Yume To Akumu

Sorry for the long wait! My muse ran off and life got in the way. I know this chapter kinda sucks so let me know how I could have made it better. I hope you like it anyway!

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Orochimaru POV Real World

The tress had been too thick for Lyra to fly through, so she had been forced to land in a clearing some ways away from where Sasuke and Naruto where. I ran through the under brush towards where I knew Sasuke and Naruto where.

As I ran, I came across a burnt tree and then Sasuke's sword. I snatched it from the ground without stopping, carefully placing it on my purple rope belt.

A scream tore trough the silence of the trees; "Naruto!"

After a few more moment of running I finally found them. Naruto was laying on the ground bleeding from a wound in the center his chest. I ran to his side making sure he was still breathing.

"Don't kill him! Save him please!" Sasuke begged from above him, tears running in rivers down his face.

I looked up at him and said "I'm not the one thats gonna kill him. And I will save him, I owe him that much." and true to my words, i reached down and picked Naruto up and started running back to Lyra.

She was facing away from my with her wings at the ready. I jumped on her back, using my chakra to stick to her smooth scales. The instant I landed she took off into the air.

In the next moment she was landing on the ground by the other ninjas.

"Oh my god! Put him down over here! Hinata I need you to see if there's anything left in the wound." Sakura started shouting out other orders to the other ninja as she prepared to heal Naruto.

"You wont do much good. Not with a wound like this one." I told her.

"What do you mean? I'm a medic ninja, you can't just tell me its hopeless! Not when he's still breathing!" she yelled.

"I didn't say it was hopeless! I said if I let you heal him it will be. Your not listening. This is not just any wound and you don't have training for something like this."

"I trained under Tsunade, the best medic-nin in Konoha! You can't say I haven't been trained!" she yelled lividly.

"I didn't say you haven't been trained! Your still not listening! I said you haven't been trained for this! This is not a bodily wound but something much worse. If I let you try to heal him he will die. Now get out of my way and let me do what only I know how to!" I yelled at her.

"If its not a bodily wound then what is it? What other kind is their?" Sai asked, looking at Naruto over my shoulder.

"Does this wound have something to do with what I saw earlier?" Neji asked.

"Yes."

"What exactly did I see? I know I saw a pillar of chakra but what was in the middle of it? I looked like a silver thread."

"It called a soul thread. I only recognized it because reading souls was imperative for my body transfer jutsu. I don't know what it does, how it happened or why but I do know that for any part of the soul to be out in the open like that it makes the physical body extremely vulnerable.

"What I think happened was that Naruto used that thread to enter the genjutsu with Sasuke and tried wake him up. And for a moment it worked. However the vines control the illusion. They probably attacked Naruto in the genjutsu and because he was only there because of his soul they hurt his body and his soul."

All the while he talked he had made hand signs and then placed his glowing hands over the wound. By the time he was done talking the bleeding had slowed down and the wound itself was healing.

"If you knew all that then why did you ask Jiraiya who Naruto's parents were? What does that have to do with anything? Shino asked.

"I saw Naruto's soul and remembered another I had seen recently. When I was dead to be specific. I was someone that I had not seen in many years. Their souls are very similar. So much so that they could only be related."

"You saw her in him didn't you." Jiraiya said, it wasn't a question but Orochimaru nodded anyway.

"And you decided to keep something like that from me. You knew who he was related to and kept it from me. I should skin you alive!"

It was a few more minutes more before anyone said anything. I was the one that broke the tense silence.

"I've done all I can for him right now." I said slightly out of breath. "Sakura its your turn, you should be able to help him now. He will still need a long wile to heal from a wound to his soul, that is if he heals at all." I said tiredly.

"What do you mean 'if he heals at all'?" Neji asked.

"Its rare for anyone to heal completely from a wound like this. Some never heal at all. I don't know how he will handle the trauma." I said with a note of sadness.