A/N: Just to remind you, anything between ---------------is a flashback, and will usually be told from the point of view from that character.

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This was the third night in a row. Naruto didn't know what to do anymore. Should I just stop sleeping? Gaara does it...Maybe I could manage. Naruto tilted his head up to see the time. 3 a.m. Oh Joy .Three nights in row already. He always woke up at the same time-right before he died. The dream was always the same, every night.

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I stood up in the grass meadow. I had to shield the sun from my eyes-damn, it's bright. Then I hear this singing, and it's so beautiful, I just wanna stand there forever. There's this real heavy forest around me, it's pitch black and there's this fog pouring into the meadow from it. The singing keeps getting closer, and I'm like rooted to the ground. Then all of a sudden, I see these icy blue eyes, and it's like I'm choking again, the same way I was when I first met the girl. She comes out of the forest in this torn up dress, but she's still like really pretty. She keeps singing this beautiful song, but her eyes keep choking me, and I feel like I'm running out of air, but I never do. She keeps getting closer, then she puts out her arms like she's gonna hug me. She keeps eye contact, but she touches my face and hair, and she starts smiling. Now this smile, it's like, melt-your-heart, butterflies-in-your-stomach kinda smile. But then, her eyes slowly turn red, and her warm, kind smile turns into this evil, time-to-die smile. Now, I'm paralyzed with fear. Her fingernails are long, and she slowly moves them down my face and neck, and then stops at my chest. The fog turns into this like, black, shadowy kinda figure, but it's blurry. Then the girls points this long black nail at my chest, and she...she rips right through my clothes, into my skin, and she…she drags her fingernail down to my stomach, then she stops. She gives me one last evil smile, then disappears into the dark and the shadow completely covers me, and it's almost like the Kyuubi…is laughing, and then I fall to the ground and I'm screaming bloody murder, which it was, and then I wake up.

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Naruto sat up in his sleeping bag, trying to stay awake. He tried to keep his mind occupied, he fantasized about the day he would have. He envisioned himself asking out Sakura and her accepting, he imagined tasting the most delicious ramen in the world. He kept imagining different fantasies until he couldn't tell if he was awake or asleep. Unfortunately for him, he was asleep.