Hey everyone, first I want to say: "Thanks for all Reviews! It really makes me happy reading what you all think of this story. So please write more if you want, just know, all you write to me means a lot. Thanks"
The second: "I also want to apologize that all the other chapters have been so short... from now on, I'm going to write them longer. (Well I will at last try...)"
And well, this Tsukuyomi parts will be... mmm, I think four of them. So this is Part Two of Four. I hope that's not too much trouble.
Now over to the story:
--Chapter Nine: The Tsukuyomi Part Two--
"I... I can't take it anymore.." Naruto fall down to the ground, sweating and breathing like hell. In addition, it was only three days ago they started the training with Itachi.
"Get up Naruto..." Sasuke said catch after his breath. "If Itachi finds you down…He will not be happy."
"I know..." Naruto answered back with clenched teeth and tried to stand up. "But why do we have to run around like this?"
"Did you ask something, Naruto-Kun?" a cold voice comes behind them and they know very well who it belonged to. It was no other then there trainer; Itachi who had appeared at the boys training ground, which were some hours of running away from Konoha, in a clearing in the forest.
The blond got a bad feeling in his stomach. "Nothing!!" he yelled as he got up on his feet and looked scared back at his trainer, who looked back at him with his blood red Sharingan. Having those eyes on him made Naruto run much faster up to Sasuke. The fact that he was tired was nothing the blond though about right now.
"Your brother scars me... Sasuke." Naruto cried, as they were running side by side again.
"He is always like this… when he is training… me..." The young Uchiha answer back, with some heavy breathing in his sentence.
Both of them had been running like that for the last days. After running for five hours, they got thirty minutes break. And like that it continued, it didn't matter if it was day, night, raining or if the was sun shining, they had to run like that all the times. Now was Naruto at his limit. However, he did not dear to stop, the last time he did, Itachi had in the next second arrived right at his side and punched the blond so hard that he had soar through the air all over the area and with a hard hit he landed in the stock of a tree. The punch alone was very painful, but also meet the stock so close up was something he didn't want to do again anytime soon.
At that time Sasuke had not like to see his friend fly over the area. He had to bitten his tongue really hard so that he would not try to attack his brother. With the taste of blood in his mouth and his nails digging in his hands, he had continued running.
The running went on, Itachi showing no mercy with his little students. The sun were only a few hours away from setting down and when both though they was about to faint, there trainer reappeared in front of them. "Stop." he said simply, making Naruto and Sasuke stop right the second. "That enough running for a while. Now you're two going to jump from tree to tree while searching for targets. Each target is like this one." He took up a piece of tree that was formed like a circle with a red mark in the middle of it. "You are going to hit all the red mark. However, not every target is like this one. The red mark on each target has their own place, so it's not just to hitting the middle of it, because the red mark will not probably be there."
Sasuke and Naruto looked at Itachi, thinking this was not so hard. "Oh, and this time you will get some sleep, or I hope you two will." The last part was more of a whisper, and whit the smirk that was on Itachi face, did not acutely make the boys feel to good about this.
The training started. First they at though it was easy. But they did not know that they had to hit one-hundred and fifty targets within the sun when down, and they had to carry two-hundred and fifty Kunais at the same time. In addition, some heavy metal belts around there's arms, and legs.
When the sun was setting Naruto and Sasuke meet at the place Itachi told them to be.
"How many did you two get?" Itachi asked interesting, really wanting to know the result.
"One-hundred and twenty-nine." The young Uchiha answered, very prod of how many he had got. Because to hit so many had not been a easy thing to do. Some of the red mark had been so small; he had to come up really close to even see it.
The trainer's eyes looked over at Naruto, who was looking down in the ground.
"Well Naruto-Kun?"
"…one-hundred and four." The blond replayed, embarrassed on how bad he did it, compared to Sasuke. He had never carried so many weapons at one time before.
Itachi's eyes winded. "Both you two got over one hundred?" His face then turned fast back to its usual emotionless glare, but in his though he continued thinking about his surprising news. 'If they got that so early, this training will go faster then I though... normally neitherof them should have hit over one hundred on the first time. Thinking about that they never have carried so many weapons before, and hit this kind of targets.' "Well, you two most be tired. Come over here." He walked towards the trees. "Take this one." Itachi thrower them a black headband. But without hesitate they took them on.
"Now hold this in each of your hands." Then he gave them two small control looking ting. "You have to send Chakra to those controllers at all time, even when you sleeps. If not..." Itachi looked at them with a devils smile. "Well.. lest just say, you will wake up and it will not be a lovely feeling. It will start in five minutes." With that Itachi left. However, not to far away, he was in a tree close by. But he was out of Naruto's and Sasuke's sight.
"What do you think your brother is planning Sasuke?" Naruto asked nervously.
"I have no idée. But we should get ready to sleep." Sasuke walked to a close by tree, and sat down. Naruto was not slow to fallow, but sat down by the other tree.
After the five minutes, they started to send Chakra in to those ... control tings. Soon started the sleep to take over Naruto, and when he when to sleep he's body when in relax mode, making him stopped his Chakra. For a second he was in a deep sleep. But the next, he yelled out in pain. The headband send out a height electric pulse, making Naruto's nerves react with tight every muscle in his body. The pain was something he hadn't felt before. How could every muscle be tighten like this?
"What wrong?" Sasuke called out jumping over to Naruto. However, before he reach over to the other boy, he suddenly stopped and was on the ground yelling in pain. While Sasuke had acted, he had stopped the Chakra flow, and he when through the same thing Naruto had just a second ago.
"Sasuke.." Naruto whispered as the pain slowly got away. "We should really... send Chakra in these things... at all time..."
"Yeah... I agree."
Both boys got back to the trees, trying to get some sleep... but that was not so easy, none of them wanted to fall asleep, which will make them stopping the Chakra and get that awful pain again.
That night when by... without the two of them getting any sleep. Sometimes they just fall asleep, since they were so tired from all the running too. But right after they there minds when to the dream world, they where broth back with the electric shock. Naruto and Sasuke should be thankful that the shock ended after ha short minute, giving them enough time to start there Chakra again, if they didn't... they would just get a even stronger electric shock through their body. Something Naruto got to learn that night.
When the sun goes up, jumped Itachi down of the tree. "How was the night?" he asked with a smirk.
"Brother... I'm so tired.." mumbled Sasuke, his eyes as dark as his hair. And had big black circular around his eyes too.
"Can't... we.. have some more minutes to sleep... without this tings?" The blond was even worse than Sasuke, the once so blue beautiful eyes for his were now dark and tired.
"No." Itachi said calm. "You two will not get sleep before you are able to keep the Chakra flowing while sleeping. Got that?" His last words were like a threat.
"Yes Sir.." both said in the same time, getting up to their feet's.
"Now, today it's Wednesday. You two had the running training from Saturday to Tuesday. Now your two are going to continue with the training you started a little on yesterday. But this time you will have two hundred targets and just two hundred Kunais with you. This means you can't try to hit the target if you miss it the first time." Itachi paused a little as he saw the faces of his students. They where maybe tired, but they showed willpower. 'They do really want to succeed whit the training.' "The time limit is as it was, until the sun goes done. So as you can thing, the targets are a little more difficult to find this time. Now go!"
The days went on. Naruto and Sasuke both tried their best to do was Itachi had told them to do, but with their lack of sleep, didn't their bodies always do as they were told. And as for the night, they tried so hard to hold there Chakra under control. But they always ended with falling asleep, stopping the Chakra.
As the Saturday come closer, none of them had got any sleep.
"Sa...su...ke..."
The Uchiha looked towards where the voice come from. "Na...ruto?" he asked. Then he saw Naruto lying lifeless with the tree next to him.
"Th...is tr...aning... is ...hard."
Sasuke's eyes winded as he saw how bad Naruto looked. The blond boy was almost out of energy. They had enough food while training, but it was the problem about not getting sleep. At the day, they used all there strength to hit the target, at the night they used there Chakra to hold the eclectic headband to hold it away from zapping them.
"Be strong... Naruto." Sasuke started to walk over to the blond. "I know you are much stronger then this, you just have to find the strength." He then sat down beside him. "Naruto.." Sasuke whispered. "Find the strength." Then he kissed him on the cheek. Making Naruto fall asleep, and Sasuke laid his head down on Naruto's leap, falling asleep as well.
The oldest Uchiha looked at the sun rising. 'Aw... It's Saturday to day... I wonder if they ever go a good night sleep this time' as Itachi got down from the tree. 'What the?' he saw Sasuke and Naruto fast asleep, his little brother sleeps peacefully on Naruto's lap. 'So... they have finely learned how to let their Chakra flow while sleeping. Or... in control as long as they are close to each other?' Itachi smiled. 'My brother really is more in love then I thought. But let's see if he can protect him too.' Itachi's devils smirks com on his face as he walked towards the little sleeping couple.
"Okay, you two can wake up now." Itachi smiled, happy that they finely got some sleep.
..but, they did not wake up. "em.. hello?" he tried again. "Wake up its mooorning!" still no reaction from Naruto and Sasuke. 'Okay... they asked for it.' He made some hand seals, and then he open his water bottle. "Suirou no Jutsu (Water Prison Technique)" The water circles around Itachi's hand and formed a big water bubble. With a smirk on his face he took Naruto and Sasuke inside it.
Right away, the boys noticed they didn't get any air. "What the!?" Naruto yelled out, but fast closed his mouth as water come in it, instead of air.
Sasuke looked up at his brother, wonder what's going on.
"You two finely awake? Good, let's continue with the training." the Uchiha moved his hand out of the water making the bubble of water fall down to the ground.
"What did you that for brother?" Sasuke asked coughing after his breath.
"You two sleep so deeply together, I thought I wouldn't get you up anytime soon." Itachi said irritated, and turned around looking away from them, not see how embers and red the face his student had become. "Anyway... you two are going to start working together, instead of just one by one. This training is also about finding targets, but not hit them. You're going to capture some animals. And, I say it again; at all time you two are going to work together. However, you're not allowed to speak with each other. Every action you want the other to make or do, have to be said by signals and other ways to communicate. I'm good with anything, as long as the words doesn't leave your mouth."
Naruto and Sasuke looked disbelieved on Itachi. How could they make the other do something with out telling it? And what were the animals they had to capture?"
"Now, if you two can look over there." Itachi looked to his right. And there were twenty other Itachi's, or it were shadow clones. As Naruto and Sasuke looked at them they noticed they used a hand seal making smoke arrived. When the white smoke disappeared Naruto's eyes winded.
"Animals?" Naruto said, looking confused at the twenty different animals standing beside Itachi.
"That right. The animals have their own point sum, and you two are going to try to get them."
The animals Itachi created were; rabbit, cat, mouse, deer, wolf, fox, eagle, horse, bear, snake, monkey, elephant, bat, butterfly, spider, chameleon, cheetah, tiger, lion and a weasel.
"Sasuke... I.. think your brother have lost his mind.." Naruto whispered to Sasuke as he gaping and pointed at all the animals.
"I started to think that too... ouch!" The young Uchiha looked down on his foot, finding the little black weasel biting him.
"Little brother, you should watch what you're saying." The little weasel walked over to Itachi, claiming up in his shoulder. "The animal's doses not have my personality at all. They are as all other animals. Just that..." Itachi stopped and looking at all the strange animals, while patting the weasel. "Everyone have red eyes, so don't make a mistake by running after some other animal from the forest. That's all I'm going to say, you two can start now." After Itachi said that, all the animals were gone, leaving Naruto and Sasuke to start their search.
The boys looked at each other, nodding and started to run tree by tree. "Which should we take first?" Naruto asked, feeling all his strength and energy had returned to him. Having the night sleep was really something he needed.
"The deer seems okay enough."
"The deer? What about the butterfly?" Naruto laughed.
"That will acutely not be so easy, first we would have to find it, then try to capture it without kill it." He answered back in a little irritated tone. But suddenly him and Naruto got a bad feeling in their stomachs.
"Excuse me..." an died cold voice called from one of the trees. "I thought I told you two to work in silence." It was Itachi, and he was not happy. He had appeared on one of the trees that Naruto and Sasuke were running towards. "I guess I have no choice." The next second Itachi disappeared, and reappeared on the tree behind them. "Next time you two uses words, you will feel the shocking pain again, but this time just a little worse. So bye"
"What the?" Naruto felt something on his head. "oh no.." The blond took his hand up to his head feeling... the electric headband. "Sasuke.. we shooould really just be quiet.."
"..." Sasuke looked towards Naruto, but let his gaze soon go over the landscape.
"Sasuke? Are you listening to me?" the blond asked a irritated, thinking Sasuke overlooked him.
"..." The Uchiha raised his hand, waiving it and started to jump a little away from the blond.
"Hello?! Are you listening!? We have to be quiet!" Naruto yelled, as he followed Sasuke.
Sasuke looked at the blond desperate and irritated. "Shut up Usuratonkachi! We were not supposed to use words to communicate!" Sasuke yelled at the top at his lungs.
"..." this time Naruto that was the one that was speechless. However they were not quiet for long, the strong and familiar shock went though their bodies.
"AAAAH!" The suddenly pain made Naruto lose all feeling in his body, and he was now on his way down.
Whiteout thinking Sasuke jumping after Naruto, totally ignored the pain he was feeling in his body. 'You.. Usuratonkachi' Sasuke though angry as he hold on to Naruto leg and had his own leg in the tree using his Chakra to hold himself up. With a little hard work, Sasuke manage to get Naruto up on the big brace of the tree, laying the boy down. 'He seems to have fainted..' Sasuke sighed, setting himself beside the blond idiot. 'I know it's something special about you Uzumaki Naruto... I just can't put my finger on it.'
"Mm..." The blond moan, about to wake up. "Sasuke?" the blue eyes looked up at dark once. Sasuke just looked down on him, holding his index finger over his mouth. 'Don't say a word you Usuratonkachi, or you will just get a new shock.' And as if Naruto had hear what Sasuke though, he nodded.
The two boys worked together since then. Somehow, with just one look, they could understand what the other wanted them to do. Though it was often Sasuke who was the one to tell Naruto what to do, the fact to find the animals was not so difficult as they first had thought. What was hard to do was to capture them.
'Damn...' Naruto breathe out, tired and exhausted, while lying on the ground. 'Did you see where the monkey went?' The blond looked up at Sasuke who was holding the rope which hold the deer, fox, horse, cat and rabbit. Sasuke looked down to Naruto, and pointed up to one of the trees. Naruto saw this and jumped to his feet, flying up to the tree. A high roar from the treetop made Sasuke throw up a rope. Unbelievable, Naruto did know it were coming and took the rope using it to tighten up the monkey. Well down on the ground, Naruto had a grey monkey with blood red eyes in his rope.
"Incredible..." Sasuke and Naruto looked up towards the voice. "You two were able to catch this many in one day." Itachi walked out of the bushes. "However, you two still have twenty-four left." The animals then disappeared in smoke. "Now its time for you two to see how you should sleep." Itachi walked up one of the trees. "I guess you already can do this, but try to sleep like this then." The Uchiha stood up side down under a branch of the tree.
Sasuke looked at his brother. 'Sleep like that?' He moved his head a little to the side, making Naruto know what he though.
'Yeah, I mean, the shock was bad enough, but hang like that... ' Naruto pointed at Itachi, then broth is hand throw his hair, shaking his head.
Sasuke looked at Naruto. 'Would you more like the shock then that?' his eyes only showing what he was thinking, but the blond nodded understanding what Sasuke thought. 'Yeah, at last we did not have to walk all the way up to the tree brunch like that.' He waved he's hand a little, then pointed at Itachi again.
"Okay, enough! I see it now, you two understand each other perfectly by just see some movements. But when I'm with you, use your words please." Sasuke's and Naruto's cheeks become a little red as the had not noticed it, for them they had used words.
"Lest get to sleep..." the blond mumbled, running up to the tree brunched blushing. Sasuke followed him. Itachi had was already gone, leaving the boys alone.
As the night before, the two young ninjas finely got some sleep. Sleeping up down was not so difficult after all the shocking electricity they had been through. But this night was not as any other night. Itachi was going to see how well his students could protect each other.
On the tree next to the boys, was Itachi making himself ready to go in killing mood. So that Naruto and Sasuke could be able to feel him attacking them. But as Itachi jumped towards them, didn't they move at all. However, just as he was about to hit Naruto with his Kunai, took Sasuke the blonds hand dragging him his way. Naruto automatically made his feet hit the tree again, holding himself upside down. Itachi attacked again, but this time it was Sasuke's turn. The young Uchiha stopped his Chakra, making himslf fall down. Itachi looked down at his brother who was falling. Naruto on the other hand, jumped down, took Sasuke's hand, helping him up to another tree.
'Impossible...they did all that... while they were asleep.' Itachi was shocked. 'I know that they are high protected by each other... but be able to jump around like that, in their sleep...' Itachi shake his head and went back to his sleep. 'Lovebirds...' he thought almost irritated, but was also happy at the same time.
The next they the hunting continued. They had now fifteen days to capture all the animals. And since they both had go a good night sleep, everything was so much better. The food Itachi come with to them was not as bad either. But the animals was difficult to find now, when they finally did found one, they had ha hard time catching it.
At night, when they where a sleep, Itachi continued to try to attack them. Of course he did not use all his strength and he started to find it funny to see all the acrobatic techniques they could do. Jumping up and down, helping each other when it were needed.
And finely, come the training days to an end. They had captured all the twenty animals, and were now done with Itachi's special training.
"What are we going to do now brother?" Sasuke asked, as they walked home towards Konoha.
"School. It's been one month since you were at school Sasuke." Itachi answered back, smiling while thinking about the well succeeds training. "You too Naruto-Kun. I'm sure the school has missed having you around." The blond boy made a weak smile at this. Had the school really missed him? 'Sorry Itachi... but they are surly just happy they did not have me for this month...' Naruto felt himself becoming a little depressed by the idée. A warm hand suddenly took an hold in Naruto's hand. It was Sasuke. "Let's to our best at school to." he smiled, making Naruto smile as well. "Yeah! We are going to become the best!" Both the young boys started to run.
"Heey! Wait for me!" Itachi called after them, as he saw them running away. "I'm the only one that knows the way!" But that did not make the boys stop. Itachi sighed. "Guess I have no choose. Hey can't you two run faster?" Itachi laughed as he was now running full speed.
All the three boys had much fun running back to Konoha, where school and much other kind of trouble was waiting for them.
Done! x3 I hope it was fun reading.
See you all soon in; Chapter Ten: The Tsukuyomi Part Three. Bye for now.
