Okay, so this is a random drabbles and oneshots collection. If any of them turn out to be anything other that AU, I will be so utterly shocked that I probably could power all of the Atlantic Coast. This first one is about Naruto and Sasuke, and how their final meeting might happen. Yes, I know that SPOILER WARNING SPOILER WARNING Sasuke kills Orochimaru and then goes off after Itachi, but I did in fact say that this is AU.
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Letter of the Law
When Naruto finally caught up with Sasuke, Orochimaru and Itachi were already dead. The brutal three-way fight had shattered the landscape around the three, adding multiple obstacles in his way, but Naruto was no longer the naïve young genin who took hours to climb a tree, and it took only a few moments for him to land on the rocky flat space where Sasuke lay. The dark missing-nin looked up at the figure of his once-best friend uncomprehendingly. Naruto had changed in the years since Team Seven's beginnings, and changed still more in the years since its end. Now dressed in the black outfit of a hunter-nin, the only thing that tied the man in front of Sasuke to his teammate was the bright orange of his blank mask. Naruto took the five steps over to Sasuke, crouched next to the prone body, and removed his mask, hooking it on his belt.
"Dobe…" The voice was cracked and hoarse, and the effort of talking made him cough up more of the blood that stained the ground. "You finally going to bring me back to Konoha, hmm?" A short, breathless laugh. "have fun keeping me alive that long."
"Why would I bother with that, Sasuke-traitor? I promised Sakura I'd bring you back, not that I'd bring you back alive." Sasuke's eyes widened in shock, but the world just got dimmer, darkness clouding his vision. "After all, all Konoha needs are your eyes."
Uzumaki Naruto caught up with his best friend in slightly more than enough time to save his life, and just enough time to watch him die.