Hey everyone thanks to a review that I got, I was just wondering if I should continue writing my story. I also would like to know if all of you out there agree that my writing is that of a third grader. I would also like to know how you feel about my story not the grammar. If no one reviews telling me what they think then I am just going to assume that you don't care so I will just end the story after this chapter so I am not wasting my time, thank you. Still don't own Naruto
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Chapter 3
"Naruto, promise me that you will come back to me when you're done." Sakura pleaded while having difficulty holding back a barrage of tears.
"Hmm. Go back to a woman that doesn't love me." He contemplated, "For you always, Sakura-Chan" He noticed the look of hurt in her eyes from what he said and almost immediately felt guilty. She looked at him for a moment trying to figure out what to say, "But that's not true. I do love you." Her voice was a quiet whisper by the time it reached Naruto's ears. He looked at her for a moment then understood. Letting out a small laugh at how silly he was. He looked at the girl he knew he would always love and said, "Silly Sakura, I meant like a guy loves his wife. Not like how you would love a close friend or a brother." He joked looking at her, but for some strange reason she looked very confused.
"I know what you meant, Naruto-kun." She hesitated when she added the suffix 'kun' to his name, "I love you." His eyes widened in shock of the revelation that he just heard. Yeah he knew that she had feelings for him, but he always thought that the feelings were only for a friend. "Sakura, don't joke like that, why would you say something like that if you know it's not true?" Naruto asked he watched as more tears plagued her eyes. Why doesn't he believe me? Sakura thought but she knew the answer. For him he couldn't see how she could love him: After all the times that she turned him down saying that she loves Sasuke. Lady Tsunade, still feeling awkward but she felt she had to say something, "Naruto, what she says is true. I have seen it myself slowly but surely she has fallen in love with you." Naruto was filled with joy. More than he has ever felt before. He looked at the girl who he spent all his life chasing after. Sakura was shocked when he started walking over to her and stopped a little more than a foot away from her. "Is it true, Sakura-Chan?" She nodded and watched his arms come up and wrap them around her: It was the warmest embrace she had ever felt in her life. "Why do you love me?" Naruto asked not realizing how badly his question hurt her. "Naruto, there are many reasons; but the main one is because you have always been yourself." As she spoke a smile broke out onto her face when she noticed how happy she just made him. Now she returned the hug never wanting to let go, but eventually their hug was ended, and when they turned to the others blushes forced themselves onto the young couple's faces. Everyone, including Itachi, was smiling. They were happy to see that Naruto had finally found someone to love, and to love him in return. Looking back to Sakura, Naruto spoke, "I'm going to bring him back so we can be team 7 again, and I will not fail again!" Naruto raised his voice a little at the end to emphasize his point. Itachi stood up from his seat and looked at the Hokage, "It's nice to see you again, Lady Tsunade" his words shocked everyone in the room besides Naruto and Tsunade. "What do you mean 'again'?" Shikamaru asked he had a feeling he knew what was going to happen next. "Well you see Lady Tsunade and I have been talking to each other over the years, she kept me updated on how my brother was doing and I told her what the akatsuki were doing." He nodded towards the Hokage silently telling her to continue for him: he never really liked to talk to begin with. As Tsunade explained what happened between Itachi and his clan and the deal that Sarutobi, the Third Hokage, and Itachi had to spy on the akatsuki. When she was done everyone felt bad for not only Itachi but for Sasuke to, if only he knew what his brother did for him and the village. "But why have you come back now? Why didn't you just stay with the akatsuki?" Shikamaru, the genius, asked.
"If you must know I have finally found someone who can take down Madara Uchiha, the real leader of the akatsuki, with." As he spoke, everyone in the room lit up. They all asked in unison "who is it?" not even Naruto, the very person he was talking about, new. "He is standing in this room." Itachi laughed as all of them looked clueless. "Is it Shikamaru?" Naruto asked not realizing that was the reason that caused Itachi to laugh even harder. "No it's you, Naruto" Itachi spoke when he was finally able to calm down from laughing. "Why me? I'm not that special." Naruto spoke in genuine confusion. Itachi, however; was upset about what the blond had just said. "Naruto don't you know that even as you are right now, without knowing how to use your mangekyou sharingan, that could beat me fairly easily." Itachi knew that it was a little over exaggerated, but it was true. "Whatever Itachi, I know that you are way stronger than me." Upon hearing those words Itachi let out a smile, he knew how he could prove to Naruto that he was stronger than him. "Fine then how about we have a little duel, if you beat me then, if Tsunade says it's ok, then you'll be promoted to Jounin" Itachi said as he looked at Naruto, his grin was what made Tsunade nod confirming that it was fine with her. "Follow me" Naruto yelled as he raced out the door heading straight for the training grounds.
Kakashi noticed Naruto running toward the training field with a small group of people following him, he knew all of them. It's true that he didn't know why Itachi was there but he had to make sure that it was for good reason. As he went he told some of the villagers to meat at the training fields. He wanted them to see what happened between them, he had an idea that it had something to do with Naruto and Itachi. A few minutes passed when he finally made it to his destination. He walked in and looked towards the council. Danzo stared at Kakashi for a minute waiting for him to speak. "Meet me at training ground three please. Danzo nodded and went with Kakashi followed by the rest of the members of the council.
Naruto stood across from Itachi in an open field; he was surprised to see that some of the villagers were showing up. Itachi stared back at him until finally he spoke, "we will start when you activate your sharingan" as he said it, as if to emphasize his point he activated his own mangekyou sharingan. Naruto smiled back and sent some of his chakra to his eyes, but he was surprised when nothing happened. He tried again waiting for that familiar feeling of time slowing down but yet again it didn't come. Itachi stared back a little confused, but then he thought of it. Wait maybe since it was the Kyuubi that activated it, the only way for Naruto to activate it is to use the Kyuubi's chakra. He stayed quiet for a little wanting to see if the boy could figure it out. 'Hey kit,' The Kyuubi's voice echoed in his head. 'What do you want fur ball?' Naruto asked a little annoyed; he didn't have time to talk to the Kyuubi while everyone was waiting for him to activate his Sharingan. As his thoughts were on the Kyuubi it reminded him that Sasuke was killed by the very same monster that was sealed inside of him. Naruto felt the Kyuubi trying to take over, or so he thought, but what he found out was the Kyuubi was sending its own chakra to Naruto's eyes. Realizing now how to activate his sharingan Naruto let him. His last thought was that of his battle with Sasuke, how he felt his hand rip through his brother's stomach. A blood red tear fell from his eye as a different sharingan formed then the one he first used. Itachi looked at him in shock, how did he activate his mangekyou so quickly? He didn't let that distract him as he charged at Naruto. Naruto summoned a shadow clone, and gave it half of his chakra. Both clones ran at Itachi one going for a leg sweep, the other trying to punch him in the face. They weren't all that surprised when Itachi disappeared into smoke, because they knew that it was a fake thanks to their sharingan. The clone Naruto turned around standing back to back with the real Naruto. They couldn't see any sign of movement, but that didn't mean that they would stop looking. The real Naruto heard a faint noise a short distance off into the trees surrounding the area. He would've been too late to move out of the way if it weren't for his clone to literally kick him out of the way. As he turned around he just barely was able to see the puff of smoke being the only remains of his clone, but he didn't care it was just a shadow clone and he could make more. His real concern was to find Itachi; he knew it would be fairly difficult seeing as he was an s rank criminal. Naruto sensed a slight chakra signature about twenty yards to his right. Just as a huge fireball flew out of the trees Naruto was gone in a flash. The villagers heard a loud bang and witnessed Itachi flying back into the battle field quickly followed by Naruto. Itachi looked up smiling, he didn't think that Naruto would be that fast. Also if he was able to sense him from that far away when he used minimal chakra to use the attack, it was nothing short of extraordinary. Itachi remembering a move he copied off his brother started to charge up a chidori, if Naruto was surprised he didn't let it show or even slow him down for even a split second from creating a rasengan. They charged at each other, the two attacks equally powered. Itachi started to sweat as he put more chakra into it trying to make it stronger, but he became unnerved when he seen Naruto smiling. He watched as the shadow clone disappeared into a cloud of smoke and the real Naruto with a chidori in his left and a rasengan in his right, start charging at him at surprising speed. Itachi didn't have enough time to dodge or create another chidori to block. He raised his arms into the shape of a cross as he felt the immense pain in his arms. Naruto pushed with little effort sending Itachi straight into the ground creating a crater almost thirty meters wide, and around twenty feet deep. Naruto picked Itachi up and swung him over his shoulder, he had to get him to Sakura. Itachi wasn't in dire need for help but it would still be better to get him healed as soon as possible. It wasn't more than thirty seconds before he was in front of Sakura she stared at him in shock, just how much stronger could the sharingan have made him? "Um, Sakura, Are you going to heal him?" Naruto asked silently laughing at the look on her face. "Oh! Yes of course" she said as she laughed in embarrassment, her hands glowed green as she fixed Itachi's broken ribs. "Dang Naruto you sure did a number on him" she thought out loud, and wasn't expecting what she heard next. "Yeah it's a good thing that I wasn't trying, huh Sakura-Chan." He laughed out loud now at the look of amazement on her face. It's not possible; no one can be that strong. He hasn't even been trained with the sharingan let alone the mangekyou. As she finished up on Itachi she smiled when he opened his eyes and looked towards a smiling Naruto. Tsunade finally found out where the three of them were at. She did a quick check up on Itachi making sure that Sakura didn't miss anything even though she highly doubted that she did. As Naruto walked to the village he was surrounded by a large group of villagers, all of them shouting different words of praise. Not only was he confused but he had a weird feeling in his stomach. Kakashi stared down at his former student smiling; now he knew that Naruto's goal of becoming Hokage was closer then he knew. As the crowd gathered around him Tsunade spoke up, "Well I just thought that it should be my turn to congratulate our new Jounin, even though I am sure all of you have noticed that he is more on kage level." As he heard those words he felt a lump grow in his throat. He was finally being recognized after all these years and it was all thanks to his brother Sasuke, now he knew that he had to get him back. He would leave tomorrow, but today he would celebrate with his friends. The group started walking back and he started, "thank." Yet before he finished he felt a warm hand wrap itself around his. He turned his head to see Sakura blushing slightly, but she would never regret holding his hand. Tsunade looked over wondering why he stopped talking, and smiled when she realized why. She was happy for her student and the blond ninja that she had grown to know and love. She was going to make sure that he would become Hokage, besides she was getting older. She wanted to settle down, and she knew who the man she wanted to settle down with was. The group walked down the Street until they came to their destination, Ichiraku Ramen, Naruto looked up smiling as the familiar old man greeted him, "How may I help you Naruto?" Surprisingly Naruto wasn't really that hungry, but he would still at least have a bowl. "Can I have one bowl of pork ramen please?" Naruto asked giving his trademark smile, and then motioned for the other people to order. He was going to pay for it tonight whether they liked it or not. After a long night of celebrating Sakura decided that it was time for her to go home, but as she walked out onto the street she felt someone's presence next to her. She knew who it was when he took her hand in his, and spoke, "it's a beautiful night, huh Sakura-Chan." She gave him a nod for an answer and rested her head on his shoulder. "Hey, Sakura-Chan can I ask you something?" Naruto asked knowing full well that she wasn't going to like what he had to say. "Is there something wrong Naruto-Kun?" her voice completely filled with worry because of the look on his face. "I will be leaving tomorrow to find Sasuke." He stated this confirming the fact for her that there was nothing she could say that would change his mind. "Take me with you." She pleaded, "Or at least take Itachi with you." He knew he couldn't do that, but he would tell her that he would just so she wouldn't worry for the rest of tonight. He wanted this night to be one to remember. Something that would keep him going to make sure that he came back. When they finally made it to Sakura's house he leaned over and gave her a small but passionate kiss on the lips. Normally he would've waited longer until they were going out longer, but he wanted to make sure that he would have gave her something to remember him by just in case he didn't make it back. "Goodnight, my Sakura-Chan" He gave her a half hearted smile as he turned to walk away. She wanted to say something, but she couldn't. Somehow that boy had managed to take her breath away.
Naruto woke up earlier than normal, but he didn't want Sakura to find out he was going alone. He started off at a fast jog, and after a couple of minutes he was a good quarter of a mile out of the village. He wasn't sure where he should start, but he had a feeling that he should go to the sound village. He was going to continue to but he felt something very powerful and unpleasant. He ran to the source of it and he felt his heart drop there in front of him, lay his sensei. He wasn't dead but it wasn't much better because the attacker standing before him was none other than Pein.
Author notes: please review telling me whether or not you would like the battle between Pein and Naruto to be long and drawn out or short and to the point. Any way tell me what you think thank you guys 500 readers!
