Author's Note: After reading "Timeless" by Marle (aka. LadyMarle on dA) and "Dream" by xxredemption-love-and-liesxx, I felt inspired by writing this crossover story between Naruto Shippūden and Squaresoft's (now Square Enix's) Chrono Trigger (I'm using the classic 1995 Super Nintendo version of the game with the PSX/Nintendo DS ports, that has two anime cut scenes tying into the events of Chrono Cross, for music). This story will mainly focus on Sasuke Uchiha, a character in the Naruto universe who's the former member of Team Seven and the sole survivor of the Uchiha Clan who now became the official leader of Team Hebi (Snake)/Taka (Hawk) who also ended up marrying Sakura as well as becoming the father of Sarada, waking up in the snow barren wasteland of the Antiquity era from Chrono Trigger (just before Lavos, an extraterrestrial that's the main antagonist of both Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, destroys the Kingdom of Zeal from the ground up) instead of becoming a power-hungry lunatic that wanted to destroy his village like in the anime/manga, sometime during Crono's first time at Zeal after the defeat of Azala and the Black Tyranno as well as Nizbel II in 65,000,000 BC and after they defeated Magus, Ozzie, Flea, and Slash at the Fiendlord's Keep in 600 AD (I still get goosebumps whenever I watch the scene where Frog/Glenn uses the Masamune to cut the mountain in half). The timeline of this story takes place around the time that Itachi Uchiha died at the Uchiha Hideout during the Fated Battle Between Brothers and after Lavos buried himself inside the earth in the prehistoric era right on top of the Tyranno Lair, killing off many of the dinosaurs and begins feeding off of the Earth's DNA at the end of The Unnatural Selection (as well as a piece of Lavos breaking off and becoming the Frozen Flame for those that might've played through Cross) but just before Crono dies at the Ocean Palace followed by the Fall of Zeal and Schala's demise (in which we learn later on in Part II of Cross and the Nintendo DS port of Chrono Trigger after you beat the Dream Devourer/Time Devourer in the Darkness Beyond Time), and since I don't know what time period that the Naruto franchise (as well as its sequel) takes place, you're just going to deal with the time period that Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura live in being that of Another World, the alternate and parallel world that Serge had died by drowning at the age of seven and where Chronopolis is still standing (because in Home World, it was destroyed and got turned into the Dead Sea with the Tower of Gheddon located in the center) in Chrono Cross.
Disclaimer: I only write fan fiction for entertainment, recreation, and just to make the fan base happy. The setting and characters in this story are that of Masashi Kishimoto and the Dream Team (thank you for composing the music for Trigger and Cross as well as that stupid Satella view that almost nobody likes, Mitsuda-sensei!). I don't own any of them!
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January 1010 A.D.
"It's finally over..."
Collapsing roughly on his hands and knees after dealing the ending blow on his brother, Sasuke let his head fall as he gasped for air as he felt his eyes close, silently saying that he avenged their clan until...
"Is this... the death you had imagined for me, then?" Itachi suddenly asked.
Sasuke's eyes suddenly widened in horror as he watched his mortally-wounded older brother, who was supposed to be dead after getting struck by Kirin, slowly get up as his body was emitted in a fiery red aura.
A low growl emitted from Sasuke's throat as he gritted his teeth and activated his Cursed Seal of Heaven again. Gods, why wouldn't his older brother just die already?!
"Damn you!" Sasuke roared as he saw an exoskeleton form around his brother.
"If I hadn't had this, I would've been dead." Itachi rasped, his voice getting weaker. "You really have gotten stronger, Sasuke."
Sasuke stiffened.
"Now it's my turn. I'm going to reveal to you my final trump card. The Susanoō!" Itachi said as his trump card gained a layer of flesh.
"The Susanoō?" Sasuke repeated before he felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder that forced him on his knees.
"Is that all the Jutsu you have or are there more tricks up your sleeve?" Itachi asked, looking at Sasuke.
Sasuke said nothing as the pain in his left shoulder continued to get worse.
"What's the matter?" Itachi asked. "You've run out of chakra and you're out of options?"
"You need my power, don't you?" A familiar voice asked in Sasuke's head as the younger Uchiha gripped his right shoulder in pain.
"Damn it!" Sasuke cursed, collapsing on his knees.
"Aww... What's the matter? I thought you wanted revenge on Itachi." The voice hissed as Sasuke tried to fight it off.
"Do it! Release my power!" The voice rasped out.
Unable to keep the power contained inside him, Sasuke screamed in sheer pain as eight white snakes ripped through his right shoulder as he tried to push out more chakra despite not having any left. The snakes ripped what was left of the black shirt that Sasuke wore.
"That feels like… Orochimaru's eight headed serpent Jutsu..." Itachi said weakly as his Susanoō severed seven heads of the snakes before the eighth one opened its mouth.
Suddenly, from within the mouth of the eighth giant snake, a pale skinned man came out, completely naked and covered with slime and saliva as he laughed, much to Itachi's disgust.
"So, it finally emerges..." Itachi said as Orochimaru started to regurgitate his snake sword from his mouth.
"You should thank me for taking over your brother's body after he ran out of chakra. I've been waiting for this moment to arrive!" Orochimaru said.
Before he got a chance to continue, Itachi's eyes flared and a liquid flaming sword appeared from a gourd and stabbed the latter through his sweat shined chest.
Orochimaru continued laughing. "Do you honestly think this sword would kill the likes of me?" He asked as his eyes widened at the pulling sensation that he was being removed from Sasuke.
"Is that all you've got, Sasuke?" Itachi asked, looking at his brother through the abomination.
"This sword...! The Totsuka Blade?! Itachi… it was inside you all this time?" He asked just as he was getting himself absorbed into the blade, revealing a shirtless and slightly battered Sasuke, who was panting and was stripped of Orochimaru's power as well as the Cursed Seal of Heaven.
All that was left of Orochimaru was a single white snake that slithered into the rubble of the Hideout.
"And now, I'm going to take your eyes, Sasuke..." Itachi said before he suddenly fell on his knees and began coughing out a large torrent of blood from his mouth. Sasuke was stunned by this as his brother looked up with a handful of blood that was dripping from in-between his fingers and his chin. "I'll take my time retrieving them."
Letting himself be taken by the waves of sensations he was feeling as his older brother's Susanoō gained a shield, Sasuke quickly pulled out a few kunai with a paper bomb attached to it, instantly throwing it to push his brother away and when the smoke cleared, Itachi was still moving closer, protected by the shield that his Susanoō had, the Yata Mirror.
"Damn it!" Sasuke cursed as he continued throwing more kunai at his brother.
Grasping his katana, Sasuke attempted to break through the barrier, only to have his sword fly out of his hands and sending the younger Uchiha hurtling towards the ground.
"They're my eyes... They're mine..." Itachi said as he continued walking towards Sasuke.
Despite his efforts of not being able to fully maintain his Sharingan and shaking in complete fear as Itachi slowly made his way towards him, Sasuke felt a wave of panic come over him, as he took a few steps back until his bare back suddenly touched the remains of the wall that had the Uchiha symbol on it, that he used when he used Kirin.
"A wall…?" Sasuke asked as he looked at Itachi, who was now dangerously close to him and the wall that was behind him.
"This is it..." Itachi rasped out as his bloodstained fingers were inches away from Sasuke's eyes.
Sasuke gasped and, unable to find any possible ways of escaping due to the Amaterasu flames, horribly watched as his brother's bloodstained fingers that were covered in his own blood didn't go for his eyes, but to his forehead as Sasuke was instantly reminded of his childhood, back when he was a small child and when the entire Uchiha Clan was still alive.
Sasuke, surprised and stunned at how he managed to keep his eyes, continued to look at his brother with a shocked look on his face.
"Sorry, Sasuke… this is the last time…" Itachi said, a smile forming on his face before he fully lost his sight and collapsed onto the ground, his fingers slowly sliding from an awestruck Sasuke's forehead before lying in a pool of his own blood but not before hitting his face on the remains of the wall in front of him, the burning-red Susanoō instantly dissipating after it roared one last time.
Just like Sasuke himself had predicted before the two brothers began fighting, Itachi Uchiha was finally dead before his younger brother.
The white snake slithered out of the rubble after checking to see if it was okay to escape, but before it could, the unquenchable Amaterasu flames consumed the creature as it died instantly after hissing and writhing in pain, leaving only a mark of where it died.
Trying to catch his breath despite his wounds that he accumulated during the battle, Sasuke felt his heart accelerate as he tried to recover his shaking form, his mind trying to process what just transpired.
"What a shame." White Zetsu, who was observing the battle, said as it slowly disappeared into the rubble. "He was so close to getting Sasuke's eyes too."
Tiny droplets of rain soon quenched the undying and still-burning Amaterasu-covered battlefield that Itachi had cast onto the forest in order to prevent his brother from escaping, as Sasuke took one last look at his now-dead older brother, who was now lying in a pool of blood due to his bloodstained fingers, smiling slightly that he now accomplished his lifelong mission as, the aching muscles in his legs unable to keep him standing, he also collapsed next to him… just minutes before a blue wormhole sucked the exhausted younger Uchiha in.
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December 12,000 B.C.
When Sasuke fully regained consciousness, he found himself lying in a snow barren wasteland, wearing his old grey sleeveless top that had the smaller variation of the Uchiha Clan below the collar and bandages that he wore during his encounter with Itachi right before Orochimaru took control of his body and demolished the piece of clothing, still bearing the wounds from the heated intense battle. Slowly getting up from his position and holding his injured arm, Sasuke picked up his katana, which he thought to be discarded after he attempted to break through Itachi's Susanoō and was buried under a layer of snow, and, deciding not to freeze to death, headed towards a building located behind a mountain due to a Chinook wind whipping his raven black hair around his face as Sasuke tried to keep himself warm despite his current condition and the Will of Fire that burned brightly in his veins.
'I have to find some shelter soon, or I'll die out here.' Sasuke thought just before he heard a loud rumbling out of nowhere and he looked around, trying to find the source of the sound. Then, upon realizing that it was his stomach, he headed into a small cave and began unpacking his rations.
As he ate, Sasuke noticed a dark blue sphere with a light blue orb flashing continuously was at the very back of the cave. He wondered if this was the reason why he ended up here, if he could find out what 'here' was. Shrugging, Sasuke picked up his black cloak and headed out in the blistering cold.
His sandals dug into the deep snow as he made his way towards a building located up ahead, almost freezing the blood coursing through his legs and almost getting hypothermia and frostbitten feet as Sasuke slipped into the building. Instantly, he felt the warmth of the area reheating his body, his cloak slipping off his broad shoulders as he did so.
Inside, he found nothing but a teleporter atop a flight of stairs, and, despite his curiosity, Sasuke stepped onto it, suddenly feeling his body being elevated to yet another teleporter atop a floating island located above the clouds. He then stepped off the stairs and looked at his surroundings in complete awe, even though he didn't admit it. The warm sun melted the snow from his midnight hair and Sasuke could feel the blood coursing through his feet again. It was certain that he wasn't clearly in Konoha or any of the hidden villages, but Kami, Sasuke didn't remember actually seeing this place while he was under Orochimaru's rule.
'Where am I?' Sasuke asked himself as he entered a building next to the other land bridge located at a steep hill and upon learning that he was thrown 10991 years in the past, in the Kingdom of Zeal along with three other people and the mysterious Prophet as told to him by a wind spirit named Doreen, Sasuke Uchiha left the city of Enhasa and, after almost bumping into a ten year old boy and his violet colored cat named Janus and Alfador and walking into a spring of recovery that mysteriously healed his wounds, headed towards the teleporter, and took the other teleporter located at the far side to the larger island and headed towards a palace perched atop a mountain after heading towards Kajar, the city of Magic.
Once inside the palace, Sasuke saw the three people that Doreen was talking about. One was a young man who seemed to be a year older than he was and looked exactly like Naruto, with unruly red spiky hair that Sasuke thought could never be tamed, having a katana on his right side, an orange ascot tied around his neck as well as a light blue bag adorned with a tiger tooth, wearing a short sleeved green shirt under a sleeveless blue vest, with a long white bandanna wrapped around his forehead with two ends dangling in the back, brown gauntlets on both sides of his arms, brown boots and baggy tan pants.
'Why do I always get the spiky haired guys? First Naruto and now him?' Sasuke thought to himself as he realised that the spiky red haired young man was traveling with a young woman about the same age as the young Uchiha with her long strawberry blonde hair tied in a high ponytail that almost reminded him of Ino due to her crystal blue eyes, wearing a white sleeveless top and white pants along with a pair of sandals, armed with a crossbow alongside a quiver of arrows and gold bracelets on her arms, and a nineteen year old young woman with her shoulder length lavender hair tucked inside the helmet on her head and was wearing glasses similar to Karin, armed with a hammer and something that Sasuke could easily tell was a gun due to the visible trigger, wearing a long sleeved green shirt under a sleeveless orange vest and a pair of black shorts along with a kerchief tied around her neck. Glancing around, Sasuke soon noticed a young woman about the exact same age as Hinata with her flowing blue hair tied in a high ponytail, wearing purple robes and had a blue pendant around her neck.
After following the three deeper into the throne room after they charged up a pendant of the blond's that the blue haired young woman had and upon learning that it was a family heirloom crafted out of a special stone called a dreamstone along with watching them fight a giant beast that an eyepatch wearing brown haired man named Dalton called a Golem, Sasuke was suddenly grabbed by the Prophet and was instantly brought to the power-hungry ruler of the Kingdom, Queen Zeal, who threw him with the others until her daughter and the only heir to the throne aside from Janus, a blue haired young woman named Schala, who is the Princess of Zeal, freed them and, despite her mother's commands, told them to free the Guru of Life, Melchior, from the Mountain of Woe until…
"I'm afraid I cannot allow that." A deep voice said.
Schala gasped as the Prophet entered the room where the Mammon Machine once was, his red eyes that kind of looked like the Sharingan (from what Sasuke could tell), slit like a cat's, leered at the four. After he opened the Gate and letting the trio along with the Uchiha to head inside and after placing a pink pyramid seal on it, Schala collapsed back against the wall, panting desperately, her hair disheveled, and her composure clearly gone. The Prophet smirked at her, as he placed his glove back on then left her there to suffer the consequences. Moments passed before she slammed her fist against the wall in utter horror and frustration, "H-How could you?" she screamed.
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When Tobi arrived at the demolished Uchiha Hideout, he found Itachi's lifeless body but there were no signs of his younger brother except for a time Gate that just sucked Sasuke in.
"What happened, Zetsu?" He asked upon seeing a green man eating plant wearing a black robe that was accented with red cloud patterns, a sign that he was a member of the Akatsuki organization, as the plant opened to reveal a black and white man inside the Venus flytrap lookalike.
"Itachi is dead." White-Zetsu replied, a frown forming on his face.
"What a shame." Tobi said, looking at Itachi's lifeless body before turning to Zetsu again. "Where is Sasuke?"
"Sasuke is gone as well." Black-Zetsu added, pointing at the blue sphere next to Itachi upon seeing it.
"I see. Until we meet again." Tobi said, taking Itachi's corpse in his arms as he disappeared just minutes before Yamato, Sai, Sakura Haruno, Naruto Uzumaki and Kakashi Hatake arrived.
"We're too late." Yamato said, looking at Sakura.
"Sasuke… no." Sakura sobbed, collapsing onto her knees in front of the Gate.
"Damn it!" Naruto cursed, feeling tears forming in his eyes that mingled with the rain at another failed attempt to save Sasuke. "Why can't I catch up to Sasuke?! Why?"
"I hope you're okay, Sasuke… where ever you are, I guess..." Kakashi said, looking at the dark clouds and hoping that his former student was alright as he watched the blond keep his hands on the wall.
After Sakura wiped the water from her eyes with her glove, the pink-haired kunoichi saw a small spherical object lying on the ground where Sasuke should have been lying, the beautiful flickering blue light somehow sending Sakura into a trance.
"What's this?" Sakura asked, reaching her hand outward to try to pick the dark-blue sphere up, only to have it pass through her arm entirely.
"We'd best leave it alone for now." Yamato said as he turned away from the torn battlefield and the sphere that was next to the remains of the wall that the Uchiha crest was still standing. "Right now, we have to inform Lady Tsunade of the events that had transpired here."
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November, 6500, 000, 000 B.C.
Crono, Marle and Lucca came out in 65000000 BC, from the Gate they took to Zeal.
"Phew..." Crono said as they came out.
Marle thought for a second.
"Why did the Prophet let us go?"
Lucca stepped forward.
"The key to defeating Lavos must exist in that period."
"Wait a moment!" Marle said. "Don't you remember that old man, Belthasar in the future. Perhaps he can help us."
"Good idea!" Crono said. "Let's go see him."
"Hey!" Lucca said. "I'm the one who thinks here!"
Crono turned around.
"And what do you suggest?"
"Let's go see Belthasar."
"I agree with-" Marle began right before she heard something fall. Turning around, she saw nothing until she looked down. "Crono, Lucca! Look!"
Crono and Lucca turned around and looked down to see a young man wearing a sleeveless dark gray shirt with an emblem of a red and white fan embroidered on the collar that either none of them seem to recognize. His hair was styled with spiky bluish-black locks that pointed down at the front, but had continued all the way to the back of his head, making it resemble like that of a raven, with his bangs on either side of his face. On his back was a sword with a matching black scabbard that Crono could tell was a katana due to its size, hooked on a purple shimenawa that seemed to be keeping his pants up alongside a piece of cloth that extended past his knees from his stomach. Bandages covered his arms all the way up to his bicep and a light purple pouch was also hooked on the cloth.
"Who is this guy?" Crono asked, slinging the young man's left arm around his neck.
"I don't know, but we have to get to the End of Time." Marle said as she got hold of his other arm.
"Good thinking, Marle." Lucca said, jumping on the first pterodactyl as she, Crono and Marle headed towards the Mystic Mountains to head back to the End of Time.