I've come to a realization, that my stories were crap. I've pretty much scrapped all ideas for them, committed them to the trash bin, incinerated the files, and blown up the disks they were copied to with M-80's, that is how bad they sucked. I can't think of ideas for either of them, no matter how hard I try and I'm pretty much a fountain of ideas.
I am working on an actual story so updates on this one will be sporadic, maybe once every if I get around to it, maybe more if I have some free time.
this disclaimer will go for the entire chapter. I DON'T OWN NARUTO! (now matter how much I wish I did.)
chapter 1: born anew.
Sasuke leaned over Naruto's dead body, the rain that poured down washing away the blood that poured from Naruto's chest. "It didn't have to be like this." Sasuke muttered. "I didn't want to kill you. But I need the mangekyo sharingan if I want to beat Itachi, I'm sorry Naruto, it was what I had to do."
Sasuke sat on the wet ground, not even caring about the water that cascaded over his shoulders. Nothing had gone right. He had decided to go with the Sound Four so that they would take him to Orochimaru. From there he would have Orochimaru teach him all that he knoew, and when that was done, he would defeat the snake and come back to Konoha, not only as a hero, but with enough power to defeat his brother.
But then they had come after him. All of them. Naruto, Lee, Neji, Kiba, Chouji, and even the lazy genius Shikamaru. Each of the ninja's had left to fight the ninja that Naruto had brought with him. And he could tell from their chakra signatures, that all the ninja he had brought with im was dead. And also, that Naruto's team had suffered heavy injuries and most of them were at death's door.
"Things weren't supposed to be like this!" He shouted towards the sky. He walked over to the river beside him, staring at his reflection in the water. His eyes widened and he let out a scream of anguish. He hadn't achieved mangekyo sharingan. He had killed his only friend, the only person who ever constantly challenged him, made him want to become stronger, he had killed him for no reason!
Sasuke spun, slamming his fist into the rock wall with enough strength to cause a small avalanche of rocks to fall on his head. Sasuke knocked a rock away with his arm and it fell inot the river with a loud splash. "This should have never happened." he muttered.
(mindscape)
Kyuubi frantically pumped asmuch healing chakra into his host;'s body as he could without killing him. "now is not the time to give up kit!" The pipes in the sewer were almost bursting with the amount of chakra that coursed through them. The metal began to bulge with screeching noises but still the Kyuubi pushed more chakra into them.
"Damn it kit, you have to live, what about never giving up, what about that promise you made to the Haruno girl. How are you going to do that if you're dead?"
A tear appeared in the pipes and chakra began to leak from it, but the fox just pushed more through the coils, he was going to bring Naruto back to life even if it killed the boy! He blinked. "Whaaaat? That was the stupidest thought I've ever had." The pipes burst completely and chakra poured outwards in all directions, but Kyuubi restrained it, lacing the boy's normal chakra with his own to gain some control over it.
He forced the chakra to take the shape of the broken pipes before solidifying, and this time the pipes didn't break. The room that Kyuubi was in had been growing steadily darkening with each passing second, indicating that his container was growing closer to death. As the years had passed, Kyuubi had seen everything through Naruto's eyes but had been powerless to stop it. All he could do was watch as the boy was beaten within an inch of his life on a daily basis.
He had shared the times the boy had been happy, and had gradually felt himself becoming proud of him when he mastered a particularly difficult technique or defeated a strong enemy. But this one, all the power he could give Naruto was not enough to defeat that accursed sharingan, and now the boy once dying once again from his inability to do anything.
The darkness begin to back away, being replaced by glimmers of light. The light shined brightly, destroying the shadows that still clung to the boy's mind. He had done it, he had saved the boy's life. Over the years he had become attached to the boy, seeing him as his own son because the Naruto had no biological parents, a fact that he was directly responsible for. This bond had strengthened over the years until he hadn't wanted the boy to die, not because it would kill him, but because he actually cared for the boy's health.
"I've done all I can do kit, the rest is up to you, get up, ring Death's doorbell, and when he answers it, deck the bastard right in the face!" He slumped to the ground, exhausted from the physical and mental exertion of the day's activities.
Sasuke's eyes snapped open as red chakra began to pour from his friend's body. He rushed over to Naruto's side, feeling for a pulse. It was there, weak, but growing stronger with every heartbeat. The red chakra eveloped the boy in a cocoon but passed directly over Sasuke's hand. The avenger winced, thinking that the chakra would harm him as it did when the fought, but instead it felt warm and pleasant, like a nice fire.
As more of the chakra wrapped around Naruto's body he felt the pulse begin to beat steadily and evenly until it was at a normal rate. Sasuke sighed in relief and leaned back, sitting on the stone ground. Underneath the cocoon Naruto's eyes snapped open, revealing blood read irises. He swung as hand at the chakra and it fell away like a spider's web. The red slowly faded from his eyes until they were their normal cerulean blue.
Looking around he saw that he was still in the Valley of the End and sitting next to him was, Sasuke? He growled and reached for a kunai, only to see his pouch was a few feet away from him. He tried to grab it but hissed in pain as his muscles protested the actions. He laid on the ground, casting wary glances at the raven haired warrior as he knew he was in know position to defend himself should Sasuke attack.
Sasuke raised him hands in surrender as he saw Naruto glare at him. "Why are you still here teme?" The blond growled. Sasuke sighed. "I had to make sure you weren't dead." This suprised Naruto and his eyes widened slightly. "What do you mean by that, don't you need to kill your closest friend to achieve the final level of sharingan, isn't that what you want, so you can kill you brother?"
Sasuke shook his head sadly before explaining his plan to Naruto. During the explanation Naruto had propped himself against the rock wall as he waited for his strength to return to his tired muscles. He sighed as Sasuke finished his story. "So that's what this all was. Sasuke, why didn't you tell us, we could have helped you." Sasuke looked away, a guilty look in his eyes. "I couldn't tell you, you would have tried to stop me, I needed Orochimaru's power, and I knew that you would stop me if you knew."
Naruto dragged a hand down his face. "Sasuke, you wouldn't have gotten any stronger if Orochimaru had given you power, you wouldn't be any stronger. Do you know why? Because try strength is earned through hard work and dedication and taking someone else power is just a fake shortcut, you'll know more but you won't be any stronger than you were before because you didn't work to achieve it.
The sharingan is a losers way out, it's for those who believe that they are above training and therefore never have to work for anything. Those who wield it take pride in the fact that they can steal the jutsu and techniques that their friends and allies have spent months or even years learning and perfecting. Even Itachi knew this."
He saw Sasuke begin to bristle at the name of his brother and held up a hand to be allowed to finish. "Judging by how far away Kakashi-sensei's chakra signature is, we still have some time before he arrives so I want to explain this to you. Itachi was incredibly strong not because he could use the sharingan at such a young age, but because he could use it and ignored its power. Itachi chose to train through hard work and dedication, mastering jutsu's he had seen with his true eyes, working for sometimes a week without sleeping until he had mastered the technique."
Sasuke was amazed, how could Naruto know so many things about his brother that he himself didn't even know? "Do you see now Sasuke, you're weak because you rely on borrowed power, the power of your sharingan, the power of the curse mark, I could have beaten you without my other chakra and you knew it, so you used both of those in a desperate attempt to beat me. And you did beat me, but it was a hollow victory wasn't it? To know that you only defeated the one who had pushed you to face your limits and beyond with stolen power."
Once again Sasuke nod, when did Naruto learn to read people like this?
"It isn't reading people Sasuke, I know you, ever since Wave, when you protected me, I trained myself harder than ever before because I actually thought that you had died protecting me, and I never wanted to be so weak that someone else would have to die to protect me. And so I trained, I trained so hard that I eventually caught up to you enough to be treated like an equal and not just a nuisance. But then you spit on that training when you accepted the hebi-teme's curse seal, and your power grew so much that I didn't think that I'd ever catch up to you again.
After that I began training myself again, so that I could catch up to you, even though you were still so far ahead of me. I had to, I felt like an equal around you during the Chuunin exams, and I felt good to have you aknowledge me as an equal. When you said that you wanted to fight me during the exams, it made me so happy. And I wondered if maybe that was what having a brother felt like."
Sasuke hung his head in shame. "I'm sorry Naruto, I saw how hard you trained, and even though I was ahead of you I still felt so weak because your power was growing so much as you tried to catch up, and it just felt like I was standing still compared to how fast you were growing."
Naruto had regained enough strength to stand and did so, leaning heavily against the rock wall. He opened his mouth to say something but stopped, looking towards the treeline. Kakashi burst through it, Pakkun following close behind. "Naruto, Sasuke!" he shouted. "Hey Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said, waving tiredly. Sasuke started to wave as well but instead looked at the ground in shame.
"Sasuke, it's alright." Naruto said, putting a hand on his teammates shoulder. "We can head back to Konoha and the council will accept you back with open arms. I know they will. And after they do that you can become truly strong." Sasuke nodded, walking towards Kakashi. Naruto began to do the same but felt his legs give out, falling to the ground. "Ouch." he mumbled through a mouthful of dirt.
Sasuke laughed lightly and Naruto immediately sat up. He'd never heard Sasuke laugh before, he doubted many others had either. The black haired boy walked over to Naruto, picking him up and slinging him over his shoulder. "Ouch." Naruto said again. "Sasuke put Naruto down."Kakashi said, pulling a solider pill from the man purse at his hip. (yes I know it's a kunai pouch but I bet you ten bucks Kakashi thinks it's a man purse.)
He popped the pill into Naruto mouth and the boy quickly stood up, feeling his strength returning. He nodded that he was ready and the trio raced through the woods to Konoha, often coming in contact with medic nin carrying the damaged rookies to the hospital. As they reached the gates of Konoha a large amount of shinobi gathered, cheering the returning Uchiha. Sakura ran out of the crown, standing in front of Sasuke, tears brimming in her eyes. "You came back." she said happily. Sasuke nodded. "Yeah."
Kakashi headed of to the hospital to check on the conditions of the other gennin while his team stood at the gat.
Several villagers began to cheer as they saw the returning Uchiha but the cheering was replaced with malicious grins when they saw the weakened state the 'demon brat' was in. The ninja pulled kunai from their holsters, handing some out to those that didn't any. They began coming closer to Naruto and the boy's eyes widened, he felt a lot better but there was no way he would be able to defend himself against this many shinobi, most of them being above chunin rank at least.
The kunai whistled through the air but were quickly deflected by Sasuke who now stood in front of the blond, kunai in hand and sharingan blazing. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." he said in a cold voice. "The Uchiha's been brainwashed by the demon!" a villager yelled. A random shinobi shook his head. "No, the sharingan at its three pronged state has the ability to suppress demonic chakra, making him unable to be brainwashed if the boy is a demon."
"So the Uchiha truly is this boy's friend? But an Uchiha would never befriend a demon!" A different shinobi shook his head. "Then maybe, this boy truly isn't a demon." With the knowledge that the demon was actually a normal human, and also that the last Uchiha had befriended him, many fell to the streets, bowing to those before them. Others wept openly, begging forgiveness from the boy that they had so unjustly punished for sins that he had never committed.
Naruto and Sasuke walked through the path that the crowd had formed, Sakura following behind them. Naruto stared in amazement at those who would bow to him, begging for forgiveness. He knelt before on man, tilting the man's chin so that he had to look Naruto in the eyes. "You are forgiven for your sins, I understand the reasons you did such things and bear no grudge against your for your actions."
The man wept even harder at the compassion of the boy who would forgive him even after the horrible things that he had done. Naruto stood and turned to Sasuke. "Thank you." he whispered.
And that's that, I'm sorry that this chapter wasn't very long but I promise you that the next one will be twice as long.
stay tuned for the next chapter of Naruto: An angel in human form
Read and review everybody, the more you review the faster I update. I really would like to know your honest opinion on the chapter so please include what you liked, didn't like, or found confusing and I'll try to answer as best i can without revealing to much, but then again I'm just playing this by ear.