"Naruto," A voice broke through his consciousness, "You know Sasuke will leave."
Naruto opened his eyes to see a figure in a black cloak with red clouds covering the cloak, and a black and orange mask with a swirl like pattern on it. "I honestly wish I could say you're wrong, but I have grown to know Sasuke probably better than anyone." Naruto had to pause for a moment to collect his thoughts, "He wants power, but not to kill his brother." Naruto lowered his head. It was true Sasuke and him had become great friends in fact Naruto would dare say that they were brothers. Of course not by blood but definitely through a bond that has grown from their time as team seven.
"So how do you plan on stopping him? I know that you will be able to bring him back to Konoha even if he used the cursed seal, but do you really think he won't continue to try?" The man in the strange cloak asked. He felt no remorse that he was just using this kid for the demon sealed inside of the poor child.
"Tobi?" The blonde asked letting his own plan unfold in his mind. "Can you explain to me one more time how the Uchiha gain the Mangekyou Sharingan?"
"Yes. The user of the sharingan must kill their best friend to gain it?" As curiosity completely took over his thoughts, "Why did you want to know?"
"There isn't really a reason I just simply wanted to know," Stated Naruto as he looked up to his friend, " Tobi thank you for being my friend for all these years, and I am sorry that you couldn't show yourself to Konoha, but I have to go to bed it's going to be a long day for me tomorrow."
Tobi nodded his head and disappeared. His last thoughts were filled with complete concern for the child.
The next day Naruto found himself at his favorite Ramon stand. "Hey old man, Can I get thirty bowls of the best ramon in the world?" He asked as he noticed Teuchi's eyes go wide with surprise.
"Sure but why so much? You aren't going to be able to train very hard today." His concern was easily shown for the child he had grown to love.
"It's fine Kakashi Sensei says that I need to cut back on eating so much Ramon so this is the last day in a while I'm going to be eating Ramon so I want to eat as much of it as I can."
Tuechi nodded it sounded like it made sense so he wasn't going to argue.
Once finished with his lunch Naruto started his search for Sasuke. Hoping he wouldn't run into anyone for what he was about to do, but sadly luck wasn't on his side today.
"Naruto!" An overly excited youth yelled, "How are you on this youthful day?" Lee asked as he studied his blonde rival.
"I'm doing fine Lee how about you?" Naruto asked seeing his friend still injured from his fight with Gaara.
A smile touched Lee's face; it was quite obvious that Naruto was in pain thinking over something, and yet he still put his concern over his friend first. "I am doing a lot better thank you Naruto."
"I am glad to hear that, but I really need to go." Naruto started to walk away but stopped and turned around, "Goodbye Lee you have been a good friend to me.
Not realizing the severity of what his friend was thinking Lee simply smiled and waved goodbye. Sadly this would probably be the last time he seen him, or at least that's what Naruto thinks.
"Naruto!" A feminine voice rang out, but surprisingly the blonde didn't stop, "Naruto! Look at me!"Sakura yelled; who wasn't very happy about being ignored. As Sakura continued to wait for him to look at her she noticed that he seemed very deep in thought. Calmly walking up to him she pulled her fist back and was about to let it slam into his head when Naruto's hand shot up blocking the potential hazard to his health.
"Hey Sakura, how are you doing?" Naruto asked not even realizing what was going on.
"Well I was actually wondering if you wanted to train with me and Sasuke." The pink haired Kunoichi asked the blonde hoping that he would say yes.
"Sure!" Naruto practically shouted; this was his chance, but the only bad part is that Sakura would have to be there. "Lead the way Sakura-Chan." Naruto spoke as he smiled a fake smile and started moving forward.
Smiling back at him Sakura started heading off into the direction of team seven's training grounds.
"Hey." Sasuke spoke not really any emotion in his voice. He took a moment to look at the blonde and immediately he knew something was wrong. "What's wrong?" he asked not caring if he seemed out of character.
"If Sakura doesn't mind, will you fight me?" Naruto asked feeling the anticipation in his stomach starting to grow.
A smirk shown itself on Sasuke's face, "What? You want to know who's stronger." Sasuke asked, "if that's all I can tell you that its already me!" He joked knowing that they were either equal or Naruto was stronger.
"It doesn't matter why I want to fight you, besides I never knew that Uchiha's were such cowards that they would turn down a fight." Naruto mocked knowing full well that there was no way that Sasuke would refuse to fight now.
"The Uchiha's are no cowards!" Sasuke almost shouted letting his rage almost completely take over his actions.
"I honestly don't care, but will you fight me now?" Naruto asked getting a little impatient.
"Sakura please stay out of this one, I plan on teaching him why he should fear the name Uchiha." He watched Sakura nod, and then he turned back to Naruto. "You strike first"
Without any point in saying another word Naruto charged forward and landed a harsh right hook to Sasuke's face immediately following it up with a roundhouse kick to his jaw. The force of the kick launched Sasuke several feet before he finally skidded to a halt.
Flipping back up onto his feet he stared back at Naruto, "Not bad, but I honestly expected better from you." Immediately after finishing his sentence Sasuke charged at Naruto activating his sharingan which was only two-thirds of the way complete. Surprisingly even with his sharingan no matter how many punches he threw at Naruto all of them were evaded. Getting annoyed Sasuke started running through hand seals but stopped when Naruto's voice had caught his attention.
"Come on Sasuke let's end this now, there is no need for us to waste our chakra on jutsu's that won't help out at all." Naruto paused making sure he had Sasuke's attention, and when he did he continued, "Let us go all out my rasengan against your chidori."
A smirk appeared on Sasuke's face. It was well known between the two that Sasuke wanted to know who's jutsu was stronger. "Alright then, let's do it." As he finished talking he began to charge electricity into his hand officially sealing the deal.
Naruto followed suit summoning a clone to help him stabilize his Rasengan. He took one look at it before turning to Sakura, "Hey Sakura!" he yelled wanting to say one last thing to his crush.
"What is it Naruto?" Sakura asked worry was evident in her voice from what was about to take place.
"Will you go out with me now?" He asked not really caring for what the answer might be. At least he knew that he had tried.
"No!" She said firmly, but not rudely, "If I do that then I might not have a chance with Sasuke-Kun."
"Oh well it was worth a shot," He smiled then turned back to his teammate. There was a sad smile on the blondes face that Sasuke would only notice when it was too late. "You ready Sasuke?" He asked, and when he received the nod he began charging across the battlefield. For Naruto time seemed to slow down. He watched as the distance slowly closed with each step they took. A voice stole Naruto's attention, but he couldn't look. Besides he already knew it was Kakashi sensei.
"Stop!" Kakashi's voice broke through the training ground but even then he knew it was too late. The two boys would have long since collided, and he knew that Naruto would be the victor. The Rasengan was easily as strong as the Chidori, and Sasuke hasn't even trained long with the Chidori.
Sasuke knew what Kakashi was demanding of them to do, but something inside of him wouldn't listen. Not until he knew who was stronger than the other. As the two boys came together Sasuke was about to slam his Chidori into Naruto, and he figured that Naruto would block it with his Rasengan. Unfortunately Sasuke was completely wrong. He watched horrified as Naruto let his Rasengan disappear before the two even collided. "No!" Sasuke yelled as tears fell from his eyes. He could feel the warmth of Naruto's blood as it dripped down his arm. He looked up into Naruto's eyes and was shocked to see him smiling. "Why?" Sasuke yelled again. His confusion was evident on his face.
"Because Sasuke I knew you were going to leave." Naruto spit up some blood his weak word's were having trouble leaving his mouth. "I knew you wanted power so you could avenge your clan, and for that you were planning on going with Orochimaru. But I knew of a way that you could gain that power, to be as strong as your brother." Naruto continued to smile as the pain in his chest could only grow.
"Naruto, you are an idiot." Sasuke sobbed, "Why would you do this?" Sasuke asked still not comprehending what his friend was saying.
"Sasuke I know you aren't that stupid," Naruto joked as he felt the life starting to leave his body. "I just thought that if I give you the mangekyou then you would stay. Sakura needs you and I know for certain she would never be happy with me."
Sasuke could only watch as Naruto bled to death. He still didn't understand what Naruto was saying. All he heard was something about Naruto giving him something.
"Protect her please." Naruto practically begged as he felt the life slip out of him.
Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi could only watch as the cerulean eyes faded as the last breath left his young body.