I thank my Beta Reader (in real life not online)/friend "Ian Moone" for helping me with the story.

This story will be an AU to the cannon storyline (since there's no telling how the Naruto series is going to take place/end). Celestial Winds will be a sequel to this story. It will show how Naruto and Sakura fall for each other leading all the way up to the birth of their first child, although there will be a slight time skip between certain points for example after Sasuke's trial (so the main story can be started) as well as a time skip to when Sakura is pregnant (which will be just two chapters of her most likely telling Naruto and the actual birth of their child). The story will also be displacing how Sasuke (who will be a part of the village again) has to redeem himself as a Leaf Shinobi as well as eventually falling in love with a OC character I'm making (which I'll try my utmost best to prevent on making a Mary sue so if I start doing that please let me know).

This particular prologue will be displaying the final fight between Naruto and Sasuke at the end of the Shinobi War so please enjoy :).

"blah" - talking

"blah" - thoughts

'blah' - Kurama

I do not own Naruto or any of the Naruto franchise characters or settings created by Kishimoto Masashi and his team.

Prologue

Naruto and Sasuke were looking at each in an area similar to the Final Valley. They were both standing in a lake that had a waterfall, which was of decent size, and a small forested area coming off of it. The area under the waterfall was also a small lake, but because of the fighting that had occurred in the Shinobi World War, it was barren. Overall, it gave them an ideal, clear area to finish their final battle. Naruto's previous battle had ended with the death of Tobi, with the help of Kurama and Sasuke, who had gotten some interesting news from his revived brother Itachi. Itachi told Sasuke the truth about Tobi just manipulating him along and that it was his decision and no one else's to eradicate all of the Uchiha clan. He explained to him how all the Uchiha were nothing more than fools for wanting nothing but power and were willing to put everyone in danger just in order to acquire it. Of course, this naturally angered Sasuke, but first, he went to go finish Tobi off once and for all and then, and only then, deal with Naruto. He still wanted his revenge on Konoha itself, even though his major problem was with the elders, he planned on burning the epic village to white ashes, while Itachi went off to go kill Kabuto.

The wind gently blew through the humid air, giving everything a calming effect, even though a catastrophic final battle was about to take place. Sasuke had given Naruto a day to rest up so he could fight at his full strength. He meditated for a while thinking about all his friends, and paying his mind special attention to Sakura, the girl he loved. He found it a little ironic how this battle will decide on what is going to happen in the future; whether or not he would ever truly end up becoming Hokage or if he would win the heart of Sakura. The sun then set high in the sky indicating it was noon, and that these two top-class Shinobi were preparing to face off.

Sasuke looked at Naruto with serious eyes that still showed the hatred for the village itself. But the village was merely a scapegoat of his malice because he mainly loathed Konoha's elders that forced his brother to sacrifice his clan for the sake of the village. He placed his hand on the cold steel handle of the Sword of Kusanagi with practiced accuracy, and proceeded to get into his fighting stance

"Alright Naruto, you've rested up. Now let's finish this battle." He pulled out his sword with purposeful idleness in an effort to show off the brilliantly luminescent blade. "I hope you've said bye to everyone, because I'll be sure to kill you before you can kill me"

Naruto sniggered a bit at Sasuke's comment as he got in his own fighting stance. "In your dreams Sasuke. I already told you that if you kill me, you'll die as well. I'm not going to let that happen though."

Sasuke smirked a bit as the wind began to falter. "If you think you can beat these eyes, then you're more pathetic then I thought dobe. Now enough talking, let's end this!"

Sasuke then quickly formed the chidori in his hand. Instead of charging at Naruto, he lashed out at his own hand, which made it turn into the chidori senbon, sending out countless lightning-like needles in every direction. Naruto hastily created three shadow clones. A thick, white column of smoke burst from the ground into the sky and indicated the arrival of Naruto's shadow clones. Naruto was promptly flung to the right by one of his clones, causing him to dodge the senbon while the clone took the hit for Naruto, disappearing instantaneously. While Naruto was in mid-air, he pulled out some shuriken and threw them at Sasuke with rehearsed precision.

As if on cue, Sasuke immediately saw the shuriken coming and used his sword to knock some of them to the hard ground where he believed one of them would be resting for eternity while managing to dodge the last of the shuriken. At the last possible second, two of the shuriken exploded in smoke and transformed back into the two remaining clones, one of which had a Rasengan in hand already. The free clone grabbed the other's arm and threw him at Sasuke, while the one being flung aimed the Rasengan at Sasuke's chest.

Sasuke quickly disposed of the clone by jumping to the left and punching the clone hard in the gut. He then hurriedly turned to Naruto and within almost an instant, appeared in front of Naruto. Sparks flashed every time their weapons clashed as they began trading blow for blow. They tried to best each other in Taijutsu; a kunai in Naruto's hand and Kusanagi in Sasuke's hand. Naruto's kunai and Sasuke's Kusanagi flew out of their respective hands as their weapons deadlocked. The two Shinobi both threw a punch at each other at the same time and with each of their free hands they ended up catching each of their attacks, which caused them to stand in a deadlock.

Sasuke sneered at Naruto while Naruto quickly used his strength to throw Sasuke into the air. While in mid-air, Sasuke formed hand signs at a staggering rate of incredible, almost blinding speed as he brought his fingers to his mouth. "Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu" A couple of huge, dragon shaped flames came hurling towards Naruto and licked at him. He managed to escape the first flame, but no manageable speed could have allotted him time to escape the heat of the second. An excruciating sensation of being burned came to existence on Naruto's left shoulder, leaving a charred, oblong shape on the black portion of his jacket and a little bit of the orange as well.

Naruto, painfully aware of his scathed shoulder, managed a small smile as Sasuke returned it with a look of cockiness. "I already told you once before Naruto. I'm on a whole different level than you."

"Yea Sasuke, you're WAAAAAY below me…" Naruto reproached defiantly, not wanting to pass up a chance to chide his opponent.

Sasuke rolled his eyes, shaking off Naruto's meaningless insult. "I'll admit, you've gotten stronger, but my eyes still surpass you. Why don't you just give up already, loser?"

Naruto immediately got serious as he was holding his already healing wound with his right hand. "When are you going to learn Sasuke? I don't run away, and I never go back on my word. Now, why can't you just give up on making me give up!"

Naruto lunged toward Sasuke and feigned a punch as he quickly dropped to the ground and initiated a leg sweep. He managed to trick Sasuke, and while Sasuke fell to the ground, Naruto took the opportunity to ax kick Sasuke in the stomach. Sasuke grunted from the force of Naruto's foot lodged in his gut, but then a puff of smoke left a log in his place.

Naruto immediately started looking around trying to figure out where Sasuke was at. He didn't know what was wrong, but something told him he should suddenly jump to the right. As he did so, some shuriken whirred past him, narrowly missing his head. Sasuke appeared in front of Naruto managing to slice across his chest, but it was only a flesh wound. Naruto growled in anger at Sasuke, but managed to keep his fury in check. Without warning, Naruto tackled Sasuke over the waterfall's crest and the two began to fight in midair. They wildly flailed, managing to land a few blows on the other, but then Sasuke's training kicked in and he expertly used Naruto's chest as leverage and pushed off of Naruto creating some distance. Naruto was still slightly angered at Sasuke's ability to get him with Kusanagi, but ignored it as he generated five shadow clones from the air.

Sasuke chuckled a bit "What's wrong Naruto; can't keep up? Are you going to give in to that monster Kyuubi inside of you like always?" Sasuke then reverse gripped Kusanagi and set a goal to go after the clones with his Sharingan activated.

Naruto smirked at the comment, since Sasuke clearly didn't know about him and Kurama coming to terms of agreement. Three of his clones headed to intercept Sasuke, while the other two clones disappeared quickly, attempting to get a little distance between themselves and Sasuke to start collecting Natural Energy. Naruto crossed his arms and he closed his eyes and followed suit with his clones and began to gather Natural Energy as well.

Sasuke quickly disposed of the first three clones with a couple of slashes from his weapon. He began to all but ignore the other two clones, but decided to keep his mind open, just in case they tried to make an attack from behind while he went for the original Naruto. Sasuke noticed his chakra was changing and figured it came from the Kyuubi, but he knew he could suppress it's chakra from Naruto so didn't worry about it.

Sasuke aimed to stab Naruto straight through the heart as Naruto opened his eyes. Sasuke barely noticed that the Jinchuuriki's eyes had changed into a frog like pupil including orange pigmentation around his eyes. Naruto snapped Kusanagi with the strength of Sage Mode, which surprised Sasuke, who, taken aback, fluidly jumped back to evade Naruto.

Sasuke glared slightly at Naruto and his new abilities. "I see you've learned a new technique Naruto. It won't matter; you still won't be able to touch me. As long as I have these eyes, I can read your moves like a scroll."

Sasuke charged at Naruto deciding to settle this with his fist since he believed he could avoid Naruto's attacks as well as counter his attacks. He started a combo and Naruto managed to block all of them then immediately switched to the offensive, to which Sasuke was blocking his attacks as well. Naruto then threw a punch that Sasuke had believed to dodge but he then suddenly felt a blow to his gut then he went flying back, rolling on the ground before he recovered and came skidding to a halt. He looked at Naruto in disbelief as the Jinchuuriki had his arms crossed while looking at Sasuke with his serious glare.

"How the hell were you able to do that? I know for a fact I dodged your attack yet I still got hit. I knew you had become faster, but you haven't become that fast." Sasuke said with a growl and evil glare. "Is this the power of the Kyuubi…or something else?"

Naruto just smiled a bit knowing the battle was far from over, and he could only hold Sage Mode for about eight minutes now. "No, this isn't the power of the Fox. This is something my master left to me. It's called Sage Mode; with this new technique it's kind of like the Sharingan in its own way. My endurance, speed, strength, Ninjutsu, and Taijutsu are greatly increased. I also have the ability to sense people's chakras. I may or may not also have the ability where I can sense the moves of my opponent…slightly."

Naruto held his palm out to the side as a clone instantaneously appeared next to him. The clone then formed the Rasengan in Naruto's hand. Sasuke noticed it was different by its chakra flow as well as its appearance and quickly reacted by forming the Chidori in his hand. Time slowed as the two prepared to hit each other with their signature jutsu.

Naruto smirked "Let me show you one of my new versions of the Rasengan, teme." In a flash, Naruto and Sasuke charged each other at the same speed.

Sasuke held out his hand, mimicking Naruto and then, the jutsu clashed. "Chidori!" "Wind Release: Rasengan!"

The two jutsu clashed, forming a powerful, spherical shockwave. Both Shinobi were struggling to overpower the other, but their strengths were matched evenly. The explosive force of the force sphere deteriorating caused them to be flung in opposite directions. The sheer force of the blast threw Naruto into the knee deep water and Sasuke into the rock hard ground. Naruto eventually came to the surface and then slowly stood on the water while Sasuke slowly stood his bruised body up; both of the fierce fighters were breathing significantly heavier than when they had begun, for their opponent had thrashed their respective energy stores.

The weather had changed again because of the on-going battle. Thunderclouds had rolled as lightning and thunder started coming forth. Some trees were on fire from Sasuke's previous fire jutsu. The wind was the only thing really unchanged, excluding how it picked up a little bit.

The rest of the Konoha 11 showed up, along with Kakashi and Gai. They stood at the top of the waterfall looking at the battle in awe. Sakura immediately went to try and go help Naruto, but Kakashi got in front of her, slowing her to a stop.

"Stop Sakura, You can't interfere with this battle. It's too big; even for you." He sighed helplessly and turned around. "It's not our place."

Sakura looked at Kakashi with a mixture of disbelief and anger. The same could be said for the rest of the Konoha 11. "But Kakashi Sensei, Naruto can't continue doing things on his own. We have to help him o-or…we both know what could happen. Don't you remember what Naruto had told Sasuke at the bridge?" Tears had begun to slowly roll down her cheek.

Kakashi looked at Sakura with slight sadness in his eyes and nodded a bit. "Yeah, I remember what Naruto had said to Sasuke…..but I have faith in my student…that won't happen. I believe instead that he will prevail in what he set his mind to. I think the only thing we can really do is believe and have faith in him, Sakura. Especially you since you know your opinion matters most to him."

The rest of the Konoha 11 were about to start arguing until Gai stepped next to Kakashi giving them his serious look. "Kakashi's right even though I hate to admit that to my eternal rival. I agree that we should help, but Naruto has grown and changed since the start of this war. I believe he's the only one that can handle Sasuke at the moment and we'd just be getting in the way. The good thing about Naruto though is that he'll go past those limits as long as we have faith in him and knows we have faith in him. If worst comes to worst we'll be here to help him." They all reluctantly agreed to both Kakashi and Gai

Sasuke looked at Naruto, a little injured from the clash but overall ignored it "I'll admit Naruto that new jutsu is very tough to beat. I had to put more power into my Chidori since it was stronger than your original Rasengan…." He then stood up straight "but that still won't make a difference in the end. I haven't even begun to unless my full power"

Sasuke smirked a bit until he saw two Shadow Clones appear next to Naruto, whom was holding his palm out in front of him. He noticed how one clone stood their forming the shell while the other was gathering the chakra. His eyes grew a little wide when he saw Naruto's finally product. The Avenger instantly got on top of a big rock formation and raised his hand in the hair as lightning formed around it. The Lightning from the clouds gathered around him as the thunderclouds started slowing disappearing. This caused Naruto to look surprised as well.

Sasuke smirked a bit "The sad part is before you can even touch me with that new Rasengan of yours, my Kirin will have hit you instantly before you reach me. It's a shame you have to be near me to actually hit me Naruto. Now be gone with the thunderclap!" He then brought his hand down. This caused Kirin to roar and head towards at an blinding speeds

Naruto saw the jutsu coming at him and without a second guess threw it straight at Kirin. This naturally surprised Sasuke greatly, since he didn't know his former best friend would be able to throw a jutsu with that much power as well as maintain it. The Rasen-Shuriken headed straight for the creature like thing made of lightning. It interacted with it and for a while they were clashing with each other but the wind element in Naruto's jutsu eventually won and managed to break Sasuke's Kirin. The Rasen-Shuriken expanded immensely as it covered lightning creature creating a bright light in the sky with some lightning coming out of it. The explosion then vanished after a few seconds.

Naruto was breathing a little heavily, since he was fighting in Sage Mode for a while now. He barely managed to dispel both his clones to give him more chakra for the Rasen-Shuriken in an attempt to finish Sasuke, but under the circumstances had to change tactics because of the powerful technique used by Sasuke. He looked at Sasuke with his normal cerulean eyes smirking a bit.

Sasuke was angered at the fact that Naruto was able to counteract his jutsu as he glared at the Jinchuuriki. He then noticed that Naruto was back to normal which he knew he could take advantage of. Sasuke then closed his eyes for a while getting ready for his next move.

"You know Naruto, I would have never expected you to get this far but it will be the end. It's time to unleash my full power upon you….." He slowly opened his eyes showing his Sharingan had changed forms and was now his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan "with the gift given to me from my brothers eyes. It's obvious you're out of chakra. I guess that new technique was your trump card….too bad this is the toughest fight I've ever had to endure."

Naruto still was breathing heavily as he smiled a bit because of some recognition from Sasuke as well as how Sasuke believed Sage Mode was his final trump card. "You….got to stop underestimating me….Sasuke" Naruto closed his eyes as well as he thought "Alright Kurama lets show him our power together"

Kurama smirked a bit at Naruto's comment 'It's about time kid, I've been itching for a fight especially at how powerful your friend has become. Don't expect it to be easy though. That annoying Sharingan can be a huge problem if not handled correctly'

"Hn" Susanoo then appeared around Sasuke as the creature got its arrow ready to fire upon Naruto.

The arrow was shot and started heading towards Naruto at blinding speeds. When it reached its destination there was a huge splash of water, and after it cleared up nothing was left standing there. Sasuke smiled evilly as he believed Naruto to be dead until Susanoo was suddenly punched from behind and in fact was pushed to the side along with Sasuke as well. Sasuke growled as he turned his head and saw a yellow flaming Naruto with orange colored eyes, his whisker marks extremely defined, and with a flapping chakra like coat that had nine tail like ends.

Naruto looked at Sasuke seriously "If you think I was going to give up think again Teme."

Sasuke just growled some more "Just accept your fate already!" He then quickly got up as he charged at Naruto

Naruto started heading towards Sasuke when Kurama appeared in his few form as well and went after Susanoo. The Konoha 11 and the two Jonin ninja watched with awe at the intensity of the battle that was going on. Sakura was surprised more than the other at how strong Naruto had become as well as Sasuke. She in fact was very proud and a little infatuated with him.

Kakashi looked at his eternal rival "It kind of reminds you of the stories we have heard about our First Hokage against Madara Uchiha doesn't it? We should get to a safer location. If things continue the way they are Naruto will go all out which means he possibly will use the Tailed Beast Ball" All Gai could do was nod in agreement as he motioned for the Rookie 11 to follow him to a safer distance along with Kakashi.

Naruto and Sasuke were looking at each other and were breathing heavily once again from the length of the battle that was taking place. Kurama and Susanoo were both right next to their partners waiting for the next move.

Sasuke glared a little at Naruto "It seems my chakra is just about out and from what I can tell so is yours at least what that damned monster let you use." He stood up a little straighter "Alright, I only have enough chakra for two moves. I'll admit so this will be my final attack." He then formed the chidori in his hand as Susanoo brought up the ball of the Amaterasu getting ready to release the last of the flames in an arrow like shot.

"Yea your right I only have a little chakra left as well. I wonder what will happen after our final attacks." Naruto just curved his lips a bit as he formed the Rasengan in his hand along with Kurama forming the Tailed Beast Ball in his mouth

They both then charged at each other as Kurama and Susanoo. When all four jutsu clashed it created a huge explosion that was like no other. The winds and shockwave from the explosion was so massive it destroyed all of the body of water making it evaporate into nothing. Naruto and Sasuke were safe for the most part since their jutsu clash formed a protective shell around them because of the chakra being used. The sheer power and force of the clash was protecting them as well, although it was slowly starting to deteriorate. The two top class shinobi were grinding their teeth together as an effect from the burning like feeling coming from the outside force along with them trying to overpower the other

The jutsu clash reached it's peak when an explosion that brought sheer power from it's shockwaves finally happened. It ended in a blinding light which could be seen from Konoha 11's safe location as well as a good amount of shinobi that were still in battle against the remaining enemy force. The Konoha 11 quickly went to go see the victor, although Sakura was scared to the core to find them both dead.

When they arrived at the area where the battle took place they noticed nothing was left as it once was. They were surprised at the strength the two Shinobi possessed and without a second thought went to go look for Naruto. They located both Naruto and Sasuke with the help of the Neji and Hinata's Byakugan. The two Shinobi were on the ground not moving at all. Neji saw barely any chakra left,but immense chakra exhaustion as well as slight breathing.

Sakura faced Ino and Hinata with a serious look "You two go heal Sasuke and I'll deal with Naruto." She noticed the two girls were hesitant to heal the traitor as well as her other friend, but the two kunoichi reluctantly agreed to it. The three medic ninjas quickly began healing the two Shinobi.

After a few hours they managed to put them in a more stable condition but would still die if not treated at a hospital. Kiba ended up carrying Hinata, while Lee carried Sakura and Shikamaru to Ino. Kakashi picked up Naruto while Guy took up Sasuke. They both looked at the young ninja and nodded as they headed back home as quickly as possible. Something that was unknown to them was that Naruto and Sasuke were talking to each other within their subconscious like universal world. They were seeing what was in their hearts once more.

That is the end of the Prologue. I hope anyone who read it enjoyed it. Please review this story. I take both good and bad criticism, although I will ignore spam and flames. If I get enough reviews I'll post the next chapter when I get the time to finish it. Thank you ^^