Go to youtube. Type- SasuNaru: Inseperable. Watch. Its my fav amv atm. Superly intense. I like it alot. I cried a little at the end... T^T

Anyway, here is Chapter 4. SasuNaru ish - (medium sized 'ish') An anti SasuNaru person :cough-crazy-cough: could argue that it's friendship but SasuNaru *love-love* is just where my shonen-ai oriented mind goes.

Thanks for reading. Reviews would be lovely ^-^

Every time his feet pounded against the ground it shook him to the core. What was he doing? He would die for sure, but even so, he had to try. Sasuke set his jaw, his eyes narrowed to slits as the wind rushed at him. The image of Kyuubi closing in was slightly blurred as he moved faster than Sasuke could keep up with. They met and Kyuubi came to a sudden stop while Sasuke's feet kept moving, too fast to stop him. Too fast for him to react in time. The fox boy delivered a hard blow to his side. He struck him with force Sasuke had never felt and as the palm connected, the Uchiha felt the chakra surrounding it pass straight through him, stealing the air from his chest and sending him flying.

There was no time. He hit the ground, knocking himself senseless, falling from the sky so fast that he couldn't turn to land on his feet. Before his wits could return to him Kyuubi was on him. Sasuke breathed in sharply as their eyes met and locked. Time stopped.

Naruto's eyes were half lidded, blood red. Beautiful and deadly; watching the face beneath him calmly. The eyes of the Kyuubi demon. But something in the way this monster held his mouth, the way his eyebrows came together into and anguished frown was so indisputably Naruto that every ounce of power left Sasuke's body and he laid helplessly beneath him. Dark eyes broke away first, becoming very aware of the blood on the other boy's face, the smell of metal on his breath. His stomach churned but he didn't look away for long. He was drawn back to the face that was Naruto's but not as Kyuubi knelt over him, not tearing him apart, not hurting him, not killing him. Just... existing. Kakashi, Sakura, the sky, the ground, the entire clearing was gone. Both of them, just existing in the silence. Naruto's eyebrows twitched and blue cut through red for a split second, so quickly that Sasuke thought he had imagined it. The demon sighed painfully, almost inaudibly.

"Dobe?" whispered Sasuke, lifting his hands weakly, his fingers searching until they came to rest on the face that was Naruto's but not.

For a moment he thought that he had found him, Naruto, inside the orange cloak but as soon as his fingertips ghosted across his cheeks to touch the ragged whiskered scars, the red eyes widened and Kyuubi howled, ripping his face away like Sasuke's touch had burnt him.

"Stop it!" screamed the raven, clamping his hands on either side of Naruto's face as he tossed his head and tried to scramble back. Sasuke's legs automatically tangled themselves around Naruto's and he dug his fingers in harder. The demon struggled frantically and Sasuke's thumbs pressed in harder. Suddenly, Kyuubi froze and his head snapped back, eyes feral, red with rage, deep furrows in his brow, lips curled back revealing his elongated canines. Sasuke stared up, setting a scowl on his face that he desperately hoped looked more steady than it felt.

"Stop it," he commanded. The beast growled at his voice and then launched forward. He went for Sasuke's neck, teeth bared, snarling like the monster he was.

...

Drip, drip in the shadows. Alone, shackled by the dark.

"Naruto." Somewhere within, blue eyes opened in surprise. His name. He had heard it just now, right? Not "baka", not "dobe", not "usuratonkachi". His name. The dark's suffocating hold lessened a little. His name without the sarcasm dripping from it, without the note of annoyance weaved between the syllables. No anger, no irritation, no resentment. Naruto reached out into the dark, trying to feel for anything.

"Teme? Is that you?" His fingers touched the fur of the Kyuubi and he recoiled, repulsed at how his skin crawled even though the pelt was soft. Two steps back, one tiny step forward. His eyes stung as he brought his hands to his face, fighting away frightened tears he had refused for so long. Closed with the tails the boy was lost. It was dark, cold and he could hear water dripping somewhere. The smell of blood made his head spin; he could taste it under his tongue. He dropped to his knees.

"Teme... Are you there at all?" He curled his shoulders in, cringing away from his own voice. His voice that was pathetic, weak, scared. "Help me..."

"Naruto?" There it was again! A question this time. He vaguely felt a breeze, smelt grass close to his face.

"Teme! Where are you!" He stood and pushed against the fur. Adrenaline pulsed and ran hot and fast. The grass was from beyond the tails wasn't it? Was he there too?

"Teme! Help! Where are you! Teme!" He frantically searched for an exit, trying to hold onto the sound of his name being called as the darkness pulled it away from him.

"Teme! Teme!" A light? A light!

"SASUKE!" The darkness exploded in white daylight.

...

The body fell away and landed heavily on its side next to him. Sasuke stared up into the sky.

"Sasuke! Naruto!" Kakashi was calling them as he and Sakura ran to their sides. Their footsteps made the ground shake when they got close. Sasuke closed his eyes and lay still. Sakura dropped to her knees beside him. Her trembling fingertips felt carefully along his sides, searching for broken bones, tracing the ridges of his ribs as his chest heaved. He couldn't get enough air.

"Sasuke kun? Are you alright?" She sounded dull, her fingers still at his side. He blinked, rewatching Naruto's head lurch forward and then stop as Sasuke opened his mouth and muttered something he couldn't remember. The blonde head had withdrawn slowly and looked down at him like he was only just realizing where he was. There had been a long moment where Naruto simply stared through him; his eyebrows arched high under his thick blonde hair. Sasuke had called him, unsurely and then watched, amazed as the blue fire burst into his eyes and the red washed away. The whiskers thinned to light lines and the claws on the hands on either side of Sasuke's head receded.

"Sasuke kun?" The girl's voice sounded panicked now.

Answer. Answer her.

Sasuke blinked three times fast and then shifted his eyes. Sakura was sitting next to him, battered and bruised, her face unnaturally white.

"Sakura." Kakashi's voice was loud and the raven jumped. Sakura got up and rushed to Naruto's side as he began to throw up, barely conscious. She stood over him, one arm wrapped around him, her palm against his chest, holding him up, the other pushing his hair of his face.

Kakashi came to Sasuke's side and crouched next to him.

"Alright Sasuke?" He smiled. "You gave us quite a scare, since when are you so reckless?" His voice jumped in the wrong places. It really had given him a scare. Sasuke sat up, wincing and holding his sore side. They both looked over to Naruto. Kakashi's eye darkened and returned to Sasuke who didn't meet his gaze. "What happened out there, Sasuke?" he murmured. Sasuke just shook his head and crawled over to help Sakura who had tears running down her face as she laid Naruto on the ground.

Once they had Naruto settled on the grass Sakura touched his face and he opened his eyes a little, looking up at them.

"Naruto?"

"Sakura chan... Sasuke..." Naruto smiled a little but his lips trembled and he couldn't hold it for too long. "I'm sorry. I don't remember but... I'm so sorry..." His eyes skittered over them, drinking in their injuries. He squeezed them shut and sobbed brokenly. Sasuke watched him without a word. His eyelashes felt thick and his eyes prickled with something unfamiliar and forgotten.

Naruto...