"Sasuke, what the hell are you talking about?!" The blond, still held by the raven, was shocked more than words could explain.

"Ghahahahahahahahaha! You don't know a damn thing, do you, kid?"

"Oh, great. Now I've got a sarcastic bastard fox to deal with, too."

Sasuke also began to chuckle as though he could hear the conversation playing inside of the blond's head. "I told you didn't I? I'm coming back to Konoha with you." He began to slowly trod in the opposite direction of the statues and into the forest ahead. "Come on.'

The whiskered teen could only follow along with suspicions of the Uchiha being too much to handle.

"Oi, Kurama."

"What's up, kid?"

"Chotto matte! Are you seriously asking me 'what's up'? You do see what's happening, right?" Naruto stood to his feet shakily and followed after the demon fox whom continued off to the Tetragram sealed room.

"Ba-ka! You're really stupid!"He whipped his massive head and smiled; walking at a steady pace.

Naruto hurriedly raced after his swinging tails and leaped onto one of his many nine, clinging onto it for walking support since he was still weak from chakra loss. "What are you calling me baka for? Can you explain what happened?!"

"He's been under a Genjutsu for a while."

"What are you saying?"

"I mean that 'the masked man' must have placed him under one when he killed that Uchiha Itachi. Most likely to keep him on Akatsuki's side."

"What kind of...Genjutsu?"

"I got a glimpse of it when he knocked you to the ground. I sensed the illusion and I sent some of my own chakra to the Uchiha and I saw what it was. I could feel that it must have been to keep him from thinking of helping Konoha. For him to hate it for what they 'made' Itachi do. That's also why he killed Danzo, the recent sixth Hokage."

Naruto was silent for a moment before he nodded. "Right, now I get it. Is that why his emotions changed so much. At one moment he was trying to kill me...and the next he had a slight sense of shock in his tone..."

"Something like that, I would say. Anyway, lending him my chakra helped remove the Genjutsu and left him to decide what he would do for himself. He decided to help you live instead, of course, with a little persuasion."

Naruto smacked his hand across his face. He sighed before asking. "What did you do...?"

"Nothing too drastic. Get up, will you? The Uchiha's calling for you. I'm going to sleep for a while...I'm exhausted."

Naruto opened his eyes and realized that he had slightly dozed off.

"Lift your weight off me, will you?"

"S-sorry..." Naruto pulled himself back onto his feet, attempting to keep his weight on his left leg. Blood was spilling immensely from his side wounds, the stab on his shoulder and now from his eyes, as well. He closed them only to feel the sting of the blood in his eyes. He lifted his left arm and rubbed his fist against his face. He was completely covered in blood, now, but didn't care as long as the pain vanished; which, it didn't. Only increased. He softly began sobbing. "Dammit..."

Sasuke slightly tilted his head. "What's wrong?"

"N-nothing..." He's acting way too weird for me...I actually hope he starts acting like an annoying bastard again...

"We're almost there..."

"Hinata, do you sense anything?" Kakasi was now at the head of the team with Kiba and Akamaru by his side.

The girl activated her Byakugan and stammered before replying. "I-I can sense Naruto-kun and Sasuke-kun's chakra right up ahead...about 7 kilometers from here."

"Right. Arigato, Hinata."

The Hyuuga sighed before speeding up and catching up to Shino. "Shino h-have you f-found them yet?"

"Not yet. The reason, my parasitic insects haven't returned to give me information on their ware abouts yet." He pushed his hood lower over his face.

"I-i see."

Naruto was beginning to feel a strangely familiar chakra...multiple familiar chakra... He began to move faster, hurting his legs in the effort but he didn't care. All he wanted to do was return home...with Sasuke...

"I-I...I can...they're...the-I..." Naruto coughed up a handful of blood and fell to his knee, bringing Sasuke doing with him.

"Oi, usuratonkachi...stop running so fast if you'll fall anyway. Baka." Sasuke lifted himself and the blond back to their feet and clutched tighter onto Naruto's arm around his shoulder.

"Thanks...Sasuke." He was getting so anxious and he could feel that he was getting a lot closer to his friends...he could feel their chakra!

Suddenly the two teens stopped in their tracks. Naruto couldn't see what was ahead of him, he couldn't see much and his eyes were completely dulled, almost blinded. He tried to blink to see what was ahead of him but this only made it worse. He could hear faint sounds of feet cracking against leaves and heavy breathing to abruptly stop as well. Naruto's hearing was also failing him.

"N-Naruto-kun!"

The blond looked up to find the lavender girl rushing to his side, only to have a hand slapped in front of her.

Kakashi stared intently into her eyes and solemnly shook his head. "Stay here. We don't know what Sasuke wants."

As Naruto heard this he attempted to leap in between the ninja whom had placed themselves in fighting stances and Sasuke. When he tried to move he ended up falling from the Uchiha's grip and onto a four to the ground. He clung to his chest, only to fall to his face onto the hard and stony ground. Fresh new cuts began to open up along his cheeks and above his eyebrows.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata lunged from Kakashi's hold and ran to the whiskered teenager. She lifted him into her arms, his entire body shaking.

Naruto couldn't breathe right and his heart felt contorted. He was grasping at his chest tightly and could feel his heart twisting from the inside of himself, clutching his hands along his burning skin. The heat running along his body was too much to handle and he panted almost like a dog would. "H-Hinata...Gurk!" A spray of blood shot from his mouth.

Shikamaru stepped forward in complete worry. "Kakashi-sensei...what do we do now...?" He attempted to whisper this but it could clearly be heard.

Kiba pumped his fist into the air and shot forward, stopping right at Sasuke's feet. "I say we kill this bastard now!"

Akamaru barked in agreement.

Kakashi stepped forward, near the fallen Naruto and Hinata's side. "Sasuke, why are you here?"

The Uchiha slightly smirked before falling against the side of the tree trunk for support. "I've decided. Decided that I'm coming back. To Konoha."

Ino finally spoke up. "What-what the hell...he can't be serious..."

"You're right, Ino." Kakashi pulled a kunai from his weapon pouch. "There better be a good reason for-"

"Ghaa...he-he helped-he helped me-t-to escape from-from Madara-*cough" He pulled his hand from it's tight grip and placed it around his waist that was spilling full of blood. "Ghk!"

Iruka moved over to Naruto and placed his hand on the boy's shoulder. "Naruto...hang in there..."

"Sakura, come take a look at Naruto." Kakashi walked over to Sasuke and bent down into a crouching position. "Come on, get on."

"I-I'm not-"

Naruto turned his head from the pink-haired kunoichi whom was checking his chest with dull, blue eyes. "J-just...do it..."

Sasuke sighed before nodding. He climbed onto Kakashi's back and wrapped his arms and legs around the man. Placing his head onto his old Sensei's shoulder. He looked exhausted, almost as if he were about to fall unconscious. "Right, we have to take these two back immediately."

Iruka replied before turning back to Sakura who was completing emergency healing on the blond. She was hurriedly wrapping his side in bandages.

"I-Iruka...sensei...Kakashi-sensei...everyone...arigato...gossaimasu..." He was placed onto Iruka's back, piggyback style. His arms hung against his sides, dead and weak as trickles of blood trailed down his fingertips. He pushed his face up against Iruka's shoulder, blood also trailing from his eyes and onto his old teacher's arm.

Kakashi placed himself at the head of the group, holding onto the now-sleeping Sasuke. "Let's go." He started off, the rest of the Team following behind.

Hinata and Sakura stood on either side of the teacher holding the blond.

Iruka sensei stared at Naruto with sorrow in his eyes before following. Naruto...I hope we aren't too late.

Naruto could feel his heartbeat increasing and his blood running cold. He was covered in red liquid and tears were falling down his face. This can't be a dream...can it? No...it's too weird. He fell to a deep and painful slumber.

Sorry if this chapter was kinda' weird. Ah...*laughs. Well, I was listening to 'The best Zelda rap' while writing this...did it effect any of my writing? Anyway, review how this turned out.

Arigato!