Naruto collapsed to his knee's as he watched the slaughter around him. 'Move Naruto…you've got to move…' He told himself, though his body refused to even cringe at this point in time. 'Move, damn it….' Naruto shouted at himself inside; though to no avail. It was only when he saw Neji about to behead Hinata's, did the blonde spring up. Hands quivering, Naruto watched as Neji's kunai raced towards the girl's neck. Clang. Naruto had thrown his own in the nick of time to stop the kunai. The brunette turned around and smiled at the boy with a wicked grin, while Hinata ran and hid behind Naruto shivering. "Brother Neji is…Orochimaru gave him some kinda liquid and…"

Naruto's heart flared at the name. The man was dead when he found him. 'I'll skin him alive, throwin him in a fire and eat him while he's burning to death!' The blonde though before charging at Neji. Throwing the boy to the ground with a tackle, he was surprised how Neji just gazed at him with a know-it-all smirk.

Naruto brought his hand back and threw it forward to smack the boy. "Wake the hell up!" He cried out, tears streaming down his face from the sight. Neji's cheek was now a light pink and splattered with blood as well as his clothes.

The mere smell would have overwhelmed the poor ninja boy, had he not had the training of smelling his own blood. "Do I look asleep Naruto?" Neji asked in his usual smart ass voice.

His eyes gazed at the blonde with no guilt nor fear. This is what set Naruto off. Grabbing the boy by the collar, he pushed him to his feet and pointed to the others. "You call this alive? You call this….this human?"

"We kill our enemies…and our enemies have one's whom love them…so why can't we kill our loved one's too? Is it that bad of a crime? When it comes right down to it, you are just killing….so who's blind and need's to wake up now?"

"Shut up!" Naruto screamed, throwing Neji into a hut's window.

His eyes widened when he heard the splatter of blood behind him. Turning around, he watched Hinata's body fall to the ground, Sasuke standing behind her with a bloodied katana; his red eyes now set on the blonde. Shaking, Naruto allowed his red chakra to flare up enough for a tail to form from the energy. "Fucking bastards!" He snarled.

"I thought you loved me Naruto…or does that only mean if I stay the way I was…?" The raven questioned walking over slowly with a look of sadness in his eyes which caused Naruto to look down in shame.

Sasuke smirked as he hugged the boy lightly, the blood on his clothes drenching Naruto. "It's okay my little back with me and we can be together…besides…what's stopping you now?" He asked, jerking the boy's head toward the village.

Naruto felt his tears intensify as he looked around at the village. "No….no…NOOO!" The blonde yelled, running out of the village and into the forest with the rookie nine on his tail. 'I lost it again…I lost my family again….it's over…it's all over!' "Narutooooo come back my little fox!" He heard the rookies chant as one, taunting him.

"No!" Naruto screamed running faster then his legs could ever want to go. Running blindly, the boy felt the brush around him scratch his legs, arms, chest, back and face. "Come on back Naruto!" He heard Kiba's voice yell in the background, "We can all be a pack."

"Common Naruto, it will be better then old times! Me and Ino even made up!" Sakura's also rung through the air.

'NO!' Naruto's mind screamed at them. " Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He huffed, having five clones run with him now and five run at the other rookies to buy him time.

Success! His clones were now fighting with the rookies, and now only Sasuke was on his trail. Sending the other five back, the boy was surprised that the clones were able to hold him back as Naruto ran on. It seemed all of his training had not only made him stronger but also his clones that he produced.

Naruto ran as fast as his feet would carry him and didn't stop until near midnight judging by the sky. The other's had stopped chasing him for now, but the blonde had gotten as far as he could away and was now lost. Shivering, the boy curled up in a ball, tears still running down his dirty, scratched face. Looking up at the pale silver moon, Naruto let out a small whimper as he saw Sasuke's smiling face in it, and the current Sasuke. "Sasuke-kun…." Naruto whispered putting his hand out, only to feel someone grasp it from behind.

Before the boy passed out from exhaustion, he heard a voice in the far off distance. "We need medics! We've got a survivor over here! "

Naruto awoke in a hospital bed the next day. Springing up, he was unfamiliar with the territory and glanced around the room growling lightly. The smell of sand mixed with the air of crisp evening. 'Where the hell-' Naruto thought as the hospital door opened and in strolled none other then Gaara. 'I'm at the village of the sand?' Had he really run so far? The red head walked over and pushed his chest so he laid back down. "You okay?" Gaara asked, concerned about the boy's mental state, "I heard about the village and rushed over but….."

Naruto let his eyes close in sorrow as images from the pervious night circled in his head. "Yeah….I understand….I couldn't save…them either…" He finally piped up, allowing new tears to stroll down his face.

He was surprised with Gaara wiped a tear from his cheek and ran his smooth hand through the boy's hair, as if he was petting a hurt animal. "Don't give up…I'm sure it will be fine…besides…not all is lost. You're Naruto Uzumaki after all. I'm sure if anyone can get them to come back, it's you." He said smiling lightly down at the boy.

Naruto had never seen Gaara so compassionate before. He was certainly surprised when the boy kissed him lightly on the lips, emitting a blush from either of them. "You saved me after all…" Gaara reminded him.

Naruto blinked, still shocked by the sudden butterfly kiss he had received. Tracing a hand over his lips, he felt his tears renew themselves once again. 'Sasuke-kun…' He whispered in his mind before whimpering. He allowed Gaara to sit down on the bed and pull the boy's head in his lap and stroke his face while he cried into his leg. "Sasuke-kun!…"

Gaara didn't say a word and merely comforted the boy until he cried himself into a peaceful slumber. It was about this time that his sister emerged from the door.

"How's fox boy?" She questioned with a sad expression.

She had never seen the boy so deep in depression, nor her brother so compassionate. The situation had to be bad for the two to be in such states. Gaara merely looked out the window as a sudden storm approached and thunder rumbled outside the window, causing the boy below him to squirm in his sleep. "Lets just say..," Gaara finally replied, "that even the desert grieves at this time…"

Temari looked outside, astonished by the rain. "The god's are certainly crying aren't they?" She asked with a sigh before she sat by her brother.

"Yes….Yes they are."