faith for them. As for him, he's not even alive!"

"He IS!"

Tsunade gasped. Her eyes narrowed as she spoke to her student in a more serious tone.

"Alive? Uchiha Sasuke is ALIVE?"

Sakura gulped as inner-Sakura shouted at her. I-I cant believe I just said that! Now what do I do? How is she going to react?

Tsunade, seeing that she wasn't going to get a response from Sakura silently began thinking to herself. I wonder…is he really alive? Is it even possible after all this time? Is he is, then he's got some nerve, showing up again in a situation like this.

"Sakura…how do you know that he is alive? Are you sure?"

Sakura bit her tongue. She knew that that question was coming. After a moment of thought, she replied,

"He IS alive. I can feel it in my heart."

With that said, Sakura felt a feeling of relief, as if her teammates themselves walked up to her and told her. As for Sasuke, she knew that he was alive. He was a part of her heart. If he were to die all of a sudden, she would feel it.

Tsunade sighed a sigh of exhaustion. Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of Gaara, Kankuro, Temari, and other Sand ninjas. Immediately, Sakura's mood lifted.

"Gaara! Temari! Kankuro! You guys made it!"

Gaara merely nodded. Temari spoke on behalf of them all.

"We got here as soon as we could. We wanted to help you guys out as much as we can."

Almost immediately after Temari finished speaking, Gaara signaled for the Sand ninjas to take off and help with the fighting. After making sure that all Sand ninjas were fighting and doing their jobs, Tsunade sent a message to all the Konoha ninjas informing them that Sand was there to help. Temari took a look at Sakura. She noticed that Sakura wasn't crying or even torn up in the least.

"Sakura. You seem to be doing fine. Are you finally over that Uchiha boy?"

Sakura smiled. Same old Temari…

"No…I never will be."

"Oh?"

"He's here right now, and I'm glad that he's safe."

Temari decided not to question Sakura any further. She was here to help Konoha fight. It was time that she got going. After muttering a quick "later", she took off, leaving a content Sakura behind.

Tsunade walked up to her pupil and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"You can go fight if you want, but be careful and stay alive. I don't want my favorite student to die."

After winking at her, she lightly shoved Sakura off. Sakura smiled and gave Tsunade a quick hug before taking off.

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Back with Naruto…

"Wh-what the hell! You!"

His enemy smiled a sinister smile.

"Orochimaru! You bastard! What the hell are you doing here in Konoha? Go back to hell where you belong!"

"My my…..you really are a loud-mouth knucklehead…just like Jiraiya."

"Go to hell!"

At that, Naruto charged head on at Orochimaru. You made Sasuke-teme leave Konoha! You took away my BROTHER! Now, I'm gonna make you PAY!

"Shadow-bunshin!"

At that, twenty-five Naruto clones popped up out of nowhere.

"Hmmmm…that forbidden technique…what a fool."

Orochimaru dodged using his insane speed and landed behind the "mob" of Narutos. The bunshins and Naruto turned around looking very pissed. They all began to charge at Orochimaru once more. All at once, they all performed the same hand seals simultaneously.

"RASENGAN!" they cried. All at once, Orochimaru was hit by twenty-five resengans. He was bleeding profusely. He smiled.

"Did you think that it would be THAT easy to beat me?"

Naruto began to growl.

"Even Sasuke can do better than that."

"Sasuke! That teme!"

"Wouldn't you like to know…"

"Shut up you bastard! I don't want to hear about Sasuke from the likes of you!"

"That's too bad, considering that he was here in Konoha all this time!"

Naruto's eyes widened.

"What the hell? He wasn't here!"

"Of course he didn't look like Sasuke. I would never send a Sound ninja to Konoha without a disguise. I'm surprised that you didn't figure it out. Your own comrade. You were unable to distinguish him from the other Konoha ninjas?"

"N-no…"

After thinking for a bit, the realization dawned upon him. Koji-teme…could he have been Sasuke-teme this whole time?

"Damn it!"

Naruto charged towards Orochimaru. Summoning kyuubi's powers, he began to do a series of punches and kicks.

"Art of the shadow-bunshin!"

Fifty Naruto clones popped up.

"Uzumaki Naruto Rendan!"

Four of the Naruto bunshins kicked Orochimaru up into the air. As Orochimaru slowly rose, Naruto himself jumped up above him and punched Orochimaru down into the ground. As the other bunshins and Naruto ran up to him to finish things off, Naruto stopped. Orochimaru was laying there laughing.

"Stupid, worthless fool. It would take a lot more than an elementary technique like that to defeat me."

At that, Orochimaru disappeared with a poof. Naruto's eyes widened in horror as he quickly realized that he had spent the last forty-five minutes fighting an Orochimaru shadow-bunshin. What. The. Hell? That bastard can do that too?

"SHIT!"

"That's too bad, considering that he was here in Konoha all this time."

Orochimaru's voice echoed within his mind. His voice lowered into a growl.

"Koji…Sasuke…I'm gonna KICK. YOUR. ASS!"

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ComeComeParadise Corner:

Yipee! I'm uber sorry about the late update! I'm sure that none of you out there really care WHY it took so long for the update, but I'm gonna tell you people anyways. I had MAJOR writers block, and I was running dangerously low on ideas. It also didn't help that I had school and that my teachers all hate me and gave me a LOAD of homework…I mean, who cares about history? IT ALREADY HAPPENED! So honestly, who gives a shit? Who cares about the nation's past when we are already living in the present? I seriously think that history was invented by people that needed a job. Weeelll, enough ranting…for now. Hokage plot is temporarily put on hold. Don't ask why. I hope that you guys and girls enjoyed this chapter, cuz I busted my ass to write it. Don't expect an update till next week. I'm getting out for winter vacation on the 16th, so there's gonna be a TON of homework from the teachers. I'll try to update over vacation…If my stupid cousin would let me…anyways….I LOVE YOU ALL! KEEP THE REVIEWS COMING! NO FLAMES! MUAH! I KISS YOU ALL!