Chapter 0

Ashen grey clouds had covered the sky above, wind wailing through the crevices of the rocky mountain walls that surrounded the area and rain fell like little pebbles being tossed upon the world below. Water whipped up around two male's, standing infront of one another facing off against each other. Both looked rather beaten and worn down, marks of the obvious battle that were going on between the two. Red and black eyes stared back towards cerulean blue, both looking rather determined at what they were about to do. Lightning lit up the sky, revealing the two shinobi down below, but the thunder went unheard by the sudden sound of a thousand chirping birds.

"Why...Why must it always come to this!? Why can't you just butt out and leave me alone!?" yelled the raven haired male, or to most others as Sasuke Uchiha. Within his hand blue lightning jumped around sparking the waters around them. His counter part, or opponent in this case, the blonde Uzumaki standing ready stared during the entire question readied himself his own attack, the Rasengan.

"You wanna know why Teme? Just look back at our earlier fights, the conversations we had...you'll fi..."

"Oh don't sputter your nonsense about bonds!" Sasuke yelled rather annoyed. "I broke those bonds that we had long ago and you know that. And what…do you think Konoha would welcome me back with open arms, I don't think so! So just shut up you idiot and get out of my way!" he yelled before he pushed off the water and ran in the direction of Naruto. Naruto only stared, saddened by his friend, his teammate, someone who he saw as a brother denied that he had broken such a bond that he had thought was so strong between the two of them.

"I'm not leaving here without you...that bond is still there, I know it is!" Naruto yelled watching as the Uchiha advanced upon him. The way the other male was running towards him brought back memories of when they had first fought here in the Valley of the End. It was like watching the scene all over again only they were older. The same thing happened this time as well, Naruto had conjured up a rasengan and after a few seconds of reminiscing he forced his feet to move as well.

As the two males clashed together, the water around them rose to new heights creating a large wave from around them. Both stood staring at each other, eyes locked as if knowing what was going to happen after this. With that thought in mind, Naruto was hardly aware Sasuke was right in front of him, or any of the pain that suddenly coursed through his body. Well, that was until he sputtered a bit and blood seeped from between his lips, the rasengan dispersing from his hand and vanishing. His cerulean eyes glanced down to where he saw Sasuke's arm planted right into his body, just slightly off from his heart he could figure. His gaze drifted back up towards Sasuke gaze, in which he noted a very similar pained look upon the raven haired males face.

"Heh…guess this is it, huh teme?" Naruto stated sounded rather weak at that moment. Sasuke really couldn't care less, but it pissed him off that he had lost to Naruto like this. He still had unfinished business to tend to, and this didn't help at all.

"F…For you maybe." He stated. Sasuke glanced down towards Naruto's arm that was planted right through his chest, he quickly glanced back up and pulled his arm free from Naruto's chest, stumbling back and releasing Naruto's from his own.

"This isn't over….dobe…" he stated thinking he'd be able to walk out of there, but as his vision blurred, the both of them slowly fell to the waters below breathing their last breaths.

"No…far from it…" Naruto managed in a whisper before completely falling into darkness.

12 years later

A black haired twelve year old student sat half asleep in class. He was listening to what Iruka had to say about the final part of their exam they'd have to take to graduate. Yawning, cerulean blue eyes glanced around at the other students before closing once again, the males head bobbing up and down slightly. The class had just gotten done doing the first two parts of the final exam, they were now moving onto the final part.

"Okay class, I'm going to start naming you off in alphabetical order. Then I want you to come up and perform the clone jutsu…"

From somewhere deep within the black haired male's mind came a voice as loud and as quick as anything.

"Hey! I remember this!"

The male bolted upright, cerulean eyes going wide as he yelled, "WILL YOU SHUT UP ALREADY!"

Iruka glanced up quickly staring, though he only closed his eyes and ground his teeth together as he tried to stay as calm as possible, didn't really work too well considering what came from him next. He glanced up and then yelled;

"TSUNARI!"