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Reawakening of the Uchiha

Soon, the Shukaku and Kyuubi stood facing each other. For some reason, both of them started fighting so fiercly that the whole terrain was changing. The earth was rumbling, and slowly, the hospital was starting to sink.

'Come on! We've got to get out of here!' Sasuke shouted over the deafening storm and the fighting Bijuu.

'But what about Gaara and that kid? We can't leave them here! They'll get killed!' Kankuro shouted back.

'Don't worry! Nothing can happen to them! The Kyuubi and Shukaku can't afford to let anything happen to them! Now come on!' Sasuke shouted and held the door open for the others. Temari supported Sakura and they exited first. Kankuro followed them and Sasuke just went outside when the whole side of the hospital where their room was collapsed. Soon, they were out in the cold wind outside, which was like large blades cutting them up.

'Where now?' Kankuro yelled. Sasuke didn't answer for a moment. He didn't know where. But then, behind the two Bijuu, he could see a small gate with a symbol on either side of it that reminded Sasuke of something.

'This way!' he bellowed and walked carefully and cautiously towards it, because it was difficult to maintain balance in such strong wind and because of the fighting Bijuu. There was no sign of life around them, which was creepy, even with so much noise. After taking a long detour around the Bijuu, they reached the gate and just walked into it. Only then the other three noticed that the symbol was the same onw as the one on Sasuke's back. But they didn't have time to stop. They kept following Sasuke. Soon, they reached a shrine whose entrance had collapsed. And just at that moment, the Kyuubi began to move their way.

Sasuke searched through the recks and managed to make a small hole. Sakura and Temari got in followed by Kankuro. Sasuke just put his legs inside the dark hole when the Kyuubi stopped in front of him and looked down. Sasuke looked into its big, red eyes. He reacted just in time through that fear. He just let himself fall into the hole when the Kyuubi's paw came crashing down. All the recks were blown away and they were once again in the howling winds. Only then they saw that the Shukaku was on the other side and that they were about to fight again. They ran into the only tunnel ahead of them. Once again, they just got into the tunnel when the Kyuubi's paw came down. The entrance of the tunnel caved in and they were once more in total silence which was very creepy after the noise of such loudness. They could hear and feel the Kyuubi and Shukaku battling outside as the whole tunnel was rumbling. But the sound was muffled.

'This way,' Sasuke half-shouted and led the way down the tunnel.

'There's no need to shout,' Kankuro said. But he too was half-shouting. It was because they were yet to get used to the sudden silence. They kept walking for what seemed like ages and soon reached a small underground room like place, though they couldn't see anything. But Sasuke had a fair remembrance of what was where and soon found a torch and lit it. Then he lit all the torches and sat down in the dim light.

'Are you sure the roof won't come crashing down on us?' Kankuro asked uncertainly.

'Don't worry. This is one of the many rooms in the shrines in the area designed to protect the Uchiha scrolls and the Uchihas. There's no way it can collapse,' Sasuke said.

'Then you could have hidden here to prevent the destruction of your clan,' Temari said. It was as though they had to keep talking.

'Itachi was an Uchiha. He knew about these rooms and how to get in. It would make no difference. And I suppose there wouldn't have been time anyway. He was too good a ninja,' Sasuke replied. The muffled sounds and rumblings continued, though fainter. At that moment, Sasuke looked at the corner of the room right opposite to the entrance. Then his whole body became stiff. Kankuro noticed this and said cautiously:

'Are you all right?'

But he got no answer. Sasuke just got up and walked towards the table there. There was a small box there flanked by two candles. Sasuke put his hand into his pocket and pulled an old, rusted and crumbling key. It fit into the hole. He opened the box and pulled out a set of scrolls. His past began to catch up to him. He had found that key in his father's pocket after he had been killed. His father had told him that that was the key to the most secret scroll of the Uchiha Clan which were strictly prohibited. He had been saying all this aloud without noticing. The other three gathered around him behind him. He opened the scroll ... it was blank.

'That's the most secret scroll?' asked Kankuro who was almost laughing.

'You must be an Uchiha to see this. Or rather, you must have the Sharingan to see what is written. That's how it was made so that no other clan may come to know of this,' Sasuke said. He began to read whatever was written. Kankuro was really at the verge of laughing. It was strange to see someone to read a blank scroll. Suddenly, when Sasuke was reading the bottom of the page, he dropped it. He was totally stiff and it was almost as though he was not breathing.

'Are you okay, Sasuke-kun?' Sakura asked, speaking for the first time after quite a while. But Sasuke still didn't even move. The other three began to get worried.

'Hey man, are you okay?' Kankuro asked, walking forward and putting his hand on Sasuke's shoulder. In a flash of a second, he had backed into the wall way behind him. He was clutching his hand as though it had been burnt.

'What happened?' Temari asked. Her voice was shaking in tension.

'He's burning!' Kankuro shouted in panic. Sure enough, there was smoke rising into the air from Sasuke. At last, he turned around. They saw that his whole hand was looking as if it had burnt. Not only his hand, his whole body was like that there were huge abnormal amounts of heat radiating from him.

'What's happening to him?' Temari asked in an unnaturally high voice.

'Both of you, get back into the tunnel now!' Kankuro shouted. But next moment, it had all stopped. Sasuke's skin and heat returned to normal. He turned around and opened his eyes.

Kankuro once again backed away. Somehow he knew that something was totally wrong. Sasuke's expression was not at all like the one that could be remembered. His face was an exact copy of Itachi's. Somehow, he had obtained the Mangekyou Sharingan. His expression was calm and not bothered about the ruckus the two Bijuu were still creating outside.

'Are you okay?' Kankuro asked again.

'Yes,' Sasuke replied. His voice too had changed and was almost exactly like Itachi's.

'What in the world happened to you?' Kankuro asked. He walked forward.

'At last I understood how Itachi became so poweful. It was because he had read these scrolls and awakened the Uchiha power inside of him. But it seems he had not managed to awaken one particular part of the power. But I have, and now it is time we put an end to the Kyuubi,' Sasuke said in the same calm, untroubled voice.

'That awakening must have turned you nuts. What do you think we have been trying all this time?' Kankuro said.

'That awakening is what will help me do it. If you awaken all the five different powers in an Uchiha, he will be the strongest in the world, but at a cost: when he uses the last power, he will die,' Sasuke said. 'But I hope that I can avoid that. Now, let's go.'

'Not so fast, little brother,' a known voice said from the door. Itachi was standing there. Sasuke turned and faced him calmly.

'What do you want? You must have realized by now that i am going to kill you?' Sasuke said as though it was planned that Itachi should turn up there.

'Kill me? You must be out of your mind. Of all the people, you definitely cannot kill me.'

'We shall see about that. But first, I have to deal with something else. So get out of my way,' Sasuke said and lifted his hand, spread his fingers and pushed his palm against the air as though there was a wall there. Next second, Itachi was blasted backward by a force and speed not less than that of an aeroplane. But only then Sasuke noticed that Sakura, Kankuro and Temari were missing. Just then, Itachi's voice rang around in the room as though there were speakers.

'That is why you cannot kill me, Sasuke. You might have obtained all five powers, but your brain is just as foolish as it was when you joined the Academy. That is where your weakness lies. You do not need that power to kill me. You just need the brains, which you certainly lack. If you want to see your friends again, seal up the Kyuubi and Ichibi and bring the Jinchuuriki to me at the border of the Fire Country by tomorrow evening,' Itachi's voice said and stopped, leaving echoes of "evening".

Sasuke had no choice now. He fell to the floor, wondering how he could have been so stupid. Itachi sent a clone and came down behind it, kidnapped the three of them right in front of him and disappeared. And he didn't notice that? It looks like Itachi was right ... but first thing was first. He had to stop the Kyuubi and Shukaku before it destroyed the whole village.

He walked along the tunnel to find the exit caved in again. But he blasted through it as eaisily as walking through a doorless exit. When he reached outside, he found everything calm. There was no storm, no wind, no noise, no Kyuubi, no Shukaku ... evrything was spookily silent and still ...

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A/N: temme how it was ... i'm gettin a hunch that this chap wasn't all that good ... or sensible. review anyway

Kai Hiwatari II