Hehehehe I can hear Gray calling for food.........Better go feed him.....

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Sasuke didn't know where in the world he was. It was dark, an endless cascade of black that one could walk forever in. No sound echoed through this vast emptiness but his own labored breathing. It occurred to him that he had possibly died, but then again, why would he be here? Shouldn't he be somewhere else instead of trapped here?

"Hello?" he tried to call out to someone in the giant darkness. Of course, nothing ansewered his call.

Sasuke was starting to get a little irritated and began to walk through this eternal foe. He vaguely remembered being in a fight with some guy named Haku.....Continuing to walk, he further explored what he could remember before passing out. Naruto and him were in a fight with Haku....Naruto got injured and he had oddly felt the need to protect the punk while he was knocked out. Ah! AND he had taken the attack meant for the stupid fox-like boy....

That particulary notion set his brain in order and vacantly rubbed the areas where the Senbon had pierced his skin. The wounds hurt in a distant sort of matter and for some odd reason, the needle weapons were missing.

He had been walking for a little while now, still stumbling upon nothing at all. Sasuke was beginning to feel frustrated with this inability to know where he was headed. However, this all changed when he heard a low but commanding voice echo through the vast emptiness.

"You, I presume, would be Sasuke?" the tenor of the voice echoed through his mind a few seconds before Sasuke registered what it had said.

"What's it to you?" he answered cautiously and crouched to a defensive stance.

The voice only chuckled a bit before answering, "That would be a yes. Now onto buissness," the voice suddenly became serious, "In the last mere minutes of your 'death' the one known as Naruto has completely broken the seal that holds back the legendary Ninetails."

Sasuke had no idea what the hell the voice was talking about.

"The only notion holding back complete insanity is his intent to avenge your 'death.' You haven't died yet, but if a miracle doesn't happen soon then you very well will be. I have come with a proposition for you, Sasuke."

By now Sasuke had overcome the fact that there was this odd voice talking to him and would possibly know where the heck he was. The Sharingan user decided to ignore the fact that it was a voice with no body to connect with that voice let alone a mouth. Besides, he was walking in complete blackness, anything could happen and decided to ask the first question that came to mind.

"Where the hell am I?" he asked the blackness, irritated.

A sigh was heard, "If I answer this one question, will you be more cooperative and listen to what I have to say?"

"Possibly....." was the intelligent answer.

"At the moment, you are drifting in a state of half-living. Your mind is here, awaiting the signal to die because your body can't go on. Now, will you hear the propostition?"

Sasuke only glared into nothingness.

"I could bring you back to life with only minor injuries and you will be able to go on with life."

"What's the catch?" Sasuke questioned, still trying to locate the voice however, it seemed to be all around him.

"You would have to keep the fox in line."

"What fox are you talking about?!" the navy-haired ninja roared.

If the voice had a body it would have hit its head on the wall, "The boy known to you as Naruto had the Ninetails sealed inside of him at a very young age, right after he was born, because the Hokage could not destroy it. Never once had it broken until now. Naruto broke the seal in the pain of your death and decided to avenge it."

Sasuke was in shock, never had he suspected Naruto to be the fox.

At the moment he felt like ripping his hair out at the frustration of it all.

"Now will you accept the offer? I haven't got all day you know........."

Once more Sasuke glared around him angrily, "What exactly do you mean, keep him in line?"

By now the voice was getting irritated, "Make sure he does not get out of hand because it seems that you are the key to his sanity, otherwise the fox would completely take over and cause a killing rampage. Now do you accept or not?!"

Sasuke sighed. At least he would get to stay alive......"Fine, fine........."

The voice would have smiled if it had a face. "Then it shall be done...................."

And with that the dark world around Sasuke dissipated and grew brighter until his eyes fluttered open to stare into the face of the Ninetails himself.

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What did ya'll think?! Sorry! I didn't mean for Sasuke to be so.....so......out of character. This was the only way I could think of getting him back alive and I do think it helped tie in the story a bit. I would like to clear something up with one of my reviewers. I DO know Kyuubi has nine tails. That is why he is called the Ninetails. There is a reason that he hasth five. Naruto isn't an adult yet, so therefore his fox form would match that of his actual age and match it with a fox age. He grows his a tail every few years until he has grown all nine tails. I just figured five would about suit up his age for now. O_o That was a bit confusing.......