"Blah" : Talking

'Blah': Demon speaking/ Inner Sakura

'Blah' : Naruto's Thoughts/other people's thoughts

'Blah': Harry talking to Naruto


Hi everybody! This is my first official fanfic that I'll probably post in my future. But this is also a HUGE disclaimer, I did NOT originally come up with this story concept. This is my own take in on the famous fanfic, Sealed Soul and Sealed Soul: The Guidance of Magic. I give full credit to kiralle for having come up with this idea.

When Darkest Melody had decided to drop the fanfic and offer it to someone else, I submitted a request to take it over. But unfortunately, I forgot to submit my email address and therefore, she couldn't contact me or give me the criteria. So I pretty much screwed my self over. But I really wanted to continue the story, so I decided, after months of consideration and school work to keep myself busy, I would create my own spin-off of the fanfic. I know many of you will probably be upset at me doing this but it's just my own version. Besides, who hasn't taken a similar concept of another fanfic before? Okay, I'm REALLY sorry if I offend anyone. I just really, really want to write this story. I also don't want to upset any readers who come across this, I just want to have fun.


Reviews are welcome and wanted!

Disclaimer: Naruto is the property of Masashi Kishimoto,

Harry Potter is property of JK Rowling,


Naruto Uzumaki was never a normal person. He had the Nine-Tailed Kyuubi no Kitsune sealed inside of him by the Yondiame Hokage, Minato Namikaze, when he was no more than a few minutes old. Since that day, he has faced a life full of misery and pain, both emotional and physical. He held such little faith in life at such an early age. His life was truly nothing short of a tragic tale.

But with time, and a lot of perseverance, Naruto grew up to be a very loyal, hyperactive, friendly thirteen year old shinobi, with a very big secret hiding just under the surface of his skin, and it wasn't the Kyuubi.

Recently, his supposed 'friend', Sasuke Uchiha, had just defected from Konohagakure no Sato to Orochimaru and Otogakure no Sato. He had abandoned his village and comrades for his hungry conquest to obtain enough power to kill his older brother, the infamous Itachi Uchiha. He desired and craved the power to finally avenge his fallen Uchiha clan above anything else. Sasuke had confronted Naruto at the hospital, when Naruto decided to visit Rock Lee after his surgery. He aggressively confronted him and demanded Naruto for information about Itachi. Sasuke had found out that Itachi was after Naruto and he wanted to know why. He wanted to know what Naruto knew about him and he wanted to know why Itachi was so interested in a dobe such as Naruto. But the blonde teen refused to divulge any information and Sasuke lashed out at him violently on the hospital rooftop.

Sometime after their short fight, Orochimaru's top agents, the Sound Five Team, found Sasuke alone in the village and gave him Orochimaru's invitation to come to his village and obtain power quickly. With such a golden opportunity presented before him, Sasuke packed all of his things and set off with the Sound Five in the night with little difficulty on his part.

Now, Naruto and a ragtag team of genin consisting of his friends Kiba Inuzuka, Choji Akimichi, Neji Hyuga, and led by newly appointed Chunin and good friend Shikamaru Nara. The team was sent out to retrieve Sasuke from the Sound Five Team by any means necessary. Eventually, they all faced off with each Sound Nin individually, separating the team, leaving only Naruto and Sasuke alone to face off for an eagerly anticipated fight against each other, at the famous Valley of the End, where the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha faced off almost a hundred years ago.


Naruto had tried to reach out to Sasuke, trying to convince him to return to the village. He warned him that it was a plot set up by Orochimaru to possess him and steal his Sharingan eyes from him. Sasuke insisted that he didn't care, and continued to fight Naruto brutally. Eventually Sasuke had made up his mind and decided to kill Naruto, and obtain the Mangekyou Sharingan, to advance to the same level of doujutsu as his older brother Itachi. Sasuke almost succeeded, when he thrust a Chidori into Naruto chest, piercing his right lung. Naruto retaliated by letting the Kyuubi within him possess him and lashed out at Sasuke viciously. He was now fully convinced that Sasuke had sunk to the lowest level at the moment he struck him down with that horrible jutsu. To Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke was now nothing more to him than a traitorous missing-nin.

Soon, Naruto pinned him down against the rocky surface of the north side of the river, to convince him of the mistake the Uchiha was making. But Sasuke retorted angrily at him.

"Just shut up for once! What the hell do you know about it? It's not like you ever had a family in the first place! You were on your own right from the beginning, what makes you think you know anything about it? Huh? I'm suffering now because I had those ties, how on earth could you possibly understand, what it feels like to lose all that?"

Naruto stopped Sasuke's continuous rant by punching him in the face, while he still held his shirt in his clenched fist

"You complete, self-centered, miserable prat! I would rather have had a family and lose it than have nothing at all! You had a family, an enormous one at that! You were a well off, rich, police officer wannabe with a promising future that daddy would end up paying for you your whole life! Suddenly, they're gone and the first thing that pops in your head is vengeance, vengeance, vengeance! Haven't you once thought of what your family would want of you, instead of jumping to conclusions and hunting for power? Haven't you thought of moving on and starting a new clan? Having a family? No. Instead, you choose to act like nothing more than a spoiled child that was just denied his daily sweets from mummy! So stop this stupid suffering bullshit and MOVE ON!"

"SHUT UP! YOU NEVER HAD A REAL FAMILY! YOU NEVER DID!" Sasuke roared at Naruto before kicking him into the blond's stomach with both his feet . The air in Naruto's lungs flew out as he landed butt first then back being dragged across the water, a good distance of twenty feet. As he slid across the water getting to his feet while still sliding. He balanced one of the poles of wood in the water to stand up right with his chakra coded feet. Mirroring Sasuke doing the same, without being hit and sliding away. Naruto stood up straight on top of the pole, trying to force his breath to even out before speaking again.

"Me, not have a real family?" Naruto asked monetarily

He stared off into the distance past Sasuke, his eyes looking dull and tired in remembrance of the worst experiences he suffered in his life so far. The loneliness, the pain, the jealousy that swelled in his chest at seeing other children interacting and playing with their mother's and fathers, brothers and sisters. Reflecting on what he never got the privilege to have... How he craved for a family of his own. He wanted his mother, Kushina, to comfort him, tell him how much she loved him after a bad day at school or anything else otherwise. A father to look up to, to stand proud and strong, to inspire Naruto and to help ignite the flames of bravery in his son's heart.

But in the end, they never came to him... They were both taken away from Naruto and he was left with nothing but emptiness apart from the few actually cared about him...

That is until the other half of his soul awakened and rescued him from the impending darkness;

Harry Potter. His Nii-san.

He had filled Naruto's empty heart with the love he was denied, embodied the company he sought to have for himself. The man taught him everything he knew from the world around him to how to control his powers. He became both his mother, father, teacher, and friend. He had become his secret big brother.

Naruto snapped back into reality.

"You might be right on something, Sasuke. I never got to have a real family as you have... My dad was killed in by the Kyuubi no Kitsune, and my mother died a month after I was born, in the Konoha hospital explosion... I didn't get to know what it was like to have their love and company... But you're wrong about my lack of having a family and know what it's like... True, I wasn't blessed at the beginning, but I was gifted with a family as I grew up... The Sandaime Hokage took care of me when I was an infant, while he could, and he became my wise and loving Grandpa. Followed by my late pot-smoking friend Haya-Hayate Gekko (I believe you might know of him). Then arrived my older brother took care of me after him and Grandpa; Iruka-aniki... He saved my life and I will forever be in his dept. I love him so much, that I could literally burst from being in bosom of that unconditional love..."

Naruto paused with tears pricking at his eyes. He had chosen not to mention his Nii-san. Sasuke didn't have to know about him. He then smiled as he remembered the rest of his 'family'.

"Then came my dangerous and beautiful older sister Anko, my lonely, short-tempered aunt Tsunade, my weird, pervy uncle Jiraiya, and then my full of life and worry sister Shizune... They all became my family..."

Naruto smiling face turned more serious and his eyebrows began to furrow as he continued while, but Sasuke's face remaining the same monotone

"And if the day were to come, if any of them were to be killed-taken away from me, I wouldn't lose my mind and reasoning to vengeance as you have done already, Sasuke. If anything happened to the people I love, they would want me to move on, and not lose myself to a lust for power and become like some wild animal."

He averted his gaze from Sasuke, trying to swallow down the lump in his throat that began to regurgitate its way up. He snapped his head back towards Sasuke's face, looking directly into his blood red Sharingan eyes.

"You guys... Kakashi-sensei, Sakura-chan, and you are also equally important to me, even if all of you did blow me off at least once since we met. Even if you and Sakura-chan ripped on me back in school and afterward when we became Team 7. And even if you guys hurt me on the inside all those times... You all became important to me and helped me through life as well. You've all motivated me to continue on with my journey. You guys are each very precious to me, we all have a bond that cannot be broken. We have the Will of Fire in our hearts! And I'm willing to do most anything to protect you all. Which is why I can't let you go to Orochimaru! SO STOP THIS POINTLESS FIGHT AND COME TO YOUR SENSES ALREADY!"

Sasuke looked slightly taken back at how much raw emotion Naruto put into his long-winded speech. If Rock Lee or Guy-sensei were here, they would be crying waterfall tears rivaling the actual waterfall crashing just behind Naruto.

But soon, Sasuke brought himself back to his old arrogant self once more, throwing aside everything he had heard his teammate tell him.

His eyes closed, "Hmph! The Will of Fire, huh? Since when were you ever the philosophic type of person?"

Naruto's face turned stoic and he stared at Sasuke blankly, "You'd be surprised, Sasuke... Really, you would..."

"If that's your case Mister Philosopher," Sasuke said while lifting his arms up, emphasizing his words, "I'll just have to sever that bond of yours, Naruto" he smirked, and reopened his closed eyes

Naruto's own eyes widened as he saw Sasuke's Sharingan begin to evolve. A brand new tomoe formed in each eye, it popped out and began to swirl around his tiny pupil in sync with the other two tomoe. Sasuke had finally completed his Sharingan Pinwheel Eyes.

'Oh no... His Sharingan... it's been completed. How am I supposed to defeat him now?'

Harry reached out and said, 'Don't worry, Naruto. Keep level-headed and trust your shinobi instincts.'

'Right now, my instincts are telling me that I'm screwed.'

Harry contemplated over this this, closing his eyes in thought, resting his index finger and thumb against his lips.

'What to do? What to do?' he pondered.

Harry hit his closed hand on his palm with eyes still closed, 'It's time to use both of them.'

Naruto eyes widened even more in horror

'Harry, no. I won't. I refuse.' he said firmly.

Harry tried to reason, 'You have no choice, Little one.'

'Yes I do! I can just use chakra! That alone can defeat him, right?' Naruto tried to reason.

'You know that might not be enough. His eyes will detect your movements before you can enable them. He's at the same level as Kakashi, maybe even more now. Physical attacks won't be enough, but with the Kyuubi chakra. Add with magic can balance the fight out, and you'll have enough strength left to bring both of you back. You have to use both of them, I'll help keep you stable.'

Naruto yelled at Harry, 'NO! I can't! There must be another way!'

'Do you want to keep your promise to Sakura or not, Naruto?' Harry retorted harshly, silencing his little brother.

Harry then sighed and closed his eyes, he knew all too well that this would probably be the very last thing Naruto wanted to resort to.

'Naruto, I know what you're worried about. The last thing I ever want you to do is to expose yourself. But who would actually believe that you're a wizard, let alone Sasuke saying that you are one?'

Naruto said, 'He's a clan heir and legally the Head of the Uchiha. Any person that has a boner for Sasuke-teme is going to believe him...'

Harry the said, 'You'll have to risk it... But, I'll figure something out later. I promise.'

Naruto hesitated for quite some time before finally giving in and sighed.

'Fine, but you better keep me conscience, got it?'

'Crystal. GO!'

Naruto leaped forward. The red fox chakra flowing in his veins, the only sign of it's usage was in his eyes. His eyes were crimson red, both his pupils were slits like a snake or feline. He strode diagonally with blinding speed. He strode left, right, left, right again toward Sasuke, leaving behind a jet blast of water in his wake. Sasuke countered by kicking up a long plank of wood, grasping the end closer to him and thrusting it at Naruto with all his arm strength.

The staff of wood burst into a roar of fire from an instant Fire-style jutsu he activated with his new found speed. Sasuke eye's refocused as he countered a hay maker thrown at him and flipped Naruto behind him prepared to parry. And Naruto lunged at him but Sasuke foresaw his attacks. Naruto displayed martial arts moves he saw him deliver against Orochimaru in the Forest of Death, but he thought those were dreams not memories.

'These moves,' he thought, 'That fight in the forest! It wasn't a dream! But I thought it was! He spoke like he was from another country! He had green eyes! And performed such strange, otherworldly techniques!' Sasuke realized as his memories finally resurfaced, Naruto having erased and replaced them almost three months ago.

'I can see! His movements!' Sasuke thought refocusing on Naruto's taijutsu blows, 'I can see the movements I couldn't catch before! It's like he's in slow motion now!'

Naruto struggled as he shortly expected, he couldn't land a single blow, Sasuke parried and blocked ever punch and strike without effort. He retreated to the north wall of the chasm, attaching himself to the wall with his feet easily. Naruto sprinted up the wall with the same speed, his arms behind him in an attempt to increase his velocity. He saw Sasuke prepare his stance in a flash, and Naruto continuously threw various blows and kicks but to no avail, no of them met their target.

The only noises that prevailed for five minutes were the sounds Naruto's blows being blocked and redirected. Sasuke then advanced toward Naruto to test his newly acquired speed, punching him in the stomach once again, and then landing another hay maker to his right cheek. Launching Naruto off his feet and down the cliff side. He found his footing and landed upon the cliff again, his blonde hair looking brushed back with gravity pulling him backwards at this awkward position of combat. He stared at Sasuke with frustration and a slight tinge of fear. He stared directly into those menacing, smirking, hateful Sharingan eyes. Sasuke looked down upon Naruto in superiority.

'This power. These eyes. I truly am the inheritor of the Sharingan!' Sasuke thought with arrogance, clearly fascinated by his own finesse.

Naruto retreated into his mind for directions, 'Nii-san, what should I do?' he asked

'First, shield your mind from Sasuke's influence. Don't worry about Kyuubi that's my job.' he interjected Naruto before he questioned his misdirection. 'Remember, empty your mind of all emotion. Next Destination, Determination, Deliberation. The final step: Unleash hell. You got it?'

Naruto nodded his head physically in understanding.

He looked at Sasuke, remembering Sakura's pleas, and the promise he made to her.


Flashback

"Naruto, I beg you! Please...p-please bring Sasuke-kun back, please!"

"Don't you worry Sakura-chan! I promise I'll bring him back or may God strike me down, right now!" Naruto then comically ducked with his arms covering his head protectively while looking up toward the sky his eyes wide and paranoid looking.

The others including Shikamaru, Lee, Kiba, Chouji, and Neji all laughed at Naruto's antic. Even Sakura broke a tiny smile at Naruto through her tears. Naruto returned his stance and turned more serious, giving Sakura a thumbs up,

"Don't worry. I'll bring him back. I promise you with my heart!"

End Flashback


"Well, Naruto, come at me. . ."

Naruto focused the Kyuubi's chakra into his feet and with ease and with new-found determination-Sakura's pleas were ringing in his ears-he sprinted even faster than before, blurring diagonally like before to gather his speed, Sasuke's eyes following him perfectly, waiting to counter his attacks and hopefully throw him down back into the river to continue pummeling him. Right when Naruto was directly facing Sasuke, Sasuke seeing Naruto 'before image' trying to punch him, prepared his arms to throw him. But then Sasuke felt a strange gust of wind, and could've swore he saw Naruto (or what appeared to look like him) being sucked into a tiny infixed spot, and instantaneously vanish with the swoosh and snap noise. Sasuke blanched in response and studied his eyes everywhere he could see in front of him when he heard a loud pop sound, and felt an extremely painful punch delivered to the back of his head, launching him face first into the river below and a hundred feet away from the cliffside. Sasuke hit against the water as if he had landed on concrete. He felt an extremely painful bruise swell on his head and tasted blood in his mouth. Sasuke was then bombarded with multiple punches into his stomach. Each punch felt laced with some painful, burning energy, but wasn't chakra. Sasuke recognized it,

'This must be the same energy, Orochimaru was hit with by the dobe in the forest! Dammit! It stings like crazy! Wait! How did he do that?'

The blows kept coming, and Naruto appeared to be hiding a long, thin, piece of wood up his sleeve. With every punch and haymaker he threw, he muttered a certain spell under his breath in the sound of a grunt, "Stupefy!"

'That's good, Naruto! Keep going!' Harry encouraged.

Although Naruto's spells were indeed aiming true, Harry was still worried; his little brother's Stunning Spells weren't working as well as they normally should. One of these spells worked perfectly on Kiba, during his and Naruto's Preliminary Chunin Exam match. But while go up against Sasuke, his spells only hurt Sasuke like a mad punch and slowed him down slightly. It must have been because of that stupid curse mark, they weren't working because the curse mark must have been giving Sasuke some level of resistance to Stunning Spells.

Naruto continued with the Stupefy-Punch technique, before Apparating again with a loud crack. He then threw multiple punches at Sasuke, all of them being painfully driven all over his body.

Sasuke finally regain his footing when Naruto Disapparated again, "I don't know how he's doing this vanishing act, but I'm gonna stop him now!"

He ignored the burning pains on his body and sped away a hundred feet to gain some distance. After focusing a large sum of chakra and flying through multiple handsigns (ending with the sign of the tiger), he breathed in and then,

"Fire Style, Dragon Flame Jutsu!"

Sasuke unleashed a massive firestorm from his mouth. The flames were so powerful that they literally turned the sky around the Valley dark, the light from the flames reflected red and orange off of the rocks and water. The firestorm engulfed everything five hundred feet away, including where he sensed where Naruto's chakra signature reappear.

Sasuke remained where he was, appreciating his destructive fire capabilities, and fairly confident he got Naruto. Suddenly, the flames died out, directly in front of Sasuke, two hundred feet away. There was Naruto, completely unharmed. He had both of his arms outstretched in front of him with his palms open. He held a long, thin piece of wood in his right hand, being held up by his thumb. The flames began to dissipate in front of the blonde and as soon as they fully disappeared, he quickly pocketed the wood piece, and sprint towards Sasuke again.

Beginning to grow even more frustrated and bloodthirsty, Sasuke threw himself at the blonde and feigned a double-knock out punch and instead grabbed his right arm and launched him with all the physical strength he could muster towards the north cliffside wall again. He reappeared with blinding speed and wrapped his legs and arms around Naruto, before the blonde could disappear again. Sasuke began to spin towards the rocks below as he copied the Lee's Primary Lotus technique,

"It's already too late, Naruto!" Sasuke screamed out at the top of his lungs.

'NO!'

Naruto's head smashed into the rock and a sickening crack was heard. The rocks shook with the sudden impact, and Sasuke stayed where he was with his eyes clenched shut. He slowly unraveled his arms and legs from around Naruto's body. The blonde teen remained as frozen as a statue for several moments before he fell and rolled into the river, leaving behind a glistening trail of blood behind before he fell into the river and let himself float motionless. The area of water that surrounded Naruto began to turn into a deep red color as more blood continued to seep from his body.

Sasuke looked at Naruto, his eyes wide in disbelief and shock at what he had done. He stood cautiously on the rocks and looked down where the blonde teen's head had been only moments ago. The copied Lotus Technique left a deep depression in the rock, and a small blood puddle laid in it's wake.

Naruto floated in the water facing the darkening heavens unknowingly. His eyes were closed, his arms and legs spread out and completely limply. But within his thirteen year old mind; the blonde laid down upon an enormous bed within a massive bedroom with no visible ceiling but instead reflecting the sky outside. Harry was seen sitting at the edge of the mattress and stroking his injured head with a green glowing hand. His eyes closed in concentration as the severe head injury began to heal at a rapid pace. He soon removed his hand and stood up gracefully before vanishing out the lone doorway. He reappeared inside of an infinite castle corridor lined with doorways and Hogwarts-styled stone torches. Harry walked down the corridor before he stumbled upon one particular door and phased right through it. He then approached a gigantic steel cage, containing the restless giant, nine-tailed fox itself. The enormous Kyuubi had multiple golden-glowing chains restraining it within it's cage, clearly aged and dulled from its original color due to the recent escape attempts made by the beast. The young wizard stood before it, studying the defenses he put in place thirteen years ago, they still held stable and strong. He looked directly into the fox's murderous eyes, with no fear in him own eyes, before he spoke to it.

Harry asked, "How about we make a deal?"

The Kyuubi let out a low and satisfied growl and answered, "I'm listening..."


{{Inferi in the Firestorm by Nicholas Hooper}}

Sasuke began to approach Naruto's body, when he noticed it suddenly began to glow once more. He stopped cautiously, seeing the red chakra from before come back to life and completely cloak the blonde. The chakra was different than before; it was much more fluorescent, and became more blood-red as apposed to orangish-red. Sasuke continued to approach warily. As soon as he took one more step, Naruto's body was raised by the chakra itself, seemingly at the navel. Naruto sprang back to life instantly, snapping his head forward and smashing his fist dead-center into Sasuke's unexpecting face. Sasuke was flipped back fifty feet away and landed on his side on top of the water, cupping his face in his hands and muffling his screams of pain. Naruto's closed, clawed fist shook with fury and soon he quickly placed his hands together and concentrated as much energy as could draw from his entire being.

A green of what appeared to look like the fox chakra formed around his arms and flailed around like tentacles. Soon, more of the green energy encircled and spiraled around Naruto, giving off an incredibly powerful sonic boom in all directions. Naruto's eyes also changed, morphing into a strange, spiraling mixture of green and crimson red.

Naruto Disapparated and reappeared two hundred feet away from Sasuke, as the Uchiha began to get up. The changed Naruto sprint towards him at impossible speeds. He reached the Uchiha instantly and began to encircle him, causing the water of the river to rise and surround the Uchiha in a vortex. Sasuke heard Naruto's voice in all directions shout,

"Taju: Kage Bushin no Jutsu!"

Multiple Narutos' began to shoot in and out of the vortex attempting to strike at Sasuke, but he continued to dodge with the advanced reflexes his upgraded Sharingan provided him. Naruto began to shout multiple uninterpretable words, and out of nowhere shots, jets, and blasts of multi-colored lights came into the vortex with every word Naruto yelled.

"Stupefy!"

"Impedimenta!"

"INCARCEROUS!"

"Confringo!"

More jets of light came out along with the multiple Narutos. Sasuke could've sworn he saw ropes come spinning out of nowhere towards him, but dodged them all the same. He couldn't figure out what techniques he was using. The Sharingan couldn't analyze any of them! Sasuke carefully calculated when he could leap out of the vortex without risking being hit by the water, projectiles of light, or any of the Narutos. When his opportunity came, he leapt to gain a fair amount of distance away from Naruto's vortex. He noticed the waters below his feet were completely out of control. Sasuke struggled to leap from wave to wave, before he finally reached the northern shore line, the side with the statue of Madara Uchiha, his great ancestor and founder of the Uchiha clan. Sasuke called upon his curse mark, demanding more power from it.

'Give me more power!' he roared, 'I WANT MORE! GIVE ME MORE!'

The flames of the curse mark spread across his body much faster than before. But before he could continue the spreading, Sasuke was suddenly seized by-claws of chakra! The claws had erupted from the earth beneath him, and soon an entire arm of red and green energy emerged from below. Naruto had thrown one of the tentacles of the cloak into the water, drove it into into the earth, and grasped the accursed Uchiha.

Naruto pulled the arm of energy toward him dragging the Uchiha with it, Naruto threw back his right arm as he and Sasuke sped towards each other. Sasuke yelled in protest and Naruto roared in fury as they were about to clash.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"

Sasuke went flying back and slammed into the stone foot of Madara Uchiha. The impact left Sasuke imbedded into the stone and a large crater surrounding him. He then fell and hit the ground, supporting himself with his hands and knees. Naruto retreated onto the foot of Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage. Naruto's red chakra cloak suddenly sprouted a single tail consisting of solid, visible crimson chakra as the green energy began to disappear and retreat back into his skin.

Naruto began to breath as calmly as he could, in a futile attempt to draw the Kyuubi chakra back into him, the chakra was burning like never before and it practically tortured Naruto to keep holding onto it. That's when he heard Sasuke from the other side; laughing at him like some lunatic.

"I'm not even hurt, Naruto. It doesn't even hurt!"

Naruto looked up at the Uchiha, as he began to notice the curse mark spread even more that before. The red flames of the curse spread and thickened across his body, completely covering him in a blanket of red energy. Once it was complete, Sasuke's skin turned black and then dark grey. His hair grew long without changing it's overall style, and turned into a purplish gray color. His fingernails grew long and sharp, and appeared as if they were made out of glass. The whites in his eyes turned jet-black and the original black color of his eyes turned yellow before changing back into his Sharingan eyes. Blue venom lipstick seemed to appear on his lips as fangs grew out in his mouth. His appearance was both intimidating and completely repulsive.

"They call this place The Valley of the End for a reason. It's the turning point of destinies... Fitting, isn't it?"

Sasuke smirked at Naruto, and the blonde stood paralyzed, shocked by Sasuke's demonic appearance. He looked utterly terrifying to him. His disgust at his teammate grew even more when two demonic, sharply spiked, hand-like wings erupted from his back. Sasuke's smirk grew whence his level-two form was at last complete.

"I will admit, Naruto, you are equal to me now. I will admit you are special, however... I am more special than you."

Sasuke froze and then grimaced as a massive wave of pain pulsed throughout his entire body. Just then he had just remembered what Sakon told him about holding the curse mark at level two for too long.

'I don't have long,' Sasuke thought to himself, 'I have to end this as fast as possible...'

The Uchiha began forming a Chidori in his left hand without having to go through any of the required handsigns. Soon, the bright blue lightning turned gray in his hands with the power of the curse mark influencing the technique. Naruto formed a Rasengan in right hand, but had turned purple with the combination of his own chakra with the Kyuubi's. The two genin stared each other down with the most intense looks on their faces before they both felt that they had waited enough time and both decided to attack at the exact same time.

'NOW!'

They both leapt from their opposite ends of the waterfall. Naruto's chakra-boosted jump sent him soaring forward, whilst Sasuke's demonic wings enabled him to fly toward the Kyuubi-induced Naruto. As the two teens flew at each other, Sasuke suddenly had a cunning idea. Sasuke flapped his grotesque wings and gave himself a speed boost as he smirked to himself and resisted the urge to laugh out or snicker.

The two boys were about to clash for one final time, and Naruto began to yell.

"RASEN-"

But before Naruto could even finish yelling out the name of his jutsu, Sasuke instantly vanished and reappeared behind Naruto and his two sharp, hand-like wings stabbing Naruto in both of his shoulders. The sharp jagged ends of Sasuke's mutated skin sliced right through Naruto's flesh and bone and stuck out through the back of his shoulder blades. He slowly descended to the waters below while Naruto screamed and wailed in pain all the way down.

When Sasuke's feet met the water, he stood with his powerful version of Chidori still in hand. He twisted and morphed his wings disgustingly to make Naruto face him, shredding the flesh he had already pierced and crushed more bone. Sasuke stared directly into Naruto's red eyes which began to turn back into his normal and familiar color of sapphire blue. His demonic features disappeared, as did the chakra cloak and tail. His whisker mark almost fully receded and Naruto hung by at Sasuke's mercy, with the Uchiha smiling insanely at his 'friend'. Naruto's pierced shoulders barely allowed him to move his arms.

Everything began to grow dark and Harry's voice could no longer reach him at this point.

Naruto cried as he despaired to himself miserably, 'It's over... I'm going to die... but I promised... I promised Sakura-chan I wouldn't fail...'

The Chidori sparked madly and chirped ceaselessly in Sasuke's hand as he reeled it back to strike for the kill. Sasuke smirked evilly as he licked his newly grown fangs and focused on aiming for Naruto's heart.

"This time, I won't miss your heart, Naruto..."

{{The Dementors Converge by John Williams}}

Naruto couldn't help but think of all the people he was about to let down with his approaching death; Sakura-chan, Kakashi-sensei, all of his friends on this mission, Uncle Jiraiya, Aunt Tsunade, Shizune, Grandpa, and his big brother, Iruka. He might be with Harry on the trip to the afterlife, at least he would have his company on the way up. Hell, he might even get to meet his parents again or see Ron, Hermione, maybe even Ginny, Luna, and Neville. The idea of meeting all of those people almost made him feel a bit better about dying. But then the faces of all the people he already knew popped back into his head. His family, he would be leaving them all behind.

'But all my friends... I'm never going to see them again... '

He failed them all... but this can't be the end, it shouldn't. Naruto's memories flashed before his eyes; both good and bad recollections came into focus briefly. He remembered all the times he had tea with the Sandiame, the kindness and warmth of his fallen friend Hayate, and the hostility he faced from the villagers. He recalled when he first met Harry within his mindscape, he remembered the times the man told him bedtime stories. Harry had taught him so much in their time together. All those seven years of learning and practicing were about to go to waste. Whilst reflecting on what he ever learned from Harry, Naruto got a sudden idea.

He quickly looked down at Sasuke and he flicked his wrist with what little movement he could achieve, allowing his wand to fall out of his now loose sleeve. He caught it in his hand, clenched it in his hand tightly, and thought of the happiest things he could muster; When he first met his Nii-san, when he graduated from the Ninja Academy, Kakashi-sensei's comrade speech, Sakura's desperate pleas to him, and ended with Iruka telling him how much he love him, that he promised to always be there for him. Naruto breathed in with all his might, pointed his wand right in between Sasuke's eyes before roaring.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!"


Kakashi Hatake, the famous Copy Ninja of Konoha sped through the trees as fast as his agile body could allow him. He was fright with panic, because just over an hour ago, he discovered that Sasuke had abandoned the village for Orochimaru, and that Naruto was one of the rookie ninja that was sent to retrieve him. When he found out, he ignored his assigned mission from the Sandiame Hokage in order to pursue his two students.

Kakashi continued his trek with his reliable ninja hound, Pakkun. They were tracking Naruto's and Sasuke's scents, to the direction to the Valley of the End. When they began to approach their destination, it began to pour down.

'It's raining!' Kakashi realized.

He turned to Pakkun and asked, "Will the rain wash away the scent?"

Pakkun responded with, "No problem. We're already close enough. This way!"

The pair emerged out of the trees and leapt down the cliffside from rock to rock and finally landed on the rocky shore line of the river. On the First Hokage's side of the river, Kakashi landed on one knee and scanned his eyes all over, looking for any sign of his students. Only to see right in front of him, Naruto, front facing the rocky ground and Sasuke, laying down on his back next to him. Sasuke had very minor burn marks and bruises all over his body, but there were two noticeable rips in the back of his blue Uchiha genin shirt. A bit of Sasuke's shirt hanging out at both sides to show that his shirt was indeed damaged.

Naruto, to both of their horrors, was completely drenched and stained in his own blood. Pakkun padded towards Sasuke and sat at his side to check if he was okay.

"Sasuke's still breathing. He'll be fine." he barked.

But Kakashi ignored his pug dog summon as he approached Naruto with heavy legs. He knelt down to the boy's side and heard him grunting. He was still conscious. Kakashi noticed that Naruto was trying to move himself with only his chin!

"I can't lose..." Naruto grunted, "I promised Sakura-chan-I can't give up...Get up-Get up!"

Kakashi quickly but carefully turned Naruto over to get him to stop hurting himself. But when he did turn his student over, he noiselessly gasped at the sight of the boy's body. He saw the two enormous stab wounds in both of his shoulder blades that were just barely healing themselves, with the help of the fox. Kakashi also noticed a hole in Naruto's orange and blue jacket. He looked underneath the shredded cloth to see a newly imprinted scar on his skin. This revealed exactly what Kakashi had feared would happen, and did.

"Sasuke used the Chidori on Naruto..." he whispered to himself quietly and then despaired, "Why did I ever teach him that stupid jutsu?"

Just as that was said, Naruto began to moan painfully as he tried to move his body desperately, "No! I have to stop him-Sakura-chan-I promised-I promised!"

Kakashi placed his hand on Naruto's face and tried to calm him down, "It's alright, Naruto. You got him, he's right here. I'm taking you both back now."

As if he had obeyed his unspoken command like a loyal hound, Naruto collapsed, slipping into unconsciousness. Kakashi looked down at Naruto's face bloody and wet face, with nothing but guilt and sadness in his eyes.

He whispered, "... Naruto... I'm so sorry... Please forgive me..."

He then created a shadow clone and had it grab and carry Sasuke, before he turned to Pakkun, "Get to the Sandiame, inform him the mission success. Sasuke is secure. Make sure Hokage-sama gets the hospital ready for both of them."

Pakkun obeyed and ran ahead, back to the village. Kakashi had the shadow clone take Sasuke, and he himself carefully handled Naruto as if he were an active bomb, before both Kakashi's disappeared away into the trees back home.


To Be Continued...


End of Chapter 1! Wow! I didn't think I could even do this!

Just a reminder: This is a TRIBUTE fanfic! I really, really wanted to write this!

I give 100% full credit to Darkest Melody, kiralle, and whoever is currently writing Sealed Soul. There's nothing more for me to say than I hope no one takes offense into me for writing this, I just really want to write and I really love this crossover concept. I just want to entertain, that's all.