Naruto took a deep breath and then sighed before looking over at Haruna who looked at little depressed that Sakura was sitting next to him, despite the fact that she still pretty close (Sakura being a the head of the bed and Haruna being more closer to the middle).

"What is it, Naruto?" Haruna asked, noticing that he was looking at her and not starting his explanation of what happened between him and Sasuke. Something else seemed to be on his mind.

"Before I start, Haruna, there's something that I need to tell you" Naruto said.

"Naruto, can't it wait until you tell us about what happened to you?" she asked. She was curious to what he wanted to tell her but was more interested in how he had gotten hurt so badly.

"This has to do with what happen to me as everyone here minus you and that girl over there knows about. Though, just who are you anyway?" Naruto asked the girl on Gamakichi's back. He remembered hearing about someone like her when he asked Gamakichi if he knew anything about Kakashi-sensei's teammates.

"I am Rin, but my story can be dealt with later. Everyone else here is more interested in what you have to say in regards to how you ended up like this," she replied.

'Rin…she is Rin, but she looks like she is still twelve when she should be nearing her thirties. Oh well, maybe she knows a jutsu like baa-chan or something,' he thought.

"So, Naruto, what is that you wish to tell us about and how does it connect with the condition you're in now?" Haruna asked.

"It started sixteen years ago when the nine tailed demon fox known as Kyuubi attacked Konoha and was, according to the record books, killed by the Fourth Hokage at the cost of his life," he said.

Rin was pretty much shock at this news. While he may not have been the Hokage until some time after she had been turned to stone, she knew that he was being nominated for the position, thanks to overhearing Jiraiya talking with him about it a few days before leaving to go on that fateful mission twenty years ago.

'I am the only one left now,' Rin thought. Both her sensei and Obito were dead while Kakashi's status was unclear. She was beginning to wonder whether or not he was still alive. She was not sure about what her sensei and teammates thought, but to her, they were kind of like her family. She was made a war orphan shortly after entering the academy. It was because she had lost her family that she had decide to become a medic nin in order to help other from losing their families to the war like she had. Though once she was grouped with Kakashi, Obito, and her sensei; they became close to her. Sure Kakashi seemed to be a by the rules person, but she knew deep down he was not really like that and he proved it when he helped Obito rescue her even if it took him awhile. Now she was unsure whether he was still alive or not.

Naruto, seeing the look on her face, said "Kakashi-sensei is still alive, and just so happens that he was the first sensei that Sakura and I had as matter of fact, but more on that subject later, okay?"

Rin sighed a breath of relief. While she had lost two of her teammates, the third was still alive.

'I really have to asked how he's been,' the girl thought. She wonder just how much he had changed since the last time they met, but again, it would have to wait until after Naruto continued with what his explanation.

"However, the Fourth could not beat the Kyuubi. He managed seal the fox into a newborn baby that just happened to be me. For the next fifteen years, the fox remained sealed within me until about two months ago," Naruto told them. "It was at that time that I released the fox from his seal in order to gain enough power to kill a certain bastard for what they did to Sakura, and instead of losing myself to the demon fox, somehow I ended up assimilating him into myself rather then the other way around," he informed them.

Sakura knew this already but to hear it again coming from Naruto's mouth made her realize all over again just how much she must mean to Naruto.

Haruna however did not think any less of Naruto or fear him but was actually rather jealous of Sakura at the moment. She realized just how much Sakura meant to Naruto.

Rin was so stunned at everything she had been told that she almost slid off Gamakichi's back when she stopped holding on. Ryo though stopped this from happening by catching her before this could happen.

Three minutes later…

"Alright, now that it has been said tell us about what happened to get you in this condition," Haruna asked after getting over the jealous feeling she had towards Sakura.

"Sakura…hey, Sakura," Naruto said. He noticed she had that dazed look on her face again.

"Huh…oh, Naruto, sorry about that. I guess got lost in thought again. Have you started explaining what happened between you and Sasuke yet?" she asked. 'It's still hard to believe that Naruto risked having his body destroyed or taken over by Kyuubi just to save me from that sick bastard Sasori,' she thought. It was still a shocker when she actually thought about it.

"No, I was just about to," Naruto said, wondering why she had not called him Sasuke-kun. Even after he had gotten back from his two and half year training trip, she had continued to call him Sasuke-kun. Sure the feeling behind his name were no where near what they were back when she was thirteen, yet now this was the third time she had dropped the '-kun' from Sasuke's name.

"Naruto," both Sakura and Haruna said at the same time, causing him to come back to his senses. They give each a strange look briefly before focusing their attention on the blond boy on the bed.

"Sorry about that. Now I'll get started on what went down when I went to stop the Snake bastard from taking over Sasuke's body," he said as he began to tell them what happened.

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Flashback to about five days ago

'Finally after two days of searching, I managed to get to this place,' Naruto thought. He had been looking around all this time to find the hideout where Sasuke and the snake bastard were staying at currently. Through his travels in his search for Sakura, he also learned that Sasuke and Snake Sanin moved around from the base to base and never stayed at one place for too long.

Sneaking around the base, he noticed that there really were not that many guards here, which meant that Orochimaru either didn't care if this place was found or that he was just that confident in the fact he would not be found before having a chance to escape.

"It's been awhile since the last time you met Naruto-kun, and not only have you managed to finally get growth spurt, but somehow managed to kill Sasori and learned that what happened to Sakura. So how is playing house with her?" Kabuto said with a smirk on his face.

"She is still alive and I will return her to normal after stopping Orochimaru from stealing Sasuke's body," Naruto told him.

"Pretty big words. Just how do you expect to do either one of those things? I am afraid that I cannot let you pass since the process has already started. Returning that girl to normal is impossible," the sound medic said.

"Then I just have to go through you," Naruto said as he got ready to plow though silver hair nin.

"Getting a little full of yourself, eh, Naruto-kun? You barely beat me last thing and even then I almost killed you. Your Rasengan will not work. I am not giving you time to do it," Kabuto said.

"Is that so? Let's see you try," Kabuto heard a voice say from behind him.

Before the gray haired sound nin could even turn around, Naruto slammed a one handed Odama Rasengan into Kabuto's back. The force of the attack not only sent him flying into the wall, but through the wall and into the room that was in front of him.

"You're not getting up from that attack anytime soon," Naruto said as he entered the room through the doorway made by Kabuto's body, only to stop cold at the sight that was before his very eyes.

There in the center of the room was Sasuke standing while the rest of the room was covered in blood and from the looks of it there were remain of what appeared to be a giant white snake, whose face resembled someone he knew but couldn't place right away until the scent of the blood registered in his mind.

"Sasuke, did you kill Orochimaru by yourself?" Naruto asked.

"So what if I did and why are you even here?" he said as he turned to look at him.

Sasuke, like his brother, for some reason looked like he had been incapable of sleeping properly or something with that tired look that he seemed to have on his face. From what he could tell, they were now both around the same height and were wearing clothes similar to what the Sound Five had worn, only white with his clan symbol on the back collar.

Naruto then jumped back as he left something hit him in the shoulder and looked over to see Sasuke had a Chidori that extended from his hand to the spot where he was standing until he jumped back.

"Since you managed to kill Sasori by yourself, somehow killing you should be a good test of my strength since he was almost as strong my brother is," Sasuke said as he re-drew his chokuto sword and began attacking Naruto.

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Twenty minutes later….

Naruto knew that Sasuke would have improved under the Snake Sanin's teaching just like Sakura and himself, but this was beyond what he would have expected. He had not only made the Chidori into a mid-range jutsu, but he had managed to created three other different uses for the Chidori in combat compared to how he used it three years ago.

"He's serious about trying to kill me, just like three years ago," Naruto said. His shirt was in ruins from the multiple stab wounds and burns marks that now littered his body. He was taking shelter to let some of the injuries he had gotten from fighting Sasuke heal up.

'I'm going to have to take this thing a little more seriously,' he thought. He was holding back from using most of his charka because he did not want to kill Sasuke because he still had his promise to Sakura, after all.

Naruto then ducked just in time to prevent himself from being sliced into two by Sasuke's sword slicing through the wall he was sitting behind.

Sasuke had a confused look on his face because he noticed the stab wound he had put through Naruto's shoulders and stomach had fully healed almost as if they were never there to begin with. The only proof that they even existed was the fact that blood and hole on his shirt. The same thing happened when they fought at the Valley of the End. He put a Chidori through one of his lungs and smashed his head into the ground from over twenty feet in the air. These things would have killed anyone less, but Naruto not only survived, but got stronger each time.

Sasuke then locked eyes with Naruto with his Sharingan activated. He was going to found out the reason for this.

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Inside Naruto's mindscape…

"So this is what made you special have or had Kyuubi inside you all this time," Sasuke said as he appeared within Naruto subconscious somehow.

"Just how did you even get in here?" Naruto asked shocked as he stood there in his full demon form.

"That none of your business, but it seems that having the Kyuubi sealed within was the reason you did not die those two times I was sure I had killed you," Sasuke said. "It also seems that you released the demon and apparently merging with it led to your current appearance, but let's see just how strong you are without your demonic power," Naruto's former teammate said as he grabbed Naruto's fur, and in flash, his appearance reverted back his original human self.

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Back in the real world, Naruto noticed that his appearance had changed here too, and when he tried to use charka, he found that he was unable to do so.

Without his charka, the fight was a lot harder. He was stuck using only taijutsu and all the injuries took a lot long to heal then before.

"Hey, Sasuke, just where were you trying to aim those to fireballs just now?" Naruto asked as he attempted to attack from above and Sasuke looked to counter with those fireballs, but they missed him completely and just flew straight up.

"I was not trying to aim for you with that," the Uchiha said as clouds above them began to turn black also as if a storm was coming.

"Just what are you planning?" Naruto said. He was not sure what was going on here, but he knew it couldn't be good and was surprised by the sudden appearance of storm clouds.

"You will see" Sasuke said. They continued their battle until he just jumped back after about few more minute of battling where it appeared as if it was about to rain from the pitch black cloud in the sky.

"Naruto, I do not care how fast you are. There is no way that you be able to dodge this even if you are Kyuubi now," Sasuke gloated as he attacked with his ultimate jutsu, Kirin.

In the blink of an eye, Naruto was struck down by bolt of lighting that Sasuke had managed to control from the thunder clouds above them. Since this was real lighting and not elemental chakra, it struck at the speed of light, and even if he managed to avoid the attack, everything with fifty feet instantly reached the temperature of about 54,032 degrees.

With everyone around him reduced to rumble and no sign of Naruto anyway, Sasuke was pleased that he could finally kill his brother. There was no one that could dodge something traveling at the speed of light and with an attack radius that wide.

However, ten minutes later, some of the rumble began to move. A charred, bloodied, and battered Naruto appeared from underneath this rumble. His clothes were completely destroyed and most of his skin had been burned off as well.

"Uggh, Sasuke, just how the hell did you learn to control real lighting of all things?" Naruto mumbled. Although he did not have access to his charka at the moment, he survived solely based on his natural healing ability (without it being enhanced by his charka) and luck, as well as Sasuke being pretty full of himself to just think he died from that attack without even looking for any real proof of his kill.

"Just great. Another person with chakra similar to him," he said sat against the piece of rumble, trying to gather enough strength to move again when human size red toad appeared.

"Naruto, what the hell happened to you and this place, for that matter?" Gamakichi asked. He was summoned beforehand to help in the search and came over here after hearing the explosion that took place.

"Sasuke managed to suppress my charka, then after fighting him with only taijutsu, he used real lighting in an attempt to kill me," Naruto said as he used the toad summon to help him get up.

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"Then Gamakichi helped me get through the forest until one of Haruna's guards happened to come across me and then I was brought here where I've been ever since, recovering from having my charka suppressed and healing from that attack Sasuke used on me," he told them.

"Do not worry though, Sakura, once I…" Naruto started but was interrupted by Sakura

"No," she said with her head down.

"But why I promised and…" he said and yet again was stopped by Sakura hitting him lightly on the head.

"I thought that I told you no!" she yelled, standing up and slamming her hand against the wall, causing a hole the size of her fist to appeared when she used her charka enhanced strength.

"You are not going after him again. That person is no longer the Sasuke we knew or he would not have tried kill you the way he did," his teammate told him. It looked like she was about to cry; however, she could not since being only an animated puppet she did not even have the ability to do so.

"I agree. You do not have go after this Sasuke guy anymore. He's not worth it," Haruna said.

"I made a promise of lifetime, Sakura. I might not care what he does anymore, but I will keep my promise to you," the blond told her.

"Then I take it back. I do not want Sasuke to come back anymore. He'll get himself killed by his brother. He's not worth you getting killed over," Sakura told him. "So please just forget about that promise. I take it back so there no reason to continue it. Neither one of us want him anymore" she said.

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