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Chapter 6: Revelation

Madara clenched down on Naruto and Sasuke's throats to the point to where they might snap in half. Naruto struggled deeply, his hands trying to desparately separate Madara's grip, slowly losing oxygen, legs flailing as he tried to kick Madara but it didn't reach far enough. Sasuke didn't have the power to fight back, he lost it all activating that Sharingan, his arms went limp as his head bowed. Naruto's eyes looked at Sasuke. "Sa...Sas...uke.." Naruto couldn't breathe or speak properly as he started to choke on his own spit.

Madara chuckled, happy that no one could stop him now as he looked at Sasuke's non-moving body in his death grip. "I don't think he's going to make it. Serves him right!" Naruto looked at Madara with squinted eyes, as he was slowly drifting away.

Sakura grew extremely furious. "Stop it!" Sakura charged Madara in a blind rage but Itachi blocked her way and kneed her in the gut with great force. Sakura clenched her stomach as she fell to the ground face first. She looked at her best friend and the man she deeply loved slowly die before her eyes.

Hinata knew she had to do something but what? It was then Sai stepped up to the plate. "I have a plan. I'll take care of Itachi as means of diversion while you go save your friends. Got it?" Hinata looked at Sai and shook her head understanding what he meant. "Good" Sai took out and unwrapped a scroll from his pouch and took a small paint brush and drew four dragons on the scroll and held it out. The dragons emerged from the scroll coming to life and attacked Itachi head-on. Itachi attacked and dodged the rampaging dragons, but they kept coming at him. It left him completely distracted away from Madara.

Hinata ran towards Madara with the Byakugan activated. Madara sensed her presence. "It's too late! The damage has already been done!" Madara threw Sasuke's and Naruto's bodies into Hinata. She fell over with them on top. Hinata looked at Madara with anger in her eyes. Kiba and Akamaru appeared in front of Hinata. "We got your back Hinata!"

"Woof!"

Madara grew angrier. "Out of my way! I need the fox from his body!" Madara made a hand sign. "Soul Transfer Jutsu!" Madara's hand grew transparent like a ghost but you could still see the outline of it. "With this jutsu I can rip the seal off of Kyuubi and transfer his spirit to me and we can be together again as one." Madara laughed maniacally.

Kiba prepared himself to protect his friends but a hand relaxed itself on his shoulder. Kiba looked beside him to find Naruto with his head bowed panting, trying to catch his breath. His chest was on fire right now and basically trying to force a jutsu with a unsufficent amount of chakra was suicide but Naruto didn't care. He would rather die than let the Fox be unleashed in the hands of this psycho.

"I got this Kiba, stand back." Naruto looked at Sasuke's body. "Wake up Sasuke! We have to keep fighting!" Those words awoke Sasuke. Slowly did he stand, coughing up blood and in the same situation as Naruto. "Don't yell Idiot, I can hear you just fine."

Hinata ran and buried her face in Naruto's chest and sobbed. "Don't do it! I beg you! You will die!" Sakura ran and hugged Sasuke's back. "You too Sasuke! Let us fight! This isn't something you have to prove to anyone!"

Naruto didn't have time to argue, so he did the first thing that came to mind. He passionately kissed Hinata. Once the kiss was done, he wiped her tears away. "I swore I would protect you. That was a promise. And you know me, I never go back on my word! Cause that's my nindo, my ninja way." Naruto grinned. Sasuke kissed Sakura's forehead. "And we couldn't allow you girls to fight, you would only get killed against a guy like him, and I never want to see my comrades die before me again. I would do anything in my power to protect them!"

Sasuke made his Chidori hand signs and held out his left hand downward. Naruto put his right hand underneath Sasuke's as they both tried to push out their respective jutsus. A perfect round sphere of cackling electricity appeared in the middle of their hands. Blood leaked out of their mouths as Sasuke's headband unwrapped and landed at his feet. Both grunted and groaned in pain. Naruto coughed up blood as Sasuke puked up blood, both was in horrible shape. They set their eyes on Madara and rushed at him full-speed, but Madara was smart enough to just move out of the way, except two dragons of Sai crashed through the ground and clamped down on Madara's legs keeping him immobilized. Madara struggled to get free. Once the two reached Madara, they pushed the attack into his chest with all the strength they had left.

"Rasendori! Electrical Chakra Sphere!"

It cackled loudly and burned into Madara severely, Madara yelped in pain, but quickly activated the Sharingan, but it seemed too late as the Rasendori burned a hole through his chest. Blood gushed from out the wound as Madara fell lifeless to the ground.

Naruto panted. "We did it...Sas...uke..." A huge pain hit Naruto in the chest as he fell unconscious. Sasuke managed to smile a bit. "Hmph...Naruto...you loser.." Sasuke vomited more blood before falling flat on his face unconscious.

Hinata and Sasuke ran to them while Kiba rounded up the others. Sai got kicked in face and landed near them as Itachi looked at Madara's dead body and smirked. Sakura looked at Itachi with anger. "What are you smiling about! Your boss is dead! I would be running if I was you!" A evil laugh appeared from behind Itachi. "Except I'm not dead...I'm right here." Madara walked from behind Itachi into view. "Surprised?"

Sakura, Sai and Hinata looked at the dead body on the ground that was supposed to be Madara but it was a perfectly excuted clone as it poofed away. Madara laughed but a pain hit his chest. "I thought I was dead for sure until I activated a clone justu at the last minute although I got hit a little bit, but I underestimated the power of those two. Not only was that jutsu attacking my body it hit my insides as well. Damn those fools! I have no chakra to finish them off but they seem like they will die anyway and when they do, I'll be there in the darkness like the grim reaper himself." Madara laughed maniacally as Itachi carried him off in a poof of smoke.

Sakura breathed a sigh of relief, but Naruto started to convulse into a seizure as Sasuke had a serious coughing fit. Sakura looked at Naruto and immediately knew what was wrong. "Oh no! Naruto is going into cardiac arrest!" Sakura looked at Sasuke. "And Sasuke is no better condition himself. We need to get these two to a hospital ASAP!" Kiba, Shikamaru and Sai gathered the crew together in one spot. Sai put his hands together. "Teleportation Jutsu!" Suddenly a flash of light appeared and the gang found themselves back at the entrance of the Leaf Village.

Sakura looked at Sai. "Wow, Lady Tsunade was right about this guy." Sakura whistled as out of nowhere medic ninja rushed from everywhere and rushed everyone to the Konoha hospital.

Later, Shikamaru waited outside in the waiting room for the results on Gaara with Temari. Temari laid her head on Shikamaru's lap while he stroked her hair. Temari had a large bandage on her left cheek, but other than that she was fine. "I hope Gaara's ok." Shikamaru sighed uninterested. "Don't worry yourself, you're getting all emotional like a woman." Temari glared at Shikamaru with a cold stare. "I am a woman, you insensitive male pig! Honestly I sometimes can't see what attracts you to me! You're a lazy good-for-nothing who doesn't want to do shit!" Shikamaru and Temari looked at each other with angry glares, but started to laugh at how they acted, just like when they were kids again. "I love you Shika-kun." Shikamaru grinned as he continued stroking her hair. "I know you do Temari." Temari punched Shikamaru in the gut at that comment.

Kiba sat with Akamaru in Kohaki's hospital room. She was fine but she was exhausted from the surgery. Kiba looked at her sleeping body for hours. Hana stood in the doorway and looked at Kiba. Kiba noticed Hana, but kept looking at Kohaki. "How long have you been there?" Hana was shocked at a moment that Kiba noticed her, but remember about their clan's acute sense of smell. "About as long as you been sitting there." Hana grinned, but Kiba bowed his head in shame. Hana lost her grin. "You must really love her don't you?" Kiba held and gingerly stroked Kohaki's right hand out of affection. "Of course I do. She's everything to me...and...I can't bear the thought of losing her!" Kiba starts to tear up.

Hana smirked. "Well well look at my tough guy brother crying."

"Shut up Hana...I don't want your crap right now."

"Anyway Little brother, call me or mom if you need anything ok?" Hana rubbed Kiba's head ruffling his brown hair. "I love you Kiba." Hana began to walk away.

Something came back to Kiba. "As a matter of fact, I do need something. My stash of condo..." Kiba looked behind him to find Hana completely gone. "That's love for you." Kiba said sarcastically.

Sakura and Hinata walked down the hallway with flowers in their hands and found Shino and Ino in a liplock. "Ahem!" Sakura interrupted them. "Well looky here! You two look alright to me. Shizune must have done wonders for you guys."

Ino smiled. "Yep and now we are leaving to go home, I'm bushed, but I see you have presents for Naruto and Sasuke."

Sakura looked at the flower she was holding and the flower Hinata was holding. "Well we thought that a flower would show them we deeply care for them. I have an Iris flower. It shows immunity, and hopefully it will make Sasuke better." Ino blew it off. "So original like always Sakura." Sakura got annoyed. "Shut up Ino-pig!" Ino got into Sakura's face. "What was that Forehead girl!"

Hinata looked at the flower in her hands and held it close to her heart, while those two argued. Hinata spoke up getting the attention of both Ino and Sakura. "I have a Lavender flower for Naruto-kun, it's my favorite flower." The natural scent of the Lavender wafted through the air, as the lavender tinted flower brilliantly brought out the complextion of her eyes.

Ino hugged Sakura and Hinata, "Man you two really love those two don't ya! I hope they get cleared so we can all go on a triple date somewhere." Sakura and Hinata smiled, both careful not to harm their flowers in anyway. They hugged Ino and wished her off.

Sakura and Hinata sat down on the waiting room bench in front of the Emergency Room, where Naruto and Sasuke were in. Tsunade and Shizune were working very hard on them, but they had pushed themselves real far, Tsunade was close to panicking, but as Hokage she have to keep her cool or else they could be in serious trouble. "Shizune! Focus your chakra into mending the ripped tissue in their bodies, then repair their chakra network. I'll handle Naruto, you take care of Sasuke!" Tsunade looks at the necklace hanging from Naruto's neck. "Don't die on me yet. I want to be there for that day when you become Hokage." Shizune walked up to Sasuke's unconscious body on the hospital bed. She clapped her hands together as they began to glow green and put them on Sasuke. Sasuke grunted in pain but did not awake. Tsunade made a few hand signs and placed her hands onto Naruto's chest as the necklace glistened in the sunlight from the window. Both, Naruto and Sasuke's chakra network was out of whack and completely destroyed from forcing a jutsu. That's the consequence, Kakashi used to push on them.

Sakura sat with her legs crossed holding her flower while Hinata twiddled and played with her fingers while they waited for hours. Time passed as people came and people left, but Sakura and Hinata stayed overnight until the crack of dawn. Sakura and Hinata fell asleep with their heads leaning against another. Sakura drools a bit as Hinata shivers from the cold temperature from the cold hospital. Tsunade came out with a frown on her face, she looked like crap to say the least. She walked up to the sleeping duo. Tsunade gently shook Sakura to wake her up. "Sakura? Wake up..."

Sakura slowly lifted open her eyes to a low creak, trying to remember where she was. She opened them completely, but her vision was blurry. Sakura rubbed her eyes and wiped her embarrassing drool away. "Lady Tsunade? How are they?"

Tsunade frowned and bowed her head, she feared this moment. Sakura was deeply concerned. "They are ok? Right!" Tsunade began to cry deeply as she fell to her knees before Sakura and pounded the hard concrete ground with her fist, with her super strength shaking the whole place, she stopped. "Damn! Damn! Damn!!! I wish there was more I could've done for them, but they were too far off! I'm so sorry Sakura!"

It was at that moment, Hinata awoke and rubbed her eyes as she yawned. "What's going on?" Hinata looked at the crying Tsunade and the shocked Sakura. Hinata was afraid now. "What's wrong? Someone tell me!"

Sakura dropped her Iris flower and stepped on it as she ran past Tsunade and barged into the ER. She could only gasp as she placed her hand over her mouth to witness the horror that set before her. "Saskay..." Sakura watched in terror as medic ninja zip up a body bag as Naruto was put in another. Hinata ran up beside her and look on at their horrific event as loads and loads of tears ran down her face. "Naru...to-kun...no! This can't be really be happening!"

Sakura didn't want to believe it herself. Hinata leaned against the wall hyperventilating, she was having a panic attack. Sakura tried to run to Sasuke's body, but Shizune held her back. "Sakura don't go. You will only pain yourself more. They're gone...they're gone..." Shizune began to cry.

Sakura couldn't stop the tears from falling as she yelled Sasuke's name at the top of her lungs. She felt like dying, she wanted to take a kunai and slice her throat and be with them, but she was too afraid to commit suicide. Sakura cursed at her weaknesses as she fell to her knees. "Sasuke! Naruto! You can't die! We need you! This village needs you! I need you!" Sakura broke down and cried her green eyes out.