Chapter 8

Naruto ran out of the castle and to the stables were he mounted his horse, who he had already saddled incase Kiba hadn't come back with Sasuke, and rode after the swan.

Yondaime, Kakashi, Garra and Temari followed but had to saddle their horses.

Even as Naruto rode away from the castle he could still hear Orochimaru's evil laughter and heard him say, "She's fading fast little prince!"

"You bastard!" Naruto yelled back at the voice and urged his horse to move faster.

Up in the air, Sasuke could feel her energy leaving her and was finding it harder and harder to catch her breath.

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Back at the lake Kiba and the others were looking around the old castle for Kiba's bow and arrows that had been taken from him when he was captured, when they heard Orochimaru's laughter all around them.

"Something's gone wrong." Neji said.

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Naruto was getting frustrated, the forest was getting to thick for his horse, so he demounted and started to run after Sasuke.

"If you hurry little prince you might be able to see her one last time." Said Orochimaru's voice. But Naruto ignored him, his mind set on reaching Sasuke before it was to late.

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Neji, Shikamaru and Sai were out by the lake seeing if they could see any sign of Sasuke or even Orochimaru.

Kiba was still inside the castle looking for his bow and arrows.

"There!" Sai cried out and pointed toward the sky.

They all looked up and saw Sasuke slowly making her why toward the lake. She was gliding more then flying now, to weak to move her wings properly.

"She doesn't look to good." Neji stated worriedly.

"Oh Sasuke." Shikamaru said sadly.

Sasuke was now trying to stay conscious long enough to land but still would have landed face first into the ground had Neji not court her. Just as Neji lowered her to the ground, she changed back to her human form.

They all gasped as they saw what her swan form hid from their eyes. Sasuke's beautiful pale skin was mirrored with nasty dark bruises from Orochimaru beating her.

Naruto made it to the lake in time to see Sasuke transform back into a human and was horrified to see all her poor face and body had been through but right now he was to worried about her being alive, to get angry about it.

"Sasuke?"

Neji, Shikamaru and Sai backed away to let Naruto take the lifeless body into his arms.

"Sasuke you can't die." Naruto shock her gently trying to get a response out of her. "The vowel I made was for you, danm-it!"

"Naruto?"

Naruto looked down and hope rose in his chest as he saw Sasuke's eyes open a little.

"Yes Sasuke, I here."

" Naruto… I feel so tided." Sasuke started to close her eyes again.

"No, Sasuke didn't close your eyes." He cried desperately. "I'm so sorry. The vowel was for you, it was for you." Tears started to fall down Naruto's tanned checks.

"I know." Sasuke smiled. "I love you."

With that Sasuke went totally limp in Naruto's strong arms and Naruto could have sown that he felt her soul leave her body.

"No, no…NO!" Naruto yelled so loudly that the crying Neji, Shikamaru and Sai all jumped back.

"Really there is no need to shout." Come Orochimaru's calm voice from behind Naruto.

Naruto turned angrily and saw Orochimaru smirking behind him. His anger blinding him, he leapt up and grabbed the front of Orochimaru's dark robes and yelled, "Don't you let her die!"

Orochimaru just asked mockingly, "Is that a threat?"

"Don't you dare let her die!" Naruto's anger rose.

"Oh I think that was a threat."

"You're the only one who has the power to do it, now do it!" Naruto yelled.

Orochimaru just pushed Naruto back and said calmly, "The only way to save her is to defeat me." With that Orochimaru started to glow red and his body started to grow and become scaly.

Naruto could only stand there and watch as Orochimaru turned into a twenty foot purple snake. "Dear god." He gasped and drew his sword.

Orochimaru started to try and wipe the blond price with his tail but Naruto was able to doge the snake tail and even cut the end off with his sword.

Orochimaru roared in pain and Naruto smirked, this is going to be to easy.

But Naruto's cockiness got him hit by Orochimaru's tail. The force of the blow sent Naruto into a tree, his sword fell from his hands and slid away.

Recovering from the blow Naruto ran after the sword but Orochimaru saw what he was doing and was able to catch Naruto with his tail, lifting the blond off the ground and squeezing him. Naruto started find it hard to breath and the tail was only squeezing him harder, so he did the only thing he could think of, he bit down hard on the scaly tail.

It worked, Orochimaru him go and roared in pain again.

While Orochimaru nursed his tail for the moment Naruto was able to reach his sword and attack again but Orochimaru was quick to recover and wiped the sword out of Naruto's hands with his tail, sending the sword far out of Naruto's reach but what Orochimaru didn't realize was that he send the sword toward Neji, Shikamaru and Sai and he also didn't realize that Kiba had found his bow and arrows and had come outside the castle in time to see Naruto lose his sword and see Orochimaru knock the blond to the ground.

Kiba wasted no time when he saw Orochimaru was about to make a final blow and knotted an arrow in his bow and released it.

The arrow hit Orochimaru in the stomach, making him fall back in pain.

As this happened Neji grabbed the sword. "Naruto!" he yelled to get Naruto's attention as he throw the sword at the prince.

Naruto court the sword and without a second thought stabbed Orochimaru in the head as the snake went to strike the prince with his fangs. The sword sliced through Orochimaru's head like butter and Orochimaru died instantly.

The curse he corseted on Shikamaru broke and the turtle started to turn into a human with dark eyes and dark hair that was tided in a pineapple shape.

At first he was shocked but then he started to jump and dance around with an overjoyed Neji. Sai sat back and watched bitterly, yet he was happy for his friend.

Little did he know that he to had changed back into a raven haired and dark eyed human, because when Orochimaru died all his magic died with him but when Sai finally realized that he was human too he couldn't celebrate it because they all saw that Naruto was sitting next to Sasuke's still lifeless body trying to get her to wake up.

"Come on Sasuke, we've killed the bastard, wake-up." Tears started to fall from Naruto's sapphire eyes again and falling on Sasuke's check.

Kiba waked over to Naruto and placed a hand on the blonds shoulder, Naruto looked up at his friend and cried, "Why won't she wake-up?"

Kiba was about to reply when they heard, "Dobe, don't ask stupid questions." They all looked over to see Sasuke smiling up at Naruto.

She looked tided and like she had been through hell and back but she was alive.

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Three months later and church bells were ringing as Naruto and Sasuke exited the Kyuubi church arm in arm, having just finishing their wedding vowels.

And they were not the only ones; Shikamaru and Temari were right behind them, having found love with each other after Shikamaru turned back into a human. And so they all lived happily ever after.

The End.

Wow, I finished XD

But I'm already planning 'The Swan Princess2' it will be about Sasuke being pregnant and Garra and Neji getting together and you will find out what happened to Kabuto.

Also My fanfic about KyuuSasu will be called My Mate, hope you all read it.