Sasuke finally made it to Naruto only to see a kunai thrown at the boy's chest. He saw as Naruto stopped for a slow second and a man thrust a sword into his stomach making him cough up blood. He screamed and began to run at the man in order to kill him, but he had to retreat back when Naruto's body let out one last burst of scorching white chakra and killed the few men that were left. Burning their bodies until they were unrecognizable. Then Naruto just fell to the ground gasping for each painful breath.

"Naruto!" Sasuke yelled as he ran to him. He dropped his sword next to Naruto's head and pulled the offending sword out even as it burned his hand with the heat that still remained from Naruto's chakra. "Naruto," he said as he tried to put pressure on the wound that was bleeding profusely, "you need to start healing yourself. This wound is to deep for me to heal."

Naruto's eyes opened slightly and he shook his head. He didn't have enough chakra to heal himself without allowing his heart to stop once more. He was even having problems staying awake.

Sasuke gasped when he saw Naruto's answer. Naruto rarely ever ran out of chakra and when he did it always happened when he was seriously injured. "Hold on," he said. "Sakura will be here soon and she can heal you."

"We need to go now Sasuke," was Naruto's ragged reply.

Sasuke bit his lip, but nodded his head anyway. He quickly reached into his weapon's case to find that his bandages weren't in their. "Damnit," he whispered, "where are my bandages?"

Naruto pushed Sasuke's hand off of his stomach and began to stand up.

"What are you doing?" said Sasuke as he stood and put his sword into his sheath, but he didn't try to force Naruto to sit back down because he knew that if he tried then it would only worsen all of Naruto's wounds.

"We have to go now Sasuke," replied Naruto.

"We have to bandage your wounds first. You can't walk around like this."

"We don't have time."

Sasuke knew he couldn't argue with Naruto so instead he decided that he would carry Naruto. He quickly pulled Naruto to his chest and picked him up bridal style. Naruto flailed only for a second because Sasuke shocked him, but then he just reached into Sasuke's weapon's pouch and pulled out as many kunai's as he could hold in one hand. He used his other hand to place as much pressure as he could while hanging in midair on his wound.

Sakura was having a lot of trouble trying to chase after Sasuke. She kept having to stop to kill anyone that he had left behind and now she was standing face to face with a small child and a woman. She lowered herself into a defensive position as she watched the two cautiously. They didn't seem to want to attack her, but she wanted to be ready anyway.

"Are you from Konoha as well?" asked the woman.

"Yes," Sakura said carefully.

"Kyuubi-sama told us to tell you that Namikaze sent us," she said.

Sakura lowered her weapon slowly. "Who are you?"

"My name is Sanbi," said the woman, "and this is Yonbi."

"You are spirits?"

"Yes, but our hosts are only human."

"I see," Sakura nodded. That's when she saw a room just in front of her that the door was left open because Sasuke had cut down the person that was trying to open it. Inside she saw the scroll that they had come here to get. The scroll that had all of Konoha's defenses in it and that could mean the life or death of their village. She slowly crept into the room and the two spirits followed her curiously. There was no one inside the room so she quickly rushed in and grabbed the scroll only to run out of the room with kunai flying at her because of the trap that had been set. She was only scratched by one kunai on the shoulder, but she knew that it could be fatal because she remembered that when Naruto had come back from this mission he had been sick for weeks which meant that their was probably a really powerful poison placed upon each kunai. She placed the scroll in her weapons pouch and pulled out her own kunai only to thrust it into the wound to allow the poison to bleed out. When she believed the poison was completely gone she began to heal it.

"Sakura!"

Her head shot up when she heard Sasuke yell her name. He was running towards them with Naruto bleeding in his arms. "What happened to him?" she asked as she reached out to heal him when Sasuke reached them.

"We have to go now Sakura," said Naruto as he pushed her hands away.

"Let me heal you first," she said.

"We don't have time," he said. "In a few moments this whole place is going to collapse." As if to prove him right their was a loud sound of something exploding within the hide out. They didn't waste another minute before they ran out of the hide out to find Kakashi getting ready to rush in after them. Together they all ran away from the layer and into the forest.

They ran for about an hour before they finally felt safe enough to stop. Sasuke placed Naruto, who was now unconcious, on the ground so that Sakura could heal him. She had to remove the bandages that Naruto had sloppily placed around his waist while they were running in order to heal the wound, but still she worked quickly.

"What were you thinking!" Kakashi yelled at Sasuke. "You threw the whole mission into danger! Not to mention all of your teammates and yourself! I expected more from you." Then he turned to Sakura, "And you, I told you not to go in and still you disobey me. I don't care how strong the both of you are. If you keep making stupid moves like this you will kill this whole team."

"Now, now," said a voice in the trees, "There is no need to be so hard on them."

Everyone pulled out their kunais and faced where the voice was only to see that Itachi was coming towards. "What are you doing here?" asked Sasuke as both he and Sakura put their kunais away. The other three stared at them as though they were crazy.

"Naruto apparently convinced the Hokage that it was necessary for me to come back now instead of later on," he answered as he pulled the scroll that he had taken from Naruto in the beginning of the mission out of his weapon's pouch and threw it at Sasuke for him to catch. Sasuke opened it, read through it and then handed it over to Kakashi so that he could read it. The two spirits cautiously put their weapons back into their weapons pouches. "And I brought Naruto's sword with me. I figured he would probably want it back," he said as he unfastened the weapon from his and gave it to Sasuke as well.

"I see," Sasuke said, "Well it's good to have you back then nii-san."

Itachi nodded. "I see you also got the spirits to come with you," he said.

"Aparently Naruto found them," said Sakura as she finished healing Naruto and stood up from her place. "This is Sanbi," she said pointing to the woman, "and this is Yonbi," she pointed towards the boy."

"Yes," said Itachi. "I heard that the Akatsuki went through a lot of trouble trying to get you buys. A rich woman with many guards and a cave dwelling child that knows how to hide in the shadows if I remember correctly."

"Why is a member of the Akatsuki here?" asked Yonbi.

"He was our spy," said Sasuke. "He was gathering information for us and now we've called him back. Well, Naruto called him back."

"So then you are a friend of Kyuubi-sama's?" asked Sanbi.

"I guess you could say that," said Itachi even though he didn't quite understand what the woman was saying.

"Then I assume we can trust you," said Sanbi, "but know that if you do anything to hurt us we can and will kill you." Her eyes faded from silver to back to blue as Yonbi's also changed from yellow to green.

"Ah," said Itachi. "You must be the jinchuuriki. Irena and Kuyusuke if I'm not mistaken."

"That's correct," said Irena while Kuyusuke hid behind her.

"It is very nice to meet the both of you."

I'm making up for not righting in a while so i wrote the next chapter and here it is