Heh-heh, err…sorry for not updating sooner…again. I had trouble writing the fight scene in this…so yeah that's my excuse! I got ten reviews last chapter, all of which I enjoyed reading so on with the story!
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"We have a message from the sand"
"What is it?" Tsunade demanded.
"It says that they had found a man that corresponded with Jiraya's description a few days after they found Naruto. The man was dead and Gaara ordered them to bury the body there and then"
"He's definitely dead then" Tsunade sighed and stared out of the window "Damn it"
"Tsunade-sama?"
Tsunade turned towards the messenger and waved her hand towards him "Go, you're dismissed"
The man bowed before vanishing in a cloud of smoke. How had things ended up like this? She thought.
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"Sakura?"
Sakura looked up from her work and stared at the person who had wandered into the room. "Ino? What are you doing here?"
The blonde walked towards the hospital bed that Sakura's patient was lying on. She stared at her former teacher Iruka as he lay there unconscious before looking back towards Sakura.
"How are you doing?"
"I'm…I'm ok I guess. How are you and Chouji doing?"
"As best as we can be, I guess"
They stared at each other in an awkward silence, Ino fiddling with her fingers and Sakura bit her lip. Eventually Ino stood up and made her way towards the door, she placed her hand on the door handle before leaving she turned her head to face Sakura.
"I'm glad you're ok"
Before Sakura could reply Ino left the room.
"Ugh…what happened? Sakura is that you?"
Surprised Sakura looked down at her patient "Iruka! You're awake!"
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Naruto stared at Sasuke and grinned. He couldn't believe that he had forgotten about the dark haired boy's existence. Who could forget about someone betraying him like that?
You have to kill him you know.
Naruto inwardly snarled he knew he had to kill the other boy; he didn't need it telling him that. He wasn't stupid.
Drink his blood, eat his flesh.
Naruto licked his lips at the thought. He advanced towards Sasuke sending out waves of killer intent. The other boy quivered and tried to hold himself up by leaning against a wall. After a few moments Sasuke appeared to recover and stood up by himself still keeping his back against the wall. He drew out his sword and pointed in the blond's direction.
"I'm not going to lose to you moron, no matter how nuts you've gotten" he snapped.
Naruto simply grinned; he raised his arms and performed the hand seals for his infamous Kage Bunshin technique. His red chakra started to surround him and his eyes slowly turned red. He performed his last seal and whispered "Tagi kage bunshin technique"
Sasuke's eyes widened visibly as at least a hundred Naruto clones appeared in front of him. Each one grinned maniacally at him.
Blood, I need blood now. Kill him now, rip him apart, he deserves it.
The clones all raced towards Sasuke, claws outstretched, Sasuke leaped out of the way and sliced five with his sword. The clones vanished in a cloud of chakra smoke. Growling the remaining clones leaped at Sasuke again who managed to 'kill' another seven but not before one them swiped at his arm.
"Shit!" Sasuke swore and clutched his arm; the mysterious red chakra surrounding Naruto had burned it badly. He leaped out of the way of another swipe and soon found himself surrounded by all of Naruto's clones. They all charged towards the Uchia who seemed to have given up as he was just standing there. As the clones were about to reach him however they were all hit by a wave of electricity.
"Full body Chidori!"
Sasuke stood there panting as the several waves of clones disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Naruto and his remaining twenty clones looked at each other and smirked.
"Looks like you've learned some new tricks"
Kill, Kill, KILL!
"Shut up" Naruto spat "What do you think I'm doing you mangy fur ball?"
Sasuke stared at Naruto "Huh? Who are you talking to?"
"Why should I tell you?" Naruto snarled and the red chakra whipped round his body violently.
"Why the fuck should you know!"
"Naruto! Calm down"
The blond looked towards Gaara who had walked towards them.
"Why?"
"Because you'll loose control of yourself again"
Naruto growled "Maybe I want to; I want to rip this bitch to pieces"
Sasuke stared as Gaara and Naruto had their heated exchange, maybe he could escape while they argue…
Nope Gaara's wall of sand stopped him from doing that. He steeped back from the menacing wall and looked towards Gaara.
Gaara stared back at him coldly "Don't you fuckin' escape"
He looked back towards Naruto "So you'll let just let him take over? Don't you want to kill him?"
"I guess you're right"
The red head snorted "I know I'm right"
The red chakra retreated from Naruto, though his eyes stayed red and silted "But I think I'll use their help"
"Fine, just don't let him out"
Naruto simply smiled and raised his hand, Sasuke watched curiously as a black liquid appeared to form in the shadow of the blonde's arm. What is he doing? He thought.
He watched as the liquid formed itself into two canine shapes, no… Sasuke thought, more like two foxes.
Naruto looked down at the two snarling foxes and smiled before bending down to pet both their heads "Help me kill him"
The two foxes barked in reply before launching themselves at a stunned Sasuke.
"SHIT!" Sasuke leaped out of the way while slicing at one of the beasts. The thing seemed to be down for a moment before getting up again to attack. Sasuke sliced at them both again but his action made him unable to defend against Naruto whom had come up from behind him. Using a clone to help him Naruto created a spinning ball of chakra in his hand and thrust it towards Sasuke "Rasengan!"
Sasuke screamed as Naruto pushed the whirling ball of chakra into his back. In retaliation he grabbed Naruto by the neck and threw him over his head. He barely had time to watch Naruto smash into a nearby tree before the two fox things came at him again. Sasuke raised his sword to help guard his face as one of the foxes leaped at him. The fox's mouth closed over the blade and hung there growling and snarling.
"Get the fuck off!" Sasuke swung the blade around in a bid to fling the fox off. After a few swings the fox finally let go only for Sasuke to be leaped upon by both Naruto and the other beast.
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"Iruka! Thank god you're awake!"
"Sakura?" Iruka groaned and tried to push himself up; the action caused him to wince in pain.
"Iruka, don't move yet, you're too badly injured"
Iruka sighed and lay back down onto the bed. "Where's Naruto?" he asked.
Sakura looked down at her feet for a moment before answering "We don't know; he and Gaara ran off. They've been declared missing-nins"
"Oh" Iruka looked away "So you know what happened then?"
"Roughly, he and Gaara hurt you, didn't they?"
When Iruka didn't answer Sakura got up and walked towards the door "I'll just go tell Tsunade-sama that you're awake then"
Iruka watched as Sakura left the room leaving him to his thoughts.
"Naruto never hurt me, only Gaara did. Naruto left me alive on purpose, why? Is he not completely gone then?"
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Sasuke was fighting for his life. When it wasn't Naruto attacking him, it was one of those blasted foxes. He had given up on tactics and was now simply trying to stave off the constant attacks while attempting to find an opening.
There! He saw it, one of the foxes had leapt up at him and Sasuke had dodged it. This left the creature open from behind. He swung with his sword as soon as the beast landed on the ground only for it to dodge and maul his chest instead. What the? It was like it had seen him from behind! How…?
As the fox leapt at him again, Sasuke realised something. The creature's eyes were strange. They were white, pure white and the skin, if you would call it that, were deeply veined. It almost looked like it had the…
"Byakagen, does it have byakagen?"
After throwing the white-eyed fox off him again, the other one came at him. This one's eyes were weird too he noticed. They were round and had long eyelashes and he was sure he recognised those overly large eyebrows from somewhere…
"Lee!"
"So you finally recognised them huh?"
"What…what are you talking about!"
Naruto stood in front of him grinning, the two foxes stood by his side snarling at Sasuke. The blond patted the two beasts head and whispered "Anthromorphic mode"
The foxes shifted back into their liquid form and reformed themselves. They now stood up on their hind legs, their front legs and paws transformed into arms and hands. Their heads were still fox like and they still kept their tails.
"Now they can use all of their techniques" Naruto smiled.
The Lee like one rushed forward with his fists clenched aiming for Sasuke's head.
Well, it's definitely shorter than my other chapters …but I did try. Well thanks for all your reviews people! Valagen, blue-genjutsu, the sadistic homicidal child, Tinat.E, dvsk12, PyroD, Kai's Snowfall, XXkyuu-chanXX, Midnight-sama and grey-fox. Sorry you don't like the idea that Naruto is gay grey-fox, but glad you like the story. Anyway Naruto is bi-sexual in my story not gay. He did have a crush on Sakura. People always forgets about the bi-sexuals…sigh.
