Future and Present Clash

Sorry for the late posting


It took them an additional day to reach the Akatsuki hideout where Itachi was hiding. The morning sun was just reaching mid sky when they sighted the old ruins, Sasuke's eyes narrowed at the sight. Sasunara knew perfectly well what would happen but unfortunately she could not intervene, this experience would shape her father for the rest of his life, he would have to fulfil his desire for revenge before he could move forward. Her job was not to let Uchiha Madara get to Sasuke. Oh yes she knew he would come, and she would keep him well away from the battle scene. She would fight Madara; he was the Death God's main target after all, but that would not be now, if she wanted to win against the First Immortal she would need the collective aid of the entire rookie nine and their senseis. That would be a battle for another time, for now she just had to focus on keeping Madara away. She checked her chakra levels, with multiple wood clones (who took up much more chakra than normal shadow clones) running around the continent her usual reserves were much lower. If she dispelled those clones her chakra would increase significantly, but then she would be behind work, she already dispelled three due to the intensity of her battle with Kisame. She could still remember the pain of having her left biceps' ripped out; damn that chakra eating sword to the pits of hell. She summoned snakes and some eagles to scout the area, and pondered on the best way to stop Madara from getting involved, it had to be time-displacement-jutsu resistant so wood and mangekyo sharingan wouldn't work.

Damn. The only way was to counter with a time-displacement jutsu herself. She told the original Sasunara her plans; after all she was only a clone herself but her thoughts and experiences were connected to the original at all times. She felt her chakra triple as three wood clones were dispelled, many s-rank missing-nins had been killed but there were more, oh well Konoha needed missions in the future. She glanced at Sasuke, his face was calm but his eyes betrayed the deep concentration going on in his mind, no doubt going over the years old strategy he had for killing Itachi. They finally got to the entrance of the abandoned ruins. Sasunara stopped Sasuke.

"Sasuke are you sure you want to go through with this? He is your brother. If you do this there will be no coming back" she said, looking straight into his eyes.

"I already told you to shut up about trying to get me to give up on my revenge, you should want to kill him too, it was because if him that you never got to meet your mother"

Sasunara sighed, she took out a syringe from her pocket, it had a thick, dark red liquid inside. "Give me your arm" she said

"What is that?" he asked, looking suspiciously at her.

"It's a solution which will help you in battle, it will help you heal faster and will provide more energy for your muscles as well as helping to boost your chakra" she explained.

"I don't need that shit. I can very well defeat him on my own" his words into in vain because her hand moved too quickly for his eyes and he felt the needle going deep into his arm. Before he knew it the syringe was emptied into his blood. He instantly felt ready for battle; there was fiery adrenalin in his blood. He ran to the main abandoned building before she managed to stick anything else into him.

Sasunara saw his back disappear among the old brick walls, she turned to the forest behind her, the time-displacement jutsu took a lot of chakra, and if she wanted to keep it up for the two hour fight she knew would happen she would probably need to get chakra from the original or otherwise she too would dispel. She bit her finger and started to write the appropriate and necessary symbol around the perimeter, she thought, maybe if she used Sage Arts she wouldn't need to draw on the original's chakra. She smiled and sat down, letting her body absorb the natural energy around her. Once her eyes were fully changed she proceeded to perform the appropriate hand signs. Time-displacement was something that not everyone was capable of and it was an art she herself had only mastered a few months ago. When she had finished performing thirty-five seal combinations she slammed both hands on the ground, "Time-Displacement Technique: Black-Hole Vortex" she felt her chakra go as black tendrils of light began to quickly form a dome like shape over the main building. She made sure the dome protected them underground too, in case Madara decided to use an earth jutsu. They were now suspended in time, nothing could enter and nothing could leave until she released the jutsu. She then formed the water clouds Sasuke had requested then stood still and collected natural chakra, all the time worrying about the fight that was going on inside. A small part of her brain wondered where Zetsu was.

Meanwhile inside the abandoned Sasuke and Itachi stood facing each other. If anyone was watching they would have wondered why they weren't moving at all. The two Uchiha brothers were having a genjutsu battle, their red eyes staring straight at the other. Sasuke was suddenly behind Itachi's chair, sword buried into his back.

"How is Madara doing Itachi?" Sasuke asked.

"How do you know about him?" Itachi's eyes widened.

"I've discovered a lot of things, like for example your near total blindness" he dug the sword deeper. The genjutsu dispelled, they were once again facing each other. "And I will send you to hell with the promise that he will soon follow you" he ran at his brother with a Chidori in hand. Itachi dodged it and began telling Sasuke the story of Madara and his brother. When he was finished he shouted at Sasuke "Your eyes will be mine, little brother. You will be my new light! Since the day you were born, you have been destined to be my spare!"

Sasuke stared menacingly into his brother's eyes, "Finally it all ends here. Today I fulfil my goal"

"You cannot win against me because I have the mangekyo sharingan and you don't. Your goal is an illusion"

"You can use your eyes as much as you can, my hatred is enough to beat you" Sasuke said.

A sea of shuriken flew between them; they kept of appearing from summoning tattoos and well as the inside of cloaks. They met in the centre kunai and katana in hand. An Itachi shadow-clone attacked Sasuke but he released himself from Itachi's grip and dispelled the clone with a giant shuriken infused with a Chidori. The real Itachi took the opportunity that Sasuke was distracted by the flying black crows from the clone to kick him into the wall. He punched his younger brother and his fingers crept closer to Sasuke's eyes, he quickly plucked one out but Sasuke kept quiet, enduring the pain. Itachi was shocked at this.

"Aren't you going to scream? Scream for our mother like you did as a child?"

"Are you finished with your illusion?" Sasuke opened his eyes and looking into Itachi's mangekyo eyes. "Did you really think I hadn't realised that was an illusion?" he knew he should be feeling broken down and tired but somehow his blood was still excitedly pumping in his veins. Whatever the blond idiot had given him, it was taking effect. He straighted up. Itachi was pissed.

"Let's see how well you do against Amaterasu" Itachi said. He never got the chance to complete the seal because Sasuke sent two large shuriken at him, forcing him to dodge or die, Sasuke quickly sent a fireball at him. Itachi was catapulted into the ceiling (and the sky overhead); making most of it fall down. Itachi landed ungracefully on the floor and addressed Sasuke.

"Who it that pale stranger outside Sasuke? A new fan-girl? What is she doing here? I thought you didn't take help from anybody"

"She is none of your concern; this battle is between the two of us"

"Really? Then why is this whole place protected by a time-displacement jutsu? I can feel that massive chakra all the way from here"

"Hn" Sasuke threw another large, Chidori infused shuriken at him.

"Tsk tsk Sasuke, that trick is getting old. I'm surprised you haven't used that freak of a mark you have" Sasuke betrayed his annoyance for one second before recovering behind his poker face again.

"Oh don't tell me you actually don't have it anymore. Ha ha ha how exactly do you plan on defeating me Sasuke? Wasn't Orochimaru's power the only thing you could use to beat me?"

Sasuke gripped his katana "I already told you. My hatred is enough"

"Amaterasu!" Itachi cried; black fire raced towards Sasuke, who in turn let a smoke bomb fall on the ground and under the smoke quickly summoned a large snake, who burned to ashes instead of him. When the smoke blew away Itachi was surprised to see him still standing. He sent another Amaterasu towards Sasuke who dodged and did the same thing again. Itachi fell on the ground, blood from his eyes smearing his face.

"I see that Amaterasu takes a lot out of you" he sent a fire dragon jutsu at Itachi, who dodged and the dragon shaped fire made its way to the cloud collection above them.

"I will use my last jutsu on you Itachi, like Amaterasu, it is unavoidable. Prepare for your death Itachi" Sasuke said as rain began falling down. He had told Sasunara his plan before, she described the time-displacement jutsu she would use and that because Sasuke needed rain clouds for his ultimate jutsu, she would create some using a water jutsu. Good thing the idiot didn't forget, he thought. The sound of lightning filled his ears. He jumped up and landed on the last few remnants of the ceiling. Itachi's eyes widened, he seemed to know where this was leading to.

Sasuke began to control the lightning, "Kirin" he said and lightning descended on his brother.

The whole building exploded and lighting, fire and rocks fell down on Itachi. When it cleared down Sasuke landed gracefully atop a flat rock. Itachi was lying face down on the dirt.

"I did it. I finally did it" Sasuke said. And he allowed himself to fall onto the floor, letting sleep overcome him and the exhaustion washing away, along with the water that was still falling.

A figure walked towards Itachi and turned him around. His eyes opened slightly.

"Who...are...you?" Itachi asked. He coughed blood, smearing the stranger's face and mask with the red liquid.

"I am Sasunara. I am your niece" she whispered quietly allowing her blue eyes to momentarily show the three-tomoe sharingan before turning blue again "You can rest now Uncle Itachi, Sasuke-otousan is safe. I will look after him" she cradled Itachi into her arms "Thank you for everything you have sacrificed for his sake"

Itachi welcome the last moments of warmth "Don't...tell...him" and Uchiha Itachi died.