*ducks behind computer chair* I BEG FOR FORGIVENESS!!!I have been so busy with the fourth of July (hope everyone had a great fourth), my cousins coming over, and GRAY!!!! Gray is a little orphaned blue jay my mom's work friend found and letting me raise it so I can release him! WOO! Hope you enjoy the chapter.

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Kakashi was in shock. Never had he seen such carnage in a long time. His hand was still in the same position as when Naruto had first struck. He hadn't even finished the seal, only half way through it when the fox had attacked Haku. The setting sun seemed to put an added effect to the fox as if gave it a reddish outline as it looked almost forlornly out at the ocean. Its five tails didn't wave as usual, put hung limp in a sense of mourning.

He would have felt sorry for the fox if he hadn't been overrun with a certain emotion. What was it called again? Oh yeah, complete and utter surprise. Dropping the scroll he was holding, he dared a look at Sakura, to see how she was fairing at her first sighting of a blood bath. Not to well. Her eyes had a faraway look to them, as in disbelief.

Can't blame her much.......this even had me shocked. Either that wasn't Naruto or Sasuke meant much more to him then we thougt, if that was what really caused him to loose control.

Sakura couldn't even look at the sleek salute against the pure red sun. Blood still dripped from its maw, its claws bathed in it. Nothing could have prepared her for this, hell she wouldn't have believed someone if they told her. She never would have suspected Naruto, the bright and cheerful outcast of the world, to hold the spirit of the legendary nine-tailed spirit fox inside him. A movement interupted her train of thought as the fox did a u-turn and walked towards the lying Sasuke slowly.

One immense clawed paw infront of the other, the fox approached his lost packmate. The fire that seemed to light its eyes had simply gone out, replaced with a darkness of mourning.

Its whole disposition reflected dispair. No longer did the adrenaline of revenge flow through its veins and the blood had stopped dripping from his mouth. Halting, it viewed over Sasuke, its eyes taking in every bit of him.

Reaching its head forward, he gently bumped Sasuke's side, making tiny whining noises as a mother fox would do to a dead kit. The ears flattened a little against his head and he nudged the boy again, a more pitiful and begging whine this time. Getting no response, the fox moved its head to stare at those closed eyes and a pink tongue (no blood on it) flicked out from the foxes jaws and gently licked the boy on the cheek, hoping to get a response.

Tears that were never supposed to grace such a creature pricked at the edge of its eyes. Whining once more, it rubbed its head against Sasuke's face gently, the whining becoming evident to those around it, a low pitiful cry that went straight to those of the coldest hearts.

Sakura was about to cry. The fox had gone from an uncontrollable and insane demon to a crying lost fox kit. It was so touching to see the fox so broken up and so lost, she actually lost all fear of it and felt like running over to comfort it. However, she still had enough wit to not approach it. Tears ran down her face as the full force of Sasuke passing away hit her and she fell to her knees.

Kakashi was the least, relieved that the fox had calmed down. He, in addition, felt pity for the fox.

It had the most pitiful look on its face as it caringly rubbed its head on Sasuke, as if that would wake him from his eternal slumber, tears falling from its eyes. The Sharingan user gently rubbed his eye, some dirt got in it or something.

Naruto continued to whine in that pitiful way, trying to wake the other boy. However, he just remained still and lifeless.

The tears, mixing with the blood flecks on the youko's snout, fell from the crimson eyes of the fox, blood red as they fell to land on the emotionless face of a forever lost packmate.

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*sweatdrops* That was incredibly short......Well this was sort of a fill in chappie, sorry. I'll get to work on the next one straight away! Thankies to all me reviewers! *hands out Naruto plushies* WOO! Okies it looks like the enemy will be Itachi and Sasuke lovers, don't cry! He didn't REALLY die..........

Alaska over and out!