The Boy Who Wanted Love
By: Enigma508
Hello again one and all, Mike here again, glad to see I still have readers. Sorry for being late but I recently injured my arm (bruising and swelling around my rotator cuff and a small tear in my AC joint in my shoulder)
But that's just a setback but here I am with another chapter for you all. To all of those who live in Worcester, drop a comment saying so (or the Boston area too). Go Sox! But leave a review anyways, why the hell not.
ON WITH THE STORY
Chapter 12: You!
Sakura and Tsunade sat in her office and sighed, as they slammed down their shot glasses. "How many was that shisho (master)?" Sakura wiped her mouth off with her left arm and poured another shot with the other.
Tsunade was impressed that her apprentice was able to match her drink for drink, "Well it doesn't take a Nara to figure out we've had too much… HAHAHA JUST KIDDING. POUR ME ANOTHER, and while you're at it, tell me about Sasori's last words, they had to be something stoic, like 'You cannot stop the Akatsuki' or 'how was I defeated by a girl and old hag'" at this Tsunade burst into giggles again, showing her high level of inebriation.
Sighing, Sakura poured her master another shot of Sake and leaned back in her chair, "Well shisho, he actually gave me information, information that needed to be said while we were alone." Sakura got a serious look on her face, causing the busty Hokage to lean forward and put her hands in her usual, 'go on' position.
"After Sasori was stabbed and was on his last breaths, he figured telling us a secret would do him no harm. He leaned close to me and whispered in my ear a plan that was set for him in the future."
Sakura now had her sensei's full attention, "Plan, what kind of plan?" Sakura asked Tsunade to get to a level of soberness so that she would comprehend. Nodding her head, Tsunade used her chakra to burn off some of the Sake in her system. Shaking the cobwebs from her head, Tsunade motioned for Sakura to continue.
"I was told of a meeting to take place between Sasori and one of Orochimaru's high ranking subordinates on the Tenchi Bridge in a week. He didn't know of which subordinate it was, sadly, but at least we have a place and time; how do you want to precede, shisho?"
Tsunade took a moment to ponder the options, needing a truly clear head, Tsunade opted for team seven (minus Hinata) to report tomorrow for a mission briefing.
"But shisho, what about Kakashi sensei, isn't he on bed rest until his chakra coils return to normal?" Tsunade smirked knowing the surprise that awaited Sakura.
"Actually Sakura, I have a replacement jounin leader for you tomorrow, as well as a third man to the squad, you will meet him tomorrow as well. Now it's late, get some rest and meet with some friends before you head out again, 'kay?" Tsunade smiled as her disciple stood up, bowed out of courtesy, and then left her office.
'Oh Sakura, you are in for quite the shock tomorrow.'
Konoha General Hospital
Naruto, Hiashi and Hanabi all walked into the lobby of the hospital, it was the late afternoon and the sun was beautifully setting behind the tree-line. The receptionist looked up from her paperwork to see two clan heads and a little girl standing before her.
"Namikaze-sama, Hyuuga-sama, what can I do for you two today?" She held a smile that seemed innocent enough to the Hyuugas but Naruto knew it was a front. This receptionist on many occasions in his childhood refused to get him help and booted him from the hospital to fend for himself.
Naruto glaring at the woman spoke with an even tone, wishing not to incite a fight. "Well I was hoping you could point us in the direction of the room of one Hinata Hyuuga, if you're 'not too busy'; please." The receptionist noticed the heavy sarcasm and felt the guilt that came with it.
Looking down, out of shame and priorities, she located the name on the ledger, "Ah, here it is; Hinata Hyuuga room 12 in the recovery wing. Take this hall on the left, go through the double doors and the room should be on your right hand side. She is clear to go but will need to sign out."
The three nodded and gave the woman their thanks, even Naruto, but as they started off, the Namikaze heir shot the burden of his past one last 'fuck you' glance.
Following the directions to a 'T' the trio ended up at room 12 as expected. After rasping on the door three times a quiet "Come in" came from the room, prompting the three to enter.
Hinata sat in her hospital bed, the pale and uninteresting walls were driving her mad. Not to mention, she sat in her hospital gown and had her clothes on the chair next to her, adding to her discomfort. She was hoping for a break from the monotony and her hopes were fulfilled three-fold.
"NARU-KUN! Tou-san! Hanabi-chan! It's so great to see you all. I was about to go mad sitting here without something to occupy my time." Hinata received hugs from all three of her guests and motioned for them to sit. Hiashi and Hanabi took to one side of the bed and Naruto took the other and held his fiancé's wrist.
"We come with good news Hina-chan, you can be released tonight, I guess you passed baa-chan's exam." Hiashi was stunned at the boy's "nonchalantness" about addressing his superior; but chuckled at the fact that boy called the Hokage an appropriate name for her age.
After chatting for a half an hour about the mission and life and miscellaneous topics, Hiashi stood and Hanabi followed suit. "Well my daughter, I will let you spend the evening with your love, glad to see you are alright and healthy. Hanabi, say your good-byes and let's go, we cannot be late for dinner."
Hanabi nodded as she turned to her sister, "It was great to see you nee-chan, make sure to visit sometime, okay? Love you." Hanabi hugged her sister with a single tear falling from her eye.
The indigo haired patient looked into those teary pupil-less eyes, "of course I will imouto, just because I live with Naruto-kun now, doesn't mean I forgot about my family. How does lunch tomorrow sound?" With that Hanabi perked her head up and nodded vigorously.
Giving one last hug and good-bye the two Hyuugas left the room. Naruto turned to his soon-to-be wife and kissed her hand, "Well Ms. Hyuuga, what do you say you get dressed and we go meet some friends for dinner it's already sunset and Sakura has probably finished her drinking match with baa-chan."
Hinata kissed Naruto's cheek and smiled, "Sure, I'll meet you in the lobby to sign out in a minute." Kissing his love back, Naruto left the room to give Hinata some privacy. After signing out and bidding farewell to the receptionist, the couple headed for one the local restaurants and ran into two people they couldn't believe were together.
"Well well well, what do we have here? Ino Yamanaka and Kiba Inuzuka on what appears to be a date." Naruto smiled at the scene in front of him. Kiba spat out his drink and coughed violently at the sheer embarrassment he felt. Ino on the other hand, blushed heavily, giving the old Hinata a run for her money. Said Kunoichi chuckled at their friends' embarrassment.
"Oh, Naruto-kun, Hinata-chan, what a pleasant surprise." Ino was obviously nervous and was looking for a giant rock to hide under. "Well I g-guess you guys now know our secret is out. Yes, Kiba-kun and I are trying this dating thing out. It was going to be secret until we made it official but someonehad to ruin it."
Ino shot daggers at the two and Kiba hung his head at the fact he was caught. Naruto and Hinata were happy for the two and they seemed like a good couple. Ino's brash personality and loud-mouth vernacular paired well with Kiba's feral mannerisms and crudeness. It helped that the two weren't shy or reserved in the slightest; the two could be seen making out around Konoha regularly without any reserves of who saw them.
Back at the restaurant, Kiba cleared his throat, "Well as great as it was seeing you two, Ino-chan and I have some 'training' to do, so please excuse us." Ino once again blushed as she took Kiba's hand and dashed off to some semi-private place.
Naruto and Hinata simply chuckled and shook their heads. "Well," started the gentleman, "why don't we grab a booth and enjoy ourselves tonight?" Hinata got a confused look on her face at Naruto's confidence.
"But Naruto-kun, this is one of the fanciest restaurants in the village, you need reservations in advance to eat here." Hinata's voice was one of slight confusion with a dash of curiosity at her love's actions.
Naruto slapped on his trademark grin and whispered in Hinata's ear, "Not when you're the son of the fourth Hokage and his wife." Hinata's eyes widened as she never thought of that. It may have been against her personality a little bit, but she wanted to spend a night with her mate and just him.
Naruto walked up to the host's podium, "Excuse me sir, I would like a booth for me and my fiancé." Not looking up from his book, the host scoffed.
"Yeah you and every other couple in Konoha get in line or make a reservation pal." Naruto was shocked at the rudeness of the host, 'Well someone's not getting a tip' Naruto then asserted his presence to the host.
With a cough he announced, "Oh what a shame, I guess the Namikaze clan isn't good enough to eat here, come on Hinata-chan, let's go." The teen's head shot up with neck snapping speeds. What he saw made him feel like an ass.
There in front of him was the tall muscular Namikaze clan head and his gorgeous fiancé. And now said patrons were walking away from him. The host stumbled forward and put his hand on Naruto's shoulder…
"Oh Namikaze-sama, gomenasai! What I meant to say was we have a table that was recently vacated and cleared, would you honor us by dining here?" The host bowed at the waist trying to save as much face as he could.
Naruto and Hinata spun on their heels and grinned, "That's better." Naruto leaned in close so only the host could hear, "Now, I apologize for embarrassing you like this in front of so many, but hopefully this will teach you some respect." Naruto pulled back and patted the teen on the shoulder with a grin on his face.
The host sat the couple down at the table Kiba and Ino previously sat at before their sudden departure. Moments later a waitress came with the menus and left the two to their business. After placing their orders the two chatted about political this and clan matter that.
The food came out about fifteen minutes later consisting of courses of sashimi with small portions of wasabi, rice balls and fine sake from Rice country. Over the course of an hour the two continued their conversation, Hinata occasionally jabbing Naruto about how he used his influence to get them in the restaurant.
After a nice meal and a few glasses of Sake, Naruto paid the bill and before he got up a voice echoed down the road, "NARUTO! Hey Naruto!" It was Sakura, fresh out of her meeting with the Hokage. "Hey Naruto, I'm not interrupting am I?"
Hinata was a little pissed that the pink banshee ruined the tail end of their romantic night, 'Of course not Sakura-ama (bitch) you only interrupted me trying to seduce Naru-kun' okay maybe she was more than a little pissed.
"No, Sakura-san, we were just leaving and heading home for the night, why?" Naruto grabbed his cloak and walked out of the restaurant, Hinata on his arm. The three met face to face outside of the building. "Okay, so what did you need Sakura?"
Looking slightly nervous she looked Naruto square in the eyes, "I'm sorry I have to be the one to break this news to you, but you're not getting much R&R, we have to report to shisho's office tomorrow morning for a mission."
Hinata tilted her head up slightly, "What does the mission entail?" This is when Sakura frowned slightly, knowing it would be slightly hard to break this to the soon to be newlyweds.
"Actually Hinata-san, 'we' means just Naruto and I, sorry." Hinata's visage became one of slight dejection; she wished she wouldn't be separated from her Naruto-kun after being injured but that fear was now reality.
Naruto, seeing his fiancé's face, put his thumb and forefinger under her chin making her look into his cerulean pools, "Don't worry Hinata-chan, maybe you should stay with you family while I'm gone or maybe help Temari-san around the village since that lazy teme Shikamaru won't do it probably. I'll be back before you know it."
Naruto planted a kiss on his mate's lips and pulled away, only to be forcefully pulled into a heated tongue battle with said woman. After the public display of affection, Hinata blushed deeply before doing something that rarely occurred, she fainted.
Naruto sighed, then rubbed the back of his head while chuckling, "I guess she can't handle too much Sake, oh well, lesson learned. Well I will see you in the morning Sakura, take care." Naruto and his pink haired comrade waived their farewells and the yellow haired trickster picked up Hinata bridal style and walked off towards their compound.
Sakura walked a little ways off but pulled into an alley and crashed against the wall, tucking her head into her knees. She silently sobbed, jealous of the kind of love all of her friends have found. 'Naruto has Hinata, Ino-pig has Kiba, Tenten has Neji, Shikamaru has Temari, and Shino, Chouji and Lee are too dedicated for relationships. Why can't I be happy, why can't he come back?" Sakura sobbed to herself until there were no more tears and then headed back to her solemn apartment to rest.
Next day- Hokage's office
Sakura and Tsunade sat in the office waiting on a certain late shinobi who was testing their patience. Minutes passed and then bursting through the door was Naruto with a black and orange cloak on and his three pouches strapped to his hips.
"Sorry about that, Hinata-chan wanted me to walk her to the Hyuuga compound to see her sister and Hiashi and I got caught up in conversation." Both Kunoichi stared at him causing him to throw his hands up in defense, "What? At least my excuses are better than a certain silver haired jounin we all know."
The two sighed and Tsunade motioned for the two to stand at attention. "Now due to information Sakura gained from Sasori after defeating him, we know that the puppet master was set to meet an informant on the Tenchi Bridge in a few days. Now this is not any ordinary informant, this person is one of Orochimaru's top subordinates. We have every reason to believe that this informant is Kabuto Yakushi, the snake-teme's right hand man."
"The reason you two were put on this mission is the simple face many of other jounin and chunin are occupied or hurt. So you and one other will handle this mission. Shizune, bring in Sai will you?"
On cue, the door opened and showed a very pale shinobi. The boy had pitch black hair that matched his two piece outfit that exposed his midsection. On the small of his back there was a tanto as well as a thick scroll attached on his hip. The boy had no emotion on his face as he looked at his two new teammates. 'What odd hair colors and attires.' The boy was analyzing the two.
Sakura and Naruto looked over the shinobi, who could be best described as plain, and then turned back to their commander. Sakura was first to speak, "Okay we met our new team member but where is our Jounin sensei?"
Tsunade's smirk turned into a devilish grin as she looked at her pupil. "Well that's a funny story actually, seeing that I'm short on Jounin and Naruto here has been promoted to Clan head and, by default, special Jounin, he shall be the leader of the mission."
To say Sakura was stunned was understatement but that was nothing in comparison to Naruto, whose jaw was firmly affixed to the ground. After shaking off the shock Naruto spoke.
"But baa-chan, do you really think I'm suited for this? I mean yeah I have a slight control over Kurama's powers and I am a clan head but does that really qualify me to lead this mission?"
Tsunade pinched her nose and looked back at the gaki, "Ugh, it's not a choice. You are now a special jounin of Konohagakure. Sakura, Sai you get set for the mission and head to the eastern gate in thirty minutes, Naruto you stay here."
Sakura and Sai gave a "Hai!" and left the office, leaving the two blondes behind. "So what is so important that the rest of my squad can't hear it?" Naruto crossed his arms and glared at the Hokage.
"Well Naruto I'm not going to beat around the bush…" And with that, a secret assignment was given to Naruto.
East gate half an hour later
Team 7 lead by Naruto Namikaze, stood at the east gate and were sent off by official word of the Hokage. Dirt paths soon turned into forest branches and foliage. Naruto took the lead while Sai and Sakura took the rear flanks, making a diamond. Though not visible to his subordinates, Naruto's face had a deep scowl on it from what Tsunade had talked about, though his clenched fist was all but too visible, leading for Sakura to inquire.
"Naruto, what's bothering you, and don't pull the 'I don't know what you're talking about' shit!" Naruto paid her one passing glance, his eyes, red with black slits. Sakura had seen these eyes before and felt this killing intent once before, he was close to his one-tail state but Sakura held her ground and stared back, intent on satisfying her curiosity.
Sai was impartial on this, letting no emotions sway him to either side. He was Danzo's top Root in training and he followed his orders before anyone else, especially the blonde Hokage. 'Hmm Naruto-san seems to be angered, yet he's able to keep it in check. Sakura-san, on the other hand, isn't backing down, even after that wave of killing intent, she tenacious just like her profile said.'
Naruto signaled for a rest on a wide tree limb. Once all three were there Naruto stood before Sakura. "Sakura, it is not my place to tell you why I am angry but I will satiate your question a little bit. Yes I am pissed, and I'm pissed due to an extra mission parameter put in place by Tsunade-sama. I will tell you no more and no less."
Sakura was livid at this point, "If this 'parameter' pertains to the mission, why can't we know as well? Sai and I are part of this mission too if you haven't noticed." Naruto stared back and switched his angle to face the pale shinobi.
"We are almost at Tenchi Bridge, here's the plan. I will play the part of Sasori, with Kurama's chakra; I can make an unmistakable henge, one that matches voice, looks and some skills. You two will hang 100 meters back, and suppress your chakra the best you can, for this to work, we can't have you detected." Naruto laid out the plans and pointed to the rendezvous spot as well as the hiding locations.
Sakura was still pissed at her mission leader for completely ignoring her plea but nodded her head anyways. Sai keeping his neutral expression nodded. With it all settled, Naruto preformed his oni henge (demon transformation) and walked out of a cloud of smoke as the red haired puppet master.
Tenchi Bridge
A long 100 meter bridge made of wood with two solid red support rails stood over a chasm. This bridge was a major transportation and Trade Bridge but today the bridge held a meeting between two men who would talk of plans and information.
On the eastern entrance that opened to the west stood a fairly tall masculine figure with a deep purple cloak on a hood hid the man's face and hair. Opposite to him was a fairly short man with alabaster white skin and blood red hair. He wore the cloak of the Akatsuki, a neck-high collared cloak that sported red clouds around it's tapestry.
Both figures took steps at each other until they met in the middle. The two stood for a few good minutes, not saying anything, not coughing not even breathing. After a few tense minutes, the hooded man spoke.
"Sasori, you're out of your scorpion. What happened, you are rarely in your living puppet form especially out in the open." The man's voice rung out low and cold; but tingled with a hint of familiarity. The henged Naruto came out with the best on the fly excuse that he prepared before.
"You know me well, but you know I was sent to Suna with that fucking moron Deidara last week to capture and extract the one tailed jinjuriki. But even after a successful capture, we were interrupted during our extraction by the nine tailed jinjuriki and his merry band of Konoha trash. Deidara, being the dumbass he was, decided to take on the Nine tailed gaki and two others and was killed for his arrogance."
The hooded stranger motioned his hands, telling 'Sasori' to get to the point. "Right, well with both Jinjuriki out of reach, I was left to face my grandmother and a pink haired bitch. My scorpion puppet was destroyed in the battle due to my underestimation of my grandmother's skills. That was a mistake I made once, and only once. I cut my losses and fled after defeating my opponents."
The man took a second to take in the information and after a minute he finally looked up and what Naruto saw shocked him to the core, but he kept his resolve.
From the hedges quite a ways away, sat Sakura, who sat on one side of the road while Sai sat in the opposite one. Seeing the purple blob lift its head, Sakura pulled out her binoculars and tried to get a positive ID on the snake's subordinate, but what she saw shocked her as hard as it did Naruto. She dropped her binoculars and put her hand over her mouth.
Sakura's ability to repress her shock was not on Naruto's level, and her chakra quickly spiked. The hooded figure noticed immediately and reached into his coat, appearing to get his information out. But instead of whipping out a scroll, a long katana shimmered out in a vertical arc at the imposter.
Naruto tried his best to evade but to no avail, the Katana slashed the cloak of the Akatsuki member and a big cloud of smoke puffed from the hooded man's adversary. From the smoke, a sharp whistle could be heard, the signal to Sakura and Sai to bring the backup.
The hooded man shucked his cloak leaving his body open to the elements. As the smoke cleared both parties could get a clear view at one another.
"Sasuke?" Naruto's voice was infused with a demonic edge, adding a chill to his voice.
"Hey dobe, how's the hole I put in your chest doing? Trust me I won't fail this time."
It was true, the prodigal son of Konoha, turned traitor, stood in front of team 7. His once onyx eyes now flaring with the three tomoe Sharingan. Sasuke slipped in his stance, ready for any attack. Naruto and Sai followed suit but one pink haired woman stood there.
"Why? Why Sasuke? Why abandon us, we loved you, adored you, fucking kissed the ground at your feet. Why go to that snake teme?" Sakura had her head down, no sadness and depression did not fill her heart, but rage. She was waiting for a well put response but heard laughter instead, laughter coming from her once crush.
"What a stupid question, I left for power, power that could not be gained with you losers holding me back. Now I will soon hold the power to defeat my brother and avenge my fallen kinsmen. Only you, Naruto, can understand my pain of loneliness, of hatred. But now I can see in your eyes, you're different."
"Yes you got something to protect now. Now show me your power of love Naruto! LET ME SHOW YOU HOW HATE GAVE ME POWER!" Naruto acknowledged his rival's words and motioned for Sakura and Sai to back off.
"Naruto-san, is that wise, I mean Sasuke is a wanted missing-nin with an unknown power ranking, you sure you don't require assistance?" Naruto didn't turn only stared at his rival, he then spoke aloud.
"Sai, Sakura, the only you can help is to get the hell away from here, this is going to get messy, but it's gunna be fun as hell!" Sai only nodded as he and Sakura shunshined away.
There they were, to childhood rivals, old friends, staring down one another, hate pulsing through each warrior's veins. Sasuke was still in his serpentine kenjutsu (Sword technique) form. Naruto then crouched with his hands parallel to one another and activated some of Kurama's chakra to elongate his nails to claws. This was the Kitsunesutairu: Akuma no tsume (fox style: demon claws) and he was rearing to use it again.
Sasuke scoffed, "Hmm it seems you still have that fox to cry to, I was hoping to fight you on even terms. Oh well, now it will be that much more satisfying to kill you." Naruto's voice boomed out before Sasuke took a step.
"Be careful Sasuke, I'm not the same Naruto from the Valley of the End. I'm stronger now and through my friendships and hard work, I've mastered one of the most dangerous taijutsu styles on earth. If you come back to Konoha, I can probably save you from the death penalty." Once again Sasuke laughed.
"Baka! You are still as naïve as ever, I don't need forgiveness, or mercy or pity. All I need is power and revenge, and you hold the key to obtaining my power. Now shut up and fight!" Sasuke charged forward at a blistering speed.
Naruto sighed knowing his message was completely disregarded. He then sped forward to meet his advasry head on. The two clashed, Sasuke's katana colliding with the demon chakra making an arm guard on Naruto's forearm. Naruto held the blade in place as he spoke to Sasuke.
"Neat trick huh, it's thanks to that 'fox that I cry to'. Now it's my turn." With that, Naruto jolted his wrist up, knocking the blade out of the onyx haired Uchiha. The blade flew a few meters behind the pair.
Naruto took advantage of the distraction to knee Sasuke in the gut, sending him skidding about 10 meters. Naruto then inhaled deeply and released two balls of concentrated elements. A ball of fire shot out without any hand signs, and with a secondary breath a ball of concentrated wind followed it closely. "Inferunosutairu: Fenikkusuburasuto!" Naruto called out. (Inferno style: Phoenix Blast)
Sasuke, seeing the massive fireball come at him, substituted with a rock in the quarry below them. Once safely on the ground, Sasuke looked at the bridge above him; or at least what was left of it. Cinders and ashes fell from the now destroyed bridge. Sasuke's eyes widened as when he and Naruto first fought in the Valley of the End, it Naruto one tail of power to match him.
"Impressive, well I guess I have to take off the kid gloves now." Sasuke said as the curse mark on his neck glowed; the familiar black tattoos flowed over his body like ink on paper. But Sasuke no longer needed stage one curse mark, no he skipped straight to level two. The Uchiha then tore off his shirt, showing his well-defined torso. As this happened, his skin was now an ashen color.
On the front of Sasuke's visage, was a star shaped curse mark that covered the bridge of his nose and spread out a few inches on either side of his face. The onyx hair that once spiked out straight now grew longer and grew gray streaks as well. But this was nothing in contrast with the two wing-like claws that now jutted out of his back, they like the rest of his body, grew proportionally.
"Now we're talking, let's make this a true rematch, my one tailed state versus your stage two curse mark. Agreed, no more, no less?" Sasuke just "hmph'd" as an affirmative. The two charged at each other again.
A familiar crackle of lightning bathed over Sasuke's hand as he flew at his fox counterpart. 'He's too far for a Chidori, so what's he got up his sleeve?' Naruto got his answer as the Sharingan wielder shouted out "Chidori Eiso" (one thousand birds: sharp spear) A concentrated beam of lightning jutted from the thunder palm of the Uchiha.
Swinging his arm Sasuke aimed to decapitate his opponent with a single swing. Naruto seeing this used his insane speed to dodge the first swipe, but on the second swipe he used his Kitsunerirīsu: Tērufureiru (Fox release: tail flail) to parry the lightning "blade"
Thinking quickly, Naruto faced the final swipe of the Eiso and flew through hand signs, "Fuuton: Kazakama" (Wind release: Wind Scythe [Think of it as a concentrated Daitoppa]) The concentrated burst of wind cut clean through the Chidori Eiso, making it recede to its caster.
Hours were dragging by as each shinobi went through their arsenal; Sasuke hit Naruto with a few Chidori Senbon, Naruto slashed Sasuke's chest with a few Tērufureiru's, Taijutsu battles happened in between each attack and each warrior's stamina was falling.
Naruto and Sasuke stood opposite each other on boulders. Staring into each other's eyes, neither spoke a word. After a mental exchange, both nodded. Naruto summoned a shadow clone and focused an Oni Rasengan, while Sasuke charged a Habataku Chidori (flapping Chidori aka black Chidori).
Once both were charged up Naruto got a heads up, "Hey kit, don't fuck this up, go to hard, you kill him; too soft we die." Naruto mentally nodded and took off towards Sasuke. Sasuke took Naruto's lead, flapping his wings behind him to increase his velocity.
"NARUTO!"
"SASUKE!"
The two ex-friends collided in the center of the quarry. The two men, who were once like brothers stared into each other's eyes. And for the brief second they connected.
As Sasuke swung his hand forward he thought in slow motion, 'Finally the Mangekyou is mine!' The hand flew through flesh and bone and Sasuke smirked. He looked to see the Naruto impaled through the stomach. But as Sasuke smirked, his eyes suddenly burst into pain, blood poured down from his eye sockets, his Sharingan was now here.
But through this searing pain, Sasuke heard Naruto laughing, well more like morbidly chuckling due to the hand through his abdomen. The Uchiha looked through blurry eyes to see the real Naruto holding him in place with the arm that penetrated his gut. But off in the distance saw a rock poof into another clone which stood alongside the clone Naruto summoned earlier, who made another Rasengan.
The snake Sannin's apprentice then saw the shadow clone from earlier charge him, Sasuke struggled but to no avail. Naruto held him in place and whispered, "Oni Rasengan!" the clone that came out of nowhere was now mere inches from Sasuke and slammed the swirling ball of demon chakra into Sasuke's gut, driving him into the ground.
The hand now vacated Naruto's gut, Sasuke laid unconscious on the ground bleeding from multiple orifices, but he was alive. Naruto sighed as he checked his rival's pulse. With his last breaths, and remaining chakra, Naruto whistled to Sakura and Sai, who promptly leapt into the destroyed quarry.
Sakura immediately sent Sai off to retrieve the medical corps while she stabilized the two in front of her. Sai nodded, and his lips slightly twitched at the emotion displayed by the two members of team Kakashi, 'They went to all this length to get the Uchiha. Why? Is this what the books call friendship? What is this feeling in the pit of my stomach?' Questions flew internally of Sai as he booked it for Konoha,
As the pink medic put one green aura covered hand over each man, she silently prayed for them to live. Naruto regained consciousness first and looked at Sasuke, with a raspy voice he called out, "That, that is the power of kindness and forgiveness." Naruto then fell into the black again.
"HURRY SHISHO, I CAN'T HOLD ON MUCH LONGER!"
And scene
-Let me know how my action scene was, as well as criticisms (both positive and negative).
-Like I said Sasuke would be here and I delivered, the Konoha 12 plus Sai are here.
-Speaking of Sai, I will attempt to draw out his character more as the story progresses.
-Now all the teen relationships (except SasuSaku are covered) the Jounin are on deck, Hehehe.
-I apologize for the lack of Kurama talk, the next Arc will have a lot more of him. (Promises)
and those who guessed it right, Matatabi will be his mate.
NEXT ARC
-THE DEMON ARC
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