Like water and fire

A/N: Behold! This is probably the story we're the most proud of! So enjoy!

Prologue

Screams were heard from all around. Water was everywhere, taking people down with it. Drowning them. Houses were destroyed by it and people were fleeing and yelling, searching for each other.

A small boy around the age of eight was struggling for his life as he coughed, getting swept away by the water entering his house. He screamed for his parents he had lost along the way and could only hope they were still alive. He was crying as he held onto a part of the stairs of his house, desperately trying not to let go and let the water take over. He couldn't swim and wouldn't be able to save himself then. The boy cried for anyone to save him instead.

"Help me!" Uchiha Sasuke screamed.

More and more water came and it seemed like Sasuke would be drowned as well, before someone came swimming towards Sasuke with a rapid speed.

"Sasuke!" Sasuke's brother, Uchiha Itachi, yelled, as he reached Sasuke, finally. "Climb on my back!" He had to scream, the loud sound of the water coming in was too hard, it was pressing onto their ears, almost making them deaf. The panic and the beating of startled hearts made the chaos even worse. Itachi gasped, as he was pulled down for a moment and then came up the surface again, coughing. "Come on!"

Sasuke quickly grabbed his brother tightly and held on for dear life. "Don't let me die!" He yelled, scared for his life. He was so afraid and didn't understand what was going on. Where did this water come from? Where were his parents? Why was everyone screaming and dying? It were all questions Sasuke couldn't answer.

"I won't let you die Sasuke!" Itachi yelled, as he started to swim. "Hold on tightly!" He swam as hard as he could now, towards the door, and took a deep breath, as he dived under it. He got caught by the heavy flow of the water and got taken with it. Struggling for his and his younger brother's life, he swam to the surface, coughing, and swam behind the houses of their village, towards the end of the water, to the waterside. Finally, he reached it, and then ran over the grass, as hard as he could, into the forest. And finally.. into a cave. He ran towards the end of the cave, shaking, and once he reached it, he put down his crying brother on the ground. Softly. He looked at him concerned. "..Are you OK..?" He asked.

Sasuke cried and coughed a little before taking a deep breath.

"..W-what is going on?" The young boy sobbed as he looked up to his brother. Sasuke could just feel his brother was scared. That something was so wrong nobody had ever seen it coming.

"...We are being attacked.." Itachi softly said. "..Try to talk softly.. else they'll get us too.." He took a deep breath, shaking a little, and then pulled his brother closer.

"By who.. W-why?" Sasuke asked as he grabbed his brother. He felt cold and scared and who were 'they'? What was going on?
"..The people of the water.." Itachi whispered, as he shushed his brother. He himself had tears over his cheeks, as he hugged Sasuke tightly.

"..W-where are mom and.. d-dad?" Sasuke asked softly. The people of the water? Why did they attack now? Why here? Why them?

"..I don't know.." Itachi softly said, and then got the shock of his life as someone yelled into the cave:

"If there's anyone in here, come here and give up right now! If we get no answer we'll put the place under water!"

Itachi frowned, as his heart beat got faster, and he put a hand over Sasuke's mouth quickly.

"..Be silent." He whispered, as he stared at the end of the cave. They couldn't see the water people, and the water people couldn't see them. But.. they couldn't put the place under water.. They'd both drown.

Sasuke looked up at his brother with watery eyes. If the water would get into the cave, they'd drown. But what if they went out? They would be killed.. right? Sasuke put his hands over Itachi's, scared of letting go.

"Another time, is there someone in the cave?! Else we'll put it under water!" The voice yelled again. Itachi closed his eyes now, and then looked at Sasuke.

"..Stay here.. I love you." He said, as he kissed Sasuke on the forehead, and then let go of his mouth. "..And stay silent.. don't let them find you.." He stood now, and with tears in his eyes, he ran towards the entrance of the cave as hard as he could.

"I'm here!" Itachi yelled. "D-don't let me drown!" It was the only way to safe them both. At least Sasuke would stay alive now.

Sasuke stared at his brother running away. He heard the men take Itachi with them and Sasuke wanted to scream for them to come back. But Itachi told him to stay. And he was too scared to get out of the cave. All he could do was wait for Itachi to come back. But he never did. Sasuke waited and waited, but after even hours there was no sign of Itachi. Sasuke then screamed.

Chapter 1

And then he woke up.

"Another nightmare?" A calm voice asked, from next to him. It was ten years later now. Uchiha Sasuke sighed. He was now eighteen years old.

"Another one from what happened ten years ago.." He said as he sat up.

"Ah." Hatake Kakashi, Sasuke's guardian, said. "You have lots of them lately."

"..I know.. I don't know why.." Sasuke said as he looked around. They were in the woods, travelling. Luckily, the rest was still asleep, not having heard his scream.

"Probably because those water guys are so active lately." Kakashi said, as he stretched a bit. "Ah, what can we do about it."

"Nothing." Sasuke said. "We should get some food." He added and then kicked the guy sleeping next to him, to wake him up.

A groan was being heard, and then the boy sat up, looking annoyed and irritated.

"Sasuke you baka!" Inuzuka Kiba yelled. "Stop doing that!" He tackled Sasuke now, who was just standing up, and then started tickling him. Another guy woke up now.

"..Oh please.." A soft voice came from another boy, who made himself into a ball a little, obviously wanting to sleep further.

Sasuke laughed as he pushed Kiba off him. "Idiot." He said. Then both of them suddenly got jumped on by someone else.

"Hello my youthful friends! Up for a new day!" He yelled and grinned.

"Hell yeah we are Lee!" Kiba said, grinning. Meanwhile, the other boy sat up, with ruffled long hair, looking sleepy.

"..Could you quiet it down a bit?" He asked.

"Don't whine Haku, we have to get up." Sasuke said to him and then gave him smile.

"Well good for you! Let's get busy!" The other guy, Lee, yelled. He was tall and had some kind of bowl haircut and big round eyes.

Haku moaned, as he just laid down again. Meanwhile, a redhead got up, with black make up around his eyes. He silently dressed, not looking at the other people around him.

"Yeah, to the horizon!" Kiba yelled, laughing.

Sasuke and Lee laughed too now. "Oy, Gaara, did you not sleep well again?" Sasuke asked, grinning. Gaara barely slept through the night and he was just always cranky. The others kind off made jokes about because Gaara didn't care anyway.

"Oh shut up." Gaara said, as he kicked another red head, that was deeply sleeping. Very deeply.

And Kiba now jumped on top of the last one that had to be woken up, a certain dark brown haired boy, with hair that was put in a high ponytail. His hair looked like a.. pineapple.

"Shikamaru!" Kiba yelled. "Wake up, you lazy head!"

"Get off me. You're such a drag." Shikamaru said, but did nothing. He was probably too lazy to do anything either.

The other redhead, Sasori, got up too and was almost dressed in an instant. He said nothing, just waited for the rest to be done.

"Ah, Shikamaru, dress up will ya?" Kakashi said, as he stood now, putting away the book he had been reading the whole time. "We're going to get some food."

"Hmpf, fine." Shikamaru said as he got up lazily and slowly started putting on his clothes.

Sasuke looked around once he was done dressing too. This was his team. The elite team of the electric force. Their leaders were Kakashi and Sasori, and their tactician Shikamaru. All of them had special techniques and a certain kind of magic, that ruled this world. Everyone had their own element.

Haku got up with a sigh and stretched, and some wind started to blow. He quickly put his arms down.

"Sorry." He said, blushing a bit. He was the one that controlled the element wind.

Sasuke laughed. "Oh yeah, because we get so scared of 'the wind'." He said and smirked. Haku was the only one controlling wind. And nobody thought it was anything useful. Because it really wasn't.

"Shut up Sasuke." Sasori said and looked at Sasuke dangerously. He was one of the three that controlled the element earth and thus was pretty powerful. Sasuke decided it was best to shut his mouth.

Haku looked at Sasuke and then looked away, offended. Gaara now smirked at Sasori a little. He was one of the earth users as well.

"So, we're just going to split up again and meet here?" He asked.

"Of course." Kakashi said, nodding. "We split up into two groups. One group goes with Sasori, one with me. And watch out when you're close to the water."

"So, what are the teams?" Kiba asked, as he put his hands behind his head.

"Gaara, Haku and Shikamaru are coming with me. The rest will go with Kakashi. We will be in contact along the way." Sasori said. "Now go." He added.

Everyone nodded, as they walked towards their own leaders.

"Well let's go kids." Kakashi said, as he started to walk towards the south. Kiba dragged Sasuke with him now.

"Let's go catch some deer!" He said, obviously hungry.

"Shut up idiot, I'd be happy if we'd catch a chicken." Sasuke said as he let himself be dragged along. Lee jumped behind them, sometimes causing the earth to shake a little. He was another earth user, but sometimes got so excited, he didn't have his element under control.

"Lee! Watch out will ya!" Kiba yelled at Lee, and then continued walking with Sasuke.

"..Ah guys, let's stop here for a moment." Kakashi said, as he stopped in front of some bushes.

"Why? We've barely been walking." Sasuke said and Lee stopped jumping. "Sorry." He said, as they all stopped walking. Kakashi sighed, as he pushed away the bushes a little.

"Come look." He said. The bushes revealed a deer now, covered in tiny strings of water, that were holding him onto the ground. "If you ever see a trap like this, you know that there might be some water users living around here." Kiba walked forwards and then frowned. That looked nasty. The deer was bleeding a little, well, it had bled and it was dead now.

"..So where are they then?" Lee asked. "And why didn't they take the deer?"

Sasuke frowned as he looked at the deer. It was probably strangled before it died. A horrible way to die.

"They must have set it some time ago and will come for the deer soon." Kakashi said. "Or they were killing it and heard us coming, and hid somewhere. They might be preparing to fight us now."

Kiba frowned, as he looked around a little, sniffing. He hated the fact that he could never smell those water users. They had no scent to their bodies at all. They were like.. air.

"Well, what do we do then? I mean, waiting around here isn't gonna get us some food." Sasuke said as he crossed his arms.

"Just wanted to show you this." Kakashi said, shrugging. And just as he wanted to walk further, a battle cry was being heard from the water and one single person came upon the surface, jumped on top of it and then came towards them with an incredible speed. While the water user was manipulating the water, so it looked like he was surfing, three others came upon the surface as well.

Kakashi quickly grabbed one of his two arms, and started making an energy bowl.

"Prepare to fight!" He yelled, while Kiba did exactly the same as Kakashi.

Sasuke just pulled his arm back, creating electric energy around it. Lee now moved his hand up and made a wall of mud and rocks, so the three men would at least be held up. All four of them prepared to fight as the water people surfed up to them. Luckily, they had the advantage.

The first one of the water people, obviously the leader, smirked, once he was very close to Kakashi. In a flash, he'd disappeared and he was suddenly right behind Lee, kicking him into the back hard. Kiba let out an angry yell and turned around, to hit the water user, but that one already blocked his attack by throwing his leg into the air and kicking Kiba's hand away. It was obvious that his guy was strong.

"Sasuke! Protect Kiba!" Kakashi yelled while he was already fighting with the other three water users.

"Right!" Sasuke said and ran to Kiba, blocking another move of the water user with his electricity. He then attacked the guy with another attack.

Lee in the mean time got up and shot a guy away by throwing some rocks into his face.

"Come on guys, we can do this!" He yelled, helping Kakashi now.

"Of course we can!" Kiba yelled, as he was fighting a single water user as well. Everyone had a one to one fight right now. The one who was fighting Sasuke now, was getting frustrated as he found out that Sasuke was at least as strong as him. He tried to kick and hit Sasuke, and every time his attacks got blocked.

"Take this!" The guy yelled, as he made a quick circle, and out of this a whirlpool appeared, and started to suck Sasuke into it.

Sasuke groaned as he pulled against the whirlpool and then focused all his energy into his right arm and smashed it away. It had been a strong attack though and it was rare for Sasuke to have to actually put a lot of energy into fighting. He now let out a battle cry as he came towards the guy with another heavy attack.

The water user again was gone in a flash, and appeared behind Sasuke, as he let the whirlpool disappear, but used the water to form a thin but sharp whip. He then jumped up, hit Sasuke on the head and raised the whip to smash it down onto Sasuke neck.

Sasuke smirked, after he had moaned in pain, as he saw an opening and grabbed the guy's ankle, using the energy focused in his hand to hold him up above the floor. He let the energy run down the guy's body too.

The guy now almost fell down but then found out that he was now hanging just above the ground, since his long brown ponytail was somewhere next to his face and the whole world had turned upside down all of a sudden. He let out a roar and then let the whip form into his hands again, and hit Sasuke on the knees hard with it. As Sasuke let go of him, he quickly let himself land onto his hands, and with a quick move, he jumped back, using a back flip. He then lunged forwards and started to hit and kick Sasuke.

Not long after though, Sasuke blocked every single hit and kick and then started fighting back. Once again, he saw an opening as the guy moved his hand to hit Sasuke. Sasuke moved his hand to the back of the water user's neck, grabbed it and pushed him forward. He then grabbed him by the hair and focused energy into his hand again, holding it by the guy's face. "Don't even think of moving." Sasuke hissed.

The water user glared at Sasuke now, realising that he was in danger, as he stood still. He was inspecting every move of Sasuke, looking if he could find a way out. You could see that he was thinking deeply, that he was planning on escaping as soon as he could. In the mean time, Kakashi, Lee and Kiba were still fighting the three other water users, but the water users seemed to be winning.

Sasuke now removed his hand from the guy's hair and then grabbed his hands immediately, pushing them up against his back to the point that it was painful and almost nothing could help get out of the grip.

"Listen you morons! I've got your leader so go away or I'll kill him!" Sasuke yelled.

The three water users immediately stopped fighting now, as they looked at their leader, slightly shocked. Kakashi, Kiba and Lee turned around slightly as well.

"Get the hell out of here!" The leader of the water users hissed now, as he started struggling, and the three immediately turned around and dived into the water once again.

Sasuke made sure the leader couldn't do anything and looked at Kakashi. "What do I do with him?" He asked.

"I guess we have to keep him here now, since those three probably are going to call some of their friends now." Kakashi said, frowning. The water user growled at Sasuke now, as he kept struggling.

"Don't we need a rope?" Kiba asked, frowning as well. That water leader looked dangerous indeed.

"We do because this fucking asshole won't stop struggling and I'm not gonna stand around here all day." Sasuke said. Lee walked forwards now and then moved his arm a little, making the earth behind the water user move up and wrap around his arms.

"That should keep him in place." He said.

The water user now narrowed his eyes and then suddenly kicked backwards as hard as he could, against Sasuke's legs, and then turned around, kicking him in the face hard.

"Ho!" Kakashi yelled, as he gave the water leader a push and then pushed him down onto the ground, face first. "Damn it, lay still!"

Sasuke groaned as he rubbed his legs a little before giving the guy an energy wave through his body. "Damn, that actually hurt." He said annoyed.

The guy now let out a groan, but didn't stop struggling and bucking beneath Kakashi.

"It looks like you're something completely different now, Kakashi." Kiba said, slightly smirking.

"Very funny Kiba." Kakashi said. "Lee, bind up his legs as well, will you?"

Lee nodded and bound the guy's legs up too with some earth. Sasuke smirked at Kiba.

"You always see things you wanna see." He said.

"True." Kiba said, grinning as well. Meanwhile, Kakashi got off the guy and stood, looking at him.

"Well, where to keep him now hm." He said. The guy just glared at him, as he laid there on the ground. You could see he was once again thinking.

"Here. And then let him starve to death." Sasuke said. "Or I could kill him, that would be fun too."

"You're so sinister Sasuke." Lee said as he looked at the guy.

"But he was the leader of that group." Kakashi said, thinking. "He could come in handy. He's very pretty as well, he could have a relation with one of the higher people of the water users. I heard those like the pretty ones a lot. And with water users, it doesn't matter if you're a boy or girl, they all can get babies." The water leader was looking a lot more angry now. Kiba smirked as he saw it.

"I don't think he likes it what you're saying." He said.

"They can? Gross. He does look like a girl though, so with him it wouldn't look that weird." Sasuke said and laughed at Kiba.

"So what do we do then? Keep him hostage?" Lee asked Kakashi.

"I guess so." Kakashi said. "And watch your mouth Sasuke, he could escape, and then he'll probably kill you. Sasuke, try to find out who he is. And search him out for weapons."

"Oh and Kiba, go catch that deer will ya." Kakashi added, and nodded towards a deer that was eating grass some distance away from them.

Kiba smirked.

"Of course." He said, as he went off to catch the deer.

Sasuke nodded as he sat down next to the guy and started searching for weapons. He pulled out two knives and then found nothing anymore. "He's not very armed." Sasuke said and then pulled out the person ID. Sasuke read it. "His name's Hyuuga Neji, he's the leader of a B-rank group of the water users. He's only nineteen." Sasuke said.

"That's pretty strong." Kakashi said, with a frown. "He might be a real danger, since he is only nineteen and this strong already. We might have to kill him."

"Great. Can I do it?" Sasuke asked. He really didn't like some water user being close to his strength. He wasn't used to it.

The guy, Neji, now started to struggle and then, all of a sudden, water started to flow around him, especially around his wrists and ankles.

"Oh shit." Kakashi said. "Lee, quickly, make your ties stronger, he's turning them into mud!"

"Yosh!" Lee said and started moving more earth over the guy's arms and legs, but they were turned into mud just as quickly. Sasuke already got ready for a fight with the guy again. He might just have to kill him for real now. He could only smirk.

After a few more seconds, Neji was free and he jumped back, as water moved under his feet and moved with him, so he was surfing on the water once again. He then moved his arms up at a very quick speed, taking the water with him, and then pushed it forwards, so Lee, Kakashi and Sasuke got swung back by it. While the three of them got blown away, Neji smirked at them and then turned around and quickly moved towards the lake again. With a final smirk, he dove into the water. He had escaped.

Sasuke coughed as the water splashed away. He looked angry at the water, knowing that that guy had just escaped them. "Dammit!" Sasuke yelled annoyed.

"Calm down Sasuke." Lee said as he got up.

Meanwhile, Kiba came running back, with the deer.

"We got our food!" Kiba exclaimed, happy.

Kakashi sweatdropped as he sighed.

"My, my." He said. "This is going to be a long day."

"We lost our hostage." Sasuke snapped as he got up. He'd get that Neji guy. No matter what.

"Oh shit, was he that strong?" Kiba asked, surprised.

"Let's go find the others." Kakashi said, as he started to walk.

Sasuke hit Kiba in the head as he passed him and then followed Kakashi. Lee sighed and followed too.

"Don't mind Sasuke. He hates it that guy was that strong." Lee softly said to Kiba.

"I already wondered what was wrong with him." Kiba whispered, as he walked next to Lee. That was true. Sasuke couldn't stand it if someone was stronger then he was.

"Yeah, well he hopefully gets a good rest tonight or he'll be cranky about it all week." Lee said.

"Stop talking about me." Sasuke snapped to the two, not even bothering to turn around to them.

"Sorry." Kiba said. Kakashi sighed. He was sure that Sasuke wouldn't rest now until he'd found that Neji guy again and defeated him.