It had been three days since Sasuke had escaped Orochimaru. He lay on the

ground, slowly dying a painful death from the injuries he had sustained. If no one

found him soon, he would be gone forever. He was pissed off, to say the least. He

didn't know if what Orochimaru said about Itachi being dead was true, and didn't

want to die before he copuld revenge and restore his clan. There was also

something else that was bothering him......Naruto. He wouldn't have a chance to

ever see him again. Even if he did live, he was a traitor, if he returned, he would

either be banned or sentenced to death by Konoha.

And, even if you asked, he would denie it, but with the glare of the setting sun on

his face, you could see one crystalline tear drip down his cheek, with a soft sob.

   Suddenly, a rustling sound came from nearby. Sasuke whiped his face and

quickly pulled himself up, only to fall back down in pain. "Sasuke?," came Naruto's

voice. "Sasuke!," he shouted, and ran to the clearing. Naruto bent down and

picked Sasuke up, "You are coming back to Konoha weither you like it or not!," he

stated. "No Naruto, I can't. Tsunade will punish me, or worse, kill me! I'm a traitor,

Naruto! Don't you get it, dobe? No one wants me back! Now put me down!." No

one other than Sasuke knew how hard it was to say those words, and cursed

himself enternally for the situation at hand. "I do," came Naruto's reply, softly, as

his tears fell.

   As the scene unfolded, the jewel on the necklace Naruto wore lit up. The

light was blinding, and engulfed Sasuke and Naruto fully. 'What the hell is going

on?,' Sasuke asked himself. 'What is the necklace that Tsunade gave me doing?

Surely if it was going to bring me misfortune, it would have happend sooner than

now?,' Naruto thought. Everything was completely white. Naruto and Sasuke could

hardly hear or see. "What did you do, dobe? What is going on?," shouted

Sasuke. "I didn't so anything! It was the necklace Tsunade gave me!," Naruto

shouted back. "Hn..." growled Sasuke, ........ and then there was nothing.

   Sasuke woke up to the sound of people talking above him, and he seemed

to be moving. "Nurse, take a blood sample to find out his blood type, then get an

IV flowing, he hasd lost too much blood, and he might pass out again if we don't

replace it." "Yes Doctor!," the nurse replied, then stuck a syringe into Sasukes's

arm, while trying to keep up with the gurdy that was rushing Sasuke to the

Operation Room.

   "Wa....What;s going on? Who are you? and what are you doing?," he looked

over at the syringe in his arm, then back at the doctor. "Sorry sir, but you were

loosing a lot of blood," he stalled, "You and your buddy were both past out when

you were found, and since you had no ID on you, we couldn't pull your files, so we

had to take a blood sample," th doctor finished. Sasuke laid back and took in all

this new information. 'ID? What the hell is that? Blood sample? buddy? past out?

WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPEND?!,' Sasuke screamed in his mind.