FADING

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto

Part 7

It had been two restless days. Naruto had laid unconscious on Sasuke's spare bed, not moving and breathing shallowly. Those two night Sasuke would toss and turn in his sleep petrified that Naruto would by some fashion… die. He didn't think he could survive that.

On the second night, something stirred Sasuke from his bed. Perhaps it was his open window, which now leaked in cold air. Or perhaps it was something more. Sasuke patted over Naruto's room to gaze at the sleeping man, but Naruto was no where to be found. Desperately Sasuke searched around his house for Naruto.

A few minutes later he heard the wind slamming his open back door open and shut, open and shut. Sasuke in a panic ran towards in… only to find no sign of Naruto. Sasuke began to fret over Naruto's safety. Would the blond be okay… would he be safe?

Suddenly Sasuke felt a flare of an unnatural, familiar and alluring chakra not too far away. It took him a moment to place it, but once he realized that it was Naruto's, well the new Naruto's more powerful version, Sasuke heedless of any late night revelers, ran out in only his silk black boxers. He followed it like a moth to a flame, not caring or perhaps not realizing that this much Chakra generated around someone could surely kill anyone who anyone who was within a meter of it. It was moving far into the woods that surrounded the Village Hidden in the Leaves.

Luckily upon spotting the blond he took several steps back for his safety and out of fear. Naruto was not awake. He had slept walked to this specific clearing and had proceeded while unconscious to manipulate his chakra. Surrounding the blond was a purple domes. It's edges, which should be smooth judging by its dimensions, seemed jagged and unstable.

Was talking in a foreign tongue to himself or so it seemed at first… because moments later his chakra began to respond in movements. In constricted when he was quiet and pulsed when he was talking… was he talking to his chakra or was his chakra responding to someone else's touch.

Abruptly Naruto left out a scream as his chakra began to collapse and condense around him. Terrified for Naruto's safety Sasuke took two steps forward only for several speedy needles made of chakra to be launched in his direction. He avoided four of them, but the fifth he knew instinctively would pierce his throat.

Naruto was beginning to bleed as the chakra coiled about him. Suddenly his eyes opened, seeing the needle flying at Sasuke about to pierce him. Naruto screamed a single word in this foreign tongue. The needle froze and fell to his feet. Not a chakra needle any more, but an actually needle.

Had Naruto's chakra formed into an actual solid weapon… or had it just used one available. Tears poured down Naruto's face as he watched Sasuke take a staggering step backwards. Naruto knew that Sasuke would flee in panic now… everyone panicked. And this was the reason why he had walled himself off from others, why he was rude and violent. He didn't want to care about the people who became frightened of him… but this boy had been different. He had refused not to care.

But contrary to Naruto's belief a determined look crossed Sasuke's face and he took a step forward, when nothing attacked him. Sasuke urged his feet towards the shocked and tearful blond and wrapped his arms about the boy, gentle not to hurt the burns of Naruto's body. Naruto fainted from exhaustion in Sasuke arms. Sasuke made sure Naruto was unconscious before brushing his lips on Naruto's forehead.

He loved this man… he didn't want to let go. And now that he had seen the yearning for someone to care and love him in Naruto's eyes… Sasuke would not let Naruto hide again.

EARLIER THAT DAY

A young boy of about with beautiful light brown eyes and bronze skin walked through the streets looking dismal. A few tears slipped down his face as he walked unheeding the warning shouts and curses of those who passed by him. Dressed in rags and apparently limp fro exhaustion, the boy wasn't prepared when a tall man with enormous forehead and his pink haired wife rushed out and knocked the door to the ground. Whimpering the boy curled himself into a tight ball as a few droplets of blood slipped onto the cobbles.

The pair looked aghast and swiftly with a questioning look at his wife the man bent down to scoop up the child in his arms.

When Sakura arrived home after some intensive training with Tsunade, she found a little boy wearing her neighbor's old clothes, sitting on her couch.

The little boy looked up and smiles a gaped tooth angelic grin and said sweetly "Hey, Sakura…. Umm… your mom and dad…" the boy said looking down at his feet nervously. "Said I'll be staying with you and them for a little while… until they find me a home. Umm… my name is Adam."

Sakura being the kind hearted girl she was had immediate sisterly feelings towards this angelic the boy and gave him a hug. Noticing the bandages on his arms. Sakura immediately began to fuss.

Soon the little boy found himself in a spare room, curled up under the blankets. Sakura had healed his wounds and later tucked him into bed.

NIGHT

It was late at night when a dark shadow with menacing red eyes appeared in the room and said… "ARC have you established you position?"

The little boy opened his eyes that now shone a blood red and said in a hollow voice "It was far to easy. These fools are so easy to manipulate… when all is done here and we have our target I want to be the one to kill them."

THE END FOR NOW…

I know… I know short chapter, but I intend to update it again to day. Right now… I have to work on my other stories I have been kind of behind in updating. And I'm also working on several projects….

Anyways I wanted to leave a message here… if you've read the notice I wrote at the end of chapter 6 of FEAR … I have a ton of plot outlines create for Naruto, but I'm already having a hard time balancing four stories… and I really what to read the product… so I'm giving these plots away…

So please contact me if you're interested… I can also design a plot specifically tailored to your interests… and I don't want anything from you… You don't even need to put my name anywhere on the story… it's your once I sent you the files.

Each outline has a plot and secrets that go with it. The secrets are basically added information that you can use, but you don't have too.

Below are two of my favorite story outlines… however I wouldn't suggest using them immediately without contacting me… because someone might have already claimed them and gotten the information (Secrets) from me…

Anyways here are my favorite two:

INSANE- horror/action/adventure (A touch of YAOI romance? Sasunaru?)

Haunted by voices that no one else hears and touched by hands that don't exist., Naruto quits being a Shinobi. But those terrifying presences will not let him walk away. Soon he finds himself in the forest in the middle of the night practicing strange and deadly jitsus to appease this insanity. As the years pass and a war draws near, those terrifying lessons might be the only think the saves him and the Village Hidden in the Leaves.

RUINS- mystery/action/adventure

After witnessing a horrifying event designed specifically to torture Naruto. Naruto leaves in search of answers no one has. Who were his mysterious parents that appeared out of no where only to leave him an orphan? Why is he, not Kyuubi, now deemed invaluable? Who is he?

Have a nice morning, afternoon or night

-TK