A/N(2012): This chapter has been redone it still holds a lot of original content, but it also holds a TON of new or redone content. Atlest 80% of this chapter is new, it still goes the same way but either way I wrote this in 06' and released it in 08' so year it's been 6 years since I actually began this project, wow I suck at speedy updates lmao. Anyways, I figured I'd at least come back to finish this story. Please bare with me as a lot of this story will be changing because I forgot a lot of the original plot I had devised.
Author's note: Sorry for the short first chapter it seemed longer on paper lol.
Honorable Amendments.
Chapter 1: As the rose blossoms.
Dark… it was so incredibly dark, Naruto fell to his knees staring at the closest thing he had left to family pulled his hand from his chest. Sparks of black lightning still emanated from the Uchiha's arm as he dropped his curse mark persona.
Naruto had refused to kill Sasuke, Sasuke blinded by his desire for revenge combined with the damned influence of the curse mark saw it as an opportunity. Sasuke seemed pleased with his work…until he saw what he had done… what he had become.
"No…" Sasuke saw the blood as it trickled down his skin like a snake through wet grass. Naruto's pale lifeless skin was glowing in the moon light. 'I did it… but… why does it feel so wrong? Is this not what I was supposed to do!?' Sasuke questioned himself.
"S-Sasuke… I s-still believe you c-can overcome r-revenge… it's not everything. Y-you have f-friends in Konoha." Naruto's vision started to fade one of the first signs of death. Though no matter what he still smiled that optimistic smile he continued to show everyday.
"D-dobe your… s-such a dobe…" Sasuke tried to seem like he meant it… but failed miserably as tears started their formation in his eyes. Even the emotionless bastard of a human Uchiha Sasuke had a heart, more of one then his brother at least.
"Sasuke… I-I wasn't able t-to k-kill Orochimaru…" Blood started to flow out of his mouth as internal bleeding took it's course. "I-I want yo-you to go t-to him… and train…" Naruto slowly lost all eyesight and closed his eyes for the last time.
"W-what?!" Sasuke asked confused, small tears began to make their way out of his eyes. "You threw your life away for nothing!" Sasuke didn't even attempt to hide his tears, too overcome by emotion and confusion to care about his image.
"S-Sasuke your wrong, I did die for something, I died for you I h-helped you see that things aren't al-always as they seem." Naruto felt the bleeding stop, Kyuubi clearly beginning her treatment that only Jinchuriki got the unfortunate pleasure of receiving. "Sasuke… t-to kill Itachi… y-you need to get stronger… Orochi-teme is a bastard, b-but he can help you faster then Konoha…"
Naruto lost feeling in his arms and with his last strength swiped the hand across his hitai-ate. The remainder of his claws cut a scratch into it. Symbol of a nuke-nin, Naruto planned to show honor by doing this, but in the end couldn't finish and looked like a mere missing nin.
"I'm not saying f-follow Orochimaru as his friend…or underling, but you can do to h-him what he does to o-others." Naruto realized death was coming fast apparently Kyuubi wasn't able to heal fast when dirty rain water, mud, and bacteria were fighting against it.
Death was mocking him, it's silence continued to stay away, it's peaceful bliss would not get within his grasp. Making him suffer as he thought about the eternal bliss that he didn't know if he would get to see.
Naruto was waiting… waiting for peace… but it wouldn't come…
No matter what Naruto tried it would come within reach and back away as if telling him he hadn't earned it yet.
Naruto; Gama Sennin's apprentice, shinobi of the leaf, Yondaime's son, and Uchiha…
Naruto though has yet to unlock his sharingan due to Kyuubi's influence the sharingan was sealed away as well with everything else.
This was it? He came to stop Sasuke and ended up failing in that too…
He truly was a failure wasn't he?
"N-Naruto, you can't die… you're like my brother in all but blood… you of all people don't deserve death if anything you should be Hokage already…" Sasuke was practically sobbing now, truly it would've been a sight to laugh about for years… if not for the situation.
Each tear that hit the ground invisible and forgotten…
The world seemed to stop for the next few seconds as the two best friends told each other their last words knowing they might very well be the last.
'Brother… haha… Sasuke thinks of me as his brother… truly? I always knew we were close… but I never knew he could think of anyone like that…' thought the blonde genin, Naruto slowly felt himself being pulled into darkness.
"Hm, it seems Naru-chan is having some difficulties getting up after this one huh?" An angelic voice rang out, waking Naruto from his sleep.
Looking down he was in his usual jumpsuit with no holes, blood, or anything wrong with him.
"Am I… Am I dead…?" Naruto seemed troubled by this fact, even being a seasoned shinobi prepared for death each and every day won't prepare you when it truly comes.
"No child, your time is not now, your time will come though, when it does you will know…" This one seemed dark, yet not evil, almost like a war veteran would sound who had done deeds they wished they could forget.
"Wait, what do you mean now is not my time?" Naruto was confused, he never thought that people had a 'time' to die per say.
"You will know when you are ready… for now you shall return." Naruto looked around but all he saw was darkness, he couldn't place a direction that the voices came from.
"Wait! I want to know now! A-am I supposed to do something?! Why am I here? Where is here?!" Naruto was panicking by now, as all sane people would when faced with such a unique situation.
"You gotta make a stop somewhere first though Naru-chan! Kyuu-san seems to be having some difficulties" That beautiful feminine voice seemed to calm him for some reason, whilst the other seemed to rile him up.
"Wait! Answer my questions! Where am I? Who are you?" Though he had calmed, he was far from peachy, he was still stuck in a black void with two voices coming from nowhere.
"With time…" That damned voice, so vague and irritating yet for some reason he was afraid of it. With that he felt a pull, as though he was being dragged under water.
Blinking, he woke up in a place that was all too familiar, right about now he wanted to go back to creepy voice den.
The sewer, that was apparently his mind, now that he thought about it… was that some kind of hint that something was wrong with him?
Picking himself up from the magic water that seemed to not want to cling to anything, he waded in random directions until he found it.
The room was insanely large, and could easily fit the Hokage's tower 10 times over and still have room to spare. Looking into the cage and spotting the very thing that struck fear into the hearts of Konoha's shinobi and citizens alike 12 years ago.
The Kyuubi lay seemingly asleep but he knew better Kyuubi always knew when he stepped foot in here. It was like the damned fox smelled him, and usually had something prepared to try and scare him.
But… this time seemed different, he didn't know what, but it seemed as though… perhaps Kyuubi wasn't faking it this time.
He stepped towards the cage and examined the colossal beast, it was laying in what seemed like an undignified heap.
"Hey you damned fox, wake up!" He stepped a foot inside the cage and decided to pull on a whisker in an attempt to get it up.
"O-oh it's you brat…" Looking up from what seemed like it hadn't had a good sleep in months. The fox didn't protest Naruto's pulling of whiskers, fur, or even it's mouth.
"Damn right it's me! Are you insane or do you just plain want to die?! Why aren't you working on healing my body? You know you'll probably die along with me you know!" Naruto was getting angrier by the second with the lazy attitude being shown by this 'almighty' being.
"I can't"
"That's all? Where is your speech about respecting you for being a millennia old beast of immense power? If you're gonna be an ass by letting us die, you'd might as well do it in style." Observing the situation he felt that there might actually be something wrong.
"It's hard to argue with no chakra… it's even harder to heal without it." Naruto was perplexed by this.
"What do you mean no chakra? Aren't you supposed to have an almost limitless amount of chakra?" It was common knowledge that was taught in the academy that Kyuubi was known to have so much chakra that it literally formed it's body out of it.
"I suppose you could say I still have the chakra… I just can't use it." Uncharacteristically the Kyuubi was providing actual explanations… but that still wasn't good enough for our blonde enigma.
"Damnit! Stop being so vague and tell me the problem!" Naruto knew his moments were numbered and the Kyuubi seemed to be taking it all in stride.
Kyuubi pointed towards the seal with his one of his long ears.
"How the hell is that preventing it? You've sent me chakra and tried to kill/control me with it before so don't tell me the seal is blocking your chakra!" Naruto wanted a real answer, if the Kyuubi was just letting them die he'd at least like a straight answer.
"You idiot!" The Kyuubi roared, effectively scaring Naruto out of the cage, before the biju collapsed again, "You just fought a long battle using my chakra and took a huge blow to the chest directly through your right lung and several major arteries, not to mention everything else that got fried. I'm only allowed to use so much chakra at a time a day, you reached your limit. It was one of the major features that prevents me from controlling you." Looking exhausted after a somewhat simple explanation considering all the chakra used included that chakra for itself.
"Well… you didn't have to yell" He said it jokingly enough that the beast got it, but still got a glare in response, "So now what? We just wait till we die?"
"Pretty much."
Naruto face faulted, "Are you crazy?! I wasn't serious! There has to be someway around this!"
"Well as you got older the limit was going to increase, but I'm guessing he didn't expect you to be on a mission capable of this much damage at 12 years old."
"Well is there a way to increase it without time travel?" Naruto was getting desperate, if he didn't find something soon he was going to… well yeah.
"Well…"
"Well what?" He had a hopeful look on his face, he put up a brace front for Sasuke but no one wants to die if they can do anything about it.
"The paper on the door, I think if you-" But he was cut off, by… guess who?
Okay it's only Naruto, "Are you out of your mind?! I'm not removing the seal, I know very well what would happen if I did that." A funny sight it would've been to see a tiny kid glaring at a fearsome creature as this.
"Shut up you idiot, I'm merely suggesting that you fold it over about 2 inches, if you do that it should remain stable enough to hold the seal together while allowing me some breathing room."
Hearing this Naruto was faced with two decisions… die or… maybe die. Neither were really pretty but Naruto figured he was a pretty lucky guy so chose to throw the dice.
Approaching the gate he got a running start at the paper and when he felt his momentum stop, used the friction on the gate to launch himself up to the paper… but accidentally ripped it instead of folding it…
Naruto landed with the piece of paper in hand, looking at it with wide eyes, at first nothing happened and figured it would be okay… then…
An explosion of chakra came from inside the cage, Kyuubi it seemed, was surrounded in red and a little bit of blue chakra.
At first he thought Kyuubi was going to escape, but then he noticed the ball of chakra was getting smaller and smaller.
Finally it released a huge gust of wind in all directions, sending Naruto flying into the far wall. He got up shaking his head to get rid of the dizziness, he stood up and walked over to the cage to find a beautiful woman with red hair that seemed to literally be emitting sparks of fire. Her eyes were deep orange almost red, wearing a kimono that was full red with what seemed to be yellow flowers on it. But the most distinguishing features were the fox ears on top and the 3 flowing tails behind her.
"Uh…"
"That's what all men say when they see this form for the first time for some reason." The mysteriously woman smirked at the now staring and blushing blonde.
"W-who are you?"
"What? You don't recognize me? I'm wounded kit… after all we've been through together." The woman seemed to begin crying and as Naruto approached the cage she quickly turned with a vicious snarl and a frightening red fox head made of chakra forming behind her.
"AGH!" Naruto flung himself back… "K-Kyuubi?!"
"Is there any other person who would stuck in your stomach that you would be expecting?" The smug and sarcastic comment clearly making their way back.
"W-well not exactly I mea-… wait… you're a girl?!" Wide eyed and seeming about to faint from shock he stood there mouth gaping.
"Yeah… you got a problem with that?" Kyuubi seemed somewhat irritated at how shocked he was that the 'almighty' Kyuubi was female.
"But the Kyuubi is supposed to be one of the strongest beings in existence! There is no way a girl could be the Kyuubi! This is a mix up right?" Naruto suddenly got hit by a rock that seemed to come from no where, followed quickly by a road sign, car, sink, and many more heavy objects that probably don't even exist in the Naruverse.
"You bastard! I dare you to say that to my face!" Naruto was struggling to climb out of the pile of junk thrown at him.
"I think even saying it this far away was dangerous enough…."
"Pft, and here I was going to help you when you got an advance on your chakra allowance, now I think I'd rather die along with you…" Kyuubi turned away and started walking away until she felt some arms around her waist.
"Noooooooo! Please! I'm sorry I won't ever saying it again!" She turned to look at the ultimate creation… puppy dog eyes.
'Damn that woman Kami for letting humans know of it's secret.' Kyuubi sighed, "Fine I wasn't really willing to die with YOU any ways, that'd be a worse punishment then being eaten by the Shinigami."
"Thanks Kyuu-hime!" Naruto said as he faded out of existence leaving Kyuubi with a noticeable blush on her face as she began to work.
'Wait… What is this?' Kyuubi encountered something unusual when she was healing him and had a feeling he was going to like it.
"Naruto?" Sasuke was scared… he didn't want to loose another family member not so soon! No! he refused to let it happen, Itachi killed everyone he loved and left him alive for kicks! He wouldn't loose his best friend just because of his selfish delusions of grandeur.
"Sasuke… I-I think everything is going to be okay n-now…" Naruto was now feeling strength starting to course through his veins instead of embracing death's kiss. As he opened his eyes he noticed Sasuke looking at him with a mixture of horror and awe.
"Sasuke?" Naruto asked already feeling plenty better as he struggled to sit up and looked at Sasuke, he had a look of wonder. What was he looking at that he found so damn interesting.
"Naruto! You have the Sharingan! But not only the Sharingan, but the Mangekyou Sharingan even!" Sasuke was ecstatic, but at the same time completely confused, wondering how something like that could possibly happen.
"Sharingan? That's impossible Sasuke, I'm an Uzumaki not an Uchiha, besides what is Mangekyou?" Naruto stated matter of factly, though none too thrilled to be an Uzumaki. Naruto then started coughing blood, he may feel better but was still on his death bed until Kyuubi had finished the healing.
"Either way, you have the Sharingan believe it or not, I'm not sure how you have it either. Mangekyou is the final level of the Sharingan, very few ever achieve it, even fewer survive it's draw backs. Each Mangekyou user is presented with 3 unique and common techniques, one Ninjutsu, one Genjutsu, and 1 Kuchiyose Jutsu of sorts. There are also the 2 secret techniques that all Mangekyou users can use but they are not to be resorted to in any way the consequences are severe." Sasuke finished his lecture and Naruto seemed somewhat amazed.
'Gah! What is this burning?!' Naruto clenched his teeth as his head seemed to mentally catch on fire. 'It feels like it's going to melt out of my-' That was when it started… the single event that would trigger the long history of events over the years.
Flashback;
"Ruto! Get back in here everyone is waiting for you before we start dinner!" A beautiful woman with long black hair called from the window into the large backyard where a young 7 year old Naruto was playing with a red haired girl.
"Okay Kaa-san!" Naruto called back then turned to face the little girl, " Well I guess I have to go now Yuri-chan" Naruto seemed a little flustered talking to her as he turned to go in.
Naruto entered the house and spotted his mother talking to a woman with blonde hair that was up in a ponytail.
Looking around the room it held an interesting group of people, the reason was because today was his mother's birthday. There was Hokage-jiji, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and a few people from various origins. As Naruto walked in he was immediately picked up by Jiraiya and carried over to the table and placed in the seat next to his mother.
The rest of the time was spent with Naruto playing with Jiraiya and some of the male members that were there were either joining in and rough housing or just chatting.
Then Naruto realized something was wrong, there was one person missing that seemed to be doing that a lot lately.
"Jiraiya, where is Akamata-nii?"
"Hm, I'm not sure Naruto, perhaps he is on a mission, after all he is a Jounin now and a prodigy at that. I'm sure he'll be back this week to see you attempt your advanced placement tests." Jiraiya patted him on the head and set him down…
That's when it happened, Jiraiya collapsed, not asleep, not dead, just collapsed, his eye were open, breathing was normal. Naruto helped set him up against a wall just as Tsunade and Jiji came rushing over they too both crashed to the floor.
Soon everyone was falling, and it was obvious what had happened…
The food was poisoned, everyone was collapsing and soon Naruto was the only one left standing. Of course this raised some questions seeing as every except for him was poisoned. They also saw him eat the food with them, undoubtedly they blamed him and it was obvious with the hateful stares he felt on him.
Before Naruto could do anything though, the door opened and in stepped someone that made the more experienced shinobi scared and the less experienced shinobi and civilians hopeful.
Akamata stepped into the room and looked around and looked directly at Naruto.
"Ahhh, it seems the fox does well against poison, dare I say you're likely immune to anything but the most potent and deadly poisons… and even those probably wouldn't kill you in average doses." Akamata approached Naruto in a calm and orderly manner.
"Nii-san! Something happened everyone… everyone just fell and can't move!"
"I know… That's cause I made sure the poison was potent enough to affect everyone but not enough to detect without making it look like you suspected the host. Which of course no one would want to disrespect kaa-san on her birthday now would they?" Akamata seemed a little too calm for the situation which even a 7 year old seemed to figure out what had happened.
"N-Nii-san… you did this to everyone?" Slowly backing away from him until he was cornered right next to Jiraiya.
"I did… and now you're going to watch the rest" Naruto was chopped in the next with a hand and he lost consciousness.
When he woke up he realized some things, first; he couldn't move, he felt restrained, second; he felt really really weak, and third; something smelled really bad.
As he opened his eyes he was instantly regretting it, in front of him was one of the males that was playing with him earlier, without any arms or legs, but still very much alive.
"Ah, I see you're awake now Ruto-kun, with that we can continue were I left off." With this Naruto watched as Akamata slowly dragged the Kunai across the throat of the man in front of him and watched as he bled out.
"Oh don't worry Naruto, he was in such agony from having his arms and legs slowly ripped off that I'm sure death was what he wanted." He didn't sound insane, crazy, or angry which is what made it all the scarier.
One after another Akamata made Naruto watch along with Jiraiya Tsunade and the Hokage as he tortured and killed everyone, except for one person, right before their eyes.
"What's wrong Jiraiya-sama? Why aren't you and your teammate getting up to fight against me? Do you not want to help save these people, I mean you're sitting idle whilst I slaughter these people right in front of you, that's kind of harsh isn't it?" They just glared at him, wishing they could kill him with looks.
"Ah, I see that means you're waiting for the main course," With this he picked up the one person Naruto was praying got away…
His mother.
"Ah yes I'm sure you want to save her at least don't you Tsunade-sama? I mean you two go way back, you were the one that plotted the affair mother had with Naruto's dad after all." He stressed the word 'Naruto's' a lot, which a 7 year old wouldn't quite understand.
"MMM! MmM!Mm!M!" Naruto struggled to yell behind the gag that was in place, tears trailing down his face already from the others.
Akamata, set her in a chair in front of them, "Oh don't worry, for some reason I do still care for mother even though she's lied to me my entire life." This made everyone including Naruto feel relief as he put away the tools he used to torture the others.
"So I won't torture her," The 3 elders immediately knew what was coming and immediately panicked, but Naruto didn't understand until it was too late, a kunai already embedded in his mothers next. "I'll let her die quickly."
Naruto was sobbing hysterically as his mental structure was slowly breaking down.
"Oh sweet Ruto-kun, don't worry you 4 get to go free and live… but not free of charge." His eyes then shifted into a blood red eye with what seemed to be almost shaped like a black heart in his eyes.
Then…. Pain.
All Naruto saw was blue and felt incredible pain, he couldn't hear anything, and all he saw was blue… then he came back…
"How was your trip through my Genjutsu? Jiraiya and the others still haven't woken from it, and when they do, they'll remember nothing about me or this family…" Akamata walked towards him and that's when Naruto realized he was in a circle of intricately drawn patterns, "And neither will you…" Then everything faded… and he heard one last thing
"When you turn the age of 17 we will meet again, in a place of no life."
"Are you sure you're going to be okay?" Sasuke used a medical jutsu to try to ease the pain, he learned it from a scroll in the Uchiha estate, it was merely a pain medication of sorts used to train far past your limits.
"Akamata…" Naruto said with great defeat as he realized the memory he saw was sealed away and awoken with the influx of chakra Kyuubi had received.
That day Naruto had came home to have fun with his family… a family he didn't even know he had for so many year… he thought he'd been alone and abandoned.
It was supposed to be a happy day…
"Akamata…?" Sasuke was now pleading with Naruto, his best friend he was now hoping to get Naruto to stay…
"Ah… nothing, don't worry about it, just a name I was remembering." Not wanting to worry Sasuke, he planned to tell him… just not yet.
But the fact that Akamata was going to attack was… disturbing to say the least…
Akamata was forgotten, by everyone, the strength of the sealing techniques used had to rival that of the Yondaime to be able to seal off that much of someone's memory without them realizing it. It meant he had to create entirely new and fake memories… such as for Tsunade that would be her little brother and lover were either not real at all… or part of the ones killed that day.
^^^^Mean While^^^^
Kakashi and his canine summon were searching around for Naruto and Sasuke. His students that were practically sons to him… the only team he ever passed and of course this would be what happens.
"Pakkun do you smell anything yet?" Kakashi was worried the rain would be too much for even the expert tracking summon to smell through.
"Well I smell something very faint… almost like a… fox and snake?" Pakkun answered as Kakashi seemed to perk up at that, yet at the same time was extremely troubled.
"That means we very well may be too late… please Sasuke… Naruto, don't make the same mistakes" Kakashi was currently thinking about how he would deal with it when they encountered each other.
Would he have to knock him out and drag Sasuke back, or would he already be knocked out and ready to come home… He doubted this more and more as Pakkun said something that made his heart fall.
"Kakashi I got a good sniff and it's not good… I smell the odor of death, and it's not weak by any means, but I do have a lock in on their location." Pakkun said shocking Kakashi, he picked up Pakkun and began to speed to the area with no signs of slowing down.
====Valley of the End====
"Naruto… it seems the fox's work is done, you look almost brand new, I think we could both go to Orochi-teme I'm sure he'd have no complaints. We can both get stronger and one day we can walk back into Konoha heads held high with his head under our arms…" Sasuke was wishing they had stayed at Konoha and got strength there.
They came this far and weren't backing down now of all times, they both had their reasons for getting stronger. Ironically enough both of their reason stemmed back to their brothers… but Sasuke doesn't need to know that yet.
They would both play cleanup and hopefully bring two exceptionally corrupted shinobi to justice and perhaps put their minds at ease.
"Sasuke… a soldier pill and I'll travel on my own… the fox healed me but I'm still tired from our fight after all." Naruto said, in a weakened voice as Sasuke dug through his pouch to try to find it.
"You sure? You almost died! How can you be able to move without pain putting you back on your ass that jutsu I used won't last forever." Sasuke was stupefied, Naruto who moments ago was saying good bye now could fight again.
"Naruto! Sasuke!" Kakashi appeared in front of them blocking their path so they couldn't escape, though he was more or less focused on Sasuke, not quite expecting Naruto to dart.
"Sasuke, hurry soldier and blood pills now! If we have any chance to get past Kakashi we have to hurry and fast." Naruto yelled and took the pills now feeling good enough to fight again. He had his eyes closed when Kakashi appeared.
"What is going on here? Naruto hurry and take Sasuke's arms so we can disable him till we get back to the village, and open your damn eyes so you can see to do it!" Kakashi was on the edge of panicking, not wanting any mistakes made, or he may lose his student.
Naruto didn't want to open his eyes and reveal the Mangekyou it was his secret in the fight and wanted to keep it that way.
Sasuke took some of his own pills, as he dealt with the pain that came with them soon followed by the intense energy and relief that made them almost addicting to shinobi.
Naruto, managing to sneak up behind Kakashi delivered a quick chop, but as soon as it was caught he closed his eyes as Kakashi flung him back at Sasuke.
Kakashi confused about what was happening was especially flabbergasted when he saw Naruto's eyes closed. He was fighting an elite Jounin with his eyes closed?
Sasuke activated his Sharingan who upon seeing the fully matured version was shocked which allowed Sasuke to get a punch into his stomach who jumped up into the air trying to lessen the impact.
Naruto heard this and knew Kakashi was far enough away that he wouldn't see his eyes so opened them long enough to jump towards Kakashi trying to deliver a drop kick which was promptly blocked and then had his foot grabbed and then slung Naruto back to earth as he himself landed.
"We, are going to Orochimaru…" Naruto said eyes remaining closed.
"Naruto? What are you going on about?" Kakashi had hope they were joking and was getting worried. Would Konoha loose Konoha's two ninja with the most potential? The last Uchiha and son of Yondaime?
"I'm saying we are leaving the village… permanently." Naruto said as he opened his eyes receiving a stunned stare from Kakashi.
Naruto charged and with his eye sight and Mangekyou blazing he was more dangerous.
Naruto charged with a leg sweep which caused Kakashi to jump in the air but due to the Sharingan, Naruto was far better then before, allowing him to have the upper hand for at least a few moves.
Naruto then leapt at Kakashi throwing a left hook which Kakashi used one hand to push off course expecting him to try for a knee or elbow attack was prepared for either… but not for Sasuke appearing behind him with a kick to his rib cage.
After he landed Naruto engaged in a series of punches and kicks with the older ninja, none connected and Naruto received more then a few counter strikes.
Kakashi, having enough of this grabbed his left arm and delivered a strong punch to his gut followed by a rising kick to the chin send him flying back to Sasuke.
Kakashi slightly winded from his run over here knew he had to end this before things got out of control and he couldn't cover for them.
Naruto, used Kage Bunshin, creating 3 Narutos who all promptly charged at Kakashi, one managed to find an opening due to Kakashi's fatigue from running here at full speed, used a kunai to clip the side of his leg.
Kakashi back flipped away and had forgotten about Sasuke… which was a mistake because he was right under his nose… literally, Sasuke canceled the henge of a rock under Kakashi and managed to upper cut him in the chin.
Though that victory came with a cost, as Kakashi quickly recovered and grabbed the arm twisting in behind him and kneeing him to side HARD. Hearing a few ribs crack Kakashi was fairly certain that Sasuke was down for the count.
Naruto though had managed to make his way toward him in the mean time and tried to punch him, only for his hands to get caught by Kakashi and forced to look at Kakashi.
Which was a mistake on Kakashi's part because making Naruto look at him, meant looking directly into the eyes of Naruto.
Naruto's Mangekyou spun wildly as Kakashi couldn't look away. "You are now in my world of Kaguzuchi, for the next 72 hours you will be burned, melted, and smothered and you will have it done to you by those you hate the most." Naruto stated from instinct like he knew he was supposed to say that.
Kakashi looked around frantically, it was true he was surrounded by fire and chained to a stone wall which had molten rock slowly dribbling down it at an increasing rate.
"Naruto, you realize you and Sasuke will be labeled as nuke-nin if you leave? Especially after injuring another Konoha shinobi." Kakashi stated, sadness laced his voice like a tight thread. It was true… his only students with potential were very likely throwing their lives in Konoha in the trash.
"Kakashi-sensei, I must get the power to kill my brother, and Sasuke needs to learn the truth behind his as well… sorry… don't hide anything that happened here… and… tell our friends we're sorry…" Naruto said, regret evident in the saddened tone of his.
"Okay Naruto, I understand, you have to do what you must…" Kakashi was sad that his prize students would be replaced. 'Naruto… Sasuke… will be labeled nuke-nin now.' Kakashi thought, hoping he could shorten the amount of ANBU after them.
Naruto approached, tapping each of Kakashi's limbs, and his torso.
A searing pain ripped through his body. A hole appeared in his chest and each limb, blood, flesh, guts, and molten bone spilled out. Kakashi forced to remain alive also had a fire sear through him as it slowly turned him into nothing but ash.
Kakashi then came back healed yet inside a cage this time. As he stood fire erupted around the cage mere centimeters away from the bars. Magma spiraled around each one as well, as if alive.
The cage was like a stove burning through his clothes and flesh. The flesh was melting to the cage as he died very very agonizingly slowly.
It repeated a hundred different times each in a different way.
"71 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds left to go." Naruto's sinister grin would have made Shinigami himself cringe at the pure malice in it.
Kakashi let out a scream so terrifying that it made Naruto feel the utmost regret for one of the few people to care for him.
'Kakashi-sensei one of the few to accept me… I'm sorry.' Naruto thought as the torture continued and he watched and helped.
Every once in a while stabbing, or ripping flesh off him…
The world would feel pity for any man in this genjutsu it was just horrible…
Naruto also, threw in anyone Kakashi ever held dear to join him…
What made it worse was they would look at Kakashi and blame him for not saving them.
Kakashi was a tough man but no one not even he could come out of this unscarred it wasn't a Mangekyou jutsu for nothing.
Well Naruto considered ending it early but he needed the time to get him and Sasuke far away before he recovered and would probably try to make another attempt on them.
Well during this Naruto thought about his friends innocents and even random people being killed in front of Kakashi.
After this Kakashi would never be the same. No one could be the same after this.
()()()()After the Kaguzuchi()()()()
Kakashi collapsed with a side eyed look.
He was wide eyed and talking about things that Naruto couldn't quite comprehend but it did make him sad to see him like this.
Things like, "No Rin! Obito! Sensei!" came out of Kakashi's mouth, after he thought about it he thought maybe that was too much.
Kakashi always did have a soft spot for his loved ones, that much was obvious, he'd gone through a lot in his life and his precious people always meant the most to him. That was one of the things he would never forget about Kakashi's lessons.
Sasuke looked at Kakashi and looked at Naruto with a new found respect and fear. Though the respect made up for the fear, he would never look at Naruto the same way again, his friend was extremely powerful now. Though Sasuke respected him, he still harassed him to know the secret behind what had happened.
"What did you do to him to make him like that? I mean Kakashi has stood against Tsukuyomi even better then that." Questioned Sasuke as even though he didn't want to felt pity for his sensei, he did help him through the tough times.
"I used my Kaguzuchi on him… it's my Mangekyou's genjutsu technique, like Itachi's Tsukuyomi… he isn't the only one with that strong a genjutsu…" Naruto said as his hair turned black streaked, which he guessed was a side affect of the Mangekyou. He disabled the Sharingan and his hair returned to normal, which was strange.
"Lets get going to Orochimaru, oh and by the way activate your Mangekyou I want you to keep it on all the way to the hide out." Naruto said, as he took another couple pills. And Sasuke did as well.
"Right we should head out, and what are you talking about? I didn't activate Mangekyou you didn't die hell we bonded more actually." Sasuke was skeptical, he hadn't performed the actions necessary to gain the Mangekyou according to his brother.
"Killing your best friend is not what actually activates the Mangekyou, it's the insane amount of regret and pain you feel from doing it." Naruto said while they started to walk to the forest where they would spend a week getting to the base of Orochimaru.
Sasuke just sighed he willed the Mangekyou and to his surprise it came to him increasing his fully matured sharingan vision by a significant amount, but also felt the huge drain it was on his reserves. But, he also realized he had 3 techniques to work on unlocking and getting him closer to killing his brother.
What he didn't notice and wouldn't for a while was that his curse mark also disappeared leaving him with no connection to Orochimaru… no reason to betray his best friend… no way for Orochimaru to win if they fought.
"5 Mangekyou users… me, you, Itachi, Kakashi, and… Akamata." Naruto said before he took to the trees followed closely by Sasuke.
A/N: Well this is the end of the revised chapter 1, I do hope it is to your liking, I still have to do chapter 2-4 as well, then I'll work on new chapters. I promised someone I would release 2-4 new chapters by Christmas and I will do my best to do so.
