Chapter 6
It was summer time in Konoha, and a certain Pink Haired Kunoichi had just finished her last lecture for the morning. Everyone was bustling out of the hall after an hour long lecture on different measures to counter different piosons. She took a deep breadth and began assembling all her stuff into her large hand bag. She have been having a very busy morning with her lectures, and now it was time to take a break.
Unaware, she was being watched by a certain someone standing in the doorway. He watched the Pink Haired Kunoichi assembling all her things in her large hand bag and pausing in between to pull up her hair in a rough updo and fixing them with one of her pens, while her doing so he maganed to catch a glimpse of her milky white midriff flashed on her raising her arms to fix her hair.
'OHHHH... God damn..She is so darn sexy.' He thought. Soon after, unable to resist, clearing his throat he called out her name.
"Ahem... Sakura-san."
"Oh, Ohio Shikio-kun." Sakura turned to greet the man causing a few strands of her hair to fall across her face.
'Wow!' he thought and spoke again. "Having a busy morning?" He stepped inside deciding to help her out with her things.
"Oh, you know, regular classes." Sakura replied brushing off the strand of her hair from her face.
"Hmm.. So, would you mind to join me for a cup of tea." He asked as he began to help her arrange a stack of papers.
"Yeah, why not. I was just thinking about getting a bite." Sakura replied smiling as she took the last stack of papers off of his hands and put them in her bag.
"Hmm. Come then lets go." He told as they both started towards the door. Sakura respected the Medic jounin who was a fellow lecturer at the Konoha Medical Training Facility since the last 3 months. He was an inch or two taller then her, and was well built, decent looking, black hair that resembled Asuma, and had a rather silent and reserved attitude towards most of their fellow lecturers, well of course her being an exceptions. She learnt that he had injured his spine in one of his missions, resulting his retirement from the Shinobi force. However he decided to not to let go off his knowledge about Medical Ninjutsu and joined the facility. Sakura truly admired the man's knowledge about Medical Ninjutsu, he was almost as good as her Shizune senpai, if not less. She had a very comfortable and decent freindship with him and decided to keep it that way when a few weeks earlier he had asked her out for a dinner and she refused him politely saying that, she was already in love with someone special..'although not mentiong who'.. and that she didn't want to upset her loved one by going out with someone else. Although he had been a bit persistent in the beginning stating that what was the big deal about just one date, upon explaining how much she loved and cared for her 'someone special' it seems like he finally gave up and respecting her different feelings for him and her loved one. Or thats what she thought.
'Someday I'm gonna tear that small asshole of yours apart.' Shikio thought to himself stealing at glance at Sakura's backside as she walked a few steps ahead of him. Sakura although had no idea about the twisted and sick fantasies that he sheltered in his mind about her. He knew about her monstorous strength, which was the only reason why he had'nt tried to take any drastic steps towards her.
'I could care less about your boyfreind, whoever he is, and if he tries interferring with my plan. He's gonna live the rest his life without his balls.' Shikio thought to himself as a slight wicked snicker left his face. Little did the poor fellow knew what he was getting himself into.
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"SAAAKUURAAAAAA!"
Sakura was sipping her cup of tea, sitting across Shikio in the cafeteria when a very anxious Ino came running towards her shouting at the top of her lungs, causing a lot of puzzled heads to turn towards her, but she didn't seem to care as she kept running towards her.
"Ino, settle down, what the hell is wrong?" Sakura was oviously tensed watching her blond freind in a nearly frenzied state.
"Sak..ura, its an... emer...gency at... the ho..spital, Kakashi-sensei... is injured." Ino excalimed, supporting herself on the table and catching her breadth as a result of her early morning sprint from the Hospital to the learning facility on learning the terror of bad news.
"Kakashi-sensei, what happened to him?" Sakura asked worriedly, While helping Ino to take a seat beside her.
"No time to explain, Shizune-senpai... is hysterical and... Tsunade-sama is out of the village. You have to take a look at him." Ino said slowly getting back to normal.
"Hai, lets go." Sakura said an left immidiately with Ino, leaving a very confused and completely ignored looking Shikio at the table.
'What the fuck was that? Did they not see me sitting here?' He thought gritting his teeth.
At the Hospital, after Sakura administered a sedative to very very hysterical Shizune, took a look at her former Sensei.
"This is genjutsu. I've never seen anything like this before. Its like his mind is trapped and nothing we do will bring him back." Sakura explained frustrated with herself. "Do you know, what might have caused this." She asked Ino who was as frustrated as Sakura.
"I don't exactly know, but I heard that he was in a mission with Yamato, Sai and Kiba when he offered to sacrifice himself for his teamates to escape. But before anyone of them could actually make a move. Kakashi-sensei crashed to the ground. It was thanks to Yamato's Mokuton-no-jutsu that they were able to make out of their alive."
"Then where is the rest of them now?"
"I think they were summoned by Itachi-sama as soon as they delivered Kakashi-sensei here."
"Well, then lets go and find out who they went up against." Sakura was already on her way out of the room. Ino follwing her immidiately.
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"Neji, place your best men on the Nothern Gate. Shikamaru, establish an exit strategy, in case we are not able to hold him back. Guy-san I want you and your team as reinforcement for Neji's team. And for the LOVE OF GOD, send a message out to Naruto right now."
"Hai, Itachi-sama." All of them cried in unision.
Itachi had his worst nightmare come true when Yamato, Sai and Kiba had reported what had transpired in their missoin. Uchiha Madara has finally struck and Itachi knew all to well that if what Yamato and the other say is true, then this won't be as smooth and easy as Naruto had perceived. According to them, Uchiha Madara had recuperated completely from his Injuries from the war and was heading towards Konoha only to run into Kakashi's team as they were returning from a joint mission from Suna. After the war, Itachi and Madara were the only one's left of Kabuto's Edo-tensei. And now with Kabuto dead, it seemed it was impossible to stop Madara, untill they were able to seal him.
"Me and my team will be out and face Madara head on." Itachi announced and immidiately a loud serieses of protest rose from many individuals present in the conference room.
"But Hokage-sama.." Itachi cut whoever he was before he could continue and didn't even bother to look at the protestant.
"The only way to stop Madara is to seal him, and right now, in Rokudaime-sama's absence, my Sword of Totsuka is the strongest sealing technique that we have at our disposal, so its ovious for me to fight him." Itachi stated vehemently and all the protesting murmurs receeded almost immidiately. 'Thats what I thought' Itachi thought with a smile, surveying the room as all the protestants looked embarassed.
"So as I was saying, me and my team consisting of Uchiha Sasuke, Sarutobi Konohamaru and Yam.." Itachi was interrupted when a very flusterd Sakura and Ino floundered inside.
"Itachi-sama is it really true that..." Sakura's voices slowly disappeared when she slowly took notice of her surrounding and felt deeply embarassed on interrupting the meeting so rudely.
"Hai, Sakura-chan have a seat, I felt like not to disturb you with your treatment, but now that you are here, I suppose Kakashi-san is out of danger." Itachi exclaimed and saw Sakura's expression turn to rather a bitter one.
"Well.. He's critically stable at the moment." Sakura tried to the disappointment in her voice.
Itachi let out a sad sigh befor turning back to look at her. "Well, never mind. Both of you can wait at my office, I'm almost done here."
"Hai, Hokage-sama." Both Sakura and Ino said in unision and left the room.
Back in his office Itachi found both the Kunoichi were aticipating his return as they jumped up as soon as he entered. He motioned them to take back their seats and went ahead to take a seat across them in the Hokage chair. Taking a look at both of them, he took a deep breadth.
"Ok, me and my team have decided to head out and face Madara on my own" Itachi stated.
As soon as he finished, Sakura stood up and "Hai, Hokage-sama. I'll get ready at once."
"No, wait Sakura, I want you in the hospital, I've decided that Ino-san here will accompany me in your behalf." Itachi added quickly.
Sakura was looking at him in a confused state, she was assigned to the Hokage's team, so there's no way she could let him go out there without her. "But, Itachi-sama I'm assigned to your team and moreover I will be of more help out there then in the hospit..." Itachi cut her out before Sakura could finish.
"Are you telling me that, you don't have faith in Ino's skills?"
"No.. thats not what I meant." Sakura taken aback by Itachi's statement. Sakura taking a quick glance at Ino. Of course she had faith in him. But she felt that it was her duty to be with the Hokage.
"Look Sakura, you're the best Medic-nin in the entire 5 great nations so I want you in the Hospital since Shizune-san is out of action right now and not to forget Tsunade-sama's absence. You already saw what happened to Kakashi-san. I belive your expertise will be much more valuable in the Hospital instead in the battlefeild, in case we are not able to hold Madara down then it'll be upto you to treat every victim of his onslaught. If I take you with me, in worst case scenario, we'll lose both the Hokage and the Head Medic of the village at the same time."
"But Itachi-san, if we are to lose you then there would be no hope for us left." Sakura spoke indignantly.
"Of course ther is hope, I've already sent the word to Rokudaime-sama." Itachi said with a slight smile.
Sakura watched him perplexed. "But i thought.. You said that.. He said.. " She was having trouble finding her words untill she took a deep breadth and spoke again. "I thought that ther was no was to reach our Rokudaime-sama."
"Well, he left a little something something in case Madara decided to show up." Itachi stated defensively.
"Well, then its fine." Sakura decided that Itachi did make a good point. If they were to lose both the Hokage and the Head Medic at the same time then there would be nothing left for Naruto to protect even when he gets back. She then turned towards Ino. "All the best Ino, Itachi-sama is in your hands now."
"Don't worry Sakura. I'll give it my best. You make sure that Kakashi-sensei is up and fine by the time we return." Ino replied with fortitude.
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An average tall man was walking slowly along the woods that let to Konoha. He was wearing a high collared white cloak, with the swirl symbol on the back that symbolized the famous Uzumaki clan. The swirl was encirled by 9 magatamas to be exact and a string of magatamas ran from his one shoulder to other in the front of the cloak looking more like a necklace. He was holding a Shakujo in his right hand and it seemed like he was in deep thought.
"Oi Kurama, I thought you told me that I'll be around a feet taller, but why did'nt happen?"
"Look gaki I've already explained it to you a thousand times. SHIT HAPPENS!" Kurama growled at the latter part, getting irritated at Naruto's constant pestering regarding his height. "You didn't grow a because your body had been more compatible with our old man's chakra then we initially thought. And moreover its not like you havn't grown at all, you're now almost a foot taller then that Sakura girl." Kurama added the last part with a smirk.
"Why do have to compare me with her?" Naruto frowned. "I don't care if I'm a feet taller or shorter then her. its not like I'm going to marry her anyway." Naruto immidiately wanted to take back the last sentence, but he knew it was already too late. He sighed
"Whaoooooo! Who the hell said anything about marriage. Gaki don't tell me you're falling for this girl again, after all those crap he threw at us all this time." Kurama spoke with a mischivious glint, as he din't let the opportunity to get under Naruto's skin go by.
"Tell me Gaki, you're gonna go all out on seeing this girl arn't ya?" Gyuki joined in.
Naruto didn't reply.
"Or you'll be like SAAAKUURAAA-CHAAAAN, I'M BACK." Choumei added.
Naruto didn't reply.
"Or are you gogin to whine and cry like a little bitch, ha..? Shukaku too added with a smirk.
Naruto held his cool.
"Or you're gonna drop your pants, as soon as she shows up." It was Son this time.
And Naruto had had it.
"URUSAAAAAI TEBAYO"
Naruto scream caused a lot of birds fluster out of the region of his present, but not a certain bird, it came and landed right in his out stretched arm. Naruto recognized it as soon as he took the first glance at it, It was the bird he had left with Itachi to summon him incase something very bad turned up. He opened the seal place on the birds legs and took out the scroll inside. As he read it, a deep trace of worry dawned on his face. He immidialetly turned his attentions to the laughing stock of voices in his head.
"You fools can save your pathetic jokes for later." Naruto growled at the laughing bijuus who immidiately seemed to stop upon hearing the weight of his voice. "Yeah, just like I thought. Pull up your skirts fellas, we're gonna have some fun." Naruto added after waiting for them to stop as a satisfying grin came across his face.
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Itachi and his team was in really deep trouble, Madara was showering them with his strongest long range attack, one after another. He has his susanoo activated, which they found out when Konohamaru tried his luck Odoma-Rasen-Rengan with about ten shadow clones in Sage mode and was blown away after Madara defended himself with the sheild of his Susanoo. Since then it has been one Yasaka Magatama after the another, everyone was crouching under Itachi's Susanoo who was holding out the yata mirror. Itachi's susanoo despite being in his full form seemed to be half the size of Madara's as a result, it was taking Itachi's every bit of strength just to hold up against Madara's relentless attacks.
"Does he not run out of chakra." Sasuke screamed to heard over the roaring sounds of succesive explosions.
"I don't know, but if we don't think about something soon, we will be out of chakra for sure." Itachi replied screaming as well.
Ino was trying frantically to bring back Konohamaru to his senses, the young jounin hit his head really hard after being blown away by the recoil of Madara's susanoo and his odoma rasengan back firing on him.
"Damnit Konohamaru, you are not suppose to pass out like that." Ino was jolting him furiously when Konohamaru finally got back to his senses.
"Sumimasen Ino-onee-chan." Konohamaru replied wobbling as he tried to recover from Ino's furious shakes.
"Ino, try to use your Mind confusion techinque." Itachi screamed to be heard.
Ino craweld her way over to him after making sure Konohamaru could hold his own again. "Itachi-sama, I tried but it seems like he has some sort of barrier around him."
"Itachi-sama, I'll take him out with another odoma-ras.." Itachi cut him short.
"No way Konohamaru, if you take a direct hit from this attack, even Sakura's Medic skills won't be able to heal you. Stay back. I've already thought of strategy. Ino and Konohamaru, stay back, Sasuke lend me your ears."
"Hai, Nii-san." Sasuke crawled closer to Itachi.
"Ok, I think I can dispell Madara's susanoo with the sword of totsuka, though it'll be only for a while." Itachi explained.
"But Nii-san, for that to do, we have to get out of his attacks first."
"Yes, I know. I want you to use Kirin. That will throw him off guard, and immidiately follow up with amaterasu. If Kirin does'nt work, your Amaterasu will sure force him force him to stop his attacks and defend himself, and when that happens I'll use my sword to dispell his Susanoo.
Then you have to immidiately attack him full force with YOUR Yasaka Magatama. That will give me enough time to get near him and seal him with my sword." Itachi explained to an intently looking Sasuke. "Now , lets get started."
Sasuke looked up and saw that since this was already a battle between three uchihas, the fire techinques and amaterasus have casued quite a lot of clouds to form in the sky. "Ok, Nii-san, I'll tell you when I'm ready, use a shadow clone for deviation."Sasuke said and Itachi nodded.
As soon as Sasuke gave him the signal, a Shadow clone of Itachi jumped out of the Yata mirrion and immidiately used the Giant Fireball technique at Madara. Madara immidiately directed his attack at the clone, too late to realize that this gave Sasuke enough time to jump up in the air with a Chidori in his hands to uses his one of the strongest attacks. As soon as Madara turned he saw what was coming at him and froze. The force he felt was immense and just with his normal Susanoo he had trouble standing up to Sasuke's Kirin. Reluctantly, he switched to defensive from offensive. And then before he knew the Susanoo around him had vanished, courtesy of Itachi. Immidiately he looked up and just in time to dodge Sasuke's Amaterasu only to see a Yasaka Magatama being launched towards him by Sasuke's Susanoo, while still in air. Almost instinctivly he stretched out his arms across and screamed furiously toward Itachi. "You and your brother have thought this out well, but don't underestimate the power of Uchiha Madara. SHINRA TENSEI!"
"SHIT!" That was the last thought in the minds of Itachi, Sasuke, Ino and Konohamaru as they felt themselves blown away by the astounding force of repulsion exerting from Madara. And then it was all silent.
Itachi slowly pushed his eyes open, he felt himself lying face front, every muscle in his body ache, he was sure he had cracked a few ribs.
He slowly tried to adjust to his surroundings and not very far from him laied a very bloodied and battered Konohamaru and Ino. It seems both of them were alive, he could see their normal flow of chakra with his sharingan. And not far from them, an equally bloody and battered Sasuke was trying to get back to his feet, clutching his gut he coughed out a little bit of blood. It seems like a cracked rib has punctured one of his internal organs. He saw the level of of destruction Madara's single attack did, he looked at the trees which were no longer standing. Its like in an instant Madara turned a part of the forest into a barren land, and Itachi along with his team lay there like sitting ducks to be killed by Madara.
'No, I can't let this happen, I'll have to protect them. They trusted me with their life. I'm not gonna let my nephew live without a father.'
Itachi thought as he forcefully pulled himself to his feet. He held his gut, the pain from the fractured ribs was ridiculous. He saw Madara walking towards them, even though he must be nearly 150 metres away, Itachi could feel a chill run down his spine as he saw the said man reducing the distance between them. He turned to look at Sasuke, who still wasn't completely able to get to his feet. Itachi finally took a deep breadth and slowly started walking towards the approaching menace.
"Nii-chan NO WAIT, DON'T GO.." Sasuke tried to scream to his brother only to end up coughing up more blood.
Itachi stopped turned to look back at his brother and smiled politely, serenely, calmly and said. "Forgive me Sasuke, but you have a family now." He turned back and resumed his walk ignoring his crying and shouting brother behind him asking him to stop. 'As uchiha Itachi of Konoha this will be my final attack to you.' Itachi thought as he activated his full form Susanoo and kept limping towards Madara.
Madara, on seeing Itachi activate his Susanoo, didn't wait for a sec to activate his own. 'So he decides to sacrifice himself for the sake of those futile lives. How laughable and pathetic.'
"Itachi is that your full formed Susanoo! How pathetic. Well if you're going to go so far then let me show you mine. Susanoo, FULL FORM!" Itachi watched in horror as Madara activated his full form Susanoo, It was almost three times the size of his own.
"HAHAHa.." Madara kept walking giving out a sinister laugh. "Terrified already, well I'm not done yet." He did a handsign and. "STABILIZE"
Madara's susanoo grew legs and Madara jumped up to stand at the its head. Itachi knew that there was no way in hell that he could defend himself even with his Yata Mirror. It was just like the time when he was going up against the Yonbi.
"Itachi, let me show you my strongest attack yet. You won't be able to hold it off simply with your Yata mirror." Madara said as his Susanoo created the largest string of Yasaka Magatama yet and flared it with black flames of his Amaterasu, and then at in human speed it was launched towards Itachi. The speed of the attack was almost tripled when Madara immidaitely held out his hand and shouted once again. "SHINRA TENSEI."
'Now let see how you dodge that.'
"Itachi held out the yata mirror, He knew there was no way he could escape the simple Yasaka Magatama, let alone escape this one, flared with Amaterasu and followed by Shinra tensei. He closed his eyes, and accepted his fate.
However Itachi jerked his eyes open on hearing a shrill voice echo through the air.
"OOHHHHHH! HELLLLLL NOOOO!".
And there stood before him, blond spiky hairs, a tall figure may be 6 plus, holding in his two hands two different forms of chakra each, he clasped them together and slammed it in the ground. "BANBOTSO SOZO" he screamed. And out ouf nowhere a huge wall appeared in front them which almost the size of Madara's susanoo and which was immidiately blown to pieces due to Madara's incoming attack, but Itachi and his team was safe, thanks to the mysterious figure standing in front of him and his technique. Itachi's eyes drew to the back of his coat, where upon seeing the Uzumaki caln symbol, he immidiately realized who the mysterious figure was. A small smile drew up his face.
"Kakashi-san was right you know, You do have the best timing among all. And not to forget your unpredictability." Itachi spoke as he stepped forward to stand beside the said man and noticed that he reached only upto his ears now. "Welcome back, Hokage-sama."
Naruto turned to look at Itachi, a deep frown marred his face. "Itachi-san, your life is too valualble to Konoha. I can't belive you were able to throw it away like that. And what the hell are you doing teme, get your lousy ass in here." Naruto screamed at the latter part while turning away from Itachi to look at the Other Uchiha, who was finally getting back to his feet.
"Hnh, show off. Try not be late next time, usuratonkachi." Sasuke replied with a slight smirk as he too walked to stand beside Naruto.
Madara was confused, 'There was no way Itachi could have defended himself so why am I still snsing his chakra.' He was thinking to hinself when the dust from the explosin cleared and saw the three figures atanding, realizing who they were, an evil smirk clawing up his face at the same time.
"Hahahaha.." Madara gave out a sinister laugh. "So The Rokudaime Hokage has returned. Do you think that just by getting a little taller and changing your clothes, you can defeat me. Well, this couldn't get any better. I'll take out the the legendary Uchiha Brothers and the Rokudaime Hokage of Konoha at the same time."
"May be in your dreams, you decrepit old bag of bones." Naruto screamed back.
"What did you just say?" Madara screamed furious at Naruto's insult.
"Oh why, didn't you hear me, I called you a decrepit old bag of bones. So are you going to do something about it or are you like the last time going to chicken out like a little bitch." Naruto replied way to arrogantly for Madara to keep listening.
Madara launched forward with his fullform susanoo. His sword pointed straight towards Naruto.
"I want you both doing your thing just like before, and I'll be the distraction this time, ok. I'll force his Susanoo down to its normal version." Naruto said quickly and both Itachi and Sasuke nodded to that.
And almost immidately Itachi and Sasuke jumped away from Naruto. Naruto raised his right arm towards Madara and screamed "SHINRA TENSEI".
Madara's eyes watched in horror as he left the force of Naruto's technique against him. It took Madara's evry once of strength just to mantain his susanoo as he stumbled back several meters. Regaining his balance he couldn't help but wonder 'How did he..'
His thoughts were immidiately interrupted when he saw Naruto creating his next technique. He gave a smirk when he figured out what it was.
'A technique like the rasenshuriken won't have any effect on ... "WHAT THE HELL?" Madara gasped as he realized that it was not just Naruto's regular Rasenshuriken. Had it been the simple one, Madara's susanoo would have been able to absorb its impact without any doubt, but not this one, he watched in horror as Naruto's Rasenshuriken almost double then his normal size came at him enveloped in a Yasaka Magatama.
Madara was not just famous for his strenght, but also for his sharp intellect, his mind immidaitely began calculating ways to avoid Naruto's attack. He decided that the technique was way too large to just dodge it by side stapping it, he either have to jump up in the air or use Shinra tensei, to deflect. He almost decided to jump up when he saw Sasuke high up on the air, already set for using Karin. Reluctantly he decided to use his latter option, but he knew that the amonut of chakra he would need to deflect both Naruto's and Sasuke's technique would immidaitely disperse his Susanoo and leave him wide open, but there was no way out now. He raised his arms and screamed "SHINRA TENSEI."
The force was amazingly large, it immidaitely dispelled both Naruto's and Sasuke's technique, and if Naruto hadn't used his Hiraishin-no-jutsu with the help of the Kunai he threw up at Sasuke immidiately after launching his Rasenshuriken, and hadn't flown away with Sasuke, both would have been pretty much dead from the impact. Itachi however used the eye technique that he had learned from Kakashi to blast away the force coming towards him into another dimension. Although Madara didn't notice any of this as after using the technique, his susanoo disappeared and he crashed into his hands and knees. He was gasping for breadth due to his over use of chakra. Madara was too tired and worn out and lost in his own dilemma about Naruto being able to use such techniques to notice Itachi move behind him with his swift speed and activate his susanoo.
Itachi held out the sword of Totsuka and approached Madara with his full pace.
The poor bastard kept grasping for air when he felt a stab in his back. It tore its way through his insides as he felt a pain so strong and intense that caused him to shake furiously in his place. His last words as he was sealed into his the sword of Totsuka were.
"You all were too scared to face me upfront.." And silence fell as the strongest Uchiha that ever lived met his end for the last time.
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Itachi stood exactly where Madara's last momnets were. He looked at the prints left by Madara's final struggle. He took a deep breadth and spoke.
"It was an honour to fight you Madara-sama. I hope you will find peace in your afterlife." Itachi looked up and found Naruto walking towards him while holding Sasuke around his arm to prevent him from falling.
"Well that was um... intense." Naruto said trying to find the right word.
Itachi gave out a small laugh. "Yes, Hokage-sama indeed it was. So how is Konohamaru and Ino."
"Well it seems like Tsunade-Baa-chan sent reinforcements. Three Anbus showed up and I told them to take Ino and Konohamaru to the hospital right away."
"So Tsunade-Sama is back as well." Itachi said letting out a tired sigh.
"Yeah, seems that way." Naruto replied while taking a better look at Itachi's battered state. "It looks like you need some medical attention too, Itachi-san."
"Hai, my insides hurt alot." Itachi replied with a slow nod.
"Well, you just took out Uchiha Madara and are able to stand on your two feets. Seems like you did a lot better then this guy over here." Naruto said nudging Sasuke softly in his ribs.
"Oi dobe, watch out that hurts." Sasuke hissed at Naruto frowning.
Itachi smiled at Naruto's small antic. "Well, lets go home now. Everyone is expecting your return, lets not keep them waiting any more."
Naruto nodded and folded his arms to create a Kage-bunshin. "I'll take over from here, Itachi-san, you can lean onto my bunshin. Itachi, more then relived to have some help walking him home, leaned onto Naruto's bunshin as they slowly began their walk home.
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"I can't belive you came out to face Madara just with a team of Four." Naruto said while walking along and helping the Uchiha Brothers.
"Its Homura and Koharu, they denied my permission to have Back up. The said they needed every body to secure the Village Permieter." Itachi replied solemnly.
"Well, those two old fools almost cost you your lives, I'm ganna give them a piece of my mind when I get back. And its time we have some new head council members." Naruto spoke fuming and jerking with anger.
"Oi, dobe can you he a little gentle, I'me kinda here in a bad predicament." Sasuke retorted painfully due to Naruto's jerks.
"Hai hai. Both of you'll be in the hospital when we get home, so face it a little longer." Naruto said with a little frustration as he couldn't go faster, courtesy of the two battered Uchiha's on his around his back.
Sasuke was however silent when he mentioned hospital. Those memories from three years back coming back. He knew that the owed Naruto an explanation and he decided not to wait for Naruto to ask.
"Naruto, about that kiss, it was.." Naruto interrupted abruptly cutting him in mid sentence.
"I know Sasuke. I know exactly everything you want to say." Sasuke's eyes grew wide with shock.
"How?" He asked.
"I just know. Now lets not bother about the past anymore." Naruto replied and Sasuke nodded.
Itachi was watching both of them. Specially Naruto, how much he has grown form the boy he and Kisame came across alomst 13 years ago. There was a subtle smile in face. He decided to talk about something else.
"So, Naruto-Kun. What was that deffensive barrier that you used against Madara?"
"Oh that. When I sam Madara's attack, I just created a wall which was strong and had compact enough molecular bonding to nullify his attack."
"Seems like you can finally read alphabets now." Sasuke interrupted.
"Shut up teme, or I'll break the rest of your bones as well." Naruto hissed back.
Itachi smiled seeing both the young Shinobi argue, remaining the same like the sands of time never shifted. And then through his peripheral vision, He saw the large gates of Konoha, their home.
'Finally..' He thought with the smile never leaving his face.
A/N: Sorry guys, I just thought about Naruto and Sakura confrontation but seeing that I won't be able to include much, I decided to leave it for the next chapter. Don't worry though. Madara is dead and Naruto is already nearing home, so next chapter you are sure to have some Narusaku moments.
Also I would like to take this time to clear any doubts that this a purely NaruSaku fic, so other don't get your hopes up high. There won't be any SakuSasu or NaruHina. (I personally hate those pairs) And also that this is a rated M fiction not only because of language and violence (I got a PM asking me if this was one of those) but also because of explecit sexual content which are bound to come in the latter chapters.
But in the mean time, enjoy this chapter and keep the reviews coming. Don't worry spill your thoughts, no matter what. I don't mind. And besides Your're reviews keeps me motivated.