Brawl 4: Sasuke VS Itachi.

Did I really just say that?! Sasuke thought. Crap! I hope I didn't… I didn't mean that part about Naruto anyways so-

"You are going to kill me… because I hurt your friends?" Itachi said, resisting a chuckle.

Crap. I did say it out loud. Sasuke recovered a bit and looked in Itachi's eyes.

"That's only a part of it…" Sasuke said nervously "…Mostly because you murdered my clan."

"Sure." Itachi smirked. "Whatever you say, Sasuke." Itachi got into a fighting position.

"Fire style: fireball jutsu." A large fireball was sent flying towards Sasuke. Sasuke dodged it by leaping in the air, but Itachi came from out of nowhere it hit Sasuke in the back with a powerful punch, sending him flying to the ground. Sasuke tried to get up, but for some reason, he couldn't move. Try as he might, he struggled and struggled and could not move an inch. Then it dawned on him: he had overused his curse form. Itachi landed next to Sasuke.

"Well, it looks like you can't use that snakes seal any more, eh Sasuke? If you won't fight me, I'll just take Naruto and move on." Itachi began to walk away.

"Get back here and fight me! I'm not done yet…" Sasuke said. Slowly, he relinquished the level three form, and reverted back to his regular self. Sasuke stood up.

"That's better." Sasuke smirked. "Now, where were we?" Sasuke disappeared. He reappeared 40 feet above Itachi's head, and summoned a bunch of shuriken from a scroll. Sasuke launched them up into the air, and summoned a shadow clone to blow fire into the shuriken from the scroll. Once the shuriken began to home in on Itachi, Itachi reacted by raising his hands and deflecting all of them. Soon, Sasuke had no more left. But as Itachi blocked the last one, a shadow clone of Sasuke came from behind and stabbed him with a kunai knife. Itachi coughed up a little blood, Sasuke hit his liver dead on.

"All those… for a distraction?" Itachi smiled. Sasuke de-summoned the clones.

"He he…" Itachi laughed. "Seems to me that you are no mere child anymore… little brother…"

"Yes. And if you don't start fighting seriously, you will get killed. Which is fine by me." Itachi laughed some more and poofed away.

"As I suspected." Sasuke said. He shifted his eyes and found Itachi to the right of him.

"Well then, I shall begin to fight now." Itachi closed his eyes. "I shall now show you what the prodigy of the Uchiha clan can really do!" Itachi opened his eyes and the insides were shaped like a pinwheel.

"Mangekyou sharingan! Tsukuyomi!" Blackness emitted from Itachi's body, and soon it covered the whole area that Sasuke could see. The nightmare world had begun. Three seconds later, Itachi disappeared and Sasuke was bound in chains. Itachi reappeared before him.

"And now, you shall see all of your friends die, one by one." Itachi pointed to Sasuke left, and he saw Sakura stabbing herself with Sasuke's katana. Sasuke was calm however. Itachi noticed this and commented.

"Hmm? Do you not feel pity for your friends?" Sasuke smirked. "They ain't my friends. And besides…" Sasuke suddenly set himself free and killed Itachi with his katana.

"Everything is going to plan." The nightmare world faded from view to reveal a shocked Itachi.

"How did you…?"

"You've shown me Tsukuyomi twice now. I was able to counter it after seeing it so many times.

"I see." Itachi said. Then I will show you my final jutsu…"

Itachi put his hands into a hand sign.

"Prepare to face, Amaterasu."


"Is this all you got!?" Kisame screeched. He stood atop a giant waterfall, which he created, and it flowed down to a giant pool, where Sakura and Suigetsu layed. They had decided to team up to try and kill Kisame, but they did not have any luck so far as they were both close range fighters. Not to mention that Suigetsu was down now (cause Sakura kicked his butt in chapter 6) fortunately, Sakura was still holding strong.

"Pathetic Suigetsu!" Kisame chuckled. "Anyway, I'd better end this and help Itachi." He made some HS.

"Water style! Water shark jutsu!" five water sharks came from the waterfall. They went down, using the fall as extra momentum and then jumped out to bite Sakura. Sakura dodged the first one, and punched the second one. The third and fourth decided to attack simultaneously from both sides, but Sakura jumped and punched them both. However, the fifth shark waited below Sakura, so as she was in the air, it launched itself forward with a head on collision with Sakura.

"Ugghhh!" she said as she felt the somehow solid water hit her body. She recovered and landed on the water.

"Crap! This isn't going anywhere!" Sakura cursed. Kisame merely laughed. Sakura began to think. All of her moves were close range, be the medical or regular ninjutsu. The only genjutsu she knew was the art of multi- doppelgangers, and all the weapons she had left were…

Sakura checked her pocket.

She had sixteen kunai, about 40 meters of string, a flash bomb, ten explosion tags-

An idea struck her.

"Art of illusion! Multi doppelgangers!" using her genjutsu, many multiple copies of her sprung from her chakra. There were now about two thousand illusion Sakura's, and only one real one. The Sakura's began to run about in random directions, to confuse Kisame. They also began to throw kunai at Kisame. Some were real, but most weren't.

"She's up to something." Kisame said. His yellow eyes scanned the area, to find order among the chaos. He then spotted one Sakura, laying string in certain places around Kisame's waterfall.

"Ah. She distracts me with kunai and doppelgangers, as she lays a trap to destroy me. Such an obvious tactic." Kisame sighed as he deflected another illusionary kunai. He wove some hand signs.

"Water style: water barrage jutsu!" Kisame hurled ball of water with his own chakra at the Sakura he spotted. There were three in total, so it made spotting them for Sakura easy.

PLOOOOOOOSSSHHH!!

The first one landed, but Sakura dodged that one. However, the second one was aiming right at her. It made a direct hit, and it followed up with the third and last water ball, and Sakura hit the ground.

"Easy." Kisame smirked. But then, Sakura got up and ordered the clones to impose more running about, and soon, all the Sakura's were racing about in every direction possible.

Kisame however, wasn't fooled. He kept his eye on the real Sakura. She was still laying the string. She seemed to be laying the string around the circumference of Kisame's waterfall…

"Hmm. Something tells me, I'd better go and stop her." Kisame bit his thumb, and a trickle of blood came out. He smeared the blood on the rock layer.

"Summoning jutsu!"

POOF!

A gigantic shark now lay next to Kisame. It was purplish blue and had a scarred eye. The most frightening features however, were its metal teeth and the fact that it was twenty feet long.

"Kill the wet one." Kisame said, knowing that only the real Sakura would still be wet from his earlier jutsu. The shark accelerated at an impossible rate, homing in towards the real Sakura. Sakura summoned a bunch of real shadow clones, but the shark slowly chomped them in half with its metal teeth, one by one.

Soon, all but the real Sakura was left as the shark, without hesitation, reared its ugly head and bit her in half, then swallowed her whole. Suigetsu, Karin and Jugo, were completely shocked and terrified. THEY were Kisame's next target.

BOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Suddenly, an explosion came from Kisame's waterfall! The explosion series totaled to ten, and they demolished the waterfall with ease. And then Sakura burst from the ground to face a surprised Kisame.

"I used only one shadow clone to make you think I was setting a trap. However, the real trap was when I set all the explosion tags underground beside your waterfall. And now, you're toast without anymore long ranging!" Sakura lunged herself at Kisame, chakra in her hand for a mega punch. However, Kisame blocked it with his swords, and then cut her shoulder and draining her chakra.

"I'm impressed!" Kisame chuckled. "No one has ever taken down my waterfall before! However, you failed to interpret one thing, Sakura," Kisame raised his sword and pointed it at her.

"You've wasted too much chakra for that one blow. Plus, I've drained all the chakra in your right arm with Samehada. Sakura flinched for a second. True, she had wasted a lot of chakra, but Sakura could still fight. Kisame rushed forward and used many sword moves and made Sakura move in every single direction she could imagine, just to avoid it. Then, he managed to physically wound Sakura's right shoulder once more. Sakura gagged in pain for a moment, before looking bitterly at Kisame. Seeing the look only made Kisame's smile wider.

"Hehehe!!" he said, doing his trademark laugh. "Well, the situation looks bad for you eh? You may have some chakra, but now you can't even move your shoulder!" Kisame raised his sword and slashed it down. Sakura blocked it with her left hand at the tip. Nonetheless, it was still difficult.

"Tell ya' what; You can scurry on back to Konoha, and I won't kill ya'!"

"And what happens then?" Sakura questioned.

"Then I go help Itachi, we get the Jinchuriki, and then we seal it in the statue!"

"No way." Sakura punched Kisame's face with surprising strength. "I will never let you creeps get your hands on Naruto!!" Sakura said in defiance. Kisame chuckled.

"Hm. Pity." He grinned. He made some HS.

"Water style: water barrage jutsu!" three human sized balls of liquid rushed towards Sakura, knocking her against the rubble of the now destroyed waterfall.

SHI-NG!

Suddenly, she was pinned against the wall, held up by kunai.

"A little secret." Kisame said to Sakura, slowly backing up as he spoke. "In normal defense, there are three ways to block an attack: you dodge it, reduce the impact, or use chakra to reduce the impact. Now in this situation, you cannot dodge as you cannot move your body. Also, the same principle applies with blocking. And since my Samehada yields chakra useless when it strikes…"

Kisame crouched down and held Samehada like spear. "If I strike you, say, in the heart, you will die no matter what!" Kisame pointed his sword at Sakura.

"Good bye." Kisame gave one last smile before he chucked the sword like a spear right at Sakura's heart.

But then, seconds before it hit her, it fell down with a clatter.

"Hm??" Kisame said. A figure had stood and blocked his Samehada from finishing off the pink haired girl.

Sakura stared. She saw long black hair in a brownish white kimono, with a purple bow like object on his back.

"No way… I thought you were dead!!"

"Hmm?" the figure said, not hearing her.

"Orochimaru!! What are you doing here!!" The figure paused. Then it turned around to face Sakura.

Except it wasn't the snake ninja. It was

Kabuto.

Kabuto's hair was now black and slightly long. His skin was semi- white, and the right eye had a mark just like Orochimaru's.

"Orochimaru!! What have you done to Kabuto!?" She said in rage.

"Actually… the question should be 'Kabuto! What have you done with Orochimaru?'. And the answer is, that after he died, I used medical ninjutsu to extract some of Orochimaru's DNA and implant it into my own. My body now shares about 30 with his." Kabuto turned away from the shocked Sakura, to the equally shocked Kisame.

"Basically…" Kabuto smiled. "I now have the power of Orochimaru, combined with my own medical intelligence that is on par with Tsunades. In other words, two of the Sannin in one body. So I will kindly suggest you back off and leave." In one swift motion, he swiped all of Sakura's kunai, thus freeing her.

Kisame looked at Kabuto angrily.

"You're telling ME to back off!?" he said. He held out his hand and Samehada came back to it.

"Just for that, you're gonna die!" Kisame lurched forward.

Kabuto sighed. "Let me handle this, Sakura." Kabuto tapped the seal on his left arm. "Summoning jutsu."

A poof later, and Kabuto rode on a giant snake. The snake lurched forward, right into Kisame. However, Kisame jumped up and landed on the snake's head, ready to face Kabuto.

Except he wasn't there.

"Snake hands jutsu!" a twin pair of snakes suddenly wrapped around and entangled Kisame. Kabuto rose from the snake's skin.

"That it!? I'll be free in no time!!" Kisame chuckled.

"Kisame... do you know how snakes kill their prey?" Kabuto asked, making some HS. "The true power of a snake, is not in its bite, but after the bite… the poison…" Kabuto's arm suddenly turned purple.

"Burning technique: Poison pore jutsu!" Kabuto rushed forward and jabbed Kisame hard with his purple hand. Kisame instantly felt a rush through his body, a pain indescribable to all but the one who had experienced it. Kisame quickly leapt away.

And then barfed out a purple fluid.

"How does it feel to have poison sent through every fiber of your body, Kisame?" Kabuto smiled. "Soon, the poison will eat away your cells, and you will die in about three minutes."

Kisame could already feel the pain building up inside his body. He fell his sight begin to get blurry and his muscles stiffen.

"You- you-!" Kisame tried to say. But his mouth was already numb. Kisame was dying, and he knew it too. He had to use THAT jutsu, and wipe them out along with himself.

"Water style: Aquatic collapse!" Kisame raised his hands to the sky. Slowly, the clouds began to form together, and mist started to leave the tree's.

"This jutsu," Kisame explained "Lets me gather all the water in the atmosphere, and plants, within a thirty mile radius!" the sky above Kisame's head was now filled to the brim with and immense amount of water.

"The only problem is, I never use it because once I let go, the sheer mass of it would both crush and drown anyone in its vicinity- including me!" Kisame smiled a suicidal smile. The water above Kisame's head rivaled that of ten lakes combined.

"But since I'm going to die anyway…I'LL TAKE YOU WITH ME!!" Kisame ran out of chakra, and the monstrosity of water fell down to the ground.

"Tch. This is annoying." Kabuto said. He unveiled his left arm once more.

"Summoning jutsu!" a giant snake was summoned to the arena.

"Unless you want to die, hop inside!" Kabuto said. He jumped inside the snakes mouth, followed by Sakura, Karin, Suigetsu and Jugo. The snake swallowed them whole and braced itself.

PLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

The water fell down, and annihilated everything in its path. Everything was swept away by the newly made river. Except the snake of course…

Because the snake that Kabuto summoned was a Seasnake!

After twisting and turning and wriggling about, the water flow finally stopped, and the seasnake barfed them out.

"That was gross…" Karin said.

"Better this end than the other…" Suigetsu said. Karin shuddered. Meanwhile, Kabuto and Sakura had gone out as well.

"That was genius Kabuto!" Sakura commented.

"Thank you." Kabuto bowed.

"But- why did you save us anyway?" Kabuto closed his eyes and paused.

"I owe Naruto a great favor." Kabuto smiled. "Let's go. I want to make sure Naruto is okay."

The group raced towards the second arena.


"…Amaterasu?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes." Itachi said, his mangekyou sharingan active once more. "The second of the Mangekyou's jutsu's, Amaterasu! Its destructive power is beyond all!" Itachi closed his eyes and focused his chakra.

"AMATERASU!!" Itachi screamed in pain. A black flame erupted from Itachi's mouth, and headed towards Sasuke relentlessly. Sasuke quickly dodged.

"Foolish Sasuke… you cannot escape this jutsu!" Itachi said. Sasuke looked behind him, and saw that everything the flame touched was burnt to ashes.

"The Amaterasu flame incinerates anything it touches! You cannot win!" Sasuke thought quickly as he ran away from the black flame.

"Fire style: fireball!" a fireball erupted from Sasuke's mouth, and headed towards the black flame. But the Amaterasu simply went through it, leaving not a trace of Sasuke's flame.

"Anything, Sasuke, anything…" Itachi said.

"Crap!" Sasuke said. He leapt into the tree's, but the Amaterasu followed him and incinerated everything that that was in its way. Sasuke cut a corner along the tree's but when he turned back, the flame was gone.

"Where-?" Sasuke asked. And then it zoomed past him, his shirt got singed and he threw it on the ground as it became nothing. The flame came straight at Sasuke head-

"Water style: Ice wall!" a wall of ice formed around Sasuke and the flame stopped. Sasuke slowly turned around and saw-

The number one, hyperactive, unpredictable, knuckle-headed ninja. Naruto Uzumaki.

"Get down from there Sasuke! It's bursting through!" Sasuke thoughtlessly obeyed, and the Amaterasu flame burned through the ice wall. Sasuke landed next to Naruto, shocked.

"Naruto! What are you doing!?"

"Saving your butt." Naruto smirked.

"Listen, you must be at your limit now; just let me handle this! This is my revenge!" Naruto paused and looked at Sasuke.

"Sasuke, I don't care whether or not you kill Itachi." Naruto said. "Just please come back to Konoha with us. You make Sakura sad. And you can't do that if you die!" Sasuke stared. Here was an idiot, fighting for someone else, at the brink of death, simply because it made a girl sad.

And it was his best friend.

Sasuke had finally realized it. The pain he had caused others. The pointlessness of his revenge. And most importantly, that he wasn't alone anymore.

He had friends.

"Naruto…" Sasuke muttered. And then, he slowly extended his right hand to Naruto.

"I'm sorry." Tears came to both of their eyes as they shook hands.

"I'll come back- but only cause I need to train to defeat you." Sasuke smiled.

"Not in your life, teme." Naruto smiled back. Suddenly, the whole area besides them collapsed in cinders. It was Itachi, with the Amaterasu flame surrounding him.

"So you escaped." Itachi said. "No matter. I will simply disintegrate you all!" The black flame surged towards them.

"Water style: Ice wall jutsu!" Naruto protected them with another ice wall, and the leapt out of the way as the black flame burnt the ice wall to crisp.

"It burns ice! How does that figure!?" Naruto complained. The leapt into the air, and the black flames followed them, controlled by Itachi's will. Suddenly, the flames expanded, and formed a solid circle around the two.

"We have to get out before it surrounds us!!" Sasuke commanded. They tried to leap elsewhere, but it was too late, Amaterasu surrounded them in every direction.

"Die." Itachi commanded the flame. The flames closed in on them.

"WATER STYLE! ICE WALL JUTSU!!" Naruto screamed, gathering all the Chakra he could. Bursting from the black flames was a sphere made of ice. The ice disintegrated a second later, revealing Sasuke and Naruto.

"Crap…" Naruto fell down.

"Naruto! Get to Sakura immediately! You're using too much chakra to produce the ice walls!"

"No… I'll… help you…" Naruto muttered, gasping for air.

"Besides, I have a plan…" Naruto said as Itachi walked up to them, black flames surrounding him.

"Kill me." Naruto said.

"ARE YOU CRAZY!!" Sasuke said in rage and fear.

"No… Sasuke,… we both know that Itachi is too strong for us…. The only way to beat him,… Is if we gain as much power as him…" Naruto gagged in pain.

"You must gain the mangekyou. Then you can defeat Itachi." Naruto stated. Sasuke stood shocked. Itachi paused for a brief second; remembering something… then he continued to walk towards them.

"No way. I just gained a friend, and I have no intention upon losing him." Sasuke then smirked.

"Besides… I have a better plan…" he told Naruto. "We have to send Amaterasu into the sky!"

"That… makes no sense!" Naruto said.

"Yes it will! We just have to do it!" Sasuke insisted. He grabbed Naruto and leaned him against his shoulder.

"I'll be your legs." Naruto smiled in response. Sasuke leapt away as the black flames pursued them once more. While running, Sasuke spoke to Naruto.

"Naruto… I need you to create one more Ice wall." Sasuke asked. He gave Naruto all of his remaining chakra.

"When I say now, surround the black flame with the ice wall." Sasuke set Naruto down and ran back to Itachi. He found him only a couple yards away.

"Come at me." He stated. Itachi pointed at Sasuke and the flames rushed towards Sasuke. Sasuke ran away in the direction of Naruto. The flames were very close now, as Sasuke could feel the heat given off by them.

"NOW!" Sasuke screamed for his life. Ten feet away lying on a tree, Naruto answered.

"Water style: Ice wall jutsu!" he said. He used all his remaining chakra, and surrounded the black flame in a sphere of ice. Sasuke immediately rushed forward with all his might, and kicked the sphere of ice upward so hard, that it soon disappeared in the clouds.

"Well that was a useless move." Itachi said.

"Not entirely." Sasuke smirked, his face hidden by shadows. "Your Amaterasu contains a massive amount of heat energy. The clouds contain cold energy." Sasuke raised his Katana at the swirling clouds above him.

"When a massive amount of heat energy is combined with cold energy in a split second, the amount of friction becomes very unstable… resulting in lightning!"

Itachi's eyes widened.

"ULTIMATE CHIDORI! ADVENT OF THUNDER!!" the lightning immediately struck down on Sasuke's metal Katana, then using his free hand, directed it at Itachi.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!

Using his own body as a medium, Sasuke channeled the electricity in the air to his own brother in one powerful energy blast that wiped out all in its path. When it finally stopped, Itachi was nowhere to be seen. Sasuke heaved in air. And then collapsed on the ground.

"Sasuke!" A familiar female voice said. It was Sakura.

"Sakura…" Sasuke moaned. "I'm sorry… let's go back… to Konoha now…" Sakura stared. He did it. Naruto convinced Sasuke to change. Tears welled up in her eyes as she hugged Sasuke.

"Sakura… it hurts…" Sasuke moaned. Sakura stopped immediately and began to heal her comrade. About another ten feet away, Kabuto was healing Naruto.

"…Kabuto…?" Naruto said in shock.

"Sort of…" Kabuto smirked. "Now don't talk, you need to heal.

"An impressive move… Sasuke…" everyone stopped at the sound of the voice.

"No friggin way…!" Karin said.

"Had I not used Susanoo…" the voice continued. "I would have surely died…" a giant hand pushed back Sakura and Kabuto away from Sasuke and Naruto.

"No! We need to help them!" Kabuto said. He rushed forward.

"AMATERASU!!" the voice said. A black flame encompassed the whole area around Sasuke and Naruto.

"We can't reach them!!" Sakura said in panic. "We barely even got to heal them!!"




Inside the black dome

"To think… that my little brother has come so far…" Itachi said. "Brings tears to my eyes…" Sasuke and Naruto slowly stood back up. Itachi was now surrounded by a giant ghost like being with a skull for a head. It wore a white kimono, and a sword and shield.

"What… is that thing?" Sasuke said painfully.

"It is… Susanoo! My final and greatest technique!" Itachi said. "Susanoo is a spirit entity… from my own soul and chakra! It wields the sword of destruction, and the shield of cross! It is utterly unbeatable!!"


Outside….

"Kabuto! We have to get inside!!" Sakura urged.

"We can't… those flames are Amaterasu… I recall from Orochimarus memory, that it will incinerate anything it touches." Kabuto shrugged.

"Things are looking very bad right now… Naruto and Sasuke are both injured beyond measure from fighting Itachi. Not only that, but they must be at the brink of their limits right now! Their death and life are apart only by the width of a piece of paper… with them on it."

Sakura stared. "There must be something we can do!!" She cried desperately.

"No… we can't… Sasuke and Naruto, along with Itachi are pushing their bodies to the extremes. Anyone of them could die at any moment."

Tears welled up in Sakura's eyes.

"DON'T DIE!!" She screamed to the black dome, hoping her voice could reach them.

"It is no longer a battle of ninjutsu…" Kabuto said grimly. "It is now, a battle of endurance…"


Inside the black dome…

Itachi coughed up blood.

"Heh…" Itachi laughed. "Using all these techniques… pains my eye…" he said.

"I only have enough chakra for one strike with Susanoo…" Itachi said. "It all comes down to this… one blow…" Sasuke made some hand signs and electricity crackled through his right hand. Naruto gathered chakra in the form of a swirling sphere.

"Lets go…" Itachi said. He held up his hand. Susanoo raised its sword.

And then all heck broke loose.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

The sheer energy of their attacks broke the Black shield. It blew Sakura, Naruto, and team snake away from the impact. Among the white light, three voices were heard.

"RASENGAN!!"

"CHIDORI!!" and

"SUSANOO!!" the white light got even brighter and massive amounts of energy poured from the center of it. Then the white light began to fade. When it faded completely, the viewers of the show saw a scene, frozen in place.

A black haired man, raising his arms.

A giant ghost, its sword swung down.

A blonde teenager, who had the sword in his body.

And a black haired teenager, with his hand shoved into the body of the Black haired man.

Itachi gagged, and blood came out.

"Good one… Sasuke…" Itachi collapsed. Followed by Naruto. The Susanoo evaporated into nothingness. Seeing this, Sakura immediately rushed over.

"Naruto!!" she screamed. She kneeled down to an unconscious Naruto. She began healing and Naruto opened his eyes.

"Hi Sakura…" he smiled playfully. Sakura smiled as tears streamed down her face. Meanwhile, Sasuke stared down at Itachi.

"You've… beaten me…" Itachi smiled.

"Yes." Sasuke said firmly.

"Excellent…" Itachi smiled.

"Whats that supposed to mean?" Sasuke asked.

"It means…" Itachi coughed up more blood. "That nothing… is ever… what is seems to be…"

Itachi disintegrated.

"Naruto, That was awesome." Kabuto said.

"What are you… doing here…?" Naruto asked.

"Just observing." Kabuto smiled. "And now, I must take my leave." Kabuto began to walk away.

"Wait…" Naruto gasped. Kabuto stopped.

"What are you going to do now…?" Naruto asked. Kabuto smiled.

"I will be a better man than Orochimaru ever was. I will now become the Kage of Otakure. That is my dream!" Kabuto reached into his pocket.

"By the way… a symbol of my peace with Konoha…" Orochimaru flung something at Sakura. Sakura caught it.

It was Orochimaru's Akatsuki ring.

"By the way, Suigetsu, Karin, Jugo, would you like to become Otakure ninja?" Kabuto asked.

"Yeah. Okay." Suigetsu said.

"Sure…" Karin said, still wanting to go with Sasuke.

"Only if you can cure me…" Jugo said.

"Alright then. Good day, Konoha ninja's!" Kabuto and his followers disappeared. Sakura slid Naruto over her shoulder.

"Let's leave." Sakura smiled. She tapped Sasuke, and he began walking with Sakura.

Team 7, was back.


AN: Wow. Another long chapter. Part one ends now! Next chapter will be part two: Calm before the storm!!