So now it has come to this. Personally, I think it's gonna be tough writing an epic battle scene between Spiderman and Sasuke; even though the fact that it's gonna be fun picturing an annoyed Sasuke fighting a wisecracking Spiderman helps big time. And I'm also sorry to say that I forgot to write the Jutsu Description part of the story. Sorry, I'll be making up for it in this chapter.

Oh yeah, recommended songs for this fight chapter: Blue by Vivid and/or American Eyes- The Girl with the Broken Heart (By the Way).

Don't ask why; just listen to them while reading, and you'll get the sensation.

Naruto: What's with the cranky attitude?
Me: I'm writing this in the middle of a test week. How do you suppose my attitude should be?
Naruto: Gee, no need to get all Sasuke on me.

Also, to note; I realize some of the readers are expecting Spiderman's bijuu cloak. I thought about that as well, that is until I came up with a dramatical (somewhat) error.
There I was thinking, 'Hey, if I give Spiderman an ordinary bijuu cloak, won't that be boring?'
Thing is, bijuu cloak is Kishi-sensei's idea. If I continue picking up his trail of breadcrumbs, I might as well just write what he drew. And that means I'm piggybacking his work (not to say I'm currently not; writing a fanfiction and all).

So Spiderman+bijuu cloak= no go. Pfft, big deal. I have another idea in mind.
Also, I realized Spiderman's version of Rasengan, Rasraichi, had a name that was pretty much untranslateable. I tried it in Google Translate, but the translation of Rasraichi would be: S from Lychee. Shit.

So I'm going to change its name, but at the meantime I haven't figured out a new name for it. So I'm going to let it as it is for now. There's a lot of changes I wanted to make, but first, I want to finish this story.

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-BOBOBO (Did I get it right? Eheh): I see. Yes, my writing was a wreck when I started writing this story. Me being an amateur writer and all. I'll go back on repairing those earlier chapters later after I finish up this story, though.

Disc,: I don't own Naruto. Yes, that's the truth and no, I'm not in the state of denial.

xoxoxo

Chapter 24

Cloudy With the Chance of Lightning Strikes

Spiderman took a deep breath, focusing all of his attention to the opponent he was facing. He could not kid himself, this time. Sasuke is not a pushover, that much he knew. Even his spider-sense kept reminding him of that.

Okay, while it's true that the element of surprise was his because Sasuke didn't know anything about him, the same could be said vice versa because other than the info he gathered in Konoha, Spiderman didn't know anything about Sasuke, either.

'No. I can't make excuses at times like these.' He thought, steeling himself for what was to come. 'None of the others are in any shape to fight right now. Sakura might look okay, but I doubt I would be able to fight while protecting her as well.'

Sasuke smirked smugly, "It seems that you could entertain me a little. Let's see how well you fare."

"Then by all means," The masked hero raised his palm with the back facing Sasuke, taunting him, "Come and try me."

Suddenly, Sasuke stabbed his sword through the ground he was standing on. Then his hands blurred in a set of hand seals. His hands stopped on the Tiger seal before he let out a breath of four flaming projectiles, "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu)!"

Spiderman fell backwards off of the pole-like boulder he was standing on just as the soccer ball-sized fireballs whizzed in front of his face. As he fell, he threw four shurikens towards Sasuke, hoping at least one to make a hit.

Unfortunately, his Sharingan already saw it coming. Sasuke pulled his Kusanagi blade off of the ground and sliced the two first shurikens into two, while dodging the other two by flipping to the side narrowly missing them.

Spiderman snarled, "Damn. He's quick on his feet." His eyes widened as he saw that when Sasuke dodged the shurikens he flicked his left hand to the side, throwing some kind of miniscule projectiles to him. By instinct, he countered all of the Chidori Senbon with his impact webs, effectively sealing every electric needles in a cocoon of web. Deciding that long-range attacks won't get him anywhere, Spiderman jumped high towards Sasuke, his fist ready to strike.

Sasuke dodged the first punch with a slight tilt of the head, while blocking a kick following it afterwards. He countered with several fast jabs and a jumping side kick aimed to Spiderman's head. Spiderman blocked his jabs while ducking under the side kick. He did an uppercut aimed to Sasuke's chin which was the dark-haired Uchiha jumped away from.

What happened between the two was seen not more than a blur of colors to the other ninjas present there. Not one of them dared to interfere the fight (except maybe Naruto, if he wasn't paralyzed) seeing that the speed they're going at was at a whole other level.

Sasuke stared scrunitizingly at his costume-wearing opponent, curious as to why his attack didn't connect. What's more confusing was although his Sharingan already predicted Spiderman's movements, he could feel that his own movements was already predicted. The only explanation was that this lame-excuse-of-a-joke had the ability to use Sharingan, but that's impossible seeing the only other person able to use Sharingan was Kakashi and his brother, who were both not here.

And no matter how he hated him, Sasuke would never accuse Itachi of having a hideous sense of fashion.

"I'm impressed. You seem to be able to keep up with my movements, even though my Sharingan is active." Sasuke said arrogantly, trying to veil his curiosity. Spiderman laughed, which irked the Uchiha a bit. "Oh, you think that's impressive? Well, then, the next one," He raised both of his fists in front of him in a boxer's stance, "will be shocking."

Spiderman's fists ignited in lightning, a glove of light encompassing both of his hands. A shocked look passed Sasuke's face, which quickly disappeared as Spiderman too disappear from his sight.

'His body-flicker is faster than I thought.' Sasuke mused. Thankfully for him, his Sharingan was active. There's no way he wouldn't be able to read Spiderman's move coming.

Fact was, his prideful eyes only registered Spiderman's move just when his fist was a mere foot from his face, coming in from his left. He turned slightly, dodging the incoming fist as well as countering with a stab of his sword. 'He's fast, but it seems he still can't see where he's going.' As if in slow motion, the sword inched its way to Spiderman's abdomen, "You're finished!"

However, Sasuke is no psychic. His statement was proven wrong in every sense when Spiderman's left fist moved to intercept the blade. His wrist instinctively flicked inwards, causing a miracle to happen. A sword portruted from Spiderman's lightning-gloved knuckles, blocking Sasuke's Kusanagi before it reached his abdomen. In turn, Sasuke's eyes widened once more in shock. Spiderman launched an unexpected right hook which made Sasuke flew back a few feet back, falling down to the rubbles.

All of the audience's attention—including Spiderman himself—were on Spiderman's sword coming out of his left knuckle. No, that would be incorrect. On closer inspection, the "sword" was more of a blade seeing that it was only the blade part that came out rather than the sword as a whole. Also, it came out from his outer wrist.

Spiderman checked his newly discovered power like a nine-year old, "Freaking awesome! A blade of lightning? Now you're talking!" He paused, then he grinned as he concentrated on his right knuckles. Electric sparks ran along Spiderman's right arm before another lightning saber shot out. "Aaww Yeaah! Double-time!"

Yamato squinted at the lightning sabers (I refuse to call it "lightning blade" since that's Kakashi's jutsu, Raikiri), "I see. So it's a chakra blade made from his lightning chakra. That's why Spiderman was able to block Sasuke's sword."

"So only a chakra blade can hold Sasuke's sword?" Sakura questioned curiously, her amazement of Spiderman's new technique obviously evident.

Yamato nodded at her, "Assuming Sasuke instilled his own chakra into his sword, I guess that would be the case."

"Katon:..."

An explosion erupted from where Sasuke was thrown to. Spiderman snapped towards the direction of the explosion when suddenly his spider-sense rang. "Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu)!" Sasuke let out a breath of flames which shot towards Spiderman in the shape of a humongous fireball. Out of reflex, he jumped over the fireball, meeting Sasuke head-on in a saberlock. Even though Spiderman has two blades versus Sasuke's single Kusanagi, there's no showing progress from both sides. Both pushed against each other in midair until Sasuke gained the upper hand and kicked Sasuke in the chest sending him falling down to the ground.

Spiderman grunted as he caught the blow in his chest, his momentum turned against him and he fell to the ground with a thud. His double lightning sword, Souten, had cancelled as he rolled.

'Damn. It's almost as if all of my movements are crystal clear to him.'

A booming sound replied his thought, 'It's because it is, kid. That Sharingan is one annoying piece of ability; able to read muscle tensions in one's body to determine what his next movement is going to be. In a sense, it works almost similiar like your spider-sense.'

'Damn. That means counterattack would be next to no good. Almost feels like fighting Venom all over again.' Spiderman thought. He clicked his tongue in annoyance. At least it didn't seem that Sasuke was going for the kill, just yet. The masked hero brought his hands into a cross-shape hand seal.

If he couldn't win with himself alone, maybe he should duplicate himself.

Multiple shadow clones appeared around the battle ground. Sasuke looked around to find several clones behind him too, and smirked, "Hoo...you copied the dobe's favorite jutsu? Not bad, but still it won't be enough. You can't beat quality with quantity, moreso if all of these clones are replication of one weak person."

"You talk too much, you know that?" All the clones said in unison. Some of them cracked their knuckles for intimidation, "How about less talk, more action? You'll need to work your legs rather than your fat tongue."

No reply was needed as all the clones charged at Sasuke; the ones from the upper ridge jumping down and ignited their fist in lightning intending to give their duck-haired target hell. All of them grinned devillishly as they neared Sasuke.
Sasuke's eyes registered all of their movements, and in one quick move coupled with several short body-flicker he slashed through the crowd, avoiding their fist as if their as clear as sunlight. He spun his body and slashed another clone upwards, said clone then poofed out of existence.

Another one came, followed by two of his doppelganger. In turn, Sasuke dashed forward himself with his sword poised out to stab. The two of Spiderman clones behind the first one flung a single kunai each, aiming to hit Sasuke when the clone in front of them disappear.
Sasuke, however, saw through their plan and did a front flip. In process of the front flip, he managed to slash the first clone and dodged the previous kunais. The two clones were caught off-guard, which resulted in Sasuke cutting them in half with one side slash as he landed.

A 'thwip' sound, he heard. Next thing happened, the tip of his sword was covered in web.
There's one clone holding the webline so Sasuke couldn't move his blade. Another four came from all around him and attacked. Through the sight of his Sharingan, Sasuke saw the clones pre-movements and, seeing no other way out, opted to cancel all the clones. He gathered his chakra, turned it into lightning in terms of element, and shot it outwards, "Chidori Nagashi!" The charging clones were hit full force by the lightning bolts. The one holding the webline also poofed out after getting hit by the area attack.

The Uchiha's scarlet eyes scanned around. More of the clones seem to gather around, and they just kept charging. 'If I finish them one by one, I'll be open for a mass attack...' He thought. An idea popped in his mind, and he sheathed his sword before his hand made three hand seals. 'Might as well finish them all with one blow.'

Now, it's Sasuke's turn to ignite his left hand with lightning. His favorite one-hit K.O jutsu, "Chidori (Thousand Birds)!"

As the clones descended, Sasuke blurred out of sight. When he reappeared next was when he was plunging his electrified left hand into a clones stomach and dashed away charging another clone.

The process repeated several time until the clones were all turned into white puffs of smoke. For once, he had to break a sweat. Not even Orochimaru's lackeys—he prefer to call them punching bags—were this much of a challenge.

His Sharingan did a quick scan to search for his opponent. He saw black about 9 feet in front of him covered in smoke. He smirked as he dashed forward and stabbed the black target.
Which was not Spiderman. Apparently, all Sasuke had stabbed was his black jacket.

"Try this on for quality!" Sasuke heard Spiderman yelled, and followed the voice which came from above him. He also saw black, but this time Spiderman's whole costume was black. What happened with him, Sasuke didn't know. But he knew that the transformation couldn't be just for show. Along with Spiderman's yell, he also heard the all-too-familiar friction in the air. He looked at Spiderman's right hand, and he was right.

'Even the Rasengan?'

Spiderman's Rasraichi cleared away the smoke previously enveloping the area in a spiralling gust of wind, "Rasraichi!"

THOOOM!

The ground shook as the Rasraichi made contact. The smoke cleared out completely and a pillar of black smoky substance was visible from where Spiderman was.

Naruto for once was relieved, somewhat, that the attack was succesful. He didn't witness for himself when did Spiderman did the Black Tarantula takeover, but he was glad the webhead did. Not even Sasuke could dodge a powered-up Rasraichi like that.

But he couldn't be sure himself, "Did he get him?"

Sakura's eyes were the first one to see what happened that it was taking a long time for both fighting ninjas to make any noise, "I couldn't see them clearly but—"

Suddenly, her eyes caught sight of the black-clad Spiderman (save for his red-blue jeans) with his right hand on the broken ground. But Sasuke was nowhere to be seen. "Where is Sasuke?" Sakura voiced out, knowing full well that no one other than the man in question know where he was.

Spiderman, for his part, was stunned. He was so sure that his Rasraichi hit Sasuke right on the face, but...

'Just...what the hell happened?'

Suddenly a voice resounded, "I'm impressed. I didn't know the dobe also taught you the Rasengan. Not bad, though that's still a carbon copy of the original," A scoff, then the voice, now recognized as Sasuke's, continued, "However, no matter what ninjutsu you master, there's no hope of hitting me once you stare into my eyes."

Yamato though what Sasuke said. A moment later, his face enlightened, "It can't be...Genjutsu?"

True, while Spiderman was strong in both Taijutsu and Ninjutsu, his experience with Genjutsu was non-existent. What Sasuke actually did seconds before the Rasraichi hit him was to execute a quick genjutsu; one with the intention of misplacing Spiderman's timing, therefore making Spiderman's aim miss the Uchiha. He himself fled away from Spiderman to hide.

"Now...my turn." Sasuke said as he suddenly appeared some feet away from Spiderman. The spider-sense caught his presence and alerted Spiderman, "So there you ar-!" With a blinding speed, Sasuke appeared again in front of him and sent strong fist to Spiderman's stomach knocing the air out of him. Spiderman saw stars dancing around his eyes, even when Sasuke did a follow-up attack; another punch to his stomach, a knee to the same place rising Spiderman off the ground and a kick to Spiderman's jaw that sent him flying upwards and away.

Pain coursed through Spiderman's body, the source of the pain being his beaten stomach. As his forced flight lost its momentum, the Avenger member fell downwards. His face was turned towards Sasuke, glaring painfully through the mask at him. He blinked once, and when he opened his eyes Sasuke was in front of him again staring back at him with the blood-red Sharingan. The eyes under the web-motived mask widened in shock. 'How...?'

Sasuke's move was faster than Spiderman could follow. The dark-haired Uchiha reared his left fist and launched a crunching full-body jab that sent Spiderman away crashing into a wall and through it. As if getting the message, the wall caved in and buried him in a pile of rubble.

"...Squashed one bug." Sasuke said smugly. That punch should take care of that masked meddler. He counted at least four of his ribs already caved in. And if that's not good enough, his attack would render that man immobile for some time. All that was left were the other Konoha ninjas.

Naruto's POV

Just like that, Spiderman was beaten. I can't believe it, but it just happened.

I've always thought of him as strong as hell. I mean, Spiderman never shown any of his weaknesses. Not once; he always comes out of a fight a winner. In the Chuunin exams, the fight against Hanabi. Heck, Yamato-taichou even told me that that web-shooting idiot was able to fight me in my deranged four-tailed cloak when I went berserk before.

He's not weak. He never is. A guy who can take a beating like it was nothing can't be weak.

Then...is Sasuke that strong already?

"It seems...your last hope has failed you." I heard Sasuke said. I stared at him blankly, knowing he's right. If not even Spiderman could beat Sasuke, who else can fight him?

I saw Yamato-taichou step in between us. His face looked tense, if not rigid. His hands inched its way to the kunai pocket on his right knee, "He's not our last hope. And he certainly didn't fail." The kunai finally retracted from his pouch, Yamato-taichou set his fighting stance. "Fighting Spiderman must've taken a lot out of you. And I won't hold back on you.

"Naruto, Sakura, Sai, you three take Spiderman and get out of here. I'll deal with Sasuke myself."

Now, that's just bullshit.

"What?"

"You heard me the first time, Naruto. Now hurry, Spiderman needs medical attention!"

"Yamato-taichou, we won't leave!"

"This is not a request, Sakura, I'm ordering you as your captain! Now hurry!" Yamato-taichou...I thought I've already seen his scary face before. Now I might take that back. There was a dark taint to his face...guess what he said about taking care of Sasuke himself was no joke at all. Other than that, though, he seemed scared, too. Not of Sasuke, rather, he's scared for us his subordinates.

"Don't you understand the situation? This is not the time to be playing hero! We got one team member down, all of us are in no condition to fight, and there's still a missing-nin as an opponent."

My eyes averted to Sakura-chan. I saw her there, trembling. No idea what's the cause of her trembling; she might be angry, I know as much. But no, by the way she was biting her lip like that, I know she was trying to hold in her tears.
It hurts me, seeing her in the verge of breaking down like that. I wish I could do something but...I don't wanna hurt her again.

It's all because of Sasuke. It always is. He's the reason Sakura always cry. I've always hoped that Teme would come back with us willingly, but why should he always hurt Sakura-chan? Doesn't he know she loves him? I promised her I'm going to bring him back to Konoha, to her.

But, now, my comrade was beaten half to death, my team captain cleaning up MY mess, and the girl I like...love...was hurting.
Yamato-taichou is trying to take the responsibility of fighting Sasuke, but where does he comes in in all of this?

This is...this is...

"Yamato-taichou..." He turned to face me, but his focus was still on Sasuke. I looked straight at his eyes, hoping my feelings would be seen. "I'll be dealing with Sasuke."

His eyes widen, then he turned his back on me saying, "Naruto, I won't say it thrice if I can. I already told you, I'M dealing with Sasuke."

"But Sasuke's not YOUR responsibility!"

I could feel the eyes of my two teammates boring on my back. Frankly, I don't know what I'm saying myself, "You're not Sasuke's teammate! How would you know how it feels when a friend of yours leaves the village and turned into a missing-nin? You didn't train your ass off every night and day just to get stronger and bring him back, and...!"

I...I don't know what I'm doing. Here I am, yelling at my team captain for my own personal selfishness. My teammates must be looking at me questioningly at my back. A comrade has fallen...my comrade, and all I'm doing was to yell at my captain.

And Sakura-chan would still be crying because of Sasuke. "You didn't promise to bring him back to Konoha!"

I don't know since when was all eyes were on me. Heck, even Sasuke listened in to my rant. I heard a choked gasp behind me. I knew it was Sakura-chan from the voice; it's hard not to notice it. What I said...I didn't mean it for her, but I don't know if it hurt her as well.

"Sasuke...he's..."

In truth, I don't know if it would be better if I didn't say anything at all. In the end, I probably should've known I'd die trying to do what I was meant to do since that day two and a half years ago. Honestly, I don't know what I should do to stop those tears I saw falling from Sakura-chan's eyes all those years ago. I don't know what should I believe in anymore.

'-With great power, comes great responsibility. That's my nindo.-' It rang in my head; Spiderman's nindo. I don't know what I should do, but I know what I shouldn't do.
I can't let him get away again.

"My responsibility!"

As Yamato-taichou stared at me in a confusing way, I don't know whether what I say was right or not. I guess I wouldn't care if it wasn't.

I heard a shuffling sound from behind me. The person came to my left side, with such a comforting aura I feel myself getting lighter. Sakura-chan.

"I told you, we're getting him back together." She said, her tone was one of when she was joking, but her words weren't jokes. "He's my teammate...my responsibility, too."

The person behind me moved to my right side, standing with me shoulder to shoulder. Honestly, I expected nothing less from him, but it still surprise me that he was also beside me. Sai.

"Sasuke can't be handled alone. I think you know that, Taichou. More importantly, if my teammates stay, I will too. I, for one, won't abandon them." He said, smiling. It was similar to the fake ones he used days ago, but this one held some emotions I felt familiar with.

Yamato-taichou looked us in curiosity. I swear I could see a spark of amusement in his eyes.

"Hmph. If the subordinates are pumped up, I guess it won't do if the captain isn't, huh?" He said. I took that as a 'go ahead'.

I felt myself filled with multiple emotions, all of them warming my body. I strained not to laugh happily even though I'm so giddy inside. How can I not be? I'm so glad that my team is filled with faithful people.

Then, I heard a chuckle. It was Sasuke, and his chuckle is anything but happy. It's that dark kind of chuckle that he must've inherited from Orochimaru; it sends chills running down my spine. "I can't believe you all could still argue when your death is just a breath away. Got to hand it to you Konoha ninjas."

I looked at him straight in the eye, not caring about the fact that his Sharingan could put me under Genjutsu again, "Sasuke, we won't leave unless you come back with us. And I won't take no as an answer!" I ignored my trembling hands as I balled them into fists.

He closed his eyes. From my place, he would seem like sighing. I don't know what's the reason for that; probably he's trying to say yes, and he felt tired about all this. That's just a misplaced dream, though.

His eyes opened. At that time, I could see it all; the anger, pain, disappointment, but most of all...

"Keep dreaming, Dobe."

His killer intent.

He flash-stepped towards us. First he went after Yamato-taichou with his blade poised to attack. Even though Yamato-taichou fought back, he barely stood a chance as Sasuke's sword made its way to his shoulder again after it cut through his Wood Style jutsu. Yamato-taichou fell as the sword went through him, and a kick from Sasuke made sure that he's not getting up anytime soon.

Next was Sai. He summoned out several of his ink lions which tried to restrain Sasuke's movements. Sadly, though, the Teme used his Chidori Nagashi and beat the lions into pulp, literally. He charged forward and made a sideway slash at Sai. He ducked, and rolled when Sasuke tried to kick him. I wanted to help, but when Sai shot a glance at me I could almost see him saying not to interfere.

That one glance took some precious seconds, and Sasuke hit Sai's head with his sword's hilt. Sai groaned before blacking out and fell to the ground.

Then, Sasuke laid his eyes on me. His eyes looked almost predatory, glaring at me with that blood-red tint in them. He stepped forward, then he broke into a run closing in on me quickly. I reacted much more slower than I would've liked. The best I could do was to make shadow clones, since my kunai wouldn't be to much of a help in a fight against chakra-laden swords like Sasuke's. I thought, at least with the number of my clones I could at least slow him down and prepare for Rasengan.

What happened, though, was that Sasuke slashed his way through my clones like their made of paper. One by one, my clones fell. And by the time all of them dissipated I haven't even completed my Rasengan. I saw a glimmer of silver flying towards me and tilted my head out of instinct. 'That's...his sword!' Sasuke tried to impale me with his sword just now.

I was too taken in by the fact that I was just a breath away from death to realize Sasuke charging towards me with his Chidori. And by the time I looked back at him, I had no time to jump away.

It was then that I felt a tug on my collar and was thrown back with a heave. I scraped along the ground and, as I opened my eyes again, I saw Sakura-chan in front of me. Her legs weren't touching the ground, and her arms are bent like she was holding something in front of her. Sasuke was choking her.

"Hoo...to think you would sacrifice yourself for the Dobe. I'm surprised, Sakura." I heard Sasuke said. There was no remorse in his voice. It's as if he thought that it wasn't wrong that he was choking Sakura-chan. "I guessed we all changed, huh?"

Sakura-chan tried to speak up, but it ended in a strangled cough, "Naruto...ugh, run—kah!"

"I didn't say that you can talk, Sakura." Sasuke said coldly as his right hand which was choking Sakura moved to the side so I can see them fully. So that I can see him choking her; so that I can see her writhing face, her painful expression. 'Why?' was the only thing I could think. 'She loves you, damnit!'

"You're annoying as ever. I think I'll kill you in front of the dead-last, so he'll understand," his left hand ignited in lightning again, "I'm not to be trifled with."

I froze. He's not serious, is he? He's not really going to kill Sakura-chan, right?

But as his left hand moved towards Sakura-chan's chest, I felt my mind breaking down. All of my barrier blown open, the shock coursing through my body like a broken dam. Heat flared inside me. Heat like nothing before. Rage.

"NOOO!" I won't let him hurt her!

I stretched out my hand towards the bastard, and I was more relieved than surprised to find red, clawed chakra hand shooting towards Sasuke. He was too shocked to do anything, and was struck with the full impact of my chakra fist. He let go of Sakura-chan as he flew back a couple of meters. She fell, and I find myself staggering forward to catch her.

I caught her. I had her in my arms and looked at her tear-stricken face. She had passed out. My heart broke, like it always did when I saw her cry. "It's okay, it's okay. I'm here, it's okay." I said, chanting it like a spell to ward of the darkness Sasuke nearly put into her.

I heard some crumbling noise in front me where Sasuke crashed. I flinched as I saw something I'd rather didn't see, ever again.

Sasuke's face was covered with a shape of artistic flame-shaped tattoos, and it was growing fast. He activated his curse seal. "It seems...I've underestimated you again, Naruto."

As the tatoos took over him, he takes on a whole different form. His skin darkened; the skin tone began to turn greyish. A cross-shaped tattoo appears on his nose and trailed to the side under his eyes. Where his eyes were white, now was black. His hair grew longer and turned white, and a pair of hand-like wings sprouted from his back. This is Sasuke's curse seal form.

I instinctively held Sakura-chan tighter. The thought of her punching my face in for holding her so closely lifted my spirits a little. She might actually break my face if we survive all this. 'IF we make it...'

I'm scared. Scared of the fact that Sasuke might just kill me and Sakura-chan. And I begin to think, is this the end after all?

"Die." Sasuke uttered, and then he charged his Chidori. Black lightning taints his jutsu, making it even more deadly and gruesome. He flew towards us with his left hand reared back to stab both of us.

The only thing I could do was to place myself in front of Sakura-chan and hoped my body is enough to shield her. Backed up with a slight hope, my other hand moved to the kunai pocket on my right leg with hopes that a single kunai can stop Sasuke's attack. Naive, I know, but it helps to have a burst of adrenaline in you to quench that fear inside you. In the end, I DO die trying to get Sasuke back. 'I guess this is it, ne?'

Strangely, in times like these I heard someone chuckle inside me. The chuckle was nothing but amused. And slightly happy, if anything. 'Not quite, brat.'

Then, there was an explosion. And I swore to Kami I heard a lightning crack with it.

'He's awake.'

Spiderman's POV

Several minutes after blacking out...

Where am I, exactly?

The last thing I remember before blacking out was that I felt like a roof just collapsed on me. I'm hurting all over.

'Damn, Sasuke did a number on me.'

...Okay, wait a sec. I just thought that, but it felt like I just said that and it echoed. There's only one place that had these features. My subconcious.

'Indeed he did. That's to be expected when you go toe to toe against a Kekkei Genkai (Bloodline Limit) without being a ninja.'

'Raibi! Good to see ya...or at least hear ya.'

I heard him sigh. Man, he's too serious most of the time to get a joke. Reminds me of ol' Fury. Guess I'll nickname him Furry Fury from now on.

'We got no time to joke around, Peter. Remember the situation we're in?' He said seriously. I clamped up that instant; to hear him say my real name like that really gives me the chills.

' 'Course I do. What, with Sasuke's punches and kicks imprinted all over my body, it'd be hard not to.' Truth is, I don't feel it anymore. But I bet that when I get back to the real world I would feel the pain; something about me being in an astral form in my subconcious makes sure of that. I'm not sure when I would wake up, though.

'Good. Saves me my time to explain all this, then.'

I didn't have enough time to ask what "all this" meant, because as soon as Raibi said all that, he raised his right hand and pointed his palm towards the space behind me. In an insant, that particular space flashed white. I stepped back and watched as the white light dispersed into several more colors. 'What's this, Raibi?'

'This is how I usually see the real world from your eyes. Good thing you used my chakra for your eyes frequently, so now I can control it. It almost feels like watching in a cinema, only more realistic.'

I groaned, 'I swear, I really got to limit my subconcious imagination. You're having too much real-world logic for a Bijuu.'

'Shut up and look at the screen.'

I did as I was told. There's no way I could outfight Raibi in an argument, anyway. As I did, though, I saw the last things I would expect. Sasuke standing in front of my four other teammates ready to attack. Then, Sasuke came down raining attacks relentlessly on them. Yamato-taichou is down with a stab to the shoulder, Sai with a hit of Sasuke's sword hilt, then Naruto came with a close call as Sasuke tore through his clones like a madman. Sakura pulled Naruto back, effectively making herself an easy target.

And Sasuke? He held her in a choke and intended to make a hole with his Chidori. 'Shit!' I cursed. A miracle happened and a chakra-shaped hand shot out to punch Sasuke right on his abdomen just as he was delivering the finishing blow. It was Naruto. The red chakra must've been the Kyuubi's.

He had it under control? Good grief, that was a shocker.

'It's not over yet. I could feel ominous chakra from the Uchiha's body.' Raibi warned. The hell? So Sasuke's not even serious yet?

It was then I saw another movement. Sasuke picked himself up and transformed into some kind of grotesque monster with hand-like wings on his back.

'Oh, please God no...Raibi, I need to wake up now!'

'So? Wake up then.' Raibi said nonchalantly, clearly he didn't get my message. 'I can't. Something's keeping my chakra from getting into its normal flow and it's keeping me unconcious!'

Raibi's green eyes darted to the sides. I don't understand what he's doing, but something must've caught his attention.

'Genjutsu...tch, why now of all times?'

'Can you cancel it?' I asked hopefully. This Genjutsu, I've learned, is some kind of illusion technique. I can't cancel it by myself since I don't know how to.

'If we're a cooperating Jinchuuriki and Bijuu, then I could do something about it.' The wolf said, crossing his arms sagely.

'Then what're you waiting for? Just cancel it before Sasuke gets to Naruto and kill h—"

'Key word being "if".'

It took some time processing his words, but I can't understand what Raibi was saying, 'What?'

He sighed again, this time his snout pointing towards the seal paper in front of the cage he was held in, 'It's the seal Web-baachan placed on you. It's a kind of seal that prevents me from merging my chakra with your own. With it there, I can't do anything except giving you additional chakra reserves and elemental affinity.'

'What the hell's with that? She never told me any of this.' I asked aloud, wondering for what purpose did my mentor placed this kind of seal in me. Why did she planted a seal that prevents merging of chakra between a Jinchuuriki and a Bijuu when she obviously sealed a Bijuu inside him to make him a Jinchuuriki? This just doesn't make any sense.

'...You'll have to ask her yourself about that. I swore to her I won't tell anything about the seal.' He closed his eyes as if thinking over, 'But the truth is, if we were to do anything to prevent Sasuke from killing Naruto then we have to open the seal.'

'Open...the seal?' I questioned again. That sounded like a bad idea to me. 'I don't know about that. Even if we do, I doubt that I'll be a match for Sasuke.'

'After you break the seal, you'll be granted greater power. My chakra will be part of yours, among other things, just like Kyuubi's is part of Naruto's.'

I lifted my head to meet Raibi's steely gaze, 'So...I'm going to be something like that four-tailed version of his?'

'You won't even be similar to it, I assure you. But that's not the problem here,' He said, then he looked at me straight in the eyes seriousy, 'I'm asking for your condolences here. Do you or do you not permit me to break the seal so that we'll be able to stop Sasuke?' To me, Raibi's question seemed easier to answer than the way he's asking me. I mean, does he really need to ask about that particular detail? 'I think we both know my answer,' I said confidently, 'I won't let my comrades die. They're my responsibility; the powers you gave me also bestowed me the ability to take up that responsibility. So we can't just stop here, ne?'

We let the short silence pass through the atmosphere. Finally, with a chuckle, Raibi placed his palm on the surface of the middle pillar of the cage. 'Place your hand in front of the seal, then generate your chakra through it.' I nodded and did as he told. As I hovered to the paper with the kanji for 'seal' covering the seal Madam Web used on me and tore it away, I let a little laugh out, 'I suppose there's a risk for opening the seal?'

'There are...several effects. Partly because your chakra coils were not activated before I was sealed into you. The other because my chakra is too unstable for even a normal Jinchuuriki to control.'

'And that will effect me in...what kind of ways?' I asked again curiously as I placed my hand on the yin-yang seal on Raibi's cage.

'I promise you two things; your body will be strained to the point where you'll feel extreme pain—both mentally and physically—and heck you won't even be in a pretty good shape when all this is over. But you'll achieve greater power than you could ever imagine so that you can defeat Sasuke.'

I took a deep breath in, knowing that the deal I'm making here is not a plaything. This could kill me; and that's no joke. On the other hand, though, I'll be dead if I don't do anything. And so will Naruto, Sakura, Sai and Yamato-taichou. It's not like I'm planning to die, anyway; I still got Mary Jane waiting for me back home. She'll kick me through my grave if I ever died without making up to her. Funny, the idea of her kicking my dead body seemed so like her.

'Let's do it.'

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Just as Sasuke finished transforming into his cursed-seal level two form, his hand weaved through three handseals required for the Chidori. With his black Chidori in his left hand, he charged towards Naruto. All Naruto could do was to hope that his kunai was enough to fight back and prepare.

Alas, it was not to be so.

There was an explosion, which made Sasuke stopped his advance and look to the source of the sudden noise. Fact was, it was the same place he just saw Spiderman crash into. And then, the same explosion was followed by a crack of lightning. After that, Sasuke couldn't see what happened. The only thing he knew was that he was flying back after getting hit by a crippling, scorching force that came so fast he was sure it could cleave his head off if he didn't roll with the hit. He let out a grunt as he scraped the ground and came into a stop as he hit a boulder. As he raised his head and locked his Sharingan to his attacker, his eyes widened.

There stood the same Spiderman that he had just punched into a wall; still the same person he had just defeated. But this was different.

Whereas the previous Spiderman was battered, bloodied and torn, the present state he was in totally differs. Not only that his visible wounds were healed completely; he was also coated in lightning. His forearm was literally transformed; his fingers has got lightning-based claws, and trailing up the forearm the lightning looked like a gauntlet. His legs were also covered with lightning, shaping some kind of shin-to-leg protector whilst his feet got claws as well. The unique part was his head; where the lightning was trailing up from Spiderman's spine and the back of his head to his forehead and shaped two identical horns of lightning. Trailing down his spine was a single lightning bolt which looked like a tail.
Although the lightning covered his body, didn't mean the torn Spiderman costume underneath it was repared. The costume was still in its battle-ravaged state and it never looked so bad. And through the battered mask, one lone right eye was visible.

As Sasuke got a good look of the eye, a shiver ran down his spine. A shiver of an almost non-existent fear.

The eye was no longer in the shape of normal pupils; it was slitted, but whilst the usual Raibi eye was green, this one was dark blue with the slit in the middle colored red. And in a way, it struck fear deep in Sasuke's bones and nerves. As those eyes locked on Sasuke's, Spiderman—or whoever he, presumably, currently is—lets out a beastial growl. The growl was somewhat distorted; like a lion growling at its prey through a low-volume microphone.

For his part, Naruto just stared at the transformed Spiderman disbelievingly. The blond didn't understand what was going on, but Spiderman didn't seem to be paying attention to anything else except Sasuke. Though, he was still shocked even more by the change Spiderman had undergone. It looked distinctly similar to that of his Bijuu cloak, but at the same time it couldn't be said that what was now encasing Spiderman was the Bijuu cloak. The Bijuu cloak always resembles the tailed beast that one Jinchuuriki had inside him or her. But...

If that's the case, then Naruto would've guessed that the Bijuu inside Spiderman was a horned devil.

In Sasuke's mind, he was thinking the same thing as the male blonde. In his point of view, however, he was thinking of how he should defeat such an opponent. Or maybe how to survive it, rather. He IS, after all, the target of the masked hero's wrath. 'This—this feeling...! Is this power the same as Naruto's?'

"Just...JUST WHO ARE YOU!" All fear Sasuke had dissipated along with his shout, but his hesitation didn't. If anything, the doubt inside him was growing by each passing second. If he was really facing against an opponent who has the same kind of power as Naruto, he had no time to play around.

The azure, crimson-slitted eyes glared at Sasuke's Sharingan for a moment before a distorted chuckle came from Spiderman's mouth. The next thing that came was a bit of a shocker to the other two concious people because the voice that talked was just as distorted as the chuckle beforehand, "I tHiNk WhAt YoU wErErEAllY aSkiNg wAS wHAt I aM. I...aM yOUr wORsT niGHtmArE!" The voice was very different from the normal Spiderman. And the tone he spoke with was a complete 180o of how he usually talks. It spooked Naruto, freezing him in place. There was a chilly edge to this transformed Spiderman's tone that sent goosebumps trailing up his spine.

The same type of fear was coursing through Sasuke's body, but he shot it down. Whatever actually happened to the masked hero, there's no way that guy could defeat him. Could he? 'Damn it! Focus, Uchiha! No more playing around. I'll bring this nobody down in an instant!' Sasuke thought, furiously shoving every bit of doubt into the farthest part of his mind.

"As fOr yOuR eaRLiEr qUesTiON..." The distorted voice continued, as malevolent chakra kept pouring out of Spiderman's body. A grin made its way up the face under the web-motived mask when it spoke again, "I dON't hAvE a nAmE!"

In an instant, the transformed figure of Spiderman launched towards Sasuke in high speed. To the naked eye, all that was visible was a trail of blue lightning making its way to Sasuke, and that's exactly what Naruto was seeing. Even through the bloodline eyes of the Uchiha, it was barely trackable. Sasuke, by pure instinct, raised a clawed wing from his back to his front to block Spiderman's attack. Spiderman's attack came just as he predicted, but to his shock his wing was trembling under the force of the masked hero's fist and even Sasuke himself was pushed back.
With a roar, Spiderman raised his left fist and punched the blocking wing with enough force to send the cursed Uchiha flying. The distorted voice of the now transformed Spiderman laughed, "I'm nOt FiNisHed wiTH yoU!"Before chasing the mid-air Uchiha again.

The previous roar awoken the unconcious Konoha ninjas. Yamato was the first one to wake up, his eyes blinking slowly at first to take in the sudden light. He opened his eyes completely as Naruto called his name loudly. His eyes searched the area for a while, his memories a bit fuzzy after the black out he had, "What...?"

"Yamato-taichou!" Naruto called him once more. Said ANBU turned to Naruto and recognized Sakura, who was waking up, in his arms. "Naruto, what happened?" He asked, dumbfounded. Naruto instead turned to the pink-haired girl in his arms, relieved that she finally came to, "We gotta get to somewhere safe! Spiderman is fighting Sasuke right now, and we might get in their crossfire if we stay here!"

The brown-haired team captain blinked. Now he was confused, "Wasn't Spiderman unconcious just a while ago?"

"Then explain to me who THAT could be!" Naruto exclaimed, pointing to the sky behind Yamato; particularly to two figures throwing punches and kicks in mid-air. As Yamato set his eyes to where Naruto pointed, he froze in disbelief, "That...that's Spiderman? What in the world happened to HIM?"

Naruto began standing up, helping the now awaken Sakura up to her feet, "I wish I can explain, but first we have to get somewhere else. There's no telling how much ground they'll lift up when they're fighting like that." Although he said it ever so calmly, deep inside Naruto had hesitation of leaving Spiderman to fight alone against Sasuke. But his teammates safety comes first. He would go help his costume-wearing friend after they get some shelter.

In the sky, Sasuke was trying his damnest to keep up with Spiderman's speed. Though his cursed seal was active and he can now fly, the ability of levitation gives him nothing but a dull edge in this fight. Spiderman's attack was relentless; high-speed lunges, lightning-fast punches and devastating kicks were all the pinnacle of his endless Taijutsu attacks. This time, as Spiderman rebounded away from Sasuke after a counter punch from the dark-haired Uchiha, it was Sasuke's turn to attack. Poising his blade forward for a flying stab, Sasuke dove towards the lightning-clad hero, his wings giving him an extra burst of speed.
However, his target interlaced his lightning-clawed finger together with the other hand and, placing his palms so that they were facing Sasuke, spread them outwards. While Spiderman's hands were now apart from each other, a net of pure lightning formed above his head, made from the earlier finger-interlacing. Sasuke's eyes registered the technique a second later than usual, and from the momentum he was going at he had no choice but to crash into the lightning-net.

With a scream, Spiderman took in Sasuke momentum and back-flipped so that the winged shinobi was under him. Sasuke was now stopped in mid-air because of his earlier momentum absorbed by the surprisingly elastic net, and his eyes widen when his Sharingan read Spiderman's movement. Unfortunately for him, he had no way to dodge it, so blocking was his only way.

Spiderman , or at least the distorted voice in him, laughed like a maniac before yelling out, "FaLL!"He stomped forcefully on Sasuke with both legs, sending the Sannin disciple shooting down to the ground, gaining a grunt of pain from the Uchiha. Craters formed around where Sasuke landed in effect of the sudden weight on the ground. "SpLAsheD onE BiRD! hAhAhA!"

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Meanwhile, Yamato had made a shelter by caving in a wall with his Earth Style jutsu. It was pretty big to fit for all four of them, and since they all needed to take cover from the clashing attack between Spiderman and Sasuke, it was just convenient. "So Naruto, would now be the time to explain what exactly happened to Spiderman?"

Sakura and Sai, both awaken from their earlier black-out, stared at Naruto eagerly. The blonde himself shifted uncomfortably under the many pair of eyes staring at him, but eventually talked. "I'm not really sure what happened to him. All I know is that just before Sasuke could pierce me through, Spiderman shot out and saved both me and Sakura-chan. He...he looks pretty much like how he currently is. Like that." Naruto pointed at the descending form that was Spiderman, still in his transformed state.

"And other than the outer changes he endures...anything else?" Sakura piped in, getting more and more curious. Naruto looked at her, still relieved that she finally came to when he brought her into the shelter. "He sounded different, if anything. And it doesn't sound like himself, at all. It's like...a completely different person." Sakura looked worriedly at her blonde teammate. He looked kind of strained, by something she didn't have any idea of. It was like he was hiding something.

"Just...who is he, really?" all eyes were on Sai as he suddenly talked. Sai's eyes were looking in amazement at the masked hero, trembling a bit at the feeling of the malevolent chakra pouring out of the transformed Spiderman. "All this chakra...it's just inhuman."

Yamato stared at the Root ANBU member. 'He does has a point. After all the fight he'd been through in this mission, you'd think Spiderman would be depleted of chakra. But even after fighting against Naruto in his Kyuubi form, Spiderman didn't seem like he's tiring himself out...there's only one explanation for this.' Yamato though as he came up with a conclusion. "Naruto...do you know who Spiderman really is?"

The question itself wasn't exactly a "who" question. Rather, it inquired about "what" Spiderman is. Naruto held his breath, almost choking himself in surprise. To be honest, he didn't expect Yamato to know about that particular detail; especially when Naruto is the only one who already been told by Spiderman about what he had inside him.
Unfortunately, the fact that Spiderman had already transformed into something inhuman was enough to make anyone suspicious.

"...Yeah." Naruto said, releasing the breath he had held in shakily. "Spiderman...is a Jinchuuriki."

The reaction from everyone was just as Naruto expected. Sakura gasped, probably out of shock that the masked hero is also a Jinchuuriki like Naruto. Sai's face remained neutral. If anything, the only that changed was his slightly widened eyes, but that's all. Yamato was the one who seemed to take it normally. Instead, he sighed, "I see. So there IS a reason Tsunade-sama sent him along with us."

Naruto looked down at the ground below him. He never felt so low before.

He had just told one of Spiderman's secrets; him being a Jinchuuriki. He cursed himself for letting it slip his tongue. Why couldn't he just lie? Spiderman obviously wanted him to keep his secret, since he told Naruto and Naruto only. Not even Sakura seemed to know about this.

Is it going to be alright, letting them know about this?

"But...I thought he came from America. There's no Bijuu there, is there?" Sakura asked expectantly. Naruto looked at her sympathetically, shaking his head, "I wish I know, Sakura-chan. Spiderman didn't tell me how he ended up with a Bijuu inside him; he just told me he did." Sakura wasn't satisfied with the answer, but she nodded knowing she wouldn't know anything more.

"Putting the fact aside, how do you think we're suppose to get out of here? We got no way out, and even if we do, Spiderman is still fighting." Sai asked. He was beginning to get a bit anxious, though it didn't show. Yamato shook his head, "There's no telling who'll kill who at this rate. All we can do is to wait."

Yamato's plan, no matter how unuseful, proved to be the only way to go through this predicament. So they waited until the crossfire between the two transformed ninjas cease.

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Sasuke stood up, screaming as a flare of chakra lifted any nearby dusts. Spiderman, now on the ground, prepared himself for anything that was going to come at him. Sasuke glared at him, his eyes full of hatred, "You're going to pay for that!" Sasuke's hand weaved through several handseals and again stopped at the Tiger seal. He inhaled deeply before letting out several breaths of flames in the shape of a dragon's head, "Katon: Goryuuka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Great Fire Dragon Jutsu)!"

The dragon-shaped flames flew towards Spiderman, who was grinning wickedly despite his condition. Just as the flames neared him, he activated his Spider Reflexes and began to see through the movements of the flames. He ducked under the first one, letting it sail past his head. He saw the other two coming and flipped forward, vaulting over the two flames and, as he saw the last three barrage of fireballs, created a clone and kicked it to gain extra height. One of the last flames managed to burn a part of his mask where his mouth should be, but he ripped that part of the mask off to prevent it from burning his face entirely.

Sasuke smirked. Even though the fireballs missed, that doesn't entire mean it won't hit his target. The fireballs were now heading towards the shelter Naruto and the other were hiding in.

That exact time, Spiderman spasmed in mid-air. As he landed, he held his head, clutching it tightly, "FiNe! WhAtEVer yOu sAY!" And then, Spiderman dashed backwards, chasing the fireballs inbound for the shelter. Sasuke quirked an eyebrow curiously, 'Just now...what was that?'

Spiderman's leg protector seemed to serve more to increase his speed rather than weigh him down. Streaks of lightning were left behind him as he dashed past the fireballs, passing by them as his speed continued to increase. He kept running until he was right in front of the shelter, to which he skidded to a halt. The fireballs were nearing him once again, but his reactions were seconds faster. The webslinger shot out two lines of web to his opposite sides, crossing his arms while he did so; his right hand shooting to the left while his left one shooting to the right. Both web lines stuck to a massive boulder each. With a mighty heave, he tugged on the web lines and pulled the boulders to him. When the boulders were close enough that—if left as it was—would crush Spiderman in between, said hero placed both of his hands to each boulders, sticking to his hands because of his wall-clinging abilities. He placed his hands gently, but the boulder stopped flying towards him effectively. He then brought both boulders in front of him to shield him from the fireballs. A loud crack sounded when he slammed both boulders to each other.

When the fireballs hit, there was something more than a few explosions that drove Spiderman back a few steps, but he stood his ground. The boulders were charred in contact of the dragonoid fireballs, but fortunately it held the flames in place.

Naruto blinked. Just a minute ago, Sasuke's fire jutsu was heading towards the lot of them. However, Spiderman jumped in front of them and saved them. Question is, if that so, doesn't that means he is in control? Is he in control of his Bijuu mode?

"Hey...hey, Spiderman! Is that really you in there?" He tried to get an answer for his questions. The figure in front of him, however, chuckled deviously, "Who'rE yOu cALLinG, bRAt?"

All of the present Konoha ninjas tensed. They all reached for their weapons, afraid that this transformed version of Spiderman might attack at any moment. To their surprise, the distorted voice chuckled, showing no tone of hostility against them, "No nEEd tO wET yOuR pAntS!" he turned his head towards them, showing the single, crimson-slitted azure eyes and the playful grin half-visible under his mask. "Ou-sAMa1 sAiD hE DoEsN't wAnT AnY cAsUaLTies. KEH! ThE ArrOgAnT bAsTarD!"

Slightly taken aback by the rude tone the voice-controlling-Spiderman used to address Spiderman, Naruto went slack-jawed. Now he had a definite proof that whoever was controlling Spiderman was not the nut-cracking web-slinger himself. This guy is someone else.
Behind him, Sakura was going through the same line of thought. But the thing that had caught her attention was something else, "Ou-sama...? Who are you talking about?"

To her annoyance, the voice inside Spiderman didn't answer; opting to throw both boulders in his hands away and charged towards Sasuke, laughing maniacally. 'Talk about overkill.' She thought.

Yamato stared at the exchange dumbly, his mind going blank for several good seconds. That was, until he regained his composure and shook his head to clear his mind. "Uh...okay. From the way he said it, this 'Ou-sama' must be the real Spiderman. Does that mean he's somehow in control?"

"No one can tell at this point. But your guess might be correct," Sai piped in, throwing in his thoughts into action, "There's a possibility that Spiderman isn't going in full rampage, after all."

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Meanwhile, in Spiderman's subconcious...

While the insane version of Spiderman was rampaging in the real world, deep inside his mind sat both the real him and Raibi; both sitting in a lotus position, unmoving. If one would look closely, they could see the wrinkles on Spiderman's mask. It was caused by the strained face under it, which was clearly proof that Spiderman was enduring some type of pain. 'Oi, Raibi. Do you think we can really trust him?' His hands were shaped into Ram seal, while a shining chakra line was connecting him to Raibi's hand—which was also being held in a Ram seal—behind him.

The giant blue wolf behind him nodded slowly, his eyes travelling to the screen in front of them which was used to see the real world. 'Of course. There's no way he'd betray you. Well, at least not when you're still the King of your own mind.'

'You talk like I won't be for long.' Spiderman said, pouting childishly. 'The lack of faith you have in me is veeery supporting.'

The Bijuu chuckled, 'It's not that I don't have faith in you. I'm just saying, you're still in control as long as you're in control.'

Spiderman looked back from his shoulder, a sweat dropping on his forehead, 'That makes even less sense. Anyway, mind explaining what exactly happened after I ripped off the paper seal before?'

'To put it simply, my chakra mixed up with yours.' Raibi said, huffing out a breath that stunk of charred meat. Spiderman wrinkled his nose at the smell; it smelled like a cow died from lightning strike. 'And if that so, why is there some kind of negative-me controlling my body out there?'

'...That's...that might be my fault, actually.' Raibi said, scratching his furred cheek using one of his lightning-like tails. 'That "negative-side" of you is there because of my chakra entering your system. You see, my chakra holds two important elements; one is the chakra which grants my Jinchuuriki the power to control lightning, and the other is a mental conciousness which laid dormant inside me.'

'Dormant?' Spiderman's eyes travelled to the screen in front of him. Now it was showing the figure of Spiderman breathing out a fireball towards him; no doubt a proof that the brutal was still continuing. 'That's anything but dormant.'

'Let me finish.' Raibi growled lowly. 'This mental conciousness takes form of any person that becomes my Jinchuuriki. Only difference is, its mental state of mind is a mixture of every negative emotions its Jinchuuriki has. Sounds familiar?'

Spiderman squinted at the sight of Sasuke charging towards him—or to be precise, towards the other him—with a Chidori in hand. 'You mean my black suit?'

'Exactly. And, just like your black suit, it will awaken once it acknowledges a Jinchuuriki as its master. Though, to be frank, your black suit is more submissive than this...rabid transformation of yours.' Rabid might not be the exact word to put it, but it was close. Furthermore, the Nega-Spiderman's inhuman laugh could be considered "rabid" by others. Like the one he just let out as he side-stepped Sasuke's Chidori and grabbed his wrist, then throwing him away once again. 'As if I could miss that.' Spiderman said back, sweat-dropping.

'Also, the interesting fact is though all Bijuu have these, if you prefer, "dark sides" inside them," Raibi continued, again ignoring Spiderman entirely, 'As far as I know the only one who has the ability to both Manifest and Control the dark sides is Kyuubi. And in turn, so can I, being his clone and all.'

'Manifest and control? I get what you meant by manifest. I mean, there's dark-me out there. But what do you mean by control?' Spiderman asked. He was also curious about why are Kyuubi and Raibi the only ones able to do both things, but he held the question knowing he was more curious of his earlier question.

'These...dark sides are mainly a mixture of a little bit of our chakra, plus a huge amount of our hatred, rage and other dark emotions. Most Bijuu succumbs to their own dark sides, unable to contain their own hatred. The ones that eventually control their negative emotions are the Jinchuuriki.' Raibi paused, inhaling a deep breath before exhaling it again. And Spiderman could smell that charred-cow scent again. 'The worst, however, would be Bijuu who can control that hatred to his will. Take an example out of Kyuubi if you might; for what I know he doesn't only has control over hatred. He is hatred itself. Though on the bright side he's not a mindless rampaging killing machine, the downside is he uses his hatred to control other weak-willed beings. Not much are able to withstand Kyuubi's dark intentions, humans much more at that. Frankly, I'm surprised that there are Jinchuuriki who can refuse his hatred. His Meiton: Nikushimi no Seigyo (Dark Style: Control of Hatred) is terrifying.

'And then, there is the ability to manifest the dark side. An ability called Meiton: Ikari no Kengen (Dark Style: Manifestation of Rage). Again, Bijuus from Ichibi to Hachibi don't have this ability. Now, even though I haven't personally seen Kyuubi use this ability himself, I can see him using parts of this ability to corrupt Naruto's way of thinking.'

Spiderman just sat there with his head still turned to Raibi, mouth agape. 'What the hell? So that's what turned Naruto into the four-tailed beast before?'

'Indirectly, yes.'

'Then how can you control YOUR hatred so well? If you're anything like Kyuubi, then you should at least have this unstable hatred or something, shouldn't you?'

Raibi's eyes flickered. The usual green eyes he had changed into the same red-slitted blue eyes that Nega-Spiderman had. He growled at his Jinchuuriki, 'First, let me remind you that I'm NOTHING like him!' Spiderman cringed at the chilly tone Raibi used, almost sounding like he was spitting out the words he just said. 'Second, to answer your first question, I can't control it very well. And that's because the amount of hatred I used to have as Kyuubi's clone.' Raibi looked at the costumed man in front of him, almost rolling his eyes as he continued, 'Yes, I do have that unstable hatred from Kyuubi. As if these eyes aren't enough of a testament for that.' The wolf pointed at his two transformed eyes, 'As the cause of my inability to control that hatred, the only thing I could do to prevent it from controlling me is to let it effect my other ability, Manifestation. The effect is the crazed abomination of a dark side taking control of your body out there.'

At that moment, Spiderman caught something from the way Raibi talked. Call it Bijuu-Jinchuuriki empathy, but he was sure Raibi sounded...apologetic. He grinned widely at his nine-tailed wolf prisoner, somehow feeling happy that his Bijuu cared so much. 'Hey, Raibi...'

The blue wolf raised his head in response. 'I'll definitely control that hatred. I won't let you hold that burden all by yourself, not as long as I'm the Jinchuuriki imprisoning you!' Spiderman promised loudly, gaining a sharp intake of breath from the gargantuan being behind him.

Raibi was frozen shock by Spiderman's words. Not only that he promise he'll control the hatred he had brought along from Kyuubi, but he also mentioned said hatred as his own burden. Raibi could only shake his head, chuckling to himself and wondering how can the web-slinger take so much of other's burdens as his responsibility. Maybe there is a reason Madam Web sealed him inside a guy like him.

'But, he can hold off Sasuke longer than I could. Just how much stronger is he?' The "guy like him" asked as childish curiosity got the better of him again.

'To be frank, he's five-fold the strength of you, and two times stronger than your black suit.'

'Daaaamn.' Spiderman let out.

Raibi chuckled again, amused by Spiderman's comment. He was pretty sure if it were anyone else, they would be ecstatic that they have something several times stronger than themselves inside them. By how Spiderman voiced his thoughts, however, his furred ears picked up a tone of envy from his Jinchuuriki. ' Wanna see something else? Watch.' Raibi closed his eyes, falling silent and ignored Spiderman's questioning look. In actuality, Raibi was trying to establish a mental connection between him and Nega-Spiderman. When he was connected, he opened his eyes, still the same red-slitted azure orbs, and thought out aloud, 'You might want to level some ground up a bit.'

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Back in the real world...

As soon as Raibi established a mental connection with him, Nega-Spiderman felt a ringing sensation in his head. Huffing out indignantly, he pressed his pointer and middle finger to his temple. "WhaT dO yOu WaNt, yOu RetaRdED fURbaLL?" His hostile demeanor, however, disappeared when Raibi gave him some instructions relating to 'levelling up some ground'. A maniacal grin spread across his mouth, "HeLL yEAh! LeAVe iT tO mE, oLD tiMEr!"

By that time, Sasuke had already stood up; his Sharingan blazing when he glared at his opponent, promising him pain. His wings spread once more as he took flight. As he was several feet above the ground, he bit his thumb and smeared his own blood on his palm. His hands then blurred in several hand seals, stopping at one. He screamed out, as right palm was facing down, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Jutsu)!"

A gigantic puff of smoke rose from the ground, seemingly towering above Nega-Spiderman. As the wind snuffed the smoke away, it revealed three identical giant snakes. It might be about twenty stories high, but Nega-Spiderman's grin just got wider with each passing second. "hOhO! tHiS iS GeTTiNG iNTerEsting!"He let out.

Sasuke landed on the head of snake which was summoned in the middle of its two other twins. He raised his left hand, gesturing to the snake to his left, "Kill him." He commanded. The snake did as it was told to, and charged forward with its mouth open wide; its teeth glistening in the sunlight. Nega-Spiderman's superior speed made him easily dodge out of the way of the hungry snake, while countering its lunge attack with a sweeping claw attack that hit the snake's right side. The snake's scales proved to be a formidable armor, as the claw attack only made several bleeding scars to its side.

Nega-Spiderman clicked his tongue in dissapointment. That claw attack should've ravaged the oversized snake in one swipe. It was then that he realized that he was surrounded by the three gigantic snakes from his two, six, and ten o'clock. Now, it was Sasuke's turn to smirk smugly as his hand pointed to Nega-Spiderman, silently commanding the snakes to ram towards their small meal. However, as the snakes' head descended towards him, Nega-Spiderman's rabid laugh came out again. "SeEMs tHAt I DO nEeD to LeVeL uP sOMe GrOunD, afTEr aLL!"

His hands blurred, making several hand seals that, coupled with his speed, was barely trackable by Sasuke's Sharingan. When he finished, the devil look-alike clasped his hand as if in prayer, the lightning armor coating his body glowed brightly and crackled loudly. He then looked up at Sasuke and the snakes, grinning as seven spots around him cracked with electricity. One second later, those spots shot upwards to the sky as he yelled out, "RAITON: SHICHI MATENROU(Lightning Style: Seven Skyscrapers)!"The pillar-shaped beams of light impaled the snakes, both halting their advance and killing them instantly. The light pillar grazed Sasuke's right side wing, and it would've went through him directly if his Sharingan hadn't seen through the jutsu. Sasuke flew away, seemingly having a limp in his flight and an angry scowl on his face. He landed on the upper ridge, and he got a stinging feeling coursing through his right wing.

It would be a fact that the attack managed to actually scar his right wing. The level two Joutai transformation actually grants the user hardened skin; though not as hard as any armor, but usually proves to be formiadable to some attacks. 'That means even this form can't handle attacks like that...DAMN IT! How the hell is this possible?' He thought, his mind burning with rage. Sasuke was not a type of person who takes inferiority so lightly; moreso that he was proven inferior to a nobody. A clanless coward who hid behind a mask.
But to his dismay, he had to admit that his opponent was too strong for him to dance along with. With no more option, he mentally decided to resort to using that jutsu again.

'I have no other choices. Frankly, I hate to waste chakra on someone like him, but he's not going down easily. Furthermore, I'm already running low on chakra.' Sasuke looked to the sky. 'Besides, the weather seems perfect for a lightning to strike.' Clouds were gathering in the once clear sky, not much but enough to make it look cloudy. Sasuke's hands once again blurred through some hand seals, stopping once again at a Tiger seal which meant his attack was meant to be Fire element. Nega-Spiderman noticed this and readied himself for another dodging action...

Only to see Sasuke breathed out several dragon-head flames to the sky; no doubt his Katon: Goryuuka no Jutsu that had tried to scorch him moments ago. "Oi, wHErE tHe HeLL aRe yOu aiMiNG yOUr stiNK bReAtH tO?" The lightning-coated man let out, aggravated that he didn't get to humiliate the chicken-ass haired Uchiha further by dodging the fireballs.

Sasuke smiled smugly as the draconoid fireballs flew to the sky and into the clouds. He turned to his enemy below him, his transformed Sharingan boring into one of the exposed, red-slitted blue eyes of his target. "This is going to be my strongest jutsu since my bloodline. I'll obliterate you in a single blow!"

At first, Nega-Spiderman stared blankly at Sasuke, taking his ranting as nothing more but a bull's shit to spit out. But then, he noticed the dark thunder clouds gathering above him in the sky. A minute ago, there wasn't any thunder clouds, were they? But then, some clouds just apparated itself here. 'Oi, oU-sAmA! GoT aN ExplANatiON fOR tHiS?' He screamed mentally to his real self.

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Deep in the subconcious of one web-headed hero, said person was trying to figure out just how the hell did Sasuke summoned clouds? Freaking clouds! Unless...

'The heat from his Fire jutsu before! It heats up the atmosphere, raised the air pressure and the humidity of the sky, which in turn compressed more moisture in the sky and made on instant thunder cloud! He just formed a freaking Cumulonimbus!'

'A thunder cloud...' Raibi muttered. He looked up to the vision screen to see what Nega-Spiderman was seeing. 'Call it intuition, but that thunder cloud could be Sasuke's weapon.'

'What do you mean?' Spiderman asked, turning his head to the Bijuu.

'YeaH, wHAt thE heLL dOEs tHaT sUppOSe tO mEAn?' His darker counterpart chorused, his voice echoed through the sewer-like mindscape.

Spiderman noted that, though Nega-Spiderman talked—or thought, since they were in a mindscape—in Japanese, he somehow understood what he was saying. And seeing the topic the dark side of him just asked, it seems it was vice versa. He made a mental note to ask Raibi about this later; he was currently more curious about Sasuke's "weapon" that Raibi talked about.

'Sasuke's jutsu were mainly Katon (Fire Style) and Raiton (Lightning Style) throughout the battle. It's safe to assume that he's going to use a thunder cloud for a Lightning jutsu.' Raibi explained, gaining understanding "oh"s from both his Jinchuuriki and his dark side.

'A Lightning jutsu of that size...there's no doubt that it will hit not only us, but Naruto and the others as well.'

'WeLL, I sAy wE giVE cHiCKeN-aSS heAd a tASte oF HiS oWN mEdiciNE! ClaSH hiS rAiToN jUtSu wiTH oUr oWN!' Nega-Spiderman suggestion caught Raibi's interest. 'How are you going to do that?' He asked rather skeptically. The rabid dark side just laughed out like Raibi just told him a funny joke, before shooting back at Raibi, 'Don'T aCt LikE yOU dON't kNOw, oLD tiMER! I knOW yOu haVE a gRanD jUTSu uP yOUr HaiRy sLEEve pOWErfuL eNOugH tO COuntEr UcHiGaY's jUTsU! uSE ThaT!'

Raibi's eyes widened considerably. His jaw tightened to the point where his teeth grinded against each other. The jutsu Nega-Spiderman suggested was...too destructive. Yet, it was maybe the only way they could win against Sasuke's mysterious jutsu. But there was one problem that he found disturbing, 'How did you know about that?' Raibi growled at the negative web-slinger. The person he growled at in turn let out a chuckle that echoed through Spiderman's mindscape. 'DiD yOu foRGeT? wE aRe oNE, tHeRefORe OuR miNDs aRe aS wELL! I kNOw evErY biT of eVErY SecREt jutSU yoU'Re hiDinG. iT'S a SHamE yoU hAVeN't tAUght tHEm tO oU-sAmA; iT wOULd bE oNe hEckUva bLAsT!'

'What? What are you two talking about? What jutsu are you hiding, Raibi?' Spiderman's confusion and curiosity went over the edge, that much was obvious. Raibi regarded him with narrowed eyes, silently cursing himself. 'Peter, we're going to merge all of our chakra together. All three of us are needed for this jutsu to work perfectly. It's going to be a pain, but concentrate on merging our chakra in your body.'

'But, just what jutsu are yo—"

'You'll see.' Raibi cut him off. 'Now concentrate. Take your chakra, my chakra, and your dark side's chakra. Let it flow through your body.'

Spiderman closed his eyes and concentrated. He imagined that, with imaginary hands, he took his chakra, Raibi's and Nega-Spiderman's chakra out. The picture he used to concentrate on merging the three chakra types was the image of him spinning his version of Rasengan. 'Rotation...Power...and Completion!' He then imagined the mixture of the three chakras entering his body. He gritted his teeth. At that time, a spock of black made itself visible on the tip of the nose part of his mask.
'Don't let your black suit take over! It'll unbalance our chakra!' Raibi bellowed, noticing the spider insignia on his Jinchuuriki's back slowly changing.

With a strangled cry, the black suit's take over halted and the symbiotic substance receeded. At that exact time, the chakra mixture has entered his body.
When Spiderman opened his eyes, they were the same as Raibi's and Nega-Spiderman's; red-slitted blue orbs.

'We're ready.'

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Out in the real world, it seemed that Nega-Spiderman has calmed down.

Sasuke took notice of this, but paid no heed. Instead, he looked at the thunder cloud he just formed which was getting larger within every second that passed. His clawed hands blurred through several hand seals. However, in the middle of forming said hand seals, he realized that Nega-Spiderman was forming his own set of hand seals; his hand blurring at the same speed as Sasuke's.

'A counter jutsu?' Sasuke thought as he finished his set of hand seals and his left hand crackled with lightning, looking like an underpowered version of his Chidori. He directed his hand to the skies; to be precise, the thunder cloud. As he did, a huge barrage of lightning formed and moved above Sasuke. Several of them making impacts to the earth itself, trembling the ground. Nega-Spiderman was calm enough not to move, seeing the bolts not moving to attack him. The lightning bolts then merged, taking a shape of a massive, angry-looking dragonoid form with lightning bolts jumping in and out of its form. Sasuke glared at his opponent standing on the lower grounds, smiling evilly at him, "You won't be able to dodge this jutsu. It's faster than light, faster than the likes of you..." Sasuke's left hand was still in the air, controlling his lightning summon to his will. His hand-like wings were spread wide; giving out an eerie sense of fear, "You won't survive my Kirin (Unexpected Cut)2."

However, despite everything, a chuckle came out from the costume-wearing man in front of him. Only, the chuckle wasn't the distorted, dark chuckle that he had heard numerous times before during his fight. Granted, his voice was still heavy, but there was a hint of amusement in his tone; a somewhat annoying one. "If there's one thing that you have, Sasuke, it's a truckload of arrogance." It was the voice of the real Spiderman. His cheery, taunting way to talk was the proof of that. "You seem pretty sure you had me. I'll show you..." He raised both of his lightning-coated hands to the sky, gaining a roaring thunderclap resounding through the sky. "That not even your eyes3 can see the future." That being said, the thunderclaps begin to get louder. After one ear-piercing clap, two pillar-like lightning shot down from the enormous thunder cloud. Both lightning bolts each spun quickly, resembling that of a drill. The lightning bolts began to take form as they descended; growing a head that resembles that of a dragon. Both lightning bolts then stopped at Spiderman's sides, seemingly latching to their place by the command of his arms. The lightning bolts themselves were still attached to the thunder clouds, so it looked like twin serpentine dragons falling from the sky. Spiderman himself was in mid-crouch position, his stance looked like he was being weighed down by the two lightning dragons by his sides. After a strangled grunt, Spiderman let out a laugh of pure excitement.

He then declared his jutsu's name, "Raiton: Futago no Ikazuchiryú (Lightning Style: Twin Lightning Dragon)!"

At the sight of the jutsu, there are three things coursing through Sasuke's mind.
First, there was anger. Not to say that there wasn't any anger throughout the fight, but now his anger just got amplified. Anger towards his opponent that seemed so strong that, for once, Sasuke let himself thought that Spiderman was invincible. Second, there was anxiety, plus a tiny bit of doubt. If the chakra Spiderman was harvesting out of his own body means anything, his jutsu wasn't anything to take lightly. Third, there was...disgust. For what Spiderman did was to make a failed copy of his Kirin. It would be pretty humiliating if Sasuke was to lose to a jutsu that didn't even looked original.

"There's no way you can win, even with a jutsu like that. You can never beat me. I'm an Uchiha!" He bellowed, rearing his left hand, readying to strike. He closed his hand-like wings to prevent getting scorched by his own jutsu. In return, Spiderman let out another laugh, rearing both of his arms back for preparation. He screamed out, "I told you...DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME!" Both monster-of-a-ninja attacked each other at once; Sasuke waving his raised hand down and bringing his Kirin down from the skies, while Spiderman launched his twin dragons from his sides by punching the air with his open palms. Two—no, three in this case—dragons launched towards their respective target. Kirin, transforming into one gigantic lightning bolt with the radius coping all of the battlefield, striked from the sky to the ground. The Ikazuchiryú twins raised their heads and flew with great speed, striking from the ground to the sky and setting themselves in a collision course with Kirin.

"Disappear along with thunder..." Sasuke chanted.

"Tear the sky open..." Spiderman chanted, himself.

"KIRIN!" "FLY!"Went the battle cries from Sasuke and Spiderman, respectively.

Both of their jutsu clashed with each other. The result was a deafening thunder clap, which, not to be overreacting, had the force of Little Boy's explosion. The ground itself shook from the trembling force, and even forming several fissures. The shelter which Naruto, Sakura, Sai and Yamato was taking cover in was shaken so forceful that it almost caved in had Yamato didn't used his Wood Style jutsu to make a support beam to the shelter's roof. He had to, seeing that going outside was even more dangerous of an idea. Not to say that anybody had any suggestions regarding going outside, anyways. It was as if they were bolted to their places.

Amidst the light, if one could see through its blinding shine, one could see that both Sasuke's Kirin and Spiderman's Ikazuchiryú were stuck in a stalemate. Both were unable to overcome the other, but neither were backing off. Sasuke could be seen gritting his teeth, trying to force more of his chakra into his controlled lightning bolt. His Joutai form was beginning to turn darker in color, while his long greyish hair grew a bit longer. A mark around his eyes not unlike that of Orochimaru's eye liner appeared.

Spiderman was not in a better shape himself. His arms were now trembling just to sustain the impact force of Kirin. He was taking, merging and unleashing the chakra amalgam of his, Raibi's and Nega-Spiderman's chakra constantly. He took notice before that he couldn't control his Ikazuchiryú with his chakra alone. But everytime he used his mixed chakra, his lightning armor crackled out of control. Now, from other people's perspective, the armor was just that; an armor. Unfortunately, under the lightning armor Spiderman's costume was being scorched and charred. The same could be said about his skin, of course. His armor was turning more and more into something like that of Naruto's Nine-Tailed cloak.

But still, none of the two backed down. It was as if the will to win was transferred from the two ninjas to their respective jutsu. Eventually, in an explosion filled with blinding lights and cries of thunder, the two jutsu ceased to exist. The explosion threw Spiderman off of his feet, while the same happened to Sasuke but he regained his balance using his wings mid-flight.

After the explosion ceased, Spiderman raised from the ground. His upper body covered with pebbles previously blown by the explosion. He grunted. 'I feel like my whole insides are burning.'

'hEh, tOLd yOU oU-SaMa sHOuLd'vE LeARned tHiS juTSu eARLieR!' Came a reply from his mind.

'I still go against the idea. You okay, Peter?'

Spiderman raised to his feet, holding his knees for support. He felt drained of energy. Try as he might, the only thing that kept him moving was Raibi's chakra, and even that was very minimal due to his seal being closed again. The lightning armor coating his body begin to disappear little by little. The armor around his arm and legs immediately vapored out of existence. The small horns of lightning grew smaller each passing seconds until it was no more. And his lightning-like tail swirled around before dissapearing as if blown by the wind.

'We...we did it. The three of us...'

Not a minute later, the other members of the Konoha team emerged from their shelter. They felt curious, though relieved, that the thundering booms had ceased. A shock of spiky yellow hair came out first from the shadowed shelter, followed by a pink companion. Once Naruto had his eyes on Spiderman crouching figure, a grin formed on his face, threatening to split his face in two. He laughed, hesitantly at first, but immediately getting louder.

He couldn't believe it. Not even Sasuke could put the web-slinger down.

Sakura's emerald-colored eyes stared disbelievingly at their saviour; specifically at the charred spider insignia on his tattered costume, thinking, 'He looks like he's hurt bad...but...' Hearing Naruto's loud laugh, she began to let out breath. A breath that she didn't realize she was holding in, a breath she let out becasue she was shocked yet undoubtly happy at the same time. 'He's alive! Even against Sasuke, Spiderman didn't die!'

As Sasuke landed from his flight, he let out a hurting groan. His Curse Mark began to fail him; his Joutai Level-Two transformation receeding back and the greyish color disappeared entirely from his body. In the process, the curse mark receeded back to the right side of Sasuke's neck, turning back to the sharingan-like tattoo. He glared at Spiderman, moreso after he heard the sounds of the Konoha team rejoicing over their victory. 'NO! They haven't won. This...this isn't over yet!'

His right hand shook as he grasped his Kusanagi and slowly unsheathed it, 'I...' As he was half-way on completely unsheathing his sword, he used his body-flicker and dashed towards his next target. Or, from the looks of it, it could be said that his next target was his previous one.

'I won't be stopped here!'

He poised his sword to slash through Naruto.

And through it all, it almost like it happened in slow-motion. Every flash-step Sasuke took made visible craters from his attempt to speed up. Naruto blinked, surprised to see Sasuke charging towards him. Too surprised.

In the middle their celebration, their moment of rejoicing, he let his guard down. He let his senses dull and failed him. He let himself be an easy target. He let himself to assume that Sasuke was down for good. But most of all...

He let his surprise to freeze him when Spiderman rose to his feet once more, battered and in tattered clothes, and stands in the way between him and Sasuke.

'No.'

Sasuke's eyes narrowed as he was once again denied of his satisfaction. He growled as his normal eyes—the ones which were colored pure black—glared into Spiderman's eyes. His was also normal, brown in color. "Any last words?" He said as he halted his dash just in front Spiderman, holding his Kusanagi in a reverse-grip.

Spiderman looked at the Uchiha as the sword of his imminent doom was raised. For a moment, he tried to humor himself. Sasuke suggested him to say something, anything as his last words. Maybe saying "shame on you, Uchiha, because you're a bastard." Or "piss off, SasuGay!" While raising his middle finger wouldn't hurt, but it wouldn't be useful either. Plus, it would ruin the moment.

He realized that maybe the youth had a point; what, with him running low on chakra and his body beaten up beyond recognition, he might be saying his last words. Yet, knowing this, he jumped in front of Naruto to use himself as a shield. Damn him for taking Uncle Ben's teachings as his nindo. He chuckled to himself.

"You won't pass."

He would give his life to protect whatever responsibility he was given, as long as his power enables him to.

Sasuke's sword descended, making countless slashes in high speed, while still grasping his sword in a reverse-grip. The last one was a slash that went through Spiderman. When Sasuke finished his slash combo, he was standing behind Spiderman, facing the opposite of where his opponent was.

Spiderman blinked. He was expecting to get cut into countless pieces, but on the contrary...nothing happened. 'Did he...miss?' Was his first thought, but it dispersed when he heard Sasuke said something while sheathing his sword.

"Hanauta Sancho..." As Sasuke completely sheathed his sword, he finished his words, "Yahazu Giri (Three-Verse Hummming: Arrow Notch Slash)."

In a flash, countless slash marks appeared on Spiderman's body. The victim himself was taken aback by the jutsu, being completely sure that he didn't felt anything when Sasuke attacked him. Unless... 'He moved so fast that even the slashes couldn't keep up with him...amazing.' He thought. In reality though, he yelled out in pain as he fell.

Naruto's eyes widened. He saw it clearly; the fountain of blood rushing out of Spiderman's body, how he fell heaplessly to the ground. He couldn't help it, he screamed as he was too shocked to say anything otherwise.

"No...SPIDERMAN!"

End of Chapter 24

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Hell yeah! Downright epic! Now that would be an action scene I would be dying to see, figuratively speaking. Hey, I don't wanna die just to see that...do I? Hehehe, kidding. Sorry for the late update as usual; I started writing this chapter back in...April I guess. Guess I can't control time, now can I?

Sakura: Quit with the rheotorical question, they might get confused!
Me:They would, wouldn't they?
Sakura: AAAGH!
Me: Yep, you totally sounded like a broken Hatsune Miku synthesizer.

Now putting the usual jokes aside, how do you like Spiderman's very own Bijuu cloak? Sure, it might not be so far off from Kishi-sensei's idea, but it should get some credit, at least. I based it off of how Blue Exorcist's Okumura Rin would look like if he was son of some lightning demon instead of Satan. Pretty much did it, I guess :p Hope that wasn't too much of faking copyrights.

Jutsu Description (Of this chapter and chapter 23)

Fushi no Jutsu and Tensei ninjutsu (Immortality Jutsu and Transfer ninjutsu):- I'm not explaining these two. If you don't know what it is, you certainly haven't spend your time reading the Naruto manga series so much. :p

Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu):- One of Sasuke's favorite jutsu, since he can use it while coupling it with several hidden shurikens. A jutsu where he spews out several regular-sized fireballs. Effective while in high speed fights.

Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu):- In case anyone's wondering, it's the basic jutsu every Uchiha clan member needs to successfully use in order to be granted the privilege to bear the Uchiha fan insignia on their clothes. Or so the canon says. The fact is, if one would to learn the jutsu, it's fairly easy to use. But that doesn't mean this jutsu's dectructive power is something to trifle with.

Katon: Goryúka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Great Fire Dragon Jutsu):- Sasuke's jutsu, where he breaths out dragonoid-headed fireballs. The intensity of each fireballs are extreme, to the point where it could heat up the lowest level of the atmosphere and create a thunder cloud through heating the air circulation around a certain spot.

Chidori Nagashi (Chidori Stream):- Sasuke's jutsu, where he generated his Chidori from throughout his body. He should first charge a Chidori on his left hand, then let it stream throughout his body. The process of using this jutsu is similar to when Neji uses his Kaiten; specifically the way he generates his chakra from all of his tenketsu.

Chidori (Thousand Birds):- Yeah, well you know the drill. But to be specific; Sasuke's jutsu. Turning his chakra into lightning in terms of elemental affinity, he focused all of it onto his hand, generating a lightning hand-blade that could cut through armor. The jutsu itself makes sounds like that of thousand birds chirping when activated, thus the name.

Spiderman's lightning sabers:- No legal name, yet. I plan to make one on the second part of this trilogy, so just wait. Spiderman's control over lightning enables him to discharge a continuous flow of concentrated lightning, forming a blade of lightning out of his outer wrist. In a sense, the lightning sabers are chakra swords, so it is able to cut through normal swords.

Sasuke's time disturbance Genjutsu:- Now, I know this shouldn't be explained, at all. But, seeing this might be questionable by some readers, I think I shall. Sasuke's time disturbance jutsu—the one he used on Spiderman before he used a barrage of punches to knock him out cold—is actually a special Genjutsu he wasn't planning on using too soon. The Genjutsu, though superficial in terms of effect, could be fatal if he used it since the beginning of a fight. He used this once in his fight against Danzou in the manga series. In my point of view, this miniscule Genjutsu is so low-classed that it slipped through any ninjas senses. In a sense, it could be said that this Genjutsu resembles Kyouka Suigetsu's hypnotical power (its a sword from Bleach, in case you're wondering). Hey, maybe I'll call the Genjutsu Kyouka Suigetsu in the future. Why not?

Meiton: Nikushimi no Seigyo (Dark Style: Control of Hatred):- The idea of the jutsu itself is canon, but the name is originally by me. This jutsu has the ability to control the mass of hatred that the Bijuu are consisted of. Of course, since Bijuu are beings of mass hatred, anger and rage. However, the peculiar thing is that the jutsu itself is only useable by Kyuubi, however ironic because he supposed to be the one with the biggest amount of hatred. Kyuubi can use this jutsu to its fullest extent; where he can influence weak-willed beings with his hatred and, for a lack of a better word, turn to the dark side.
And in turn, because of being his clone, Raibi can also use the jutsu. But unfortunately, thanks to him being only a clone of Kyuubi, he can't use it very well.

Meiton: Ikari no Kengen (Dark Style: Manifestation of Rage):- Again, the idea of this jutsu is from canon. This is a jutsu that comes in one package with Meiton: Nikushimi no Seigyo. Difference is, whereas Nikushimi no Seigyo is a jutsu where the Bijuu using it can control its own hatred to the point where it can influence others, Ikari no Kengen is the ability to manifest the Bijuu's negative emotions; rage, hatred, anger and all that. The manifestation of those negativity tended to come in the form of their Jinchuuriki's darkest side. In canon, the dark side of a Jinchuuriki which I used as an example is Naruto's dark side in the Waterfall of Truth arc.
Raibi's inability to use Nikushimi no Seigyo successfully effects his Ikari no Kengen ability, making him probably the most successful Bijuu in that departement. The result is Spiderman's dark side, which is the nameless Nega-Spiderman. Because of Raibi's reliance on his Ikari no Kengen rather than Nikushimi no Seigyo, Nega-Spiderman acquired another negative emotion; insanity.

Raiton: Shichi Matenrou (Lightning Style: Seven Skyscrapers):- Spiderman's jutsu. A lightning jutsu that summons out seven pillars of lightning from the ground. To use it, Spiderman needs a substantial amount of chakra—for example, the amount he has in his Lightning-tailed armor mode. To use it, the user needs to expel lightning element chakra out of his body in seven parts. Those seven parts will implant themselves in the ground, and will explode outwards in the shape of a pillar of light when the user wills it to. Also effective as a defensive jutsu when the chakra implanted are in a tight formation.

Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Jutsu):- I really don't have to explain this. But to be safe, it's a jutsu that summons animals and the like through time-space ninjutsu. There's a limited time for the summons to fight, because they rely on the user's chakra after they are summoned. The same cannot be said for Gyaku Kuchiyose (Reversed Summoning).

Kirin (Unexpected Cut):- Now, I know that what Kishimoto-sensei actually meant is a mythology beast of Japanese culture, or something. The translation for Kirin I got from Google Translate after writing 'Kirinu' and let the words form into katakana. The translation is Unexpected Cut.
Sasuke's original jutsu, where, after making a thunder cloud with his Goryuuka no Jutsu, he controls a single but enormous lightning bolt with a low-powered Chidori in his hand. When pausing before the attack, the lightning bolt takes shape of an angry dragonoid beast.

Raiton: Futago no Ikazuchiryú (Lightning Style: Twin Lightning Dragons):- Spiderman's jutsu, where he summons twin serpentine dragons from the sky. Actually, it won't matter whether a thunder cloud is present or not, because the dragon itself was formed from the high atmosphere where electrons are wildly dancing around. But because of the destructive power of this jutsu is great, so is the amount of chakra needed to use it. Spiderman barely survives chakra exhaustion, even with his Lightning-tailed armor mode active. The power in this jutsu is on stalemate with Sasuke's Kirin, even able to cancel it.

Hanauta Sancho: Yahazu Giri (Three-Verse Humming: Arrow Notch Slash):-...Sorry! I couldn't help it, I ended up using One Piece as a reference. Though, seeing in Ultimate Ninja 5, Sasuke's first stage Ultimate Jutsu had the resemblence of Brook's Yahazu Giri. Only, Sasuke's had more slashes in it.
Sasuke's sword technique. He had gotten very talented with his Kusanagi that Orochimaru decided to teach him Hanauta-ryú (Humming Style), a supersonic style where the swordsman's sword movements exceeds the slashes he makes. (Yeah, I know I'm a downright copying monkey, but it works, doesn't it?)

Spiderman: How come I get my ass kicked so easily? I'm way stronger than Sasuke!
Sasuke: Hmph...
Me: Now, now. Don't forget, Spiderman, you're still a newbie in the ninja world. I can't make you an instant-godlike character just like that, can I?
Spiderman: (grumbles and goes out to get some air)
Sakura: (barges in and knocked the door down) I told you QUIT WITH THE RHETORICAL QUESTIONS!