These hand seals in here are my idea. I sat here and nearly broke my fingers trying to find new seals. Don't steal them or so help me...grumble

Bit of Hitomi/Naruto for you. . Don'tcha just hate me for making you wait? (Yes, I did do that on purpose.)

Empress-Dragon: You'll see why I don't want to skip training too much in a minute. I'm going to skip a little, but I'm not going to leave you in the dark. Trust me, it works out.

My Sacrifice

Chapter 7

Naruto quickly got over to her, and started pulling the shuriken out of her body. He closed her nose and started breathing for her, as he prayed that she would breathe again. Then he found out that the ceiling was infact made of rock, just like he'd thought.

'YOU BASTARD! I'LL KILL YOU! WHAT MADE YOU THINK THAT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO THROW SHURIKEN AT ME? FOR THAT, YOU'RE DOUBLING YOU WEIGHTS! ONE OF THOSE THINGSS WENT INTO MY LUNG! I WAS DEAD! IF I WERE HUMAN, I WOULD'VE DIED, NOT EVEN IF YOU WERE BREATHING FOR ME OR NOT! YOU'RE LUCKY MY POWERS KEEP HEALING ME ONCE I DIE OR I'D COME BACK JUST TO KILL YOU!' At this point, he fell from the ceiling He stood up and slowly walked over to her.

'Hitomi-sensei?' He asked questioningly. He made a ram seal disable the weights.

'What?' She snapped. He ran over and hugged her and silent tears rolled down his face. Hitomi stiffened.

'I thought I'd killed you.' He said quietly, before he buried his head in her shoulder, his sobs no longer silent. She stared at him in shock. She'd know Naruto all his life, and she had never, ever seen him cry. Hitomi got over her shock, and relaxed as she put her arms around him.

'Kit, it's okay.' She cooed quietly. After a few minutes, she scooted them back to a wall, and rested her back against that while she waited for his sobs to subside. Hitomi continued cooing soft words of comfort, until they subsided. He sat up and rolled over, and was resting with his back against the wall next to her.

'Training's canceled for the day. We'll start again tomorrow.'

'There's not much to do here except sle-'

'Sleep, yeah I know. That's why I canceled it. You need the break. Now come on.' She cut him off, standing up, then pulling Naruto up with her by the hand. Hitomi led him down the hall until the came to her room. He noticed it was nicely decorated, and looked exactly like the room she had in his head. She led him over to the bed and pushed him down on it. She popped his shoes off, and her own, then walked around to the side and got in next to him.

'I thought you'd like some company. If you wake up first, wake me up and we'll finish training.' She set her back against his chest and pulled one of his arms over her shoulder. Hitomi turned her head to kiss his cheek, but noticed he was already asleep. Smiling slightly to herself, she turned over and went to sleep herself.

Naruto jumped up out of bed. He'd dreamed of being in a theater where a giant skeleton wearing a tuxedo had been trying to get him and he'd forgotten he was a shinobi, so he had to try to beat the skeleton to the door, but that stupid skeleton kept beating him to it! Plus it was scary looking. (Yes, I really did have a dream like that. I nearly fell off my top bunk. By the way, I don't own The Nightmare before Christmas.)

He looked around, and saw that Hitomi wasn't there. He got up and put his sandals back on. Naruto stood up and walked down the hall. His bedroom door was open, so she wasn't in there. The library door was still closed, and Hitomi told him that if she was in there, she'd leave the door open.

He continued walking down the hall. The bathroom door was open and empty. Kitchen was empty...so that just left the training room. Naruto walked in and found her training. It was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. There were about fifty logs set on their ends around her. Each kick broke it into splinters before it could even move backwards from the force. But that wasn't what was so amazing. It was the way she moved.

It was as though Hitomi was dancing. Each move gracefully performed, as she whipped her feet around like a helicopter, cutting through three logs. The punches were thrown out, and swung over her head, getting ready to hit another log, each beautifully done. Finally, she blew out a giant blast of chakra, releasing all of her tenketsu at once. She stood there panting, the wood completely destroyed.

He felt her chakra supply about to run out, so he fed her a bit more to keep her around. She slowly stopped panting and he saw a confused look run across her face. She must not have noticed him yet. So he did what he knew would be the right thing to do in this situation. Naruto tackled Hitomi who squealed. Yes. The all mighty Kyuubi no Kitsune, monstrous destroyer, demon of Konoha, mistress of pain...squealed. She turned around and slapped Naruto across the face.

'HENTAI!' She screamed at him. He spun off like a boomerang, and even came back after hitting a side wall, skidding to a stop where he started.

'Owwwww.' Naruto moaned as he laid there. She put her foot on his back and held him down.

'You freakin sicko! Do you realize where your hands went?' Naruto thought back, but couldn't remember.

'Nope.'

'I don't believe this. My own student feels me up and doesn't even realize it.' She muttered under her breath. He thought a little harder and turned dark crimson. She was right.

'Uhh...'

'DAMNIT! THAT'S THE LAST STRAW! I'M DOUBLING YOUR WEIGHTS!' With that, she went through some seals too fast for him to see, and Naruto instantly felt his weights double.

'Get up.' She said, looking down at him harshly.

'I'm sorry Hito-sensei! I swear I didn't mean too!' He yelled, not able to move anything but his neck. Hitomi was grinning at the fact that he couldn't move, but she turned deep red at her new nickname. Since when did they have pet names? Oh right...Kit.

'Yeah, now you're sorry! WELL YOU CAN BE SORRY IN YOUR HEAD.' She snapped her fingers and the surrounding area flickered a few times before it became the dark damp place inside his head.

'I've set it up so that every hour in here is only a second outside. So you've got plenty of time to get up. Every physical movement you make in here, you make outside.' She said grinning. He started struggling to push himself up. His head was stuck to it's side right now, and he noticed something. Where were the bars?

'Hey Hito-chan?' He started, waiting for her to give a response to show her heard him.

'Hm?'

'What happened to the bars?' She turned to look at him.

'You mean...you don't remember?' She said, looking at him in surprise. He started to shake his head, but realized he couldn't, so he voiced that fact that he didn't.

'You did it. You came in here and said, "Kyuubi no Kitsune, I, your jailer, Naruto Uzumaki, release you from the first seal. You shall still be bound by the second seal unless a lethal attack comes to the second seal." When you said that, it officially released the first seal.' He frowned.

'I must've missed the memo on that one. I don't remember a thing.' He said, frowning, then remembered why he was there and continued trying to get up.

'Now that I think of it. You're eyes did have this blank look to them.' She gasped. 'Orochimaru! I bet he set up a plan so that when the Five Pronged Seal was released, a mental image of you was projected here to let me out.' Naruto sighed.

'Now I have a reason to thank him. So the only way to let you out is to be killed by a blow to my seal. Well crap.' He said, groaning. Finally, he screamed in annoyance and blasted chakra through his tenketsu in his arms. When he did, it blasted him up like a rocket and he was standing upright. Hitomi grinned and clapped.

'I was wondering if you'd ever think of that. Good job. Only problem is, You're going to be alone once you get out of here. That blast just destroyed me.' She said.

Naruto came to a little while later, to find himself in his room. He found that Hitomi was sleeping, as she had said she would from exhaustion from her training this morning, due to the light snores coming from his mind. He got up and created a bushin, and told it to get into the bed. After it fell asleep, he pushed Hitomi into the bushin, and grinned. If things went according to plan, she would think she escaped. He left the room, pulling the door shut, and snickered evilly, before turning and going into the library. If he kept studying sealing, he might be able to make that a reality, and not a prank.