Summary:
Meanwhile in the Leaf...
"Listen, I'm not trying to hurt you." Naruto had turned off his nine-tailed chakra mode because he didn't want to scare Sasuke.
It wasn't working though.
"Please stop running. I need to take you to get examined." Naruto suddenly appeared in front of Sasuke and he yelped in surprise.
"STAY BACK!" He started to run but he tripped and landed on his back.
Naruto sighed. "Yeah. I'll stay back, but please stop tripping. You don't have chakra; you're going to hurt yourself."
"GET AWAY!"
"I'm your friend!" Naruto reapproached him ad grabbed his shoulder. "Stop running from me!"
Sasuke let out a yelp.
Suddenly hw saw himself with this version of Naruto. They were in a large office, filled with stacks of paperwork, and Sasuke looked as if he spoke to him briefly, and Naruto nodded his head from behind the desk, and then he walked out.
"He's, my boss?" Sasuke mumbled to himself. "That idiot?"
"Sasuke…" Naruto closed his mouth. "No. You're not Sasuke. Who are you?"
"I'm Sasuke!" He pleaded, he tried to take Naruto's hand off his shoulder but he didn't have the strength. "I told you I'm Sasuke I work at—"
"No. Please. Not again. Just tell me what are you doing here?"
"I don't know!"
"Answer me! How did you get here?"
"I DON'T KNOW! The last thing I remember is that I was in my office on Tuesday working. Next thing I know I'm waking up here getting attacked by some knock-off version of my friend, covered in fire, that smells like shit!"
"I showered yesterday!" Naruto yelled in indignation, but then he lifted up his armpit and sniffed. Ah. He did kinda smell like shit.
"WE BOTH SMELL LIKE SHIT!" Sasuke yelled back on his hysterics. "AND I'M RIPPED AS FUCK!" He motioned to his stomach. "I GOT ABS AND EVERYTHING! ITS INSANE!"
Naruto looked at Sasuke as he motioned towards his stomach with his hand.
There's something seriously wrong with him. He thought sadly. He pressed down on his shoulder until he yelped and squirmed.
"Calm down Sasuke. Just concentrate on my voice." Naruto smiled at his friend in the most reassuring way possible.
"Right. Right." Sasuke tried to calm himself down again. Mostly out of insane fear.
"What happened to your eyes?" Naruto repeated.
"You keep saying that, but I don't know what you mean."
"You're serious?"
Sasuke looked at him sternly.
"Then we need to get you to the leaf now." Naruto easily pulled Sasuke up and carried him on his back.
"PUT ME DOWN DUDE I'M THIRTY-TWO YEARS OLD I'M NOT ABOUT TO BE CARRIED LIKE A CHILD!"
Suddenly, Naruto shot up into the air and Sasuke desperately clung to him.
All thoughts went out the door as soon as Naruto started moving. Was Naruto the demon from his nightmare? Maybe. Was he in danger? Probably. But did that matter to him when he's racing up and jumping from trees to trees taller than his apartment building? Nope.
"YOU BETTER NOT PUT ME DOWN!"
Suddenly, Sasuke felt his stomach twist. The speed, the shaky movements, and the constant blur of greens and browns weren't helping him.
Sasuke needed to throw up, and he did. All over Naruto's shoulder.
Naruto stopped and put him down. He wasn't angry, but Sasuke saw how grossed out he was. He took off his jacket and inspected the puke.
Sasuke finally got a good look at his arm. "Your arm…did I blow it up?"
Naruto looked at him curiously. "We both… why are you asking this?"
"I had nightmares about it. I saw me and my best friend being possessed by demons and ripping each other's arms off." His voice was almost a whisper.
"That… that wasn't a dream Sasuke. We weren't possessed, but we fought and we lost our arms." He smiled at him.
"It was real?" Sasuke could still taste the vomit in his mouth. "Then are the other things real?"
"What other things?" Naruto had carefully folded his jacket over the throw up.
"My family is dead my brother killed them."
Naruto didn't answer, but the look in his face told Sasuke that it had been real.
"Was I also tortured by a three-headed ogre while in space?"
Naruto stayed quiet. "Not gonna lie. I wouldn't put that past you, but that's new to me."
Sasuke nodded. "Then all the nightmares I've seen are real?"
"What do you mean nightmares?" Naruto asked, but before Sasuke could answer a woman's voice rang through the forest.
"Naruto!"
"Sakura!" Naruto called back. "He's alive!"
"S-Sakura?" Sasuke looked panicked. "Fuck. Fuck!"
