Hello, this is Chris. Well, here goes chapter 2. So I hope you all would enjoy it. Oh, and sorry for the long wait.
Anyway, sit back, relax, and enjoy the reading.
Oh, and I don't own the rights to Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does. Any other resemblance is just a coincidence and I don't own them. Any originality belongs to me.
Mirrors: The Other Side of the Reflection
A Battle is Worth a Thousand Words
The flying Sais hover over the trapped Kaiko who blushed at the many Sais with wings.
"My god… so beautiful" moans Kaiko, forgetting that the enemy has trapped her… or does she think she's having some special fun?
"You are one weird lady" smiled longneck Sai as Kaiko giggles, "Well, you kinda remind me of an old flame of mines"
"Really? Please do tell"
"You see, he smiles excessively just like you. And does he have a stomach, yummy" licks Kaiko at the fond memories.
"He sounds tasty" smiles longneck Sai.
"Oh, he was… he truly was" sighs Kaiko, not noticing the added tightness the paper around her gained.
"Was? Right, an old flame" nodded longneck Sai.
"Try an old dead flame," sighs Kaiko, remembering the good times.
"How did he die?" asks Sai, curious to know the reason of her changed attitude. "He was killed," said Kaiko with harden eyes.
"Killed? By whom?"
"That bastard Sasuke" growls Kaiko, emitting enormous amount of chakra that started to tear up the paper around her.
"If you hate him so much, why are you his follower?"
"I'm not, I thought he died long ago by that hokage of yours. Once I heard about his meeting point with the sound ninja over here, I waited until I get the chance to kill him. But sadly, you all got here so my plan was ruined" said Kaiko, looking at Sai.
"Well, may not be much but I apologize for ruining your chance" smiles Sai, to which Kaiko smiles.
"Its alright, although I guess that hokage of yours deserves the kill anyway. I could always vent my anger on something else," grins Kaiko.
"Really? How?"
"Oh, by doing this" grins Kaiko as she screams, wind covering her entire body cutting the paper into shreds.
"Interesting" said Sai, looking at the floating Kaiko with wind swirling around her body.
Looking to the side, Kaiko looks carefully at the moves Hinata was doing with her twirling.
"That seems interesting" Kaiko said intrigued. Sai saw what she was looking at.
"You know it's a Hyuuga style technique, you would never learn it. Bloodline privilege" stated Sai to which Kaiko grins and looks back at him.
"Oh, I'm not so sure" and with that, Kaiko's wind that swirls around her grew immensely as a big tornado was chasing after longneck Sai.
Kaiko looks around to see herself surrounded by the winged Sais. Giggling, Kaiko smirks, "Come on fly boy" then she bit her thumb as she smeared it on the swirling wing around her wiast, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!!!"
As the eagle boss appeared, he growls, "Kaiko-taichou!!!"
"Let us have fun birdy" and with that, Kaiko flew onto of the eagle's neck sitting on it.
The winged Sais took out kunais as they flew straight towards the eagle boss. With a flap of the wings, the eagle bird blew the winged Sais away only to see them crumble into pieces of paper.
Hearing a loud thunderous sound, Kaiko looks back to see longneck Sai unleashing a tornado straight from his book.
'Hmm, so his power comes from that book' thought Kaiko as she claps her hand.
Longneck Sai wonders the true intent of the clapping until the force of it hit him. Sound ninja clapping… duh… but he noticed it when the sound wave of the clapping hits him.
Struggling for control through the sound wave, longneck Sai's eyes widen as blood was oozing out of his ears.
"You… also have some likeness to that Sasuke bastard… hehehe, I would enjoy killing you" sneer Kaiko as she pats the eagle boss's head.
"Right!!!" growls the eagle boss as he opens his mouth to scream out millions of eagles with giant long katana's in their mouths heading straight towards longneck Sai.
Gritting his teeth, longneck Sai stretched his body even more as it became flat as paper. With the force of the sound wave and the destructive force of the combined tornadoes, longneck Sai was blown away from the sound wave's range.
"Hohoho" hoed Kaiko, smoothing her long white hair.
"Seeing your hatred towards Sasuke and seeing how I look like both your old flame and Sasuke, I take it you find Sasuke attractive?" smiles longneck Sai who was blown back to Kaiko and floating around her due to the wind.
"Even if I do want to kill him, his hotness truly fascinates me. Though not hot enough to let him live but still hot nonetheless. Why? His hotness fascinates you too Cleary Gay?" answered Kaiko, looking at the floating longneck Sai.
"Hmm, true that I am intrigue to have him pose for me after seeing a sexy no jutsu of Sasuke but still… to go that far… it fascinates me" answer Sai truthfully, drawing something on his book.
"You're going to be interesting to fight cutie," grins Kaiko.
Upon finishing it, longneck Sai aimed his right flat hand towards Kaiko as his drawing flew straight towards her. When it stopped in front of Kaiko, Sai shouted, "Sai version: Sexy Illusion!!!"
Suddenly, the drawing poof as it reveal a two winged, very shiny and naked Sasuke starring at Kaiko with piercing eyes.
"… … …my… … …god…" mutters Kaiko as she couldn't stop starring at the naked Sasuke.
Sai never tried such a technique like he did just now but it seems to work. He has to thank Naruto to his info on how perverts can easily be defeated by perverted jutsus. But sadly… there was something Sai never expected when he cast the sexy illusion…
It was a double-edge technique it would seem… and Sai couldn't stop starring as well. Looking lower, Sai couldn't help but tilt his head and thought, 'Hm… interesting… Naruto and Sasuke… truly are equals'
"A very interesting fight indeed," whispers Kaiko as she failed to notice the coming attacks of the newly form winged Sais.
Three-way Battle
Deep within the skies, the battle of the old sannin would soon begin.
"Heh, Sasuke-kun you think we would fight in this illusion you cast earlier?" smirks Sakura as Sasuke looks at her, saying, "Nothing less from a braniac like you"
"Cancel the genjutsu Sasuke and let us fight on the ground," ordered Naruto, glaring at Sasuke.
"What next? You're going to tell me to stop having my affair with your woman?" grins Sasuke, seeing his little taunt has not fazed Naruto.
"I'll never do anything of the likes with you… you… you murderer!!!!!!!" shouted Sakura as anger filled her body and the thirst for Sasuke's head increased.
"Heh, never thought I'll feel the intent to kill from you Sakura," grins Sasuke, giving her his attention.
"You murderer!!! You… you killed my only student!!!!!" shouted Sakura, droplet of tears edging in her eyes.
"Heh, I murdered a lot of people. Can't expect me to remember them all"
"Her name was Mimiko you stupid bastard!!! You killed her with your stupid Mangekyo Sharingan!!!" screamed Sakura, her body tensing with rage.
"Nope, can't seem to remember anyone by that name" chuckles Sasuke, taunting Sakura even more.
"Let me refresh your memory then!" screamed Naruto as Sasuke turns around to be punched in the face.
The punch flew Sasuke over to Sakura who grabbed him and began to squeeze him with her monstrous strength.
"ARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screams Sakura as her arms glowed bright pink.
As the rasengans formed in his hands, Naruto jumps into the air, screaming, "Sakura-chan, now!!!"
Hearing that, Sakura threw Sasuke towards Naruto as he slams him with a rasengan and slams him towards the ground. Upon impact, Naruto slammed the other rasengan towards the flatten Sasuke, crumbling the floating platform to pieces.
"Pull together now dobe" smirked Sasuke, who was floating above the shock Naruto.
"Heh, you too teme"
Confused, Sasuke noticed that Sakura was smirking evilly at him. Looking around, Sasuke can see the genjutsu wavering out, revealing Sakura in Naruto's place.
If Sakura was really Naruto then… looking at the other Sakura, Sasuke sees Naruto with two rasengans aiming at him.
Sasuke found himself being hold tight by two Sakuras who whispered, "Receive the pain you bastard" as she bends Sasuke's arms in a way that it shouldn't be bent.
Screaming, Sasuke grits his teeth as the rasengans hit him full force. Naruto and Sakura watch as the rasengans were tearing Sasuke apart until only his head remains.
"Kai" canceled Sakura as the genjutsu that Sasuke placed was wavering into nothingness returning them to the ground.
Sasuke's head landed on the ground rolling towards a rock as the remains of his body parts fell around them.
"I don't sense his presence anymore… Sasuke-kun is finally dead" said Sakura, glaring at Sasuke's head with disgust.
"It was hard to kill a brother" spoke Naruto, trying not to let the tears come.
"Our brother died long ago Naruto, we just killed the remains" comforted Sakura as she hugs him. Truly, team 7… the old sannin… was no more…
"Hehehehehehe, you fools"
Eyes widen, Naruto and Sakura looks back to see Sasuke's head floating in the air. Birds stretched from under his wound as the birds formed Sasuke's body again.
"He… he regenerated himself?! But… but how?!" shouted Naruto, not believing at all what he saw.
"He must have mastered Orochimaru's regeneration method… but in this case, instead of snakes… its birds," growls Sakura, anger filling her body again.
"Orochimaru did have some uses after all. Now, then lets end this!!!" shouted Sasuke as he unleashes two chidoris on each arm and ran straight towards to Naruto and Sakura.
Naruto and Sakura separated as ice mirrors surrounded Sasuke. Stopping, Sasuke looks around to himself trapped within Haku's ice mirrors.
"Heh, a genjutsu like this? Give me a break" annoyed, Sasuke was prepare to strike the mirrors when Sakura appeared in all of them.
"I learned a lot Sasuke-kun" and with that, Sakura threw many kunais to Sasuke. Not at all impress with the genjutsu, Sasuke surely was surprise to see the kunais cutting his skin upon impact.
"What the…" looking up, Sasuke sees Sakura smirking as she threw glowing punches releasing pink chakra waves at him.
"This… is one strong genjutsu," mutters Sasuke as he ran towards the mirror and slams a chidori arm to it… only to see his chidori vaporizing.
"The hell?!" shouted Sasuke as when Sakura threw another punch, Naruto emerged instead with a rasengan slam to Sasuke's face.
"Arrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!" truly, Sasuke did not expect that at all. Luckily, the chidori body shield manage to cancel the rasengan but not fully as blood was oozing everywhere on his face.
"Damn you Naruto…" growls Sasuke as he can hear Naruto laughing.
"Ah, it seems you gotten weaker Sasuke-chan!!! Today, you shall be defeated!!!!" laughed Naruto, angering Sasuke.
Sasuke laughed, "Ah, you defeat me?! What a riot!!! Kyuubi is dead so what makes you think you could defeat me? He's dead!!! How?!?! Huh?!?!?! HOW?!?!?!"
"You truly have lost your mind Sasuke-kun, to think that I had feelings for you. What a waste of years that was," Sakura said with disgust.
"I never cared about your feelings for me" looking around, Sasuke decided to hit another mirror with his other chidori arm.
"Take this!!!" yelled Sakura as she threw multiple punches, unleashing multiple chakra waves. Among those waves were Narutos with rasengans.
Sasuke had to jump away to avoid being hit by the chakra waves and the rasengans.
"You think you can defeat me with this genjutsu Sakura, huh?! Your genjutsu has gotten powerful but I'm an Uchiha!!! I will break through this genjutsu and kill you!!!" shouted Sasuke, preparing the chidori-powered arms.
"Shut up Sasuke-teme!!!" screams Naruto jumping out from a mirror and aimed his rasengan towards the glaring Sasuke.
"There you are Naruto!!!" shouted Sasuke, slamming his right chidori arm towards the rasengan, causing a humungous power outage that cracked all the mirrors and the genjutsu that's sustaining the ice mirrors.
"Argh… damn it" gasps Sakura, glaring at the black chakra sphere surrounding Naruto and Sasuke.
'I will not let Naruto finish this battle… I'm strong damn it… I'm a member of team 7… I will end this battle with Naruto… Naruto will not finish battles for me anymore… NOT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Sakura thought, shielding her eyes from the glowing black chakra sphere.
As the sphere died down, Naruto and Sasuke were still in position when they slam their attacks at each other. The only thing was that Sasuke's right arm was not covered by the chidori and Naruto's right hand wasn't holding the rasengan. Instead, the few centimeters in their right hands were sparks of chakra.
"Naruto…" snarls Sasuke.
"Sasuke…" grits Naruto.
Landing on the ground, Naruto jumps away and landed next to Sakura. Sasuke gasps as he lowers his right arm.
Smirking, Sasuke laughs… covering his face with his right hand Sasuke just laughs crazily.
"Naruuuuuto… Sakuuuuura… Hahahahahahahaha… end it… end it now… lets end it now… LETS END IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screaming, Sasuke slams the ground with his left chidori arm causing a humungous explosion.
Gathering the wind in his right hand, Naruto aims his hand to the air sending waves of wind to blow away the smoke and dust caused from the explosion.
As the smoke vanished, Naruto and Sakura see Sasuke standing still with his hands together. It seems like Sasuke was concentrating and whatever it is, they won't let him finish.
As they ran towards Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura witness Sasuke's body emitting a very dark chakra presence.
Stopping, they can't help but feel overwhelmed by this dark chakra presence.
"You are within my sight…" smirks Sasuke as Naruto and Sakura looks at Sasuke, only to see…
"Mangekyo Sharingan" as the sharingan was unleashed, Naruto and Sakura felt trapped within the shuriken eye of Sasuke's.
"I have manage to create another use for the Tsukuyomi so I was hoping to test it out on you two. Hope it is to your liking, heh" and with that, Sasuke yelled, "Tsukuyomi!!!!"
As the wheels turn in Sasuke's Mangekyo Sharingan eyes, Naruto and Sakura gasps as they were brought through Sasuke's world. And what Sakura saw was…
Come with me
"Damn it…" grits Kaiko.
Longneck Sai managed to shoot multiple poison darts. He fired them so quick that Kaiko wasn't able to evade them, let alone block them.
"Poison, huh? … planning to get rid of me this easily?" Kaiko grins, taking out the darts around her body.
"I must" smiles longneck Sai.
"Got anymore drawings you would like to show me… uh… I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name"
"Sai" smiled longneck Sai.
"Sai… what a beautiful name…" giggles Kaiko dispersing into thin air.
"Oh, that's not good" chuckles longneck Sai, trying to find Kaiko within the wind.
Eyes widen, longneck Sai looks down to see Kaiko glaring at him with an evil smirk.
Kaiko's right hand struck through his chest with wind surrounding it. The wind was swirling so fast and powerful that it was shredding longneck Sai's paper body.
Shredding the paper body into nothing, Kaiko looks back at the five winged Sais, saying, "Come out, come out wherever you are"
Turning around, Kaiko flew away in time to avoid winged snarling tigers that tried to bite her.
Sai, who was smiling, closed his book as he sighs, "Thought I had you that time" and with that, Sai began to fall down.
As a winged tiger flew to Sai's rescue and brought him to the ground, Kaiko grabbed a tiger's mouth and threw a wind-covered punch through it. The wind began to slice the tiger from the inside out, causing small bits of tiger parts everywhere.
"I… hate… cats!!!!!" shouted Kaiko as she screams; powerful winds swirled around her like a saw.
Grinning at a winged tiger, she flew towards it and kicks his head. At that same opportunity, a winged tiger bit her arm.
Laughing, Kaiko slams her fingers into the winged tiger's eyes and taking them out when she pulled her fingers out. As the winged tiger whined in pain, Kaiko unleashed powerful gusts from her bitten arm, shredding the tiger into bits.
When Kaiko turns around, she grits her teeth in anger to see hundreds of winged tigers growling at her. Looking down, she sees Sai drawing more winged tigers to fight her… with a smile.
"That's it… you went too far!!! Once I kill all these cats!!! I'M GOING TO RIP OUT YOUR SPINE AND SLAM IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" shouted Kaiko as she flew towards the winged tiger army.
Grabbing two tigers, she slams their heads together as she pushes herself over a couple of them to sit on top of a winged tiger.
Taking hold of the wings, she ripped them out as she jumps into the air. Flying straight towards them, she slams the wings into a winged tiger's mouth. Slamming her punch through a winged tiger's mouth, she lifts it up to slam a couple of winged tigers around herself.
"Hmm… interesting" mutters Sai, watching Kaiko taking out her anger for cats on these winged tigers.
"ARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screams Kaiko, veins throbbing everywhere as tornadoes surrounded herself.
"DIE!!!!!!! DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the force of the tornadoes was so powerful and sharp that the winged tigers were shredded to pieces.
Looking down, Kaiko glares at the astounded Sai as she scattered herself within the wind, only to reappear behind Sai standing back to back.
"I hate you for what you did… I really do hate cats… cats of all kinds" snarled Kaiko.
Sai understood as he closed the book. "You truly amaze me Kaiko-san I believe"
"How so?"
"I seem to be attracted to you" smiles Sai.
"Wha…" mutters Kaiko, still angry with Sai for the cat attacks.
"I know, I'm still confused over this feeling as well. Let's see what happens after our battle's end, shall we?" looking back Sai smiles at Kaiko who also looks back at him.
"Hmph, fine then lets" smirks Kaiko as both jumps away from each other and stood facing each other.
"Wind Style: Falling Wind Blades!!!" shouted Kaiko.
"Earth Style: Rock Body Armor!!!" shouted Sai.
Kaiko's arms were covered by blades of wind while Sai's body was covered by an armor of rock.
With each swing, Kaiko fired multiple wind blades from the air towards Sai who blocked each strike.
Stomping the ground, Sai's leg armor disperse only to reappear striking up under Kaiko who shattered them with her wind blades.
Running towards each other, Kaiko and Sai screamed as they each threw a punch towards each other… shattering Sai's armor in the process.
As Sai's rock armor crumble into dirt, Sai's body turned into water as the dirt with water turn to mud, which was covering Kaiko.
Upon touching the ground, the mud harden as Kaiko was trapped in a powerful harden mud type rock.
Sai emerged from the ground in front of Kaiko muddy, saying, "Come forth my new paiting"
Raising his arm, a drawing from his book flew towards Sai's raised right arm. Holding the handle with both hands, Sai was holding a gigantic blade with a feline head connecting the blade and handle.
"Anu… a sword forged after Bis king of the cats" stated Sai, looking over at the scared look Kaiko has.
"And now, with one strike death shall claim you. Name of the blade and name of the cat king, death shall come with this name… Anu-Bis!!!" and with a swing, Kaiko scream in total agony as everything went black.
Shaking her head, Sakura gasps as she sees Naruto fighting Sasuke. Standing up, Sakura rubs her shoulder as she grits in anger over the fighting
Slowly, she began to run towards the boys… picking up the pace, Sakura's right fist glowed bright pink… gritting her teeth in anger, Sakura screams as she jumps to slam her punch at Sasuke… and succeeded.
Slamming towards a nearby stream of water, Sasuke places his hand over the impact. Getting up slowly, Sasuke glares at Sakura.
"You truly changed Sakura… I may actually give you my attention" spits out blood, Sasuke only chuckles.
"I've made so many mistakes… please… love me"
"Wha…" Sakura started to say but soon realize that at that same moment, Sasuke appeared behind Sakura and swung his chokuto.
"Hm"
Naruto caught the hitless katana with the back of his hand. Sakura turns around to see Sasuke's chokuto struck into the back of Naruto's right hand.
"Always there to save your girl, huh? Just like old times" smirks Sasuke as he retrieved his chokuto.
"Sasuke-teme… you truly have gone so far from us to save you… shame" sighs Naruto, standing in front of Sakura.
"Not truly… if I could I would have gladly gone back but… I've done so much to earn the trust back… I can never go back… it is too late for me… but it is not too late for me to finish our rivalry once and for all" smirks Sasuke, aiming his chokuto at Naruto.
"Sasuke… so there really is hope after all…" Naruto couldn't help but grin.
"Sasuke-kun…" started Sakura as she stood next to Naruto. "Sasuke-kun, I… I…" looking at Naruto and seeing him nodding, Sakura looks back at Sasuke.
"I still care about you Sasuke-kun so please… please come back to us"
"Sakura…" whispers Sasuke, looking at Sakura in a whole new light. To know that Sakura still cares about him after all this time…
"I still care too… brother" stated Naruto, which got Sasuke to look at him as well. Sasuke brought down his chokuto… knowing that his friends still wants him back… the feeling he's feeling… was so strange yet strangely familiar…
"I… I can't…" answered Sasuke, which brought sadness towards the couple.
"…not without knowing who truly is the strongest… Naruto…" looking at Naruto, Sasuke smirks as he began to walk towards to Naruto.
Grinning back, Naruto began to walk towards to Sasuke, saying, "Sasuke… just end this now… and start again… with us?"
"We'll see"
And with that, both rivals picked up the pace as they ran towards each other. With chidori powering up and rasengan raring to go, Sasuke and Naruto jump towards each other. Sakura watches on as Sasuke and Naruto let their techniques lead them the way.
"NARUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"SASUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
As both techniques collided, all three members of team 7 can only see each other. With everything else covered by pure white, only team 7 can see pure everything.
"Naruto… Sakura… thank you…"
As the whiteness vanished, so did the silence of it all. With Naruto and Sasuke on the ground breathless, Sakura walked over to the two boys. Kneeling down, Sakura was between the breathless Naruto and Sasuke with a smile.
"Let us go home…"
To be continue…
Author's Note
-Note that I use from my memories about Sai's method of attacks. If he's a little different from the manga then he became a little OC. Also, about his earth and water style… well, I remember he used a mud clone to avoid Orochimaru's attacks upon their first meeting so I decided to give Sai earth and water styles.
-Kaiko lasted longer than the other taichous… and has a weakness… well, two… one is seeing handsome men, especially naked… and cats… but if she deals with cats she would get pissed off and attack in a blind rage so proceed with caution with her cat weakness.
-Sasuke made a new use for the tsukuyomi and well… don't worry… you all get to see what new use he made for the tsukuyomi and what Naruto and Sakura saw and experienced… hehehe…
-About Sasuke's regeneraiton, being a student of Orochimaru I decided that Sasuke picked up Orochimaru's regeneration but in his own way. I chose birds instead of snakes because of his chidori which sounds like a thousand birds chirping.
-Once again, Sasuke's chokuto is a straight hitless katana.
Well, there you go chapter 2 of my third fanfic. Sorry for the long wait, I was planning on sending chapter 2 a week after chapter 1 but just stopped writing for some reason. No excuse and I apologize. And trust me, upon reading my second fanfic, you all should know not to believe at what you see or at this case read. Looks can be deceiving… so please, continue reading until the plot is actually revealed. Also, this marks the last chapter of the prologue… some sorts… the plot would happen after this so please read and review. Hope to read your opinions on this fanfic. Anyway, later yosh.
Preview"Sakura, what's the report on the mission?"
"Ino… Chouji… how could you…"
"What a slut…"
"Why you always hanging around with Hinata lately?"
"I HATE YOU!!!"
"There are reports that he's still alive… and he wants revenge"
"Sakura cannot know of this… she's already in too much stress as it is because of the fight"
"Y-you died… but… but how?"
"It isn't how it looks…"
"So this what happens after my death, huh?"
"I'll KILL YOU!!!!"
"I'm standing in front of you… in a room filled with his body and blood… holding his head… as a present from me to you…"
"I see from the heads you're holding, you killed her… she didn't mean anything by it you know… such a pity really… you've worked so hard to earn what you got only to have it spoiled in tainted blood… you do know that I have to kill you now, right? Prepare yourself because my element is wind and it is strong"