Our Souls are One

Summary: What happens when two people die at the exact same moment? The boundaries between fiction and reality break. And what happens when those two people refuse to die? Their souls take a little detour…NaruxOCxSasu

A/N: This is my first Naruto ficcie, and I'm not really a whiz at what happens in later chapters, I've only seen the first few, I just know the basic info about the basic characters, but I really really really like Naruto! So try and don't be tooooooo evil with me, and tell me in what I can improve to make better stories in the future :D

Chapter 1: At The Beginning (Part One)

Run, just keep running, Sakura told herself as she sprinted through the forest at breakneck speed. She was out of breath; her legs just kept moving by instinct. She had a stitch in her ribs, but she had to keep on going, she could not stop! She looked back: the enemy was hot on her trail. She then forced herself to run as fast as she could. A few seconds later, she looked back again: The enemy was nowhere to be seen… I finally lost him, thought Sakura, but when she looked where she was going…Wham! She was caught by two big, strong arms that refused to let her go. Her captor chuckled.

"You did well, but not well enough, you're gonna have to— huh?" He looked down to see that what he had in his arms was a branch. He heard someone giggle behind him. Kakashi looked behind him to see Sakura lying against the marked tree. He chuckled again.

"Well done, Sakura. You three have improved beyond words since the first day I saw you. Though I think you've improved too much, how could you trick me with something as simple as that?" he finished laughing.

"Come on, Sensei, I know you just let me take advantage, I'll never be as good as— ow!" shrieked Sakura, shaking her left hand violently.

"What is it?"

"I think a bug must've bit me…" Kakashi took a look at Sakura's hand: It had to minuscule holes that were surprisingly not bleeding.

"Come, we must act quickly…" and with that, they hurried to where Naruto and Sasuke were waiting.

In the Hot Summer afternoon, in the edge of the forest were Naruto and Sasuke. Naruto had taken off his orange jacket and was under the shelter of a tree's shadow, but even so, he saw himself in the need of waving his jacket to cool himself a little. Sasuke, on the other hand, was deep in thought in the middle of the clearing some twelve feet away from Naruto, under the intense blaze of the merciless sun. What's he doing? Trying to get a suntan? Naruto thought. Even while he was fanning himself with his jacket, he was sweating, yet Sasuke's complexion remained completely normal, like if he were standing in the middle of a windy plain. How is he doing it? Thought Naruto frustrated. The heat reflected on the dry ground made everything ten feet away from Naruto look blurry, like when you try to look through fire. At that moment, Naruto heard a twig snap behind him; he looked back and saw Kakashi, closely followed by Sakura.

"Come, we must go to the village quickly," said Kakashi in an urgent tone.

"But, Kakashi-Sensei, what was it that bit me?" asked Sakura.

"I'm not exactly sure, but I have a slight idea by looking at your hand now…" they all looked at Sakura's hand and they were horrified to see that it was turning black.

"Come on, let's go!" and with this they all set at a run towards the village.

"We're going to my place. I have plenty of medicinal plants that will help us beat the poison."

"Poison!" said Sakura and Naruto simultaneously, looking shocked.

"Yes poison, that bug that bit Sakura was definitely poisonous, but if we act quickly enough—Sakura?" Kakashi stopped running when he saw that they had left Sakura behind. Naruto walked towards her.

"Sakura?" he called. Sakura was simply looking at the floor, then she swayed. Naruto caught her just before she hit the floor.

"Sensei!" called Naruto. Before he knew it, Sakura was being retrieved from his arms and being carried away by Kakashi at a speed that Naruto could not match.

"Hurry up, loser!" said Sasuke as he ran past him.

"Oh, yeah! Well, I'm going to beat you Sasuke, believe it!" and with that, he set off running behind Sasuke. When they got to Kakashi's place they were both out of breath. Kakashi's place was a mess, filled with old pictures in the walls, including of his own team when he was a kid, and pictures of women here and there, and the floor was trashing with papers and old books of Make Out Paradise. They went to Kakashi's room to see Sakura on Kakashi's bed: her face was getting red and she was sweating. Kakashi was putting a wet towel on her forehead.

"Naruto, go get some cold water, she's boiling in fever, Sasuke, take care of Sakura while I go and get the medicine." Ordered Kakashi.

"Hey! Why can't I stay with Sakura?"

"There's no time to complain, Naruto! Now do as you're told!" Kakashi told Naruto in a way that he wouldn't have done in any other time; he was obviously very worried for Sakura. Naruto picked himself together and went to the sink to get some cool water. Sasuke stayed in Sakura's side while Kakashi dashed to another room to get the medicine. When Naruto came into the room again, Sasuke was on Sakura's right checking her pulse while Kakashi was on her left, trying to make her swallow some green liquid that was extract of medicinal plants. Naruto dunked a towel in the cool water he had just brought and put it on her forehead. He could feel the heat of Sakura's fever like you can feel the heat on a stove when it's on high. Right now, Sakura felt like her head was about to explode, she could not breathe, but she would not give up! She would fight for her life! I will not die like this…

"Her pulse is lowering!" said Sasuke.

"No!" Cried Naruto.

"Don't worry, Sakura. We'll save you!" said Kakashi reassuringly…