Chapter 10: Fighting Darkness

Sasuke and his group awoke early in the morning and sat around the now smoldering fire. As they saw the last ember go from dull red to deathly black they got to their feet and began to walk towards the third village. As they walked they saw nothing out of the ordinary, just birds and rabbits that minded their own business. Sasuke kept his eyes on the path ahead of him while his three companions walked behind him. Kirin watched the forest to her right while Jugo watched the left. Shisani brought up the back sparing a glance backwards every few minutes. As they walked Shisani finally got sick of the silence so he broke it.

"So how easy while this village be to over throw?" he asked Sasuke.

"I have no idea but if we can continue doing like we did in the last two villages…it should be rather easy." Sasuke said without turning around.

"So please tell me again how many villages will we capture today?" Shisani asked picking at his ear.

"Only one but we will try to get to the fourth one if possible." Sasuke said and became silent again. They continued to walk for hours and soon the village came into sight.

"Here we go." Kirin said softly as they neared the gates.

As they approached a man ran out to them and the look on his face drew a small grin from all four ninja's. They could tell that he was scared to death and didn't want to be here. Sasuke held up a hand and the three stopped walking behind him and watched as the man drew nearer. As he got up close Kirin saw that he had long brown hair that hung over his eyes. When he got to be about ten feet away from the group he stopped. Sasuke eyed him carefully before speaking.

"What do you want?" he asked the man.

"Our village surrenders without a fight and we acknowledge your leadership." The man gasped and took a couple steps back.

"Why is this?" Sasuke asked as he took a step forwards.

"We do not want any violence so we have decided to come quietly." The man said and took two steps back.

"So that is the only reason?" Sasuke asked and took four steps forward.

The man shook his head vigorously and started to retreat slowly but he stopped dead as Sasuke gave a dark chuckle. The man tried to figure out if he should run or stay to see what Sasuke wanted. "What is it?" the man asked nervously.

"Well I just want to make sure that your village knows that I am in charge and I will not accept any disobedience." Sasuke said and began walking towards the man slowly then picked up speed. The man turned and started to run but Sasuke stopped him dead in his tracks. "Take another step and you die." The man froze and slowly turned around to face Sasuke who now stood directly behind him.

"P-please I have a family that I take care of, my mother who is old and sick and my little nephew who has no family besides me." The man said and fell to his knees. Sasuke looked at the man and motioned for him to stand up.

"Stand." He said and the man began to slowly rise to his feet. "I will not kill you because then I would have rebellion, and I don't like that." Sasuke said and he turned to Kirin. "Kirin!" he said sharply.

"Yes Sasuke-kun?" she said as she skipped over to him.

"We need to make a demonstration of him." Sasuke said and Kirin nodded her head and drew out a long needle.

"This won't hurt a bit." She said softly and thumped the man in the temple with her empty hand. He crumpled to the ground and she quickly flipped him over and tore his shirt off to expose his bare back. She held the needle in front of her and started making quick swipes. Blood trickled down the man's back and when she finished she took a step back to admire her handy work. Sasuke walked over and nodded his approval and she threw the needle away from incase someone tried tracking them.

On the man's back were two snakes that intertwined around each other and bit at each other's necks. The running blood made the effect seem even scary which was the goal. Sasuke grunted and began walking away and signaled for the three others to follow him. Kirin spared the man one more glance and ran up behind the three boys.

They walked for about an hour and then stopped and set up camp. They slept so that they could get to the fourth city refreshed.

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Crackle Crackle

'What was that' Sasuke thought as his head shot to his left.

He turned to Jugo, Kirin, and Shisani and they all nodded at him. They had heard it to; there was no way that those noises were an animal. Sasuke came to a halt and drew out a kunai.

"Who the hell?" he muttered and then he turned to His team. "Square formation quick!" he shouted and all four of them made a square watching every direction.

Sasuke felt a sudden breeze and watched for the person he was looking for. Sasuke looked around wildly a sneer appearing on his face and that is when he saw it. Coming from all around them was a shadow and it kept coming closer and closer, faster and faster until it was on them. Sasuke realized what is was and swore. Shadow paralysis technique a specialty of Konoha.

"It is Konoha!"Sasuke began to yell until something weird happened. The shadow completely covered the ground under and around then and then blackness. Sasuke looked around but saw nothing but black. He started to run one way but the blackness never ended. It was always there making sure he didn't escape. Sasuke swore and yelled to his team.

"KIRIN, JUGO, SHISANI!!!" he yelled but his voice didn't seem to have any weight to it, it seemed empty and hollow. Sasuke started making handseals and then brought his hand up to his mouth and tilted his head up and blew a long torrent of fire into the sky.

"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu."

Sasuke felt the flames leaving his mouth, the heat washing over him, but he didn't see anything, the fire he was going to use to light and blow the darkness away swallowed it up. Sasuke swore again and started to think. What could he do to get out of here? He could use Denshiken but he risked hitting obstacles at high speeds which meant death… As he thought about schemes a small hole of blue opened up above him. He watched as slowly the darkness began to peel away and soon it was gone completely and in its wake he saw his team. They were all on the ground unconscious or dead he did not know. Sasuke ran over to Jugo and checked his pulse, it was faint but it was there. He checked Shisani's and Kirin's also and both were faint almost gone. He swore as he got to his feet and bent to pick one of them up but that was when he heard a low chuckle from the forest.

He rounded on the voice with incredible speed and looked upon the shape that was detaching itself from the trees. When he saw the man in full light he shook his head in disgust.

"Who are you?!" he demanded and the man laughed.

The man had really tan skin and he had major muscles that rivaled Jugo's. He wore a pair of torn short and a T-shirt that had rough and torn edges and on his arms he wore metal cuffs that went from his wrists to his elbows. Sasuke watched as the man cracked his huge fist against two trees that were on either side of him and continue walking forward. "My name is Gin, and I am here to tell you that the villages Gahoonaku and Jiokyu will not be taken by scum like you, even if you were Orochimaru's pupil." Gin said and pointed at Sasuke.

Sasuke didn't notice the shadow flying at him until it was too late. When the shadow was in front of him it shot up into the air and a long club of darkness knocked Sasuke backwards into a tree. He slumped to the ground and shook his head. "What the hell?" he muttered to himself. The man hadn't made any hand seals yet he was just knocked away like a fly. Sasuke activated his Sharingan and stared at the man trying to find the flaws in his structure but was shocked when he found none.

"Ahh so that is your Sharingan, how does it fare against the darkness element?" Gin asked and Sasuke's eyes opened in horror.

"Darkness element?" Sasuke muttered and Gin laughed.

"Shocked?" Gin asked and twirled his finger and suddenly Sasuke was thrown high into the air by a rope of darkness. As he descended an arm of darkness flew up towards him its claw reaching out for him. Sasuke gasped as memories of his fight with Naruto racked his mind. The black claw grabbed him and brought him down hard into the ground. There was a loud crash and when the dust settled Sasuke lay inside of a crater. Gin chuckled and shook his head.

"How did you take three villages like this, you're so…weak?" Gin said and Sasuke slowly got to his feet. Little black flames outlined in purple spread across his face, showing that he had released the first stage of his curse mark.

"I do not have time to shit around!" Sasuke yelled and looked at his fallen team. He had to hurry and end this fight. "This is over!"

"No, it is just beginning." Gin said darkly and ran at Sasuke and swiped at his face and three blades of darkness flew at him.

Sasuke jumped to his right and in a blink of an eye he slashed at Gin with his sword. Gin brought his arm up and the sword smashed into the gauntlet and bounced down. Sasuke rolled to his left and thrust forwards and laced his sword in lightning.

"Chidori!"

Gin caught the crackling Katana between both cuffs before it stabbed him in the chest. Sasuke grinned let go of the sword and launched himself at Gin, attempting to tackle him. Gin swore and dropped the sword and threw up a wall of blackness that Sasuke crashed into and groaned as he felt his energy seep out of him suddenly. He jumped away from the wall and landed next to his sword and grabbed it. He faced Gin and glared.

"What the hell was that?" he asked and Gin chuckled.

"Dark matter, it devours almost any type of energy, including chakra." Gin said and a long black sword like shape appeared in his hand. "Good luck."

Sasuke smirked and brought his arms out to his sides and chuckled. His body became enveloped in lightning and his Katana was lost in a white crackling blur. Soon as the lightning took on a more steady form Sasuke was encased with lightning armor and his sword was much longer and glowed white from the electrical heat. Sasuke disappeared in a crackle of lightning and appeared in front of Gin swinging his sword. Gin brought his Dark matter sword up and blocked the hit and Sasuke jumped away before his chakra could be drained. As he landed he slammed his sword down into the ground and looked at Gin. A stream of lightning shot up in front of the man and came crashing down on him.

"Raiton: Denshi Kasukedu!"

Sasuke released the lightning and saw that Gin was enveloped in a sphere of dark matter and he waited until it disappeared before he pointed at Gin with a lightning encased finger. "I found your flaw."

"Oh really please do tell!" Gin laughed and Sasuke chuckled and swung in a circle and poured all of the lightning he had into his attack.

The lightning traveled along the Katana and then a large arc of it flew into the trees and exploded. When the bright white flash disappeared Sasuke looked at Gin who was staring at him in horror.

"You have no control over the dark element." Sasuke said and pointed his sword at Gin. "In fact, you have no control over nay elements do you, those attacks were someone else's doing and they were hiding in those trees but I am guessing that they are gone now right?"

Gin's hands shook in anger and Sasuke nodded his head. "So I have figured it all out. That person had an affinity for earth and somehow infused chakra absorbing metal into a really dark type of dirt which I am going to assume was a mixture of black dye and tar?" Sasuke said and Gin continued glaring at him. "Glad to know I am on the right track. Anyways so while I thought you had an affinity for darkness this person watched my every movement and used the black dirt to counter attack. But what I do not get is how you got me with the black sphere where I wasn't able to see."

"It was a simple matter, he, who was once Fura made the illusion that the black dirt was a shadow by making it plow through the ground. He then had it raise up around you and when all light was extinguished he formed thin layers of loose black dirt around your eyes and ears. This gave the illusion of utter darkness." Gin said angrily.

"So, while we were blinded you attacked my team mates and thought that you could be macho and fight me one on one." Sasuke said as he held his sword out in front of him. "Bad idea."

Sasuke ran at Gin and slashed downwards at the man's chest but Gin brought his metal cuffs up and blocked the hit. Sasuke held his hand out to the side and a ball of lightning formed in it. He pulled his katana away and slammed the ball of lightning into Gin's gauntlets.

"Chidori!"

Sasuke jumped backwards from the explosion and when the dust settled he raised an eyebrow in amusement. Gin stood in a small crater with his arms still in front of him only the metal gauntlets were gone and his arms were now torn up to the point that Sasuke could see the man's bones, also his face and chest looked to be burned from the explosion also. Sasuke chuckled and slowly slid his Katana back into the rope around his waist.

"Are you giving up…?" Gin panted and then coughed up blood.

"No, actually I just want to see what you do next." Sasuke said as his curse mark state receded.

Gin grunted and ran at Sasuke who wasted no time forming two hand seals and then bringing his hand in front of him.

"Raiton: Hakkiri Shiteiru!"

There was a brief flash of light and the sound of thunder and then nothing, all was silent. Sasuke walked over to his fallen team mates and made some quick hand seals and bit his thumb then slammed it down on to the ground. Three snakes appeared around him hissing and he pointed to his team. The snakes ate each team member and began to slither behind Sasuke. His team mates would be put into a Coma state so that he could get them somewhere where they could be healed. He only knew of one person who could do it and he wasn't looking forward to it. He had to abandon his mission at hand and he knew he probably wouldn't get to it again. Sasuke began walking towards the place he had left behind so many years ago, the place where he would find the eager pink haired girl waiting for him.

Konoha.

Uchiha Sasuke was going home.

Authors Notes: Okay I am sick of writing about Sasuke hence the reason this chapter is so short. I don't like this part of the story at all but I have to use it to show a couple of Sasuke's abilities and actually introduce him so yeah, there. Anyways if you think this chapter sucks feel free to start a horrible conversation about it because I will actually join in. Pretty sad I know.

Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu = Fire Release: Fireball Technique

Raiton: Hakkiri Shiteiru = Lightning Release: Clear-Cut

Chidori = 1,000 chirping birds

Raiton: Denshi Kasukedu = Lightning Release: Lighting Cascade