Insanity's Slip

Chapter Twelve

By Boejangles

Naruto groaned slightly. He couldn't remember what exactly happened. It was like a big chunk of his memory was missing. He kept his eyes closed and tried to remember the last thing that happened.

He could see flashes of things. Someone wearing a mask, it was cold very cold, he hit his back on something and flipped, his head came in contact with something hard and everything went black. Before that, what happened before that?

He concentrated trying to remember. The scene moved; he looked over asking if his brother was all right and…and that's when Sasuke hit him.

He sighed not knowing how to deal with his older brother. That's when he felt something move on his stomach.

His eyes shot open and he looked down. There sitting on his stomach was a long eared pure white bunny. It was just sitting there starring at him.

"That was there this morning when everyone woke up." A voice from the door said.

Naruto looked up and saw Sakura standing there before looking back at the bunny, "Any idea how it got here?"

"Nope, but it stayed with you the entire time."

"How long was I out?" He asked before slowly stroking the bunny. It looked familiar, he couldn't place it, it somehow looked like the bunny that was in the bushes before Zabuza attacked.

"About a day and a half," Sakura said as she came to sit next to him. "Do you remember what happened?"

Naruto looked up from the bunny to her and nodded.

"Will you tell me?" She asked gently.

"I was making my way upstairs when there was a loud noise. So I came downstairs and helped Inari stop these two guys. I ran as fast as I could to get to the bridge and watched to see what was happening. Then I made a fire clone and sent it out to distract the guy in the mask while I got Sasuke. When went as far away as we could to the side of the bridge. I was already getting dizzy and released my fire clone. The next thing I remember was falling. I guess I wasn't careful enough and slipped off the bridge." Naruto paused and had to think about what he had just said and scrunched up his eyebrows, "If I fell off the bridge how did I live?"

Sakura had been nodding slowly throughout the story and then went sad when the blonde asked the question remembering the sad state he had been in. "Haku had jumped into the water and saved you. He brought you back onto the bridge. But you weren't breathing and you had no pulse. Kakashi had to do CPR and some weird electrical jutsu to get your heart to start beating again." She grabbed the blonde hugging him tightly, "Don't you dare ever scare me like that again. I thought you had died and you weren't coming back. I was so scared."

He sat there motionless for a few seconds as it clicked in that he had almost died by Sasuke's hand. His brother had almost killed him. Naruto blinked out of it and patted Sakura's back, "Hey I can't die so easily, I still have dreams I need to get done."

The pink haired girl let go and smiled. "I am going to go tell the others you are awake okay?"

Sakura entered the kitchen and looked from one male to the other, "He says that he fell over the side."

Sasuke had a thankful look on his face and then looked at Kakashi, "So can I go see him now?" He had been very upsetting that he wasn't allowed to see his brother at all while he was asleep.

"Yes you can. Sakura go up with him."

Sasuke frowned, "You still don't trust me? I told you the truth and Naruto just proved it. What to I have to do for you to trust me?"

"It's not that I don't trust you Sasuke, it is just that I am being worried. So until I can figure this out then some precautions will have to be taken; if you aren't hurting him that you have nothing to worry about. Now go he probably wants to see you." Kakashi watched the two walk upstairs and stared at his hands that were folded in front of his face.

It didn't make sense; he had truly believed that Sasuke had done something. He had hoped he was wrong, but something still didn't feel right. He rubbed his chin things were too complicated he would have to talk to the Hokage when they got back.

They left the next morning. Naruto had kept the bunny and named it after Haku the boy he met in the woods and the one who saved his life. They reached Konoha at a reasonable pace.

Once they were inside of the gates Kakashi stopped them, "You all are probably tired, and so you guys head home and I will report to the Hokage."

"Yes Sensei," Was heard from the smallest boy and girl as the three left for their homes.

Kakashi took to the rooftops to get to the Hokage's office. Once he was inside he bowed to the old man, "Hokage-sama, I have my mission report."

"Yes Kakashi come sit down and tell me what happened." Sarutobi said smoking his pipe.

The silver haired Nin walked over and sat in a chair in front of the Hokage. "The mission went from C-Rank to High B low A-Rank. We were attacked by Ninja. Mainly Zabuza Momochi. There was a battle on the bridge we were sent to help protect while it was built. Naruto fell off the bridge into the water. An apprentice of Zabuza had jumped into the water after Naruto and pulled him out. He was not breathing and had no pulse. I was able to get his heart and lungs working properly.

Before that Gato had come in and attacked his own men. Zabuza and I killed all who didn't flee including Gato. However Zabuza's apprentice said that he saw Sasuke punch Naruto over the side of the bridge, Sasuke denied it and when Naruto woke up he said he fell. But neither one of them looked like they were lying and I don't know why the boy would lie about Sasuke punching Naruto. It just doesn't make sense to me."

The Hokage nodded slowly taking in all the information. "I understand Kakashi. You may go, just keep an eye on them during training and missions."

"Yes Hokage-sama," Kakashi nodded and left through the window.

Sarutobi sighed and looked at the ceiling, he wasn't sure what to do, but he didn't have a whole lot of time to figure it out. Naruto's life was on the line. The old man sighed again.

Naruto hummed softly as he folded the clothes from the dryer. Once they got home he had started cleaning up and Sasuke had jumped in a shower. He let a smile grace his face he knew deep in his heart he would be able to fix his brother. He picked up the basket full of clothes and started up the stairs.

A shrill scream filled the house. The blonde dropped the basket and ran to the bathroom, "Sasuke!"

He pushed the door open and froze at what he had seen. His brother seemed to have fallen out of the shower and was staring at his body in horror wiping at his arms.

Sasuke swiped at his arms, "AHHHH! Blood! There's blood all over me! So much blood! Get it off!"

Naruto dropped to his knees and grabbed his brother's arms to try and stop him. "Shhh, shhh, there's no blood. You are okay there is no blood."

"It's all over me, so much blood! Oh my God so much blood! Get it off me!" The dark haired boy screamed thrashing around.

"Sasuke, its okay I'm here there is no blood. You are okay." The blond hugged the older boy keeping the others arms at his sides.

"He's trying to kill me!" Sasuke said staring at the shower.

Naruto looked over at the shower seeing it was empty, "There's no one there it's okay." He tried to sound comforting but he was very scared this had never happened before.

"Ahhhhh!" Sasuke thrashed harder and his face held a look of pain. "Blood! My blood! So much blood! Get it off of me! It's trying to kill me!"

"Shhh, shhh, it's okay I'm here. It's okay nothing is going to get you."

The dark haired boy stopped moving having fallen into unconsciousness.

Naruto looked down at his brother with sad eyes. 'I can't leave him while he is like this. If I leave he will die. I am the only one that will take care of him. I have to help him. I will save you some how Aniki.' He grabbed a towel and dried off his brother before putting him in some clothes and carrying him to bed. "Please be okay in the morning."

A/N: All right, sorry it is late, but with school and everything. Plus I stay at my friends during the week so I only have weekends to work on this and pretty soon I will have a job. I write the story during the week and type it up on the weekends so I should still be able to update regularly.

Hope you enjoyed! Review and tell me what you think.

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A: Small amounts of tears all through out the story. More fear and sadness based.

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