2nd Chap is up, sorry for the wait, but all Honors, AP, and Accelerated classes get to me some times.
Reclaimer Discaimer: I don't own Naruto
Requests: Any kind of reviews, criticism or otherwise.
~Angelique
Chapter 2:
Lost
Wide-eyed and gasping, a single blond ninja collapsed on the battle field, close to dead from the torture called Tsukuyomi. To an observer, the scene before them would make not an ounce of sense, a teenager with obvious rage and enormous chakra sat opposite a sallow calm adolescent, both with murder in their eye. Neither moved, and all was serene on the frontline. Then Naruto buckled from some unseen force.
Sasuke took his time in walking over to his former ally, enjoying the sight of the remnants from the battles fought already, drenched in a cleansing rain. Naruto struggled to his knees, looking up to stare, horrified, into the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan of his opponent. The eyes of someone who has had all that was beloved to them stripped away and given in to the bare waste land of loneliness.
"I'm sorry." Lost to the torrents of downpour.
At this avowal, the advancing Uchiha smirked. "Sorry you couldn't save every one and become hokage like your precious father? Or sorry you couldn't stand up to the namesake of the Uchiha?" Sasuke sneered. He was now standing less than 5 feet away from the Kyuubi container.
"I'm sorry," Naruto repeated, standing up. "I'm sorry for never understanding you," All malice and fight in the Konoha ninja had left long ago. "I'm sorry I didn't save you from Orochimaru." The blond looked into his confidant's intense eyes. Blue met red. "I'm sorry I wasn't a good brother."
At this last declaration, Sasuke was irate. His katana suddenly in hand, was already en route to its mark. "You were never my brother, Naruto!" The cry echoed across the desolate battle ground.
Instinct saved the blow from cleaving the golden haired boy's neck in two. Naruto leapt back. One dewdrop, crimson as the eyes of his rival, wound its way from the nick on the forehead, down, curling into the scarlet spliced eye of one livid Kyuubi. "Boy, if you won't fight, then I guess I'll have to show this brat what the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox can do."
"Not bad, Dobe." The last part was said with such disdain that it sounded as if the speaker had something foul in his lips. "But I'm not done yet."
"Good, I like a challenge." The distorted voice, suddenly frighteningly low, snarled. The body of Naruto, veiled in a red cloak, hunched down to all fours, 6 tails licked the lifeless soil like the flames of a conflagration.
Both adversaries clashed in the centre of the corpses. The orange ninja leapt into the rainfall throwing several kunai knives with paper bombs to the dark young man. Sasuke chuckled at the Kyuubi's idea of a challenge, reflecting all the shuriken without as much as a tilt of the hilt. This was all child's play.
The soft, muffled sound of blade hitting flesh thudded into Sasuke's finely tuned ears: What?
Eyes wide, he whipped around to see the bent body of the Kyuubi with 8 tails, and a russet flower blossoming in his right shoulder blade. How did he get there?
"Confused, child? This is only a skill I've acquired from years of merely existing! You will witness my humbling power, one so grand not even your sharingan can hope to suppress." Ricocheting off the rubble, the bass rumble jolted Sasuke. This wasn't the 12-year old knuckle head ninja, Naruto anymore. Naruto he could beat. But a 1000-year old demon fox that had powers tenfold those of his own? Sasuke flinched.
He was afraid.
The last Uchiha closed his left eye. Amaterasu. Another tear slid down his features, staining them violent red as it fell. Sasuke's vision faltered; he had used too much dōjutsu.
A flame sprang up on the Kyuubi breast. He merely laughed. "Now, tell me boy, do you think that a little fire will stop me? This isn't my real form. It's only Naruto that suffers the pain, I cannot experience physical things." A Menacing Ball began to form. Bubbles of blue chakra and swirls of burgundy chakra floated up around the demon. They fused together and made an ebony sphere.
The fox launched the attack on the raven.
The projectile honed in on Sasuke. A piercing white light broke through the darkness. The explosion sounded as if it would shatter the earth into shards.
The Kyuubi waited for the dust to settle so he would see the outcome of the attack.
The landscape was permanently marred; the corpses that littered the land seconds earlier had all been vaporized, creators pocked the battle site. In the centre of the debris, stood a giant warrior rapped in red silks.
"You really did inherit your brother's eyes, didn't you, Sasuke? This is getting interesting." The Kyuubi smirked.
As the air cleared, Sasuke knew one thing:
He was blind.
So that's chap for reading! Let's go for 5 reviews! :D
~Angelique 3
AU: I wanted so bad to name this chapter Blinded by the Light ;D but my friends would kill me. Slowly…O.o
