Sup guys, Lighting Wolf here, back for another story. This one about Naruto. Enjoy the 800-word chapter. I don't own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto and a few others do.

What was it like to die? To see your life flash among your eyes, constantly questioning if the sweet relief of death was just inches from your face?

Konan right now was facing that, bleeding out on the ground, bloodied and bruised. She grunted and looked around, her Akatsuki robes in complete disarray.

"Hmm…" Konan stated as she looked at her wounds. "Damn it…" Konan stated to which she closed her eyes.

She didn't know who the warrior who attacked them. They had attacked her; she had thrown every single thing she had upon the enemy… And they had swept it aside, the deities of this world could see that she had put up the biggest fight of her life.

She heard footsteps nearing her. She couldn't see who it was. Konan could tell that this wasn't the same warrior who had left her at death's door. Their footsteps didn't match, and the being who had tried to kill her? They had departed long ago, leaving her to die painfully.

The footsteps drew closer, Konan awaited their kunai into a throat, who would kill her? Had the warrior who stabbed her return to do something awful on her body?

"Hmmm…" Konan muttered, curious who this was.

She was ready to slowly move to the next life. Konan had no real regrets about her life. Decisions had been made, choices taken, lives killed. Konan knew her legacy would be that of a terrorist, a monster who had taken some hard choices in the name of 'peace'.

"Hey are you ok?" Konan heard as the footsteps next to her stopped.

Ah, a villager from Rain. The village that Pain had liberated. She had taken their lake and made it the biggest bomb on the planet. She felt someone put pressure on her wound which was greeted by a gasp as she grunted in pain.

Konan felt her body leave the floor. Whoever was holding her was strong enough to carry a human being. They were probably a shinobi considering the amount of care they placed on carrying her. They had done this before. It was quite obvious; Pain had helped her work out which was which.

The figure slowly moved; her body grasped within their hands. One of the hands never moved from the spot on her stomach, stopping a single drop of her body's life force from leaving. Konan willed whatever strength in her body to her eyes and lips.

Whoever had grabbed her didn't mean to kill her, that much she had grasped. It would have been a simple matter of leaving her to choke to death on her own blood followed by a quick stab if they meant to take her life.

But they hadn't, she could tell that quite easily. Not with the grasp they kept around her wound.

"Why?" Konan asked, pressing the words through bloodied lips. "Why?" Konan repeated as the figure hummed.

"Because I'm not letting someone bleed to death for no reason." The figure stated which caused a slight hum to exit Konan's lips.

The fool. She was not killed for no reason. Her life was a threat to Akatsuki's plans. They had fallen from the tree that Pein had put into this world. They were not the well-intentioned extremists that Pein had envisioned the group as. They were worse.

She felt part of her robes rip. A slight segment was taken and wrapped tightly around her wound, a makeshift tourniquet that paused her from death's embrace.

A medical ninja. Had someone cared enough about her that she had been granted a second chance? What fate had been kind enough to snatch her from the jaws of death?

Whoever her life was held by? They made sure to keep her from passing out, maybe driven by some inane desire to save the paper wielding kunoichi. Konan could barely remember what thoughts cut through her brain, who was selfless enough to allow her to be left alive like this? Who had been driven by this altruistic desire to keep her alive?

Yes, there was plenty of things for her to understand. One last thing hung in her mind.

Who was this being? And what were their plan or desires with this move?

Author Notes

Phew. First chapter done! I want to point out that next chapter will be a bit delayed or such. Next chapter will be in 2-10 months and will show the figure talking to Konan and such. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!

P.S: Next chapter will be 1200 words. Sakura and Sadara are 900 words, Tsunade 1200 alongside Delta and Ino is 1500 or such soon.