Okay dokey then...just watched Naruto Shippuden Episode 33 and now I'm ready to write. I finally have bainstormed enough so now the chapters are coming out like that!

"Sakura wake up!" Naruto lifted the heavy boulder that was in front of him. He let the chakra of the nine tailed fox flow out of him which gave him the strength he needed to find Sakura in the first place.

Sakura had fallen in a small chamber seperated by a wall of short boulders, Naruto somehow managed to land on his feet unharmed, but Neji had not been located yet. Naruto had failed at his attempt to heal him, so it was crucial that he be found.

"Neji! Neji if you're here answer me!"

"N-Naruto..." Sakura called out meekly.

"Sakura!" Naruto ran to Sakura's side and helped her prop herself up.

"Naruto, what happened?" She coughed and groaned at the swelling of her arm. "Did you heal Neji?"

"Sakura," Naruto didn't know how to answer this and keep Sakura calm. "You see, well, it was kind of..."

"It's okay Naruto, go ahead tell me what happened."

Naruto gave a deep sigh and swallowed hard. He hated that he had failed Sakura. "I never was able to heal Neji. You were out cold, and so was Kakashi-sensei. The room collapsed and the floor fell through. Neji and Kakashi are lost." Naruto pushed the hair out of Sakura's eyes. "You have a terrible gash on your forehead Sakura."

"Come on, let's go find Neji and Kakashi-sensei," Sakura stood up wobbily.

"Eh, Sakura, are you sure you're okay?"

"I'm fine. You forget Naruto that you rub off on me."

"Uh...hahaha..." Naruto lept to his feet and put his arm around Sakura to help her walk upright. "And you forget that you rub off on me!"

"You're quite the nurse Naruto," Sakura swooned and fell forward. "Naruto, I can't walk...I'm sorry..."

"Here, get on my back..."

"No, I'll just slow you down."

"Don't be ridiculous Sakura, I enjoy your company," Naruto smiled.

"Well, okay," Sakura was hoisted onto Naruto's back. "Too bad we don't have Gai and Kakashi-sensei to race us."

"That was so weird," Naruto remembered how awkward that had looked. Two grown men playing piggy-back. "That's when Kakashi-sensei was first using his Mangekyo Sharingan."

"He had just perfected it too, and then he had to go and lose it" Sakura rested her head on Naruto's shoulder. "It's a shame we're all in this situation."

Naruto's footsteps was all that could be heard after Sakura said that sentence. The rubble and debris that had fallen from the upper level had conveniantly landed to create a path. So many thoughts were racing through Naruto's head: who was this Mikobu? where were Neji and Kakashi? how the hell was he going to make it out alive? As he became lost in his daydreams, Naruto accidentally tripped and fell causing Sakura to fall off his back and he skinned his palms, but that was nothing...

"Sakura, are you okay?"

"Uh...yeah," Sakura sat on her knees and brushed herself off. Her bleeding forehead had stopped and she just squinted in the dark room to try and see what Naruto had tripped over. "What happened?"

"Huh? Oh, my foot caught on something," Naruto felt the ground beneath him to find the object. "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention, you sure you're not hurt?"

"Yes Naruto I'm sure," Sakura gazed at Naruto's moving figure. She had never gotten so emotionally close to someone in her life. Sure Sasuke was her one true love, but she was never able to find out exactly who he was. Naruto on the other hand was different; he held a certain spark that she admired and he had been such a great comfort to her during these difficult times. It was only after a few minutes after she felt the chamber quake that Sakura caught herself staring at Naruto intently, gaping all the while. "Oh, Naruto...I've been thinking..." she averted her eyes to the bigger pile of rocks on her left.

"Shh, Sakura, I think I hear something." Naruto placed his ear against a boulder and closed his eyes. A smirk crawled across his face. "Watch out Sakura." He clenched his fist and gave one grunt as he punched the rock into smitherines.

"I've got to find them," Kakashi moaned as he fell against the wall sweating and faint. He took a deep breath and wiped his eyes of the sweat that had trickled onto his eylashes. Gulping he pushed his legs harder, making them move. His body stood upright as he continued to find his way through the dark but he stumbled and landed hard on the floor. "Come on Kakashi, you made a promise to them...now get up and move..." Closing his eye and gripping the stuffed dog in his right hand Kakashi pushed himself up only to collapse back down. His knuckles throbbed and bled from the punch he gave the wall. In a last ditch effort to make it out of the room with the Things and memories, he had decided to break free using force, the only force he had left. This, however, brought Kakashi to a new path that was reasonably safe, yet his health was deteriorating.

"Get up Kakashi," he told himself. "Naruto, Sakura and Neji are more important than you resting. If you have to crawl..." and that's what he did. Kakashi went on all fours and crawled slowly but steadily not caring that the small sharp rocks were embedding themselves into his skin.

Soon the pain became so immense that he stopped crawling and fell onto his side. Breathing came in gasps and blood had found it's way through Kakashi's eye socket making it impossible to concentrate on his goal. "I'm dying..." Kakashi admitted to no one. No tears welled up in the pools of his eyes, for it's hard to cry when only blood surfaces. He outstretched his right arm and brought the stuffed dog closer to his face. Using it to wipe the blood off of his face Kakashi left the bloodied memory to be forgotten as he made up his mind to continue to crawl all the way to Naruto and Sakura.

"Keep moving!" The guard shoved the butt of a rifle into the small of Shikamaru's back.

"Come on!" The second guard practically dragged Gai by his hair to a small closet and pushed him inside. Shikamaru sooned joined him. "The both of you are to stand in here for the next 48 hours. If either of you sits, you will be killed...that is if you even survive in here; it's awfully small and with no food, one of you might get a little hungry." The door was slammed shut. No light was seen, no sounds were heard from the outside of the closet.

"Gai, what do we do, aw man, what a bother!" Shikamaru searched for the nearest place to lean against the wall.

"We do as the guard instructs. We have the will power to withstand this."

"They'll end up forgetting about us. They don't want us to survive."

"You my boy are too negative. Welcome death like you would welcome a brother."

"What? Gai have you completely lost your mind?"

"Me," Gai laughed. "No! Shikamaru, in this life, we all must die. It is inevitable...we die and our soul moves on whether to hell, heaven or in this closet only to become a ghost that haunts those who open it. Even those who don't believe in an afterlife all believe that we go somewhere when we die."

"Uhh..."

"I thought you were smart Shikamaru! The ground!"

"...I'm not a professor of theology..."

"Neither am I but it's common sense! See, I don't necessarily have a religion. Being a ninja it's hard to keep up with the rules and regulations of religion; another thing my rival has seem to come to live with is that he may not make it to his heaven because of the killing he's done, yet he keeps on believing. Now me, I do believe that there is a force that created us and is watching us, and when he gets bored with us, will either end our lives or will destroy the whole human race."

"You are crazy..."

"That's where you are wrong! What do you believe in Shikamaru?"

"It's too bothersome...religion is a joke, it's only a defense mechanism...there's no proof of any God anywhere..."

"That's crazy Shikamaru!"

"Fine I get your point..." Shikamaru sighed. Who would've guessed that he would be stuck in a closet with Gai discussing life and death. This by far was the worst punishment of all.

"Now Shikamaru, think about this, but you must see it from my point of view: God or whoever is out there must be having fun watching us because he has yet to kill us, or send something to kill us. Obviously we have made it this far for a reason, and if by any chance now is the time for us to go, we should accept it since that supernatural force did create us, and it's only fair for him to do as he pleases...this brings me to my next point-"

"Come on Gai no more controversial subject matters please."

"I'm just saying Shikamaru, that we shouldn't be suprised when we die."

Shikamaru stood in the darkness pondering these last words. "Gai?"

"Yes?"

"That is the smartest thing I've ever heard you say in my life."

"Haha!" Shikamaru swore he saw the glint of Gai's faded teeth (ego).

"Naruto! Oh my gosh Naruto is that who I think it is?"

"It is," Naruto lept through the hole he had formed in the wall. "Kakashi-sensei!"

"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura ran as fast as she could next to Naruto who was dead silent. "No..."

"Sakura, is Kakashi-sensei...?"

"Oh no," Sakura ran to Kakashi's lifeless body and checked his pulse. The warmth of Sakura's fingers on his neck made Kakashi more alert.

"S-Sakura?" Kakashi turned his head and choked back the blood that had made it's way to his throat.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto fell to his knees at the appearance of his teacher.

"No, who did this to you?" Sakura asked.

"Sakura...Naruto...I'll protect you with my life..."

"Come on Kakashi-sensei, tell me what happened." Sakura begged.

"I'll protect you with my life," Kakashi's eye rolled in the back of his head.

"Naruto come over here I need your help!" Sakura shouted. Naruto immediately appeared by her side. "I need you to transfer some of the nine tailed fox's chakra into Kakashi. I would heal him, but it would not be strong enough; I don't even know if I have enough chakra to heal a single scratch."

"Hm," without asking questions, Naruto placed his hands on Kakashi's forehead and forced chakra into him. Kakashi's expression twisted.

"Ah...I wish you didn't have to see me like this..." Kakashi apologized as his voice faded.

"Stay silent Kakashi-sensei," Sakura put her hands on his head and manipulated Naruto's chakra into his bleeding eye socket and to his heart which was beating slower and slower.

"All," Kakashi started with a gasp, "this time, I know you have been wanting to see my face. And unfortunately...the worst situation revealed it for you..."

"Kakashi-sensei," Naruto began. "You're going to okay."

"Are you hurt?" And with that, Kakashi passed out.

Sakura's eyes narrowed as she checked Kakashi's pulse once more. "He should be fine now. The healing properties of the nine tailed fox's chakra will run it's course. From what I detected in his brain waves, he was almost evolving into another person. There were signs of amnesia in the short term memory and a drastic change in linguistics. If you notice also, his skin was turning white. Completely white; pigment loss. The chakra should solve all these problems."

"Wait, what do you mean evolving into another person?"

"Almost an empty shell," Sakura said. "His blood was pouring out like no tomorrow, his vital organs were decomposing. He was alive, but dead. It was like his body was adapting to his surroundings wherever he was. We were lucky we found him this soon; any later and he would just become a thing."

Ooooo...what's gonna happen next? Meils is playin' God. (((Just hope I don't get too bored with these characters)))