Okay! I am back! Sorry for disappearing on you, but then again I was locked in a trunk! -glares heatedly at friends-

Night: Don't get mad at us! You were the one who left it on that evil cliffy! Raping Kushina and making us think she's dead… WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!

It's called building suspense!

Izzy: Yea, well, you suck…. Same warnings and disclaimer people!

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, then there would be Yaoi, a lot of it, and certain characters *coughs* Sakura *Coughs* would be used as target practice. But sadly I do not... *sighs*

Warnings: Yaoi, Mpreg, Violence, Language, Lemons, Character Bashing, mentions of rape, Non-con (not sure when) and Character Death (later on)

"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Kyuubi Talking"
'Mind Link'
"Demon Language"

Chapter Ten: Sudoma's Poison

Earth; Boarder of Suna

Kyuubi's eyes snapped open from his light doze; he couldn't feel Kushina's presence in his mind anymore. And even stranger than that, he knew she wasn't dead or suffering for that matter. He growled; this had Danzo written all over it in big pink letters with glitter decorating it too! Ora was far too damn stupid to come with something like this. For now they could have her, but they will soon learn that Kushina was not one to be trifled with.

He glanced about the campsite, Iruka was curled around Naruto, the two females of their group dozing blissfully unaware of the dangers lurking around them. Kakashi had wandered off, most likely to con someone greedy fool into his belly. The hatchling was hanging by his tail from a low tree branch, his black wings covering his body from view hiding him perfectly from sight even if you stood right under him.

His senses told him there were deer nearby, plump and ready for the kill. He licked is lips, almost moaning at the thought of a fresh kill, but no need to hunt now, they were only four more days from his home and only four more days before he told Naruto everything. Sighing, he leaned back against the tree and let his eyes drift shut once more only to snap them open again and growl loudly, and startling everyone into the world of the living once more as he stood up.

Naruto whimpered, hiding against Iruka, the immortal priest holding several talismans in his hands from various demon cultures to ward off enemies. Sasuke hissed, eyes bleeding red as he looked about as well for the intruders to their territory. But screamed in pain when an arrow shot him in the back, right where his left wing connected to his body.

Kyuubi wince, he's never heard a Neighfury scream in agony before, but it was a sound he would no sooner forget. Sasuke's eyes rolled back into his head as his body convulsed and twisted about, morphing until he was a long wingless lizard of some kind, lying limply on the ground. Naruto ran to him, scared that the dragon was dead, but when he touched Sasuke's head, a light musical whine escaped him and Naruto picked him up.

"Kit. Run now! Keep running until you come to a pass, take the left road and keep going until you see a rainbow growing out of the ground! Do not stop until you get to that rainbow and demand to see Goza! If they ask who sent you tell them your father did! Go now!" Kyuubi ordered as Naruto looked terrified, but quickly grabbed the small bag Kyuubi gave him and took off.

Sasuke was draped carefully over Naruto's shoulders as Iruka gathered up his own bag and took off after the young foxling. Kakashi let out a long moan, sounding very tortured as the stoic expression of his mask morphed into a twisted demonic look of rage. Kyuubi snarled in agreement as a second arrow flew at him and he caught it inches from his face.

"So… You work for Danzo?" Kyuubi asked the air. "Pity, you'd have made a fine suitor for Kit…."

"Kyuubi no Kitsune… It's been a long time… How do you like my new body?"

"Give it up, Sudoma… I am not letting you eat my eyes or my heart." Kyuubi drawled, waving a hand in the air, bored already from the demon's face. "And I liked the other mug better; this one's too damn ugly. What you do? Skin Orochimaru or something?" Kyuubi asked.

Kakashi let out a few airy grunts, which sounded like laughter as Kyuubi grinned. The old Snake demon would be pissed at him, assuming he's not already dead from old age…

Minor Time Skip; Sasuke and Naruto

He hid in the hollow of a tree as he listened for the hunters that were still treading about the edge of the forest. The air was a lot warm here, too warm for the pelt coat he had on, but he couldn't risk taking it off either. He just hoped they hadn't found the den he made for him and Sasuke. Thinking of the silent prince, Naruto worried his lip, it's been a few days since Kyuubi told him to run. He kept as straight a line as possible, having yet to come across the pass, but then Sasuke turned back into a human and had been too heavy to carry far, not to mention the terrible fever he developed.

Closing his eyes and counting to ten in his head slowly, he relaxed and then bolted out of his hiding place, remembering all the times Kyuubi had taken him out to camp in the forest and the fine art of hunting. Only it could also be applied to fleeing the hunter. Stopping short of a boulder, he quickly began running laps around the clearing, getting faster every time stirring up a tornado in his wake before he stopped short and threw his arms out towards where he had just come from.

He was glad he was getting his powers, but he knew if he stayed on Earth too long, he'd forget his home, his mother and his life up in heaven. Not all of it was terrible, but he would miss his mother terribly and she would be heartbroken if he didn't come home. Shaking his thoughts away, he removed the pelt and dumped it there, it was too heavy to carry and he had another one back at the den. Sighing at the cool air caressing his heated body, he shook out his hair from its ponytail and took a few steps back before he ran and jumped over the boulder.

Landing with grace on a tree branch he smiled at the ground below him, the earth was rich and fed the plant and wildlife plenty making it look majestic and even enchanting, but still he couldn't linger too long. Sighing, he checked the pouch tied at his hip once more to make sure he didn't lose anything important before he jumped to the next tree. He was going to use as much of his powers as he could while on earth before going back to heaven and getting married to… Danzo.

He heard disturbing rumors from the lowly ranked angels and alchemists that Danzo was the Heaven's version of a leech. His many bed partners and former wives all were powerful gods in their own rights, but after getting married to Danzo, that power slowly diminished until all that was left was a husk and even then, no one had any proof that Danzo was killing his lovers. But still, whether it's true or not, Naruto did not want anything to do with the new King.

Stopping on the top most branch of an old tree, he looked around once more before dropping down, the tails of his waist coat fluttered gently around him as the slightly loose sleeves pillowed out, giving him the look of an angel floating down from the heavens. Naruto touched down outside of the den he made and walked in, waving at hand at the entrance and sealing it shut. Walking a small ways into the cave he came to the fire pit that was still burning a smokeless fire while an opening in the roof of the cave allowed fresh air to enter.

Sasuke lay naked on the thick bedding of furs, mats and goose feathers, a pile of blankets and the fur coats Kyuubi had packed covering him as he shivered as if freezing but was sweating like a pig. The occasional moan of pain struggled passed his lips as his brow was creased in untold amounts of pain.

Quickly moving to the dragon's side, Naruto dug out a root he remembered Kyuubi getting for his mother when she had fallen deathly ill with fever. The black root was tick like an egg, but was all gnarled and leathery to the touch. Pulling out a small knife from his pouch he began to peel the hard skin off and then bit into it. Making a face at the syrupy sap that tasted like something he didn't even want to describe, he mumbled an apology to Sasuke and squeezed the syrupy sap into his mouth.

Almost instantly, Sasuke rolled over trying to spit it out, but Naruto covered his mouth and rubbed his shoulders as he coaxed hi softly to swallow it otherwise the fever wouldn't break. Sasuke eventually swallowed and began to cough, the bitter and rancid taste of the syrup burning his throat, but at the same time numbing it. Naruto sighed as he carefully rolled Sasuke to lie on his stomach, petting his sweat soaked hair as he hummed a soothing lullaby.

When Sasuke finally settled back down into a calm sleep, Naruto took out a few more herbs and roots to make a paste out of them. He found the medical supplies in his bag, silently laughing at the little inside joke he and Kyuubi had about Naruto having no other talent than being a doctor when he was still a small toddler. Taking the mortar bowl and grinder, he took some leaves and a bit of moist earth and began to smash them into a greenish brown goop before he cut up a few herbs and taking the skin from the root he gave Sasuke, began to grind it all together.

It took a while, his hands and arms sore from the effort, but it was a good kind of sore. He sighed and looked at Sasuke; this was going to be the worst part for the dragon hybrid. Grabbing the knife again he cleaned it off as best he could with the bowl of water he set aside for cleaning his hands and tools before resting it on the edge of the fire letting the blade get hot, killing off any possible germs as well.

'I glad Kyuubi insisted I attend the Alchemist academy… otherwise…' He didn't want to think about that, he slowly moved the blankets and furs before grabbing everything he needed and setting it close to his side. Grabbing a bit he made out of strong roots that had a bitter taste to them, he coaxed Sasuke to open his mouth and bit down. This way when the pain came, Sasuke could bit it, but wouldn't bit through it completely because of the bitter taste.

He'll probably be furious when he's better, but Naruto couldn't bring himself to worry about it now. Once he secured the bit with a strip of leather, he carefully climbed onto Sasuke's back, making sure his knees pinned Sasuke's elbows down. This was going to trying, Sasuke was older and stronger, Naruto would have to be quick to keep the Dragon from throwing him off or hurting himself further than what was about to be done.

Removing his waist coat and rolling up his selves, Naruto tied his hair up into a bun and closed his eyes. Counting to three, he took the Knife out of the fire and pressed his free hand over the blackish purple bruising where the arrow had struck Sasuke. Saying a silent prayer to stead his hand, he slowly brought the knife over the wound and began to cut into Sasuke's back.

Said hybrid's eyes snapped open, clouded over from the feverish sleep and leaving him blind for the time being, he let out a scream of agony, biting down on the bit only to state coughing as he drooled heavily trying not to swallow the bitter sap of the root. Naruto winced at the screams and choked sobbing, he could only imagine how much this was hurting Sasuke but he needed to do this.

Pulling the knife out, he hushed Sasuke soothingly, apologizing for the pain as Sasuke let tears fall down his face, never having experience this kind of pain before. When he was calmed down Naruto began again, digging deeper into the wound before making a whole begin enough to slip a small set of pincers in. Sasuke was growling in pain, trying not to scream again, but the hot blade was too much and the wound was right where his left wing connected to his body.

Everyone swore from heaven to hell that it was the strong part of any winged being's body, but they were fucking wrong! It was the most hypersensitive body part because it was a thin membrane over millions of never endings and bone! Sasuke would be lucky if he can feel anything on his left side ever again! And it was worse for hybrids like Sasuke having two winged parents made his wings all the more stronger yes, but the joints were that much more vulnerable and three times as hypersensitive than the joints of pure bred and half bred winged creatures combined.

As he thought viciously about his own genetics and wishing his father the most unbearable pain imaginable, he growled and hissed around the bit, drooling like mutt as he felt the pain in his back like something was digging in and then something bigger being pulled out. The pain grew to be too much and he screamed, trying to hold still, knowing that by moving around would only make it that much worse.

Naruto wince, Sasuke was sobbing through his scream and he wanted to stop, oh he really did, but if he left this thing in Sasuke, the pain would be that much worse! Deciding quickly, Naruto grabbed a bowl of clean water and at the same time he began to pull the object out again, he pour the water over it, the sharp contrast between the heated flesh and the cold water caused a numbing sensation.

This allowed Naruto to pull the object out to see it was a hollow arrow head and that something was leaking out of it. Tossing it in a bowl of disinfectant, Naruto turned his attention to Sasuke and gasped as sickly grayish yellow pus began to bubble out of the wound. He needed to clean it out, but how could he; he didn't have the right herbs for a pus removal ointment and using disinfectant would do more damage than good to the tender area.

Thinking quickly he closed his eyes, placing his hands over the wound he began to concentrate his magic into the wound. Sasuke moaned at the strange cooling warmth in his back, it felt like it was pushing something out of him and when he opened his eyes, they had cleared up enough to see Naruto move a hand and grab a cloth to wipe whatever was coming out of his back off. When the rag was dumped into a bowl of water, he wrinkled his nose, it was putrid pus!

No wonder he was so miserable, whatever had been embedded into his body was retarding his natural healing process and in turn he had gotten sick. Sighing around the bit, he closed his eyes and soon drifted off to sleep as he felt Naruto's magic soothing his pain away.

Naruto sighed as he looked at the now clean wound, it was a raw fleshy pink color and he was glad there was no other sign of infections. Grabbing the paste he made he began to carefully place it into the wound; it would numb the area until it healed and repair any damage done to the nerves and bones.

When he was done applying it, he covered it with clean bandages to keep it protected from the elements. Covering Sasuke back up and cleaning up his mess, Naruto sighed, glad that Sasuke was finally sleeping peacefully. Yawning tiredly, he grabbed his blanket and curled up near the fire, sleep stealing him away instantly…

Elsewhere; Kyuubi and Kakashi

Kakashi moaned softly, the stoic mask that was often associated with his people looking vaguely sad. Kyuubi shook his head as he retied the bandages on his leg. The fight with Sudoma had been brutal and it seemed the little leech had devoured quite a few powerful demons and priests in his absence. It, since he no longer cared what gender Sudoma wished to portray anymore, had managed to inject him with some kind of potent poison that was retarding even his hyper healing ability in his side, a little too close to his liver for his liking.

From there the little bitch managed to break his right femur and right now it was slow going trying to at least catch up to Iruka, the priest, being human, immortal, but still human could only move so fast. Naruto on the other hand could cover distance in a day. Knowing Naruto, what would take a normal demon or even a mid level god five days the very most to get to Suna, would take his son at least a day and a half. But then again with Sasuke's injuries and being forced to assume his infant form, there's no telling if Naruto even made it to the halfway point.

Hissing at the burning pain, Kyuubi sat a moment longer before he stood up on shaky legs and began to hobble along once more. Kakashi grunted insistently, trying to stop the stubborn demon and get him to rest up some more, but Kyuubi ignored him and kept going. Kakashi sighed, fading from sight, but still lingering nearby. Since the fight, he hadn't removed his mask and faded in and out of view, scaring off would be predators and tracking down his mate and his nephew.

He stopped again when Kyuubi cursed something fierce, his body coated in a thick sweat and his eyes getting cloudy with a blinding fever. But still Kyuubi pressed on, seeing this type of determination for one's charge was rather unsettling. But then again the strange behavior he witnessed, Kakashi knew there was more to this than what meets the eye. And Kyuubi was a born liar; he learned early in life that a good liar is an honest liar.

He let out an airy sigh similar to a fond laugh at that particular thought. An honest liar, that was rich, but then again he's seen Kyuubi in action before. The demon could spin a tale around a single piece of truth and yet say nothing but the truth and you would not believe him. So something about what he's told them had to be true beside the obvious madness his teacher fell into after the death of his mate-

"Arrrugh!" Kyuubi cried out, having tripped over a tree root and landing painfully on his broken leg. Kakashi appeared by his side, grunting and moaning worriedly as Kyuubi tried to get up, but the fever proved to be the stronger force this time and he fell back to the ground unconscious and in unbearable amounts of pain.

Not knowing what to do, Kakashi quickly pulled off his mask, hissing under his breath when a sharp pain lanced through his shoulder. Ignoring it for now, he pulled his teacher up against a tree and carefully maneuvered the fox demon to hoist him onto his back. Once he settled the heavy demon onto his back began running. He could feel Iruka nearby, his bound with his mate stronger than most would think since Kakashi was a wandering demon.

Running off the path they had been on, Kakashi came to a stream and lying in the water on the bank was Iruka. His darling mate was resting on the bank, his dark tan skin moist with water and looking healthier than ever. He forgets that Iruka was blessed by a Siren to live immortally with his mate and like any merfolk, Iruka needed to be immersed in water from time to time or he would get sick and possibly die.

"Iruka!" He called and his mate snapped out of his daze and looked back at him.

"Kakashi! Wha- Kyuubi-sama?"

"That bitch, Sudoma injected him with something… I think he got me as well, but Sensei's worse off than I am… We need to get him help!" Kakashi said, dropping down with Kyuubi slipping off his back to rest against a nearby rock.

Iruka nodded, getting out of the water and donning his robes before he grabbed his pack and began looking for anything that could help Kyuubi at this moment in time…

The sun was setting, Kakashi had built a fire and caught a couple of rabbits for dinner, but they hardly noticed as Kyuubi's fever progressed at an alarming rate. Iruka had run out of ideas and nothing seemed to be working. He feared that the Great Kyuubi No Kitsune would finally pass away. When he voiced this, Kakashi shut himself into his mask, not moving or speaking, he didn't even let Iruka see him, but if Iruka moved a certain way, he could see right through Kakashi. Kyuubi lay in a feverish sleep, shivering and sweating, mumbling lowly under his voice, sometimes thrashing, trying to fight the fever.

"No… Naruto… leave him… my son… Kushina…. Mate…. Save… them…. " Kyuubi moaned as Iruka wiped the sweat from his face with a cool cloth.

"Kyuubi-sama, I'm afraid, you're dreaming… Your child and mate… they're dead, you told us yourself-"

"Kushina…. Kushina!" Kyuubi cried out, twisting and curling on himself, his demonic aura surrounding him in a cocoon as he growled and cried out. "Kushina… my mate… where-"

Kakashi and Iruka stared in shock. From what they learned during their travels with Kyuubi, Kushina was Naruto's mother and the one he was contracted too. But just now, Kyuubi called her his mate and if she was his mate then-

"He's been telling us the truth even through those lies… But they sounded-"

"So real?" Kakashi asked, removing his mask as he bent down beside his mate and shielded them both from the out lashing aura and chakra. "Sensei always said that a good liar was always an honest liar… I can't believe I didn't catch on sooner… If Sensei does pass, we'll have to find Naruto-kun and keep him safe from Danzo's men… I know he will hate us from separating him from his mother, but it's either he forgets he was a god or he marries a sadistic bastard."

Iruka bit his lip, he wanted to agree, but at the same time he couldn't cause such a sweet boy to suffer like that, but then he'd suffer far worse if he returned home. It was beginning to look like a lose-lose situation. Sighing, he nodded and looked at his mate, a silent promise to help him keep the boy safe.

"He'll hate us… but if it's to keep him safe… I'll do what I can." Iruka assured him and Kakashi smiled softly before they both jumped hearing the bushes rustle and then a woman walked out of the bushes.

She was small and was dressed in dark brown pants and a black kimono styled top. Her hair was short and dark brown, a shade lighter than her pants and her eyes were very dark brown, nearly black. In her arms was a few logs and she had a sack on her shoulder. Iruka relaxed and stood up, but did not leave Kyuubi's side.

"Are you lost miss?" He asked.

"Uhh… I thought I saw my lady pass by…." The girls said before the bushes rustled behind Kakashi and he spun around ready to put his mask on, but gasped when his body was crushed to the floor and his mask began to crack from the same unseen force.

"Demon, back away…" commanded a voice as they looked to see a blonde woman enter the small clearing by the river. "Priest move away as well… Shizune, I need you…"

Kakashi hissed, he couldn't move and his mask was going to break from the pressure. Iruka moved away slowly. The blond woman was powerful, but there was something positively demonic about her.

"Yes Lady Tsunade… but the demon cannot move if you are crushing him with your aura…"

"Hmm…" Tsunade looked at him before she turned her head to the ailing demon. "You?"

Everyone blinked, Kakashi falling flat when the pressure was off of him. He stood up slowly and backed away as she walked over to him and knelt down. The demon opened his eyes slowly, but they were glazed over, he was going blind from the fever. Tsunade knew this demon, her hand shakily moving to caress her forehead where a purplish blue diamond had been etched into the skin. Shaking off her daze, she quickly uncovered Kyuubi's body and removed his clothes and found the infected areas of his body.

Sighing, she turned to Shizune and gave her a brief list of herbs and roots to find and to make into a paste before she ordered Kakashi to find a thick black root to act as bit for the demon and then asking Iruka for his help to prepare some tools to use on the demon to get the infection out of him. As soon as everything was ready, Tsunade had everyone help her pin the demon down, knowing he would be in heavy amounts of pain from this point onwards…

Sasuke and Naruto

He shot up in bed with a gasp, the fog of sleep clearing from his eyes as he looked around frantically for Naruto. Spotting the blonde's curled form near the fire, he sighed and pressed a hand to his forehead before blinking in shock when he felt no pain from doing so. He shaking that thought away, he tried to gather up the dream he just had. He couldn't explain it, but he saw Naruto, dressed in a glorious white outfit standing at the alter, but it was the man he was going to marry that made his stomach twist with jealousy and rage.

He was shrouded in darkness, but judging by how Naruto pulled away from him and tried to keep as much distance from his as possible, he knew that he must be Danzo. But what shocked him about this dream was that Naruto declared 'no' at the last moment and turned to flee. It was then he realized it wasn't a dream it was a memory. But how-

He cursed, his incubus blood must have latched onto Naruto taking what it could from him to try and heal his body. With that thought in mind he crawled out of the bedding, realizing that he had almost everything while Naruto had nearly nothing. His heart fluttered in his chest. No one's ever cared from him like this besides his mother. Feeling a bit saddened at the thought of his mother, he shook it away, promising to sing to her tonight to let her know he was fine.

Reaching Naruto, he carefully rolled the blonde to lie on his back and pressed his ear to his heart. It was beating fine, almost fluttering like a song bird's as his breathing was shallow, but still deep to show that he was sleeping. Checking his pulse, he was glad it was strong and not weakened from his incubus half feeding on him. Checking his eyes, they were moving as he was deep in REM sleep, but he was relaxed and there were no markings to indicate that his inner incubus surfaced and fed from the boy.

Breathing a bit easier, Sasuke sat back and noted for the first time that he was dressed only in his leggings. He noted the pile of dirty clothes in the corner and the bandages and bowls with what looked like water, ointment and salves. Frowning his brow, Sasuke reached a hand up to his left shoulder and felt the muscle and blinked, there was no pain and it felt like there was no scarring either where the arrow had pierced through his skin. So he hadn't been dreaming a fever induced nightmare.

Naruto had really treated his injuries and took care of him! He felt his head pulse as he caught vivid and vague bits and pieces of Naruto apologizing for the pain he was in, singing softly, cooing too him and trying to ease his pain as best he could. Then he recalled feeling a numbing warm in his body, like magic. Naruto had used his magic to help heal him. Closing his eyes he felt his inner incubus purr from the memory of such delicious energy and his inner demon had moaned in want for such a being to be his mate.

'My mate…' Sasuke thought, looking down at Naruto's innocent face as he curled up on his side, curling into Sasuke's warmth as he let out a content sigh, smiling in his sleep. 'A godling for my mate? Hah… I've gone mad… Of course I'd take him, but the heavens… they will declare war just to get him back… Like I'd let them.'

He smirked as he watched Naruto sleep a bit more before he moaned, the sound unintentionally making Sasuke's body heat up with lust. The sound was just that sweet and tender; it shot liquid fire to his core and fueled the fire burning there to roar throughout his body. Sasuke barely stopped himself from marking Naruto when he heard shouting above them.

Eyes bleeding red faster than a bolt of lightning, he glared up at the opening where he saw hunters gathered around. Cursing darkly, he grabbed Naruto and picked him up. Finding an alcove in the wall big enough to fit the blonde into, he carefully placed him in and covered him up tightly since the earth and rock around him was cold. Naruto moaned and opened up his eyes, but before he could properly react, Sasuke shushed him and told him they had company.

Naruto nodded and quietly hid from sight as Sasuke moved back to the center and watched the first hunter jump down into the hole on a rope. He landed and looked around at the cave before looking at Sasuke. Naruto could only see the shadow of the hunter on the cave wall just outside of the alcove. He felt a horrifying sense of déjà vu as he felt as f he were five years old and hiding from Ora in the stables. His 'father' had been drinking heavily and had dragged a servant girl into the stables with him.

He remembered her hiding him in the small alcove behind the hay bales because he had snuck out to go see Kyuubi, who his father didn't allow to live in the mansion during his earlier childhood. He remembered seeing their shadows on the wall of hay in to the side of his hiding spot and he remembered Ora yelling and slurring, the girl trying to get him to go to the mansion only to be slapped and then he heard her screaming for help, sobbing all the while their shadows had morphed into some kind of monsters. Naruto had been so terrified that he ran out of the barn only to crash into Kyuubi.

He told him about what had happened and how scary it was and Kyuubi promised him everything would be fine and it was. Kyuubi walked out of the barn with the girl in his arms, one of his tails sweeping Naruto up as they headed to the servants quarters. He remembered visiting her until she was better and she would assure him she was fine, but she wasn't. She died a few days after that night and when he asked Kyuubi, he told him that the Angel of Death ended her suffering and allowed her to sleep in her warm embrace.

Naruto covered his mouth as he felt a sob build in his throat, but jumped when Sasuke roared. He looked up, hands still over his mouth as he saw the hunters surrounding Sasuke, two of them had managed to rope his arms and another had lassoed his neck. With a jerk they had him on his back, but Sasuke rolled back onto his feet and with a jerk of his own he swung all three into the walls.

"Don't think you can capture me…" Sasuke snarled. "I'm not some poor helpless child you can attack."

"Tsk, we know the criminal is here! Hand him over!" One hunter shouted. "We can feel his energy still lingering in the air…. That lousy demon is hiding him, we know it!"

Sasuke hissed as he glared at the men surrounding him, but made no move to attack. He tossed the ropes to the ground and stood up tall, the normal red of his eyes bleeding a toxic green as he smiled almost viciously before opening his mouth up, He breathed in, a high pitched sound echoing off the walls and hurting their ears before he threw his head forward, spitting out five blasts of dark blue fire at the hunters, engulfing them in the flames as they screamed their final breathes.

Sasuke spit at the floor, eyes turning back to their onyx black color as he quickly gathered up his clothes and donned them before he turned to Naruto's hiding spot and smiled at him. Nodding for the blond to follow him, Naruto nodded and followed him into the center of the cave. Sasuke nodded and flew up and out of the cave. When he was sure it was safe he looked back into the cave and nodded his head.

"It's clear… move aside." Sasuke called down, jumping down into the cave once more. "We'll take only what we can, so gather whatever you can carry, we have a long way to go… I only hope we can find Kyuubi-sama…"

Naruto nodded ad began to pack his pack as Sasuke did the same, making a mental note to wash everything in the closest body of water or to hunt and skin a few animals to make new bedding. Once they were sure they needed nothing else, Sasuke pulled Naruto close to him and jumped back out of the cave and then spread his wings, picking them up into the air and letting the feel of the wind passing around the delicate membrane of his wings wash over him.

Snapping his eyes open he let out a howl befitting his breed of dragon before taking off. Naruto clutched tightly to Sasuke's body as the demon carried him over the forest, passed the plains and finally to the deserts edge.

Sasuke was pretty impressed. Naruto had covered a great distance by foot, he made a mental not to never piss off the young godling as there is no telling to where he could and would go and even worse, there would be no way to track him down. He just hoped it never came to down to that though…