Chapter 4: I will Never Surrender
Do you know what it's like when you wish you were someone else who didn't need your help to get by? Do you know what it's like to wanna surrender?-Never surrender-Skillet
They were almost there until Naruto heard a familiar voice from behind him. It was that one word that he would know who it was.
"Dobe!"
He looked behind him, seeing the Uchiha run towards him, backpack strapped on his back. "Take me with you!
Naruto glanced over his shoulder, glaring at the younger Uchiha. Said boy stood his ground glaring, a little nervous on the inside. He had seen the incident back there with those jounin. How could that weak, pesky brat become so…skilled! Was it that man, on second thought did that man have tails? He saw that man say something to the blonde; Naruto turned his head to him and shook his head in disagreement. "As much as I would love to take him out right now, he might help us in the future. After all, I heard a rumor around the town we set camp up next to, there was some shady looking ninja coming this way. Maybe Orocihi's men, but I can play with him for a bit." Kyuubi threw his head back an howled with laughter, he stared back to the irritated blonde an walked to the side an jumped on a tree, sitting on one of the many unoccupied branch. Sasuke growled in frustration, an stared back and forth between the crimson haired man and his teammate. "Are you playing with me? You think this is funny!" he stared at the very spot where the blonde once stood, only to go paralyzed the next. Naruto had flashed stepped behind him a kunai next to the ex-teammates throat. "Actually, I do think this is funny, oh how the mighty have fallen," the kunai vanished, as well as the blonde. He looked around him, the blonde had completely vanished. He looked toward the crimson haired man sitting in the tree looking bored. "You! Where is he?" Kyuubi stared at the boy, and then pointed right next to where he was standing. "Pathetic, I could have killed you right there in a matter of seconds. And you want me to take you with me, useless." He turned to the side to see Naruto gone once again. "Then again that sharingan of yours could prove useful." A grunt was heard from the crimson haired man in the trees. "If you're so bored go back to camp, set the contract up an wait make sure no one is messing with the barrier. Someone almost found it earlier." "Whatever, kit." The man's gruff yet soothing voice said as he jumped down from the tree he was perched on, he dusted off the imaginary dust from his clothes an proceeded to the gates. "Oh by the way kit 2 groups heading this way about 250 yards away but if you plan on leaving stop playing with this kid we have business to attend to." The man left 9 fiery tails swishing behind him. Naruto rolled his eyes but nodded an looked back at Sasuke who was now gone. He shook his head, "what a pain in the ass." He fallowed the Uchiha toward the training grounds. An did a summersault when his feet touched the ground missing the barrage of kunai an shuriken coming from the barley noticeable strings attached to the middle pole, the one he had been tied to when they were still a team.
He dodged all of them as they came to an back at him, the strings attached glimmering in the moonlight making them visible for a sliver of a second. "Do you play me for a fool? Do you actually think I didn't know you would use that trick on me, as if I would fall into it." With swiftful grace he ran an dodged large numbers of kunai an shuriken coming in a few different directions but headed toward his destination. He jumped, Sasuke lost contact for a second before a burning sensation was felt on his right arm. The now barley noticed shuriken lodged into the branch in front of him, his sharingan now activated, he dodged the attacks of kunai thrown at him an jumped onto a branch right across from him ex-teammate. "Now that I think about it more those eyes of yours could come in handy. Although overlooking the excessive use of them when you get angry your quite useful if you put your mind to it. So I guess I can make this a little more to your liking if you're up to it, I will give you 5 minutes to put a scratch anywhere on my body, if you succeed I take you with me. Deal?" Sasuke stared at him before he smirked and threw more kunai an shuriken around an at him, "I'll take that as a yes then?" He watched with anticipation, waiting for the kunai to put a mark on Naruto but watched as Naruto leaped up at the last moment before a single one hit. Sasuke fallowed him throwing more at him; they leapt from branch to branch ignoring the world around them. They were at the very top now when Sasuke had catched up to him out of breathe. His breathe was stable after a few seconds an proceeded to try an chidori Naruto, but hit the tree said person had been on currently. "Times up well looks like you failed but to come at me with such intent to harm was impressive." Naruto said leaning up against another tree to the right of Sasuke, arms crossed. He pushed himself away stared at the raven in front of him. "Never the less you have improved an make a good opponent for someone weaker than me but with a little more training you should be at least a formidable opponent for me. Well lets go that bastard was probably bored enough to slay that little town by now since the barriers went down." Naruto jumped toward the walls but stopped an looked back at the once again confused Uchiha. "Well hurry up or I'm leaving you behind in this place!" This caught his attention and he jumped to catch up with the blonde. They jumped for what seemed like forever before they got to a little town, the scent of blood hitting Naruto more than the boy next to him. "So you did bring him along, well this should be interesting. Naruto smirked as Sasuke looked toward the 9 tails, which was currently on top of a building, back to the shining moon making nothing but his fiery crimson eyes glow. 'So why did you really bring him along Naruto?' Kyuubi mentally said to the blonde whose blue ocean eyes were staring at the sight of the town. 'I thought it was simple enough for you to even understand. He is just a mere pawn in my plans for revenge, nothing more than a simple tool ready for my disposal. Besides he provides great use to me with those eyes of his, and he will be quite a good sparring partner.' "So why the whole town," Naruto finally said after observing the damage done. "Bored," Kyuubi said suddenly next to them, his ears straight up an tails shifting from side to side. "I take it you have disposed of the bodies properly and have made arrangements." Kyuubi snorted "were you seriously injured during your battle with this brat over here." He shifted his eyes at the static Uchiha who was cut up. "Shut up and take us to our rooms, we will be heading out in the morning to investigate a rumor some of these towns people were talking about." "Whatever Mr. all-high-an-mighty"
Anbu stood at the training ground waiting for their captain's order on how to proceed with the current situation. "I shall have taken it all of you have not gathered Intel on the where abouts of Uchiha Sasuke or Uzumaki Naruto" they straightened up saying together "No we have not captain, their whereabouts are still unknown to us." "Please tell me you have at least gathered some information on what happened." "Captain if I may." "Proceed." A Anbu with a mask of a tiger gulped but continued. "There were traces on some of the branches and large amount of kunai an shuriken and I have found this in one of the branches." The tiger pulled out a cloth an opened it to show a dud of an exploding tag. "Tiger you will come with me an bring that with you, the rest of you I want you on patrol guard these walls with your life do you understand?"
"Yes captain!" the rest said, the tiger rolled the cloth back up an fallowed his captain to the 5ths office. "Have you found them?" The tear streaked hokage said looking out the window holding her 6th bottle of sake in her hand. "Not yet my lady but we have reason to believe that both are gone and are no longer in the village. When my team searched the area one of my men had found something." The man with the tiger mask put the kunai on her desk an she stared at it. 'What triggered him to do something like this? Oh Naruto always causing trouble for everyone just please when we meet again please say I don't have to kill you.' She looked toward those Anbu in the room with her and nodded, "Dismissed." She sat at her desk just staring at the kunai until dawn.
Kakashi sat in the window still an staring at the distressed blonde to his side. "It seems like this pain will never stop an I'm actually thinking this whole thing is just one insane dream I haven't woken from" The silver haired man stared at her an back at the rising sun "It may seem that way but we have to stay strong and not let this get to us. After all you have to wake from a dream sometime or later."