A/N: Tt for the reviews. Sorry for the delay since my comp some how deleted my chap …sigh… HERE IS CHP 26.
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Recap:
Naruto noticed that there was another chakra somewhere nearby; it wasn't Sasuke's or the others. It was ……………………………
End Recap.
Chapter 26: Solution
It was Itachi leaning against the tree trunk. His expression was one of irritation. Sasuke and Naruto head popped up and stared at him as if he was a blinding star. Itachi just looked at them and raised a brow.
"What do you want Itachi?" Sasuke said he was too tired and out of chakra to fight.
"Nothing much foolish one, just wanted to give you some advice to get your little girlfriend back." Itachi said as if it was the most nonchalant topic ever.
"Tell us what you know Itachi!" Naruto yelled out.
"I know a person or two that might help you with getting her back." Itachi said.
"Will you cut to the chase or do I have to Chidori it out of you." Sasuke growled.
"Someone is getting testy. I don't want to waste any more time here so here its is. Go North West from here and you will find a dead end. It isn't a dead end but an illusion so you will have to dispel it, now which might be a bit tricky. Once you get through that you will be shown a pathway... Go along the pathway and you will find the shrine with 2 people inside it. They will help you." Kisame said as he came out from behind the tree.
"Why should we believe you?" Sasuke asked.
"It's your only option." Itachi said.
"Why would you help us? Aren't you also after her?" Naruto asked.
"We are, its just pissing off do it ourselves so we were thinking that we should help each other and in the end we fight." Kisame said.
"It makes sense now. Fine we fight in the end." Naruto said.
"Good. Now we take our leave." Itachi said and disappeared in a gust of smoke along with Itachi.
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"Come on already lets go!" Naruto said and jumped onto a tree branch.
"Shouldn't we tell the others?" Sasuke questioned but jumped on the tree branch next to Naruto.
"No, unless you want to waste precious time that we could use to get Sakura-chan back" Naruto said and continued his journey from one branch to the next going in the direction of North West.
Sasuke looked back but then soon followed. They had a chance to get her back and they weren't going to lose it. Nothing would come in the way.
The North West path was filled with little traps but as they went more into the direction the traps kept on getting bigger and bigger. There were Kunai's with deadly poison shot at them, when it hit the tree the tree had turned dead over the few seconds. Naruto and Sasuke were taking precaution as they go deeper into the woods.
Soon they came upon a stone wall with tree branches and moss all over it. Naruto tried jumping over it but was shocked away from it. Naruto flew a few feet and hit the ground with a loud thud.
"What happened?" Naruto groaned.
"The wall didn't allow you to jump over it." Sasuke said as he opened his sharingan to analyze the wall.
"Well I guess we will have to force our way through now wont us?" Naruto said with a grin and did the hand signs for Rasengan, Sasuke saw that and smirked in return and started his Chidori up.
Both wind and lighting were at there palms now, both together start running at full speed towards the wall and their palms facing out. Their weapons met the wall; the wall couldn't handle such power so it crumbled beneath it.
"Yay! We did it!" Naruto said jumping up and down.
"Come on we still have more distance to cover before we reach the place." Sasuke said and charged off, Naruto soon following.
They went past the trees and went up the rocky path; soon they started dodging kunais and shuirekens that were aimed at them. Their clothes had cuts here and there. Thin lines of dried bloods were visible.
They soon say a kunai coming at them with an explosive tag. They jumped out of the way and landed on the ground. Soon they found themselves surrounded by what seemed like a hundred shinobi's.
"What now! Seriously why do people always come in our way?" Naruto said in frustration. He was tired of fighting all he wanted to do was get his Sakura-chan back home.
"Naruto come on get yourself together the sooner we finish them the sooner we get closer to bring Sakura home." Sasuke said.
"What makes you think you will get the Pink Devil back so easily?" The man who stepped out in front of them said.
His hair was to the side, shadowing one of his eyes. His hair was forest green and his eyes were the same colour but they held no emotions within them. His companions came out of their hiding revealing themselves to the sun. All of their looks went from gorgeous to simple ugly. One of them was bald with a scar on their scalp going from the front of his head to the back ending at his nape. One of the others was blonde in spikes and had sea green eyes; he had a scar across his forehead but that only enhanced his looks.
Naruto was seething you could practically see the steam coming out of his ears. His hands clenched at his sides, trying to control his breathing and counting backwards in his head. Sasuke controlled his emotions very well even though he wanted to rip all their heads off, he sustained. He resisted his inner demons and pushed them to the side of his head, he had more important stuff to concentrate on, like the fight they were about to get into.
"DON'T CALL HER A DEVIL" Naruto cried out, his breathing harsh.
"Then what should we call her? A W-h-o-" The man was about to finish his sentence but was silenced at the sight of 2 pairs of red eyes, one with slits and another with the wheels spinning.
"Don't you dare utter another word, you filthy human being!" Sasuke said through clenched teeth, he was having some trouble controlling his temper.
"You know we aren't looking for a fight, so will you two young men just go back from where you came from, now." The blonde one said
"We aren't leaving until we get to our destination!" Naruto yelled.
"And your destination is death? We will gladly help you there!" One of them screamed and went to attack them.
As soon as he got in front of Naruto he had a katana going through him, he looked at the area where the katana pierced through him. Blood was pouring out of him in a smooth flow. When the katana was extracted it was covered in warm red liquid. The man fell onto his face, dead. Naruto took his katana and wiped it clean on his body, he then looked up at all of them letting them know he was serious.
One on them was trembling with rage that their partner was killed right in front of them.
That man then came at Naruto from the back, Naruto reacted too slow and was about to be hit with a kunai when the mans head was cut off at his shoulders, blood was all over Naruto's face.
Sasuke had launched himself as soon he saw the man coming at Naruto. He came in between Naruto and the mans kunai and his katana went straight to his neck cutting it off, spilling blood every where, mostly on them both.
"Watch your back Naruto I am not always going to be there to save your ass dobe." Sasuke said with a smirk.
"Teme!" Naruto said with a grin, both friends gave each other an assuring nod and then they took their place.
Naruto and Sasuke went back to back took out their katana and kunai holding it in front of them in defence position.
"Charge!" The leader screamed with all his might.
All of them who were on tree's were launched themselves at them. Both of them tensed in anticipation. One came at Naruto's left and Sasuke went straight to him and cut one of his hands which was holding the weapon. It falls to the ground with a thud. The next ninja came at Sasuke while he was busy with the other one; Naruto went for his neck cutting it open but not the whole way so the head wouldn't fall of.
One by one they kept on coming at them, and they all went done one by one. They had each others back. Soon they came in 3's Naruto then had to perform Kage Bushin No Jutsu (A/n: is that right?) 3 more Naruto were born and began attacking at full speed.
Sasuke saw that Naruto could handle this so he went after the enemy. He jumped into the trees that held a few of them and began attacking restlessly. No one would come in their way of bringing Sakura back that was a promise of a life time.
Then Sasuke heard a sound behind him and turned full force his katana clashed with Naruto's Kunai. They both smirked at each other; they straightened up and looked around them to see the damage they did. It was brutal. You could see that this part of the woods was soaked in blood.
"Want to continue now?" Sasuke said.
"Yeah sure, but we need to find a river to clean up in, we don't want to great the people who might help us bloody now do we?" Naruto said already trying to wipe the blood away, but only in succeeding in smudging it all over.
"Stop that if you don't want people to mistake you having a really bad Sun burn." Sasuke said and jumped into the trees.
"How come you always jump first? It's not fair you should always be the one who goes first." Naruto complained.
"Well then you should jump first." Sasuke said simply and went ahead.
Soon they both started racing with each other in the direction. They were evenly matched.
They didn't even notice that something was following them. They went straight forward. Sasuke noticed something and stopped but Naruto went forward and met the wall face to face.
Sasuke cringed as he heard a bone crack. He looked at Naruto who was on his head with a dazed expression on his face.
Sasuke looked around them and saw that they had reached their destination. They were at the temple. He looked back at Naruto to speak but saw that he too noticed.
"You boys going to keep staring or do you want to come in?" A voice said from above.
Both of them looked up and saw a very handsome man who had orange hair with black streaks in it. They saw that he was their age. That he was tall as them and muscular too.
You could see the charming smile on his face that you knew that he meant no harm.
"Who are you?" Sasuke asked with caution.
"I will answer all your questions once you enter." He said.
"We will only enter if," Naruto pause with a grave look on his face that made Sasuke wonder what he was about to say, "you have ramen, because I'm straving." He grinned and rubbed the back on his head. Sasuke's eye twitched at this. He couldn't believe he would ask something like that!
"Haha! Yeah sure kid we have loads of that in the kitchen." The guys said as he chuckled and began walking toward the house.
"How come you calling me a kid, you're the same age as me." Naruto said as he caught up to him.
"I will answer all your questions once we are in the house and there is no chance for anyone to over hear us." He said.
They entered the house, it was huge! It was a classical japans house, made of wood with a few paintings here and there. They were walking through a hall when a picture caught Naruto's attention. It was a picture of three people, including the guy who was guiding now. There was a girl in the middle of the two boys, she had purple hair and violet eyes that were shinning with happiness and was sitting on the chair, she was simple gorgeous. The boy next to her had a possessive hand over her shoulder and was leaning against one side of the chair with a lazy smile on his face, his hair and eyes were both black. The boy who was guiding there as well and he was standing on the other side of the chair with his hand on her free shoulder, but it was more like a brotherly hold, he had a big smile on his face.
"Who are those with you?" Naruto questioned.
"They are my family." Was the curt reply they got from him.
"You do know that we don't know your name right?" Sasuke asked.
"The name is Tadase and yours?" Tadase asked.
"Uchiha Sasuke." Sasuke said.
"Uzumaki Naruto, next Hokage of Konoha!" Naruto said with excitement.
"Wonderful." Tadase said and smiled at them.
"Umm… were are we heading?" Naruto asked.
"We are going to find my sister then we can go to the kitchen to get your ramen."
"You have a sister?" Naruto asked.
"Yes I do, the girl in the picture you saw is my sister." Tadase said.
"What about the-" Sasuke question was cut of when Tadase opened the door to reveal a small and feminine room.
"What do you want Tadase?" A honey covered voice said.
"I just want you to meet Sasuke and Naruto." Tadase said with a teasing tone.
"Oh! Where are they?" She then came into view. She was more beautiful in real life than the picture. Except now her eyes held sadness and hope in them, she smiled at them but it also wasn't as happy as the one in the picture it felt as if she was torn.
"My name is Utau, please to meet you." She said and bowed a bit in front of them.
"Utau they want ramen do you mind making some?" Tadase asked.
"Yes sure I don't mind, I was going to head to the kitchen to get a snack anyway." She replied.
They then began walking towards the kitchen, Naruto again was looking at all the pictures and Sasuke was analysing their hosts.
"Oh this is pretty!" Naruto said with a smile while he pointed at a certain picture.
There was Utau sitting on a chair posing in front of the painter, with her hair open and flowing over her shoulder and onto her lap. Her ears held tear shape violet earrings. Her dress was very light purple and sliver silk ending it. The top was an off the shoulder and that was made with the light purple cloth, as it went down it tightened around her waist showing her figure a bit and as soon as it reached hips the silver silk started, this silver wasn't the type of silver that would stand out a lot, it was the subtle type and it gave her grace. In the end to say she was amazing.
"Thank you." She said and smiled at him, but her eyes showed a different emotion; pain.
Sasuke looked at Tadase to see his eyes turning serious.
"Don't you think its time to get to the kitchen already?" Tadase said impatiently.
"You will just have to wait now wont you Ta-da-se" Utau said teasingly.
They reached the kitchen, Sasuke, Naruto and Tadase seated themselves at the counter and looked at Utau as she busied herself with making the ramen. No sooner did they have warm ramen in front of them. Naruto's eyes shined with happiness as he dug into it maybe hoping to uncover a treasure. Sasuke ate his ramen slowly and patiently so much to say for his partner. Tadase ate normally with Utau looking at all of them with amusement showing in her eyes.
Then Tadase shook his head at Utau who sighed.
"What's going on?" Sasuke questioned.
"I think its time to reveal ourselves." Utau said.
"I think so too." Tadase agreed.
"Huh, why are you all looking serious?" Naruto said when he came out of his ramen mode.
"Well usually when anyone who comes here doesn't notice this house, because we put a genjutsu to cover us." Tadase said.
"Then how come we found it?" Naruto asked.
"Well because we wanted you to find it." Utau said.
"What do you what with us?" Sasuke said and stood up.
"Nothing that won't benefit you as well." Tadase said.
"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked.
"You want Cherry back and we want something back too, it's a fixed deal you help us n we will help you, but at a price." Tadase said going in front of Utau in a protective mode.
"What? We help you and you help us and then we pay in the end? That doesn't seem fair." Naruto said.
"Life isn't fair it steal your family, friends and loves away from you with a flick of a switch. So don't you complain to me about life." Tadase said with hard and cold eyes.
"We will help you get back Sakura and in the end we just need you to continue our lives." He continued.
"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked.
"We will explain that in details later." Utau.
"What will you get out of this?" Naruto asked
"We get our friend back and we can be at peace." Utau said and closed her eyes and kept her hands on her hands.
"We don't know the details but if we can get back our Sakura-chan back we accept" Naruto said, "But one second, how can you two help when our entire team of 16 people couldn't help and they were the best in Konoha."
"Because we are the Immortals." Tadase said.
A/N : who are they ? Immortals? Can Sasuke and Naruto trust them ? What are they meaning by continue our lives, what is the payment they will have to pay??
Lol no more questions hehe…
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