As they walked Sasuke had the sudden feeling that he should be wary of Kakashi so he moved to walk in front of Naruto in order to defend him, but Naruto took his hand in his own and squeezed it reassuringly. When Kakashi stopped his back stiffened even with Naruto's reassurance. He wouldn't let anyone hurt Naruto no matter who they were.

Kakashi sighed when he turned to look at them. "First of all, that curse mark is dangerous we really should put a seal on it so that they cannot hurt you."

"No!" Naruto gasped before Sasuke could agree.

"What?" asked Kakashi as Sasuke echoed the same question in his head.

"I don't need that," answered Naruto.

"Why not?" asked Sasuke.

"If he gives me a seal it will only be more dangerous for me. It'll take longer because that seal will just be another one that I have to destroy before I can destroy this one."

Kakashi growled and, finally letting his anger control him, he took hold of Naruto's arm and roughly pulled him forward, but before he could do anything more he found himself flat on the floor. For a short moment he thought that he might have been attacked by an enemy, but one look at the person tells him it was his own student Sasuke who was now stand directly in front of Naruto practically blocking him from view. "What are you doing!" he almost yelled.

"He said he didn't want it," hissed Sasuke, "and I won't let you make him."

"I'm trying to save him!" he growled back.

"And yet you try to kill him," said Sasuke.

"What?" asked Kakashi who was put off guard by those words.

Sasuke sighed, "A person's body can only take a certain amount of seals. He already has two and if you put another one on him than you'll put him that much more into danger."

"Yea right. You think I don't know about Kyuubi's unlimited chakra. He won't die from something like that, and I won't let him do something that could get him killed."

"Kakashi!" Naruto's eyes narrowed considerably as he heard these words.

Kakashi was shocked when he look over to Naruto only to see his teacher looking at him. Naruto's eyes had narrowed which made him look much older. He looked a lot like his father whenever he was scolded by him.

"You couldn't stop him from dying. He wanted to save you and he did just that. It was either you or him and he chose you," then his eyes grew wide again and again he reminded Kakashi of his old teammate, "You have to stop blaming yourself when you did nothing wrong."

"How do you know about that?" he sighed rubbing his head as though he was trying to get rid of a headache, but both Naruto and Sasuke could see that he was actually trying to hide the sadness, guilt, and regret that were swimming in his showing eye.

"You didn't think we'd be curious about that sharingan eye of yours?" said Sasuke.

Kakashi's hand touched the headband covering his eye before sighing again and saying, "Fine. I'll let it go for now, but it seems we will talk about this later, but for now we have to go back to watch Sakura's fight."

Sasuke stopped himself from sighing when Kakashi finally let them go only to tense up again when Kakashi stopped them once more. "Wait," he said, "I do have one more question for you."

"What is it now?" Sasuke said impatiently.

"How did you get the Mangekyou?"

"What?" asked Sasuke.

"I happen to know that the only way to get the Mangekyou sharingan is to kill your best friend. So who did you kill to get it."

Sasuke wanted to deny that, but before he could Naruto nonchalantly answered for him. "He killed me of course."

"Naruto," sighed Kakashi, "If you're going to lie at least make it one that isn't so obvious."

"Coming from the king of obvious lies himself," Naruto smirked, "Besides, I'm not lying. He did kill me. I just came back to life is all."

"That's not possible," said Kakashi as though he were talking to a child, "No one can come back to life after they've already died."

"Well I can," answered Naruto.

Sasuke grimaced at their words. He had always felt guilty after he killed Naruto again, and he hated to remember it. The only good thing that came from Naruto's three day death was that he returned to the village. He didn't even want to remember what had happened at that time, but he couldn't stop the memory from invading his mind.

Flashback

He had gone to a clearing near a lake because he was trying to escape from his team and be left alone, but he found that he was not alone. There was an ANBU black op standing near the lake watching him. He was surprised because he hadn't, and still couldn't, feel the ninja's chakra signal. He couldn't identify the person at all since, along with the ANBU mask, he wore a black cloak over his hair.

"What are you doing here?" he asked suspiciously.

"Isn't it obvious?" asked the ANBU, "I've come to see you."

"So Konoha has finally decided to have me killed?" Sasuke smirked, "Well I have news for you: I'm not going to die so easily."

"I'm not here to kill you," answered the ANBU, "I've come here to try to bring you back one last time."

"So Naruto got the Hokage to get one of her ANBU's to try and bring me back?" Sasuke laughed cruelly, "Did he finally figure out that he could do it himself anymore?"

"The Hokage doesn't know that I'm here," the ANBU shrugged, "I'm supposed to be on another mission, but I knew you were nearby so I decided to come see you."

"So Naruto just talked you into it," he laughed again, "Are you another one of his stupid groupies who say that he 'saved' their lives?"

"Of course not. I just want you to come home Sasuke."

"Well if Naruto didn't talk to you than it must have been Sakura who got you to 'save' me. What's she paying you with. Is she pretending to like you just to get close to me? Well news flash to you. She doesn't care about anyone. She'll do whatever she has to to get what she wants."

"You're wrong about her. She doesn't have a crush on you anymore. She's moved on. She's with Ino now. I think the whole reason she had a crush on you to begin with is because the only way to get Ino's attention was when they were fighting."

"Then why are you here?" growled Sasuke.

"I want you to come home," answered the ANBU.

"Why?"

The ANBU sighed before untying his coat and letting it fall aside revealing a tight black tank top wrapped around a muscular chest and baggy black pants. He moved his mask over to the side covering a small patch of his crown of golden hair. Immediately Sasuke realized the sky blue eyes he saw before him. He was happy that Naruto was able to get so close to his dream, but he couldn't let him see that so instead he said. "Konoha must be lacking any good ninjas if they let you be an ANBU."

"It must be seriously lacking sine I'm ANBU captain," answered Naruto.

"Wow. Konoha really has fallen low."

Sasuke frowned when Naruto didn't answer and there was an awkward silence between them. At that moment he got the chance to seriously look at Naruto's eyes to find only sadness lurking in their depths. He wasn't even trying to pretend to be filled with happy energy like he used to.

"So will you come back with me?" asked Naruto.

"I'll come back," he smirked and for a moment he felt guilty because of the fleeting hope he saw in the other's eyes, "but only if you can drag me back."

Naruto sighed again, "Somehow I knew you were going to say something like that," he lowered himself into a lazy offensive position as he began to collect chakra into his hand.

Sasuke also lowered himself into an offensive position, though his was a lot more tense, and began creating the chidori as he activated his sharingan. He was the first to move forward as he aimed for Naruto's right arm. He didn't want to seriously hurt his only love, but as he gets closer to Naruto the rasengan dispersed into nothing and Naruto grabbed his hand moving the attack so that it hit him straight in the heart. Sasuke could feel Naruto's heart trying to beat around his hand which was being held there by Naruto's own hand around his wrist. If he was anyone else he would have already been dead.

"Why?" asked Sasuke as he looked into Naruto smiling face.

Naruto's lips were tinted with blood, but his smile was completely true. "I couldn't help you Sasuke. I always wanted to help you complete your goal of killing him. I only wanted to help, but I knew I couldn't unless I brought you home. Then I found out about the Mangekyou and I decided that even if I died I would still be able to help you," he said between quick gasps and coughs of blood.

"But why?" Sasuke asked again, but he never got an answer because the heart that his hand was still embedded in had stopped beating and he felt his sharingan morph into the stronger form that his brother had once had. "No!" gasped Sasuke lowering Naruto to the ground, "No, you can't die on me! Please don't die." He attempted to perform CPR, but nothing worked to bring him back.

Sasuke stopped to rest in the middle of the forest. He was close enough to Konoha that he could see the Hokage Mountain, but he was just far enough that if he didn't make a scene the patrols wouldn't notice him. He set Naruto's body on the ground carefully. He had carried him for three whole days because he wanted Naruto to be buried in the village that he loved. One more look at Naruto surprised him yet again. He thought that Naruto would have already started to rot by now, but Naruto's body was still in pristine condition. He couldn't even see Naruto's wound because he had put his coat around him so that none of the villagers in the villages that he passed by would ask about it.

He smiled as he looked at Naruto's face. If he didn't know any better he would say that the boy was just wished more than anything that Naruto was just sleeping. He reached over and shook Naruto's shoulder saying quietly, "You have to wake up now Naruto." He hoped more than anything that Naruto would wake up or react in any way, but what happened next shocked him.

"Just five more minutes," Naruto mumbled under his breath as he turned onto his side.

For a moment Sasuke thought that that had all been a dream, that Naruto had never died, but his logical mind got a hold of him for a long enough moment that he thought to activate his Mangakyou and see if that was there. It was. So instead he thought that he had been imagining Naruto's movements just now. He had heard that if someone wanted something bad enough they could make it come true in their mind. He reached forward again and whispered, "Naruto, it's time to wake up."

"I said five more minutes," whined Naruto as he waved Sasuke's hand off his shoulder.

"No Naruto you have to wake up now."

"Why?" asked Naruto as he rolled over onto his back and looked at Sasuke groggily.

"Because we're home," he answered with a small smile.

"We are?" gasped Naruto as he shot up into a sitting position. Sasuke only nodded so he asked another question. "How long have I been out?"

"Only a couple hours," answered Sasuke praying to any god that would listen that Naruto still didn' pay much attention to time.

"Really?" gasped Naruto, "If I had known you were so close to the village I would have come to visit you sooner."

"It's fine."

"I'm glad you got your Mangekyou," Naruto said reminding Sasuke that he had yet to deactivate it, "but how is it possible? I thought you had to kill your best friend."

"I did kill my best friend," and then when he saw the sadness in Naruto's eyes at not being Sasuke's best friend he added, "You weren't just out for a couple of hours. You were dead. I killed you, my best friend."

"Sasuke?" asked Naruto looking at him curiously.

"Huh?" asked Sasuke as he came out of his memories.

"Kakashi has dismissed us. Although he went ahead of us saying he's got a lot to think about," Naruto paused for a slight moment, "What were you thinking about. You were so deep in thought that I had to make up the reason why you have the Mangekyou all on my own."

"It's nothing important," Sasuke shook his head, "How'd you say I got it."

"I told him it was a training accident."

"A training accident?"

"Yea. I was only dead for a couple of seconds, but dead is still dead."

Yay new chappie! it's not very good, but i updated so Yay!