The next day was extremely awkward and uneventful. Naruto stayed downstairs or in his room for most of the day. Sasuke, on the other hand, stayed in his room for almost the entire day. They ate at separate times so they did not have to see each other.

At 10:00 p.m. Naruto was in his bed trying to go to sleep and Sasuke was walking towards the stairs to get something to eat. As he reached to top of the stairs there was a poof of smoke from behind him he turned around to see Zabuza. He placed a hand of Sasuke's back making him wince in pain.

"Bye Sasuke, I'll be back for you."

"Wait! What!" Zabuza pushed Sasuke causing him to tumble down the steep flight of stairs. He hit every stair on his decent and hit the floor hard before skidding several feet further. Several of Sasuke's previous injuries had begun to bleed once again due to his fall and was beginning to seep through his shirt. Everything was hurting severely, he rolled over onto his side slowly before closing his eyes.

Naruto had heard a lot of banging so he decided to go investigate. When he reached the top of the stairs he saw Sasuke laying at the bottom of the stairs. "Oh my God! Sasuke!" Naruto rushed down the stairs and knelt down next to Sasuke. "Sasuke?" he gently placed his hand on the other boys cheek; Sasuke opened his eyes a little.

"N-Naruto?"

"I'm here don't worry."

Naruto picked up Sasuke and carried him to the bathroom, Sasuke rested his head against Naruto's neck. Naruto opened the bathroom door and placed Sasuke in the toilet to he could tend to his wounds. As he sat Sasuke down t he boy swayed and almost fell to the floor. Naruto held his shoulders "Hey, stay with me!"

"Tired...,"

"Just give me te minutes then you can sleep." Sasuke nodded weakly. Naruto removed Sasuke's shirt so he could see the wounds. He unraveled the soiled wrappings around his back and chest. He had not seen the injuries that he had inflicted until now and was very surprised about the extent of the damage he had caused his best friend. Quicky and carefully he applied some disinfectant that made Sasuke wince at the coldness and the stinging; finally he wrapped up the wounds once again.

Naruto carried Sasuke back up to his room; after he laid Sasuke on his bed he tried to walked out of the room but found he couldn't move. Sasuke was grasping his hand with what strength he had and was staring at him. "P-please don't go..." Sasuke said barley above a whisper.

"Okay, I won't don't worry, but let me go into my room for a minute." Sasuke reluctantly let go.

Naruto went into his room and got the mattress of his bed and placed it on the floor next to Sasuke's bed. Then he moved his things into the room and grabbed the blankets and pillows. He set his little bed up, then he looked over at Sasuke t check on him and found he was already asleep. He covered Sasuke's sleeping form with his blankets then he went to bed; he was holding onto Sasuke's hand has he drifted off to sleep.

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Both boys were still sleeping hand in hand in the morning. Sasuke was sleeping peacefully in the bed but Naruto was having a nightmare.

DREAM

Sasuke cowered in the corner of a small dark cell, there was barely enough light to see you hand in front of your face. The only light was emitted from a small candle in the corner of the room. A psychotic Naruto stood before a dirty, cold ,bleeding Sasuke, a knife in hand. He laughed manically as he kicked the boy then raised the knife above his head.

The real Naruto watched from the corner of the room, when he saw the event about to take place and yelled and screamed while running toward the two figures in and attempt to stop the event about to take place in front of his eyes. They could not hear or see his, he was basically a ghost.

The knife was brought down and all that cold be heard were the screams of the injured boy and a thump as he hit the cold hard ground.

END DREAM

Naruto flung his arm, taking Sasuke with it, ad he awoke from the horrible nightmare screaming. When he realized Sasuke had been thrown he attempted to reach out to him grabbing, somehow, the necklace, electrocuting Sasuke for a slit second. Sasuke hit the floor with a yelp, he was in excruciating pain. "I. Am. So sorry!" Naruto yelled.

"A-are you trying to kill me?" Sasuke teased but Naruto thought he was serious.

"I-I can't do this anymore!" Naruto ran form the house leaving Sasuke behind. He burst into Kakashi's home to find his on the couch reading.

"Naruto?"

"I can't do this anymore, you have to find someone else to help Sasuke."

"Why exactly?"

"He gets hurt constantly around me, I think he's mad, and I keep having horrible dreams about his being killed. Ir's too much."

"But if you just-"

"No, I'm leaving today, you can find someone else." Naruto left Kakashi's house. He snuck into Sasuke's house to retrieve his things; he managed to leave without being caught.

Sasuke had remained in his room sitting on his bed waiting for Naruto to return, eventually he had fallen asleep. When he awoke several hours later he searched for his friend. . When he found the guest room empty and cleared of all of Naruto's things he knew for sure he was gone. Sasuke felt as if the scenario was his fault and decided to take a walk to clear his mind. When he opened the door he found Zabuza standing before him, then everything went black.

I am SO sorry for not updating for a while, I wrote three chapters then realized I had screwed them up so I had to do it AGAIN. I kept putting it off too heeheehee. I will try to get the next chapter up within the next week. Reviews please!