Yuki and Is
Out of My Mind
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How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I've become so numb
Without a soul my spirit
Sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home
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Kakashi held back a light gasp, so he wouldn't want to frighten the girl he knew was coming up from behind him. He usually wasn't a gasper, and Sakura knew that just as well. If he came with any signs or indication that the situation was bad in his eyes as well, she was likely to panic.
No matter how much she tried, Sakura was an emotional person, especially when it came to her two team mates.
So to not make the situation worse then it already was, Kakashi did the only thing experience told him he could do, he closed off any kind of emotions he might have felt seeing his students, and quickly moved forward before any thoughts of worry could enter his thought further.
So trying his best to ignore the fact that neither of the boys seemed to be breathing, that none of them had a place on their bodies where they weren't burned or battered and that both of them was turning blue from the cold. He yelled out to get the pink-haired girls attention.
"Sakura, get over here!" He hollered, as kneeled down beside the one who appeared to be the more severely wounded of the two. He watched from his crouching position when Sakura came forth from behind one of the large trees.
He watched her stop dead, and how her eyes went wide in horror at the sight before her. He watched how large tears started to form in her eyes and silently roll down her cheeks, and how she slowly started to back away, shaking her head.
They didn't have time for this. "Sakura!" he yelled, as harshly as he could muster to try and get her attention. He didn't like yelling at her when she was so broken up, but if that was the only way to get her to pull herself together, then that was what he was going to do.
He needed her clearheaded. The boys needed medical attention far beyond his own skills, and the only place to get that, was in the village. They had to get them there as quickly as possible, and the quickest way was to get them there was teleportation.
There was only one problem. Despite all, he couldn't transport both of the boys there by himself, and at the same time guarantee that the boys wouldn't get hurt further, and there was no way in hell he was letting Sakura stay behind alone with the possibility of having to watch one of her team mates die, and at the same time making her an easy victim.
So all in all that left them with only one other option. Sakura would have to teleport one of the boys there by herself, while he took care of the other.
He knew it was asking for a miracle if that plan was ever going to work, since the largest thing Sakura had ever teleported anywhere was a weapon and that was why he needed her clear headed. He simply couldn't risk her being hurt as well, or one of the boys being hurt more.
"Sakura listen to me. I need you to get Naruto to the village!" he yelled at her. Luckily it seemed she immediately understood the situation, unfortunately her reaction to this, was to go white as a sheet, and start backing away again.
Kakashi sighed. "Sakura, don't do that! I need you to focus, otherwise they really are going to die!" this seemed to shake her slightly, as she stopped backing.
Well, one step at a time, Kakashi guessed, unfortunately he didn't really have time for that either. "Listen to me Sakura, concentrate! Otherwise they are going to die, and it will be your fault!" he cringed inwardly at his own words, but if she didn't help, and they died, then technically it would be her fault.
It worked like a charm though, it seemed, as her slim brows drew together in a small concentrated frown and she ran towards Naruto. But as she sat down, and looked at the blond, the lost expression she had had before, returned.
"What am I supposed to do? How. How can I..." she trailed off, as she looked from Naruto to Sasuke, and tears formed in her eyes again.
"Concentrate Sakura. Grab him under the knees and around the shoulders and watch the head. You don't even have to lift him up off the ground." Sakura did as she was told, her hands shaking slightly as she minded the blond boy's head. Then she looked up at Kakashi again, uncertain.
"It's okay." he reassured her. "Now do as you usually do when you move yourself, but this time, let your chakra take him with you. I can tell you now, it is going to take a lot more chakra then usual, just try to let it go, don't hold back, they need you."
Sakura closed her eyes and did as she was told. She felt the familiar feeling of her chakra surrounding her. Like a pulsing aura it stood out from her, and she slowly started pushing it further, moulding it to surround the body that lay in her arms as well.
It was exhausting, and as she felt the chakra field she had created expand further then it had ever been before, it started to hurt. She felt like she was being ripped apart, and she felt the tears coming back, though this time it was from pain.
She wouldn't let go though. She couldn't, and she only cradled Naruto's body closer, as she suddenly felt the light change, the air become different to her nose and she slowly opened her eyes to look at the large gates she recognised from earlier. She'd made it. Then everything turned dark, as she passed out.
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Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark
Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone
Save me from the nothing I've become
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Naruto blinked groggily, and slowly tried to sit up. His entire body hurt. Where was he?
A loud crash to his right that sounded like someone had dropped a glass, made his head jerk in the direction the sound had come from, and he felt his body complain at the sudden movement the start had caused.
In response to the pain Naruto shut his eyes tightly, to try and block it out.
It didn't even register at first, when a slim pair of arms encircled his neck and shoulders. Careful and light, as if afraid that he would break if they tightened their grip.
As the pain subsided again, Naruto slowly opened his eyes. Someone was hugging him, but who?
Mid-length wavy pink hair nearly covered his vision entirely as his eyes fluttered back up.
"Sakura-chan?" He asked bewildered. Why was she hugging him?
At the sound of her name, the girl pulled back slightly. Big green eyes brimming with tears of happiness looked at him.
"You are awake." she stated, as if it was a miracle, before she hugged him again, this time a little harder.
Naruto nearly felt like crying himself, as he absentmindedly put his arms around the female frame and looked at the glass that Sakura had apparently dropped when she had discovered that he was awake.
Someone cared about him. At that moment, nothing else really mattered. He couldn't remember the last time anyone had hugged him out of pure joy that he was alive and well. Now that he thought about it, he wasn't sure it had ever happened.
He felt the warmth of the person pressed against him, and smiled. Just a small content one. He had always doubted how Sakura really felt about him. If she would ever cry for him.
Now he knew. Iruka wasn't the only one who would be sad if he died. Kakashi probably would too, and maybe even Sasuke. Sasuke! He had been with Sasuke when. He couldn't remember. Where was Sasuke?
Carefully he drew back from the warm embrace of the girl in his arms to look at her.
"Ne, Sakura-chan? Where is Sasuke?"
Naruto almost regretted he ever asked, as Sakura's eyes immediately filled with sorrow.
"Sasuke." she started, but couldn't continue as silent sobs started wracking her body. Instead she just pointed to the bed beside Naruto's, that he hadn't even paid attention to before then, and when he looked over there, he was glad he hadn't. It would have ruined the few blissfully ignorant moments he had just had, waking up, because in the bed lay Sasuke.
Naruto didn't remember ever having seen him looking so small. He was connected to three different machines; the only one of them which Naruto recognised was a heart monitor.
Different tubes was put up Sasuke's nose and on his chest and his hands. Aside from this he had bandages all over and the few places on his body that were still visible were bruised and battered. It only vaguely registered in his mind that he himself was connected to a few machines, and had quite a few bandages wrapped around him too.
"Is. Is he going to be okay?" he carefully asked Sakura.
The girl just looked at Sasuke, before she almost forcefully tore her eyes away from him, and back to Naruto.
"The Doctor says he will wake up. They just don't know when." she told him solemnly. The suddenly she beamed at him, making her look a little torn with the tears that was still fresh on her cheeks.
"I'll go get Kakashi-sensei. He will want to know you are up and all right." and then she smiled at him again, before she turned and practically stalked out the door.
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Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life
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Naruto blinked at the door that Sakura had just disappeared through before he shrugged and turned his head back to his dark haired rival. What had happened?
The blond felt his body practically screaming in protest as he moved again, but this time he was able to ignore it, at least partly.
Slowly he pushed himself up, and clumsily swung his aching legs over the rim of the bed. He nearly buckled over when his feet hit the floor and he tried to put his full weight on them. It took him a couple of moments before he could stand without having to lean on the bed.
Awkwardly he staggered the few steps to Sasuke's bedside where he leaned against the edge to support his weight again.
No reason to exaggerate how 'well' he was actually feeling when there was no one around to see it. Instead he leaned fully on the bed, and started to look Sasuke over.
He had no idea why, but something inside of him was telling him that Sasuke would be fine. He didn't know why he believed it, and maybe it was just to re assure himself, but it was a comforting thought so he decided to stick with it.
Besides, Sakura had said that the doctors thought he was going to wake up, right? Right!
Naruto pushed himself back a little, frowning. Something was confusing his senses, though he wasn't really sure what it was.
Crocking his head to the side, he leaned in again, studying Sasuke's bandages as he did. Then he frowned again and drew back.
He felt kind of numb. Like he was somewhere between being awake and unconscious. Blinking he stepped back from Sasuke's bed and carefully turned to head back to his own. As he took the next step he could feel the numbness lesson slightly, but it was still there, just reduced to a slight buzz in the back of his head.
"Naruto, you are up," stated a voice which was a little too cheerful for its own good.
Shocked Naruto jerked again, and made a mad dash for his bedside, but it was just out of his reach and as he felt his propelling arms miss the target that was his bed, he closed his eyes preparing for the pain that would inevitable shoot up through his body once he hit the floor.
A few moments passed, where nothing happened, before Naruto opened his eyes again and noticed that someone was holding him. Turning his head around, his eyes met that of his sensei that squinted down at him.
"It's nice to see you out of bed Naruto, but you should be more careful about walking around on the middle of the floor with nothing to grab a hold of." Kakashi cheered on.
Naruto would have punched him had he had the strength. Instead he just sighed and leaned on Kakashi for support, until he was finally back in his own bed.
Here he sat and looked from Sakura who had sat down to the left of him, to Kakashi who was seated at his right, before he asked the question that had been bugging him since he had woken up.
"What happened?" he looked from one to the other again, before his eyes settled on Kakashi, who looked a little solemn now.
"We don't really know for sure, Naruto. We had sort of hoped you would be able to tell us something." Kakashi started. "All we know is that you were attacked, and then for some reason started fighting each other."
Naruto just stared. He fought Sasuke until they both ended up in the hospital? But that was ridiculous, they were on the same team. They were friends. They might not get along all that well all the time, but they had settled most of their fighting years ago.
In Naruto's opinion, fighting each other just for fighting's sake was stretching it a bit, even for them. To cause this kind of damage both of them must have fought to kill.
Naruto frowned and looked down. "But I can't remember. How could?" he wasn't even sure what he was trying to ask. Then it finally registered what Kakashi had really said. They had been attacked.
"They attacked us, didn't they? Those two?" he asked, looking at Kakashi again.
"Presumably so." Kakashi answered. "I made a mistake in assuming they would only go after me. I'm sorry ." he trailed off.
"What are they? What are they to you? Tell me!" Naruto made sure he left no room for arguments, and his voice was dangerously calm. He didn't really know why he was feeling so angry with Kakashi; he just felt that if Kakashi had told them everything, then maybe he and Sasuke had been more prepared. He needed to know the full reason why he was here, and he needed to know now!
"Maybe you should get something to eat first, Naruto." Sakura asked quietly.
"No, I want to know, now!" Naruto yelled angrily. Sakura frowned and opened her mouth to scold the loud teen for his rudeness, when their sensei's glove clad hand suddenly covered her mouth. Sakura looked at Kakashi with questioning eyes, but Kakashi only shook his head.
"Okay." Kakashi nodded, removing his hand from Sakura's mouth. "But first Naruto, you gotta remember to tell this to Sasuke when he wakes up."
Naruto squinted "Why can't you tell him?"
Kakashi frowned "Because both Sakura and I will be back in the hut in the forest by nightfall."
"We what?!" Sakura nearly yelled, turning a pair of huge eyes on to her teacher.
"We will." he stated. "Had they wanted to kill Naruto or Sasuke, they would have done it, odds are that they no longer have any interest in them, and thus they will be safe here. I am letting Naruto and Sasuke stay here until they are recovered. Meanwhile, we need to get out of here. Our presence is currently the only thing that threatens the lives of the guards and whoever else unfortunate enough to see them if they try to get inside the village again, just to get to us."
"Oh." Sakura seemed like she understood, but she didn't look happy with the situation. Naruto was sure she would have wanted to be there when Sasuke woke up.
"So. You both remember me telling you that the two kids lived in the Is village while the war was raging, right?" Kakashi started again.
Both Sakura and Naruto nodded.
"Years ago, I came to Is village, having left the leaf after the death of my team mates." he continued.
"I couldn't stay in leaf at that point, so I left in hope of finding somewhere where I could forget. I came to Is, only a couple of weeks before the war started, and when I arrived, there wasn't really much I could offer as a reason why they should let me stay. The biggest problem the villagers had at that point, was the fact that they had just found two little kids out in the snow, but really had no idea who could take care of them. So for shelter and food and work, I agreed to take in the two."
As if wanting to wait for effect, Kakashi stopped and waited for the words to sink in before he continued. "About three weeks later the war started. I never mentioned that I was a ninja, not wanting anything to do with wars at that time, and so I didn't really participate in the fighting. I slowly started to train with the kids though and discovered that they had a bit more to offer than they had first let on. The two were not overly strong, but they had potential, and they advanced with such a speed I had never seen anything like it. At that point in time, the advanced bloodlines weren't exactly overly popular, and their mere presence caused wars, so I assumed that some parents that had been afraid for their children's safety had sent them out, in hope that they might survive."
Naruto felt a jolt in his stomach, as he was reminded of what Haku had told him all the way back on their first real mission. About being unwanted because of being born different then most. It seemed like forever had passed since then.
"I am not sure exactly how it happened," Kakashi's voice broke through his thoughts. "But it seems that the Sne found out about the kids, probably having watched them on one of the few occasions they trained on their own. It took them a while before they mastered sensing other ninjas."
"But that still doesn't explain why they are mad at you. You took care of them, right?" Naruto asked. Cocking his head to the side.
"Yeah." Kakashi sighed "But they think I let them go. I was out when they came for the two. I had only just been told what the Sne had offered for the village's freedom, and declined wanting to have anything to do with it. Afterwards I went home, but was only home for a short while, before I went out again. I can't even remember what I was going to do, but when I came back, they had taken them, telling them that I wanted them to go with the people that had come to take them away."
Kakashi's eyes narrowed slightly "Whatever hell they have been through, to make them capable of killing human beings that easily, they have lived, thinking that their guardian had let it all happen. They trusted me. They probably didn't think I wanted them anymore."
Sakura looked like she didn't know whether to gape or cry, her mouth hanging slightly open and closing from time to time and her eyes were brimming with tears again, threatening to fall.
Naruto just looked down. He didn't know how he should react to this, so he just sat there, staring at his duvet, his hands in his lab.
He didn't know how long they had all been sitting there in silence, when Kakashi half coughed, and shifted slightly, earning him the attention of his two students.
"Well, we better get going, you need to rest Naruto," he sad, looking at him, before turning to Sakura. "And we need to go back to the hut. The sooner the better."
Sakura just nodded mutely. "See you Naruto." she said, managing a half smile at him before she went to Sasuke's bedside, and silently brushed a few strands of stray hair away from his forehead.
"Remember to tell him, Naruto." Kakashi said, smiling at him through the cloth. "We will be back to check on you and Sasuke in a few days." he turned and walked towards Sakura who had turned from Sasuke again, and stood beside her.
"Take care." Sakura said, waving a little, before they both disappeared in a small gust of wind.
Naruto looked at the spot they had been standing on for a while, then he lay down, and turned over so his back was facing Sasuke, and closed his eyes.
Shortly after, he was sleeping again.
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Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark
Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone
Save me from the nothing I've become
Bring me to life
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Naruto woke up the next morning, blearily looking at his surroundings. Right, hospital. He yawned silently. He didn't really feel like he had slept at all.
He carefully sat up in the bed, deliberately ignoring his body's complaints when he twisted his torso to lift his pillow so it was protecting his sore back from coming into direct contact with the hard stone wall as he leaned against it. Closing his eyes he just sat there listening to the silence, only broken by his own or Sasuke's breathing.
A noise that sounded like splashing water in the other end of the room alerted his senses and he cracked one eye open. The sound had come from Sasuke's part of the room.
His eyes fell on a young girl, who didn't seem to be much older then themselves. Naruto sighed silently in annoyance. He must really be out of it if he couldn't even sense the presence of the third person in the room.
The girl was just standing there, fiddling with a mop and a bucked of water, looking like she had never cleaned anything in her life, if the now continual splashing of too large portions of water onto the floor was any indication.
She also kept looking in Sasuke's direction. Naruto frowned. Maybe he was stirring!
The blond whipped his head around to look at his rival, but was mildly disappointed to find that Sasuke had not as much as moved an inch since the last time he looked at him, hours prior to now judging by the light outside, let alone woken up.
Frowning Naruto turned to look at the nurse who, it seemed, had finally overcome the task of wringing the mop, so she didn't spill litres upon litres on the floor every time she tried to use the thing, and she was now eagerly scrubbing at the same spot over and over again while still looking at Sasuke.
Naruto sweatdropped. The guy was bruised, unconscious and practically mummified with bandages, and girls were still drooling all over him.
Naruto wouldn't be surprised if the nurses took shifts to clean up the room he and Sasuke shared, just so they could stare at Sasuke. It sure didn't look like cleaning was what this nurse did every day.
Sighing, the fox boy decided to put the pitiful scene to an end. It was bad enough he had to watch girls drool over Sasuke practically every day, without having to put up with watching the display the first thing after opening his eyes in the morning.
Naruto coughed slightly to try and get the girls attention. It worked like a charm! The girl visibly flinched, her eyes going wide, and face turning red as she spun around to look at Naruto, who was sitting there with a questioning look on his face smirking slightly.
The girls eyes narrowed a bit, before she spun back around, grabbed her bucked and waltzed out of the door head held high, and otherwise looking offended.
Naruto made a fox grin at her back, finding the whole thing very amusing.
That is, until his stomach started growling loudly. He quickly let his eyes travel around in the room only to find that no food had been brought in since he fell asleep. He really should have listened to Sakura and eaten something the day before.
He decided that no matter what, he wouldn't be able to wait another second for someone to come along with some food. For all he knew, it could be hours. So instead he decided he might as well go off to try and find something to eat himself.
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Frozen inside without your touch without your love darling
Only you are the life among the dead
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Naruto walked up and down the hallways of the hospital, wishing to whatever deity existed that he could read what the various signs on the walls said.
He was in a bad enough mood as it was, without it being rubbed in his face that he was currently alone in a strange country where he understood little to nothing of what people said or signs read.
His bad mood had actually started the moment he had stepped out of the hospital bed and discovered that he didn't have his own clothes on, but rather a white and blue hospital gown.
It had taken him all of two seconds to look into every corner of the small room, only to discover that not even his headband was anywhere in sight. The only thing in the room that didn't belong to the hospital was Kakashi's wallet that lay on the bedside table beside Sasuke's bed. Naruto assumed that Kakashi had left it there so they at least had some money.
So taking the wallet Naruto had left the room to go find something to eat. That had been 30 minutes ago now, and he still hadn't managed to find as much as a bathroom where he could get some water.
Speaking to the staff had not been a success either, and he had somehow managed to seriously offend a woman that appeared to have been a doctor. She had stomped off in quite a hurry anyways, leaving Naruto to keep wandering around the hospital.
He passed yet another wall full of deferent arrow formed signs pointing every which way, and to his great irritation none of the words on the signs had changed into Katakana since the last time he had bumped into one of those 'arrow collages'.
Sighing he leaned against the wall and for the umpteenth time let himself slide to the floor, to rest his aching body.
That was when he smelled it. FOOD!! He had no idea what kind, but one thing was for sure, it was something edible!
Clawing at the wall behind him for support, he staggered to his feet as fast as he could, all things considered, and turned to look through the opening that was actually placed only about two feet away from his resting place.
A Cafeteria!!
Hurrying as fast as his poor worn out feet could carry him, he headed for the counter, completely ignoring the strange looks that followed him as he ran. Looking at the food behind it, he soon discovered something that very literally looked fishy.
Coming to the conclusion that he better take something that looked at least partly familiar, he got in line behind a huge man in a blue shirt, that looked like he was easier to jump over then get around, who stood as number three in aforementioned line.
Naruto started going through the wallet. After counting them, again thanking all that was holy that the numbers at least looked the same, he came to the conclusion that they had 2000.50... something... Kr's. He decided that Sasuke wouldn't mind him using 80 of those kr's on the dish he wanted.
"Hva' sku' det være?" the words shook Naruto out of his calculations and contemplations, as he looked up at the bored looking girl behind the counter.
"Uhh." He stammered, as he suddenly remembered that he didn't exactly know how to pronounce the dish he wanted.
"Øhh?" The girl said, looking down at him, giving him a questioning look.
"Ahh." Naruto mumbled, before he got the idea that maybe he just pointed at the sign. So stretching his arm out, again ignoring the pain that shot through his side at the movement, he pointed towards the signs.
The girl raised an eyebrow at him and looked from Naruto to his finger and back to Naruto.
"Shimatta." Naruto mumbled. This girl seemed slower then even he was.
The curs however seemed to finally alert the girl to the fact that he apparently spoke another language, as she loudly exclaimed 'aha!' and walked towards the signs, pointing at the first.
Naruto smiled brightly at the fact that it now seemed like the food was within reach again, and shook his head no as she was pointing at the wrong sign.
The girl shrugged and went on to the next. Naruto responded by shaking his head no again.
This continued until they made it to number five, which was the one Naruto had been looking at. So nodding frantically at that, the girl beamed and went out the backdoor that was placed under the first four signs.
Less then two minutes later the girl was back with a plate of white fish, presumably codfish, with a couple of potatoes and some white sauce with some green stuff that looked like parsley.
She placed the plate on the counter in front of Naruto, before she turned to the register and with lightening speed pressed a couple of buttons, before she looked up at Naruto.
Naruto fumbled around in the purse before he finally pulled out a 100 kr's bill and placed it in the girl's outstretched hand. She smiled at him, before looking back at the register and again hammering her fingers down on the buttons before the register said 'pling' and the money drawer shut out.
The girl stuffed the bill into the drawer and in turn pulled out a big golden coin and placed it in his hand.
"Arigatou." Naruto beamed as he took the plate and turned around to find a seat.
He didn't have to look long, since there weren't a lot of people in the cafeteria to begin with, and he put his plate down at a little table by the window.
Looking out of the window he could see, that he was just about four storeys up.
Turning back to the food at hand he turned to the two instruments he remembered having eaten with before, and slowly reached out for the fork that he stuffed into one of the potatoes. Then he picked up the knife, something that he was supposed to cut the thing into smaller pieces with, rather then bite it, or stuff the whole thing into his mouth at once.
Two minutes later Naruto was happily cutting away at his fish and potatoes, proud that he had finally gotten the hang of it.
It wasn't long either before he shoved the fork into the last potato, and leaned in to cut a bite off of it, when he suddenly felt the sensation of pain going through his entire body, like shock waves from his brain, and he fell into the floor, clutching his head between his hands. And for some reason, he felt like something had happened.
Something had happened to Sasuke.
He didn't know how long he had been lying there, before he felt arms wrapping around his stomach and helping him to sit down again, and just as fast as it had come, the pain was gone, as if someone other then himself was controlling it.
Blinking large blue eyes filled with tears of pain, he looked up at the person who had helped him up, and was now standing behind him.
Long black hair framed sharp almost feminine features, and smiling dark purple eyes looked down at him.
"Your friend is awake." The familiar soft voice of the 'Is villages' leader, met his ears, and made him scowl darkly. He had almost been happy to hear his own language, until he had seen whom the voice belonged to.
The tall man before him sighed. "I see Kakashi-san must have told you."
Naruto just snorted, preparing himself to completely ignore the man, when it suddenly registered in his mind what he had just been told. His friend was awake, that could only mean Sasuke!
Without giving it a second thought he bolted from the room, leaving a blinking Is leader, and an awed girl behind the counter, who was suddenly standing in the cafeteria, and apparently knew the little foreigner that had just stormed out the door.
Two seconds later a rather sheepish looking Naruto returned to the cafeteria though.
"Uhm," he started, pointing out the door over his shoulder. "How do I get back?"
The older man just beamed at him an amusement before he walked towards him. And with Naruto hot on his heels he left the room.
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All this time I can't believe I couldn't see
Kept in the dark but you were there in front of me
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
Got to open my eyes to everything
Without a thought without a voice without a soul
Don't let me die here
There must be something more
Bring me to life
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Ten minutes later they were back at the hospital room Naruto shared with Sasuke.
Naruto opened the door, and saw that as told, Sasuke was indeed awake.
"Sasuke." he yelled, to get the attention of the raven-haired boy, who was currently very busy looking at the wall, it seemed.
Sasuke turned to look at Naruto and frowned lightly, before he turned his head back around again to look at the wall.
Naruto was just about to throw a temper tantrum at Sasuke for ignoring him, and apparently thinking the wall was much more interesting then him, when Sasuke suddenly started talking.
'Naruto is here. Why am I covered in bandages. Are we in the hospital?'
Finding Sasuke's outburst of questions a little odd, Naruto decided to bit into the lines of questions while he could still remember what some of them had been.
"Yes we are in the hospital." he stated, looking at Sasuke.
For a moment Sasuke looked surprised at Naruto, before he frowned. "I didn't say anything." he stated, then continued 'What is he babbling about? Dobe.' before he turned his head back to the wall.
"Stop calling me that!" Naruto yelled. This time Sasuke turned his attention back to him, and just stared like Naruto had grown a second head.
'What is he talking about, I didn't say anything!' Sasuke sounded almost surprised.
"What are YOU talking about? You just called me dobe!" Naruto yelled, more bewildered then anything else.
Sasuke just kept staring at Naruto, before hissing "I did no such thing!" and turned back to look at the wall, determined not to look at Naruto and ignore the tall man with the long black hair and the nurse that had come in behind him, that was giving both Naruto and Sasuke weird looks. What was going on?!
"Why are you asking me, I don't know!" Naruto yelled at him in exasperation.
"I didn't ask you anything!!" Sasuke yelled back, getting irritated.
'Why is he being so annoying! Did I hit him on the head in the fight or something.' Naruto thought, now getting angry as well.
"There is nothing wrong with my head you idiot!" Sasuke snarled.
Naruto didn't know whether to laugh or get angry, so he just kept his mouth shot. 'Oh, yes there is.' he muttered in his head.
Sasuke's face was beginning to turn an ugly shade of grey, but in the end just sighed and turned back to stare at the wall. 'Don't argue with Idiots.' He told himself, staring hard the wall.
Naruto closed his eyes and bit down on his tongue. 'I am the Idiot?! Who is it that can't even decide whether he is talking or not?' He would have yelled it out, but if he really had hit Sasuke on the head, then technically it was his own fault that Sasuke was acting like this, and he couldn't help but feel bad.
He heard Sasuke growl from the bed. 'I can perfectly well decide whether or not I am talking, and I did not hit my head, so you have nothing to be concerned about, idiot!'
That did it! Naruto stomped over and placed himself in front of Sasuke. "I am not concerned about you, and stop calling me an IDIOT!"
Sasuke just sat there and stared at him. So long that Naruto started feeling uneasy under the Uchiha's dark eyes, that held no anger to them anymore, but rather shock and a hint of something like fright.
Just before the whole situation was becoming unbearable for Naruto, Sasuke finally spoke 'can you hear me Naruto?'
Naruto's eyes widened "Of cause I can hear you! And you call me stupid."
Sasuke's lips were suddenly drawn into a thin white line. 'Look at me Naruto. Am I speaking?' he asked, and for the first time, Naruto noted that Sasuke's lips weren't moving.
"You're. You're in my head." He whispered out loud, and saw and felt the raw fear in Sasuke's eyes that confirmed that statement much more then any word of confirmation could ever do. Backing away as far as he could Naruto's back hit the wall behind him, and he saw Sasuke visibly flinch in pain with him, as the impact shot up his spine.
In the cafeteria. He had known. He had known deep down that Sasuke was awake. The pain hadn't been his own, but Sasuke's as he woke up to feel it for the first time. No! This just wasn't happening!
Sasuke watched with huge almost frightened eyes how his team mate started clawing at his hair, as if trying to get whatever it was that connected him to Sasuke, out of his head.
"Get out, get out, get out" He mumbled as he sat there.
Sasuke was in shock. He didn't know how to react to this. Thoughts of living with Naruto in his head for the rest of his life, never again being able to have a private thought again, never being able to have completely peace in his own mind, were going through his head, sending waves of panic through him.
And he watched in almost sick amusement how Naruto's tremble matched his own, as he now knew that Naruto was thinking the same as him. Or was it him that was thinking the same as Naruto?
Sasuke didn't know, and that thought made bile rise into his mouth, until he bent over the side of the bed, and threw up. Then he closed his eyes, and fell back on the bed, feeling all go dark around him, and knowing that Naruto had just done the same as he, and had already passed out.
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Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark
Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone
Save me from the nothing I've become
Bring me to life
I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside
Bring me to life
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[1] Hva' sku' det være? = A polite way of saying, 'what do you want?' Most frequently used when you are speaking to a customer if you work at a store.
[2] Øhh? = Uhh, or huh?
Uni: I hope you liked^^ Chapter 8 will hopefully come along very soon... It is being betaed, and then I need to do some lemon editing, and then it will be out...
Out of My Mind
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How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I've become so numb
Without a soul my spirit
Sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home
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Kakashi held back a light gasp, so he wouldn't want to frighten the girl he knew was coming up from behind him. He usually wasn't a gasper, and Sakura knew that just as well. If he came with any signs or indication that the situation was bad in his eyes as well, she was likely to panic.
No matter how much she tried, Sakura was an emotional person, especially when it came to her two team mates.
So to not make the situation worse then it already was, Kakashi did the only thing experience told him he could do, he closed off any kind of emotions he might have felt seeing his students, and quickly moved forward before any thoughts of worry could enter his thought further.
So trying his best to ignore the fact that neither of the boys seemed to be breathing, that none of them had a place on their bodies where they weren't burned or battered and that both of them was turning blue from the cold. He yelled out to get the pink-haired girls attention.
"Sakura, get over here!" He hollered, as kneeled down beside the one who appeared to be the more severely wounded of the two. He watched from his crouching position when Sakura came forth from behind one of the large trees.
He watched her stop dead, and how her eyes went wide in horror at the sight before her. He watched how large tears started to form in her eyes and silently roll down her cheeks, and how she slowly started to back away, shaking her head.
They didn't have time for this. "Sakura!" he yelled, as harshly as he could muster to try and get her attention. He didn't like yelling at her when she was so broken up, but if that was the only way to get her to pull herself together, then that was what he was going to do.
He needed her clearheaded. The boys needed medical attention far beyond his own skills, and the only place to get that, was in the village. They had to get them there as quickly as possible, and the quickest way was to get them there was teleportation.
There was only one problem. Despite all, he couldn't transport both of the boys there by himself, and at the same time guarantee that the boys wouldn't get hurt further, and there was no way in hell he was letting Sakura stay behind alone with the possibility of having to watch one of her team mates die, and at the same time making her an easy victim.
So all in all that left them with only one other option. Sakura would have to teleport one of the boys there by herself, while he took care of the other.
He knew it was asking for a miracle if that plan was ever going to work, since the largest thing Sakura had ever teleported anywhere was a weapon and that was why he needed her clear headed. He simply couldn't risk her being hurt as well, or one of the boys being hurt more.
"Sakura listen to me. I need you to get Naruto to the village!" he yelled at her. Luckily it seemed she immediately understood the situation, unfortunately her reaction to this, was to go white as a sheet, and start backing away again.
Kakashi sighed. "Sakura, don't do that! I need you to focus, otherwise they really are going to die!" this seemed to shake her slightly, as she stopped backing.
Well, one step at a time, Kakashi guessed, unfortunately he didn't really have time for that either. "Listen to me Sakura, concentrate! Otherwise they are going to die, and it will be your fault!" he cringed inwardly at his own words, but if she didn't help, and they died, then technically it would be her fault.
It worked like a charm though, it seemed, as her slim brows drew together in a small concentrated frown and she ran towards Naruto. But as she sat down, and looked at the blond, the lost expression she had had before, returned.
"What am I supposed to do? How. How can I..." she trailed off, as she looked from Naruto to Sasuke, and tears formed in her eyes again.
"Concentrate Sakura. Grab him under the knees and around the shoulders and watch the head. You don't even have to lift him up off the ground." Sakura did as she was told, her hands shaking slightly as she minded the blond boy's head. Then she looked up at Kakashi again, uncertain.
"It's okay." he reassured her. "Now do as you usually do when you move yourself, but this time, let your chakra take him with you. I can tell you now, it is going to take a lot more chakra then usual, just try to let it go, don't hold back, they need you."
Sakura closed her eyes and did as she was told. She felt the familiar feeling of her chakra surrounding her. Like a pulsing aura it stood out from her, and she slowly started pushing it further, moulding it to surround the body that lay in her arms as well.
It was exhausting, and as she felt the chakra field she had created expand further then it had ever been before, it started to hurt. She felt like she was being ripped apart, and she felt the tears coming back, though this time it was from pain.
She wouldn't let go though. She couldn't, and she only cradled Naruto's body closer, as she suddenly felt the light change, the air become different to her nose and she slowly opened her eyes to look at the large gates she recognised from earlier. She'd made it. Then everything turned dark, as she passed out.
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Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark
Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone
Save me from the nothing I've become
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Naruto blinked groggily, and slowly tried to sit up. His entire body hurt. Where was he?
A loud crash to his right that sounded like someone had dropped a glass, made his head jerk in the direction the sound had come from, and he felt his body complain at the sudden movement the start had caused.
In response to the pain Naruto shut his eyes tightly, to try and block it out.
It didn't even register at first, when a slim pair of arms encircled his neck and shoulders. Careful and light, as if afraid that he would break if they tightened their grip.
As the pain subsided again, Naruto slowly opened his eyes. Someone was hugging him, but who?
Mid-length wavy pink hair nearly covered his vision entirely as his eyes fluttered back up.
"Sakura-chan?" He asked bewildered. Why was she hugging him?
At the sound of her name, the girl pulled back slightly. Big green eyes brimming with tears of happiness looked at him.
"You are awake." she stated, as if it was a miracle, before she hugged him again, this time a little harder.
Naruto nearly felt like crying himself, as he absentmindedly put his arms around the female frame and looked at the glass that Sakura had apparently dropped when she had discovered that he was awake.
Someone cared about him. At that moment, nothing else really mattered. He couldn't remember the last time anyone had hugged him out of pure joy that he was alive and well. Now that he thought about it, he wasn't sure it had ever happened.
He felt the warmth of the person pressed against him, and smiled. Just a small content one. He had always doubted how Sakura really felt about him. If she would ever cry for him.
Now he knew. Iruka wasn't the only one who would be sad if he died. Kakashi probably would too, and maybe even Sasuke. Sasuke! He had been with Sasuke when. He couldn't remember. Where was Sasuke?
Carefully he drew back from the warm embrace of the girl in his arms to look at her.
"Ne, Sakura-chan? Where is Sasuke?"
Naruto almost regretted he ever asked, as Sakura's eyes immediately filled with sorrow.
"Sasuke." she started, but couldn't continue as silent sobs started wracking her body. Instead she just pointed to the bed beside Naruto's, that he hadn't even paid attention to before then, and when he looked over there, he was glad he hadn't. It would have ruined the few blissfully ignorant moments he had just had, waking up, because in the bed lay Sasuke.
Naruto didn't remember ever having seen him looking so small. He was connected to three different machines; the only one of them which Naruto recognised was a heart monitor.
Different tubes was put up Sasuke's nose and on his chest and his hands. Aside from this he had bandages all over and the few places on his body that were still visible were bruised and battered. It only vaguely registered in his mind that he himself was connected to a few machines, and had quite a few bandages wrapped around him too.
"Is. Is he going to be okay?" he carefully asked Sakura.
The girl just looked at Sasuke, before she almost forcefully tore her eyes away from him, and back to Naruto.
"The Doctor says he will wake up. They just don't know when." she told him solemnly. The suddenly she beamed at him, making her look a little torn with the tears that was still fresh on her cheeks.
"I'll go get Kakashi-sensei. He will want to know you are up and all right." and then she smiled at him again, before she turned and practically stalked out the door.
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Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life
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Naruto blinked at the door that Sakura had just disappeared through before he shrugged and turned his head back to his dark haired rival. What had happened?
The blond felt his body practically screaming in protest as he moved again, but this time he was able to ignore it, at least partly.
Slowly he pushed himself up, and clumsily swung his aching legs over the rim of the bed. He nearly buckled over when his feet hit the floor and he tried to put his full weight on them. It took him a couple of moments before he could stand without having to lean on the bed.
Awkwardly he staggered the few steps to Sasuke's bedside where he leaned against the edge to support his weight again.
No reason to exaggerate how 'well' he was actually feeling when there was no one around to see it. Instead he leaned fully on the bed, and started to look Sasuke over.
He had no idea why, but something inside of him was telling him that Sasuke would be fine. He didn't know why he believed it, and maybe it was just to re assure himself, but it was a comforting thought so he decided to stick with it.
Besides, Sakura had said that the doctors thought he was going to wake up, right? Right!
Naruto pushed himself back a little, frowning. Something was confusing his senses, though he wasn't really sure what it was.
Crocking his head to the side, he leaned in again, studying Sasuke's bandages as he did. Then he frowned again and drew back.
He felt kind of numb. Like he was somewhere between being awake and unconscious. Blinking he stepped back from Sasuke's bed and carefully turned to head back to his own. As he took the next step he could feel the numbness lesson slightly, but it was still there, just reduced to a slight buzz in the back of his head.
"Naruto, you are up," stated a voice which was a little too cheerful for its own good.
Shocked Naruto jerked again, and made a mad dash for his bedside, but it was just out of his reach and as he felt his propelling arms miss the target that was his bed, he closed his eyes preparing for the pain that would inevitable shoot up through his body once he hit the floor.
A few moments passed, where nothing happened, before Naruto opened his eyes again and noticed that someone was holding him. Turning his head around, his eyes met that of his sensei that squinted down at him.
"It's nice to see you out of bed Naruto, but you should be more careful about walking around on the middle of the floor with nothing to grab a hold of." Kakashi cheered on.
Naruto would have punched him had he had the strength. Instead he just sighed and leaned on Kakashi for support, until he was finally back in his own bed.
Here he sat and looked from Sakura who had sat down to the left of him, to Kakashi who was seated at his right, before he asked the question that had been bugging him since he had woken up.
"What happened?" he looked from one to the other again, before his eyes settled on Kakashi, who looked a little solemn now.
"We don't really know for sure, Naruto. We had sort of hoped you would be able to tell us something." Kakashi started. "All we know is that you were attacked, and then for some reason started fighting each other."
Naruto just stared. He fought Sasuke until they both ended up in the hospital? But that was ridiculous, they were on the same team. They were friends. They might not get along all that well all the time, but they had settled most of their fighting years ago.
In Naruto's opinion, fighting each other just for fighting's sake was stretching it a bit, even for them. To cause this kind of damage both of them must have fought to kill.
Naruto frowned and looked down. "But I can't remember. How could?" he wasn't even sure what he was trying to ask. Then it finally registered what Kakashi had really said. They had been attacked.
"They attacked us, didn't they? Those two?" he asked, looking at Kakashi again.
"Presumably so." Kakashi answered. "I made a mistake in assuming they would only go after me. I'm sorry ." he trailed off.
"What are they? What are they to you? Tell me!" Naruto made sure he left no room for arguments, and his voice was dangerously calm. He didn't really know why he was feeling so angry with Kakashi; he just felt that if Kakashi had told them everything, then maybe he and Sasuke had been more prepared. He needed to know the full reason why he was here, and he needed to know now!
"Maybe you should get something to eat first, Naruto." Sakura asked quietly.
"No, I want to know, now!" Naruto yelled angrily. Sakura frowned and opened her mouth to scold the loud teen for his rudeness, when their sensei's glove clad hand suddenly covered her mouth. Sakura looked at Kakashi with questioning eyes, but Kakashi only shook his head.
"Okay." Kakashi nodded, removing his hand from Sakura's mouth. "But first Naruto, you gotta remember to tell this to Sasuke when he wakes up."
Naruto squinted "Why can't you tell him?"
Kakashi frowned "Because both Sakura and I will be back in the hut in the forest by nightfall."
"We what?!" Sakura nearly yelled, turning a pair of huge eyes on to her teacher.
"We will." he stated. "Had they wanted to kill Naruto or Sasuke, they would have done it, odds are that they no longer have any interest in them, and thus they will be safe here. I am letting Naruto and Sasuke stay here until they are recovered. Meanwhile, we need to get out of here. Our presence is currently the only thing that threatens the lives of the guards and whoever else unfortunate enough to see them if they try to get inside the village again, just to get to us."
"Oh." Sakura seemed like she understood, but she didn't look happy with the situation. Naruto was sure she would have wanted to be there when Sasuke woke up.
"So. You both remember me telling you that the two kids lived in the Is village while the war was raging, right?" Kakashi started again.
Both Sakura and Naruto nodded.
"Years ago, I came to Is village, having left the leaf after the death of my team mates." he continued.
"I couldn't stay in leaf at that point, so I left in hope of finding somewhere where I could forget. I came to Is, only a couple of weeks before the war started, and when I arrived, there wasn't really much I could offer as a reason why they should let me stay. The biggest problem the villagers had at that point, was the fact that they had just found two little kids out in the snow, but really had no idea who could take care of them. So for shelter and food and work, I agreed to take in the two."
As if wanting to wait for effect, Kakashi stopped and waited for the words to sink in before he continued. "About three weeks later the war started. I never mentioned that I was a ninja, not wanting anything to do with wars at that time, and so I didn't really participate in the fighting. I slowly started to train with the kids though and discovered that they had a bit more to offer than they had first let on. The two were not overly strong, but they had potential, and they advanced with such a speed I had never seen anything like it. At that point in time, the advanced bloodlines weren't exactly overly popular, and their mere presence caused wars, so I assumed that some parents that had been afraid for their children's safety had sent them out, in hope that they might survive."
Naruto felt a jolt in his stomach, as he was reminded of what Haku had told him all the way back on their first real mission. About being unwanted because of being born different then most. It seemed like forever had passed since then.
"I am not sure exactly how it happened," Kakashi's voice broke through his thoughts. "But it seems that the Sne found out about the kids, probably having watched them on one of the few occasions they trained on their own. It took them a while before they mastered sensing other ninjas."
"But that still doesn't explain why they are mad at you. You took care of them, right?" Naruto asked. Cocking his head to the side.
"Yeah." Kakashi sighed "But they think I let them go. I was out when they came for the two. I had only just been told what the Sne had offered for the village's freedom, and declined wanting to have anything to do with it. Afterwards I went home, but was only home for a short while, before I went out again. I can't even remember what I was going to do, but when I came back, they had taken them, telling them that I wanted them to go with the people that had come to take them away."
Kakashi's eyes narrowed slightly "Whatever hell they have been through, to make them capable of killing human beings that easily, they have lived, thinking that their guardian had let it all happen. They trusted me. They probably didn't think I wanted them anymore."
Sakura looked like she didn't know whether to gape or cry, her mouth hanging slightly open and closing from time to time and her eyes were brimming with tears again, threatening to fall.
Naruto just looked down. He didn't know how he should react to this, so he just sat there, staring at his duvet, his hands in his lab.
He didn't know how long they had all been sitting there in silence, when Kakashi half coughed, and shifted slightly, earning him the attention of his two students.
"Well, we better get going, you need to rest Naruto," he sad, looking at him, before turning to Sakura. "And we need to go back to the hut. The sooner the better."
Sakura just nodded mutely. "See you Naruto." she said, managing a half smile at him before she went to Sasuke's bedside, and silently brushed a few strands of stray hair away from his forehead.
"Remember to tell him, Naruto." Kakashi said, smiling at him through the cloth. "We will be back to check on you and Sasuke in a few days." he turned and walked towards Sakura who had turned from Sasuke again, and stood beside her.
"Take care." Sakura said, waving a little, before they both disappeared in a small gust of wind.
Naruto looked at the spot they had been standing on for a while, then he lay down, and turned over so his back was facing Sasuke, and closed his eyes.
Shortly after, he was sleeping again.
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Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark
Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone
Save me from the nothing I've become
Bring me to life
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Naruto woke up the next morning, blearily looking at his surroundings. Right, hospital. He yawned silently. He didn't really feel like he had slept at all.
He carefully sat up in the bed, deliberately ignoring his body's complaints when he twisted his torso to lift his pillow so it was protecting his sore back from coming into direct contact with the hard stone wall as he leaned against it. Closing his eyes he just sat there listening to the silence, only broken by his own or Sasuke's breathing.
A noise that sounded like splashing water in the other end of the room alerted his senses and he cracked one eye open. The sound had come from Sasuke's part of the room.
His eyes fell on a young girl, who didn't seem to be much older then themselves. Naruto sighed silently in annoyance. He must really be out of it if he couldn't even sense the presence of the third person in the room.
The girl was just standing there, fiddling with a mop and a bucked of water, looking like she had never cleaned anything in her life, if the now continual splashing of too large portions of water onto the floor was any indication.
She also kept looking in Sasuke's direction. Naruto frowned. Maybe he was stirring!
The blond whipped his head around to look at his rival, but was mildly disappointed to find that Sasuke had not as much as moved an inch since the last time he looked at him, hours prior to now judging by the light outside, let alone woken up.
Frowning Naruto turned to look at the nurse who, it seemed, had finally overcome the task of wringing the mop, so she didn't spill litres upon litres on the floor every time she tried to use the thing, and she was now eagerly scrubbing at the same spot over and over again while still looking at Sasuke.
Naruto sweatdropped. The guy was bruised, unconscious and practically mummified with bandages, and girls were still drooling all over him.
Naruto wouldn't be surprised if the nurses took shifts to clean up the room he and Sasuke shared, just so they could stare at Sasuke. It sure didn't look like cleaning was what this nurse did every day.
Sighing, the fox boy decided to put the pitiful scene to an end. It was bad enough he had to watch girls drool over Sasuke practically every day, without having to put up with watching the display the first thing after opening his eyes in the morning.
Naruto coughed slightly to try and get the girls attention. It worked like a charm! The girl visibly flinched, her eyes going wide, and face turning red as she spun around to look at Naruto, who was sitting there with a questioning look on his face smirking slightly.
The girls eyes narrowed a bit, before she spun back around, grabbed her bucked and waltzed out of the door head held high, and otherwise looking offended.
Naruto made a fox grin at her back, finding the whole thing very amusing.
That is, until his stomach started growling loudly. He quickly let his eyes travel around in the room only to find that no food had been brought in since he fell asleep. He really should have listened to Sakura and eaten something the day before.
He decided that no matter what, he wouldn't be able to wait another second for someone to come along with some food. For all he knew, it could be hours. So instead he decided he might as well go off to try and find something to eat himself.
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Frozen inside without your touch without your love darling
Only you are the life among the dead
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Naruto walked up and down the hallways of the hospital, wishing to whatever deity existed that he could read what the various signs on the walls said.
He was in a bad enough mood as it was, without it being rubbed in his face that he was currently alone in a strange country where he understood little to nothing of what people said or signs read.
His bad mood had actually started the moment he had stepped out of the hospital bed and discovered that he didn't have his own clothes on, but rather a white and blue hospital gown.
It had taken him all of two seconds to look into every corner of the small room, only to discover that not even his headband was anywhere in sight. The only thing in the room that didn't belong to the hospital was Kakashi's wallet that lay on the bedside table beside Sasuke's bed. Naruto assumed that Kakashi had left it there so they at least had some money.
So taking the wallet Naruto had left the room to go find something to eat. That had been 30 minutes ago now, and he still hadn't managed to find as much as a bathroom where he could get some water.
Speaking to the staff had not been a success either, and he had somehow managed to seriously offend a woman that appeared to have been a doctor. She had stomped off in quite a hurry anyways, leaving Naruto to keep wandering around the hospital.
He passed yet another wall full of deferent arrow formed signs pointing every which way, and to his great irritation none of the words on the signs had changed into Katakana since the last time he had bumped into one of those 'arrow collages'.
Sighing he leaned against the wall and for the umpteenth time let himself slide to the floor, to rest his aching body.
That was when he smelled it. FOOD!! He had no idea what kind, but one thing was for sure, it was something edible!
Clawing at the wall behind him for support, he staggered to his feet as fast as he could, all things considered, and turned to look through the opening that was actually placed only about two feet away from his resting place.
A Cafeteria!!
Hurrying as fast as his poor worn out feet could carry him, he headed for the counter, completely ignoring the strange looks that followed him as he ran. Looking at the food behind it, he soon discovered something that very literally looked fishy.
Coming to the conclusion that he better take something that looked at least partly familiar, he got in line behind a huge man in a blue shirt, that looked like he was easier to jump over then get around, who stood as number three in aforementioned line.
Naruto started going through the wallet. After counting them, again thanking all that was holy that the numbers at least looked the same, he came to the conclusion that they had 2000.50... something... Kr's. He decided that Sasuke wouldn't mind him using 80 of those kr's on the dish he wanted.
"Hva' sku' det være?" the words shook Naruto out of his calculations and contemplations, as he looked up at the bored looking girl behind the counter.
"Uhh." He stammered, as he suddenly remembered that he didn't exactly know how to pronounce the dish he wanted.
"Øhh?" The girl said, looking down at him, giving him a questioning look.
"Ahh." Naruto mumbled, before he got the idea that maybe he just pointed at the sign. So stretching his arm out, again ignoring the pain that shot through his side at the movement, he pointed towards the signs.
The girl raised an eyebrow at him and looked from Naruto to his finger and back to Naruto.
"Shimatta." Naruto mumbled. This girl seemed slower then even he was.
The curs however seemed to finally alert the girl to the fact that he apparently spoke another language, as she loudly exclaimed 'aha!' and walked towards the signs, pointing at the first.
Naruto smiled brightly at the fact that it now seemed like the food was within reach again, and shook his head no as she was pointing at the wrong sign.
The girl shrugged and went on to the next. Naruto responded by shaking his head no again.
This continued until they made it to number five, which was the one Naruto had been looking at. So nodding frantically at that, the girl beamed and went out the backdoor that was placed under the first four signs.
Less then two minutes later the girl was back with a plate of white fish, presumably codfish, with a couple of potatoes and some white sauce with some green stuff that looked like parsley.
She placed the plate on the counter in front of Naruto, before she turned to the register and with lightening speed pressed a couple of buttons, before she looked up at Naruto.
Naruto fumbled around in the purse before he finally pulled out a 100 kr's bill and placed it in the girl's outstretched hand. She smiled at him, before looking back at the register and again hammering her fingers down on the buttons before the register said 'pling' and the money drawer shut out.
The girl stuffed the bill into the drawer and in turn pulled out a big golden coin and placed it in his hand.
"Arigatou." Naruto beamed as he took the plate and turned around to find a seat.
He didn't have to look long, since there weren't a lot of people in the cafeteria to begin with, and he put his plate down at a little table by the window.
Looking out of the window he could see, that he was just about four storeys up.
Turning back to the food at hand he turned to the two instruments he remembered having eaten with before, and slowly reached out for the fork that he stuffed into one of the potatoes. Then he picked up the knife, something that he was supposed to cut the thing into smaller pieces with, rather then bite it, or stuff the whole thing into his mouth at once.
Two minutes later Naruto was happily cutting away at his fish and potatoes, proud that he had finally gotten the hang of it.
It wasn't long either before he shoved the fork into the last potato, and leaned in to cut a bite off of it, when he suddenly felt the sensation of pain going through his entire body, like shock waves from his brain, and he fell into the floor, clutching his head between his hands. And for some reason, he felt like something had happened.
Something had happened to Sasuke.
He didn't know how long he had been lying there, before he felt arms wrapping around his stomach and helping him to sit down again, and just as fast as it had come, the pain was gone, as if someone other then himself was controlling it.
Blinking large blue eyes filled with tears of pain, he looked up at the person who had helped him up, and was now standing behind him.
Long black hair framed sharp almost feminine features, and smiling dark purple eyes looked down at him.
"Your friend is awake." The familiar soft voice of the 'Is villages' leader, met his ears, and made him scowl darkly. He had almost been happy to hear his own language, until he had seen whom the voice belonged to.
The tall man before him sighed. "I see Kakashi-san must have told you."
Naruto just snorted, preparing himself to completely ignore the man, when it suddenly registered in his mind what he had just been told. His friend was awake, that could only mean Sasuke!
Without giving it a second thought he bolted from the room, leaving a blinking Is leader, and an awed girl behind the counter, who was suddenly standing in the cafeteria, and apparently knew the little foreigner that had just stormed out the door.
Two seconds later a rather sheepish looking Naruto returned to the cafeteria though.
"Uhm," he started, pointing out the door over his shoulder. "How do I get back?"
The older man just beamed at him an amusement before he walked towards him. And with Naruto hot on his heels he left the room.
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All this time I can't believe I couldn't see
Kept in the dark but you were there in front of me
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
Got to open my eyes to everything
Without a thought without a voice without a soul
Don't let me die here
There must be something more
Bring me to life
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Ten minutes later they were back at the hospital room Naruto shared with Sasuke.
Naruto opened the door, and saw that as told, Sasuke was indeed awake.
"Sasuke." he yelled, to get the attention of the raven-haired boy, who was currently very busy looking at the wall, it seemed.
Sasuke turned to look at Naruto and frowned lightly, before he turned his head back around again to look at the wall.
Naruto was just about to throw a temper tantrum at Sasuke for ignoring him, and apparently thinking the wall was much more interesting then him, when Sasuke suddenly started talking.
'Naruto is here. Why am I covered in bandages. Are we in the hospital?'
Finding Sasuke's outburst of questions a little odd, Naruto decided to bit into the lines of questions while he could still remember what some of them had been.
"Yes we are in the hospital." he stated, looking at Sasuke.
For a moment Sasuke looked surprised at Naruto, before he frowned. "I didn't say anything." he stated, then continued 'What is he babbling about? Dobe.' before he turned his head back to the wall.
"Stop calling me that!" Naruto yelled. This time Sasuke turned his attention back to him, and just stared like Naruto had grown a second head.
'What is he talking about, I didn't say anything!' Sasuke sounded almost surprised.
"What are YOU talking about? You just called me dobe!" Naruto yelled, more bewildered then anything else.
Sasuke just kept staring at Naruto, before hissing "I did no such thing!" and turned back to look at the wall, determined not to look at Naruto and ignore the tall man with the long black hair and the nurse that had come in behind him, that was giving both Naruto and Sasuke weird looks. What was going on?!
"Why are you asking me, I don't know!" Naruto yelled at him in exasperation.
"I didn't ask you anything!!" Sasuke yelled back, getting irritated.
'Why is he being so annoying! Did I hit him on the head in the fight or something.' Naruto thought, now getting angry as well.
"There is nothing wrong with my head you idiot!" Sasuke snarled.
Naruto didn't know whether to laugh or get angry, so he just kept his mouth shot. 'Oh, yes there is.' he muttered in his head.
Sasuke's face was beginning to turn an ugly shade of grey, but in the end just sighed and turned back to stare at the wall. 'Don't argue with Idiots.' He told himself, staring hard the wall.
Naruto closed his eyes and bit down on his tongue. 'I am the Idiot?! Who is it that can't even decide whether he is talking or not?' He would have yelled it out, but if he really had hit Sasuke on the head, then technically it was his own fault that Sasuke was acting like this, and he couldn't help but feel bad.
He heard Sasuke growl from the bed. 'I can perfectly well decide whether or not I am talking, and I did not hit my head, so you have nothing to be concerned about, idiot!'
That did it! Naruto stomped over and placed himself in front of Sasuke. "I am not concerned about you, and stop calling me an IDIOT!"
Sasuke just sat there and stared at him. So long that Naruto started feeling uneasy under the Uchiha's dark eyes, that held no anger to them anymore, but rather shock and a hint of something like fright.
Just before the whole situation was becoming unbearable for Naruto, Sasuke finally spoke 'can you hear me Naruto?'
Naruto's eyes widened "Of cause I can hear you! And you call me stupid."
Sasuke's lips were suddenly drawn into a thin white line. 'Look at me Naruto. Am I speaking?' he asked, and for the first time, Naruto noted that Sasuke's lips weren't moving.
"You're. You're in my head." He whispered out loud, and saw and felt the raw fear in Sasuke's eyes that confirmed that statement much more then any word of confirmation could ever do. Backing away as far as he could Naruto's back hit the wall behind him, and he saw Sasuke visibly flinch in pain with him, as the impact shot up his spine.
In the cafeteria. He had known. He had known deep down that Sasuke was awake. The pain hadn't been his own, but Sasuke's as he woke up to feel it for the first time. No! This just wasn't happening!
Sasuke watched with huge almost frightened eyes how his team mate started clawing at his hair, as if trying to get whatever it was that connected him to Sasuke, out of his head.
"Get out, get out, get out" He mumbled as he sat there.
Sasuke was in shock. He didn't know how to react to this. Thoughts of living with Naruto in his head for the rest of his life, never again being able to have a private thought again, never being able to have completely peace in his own mind, were going through his head, sending waves of panic through him.
And he watched in almost sick amusement how Naruto's tremble matched his own, as he now knew that Naruto was thinking the same as him. Or was it him that was thinking the same as Naruto?
Sasuke didn't know, and that thought made bile rise into his mouth, until he bent over the side of the bed, and threw up. Then he closed his eyes, and fell back on the bed, feeling all go dark around him, and knowing that Naruto had just done the same as he, and had already passed out.
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Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark
Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone
Save me from the nothing I've become
Bring me to life
I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside
Bring me to life
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[1] Hva' sku' det være? = A polite way of saying, 'what do you want?' Most frequently used when you are speaking to a customer if you work at a store.
[2] Øhh? = Uhh, or huh?
Uni: I hope you liked^^ Chapter 8 will hopefully come along very soon... It is being betaed, and then I need to do some lemon editing, and then it will be out...