Shadow's POV

I reappeared in a forest. I looked around to see if I could spot any of the dominant species of this world. All I found was trees, trees, and more trees. It was starting to unnerve me how much this place reminded me of the Everfree Forest.

"Twilight, can you hear me?" I mentally asked.

"Loud and clear Shadow." Came Twilight's quick reply.

"That's good. I might need somepony to talk to if I don't find any intelligent creatures soon." I said.

"I may not be able to talk much since I'm going to be training Mint." She replied.

"That's understandable. I'll contact you if anything turns up." I told her.

"OK Shadow." She said.

'I just hope this place doesn't have any cockatrices.' I thought to myself as I set out in a random direction.

Narrator's POV (Canterlot)

"Shadow has arrived safely in the new world. He hasn't come into contact with any intelligent species yet." Twilight told the Princesses.

"Well of course he hasn't. He's only been there for a few minutes." Luna replied.

"I know. He will be contacting me with any important information and I will keep you informed about any developments." Twilight said before turning to Mint. "Come on Mint. It's time to start your training."

"Yay!" Mint yelled.

Twilight and Mint started to walk away before they both vanished.

"Sister, why didn't you send anypony with Shadow?" Luna asked.

"We don't know what this new world holds and it could be very dangerous. Of the ponies that I have enough faith to be able to take care of themselves, Shadow is the only one who is not needed here. That is also coupled with the fact that the more ponies that go, the easier they are to spot." Celestia explained.

"What about Cammo?" Luna asked.

"He is needed here to protect you." Celestia answered.

"I do not need protection." Luna said stubbornly.

"Yes, you do. There are times when even we can be caught off guard. That is why we need protection." Celestia explained.

"Then why can't I have other guards protect me while Cammo goes with Shadow?" Luna countered.

"One unseen guard is less intimidating to our subjects than multiple clearly seen guards." Celestia said.

"I guess that makes sense." Luna said weakly.

"Do not worry for Shadow's safety Lulu. He can handle himself." Celestia said.

"Tia, don't call me that." Luna said while blushing.

Celestia laughed at her sister's antics.

Shadow's POV

I have been walking for what felt like hours now. The few animals I had come across were the normal animals present in all forests apparently. They included rabbits, birds, squirrels, foxes, frogs, and an occasional snake. They quickly scampered out of my way as I continued along. As I was approaching a clearing in the forest I had what sounded like voices. I teleported up to a branch a little ways back from the clearing so that whatever it was, it would not see me. I looked into the clearing and was surprised by what I saw. They were humans. Four of them to be exact.

The first was a red-headed female wearing glasses, a purple jacket, black shorts, and black shoes. The second was white haired man with a purple sleeveless shirt, grey pants, and had a giant sword on his back. The third one was an orange haired man wearing what looked like grey pajamas and he was bare-foot. The last man had black hair and he was wearing a long-sleeved white shirt that was opened in the front, black pants, a grey-blue sash or other piece of clothing (I don't really know what it's called.) was wrapped around his waist and this was held on by a large purple rope. To top it all off, he had a katana attached to his back by the rope.

"How much longer until we get there?" The white haired one complained.

"Quit your complaining Suigetsu. We get there when we get there." The red-head replied obviously annoyed.

"Can't you be a little more specific Karin?" Suigetsu asked.

"Just shut up already." Karin yelled.

"Can you believe this chick Sasuke?" Suigetsu asked.

Suigetsu's question was met with silence from the two remaining people. This seemed to anger Suigetsu even farther.

"Why won't anyone listen to me?" Suigetsu complained again.

"Because all you ever do is complain." Karin countered.

"It's time to go." The black haired one announced before jumping into the forest and disappearing from view.

"Coming Sasuke." Karin sang in a loving voice before following him with the others.

I quickly moved to where they had entered the forest. By the time I got there, they were almost out of view.

'They're almost as fast as Pinkie Pie. Almost.' I thought to myself. 'Guess I'll have to teleport to keep up with them.'

I teleported closer to them, but kept my distance so that they wouldn't notice me. I kept this up while following them. After a few hours of this suicide pace, they settled down in a clearing to eat and get some sleep. I ate and slept as well so that I could continue to follow them.

Three Days Later

They had kept up that hectic pace almost the entire time, stopping only to rest and eat. During that time I had gotten to know a little more about them. Suigetsu complained about every little thing that bugged him. Karin had a massive crush on Sasuke, but Sasuke had absolutely no interest in her. Sasuke only spoke when he was given the others orders. The last one was the one that intrigued me. His name was Jugo and he had the same ability as Fluttershy to talk to animals. He didn't belong in this group it seemed. He was too kind, too quiet, and too carefree. The others were all obviously killers. The way they moved, the way they interacted with each other screamed it.

Currently, I was lying on a thick branch looking out over their camp as they settled down for the night. I was just about to drift off to sleep when a scream rang through the clearing. I jumped up and pulled out one of my katanas on instinct. I looked down at the camp to see Jugo thrashing around on the ground. Karin and Suigetsu were already out of bed with their weapons out, eyeing Jugo warily. Sasuke was sitting up from his bed roll, but he made no move to do anything else.

Jugo's thrashing and screaming suddenly stopped as red markings started to crawl over his skin. His right arm changed becoming bigger and turning a dark color that was hard to determine under the moon's light. An eerie laughed filled the air as Jugo stood up. Jugo charged at Suigetsu and tried to hit him.

"Jugo, stop." Sasuke called out which made Jugo freeze with his fist inches from Suigetsu head.

Jugo clutched his head with his unchanged hand while the changes that had taken over his body slowly retreated.

'I guess I was wrong about Jugo. He's just like Rose Blood was and Sasuke is able to bring him back to his senses with a single command.' I thought to myself.

When Jugo was back to his normal state, he said, "Sorry Sasuke. I lost control again."

"You don't have to point out the obvious." Suigetsu grumbled.

Sasuke nodded to Jugo and then said to Karin, "That commotion may have attracted some unwanted attention. Check to see if there is anyone around."

Karin clasped her hands together and closed her eyes.

Her eyes flashed open a moment later and she said, "I don't sense anyone's chakra signatures except ours."

'Chakra signitures? I wonder what those are. Well whatever they are, she seems to have the ability to sense them.' I thought.

"Get back to sleep. Tomorrow we arrive at the Uchiha Hideout and I finally get to kill Itachi." Sasuke ordered.

They all did as they were told and soon after, as fell to sleep as well.

The Next Morning

"We're here." Sasuke said as they landed in front of what looked like a giant multi-tiered hill with a domed building on top.

Another person stepped out of the shadows garbed in a black cloak with a red cloud pattern and a straw hat. On his back was a giant sword wrapped in bandages.

"Only Sasuke goes on from here. The rest of you will stay here." He said.

"What?! But…" Suigetsu started only to be interrupted by Sasuke.

"It's my fight Suigetsu. Not yours. Stay out of it." Sasuke said before walking off.

Suigetsu grumbled at this remark, but he obeyed. I followed Sasuke while staying out of everyone's sight. Soon after Sasuke left the others behind, he entered an archway carved into the hillside. I started to follow him inside, but the sound of my hoof hitting the stone floor echoed down the hall.

'Well, I guess I won't be watching the fight.' I thought. 'I'll have to learn a spell to make my hoofsteps silent when I get back to Equestria.'

I teleported up to a nearby branch to wait for Sasuke to come back, if he came back at all. After thirty minutes of boredom, I saw another man in a black cloak burst through the ceiling in a giant smoke cloud. A moment later, he blew fire down at the hole he just came through. When the smoke and flames dissipated, a figure wrapped in a wing that was shaped like a clawed, webbed hand. The wing unwrapped itself to reveal Sasuke with strange markings on his right side. Both Sasuke's and the other man's, who I now presumed was Itachi, hands blurred together before they blew fire at each other.

After a few moments of a stalemate, Sasuke's flames started to push Itachi's back little by little. Just as Itachi was about to lose, black fire engulfed the normal fire starting with the flames closest to Itachi. The fires seemed to burn each other out. Sasuke dodged to the side as more black flames erupted from the spot he had just been standing. Sasuke continued to run around Itachi with the black flames chasing him getting closer by the second. The flames caught up to Sasuke and set his one wing alight. He fell down from the intense pain, but after a few seconds burning, the vanished.

Itachi walked up to and knelt down beside Sasuke. Itachi reached down to Sasuke, but before he could do anything, Sasuke's body disappeared leaving a gouge in the ceiling below where it had been. Itachi started coughing up blood and a few moments later, a dragon comprised entirely of fire shot up through the ceiling. Itachi barely dodged it as a second dragon burst through the ceiling a moment after the first both dragon continued up into the sky. A decent amount of the ceiling collapsed inwards a few seconds later. Itachi started talking to Sasuke, who I couldn't see at the moment as he was down inside the building. They were just out of earshot which frustrated me, but I didn't want to risk getting closer to the fighting. During their conversation, it started to rain.

'Rain? It was sunny not too long ago. Where did this come from?' I thought to myself.

Sasuke jumped out of the building and up a tall wall that had been behind the building. The wing and marking gone and his left hand looked like it was engulfed by lightning. Sasuke raised his hand to the thunderclouds above. Lightning shot down from the sky and formed into a giant beast above him. Sasuke dropped his hand and the lightning beast crashed down on where Itachi had been standing. The blast was so powerful, that it not only destroyed the building, but it also decimated the hill below it. I teleported away from the blast before the shockwave from it could hit me. When the commotion settled, I teleported back to see Itachi laying face-down in the rubble. Sasuke hunched over, obviously exhausted. A few moment later, a look of shock passed over Sasuke's face as Itachi struggled to stand up.

'What the? How is it even physically possible to survive getting hit by that?' I asked myself.

Sasuke stood back up as the markings shot across his body. A moment later, his skin turned darker, his hair lengthened and it turned white.

"God damn you!" Sasuke shouted at Itachi.

As Itachi stood, the upper torso of an orange, thirty foot tall spectral skeleton materialized into existence around him. Soon after, muscles wrapped around the bones with armor following after. Even with all the layers, the entity was still see-through.

"This is my final technique, Susano'o." Itachi said in a way that carried easily over the battlefield.

Sasuke fell to one knee and gripped his shoulder in pain. His shoulder writhed and contorted before a white, eight headed hydra came out of it and grew in size until it was bigger than the Susano'o.

'It's official, this planet is crazy. How could a thirty-five foot tall hydra fit inside of a five and a half foot tall human?' I thought to myself. 'I'll just have to ask someone from this planet later.'

One of the hydra heads shot forward to attack Itachi, but it was decapitated by a sword that looked like it was made of water. The other seven heads shot forward and rammed straight into a shield that the Susano'o raised up. Before they could recover, all but one of the hydra heads were cut clean off. The last head rose up an opened its mouth wide. A human man, who looked oddly like a snake, came partially out of its mouth. The man proceeded to spit up a sword, but before he could do anything else, Susano'o's liquid sword pierced his chest. The man and the hydra were both absorbed into the sword reverting Sasuke's transformation.

Itachi clutched his chest in pain as he coughed up even more blood. Susano'o started to dissipate and Sasuke took this chance to throw two daggers at Itachi which bounced harmlessly off of Susano'o's shield before they exploded. With his coughing fit over, Itachi slowly started advancing on Sasuke. For every step he took forward, Sasuke took on back. Sasuke tried to use more exploding daggers on Itachi, but they had the same result as the first two. Sasuke continued to back away from Itachi, clearly not having anything left in him, until he backed right into a wall. Itachi smiled and reached up for Sasuke's head. His hand got closer and closer until, he tapped Sasuke on the forehead and fell down next to him, leaving a trail of blood on Sasuke's face. The Susano'o disappear the moment Itachi hit the ground. Sasuke stood against the wall with a shocked look on his face for a few more seconds before collapsing right next to Itachi.

I saw this as my chance and I teleported next to the two. I grabbed Sasuke in a telekinetic grip and set him down on my back. I teleported again to land near where his friends were. I stepped out into the open and Karin gasped at Sasuke's state. She ran over and took him off my back. With him now in good hands, I walked away and out of sight before teleporting back to Itachi. I checked his vitals and was surprised to see that he was still alive, but just barely. I set him on my back just like I did with Sasuke.

'Luna forgive me.' With that thought, I stepped forwards and disappeared.

Author's Notes

Yes, I wrote the Sasuke vs. Itachi fight exactly like it happened in the manga, but it was all just to set up the rest of the story. As a warning to the Naruto fans, from here on out, the Naruto side of the story will be different from how it actually happens in the manga. Deal with it.

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Until next time.