AH, chapter 27. I never thought this story would reach this number. It's been a very long time since I last updated. I was busy with my finals as you all know! But here it is. I hope you guys like this chapter
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This chapter might be longer than I expected, but don't worry, this chapter is not the end…yet!
READ THIS PLEASE! I would rate this chapter M because it has a LOT of violence, for those with weak hearts, don't read. For those with weak hearts and want to continue with reading…Uh…you're on your own! I'm serious!!! It has more devastating scenes than I've ever written before.
This might be one of the longest, most twisted chapters I have ever written or read. So if you guys got lost, wait for the following chapter.
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Please remember, Chapter 27
It was now Sakura, Sasuke, Naruto, Lee, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Kankurou and Temari against Uchiha Itachi. The latter was standing calmly yet firmly while the others were at full alert, Kankurou and Temari being the last to join in.
Sasuke looked at the group and narrowed his eyes. "Stay back!" he ordered, causing the others to look worriedly at him. "But, Sasuke-kun―"
"―It's a fight between me and my brother!" he continued, interrupting Sakura's words. "I knew his visit to Konoha wasn't just a friendly one" he said, glaring at his brother, taking his stance. "Is this what I'd better not know about? Is this what you've hidden from me during the past five years?" Sasuke said, causing his brother to close his eyes.
"Sasuke-kun," he started, opening his eyes to reveal his specialty, the Mangekyo Sharingan. "you've brought it on yourself!" he said, looking at each and every one of them straight in the eyes. Sasuke managed to turn his head aside, avoiding his brother's look. He looked back at his friends.
"Don't look at his eyes!" He yelled to warn them, but it was already too late. He widened his eyes when he saw no one around him.
"Sasuke-kun," Itachi said, narrowing his eyes at his brother. "you're wondering where they are, aren't you?" he asked, his dreadful voice echoing around the place. Sasuke gulped, his head was still turned to the back when he suddenly turned to look at his brother, not straight in the eye.
"Shit!" Sasuke exclaimed when he realized his brother was gone. He turned right and left, behind him, he took a couple of steps back, knowing that underground is a perfect place for an Itachi like him to hide.
"SHOW YOURSELF!" Sasuke yelled, looking around him. The area surrounding him suddenly turned dark. When he turned around, looking for a hint of light, he realized that he was in a certain Tatami-floored room, a very familiar room. Sasuke realized he was standing in the Uchiha clan residence main room. Itachi was in the middle of it, looking at Sasuke with narrowed blood-red eyes. He gasped as he suddenly found himself tied to a vertical pole. Itachi smirked and formed some seals.
"Katon: Karyū Endan" he said, exhaling a long stream of incredibly hot fire which quickly engulfed Sasuke in flames, making him scream as he felt his flesh being burnt. He screamed bloody murder as he felt his skin fall off his body. Sasuke closed his eyes; the pain was horrid and unbearable; he was being burnt alive. Suddenly, he opened his eyes to see that his skin wasn't burned, and Itachi was standing a couple of feet away from him.
"I-Itachi," he mumbled, trying to untie himself from the pole. "you bastard" he spat, glaring at his brother who formed the seals again, blowing the same stream at his Younger brother. The latter screamed in pain as the situation was done over and over again, each time worse than the previous.
Hinata was wandering along a very wide and long corridor, it was dark. The light at the end of the tunnel was the only thing lighting the way. She realized, if she reached that light, she would get out of wherever she was.
"N-Neji!" she mumbled, looking around her for any sign of her cousin, "Naruto-kun!" she started to look around for any sign of her friends, but they weren't around her. She activated her Byakugan and looked through the walls, to the end of the tunnel, but she wasn't able to see anything. It was as if something was preventing her from seeing beyond the area she was in.
"Hinata-sama." she heard a voice that made her turn around. She smiled once she saw it was her fellow Hyuuga, standing still in the middle of the corridor, arms crossed.
"Neji-nii-chan!" she said, running back towards him, her speed slowed down as she saw the expression on his face. She grimaced as she remembered that look on his face.
"N-Neji-kun?" she asked, looking worriedly at her cousin. "W-Why are you l-looking at me like t-this?" she asked, fearing his intense gaze. He narrowed his eyes even more.
"Your father is the reason mine is dead!" he quietly said, causing Hinata to take a deep breath. "Your damn main house family destroyed my life. And I still can't believe that you got to be a part of it, just because your father was born before my father" he said, moving his vision to the ground and closing his eyes. Hinata blinked a couple of times, holding her hand against her chest. He opened his eyes again, looking angrily at her.
"You're still as weak as you always were, Hinata-sama." he said, smirking, "You're never going to get any stronger" he said, smirking once he saw the hint of tears in her eyes. He was already getting to her.
Hinata was at the verge of tears, his words reminding her of their face-off at the Chuunin preliminary exams. She shook her head, trying to get his words out of her head.
"Neji-kun" she mumbled, taking a step back. 'This is a genjutsu. I know it is! Neji-nii-chan would never say those words to me' she thought, taking another step backwards. Neji watched her every move as he stood in his place, smirking at her. She turned around and ran as fast as she could towards the light.
"Where are you going, Hinata-sama?" she heard his voice, stopping her in her tracks. She gasped once she saw him standing a couple of feet away from her, in front of her.
"You're not expecting that I let you out of her without a payback, now, did you?" he asked, taking his gentle fist stance.
"Hakke Rokujuuyon Shou!" he said, as he moved in one swift move towards her, his fingers thrust at her. Everything happened very fast as she was hit everywhere on her body, at her 64 Chakura points. In a matter of seconds, no, part of seconds, she was finished as she fell backwards, hitting the ground.
Neji looked down at her, smirking evilly. "You would never make a good Ninja. You're a failure to everyone, a disgrace to your own family name" he said, giving her one last look before walking away.
"You don't deserve to be a Hyuuga!" he said, walking off, leaving Hinata lying on the ground, eyes widened and shivering, unable to move. Everything around her started to be blurry, soon turned into full darkness.
"Temari!" Kankurou yelled, looking for a sign of his blonde sibling. He looked around in the mist. 'Where has she gone to? Where has everyone gone to?' he thought, looking around.
"Kankurou!" he heard her voice, calling for him. He looked around, wondering where she is. Her voice seemed to echo as she called him again and again, confusing Kankurou.
"Where are you?!" he yelled, turning around a couple of times before finally finding her, standing in front of a pile of sand.
Kankurou ran towards her, and stopped once he saw what she was looking at. Kankurou wasn't quite sure what they were both looking at. He looked at his sister; her face was pale and had no expression whatsoever.
"Temari," he said, putting his hand on her shoulder, noticing how tense and nervous she was. "are you ok?" He said, tilting his head to face her. She looked at him with a blank expression on her face, ironically, making her resemble Gaara in so many ways.
"We're finally in peace" she mumbled, her expressionless gaze making Kankurou shiver a bit. "Temari, What are you talking about?" he looked at the ground where the pile of sand used to be, his eyes widened.
"G-Ga…" he stuttered, not able to even say his name, "G-Gaara!" he mumbled, looking at his brother's dead body lying in front of him, his body cut and slashed in so many places. Temari chuckled quietly, her chuckles soon turned to laughter. Kankurou looked with fear at his sister as her laughter turned into a maniacal one.
"What did you do?!" he yelled, holding his sister's shoulders as she continued to laugh non-stop. "Did you kill him, Temari? Did you!?" he asked, pointing at his brother's dead body. Temari suddenly stopped, looking evilly at her brother
"You're about to meet the same fate!" she said, jumping a couple of feet backwards as she pulled her fan off her back.
"Daikamaitachi no Jutsu!" She yelled, swinging the fan at her brother. He was caught off guard as the winds started to cut him in several places. He kneeled on the ground, realizing that the cuts were deeper than he imagined.
"T-Temari!" he mumbled, looking at his sister who held the open fan behind her back, revealing the three blue stars. Kankurou, knowing that he had to stop his sister in anyway possible, reached for the three scrolls on his back. But to his surprise, he found only one.
'What?! Where are the rest?' he asked himself, knowing for sure that they were with him.
"You usually won't survive after seeing these, but," she said, referring to the stars. Temari closed her fan and put it in its place on her back. "I won't kill you," she said, smirking at him. "not with this, that is." she said as blue Chakura appeared on the tips of her fingers, soon turned into Chakura strings. Kankurou gasped as he realized what she was about to do.
"You can't!" he said, seeing that his sister was moving her fingers in a specific way, his own specific way that he use to move his puppets.
"Karasu, Kuroari!" she yelled, causing the three-eyed, four-armed humanoid puppet and the ant-like puppet to jump down from nowhere to stand in front of her. Kankurou's eyes were widened as he saw that his sister was manipulating his puppets.
He growled, pulling the only scroll on his back and laid it down on the ground, opening it, knowing which puppet was in this scroll.
"Sanshouo!" he yelled, as his salamander-like puppet appeared in a puff of smoke. Kankurou gritted his teeth. 'It's my only defense against my own puppets. The problem is that he doesn't have any offensive techniques that could help me stop her'
Temari, still in control of Karasu and Kuroari, smirked. She ordered Karasu to attack; only its attacks were stopped by Sanshouo's back shield which stood so high that it blocked Kankurou's vision of Temari as he was kneeling. He chuckled, nervously.
"You're not expecting to defeat me with my own puppets" he yelled, making sure his sister is to hear him.
"Oh, Yes, I am!" she yelled, ordering Karasu to move at an incredible speed, a speed Kankurou never knew his puppet could go at. He was startled when Karasu managed to penetrate Sanshouo's defense and started to slash its attacks down at Kankurou, the latter taking a couple of steps back, jumping and dodging to avoid his puppets attack.
"Right into the trap, Kankurou!" she yelled, causing her brother to look back and curse. Kuroari was set behind him; its body was opened to reveal the trap Kankurou made especially in it. He stopped, avoiding falling back into the trap. Unfortunately, Karasu slashed and gashed down on Kankurou, causing the latter to trip and get trapped inside Kuroari, the latter closing its hollow trap to reveal number of holes on the sides of his body.
Temari laughed as she ordered Karasu to separate his limps from his body, revealing the hidden blades on the tip of each of its limps. Kankurou was seeing the whole scene from the small holes in the sides of Kuroari. His eyes widened as he saw the blades coming down at him.
He could hear Temari laugh as Kuroari was impaled by Karasu, Kankurou gasped for breath as he felt his puppet's limps penetrate his body, feeling the blades inside his chest, arms and stomach. He saw his own blood coming out of his body; he knew this was the end of everything. Ironically, his end was by his own puppets, controlled by the closest person to him.
"S-Shit!" he mumbled, before everything turned black.
"What in the world?" Temari said as she looked at her surroundings. She realized she was in her hometown, Sunagakure. "Wasn't I in Konoha?" she asked herself, looking around; the village seemed to be empty. No one was in the streets, the houses were wrecks and it looked like one of those haunted villages.
"Where's everybody?" she asked, looking as far as her eyes can see.
"They're gone, Temari" she turned around to see Baki, one of the powerful Jonins in Sunagakure and her former sensei.
"Baki, what's going on?" she asked, crossing her arms. Baki smirked, "Why don't you ask Kazekage-sama? He's up there!" he said, pointing at the top of the ball-shaped building, where The Kazekage looked down at both of them, dressed in the usual white and blue Kazekage uniform, except the hat was taken off. She gasped.
"Dō-sama!" she said, looking at the fourth Kazekage, her father. She blinked a couple of times, making sure the distance wasn't fooling her.
"Baki," she said, turning around, "Kazekage-sama is―" she stopped when she realized that she was alone. She looked right and left for a sign of the Jonin, but there was none.
Temari sighed, looking back at her father whose intense gaze almost burned her. She moved her vision back to the road in front of her as she made her way towards the Kazekage building.
In a matter of seconds, she reached the top of the building. The sandy wind was hitting her face as the place was very high. Temari took a couple of steps towards the Kazekage, carefully making sure not to make him feel uncomfortable.
She knew her father was a strict man. He told his children, whenever he's in his Kazekage uniform, or he's inside that building, he should be addressed as Kazekage-sama, even when it comes to his own children. Temari seemed to forget that fact.
"Dō-sama!" She started, causing him to turn sharply at her. "What did I tell you about that?" he firmly said; his naturally eye-lined eyes piercing almost through her. That was one of the reasons she feared him.
"Forgive me, Kazekage-sama" She said, kneeling and lowering her vision to the ground as a respect to her father. He looked patronizingly at her before turning his head back at the scenery of Sunagakure. Temari lifted her head, looking at her father as he went silent.
"Kazekage-sama" She started, getting up. He stood there, the wind blow at both of them again. He looked at the scenery and breathed deeply.
"It's gone; everything" he said, causing Temari to narrow her eyes. "I should've killed him when I had the chance" he talked, moving his hands behind his back.
"It's partially your fault as well, Temari" he said, turning his head to the side. "You failed me"
Temari widened her eyes, 'Failed him?' she thought, her lips quivering. To her, making her father proud was everything to her. She knew since she was a little girl, after Gaara's birth and her mother's death, she knew that she was the mother, the sister and the responsible one in the family, being the oldest of the children. Her father, the fourth Kazekage, being always busy, made her responsible for her two younger brothers, telling her:
'Temari, I want you to protect your brothers no matter what. You've become such a strong Kunoichi and I know you'll do your best in protecting them. Make sure you keep an eye on Gaara as well'
She froze in her place, hearing her father's words of disappointment made her eyes water. Temari wasn't the emotional type of girls, but when it comes to reputation and pride, she would be the first to react to it.
"You've failed me when I gave you the responsibility. Gaara has destroyed the whole village while you were in Konohagakure messing with that Nara, such an irresponsible act." he angrily said, referring to Shikamaru. Temari looked at the ground with shame, listening to her father's painful words over and over again.
"I've failed you, Kazekage-sama" she mumbled, closing her eyes as tears made their way down her cheeks.
"That's what you're good at, crying. When your mother died, when you tripped as a little girl, it's a good time you start to cry once you've failed everyone in Suna." He said, looking at his daughter patronizingly.
"I disown you as my daughter. You're nothing but a mere pig to me" he said, walking off, leaving Temari in a devastated state. She fell to her knees, crying silently.
"I-I don't want to be a Kunoichi anymore" she said, burying her face in her hands and crying her heart out. "I don't want to live like this anymore. I," she mumbled, lying fully on the ground, sobbing silently.
"I give up" she said, closing her eyes as she felt herself drift into unconsciousness.
"Oi, Akamaru. Do you have any idea where we are?" Kiba asked his nin-dog; the latter frowned and lowered his head to the ground as a sign of being as confused as him. Kiba looked around. He was in the middle of what seemed to be Konoha forest. A moment ago, he was at the mountain. Then, in a flash, he found himself in that place.
Kiba stopped looking around and focused more on his partner as the latter started to sniff the air before looking up at his owner and barking twice.
Kiba's eyes widened, "Akamaru, are you sure nee-chan is around here?" he asked his dog who barked again as a positive reply. Kiba looked in the distance, as far as he eyes could see.
"We have to find her, Akamaru, Let's go" he said, running off, followed by his nin-dog.
A couple of minutes of searching between the high and branch-tangled trees, he found no sign of his sister.
"Akamaru, Are you sure―" he stopped as he raised his vision from his dog to what was behind him, a couple of trees away from their position. He froze when he saw his sister, Inuzuka Hana, holding in her arms one of the dogs they owned, a very important one.
"Nee-chan!" he yelled, running to her. She looked up at him, her eyes puffed and her face was wet with tears. He stopped a couple of feet away, looking at the canine in her arms.
"Kuromaru" he mumbled, looking at his mother's canine and wolfish partner who was in his sister's arms. She sobbed as she looked at the ground.
"I had no other choice, I had to put him down" she said, caressing the wolf's black fur. Kiba knotted his eyebrows.
"Put down?" he mumbled, looking at Kuromaru. Kiba knew his sister was emotional when it comes to putting animals down. Being a veterinarian, Hana was close to animals. She literally understood them, especially the ones their family owned. When they got hurt, she would try her best to heal them, but never to kill them.
Kiba narrowed his eyes, "Hana," he said, causing his sister to look up at him. "where's mother? Kuromaru is always with her. Where is she?" he asked, looking around.
"She's, she's gone" she said, sobbing harder. Kiba's eyes widened as he froze in his place, shocked. "She's dead"
"D-Dead?" he stuttered, before shaking his head. "What do you mean dead?!!" he yelled, causing his sister to flinch. Kiba breathed heavily, he never thought he would lose his mother, never wanted to think about that possibility. Yet, now he was faced with that fact. He kneeled in front of his sister, looking at her straight in the eye.
"H-How?!" he muttered, bracing himself by putting his hand on the ground. She closed her eyes, holding her tears back.
"It was the reason I had to put Kuromaru down," she said, clutching the fur of her mother's nin-dog. "but I was too late, too late" she said, crying. Kiba blinked a couple of times, not believing what he had heard.
"Do you mean that Kuromaru…?" he said, looking at it. She nodded, "The poison that Akamaru had been exposed to have showed up again. This time, it infected Kuromaru and the Haimaru Sankyodai" she said, referring to her group of ash colored nin-dogs. "I've never managed to find them. They could be anywhere" she said, lowering her vision to the ground.
Kiba got up on his two feet, looking away, his hands balled into fists. "We have to finish them off as well, right?" he asked his sister, but she didn't reply. He looked back where his sister was, but to his surprise, she was gone.
"What in the world is going on here?" he mumbled, turning right and left before looking at the opposite direction, his back facing Akamaru. "Akamaru, wasn't Hana here a second ago―" he stopped talking once he heard the low growl of his nin-dog. He slowly turned around, looking at it.
"A-Akamaru!" he mumbled when he saw his trusted partner's fur was turning red and its fangs and body were getting larger. Kiba stood in his place, trying to figure out what happened to his companion.
'Was he also somehow exposed to that disease?' he asked himself, remembering the last time the same situation happened; Akamaru couldn't recognize its master.
'This is bad!' he said, slowly gulping as he froze in his place. Akamaru grew to the fact that he stood up to 170 centimeters high. Kiba knew if Akamaru noticed any tense movement from him, it would be the end.
He breathed slowly, avoiding making a sound as Akamaru took one step closer to him. The dog's breath was hitting his face, its saliva falling to the ground as Akamaru gritted its teeth at him. Kiba was able to hear something in the bushes, causing him to slowly turn his head to the side. His eyes widened once he noticed that it was his sister's dogs.
"Nee-chan no Haimaru Sankyodai" he mumbled, as the three grey-colored dogs surrounded him along with Akamaru. He looked at each and every one of them, knowing that they don't recognize their owner anymore, knowing that if he tried to run, they would easily catch up to him.
He looked at his partner right in the eye, trying to find a way to tell him to stop what he was doing, finding a way to let Akamaru look back at him and know that it was Inuzuka Kiba, his friend and companion, the one who raised him ever since he was a small puppy. Kiba chuckled, knowing that there's nothing to be done.
"I'm sorry, Hana-chan, Mother" he said, smiling, "Akamaru, forgive me for not trying" he said, taking a deep breath before suddenly sprinting and running off between the trees. He soon heard the growling sound of the nin-dogs as they followed him, their footsteps getting closer to him, he could sense them, smell them, see them as they were about to hunt him down.
'I am just as idiotic as I thought' he thought as he ran faster. He jumped over the fallen branches, avoided the sharp twigs and maneuvered between the smaller trees in hopes he would run away from them.
Kiba stopped, realizing that no one was following him, "What in the world is happening?" he said, turning around. There was no sign of the Sankyodai or Akamaru. He sighed, before sharply turning his head to the right to see that Akamaru was lunging at him, its six-centimeter long claws ahead of him.
Kiba froze once he felt sharp pain through his neck. He stood for a couple of seconds, reaching his hand to touch his neck which was severely wounded as the blood was coming out non-stop. Kiba gasped for breath, rolled his eyes and fell to the ground before taking his last breaths. He took one last look at his companion with a smile on his face, before welcoming the darkness without a fight.
He opened his eyes to find himself in a village he didn't recognize, it was raining and the weather was cold.
Shino took a deep breath and started walking. He didn't know where he was going, all he knew that his legs were leading him somewhere. He looked in the distance to see his father, or what looked like his figure. As he walked closer, the figure was disappearing into the rain. He blinked a couple of times as he started running after the figure, running through the empty street of the village until he reached a building with big doors.
Luckily for him, his hood and heavy clothes were protective from the rain. He slowly moved his hands towards the door and pushed, but the door didn't budge. He kept on trying, but no avail. Suddenly, the area became misty, only the mist was purple colored. In a matter of seconds, Shino screamed in pain, looking at his hands.
'What the hell is this?!' he asked, looking at his hands, seeing his bugs go wild beneath his skin, causing him to look around, look for the source of that purple gas.
He winced once he felt the sharp sting beneath his skin. He looked at his hands again to see that the movement of the bugs has increased, along with the amount of rain. Their movement wasn't unusual to Shino, because his body was their host. But to move at such a fast rate, Shino knew something was wrong. He took one last look at his hands before raising his head, to see his father standing in front of him.
"Your life ends here, Shino, your bugs have sensed your fear and betrayal" he said, walking away. Shino knotted his eyebrows, not quite understanding his father's words, causing him to take a couple of steps in his father's direction before stopping in his tracks.
Shino suddenly screamed in pain as he felt his flesh being torn from the inside; his bugs have gone ballistic and unstoppable. He tried his best to stop their movement but no avail. As the rain started to fall heavier than it would usually do, Shino couldn't help it and fell to his knees, clutching the sides of his head as he felt the bugs move towards it. He screamed once he realized that his body was being destroyed, and he was alive to feel his bugs destroy their host, something no one would wish for, something that no Aburame clan member would think of. He closed his eyes as he felt himself become heavy, falling face down on the ground.
"Where the hell are we?" Naruto asked, looking around as he was in an almost dark corridor. It was lit by torches that hung on the wall along the walk way. Lee was there with him, shrugging his shoulders as a reply to his question.
"Beats me" he said, trying to find a way out of the place they were in. "How did we get here in the first place?" he continued, crossing his arms. Naruto sighed, "Genjutsu. One of Itachi's specialties, that's for sure" Naruto said, looking around the four-meter wide corridor. Lee picked one of the torches hung on the walls and lifted it high so it would light as wide as it could.
"Do you see anything?"
"Not a thing!"
They both frustratingly sighed while Naruto took the torch from Lee's hand "Let's move along, I'm sure we'll find a way out" Naruto said, walking ahead of Lee who silently followed.
Half an hour of walking had past, Lee and Naruto haven't found an exit.
"Man, this tunnel-thingy doesn't end, does it?" Lee said, looking at the end of the corridor which was simply pitch black. "I can't believe I'm going to spend the rest of my youthful life here" he said, looking at the ground. Naruto sighed heavily, crossed his arms and sat on the ground, Indian style, pushing his back against the wall. Lee looked quizzically at him.
"What are you doing?" Lee asked, crossing his arms at Naruto who squeezed his eyes shut
"Waiting" He exclaimed, doing nothing in particular. Lee knotted his eyebrows, not following his friend.
"What do you mean waiting? We might never get out of here"
"Exactly!" Naruto said, looking up at his friend. Lee smirked and shook his head. "Aha. That's a smart idea. You don't want us to waste our Energy" Lee said, sitting down next to his friend. Naruto laughed, "You know it-ttebayo" he said, looking right and left for a way out.
"So, you're basically going to wait for what?" Lee said, leaving Naruto to complete his thoughts. Naruto chuckled, "We're waiting for Itachi to run out of Chakura" he said, grinning goofily. Lee gaped, "That's your plan? That guy is a tank! He got us all in his illusion! I really doubt he ever runs out of Chakura" Lee said, getting up. Naruto threw his hands in the air.
"Where do you think you're going?" He asked, causing Lee to turn around and face him. "I'm going to find us a way out of here, Naruto-kun" he said, walking away with the torch. "You'll be back here in no time, trust me" He said as he watched his friend walk away to his left, disappearing into the darkness.
A couple of minutes later, Naruto felt frustrated. It felt like hours have passed since Lee walked away and he didn't return yet. Naruto looked at his left for any sign of the bushy-browed ninja, but there was none.
He stood up, resting his hands on his wait frustratingly, facing the side where Lee went to. "Where are you, Lee?" he asked himself.
"Naruto-kun, how did you get here?" Naruto screamed, turning around. "L-Lee?!" he asked, blinking a couple of times. Lee looked behind him, then at Naruto.
"Didn't I just leave you behind?" Lee asked, pointing behind him and looking quizzically at Naruto. Naruto pointed at the opposite direction.
"Didn't you just go this way?" Naruto asked, narrowing his eyes at Lee. Lee widened his eyes, jumping a couple of steps away from Naruto.
"You're not Naruto-kun!"
Lee said, narrowing their eyes at each other. Naruto stood there, gaping at his friend's reaction. Lee smirked, "Your reaction indicates that you're not Naruto-kun, and for that, I will fight you" Lee said, running towards the blonde-ninja. Naruto's eyes widened as Lee jumped and did his famous roundhouse kick.
"Konoha Senpū!" Lee yelled, sending his kick at Naruto who blocked it and was thrown a couple of feet away from Lee.
"STOP IT, LEE!" Naruto exclaimed, causing Lee to stop for a minute. "This is what he wants! He wants us to fight and waste our Chakura!" Naruto said, holding his hands up in defense. Lee raised both eyebrows in surprise.
"Ooh, so that's what it is" he said, nodding slowly. "So how do you explain yourself being ahead of me?" Lee said, looking behind him at the dark end of the corridor.
Naruto looked at the ground, thinking. "I don't know" he said, rubbing his chin. Lee nodded before looking at Naruto with a bright expression on his face.
"I have an Idea, wait here!" he said, running back to where he came from. Naruto sighed and crossed his arms.
"This guy is weird" he said, looking at the ground. A couple of seconds later, he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around to see Lee.
"You're back," Naruto said, narrowing his eyes. "from the opposite direction" he exclaimed, shaking his head. "I'm lost" he said, sighing heavily. Lee chuckled.
"It's a loop!" he said, throwing his hands to the side. "We're going round and round in a circle, get it?" Lee explained, moving his finger in a circular motion, causing Naruto to be surprised.
"Oh," he said, changing his surprised expression into a sly one, "how did you know that, Lee?" he asked, crossing his arms.
"I don't know, I just figured" he said, looking at the ground thinking. "If we're going round and round in a closed circle then the only way to get out of here is to..." he said, looking at the walls. Naruto looked at the wall and smirked, "And they say that I'm the fox, ne?" Naruto exclaimed, looking slyly at his hardworking friend as they both started hitting the wall with everything they've got; kicks, punches, Rasengan. That plan almost made Lee use his Omote renge if it wasn't for Naruto to stop him.
As they continued to break the wall, small pieces of the brick started to fall, indicating that the wall was starting to collapse. Both Naruto and Lee looked at each other and grinned as they continued as hard as they can to break free.
She opened her eyes, looking around. 'Where am I?' she asked herself as she was met with pure darkness.
"Well, isn't this forehead-girl?" she heard a voice say. As she turned around, she realized who it was.
"I-Ino!" she said, widening her eyes. Ino smirked in front of her, "You think Sasuke-kun will fall for you with that large forehead?" she continued, resting her hand on her hip.
Sakura smirked, "That won't work on me, Itachi. I know that this is an illusion" Sakura said, crossing her arms. Ino laughed, narrowing her eyes.
"You're wrong!" Ino exclaimed, walking closer to Sakura. "If you think you're loved by everyone around you, you're wrong. They all left you alone, Sakura-chan" she sarcastically said. "If it wasn't for me, you'd be the same old pathetic girl who cried about almost anything" Ino said, narrowing her eyes as she saw she was already affecting her.
Sakura shook her head, gulping. 'Genjutsu, remember, it's just genjutsu' Sakura said, forming a seal with her hands.
"KAI!" she yelled, closing her eyes as she released herself from the illusion. Once she opened them, she found herself on the mountain, right where she was standing in the first place, except that what she saw made her gasp.
All of them, all of her friends were lying on the ground, unconscious. Blood was all over the place as she looked at each and every one of them, wondering about their status.
"I believe you're the only one who managed to make it out alive. Unfortunately, you're too late" Itachi said, his cold expression didn't change. She shivered, her lips quivered and her eyes started to tear. Seeing all of them; Sasuke, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Naruto, Lee, Kankurou and Temari all were lying on the ground without any motion indicating their vitality.
"What are you going to do, Sakura-chan?" Itachi said in a sarcastic tone, making Sakura breathe heavily and get frustrated. "You can't do anything, Sakura; you're just a burden to them. The last memory in their head was you standing like an idiot without helping them while they begged for it. That's who you've always been, that's who you are and that's who you always will be, Sakura" he said, narrowing his eyes, "A burden is all you can ever be." He said, smirking behind his chin-high collared shirt.
Her tears rolled down her cheeks as she looked at them, one by one, thinking about how she failed them, not once, not twice but many times. She was the only one left standing among them. If they weren't a match for Uchiha Itachi, she knew she wouldn't be one either. She lowered her vision to the ground and just cried, cried because she wasn't able to help them, and she never will be.
"You always cry. That's who you are, Sakura. A cry baby" he said, narrowing his eyes at her.
"It's over, Haruno Sakura" he said, forcing her to look up at him. She looked up to see him making certain seals before holding his right hand up in front of his mouth.
"Katon," he said, pulling his head back and taking a deep breath. Sakura knew this was the end; he was performing the Uchiha's most famous jutsu.
"Goukakyū no jutsu" he said, before a Great Fireball was blown out of his mouth and towards Sakura who froze instantly.
'I-I can't move!' she thought as the ball came closer, her vision moved towards their bodies as they were disappearing into the flames coming closer to her.
'Sasuke-kun, Naruto, Anyone, help me' she thought, closing her eyes, already feeling the heat radiating from the fireball reaching up to her.
CLIFFHANGER! Muahahahahaha.
Confused? Lost? Thinking whether this was the right story or not you guys were reading? It is, just a small twist I wanted to add!
It's been a while, guys. I'm so very deeply truly serious honestly sorry for being this late. But I started my finals on Saturday and I'm going to finish them on Monday. See ya then!!
This story is nearing its end. This chapter sucks now, doesn't it?! No Gaara in this episode, WAAAA!! I guarantee that he will appear in the next one, I promise, because I've already thought of next chapter's plot!!!!!!
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