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Chapter 25 The Final Battle

***Sakura's POV***

I had received the word about the fight from Naruto, who had come to find me. We raced to the heart of the village together, fighting our way through the whole time. It seemed the enemy ninja was everywhere. There were so many of them. There were so many dead bodies aligning the streets, both friends and enemies.

"We've got to help out everyone we come across," Naruto stated the obvious as he blocked an oncoming kunei that was aimed at me.

As Naruto fought the shinobi, I looked around. I was only searching for one person: Sasuke. He was the single most important person to me. I knew he was ok. He was one of the best ninja in the village. I knew in my head that he was ok, but my heart would be worried until I saw him safe with my own eyes. Lightning cracked, and rain pelted us. It made it so much harder to see, and more difficult to move about.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Kira a few yards away dressed in all black. Not really her usual style, but it was her nonetheless. "Naruto! It's Kira! That means Sasuke's around here somewhere!" He was never far from her side. As much as I hated to admit it, they were attached at the hip.

But then, I saw whom she was fighting, and I was utterly shocked. My mouth dropped open and I was unable to say anything. Why was she attacking Sasuke? I shook my head. It couldn't be what we were seeing. Something wasn't right. I just knew it. It just couldn't be her.

"What is she doing?" Naruto asked the same question I was just pondering as he came to my side, out of breath from his little spar. The body lay on the ground motionless.

I shook my head. "I don't know. Come on, we need to go find out." I took off towards the two of them, Naruto right behind me. We dodged through the many fights taking place. I felt horrible for not stopping to help, but I had to know.

"It's probably someone impersonating the other to get at their weak spot," Naruto tried to assure me. I had thought of that scenario as well.

I wished I was as sure as he was, but I had a sinking feeling that that wasn't the real reason. There was something fishy going on here, and I was determined to figure out what it was. We raced towards Sasuke as fast as we could, but enemies kept blocking our path, inhibiting us from reaching our destination.

We were about fifty yards away when Kira cut Sasuke across the face with her kunei. All time seemed to stop for me. Sasuke was bleeding! He was begging with her, just as everyone around us were reaching out, begging for us to help them. Sasuke wasn't fighting as hard as he could, which meant that that was the real Kira. He didn't want to hurt her, though it was clear that she wanted to hurt him.

Kara and Itachi's army were ruthless, merciless murderers. We didn't stand a chance. The strongest one out of all of us was Kira, and she was against us. What had caused the sudden switch? Or, had she been evil all along and was able to fool us twice? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I saw the rest of the Genin fighting off enemies, all working with their squad. Neji, Tenten, and Lee. Shino, Hinata, and Kiba. Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji. All of them risking their lives to protect the village. And here was Kira fighting against her own team. I shook my head; a migraine was beginning to form, but I pushed through the pain. I had to help Sasuke. I was not about to let him succumb to Kira's awesome power.

"Sasuke! Watch out!" I cried as I raced in front of him to block Kira's next blow. Kira's hand was coming down fast with a sharp kunei aimed at my shoulder. Shutting my eyes tightly, I waited for the sharp pain. Opening one eye, I saw Naruto kick Kira away from us.

"What do you think you're doing?" Naruto demanded of Kira as he landing in front of Sasuke and I. His hands were in tight fists at his side, and his whole body seemed to tremble with anger as he glared at our ex-teammate.

"Sasuke, are you alright?" I knelt down at his side, looking his wounds over. There were so many slashes and bruises lining his exposed skin. It hurt me to see him in this light. This wasn't the Sasuke that was bent on being the best. This was the Sasuke who had given up. He was surrendering, but I wasn't about to let that happen.

Sasuke's eyes were void of anything but pain and hurt. Kira, who was the love of his life, was trying to kill him, and he couldn't come up with any reason to have warranted it. It had to be eating him up inside. He had gone pale, and it seemed he had lost all the will to fight.

I glanced up at Kira. Her face was contorted in anger, and her eyes were darker, as if possessed, and hallow. She was standing with her arms crossed her chest, holding a kunei up to her mouth, tapping it back and forth lightly to her head.

Sasuke pushed me away and stood up.

"Come now Naruto. You don't think that you have what it takes to defeat me, do you? I am stronger than any ANBU, than any Shinobi you have ever faced. You can't even beat Sasuke. What makes you believe you can beat me?" I noticed that her voice was different. It was deeper, darker somehow.

"I have a reason to fight. Not like you who is fighting just for the mere pleasure of it all!" Naruto was fuming.

Kira only shrugged, as lightning lit up the sky behind her. "Hey, we all have our little guilty pleasures in life. Mine just happens to be killing. What can I say?" She acted as though we were talking about a health nut who had snuck a piece of chocolate. It was as though this wasn't even that big of a deal.

"You're weak!" Naruto shouted.

Kira raised an eyebrow. "Weak? Me? There is only one jutsu I need, and it alone will kill any and all in my path!" she laughed her evil, cynical laugh. I shuddered. "Not that my other jutsu don't help."

"Blah, blah, blah. Quit bragging about yourself and prove how powerful you actually are!" Naruto challenged, taking a step forward.

What was Naruto thinking? Kira had immense power that we all had witnessed before. She would kill him without a seconds thought. Her arsenal of Jutsu was one of the most powerful I had ever seen, and here was Naruto basically asking for his death sentence. I knew Naruto wasn't the smartest kid in the world, but this confused me. What was he doing?

As if reading my mind, Sasuke shouted, "Naruto, what are you thinking? She can turn your brain to mush!"

"Not to mention read your every thought to know what move you'll make before you even do it," Kira added, sneering. "You don't think that I don't know you're going to try and do a shadow clone jutsu? It won't help." She did some rapid hand signs. I recognized the signs and knew what was coming.

"Naruto! She's going to paralyze you!" I warned.

"Too late!" Kira smirked. "Mind Paralyzing Jutsu!"

Naruto, who had made his clones in time, suddenly stopped moving, along with all ten of his clones, all of whom were surrounding her. All he could do was move his eyes around. All he could do was watch her.

She laughed again as thunder sounded, only adding to the effect, and moved to her left, taking out a kunei. Walking up to one of the many Narutos, she held the kunei to his throat. "Even without the Sharingan, I know which one is you." She leaned in real close as she spoke.

"Naruto!" I cried jumping to my feet. I ran towards him. I needed to help him; I was not about to let one of my friends die. I had to do something, anything to get Kira away from him.

Sasuke raced in front of me and slapped Kira's hand from Naruto's neck with his arm. "I can't let you do this. It's not you!" he shouted at her, trying to bring the Kira we had all known and trusted back through.

She faced Sasuke with no fear. "Ya, like you knew me so well." I winced, as that probably had cut deep into his very soul. Kira really didn't seem to care whom she hurt or how badly she did so. It was all about her. She was a completely different person.

"I know the real Kira wouldn't attack her friends or treat us this way," Sasuke told her, taking a step forward, as if challenging her.

***Sasuke's POV***

"Ya, well, maybe you didn't know me as well as you thought." Kira did more rapid hand signs in a blink of an eye. Suddenly, I couldn't move. Sakura had also frozen. That paralyzing jutsu; there was no way for us to get around it. I couldn't stop that jutsu, she was just way too powerful. She had proved numerous times that she was stronger than I. How was I going to stop her?

Kira walked in front of me. She took out a kunei and made me watch as she stabbed both Naruto and Sakura in the chest before stabbing me and leaving the kunei in my chest. Naruto and Sakura fell to the ground, unconscious. They were loosing too much blood. However, Kira didn't hit them in any major arteries or organs, so she didn't kill them.

She did more hand signs. "I copied this from Kakashi. I thought it a fitting end for you three," she told me, still smirking. It was as though the smirk was permanently plastered on her face. She had probably gotten that from hanging out with me for so long.

Gasping for breath through the pain, I watched as the chidori formed in her hand. If it hit us, we were as good as dead. I tried to move, but her Jutsu was firmly in place. It was a weird sensation to not be able to move my body; I don't think I could even describe it.

She pulled her arm back before putting every ounce of her strength into descending it towards my head. I closed my eyes and waited for the inevitable, but it didn't come. Opening my eyes, I saw Kakashi push the chidori bearing arm away from his body and ours.

"Kakashi-sensei, well, this should to be a treat," Kira sneered. "The student surpassing the teacher. Prepare yourself for the end."

"Kira, listen to yourself. This isn't you. Kara is manipulating you!" Kakashi told her as the rain continued to pelt down on us. It was as if it was a sign this would never end. Lightning flashed in the background giving Kira and ominous look.

"Kakashi, Kakashi. This is coming from the man who never trusted me from the get go-not that I don't blame you. I had you all fooled, and because of your blindness, I did it again," she stretched her arms out as the rain slid down the sides of her face. "The village will fall, as will you, by my hand. I am the strongest Shinobi in all the land. No one can stop me!" Again with the menacing laugh.

Without another word, she lunged at Kakashi, with a kick to his face, which sent him flying backwards, but he landed gracefully on his feet. They fought with Tai-jutsu, and slowly moved away from us. Kakashi was holding his own, though he was receiving quite a beating.

I found I could control only my arms. I pulled the kunei out of my chest, wincing from the pain, and knew that Kakashi was distracting her so I could have one shot at hitting her in the heart to stop this whole ordeal. I had to kill Kira.

"Sasuke, now!" Kakashi yelled when he realized Kira had started doing the hand signs to paralyze me again. She had to have read his mind. Kakashi was unable to stop her from finishing the hand signs because she was dodging him with ease.

Concentrating, yet losing focus because in my heart, I didn't want to kill her, I threw the kunei a second before I was paralyzed again. The kunei hit her in her shoulder three inches from where I had wanted to hit her.

Kakashi, distracted by her screaming, was not prepared for her to rip the kunei out of her flesh and plunge it into his chest. She twisted it around, adding more pain to the ordeal. With a kick to the head, he was out cold.

Kira started laughing so evilly that I shuddered. She was no longer the same person; she was a complete stranger to me. Nothing was the same anymore. She walked over to me with another kunei in her hand. She knelt down to my level and placed the cold metal against my neck.

"Say hello to my parents for me," she whispered into my ear.

I closed my eyes and waited for her to slash my throat, but I only felt the kunei tremble. Opening one eye, I saw that her eyes had reverted back to normal and she was trying to stop herself from killing me. Blinking, I focused both eyes on her. She was being possessed and had finally found the strength to fight back.

"Kira? I know you can hear me. You aren't a killer. You aren't your sister. Don't do this," I pleaded, looking deep into her eyes, forcing her to look into mine.

She shut her eyes as she struggled to pull the kunei back. "Sasuke," she managed to choke out in a voice that was barely audible. Whomever was controlling her had a strong hold, and she was unable to fight all the way through it.

"Kira, Kira, Kira. Tsk, tsk, tsk," Kara shook her head, appearing behind Kira out of no where, and stepped behind Kira. "When will you stop being so weak? If you won't kill him, then I will make you." she did some hand signs and Kira's eyes turned black and narrowed. She glared at me with new found hatred.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked, understanding now what was truly going on, "What did I ever do to you?"

"It's not you, per say. Itachi and I just want to finish the job we started and kill everyone in our family. It will be only us," Kara put her hands on her hips with an innocent smile that seemed out of place on her face.

I could sense that Naruto and Sakura finally came to, but were still under Kira's control. They stayed quiet and could only watch the events unfold.

I continued, "So, you're just using her? You'll kill her as soon as she kills us?" I asked.

"Now, you're understanding," Kara nodded.

"It's just an act out of cowardice," I shook my head. "You're afraid if you don't control her, she'll be able to destroy you."

She shrugged. "Just taking extra precautions. We'll see who's cowardly in a minute. Now, Kira, finish him!"

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