Naruto woke up, he barely remembered anything, then he remembered a fight with Madara, instantly He remembered everything, he had lost. He tried to free himself but something contained him, a powerful seal.
"It's useless Naruto, this is the end" Madara threw him in front of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path "Zetsu! Time to seal the Kyubi, I told you to be ready! Zetsu?"
Naruto shuddered and thought someway to escape, when he heard him.
It was Sasuke "A terrible disadvantage of have an army of clones is how vulnerable they are to a biologic attack"
"Sasuke… What are you doing here? What did you do? Weren't you supposed to be destroying Konoha now?"
"That can wait, this I couldn't miss. So how do you call yourself now? Traitor of the Uchiha" Sasuke's hate could be seen towards his eyes "I should call you the name that suits you best I guess, No? Tobi?"
"Tobi" a clone of Zetsu approached the shinobis, he looked really sick "Help us, he did something to us, to all of us, we…" the clone fell to the ground and started convulsing.
"So… this is how it's gonna be, fine then, let's finish it quickly" Tobi said.
Naruto saw the fight all along, Tobi, Madara o whoever was behind that mask must had be weakening because Naruto could free himself from the seal and just in time.
"This is the end" the masked man used amaterasu, Sasuke would no evade the attack in time.
"Sasuke!" Naruto couldn't create a clone in time neither, there was no other option, the boy stepped between the attack and Sasuke throwing him to the floor while taking the attack.
Sasuke reacted quickly and was able to remove amaterasu flames with his own sharingan.
After that they both started fighting, in the end it was a combination of rasengan and chidori what took the masked man down.
Sasuke and Naruto were panting, but it was all over, the masked man, the edo tensei and Kabuto, and the war. Naruto smiled, he could now take Sasuke back home, and then he run towards him hugging him "Sasuke! You… you save me! I knew you weren't bad dattebayo"
"Don't do that again" But Sasuke was still being the same and broke the embrace.
"But… I thought"
"You're lucky that I'm in need of you, otherwise…" Sasuke stepped toward the exit "I see that you still have a good healing factor, so let's go"
But that was only partial; there was a burn in Naruto's chest, more specifically in the area of the heart "What? Wait Sasuke teme! Where are you going?"
"Hurry up"
"What? What? You want me to come with you?" Naruto looked around and took an Akatsuki haori and followed Sasuke.
"As slow as ever, didn't you realize that this is not over yet" Sasuke said reaching the entrance, they were leaving "This is not over yet, and if I am to guess you don't want that ten tailed thing still there"
"That monster?" Naruto didn't seem to comprehend, then surprised asked "Are you going to destroy it?"
"That's the plan"
"Then, why are we leaving ttebayo?"
"It can't be destroyed by normal means, that's when you come in; we just need… a legendary weapon to do it"
"That's what we are searching" Sasuke affirmed it "Sasuke, is this true? You don't want no longer to destroy Konoha or our fight will come after this is complete?" Naruto voice was serious and mature as Sasuke had never listened.
"This is temporary, you're the only who can do it. When it's done we shall fight"
"Ah" Naruto responded sadly "You know I'm happy I can share a last mission with you" and smiled.
Sasuke paid no attention and continued going, it was almost midnight when they stopped, Naruto endured the pain of the burn and he didn't complain at all.
"What is it Sasuke? Why do we stop ttebayo?"
"Let me see your chest"
"Eh?" Naruto slightly blushed "What? Why?" Sasuke didn't answer and removed Naruto's haori by force "Ey! Teme what are you doing?" But Naruto stopped complained because of the pain.
"Baka, you should have told me your wound wasn't healing"
"It's OR dattebayo" Naruto's blush intensified "You don't need to worry about"
"There could still be micro flame there you know?"
"Eh?" Naruto was now scared.
"You reduced your speed. It'll be better if we rest now, anyway we're still far away"
Sasuke prepared the camp, Naruto felt strange "These are my last moments and I'm sharing them with him" He thought, he remembered Itachi last words.
|flash back|
"Naruto before I go I'd like to have a word with you"
"Um? What is it ttebayo?"
"You remember you once said you'd be a better brother to Sasuke than I am?"
Naruto's embarrassed "Well, yea about that…"
"You still caring for Sasuke?"
"What?... Of course dattebayo"
"Then may I ask you a favor, I know it's egotist and unfair but, Could you save Sasuke from darkness"
"Itachi…"
"I know you're the only one who can do it, I may try it as well now, but please promise me that you do everything in your power to save my brother"
"Ha" Naruto nodded.
"I leave it to you then, take care of Sasuke"
|end flash back|
"Oi usuratonkachi, are you listening?"
"Uh? Oh sorry" Naruto paid attention to Sasuke who was in front of him.
"Take you haori off, I won't repeat it again"
"What? I…"
"Don't give me that look you fool, this will cure the burn" Sasuke gave an unguent "You can cure yourself I hope"
"I…"
"What? Did you expect that I cured you usuratonkachi?"
"Sasuke teme I'll…"
Sasuke ignored him and continued talking "That's for sure leave a scar, even to you"
"This is actually the second"
"Hm?"
"The first is which you gave me" Naruto smiled lightly. Sasuke tried to make sense of what Naruto said, he didn't remember of leaving any scar on Naruto "It was right here, behind this one" Naruto put his hand on his heart.
"You betta sleep now, we'll be leaving by the sunrise"
"Won't you sleep ttebayo?"
"Later. Hurry up and go to sleep"
"Naruto wake up!" Sasuke violently pushed Naruto, it was almost sunrise.
"Whoa! What? What happens? Sasuke!" Naruto smiled, he thought that all had been just a dream.
"Baka! We're in danger"
"What? What is it ttebayo?"
"Some ninjas had found us, we betta take care of them now"
"Sasuke teme, you won't be thinking of killing them"
"What would you do?"
"I'll… I'll talk to them"
"Are you seriously that idiot usuratonkachi"
"It'll work ttebayo, you don't know them they're probably allies, you just have to hide"
"They may have a sensory ninja as well dobe"
"Shut up! I know what I'm doing dattebayo, trust me Sasuke" and without saying more Naruto took the haori and went for the ninjas.
"That idiot hasn't changed a bit" Sasuke followed him trying to remain hidden.
"He's coming" Kiba told the others.
"He did manage to escape" Kurenai said "Shino, contact the other tell them we find him, ask for reinforcements immediately"
"Oi guys!" Naruto approached them.
"Naruto-kun!" Hinata hugged him and started crying.
"Oi Hinata-chan, don't cry ttebayo, it's OR" Naruto hugged her back trying to comfort her.
"You really have us worried this one Naru" Kiba told him approaching them "I'm glad you're OK"
"Thanks dattebayo" Naruto could saw his eyes were red "Kurenai-sensei what a surprise"
"Why the surprise? There's much more now to protect, including you Naruto-kun" Kurenai stepped down calling Kiba with a sign "Uchiha Sasuke?"
"He's still there, no movements so far, I dunno what he's up to" Kiba angrily responded.
"Say Naruto, are you OK at all? How did you escape?" Kurenai asked.
"I'm OK actually that's what I wanted to talk about" Naruto smiled "You see I found Sasuke dattebayo, well it's more like he found me ttebayo, but anyway he just saved me and now we are going to finish this war ttebayo"
The face of everyone was priceless.
"Naruto… are you sure of what you're saying?" Kurenai dared to talk "You are not under any genjutsu, but…"
"This is a trap don't you see it" Kiba lost his nerve "And I know that you're listening you imbecile Uchiha, show your true colors, show yourself at once"
"How clever" Sasuke stepped in front of them.
"Sasuke" Kiba growled, Hinata gasped, Kurenai prepared herself, Shino arrived to see him and Naruto saw him supplicant
"What is it? Did you see a ghost?"
"I dunno what have you said to Naruto but it ends here, we'll not let you hurt him anymore" Kiba said fiercely.
"So overprotective! I didn't know you were into this kind of beasts" Sasuke provoked Kiba.
"Teme!" Kiba fell for it and attacked Sasuke.
"Kiba!" Kurenai tried to stop him but it was too late as Sasuke cut him transversally.
Naruto was frozen, he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
Shino helped Kiba who was bad injured, he was having problems breathing.
"Shino take care of Kiba" Kurenai ordered "Magen: Jigoku no mon no jutsu"
"You trying to trap me with genjutsu" Sasuke smiled arrogantly the sharingan shinned in his eyes when he opened them "How naive, Magen: Kyōten Chiten"
Kurenai was trapped in her own genjutsu and Sasuke took the chance to escape "Sasuke!" Naruto finally reacted.
"Naruto-kun" Hinata called him.
"Hinata, you have to let me go"
"But…"
"Please, I promise you everything will be OK, we're going to finish this war, I promise I'll come back dattebayo" Naruto took her hands on his own.
"No! I won't let you sacrifice yourself Naruto-kun"
"Please Hinata you have to trust me, you have to let me go"
"Hinata" Shino called his partner.
"Please" Naruto begged.
Hinata took a step down and still stood.
"Thank you"
Naruto managed to catch up with Sasuke "What took you so long usuratonkachi?"
"Sasuke teme, you almost kill Kiba!" Naruto attacked Sasuke.
"He'll survive" Sasuke dodge it.
"And attacked Kurenai-sensei" Naruto attacked him again.
This time Sasuke captured Naruto by his hand "If you didn't notice, they attacked me first. And let's leave something clear, I'm not your friend, nor I'll be, I won't return to Konoha and I still planning to destroy it, we just have an enemy in common and only together we'll be able to terminate it. Are we clear?"
Naruto freed himself, his eyes were red, but he refused to cry "Why are you so cold ttebayo?"
Sasuke didn't answer, Naruto just followed him in silence.