Chapter Four:

Sasuke growled angrily as he looked at the blonde. If this was a dream it was a damn bad one. Sasuke though had a feeling it wasn't a dream. Worse, it was real which meant Naruto had obviously succeeded in bring him back to the Konoha. Unfortunately for the Uchiha he was sorta wrong since they weren't in the Konoha. Naruto grinned widely as if to show off his justice. He stood up not bothering to hold onto the pair of crutches that where his.

"WELL LOOK WHOS AWAKE…HOW YA FEEL, SASUKE-kun" Naruto took the liberty of adding the suffix to rub it in.

Sasuke could only stare at him with a little bit of astonishment of how much he "hadn't" changed. Sasuke held his hands up and looked at them. They where bandaged and so was most the rest of his body. He looked around the room while everyone else followed his gaze in awkward silence. Finally Naruto sat back down with a light thud and gave him a scowl.

"Hey…Sasuke….it is you right?" Naruto gave a somewhat worried reply.

Who else does he think I am…it not like im Orochimaru yet…I would be dead if that happ…?

Sasuke's thoughts where unfortunately interrupted when he remembered the Orochimaru had bound him to the floor. Sasuke faintly remembered the agonizing pain as it seeped through his body in small pulses of burning chakra. Yet it was so cold and Sasuke felt his own soul ripping into a deeper part he would have never guessed existed inside of him. Suddenly it had been dark then suddenly that dream and now he was here. He gazed around and then quickly shot a glare towards Naruto who only returned the favor with as much anger in his face.

Shikamaru stood against the wall behind Naruto along with another surprise guest of Neji Hyuuga who seemed pissed at his own humiliation of sitting in a wheelchair. Sasuke couldn't bring himself to look at them for too long because he himself felt humiliated by the obvious fact Orochimaru had been totally destroyed. But how? Sasuke covered his face with one bandaged hand and continued to look down at his knees. Sasuke did the only thing he knew would get the boys out of his room. He turned over in his bed and pulled the covers to his neck coughing slightly.

Naruto gave a puzzled look before motioning to the other guys to leave. Shikamaru quickly went to Neji and helped him out of the room. Neji would be back on his feet in a matter of days but at the moment had to deal with Shikamaru's help. They slide out of the room and closed the door with a soft click. Naruto stayed behind looking at Sasuke's very battered and bandaged back. He then sighed letting him know he was still in the room which wasn't much news to Uchiha who knew full well that somehow Naruto would stay behind. It was obvious the boy wanted to talk to him and that was the least Sasuke wanted to do. If he had a choice he wanted to get up and walk right out the door and leave somewhere he could think things through a little better.

But there was one slight problem. He had no chakra flow in his leg and his legs seemed to fell awkwardly heavy. He then realized his legs where both casted. Sasuke glared out the window as he realized that even if he wanted and could get out of his bed before he could reach the door the Anbu black ops would be surrounding him in a second. He let out a slight grunt as Naruto moved in his seat.

"Look…I know your Sasuke…"

Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"so…do you wanna know how I killed you precious power source?!" Naruto smirked out.

Sasuke's eyes widened in surprise. Naruto had beaten him? He had never thought it that possible but when he thought about it there where a few possibilities of it happening. Sasuke sat up and gave him a cold stare. Naruto only grinned back his eyes gleaming with rightfully earned glory and … sadness.

Kakashi and Tsunade whispered in the corner of a hospital room. Tsunade had her face buried in her hands as she let her eyes wonder form the floor to the patient in the bed a few feet away. Kakashi offered what words of comfort he could but it didn't seem to be enough.

"Uh…this village is in chaos…though we succeeded in killing Orochimaru I still…feel like we lost. We are forced to leech off out neighbor villages while ours is slowly rebuilt. It will take years before Konoha even sees a few people home." Tsunade sighed out biting her lip.

"Yes…but every available worked is on the job. They even say that they will have the first set of houses rebuilt and the buildings that didn't get that damaged will be repaired full within the next month or two. Don't worry everyone is trying their hardest…and your doing great Tsunade-hime." Kakashi assured with a smile.

"well we can only hope no one else takes the chance to hurt us…I was sent work the sand village and mist village will be sending some helpers to reconstruct the some teen said he would get his grandfathers old helpers to help as well…something like a debt to Naruto." Tsunade said standing up and walking to the bed. She looked down as Kakashi looked up.

"So that kid finally grew up." He grinned.

"What kid…? The one who has a debt to Naruto?"

"Yes…we helped his grandfather and him in the land of waves. It was some time ago back with the original team seven. Sometimes I miss those days. I bet she does too." Kakashi said his face once more grim. Both stared at the body lying in the bed. It was the figure of a girl whose eyes to her legs where bandaged and her mouth was being covered by a small oxygen mask and tubes. Other wires and chakra machines where hooked to her body. Small patches of pink hair fell from the bandages and hung loosely at her shoulders. Tsunade touched the girls face and sighed.

"I have to go…tell me if she wakes up." Tsunade said walking out the door shoving the Hokage cap firmly on her head.

"I will" Kakashi said also slipping behind her to go check on Naruto.

Sasuke sat silent as he stared at Naruto with a cold stare. Naruto grinned and took his silence as a yes.

"Alright…well lets start with this…I will be leaving out a bit of info incase some of Orochimaru is still inside you. Hm so where should I start?"

Naruto thought to himself as he adjusted his headband on his head. Sasuke looked up at the door and simply leaned back against his pillows his eyes covered by his long bangs. Kakashi only a few seconds later opened the door. His eyes widened as he saw Sasuke sitting up. Naruto turned and blinked at him. He grinned.

"Oh…hey Kakashi-sensei." He said bluntly.

"So he's awake….I should say it's about time…I was beginning to worry, a little longer and I think the nurses might have abandoned him as one of the dead." Kakashi joked to Naruto who grinned in reply.

"Yah…ill tell them later to change his food back to normal, how's Sakura?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi shook his head with a dismal look and Naruto let out a small "oh" and set his head down. Sasuke was intrigued to find out why a medical ninja would be injured as much as the expression on their faces entitled her to be.

"Well let me continue then…So Sasuke's hope you know our warnings came true …Orochimaru took over your body. The sand village informed us." Naruto said seriously.

Kakashi took a seat in the corner somewhat wanting to hear Naruto's point of view of things and also to hear if Sasuke talked. For some reason he was hoping he would.

"But let me take it back a ways…ill start with me returning the Konoha after my own training segment with Jiriya."

And so Naruto began his long explanation of the story. Sasuke sat in silence and often made it clear that he was not paying attention to his bragging. Naruto continued through and stopped at a somewhat boring part on his first training mission with Kakashi, to leave for his shift outside the village. Neji and Some Anbu black's returned to take his place as Sasuke lay back down and looked at the ceiling.

"Humph" he simply smirked and laid down closing his eyes in sleep. This was going to be a while before he could run or process chakra correctly again so he took the opportunity to lay back a take it from there.

Sasuke slipped into the pitch dark of sleep going through dreams and memories as his training with Orochimaru progressed. In his memories they where so vivid. Suddenly his dreamed was somewhat interrupted.

"Sasuke-kun….Sasuke-kun…" A voice called in his dreams. He looked around with a somewhat clam face and turned to find Sakura standing there. Her whole body was bruised or bleeding as she held out her hand and inside was a flower petal. Sasuke gave her an awkward look before somehow Sakuras image turned into a blazing fire and his mother stood in the flames holding out her hand. Sasuke glared as Itachi took his mother from the flames and then suddenly Sasuke found himself choking. He gasped for air as Itachi stood in front of him with now Sakuras body in his arms. He glared at Sasuke uttering Weak. Sasuke vision became blurred and his mind felt heavy. He gasped and choked for the air. Suddenly his need was supplied as he felt air enter his lungs. He sighed and looked around. He looked up at the ceiling and realized he had been dreaming.

He was sweating. His body covered in the effects of a high fever and his mind racing. He didn't know where he was and then he remembered. The hospital. He let out gasps of air as his eyes now turned to those of the one hovering over him. The blonde stood up and flicked her dirty blonde hair over her shoulder before stepping back.

"he should be fine now…keep a monitor on his temperature and use some of the small medicines to keep him stabilized and whatever you do, do not let him remove his mask until his heart and chakra levels are equal and normal." The lady soothed to a nurse who nodded her own body hot with sweat. She had probably freaked when he had started to choke. He looked at the woman again and went to sit up.

His efforts where halted however when the Hokage turned on her feet and pushed him down without much effort. She then turned to him.

"I was informed of your awakening, don't worry Sasuke…you will be better in about a week…but im also sorry to inform you we will not be allowing you to leave. Now go to sleep and cure that fever. We will chat in the morning." Tsunade muttered softly.

Sasuke could only nod as his body began to shake again. He didn't want to sleep anymore partly for fear of dieing. He looked around as the door to his room slammed open. A nurse looking frantic shouted.

"Sorry Hokage-sama but Sakuras woke up…she's coughing and spitting out blood…."

Sasuke gave a weird look to the nurse as he slowly fell into sleep again. His head feeling light he slipped without much effort or resistance.

Author Note: well how did you like it? This chapter is just supposed to show you Sasuke, Sakura, and I was going to show that Neji where all highly injured but I decided Neji could be stuck in a wheel chair and that's bad enough. More characters will come in next chapter as Sasuke starts talking again.

Preview: Sasuke speaks, and Naruto grumbles. The Uchiha refuses to answer questions of anyone and looks to Naruto to finish his story on how exactly he killed Orochimaru. But there is something else on Naruto's mind now that Sasuke is awake. Sakura is too weak and the doctors say she might not last long if conditions don't change soon. Kakashi find himself on constant guard of Sakuras while Naruto has to watch Sasuke 24/7 also. Meanwhile word gets around the village of the Uchiha's awakening and everyone want sot visit. Unfortunately….

Ha-ha let you hanging….well see ya next time.