Chapter 9: The Avenger
Four forms walked through the woods, away from the base they were just at. They walked in the form of a diamond, one in front, two in the middle, and one in the back. In the front was a dark haired boy in white robes. He wore a purple rope around his midsection and threw that was a sheath for his Katana; this was Uchiha Sasuke, Naruto's former team mate. Behind him was a big man who was very muscular, this was Jugo, the other three had just added him to their group. Next to him was Kirin, a girl infatuated with Sasuke. He had stumbled across her inside one of Orochimaru's bases and she followed him everywhere he went now. She was a sensory type and was a major asset in the group; she would be able to find enemies long before they found the four of them. Then brining up the back was a boy with silver hair that hung down in front of his face. On his back he had a large sword that he had donned long before he met Sasuke. Sasuke had learned that this boy, Shisani, was one of the seven mist swordsmen and he carried one of the powerful blades, the Executioner blade.
The four were drawn together when Orochimaru was caught and captured by, who they found out recently, none other than the Dobe of Sasuke's past, Naruto Uzumaki. Sasuke was pissed when he heard of the man's capture and then execution, and he added another person to his list of people he had to kill. Sasuke turned his head to his group of followers who now called themselves the "Hawks". They all had something in common and it was rather convenient. All four of them had curse marks, a gift from Orochimaru. Sasuke turned his head away from them and kept walking forwards. They were leaving the base they had just found Jugo in. It was tough to find him since there was hundreds of monster like humans that had received some kind of mutation curse mark.
Sasuke, Kirin, and Shisani had cut down mostly all of the things and finally found Jugo in a cell by himself. When they found him he tried to kill Shisani and Kirin but Sasuke put a stop to that right away. After they persuaded Jugo to come with them they set off for their next destination. Sasuke had decided that Sound country was taking the fact that Orochimaru no longer controlled them to their head. Sasuke planned on restoring order and most likely even planned on making himself the leader of the country. He looked to his left and right remaining alert and continued to look forward again. He had many run-ins with ninja who tried to catch him and bring him in for interrogation and he didn't want any of them to take him by surprise.
His hands remained at his sides as they walked through the maze of trees but when something snapped or cracked he would barely move and a kunai would suddenly be buried in the object that moved. Sometimes it was a rabbit sometimes it was a lone deer, and once he even got fox through the head. Sasuke frowned in disgust as he thought about all the things that had been killed by him since they were on the move. He had wasted his weapons on pointless things and he knew that he would have to soon restock his kunai.
"Sasuke-kun, how much longer until we get to our destination?" Kirin asked sweetly from the back of the group.
"Sasuke-kun, how much longer till we get to our destination?" Shisani mimicked and Kirin narrowed her eyes and slammed her fist down on his head. Shisani snapped his head up and glared at her and growled and she smirked and thumped him in the forehead. "Why you little bi-!" he began but he was interrupted.
"Knock it off, act like the mature people you are…"Sasuke said not turning to look at the two teens behind him. His voice was cold and hard and it stopped the two in their tracks. They glared at each other and continued walking. "We have another day before we reach our first village, Kirin." Sasuke said and became silent again.
"So again why are we doing this, wouldn't it just be better if we let the sound take control to their head and let them get annihilated in their stupidity." Jugo said and Shisani chuckled in agreement.
"That would be easier." He muttered and Sasuke sighed at the dumbness.
"I will not lie when I tell you that you guys are not very bright." he said and Shisani raised his eyebrows in shock of what the raven haired boy just said. "If we take control of Sound and are able to make it work together better, than we will become all that more powerful." Sasuke said and Jugo nodded his head in understanding.
"So after we take control of the Sound then what will we do?" the teen asked and Sasuke chuckled lightly.
"Then I will take my vengeance on my brother and after that I will finish what I started with 'him' three years ago." Sasuke said and Kirin swooned.
"Oh Sasuke your so strong and dark!" she sighed and Shisani made a gagging noise.
"Lay off Kirin." He said and Jugo rolled his eyes.
Sasuke frowned as the trio behind him began to bicker with one another. He didn't even try to stop it this time because if he did they would just start up either five or ten minutes from now. He continued walking and when a branched creaked under a heavy weight he stopped. He noticed that the three behind him stopped talking right away also and Kirin walked up to him and whispered so softly that he had to focus just to her what she said.
"There is five people in the trees. They are scattered apart from each other." she said and turned and walked back to her position.
Sasuke didn't react and began walking again and Jugo and Shisani eyed him suspiciously and continued walking also. Sasuke knew that they were at a disadvantage right now since they five ninja were scattered but if he could make them make the first move it would be easier to eliminate them. Sasuke closed his eyes and when he opened them they were red and had three tamoe's in them. He had activated his Sharigan and he slowly turned his head to the right and the left, trying to find the enemies chakra. He located only one ninja and he sighed when he realized that the others had hidden their presences good. Kirin only found them because of her excellent ability. He continued walking and he noticed that the ninja he located followed in the trees silently. Sasuke looked at Jugo and the teen nodded in acknowledgement.
Sasuke continued walking and acted suddenly, his arm was a blur as he threw four shuriken at the ninja who was tracking them and he saw the four shuriken strike the tree the ninja was in. The ninja was able to pull back and dodge the shuriken as they made a perfect line in front of his face. Sasuke felt Jugo run past him and jump into the tree. Sasuke smirked when a Shinobi came flying out of the leaves and crashed into the ground in front of him. Jugo jumped from the tree and walked over to Sasuke and chuckled as the Shinobi made a weak attempt to escape. Sasuke stepped on his leg and pinned it to the ground and the Shinobi yelped as Sasuke applied even more pressure. Sasuke's eyes shot open as eight kunai flew from the trees at him. He moved with extreme grace and extraordinary speed. He grabbed his own kunai and threw it at one of the blades. They collided and shot off in opposite directions and speared two other kunai to trees. Sasuke watched as a dozen shuriken flew from Kirin's hands and struck down the remaining kunai and whizzed into the tree's aimed at the enemies who threw the kunai. Sasuke looked down at the ninja he was pinning to the ground and sighed.
"How many of you are there?" he demanded and the ninja smirked and shrugged.
Sasuke shrugged and stepped off him and looked at Jugo. The Shinobi jumped to his and began to run at Sasuke but Jugo's fist slammed into him and sent him flying backwards into the forest where he slammed into several trees. Sasuke looked around trying to find the enemies and he smirked when he found them retreating.
"Go, they are trying to run." He said and jumped into a tree and began jumping from branch to branch with incredible speed. He caught up with the first ninja right away.
The ninja was on the ground running and he noticed a shadow getting larger in front of him. He stopped and looked just as Sasuke crashed into his back and slammed him into the ground. The ninja coughed up some blood and Sasuke cocked his head at him and sighed. "Who are you?" he said darkly. The ninja glared at him and then chuckled.
"Screw you." He said and Sasuke shook his head.
"Wrong answer." Sasuke said and formed a chidori. The ninja's eyes opened in horror and saw the last thing he ever saw again.
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When Sasuke got back to where he had run from he found Jugo, Shisani, and Kirin standing in front of a ninja who was cowered on the ground. He walked up to the ninja as the trio looked at him and then looked back at their prisoner.
"Now, who are you?" Sasuke asked and the ninja shut his mouth tightly. Sasuke sighed and grabbed the man's hair and yanked his head upwards. He bent down and whispered in his ear. "Who the hell are you?" he asked the ninja again. The words were quiet and carried a sharp coldness that made Sasuke's team shudder not to mention the ninja.
"T-that is c-classified." The ninja said and Sasuke dropped the man's hair and he fell to the ground. Sasuke stood up straight and drew out his katana and flicked it at the man's throat. It stopped just as it touched the skin and drew a line of blood. The blood traveled down the blade and the man shuddered as Sasuke pressed the cold metal against his neck harder. "Sound country scouts!" the man yelped and Sasuke chuckled. He pulled the sword away and the man sighed briefly.
Sasuke signaled for his team to follow them and they eyed him and then looked at the ninja. Sasuke shrugged and looked at the ninja. "Tell me who is the true leader of Sound country?"
The ninja smiled and replied quickly and didn't even think about his answer. "That is easy, Sanjukuu-san is."
Sasuke shook his sadly and looked the ninja in his eyes darkly. "Wrong answer, the correct answer is me…Uchiha Sasuke."
The ninja froze at the name and was about to speak but he didn't have enough time.
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu."
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Sasuke walked along with his group behind him, their heads were down. They were still in shock from what they saw. Sasuke had incinerated the ninja that sat before them, and it seemed like he didn't even think about it at the time either. Jugo looked at the raven haired man and eyed him carefully. Not a single one of them knew where he came from or what his story was. Sasuke felt Jugo's eyes boring into his back and he let out a breath of frustration.
"Is there something on my back that you like?" he asked and Jugo's eyes widened and he looked away.
"It's nothing." He muttered and Sasuke stopped and turned to his team.
"I know what each and every one of you is thinking about Your in shock because I roasted that man back there but you know, he was about to kill us." Sasuke said and Kirin looked at him in shock.
"What do you mean? He was helpless." she said this and Sasuke shook his head.
"He was wrapped with explosive notes and I thought it was a bluff until he ignited them. I burned him so that we didn't get killed." He said this and turned back around and began walking and the three teens stared at his back.
They quickly began following him again, taking in what he had just said. Shisani glanced in Jugo's direction and shrugged at the man. There was nothing they could do to change the past, besides the man was a risk. Sasuke kept moving forwards and soon began to pick up the speed. When the sun was getting to the point that it was going to disappear beyond the horizon he was running across the ground. His team was right behind him, somewhat tired but due to their curse marks they got a little boost. It was well into night when they stopped and when they did Sasuke cursed.
"What is it Sasuke-kun?" Kirin asked looking at him. Shisani rolled his eyes behind her back and sat down in front of a tree and rested his head and back against it.
"We are in enemy territory and we have not reached the first village yet." Sasuke muttered angrily and punched a tree. The tree splintered and cracked under the blow and Kirin winced when blood began to drip from Sasuke's knuckles.
"Are we going to stop here?" Jugo said looking around at all the trees that could be sheltering enemies from sight.
"We have no choice, we do not want to reach the village and be exhausted from running." Sasuke said and stood to his feet and looked at his team. "I will take first watch, then Shisani, Kirin, and then Jugo. "Until it is your turn get some rest you will need it."
With this Sasuke disappeared in a black flash as he ran up the tree with amazing speed. The three ninja on the ground looked at one another and nodded and gathered around one tree. Shisani was on one side, Kirin on the other, and Jugo and the other side. There was only one open spot left but Sasuke was in that direction keeping watch. Soon, after they had all looked around warily at the yellow glowing eyes in the forest, the three ninja's were asleep and Sasuke was all by himself in his tree, sheltered behind leaves.
Sasuke pulled a knee up to his body and laid himself back against the tree trunk and let his other leg dangle from the branch. He looked at the moon and thought about how it glowed in the sky. He was jealous that it sat in the sky, away from all the problems of human kind, though it reminded him of himself. It was all alone, close to the earth and sun yet not able to actually be with them. Sasuke's eyes were red since he had activated his Sharigan again to keep an eye out. He waited for about three hours until he awoke Shisani who tiredly got up and crawled into the tree to keep watch while Sasuke took his spot and drifted into a light and needed slumber.
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Sasuke awoke from a gentle nudge in his side and when he opened his eyes he saw Kirin squatting next to him and Jugo and Shisani on either of him standing. Sasuke got to his feet and Kirin followed his lead and without a word they set off to the village they were going to capture. As they walked Kirin watched a group of rabbits run shyly into their underground home and then one peeked out but its head shot back in as they passed by.
Sasuke watched the trail ahead of him and began to think about how they would capture the first village. 'I guess we will just go with the flow of things, and if things go bad then…' he thought and turned when Jugo asked another question.
"Hey Sasuke what is the name of this village again?" He asked and Sasuke rubbed his eye before answering.
"The name of this village is Honogaku and after this village we must capture four others and then we will be in control. The smaller villages cannot do anything to us but the five big villages can definitely become a major pain if gone unchecked for too long." Sasuke said and Jugo nodded as he thought about this.
"So what you're saying is that…after we catch these four villages we have to stay and rule over them?" Shisani said with a sigh.
"No, we are just making sure they know who the boss is, Orochimaru didn't stay in any of the villages did he? No, he ruled from bases and they answered to him just like they will do for me." Sasuke muttered dangerously.
"Then after we catch the four villages what are we doing?" Kirin asked curiously.
Sasuke stopped and looked over his shoulder and gave Kirin a dark look. She froze under his gaze and began to take deeper breaths. 'What the hell?' she thought and then Sasuke spoke.
"After this, I am going to go and make my brother pay finally." Sasuke said and began walking again.
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They arrived at the village a bit later and when they walked in they had no problems, in fact they had not even a single person stop them. Sasuke frowned when he realized that the village had let power go to their heads, but they were about to learn. He began to march to the center of town where he knew the leader's tower would lie. He had been to almost every village with Orochimaru in the last three years so he knew the blueprints of all the cities pretty much. He continued walking and he got to the small tower and sneered with disgust at it. They had no guards posted around it what so ever, no one to stop intruders.
Sasuke walked in through the doors that were at the bottom and found a woman sitting behind a desk filing away paper work. He walked up to the desk and she didn't turn to talk to him right away so he cleared his throat. She continued to ignore him so he finally took a different approach. He slammed his fist down on to the desk and it shattered from the blow. Kirin, Shisani, and the woman who had been behind the desk all jumped in surprise. The woman looked at Sasuke fearfully and he smirked at her, she wasn't so big and bad as she thought after all.
"Where is the leader of this village?" he demanded and the woman pointed to the steps and Sasuke rolled his eyes and walked away from her shuddering form.
He walked up the steps and his team followed close behind. When he got to the door he wasted no time knocking and proceeded to kick it down with ease. The door flew off its hinges and banged to the ground. The man who was sitting behind the desk stood abruptly but Sasuke pointed back down at the chair and the man obliged.
"Who are you?" he demanded and Sasuke walked over to his desk and grabbed the edge. He threw it across the room in one swift motion and walked up to the man in the chair.
"I am the new leader of this village, Uchiha Sasuke." He said and the man froze.
"But I am the leader, I can only be replaced when I die." The man whined.
A boy and his father were walking past the leader's tower bickering over something the boy had done. As they passed they heard a crack and they looked up. As they did they saw their leader fly from the building wall and hit the ground with a loud crash. Cement stones fell to the ground around him and the chair he was in and the boy watched with wonder as a raven haired boy stepped up to the hole. He saw the boy smirk and jump down from the hole to the leader's body and look at it. Three other people followed him and they landed beside him and with blank looks on their faces.
"Consider yourself dead." Sasuke said and walked away.
"Halt!" came a cry from behind him.
Sasuke turned and saw several sound ninja running over to where the chaos was and behind them was the secretary that he had met a few minutes earlier. He held up a hand stopping Shisani who had drawn his blade to dispatch off the annoying guards.
"What do you want?" Sasuke asked in a chilling voice.
"Did you just kill him?!" the guard shouted looking at his previous leader.
"Yes, I did. He said that I could only be leader if he died, so I took care of the problem." Sasuke said and walked right up to the man. "I am Uchiha Sasuke and you better send a message to all of the other four villages telling them that they are all next." With this Sasuke turned and began to walk away.
The guards starred at his back and then looked down at their fallen leader.
"Well he had a long rein…" someone mumbled and the lead guard turned and walked away.
"A whole whapping month." Someone else added and they began to chuckle.
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Sasuke walked out of the village and behind him was team Hawk. They headed in the direction of the next village that lay about an hour's journey from here. Sasuke hoped that they would be able to hit up this village and then continue on and get at least half way to the third village before dusk. As he walked he heard Shisani and Jugo whispering fiercely behind him and then suddenly Shisani spoke up.
"Do you think we will meet resistance now?" he asked and Sasuke didn't turn to give his answer.
"What do you think; I just put their leader through a damn wall." Sasuke mumbled and Kirin snickered.
"That might not have been the brightest idea." She said and Sasuke sighed.
"It is over and done with, do not dwell upon it okay?" he said and the three became silent as they continued waking.
They walked in silence for the whole hour until they came upon the next village where they found that they were better prepared for them then the last village was. As they walked in the gate a group of a dozen or more ninja ran at them shouting their war cries. Sasuke sighed and activated his Sharigan and drew his Katana and held it out at the oncoming ninja. Shisani drew out his own blade and let it slam down on the ground and Jugo smashed his fists together while Kirin drew out two slender kunai and watched as the ninja got closer. Sasuke reacted first and swung his now lightning covered blade at the first few ninja and before they could react it slashed across their chest.
"Chidori!"
They crumpled to the ground convulsing and this made the last nine ninja freeze in their tracks. They watched Sasuke with fear but that was their undoing. He caught them all in a Genjutsu and as they stared at the ninja before them they were hacked down by Sasuke and his group. As they put away their weapons they continued walking leaving a pile of dead or injured bodies behind them. Sasuke thought about where the head tower was in this village and he remembered that it was near the back of the village. They began to run through the streets and when they found the tower they found it guarded by a small army of maybe a hundred ninja.
Sasuke sighed and pointed at the head ninja and spoke.
"You there, I am Uchiha Sasuke I demand an audience with your so called "Leader." He said and the man snorted.
"Yeah right kid, keep dreaming, now either come peacefully or we will have to hurt you." He said and Sasuke closed his eyes in anger.
"Jugo and Shisani go, cut a path down for Kirin, and then Kirin you go and capture the leader and drag him down here."Sasuke muttered and the three acted quickly. Shisani ran at the crowd swinging his sword crazily and Jugo started punching at men, sending them flying backwards. Kirin waited until the path was cleared and took off, running into the building.
Sasuke watched with grim amusement as the ninja who had once been strong fought back pitifully. He saw Kirin reappear at the door way and he sighed in relief. They had managed to successfully capture the man alive. He disappeared in a ball of lightning and ran passed the ninja who were blocking him from getting to Kirin. As he ran he jabbed out with his lightning infused hands and men crumpled as they were electrocuted. He had worked on this technique with Kabuto to maximize his speed. Even though it wasn't his best jutsu it was still helpful when he wanted speed and a way to be offensive at the same time.
He skidded to a stop by Kirin and muttered loud enough for her to hear.
"Denshiken."
As he appeared by her a man flew by him and slammed into the building and continued through it and into the main lobby of the tower. Jugo walked out of the mass of men frowning and cracked his knuckles. Shisani appeared next as he cut a man, who stood in front of him, in half. Sasuke watched as the remaining men standing got ready for a second attack but he raised a hand and pointed at their hostage.
"Now, if this man here is your supposed leader shouldn't he have been out here fighting." Sasuke said and looked at all the men he still stood.
"Sound country has become weak since Orochimaru has fallen, but I plan to make that different. My name is Uchiha Sasuke, Orochimaru's student if you may." Sasuke said and he saw many stiffen at this and bow their heads. 'Good at least this understand who I am.' Sasuke thought to himself and then continued talking.
"I am taking control of Sound country and under my fist it will return to glory." Sasuke said and he knew this was a lie. He only really wanted the country and ninja's for fighting purposes. If worse came to worst then he would bring down sound countries full power on those who got in his way.
Sasuke heard several shouts of protest from the crowd and he glared. He yanked the man that led the village over to him and grabbed his neck. "Tell them who the new leader is." He hissed in the man's ear.
The man struggled but Sasuke's eyes narrowed and he squeezed the man's neck harder. "Tell them."
The man finally gurgled out the words Sasuke wanted to hear. "Uchiha Sasuke is the new leader." Sasuke saw many Ninja begin to protest again but he closed his eyes and sighed.
"My first order of business, those of you who do not like the new government then feel free to oppose us but know this." He said and looked at the group before him as he raised the man he held up into the air. He threw him into the crowd of ninja and they caught him barely and Sasuke finished.
"I will kill you." He said in the tone that made everyone who even thought about rebelling dismiss the thoughts immediately.
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They walked out of the village and Sasuke sighed as he rubbed his temples. Kirin rubbed her sore hand from where she had smacked a man's helmet by accident. Shisani was picking at his hair and Jugo was looking at the ground with extreme care.
"Well that went well." Shisani said finally and Kirin glared at him.
"Shut-up, your making things more complicated." She said and Sasuke held up a hand to silence her.
"He is right, it did go well. We should that we mean business and we will not mess around." He said and Jugo finally took his gaze away from the ground.
"But we also made some enemies back there; there will be those who are angered at the death of some of their friends." The teen said and Shisani nodded in agreement.
"True but what was nesaccary was done and we must now move on to the next village." Sasuke said picking up his pace.
"I wonder what would happen if we split up and tried to assume control that way." Kirin wondered aloud.
"It wouldn't work, you saw how they reacted to my name back there, and I must be there for them to believe anything." Sasuke muttered becoming suppressed and silent.
Jugo sighed and scratched his head in confuzzlement. "Okay so that is two villages down and three to go. How many more days will we be at this?" he asked Sasuke.
The raven haired boy groaned from all the questions and rounded on the three. "Tomorrow we will infiltrate the third village and then we will get halfway to the fourth village and then get the fifth village. Then we will back track along and check on each village then go after my brother." He said and the three looked at him in shock.
"What is up Sasuke?" Shisani asked and blinked his eyes.
"Yeah, you have been rather distant lately." Kirin said rubbing away tears.
Sasuke gave them his famous 'Hnn' and turned back around and kept walking in silence. They continued walking for all the day that remained and a bit into the night and they made it past the halfway point and they had only about 14 miles left until they got to the third village, Kagakura. Sasuke permitted them to have a fire and they all sat around it gazing into its depths. Kirin sat with her knees hugged against her chest and Shisani sat cross legged while Jugo crouched on his feet. Sasuke was laying back starring at the embers tat rose up into the air and then disappeared.
"As we capture all of the villages and get them under our control the closer I get to confronting my brother, and this time I will make him pay, but it will be hard, he has something that I have yet to obtain." Sasuke said suddenly and everyone looked at him and he continued.
"When I was a boy I looked up to my brother, he was kind of my idol and my rival. He was a skilled Shinobi, and probably the best Uchiha in our whole village. Then one day he slaughtered the whole village and left me as the only survivor, he told me that I was the one who would be the one who would release him from his guilt. He let me live, he let me become who I am today." Sasuke said and sat up.
"The Mangekyo Sharigan, Uchiha's most powerful ocular jutsu. It can only be obtained by killing your closest friend. My brother, Itachi, he did this and he told me that I could do it to. After that I became a kid who lived alone but there was another boy like me, he had no one but even though I never told him he always had it harder. The village hated him for what had happened before, the Kyuubi attacked and it was sealed within him. He was the lowest of the low in the class, while I was the best student. We ended up being put on the same teams and we soon became rivals.
"Then as I realized that he was getting stronger I got the curse mark from Orochimaru. That was during the Chuunin exams, I was only 14 at the time. I made it to the finals and had to fight a Jinchuriki, Gaara was his name. He was ruthless and killed for fun. That was the day that Orochimaru attacked the village but Gaara wasn't able to fulfill his role. As he retreated with his team I followed and tried to beat him but I was no match. The boy that was alone like me, he saved me from death as I saved him on our first mission. He ended up defeating that monster and I realized that he was getting strong as me. He ended up going on a journey to find the 5th Hokage with a man named Jiarya.
"While he was gone I learned that Itachi had come to Konoha looking for him and I got jealous. Why should my brother be looking for him? I followed them and when I found them I engaged in battle with my brother. He beat me so easily that it was embarrassing. I was hit by Tsukuyomi, a Genjutsu so powerful it messed up my mind. I awoke in a hospital and the boy was by my side, I challenged him to a fight but we were interrupted and we both were about to hit each other with our most powerful Jutsu's. My chidori against a spinning ball of chakra. My sensei caught us and threw us into two water tanks and our attacks slammed into them. My attack messed up the front of my tank twisting it and warping it and when I looked over I saw that his only had a small crater in his.
"I thought it was pathetic and I laughed and left but when I landed on the building behind the tanks I saw the true damage from his attack. The whole back of his tank was blown out completely. The attack was definitely more powerful than mine. I remember that was the final straw I ended up leaving the village and they proceeded to come after me and lone behold the boy was part of the group. We fought at the valley of end. It was vicious, my Sharigan fully awakened and he showed a power I had never seen but in the end I was victorious but not without injury.
"Itachi said that I had to kill my closest friend and that boy, he was my closest friend, he was almost like a second brother to me and he felt the same. We are Mortal Frenimes I guess you could say. We are both incredibly powerful and he is the only person that can let me unlock my true Sharigan but I refused to kill him until now. That boy's name, it is Uzumaki Naruto; he is the one that caught Orochimaru the person teaching me strong enough jutsu to go after Itachi. I know that Orochimaru wanted my body but still whatever it took to kill my brother I was willing to do it.
"Now I have two targets, Naruto and Itachi but in order to beat Naruto I have to see if I can even stand up to my own brother that I hate and despise. If I cannot manage to beat him with all my hatred how will I kill the person who was my best friend and never gave up on me, hell I bet he is still searching for me." Sasuke finished and he looked up and saw that Jugo was staring into the fire. Kirin had tears rolling down her cheeks and Shisani was looking at his sword and Sasuke saw that his story had gotten to them all.
"That is why I have been so different lately, because every step I take forward… the closer I get to Itachi and then Naruto, and if I am not ready I will not achieve my true goal. I will not avenge my clan and I will not avenge Orochimaru." Sasuke looked down at the fire and then finished his little speech.
"That is why, I am The Avenger." He said and everything was silent.
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Author's notes: Mwahaha I got my laptop back!!!! So I got you all hyped up for a dull chapter YAAA! Anyways I have great ideas and now that I can type them…Its going to rock! Okay so I did my first proof read and I found that the chapter isn't all bad but it could be better especially for you Sasuke lovers. Also I know that Shisani isn't that one dude's name, I just like it better than his.
Thank you to everyone who criticized my story and helped me explain it a bit better!
Peace out Sauerkrauts
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Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu = Fire Release: Fireball Technique
Denshiken = Electric Armor
Chidori = 1,000 Birds
