AN: Hi guys! Now i know lots of people are probably a little pissed that im making so many new stories... but know this: If it doesnt have that 'complete' status then i havent abandoned it! I'm just really busy. In fact, i shouldnt have even spent the time to write this, but oh well.

SPOILER ALERT

If you arent current on the manga, Madara used Obito to bring himself back to life and is preparing to remake the Jubi. He sucked Kurama out of Naruto, and this takes place a little later, when Madara is fighting all the Shinobi, but before he becomes a Jinchuriki.

disclaimer: I dont own Naruto

Chapter 1

Squelch!

This was it, it was finally over. Madara cast a glance downwards, to the appendage sticking out of his chest where his heart was. He blinked once, twice, three times; then he violently threw up blood as the arm rammed through his heart was pulled back. Madara placed a shaking hand over the hole in his chest as he turned around to see the one responsible for his demise. He came face to face with none other than Naruto Uzumaki, the ex-host of the Kyubi before Madara forcibly removed the Biju from inside him.

"No… NO! I… I won't die like this!"

He took a step forward and tried to form a few hand seals, but he fell to his knees panting.

"What… What did you do to me!?"

Naruto shook his head to ward off the exhaustion. "I destroyed your heart and sent my chakra through your bloodstream to cause your body to break down. Becoming human was the worst mistake you could have made, and now, you've paid the ultimate price."

Madara laughed hollowly. "You can't stop me… NO ONE CAN! You think this puny attack will stop me? I'm Madara! I'm the Kami of this world!"

He coughed up more blood and began wheezing.

"No! I don't believe this! This can't be happening! This cant-"

His eyes finally glazed over and rolled up into his head. He fell forward into the dirt and his lungs deflated for the last time. At long last, Uchiha Madara, enemy of all life everywhere, was dead.

Naruto looked at the body of his enemy and felt only pity. Madara's entire life was built around vengeance and anger. He had long since closed his heart off to love and kindness, going throughout life a bitter shell of a person, a fate worse than death.

Naruto suddenly began to feel the toll of the battle. He could feel his entire essence being drained by the empty pit the Kyubi left, and he too began to pant.

"NARUTO!"

He looked up to see the Shinobi alliance approaching him. All his friends and precious people, from all over the elemental nations, were before him. He was happy his last sight in this world would be a good one.

He fell to the dirt with a smile, breathing shallowly while the rookie 12, recently reunited with the addition of Sasuke, stood around him. Everyone's expressions turned to worry and concern when he started breathing shallowly.

Sakura, Hinata, and Ino, the only ones with medical experience, were trying to figure out what was wrong. Sakura turned Naruto onto his back.

"Naruto! What's wrong!? What's happening!?"

He used what strength he could muster to open his eyes and form a light smile. "Sorry… guys. It… doesn't look like… I'll be able… to celebrate… the victory…"

Hinata knelt down next to him and took his hand in hers while forcing back the tears. "Naruto-kun, what are you talking about? This isn't funny!"

Naruto chuckled into a fit of coughing. "Sorry… Hinata-chan, but this isn't… a joke. Not… this time. A human… can't handle… that kind of… power. It… it was just too much… for my body. Kurama's chakra… was the only thing… keeping me alive… When he was… forced out of me… my body… began to break down." Tears were flowing down his face now. "There is so much… I still wanted to do. I *sniff* still need… to become Jounin… *sniff* take a team… *sniff* start a family… I'm so scared guys… I… I don't want to die…"

All the Shinobi gathered around did their best not to let their emotions break loose. They had to be strong for their friend in his last moments, to offer him whatever consonances they could as he crossed to the other side.

Naruto mustered his courage and formed his last words in his head.

"Sasuke. Please… come back to the village… find love… rebuild your clan… and be happy. Please… just bury… your hatred… and come back… and find happiness."

The stoic Uchiha couldn't take it anymore and broke down. He fell to his knees and buried his face in his hands as he watched his brother and rival die in front of him. Never before had he felt so helpless, and the only thing he could do was honor the last wishes of his late brother. "H… Hai…"

Naruto smiled again. "Neji… Tenten… I wish you all the luck… in the world. I can… see how much… you guys love… each other, and… it makes me a little… jealous!" He let out a mirthful laugh at his own humor, but once again it descended into a full blow bout of coughing, and this time blood came up.

"Shikamaru… Chouji… Ino… Look after… each other… and make sure… to do your… parents proud. I know… they are watching… over us from… heaven."

Ino descended into a sob and turned to Chouji, throwing herself into the arms of the closest person. He just rubbed her back, trying to comfort her as best he could.

Naruto looked up to Lee. "Lee… I know you will make… Gai-sensei proud and… become the best Taijutsu… practitioner in the world!"

Lee wiped the tears off and smiled as best he could to his friend. "I will Naruto. I will."

Naruto looked at Shino and Kiba. "I… need you guys to… take care of Hinata… when I'm gone."

Hinata buried her face in Naruto's chest. "No! Don't talk like that! You're going to pull through! You're not going to die! You hear me!? You're going to be ok!"

Naruto put a hand on her head and slowly rubbed her hair, still looking at Kiba and Shino. "You can't let her… become depressed… when I'm gone. Help her through this… please?"

Kiba brought up and arm to silently cry while Shino put a hand on his shoulder for support. Kiba looked down at Naruto. "Hai. We'll take care of her. That's the promise of a lifetime, Naruto."

Naruto sighed in relief. Two more. He looked over at Sakura, who was still trying to desperately heal him as tears fell down her face.

"Sakura… thank you for always… being my friend… and always putting up with… all my shit. I wouldn't… trade… those memories… for anything in the world. And… when you guys… leave here… make sure… *sniff* make sure… *sniff* make sure to tell Sasuke he's a teme!"

Sakura stopped her healing and collapsed onto his chest, right next to Hinata, who was still telling him not to give up. Naruto put his hand under her chin and lifted her up to look at him.

"Hinata… There's so much… I want to say to you… right now. There… are so many… regrets."

He slowly lifted up his left sleeve to reveal a small seal. He showed it to Hinata.

"Can you… please?"

She sniffed and channeled a small amount of chakra into the seal. Suddenly a small dark blue book poofed into existence, and she barely caught it before it fell to the ground.

"Hinata… that is for… you… Read it when I'm… when I'm… Oh Kami… It's so hard… I… I've never been so scared…"

Hinata closed her eyes in a futile attempt to ward off the emotions flowing from her eyes. She opened her eyes again, and placed her hands on either side of Naruto's face.

"Naruto-kun. I'm so sorry… I'm so ashamed of myself… Only now, at the end, do I finally have the courage to do this."

She brought her lips to his and kissed him with as much passion as she could force into those last precious moments he had left. She cried into the kiss, and yet she couldn't help but feel a small amount of happiness that Naruto was putting just as much emotion into their embrace as she was.

It was only after Naruto fell back to the ground that they finally broke apart. He had just left Hinata there, with her eyes still semi-closed and her lips still puckered.

"No… NO! NARUTO-KUN! COME BACK! COME BACK!"

Everyone fell down to their knees, wrapped around whoever was close and crying their heart out. No one wanted to accept that fact that their friend, their savior, their hero, was dead.

"MOVE OUT OF MY WAY!"

Everyone turned to see Minato, one of the last remaining Edo Tensei approaching them in his golden chakra cloak.

"I SAID MOVE! I CAN SAVE HIM!"

Everyone looked up at him and stared at him as he approached. The rookies moved away for him and let him kneel next to his son.

Hinata didn't have the strength to accept Naruto's death, so she clung onto the hope that he could come back, as slim as it was.

"How!? Please! Bring him back to me Yondaime-sama!"

He put a hand on Naruto's old seal and began concentrating. "I have Kurama's Yin chakra sealed within me. I sealed Kurama's chakra, or his Yang half, into Naruto, so I don't know if this will work. I can only pray that this will be enough to let him survive."

Everyone watched in fascination as the golden chakra slowly was absorbed into Naruto's skin, and they all hoped beyond hope that this would work. On and on the process continued, and no one couldn't even hear a breath as they all stayed silent for the Yondaime to concentrate. Hinata held Naruto's hand up to her forehead and closed her eyes in prayer. She had never really considered herself religious, but at that point in time she was willing to try anything to get Naruto back.

After the longest eternity, she felt something. It was weak, but it was there. Slowly, ever so slowly, she began to feel a pulse. The faintest pulse she had ever felt over her three year tutelage as a medical ninja, but a pulse none the less.

Minato fell over onto his back exhausted as he slowly began crumbling away into dust. "Tell him that I've never been more proud of anyone ever in my life, and if his mother was here, I'm sure she would say the same."

Hinata didn't hear him, she couldn't. As soon as she felt his pulse, she bent so her ear was next to his mouth, and as soon as she felt his breath on her cheek, she buried herself in his neck and thanked anyone and everyone for bringing him back from the dead.

A Week Later

It was a hard week. There were thousands of bodies to find and tag. Friends, family, lovers; they all had to be found and buried. There was still much rejoicing at their victory, but they all acknowledged that it came with a heavy price.

Even those who celebrated Naruto's return found that they had done so prematurely. He might not have been dead, but it did mean he was alive. He was stuck in a bed, with an IV in his arm, in one of the strongest comas any doctor in the world had ever seen.

Everyone had tried everything to wake him up, but the one conclusion that each and every doctor was forced to come to was that only time would tell. The Konoha Shinobi had gone back home, and tried to resume life as normal, or at least as normal as they could.

It was late at night, and there were still several people in the hospital room that Naruto now occupied. Iruka, Kakashi, Tsunade, Sakura, Saskue, and Hinata were all watching him, praying that he would wake up soon.

One by one, they all filed out, till there was only one. Hinata brought up the chair next Naruto's bed and took his left hand in her right while she clutched the small book Naruto had given her. She figured that now would be as good a time as any to start reading; she knew she wouldn't be getting any sleep anyway.

Before she could start the door opened and a nurse looked at Hinata. "Ano… Hyuga-sama, the hospital isn't allowing any overnight visits tonight…"

Hinata sent a pleading look towards the nurse. The woman suddenly didn't have the heart to remove her from the room.

"*sigh* Alright, you can stay tonight, just try not to get caught. I don't want to get in trouble."

She closed the door and left Hinata to go back to the small book. She opened up the first page and was barely able to make out the words. She knew that it had to have been a child who wrote this, and by the looks of it said child was self-taught.

'This is the diary of Uzumaki Naruto, age 5.'

Hinata traced the lines of the pen with her finger. She glanced over at Naruto and smiled as a tear rolled down her cheek. With a sigh and a heavy hand she flipped the page and prepared to read about Naruto's life from his point of view.

END

AN: Ok, so, this is how this will play out:

Whenever i get that creative urge, i will post a chapter. Each chapter will be an excerpt from Naruto's diary until noted otherwise.

Please review and tell me what you all think!

Peace!