Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Naruto is the property of Masashi Kishimoto

Everything at His Disposal

In a repeat of history, Naruto and Sasuke stood atop the enormous statues of their ancestors, Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama at the Valley of the End. Both were silent, awaiting the other to make the first move. A breeze blew a leaf from one side of the valley to the other, and in an instant, both leapt into action.

"Sasuke!" Naruto called out to his rogue team-mate.

"Naruto!" Sasuke called back to his determined former team-mate.

His sharingan blazing, Sasuke prepared to use the Chidori, the technique taught to him by his and Naruto's sensei to end the latter's life. Through his advanced perception, Sasuke saw Naruto bite open his thumb, and perform the boar, dog, bird, monkey and ram hand-seals in mid-air. Not having any time to counter, Sasuke continued his charge in an attempt to end the fight in one attack.

"Summoning technique!" Naruto called out.

Sasuke found his assassination technique did little more then tickle one of the boss toad's toes.

"Gamakichi told me what had happened." Gamabunta said to Naruto. "If it'll keep you from bothering me about letting your team-mate get away like Jiraiya does about his, I'll take care of him." He said, drawing his massive tanto.

Sasuke gulped, and started thinking that running off to join Orochimaru was not such a good idea after all.


Riding atop of Gamabunta, Naruto returned to the Hidden Leaf Village in triumph. When they made it to the gates, Naruto hopped off and Gamabunta spit out Sasuke before dispelling himself.

"Mission accomplished granny." Naruto said to Tsunade, the Fifth Hokage with as much respect as he gave Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage.

"Good job Naruto," Tsunade replied, not minding if he called her that in private but wishing he would address her by title in public, "though I think you went overboard by summoning Gamabunta."

Naruto just grinned and rubbed the back of his neck as he usually did when embarrassed.

"Alright then," Tsunade said, addressing her ANBU, "Take the Uchiha into custody, seal away his chakra and that curse seal with a good seal this time, and lock him away in the psych ward. Anyone who willingly runs off to Orochimaru has something wrong with them, and after looking over the reports of what Itachi did to him years ago, he's long overdue for a stay there."

The ANBU took him away, but not before Sakura got one last shot at him. For responding to her confession by knocking her out and leaving her in the middle of the street to run off and join one of their village's greatest traitors, she gave him a surprisingly strong kick to the groin, and followed that by saying that since Naruto gave her the opportunity to do that, she was going to give him a lot more than the date he always wanted.

Unfortunately for her, Hinata had gotten to Naruto first, congratulating him on finally defeating his rival. A few more girls were there as well, having heard of Naruto defeating Sasuke, and after seeing his performance in the chunin exams, and knowing he defeated Gaara as well, who Sasuke only got one good hit on, began to show signs of interest in him as well.

Tsunade had already returned to the hospital to help with healing the other members of the Sasuke retrieval team, who were now being brought in. All the while, Naruto was enjoying getting the recognition he always wanted.

'I wonder how things would have turned out if I forgot I could summon giant toads?' He wondered, along with how things would go from there.


Author's note: I don't think I've ever seen a version of this fight where Naruto tries to summon a toad. It got a little silly at the end too, so consider that a take-that against all the banishment fics that start with Naruto returning Sasuke but being punished for harming him.