Alright heres the new chapter!

The next one won't be up for a little while but I'm working on it ;)

Chapter 2: The Valley of the End

Naruto ran swiftly through the forest barely making a sound. He was almost there and dawn was only maybe another hour away. The young blond slowed to a stop and took off his pack and the large scroll he was carrying. The boy sighed taking out an energy bar from his pack and sitting down to eat it. He wasn't really hungry actually he was nervous, not that he would tell anyone but he knew he should eat something to be at full strength.

Finishing the bar off quickly Naruto took a deep breath letting it out slowly to calm his nervous, 'There's no going back now.' he thought. 'Don't think like that! I wouldn't go back even if I could!' he scolded himself. 'Okay I can do this.' Naruto stood up and started making the hand signs of a familiar jutsu. At the end he bit his thumb and slammed his hand on the ground.

"Summoning Jutsu!" Naruto called out in almost a whisper, just in case someone was nearby he didn't want to yell. There was a large puff of smoke and when it cleared Gamakichi was in front of Naruto in a sleeping cap. The large Toad groaned rubbing his eyes.

"Na-ru-toooo." He groaned quietly emphasizing each syllable and whining at the end. Naruto had a small smirk, amused at his friend. "This better be good." Gamakichi yawned. "Why are we out here?" the toad asked seeming more awake.

"Sorry Gamakichi, it's important. I'm…" Naruto trailed off for a second looking down, Gamakichi waited for him to continue despite being summoned so early in the morning. The young sage took a deep breath. "I'm going after Sasuke, I know where he'll be and I have a plan. But I'm going to need a lil help." Naruto looked to the toad, and Gamakichi nodded to him now fully awake.

"Anything you need Naruto, but are you sure you should be doing this yourself?"questioned the young toad looking a bit worried. Normally Naruto would laugh and give an encouraging speech, but he was worried too, he had a plan and it would work but first he had to beat Sasuke and not kill him in the process or you know be killed himself. He managed a small smile anyway.

"It's the only way it would work. If I brought anyone else into this they'd have to give up everything and I won't do that to them." Naruto started out slow but by the end his voice grew strong. Gamakichi grimaced at the words 'give up everything' but nodded.

"What do you need?" the toad asked slowly, but determined to help his friend. Naruto smiled, no longer feeling near as nervous as he did before.

"For now I need you to take the summoning contract and my bag back to Mount Myoboku with you. I might need to summon you or your Dad for the battle, otherwise if everything goes well I'll summon you later so you know to summon me back to the Mountain. Oh and ask Ma and Pa if it'll be okay if I stay there awhile." Naruto explained trying to think if there was anything else. Gamakichi nodded.

"Okay Naruto, and I'm sure you can stay at the Mountain as long as you like." The toad said preparing to leave. It made Naruto feel good to know he was welcome. Gamakichi had one more thing to say though, "Oh and Naruto don't do anything too stupid." The red toad smirked at him. Naruto let out a laugh then grinned so wide one of his slightly elongated canines were showing.

"Of course." He replied looking every bit as mischievous as a fox. "You know me." Gamakichi rolled his eyes.

"Yea I do." The young toad mumbled clearly remembering a few times the boy had done something stupid in front of him. "Be safe Naruto." He said a bit more seriously as Naruto handed him his bag and the toad summoning scroll. He knew his summoner would never be careful, hell he was headed straight into danger, but he hoped his friend would at least be safe about it. Naruto nodded to his favorite summon with a smirk, and Gamakichi nodded back before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

A little over an hour later Naruto sat on top of yet another kage's head perfectly still at The Valley of the End. He was facing the statue of Madara Uchiha, though his eyes were closed as he was meditating. While it may not seem like the smartest thing to meditate as you wait for a strong shinobi to come face you in battle Naruto was meditating sage chakra. Which means he would feel Sasuke coming way before Sasuke would notice him.

As if by a cue Naruto felt Sasuke's chakra at the end of his range. He was coming, and at the pace he was going Naruto estimated he would only a minute. He quickly made two shadow clones and sent them into the forest to hide and meditate for back up sage chakra. Then he went back to his own meditation, gathering in sage chakra and tracking Sasuke so he would know when to start his five minute time limit in sage mode.

Normally he'd start without it and gauge his opponent but Sasuke was different, he knew him and he knew better than to underestimate him. Naruto felt Sasuke as he ascended to the top of the statue of Madara Uchiha. The blond opened his eyes and stood seeing Sasuke standing across from him like they had when they where twelve years old, and as the very men whom stone statues they were standing on had done almost one hundred years ago.

"Sasuke." Naruto acknowledged his old teammate, without showing any emotion in his face or voice. It surprised Sasuke to see the boy he knew that used to be so loud and, well… foolish, standing before him without showing any emotion. Though there might have been a small bit of sadness. Sasuke showed none of these thoughts or the slight surprise.

"Naruto." The black haired teen answered back in a monotone voice, his face completely blank. They stood in silence for a moment waiting for the other to make the first move, but Naruto knew his sage chakra had a time limit and so he made the first move. As Sasuke knew he would but he thought it was from being impatient.

They clashed fiercely in the air above the waterfall; there was a loud clang as their kunai met. Naruto could have push forward with his kunai and push Sasuke back as he was in sage mode and stronger but Sasuke didn't know the benefits of the natural energy yet. So the blond pulled back letting Sasuke come forward a bit and kick him in the side just as Sasuke noticed Naruto's eyes were a golden color with horizontal pupils.

The black haired teen felt three ribs break as he hit the lake's surface going under the water. Sasuke's eyes narrowed slightly in pain but showed no other sign that he had been injured despite the fact no one could see him under the water. He saw his one time friend on top the water waiting for him to surface, and barely before thinking about Sasuke had formed seals and launched a water dragon still under the water himself straight at Naruto.

The teenage sage jumped back as the dragon surfaced underneath him, and in mid air hit the water dragon with sage chakra enhanced powered downward kick. Turning the attack back into the harm less water started out as. Sasuke didn't real think that it would do much but was a little surprised that his attack was taken out with one kick, not that it slowed him down from jumping out of the water while the blond was busy doing it.

As Sasuke jumped out of the water he quickly used the fireball jutsu and Naruto ran to the side dodging easily. They both were now standing on top of the water facing off just waiting for the other to make a move or mistake. The fight went on like this for an hour both their attacks becoming more fierce and powerful. Naruto had one sage clone left but had been fighting without it for a while to save the last one for when he'd need it. Neither spoke to the other except to call out the names of their jutsu.

Sasuke realized if things kept going like this though he had a real chance of losing. He activated his brother's Mangekyou Sharingan and watched for an opportunity to get the blond haired Jinchuuriki to look at his eyes. It had been another five minutes and the last Uchiha was getting frustrated that his opponent had yet to look at his eyes. Almost like the baka had been training to defend against the doujutsu, actually he probably had.

The dark haired teen narrowed his eyes upset at the only thing he could think of to make Naruto look at his. He was sure the plan would work but it just seemed too much like what the blond in front of him would do, and he'd have to let the baka hit him. Naruto felt something was wrong as he started going through hand signs for another jutsu, but he just didn't know what it was, he could tell Sasuke was glaring at him though he still wasn't going to look that far up to check.

Naruto looked carefully for a trap as he released his wind jutsu. "Gufuu Suika no Jutsu!" (Typhoon Water Vortex Technique) called out the blond teen while slamming his wind chakra Rasengan into the lake water beneath them, hoping it would turn it into a Wind and Water jutsu. Nothing happened for a moment; Sasuke's stare clearly said he was stupid. Naruto sweat dropped as he had actually ever tried the jutsu like that.

Just as Sasuke was about to charge though, a huge typhoon arouse between the two fighting ninja. It was a massive swirling vortex of water, powerful cutting wind blades, and as tall as the Hokage tower. The sharingan user stopped in his tracks as the powerful jutsu started heading for him. Naruto held his hands in a seal desperately trying to keep the jutsu under control as Sasuke ran up the side of one of the valley's walls.

The massive typhoon crashed into the wall after the dark haired teen, making the boy fall. Sasuke flipped trying to maneuver himself mid air away from the cutting wind blades as he fell. For the most part he succeeded but it had nicked his leg enough that it would be hard to run and dodge. Naruto let the jutsu go as it was taking too much chakra, but to his surprise it exploded.

Sasuke was closer but they were both slammed back into stone from the force. Naruto wrinkled his face at his sore muscles and the bones his was sure he fractured as he got up and started looking for his old teammate. He spotted him on the ground quickly and walked toward him cautiously. The last Uchiha pushed back a groan as he felt his head pounding from where it had hit the stone wall behind him. He hadn't moved though and now he could hear what he knew was Naruto coming towards him slowly.

'Well at least if this works I don't have to let him hit me.' thought Sasuke as he quickly came up with something easier in the new situation. The blond teen was now only a foot from Sasuke and was beginning to think it was over and his friend/enemy was out cold. He had to be sure though before he started the next part of his plan.

Naruto kneeled down and reached over to Sasuke's neck attempting to feel a pulse but before his hand made it half way. Sasuke's own hand reached out and grabbed him. Naruto was so shocked he didn't remember to look away before spinning red eyes were boring into him and it was too late.

As he felt himself being pulled into the powerful genjutsu, suddenly and without his consent Naruto's mouth dropped open a dark beam shot out turning onto a pitch black raven that hovered right between the two boys. Sasuke stared in shock, losing his blank face façade at seeing his dead older brother's most used symbol coming out from the friend he was about to kill.

Naruto gasped breaking Sasuke's grip on him and jumping to a safer distance. The two powerful teen shinobi stared as a bright light erupted from the raven, neither turned away even as the light became so bright they couldn't see through it. When the light died though and they could see again none other than Itachi Uchiha was standing between them.

"Itachi?" the younger Uchiha managed to ask the brother he thought he had killed. The older brother smirked slightly at the teens normally closed off confused face. Then he turned facing both teens.

"Yes, and no. I am the part of your brother that he left with Naruto." answered Itachi even as he flickered transparently. Sasuke narrowed his eyes and closed off the rest of his face, as Naruto's eyes widened when he realize that this was what Itachi had done that day he found the missing nin in the woods.

"Why would my brother leave part of himself with Naruto?" asked the younger Uchiha with a hint of anger as he quickly glanced at the blond before turning back to the now transparent form of his brother. Naruto looked at Itachi for an answer to this as well, while the fading figure looked amused.

"Because he made a promise to me, more or less, you never break your word, right?" Itachi turned to the blond smirking. Naruto looked dumbstruck and Sasuke was wondering what the hell the baka had promised for his brother to do this. Whatever this was?

"You promised you'd find a way to do both. To protect Konoha and Sasuke, remember. And today it seems you have found a way to do just that." The fading Uchiha smirked at their dumb looks. Naruto was looking shocked because Itachi spoke as if he knew what he had planned; then again part of the bastard had apparently been with him for a while. Sasuke was going over each word wondering when and why the stupid promise had been made, he didn't need protecting.

"Sorry little brother." Itachi turned to the dark haired teen. "That day I gave Naruto a gift that would activate to help him fulfill his promise, if he stayed true to his word. Since he has when this part of me fully dissipates while he will still be affected by other versions, Naruto will never again be able to be trapped in the Mangekyou Sharingan's Tsukuyomi." (The unbreakable Genjutsu)

For once Sasuke and Naruto had the same expression, one of total shock and confusion. The blond of course was the first to speak.

"But why? Why would you do that?" yelled the Jinchuuriki. The dark haired teen stayed quiet, his old teammate had said everything for him. He wanted answers too. The older Uchiha was almost completely gone, but shook his head amused.

"Because despite everything you will keep your promise, however unorthodox the method." Itachi smirked then continued. "But more than anything I believe you're the only one that can save my brother," Sasuke's eyes narrowed, he didn't need saving. "even if it's from himself." Naruto said nothing, he couldn't think of anything to say. They both watched in silence as the last bit of Itachi Uchiha faded away.

Neither boy spoke for a moment, as they let what had just happen sink in. Naruto was immune to the Tsukuyomi, and it had been none other than Itachi Uchiha that had made it possible. Finally Sasuke broke the silence.

"He seemed to imply you have a plan?" Sasuke asked curious but not showing much of any emotion now that his brother's message was gone. Naruto didn't answer right away, this was his chance. Sasuke had become weaker through the battle, his reflexes slower and now the Tsukuyomi couldn't even affect him. Naruto though still had one more clone in sage mode.

"Yeah." Naruto finally answered almost happily, and smirked. Showing more emotion than right then towards him since their battle had begun. Sasuke had no time to think about it though because as soon as the word left the blond's lips his eyes rimmed with red and turned gold again. Before the dark haired teen knew it the Toad Sage was upon him. His Sharingan barely following the movements, he body couldn't react in time to stop the blow to his solar plexus.

Sasuke looked up glaring at the young Toad Sage angry he had been too slow and wanted to know just what 'plan' his old baka teammate had come up with. The Uchiha's eyes turned back to their original dark color as the red of his bloodline receded. Less than a second after Sasuke was out cold. Naruto had been staring into the other boy's eyes the whole time and sighed, relived when he saw his rival go limp.

AND CUT!

kara hikaru : Sorry but the summery was supposed to be cryptic, couldn't give too much away ;)

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Nika : Thanks great I love to hear ppl loved my other fic and read more of my stories :D But no it's not a time travel ^_^' it's a family fic.

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