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Chapter Eleven

Naruto and the other two were running through the halls steadily looking for Sai, with Naruto using her clones left and right to go down the different intersections. As they keep on running down the intersection they heard a big explosion that rocked the whole base. The sconces flames were waving around at the wind that came off of the explosion.

"What was that?!" Naruto wonders as she looks down where the sound was coming from.

"Over there," Sakura says as they all look down the pathway.

"It's Sai's Chakra!" Yamato says and they all start running off down the pathway. As soon as Naruto turns the corner she saw the collapsed area of the base.

"Sai," she looks worried about him as she stares at the rubble that is covering the ground and letting a great amount of light in.

'Found you,' Sakura said as she narrows her eyes. She takes off running towards the figure in the distance as he is looking up towards something. He looks at her as she gets closer, making her grab his collar in anger, shocking him. "You! What the hell are you after?! How many times to do you plan to stab us in the back before you're ha-"

"Ah, is it Sakura?" Sasuke says from above them, making Sakura stop in what she was doing. She turns her head ever slowly.

'That voice,' her eyes widen when they land on the black haired form, she released Sai and the other two wondered what she saw. "Sasuke-kun…" She says making the blonds eyes flare wide as her heart skips a beat. Narrowing her eyes onto the crumbled area of the base, she starts running towards them and Sai looks at them in the dark. She pants as she runs further, tripping as she gets closer before she just full out runs, looking to the left where Sakura's eyes are. As she looks up into the black eyes, wondering what was going to happen next.

"Sasuke…" She mutters as her lips part, desperate to be close to him. The look of serenity fills his eyes as he looks down into her deep blue depths, loving that she has only changed mostly in her appearance but not in her attitude and determination.

"Naruto? So you came too," he says as he drinks his fill of the beautiful blond. "Does that mean Kakashi's here as well?" He asks and a man walks into view, making his eyes widen.

"Unfortunately Kakashi-san couldn't be here, but I'm here in his place. We, Team Kakashi, are going to be taking you back to Konoha," Yamato says as he looks up at the young man.

"Team Kakashi, huh?" He asks while looking at Sai, who unsheathed his sword, holding it in front of his body as for protection.

"Sai! I knew it!" Sakura shouts at the male as she bunches up her fist. Every one of their eyes flies over to look at the young male as he steadily looks up at Sasuke.

"So he's my replacement then, is he? He was spouting some kind of nonsense about protecting the bonds between Naruto and me. One more pansy for the group, quite the fit I'm sure," he says and his emotionless face gages the other black haired teen. "As long as he keeps his hands to himself, then I won't have to kill him."

"Huh?" Sakura murmurs looking at the new member of their team.

"It is true, my top-secret mission was indeed the assassination of Sasuke, but those orders don't matter anymore. Now I want to think and act for myself. Because of Naruto-chan, I feel like I might be able to remember something…remember how I used to feel. Something which I can't help but feeling was very important to me," he said as he never takes his eyes off of Sasuke. "I may not know you all that well, but there's a reason why Naruto and Sakura chase after you with so much passion, though I will not reveal those reasons since they are the ones who should, but in order to prevent their bonds with you from breaking…In order to keep them intact, they're doing everything they can. I still don't have a very good understanding of it myself, but you, Sasuke, you should know why…"

"Sure, I did know and that's why I severed them," he tells him as he continues to stare on with not one ounce of emotion shown on his face. "I have other bonds I carry," he says as the others stare up at him, speechless. "Fraternal bonds, forged through hate," he stops as he remembers the conversation that he had with his brother. "Having too many bonds causes one to lose focus weakening their strongest wish, their greatest desire," as he says this he looks at Naruto and wonders if she could tell that he was lying his ass off about severing his bonds with her. Naruto though, was in deep thought about the fight she had with him and the arguments that filled the entire fight.

"If that's true…" Naruto looked down as she remembered the whole thing, bringing Sasuke's attention to her, realizing that she might be beating herself up. "If that's true, then why," she grits her teeth until it all came bursting out. "Why didn't you kill me back then!? Is that what you call severing bonds!? Sasuke!"

"Naruto," Sakura looked at the girl with a worried expression.

"The reason is simple, and it isn't that I wasn't able to sever my bonds with you," he stops and closes his eyes, thinking of when Itachi told him that he must kill his best friend. "I simply didn't want to give him the pleasure of seeing me attain power by submitting to his plans."

"What do you mean by that!?" She asks him.

"There's no need for me to tell you," he said as he looked down in the girls eyes. "Still, the one thing I can say to you, is that back then, I chose to spare your life at nothing more than a whim of mine," he tells her and the others look at him wondering how this person could be so cold hearted. Then Sasuke surprised them all with his speed as he quickly wrapped an arm around Naruto, licking her ear in the process, making a blush appear on her face.

'He's fast,' Yamato thought as he stares at the young man.

'When did he…?' Sakura wondered how he got there that quick.

"Come to think of it, isn't becoming Hokage a dream of yours?" He asks the girl in her ear as he continuously blew air into her ear, knowing how it made her body react. "If you had the time to go around looking for me, you would have been better off training, don't you think, Naruto?"

"S-Sasuke…!" Sakura tried to interrupt him.

"And that's why this time, you're going to end up losing your life, all at a whim of mine," he tells her as he withdrew his sword.

"Like there's any chance someone who can't save a friend could become Hokage, don't you think? Sasuke," she asked him and he snickered. He readied his sword to stab it into Naruto.

"Sasuke!" Sakura shouts at him as Sasuke starts his blade in motion, but before his sword can stab Naruto in the back, Sai grabs his wrist holding it still.

"Your choice of defense…quite correct," Sasuke tells him. As Sai's eyes widened Naruto grabs Sasuke's arm and makes herself flip.

"Great!" Yamato says as he activates his wood Jutsu. When Sasuke activates his Sharingan, Yamato shoots his wood towards the young man, who shoots his Chidori discharge through them. Naruto flinches as she hits the ground, her pendant lands right besides her. Sai's body hits as you could see the electricity sparking off of his body.

'Chidori, coming out of his entire body!' Sakura observes as she stares at her ex-teammate. Her eyes narrow and she started rushing up to Sasuke, who stares back at her. 'Sasuke, I'm going to stop you with my own power!' Sasuke pulses electricity through his sword as he stares back at her with an emotionless face.

'Those eyes, this is guy dangerous!' Yamato thinks as he zips his body as quick as possible to protect Sakura, holding his Kunai at ready. Sasuke's blade goes through the Kunai like butter. He grits his teeth as Sasuke stabs his sword into his shoulder and he slams into a rock.

"Your choice of defense…quite the mistake," Sasuke tells him.

"Captain Yamato!" She shouts out as she looks at him.

"You see, this sword of Kusanagi I hold here is a little special, it's the kind that can't be blocked," he says as he stands still between the whole group.

'Body's going numb…Is he sending his Chidori through the blade?' Seeing the electricity going through it answers his question. 'So that's it, by doing so, not only does he make the blade extremely sharp, he also deprives his opponent from freedom of movement through numbness.' Sasuke looked at Naruto in surprise when she started getting up. She was grunting and gritting her teeth as she looked up at him, showing him that the Kyuubi is willing to fight him with her.

"This is your chance, Naruto," she laughs in her cage as she watches the man that her and Naruto thought of as a mate stares back at her. "Show him; make him see how our powers are not to be trifled with. Why the hesitation, what's wrong?" She asked as Naruto looked at her through the bars, she decided to seep her powers out and was approaching her kit with a happy expression on her face. "You need my power, right? Well then, who do you want to fight?"

"Your face, I don't want to see it right now!" Naruto said as she shows her sad eyes to her.

"Why is it you grow so bold?"Kyuubi asks as she feels a little proud for her kit for showing the boldness to her.

"Shut up, I don't need your power anymore…" She stops talking until she realizes that she needs to be more truthful to the Kyuubi. "I don't want to hurt anyone anymore, with that power I lose all common sense and attack anyone that comes across my path."

"You actually believe that? I bet this is because I attacked Sakura, isn't it?" She bursts out in laughter at that sentiment. "That girl was trying to stop us, and demanded that we stop. She needs to know her place and stop thinking that she has any rights to Sasuke. For our kits sake, we need to be at our strongest, and that is with our combined strength. Remove this seal, once and for all! If you do, then I'll entrust you with all of my power." She stopped when Naruto raised her hand.

"Stop it now, Karuma, please?" She almost touched the Kyuubi's Chakra form until a form zips in between the two and raises his own hand to touch it.

"You're…" She stops and stares at the one that they both love, and ache for. Naruto stares at the man standing inside of the seal's palace. "Ah, so you're an Uchiha, allow me to congratulate you on making it this far…"She purrs at him and Naruto decides to get closer to him.

"Why are you here!?" She asks even now, wanting to always be closer to him.

"Now I am able to see…So this was your secret power then…Hard to believe, that something like 'this' existed inside you," he says as he looks into the woman he loves eyes, the gentling look took both of them by surprise.

"Impressive that you've become able to see me, here inside Naruto, such would be the power of that accursed Sharingan, and your forsaken ancestry," she purrs as she looks at Naruto who turns to look at Sasuke, who raises his hand and places it against her cheek.

"Well, it would appear, this isn't the first time you've gazed into eyes such as these, which would make you," he turns his gaze back to Kyuubi. "Kyuubi, the nine-tailed demon fox, no doubt," he frowns when he remembers what they were talking about before he interrupted. "What did you mean earlier when you said kits?" When both of them widened their eyes he knew something was up and it involved him as well. "By your reactions, I take it that you don't want to tell me just yet, well then."

"You're eyes hold so much power and insight, though you haven't shown us the sinister Chakra that Madara has, I believe you are capable of it. Please, don't hurt my kit, she's been hurt enough, don't you think?" She tells him as she looks into his red eyes.

"I know how much pain she has been in, Kyuubi, I just need her to be patient and believe in me when I say that I won't allow Orochimaru to do as he pleases. I'm just using him to get stronger so that when I go after my brother, I can finish that end and return to her," he tells the deity. "You both can explain the conversation about kits when I return to your sides."

"I'm afraid we still couldn't break our word, your brother will explain that part," when she says this Sasuke's eyes widened and then narrowed.

"So even my brother knows, and I take it he will tell me when we meet up?" He starts getting angry, and destroys Kyuubi's Chakra form before he turns to look at Naruto. "You shouldn't have trusted Itachi, Naruto. He could have killed you at any time, and I cannot have that." He walks over and grabs her face into his hands, staring deep into her eyes. "Please, don't talk to him anymore, I couldn't stand it if he were to kill you, the only one that I count as family anymore," he says as he lowers his lips to hers, kissing her deeply, enjoying something that he has only been able to dream about in all the years he has been gone.

"Unbelievable, to think, you'd even be able to suppress my power, I may not see you again, but…I…warn…you…don't…let Nar…uto…die…you…will…end…up…regretting…it," she tells him before he could release the girls lips from the kiss.

"Naruto, don't forget that I do love you, and always will," he says against her lips as he steps back from her. "I'll go against my better judgments and allow this conversation with Itachi to happen, just don't let me regret it, dobe," he says as he strokes her cheek one last time, stepping out of the palace to look at everyone. He still couldn't take his eyes off of Naruto as she struggled to get to her feet, making Yamato activate his wood abilities to push the sword from his body, shocking Sasuke, whose eyes widen as he looks back at the man. Yamato pushes the sword away from himself quickly as he forms a dome over the young man, who breaks through it just as easy, landing above them on the ground where he stood before.

"Sasuke," Naruto grunts as she stares up at him, her bottom lip trembles from their conversation inside of the Kyuubi's sealing palace, she decides to play along, since she agrees that he could now probably take out Orochimaru. "Why don't you get it! Your body's going to be stolen by Orochimaru anytime now!" She shouts up at him, making Sasuke pleased as he looks down at her.

"If that happens, then it happens," he says making Naruto shiver at how good he was making the others believe that he didn't care if the man took over his body. "You're still quite the kid, Naruto. Revenge means everything to me, as long as I can have my revenge, I could not care less what happens to me or the whole world for that matter. Let me make it clear for you, for both me and Orochimaru, right now, killing Itachi would be impossible, but if I am able to accomplish my goals, through nothing more than offering Orochimaru this body of mine," he pauses as he spun his lies to the others, making Naruto look and finally find the tell tale sign that he is lying, the finger twitch showed her and she had to fight to keep the smile from her lips. "Then he can have my life and my afterlife for that matter." When he finished saying that, Yamato stands up as the other two stare up at him, shocked at his careless reasons.

"That's enough talk, Naruto and Sakura, with you two here, I had hoped not to have to resort to any of my cruder methods, but unfortunately, this time I get serious," Yamato says as he glares up at the young man.

"Captain Yamato!" Sakura says with a worried tone.

"Konoha indeed, I'm through with you, now things end," Sasuke forms his seals and raises his hand, right before Orochimaru grabs it, making him stop.

"Now, now, there's no need to use 'that' Jutsu, Sasuke," he tells the young man, making the others stare up at him, wondering where he came from.

"Remove your hand," he tells the man with a hidden message basically telling him that he would take his arm off if he didn't.

"There you go again, forgetting exactly 'who' it is you're talking to," Kabuto says with a hand on his hip as he appears near the two.

"I have no reason to stop," Sasuke told him.

"You know quite well what 'Akatsuki' is up to," Kabuto states. "We want to have our guests here from Konoha to take care of as many of them as possible; even just one would be fine. If the other 'Akatsuki' members get in your way, your plans for revenge could hit a snag, right?"

"That's quite the pathetic excuse," Sasuke tells the older man, not believing that he would put his Naruto at risk by taking on the Akatsuki.

"But surely you'd allow it if it meant increasing the chances of your revenge succeeding by even 1%, right?" Kabuto asks, making Sasuke pissed off and worried as he looks down into Naruto's eyes.

"Let's go," Orochimaru says as he releases Sasuke's hand, the two couldn't stop staring at each other, not wanting to be away from the other. Then the three disappears the whole time Sasuke was giving Naruto a silent message that he will kill Orochimaru when it is time for him to take over his body. When they disappeared fully Naruto had to try and control her tears in her eyes so she looks down at the ground.

'I failed…again…' She says as she places her forehead against the floor of the destroyed area of the base. 'I'm…powerless,' she starts sobbing into the dirt, thinking of the promise she made to her twins, that she would bring their father home, and she failed.

"Crying can't bring him back to us!" Sakura tells her, making the other two stare at her, thinking how heartless she sounded, saying this. "I'm still with you…we'll get stronger, together!" She tells her as she has tears running down her cheeks as well.

"You've still got about six months," shocking the other two when he says this. "And since three's better than two, and I'm pretty strong as it is," Yamato looks at Sai when he says this, a smile on his face, making both Sakura and Naruto wipe their eyes.

"Hehe, thanks," Naruto tells Sai.

"Let's go," Yamato tells the three, staring at them with a smile still on his face. 'A new beginning, I guess,' he muses.

~3~

The team is now back in Konoha, holding a meeting with Lady Tsunade as they tell her all the details that happened during the mission. "I see," she says to them as she stares the entire team over. "Well?" She asks as she looks at Naruto, wanting the girls input.

"We're not giving up!" Naruto tells her as her eyes never waver from granny Tsunade's. She looks at the other team members while Naruto holds a hidden mission to the woman, letting her know that she needs to speak to her and Jiraiya.

"Heh, okay then, I've already got another mission lined up," she tells them and dismisses them, making the other leave Naruto there to get their gears ready as she stares at the girl in front of her. "So, that wasn't all that happened was it?"

"No, but the others do not need to know," Naruto says as she summons a recorder frog that will record their conversation to relay it to Jiraiya since he wasn't in the village at this point.

"Okay, then tell me," she tells the girl as she sighs, while looking off to the side, where the twins were napping on a cot, near the walls of her office.

"I found out that Sasuke can see the Kyuubi inside of me, and while he was in the palace we had a conversation, so I think he might have inkling about the twins. I think he's just waiting for me to full out tell him. Even though I told him that Itachi's wish was to tell him, himself." Naruto said as she walks over and kisses the twins heads. "I will allow Itachi to tell Sasuke, but I gave him an ultimatum, that he is to reveal to Sasuke what happened to their family, the truth."

"No…" she looks at Naruto and realizes that Jiraiya revealed just who was responsible for the Uchiha clans' destruction. "You know?"

"You think that Jiraiya would leave me in the dark? He was my father's teacher, you know?" Naruto turned to her and she showed that she knows more than Lady Tsunade thought. "I've went through the archives of all of our families, my right since my family was supposed to be the one who held the peace. The Uchiha's were revolting and holding hidden meetings, where they were making plans to take over the village. The Hyuga's had a meeting as they found out about it and decided that they would step in for the Uzumaki's since I was too young to do so myself. Unfortunately, Danzo walked in on Lord Hiashi's rehashing of what they have learned and demanded that the Uchiha clan to be destroyed. Uchiha Itachi was at that time an ANBU member so that means he was directly underneath Danzo, who decided that it, would be Itachi who would take them out, against the third's protests. Thus, the hatred that Sasuke has towards his brother should be towards Danzo the one who threatened his old team member that he would have his ANBU take out the next generation of all clans, making sure that no clan survives."

"How…do you know all of this, its sealed information," Tsunade asks and Naruto looks at her with a frown on her face.

"The Namikaze's were the ones who monitored everything that happens, anything that happened to the clans they recorded it, while the Uzumaki's were the ones who made sure that peace was kept, in turn both clans protected the clans and the people of this village, where Danzo himself wanted to destroy all of the clans," Naruto says as she takes the scroll for the new mission from her hands. "I cannot allow him to get away with this, granny, so I will allow Sasuke to be told the truth by Itachi and he will probably take out Danzo himself."

"Understood," Tsunade nods.

~3~

Standing outside Sai's window was Naruto and the two others, "Hey Sai! We got our next mission!" Making the young man smile as he places the scroll that holds the word 'friends' under the window as he jumps out to join the others.