Insanity's Slip

Chapter Seven

By Boejangles

It had been three days since Naruto had almost drowned. Sasuke had kept his distance since then, only coming around for training and missions with Kakashi. His eyes held a distance and Naruto didn't want to chance what would happen if he snapped him out of it.

Naruto had worked in private on the fire clone. He quickly caught onto the basics and was close to perfecting it.

Missions were mundane and nothing hard; walking dogs, catching cats, cleaning windows, painting fences, nothing special.

The blonde was currently in the backyard working on the fire jutsu from the scroll. He had thought about talking to Kakashi about what was happening, but old memories always stopped him.

Flashback

A woman with long dark hair stood at the counter fixing a sandwich. She was swaying slightly and humming.

A small blonde boy was grinning above his sandwich and dancing back and fourth. "Yummy!" He called licking peanut butter off his lips. He looked over at his older brother who was waiting for his own sandwich. He ran over and offered his sandwich, "Here Sasuke!"

Sasuke looked at the sandwich and smiled taking a bite, "Thanks!"

The blonde ran over and grabbed onto his mothers legs dancing with her and smiling.

"That was a good thing you did," She said looking down at him, "You guys need to take care of each other and look out for one another."

"Always!" Naruto cheered looking over at his brother.

"Always." Sasuke answered with a smiled before the blonde pulled him wanting to dance, to which he gave in.

End Flashback

"Always." Naruto repeated to himself.

"Otouto, come in and get dinner started."

"Yes Aniki." He responded making his way inside and to the kitchen, "I thought you were making diner."

"I was having trouble getting it ready, you're a better cook anyway."

"Oh, well wanna help?" Naruto asked cleaning some carrots.

Sasuke looked around the kitchen and then nodded, "What can I do?"

"Well, here." He said handing him the carrots, "You can cut these up."

"Alright." The dark haired boy said taking the carrots and grabbing a cutting knife.

Naruto felt oddly good and smiled to himself about his brother helping. "If only big brother were back." He commented to himself.

Sasuke's grip tightened on the knife, "What?" He asked turning around.

"No…nothing Sasuke," Naruto said turning to face the older boy.

"You just said something, what did you say?" Rage was flashing in his eyes.

"Nothing, I said nothing."

"Liar!" He shouted lunging his arm forward.

A small sound made its way out of Naruto's mouth as he looked down. He could see the handle of the knife. 'That's odd.' He thought before realizing the knife's blade was inside him. He couldn't move, but felt his knees buckle and give way as he fell over.

Sasuke took a step back snapping back to reality. His eyes went wide seeing the blonde on the ground. He crouched down and pulled out the knife and looked away slightly when blood began to come out. 'Why did he run into the knife?' His mind was trying to figure out what happened and what to do at the same time. 'Hospital, I need a hospital!'

Naruto opened his eyes slowly to semi darkness. He didn't know where he was it was dark and wet.

"Stand up." A voice soft yet commanding called out.

The blonde looked around trying to find the voice, but did what he was told. He looked down, but saw no whole in his stomach. "Who's there?"

"Come to me child."

He followed the voice and came upon large bars. He saw behind the bars a mystical and beautiful yet dangerous creature; a giant red fox with many swishing tails. "What are you?"

"I am the Kyuubi no Kistune, ruler of the nine tailed demons."

"Demons?"

"Yes, however that is not important right now."

Naruto looked at the creature questioningly, "Why?"

"You are dieing." Kyuubi said softly, "but I can help. All you need to do is reach out and grab my paw."

"D…dieing? Does that mean you're my guardian angel?"

"Not exactly, but you must hurry and let me help you."

He nodded and reached out grabbing a hold of the red paw. Energy went through his body and entered his veins. He felt strong, stronger then he had ever felt. Then it was too much for his body to handle and he fell into a sleep.

Kyuubi sighed looking at the small boy. She had been angered at being trapped inside the boy, but after watching how much the boy struggled just to live she held a respect for him. What humans could do to one another disgusted her. She had opened the connection between them. Now she would be able to heal him without him coming here and even without him knowing. She would look after the child from now on.

Sasuke sat holding his brother hand and crying slightly. He had lost everyone and now he was going to lose his little brother too. He couldn't be alone he wouldn't survive.

He had run as fast as he could to the hospital clutching onto the blonde for dear life. The doctors were shocked and had asked what happened. He had told them that he turned around and his brother was running and it was just a big accident. They took him away to fix him up and then put him in a hospital bed to recover. That's where Sasuke was now sitting next to the bed in the overly white room.

Naruto groaned and opened his eyes slowly.

"You're awake, thank god. I was so scared that I was going to lose you." Sasuke said jumping up and hugging the smaller boy. "I don't want to be alone, don't leave me alone."

The blonde coughed slightly, "I'm not leaving." He said quietly after realizing what had happened and where he was.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I didn't see you and then the knife and you were on the floor, I didn't mean to, I'm sorry." Sasuke said quickly trying to keep from crying.

'So that's how he remembers it.' Naruto gave a sad smile, "It's okay, and I'm still here."

The Hokage frowned slightly after peeking his head inside the room. He looked back at the doctor, "So explain it to me again."

"Well, Hokage sir, if the injury were to happen as Sasuke says then the opening would be different. You see if you run into a knife you are going to pull back as soon as you feel it. That would cause more of carved injury with more height. However his wound was a single cut and only the height of the knife, which would indicate a fast entry rate with a forward jab. More liked a stab wound then fall."

"I see. Send someone to get Kakashi."

"Hai." The doctor gave a small bow and ran off.

The Hokage began to pace the hall thinking things over.

"Hokage-sama, you requested for me?" Kakashi said bowing his head.

"Yes Kakashi, I want you to keep your eye on Naruto and Sasuke and how they act around each other. Anything out of the ordinary I want you to report to me."

"Yes sir, may I ask as to why?" He said wondering what was going on.

"Well Naruto is in that room right there, the doctors say he was stabbed. The only one around was Sasuke, who says Naruto ran into the knife."

"Ah I see, and you think that there was fowl play?"

"I'm not sure what to think yet. But keep an eye on them. In a few days when Naruto recovers I have a mission for you and your team, until then let the other two have a break. I will have the doctor keep and eye on them while Naruto stay here." Sarutobi spoke frustrated that he didn't know what was going on, and if what was going on what he thought was why he hadn't caught it earlier.

"Yes sir." Kakashi said with a bow as he left thinking things over. 'That fire jutsu when Naruto almost got hurt, had he seen him?'

A/N: It's not BPD; it's a Split Personality Disorder from Schizophrenia. You can look it up. I think I am doing the symptoms well, but if you catch me messing anything up then call me on it. Leave a review and tell me what you think.