I meant to have this chapter out weeks ago, but life got in the way.

I had to take my dog to the vets. She cut her foot really bad and almost bleed to death. It cost me 317.62 (American dollars). I am now broke, but i would so do it again in a heart beat. My dog, Mocha, is a pain. She barks a lot, chases cars (almost getting hit), bits strangers (family members she doesn't know), jealous of all the other animals, doesn't listen (listens only when she wants to), eats (cat food), shits (a lot, which i clean up)), and chews up everything she can get her mouth on. You get to the point to give her away. Then that all changes, when she get hurts. My heart beat was faster then it ever have. I was shacking rather much even to the point my mother commented on it. In my mind, i knew right then, My heart wouldn't last, if anything happens to her. Dogs eat all your food. They destroy all your stuff. They are very jealous (chase any animal that comes close to me). You come to the point of hate, but that is because they stole a place in your heart.

Then baby sits the devil child (aka my little sister)

After that, every time i would take out my lab top, my mother would want to play games on it. I couldn't write (type) my stories.

Then my mother found a baby bird. She went to work, and i had to take care of it. That meant making food for it and feeding it every half an hour. I hated that bird after an hour. And it never shut-up!

And O yeah! I don't have Internet at my house.

Other stuff, but you don't need to know about that!

That is why it took me weeks to get this chapter out. Life happens!

There is a reason why this story takes place after the show is done. I am starting another story, Infinitesimal Change, (A Gundam Seed Story.) It takes place during the the first season and let me tell you. It takes me hours just to write paragraphs! I want to follow the Gundam Seed Manga story line, and so it takes me forever to do so, because I am following the story line closely. I try to be very detail with the story line. And because of that, it takes me forever to finish a paragraph. (well it didn't help that my mother keep taking my laptop away to play it.) Hints the reason why this story is place after the end of the show.

Well here is the reason why you are here.

I do not own Naruto, so don't sue me!

PS. This chapter is not the lightest. it is rather dark (well kinda) just read. You will find out.

Chapter 13

Life Isn't Fair

Part 13

Lets just say, when Sai and Sakura returned to Hokage's office, missing two of their members, things got a little messy. That would include Sai and Sakura. The office was a mess, and her chair found a home outside again. Messy was not a good word to describe how it looked. It took the last two members of Team Fox a couple hours to calm Tsunade down. It wasn't pretty. Trust me. Tsunade summoned the two Hyugas, Kiba, Ino, Shikamaru, and Kakashi to track down the lost members of Team Fox. The new group, consisting of eight, took off.

Tsunade was ferocious, or rather beyond ferocious (if that was possible). She blamed the Uchiha, even if she didn't know what happened. It was always his fault in some way. She stood facing the window. She looked older. She felt older, since Naruto went missing. She was feeling that this won't be the last time she would fell old like way she felt today. I won't be able to this much of this.

"Tsunade." A male voice called from behind her.

"Hai." She uttered. She would not be able to bare another lost.

"I am sure the gaki is fine." Jiraiya said as he looked at her. She turned to face him, but her face was emotionless. Naruto is dead, when she gets back.No one gave the Hokage a heart attack and got away from it.

"How can you be sure? The last time she went missing, she came face to face with death." Tsunade said as she tried to keep back the tears. It was not working as tears started to flow down her cheeks. "I won't be able to take it, if something happens to the gaki." Life was messed up. Life wasn't fair. Why did these things happen to her?

The Toad Sage never looked away from the Hokage. He felt the same way. They both had lost so much. They lost loved ones. The gaki was like a daughter to them. Now, they had another chance with Naruto; however, they could lose her as well. "Naruto is strong. She can take care of herself."

"I know, but last time." Her voice broke. Silence followed. She returned to looking out the window. The village was her only comfort.

"Standing around worrying won't help anyone." Jiraiya responded.

"I don't know what else I can do." She felt a hand on her shoulder. "I feel useless." She reached for his. It felt right.

"You are not useless."

The search party picked up the trail of Shadow Wolf and Fire Fox, but it was weak, however. The group of eight found themselves at the bottom of the cliff. The ground was splintered, and they was a rather big hole in the ground. It was clear that this was a site of a battle. This was the spot that the smell was strongest. (They had Ninja dogs.) They had to be around here.

"There." Kiba pointed. "It looked like a cave had caved in."

"What do we do now?" Sakura asked. Sai and Sakura were both still in their Anbu uniforms. What happened to you guys?

"Are we sure that they are in here?" Hinata asked.

"There is no doubt that they are in there." Shikamaru muttered. Some times he wished he was not as skilled as he was. It was troublesome. Life was troublesome.

"Then how do we get them out of there?" Ino eyed the side of the mountain.

"Dig." Kakashi answered. There was a lot of mouth dropping, which was followed by a lot of people falling on their asses. It would take them forever to move all those stones by hand. They had to do. There was no way around it.

"That is going to take all day!" Sakura whined.

"We better get started then." Sai commented with his famous flake smile.

Pitch black could not describe how dark it was. It was cold and wet. It was hell. The only thing that Naruto could do was feel around in the dark as she walked around in total darkness. She fell a couple (more then that) times before, but she was able to get back up with hardly any injuries. Her feet hurt as she kept hitting them on the rocks. Her hands were cut and bleeding. Her hands were sliced on the sharp stone as she ran her hands on the side of the cave. Her face had cuts as well. She looked horrible overall.

Walking along the cave, she tripped over a rock. She had to stop herself from falling face first into the ground. She screamed as a sharp rock entered her left hand drawing more blood from her body. She lowered her body to a sating position on the hard earth. "Why am I so weak?" She asked herself. She had no way to see the injury from the rock. She could only feel the embedded rock in her skin. It was deep.

She felt lost, physically and mentally. Why did she go so deep into the cave? Why was she that stupid? It started with him. Why did she feel like a loser after what hesaid? Why did she care what he said? So many questions, and no answers for them. And this dark cave was not helping her. Naruto felt sick, but there was nothing that could change that. There was no way out of here.

She fingers worked on getting the stone out of her flesh, but every time she tried to pull it out, she could cry out in pain. She tried once again, not paying attention to the severing pain. She flinched as she pulled it out. The blood started to flow out of her hand. Using the other, she ripped a piece of black cloth from her Anbu uniform. She fixed it around her injured hand. She needed medical attention for her hand, since it took longer for her to heal. One of the downside of sealing the Fox power.

Her heart was worse then her body. She opened herself up to him to only get hurt by him. What was the point of opening her heart, if she was worse off afterward? She felt weak. She was too emotional. She hated being a woman. May be she should just stop caring. She should just stop feeling. Life would be easier. But she wasn't this weak before. Was this because of what Yuki did to her? It had to be because of that man. How could a dead man have such power over her?

She pushed herself up. She used the wall as support. She felt tired. It must had been the hours she had walk around in this cave. "Will I ever get out of this cave? I can't even see where I am going." She flinched again when she walked into another rock on ground. This time, she kept her balance. She kept her injured hand close to her chest. She breathed heavy. She wouldn't be able to keep this up. She would………

Don't go there. Naruto warned herself. I'm not going to die. I have so many things that I have to do before I die. She thought. Her eyes felt heavy, but did it matter, if she closed them? I can't stop now.She wanted to forgive Ero-Sennin, Obaa-chan, etc. But on the other side, she wanted nothing to do with the teme. He was too bipolar for her liking. She wanted to smile again. She wanted to put the past behind her. She wanted to found out more about her father and mother, if that was possible. There was too much to live for to die now. She was Naruto Uzumaki. She was going to be the next Hokage, the Rokudaime (or so she wished, but she did not think of it as a wish). She was going to make it happen no matter what. Nothing was going to stop her. She could do it without him unlike what the council thought.

Yep, Naruto knew about the conversation with council members. She heard the very last part of the Tsunade's conversation with the council member, when Naruto was in the hospital bed. She heard Tsunade asked why they kept pushing her and teme together. Naruto didn't hear hisname, but she knew who they were talking about. It was rather simple. There was no one the hokage hated more then the teme. It had to be him. Sure, kissing him was doing what the council wanted, but didn't it matter what she wanted? It felt strange kissing him, but it felt great. She wished she could feel that way again. It didn't matter who it was as long it was with a person she cared deeply for.

In the distance there was the sound of water. "That could be the way out." Her speed picked up. "Please be some light. I can't deal with the darkness anymore. I don't want to be alone any more." Paying less attention to the area around her, Naruto tripped down a rocky slope. She screamed as she felt severing pain ran through her arm. Her body came to a stop as her body crashed again the Terra Firma. She was posed in a sating position. She whined as she felt a cold liquid wash over her. "Great, I landed in cold water! I still can't see anything!" She gnarled rather loudly. She felt her blood get washed away in the water. Her right arm was now in worse shape then ever. She could not move it. She bit her lip. It was broken.

That was not the worse of her problems, however. She was now stuck in this wet sating position. No matter how much she tried to get out of the water, she was unable. Even if she was able to get up, she was sure her legs were unable to support her. She was screwed. There was no way around it. She was stuck. "O great!" She cried. Why didn't I listen to that man? She growled. "It is his fault. He is an ass hole." She paused as she started to laugh. "I am going to die here. No one is ever going to find me... I can't get up!... I have a badly cut left hand and broken right arm. Life is great!" She chuckled. She soon stopped. "I will never get my dream. I will never get to tell them I forgive them. I can't die like this." Tears started to flow, but the tears drowned in the water below her.

Sasuke Uchiha stared at the fire as if it was the enemy. His heart broke, when Naruto disappeared from his sight. He was stupid and now he knew it. Why did he say those things? He didn't want to push her, but that was exactly what he did. Now, she was gone. He would go after her, but he could barely move. There was nothing that he could do about it now. If he was anyone else, he would cry. He was an Uchiha, and they didn't cry about things they couldn't change. What was the point of crying about the past, if you can't ever change it? The past was the past, and that was where it stayed.

He turned his attention to the caved-in entry. He blinked. Was his eyes playing jokes on him? Light was flicking through cracks in the rocks. Did someone find them, or rather him? Words started to flow through as well. He heard people talking. So many voices to pay attention to who they were. "They better be in there."

"They are! So keep digging."

"May be if we yell, they will hear us."

"They might hear us now!"

"Shut-up, baka and keep working."

"Can we stop arguing, please? This won't get us anywhere."

Sasuke stared at the rocks for the moment. They are all bakas! I tell you. He growled. He was getting sick of the fighting. Why did I come back to this village anyway? The argument was going to kill them and him, if they didn't stop. "Can you people shut-up?" He vociferated. The voices stopped.

"Uchiha, is that you?"

"Hai, Hyuga!" He responded. Why did they have to bring him?

"We are almost through. Hold on." Sakura's voice reached him.

"Where do you expect me to go?" Sasuke hissed. People were idiots. Where did they think he was going to go? He was stuck. Well, he could go after the dobe, but he couldn't move, or he would have gone after her.

"Enough with the attitude, Uchiha." Sai commented.

"I will cut it out, when you people stop acting like bakas." Sasuke hollered back.

"Sasuke, we are only trying to help." Kakashi said. "Don't bit off our heads."

"Hn."

"I don't hear Naruto. Where is she?" Hinata asked.

"Not here." Sasuke snapped. He didn't need to reminded of how imbecilic he was. He lost Naruto, and if the idiots hurried, he could get to the blonde dobe faster.

"May be, we should just leave the Uchiha here, and go find Naruto. He doesn't need our help." Kiba sneered loudly.

"We can't just leave him." Ino squawked.

Why did they have to bring her? "Then don't go." Uchiha uttered.

"Why?" Kakashi asked as the entry was cleared. The eight stood in found of the raven. They studied him. Sasuke looked well and healthy, but he wasn't moving.

"Where is Naruto?" Shikamaru asked. They had one of the missing squad member, but Naruto, who was the most important (in the search party's eyes), was no where in sight. His eyes scanned the surrounding area. He saw two broken masks under the ruble. Naruto must be here, but where is she? As stated before, it would be bad, if something were to happen to the sun kissed blonde.

"She went deeper into the cave." Sasuke answered.

"And you didn't stop her?!" Neji growled.

"Why did she go deeper into the cave? And why did you not go with her?" Kakashi posed the questions. "Did you two get into a fight?"

Sasuke never faced the eight. "Sasuke, you didn't!" Sakura cried.

"And why didn't you stop her?" Sai inquired.

"I can't move." The teme spoke quickly.

"We couldn't hear you." Shikamaru grinned.

"I. Can't. Move." He muttered. There was no way around it. He had to get this over with to find Naruto, who could be hurt. There was a roar of laughter, which was matched with a Uchiha famous glared.

"You kidding, right?" Kiba smirked.

"No." Sasuke answered.

"Sakura, can you heal Sasuke, so we can go look for Naruto?" Kakashi sighed. "Hinata and Ino can help you."

"Hai!" Sakura, Ino, and Hinata responded. It took some time, but Sasuke was good as new, well, in some sense. He would never be perfect.

"So what did you two fight about?" Neji asked.

"Nothing." Sasuke growled.

"We should get going. It is dark in cave, so we better get some light." Shikamaru articulated. The rest of the group nodded as they went deeper into the cave.

There was no way to describe how much pain Naruto was in. Her hand was still bleeding. Her arm was broken in more then one place. Her face had a few cuts. She had come to believe that her left leg was broken by the fall as well. Her skin was starting to change to an orchid emerald color. She was sick of this empty feeling. She had to move. She had to make her dream a reality. She had to forgive them in person. She wanted to forgive them. Life couldn't end this way. "Life isn't fair." Naruto cried.

Her body hurt. It felt heavy. It didn't even feel like her body. Her body felt lost to her. "How did I get myself into this mess?" She sighed. Life wasn't fair. Nothing was ever fair for the blonde. The villagers hated her. She grew up alone. Someone, somewhere, always wanted her dead. It was never going to stop until she was dead. Fate was after her. She wouldn't be able to last to much longer.

Her hand was still bleeding bad. Her broken arm was comfortable as she couldn't move it into the right position. Her leg was stuck in position as it laid broken in more one spot. There was no way to describe the pain that she is in. Naruto would be having vision problems right now, since she lost a lot of blood; however, it didn't matter, since she couldn't see a thing anyway. Life wasn't fair…..To make things worse, water droplets fell on her forehead every few seconds. And the frigid water was in a continuous motion against her body. "I am going to go crazy in this cave!"

She was freezing. She was in pain. She was blind at the moment. She couldn't move. Life sucked. She would go crazy, if she stayed in this position any longer. She couldn't move as she was stuck in between the rocks. Also, there was a sharp stone poking her ass. There was no way to move the stone. Life sucked. She had to destroy the stone, or in the very least get rid of it. Naruto propelled her up with her left hand. She bit her lip as she felt another rock in her skin. She was able to move the stone below her, but she fell hard against ground. Her left hand was in severing pain once again. It started to bleed more. Her lip started to bleed as she bit down to stop herself was screaming. She bought her hand to her face. She used her teeth to pull out the stone deep in her flesh, but this time she had no luck holding back her scream.

Each member of the team had some source of light. "Akamaru smells blood." Kiba said. His face fell.

"I think I found it." Shikamaru answered. There was a rather large blood puddle on the cave floor. Everyone's spirits fell.

Kakashi run his fingers through it. "It is a couple hours old."

"We have to found Naruto now." Sakura uttered. That was a lot of blood, and there was no doubt that Naruto needed medical attention.

"How do we know it is Naruto's?" Sasuke growled. It can't be her's. I would never forgive myself, if something happened to my dobe. He started to sweat, since there was no doubt it was her blood. Naruto, please don't leave me alone.

"It's her's." Kiba answered harshly.

"I see a trail." Neji pointed out, which was followed by a piercing scream.

"Naruto." They all muttered. Their hearts stopped and died at the same time. Naruto was in pain. Naruto was nicest person. There was no one nicer. She never gave up on anything or anyone. She would be greatly missed, if something was to happen to her. She was gift from God.

"Naruto is in trouble." Hinata whispered.

"Stop talking, and lets get going!" Sasuke snapped. Naruto was hurt, and they were standing around do nothing.

"Uchiha, we are." Sai said with no hint of any emotions.

"Water, you are going down!" Naruto gnarled. She glared at her new enemies as if it was the Antichrist. O, great. I am going crazy!Her blood lost was getting to her head. There was no way to get around it. She was growing weak by each passing moment. She was close to death. "I will Rasengan your ass!" That would work, if the water had an ass. It didn't, so her plan was useless.

"It is so cold!" Naruto whined. Her world was falling apart. She wanted to see her friends again, before she died. She wanted to see everyone again, well except the teme, who she never wanted to see again. That man was nothing to her now. He was nothing, but a thorn on her side, and a thorn she never wanted. She wanted to be in an intimate relationship, but not with that thorn. He was a perverted man slut. She wanted nothing to do with him. How could he say those things to her.

Her eye lids were getting heavy. She was losing focus of everything around her. Her body was getting stiff and heavy as time went bye. The pain was still horrible, but she was bother less by it. The little things became less important to Naruto. She only wanted to see her friends again, but she lost hope that it would eve happen. Life wasn't fair. It sucked on ice, but there was nothing that she could do about it now. She wish she could, however. "I wish I could have died in battle not by my own hand! Why did I come farther into the cave. Why was I so stupid?" She muttered to herself.

"Naruto!"

"Naruto!"

"Naruto, are you there?"

I must be hearing things. Naruto thought. She was losing her five senses, so she had to be imagining things. The voices in her heard were getting louder. "I can hear you!" She hollered back.

"Naruto, where are you?" The voice was over excited.

Naruto's eye flew opened. The voices in her head never talked back to her (well like that). The voice sounded like Sakura, one of her friends. "Sakura?" The blonde asked.

"Hai, and others. Where are you?" Sakura inquired.

"B-by…..water." Naruto squeezed out. She had lost to much blood to speak.

"We are on our way. Hold on." A male voice called out.

Sai!Naruto breathed. Every breathe she took was exhausting. "I…" She didn't have the breath to speak. My friends are here. She cried.

"Naruto, what is wrong?" Neji called out.

Naruto wanted to answer back, but it hurt too much to speech back. There was a long moment of silence. "B-blood. T-too much b-blood." She uttered. She was inches away from unconscious and feet away from death.

The team found the blonde covered in blood. The medics ran to the blonde to heal her as the others looked on. Sasuke felt weak as he looked over the dobe. He blamed himself. He pushed her away, and now, she was close to death. Why did he have to say those things to her? She was in pain, and it was his fault. "Is she okay?" He choked out. If anything happened to her, he would die.

"We heal her the best as we can. We need to get her to the hospital." Ino answered as Hinata and Sakura treated her.

A couple of the guys came forward to pick her up, but a certain Uchiha shoved them away. "I got her." Sasuke hissed. There was a lot of 'no way in hell'. "I am her body guard!" He hollered back.

"And you did a amazing job!" Neji blustered back. There was no way in hell that he would let the Uchiha touch Naruto. It was the Uchiha's fault, even if he could not prove it. It had to be his fault.

"Ka-Ka." Naruto tried to speak. The words were caught in her throat.

There was complete silence. "You shouldn't talk." Hinata ordered (it really wasn't a order). Her voice was soft but strong.

"We need to get her out of here. So have you guys got over your big egos?" Ino sneered. It wasn't the best time to fight.

"I got her." Kakashi moved to Naruto. She made no protest as she found her in Kakashi's warm chest, which surprised him. He expected her to fight, but instead she buried herself in his chest. He felt warm from her touch. He was careful to hold her without hurting her. "Lets get going."

They nodded and they were on their way. "I…I for-forgive you." Naruto whispered, so only the man, holding her, heard her.

Kakashi couldn't believe his ears, but he wasn't going to question her. He held her closer. He liked the feel of her in his arms. It felt right. He never wanted to let her go. He did, however, wanted to know what happened to her. Why did she leave Sasuke behind, and go farther into the cave? Why were they trapped in the cave in the first place? Why did Naruto shy away from Sasuke, when they found her? What was going on? He hated questions.

They found their way out of the cave. They jumped tree to tree back to the village. They made their way straight to the hospital. Sasuke's eyes never left Naruto. Well, the group's eyes never left the blonde dobe. It was like, if they took their eyes off the blonde, she would disappear. Life wasn't fair. Why did everything bad had to happen to a person as sweet as Naruto? It didn't make sense.

I hope you like it

Review please good or bad. It does not matter.

I promise you the next chapter will be lighter. (happier)

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I am working on the story i told you about in the beginning. When i finish that first chapter, i will get the next chapter of this out. Okay?

bye, have fun!

-Cass-