oooh okay here i go again, I know I've been neglecting the shiny but teehee am obssessive fangirl of many many things and things take time scary fact that! Here we go again..

Disclaimer: Sasunaru is like a drug and I am merely an addict not the dealer!

Naruto struggled to focus on the bottle. His vision kept blurring in and out, he couldn't even read the label anymore... Hang on did it even have a label?? He proceeded to stare at the bottle intently for what must of been at least a minute, trying to determine just that.

"Funny that..hic... I'v-v-ve never been d-d-drunk enough to..hic.. lose my vision before." Naruto smiled up at the illusion-sasuke goofily. Or well what remained of him. Black spots kept obscuring the teme's face. He was becoming slowly number, he couldn't really feel anything anymore. Again he cast that goofy smile at Sasuke, blinking drowsily. "I'm afraid.. y-y-your gu.nna have t-o-o finnd someone else ta.. haunty.. spooky spook... I'm..." Naruto never finished that sentence, the last thing he saw was a worried illusion-sasuke knock the bottle from his hand and pull him close in horror. "mmmfff.." He was smiling he could even smell Sasuke...

"You IDIOT!" Sasuke screamed. He couldn't believe what the little dobe had done... That bottle had been poison. Sasuke could tell and the idiot had drunk it, none-the-wiser. "Naruto stay with me please!!" He hugged Naruto's prone form close. "Stay with me.." He gazed at the discarded bottle on the floor. He didn't recognise it all! "That's what you get for leaving here Sasuke.." he said bitterly as he once more gathered up the prone state of his friend.. "Looks like those years were all wasted. First your brother eludes you and now you get to watch your beloved die..." He almost laughed at himself as he sped out the door. He had to get Naruto to Kakashi, or even Tsunade. He hadn't planned on revealing his presence so soon. Konoha never took kindly to deserters. But as he felt his dobe's body cooling, he knew for a fact that Naruto couldn't die... Not now. Not when he could do something about it!

"Just let him keep breathing.." He prayed as the night fell around them. He needed Kakashi now.

XXXXXXXXXXX Kakashi's time to shine Nyaxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Kakashi scratched his head absently as he lazed back into his recliner. His scars were giving him trouble again. Man, must be getting old, my body feels like someone took a kunai to it. He streched feeling something twinge. Okay make that thousands of kunai. He wasn't really that old, he wasn't even 30 yet and wouldn't be for a year or two. So why did he have an irrepressable urge to curl up with a mug of sake or cocoa, the latest gucha gucha paradise and a tartan rug.

"Yep thats it ship me off to a senior citizens facility!" He smiled at the thought but shook his head sadly. He knew why he felt old all of a sudden, old and useless. His students. Sakura, Naruto and even Sasuke. They had all grown up now, all were as headstrong and as stubborn as the day they had come to him and much to his sorrow all of them had turned away from him. He really wasn't fit to be a team leader. He had always been a more independent Jonin and than the old Hokage had given him the three.

"I knew I was right old man. I knew I couldn't really cut it... Why the hell had you given them to me??" Look what had happened to the three. Sakura was barely civil to him anymore. He knew she blamed him for the degeneration of her teammates. She had done everything in her power to avoid him, that included going on long, dangerous missions for most of the year. And at her level?? She would never be as good a ninja as the other two. And she knew it When he had confronted her about it, she had just glared at him with frosty eyes and had said..

" Kakashi-san anything is better than remaining in the village. Why don't you try to help Naruto instead of bothering me. I have earned my ranks and am... no longer your concern."

No longer your concern... Sakura always knew how to cut a person. Still she was right though, Naruto needed the help now...

But what can I do? Naruto's trying so hard to avoid me too. That idiot was doing his best to stay at least 10 miles away from his former teacher and it was a good thing he did too. Everytime they met there were fire works. Kakashi just couldn't help himself. Each time he looked into that drawn yet cheerful face, brimming with false platitudes, he just wanted to hit it. That wasn't the real Naruto at all, that had never been the real Naruto. It had just gotten worse after Sasuke left. Something had broken inside of that idiot. Something that Kakashi couldn't even begin fixing. Not to mention there was Naruto's habit.

He drank sake like it was water and the entire village was none-the-wiser. In fact there was even talk of making him the hokage's heir. Everybody just didn't seem to get it. Naruto was hurting, hurting so bad that he had turned to abuse. And as he was a legal and ranked adult of the village, Kakashi was frikin' powerless. And of course there was Sasuke, traitor extraordinaire and MIA. Not to mention training with Orochimaru...

"You sure can pick them.. you sure can.." He hung his head wearily, gazing at the photo on the mantelpiece. He remembered how Naruto and Sasuke had fought repeatedly over it and not to mention Sakura's endless preening. "Now look at them one out of her depth, the other an addict and the last well heck we don't even know where he is. Sure I'm a great teacher... Just brilliant with children... What will my next group be like huh?? Manic depressives??" He smiled bitterly. "Than they would become Hokage for sure! With this bunch of oblivious morons running the village they're a shoe in!" You've really become cynical in your old age huh. He gazed at the picture intently. I wish I knew what to do for you all. I wish I had been better Narutokun, Sakura-chan and Sasuke-kun.

"Kakashi-sensei! Kakashi-sensei I really need your help! Please... He's DYING!"

I leave it there everyone. If you really want to find out what happens please review as well i'm not too sure if I should just delete the damned thing grrrgh argle neff Authors sounds of pain as am racking brain for ideas