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Forgotten: Revelations

"All that we see or seem is nothing but a dream within a dream." ~ Edgar Allen Poe

"I love you Sasuke," the blood splattered lips of his rival muttered before a sudden rush of air left the blonde and as he stared into those royal blue eyes he saw them dim ever so slowly. Oh so slowly like if they were taunting him one last time but with something much more crueler than insults. He saw as they went from dancing with life to dead, there wasn't even a fight; he just left, like the wind.

"What are you doing dobe?" he heard himself whisper.

"Dobe," No response, the eyes remained lifeless.

"Dead last," nothing but the wind whipping around him sending dirt to his blood riddled face

"Loser," was the usual tanned face paling? No, no it had been warm, warm with life; warm… like the blood that was pooling underneath him from the hole he had created.

"Wake up," he shook him, the body merely flopped on the ground, no resistance at all.

"WAKE UP," he was yelling and shaking the body some more.

"YOU IDIOT WAKE UP YOU'RE NOT DEAD! I DIDN'T KILL YOU!" but the open dead eyes seemed to object yet even now… even now his mouth still had a smile and his eye were still contained the shadow of warmth that they usually had like if they didn't blame him at all for what he did. Why didn't he blame him!?

Small droplets of water fell on the now pale face of his rival, no his best friend. He lifted a hand to his face and felt tears coming down in a torrent. Why was he crying? Didn't just a few moments ago he wanted him to die? No longer in his way, no longer helping him? What changed in the matter of moment? His mind immediately went to Madara clutching Naruto's neck, the cracked dead face of his ancestor pressed against the nape of the flaxen haired ninja. That had angered him so much and what he initially mistook for hatred of Naruto's weakness was actually jealousy. He had been jealous of Madara getting so close to Naruto. Yet, that wasn't it at all, no not all . When Madara had spun Naruto away from him, denied him access from looking into those electric eyes, his heart had stuttered before picking up and sending shots of pain through him but... that wasn't it either, no what had changed was when Madara had placed his hand on Naruto's forehead and the ensuing scream that echoed from him and the back arching in pain.

He had seen the Kyuubi being ripped from Naruto, had seen the chakra take form of the fox but the thing was, it seemed to be holding on to Naruto and Naruto, Naruto had lifted his arms as if embracing the chakra fox. Refusing to let go, refusing to give in, refusing to lose. He had snapped and before he could think of it he had made a Chidori and rammed it through Naruto's chest because he had been the one that was supposed to kill him, the golden boy. Instead another was taking Naruto from him and Naruto had let him! They were supposed to fight! If they couldn't then he would kill him, and he would take Madara down with him as well as soon as he finished with Naruto. His hand had went through the chest and straight into the dead man's chest. What he hadn't counted on was Naruto pulling a sealing tag from his jacket. What he hadn't counted on was Naruto looking at him and smiling. What he hadn't counted on was Naruto comforting HIM, his killer, and saying that he loved him. No, not again he didn't want to lose someone again. However those blue eyes weren't coming back to life, they weren't dancing with joy, anger, and determination, with emotion. Emotion he had always lacked in his life and had always taken from Naruto. Emotion he would no longer be able to see because he had none anymore.

"Don't leave me," he whispered as he hugged the limp body that lay on the ground, the body of the only one who loved him as much, if not more, than Itachi had it seemed.

"I'm sorry," he whispered into death ears. That's when he felt it, the accumulation of multiple chakras outside of the ring of his black hell fire.

"Doton: Doryūkatsu (Earth Style: Planet Splitter)!"

His eyes widened as he felt the earth tremble before he felt it rise, then in a giant display of chakra, the very earth split in half like if the gods themselves had taken it in their hands and decided to break it apart. He sprang up, in surprise leaving Naruto's body on the ground with him hovering over it. Didn't he, no they, defeat Madara? He was sealed away already! He couldn't still be capable of fighting! What was it that Madara had said about Naruto's seal? That is sealed away chakra until there was no more? He broke from his thoughts as he felt where he was standing at beginning split. He jumped away but too late, he realized that Naruto's body was on the other side of the rift created. He made to go get it but a green blur crossed his path and before he knew it he was kicked back and Naruto wasn't there anymore.

"Tsunade-sama I have him!" Sasuke got up from his spot on the other side of the rift in time to see Lee set Naruto down in front of Tsunade who immediately fell upon the blonde, her hands glowing green with healing chakra.

"Is he aright?" He saw a Sakura run up to Tsunade, her hands green as well as she immediately set upon Naruto as well. A choked scream seemed to escape Tsunade and the green chakra around her hands intensified. Sakura's own eyes widened as she saw the wound right where he had a similar one years ago.

"I-Ino! COME HERE WE NEED YOU!" Sakura yelled hysterically but her chakra remained steady even as tears poured down her face.

"ANYONE WITH MEDICAL EXPERIENCE AND CHAKRA TO SPARE COME HERE NOW!" Tsunade bellowed and in matter of milliseconds almost all of the med-corps ninja had come to her assistance.

Tsunade looked horrible. She was covered in dirt and her blond hair was limp and matted with dirt. Her shirt and pants were torn and covered in blood, as a matter of fact her waist was visibly lined with caked blood and some still seemed to be oozing out of it. Sasuke remained transfixed on his spot as he saw them try to revive Naruto. He vaguely remembered Madara saying he had ripped Tsunade in half, literally, as well as beaten the other Kage but the fact that she was alive and still able to move spoke of her medical proficiency. Maybe she could save him, maybe she could save Naruto, and then he could beg forgiveness from the blonde. That's when a blinding force hit him causing a giant pain to erupt from his right side. He barely had been able to avoid the attack straight to his heart and managed to turn in time for it to hit his side instead.

"YOU! YOU KILLED NARUTO-KUN!" He looked up in surprise at the shrill cry in time to see a midnight haired Hyuga with her Byakugan activated before she was upon him once more. Why was he dodging? Wouldn't it- wouldn't it be better if he just died? Wouldn't it be better if he just died and went with the blonde to another place? Granted he might not go where Naruto would because the blonde was everything good with the world and he… he was darkness incarnate, the lost side of humanity that caused them to slaughter each other. Wasn't this war about him? About him and Naruto? In the end it seems that humanity would always embrace the darkness and always lose their light.

"Jūho Sōshiken (Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists)!" This time as she came at him with two roaring chakra lions in her hands' he did not move. He waited for the attack to come, to destroy him. Just as it was about to hit, as he felt the power of the chakra burn his face, it stopped.

"No, no you're pathetic and I won't waste my chakra on you when I could save him instead. Go find some else to end your pathetic existence because I refuse to do it for you," her tone was soft, delicate, and gentle. So at contrast to the words she spoke that drove a knife into his already battered heart.

"No, kill me," he responded but she turned and ran towards where the others were still gathered. The force of the healing chakra could be felt from miles away.

"Kill me." He stated louder as she continued to run away and left him alive.

"Kill me!" He shouted and then everyone not paying attention to Naruto turned to him. Soon he saw his ex-mentor's white hair appear before him before he was punched straight in the face.

"No, we won't kill you. We'll let you live out your pathetic existence. After all, Naruto did want you to live out your life." Then Killer B arrived, he looked grave unlike the time when he and his team had gone to capture him and he had joked and rapped. Like if it had all been a game to him, like Naruto always did.

"On my brother's behalf, though he will not kill you; you are now banished from all the Five Great Elemental Nations. If we see you we will capture you and torture you, but we will not kill you. The Uchiha name will be wiped clean of the records except for Itachi. You are hereby no longer a ninja or a recognized missing-nin. You are nobody and will be forgotten." B stated, not even trying to rap the grave words he spoke. With that they both turned away and left him alone.

Alone.

Alone.

Alone.

He let go a scream of pure rage and hatred but no one turned to him, no one looked at him. Not even a single chakra flared at his scream. They were all looking at the blonde who was no longer encased in green chakra. It had all faded away by now as the dawning realization came to them all, he wasn't coming back. He was resting on the floor, strangely serene. Tsunade reached a shaky hand to his face and she slowly closed his eyelids so that now he only seemed to be sleeping. That smile, that stupid stupid smile still adorning his lips. Tsunade picked him up gently, cradling his stiff body as it set into rigor mortis and she cried before she disappeared with a burst of chakra. Everyone followed her immediately until only one person was left. He recognized the familiar pink hair; her back was to him and she didn't move.

"What did he say?" His gaze narrowed on her as she turned and her green eyes looked at him. Her usual emotional face was blank. Not even her eyes were red even though there were tear trails down her cheek.

"What do you mean," he responded back harshly.

"Don't act stupid Sasuke. It's not in your nature. What did he say?"

"None of your business."

Her fist clenched but she remained still.

"Tell me what he said."

"No."

Suddenly the earth crumpled as she let out a scream and punched the ground. A massive crater formed underneath her that reached all the way to Sasuke.

"TELL ME WHAT HE SAID YOU ASSHOLE!"

"No."

She made to go attack him but stopped and seemed to deflate, as if the life simply went out of her. Her shoulders slumped in defeat and her knees buckled.

"He wasn't yours, he was mine, he was Konoha's and we deserve to know what he said. He belongs to us!"

"No he belonged to me!"

"IF THAT WERE TRUE YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER LEFT! YOU WOULDN'T HAVE KILLED HIM! WHAT DID HE SAY!"

"HE SAID HE LOVED ME! ME NOT KONOHA! ME! Me… not Konoha… me. His killer…" he stood still as the most awful pain her ever felt went through him. He didn't collapse though. He would never fall.

"I thought so," Sakura whispered but Sasuke heard. Before he could ask her anything else she left. Left him all alone.

Sasuke woke up sweaty and breathing harshly. He shook his head in a meager attempt to try to forget tonight's dream. It always came to him around this time of year and he loathed it. The dream served to remind him of his greatest mistake, his greatest failure. He looked to the calendar and sighed.

October 10th.

Naruto's birthday and the day he would usually try to visit his grave. He frowned in though of last week's event and the words Hinata had told him. He didn't know whether to risk it or not. Maybe he could henge into someone else and go to Konoha. His henge had never been… the best so to speak. No the one who had always been excellent at it had been Naruto. He sighed and got up from his bed to go bath at the nearby onsen. Though it was decreed that he was not to be mentioned or even acknowledged in the Five Great Elemental Nations people didn't necessarily pay attention. He was an Uchiha, the Last Uchiha. Though he may no longer be acknowledged as a ninja, that actually made it easier for people to seek him out and hire him for work. He could charge whatever price and hear no complaints because he was an Uchiha; it's what he usually did most of his time now. Work for anyone who had the money, sneak into Konoha when he could, and live in the forest just outside of Konoha. He had gone back to one of Orochimaru's old lairs and reworked it to his own fit. He was there most of the time and alone. Unless Juugo or Suigetsu, who was living in Kiri with the other swordsmen, came by. They were the only ones who knew of his location and still talked to him, well Suigetsu did; Juugo just hung around with him only speaking when necessary. He preferred Juugo's silence but he always enjoyed listening to Suigetsu go on about nothing. He strongly reminded him of his past and the idiot who would always talk to him.

It was funny because Juugo now lived in Konoha; he was actually very friendly with Tsunade who had taken a liking to him. He was Jounin there and even had his own team of genin. Tsunade had managed to find a cure for him with the help of Kakashi. None of them knew he would go and visit Sasuke on his downtime and keep him up to date on the on goings that occurred there. Like how they had turned the Uchiha district into part of Konoha and it was filled with people now, families. The Main Uchiha house was empty though. A sort of reminder to those who knew what it was. It was boarded up but kept clean. He didn't care any more for it, he was never going back to live there anyway. He had offered the house to Juugo but he had denied it and said that Tsunade wanted it kept locked up. They had taken out all the files of the Uchiha and had them stored somewhere else. History was history and only those with permission could go where they were stored at, which wasn't many. Again, Sasuke didn't care anymore for it but he did appreciate that they hadn't burned everything into ashes then burned the ashes themselves.

Besides that Konoha was the same, they continued on with their lives. Everyone had grown up, they were no longer foolish little children or teenagers. They had all moved on, including him. He sighed once more before putting on his blank mask and going out. As always, women and girls stared at him while men glared but he didn't care. He made his way to the onsen and paid his fee before entering. It was early so there was no one there and he could relax. So he did and before he knew it he was interrupted from the nap he had apparently decided to take by the sound of some men's voices. They nodded at him and he gave a slight tilt of the head in acknowledgement.

"Did you hear?" He heard them talking aloud and was slightly annoyed but he paid it no mind. Until he heard the next words come out the other man's mouth.

"Yeah Konoha is finally revealing their next Hokage today at their annual festival, he's supposedly real strong and won't take the hat after the current Hokage retires but he'll be their next one."

Hm, it could only be Kakashi or someone equally as strong.

"Supposedly it aint the Copy-Nin either. He's been seen going on missions regularly."

"How do you know?"

How indeed. Try as he might Sasuke tuned into the conversation some more.

"Well some missing-ninja had attacked a convoy of messenger-ninja that were on their way to Kirigakure. They sold the information they were able to get and one of them had been a letter from the Hokage to the Mizukage herself."

"How does that work anyway? Two Kages, I thought Kiri and Konoha had merged."

"Well they have but only in like civilian terms, The Land of Fire and the Land of Water, their respective ninja villages are still separate. They are thinking of splitting back up since the ninja still belong to their respective Kage but there's also talk of the Kage's joining their ninja as well, they would just share the position since that would be a lot of ground to cover. Kiri would be the area for the wetlands and Konoha the forest and all that. But that's not the point; anyway the letter said that the Copy-Nin wasn't going to be the next Kage though he would be the ideal choice. Instead it said something along the lines of 'the brat has grown up and he's taking the hat like he always said he would.' No one really knows what that means though. Just that it aint the Copy-Ninja."

"How did you learn of this?"

"My boss bought the letter, him and all the other rick folks had been gambling on who the next Hokage would be. He's planning on making a killing and that letter helped him to not bet on the Copy-Nin-" Sasuke chose that moment to leave the hot spring. He grabbed his towel and went to get dressed. By the time he emerged he was clean and refreshed but his mind was preoccupied. It seems he had a new mission now: find the letter and see if its contents were true. Once he confirmed if it they were or not he would go to Konoha either way.

His heart beat fast at the implication of the letter but he dared not hope. After all Tsunade could have been referring to another 'brat' like the Third's Grandson, Konohamaru. She was known to be fond of him just as much as she had Naruto. The kid had also exclaimed goals of being Hokage if he remembered correctly. Yeah, it could just be that. Naruto was dead. There was no doubt about that or else Juugo would have said something, right?

"Juugo's a Konoha Jounin now. They could have made a seal that prevented anyone from talking about it outside of Konoha's walls, you don't know.'

Sasuke shut up the inner voice in his head that spoke his hope. No, Naruto was dead; he saw it, felt it, caused it.

'He's dead but I'll go, tonight.'

He settled his katana onto his back and slipped on his white mask. Time to go investigating.

AN: Mhmmm shit's going down tonight! Holy shit this is my third update in a timely fashion what? What sorcery is this!? :le cough: Anyway, I went back and fixed any errors I could find in the last two chapter which was more than I could have expected! People need to tell me when i make stupid mistake because when I go reread them I have minature heart attacks every time I see one! I also added some things onto the last chapter. You might want to go back. Just some explanations on things. Like the relationship between Karin and Naruto as well as a correction of his whole memory thing. Anyways I sort of went through this before posting it so mistakes will be there OTL I'm sorry but hope you enjoyed it! Ja ne!

Update: I went over the content and fixed some spelling mistakes, if you find any please tell me! (This does not include the AN's because I am lazy and don't care about that.