AN: Hey fuckers, hahaha just kidding, anyways here I am again with a new story and this time it's a 'What if?' story. So I hope you all enjoy it.
Summary: What if Sakura had been on the retrieval mission? What if when Lee was about to leave to back up Naruto, Sakura asked to tag along? What if she saw the entire fight between Naruto and Sasuke in the Valley of the End? How would she react? Would she still 'love' Sasuke or will she find someone new?
Pairing: Naruto X Sakura
Story Start!
Chapter One: With My Own Eyes
Sakura bit her lip and looked around nervously checking to see if there was anyone else around, seeing no one she approached the now lone Rock Lee.
"Lee?" she asked hesitantly.
Lee after getting cleared by Tsunade-Sama to go and back up the retrieval squad turned around in surprise to see his crush Sakura Haruno standing there.
"Hai Sakura-Chan? Is there something you need?" asked Lee smiling brightly at her.
Sakura once again bit her lip and looked at the ground and mumbled something.
"I'm sorry Sakura-Chan but I didn't hear that, could you please repeat it?" asked Lee looking at her in confusion.
"I asked if it was okay for you to take me with you." Said Sakura making Lee look at her in shock. Did he just hear her correctly?
"I don't think that would be wise Sakura-Chan, while Tsunade-Sama said that if I could find anyone to go with me she mentioned that you were not an option." Said Lee apologetically.
Sakura looked down at the ground, her fists tightening so much that her knuckles turned white.
"It's just, Naruto and everyone else is out there risking their lives to bring back a member of my team and here I am doing nothing. Please Lee take me with you." She said tears as of frustration began leaking from her eyes.
Now Lee knew he was going to regret the ass kicking Tsuande-Sama would give him later for this but who was he to extinguish such bright flames of youth?
"Yes Sakura-Chan here jump on my back, it will be faster that way," said Lee as he undid his weights.
Not wasting any time Sakura jumped onto Lee's back and held on tight. Lee on the other hand was in a second of bliss at having Sakura hug him this tightly but quickly shook his head and got serious before taking off at an insane speed.
With Naruto and Kimimaru
Naruto gritted his teeth in frustration at the incredibly strong opponent standing in his way of beating some sense into Sasuke. He just couldn't get passed this guy's bone jutsus, they were just too strong.
Before Naruto could continue his mental complaining Kimimaru made his move, launching him-self at the blonde shinobi he pulled out his bone sword once more and was going to end this battle once and for all.
As he was about to make contact with the orange clad Konoha ninja a foot with an incredible amount of force kicked his arm of course making his sword cut into the ground. Jumping back to make some distance and analyze his new opponent he was surprised to see another Konoha genin standing in his way.
Lee looked back at the tree line and noticed that Sakura-Chan had heeded his advice of staying hidden. Now pointing his attention back at his comrade Lee noticed that while bruised here and there Naruto was relatively fine.
"Naruto-Kun where is Sasuke-Kun?" asked Lee not taking his eyes off of Kimimaru.
"He got up and ran ahead, I was about to go after him but this guy showed up and got in the way." Replied Naruto.
"I see, go after Sasuke-Kun Naruto-Kun." Said Lee suddenly after a moment or two of silence.
"What're you crazy Bushy-brows? This guy is way too strong to take on by yourself! No, we'll defeat him together and go after the Teme." Said Naruto.
"I'm afraid Naruto-Kun that if he is as strong as you say he is then by the time we defeat him Sasuke-Kun will have reached the border." Said Lee making Naruto grit his teeth in frustration knowing that what Lee said was true.
"It's okay Naruto-Kun go, Tsunade-Sama sent out a request for back up before she sent me out, they should be here soon. All I have to do is just hold him off till then." Said Lee settling into his Iron Fist Stance.
"Damn it Lee fine, but if you die I will have Baa-Chan ressurect you so that I can kill you myself got it?" said Naruto through a guise of anger while in reality worried for his friend.
Seeing through 'threat' Lee smiled that blinding smile of his and gave him the nice guy pose.
"I'll make sure to stay alive Naruto-Kun after all I've been wanting to have a spar with you for a while." Replied Lee.
Naruto smiled back at him before taking off at a high speed passed Kimimaru who was about to give chase but was stopped by the Konoha shinobi named Lee.
"Sorry but I am your opponent now." Said Lee standing in front of Kimimaru.
"Very well then, I will just have to get rid of you before going to stop the other one. My name is Kimimaru Kaguya, I am the one that will take your life today." Said Kimimaru while sliding into the stance of one of his dances.
"I am Rock Lee, and I'm sorry but I will not be the one dying today." Replied Lee before sliding into his own stance.
Taking one last look at the tree line Lee noticed that Sakura was gone, most likely on her way to catch up to Naruto and Sasuke.
With Sakura
Sakura ducked down and ran along the edge of the tree line circling around the battle between Lee and the creepy bone guy. For once in her life she was happy to have a low chakra source because if it was bigger than that guy probably would've sensed her.
She felt out the area with her chakra searching for Naruto, after finding his signature she carefully made her way to where she saw him take off. Once getting there she had to be careful of where she was going if not she would probably miss the surprisingly few footprints that Naruto leaves.
Finally she found herself entering a cave where she heard the faint roar of a waterfall, following the sound she eventually found her way out and headed towards the sound. Once there she stopped for a moment and took in the sight that was in front of her.
It was the famous valley where the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha had their final battle, The Valley of The End. Looking at the two giant statues of Madara and the Shodaime she heard the sound of metal against metal before getting as close as possible without giving herself away.
Looking at the source of the sound she saw it was both of her teammates, Naruto and Sasuke, and they were currently engaged in a heated battle. Sakura couldn't help but look on in worry as Naruto and Sasuke traded blows, she was relieved though when she saw they had stopped momentarily. Focusing more she noticed their mouths moving, curious as to what they were saying she got closer before carefully sending chakra to her ears.
This is what she heard.
With Naruto and Sasuke
Naruto looked at the man he considered a brother in frustration, was he always this stupid? Why wouldn't the bastard listen to reason?
Currently both he and Sasuke were standing on top of two logs that had fallen down in their earlier Rasengan and Chidori battle.
"Sasuke will you just stop this already and just come back already." Said Naruto.
Sasuke just smirked at him before responding, "Stop what exactly? All I'm trying to do is get stronger and you and that annoying girl are just holding me back."
Naruto snarled at him, "Don't talk about Sakura-Chan that way! Now will you come back with me the easy way or will I have to break every bone in your body?" asked Naruto rhetorically.
"As if, we both know who the stronger one is between us dobe." Said Sasuke with an arrogant smirk.
"Well I promised Sakura-Chan that I would bring you back and we both know that I never break my promises. So I don't care if you're stronger than me I will bring you back, whether you want to or not!" yelled Naruto in determination, making the listening Sakura tear up a bit at how far her teammate was willing to go for her.
Sasuke said nothing as he pulled out his headband and looking it over before tying it to his forehead, "I remember a couple weeks ago you said something to me that got me thinking. You had wanted me to put on my headband when we fought on the roof that day so that it would show us fighting as equals. The truth is Naruto that we aren't equals, we never were, and this bond of ours has made me weak. I lack the hatred to kill my brother, so with this final battle of ours I will sever that bond with you and that pathetic village and go to Orochimaru to get stronger!"
"If that's truly the way you feel then why did you put on your headband?" asked Naruto.
"Hn, because I know that you won't even be able to lay a scratch on it." replied Sasuke making Naruto angry.
With those words Naruto and Sasuke one again entered a fierce battle that many times Sakura had wanted to stop but just couldn't find the voice to.
It wasn't until Naruto had finally landed a triple hit combo had made Sasuke finally snap. Once again a shiver went up her spine as she saw that the familiar black flame pattern once again began spreading across Sasuke's body.
After that the fight became fairly one sided until Sasuke had Naruto by the throat a foot off the ground. Sakura looked on in shock and fear as she saw Sasuke charge up a Chidori in his left hand. She couldn't look away as she saw Naruto trying and failing to break Sasuke's grip, she could only look on in horror as she saw Sasuke plunge his hand into Naruto's chest.
Tears streamed down her face as she had just witnessed the love of her life just kill their teammate. Looking once more at the scene she was shocked to see that Naruto had somehow reacted at the last second and had moved Sasuke's hand so that it instead plunged into his shoulder instead of his heart where she knew was where Sasuke had been aiming.
Her chest tightened in pain and sorrow as she looked at her annoying yet sweet blonde haired teammate cough up blood and grit his teeth in pain. She had to put a stop to this, she just had to for Naruto's sake. Right when she was about to finally make her move she froze when an evil and oddly familiar chakra filled the air. She looked at Naruto and was shocked to see that he had just punched the hell out of Sasuke and had sent him flying fifty feet making the black flame marks recede, looking back at him she was surprised to see him hunched over with red chakra swirling around him.
His once beautiful cerulean blue eyes, not that she would ever tell him that, were now blood red. His pupils were now slitted similar to an Inuzuka, his whisker marks now were darker and wider, his canines were elongated as were his nails. What shocked her the most was the fact that there seemed to be the image of a snarling fox behind him as glared at Sasuke.
Seeing that made something click in her mind but she saved that for later as she focused on that fact that the gaping hole that was once in Naruto's shoulder was disappearing rapidly. The fight then became the opposite it was earlier with Naruto now being the one beating the absolute crap out of Sasuke. Now usually one would think that she would be mad or seeing 'her' Sasuke-Kun getting beat up so badly but this time she actually felt a little glad that he was. After seeing what he just did to Naruto she knew that this wasn't the Sasuke-Kun she knew and loved. This was someone else.
Snapping out of her thoughts she now noticed that Naruto and Sasuke's fight had now moved underwater if what the various Naruto's dive bombing the water at frightening speeds were any evidence. A couple seconds later Sasuke burst out of the water and landed on the shore and quickly tried to make his way up to a fifty foot ledge on the side of the valley wall.
Naruto seeing this made a human chain of his shadow clones and grabbed hold of Sasuke's ankles and began slamming him in to the walls of the valley before finally getting him into a spin that slammed him into the wall about a hundred feet up where his body made a crater. Naruto was about to continue his onslaught when Sasuke used the great fireball jutsu on him making Sakura once again worry for both of her teammates wellbeing.
Sasuke, seeing that Naruto had been momentarily incapacitated, used this to his advantage by slamming his fist into Naruto's gut and jumping off the Sasuke made cliff with Naruto's head in between his legs as he headed straight for the rock filled shore below. Sakura closed her eyes so she wouldn't have to see what she knew was going to happen, she flinched violently at the sickening snap that echoed throughout the now eerily silent valley. She turned to see Naruto floating lifelessly in the lake as Sasuke sat there, tears once again streamed down her face.
She couldn't believe it, she felt her chest tighten painfully, she felt her whole body go numb, she looked at Sasuke from her perch with blank eyes. There were no longer any butterflies when she looked at him, she no longer got goosebumps, and she also no longer felt her heart skip a beat. When she looked at him she felt nothing.
"He just killed him. Sasuke just killed Naruto, he's dead. He's actually dead. Naruto is dead." Thought Sakura as the reality of what she just witnessed just hit her. She began to sob quietly, her shoulders shaking as she tried not to make any noise.
It wasn't until she once again felt that evil familiar chakra that she snapped out of her sadness, she looked down and was floored to see Naruto slowly rising up with that same red chakra now covering him in some kind of cloak that resembled a fox. Naruto then charged at Sasuke and began once again beating the hell out him, moving too fast for the Uchiha to keep up.
After this continued for a couple of more minutes Sasuke was finally able to start dodging more and more of Naruto's attacks as his now fully matured Sharingan and the sinister chakra of the curse seal flowed through him once more. From there Sasuke transformed before their eyes as his hair grew longer and turned indigo in color, his nails and canines elongated and his skin turned an ashen gray. A black four pointed star covered his nose as two hand like wings suddenly grew out of his back to shield him from an attack from Naruto sending him into the statue of Madara's sandal. Naruto on the other hand was standing on the statue of the Shodaime's sandal.
Sasuke then stood once again and looked at Naruto with his fully matured Sharingan eyes with the sclera now black. Those eyes made Sakura shake in fear as she saw them glare at Naruto before his now black lips formed into a wicked smile.
The sound of a thousand chirping birds filled the air as Sasuke formed a black colored Chidori in his left hand. Naruto seeing this challenge also formed a now larger than normal and now purple Rasengan in his left hand.
Sakura held her breath as the two stared each other down for a few seconds before they both leapt high into the air. Both drew their arms back as they prepared to end the fight with one last attack.
Sakura couldn't tear her eyes away from the spectacle going on in front of her, both of her teammates no longer fighting on normal genin level terms. The moments before those two super powered attacks collided seemed to slow down as both of her comrades, her teammates, her friends, tried with all their might to overpower the other right before her eyes.
One was fighting to bring back someone he considered a brother, fighting to fulfill a promise he had made to the girl he loves. The other was fighting for power, for a way to kill a powerful foe, to sever the precious bonds he had made. Sakura contemplated all of this as she watched the two powerful attacks finally collide, an explosion of power rocked the valley as the two fighters pushed themselves to the limits attempting to finally end this battle.
A black sphere made of chakra soon wrapped around Naruto and Sasuke and Sakura lost sight of what was going on. Soon, after what seemed to be an eternity, a cracking sound was heard as rays of light began to show through the shattering sphere. The light had gotten so bright that Sakura had to shield her eyes as to not be blinded. With one last explosion everything went silent, the only sound she heard was once again the songs of the birds and the roar of the waterfall.
Looking out once more she looked on with a blank look on her face as she watched the battered form of Sasuke kneeled before the prone from of Naruto, who once again had a large hole in his chest. A cold drop of water was all the warning she got before the sky let loose a relentless assault of rain, after sitting there for a couple of moments Sakura stood up and silently made her way down to where the two fighters laid.
Sasuke was so deeply into his thoughts that he hadn't even noticed the fact that someone else was now standing by him. Looking up from Naruto he looked over towards the person and was somewhat surprised to see Sakura standing there. Still a little dazed from his fight with Naruto that he didn't even bother to register the blank look on her face.
"So, did you come all this way to beg for me to come back? Or was it another love confession with the whole 'take me with you' thing? How many times do I have to tell you, I don't love you. I never have and I never will, all you would do is just slow me down. Now why don't you just go back to that pathetic village of yours and take this inferior shinobi back with you." Said Sasuke struggling to stand up, but just after finishing his sentence his face exploded with pain as a now very angry Sakura had just punched him with all her strength. The last thing he thought before the darkness claimed him was, "I think she just dislocated my jaw."
Sakura stood over her now former 'Love of her life' and glared down at him, her chest heaving. She didn't know what came over her but after hearing what he said about Naruto and Konoha she just snapped. The things he said to her didn't even faze her yet when she heard this traitor insulting Naruto and Konoha she just couldn't let it go unpunished.
"Damn, I was trying to break his jaw not dislocate It." thought Sakura before she went and checked on Naruto.
She looked him over worriedly as she inspected the gaping hole in the middle of his chest as it bled out profusely. Sakura then reached into her pouch and pulled out medical bandages then took off Naruto's blood soaked and tattered jacket and shirt, before wrapping his chest tightly. Once doing that she went over to Sasuke and tied his hands and feet up with ninja wire before sitting next to Naruto, contemplating how she was going to call for back up.
Her problem was solved though when Kakashi-Sensei and Pakkun swiftly came down the valley wall and landed next to her, both of them breathing hard.
"Sakura what are you doing out here? I thought you weren't part of the retrieval mission?" asked the puzzled Kakashi after taking a moment to regain his breath.
"Well the thing is that I just couldn't stand around at the gate when my teammate and my comrades went out and risked their lives for this traitor." Said Sakura spitting the last word out with complete disdain while giving Sasuke a brief look of disgust.
Kakashi looked oddly at her and discreetly attempted to dispel the genjutsu he knew he was in, but upon noticing that he wasn't trapped in an illusion he shook his head and got serious. Looking at the tied up Sasuke he created a Shadow Clone with what little chakra he had left and threw him over his shoulder.
The original Kakashi walked over to Naruto and saw his the now very bloody bandages, "What happened?" asked Kakashi seriously as he internally dreaded the answer he was about to receive.
"Naruto and Sasuke fought." Was the simple yet cold answer he got from Sakura.
"Were you here when they fought?" asked Kakashi as he carefully placed Naruto on his back as he and Sakura, and his clone, were about to leave the valley.
"I saw the whole thing with my own eyes." Replied Sakura.
"Anyways my work here is done, see you later Kakashi. Also tell me later about how Naruto is doing okay?" said Pakkun before dispelling himself.
Kakashi nodded solemnly before jumping into the trees, as Sakura was about to follow after him when she saw something shine. She noticed that it was Sasuke's headband, picking it up she gave it a once over and smiled slightly at seeing the large gash running through the Leaf symbol.
"You proved him wrong Naruto." She thought before hearing Kakashi-Sensei calling for her.
Before leaving she gave The Valley of The End one more look and took in all the destruction, all the spots where Naruto had basically died. This place would forever be remembered as her most hated part of Fire Country. With that last thought she jumped into the trees and headed home, praying that her teammate and all her fellow rookies would come out of this mission alive and well.
AND SCENE!
AN: Yeah so here is my new story that I have for all you guys and I know that you all probably hate me for not updating all my other stories but please have patience people. Anyways the next stories to be updated will be my Naruto X Kuroko no Basuke story and TRS, so fans of those stories rejoice! You'll get the next chapter of those soon. Now my Naruto X SAO crossover requires me to do research and I'm lazy so that will be updated whenever, also my other stories will also be updated whenever so sorry about that guys but don't worry they will be updated sooner or later.
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