Alright, here's the newest chapter. Again, I'm not an expert on Naruto, and am allowed to make some creative liberties.

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto.


End of the Nightmare

He has four tails, and I have four, I'm barely past 1/3 power and he's at half, crap. Naruto grit his teeth. But I won't lose!!!

"I won't kill you just yet, know why?" Naruto ignored the taunts. "Because I want to fight Kyuubi-nii, I'll just freeze you and then I'll Murder each and everysingle one of them before your eyes. Then I'll take you to Kohona and massacre the people there, all in your sight. They'll curse you then." Naruto's rage shot through the roof.

"How dare you!" Naruto's voice changed, The Kyuubi's power changed it. Another surge ripped through his body pounding into the Hachibi.

"Naruto . . . "

"He gained another tail!" Those in the shield watched as the fifth tail shone in all it's glory. The ice blue chakra of the Hachibi vanished. Then all of the red demonic Chakra vanished, even the stuff that was in the shield. Hachibi lay on the ground, dead. Naruto coughed up blood before leaning on a tree. He avoided their eyes. Sasuke helped Sakura back to her feet. Naruto's head jerked up.

"Crap . . ." Naruto tried to move, Itachi slammed him up against the wall of ice. Sakura quickly grabbed Sasuke's arm. Naruto was too close to Itachi for any attack. They saw Naruto's eyes blank a second, before he blocked a blow from Itachi's kunai.

He just . . . survived the mangekyo sharigan, he was even able to block. Sasuke grit his teeth, if it wasn't for Sakura holding on to him, he'd probably kill both. Wait a second . . .the ice wall. Sakura will kill me for this . . .

"Sorry . . ." Sakura almost didn't register Sasuke's voice, before his fist hit her, knocking her out.

Kakashi tensed as Sakura hit the ground and Sasuke took off. Lee was at her side in almost zero time. What are you doing Sasuke?

Crap I'm not going to survive this. Kyuubi was silent in his head, he could feel the damage from the first two times being healed. Naruto grit his teeth as everything went black. The last thing he heard was the chidori.

Itachi almost didn't see the black blur. It richoted off the Ice wall and managed to hit his side. He stabbed down, and was almost surprised to see his brother, his kunai in his neck. Itachi felt the blood come into his mouth. Not bad, little brother. He pulled out the kunai, (accidentally cuting the sound forehead protector off his brother) and moved away from the two. They collapsed in the snow, the snow near sasuke's neck turned red. Not bad at all. The chidori had hit his side, breaking a couple ribs, and leaving a bloody mess. Itachi moved to get Naruto, and found himself unable to move.

"Mendoksu . . ."

Shadow bind, I hate Naras. Gritting his teeth he twisted in time to see a rather large boulder head straight at him. Akimichi. He broke loose right before Chouji hit him. Chouji wound up breaking a hole in the ice wall. Two twin spirals aimed for him. Inuzumaka . . . what does the kyuubi container not have protecting him? He dodged both attacks in time to see Kisame get kicked away by the boy that looked like Gai. Two domes of sand covered the area where Sasuke and Naruto lay. At least the Aburame can't use his bugs, it's too cold for them, and the Yakama can't risk missing either of us. That still leaves the adults. Itachi dodged Neji, and internally sighed. Hyuuga, yeah that's pretty much all the clans, Hn, and I really need to get bandaged up. He moved quickly, stopping Kisame from slicing open Lee.

"We'll retreat for now." The two Atasuki members vanished.

"Mmm . . . " Sakura came to, she lay in the snow blinking before she remembered what happened. Sasuke had knocked her out, again. She sat up and looked around. Ino was helping Chouji up, while scolding Shikamaru who lay in the snow. Kiba was being helped up by Neji, Akamaru looked alittle unsteady. Gaara was gathering his sand back, and Lee was by two figures in the snow, that weren't moving. "Oh no . . . "

Tsunade blinked, had Itachi just run away? They all jumped to Naruto's defense, except the ones who wouldn't have made a difference. Shino's bugs couldn't handle this much cold, He was holding Hinata who had a broken leg. Tenten didn't have any weapons to use, and Ino had wisely stayed out of the fight, not using her mind transfer technique. Kakashi and Jiraiya were checking the two. Lee still held Naruto's bloody forehead protector. Kurenai checked on the other group, concerning herself with the ones who had fought, Iruka helped her, but he kept looking over his shoulder, checking on Naruto. Gamabunta frowned, before he tapped Jiraiya's shoulder.

"Here, You might want these . . . I'll be around if Naruto needs me." The giant frog handed a small pouch to Jiraiya. It had the seals that would convert any excess Kyuubi chakra to Naruto's own. Gamabunta left, Rana sighed. Zurui snorted, then glanced at Trixie.

"Stupid frog, but he's got a point, Wait until he wakes to leave, Trixie." The fox left with a flick of it's three tails. Trixie moved to Sakura's side. Sakura picked Trixie up and closed her eyes, and let more tears fall, slightly comforted by the feel of a small furry body. Tsunade was surprised. Oh, Sakura . . . wait a minute, where's Kabuto and Orochimaru? Tsunade moved to see the area the two had stood almost empty, there were two mounds of snow. Quietly she moved, and cleared the snow from one mound. Kabuto was almost blue, and he didn't have a pulse. The second mound revealed Orochimaru, dead as well.

"Hn, Good riddance." Gaara uncorked the gourd, wrapping the sand around the two and sending them deep underground. Tsunade jumped, she hadn't heard the Kazekage.

A gasp brought their attention to Sasuke. Kakashi, Jiraiya, Gai and Lee moved away. (Gai had been checking on Lee.) Sasuke brought himself to his elbows, before bowing his head. A gash showed on his shoulder, the kunai had just missed his neck. "Kuso . . ."

"Nn, I thought I was the reckless one . . . " Naruto opened his eyes, He got to his feet slowly. Taking off the breast plate and shin guards, he gave them to Rana, who croaked and vanished as well.

"Hn." Sasuke stood as well, holding his shoulder. "You are the reckless one. Careless too . . . Dobe."

"Teme." Naruto looked normal again.

"Y-you . . . " Both glanced at Sakura, who struggled not to start sobbing. " . . . precious idiots! Don't do that to me!" She lost some more self control. "I thought you were dead . . ." Naruto glanced at Sasuke.

"Hn." The two immediately got to Sakura's side, wrapping her in a hug between them.

"Sorry." Naruto held her tight, Sasuke rested his head on top of hers. Gradually Sakura stopped crying.

"Promise me you won't do that again . . ."

"How 'bout you promise us not to give up on believing we're alive until after we're buried? 'Cause I don't think 'not dying' is a promise I'll keep." Naruto gave a smile as he looked down at her. "Considering how many times I should've died, or almost died, That's kinda hard."

"Hn, he's got a point . . .!" Sasuke saw stars and found himself laying in the snow. Comprehension set in the instant he heard Naruto laugh. Sakura had hit him.

"How about you promise you won't betray us again? And that you won't knock me out." Sasuke blinked at the two.

"Man, I've been wanting to see that since the day Sakura hit me over the head." Naruto was struggling not to laugh.

"Hn, I promise to the first one, but if the situation calls for it, I will knock you out, to the second." Sasuke gave a small smile at the two. Sakura smiled.

Tcha! He came back! And he's smiling at us! Inner Sakura was rejoicing. Naruto just shook his head as he turned and walked over to the Hachibi's body, which had been lying there forgotten.

"Okay, time to wake you up." Naruto touched the seal. Blue light covered the body and it began to change.

"Naruto, what are you doing?" Sakura healed Sasuke's shoulder. He ignored them. Gradually the blue light faded to reveal a kid in a torn brown jacket and frayed pants, no older than seven or so. "Nani?"

"The Hachibi's container." Gaara made the connection. "The Hachibi took over it's container . . ."

"Yeah, couple of years ago now." Naruto glanced up at the former demon container. "The kid was only five then, and there's no telling what happened to his mind. It could've deterorated completely." He turned his attention and care back to the kid. Lee moved to Naruto's side.

"Need any help, Naruto?"

"Not really, Oh." He noticed the forehead protector. "I'm going to have to wash that off later . . ."

"Probably." Lee gave a small smile. Tsunade approached Sasuke.

"Orochimaru is dead, so's Kabuto." Sasuke just looked at her.

"The intresting thing about Hachibi's attacks, Ice touch and Ice Embrace is that they use the heat all around, from chakra or human body heat. Ice embrace takes even more heat than Ice touch." Naruto was talking to Lee, but it was loud enough for everyone else to hear. "Unless you're a demon, survival of either is slim, unless you have an attack that is really high powered, like the rasegan or the chidori, or you have demonic chakra, like the atasuki members have." He looked at Sasuke who met his eyes. "So Orochimaru and Kabuto never stood a chance if they weren't under that shield." He turned back to the kid.

"I guess I didn't make it large enough." Sasuke shrugged. Sakura just glanced at her mentor. Tsunade blinked, They . . . Naruto, good work.

"He's waking up." The kid moved, opening his eyes. Then jerked away and landed across from Naruto, eyes wide in fear.


Okay, next few chapters will be meeting the Hachibi's container, and more on how Naruto won. Since Itachi doesn't really talk, and it's impossible to read him, I just wrote his thoughts out. There will also be a bit of a 'filler' chapter staring the people back in Kohona, and Akatsuki will be mentioned by name only, since it's hard to right them. Later! Please Review!