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Chapter 1 – Bonds that can Never be Repaired
With the curse seal level two surpassing, an exhausted and drained Sasuke collapses to the floor after taking another hit from Itachi's most power attack, the Amaterasu. "Long have I waited to escape this impending darkness," taunted Itachi. "I'm sorry Sasuke, but your dream will stay exactly what it is, a dream. My light will not go out."
Sasuke, now on his hands and knees, couldn't believe what has transpired here, at the Uchiha Hideout, the place of his ancestors, of his slaughtered clan. This was where he was supposed to make that murderer beg for his life, where he was supposed to avenge the entire clan. 'How could it end like this?' he thought. 'How could I not be strong enough? I sacrificed everything, I filled my life with hate and revenge to numb the pain and this is how it all ends.'
Itachi slowly raised Sasuke's chin and looked into his brother's eyes one last time. "My light will not go out," he said calmly, "but your life ends here. Goodbye Sasuke."
'So this will end everything?' thought Sasuke, while he looked into Itachi's eyes. As Itachi closed one eye to prepare one final Amaterasu, neither of them sensed the massive amount of chakra heading through the entrance.
"SASUKE!!" yelled Naruto as he jumped over his former comrade, landing a kick square in Itachi's jaw. Sasuke's eyes widened as he saw his brother's body fly back to the base of the throne and it was replaced with the sight of his former comrade standing in front of him.
"Na-Naruto?" said Sasuke in disbelief as he looked up at the figure standing before him.
"Sorry I'm late," replied the blonde shinobi with a grin, "I got held up by another one of these bastards."
"NARUTO!! STAY OUT OF THIS!! THIS IS MY FIGHT NOT YOURS—"
"IT'S AS MUCH MY FIGHT AS IT IS YOURS!! WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD!?" yelled Naruto with his back turned to the raven haired shinobi. Sasuke became deathly silent as Naruto sighed in frustration. "Sasuke, leave the rest to me."
Sasuke thought back to the last time his former teammate uttered those words, back when they fought Gaara of the Desert. 'There's no way this weakling's stronger than me. At least this will give me a chance to rest.'
Itachi wiped the blood from his lip as he slowly staggered to his feet. "So, you're finally here Naruto Uzumaki? Good, now I can grab my new eyes and seal the legacy of the Fourth Hokage away once and for all."
"Your Life Ends Here!!" replied Naruto as he got into his fighting stands, his eyes now flashing red and his whisker marks and fangs getting sharper and more predominant. "You will not kill Sasuke and you Won't Kill Me!!"
'This is very interesting,' thought Zetsu as he peered down at the people below, 'it looked like Sasuke was going down, but now the Kyuubi has entered the fight.' 'This is going to get very interesting.' 'Very interesting indeed.'
Naruto was careful not to look into Itachi's eyes or his torso to not get caught up in his Sharingan, and looked at Itachi's feet as he prepared to attack. "Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!!" Suddenly, the room was filled with thirty Narutos, all with kunai in hand. They all began to diverge on the Uchiha.
"This is considerably pointless," as he made short work of the clones. However, when the last clone fell to the floor, there was no Naruto to be found. "But how? Where the hell did he go?"
Suddenly he felt a strong presence of chakra come from his back. "RASENSHURIKEN!!" yelled the blonde shinobi coming from his back. It missed however, as Itachi maneuvered out of the way just in the nick of time.
Naruto landed on his feet with the Rasenshuriken disappearing, but he was greeted by a sound he hoped he wouldn't hear. "Fire Element: Grand Fireball Jutsu!!" Naruto turned around to see a massive fireball heading toward his way. He tried to get out of the way, but his left arm was caught in the massive ball of fire and was severely burned.
Naruto stood toe to toe with the older Uchiha, gathering information from his dissipated clones as his left arm slowly began to heal. 'Ok, so an attack from behind didn't work,' he thought, 'which would mean that an attack from either side would have a similar if not the same affect.'
"Is that the best you can come up with Naruto Uzumaki?" taunted Itachi. The blonde's anger grew, but instead of letting it affect him, he turned it into determination. He made a familiar hand sign.
"Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!!" The room was once again filled with thirty Narutos, all coming in for another attack.
Instead of focusing on the clones coming into attack him, Itachi searched the room for the real one. After blocking five or six attacks, he noticed three Narutos standing away from the rest of them. 'That's it!' he thought, and quickly grabbed a shuriken and threw it at one of the clone, destroying it instantly. Naruto noticed and looked into the crowd, making a deadly mistake as his eyes caught Itachi's. "You're mine now." As he trapped the blonde in Tsukuyomi, the rest of the clones disappeared.
In the world of Tsukuyomi, Naruto was taken back to his childhood, back to when he was shunned by the rest of the village. He looked around to see everyone's back turned to him; Tsunade's, Jiraiya's, even Sakura's and Sasuke's. "None of them will ever really trust you," said a familiar voice. Itachi suddenly appeared from the mists of the darkness. "Try as you must you will never change how they see you." Naruto didn't' respond. "No matter how much you want to think its true, it will never become a reality." Again no response, not even a movement from the blonde. 'Something's not right.' He put his hand on Naruto's shoulder only to find that it was two dimensional. "No, it can't be!?"
In the real world, Itachi felt two hands grab at his ankles, and saw the Naruto that he was looking at disappear in a puff of smoke. 'A Shadow Clone,' he thought. Sudden he felt the ground beneath him begin to quake. He looked just in time to catch a Rasenshuriken to the head. The many cuts contorted and sliced the Akatuski member's face beyond recognition. His blood splattering everywhere as his body was held in place by a shadow clone.
Naruto landed on his feet panting after holding the clone that was trapped in Tsukuyomi, and putting together the Rasenshuriken underground. He gripped his left arm in pain and knelt down onto the floor as Itachi's body fell limp backwards onto the floor.
Sasuke could only look on in utter disbelief at the site of what had just happen right before his very eyes. 'How?' he thought as he stared at the shinobi in frount of him. 'How could this weakling who stayed in that pathetic village defeat him?' Anger started to swell up inside the young Uchiha. 'I Don't Understand!! How Could This Have Happened!? I SACRIFICED EVERYTHING!! I HAD SO MUCH HATRED!! SO MUCH REVENGE, YET THIS WEAKLING, THIS DEAD LAST, LOW CLASS IDIOT DEAFEATS HIM!?'
All this anger drove the Uchiha to try and stand up, but the enormous amount of pain made him fall back down, gaining the attention of Naruto. "Sasuke, it's time for you to comeback home."
The raven haired shinobi's eyes grew with even more anger. "I will never comeback to that pathetic village."
Naruto's anger and frustration grew. "But Why!? Your Clan Has Been Avenged!! WHY IN THE HELL WILL YOU—"
"BECAUSE OF YOU NARUTO!!" interrupted Sasuke, giving a deathly stare into Naruto now blue eyes. "You took away the one think most precious to me Naruto. YOU TOOK AWAY MY REVENGE!! But now I'm going to turn the rest of my revenge on you Naruto." Naruto eyes widened by his words. "I going to take away the most precious thing in the world to you."
As the two shinobi's stared at each other, Zetsu still watched from the top of the ceiling. 'Now's our chance to grab the Kyuubi.' As he was about to make his way down from the ceiling, he saw a group of Konoha ninja enter the room. 'Maybe now would not be the best time.' With that, the plant like creature left.
Sakura went over to check on Naruto, but caught Sasuke's eye about halfway to him. Sasuke looked back at the stunned kunoichi, only to have his vision blocked by Naruto who was now barely standing. The raven haired shinobi's eyes narrowed and as smile crept onto his face. 'So it's her?' he thought. His gaze turned to the rest of the Konoha Ninja. "I will never comeback to that pathetic village. The next time we meet I will burn Konoha to the ground!"
His gaze diverted back to the blue eyes of the blonde shinobi. 'You will feel the most pain out of them all,' he thought. "Until we meet again." And in that moment, Sasuke disappeared.