Attention to all Readers: This will probably be a Very, Very SHORT CHAPTER for it will be broken up into three, but the next one MIGHT be a LONGER one, seeing as how much ya'll liked this..( Personally, I think My writing sucks and is getting nowhere.. ) But knowing you people who just HATE reading those long, never-ending chapters, I'm willing to take them apart...Just tell me if you wanna have it Long and Hard, or bring it down in a teasing slow manner.. ( ...Sounds wrong?GOOD! I like it that way.)

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Chapter 4: No More Doubting Pt. 1

Naruto panted slightly, wiping the thin layer of sweat from off of his forehead. "..I think i'll take a break here. Seems safe enough." He mumbled, leaning against a tree as he sat. He had been traveling through the forest for about 3 hours, the suns' rays shining heavily above his head through the trees. Naruto layed his head back, taking deep,releaving breaths as he closed his eyes. He let his thoughts run freely around his head, recapitulating his plans for the near future. ' Kit, don't do this, I'm begging you!' Kyuubi whined loudly. A vain popped out of the side of Naruto's head as he spoke out, growling. " Damnit, Kyuubi! How many times do I have to tell you: I've made up my mind! So no matter what you say, how you beg or gravel, i'm going to go through with it wheather you like it or not!!"

Kyuubi sat back quietly, just as suprise by Naruto's outburst as he had been. Not once in his life had he ever lashed out at anyone, let alone Kyuubi no Kitsune. Naruto once again closed his mind off from the suprised expression on her face. He was not going to change is mind, nor hope for anyone's arrival to his rescue. 'Not that anyone would go looking for me anyway,' He stated hollowly, laying down in the grass, streaching his sore muscles. 'They're all to worried about that damn festival to care.' Grumbling under his breath profanities that only he himself could hear (not including Kyuubi), he rolled over onto his stomach and placed his head into the grass, grunting in frustration.

' Kit, please, will you listen to me just this once?' Kyuubi pleaded, breaking through his mental barrier with difficulty. How the hell did he get so strong with blocking her off? she'd have to ask him another time. Naruto grunted again, trying to ignore her and keeping his temper in check. ' Kit, I know damn well that you can hear me. Answer me!!' Naruto closed his eyes, his anger subsiding a little when he heard Kyuubi's frantic voice. 'What, Kyuu?'

Kyuubi sighed in relief when he finally responded, then phasing back into all seriousness. ' Kit, Do you know what kind of trouble your getting yourself into?' Naruto rolled her eyes and crossed his arms. 'Kit, i'm serious. Running away from your village is a crime, and you could get arrested for it if you get caught. And on top of that, you want to throw your life away by going to the Akatsuki and getting me removed.She shivered slightly at the thought. She really didn't want to be seperated from him, but seeing the hell this blonde was put through, she'd give anything to stop it. Even her life. Naruto once again rolled his eyes, and at her dismay he tsked. " Kyuubi, what the hell is your problem? You should be glad to be rid of me. Once you're extracted from my body, you'll be in the hands of the most amoral organization out there. You'll be free to do what ever revenge you have on Konoha, plus, you'll be able to use your powers whenever you wish. What more could you ask for?"

' But Kit, what about you? You know what'll happen if you go to them. Did you forget about Gaara? About how he died once Shukaku was elimenated? Kit, this is nothing to mess around with, Once you go to them there is no coming back.' Naruto's mind thought over the words she said, part of him longing to return to Konoha and apologize to everyone for scaring them. But then his thoughts drifted over to alll the years of torment and pain he had to go through; all the humiliation and suffering just to prove to his village that he was worth it.Worth everything they had thought he wasn't. But all his strength failed him as soon as he found out that he was chasing his dreams and ambitions...for nothing.

" I know what's going to happen to me and I am content with my decision. I'll be doing my village a favor by getting rid of you. And then, they won't have to worry about me ever again. You and I will both be gone to the places we can only dream of. We'll be in paradise." Naruto grinned, satisfied by the answer he had given. Once again, she could only agree with genuine lament. Why did she even bother trying to get him to change his disicion? His one track mind and determination..?

He yawned and sat up, checking out his sourroundings with on vital sweep of his gaze. " Well, Kyuu, if that's ALL, I think its time to be heading out." He stated, only to be met with silence. He quirked a brow, and picked up the shoes he had kicked off sometime during the converation. Was Kyuubi mad at him for his decision? ...No. He didn't think it was that completly. " Kyuubi..?" He called again, worry etching into his voice., Once again being met with silence. Was his Mental Barrier that strong to keep her from talking? No, It wasn't that either. She choose not to speak with her own will. He grumpled sourly, and sighed, pulling his shoes over his bare feet. He stood back up and brushed himself off, taking the time to play in his hair to get the stray grass that had found a home there in his golden mess.

He shifted his footing, and gripped one of the lower branches, swinging his body around to land on a thicker one, and took off into the trees, heading due north toward the base the Akatsuki had resently moved to.

"This is getting nowhere." Sasuke grumbled as his gripped tightened around Sakura's wrist, causing her to wince. "Hey, Sasuke-kun, do you think you could let go of me for a second? Your cutting off the circulation in my arm..." She said, her words falling on deaf ears. Either he was ignoring her purposly or he simply couldn't hear her.

Sasuke and Sakura had been walking around looking for a decent resturant to sit in but all of the good ones were full; even some of the ok ones were. Sakura looked away, allowing herself to get dragged through the numerous bodies along the streets, casually bumping into someone. 'This plan doesn't seem to be working out quite as I thought..' She thought dejectedly. What was she going to do? She finally had him all to herself and she couldn't even strike up a decent conversation; He was too distracted for her liking. 'Maybe its time to take this up a notch. We'll go to Ichiraku's; That little idiot should be there by now...And then I'll nock over my bowl and Sasuke-kun will help me and I'll 'accidentally' kiss him! Shannaro, That will work!' She snickered lightly.

"Sakura!"

"Hm?" She said looking in the direction of a very pissed Uchiha. "Don't 'hm' me?! Your're the one who wanted to eat, So where are we going? All of the other resturants are full" He said leading his arm out in the direction of the packed resturants. "And I'm suspecting you've got some sort of plan? Unless your just wasting my time..."

"No, No! Sasuke-kun, I was just thinking we should go to Ichiraku's Ramen Shop...It's probably the only other place that isn't pack this time around lunch." She said, smiling sweetly. Sasuke eyed her suspiciously, then turned his head walking away toward the shop.

"Sasuke-kun wait up!"

"How could he do this to me.." Iruka mumbled quietly, Slurping up his Extra Special Miso Ramen with a side of Lobster claws and Sushi. Iruka sighed and stared blankly into the bowl of Ramen as a flashback slipped into his memory.

Flasback

"I'm sorry Iruka-sensei, I didn't mean it." A ten year old Naruto mumbled, tears sliding down his face as he whipped the remaining remnants of vomit off of the side of his mouth. Somehow a ten year old Naruto had snucked into the locked classroom of Iruka's during his lunch break and looked around for anything that could make him feel better after a hard day of getting picked on by older classmates and the villagers.

He remebered seeing Iruka take some pills for his slight migranes that he often received from Naruto, and feel better after about 5 minutes. Naruto dug through the bottom drawer, throwing random forms and papers, and finding three unopen bottles of painkillers. Naruto took out the pills and scotted away from the drawer, sitting in the middle of the floor by the chalkboard.

"So how many did Iruka-sensei take? I can't remember..." Naruto looked around on one bottle, that had no instructions. Shrugging after looking on the bottle on last time, he took the top of all three, not bothering to check the others, and poured them out onto the floor. Opening his bottle of water that Iruka had given to him for lunch, He took a hand full of the mixed pills and dumped them into his mouth.

Gulp.

Gulp...

GULP...

"Three handfuls and the whole bottle of water. Not to shabby." Naruto said, congradulating himself and stood up to check out the undeniable mess he had made. "Ah, that's okay...someone will come and pick it up later; I'm sure to be feeling better in no time!" He grinned skipping to the door, Not realizing that Iruka was standing on the otherside of the door.

End Flashback

"He had such a fright he passed out, right on the floor. And those pills were fast acting..." Iruka chucked softly through his remincing. Taking another bite out of his cooled ramne, he heard two familliar voices.

"I don't know why I even agreed to go eat with you; You and your stupid friends might get the wrong consept."

"Oh No, Sasuke! I would never do that to you! I just thought we could eat before we head out to the field, you know, So if Naruto's out there he'll be jelous of us."

Iruka's ears twitched to Naruto's name as her turned around to face Sasuke and Sakura while they entered the stand. "Well just to let you know..." Sasuke started, as his eyes locked onto Iruka's.

" I'm...taken..."

They gazed at each other for a few moments while Sakura, oblivious to them, went on about who Sasuke had the hots for. Iruka and Sasuke had a private conversation with thier eyes, then Iruka was the first on to break the tension between them.

"Uchiha Sasuke..."

"Yes, Iruka-sensei..?"

"...Where's Naruto?"

Sasuke took a seat next to Iruka, Saukra sitting on the other side as he order himself a bowl of Shrimp Ramen. He took his chopsticks and mumbled a low 'Itadakimasu' when his food arrived and took a bite, munching qiuetly beside them. Sakura glanced over at Iruka, before she too ordered herself a bowl. Sasuke then took another stickful of ramen and gently blew it, cooling the food a degree or two. He placed it to his lips and slowly slurped the noodles into his mouth before muttering softly:

"Isn't that a question we all want answered?"

A/N: Well then, here you guys go, the latest chapter to this story.I know it was short and It was certainly a hassle writing this and trying to do all the corrections myself ( That takes alot of reading that I'm not willing to do... ") This is Part 1 of 3 for this certain chapter, and it'll be once again a while before I update again. Try reading my other story or a one-shot I had just wrote; I'm sure it'll pass the time of the wait. I do plan on updating by the end of this week, so look forward to that to, right?

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