Author Note: FINALLY after so long, here is the next chapter that so many have waited for.. I told you that the next one would take time and I've just finished my first year in high-school (think it is) and now that I have two different editers... Asaroth for all my sasunaru fics and Kaara for my third fic, it puts a little more presure on me to send them new updates without taking too long... Now that I've finished off Itsu made mo, dobe I'm going to start a new fic, but I'm not quite done with it yet... stay tuned for when it comes... I've asked Asaroth if it's a copy of someone that is already up (there are so many) and I was told that it was original, not an already used idea :D YAY... And as I've said... I'm not good at fighting scenes, but I'm doing my best... hopefully I'm not too boring...:) I actually had to read the last few chapters to get back on track for this one. I've forgotten some of it, how's that possible for something that I've written myself? (scratch my head) Well that was the case but as I said I'm back on track now!!! :D I also can't update as soon as I have the chapters ready and send them to my beta readers 'cause my lap top isn't connected to the net at home and I've never succeeded with it for a year, dunno the reason and I only have one working disc at the moment and my sister is lending it to me so I can get the last three Naruto episodes. So that's a little sad too. I've been told over and over again how good I am with flashbacks in all my stories so I'm starting to believe it myself now ;o) As a treat I've left a few comments from Asaroth scattered in the end note.. I'm only being mean but I thought that some of them was just really great comments :p Sorry Asaroth, don't take this personal. XD I laughed when I read them myself, I would actually slightly compare you to Inner Sakura. Don't take everything she say's seriously, she just have a weak heart for everything related to tragedy!

I want to thanks everyone that reviewed on the last chapter during the waiting time for the next update. It reminded me of it in school and kept my spirit up..! :) Thanx a lot.

But until you reach the end of this chapter, Read, Enjoy and Review!!! XD Like always!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto but Satoshi is my property and mine alone in this fic. As well as this story!

Pairings: SasuNaru, HinaNeji, SakuLee... I think that is all of them, can't remember if I had more!

Thoughts: '........' Speaking: "....." Normal scene/memory change: oOoOo Momentarily breaking Flashback to return to reality just for a moment and then back again: -----oOoOo-----

What You Left Me

Written by Monkan and Edited by Asaroth

Chapter 8

Sasuke hit the wall hard and coughed up blood when he fell to the ground. His chest was hurting and he could feel that something was broken inside of him. He looked up in time to see the missing scar on Naruto's face appear. 'What was going on?' Naruto stood up with grace that only could have been earned from years of training and practise.

Sasuke followed his example and stood up slowly. His hand reached slowly for his holster and he walked back where the blond man was standing. The wind made their hair move. Sasuke took out a pair of shurikens and held them in his palm so that Naruto couldn't see them.

He looked up the wall and saw Satoshi being held by a man inside some kind of field. 'Satoshi!' The look on the little boy's face made Sasuke clench his hand, drawing blood as the weapon's edge cut his skin. 'I can't lose you!' He looked over to the blond man. His mind raced with the possebility that this was the one of the few people he truely loved. 'If he really is Naruto, how can I fight him? I..can't.. lose him too! I die for sure if I lose either of them.'

Sasuke went down in a fighting stance and threw his shurikens. Naruto easily dodged them and he sneared at the failed attempt to harm him. To the blond man's was surprised as Sasuke apeared right next to him and tried to punch him. Naruto raised his hand and blocked the attack and threw the other man off balance, but Sasuke surprised him when he put his hand down on the ground and twisted so suddenly that he managed to kick Naruto in his chest. Sasuke flipped backwards and didn't let down his guard once. His sharingan followed his opponent.

"Naruto is it really you? What happen to you?" Sasuke asked the other but Naruto didn't seem to hear him.

Naruto fell back from the force of the hit, but he never landed on the ground. Instead he threw himself backwards and landed on his feets like a cat. Naruto looked up and watched Sasuke. The fully mastered sharingan met Kyuubi's red eyes.

"Answer me Naruto." Sasuke yelled.

The kitsune growled deep in his throat before he launched himself at the dark haired man and Sasuke had to jump out of the way when Naruto attacked him and the sheer force from the blow made the ground crack with the impact. Sasuke's eyes widened. Naruto followed closely after Sasuke. When Sasuke reached the other side of the stadium and only the wall greeted his back he did another summersault to avoid Naruto's attack. He landed on his feet on the side of the wall and he ran to the left to get some distance between him and Naruto. Naruto followed behind him and all Sasuke saw was that if he didn't want to die he had to fight seriously, but how could he? This wasn't looking too good.

He looked over his shoulder and yelled. "Naruto if it's really you, stop it! Don't make me hurt you!"

Suddenly Naruto jumped over him and landed right in front of him, but instead of trying to attack him with his claws again he surprised everyone and made a few seals and breathed deeply. Sasuke's sharingan widened, the first seal was 'bird'. His own hands moved in a familiar seal sequence and he prepared to counter.

"Ice Element: Northern Ice Breath!" Naruto's voice called.

"Katon: Grand Fire Ball!" Sasuke's voice called right after.

Naruto released his breath and a large cloud of ice cold air came out. It froze the wall between them before it hit Sasuke's fire jutsu and they cancelled each other. Both jumped from the wall and landed on the ground in the middle again. Sasuke caught the blond as he made a new seal and his sharingan started to copy right away, but for some reason he knew that this one was more trouble than the last one.

"Mokuton Hijutsu Jukai Koutan! (Secret Tree Element Technique, Birth of the Trees)" The ground under their feet started to crack and roots started to grow out of them. They grew bigger with every second.

The few ANBUS that had watched the third Hokage die were now starting to remember the technique that had amazed them even if they hadn't been able to do anything against it because of the barrier the four Sounds had put up.

"Watch out. Don't stand still!" The leader of the ANBU yelled from his seat. Drawing attention from the others around him.

'Shimatta.' Sasuke thought when tree roots came after him and he jumped upward to avoid them. He watched Naruto as he stood below him watching him. The roots grew around each other as they came after him. Sasuke landed on one of them before he jumped to the next to avoid getting crushed. Suddenly a shadow behind him made him take his attention away from the growing tree. He blocked the hit from Naruto, but the force sent him back against the growing roots that had finally stopped growing. They now reached about the height of the walls. Even if the trees had grown randomly, chasing him, everyone could see them.

oOoOoOoOoOoOo

On the wall Satoshi and the man looked at what was happening. 'They will kill each other if I don't do anything.' The man thought. He looked around. The others weren't paying attention to him, either because of their duties or because they were watching the fight unfold.

Satoshi's grip on the man's shirt tightened as he watched his father fight. Drawing the man's attention to him. The little boy was holding back tears, it didn't take a genius to get that. He was also scared to death that he would lose his dad. 'This isn't supposed to happen to a 6 years old. This is all my fault.' The man leaned down and picked Satoshi up.

The little blond boy looked up at the kind face. "Listen up, boy." The man whispered so the others couldn't hear him. "We are getting out of here, but I need you to stay with me and DON'T run away from me or you'll cause more trouble than we already have."

Satoshi nodded. "I won't run from you." He said in a calm voice, his eyes weren't full of tears any longer. The man gazed at the little boy with surprise. 'How can he be so... unique?' Satoshi met the man's eyes with full of determination. The calm face of the little boy was almost memorable. 'A little boy around 6 shouldn't have that kind of face, a face that shows years of understanding and compassion.' For a moment he was lost in that face, the face that told him something very important.

The man shook his head when he understood that he had been staring as if something held him still. He had been staring into Satoshi's face and for a moment he had thought that he could see the boy's future. A future that lied ahead and is decided for someone by the Gods.

"Just hold on." With that the man gathered chakra around them and performed a seal before he ran through the barrier. He jumped over the edge of the wall and he could hear his 'comrades' yelling, asking what he was doing.

The man's grip around Satoshi tightened as he jumped onto one of the giant roots because he could feel that he would somehow pay with his life.

oOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo

Sasuke fell hard against the branch and he could feel his already broken bones scrape against each other. His chest was burning with pain. 'I won't last much longer.'

The fight hadn't been very long, but in his mind it stretched on for years. Years of battling demons that held him in the past where he had lost someone he loved. He was tired of running away, tired of hiding, tired of denying that his heart was still crying with pain.

He looked up to see the blond man breathing hard on a branch above him. For a moment Sasuke thought that he saw something in the red eyes. Blue. "Naruto, yamero. This isn't you at all! Don't you remember me? Us? Our son?" Sasuke asked with sadness and desperation creeping into his voice.

Naruto stood still for a moment before he gripped his head and began to shake. Suddenly Naruto was jumping down toward Sasuke with his claws pointed at dark haired man's chest.

Time slowed up...

--Flashback--

"Naruto, come here. There is something you have to see!" Sasuke yelled from the window in his house. The blond man came out from another room.

"What is it?" He asked.

The dark haired boy wrapped his arms around the blond's waist and pointed at a couple on the street. Naruto almost started to laugh. It was Sakura and Lee. "Looks like they are a couple now." Sasuke said. Naruto smiled his fox smile.

"Then I can have you for myself."

oOoOo

"Time to wake up koi." Sasuke said as he sat down on the bed and leaned forward to kiss Naruto. The sun light filtered through the window.

"Hm... come back in 4 hours." Naruto mumbled through his sleepy state.

-----oOoOo-----

Sasuke could see Naruto approach with every intention of putting him out of his misery. His eyes widened a what that meant. 'I can't leave Satoshi.'

Sasuke reached into his holster and grabbed the first weapon he could find.

-----oOoOo-----

Naruto was sitting alone in the living room with a mission scroll in his lap. He almost jumped when a pair of arms wrapped around his neck and a head rested against his shoulder. "Naruto," Sasuke said in a low voice. "I have something to ask you!"

The blond turned his head to look at the other boy. "Nani?"

Sasuke turned his head to face the blond. "When you think about the future... Am I in it too?" Naruto blinked for a moment. "I don't want you to leave me Naruto. It would hurt me much more than I can imagine right now." A faint blush stained his pale cheeks. "I... actually... have realized that I can't face life without you." Sasuke's hand was fiddling with something.

"What are you saying, Sasuke?" Naruto stared at him with blue eyes.

Sasuke took a deep breath. "What I am saying is that... I love you more than I've ever loved anyone before. I don't ever want to leave you. I can only hope that you will love me just as much." Sasuke opened his fist in front of Naruto's face. Inside laid two simple golden rings.

Naruto stared at them with an open mouth before he stared at Sasuke's face. Before Sasuke could register it, he was being pulled down by a pair of arms until he was laying on top of the other boy. He was staring down into happy shining eyes.

"How can I not love you just as much?" Naruto hugged the other boy closely. "You don't know how happy you've made me now."

Sasuke smiled as he let the other boy shower him with hugs and kisses.

-----oOoOo-----

Naruto could feel like he was waking up from a long nightmare. Memories that had long been buried escaped their locked cage. The darkness that had surrounded him so long was dissipating now. Instead of being the one watching he was controlling what his body was doing.

"Sasuke?" Naruto blinked once. "What's going on?" He asked.

Sasuke's eyes widened when he heard the voice, but it was too late.

-----oOoOo-----

"Have you thought of having children?"

"A little, why?"

"How do you feel about us and a baby?"

"I would be lying if I said I didn't want one. I could have had almost any of the girls in this village and raise a family with her, but when I realized my heart wanted someone different, I chose you, Naruto and I stopped thinking about it that way. I feel that as long as I have you it will be up to us to raise a child together, if and when we adopt one."

"You know how they don't like gay couple adopting kids so I came to think of something. Since I'm not completely like any other guy, I went to the old hag's office and talked to her about it. She said she would look if there were any way with some help from Kyuubi so we could have a baby to call our own."

There he had said his idea. Now the only thing left was Sasuke's reaction to it.

"Naruto...." Sasuke hesitated. "You are crazy! It's impossible for a guy to have a baby."

"I may be crazy, but that's why you love me." Naruto smiled at Sasuke. Then he felt uneasy. "Would you accept our baby if it is possible for me to have one?" Naruto was feeling scared now. Was the thought of having a child with a guy so repulsing?

Sasuke was neutral for a moment before he softly smiled. "I will always love you and there would be nothing that would stop me from loving our child."

oOoOo

"We have a son, Sasuke!" Naruto smiled up happily at his lover before he fell asleep from exhaustion.

oOoOo

Sasuke held Naruto's hand as they walked through the streets of the festival. People glared at them, but they didn't care. They could glare all they wanted right now, they wouldn't give up their life together.

They could see Gaara of the Desert threatening some of the villagers if they harmed them. Naruto smiled.

"Good to have powerful allies." Sasuke just laughed for the first time since a long moment in public.

oOoOo

Naruto looked down at Sasuke among the sheets. "I love you so much." A faint blush covered his cheeks as he leaned down and kissed Sasuke.

oOoOo

Blood splattered the surrounding roots. A hand placed against a chest with golden skin and nails that only a moment ago had been claws. Clothes stained with blood. Panting breaths. Shocked dark eyes stared into soft blue ones. A kunai with the promise to protect someone precious written on it. Blood dripping down the hand and kunai. A chain with an orb slowly breaking as it shinned clear blue. A little boy scream when he saw his parents.

Sasuke had stabbed Naruto in the chest.

Tbc...

Author Note: I know I'm as bad as always for stopping (Asaroth: HELL YES!!!) now but I'm not going to make these chapters longer than this (Asaroth: meanie...), I'm a little tired that each chapter gets longer each time I write one. (Asaroth: shrugs, price of inspiration). Sorry for this chapter's ending (Asaroth: NARUTO WAS STABBED!!) but you just have to live with it (Asaroth: I can't I'm convulsing from shock). I'm also in a tight seat now. I have a question to ask to get me out of it. (Asaroth: Oh?)

HOW MANY WANT A HAPPY ENDING (Asaroth: ME!!!!) or else I will go along with tragedy (Asaroth: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! (monkan: O x46 I think)) and as I thought when I started this story (Asaroth: GYAAAA!! How could you?). If you don't want to see an emotionally wounded Satoshi and a crushed Sasuke then say that you want a happy ending (Asaroth: YESSSS, but why should they be crushed if it's happy?) because otherwise the ending will most definitely be very angsty (Asaroth: NOOOO!!!), depressing (Asaroth: ack! prepares to jump out the window), sad, heart breaking (Asaroth: GYAAA NOO!) and much more than I can probably name (Asaroth: 0.0). Once again I'm sorry that this chapter took so long to get up. I really hope the next one won't take just as long... I know it won't if you are really good and review to this chapter. :) I'm actually starting with the next chapter now, at least the beginning!

It will be interesting to see how many want happiness or tragedy. All reviews will be welcome, but all flames will be flamed back. (Asaroth: hehe give me that job, good stress reliever) This is obviously a story that many many Sasunaru fans like so I won't tolerate any kind of flames like The Reviewer wrote on Itsu made mo, dobe. (Asaroth: h..l yeah!) Don't let that stop you other from reviewing though.

Review all you want. I want to know if anyone still reads (Asaroth: I do!) this story after about a month with no update. cya...