Yukimaru stood in front of the window, his green eyes glowing strangely as he stared strait ahead. "Yukimaru? Are you alright?" Someone, a female voice asked from somewhere behind him. He didn't look at her, though he could sense that she and a few of her friends were standing in the door way watching him.

"Naruto's gone."

"Yes. He's gone but he'll be back soon." The girl with the long ash blond hair and sky blue eyes said. Yukimaru shook his head. Naruto would'nt be coming back. Ever. His replacment was on the way, and the depth of power that he could feel from that person was terrifying him. But the leaf nins didn't understand what he meant.

"Whats wrong Yukimaru? How do you know anything about Naruto? Is it because your chakra's are tied to the three tails?" Someone asked next to him. He looked away from the window to the person. This one was a male, tall, young, with silver hair and unnatual chakra's.

"Naruto's gone. I can't feel him. I can't feel his heart beat, his chakra, nothing, it's gone!" Yukimaru said in a frightened voice as he lifted hsi small hands up to pull at his hair in distress. Everything was gone. Naruto had returned to the beginning of it all. His soul had been transfered to someone else.

Kakashi frowned as he looked down at the boy, and glanced at Sakura. Sakura frowned and moved further into the room, gently pushing Ino out of the way. "Yukimaru...if something has happened to Naruto, you would tell us. Would'nt you?" Sakura asked as she grasped his hands and pulled them away from his hair as she turned him to face her. He stared at her with those wide glowing green eyes and shook his head.

He was'nt telling them and yet he was. Why the hell were'nt they paying attention? He had just told them Naruto's fate. Did he have to show them before his words would reach them? He finally snapped. "He's dead! Naruto is dead! His soul has been passed on to another being!" He clapped his hands over his mouth and stared at the pink haired girl wide eyed before giving a hysterical laugh.

Sakura flinched, looking as if he had struck her. What was wrong with this kid? He was acting like a lunitic. Like he was mentally ill. "Naruto is'nt dead."

"He is." Yukimaru said soberly as he stared at her. "I can show you his final moments."

Sakura growled at the boy. He was playing a dangerous game and she wanted to smack him for his lies. "Alright show us."

Yukimaru smiled, an angelic little smile and suddenly the room went pitch black and an image of Naruto laying on his back on some silvery white stone bleeding, his left side from shoulder to stomach was missing and his organs were starting to fall out. He pressed his hand to his side and gasped for air as his body spasimed. Tears slipped from the corner of his eyes as he tried to push himself upright.

"Ten minutes... I need to reach-fuck...this is pathetic..." Naruto said as he got up and staggered foward, blood dripped down his side, leaving a little trail with every step he took.

Sakura clapped her hands to her mouth in horror. Kakashi stared at the images blankly, his mind rejecting that this was his Naruto, and that Naruto was dead. It just was'nt possible. Naruto was indestructable. Everyone else stared at the image in horror and guilt as the image of their friend stopped in front of a pale blue crystaline wall and reached out to put his bloody hand against the stone.

There was a person inside.

He reached over and pushed a button against the wall next to the blue stone and the wall containing the person vanished in a rush of pale pinkish white liquid as a body spilled out and lay coughing on the floor. The body was female with animal ears and a tail, long blond hair, pale skin. Naruto laid his bloody hand on her and she looked at him. "W-Who-"

"No time to explain. It looks like it's your turn."

"I know that you have questions but I have'nt got the time to explain. I need you to take my soul and the nine tailed demon inside of me. Take my memories, my feelings and all of my knowledge held in them."

The girl looked up at him, her ears flattening against her head. "H-How?" She asked as the boy slipped his hand under her and flipped her onto her back and leaned over her.

"Open your mouth."

He pressed his lips to hers and closed his eyes as his body was wracked with pain and pulled back a little so that they could see the stream of chakra being passed from his body to her own. The pale green glow with red tints to it. His blue eyes flickered to her stomach as the seal mark that had held the Kyubbi appeared on her skin. Stark inky black against her pale skin. He started to fall his breath coming out in short pained little gasps, and the girl wrapped her arms around him as he sobbed.

"Forgive me angel. It's a thankless job. Full of misery and heartbreak, but I can't trust anyone else...Please live. Be happy." Naruto said as the light slowly faded from his eyes as his heart stopped.

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She landed in the waters of the lake with bone jarring force and gritted her teeth as she went under. Dear god someone needed to reconfigure the landings or one day it just would'nt be safe to gate travel. She kicked her way to the surface and took a deep breath as soon as her head broke the surface. Her ears twitched in irritation as she swam towards the shore. A thousand bits and pieces of information running through her head.

Find Guren. Go back to base.

For some reason that she could'nt explain she felt the strong need to check up on the other leaf nins and make sure that they were alright. As soon as she was on the shore she took off running as fast as she could towards the leaf nins camp, somewhat eager to see the one's in her memory up close. Part of her wondering what they were like, and if they would like her.

She ran for an hour and a half through the woods, and ended up at least five miles from the lake. She leaned her shoulder against a tree and stared at the two story wooden cabin that Yamoto had created with his earth jutsu, and smiled a bit as she pushed away from the tree and started walking the rest of the way to the house.

Yukimaru waved his hand and the room returned back to normal, sun light streamed through the window illuminating the room again in pure light. "Naruto-kun's replacment is here."

"Your lying... Naruto isn't dead." Sakura sobbed and Yukimaru looked at her funny.

"I'm not lying. Just listen. She's calling for you." Sakura got quiet for a second and waited, sure enough someone outside of the spare room called her by name.

"Sakura-chan? Is anyone here?"