Chapter Nine: Itachi's Discovery
He arrived to find Sasuke nowhere in sight. Naruto suppressed a growl and searched for him.
He rampaged through the house, splintering wood and destroying objects. He came to Sasuke's personal room and annihilated the door. He stepped through the frame and saw Sasuke sitting on his bed.
Inside, Sasuke was seething in fury as Naruto destroyed his home. "Fuck you, Naruto!" he screamed.
Naruto said, "Screw you, Sasuke!"
Sasuke was still not fully healed and he was forced to dodge Naruto's Rasengan. "Don't you dare touch me, you sonuva bitch!" he yelled.
Sasuke managed to conjure up a Chidori and rushed towards Naruto. The blonde used a Kongouryudan (Adament Dragon Fist) to pierce through Sasuke's chest. Blood gushed out, spraying over Naruto's clothing.
Sasuke choked back the blood that tried to shoot up his pipe. He sank to his knees, and hurled.
Naruto went through a sequence of hand seals, yelling, "Kitsune-bi!" An aqua flame formed in his hand and it grew bigger and bigger as he ran to Sasuke. He shoved the chakra fire into Sasuke's back and Sasuke screamed in pain.
Nobody heard him though, no matter how loud he screamed and yelled. Sasuke used the last of his chakra to set his house on fire, "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"
Naruto stomped his foot on Sasuke's back, shattering his spine and making Sasuke fall unconscious. He used Suiton: Mizu Nami (Water Style: Water Wave) to extinguish the flames.
"This is the end, Sasuke," he missed maliciously. He formed a red Rasengan that he slammed through Sasuke's back and out the front, spiraling Sasuke into the depths of death.
Naruto grinned as he heard the heartbeat stop and him stop living all together. "At last," he breathed, "the second-to-last Uchiha is dead."
He slipped out of the wrecked compound and vanished into the waiting shadows, laughing wickedly.
The next morning Sakura, being worried over Sasuke, decided to visit him. But when she saw the wreckage of the house, she nearly screamed. The walls were scorched black and the wood was damp. The beams were splintered and the roof had fallen in.
Not believing her eyes, she ran through the house, and into Sasuke's room. There, in a puddle of his own blood, lay a completely destroyed. Is eyes were closed and blood was dripping from his wound.
"Sasuke-kun!!" Sakura screamed desperately. "SASUKE-KUN!!"
The Uchiha didn't move. Sakura broke into fresh tears as she laid her head on his unmoving chest. "Why?! Naruto, why?!" she sobbed.
"Because he deserved it," a voice answered.
Sakura looked up and tried to glare at the intruder. Naruto, his clothes dyed red with Uchiha blood, looked upon her with cold eyes.
"How could you kill him, Naruto?" she cried. "And after all he did for you…"
"He wanted to kill me and there was hardly a thing he did for me," he answered in an icy tone which scared Sakura.
"And the fact that you still love him in death–it sickens me!" he snarled.
"I…fuck you, Naruto," she said, glancing down.
"No, you won't fuck me. You oughtta screw yourself…or you can fuck that dead shell," he said, walking away.
Sakura was angry. Yes, very angry. Naruto could feel her killing intent spreading, but he unleashed his enormous hatred and it instantly scared Sakura shitless.
"Ah…I…" she back against the wall, trying to scramble away from the huge killer intent. "N-Naruto, what are you?"
"What am I?" he asked coldly. "I am someone who no longer thinks of you as a crush."
Itachi leaped onto the top of the concrete wall. He observed the area. "Interesting," he muttered. "Where is the Kyuubi no Kitsune?"
His gaze settles upon a distant rise of smoke. His eyes narrowed. "Our old house…is that where?"
Itachi silently and stealthily leaped towards the smoking compound. Before he even got close, perhaps two miles away, he felt a prickle of killer intent.
That chakra…it's familiar…the Kyuubi no Kitsune! Itachi smirked slightly, speeding up. But the sight that greeted him wasn't expected.
A strange blond man was talking coldly to a frightened, bubblegum haired girl. The compound lay in a wreck, ruined down to the very last splinter. Itachi saw a dead Sasuke on the floor.
There must have been a battle here. Strange, is that man…the brat? Itachi heard the man say, "Itachi, come out, I know you're there."
"Who are you?" questioned Itachi.
Naruto laughed harshly. "Oh, so you don't remember our encounter three years ago? How sad, Itachi…I thought you had great memory."
Itachi said, "You?!"
"Me? Yes, that was me, back then ten years ago too. I'm still Naruto, but not who I was. I have changed for the better," said Naruto.
"You lie!" Sakura screamed. "You lie, Naruto. You were such an idiot back then, but you weren't so cruel! Why do you think you changed for the better?"
"Sakura…" he growled. "Shut up."
"I won't!" she said firmly.
Naruto flashed forward and closed his roughened hand around Sakura's delicate throat. "You bitch, I said shut up!"
Itachi watched as Sakura choked, Naruto's grip becoming tighter each passing second. He made no move to help the helpless girl; he disliked her.
"Those who try to die have earned a one way trip to death," he said, siding with Naruto.
"Y-you!" Sakura choked. "S-Sasuke…kun's b-brother!"
"Bitch! If you don't shut up this instant, I will rip your pretty little throat out and punch your disgusting face in!" Naruto hissed.
Itachi activated the Sharingan in anger. "Let me take care of this annoying wench," he spat.
Naruto dropped Sakura on the floor and left her to Itachi. He exited the site and walked into the forest. Sakura's shrill screams could be heard for miles around. He said, "What an annoying little bitch."
He looked at a tree next to him, and punched it in half. In frustration, he dug his claws through the fallen trunk, ripping it to shreds.
He dusted his claws (or hands) off and Hiraishined to a stream. Naruto knelt down beside it, washing his battle-worn face thoroughly. He also Shunshined to a hot spring, where he bathed for a while, trying to keep his anger in.
Naruto washed his clothes free of bloodstains and headed back to the Uchiha compound. Not a scream was heard from it. Naruto strained his ears, trying to catch any sound.
Itachi appeared next to him, saying, "The little bitch deserved what she got. If you wish to leave, go now."
"Nah," Naruto said. He followed Itachi back. Sakura's blackened body lay on the floor.
"Did you use Amaterasu?" Naruto asked.
"I merely used a fire to burn her body. Before that, I tortured her," replied Itachi.
Naruto looked at the two now dead shinobi and said, "Let's burn this place down. It sickens me."
"Certainly," agreed Itachi. He started to gather chakra in his chest.
Naruto said, "No need." He formed a set of hand seals and exploded the place. The house of murder and assassination was no more. Instead, a totally black clearing with ashy corpses and charred wood filled its place.
"Let's go," Naruto said abruptly. Itachi nodded and they both disappeared into the woods.
