Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Rebirth ❯ The Extinguishing Of the Flame ( Chapter 1 )
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Things to Know…
* = see Authors notes at end of chapter
Bold = Kyubbified-Naruto speech
Bold Italics = Kyubbi speech
Italics = Thoughts
( ) = technique translation
A/N: Hello all. I know that I am a new author but I am pretty current with all the Japanese manga and anime, so I will try to keep this current until I have to deviate from the show for my fanfiction.
This story takes place during the sasuke retrieval mission, except that the mission takes place a day later then it actually does, so that Kakashi is already back and asleep when he learns of Sasuke appearance. Please remember this story is AU and does NOT have to follow the canon or anime at all. I just like to if I want. Please Read and Review, it keeps me happy.
Chapter 1:
The Extinguishing of the Flame
“Rasengen!”
“Chidori!”
These cries rocked his dreams and seemed to promote a surreal feeling of impending death. For the life of him Kakashi could think of what the voices meant, but he was sure as hell going to find out. Rolling off his bed, he dressed quickly and set off at a fast and steady pace for the Hokage's Tower, which stood in the center of his hometown of Konoha, in the Fire Country. This Tower was the prefect picture of everything he thought his hometown to be. In the warm summer night air, the structure seemed to emanate a feeling of security and comfort. Reaching the building, he entered and made his way up to the Hokage's office and waited while the ANBU quietly announced his arrival to the still wide-eyed leader of the Hidden village of the Leaf. Receiving a nod from the bear-masked guard he entered and walked up to the Hokage's desk.
“Ah… Kakashi. You're just the person I wanted to see. Although I wished it could have been under a happier pretense.”, Tsunade, Fifth Hokage said with a bit of regret leaking into her voice. Raising his only visible eyebrow, Kakashi decided to hold off on his own question and waited for her explanation. “Earlier today, I received a report about a certain missing-nin that we know. I was hesitant to say anything at first, but I promised Naruto that I would tell him as soon as I heard anything. So about an hour after reading the report myself I called him in and told him what I had read.”, she said with pained expression on her face. Kakashi, for some odd reason knew without a doubt what Tsunade was about to tell him.
“Naruto left my office in a silent almost depressed state. He had demanded that I put a team together and go after the Uchiha. I declined and said that we didn't know how trustworthy the source was and that I wasn't about to send a team of ninja out only to die in an ambush. If I hadn't been so absorbed in my own thoughts, I would have noticed that he was unusually quiet. Which is a dead give away that something is wrong, especially with him”, she added ruefully and almost…sadly. “It was about three hours ago that I thought I had better talk to him again and make sure that he is alright. I sent Shizune out to find him and she checked all the usual places but for the life of her she couldn't find him. So I have every reason to believe that Naruto took it upon his self to bring back Sasuke, and if I heard his promise right, then I know that he will do anything to get him back… How could I have been so stupid?”, she finished quietly before looking up to see what the great Copy-nin would say. She was slightly shocked to see his jounin's vest disappearing around the corner and into the antechamber. Praying silently, she asked every benevolent god that she could think of to spare the bright, enthusiastic blonde-haired boy that she had come to consider something of a son.
Outside the tower…
As soon as he had heard that they had been unable to find Naruto, Kakashi had turned and strode for the door knowing now what the voices had signified. Reaching the ground level, he nearly ran into his third and final teammate. Hurano Sakura, age 12, she was considered to be the brightest genin besides the lazy Shikamaru. The pink-haired Nin looked up and saw the worried tilt of his visible eye and knew immediately that something was very wrong. “What is it?”, she asked wondering what would worry her teacher. All it took was one look and she knew that he had come back to her. Receiving a simple nod, she fell into step with her sensei and tried to think around the large lump that was rising in her throat. After a couple minutes of silence, she shook herself and looked around her and realized that they were at the main gate. Kakashi halted and opened one of the scroll pouches on his vest and withdrew a summoning scroll. Cutting his thumb on a kunai, he smeared the blood in a line down the text of the scroll and started forming hand seals while holding the scroll in the crooks of his thumbs. Reaching the end of the hand seals, Kakashi slammed his hand and the scroll into the ground and called out Kuchiyose No Jutsu (Summoning Technique). With a puff of smoke a small pack of dogs appeared and stood and waited for orders.
Sakura gasped in surprise, although she immediately recognized the dogs from the Sound and Sand attack. “My friends, I need you to find my student Naruto's scent and lead me to him. This is of the utmost importance.”, Kakashi stated in a clipped voice, trying not to display his raging feelings. Nodding their heads, the pack of dogs at once set off in an ever-widening circle sniffing out Naruto's trail. It had been about ten minutes and Kakashi was just about to ask about the progress when Pakun, Kakashi's most frequently summoned companion appeared and told him that they had picked up on the boy's scent although it was rapidly growing faint. Nodding his head, he turned to his remaining teammate and looked into her emerald eyes and couldn't help but feel a little sad at the turmoil that was readily present in those eyes. “Sakura, I want you to stay here and wait for my return.”, he said in what he hoped to be his gruffest voice. “B-b-but I have to come. I have to get Sasuke back.”, she replied trying to act defiant. With the suddenness of a crack of lightning, Kakashi exploded. “IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU THAT THIS IS HAPPENING. IF YOU HADN'T BEEN SO OBSESSED WITH SASUKE, YOU WOULD HAVE REALIZED WHAT YOU HAD DONE TO NARUTO WHEN YOU MADE HIM PROMISED TO DO ANYTHING IN HIS POWER TO GET BACK SASUKE FOR YOU. YOU WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING ELSE? THE ONLY REASON HE AGREED WAS SO THAT HE COULD MAKE YOU HAPPY.”, he yelled, unleashing all his caged up anger and frustration at the naïve girl before him. What he didn't realize was that he was not only mad at her, he was also mad because the same thing had happened to him. Twisting around, he nodded to his summon and raced off with it in pursuit of his wayward student, leaving a stunned and confused Sakura in his wake.
Sakura POV…
Her mind was racing at top speed trying to figure out just what Kakashi had meant by what “she had done”, when Naruto had promised to get back her Sasuke for her. Pushing those thoughts from her mind, she headed off in the direction Kakashi had taken at her fastest speed hoping to staying close enough behind that she could follow him to where Naruto and Sasuke were.
Kakashi POV…
He was pushing himself to his limit and beyond trying to put as much speed on as he could while also not falling from the trees and breaking some bones. He couldn't stop thinking about what was probably happening right now, between probably the two most powerful genin he had ever seen. He knew that unless he got there, and got there fast he would probably be too late to stop them from killing each other. He silently prayed to Kami that he would.
He had been running for what seemed to be an eternity to him, when he looked around and noticed that he knew where he was. He was at the head of the famous Valley of the End. This was the place were the Shodaime had fought before building what was now Konoha, the Hidden Village of the Leaf. As he looked around he felt vibrations humming through the air, and as he turned to look further into the valley, he caught sight of two bright lights piercing the darkness in the distance. Instantly knowing what they were Kakashi raced off toward the two-chakra signatures and hoped that they would hold off until he got there.
Sakura POV…
She had followed her teacher at a steady pace and was just about to catch up to him, when he was off again. Stopping almost exactly where he had, she took stock of her surroundings and realized just as Kakashi had that she was at the Valley of the End, one of the most famous placed in all of Konoha history. Looking toward the center of the Valley, she saw the lights and knew that they were what had been what Kakashi had leapt off after. Following her teacher at an ever-closing pace, she reached his side and almost fainted at the sight that greeted her eyes.
Normal POV…
To a normal person the sight before them would have made them sick or even faint. Two children stood facing one another, both dripping blood from their many cuts and wounds. They had been fighting for the better part of two hours and both were exhausted. The raven-haired boy seemed to be the less wounded of the two, except that if was very hard to tell because of the amount of malicious purple and black chakra that was rippling around his haggard body. His opponent seemed to be near death's black door, although that wasn't the most astonishing thing about this particular boy. This boy was completely encased in scarlet-red chakra that fairly oozed hate and killing intent. If you had been standing in front of the boy you would have noticed the feral-look that his features had taken. The telltale whisker-like birthmarks had lengthened and deepened and his eyes, they were the color of blood and they had slits like a cats. His fingernails seemed to have grown stiff and sharpen in to claws and his canine's elongated and sharpened to points. Both boys were obviously having trouble sustaining the amount of energy they were outputting and at any moment either one was likely to fall face first to the ground and not rise again for a good long time. Both were unaware that they were now being observed for the tree line.
“Hey, Sasuke-teme! Why don't you just come back? People would forgive you. They want you back. ”, the blonde haired youth fairly growled out, in a voice that seemed to have trouble making human words, although it seemed to contain a hint of sadness.
Without answering the other boy, Sasuke began making hand-seals to charge up his best technique: the Chidori. Following his example, Naruto began to swirl chakra into a ball in the palm of his hand. While he did this, a part of Naruto consciousness detached itself and extended outward from the body. As it reached the tree line, it touched the minds of both Kakashi and Sakura. It immediately withdrew back into the body to report its findings. Swiveling his eyes to look at where his teammates where standing, he continued to gather chakra and after a few moments he resumed his steady gaze at his opponent and one-time rival and friend.
Tsunade POV (about 1 hour ago)…
After Kakashi had left, she had called together all of the Rookie Nine and their teachers in an effort to send more back up to Kakashi just in case it was a trap. Right now she was briefing them on the situation. “About 3 hours ago, I received a report from an intelligence source that Uchiha Sasuke would be at the Valley of the End. Per a promise that I made, I called in Naruto and told him what I knew and didn't take into account just who I was talking to. Most likely as soon as he left my office, with my denial to put a team together and retrieve Sasuke, he went out himself alone to do the very thing that I had denied. About two hours after he left I sent out Shizune to try to bring him back here so I could talk to him, but to my surprise, Shizune returned with word that he was no where to be found. At that time, Kakashi showed but as if by providence. I explained the situation to him and he immediately set out to retrieve his student. Now the reason you all are here is that I have reason to believe that Kakashi is headed into a trap with both Naruto and Sasuke as bait. I need all of you to proceed with all possible speed to the valley and offer any help you can to Kakashi.”, she stated as clearly and quickly as possible. She had a feeling that she needed to get help out there and fast.
Silence reigned around the people gathered about her desk. Looking around, Asuma voiced what they all needed to hear. “So…When do we leave?” “Right now.”, she replied and was rewarded with the swiftest evacuation of her office that she had ever seen. Turning to her window, she looked out of the window at the wakening city and hoped the she wasn't to late.
Valley POV (thirty minutes ago)…
They had been traveling at break neck pace and yet to Rookie Nine and their teachers it seemed as if they were moving at a snail pace. Unbeknownst to each other, both Hinata and her teacher Kurenai were thinking about what would happen and what they would see when they reached the valley. Neji and Shikamaru, who had been running in front of the party as scouts, dropped to the ground and signaled the others to follow them. Turning to the Jounins in the group, Shika explained his plan. “Tsunade-sama said that the intelligence we had received would most likely be a trap. If that is the case then I feel then that we should split up and scout out the surrounding land to make sure that there is no one else here.”
Asuma looked at the youth and couldn't help but have a small grin pass his lips at the sight of 12 year-old boy thinking far better then some Jounin that he knew would. Nodding his head, he held up two fingers and pointed them to Tenten and Hinata and made a walking motion with his fingers, signaling them that he wanted them as a roving patrol. Turning to Lee and Neji, he pointed off to the left. Pointing to the right, he sent Chouji and Kiba off to scout out the side of the valley. Turning to the last member of the nine surviving rookies, he jabbed his thumb into his chest and then pointed to Kurenai and himself, saying that he wanted Ino to come with them. As they all dispersed, they each caught the tremor that seemed to be coming from deeper into the valley. Where as tremors were not an uncommon event in the village, the size and strength of the ones that were emanating from the valley were, and they were only growing stronger.
Catching the eyes of all the different group members, he saw a hint of anxiety in almost all of them. Few people seemed grasp the situation and understand that panicking would not solve anything; the most surprising one in that group was Hinata. When he looked into her eyes he saw sheer determination flashing back at him. Shaking his head, he mouthed `Be Careful' and continued on his way.
Normal POV (present time)…
Kakashi was so entranced by the power that was flowing from his old students that he almost missed the sign that someone was sneaking up on him. Flashing around, he threw a kunai directly at the target and barely missed giving Asuma a nose job, although he did succeed in making the man's cigarette a little bit short. Standing up, Asuma gave Kakashi a reproachful look before turning to look into the clearing that was being occupied by the battling combatants. He raised an eyebrow in Kakashi's direction, not because he was surprised at the power they were displaying although that was troubling him. It was the fact that Naruto, the Kyubbi no Kitsune's carrier, seemed to have lost control. Kakashi shook his head and returned to planning out a way to get down into the valley from where he was. Kakashi along with the all the other ninja Tsunade had sent out were standing on a sheer cliff with a drop of more then 60 feet down.
Shikamaru, standing on the cliff, saw only one way down and one way only. Turning to his teachers, he simply said, “Use Kawarimi no jutsu just before you hit the trees. After you hit the ground, you should be able to throw a kunai back up to us so that the rest of can descend.” Looking at Shika with an appraising gaze, Kakashi realized that the just might be a genius. Nodding his head and not wishing to waste time with talking, Kakashi moved to the edge of the cliff and was about to jump when Kurenai grabbed his arm and gave him a pleading look. “Don't do it Kakashi. You might die and then what will we do…what will I do?”, she added in a whisper. “You care what I do now WHY?”; Kakashi growled and wrenched his arm free of her grasp. Turning he moved back a couple paces before running and leaping off the edge, never even taking the time to truly think his actions through. As he fell, Kakashi realized that the wind from his fall was making it hard to form a hand seals, at this point the first shreds of hear began to make themselves known in his mind. He looked down and watched as the mass of green death extended itself up to meet him and a cold hard embrace of death.
On the Cliff…
Kurenai watched as Kakashi jumped and most certainly fell to his death. Rushing to the edge, she looked down just in time to see Kakashi's distant form disappear in a cloud of smoke. Waiting with baited breath, she listened for even the slightest hint of a kunai cutting the air toward her group. Almost the same instant a kunai flashed by her right cheek and imbedded itself up to the hilt in a large oak tree. Sighing with relief, she turned and saw everyone already lining up to descend. Going to the back of the line, she come down on her turn and took in the surroundings that were at the bottom of the glade that they had come down into. You could hear the roar and rumble of a not to distant waterfall and hear the calming laughter of the small brook that drifted by the northern edges trees. Turning to Kakashi, who as if by unanimous vote had become the leader of this mission, she waited for her orders. “Fan out, same groups as before. Make sure that there are no other threats here. Once you have made sure that there is no other enemies here, I want you to move as close to the battle as you can.”, Kakashi rasped out quietly, his one visible eye glaring down on them all. Nodding their assent, they broke apart and headed in their assign directions. It was no more then an hour later when the two raging chakra-covered figures were surrounded by ninjas.
Normal POV…
Sasuke was amazed, despite his thoughts, Naruto hadn't done or said anything stupid. In fact, you could have said that he was actually acting….smart. Neither of them had said nor done anything since Naruto's last attempt to persuade Sasuke. Both combatants gazed steadily at each other, waiting for an opening that would end this battle.
Naruto on the other hand was barely paying any attention to his old rival, he was to busy finding all of the friends. He thought he had found them all…until his demonically enhanced gaze fell on Sakura, his fierce cat-like eyes softened as he looked at her. It seemed like an eternity while he gazed at her and wondered how different his life would have been if she had like him instead of that bastard Sasuke. Smiling ruefully, he forgot that Sasuke was watching his every move.
Sasuke had no idea what the blonde idiot thought was funny but as far as he knew, he was the only living thing within miles. His raging flared up at the thought that Naruto would laugh while fighting him. “I don't know what your laughing at dobe, but you wont be doing it much longer.”, he shouted, his face a mask of pure fury. Launching himself forwarded his extended his blazing arm forward, aiming for Naruto's heart. Hearing the shout, Naruto saw Sasuke rushing toward him and thought of only one thing before springing forward to meet his opponent head-on: “This is for you Sakura.”
Their powers meet each other in a blaze of blue and red energy, and continued to flare up as each fighter strove to gain the advantage. Just before he would have broken through Sasuke's attack, his own failed. Naruto watched as his friends arm ripped its way into his chest and tore his insides apart. Their bodies smashed into each other and drove Sasuke's arm even further into Naruto's body, and with a sick ripping sound; Sasuke's arm burst through Naruto's back. The onlookers were horrified by the sight of a grisly, blood-covered fist clenching and unclenching through a hole in their friend's chest.
Sasuke POV…
He was stunned. `Why didn't he block my attack? Why didn't he stop me?', these thoughts and others whirled around his head in an ever-intensifying buzz. With a sudden jerk, he felt his body return to solid ground. Looking down his arm to where it connected to his friend, he saw the life slowly ebbing away from his ocean blue eyes. Thinking quickly, Sasuke set himself and proceeded to pull his arm from the wound that it had made. With a scream of utter pain, Naruto cried out and slumped against the limb that was plunged inside of him. Fighting back his tears, Sasuke pulled his arm out all the way and heard Naruto whimper. Catching the blonde before he hit he ground, Sasuke lowered him to the ground with the returning to normal boy's head in his lap. “Why did you do it? Why didn't you stop me?”, he whispered, his voice cracking. He jerked when he felt a hand reach up and touch his face. “I did it for her, and because I promised and I always keep my promises, its my nindo. Just promise me one thing…Promise me that you'll return to Konoha, even if its only for awhile.”, Naruto sighed, his voice steady but laced with his pain. Nodding his head silently, Sasuke tried to fight off his grief but failed miserably, and as he fell into the pit that was his grief, he saw a small grace his friend's lips.
So deep was Sasuke in his grief, he didn't even notice the approach of the other people until they were almost upon him. Twisting his head around with his Sharingan blazing, he saw all the people that he had thought to never see again; all because of his selfish need to destroy his brother. He watched in grief-stricken silence as the majority of the group stopped a few dozen paces away, while Kakashi, Kurenai, and Asuma approach further, but even they too stopped before allowing Kakashi to continue on alone.
Kakashi's face, what was visible of it, was a completely blank mask. Sasuke watched as he neared and stopped a couple paces away. He looked up at his old teacher and silently pleaded with him to help him. Kakashi continued to look one of the two remaining Uchiha with a blank expression, although he did jump when he heard a rasping croak come from the blonde haired boy that was being cradled in the other boys' lap. Moving and crouching next to the wounded boy's side, he watched as Naruto struggled to form words. “D-don't…blame…him”, Naruto whispered as his energy vanishing. “Stop talking, you'll need the energy to help heal yourself.”, he replied in a strangled voice, trying his best to sound comforting. Grinning with his same trademark grin, Naruto burst into a fit of coughing.
Kakashi heard the sound of approaching footsteps and turned to see Sakura standing a short distance away, wringing her hands wanting to see what was happening but unable to make herself move any closer. Catching her teacher's eye, she took courage from him and stepped forward and cried out at the sight that met her emerald gaze. Sasuke was covered in blood, some his own, but most from the small orange-clothed figure that lay in his lap. Reigning in her instinct to run away, she knelt down on the boy's other side and sobbed quietly when she saw his face. The face that she had known to never have a sad look about it, the same face that she had taken for granted would always be there. With a cry, she flung her body against his and cried, releasing all the grief and frustration that had been locked up inside her.
“Kakashi-sensei?”, Naruto croaked over the girl's sobs. “Yes, Naruto?”, his teacher replied. “Take them away from here. This is not how I want anyone to remember me.”, he pleaded, pushing all of his love for the weeping girl and the silent boy into voice. Nodding in acknowledgement, he waved Kurenai forward and watched as the red-eyed woman pulled the dying boys teammates away. “Naruto, stop wasting your energy.”, Kakashi reprimanded lightly. “You need to stay with us until we can get you back to the village so Tsunade can fix you up.”, he ordered trying to keep the boy awake by using whatever discipline that the child might have to his advantage.
Releasing a gurgling sigh, Naruto looked at his teacher's eye and smiled. Kakashi, knowing exactly what to do, reached up and removed his mask from both his eye and his lower face. Naruto looked at him and nodded before closing his eyes and seeming to cease moving. Noticing the change in the boys body, Kakashi leaned forward and felt for a pulse, receiving confirmation that the boy wasn't gone yet, getting into a couching position, he reached under the boy's body and heaved. He noticed the difference in the boy's weight immediately. Becoming increasingly worried he signaled to the group and with that they all formed a box around him and Sasuke before launching themselves into the trees and speeding toward the village. Looking to the jounins in the group, he nodded and watched as they sped up in an attempt to get to the village before his group and gather the essential people. Twisting his head the other way, he nodded again and watched as the other members of the rookie nin formed a guard around the silent, unseeing Sasuke.
Looking down at the small nearly weightless form in his hands, his thought about all the times that he had seen this boy get smashed by an annoyed Sakura or fall down from exhaustion after training to hard. Shaking his head, he silently renewed his prayer to Kami, hoping against hope that he wasn't to late.
Inside Naruto POV…
Kyubbi no Kitsune, Lord of the Demons, was at a loss for words. This sack of human trash had sacrificed himself just so that some woman could be happy. He couldn't think of any valid reason for the human to do that and yet he had. Suddenly he figured it out, and with a laugh he crouched down near the front of the gate and looked at the dying boy that was lying there. “You know… As much as I would love to kill you for keeping me locked up in here, I have to say that I'm starting to understand why you do what you do.”, he said with a smug look on his furry face.
“It doesn't matter anymore, you burnt furball. I'm dead or atleast I'm dying and I also know that you cant heal a wound like mine, or rather you could but it would kill me anyway.”, Naruto replied calmly. “But tell me, Why do you think that I risk everything to keep my loved ones safe?”, he added.
“You do it to show that you are not what everyone thinks you are, which is a demon,”, he said, “Thanks to me.”, he added quietly.
“Well seeing as we're both going to die here, why don't you tell me why you attack Konoha in the first place.”, Naruto asked remembering the last time he asked that same question. What he didn't expect was Kyubbi's answer.
“I don't really remember why I did it. All I remember is a lot of anger from something that your people did and that I wanted revenge for it.”, chuckling slightly, “It's part of the reason why I wanted to get out of here so bad. I wanted to find out what happened and whether or not it was worth doing what I did, and now that I think about it with a clear mind, I can see why your great Yondaime sealed me away. I wasn't from the fact that he was to weak to kill me, it was from the knowledge that I didn't know what I was doing and wasn't my fault that I was doing it, although I can say that I remember that it was something or someone I'd cared about that was in trouble, and yes I CAN care.”, he explained in a calm-voice. Naruto, who had been looking at Kyubbi this entire time, watched as the fiercely flashing flames that surrounded the fox calmed. All at once, the fierce beauty of the creature that stood before him stunned Naruto.
Reaching through the bars of the cage with a tail, Kyubbi lowered it over the boy and softly brushed it over him. Sighing at the warm feeling the tail was giving him, Naruto noticed an odd feeling running through him. Looking at his body from the inside, he noticed a vast difference in his chakra system. Normally his blue chakra would flow like normal, only every once in a while some of Kyubbi's demonic chakra would get released and would flash through his veins. Now his chakra was white and as far as he could see, there was no sign of the demonic chakra that was normally present. Turning to the fox, he saw the demon with a grin plastered over his muzzle. “What's going on?”, he asked quizzically, not really caring what Kyubbi said. “Our chakra's have ceased to repel each other. In fact, it seems that they are mixing to form this new chakra.”, Kyubbi guessed, using the knowledge of his centuries of existence to his advantage.
Thinking about it, Naruto shrugged his shoulders and returned to gazing up into the ink black roof of the Kyubbi's prison. As he gazed, he sensed that the different chakra wasn't what was giving him the funny feeling from before. Reaching out with his mind, as he could do now that he has in his own mind, Naruto felt a small river of chakra flowing into his eyes, one that he hadn't noticed before. Following it, he realized that it was feeding a reservoir for his eyes. Struggling to get enough energy to open his eyes, he opened them and almost cried out in wonder, if not for his lack of energy. He could see chakra, not just its pathways, but the source of it all as well. Using the last of his energy to shift his gaze, he looked at Kakashi, wanting to see how another person looked. With his new vision, he noticed that there was a blockage of chakra to his teacher's eye that was so minute that it was barely detectable; but as he thought about it, he realized that it was probably enough to make Kakashi unable to control the Sharingan eye. Without pausing to think, Naruto sent a spike of his new chakra straight into the blockage (A/N: Not a Tenketsu) and watched as it slowly unraveled and increased the chakra flow to the eye. Smiling with satisfaction, he released his hold on life without further thought.
Kakashi POV…
Kakashi had been looking at the boy, when he had opened his eyes and looked at him with an oddly comforting black and green gaze. He was just about to say something when he felt a stab of pain in his eye and then sudden clarity in his Sharingan eye. Noticing the increase in chakra that was being pushed into his eye, he tried to lessen the chakra input into that eye, something that he had been unable to do since he lost his real one and had it replaced his dead teammates Sharingan. He was amazed to find that he could control his eye. Returning the flow to the flow to that of his other eye, he immediately noticed the difference. The world that he saw out of his left eye had stopped shifting with all the possible movements and had returned to the normal static view. Tears springing into his now normal eyes, he looked down and saw Naruto slip into a coma. Cursing silently, he increased his speed and left the others behind. He was positive the Naruto had been the one that returned his eyes to normal and he wouldn't let that gift go unrepaid.
End Chapter
Author's Notes: Please read and review….Its what keeps me running and makes me happy. This story will have no Yaoi or Yuri, not that I have anything against them, but I just don't write it. If you don't like that then don't continue to read this story. Pairing are still pretty loose right now so if you have one that you would really like to see then send it in a review and I'll see if I can make it work.