Chapter 1
The Farewell
The yellow flames around him slowly faded away from the jutsu.
"I have you now." The man in the mask said. "And soon I will have the entire world within' my grasp."
"You can't win. I won't let you." The blond said as he grew weaker and weaker. "Even if you take him and kill me, you still will lose. I promise you that."
"I don't believe that to be true counting that you will die soon anyways. No one will stand up against me once this is all over."
An orange form was pulled out of Naruto belly. The beast inside him was being taken by the masked man.
"You won't get away with this." Naruto yelled through the pain.
"Oh, I believe I will." Madara laughed at the words from the boy.
The orange beast was forced into the statue, opening its remaining closed eyes. Its mouth opened and let out a high pitch screech meaning that it has done its job, combining the powers of all 9 beasts into the one legendary 10 tailed beast. This beast flew out of the statue's mouth. Its wings like ones that belonged to a bird with its majestic orange-red color.
"Now you will bend to my will, Ten Tails." Madara said as he flashed his Sharingun at the large bird. Its eyes mimicked the form of her new owner's. With this he laughed, victory was now within' his hands.
"It's so beautiful." Naruto said amazed at the sight of the bird.
"Isn't she? Just imagine the damage she can do!"
Naruto gave him a scowling look. "You can't win this."
"Oh, but I will." Madara replied with a large grin hiding under his mask.
Madara then disappeared from the scene taking the beast with him.
"I'll make sure you don't win." Naruto said as he slowly passed out from exhaustion.
"Naruto!" Naruto heard even through his unconsciousness. "Naruto-kun!"
"Sakura? Is that you?" He replied slowly awakening.
"Naruto-kun… Everyone is dying. I can't heal them all." Sakura said crying onto Naruto's chest.
"It'll be alright, Sakura. I'll help fix all of this. Everything will be alright in the end." Naruto said smiling at her to try to reassure her. "No need to worry. I'm Uzumaki Naruto."
"You idiot." A voice that belonged to an old teammate said. "You already lost. Snap out of your peaceful lalaland and back to reality."
"Sasuke-kun?" Sakura said shocked.
"I will not fail. And I refuse to think that way. You might think that way, which is why I won't. I'm not like you, nor will I ever be." Naruto said determined.
"Don't be too sure of yourself." Sasuke said crashing to the ground behind Sakura. "We are all just going to die in a matter of minutes, anyways. No reason to get your own hopes up."
Sakura gasp as tears started to swell in her eyes again. Too many people were dying and she couldn't do anything about it. She was too weak, her chakra already mostly gone from trying to heal everyone.
"Don't worry Sakura. I will help fix all of this." Naruto repeated as he faded back into unconsciousness.
"As good as dead." Sasuke repeated as he too faded into unconsciousness.
Tears poured out of the pinkette's eyes. Everything was going to end in a matter of minutes. All of her loved ones, family and friends, will die. And she can't do anything about it. Innocent lives will be taken because she can't save such importantly strong people.
No! She told herself. I will not stand for this.
Luckily for her, she stilled had one way left that could resolve this problem.
A red glow began to surround her body as she summoned the strength within her. She held up her hands and created ten blue circles with her finger tips and sent 9 of them away to her friends. The remaining one grew larger and engulfed the three of them like a bubble.
"Sakura? What are you doing?" Sasuke said.
"Saving everyone."
"It's too late. You can't do anything now." Sasuke said feeling sure of himself, remembering the weak Sakura he knew before. "You're too weak."
"You should judge a book by its cover, Sasuke." Sakura replied shocking Sasuke.
Did she change so much that Sasuke just never realized it?
"You have to know what is within' the book for you to understand how to feel about it." She added.
What was she saying, having to know what is inside? What did that mean?
"The Ten Tailed will just kill everyone again. There is no stopping it."
Silence then as Sakura rose her right hand to the sky. Nine dots flew to her fingers but this time they were orange. She lifted Naruto's shirt revealing the black circle on his stomach left behind from the extraction of his beast. She placed her right hand with the orange dots onto the large circle and bit her left hand's thumb making it bleed. She drew two curved lines into the back of her right hand. Naruto gasped at the gesture. The black circle closed into the seal that held his nine tailed beast.
What is she doing? Sasuke thought as he watched her.
She then, with the remaining blood dripping from her thumb, drew four dots onto the back of her right hand. The nine orange dots then seeped into Naruto. His chest rose as they did so. She then, closed the seal and removed her hand from his belly.
Did she just… seal the Nine Tailed back into Naruto?! How could she do that? Without even having it here! That is simply impossible! Sasuke was shocked, amazed, frightened, and confuse all at the same time. She has changed. She got so powerful. But how? Was she simply just been hiding such power of hers from the very beginning?
"H-how?" Sasuke asked.
"You have to know what is inside the book before you can understand it." Sakura said.
She rose to her feet before Sasuke could even begin to try to understand what she was saying to him.
"Where are you going?"
"To finish this. If everyone's lives are at stack then I'll fix everything before their lives can even be touched. I won't let anymore people die today." She said beginning to walk away.
As she was almost out of viewing sight, she spoke once more. "Naruto will wake up before you and will probably take you back to the village. When you wake up, if you will remember this, tell Tsunada the numbers 5288. She will probably understand."
"Sakura?" Sasuke said trying to call her back as she walked out of sight, but was still able to get her lasts words to him hearable.
"Also tell everyone that everything will be okay… in the end."
Then she was gone.
