Hey people. This is the last chapter of Rokudaime, and I have received quite a lot of questions, and especially complains about why I don't explain some things. Here is a reason why I do not explain things.
As you can see, most of the story is from either Naruto or Sakura's POV. This means that in this story we know just as little as they do, without Orochimaru to tell us how this happened then we cannot know what happened, end of story. I can give you answers, because I do have the answers to most of things. Problem is that I don't want that with the story.
There is no fun with a story, if you can't try and make up theories of your own.
How come Sasuke being able to be revived, and what is this whole deal with being reincarnated?
Kishimoto has in one chapter spoken about reincarnation and the basics of reincarnation are when one is reborn into another body. Sasuke's memories of his former life is brought back by a sacrifice, in the form of Sakura's parents. How do you ask? If we look back at the Chiyo scene, where she revives Gaara then we can conclude that by a sacrifice of another person, then we can revive that person. Concluding, Sasuke is dead, unfortunately he is in another body, but he is dead, and therefore by sacrificing another we can bring him back. He was only an eight year old boy, how would be able to benefit Orochimaru in that way? And just as Orochimaru transferred himself into other bodies, he managed to transfer Sasuke into another body.
How
can Sasuke just all of a sudden kill Orochimaru!? again, my
answer to this is that we get to know that Orochimaru was very
weakened after he himself was brought back to life after Sasuke's
death. Even now he was severely weakened, and that means Sasuke is
able to kill Orochimaru without much effort.
How
come Itachi still be alive? Modern medical science. Broken
neck doesn't always have to equal death. And also, Sakura met with
Itachi shortly after she was thrown out of Suna, where as you
know…certain events happened. Then afterwards she joined a group
of refugees, with whom she travelled with for the rest of the year.
Here is a timeline for all events that has happened.
8
years ago. Sasuke died
8+ some months. Sakura leaves
4 years
ago. Tsunade dies. The sound attacks, but is beaten. Naruto becomes
Hokage
2 years ago. Sakura returns to Konoha.
1 year + some
months ago. Sakura is thrown out of Konoha
five months ago. Sakura
is forced back into Konoha.
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It was his fault that his blood was on his hands.
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Naruto turned and looked at her, his eyes wide in disbelief. "What?"
Sakura's hand on his sleeve was shaking, and she looked at the floor guilty, not answering his question. She could feel he was restless, and wanted to free the people underneath the building as fast as he could. Naruto then snarled in frustration.
"Sakura I don't have time for this! Tell me how the hell that could happen? Have they done something to you to make you think crazy? Only Chiyo-basama could revive the dead!"
Her arm fell to the ground, and he stared at her. Their eyes communicated, it was true. Somehow, some way, he's back. Sasuke's back.
Naruto was about to reach out for her, when there was huge explosion outside the building. The structure shook violently. He grabbed her arms hard and pulled her close to him, as he looked from side to side, trying to see if there were any cracks indicating the building would collapse.
He didn't even notice how she had buried her face into his shirt. "Damnit."
Naruto didn't hesitate and took her by the arms, and dragged her out of the room. However, when she proved unable to walk normally, he lifted her up in his arms. First chance of seeing a Konoha Rebel nin when exiting the cell, he went over and pushed Sakura into his arms. "Watch out for her will you?"
Before the ninja could answer, Naruto was already on his way over to the staircase. A weak voice screamed. "Naruto!"
He tried to ignore it, but turned his head over his shoulder, and smiled. "Don't worry – I'm not the Rokudaime for nothing."
Sakura, as she was roughly hauled away, had this strange feeling that he wasn't talking to her.
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And so was her leaving him.
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The stairs up the Hokage Tower seemed longer and time moved slower. Sasuke couldn't be alive… he couldn't be alive! Naruto had to stop one time up the stairs to catch his breath. He slammed his fist into the wall. It cracked.
"Damnit!" his blue eyes stared at the stairs before him. Corpses from both Konoha and sound ninjas lay randomly, and he had to close his eyes. It did nothing for his confidence that Sound ninjas outnumbered his Leaf forces in the corpse count. His fist clenched and he hit the wall again.
The room and smell made him feel dizzy and he had to lean his head against the wall. There was something missing – Orochimaru was dead, but how could that be? There was even Orochimaru's legendary sword in the floor and some strange circle with the stench of blood. The Sound ninjas were demoralized, since their leader had been killed by one of their own. Orochimaru's once ever living body still lying broken to the side.
His eyes snapped open. "A resurrection."
Blue eyes turned to the stairs going down and then to those going up. His hand tightened, and he ran. His feet slammed against the stone floor and he took off the ground. The Kusunagi, 'Grass Cutter' sword felt slimy to Naruto hand but no matter. The enemy ninjas were extremely taken aback by the sudden appearance of the Rokudaime. Penetrating every shield, and cutting through every sword, the Kusunagi obeyed its new owner. No one stood a chance.
With a hit of his hand he slammed a kunoichi who had entered the battle late through the wall, and she gasped for breath. Waiting for the death blow to come down, she saw the curious scene of the Rokudaime open a hidden alcove. Quickly going through the contents, he finally stopped at a katana with a blue sheath. She looked on trying to find her chance to leave this room alive. The blonde man unsheathed the second sword with a bright golden hilt cackled with energy. 'I didn't forget about you,' the sound kunoichi heard him mutter.
Right before a streak of lightning shot over.
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Hyuuga Neji looked up, byukagan activated. Black hair falling into his face as he dried off the blood from his lips. He bared his teeth like an animal and spread his arms, fingers slowing closing as he collected chakra in his fists. Neji snorted. "Why hide when I can see you anyway!"
Neji jumped forward, smashing his fist into the wall, and a surprised ninja jumped to the side. However, the Hyuuga quickly regained his posture and smashed his fist into the ninja's cheek, and brought a knee to his stomach. The sound ninja gasped, and barely registered when he found himself flying into a wall.
Neji turned again, spinning around as the archers fired arrows at him. A simple kaiten was an unconscious move for the veteran warrior. The archers saw the returning arrows back but it was already too late. 'You guys are no TenTen, none of you assholes are'
The Hyuuga panted and clutched a wounded side, and closed his eyes. Neji hissed when the pain came back, and was about to fall, but made himself stand up.
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"So! Neji-kun! Let's embrace our youthful spirits and train together!" the green beast spoke as he proudly hit his chest.
The Hyuuga kid looked at him unaffected. "Not today"
"Oh! Then another day Neji-kun! One day I'll defeat you!"
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Yamanaka Ino rushed up the stairs of the Hokage Tower swiftly and surely. She took confidence in only having to finish off ninjas that lay about or tried to leave. Shikamaru's plan of securing the Tower first was a success, Naruto must be in his office taking care of one of the high profile targets. Sai was behind her, running at Ino's pace while constantly communicating with the captains on the field.
When Ino first intersected Sai on the way to the tower, they allowed themselves a brief moment for themselves. Without prompting, the emotionally stunted ANBU soldier and the blonde bombshell wrapped each other in a tight embrace, forgetting they were in a dangerous battle situation. Surprising Ino, it was Sai who did not want to let go. She pushed him away, they exchanged no words and immediately entered the building. It was their job to set up a central command center at the tower.
It was worry for the Rokudaime that pushed their bodies to go as fast as they can.
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The Konoha leader growled as another ninja dared charging at him. He was rewarded with a vicious punch to the face. There was no gentle fist, Neji had to start conserving his chakra. There was absolutely nothing in his punches anymore. With every ninja that approached he imagined him or her being the one killing Lee, Tenten or Hanabi. It made him angrier. Fifteen more Sound and Rock ninjas jumped into the field.
Hyuuga Neji took out his two Kamas and swung them around in a short warm up kata. He always did find the clan taijutsu style a bit too… bloodless.
Never truly satisfying.
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The two spy masters of Konoha finally reached the top of the Hokage tower, gasping for breath. Ino who had spent majority of her time inside Konoha, while Sai was outside of it, had as clear of an idea about the invasion's condition as was possible. With their combined skills, they knew more than the enemy. The penthouse floor was a disaster area. There were more corpses here than any other floor. Ino's nose wrinkled at the smell of electrocuted flesh hanging in the air. They stepped through the open Hokage office doors to see their leader busily working with an electronics console. Sai and Ino saluted briskly, neither hiding the relief that they didn't have to get involved in a major league fight. Orochimaru's mangled body did not go unnoticed.
Naruto looked up with a smile and stepped aside to let the experts handle the functions of getting security systems, communications and other electronics up and running. Sai, immediately jumped at the duty while Ino remained standing in front of the desk.
"Ino, what's the situation?"
The Yamanaka professionally held herself up straight "Hokage-sama, the East and South sections of our assault teams are faltering. The captains want to pull back."
"How bad are our casualties?"
"South is the only field where its unacceptable. The enemy is making their stand there and Shikamaru believes they plan on surging north."
"What's his recommendation?"
"Pull back to the north and rotate all our forces, sweeping Konoha en masse."
At this the Rokudaime stood still, thinking furiously on his options. He nodded to himself as he made his decision and moved away from the desk and to the window. Both Ino and Sai waited for his orders, patiently.
Sai had successfully rewired the comm. networks to broadcast to citizens and their forces separately. It was only a matter of time that they will have all of konoha's infrastructure under control. Still, neither spy masters had a clue what their Hokage was thinking. Then again, no one ever was sure that they did.
Naruto took a long breath and started to go through seals slowly. Blood had reached both his palms and he threw large gobs of it out the window. Seconds later, as the first of his chakra imbued blood hit the ground level outside, a thunderous noise occurred. All in Konoha felt an earthquake emanate from the tower…Gamabunta the Toad Boss has joined the battle. The summons looked through the window to Naruto with grim acceptance. The humongous toad stood regally in armor from head to its large stomach, trusty katana in hand. He flicked his pierced tongue this way and that, testing the armor Naruto had conjured specifically for him, approvingly.
Naruto again went through the same seals and spat more blood out the window, hitting Gamabunta in the head. This time three more toads appeared, all a third the size of their father. Gamabunta's children, the overly intelligent Gamakichi, his younger brother Gamatatsu with equal amounts of fat and muscle and their orange toad sensei Gamakatchi who already had his two hilt less katanas out and ready.
"Everyone, I need you to clear our south. With victory will come sake for you boss and treats for everyone else."
Naruto shouted authoritatively, but with a smile. His demeanor spoke of confidence and strength. The whole Toad family grinned and made off for battle. The thunderous sounds of Gamabunta's hops reverberated throughout the village.
Once the vibrations lessoned, Naruto allowed the smile to drop and slumped in place. He reached out for his chair. Ino grabbed him before he dropped on the floor. She led him to the table with knotted brows and a manic yell taking shape.
"Its fine, Ino"
"Naruto, you're out of chakra already!" She shrieked, voice taking on much higher octaves than needed to break crystal. "We need you ready! Who's ever heard of four summons at once?!"
"I said its fine"
"Naruto you don't even have any more chakra do you?!"
"No." Randomly choosing to stand back up again from the table, and out of Ino's livid face. He turns to both of them. 'Tell the South to combine with the West forces, and then follow Shikamaru's sweeping tactic. Where are our high value targets?'
Sai responded quickly, "Kabuto and the Tsuchikage are approaching the Tower, Hokage-sama. I am dialing in reinforcements"
"No need, Sai. No need." Both officers stopped and stared at Naruto, ready to have another outburst. He looked at them almost laughingly. Smirking as if they were scared for themselves. Sure Kabuto and the Rock's leader were out of their league. Or were they scared for him? Naruto contemplated this as he made way for the stairs to the roof.
"Who needs chakra when you have a blade for each?"
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"Iiih! Neji! Sit still will you! We will reach the village soon enough!" Tenten complained as applied the bandage on his arm. He groaned, and they sat there in silence. He then slowly let his eyes gaze at her side-ways.
Chocalate brown eyes then saw his, and TenTen smiled back. He then quickly grabbed her hand and put it back into his lap.
"I am so wrong for feeling this" he said as he squeezed his team mate's hand. She only looked away at this.
"Too long Neji. Took you way too long."
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These memories of her, his true love. The one that should have been his but went to his only best friend. Rage overflowed the stoic captain.
One ninja's arrows pierced his shoulder, but Neji didn't stop. He ran as fast as he could towards them, his twin kamas slamming into every person he could get. His feet jumping from side to side – he couldn't take it.
He just couldn't take it!
'Neji, please…take care of them for me. You're their captain…'' You can't die! You can't leave me too! NO FATHER!' The man in green finally succumbed to the Death Gate.
Reinforcements came to battle the lone Hyuuga on the eastern front. It wasn't enough this day.
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Sakura was running.
The trees were like a blur as she smashed her feet against the rock solid ground. She was gasping for her breath, and knew he wasn't far away. Sakura was eight years of training ahead of Sakura, and without his real body he had had to have difficulties. Right?
Right?!
Sakura had not meant to give the ninja an elbow into the stomach. She did not mean to ignore Naruto in his fight. She did not mean to find herself running to find the traitor of Konoha – but she was doing it anyway.
One tree.
Two trees.
And there was a kunai flying in her direction. She jumped upwards and landed on a branch, her arms ready to take on anything. Sakura would any day admit it was foolish going out there with no protection or weapon whatsoever, but she was desperate – she needed to do this.
There Sasuke stood, in the clearing, his dark eyes staring at her hatefully. "Sakura"
She frowned and clenched her fist. For a moment she doubted that she could do it. She didn't want to do it, honestly. She couldn't bear having to kill him one more time, or for that matter, having him dying again. However, she had no choice. Sakura knew that Sasuke being alive was the most wrong thing in history. A dead person should remain dead. Especially not one like him.
Now she realized it.
"For all these years I have been searching for a way to redeem myself for you death Sasuke-kun." This certainly seemed to catch him by surprise. "All these years I have been searching for any answer that could tell me if what happened that day was meant to be or not."
"You're crazy" he muttered. Sasuke's new body shuddered involuntarily. An epileptic seizure with lightning passing through his body.
"Now I know the answer." She tightened her fist. "Despite how much I want you to be alive, you cannot bring dead people back – dead people are dead people – and there is no point in trying to save them." Sasuke just stepped back, obviously not believing she could do any harm.
Then he felt it.
The wind pushing in his back, and the flash of reddish knuckles at the side of his face. His black eyes widened.
SLAM.
Sakura was thrown back into the woods by a fist in her stomach. She gasped for breath and the blood slid down from the corner of her mouth. She stared at the large cloak, with red clouds in the bottom. The Akatsuki stood right in front of Sasuke, his fist still hanging in the air.
Sasuke stared at him with an unbelievable gaze. "No…"
The interloper cracked his knuckles. "Haruno Sakura, it is time you stopped interfering with our plans. You have already eliminated three Akatsuki members"
The former Uchiha turned to her, surprised, but not in a good way. "Itachi?"
"Was one of them, but he is not dead…only a weakling" a hand on Sasuke's shoulder made him stop staring at the pink haired woman. "Uchiha Sasuke…we need you."
Sakura's eyes began to flutter, as her surroundings grew darker. Desperately she tried to hear what they had to say, but she fell into the darkness faster than she wanted to. Her hand reached out.
Then it was pitch black.
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"Sasuke-kun"
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Far away, a lone figure, with heavy eyes and dark hair turned. His usual ponytail had been replaced with a hairstyle that could easily match that of his smaller brother. His neck was fully bandaged and his hand trembled from time to time.
Uchiha Itachi could feel the loosing battle.
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Naruto struggled to stand up straight, but pure force of will made him stand up, and face the faces of Kabuto and the Tsuchikage. He had lost too many fights in his life to loose this.
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A/N: skipping some scenes. I've decided to leave you with a cliffhanger, and instead ask you a vital question concerning this story.
How many of you wishes to see a sequel to this story? If you don't then I'm gonna end it in…next chapter or the chapter after that. If you do, then I'll continue roku, but instead calling this part for book one, and the next for book 2.
Selina over and out!
Review if you please.
