Chapter X: Mikoto vs. Sasuke

Naruto stared into Mikoto's deep red Sharingan eyes with his thoughts racing. 'Sasuke? No, that's stupid. Who is she? She has the same Sharingan as Sasuke.'

While Naruto was lost in thought, Mikoto had thoughts of her own. 'He really does look like you Minato, and from what I saw in the village he has your personality Kushina.'

"Heh, hard to believe that a child carries the Nine-tailed fox." said Kisame as walked behind Mikoto.

Naruto was stunned. 'How does this guy know about the Nine-tailed fox?'

"Naruto, you'll be coming with us." said Mikoto.

[...]

Sasuke was again running through the streets of the outpost town, he had just run into another dead end in his search. 'I know she's here, and I'll find her.'

Sasuke thought back to the night of the Uchiha massacre, he thought about all the friends and family he lost. They needed to be avenged, Mikoto needed to pay, and he was going to make damn sure she paid in full. Sasuke activated his Sharingan and continued to run through the town with a newfound resolve.

[...]

"Why don't we take a walk." said Mikoto.

'These Guys look like the real deal.' thought Naruto. Naruto walked out of the room and into the hallway in front of Mikoto and Kisame.

"Mikoto, it would be a pain in the neck if this kid tries to makes a run for it. Maybe I outta... chop off a leg, just in case." said Kisame.

'Say what?!' thought a wide eyed Naruto.

Mikoto said nothing as Kisame gripped his sword handle, "Right." Kisame began his slow walk towards Naruto. With every step Kisame made, Naruto felt his heart beat faster, he was terrified. Naruto couldn't move, he couldn't breath, all he could do was stand there as the shark man advanced closer and closer. Kisame was about to unsheath his sword, but stopped when he heard Mikoto speak.

"It's been a long time, hasn't it... Sasuke?"

Behind everyone at the very end of the hall stood none other than Sasuke Uchiha. "Mikoto... Uchiha."

"Mikoto... Uchiha?" Naruto said in shock. 'This lady looks just like Sasuke!'

Kisame turned his head to see an angry looking Sasuke with his Sharingan active. Kisame started to smile, which showed off his razor sharp teeth. "Well, the Sharingan... and he looks an awful lot like you. Mikoto, who is this kid?"

"He's my son." Mikoto replied plainly.

"That's strange, cause the way I heard it, the whole Uchiha clan was whipped out... by you."

"Mikoto Uchiha, I hope you're ready to die." Sasuke said darkly.

Naruto, who had been listening to everything being said began to think back to when Sasuke first introduced himself when they were made into team seven. 'I'm going to help restore my clan and destroy a certain someone.'

Naruto thought back to what Sasuke said in their mission to wave country. 'She's still out there... mother. I promised myself that I'd... stay alive... until... I killed her.'

Naruto face turned into one of anger. 'This is who he was talkin about, the one he wanted to kill.'

Mikoto finally turned around to meet Sasuke eye to eye. Both of their Sharingans stared at each other, Sasuke's full of hatred, and Mikoto's full of icy black darkness. The tension in the hallway was so thick you could cut it with a knife.

"It's just as you said mother, I've fostered my hatred for you... all this time." as Sasuke said these words, his hand began to be engulfed by a blue ball of chakra infused lightning. "I've lived my life for one single purpose... to see you DIE! IT ENDS HERE!"

"Sasuke." said Naruto.

Mikoto stared at Sasuke and the powerful ball of lightning that engulfed his left hand. "Chidori?"

"ENOUGH, YOU'RE DEAD!" Sasuke roared as he charged at Mikoto. As Sasuke charged, all that could be heard was Sasuke's cries of rage and the chirping noise of his technique. Mikoto didn't look worried at all as the ball of lighting tore the walls of the long hallway.

"DIE!" Yelled Sasuke at the top of his lungs.

*BOOM!*

There was suddenly smoke everywhere from the explosion made by Sasuke's attack. When the dust settled there was a giant whole in the wall to side of everyone. What Surprised Naruto though, was the fact that Mikoto was unharmed, in fact, she was holding Sasuke's wrist with one hand as the last of the lighting faded away. Sasuke was seething as he looked into Mikoto's cold, unfeeling eyes, how could she stop him so easily?

'I... I don't believe it, she brushed off Sasuke's attack like it was nothing.' Naruto thought to himself. Sasuke tried to free himself from Mikoto's grip, but it was all for not. Naruto saw this and tried to help. 'We've got trouble, I gotta do something!'

Naruto began to infuse chakra, only it was the chakra of the Nine-tails itself. Mikoto and Kisame saw the red chakra of the Nine-tails surround Naruto, they needed to move now.

"The air is ripe with chakra. This must be it, the power of the Nine-tails." said Kisame.

Sasuke tried to strike Mikoto with his free hand while she was momentarily distracted. This porved to be a mistake as Mikoto was fully aware. "That's enough."

With one snap, Mikoto broke Sasuke's wrist. Sasuke screamed in pain as he clutched his wrist with his right hand. Sasuke fell to the ground as the pain was too much for him at the moment. His Sharingan deactivated as well.

"SASUKE!" Naruto shouted. 'Ok, that's it, Ninja Art: Summoning-'

"Too slow!" In one quick motion , Kisame unsheathed his sword and slashed at the chakra surrounding Naruto. The chakra was gone and now Naruto was left confused.

'I can't feel my chakra.' Naruto thought as he tried to infuse more. "C'mon, C'mon, what the heck is going on?!"

"Kisame's bandaged sword started wriggling. "Sorry kid, my blade Sharkskin cuts through chakra and devours it."

Naruto gasped.

"We don't need the hassle of this kid whipping out anymore Jutsu. Forget the legs, maybe I outta start off with those arms of his."

Naruto continued to fruitlessly infuse chakra that just wouldn't come. 'Why isn't it coming?'

"You're wasting your time." said Kisame as he raised his blade high above his head.

Mikoto said nothing as she watched the scene unfold. Sasuke couldn't do anything except watch as his best friend was about to become armless. Kisame began to swing his sword down as Naruto was still trying and failing to summon chakra. Right as Kisame's sword was about meet Naruto's flesh, there was a huge puff of smoke that obscured him from view. All that could be heard was Kisame's blade colliding with metal.

When the smoke cleared, what Kisame saw confused him. "What the?"

Standing between him and Naruto was a giant, armored up orange toad. Naruto was also confused until another puff of smoke was seen behind him. When that smoke faded, everything finally started to make some sense.

"You two don't know me at all do you? Should have done your homework." said a very familiar voice. Standing behind Naruto was Jiraiya the toad sage, with his female friend thrown over his shoulder unconscious.

"Jiraiya the toad sage falls victim to no women's charms, rare beauties drop for me like blossoms in a storm. It isn't in my nature to be duped by the wiles of women. When you reach the stature I have... THE LADIES NEAL AND WORSHIP, AT YOUR AWESOMENESS!"

Jiraiya struck his signature pose after he finished his grand entrance, much to the dismay of everyone in the hall. Naruto was the first to speak. "Ah, don't give me that, one wink from a pretty girl and you turn into a mountain of mush! You fell for it like a ton of bricks pervy sage!"

Jiraiya began to rub the back of his head nervously. "I really wish you wouldn't call me that in front of people."

"Are you kidding me! We've got worse things to think about than what these guys think of you!" Naruto shouted. "Get with it pervy sage!"

Now it was Jiraiya's turn to yell. "Damn it, didn't I tell you not to call me that!"

Mikoto watched the two bicker with an blank expression, Kisame was just grinning at the situation. "Hehehehehe, what ever name you go by master Jiraiya, I must say you're something of a disappointment. A lecherous old man with the disposition of a child. It's almost impossible to believe that you are one of the three legendary Sannin."

"Whaaa?!" shouted a surprised Naruto. "You already know who he is?"

"Uh, don't be fooled by appearances or anything else this little twerp might say. Hahahaha." said an uncomfortable Jiraiya.

"So you managed to release the Genjutsu we cast on that woman, eh?" Kisame asked.

Jiraiya soon adopted a serious face as he leaned the woman against the wall. "What kind of coward would do something like that, using her Sharingan to inflict an illusion Jutsu on an innocent woman, all to separate Naruto from me?

'To... To separate us? But why?' Naruto thought.

"I know that Naruto's the one you're really after." said Jiraiya in a serious tone.

There was a long stretch of silence until Mikoto spoke. "I see, that explains how Kakashi knew. I understand now, he learned it from you. You're right, Naruto is the prize the Akatsuki is after, and we will have him."

Naruto's thoughts were a sea of confusion. 'What... what's going on?'

The toad that blocked Kisame's attack vanished and Jiraiya spoke again. "No way you're getting Naruto."

"We'll see about that." said Mikoto.

"Actually, this is all very convenient, I can eliminate you both at the same time."

"Stay out of this." said Sasuke to the surprise of both Naruto and Jiraiya. Sasuke stood back up and looked Mikoto dead in the eyes. "The only one that's going to eliminate her... is me!"

'... Sasuke...' thought Naruto.

'Of course, revenge.' thought Jiraiya.

Kisame and Mikoto both looked at Sasuke, he was breathing heavy, probably from the Chidori and getting his wrist broken.

Mikoto looked at Sasuke with disinterest. "Go away, you don't interest me at this time."

Sasuke clenched his fist and charged at Mikoto in a rage. "Well get interested!"

Before Sasuke could connect with a blow, Mikoto gave him a spin kick that sent him crashing into the back wall at the end of the hall. Sasuke slumped over a bit from the force of hitting the wall.

Naruto was enraged, how dare Mikoto treat him so cruelly. "Why you lousy-"

Naruto was about to charge at Mikoto, but Sasuke's voice stopped him. "No, Naruto! Don't butt in, mind your own business. I told you before, I lived my whole life for this day, this moment... this fight is mine!"

Sasuke forced himself back to his feat and reactivated reactivated his Sharingan. Images of the past came to mind as he once again charged at Mikoto in a blind rage. He through a punch that Mikoto blocked with ease. Mikoto gave Sasuke a quick knee to the gut, and delivered a devastating bitch slap that again sent Sasuke flying into the wall at the end of the hall.

'So reckless.' thought Mikoto.

"Sasuke." said Naruto in a state of both shock and awe.

"N-Not... finished." Sasuke stuttered as he refused to give up.

Mikoto looked at Sasuke's pitiful state and thought to herself. 'He can't even use any Jutsu in the state he's in.'

"T-This fight... is mine."

Mikoto saw that Sasuke wasn't going to leave her alone, she would have to take care of him. "So be it."

Jiraiya wanted to intervene before things got any worse, but was stopped by Kisame. "You heard him old man, this fight is none of our business. Let's let the two of them sort this out."

Mikoto made her slow trek over to Sasuke, who was still sitting on the ground. Sasuke was bleeding from the mouth, and he could no longer maintain his Sharingan. He looked up to see Mikoto looking down on him, this only served to enrage him further. Sasuke forced himself up as he tried to deliver a cheap shot.

"And now finally-"

Sasuke couldn't finish his sentence, not when he received a wicked knee to the gut. Sasuke keeled over in pain. 'How?'

While Sasuke was in thought, the beating continued. Mikoto gave him a chop to the back of the neck, and a sickening knee to the chin. Naruto could only watch as Sasuke was getting beaten within an inch of his life, Mikoto delivered each and every strike with malice. Mikoto nailed Sasuke in the gut with a savage left hand, and proceeded to grab him by the hair and smash his head against the wall. This was a one sided beating, Mikoto showed just how brutal and ruthless she could really be.

'All these years and nothings changed, how can that be?' thought Sasuke as he fell limp to the ground.

"She'll show him no mercy." said a grinning kisame.

Naruto grit his teeth, he had never felt so useless.

Mikoto was now curb stomping Sasuke's head in as he grunted in pain.

Jiraiya watched on with a stoic expression.

'What have I been doing all these years?' thought Sasuke as he looked away from Mikoto. 'Was it... was it all for this?'

Mikoto saw Sasuke look away and she wasn't having any of it. She lifted Sasuke up by the neck and held him against the wall. "Look at me Sasuke, is this really the best you can do? Do you remember what you told me earlier? You said you fostered your hatred for me all these years, you said you lived your life for the purpose of seeing me dead. Liar. You might have started out that way, but somewhere down the line you became soft. Sasuke, your still too weak, you don't have enough hate."

Sasuke listen to every word Mikoto said, it was like the slap to the face she gave him earlier.

Mikoto leaned her head in close to Sasuke so she could whisper in his ear, he couldn't even see the smirk on her face. "You don't have enough hate Sasuke, and you know something... you never will."

Mikoto leaned her head back and closed her eyes. When they reopened, what Sasuke saw scared him to death. Mikoto uttered one word.

"Tsukuyomi."

Before Sasuke knew it, he was in a black void where the only colors were black and white. He wondered where he was until he fell into what seemed like an endless abyss. The world around Sasuke began to change, the moon was black, the sky was crimson, buildings and people were black and white, and he was a kid again. Sasuke knew where he was now, it was a place he never wanted to be again, he was in his old home the night of the Uchiha massacre.

Sasuke saw his father appear in a sitting position in front of him, and there were also two new faces there, Itachi and Izumi. Before Sasuke could reach out to them Mikoto appeared behind them with her sword at the ready.

Sasuke tried to move, but his legs wouldn't respond. Suddenly, a ghostly version of Mikoto appeared behind him, grinning. "You're too weak Sasuke... and twenty-four hours from now... you'll be weaker still."

"Don't." Sasuke pleaded as the Mikoto in front of him was about to strike his family down.

The ghost Mikoto faded away as the Mikoto in front of him cut his family down right before his eyes. Sasuke couldn't take it, it was too much, he let out an ear piercing scream.

In the real world Sasuke let a scream of unimaginable pain.

Back in the Tsukuyomi, Sasuke ran through the clan district as each and every member he came across was killed right before him. Every single person's face, forever ingrained in his memory. More and more bodies dropped, more and more blood spilled into the streets, it was a nightmare. Sasuke could hear Mikoto's words playing in his mind from that night, all he wanted was for this nightmare to stop.

Again, back in the real world, Sasuke's screams continued. The screams sounded more and more painful.

"Isn't that heartwarming, using Tsukuyomi on her own son." Kisame said.

Sasuke's screams finally stop and his body again went limp as his eyes shut.

"That does it, I'm through standing around!" shouted Naruto as he charged at Mikoto. Kisame saw this and charged after Naruto.

Jiraiya went through a set of hand signs as quickly as he could. The whole situation had gone from bad to worse.

Mikoto heard the sounds of footsteps rapidly approaching and turned her head slightly to see Naruto coming at her with Kisame not far behind him. Naruto and Kisame only stopped running when the hallway seemed to transform. The halls were now covered in what appeared to be pink flesh.

"What's going on?" asked Naruto.

"Ninja Art: Toad Mouth Trap." said Jiraiya.

The flesh wall seemed to hold Sasuke in place as Mikoto let him go. The flesh seemed to also be trying to keep Kisame from moving as well, much to his annoyance.

"You both have just been swallowed by the mountain toad." said a grinning Jiraiya. "Welcome my friends, to the belly of the beast. He has a very sensitive digestive tract, be careful not to upset him. Not the most glorious way to die now is it? It must be humbling to know that you've been reduced to toad chow. Hehehehe."

Kisame growled in annoyance.

"Woah, I'm not liking this at all." said Naruto.

"Naruto, stay still. Just remain calm, trust in my Jutsu." Jiraiya said firmly.

"Kisame, come, we're leaving." Mikoto ordered.

"Easier said than done." Kisame forced his feet and blade free as he tore through some of the toad flesh. Kisame and Mikoto began to retreat.

"It's useless, no ninja has been born that could survive this powerful stomach!" shouted a confident Jiraiya.

Kisame and Mikoto ignored Jiraiya and kept running, as they did the flesh began to chase after them.

"Don't look now, but there's a wall of flesh coming after us!" Kisame stopped running for a moment and cut some of the flesh apart. He bought himself and Mikoto a couple of precious seconds as he started to run again. Kisame quickly caught up with Mikoto and saw the flesh was closing in on them. "It's too fast, we won't make it! It's no use!"

Mikoto said nothing as she closed her eyes. When they reopened, the Mongekyo was in full effect. "Amaterasu."

From where Naruto and Jiraiya were standing, they heard and explosion. Jiraiya quickly ran to where it took place with Naruto following close behind. What Jiraiya saw surprised him, a giant hole in the wall with black flames surrounding it.

"What the heck happened?" asked Naruto as he saw the hole. "They both got away."

'They did the impossible. They broke through the wall.' thought Jiraiya.

[...]

Mikoto and Kisame were charging away from the scene as quickly as possible. The mission itself wasn't a total loss however, they would be able to confirm the Jinchuriki's status to their leader.

"So we're just going to run away again? we do a lot of that." said an annoyed Kisame.

"There's no need to rush right now, when the time comes we'll get Naruto." said Mikoto. 'Even after all these years, using both Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu in the same day is still very exhausting.'

Mikoto's Sharingan faded as Kisame spoke. "You were right ya know."

"About?" Mikoto inquired.

"That Naruto kid does look like the fourth Hokage." Kisame said while grinning.

Mikoto gained a faint smile on her face. "Indeed. He even has his mother's personality."

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Author's Note: Chapter 10 is finished and Sasuke met Mikoto face-to-face for the first time in two years. (Yes, Mikoto told Kisame who Naruto's parents are, will this affect the story? I have no idea?)

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