8th chapter up and running, ive listen to nothing else but Billy Talent II since I started this story -sweat drops-, its given me all the ideas ive had for this story. It kinda just fits the mood you know.

I don't own naruto… what else is there to say?

Fallen Leaves

Chapter 8

"What the heck?" Gaara said out loud as pieces of burning house bits fell all around him and naruto, naruto with the two different eyes.

"What is it Gaara? What's wrong?" Naruto asked as he saw the shocked look on Gaara's face.

"Er, nothing much. I'll explain later. Now before we get crushed underneath this house, let's get our butts of here!" he said and motioned Naruto to fallow.

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"Quick, get the patients out of here!" Somebody screamed outside Shikamaru's hospital door.

He groaned and opened his eyes. There was thick black smoke in his room, he could barley see. He groaned again, life was so troublesome. He ripped off his breather thingy (I don't have a damn clue what that things called so screw it! I hate research!) and was surprisingly able to breath a bit, if you consider the black smoke all around him, he should breath fine out of it. "Well, looks like I'm just to lazy to die. Better get out of this room though, man, life really is the most troublesome thing." He thought and tried to stand but his weak legs couldn't support his body and he thudded to the ground, groaning at how trouble his position was. He crawled to the door as best he could, coughing in the smoke, he hoped the fire wasn't in his room. He turned the knob, it was locked. "What a drag." He whispered under his breath and started hacking up a storm. Just when he thought it finally was, after long last, the end for him, somebody threw the door open knocking him into his hospital bed and just about putting him in a coma. "Oohhh." He moaned again while rubbing his forehead.

"Oh I am so sorry! I, I just see a lot of hot stuff and I want to know what it is! Doctor can you tell me who I am? She asked him hurriedly.

"Uuhhh, I'm not a doctor. I need one though." He said dizzily, the smoke was starting to clear out of the room now that the door was open.

"Oh you're not my mother? I'm so sorry, I'll go find my cat!" and she ran back out the door, shutting it behind her.

"How troublesome." Shikamaru groaned as he watched the door lock again. "Looks like I'm going to be in here a while." He thought and covered his nose and mouth.

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"My head feels weird." Naruto thought as he ran out of the burning house with Gaara right in front of him. People were screaming mainly because everything was on fire, it was more like the hidden village in the fire, then the hidden village of sand. "Why did Gaara look at me like that? And how the heck did I get back in Sunagakure! Man do I feel weird." He thought and ran into Gaara who had stopped in front of the burning hospital.

"Shikamarus in there!" He screamed and started running into the crispy hospital, Naruto right behind him.

In the hospital you wouldn't even know it had been a hospital, it was so aflame. "Quick this way." Gaara said and motioned for naruto to fallow. As Naruto did however, the ceiling above them collapsed between him and Gaara, blocking the path to the top floor, which was were Gaara was headed. Gaara didn't even seem to notice.

"OI, GAARA!" Naruto yelled but it was useless, the sound of crackling flames could only be heard. "Ok, where's another way up, uh, any elevator or stairs, or was that the only way?" He thought and ran this way and that until he didn't even recognize where he had last seen Gaara. Just then he saw somebody dart out of a fire corner. It was a young girl, and she looked just as confused of what to do then naruto was.

"Um excuse me, can you tell me were the washroom is? I found one but when I went in there and sat down the seat was boiling hot. I didn't know they changed toilets into pots of hot water. Where do I, you know, go!" She asked and started doing a dance in front of him.

Naruto cocked an eyebrow at her. She definitely had something wrong with her head. "I have no clue, um, don't you think you should get out of here?" he asked.

"No, other people are still here, why should I leave?" She asked confused as flames started to dance around the both of them. "You have weird eyes do you know?" she said out of the blue and smiled. "There different colors."

Naruto looked at her and then remembered that Gaara had looked shocked when he had seen him, was that why? What color were they? "Hey um, do you know were the exit is or were anybody else is?" he asked hurriedly.

"There's this kid in the room down the hall, I bumped him on the head when I opened the door." She replied and smiled, with that she was gone.

"I should start looking around before I burn to death, I might find Shikamaru while I'm at it too." He thought and ran down the hall the crazy girl had come from.

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Kyuubi woke up. He was back in his cell again, but had the slight feeling of accomplishment. There was something different about the atmosphere though, something strange, it hadn't been there before. Then it hit him, there was somebody talking, but nobody was there.

"I hope Shikamaru is all right. Where's Gaara? What happened to Temari, did she die, is she ok? What about Kankuro, what happened to him? What the heck happened, damn it?"

It was Naruto's voice, he sounded far away, but it was still his voice. "The kid sounds confused. How can I hear him if he's not here? My eye feels funny." Kyuubi thought to himself and started to think what the possibilities were. Then he heard naruto asked the same kind of question.

"What the heck was that?"

Kyuubi looked up, could it be that he could read naruto's mind? Maybe Naruto could hear him too. "OI! Kid, can you here me?" Kyuubi barked in his head and waited for an answer. There was silence for a moment and then came naruto's voice.

"Yes."

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Shikamaru sighed, he wasn't dying, did he have to do something to die, why was death so troublesome? The room was black, just black, nothing at all was visible. He coughed for the billionth time. Then waited again to die. "Gosh, come on, I never thought it would be so difficult to just, you know, give in!" Shikamaru said out loud. He had stopped covering his nose and mouth a while ago.

Just then, the door burst open making Shikamaru jump with fright, he didn't think anyone would be left in the building. Then he noticed that as the smoked started to clear a bit, Gaara was standing in the doorway. Shikamaru felt his body lift off the ground by floating sand and it brought him over to Gaara who was wearing a doctor mask. "Hi doc!" Shikamaru joked and waved at him, then started coughing.

Gaara sweat dropped and dragged Shikamaru down the hall he had just come. "How was I suppose to know they switched him to the bottom floor?"Gaara mumbled to himself as he ran down the burning hall with Shikamaru floating on sand behind him, enjoying the view as they zoomed by. "Were did Naruto get off to. Do I have to save him too? He mumbled again, but his question was answered as he found Naruto standing still in a fiery patch of rubble in the middle of an intersection. "Hey Naruto, come on, I know the -cough- way out!" Gaara yelled as he ran by and naruto started to fallow. He looked very pale in the face and didn't even smile when he saw Shikamaru floating on the sand waving giddily at him. The smoke must have really gotten to him. They had just about made it to the exit, they really were going to make it out alive! Gaara could just about taste the outside air. Three-two-one, then the whole thing collapsed.

Chapter End

Ouch, imagine having a hospital fall on you, like Ow! Anyway, please review!