The Valley of the End
A/N: Haha, I shouldn't be doing another story I know, but I don't have any inspiration left for my other one. Sooo...I went into a Naruto phase, and a new shipping fandom.
Warnings: Coarse language, violence, and possible shounen-ai/yaoi.
"Sasuke!" Naruto shouted, leaping after him on the tree branches with incredible speed. He was pushing himself to go faster; he had to get Sasuke back, for Sakura, for everyone else and for his sanity. Naruto wouldn't be able to rest until Sasuke was back where he belonged, in Konohagakure. Naruto had promised he'd bring Sasuke back and he wouldn't go back on his words.
All of a sudden, Sasuke's form disappeared and Naruto panicked.
"Crap crap," he cursed before he found himself in a clearing with two gigantic statues carved out of rock towering over them and facing each other. A waterfall running down between them.
"They're not so different to us. Both of them, the best of friends who fought to the death in this valley. The Valley of the End," Sasuke spoke. His voice was soft, but Naruto could hear it clearly over the thundering water of the waterfall.
"It doesn't have to be that way. You could still come back to Kono-"
"NO! Konoha has nothing else to offer me. They don't give the the power I NEED. The power I need to kill my brother!" Sasuke shouted at Naruto, his Sharingan spinning furiously as he glared at his former friend.
"This fight will determine who is the strongest out of the both of us. You couldn't put a scratch on this headband, dobe," Sasuke sneered.
Naruto growled furiously, his anger bursting through the metaphorical roof. It was barely the sound of a human, and the growl was purely reflecting the anger of the Kyuubi that was caged inside him. Naruto could barely see anything beyond the haze of his anger and the Kyuubi was only egging him on.
Sasuke pushed off the ground and streaked towards Naruto with inhuman speed while Naruto was struggling with himself, his cerulean blue eyes flickering red and his pupils contracting to slits. Sasuke kicked his leg to land a powerful roundhouse kick but what he didn't expect was for Naruto to catch his leg and throw him away. He backflipped away from him and watched as Naruto's eyes turned red with black slits and stayed like that.
'Hn, I guess the dobe does have something special,' Sasuke thought critically, 'Probably the only reason he passed the genin exams.' He still had no idea that the Kyuubi was trapped within this young boy.
Naruto flicked out a handful of kunai covered in sizzling orange chakra and threw them at Sasuke who barely dodged them all. He watched as they hit a tree and burnt a hole nearly through the whole width of the trunk.
'What the hell is that orange chakra and how powerful is it?!' Sasuke thought warily. Naruto was struggling to keep down the Kyuubi but the fox was having none of it.
"Let me out! You know you need the power to defeat the Uchiha. Let me OUT!" the nine-tailed fox snarled viciously to Naruto.
'No! Not if I can help it!' Naruto yelled back at the nine-tailed fox.
However a human was no match for a demon and bubbling orange chakra engulfed Naruto's body. Nails became claws, teeth became fangs and his whisker marks were thicker and darker. The orange chakra formed two ears on top of Naruto'a head and a tail at the base of his spine. Sasuke could only look on with wariness and trepidition until the chakra settled. Snarls ripped out of Naruto's mouth as he streaked towards his enemy and lashed out with his claws with astonishing agility and speed. Filled with fear and wariness, Sasuke jumped back to a safe distance performing the Uchiha's trademark jutsu.
"Katon! Goukakyu n-"
BAM! Naruto streaked forward to bring his chakra covered fist up and slammed it into Sasuke's stomach. The Uchiha flew backwards and slammed into the stone at the base of the waterfall, leaving a mini crater. He coughed up blood and sneered angrily.
"You'll never beat me!" Sasuke shouted crazily. His cursed mark began to spread around his body as he activated Level Two.
The two friends engaged each other again, each a beast and monster in their own way.
Within minutes of battling it out, the orange covering Naruto's body melted away causing him to stumble. The toll of fighting for even such a short time had also taken a toll on the fox, who had forgotten that his container was only a mere human boy. Sasuke was also battered and bruised, having returned to his original form. Neither were in a condition to continue. However, they drew upon their last reserves of chakra, desperate to end the fight and defeat the other.
"CHIDORI!"
"RASENGAN!"
The two exhausted boys ran towards each other and slammed their jutsus together with all their might, a blindingly white dome blasting out from the combination of the two powerful jutsus. Naruto flicked out a kunai and lunged forward to take advantage of the weak moment, but only managed to scrape Sasuke's hitai-ite, across the symbol of Konoha before he collapsed of chakra exhaustion. Sasuke winced before he fell down as well, his face hovering inches above Naruto's unconscious face.
No matter what he'd said, he would not kill Naruto. He'd find his own way to obtain the Mangekyo instead of using Itachi's way of obtaining it. For now though...his best friend (only friend) would stay with him. Nobody deserved to go back to a place like Konoha, especially Naruto. Sasuke didn't know how Naruto could have withstood so much emotional pain from the villagers of Konoha. He didn't want his best friend, no matter how much he wanted power, to go through the pain over and over again because he knew how painful it was to have no family. To have them ripped away from you and live alone was a scarring and the pain inside would never go away for him.
'He would make a valuable asset to Orichimaru as well,' Sasuke mused absent-mindedly. Having made up his mind, he heaved Naruto's limp body onto his back and trudged slowly away into the forest, his grey form disappearing into the shadows.
.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.
Kakashi had seen the bright flash and the immense amount of chakra from the trees and was now leaping along the tree branches as fast as he could.
"Hey boss, is that where we're headed?" his nin-dogs asked motioning towards the dissipating chakra explosion.
"Yes," Kakashi replied trying to save his breath on getting there as fast as possible without slowing down.
'Sasuke, Naruto, I hope you're both okay, for Konoha and for my sake. I couldn't bear to lose more of my precious people.'
A/N: TBC...Did ya like it? Drop a comment or summin'. I'm open to amy ideas, so lemme know if you want something to happen, because I need IDEAS for mah brain.