~The Return~

Awakening just a few minutes later Naruto checks his surroundings. He soon realizes he's still in the hospital holding Hinata's hand. He has a look of anger on his face but mostly worry. He strokes Hinata's face softly as she's still not awake. He thinks to himself (She should be asleep for a while, she needs it.) as he gets up and walks out of the room. He arrives on the roof and looks off the edge of the building. Staring at the night sky to clear his head, he looks at all the stars and a shooting star ever now and then. A familiar voice speaks from behind him.

"I never pictured you as a roof guy."

Naruto turns around to notice his old friend Sasuke sitting on the opposite side of the roof.

"Yeah, well, I need this right now." Naruto says as he turns back around to stare across the city.

Sasuke gets up and walks over to Naruto. Standing beside him he says "Everything alright?"

Without looking Naruto replies "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

Sasuke laughs and looks at the city and says sternly "The TV I take it?"

Naruto shifts his eyes and turns to Sasuke " You know?!"

"Yeah, I know." Sasuke says seriously.

"How much do you know?" Naruto questions.

"I know a lot, to much to explain." Sasuke says and again "I also know about the people from the other school too. They're not good people you know? They're plotting against you."

"And why should I believe you?" Naruto asks.

Sasuke looks over almost madly. "You don't have to believe me, all you have to do is just listen to me. I was just sent her to tell you to stay away from the TV world. We'll see each other soon."

"What do you mean by that?" Naruto says.

"You'll see soon enough. Stay away." Sasuke says as he walks away.

Naruto waits a few minutes then walks back into the hospital down to Hinata's room. Instead he walks into Guy's room. The room is empty due to Guy's surgery date. Naruto just thinks of his talk with Lee. In a few minutes he turns to look into Hinata's room. He kisses her on the head.

"I'll be back tomorrow." He says softly and heads home.

He passes Choji's shop which now has police tape around it and returns home. He walks to his bedroom and just lays in his bed for a while. Thoughts of what happened earlier wont stop crossing hismind. (Why is Sasuke back and why does he think Yu and everyone else are evil?) He sits up in bed and wraps his arms around his legs.

"Screw this i'm going back to the hospital." Naruto says as he gets up and leaves his house.

Outside of his house it's dark, almost pitch black. He looks at the clock on his phone, it's almost midnight. He starts walking towards the hospital but something about the world seems off. Everything is silent and dark. There are no street lights on, no building lights and no sound in the air. He checks his phone again but it wont turn on. (Darn thing whats wrong with it?)

At the hospital now Naruto looks around for any worker but no one is around. He tries to take the elevator up but no luck. He takes the stairs as an alternative. Arriving at Hinata's room he peeks in. She's still sleeping there, he smiles and heads to Guy's his surprise Guy is there but not Lee, only a black coffin next to guy. Naruto backs away slowly and hears a noise down the hall. He turns to the noise, a black sludge is dripping from the ceiling and is spilling on the ground. From the ceiling a monster appears and from the ground as well. Naruto runs into Hinata's room, picks her up and starts running. Looking back he seems the monsters enter Guy's room. He runs back to the room with Hinata in his arms. The monsters are lingering over Guy now. Naruto sets Hinata on the ground and begins to fight the monsters. The monsters turn to Naruto and start lurching towards him.

Naruto puts his fists up and says "I don't have a weapon like the others, but you two will die here now."

Naruto runs at the monster and pushes one away and starts punching the other. A series of blows to the head brings the monster down. He goes to get on top of it but is then tackled by the other monster. He throws the monster off of him and stands back up. (These seem like the monsters I fought in the TV world. I wonder...)

Naruto slams his hands to the ground and shouts "Persona!"

Thanatos sprouts behind Naruto and lands on the ground.

"Help me Thanatos!" Naruto says as he begins to run to the monster.

Thanatos grabs Naruto and puts Naruto behind him. Thanatos grabs his long sword and slashes one of the monsters in two. The other jumps at Thanatos but he grabs it and tears it in half. Naruto steps out from behind Thanatos.

"Thanks." Naruto says as Thanatos returns to him.

Naruto walks to the door, shuts and locks it too. He turns to Guy. (You have a Persona too..) He thinks to himself but then stares at the coffin.

"Why is this here?" He questions.

The lights in hospital start to come back on. The coffin slowly fades but then reveals a sleeping Lee. (What the hell?) Naruto thinks to himself. He slowly walks to Hinata and picks her up softly and quietly not to disturb the others. He unlocks and opens the door and heads across the hall and sets Hinata in the bed.

"It's over for now, I'm here for you." He says as he grabs her hand. Her hand grips has as her eyes begin to open.