The Valley of the End
Naruto stared at the water rushing below him, and watched how the power of the water took anything in its path along with it. He saw his reflection in the flowing water below him. He saw his blonde ragged hair, all the way to his orange jumpsuit. He then stared at his face. His three whisker marks on each cheek to his beautiful blue eye. He then looked at his headband, which was on his head at angle to cover his left eye. He reached up with his hand and touched it. He saw the Konoha symbol etched in the metal. He traced the lines with his fingers.
'What have I become?' He asked himself. He breathed in slowly feeling the mist from the crashing waterfall fill his lungs. He knew he did not have much longer to go, until he reached his destination. He jumped across the stream, and began walking away from it. Suddenly he felt a presence behind him. He looked behind him to see someone he never believed he would see again.
"Eh, Sasuke, you know sneaking up on someone isn't nice." Naruto said smiling putting his hand behind his head. He looked upon the fabled Uchiha heir.
'Why is he smiling?' Sasuke thought to himself. He looked upon the smiling Naruto with a confused look.
"Naruto, what are you doing?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto stopped smiling, and looked at Sasuke with a serious face. He looked him up and down seeing his beaten state. He saw Sasuke had a couple scratches on him, but besides that he looked fine.
"Sasuke, I hope it wasn't too much trouble to find me. I didn't want anyone to get hurt." Naruto said.
"Naruto, why are you doing this? Why are you leaving us?" Sasuke said as he looked upon Naruto.
"Don't concern yourself with me anymore, Sasuke." Naruto said. Sasuke looked at Naruto in disbelief. He could not believe what his teammate had just said. He jumped towards Naruto, and he tackled him to the ground. Sasuke sat on top of him and looked down upon him.
"You are leaving the only people, whoever loved you. Why would you do that? You are not like that." Sasuke asked hitting Naruto in the face. Naruto's head turned toward the waterfall from the impact. He just sat there and stared at it for a couple seconds before looking back at Sasuke.
"I am going to where Orochimaru is." Naruto said.
"Orochimaru only wants you as a container. Do you think the power he can give you is free?" Sasuke asked. Naruto just looked up at him with disbelief. He had never seen Sasuke so emotional. He had always been the emotionless type, but now he was showing feelings he never thought were there.
"Why do you care?" Naruto asked. Sasuke then activated his sharingan in his right eye. Naruto looked at Sasuke's eyes. One was blue, and the other one was red, with two tomoes around the pupil. Sasuke then quickly lifted up the headband, which was covering Naruto's left eye to reveal the sharingan. Naruto's sharingan had three tomoes around the pupil.
"I care because we are brothers. We might not share the same blood, but we share the same eyes. You have one of mine, and I have one of yours. You are my friend, Naruto." Sasuke said.
Naruto sat there in disbelief. He never would have believed that he would ever hear those words come out of the Uchiha's mouth. He always knew that he and Sasuke had a bond, but he never heard Sasuke admit it until now. That was when he knew he was doing the right thing.
"I am sorry, but you are not my brother." Naruto said painfully. He then kicked the shocked Sasuke off of him. He then jumped off the ground, and did a back hand spring away from Sasuke.
Sasuke now recovered looked at the blonde," Fine if you won't come back then I will break every bone in your body, and then drag you back."
Flashback
Naruto looked upon the opponent in front of him. Mirrors all around him kept him from getting out. He turned to look at his teammate Sasuke, who was now breathing hard from being exhausted. His opponent dressed as a hunter-nin, and trapped them in his ice jutsu. He would travel faster than the boy could follow going from mirror to mirror, and as he did he would throw senbon at them. Not being able to move fast enough to dodge, they both had many senbon sticking out of their bodies.
"Naruto, we must work as a team to be able to stop him. He is too fast for us." Sasuke said. Naruto nodded his head in agreement. Even Sasuke knew that they would never get out alive unless the worked together as a team. Naruto then saw the ninja begin to move once more. The fake hunter-nin jumped from the mirror he was in and threw many senbon at both of them. Naruto moved to dodge them, but the ninja caught him off guard by throwing more. There was no way he would be able to dodge them. He put his hands up in front of his face to protect himself. Suddenly the senbon made impact. Naruto did not feel any pain, so he opened up his eyes to see Sasuke standing there in front of him. He could not believe it. Sasuke had blocked all of the senbon with his own body.
"Sa…suke." Naruto stuttered.
"Dobe, you have really got to stop being useless." Sasuke said falling to his knees. Naruto ran to him to help him from falling on his stomach. Naruto then looked clearly at his partners face, and he saw there was something different he saw that his eyes had changed from black to black. From all of the commotion of the fight he had not noticed his teammate's sudden change in eye color. He then looked at Sasuke's injuries. Blood was going everywhere, and he knew that his teammate would not survive.
"Sasuke, why did you do that?" Naruto asked almost choking from tears. Sasuke looked up at Naruto and smiled.
"I couldn't let my teammate die, even though he is a dobe." Sasuke said choking up blood. Naruto become angry at this sight.
"Is this the first time you have ever seen your teammate being killed?" The fake hunter-nin asked from his mirror.
"Rest, Sasuke, I will take care of him." Naruto said laying Sasuke's head down on the pavement. Red chakra began to engulf Naruto. It began to swirl around him faster and faster.
'What is this power?' The hunter-nin asked himself.
"You will pay for what you have done." Naruto said in a demonic voice. The fake hunter-nin knew that he would have to end this quickly before it got out of his control. He jumped out of his mirror, and threw some more senbon needles at Naruto. However, the red chakra surrounding Naruto blocked them and made them fall to the ground. Suddenly Naruto jumped towards the speeding ninja, who was trying to get back to a mirror, and grabbed his foot.
"Where do you think you are going?" Naruto asked as he pulled the ninja toward him. Naruto threw his fist forward, and hit the ninja on the mask. With the momentum of the ninja coming back with the force of Naruto's punch it sent the ninja flying through his mirrors, breaking them, and sailing twenty feet away and hitting the ground. Naruto then appeared above the ninja, and pulled back his fist. He was about to punch the ninja, until the ninja's mask cracked and fell off. Naruto then looked upon the face of the person he met in the forest.
"Haku?" Naruto said surprised as his voice began to go back to normal. The ninja known as Haku looked upon Naruto with a gloomy look.
"Yes, Naruto it is me." Haku said laying there on his back. Naruto got off of him and let him stand up.
"Why? Why are you doing this?" Naruto asked. Haku brushed himself off, and looked at Naruto.
"To be a tool and it seems as if I have one more useful thing to do." Haku said. Suddenly an ice mirror appeared and Haku stepped through it. Naruto then saw Haku appear between Kakashi and the missing-nin Zabuza. Kakashi then impaled her with his lighting jutsu. Naruto then remembered Sasuke. He turned to see Sasuke still on the ground. He quickly ran over to Sasuke, who he could see was still breathing, but barely. He picked up his head again to try and make him more comfortable. He then pulled a senbon out of Sasuke's right eye.
"It looks like you did it dobe." Sasuke said. Naruto smiled at his still insulting personality even though the situation was dire.
"Yeah I did, but it was all because of you, Sasuke." Naruto said. Naruto heard a scream, and he looked up to see Sakura heading towards them. She must have seen Sasuke on the ground. She quickly made her way there and stood beside Naruto looking at Sasuke's unmoving body. She then fell to her knees with tears in her eyes.
"Sasuke, please don't die." Sakura coughed up. Naruto looked at her and tried to hold back his tears. He believed he needed to be the strong one in this situation and not cry. He then looked down at Sasuke.
"Sasuke, you are going to be alright. Don't worry about it. Once Kakashi is done he will come over here and help you get better." Naruto said. Sasuke just looked up at the sky and smirked.
"I am not stupid, dobe. I know when my time has come." Sasuke said. After saying this Sakura could no longer look at him anymore. She was too much in shock. Naruto, however, sat there looking at Sasuke's face.
"You don't know that. Kakashi-sensei is strong, and he will be able to help you." Naruto said.
"Naruto, seeing as how you stopped the ninja I think you deserve a gift. I want you to have my sharingan." Sasuke said. Naruto looked at him with a shocked face. He could not believe what he had just heard. Sasuke wanted him to have his sharingan.
"Sasuke, you are talking nonsense. You are going to live, and you can use your sharingan whenever you please." Naruto said now beginning to tear up.
"Don't be foolish, dobe. Sakura, I need you to use your medical jutsu to transplant my sharingan in my left eye into Naruto's left eye." Sasuke said. (I am giving Sakura a background in medical jutsu). Sakura just looked at him in awe. She could not believe was he had just asked her to do.
"Sasuke, you cannot be serious?" Naruto asked.
"Just to make you losers feel better I will allow her to transplant your left eye into my right eye socket. Since my sharingan eye is way beyond repair, it will not matter. So if I do somehow survive I will be able to see." Sasuke said.
Naruto smiled at this. He knew the only reason he said that was to make them feel better, but they all knew what most likely was going to happen. Sakura looked at Sasuke for reassurance. Sasuke nodded, and Sakura looked at Naruto.
"Naruto, I am going to need you to lie down beside Sasuke so I can work fast." Sakura said.
Flashback End
Naruto saw Sasuke was not deactivating his sharingan, so he knew that he would have to fight him. He did not want to, but he knew he must to get to where he was going. Naruto stared Sasuke down with his sharingan eye analyzing him, to try and predict his next move. Sasuke took a kunai out of his pouch and began to charge at Naruto. Naruto did the same, and he began to run towards Sasuke. They jumped at each other and their kunai knives struck creating sparks. They each landed and then pushed off in an attempt to attack again. Naruto dodged Sasuke's attack and punch him in the stomach. He then kicked him downwards towards the ground. Sasuke recovered from the kick and threw his kunai at Naruto in midair. Naruto, barely dodged the kunai, and he landed about twenty feet from Sasuke on the water.
They each used their chakra to be able to stand on top of the water," Naruto, you will not be able to defeat me. You are the dead last, the dobe. My friend and I will take you back." Sasuke said. He then began to run through handsigns. He finished and took a deep breath.
"Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu." Sasuke said. He then breathed out a huge ball of fire, and sent it towards Naruto. Naruto looked upon the ball in awe. He knew he could not be hit by it or it was all over. He quickly jumped out of the way, and began to run towards Sasuke. He then pulled back his fist and hit Sasuke in the face sending him flying upward. Sasuke recovering fast landed on the side of the cliff, using chakra to help him stand up.
'This will be too close. I must end this quickly before everything is ruined.' Naruto thought. Suddenly black markings began to cover his body. They looked like flames, and they covered his face, and his body under his jumpsuit. Sasuke looked down at him, and noticed what was happening.
'He is trying to end this quickly. I will not be able to keep up with him unless I use the cursed seal also.' Sasuke thought. Suddenly the same black markings began to cover Sasuke as well. He knew that if he used its power for too long he would succumb to its power, so he needed to end the fight as quickly as possible.
"Just because you have the seal too doesn't mean you are as strong as I am. You are not going to be able to stop me. I might have been the dead last, but I am stronger than you now, Sasuke." Naruto said. Sasuke looked down at Naruto in sadness.
"So this is what is comes to, Naruto? This is how you want it. You want us to fight." Sasuke asked. Naruto just looked at Sasuke with a face of sadness.
"I do not want to, but this is what I must do." Naruto said. He then jumped up into the air at Sasuke. He threw a punch at him only for it to be blocked. Sasuke used Naruto's momentum against him and threw him against the wall. Sasuke ran through hand seals and then forced his arm down.
"Chidori." Sasuke said. Lightning like chakra began to engulf his hand making his hand a sharp blade of lightning. Sasuke walked over to Naruto, who was still in a daze, and picked him up with one hand.
"I am sorry I have to do this, Naruto, but it is the only way." Sasuke said. He then shoved his hand straight through Naruto's right shoulder.
'He shouldn't be able to use anymore jutsu. He is done.' Sasuke thought. Suddenly Naruto's body began to be engulfed by red and black chakra. It began to swirl around him. Naruto's hand shot up and grabbed Sasuke's which was still in him.
"We are just getting started." Naruto said. He then kicked Sasuke back sending him flying back towards the water. Sasuke landed on the water and looked up at Naruto. The chakra began to swirl around him faster. Naruto got in his stance, and looked at Sasuke with his sharingan.
"I might not be a true Uchiha, but my sharingan is still better than yours." Naruto said. Suddenly his body began to deform, and turn purple. A purple tail shot out of his backside, and a black mask like marking covered his eyes like a raccoon. Purple horns then shot out of his head. Sasuke stood there looking at Naruto transform into a monster.
'He is using the second level of the seal, with that weird red chakra. I am going to have to do the same just to keep up.' Sasuke thought. His transformation began to start also. (He looks the same as he does in the series). Sasuke then jumped up on the cliff opposite of Naruto. They both stared each other down, not letting the other one leave their sight even for an instant.
'Come to me.' A voice inside Naruto's mind said. Naruto knew exactly who this voice belong to. Orochimaru when he gave him the cursed seal began to talk to Naruto. He warned him of danger and death if he did not come to him.
'Come to me, and I will spare your dear precious people's lives.' The voice said again. Naruto had made a deal with Orochimaru. He would go to him, and Orochimaru would not lay a hand on any of his precious people. He could not to tell anyone this. He knew that they would try to talk him out of it, but he knew of Orochimaru's power. He knew if he could kill the Third Hokage than he could kill anyone he wanted to, and he would not let that happen. He needed to get to him, so no one else around him around him would get hurt.
'I am coming.' Naruto answered to the voice. He could then no longer hear the voice, so he turned his attention back to Sasuke.
"I must get to him Sasuke." Naruto said.
"You still not have given me a good enough reason to let you." Sasuke said. Naruto did not want to tell him and be criticized. He knew what he must do, and he could tell know one. If he did then Orochimaru would just kill everyone.
"I cannot, but we must end this. I have somewhere to be. So let's go, Sasuke." Naruto said as he held his hand out. Suddenly a black and red ball of chakra formed. It began to swirl around in his hand at high speeds. Sasuke then began to run through handsigns. He put his hand down and the same lightning showed up on his hand, except this time it was black.
"Naruto, we don't have to do this. Just come back. You know you can't even put a scratch on more headband." Sasuke said confidently.
"I will put more than a scratch on you, Sasuke." Naruto said. He then jumped forward towards Sasuke. Sasuke did the same. The then forced their jutsus forward ready for impact. Naruto seeing Sasuke's next move with his sharingan moved to the right and Sasuke missed his attack. Naruto now over him rammed his rasengan down on Sasuke's back.
"I am sorry. Rasengan!" Naruto yelled. There was suddenly a big explosion, and Sasuke was sent flying downwards towards the ground at high speeds. Naruto disappeared, and then reappeared under him catching his unconscious body. He then laid him down softly on the ground.
"I know you will never understand what I am doing, but soon you will I promise. Just protect everyone, and keep them safe." Naruto said as he began walking away his body turning back to its normal state. He held his arm down by its side. Even though he dodged Sasuke's attack he still got nicked by it. His arm was cut badly down the side.
'Sasuke, you are my true best friend.' Naruto said as he walked away from the battle scene.