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Last time…
"Damnit, Sasuke..." Naruto muttered at the nearly lifeless boy in front of him. He groaned then gently picked up Sasuke bridal-style, jumping off the tree and racing toward the village, hoping that the Uchiha boy would live. Getting to the village a few seconds later, he frantically looked around for a doctor of some kind. As he searched, the word 'damnit' looped through his mouth. After a few minutes, Naruto got extremely annoyed with the town and screamed, "GOD DAMNIT CAN'T ANYONE HELP!"
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Sasuke mumbled something just to show he was still alive as his head tilted off to the side a bit, resting up against Naruto's shoulder. Hearing Naruto screaming, the short, pink-haired girl quickly ran through the streets until she finally reached Naruto and Sasuke. She opened her mouth to question Naruto but then saw Sasuke and held back a very loud scream. "Sasuke-kun!"
"Sakura! Sakura! Do you think you can help?" Naruto said, frantic as hell. He was about to beat the shit out of anyone who couldn't help, or who wasted his time. Feeling his cheeks growing warm, he looked down and saw that Sasuke was resting his head on his shoulder. He shook his head then looked back up at Sakura. "Can you help?" He glanced slightly at the copy-nin whom just ran up to them, almost breathlessly and gasped, "What the hell happened?"
"I- I'm not sure if I'll be able to help him, just what happened!" Sakura asked. "Once I know, I'll be able to tell you if I can help him or not!" she said, turning at the sound of Kakashi's voice. "Kakashi-sensei! I'm not sure what happened, I just asked Naruto, but we need to help Sasuke-kun!"
Naruto's eyes turned to the ground and he mumbled something like, "He got cut with a Kunai." Naruto refused to make eye contact with Sakura and Kakashi after he said this.
Kakashi strained to hear was Naruto had said. "What was that, Naruto?"
From Naruto's eyes flew tears. "HE GOT CUT WITH A KUNAI!" he shouted, sobbing.
"He got cut with a kunai?" Sakura echoed, blinking slightly unbelieving. 'There's got to be more to it... I wonder how many times he actually got cut... And if there's something else to it,' she thought to herself. "Well... Let me see where he got cut, Naruto, alright? Just calm down... He'll be ok."
Sasuke flinched a little as soon as Naruto started to sob, his eyes opening just a small bit. He stiffened a little bit, though, when he managed to catch a very small glimpse of Sakura and Kakashi. Damnit. Having Naruto know about what he was doing was one thing... but now Sakura and Kakashi were going to find out...? Damnit. Damnit all.
Naruto calmed down just a tad but tears were still staining his cheeks. He knew that Sasuke would probably kill him for showing Sakura and Kakashi the wound, but he had to if he wanted Sasuke to live. Naruto shifted Sasuke in his arms so the wound on his arm was shown. Naruto unwrapped the wound so Sakura and Kakashi could see, and then rewrapped it once he saw that their eyes were widened. He stared down at Sasuke and thought, "Yep... he's going to kill me for this..."
"Oh my..." was all he could say in response. He thought for a moment about Sasuke's personality and asked, "Are you sure it wasn't self-inflicted?"
Naruto refused to look up at Kakashi, but nodded his head, gulping slightly. "Yes... I'm sure it wasn't anything like that..." New, warm tears threatened to form on Naruto's marvolous blue eyes.
Sakura placed a hand over her mouth to hold back a cry at the sight of the Uchiha's arm. Her eyes widened a little bit. 'Are you sure, Naruto? Or are you just lying to cover it up for Sasuke?' she wondered, before emitting a sigh. "I think I can help him..." She said before she cast a glance over towards Kakashi, giving him a look that said she needed to talk to him afterwards.
Naruto still refused to make eye contact with both of them as he said, "Yes... I'm sure. I'm not lying to cover for Sasuke..." His head rose when she said he could help. "Arigato, Sakura." God he hated lying... and how he sucked at it.
Kakashi's eyebrow rose at Naruto's answer, not believing one bit of it. He looked to Sakura and nodded at her look, then looked back to Naruto. "I'll help as much as I can."
"Come on then, Naruto." Sakura murmured, turning. "We'll take him to my place just because I don't think it would be too safe to treat him right here," She said, casting a glance over her shoulder towards Naruto, gaze then averting to Sasuke, sighing a bit. 'Why in the heck are you hurting yourself, Sasuke?' she wondered.
Naruto nodded and followed Sakura and Kakashi to Sakura's house, refusing to speak or look up.
Kakashi walked with Naruto and Sakura, glancing over at Sasuke every once and a while, thinking the same thing that Sakura was. "Naruto... Do you want me to carry him?" Kakashi asked, noticing that Naruto was getting a bit pale himself.
"N-No... I'm fine," Naruto responded quietly, shifting Sasuke in his arms so he could hold him better.
Kakashi sighed then looked to Sakura; she was looking extremely worried. 'Hell... we all are,' Kakashi thought to himself, then looked back at Naruto, 'some more than others...'
Once Sakura got to her house, she opened the door. "My parents are probably home... Just go up the stairs to my room. The door will be open. Just put him on my bed and try to wake him up, alright? If he sleeps too long in this condition he might actually die without any of us knowing. I'm going to need to explain the situation to my parents and why I have three guys here."
Naruto and Kakashi both nodded, showing that they understood, and then Naruto shuffled up to Sakura's room, trying not to drop Sasuke on his way up. He set Sasuke on Sakura's bed and attempted to wake him by smacking him on the cheek lightly with the back of his hand. His attempts failed and he pulled up a random chair next to the bed and watched Sasuke for any amounts of movement. "Damnit Sasuke... Wake up or you really might die..." Naruto muttered, feeling his eyes tear up for the millionth time today.
A soft whine escaped from Sasuke's lips and his eyes slowly started to open. His body suddenly became tensed, however, when he noticed he was in a room. He started to sit up but his body shook slightly, showing him that he wasn't strong enough to really be moving around and he allowed himself to lie back down, glancing over towards Naruto. "Naruto..." He whispered. "Where am I...?"
Doe: And there's chapter 2! n.n; I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as I can.
