"You rub my back and I rub yours, Sasuke. That was always the nature of our relationship." Orochimaru injected Sasuke with the substance that they recovered from his laboratory in the village hidden in sound. "But you need not be too reckless, my dear student. Karin's chakra will only make things worse for you now. But this serum will help for awhile. It is much stronger than the serum Madara gave you from Sabui or whatever fake serum he was able to create from the jinchuuriki's binding seal partner. This is from my special collection. These are actual cells from Eiko Hyuga."
"What do you want in return?" Sasuke asked, suspiciously.
"You will accompany me to the Uchiha temple in the southern forest to free the souls still trapped in the dead demon consuming seal." Orochimaru explained. "The old Uzumaki clan, who created the shinigami mask, used sealed clones to dawn those masks as blood sacrifices to trick and manipulate the demons that the masks were supposed to mimic. The masks were made in a similar fashion to a sealed clone and are therefore irreplicable unless you have an Uzumaki very skilled with fuinjutsu at your disposal. The one caveat to this jutsu is that the ceremony must be preformed in the presence of an item even older than the demon. And the oldest item known to man would be the stone tablet sealed away by the Uchiha clan... which is why we must take the trouble to travel into the wilderness. And since we have no sealed clones, I will have to use this current body as the blood sacrifice -she's becoming troublesome anyway. But after the body dies, I need you to release and seal my chakra into a new body."
"My body?" Sasuke's voice grew even more suspicious.
"Your body is of no use to me anymore. It's incompatible, you are no longer a willing host, and you've grown too powerful to control anyway. I'd likely be trapped inside of you, only to be used as you see fit." Orochimaru scoffed at the thought. He had other plans for Sasuke, anyway.
For years, Orochimaru secretly studied the Uzumaki sealing techniques that the Hyugas collected and kept locked under their libraries after Uzushiogakure was destroyed. He even took a trip to the old ruins in order to unearth even older buried scrolls that the Hyuga clan had missed.
Despite all of the brilliant plans and ideas that were handed down to him from the hokage and Danzo and his anonymous backer (who ended up to be Madara Uchiha), Orochimaru had his own plans for Kushina's clone. The precious scrolls outlining the misuse and dangers of the kinjutsu developed by the Uzumaki clan to release and seal away an unworthy sage were rediscovered by Orochimaru and yet again stolen by Madara early on in their tenuous relationship. Soon after that Orochimaru leaked the information to the hokage, in the hopes that his unanimous backer might eventually be caught and sealed away for good.
In the elder days, certain shinobi from the Uzumaki clan were chosen whenever the problem of a sage who abused their powers arose. The leader of the clan would chose the reaper from the strongest of his seal makers. The reaper would release the sage's chakra from his dead body, and then would seal the sage's chakra within him or herself. The extensive amount of chakra and the resilient life force of an Uzumaki shinobi would keep the sage's chakra and life force suppressed until death. After death, the reaper's body was sealed inside a sarcophagus deep underground, where the sage could not be released again. So it was well known to Orochimaru that one of the most important rules in picking a body host was to always be stronger. "No. One of my subordinates, who is more compatible and less unruly, has agreed to be my next host."
"And what is the purpose of all of this anyway?" Suigetsu was not too keen on traveling into the southern forest where the temple lay. It was not that he was superstitious or anything, but there was a good reason why only Uchiha shinobi ventured into that part of the Land of Fire.
"Are you scared to venture into the southern woods, Suigetsu?" Orochimaru chuckled maliciously. "What are the chances that the stories about living trees who place men under genjutsu and then suck their bones dry are true? The nine tailed beast is long gone from that region. And if we run into any of his rogue chakra, known to rip grown men into tiny bite sized pieces before swallowing them whole, we have an Uzumaki and an Uchiha with us. Karin will sense any danger ahead of us and Sasuke's sharingan is strong enough to keep us safe, eh?"
"What?" Karin demanded, her red hair seeming to flare with her anger. "Who said I was coming?"
Orochimaru ignored Karin. "As to why I'm doing this. Let's just say I need to get in good with the leaf again and this is the simplest path to that goal."
"I could care less what your reasons are." Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Let's just get this over with so I can find my brother."
"By the way Sasuke. I wouldn't try to double cross me this time." Orochimaru directed his suspicious eyes in his ex student's direction. "Once all of this is done, I have something very important to share with you about your brother, Itachi. Like I said before... you rub my back and I rub yours."
The stone shinobi used their mountain jutsu enhanced with the nine tails chakra to squeeze the ten tails in place between two enormous peaks. It appeared the tide had turned again in the favor of the allied forces as both Madara and the masked man were forced from the ten tails onto the ground by the remaining shinobi, who were not in the midst of immobilizing the tailed beast.
"Now that we've taken out the brains on your side. Now what?" Naruto yelled angrily across the battle field.
Madara waved his hand. "I wouldn't get too excited yet. You've only managed to make the creature mad."
Kakashi appeared out of the kamui then, aiming his chidori at Madara's chest. His jutsu went through his body, but as he came out the other side, Madara jerked forward, coughing up blood out of his mouth. He dropped to his knee, activating the chest cavity of his Susanoo to protect himself from any further attacks. Holding his chest, he put pressure on the wound that was now inflicted there. "You!" Madara yelled at the masked man. "Hold things here. I have something I need to take care of."
Madara disappeared into the kamui just as the ten tails released itself from the mountain and sent a devastating shockwave across the battlefield. The shock wave tore into Naruto and the others who he had shielded in the nine tails chakra, expending the fiery chakra as shinobi were tossed back off their feet for miles around. The ten tails crouched and roared in response to its awesome power, sprouting more bony like plates and wooden limbs that flowered into a huge mouth like opening. Another massive chakra ball appeared above, this time even bigger than before.
"There's no way we're going to be able to defend against that Shikamaru." Ino's eyes opened wide as she watched the bomb expand even bigger.
"My dad left me in charge of strategy making." Shikamaru looked determinedly at Ino. "I don't plan on letting him down. We're going to build enough walls with earth style to hopefully stop that thing."
Ino connected Shikamaru telepathically to the stone shinobi in order to obtain a simple jutsu that the majority of the allied forces could preform or mimic. Then he had Ino and Ikko send the instructions out to every member who was not too injured. It did not take long for everyone to have the jutsu. But they had completely lost the use of Kurama's chakra now and had to relay on Gyuki and Killer Bee to take whatever impact the walls could not absorb.
But once the power was released, there was nothing that would stop it. As the eight tails was knocked completely unconscious, Shikamaru raised his arm above his head. He, Ino and Choji surrounded Naruto to shield him as Sakura worked to heal him as quickly as possible.
Naruto felt Hinata's excitement as she spotted the incoming shinobi, even with his speed the Hyuga's fractured sight could see the trail of chakra that was left in his wake. The massive chakra ball disappeared into thin air a fraction of a second later.
"Wha?" Shikamaru looked around confused. That's when the shinobi reappeared again, standing right next to him. The blond man turned and looked at him with familiar bright blue eyes immersed in black. "I'd brace for impact. Its about to hit to your right, out at sea."
"Who are you?" Shikamaru frowned up at Minato. That's when the impact hit. Even as far out as the bomb had been placed, the blast still crashed through the entire beach, causing an enormous tsunami and reshaping the shoreline.
"That's my dad." Naruto answered proudly after the wind and the sea had settled down.
Shikamaru examined the man standing next to him. His skin did not seem quite right and did not sit the same way on his flesh as a living person. His eyes had the deep black hue of a reanimation. "So whose controlling you?"
"That would be Orochimaru."
Shikamaru spun around to another surprise, finding Sasuke standing directly behind him staring across the battle field. He slipped a kunai into his hand, ready to strike Sasuke, but in a flash, Minato moved between them. He said to Shikamaru in a soft and kind voice, "we are here as allies."
Shikamaru relaxed a bit. This guy did just save all of them from that bijuu bomb, but he was not ready to accept anything that Sasuke had to say. He looked over to Naruto for his next move. Naruto nodded at him firmly. "They are here as allies. Believe it."
"I still haven't figured out Orochimaru's angle..." Shikamaru sent an unfriendly stare in Sasuke's direction but her re-sleeved the kunai. "But since you're standing here, I can ask you, yours."
"Madara stabbed me and took my brother." Sasuke replied bluntly. He looked across the battlefield at the masked man. "He recovered Shisui's sharingan from Danzo's body and used it to manipulate Itachi into doing his bidding. But Itachi has sacrificed his family, his clan, his life and his reputation for the village. He would rather die than to turn against what he truly believes. I won't allow Madara to corrupt his sacrifices."
Sasuke turned again and looked directly at Naruto. "For that reason, I will fight with you."
Orochimaru watched through his slit like snake eyes as Tsunade sucked chakra from Karin's arm. As soon as Tsunade's vision cleared and she realized who was standing above her, she narrowed her eyes back at him.
Noticing her glare, Orochimaru hissed, "Tsunade. Always so ungrateful. I came here to save you and the other four kage. Now that you are healed, you can heal them. So what has got your panties in such a wade?"
Tsunade scoffed. "What do you want, Orochimaru? What is the price that we're going to have to pay for this help you are so eager to extend?"
"No price." Orochimaru knelt down and smiled at his old teammate maliciously. "The range of things that interests me has just expanded. And there are still those among the leaf who are precious to me. Besides... Madara Uchiha and his band of merry Akatsuki tricked me into doing their bidding for them... which I don't like. If they wanted to borrow someone's life's work, they should've asked first. So what better way to have my revenge than by joining forces with Madara's enemies.
Besides, I've met your protege and I've seen what she can do... you must be so proud, Tsunade. And Jiriaya's little brat has more than surpassed him too. I want to see what my student, Sasuke, can do. I never cared to leave anything behind because I never planned to die anyway, but now that I have... I just can't help to see the benefits of that beloved legacy that Jiraiya was constantly prattling on about."
"As usual, nothing you do makes any sense..." Tsunade crossed her arms over her chest, not buying what Orochimaru was selling. "You do realize I sent my student to find you, so she could seal you away for good. Yet here you are saving my life and backing up the allied forces."
"The girl does have the byakugou just like you. And she wields it with even more proficiency than you." Orochimaru commented. "But... she doesn't have Uzumaki blood or a kekkei genkai. That sealing would have been very difficult for her to perform. Still I don't think you were counting on that team sealing me away. I think you just wanted to flush me out."
"Three way dead lock." Tsunade responded and stood up to match Orochimaru's gaze.
"Awww, yes. Our summoning animals. I think there may be a new team continuing that tradition on the battlefield as we speak." Orochimaru looked in the direction of the ongoing battle. "Aren't you nostalgic for our hay days?"
"I'm not talking about summoning animals." Tsunade scowled at Orochimaru, not feeling nostalgic at all. "I'm talking about our inability to ever compromise or even see things the same way as each other. You and I were on the same team, but were we ever allies? And after all these years of being enemies, now that the one person who always kept us from killing each other is dead, you are telling me that you finally see it my way."
"Stranger things have happened." Orochimaru replied, shrugging his shoulders.
The masked man stood on the cliff watching quietly with his arms crossed over his chest as the ten tails sent out multiple smaller versions of itself covered in bony armor in order to protect its immobilized body.
"There is no way we can easily destroy that ash bone armor without some how weakening it first." Shikamaru commented, skeptically.
"I think we can do it." Naruto looked over at Hinata and Sakura. Sakura narrowed her eyes back at him, feeling much the same way as Shikamaru and the others from their genin class, who had all congregated to see if Sasuke had truly rejoined the leaf. Naruto ignored the mistrust in her eyes and turned to Sasuke. "...If we work together."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Fine. But don't get too nostalgic."
Hinata smiled at Naruto. She could feel excitement fluttering in his chest as he stood next to his old teammate again. She whispered to Sakura. "This will work. I know it."
Naruto created enough clones for each of the incoming creatures while shaping a calling seal anchored to each one. Sakura summoned Katsuyu and watched as the enormous slug broke into multiple smaller slugs. She sat cross legged, protected behind one of Naruto's clones channeling her chakra into each slug.
Hinata jumped from calling seal to calling seal in a matter of seconds, tossing a slug on each creature as she went. The Katsuyus bound themselves to the creatures placing the paralysis genjutsu that Sakura filtered through them. In response, the creatures froze mid step and toppled to the ground like a group of fallen trees. Naruto's clones slammed their fists into the creatures burying them deeper into the earth.
Naruto summoned the now enormous Gamikichi, grabbing Hinata from the center of the creatures and leaping over the remaining creatures towards the ten tails. Katsuyu reassembled herself into an enormous slug and reached her head back. She let go of an enormous geyser of acidic slime, spewing it over the creatures bodies. As the acid weakened the bony armor, Sasuke tore through the bodies on Aoda's head, his summoning snake, cracking the nearby creatures with the swords of his partial Susanoo. He was followed by Shino, Kiba's three head dog, and the ultimate Ino-shik-cho combo.
As the second, third, and fourth hokages released the barrier that now contained the ten tails, Gamikichi was met by Aoda. "Good of you to join us!"
"Shut up." Sasuke growled aiming his susanoo's enormous bow at the ten tails, the arrow was lit with black flames. Naruto aimed his rasenshiruken at the arrow, pushing it forward as it sliced into the tailed beast.
The ten tails screamed and writhed in agony as the black flames spread. The masked man hoped down from the cliffs above, landing between tailed beast the other shinobi. Two of reanimated the hokage appeared on either side of him. He pushed out, sending a blast of kinetic energy at the two hokage. Both attempted to dodge by moving back slightly, but the masked man released the genjutsu, revealing the two chakra rods summoned behind the hokage, piercing through their backs. The masked man moved his hand down, sending the rods down into the ground to be staked. Then he made several hands seals as he began to seal the ten tails.
"No!" Sasuke appeared suddenly behind the masked man, slicing down to cut off his mask. The white casing, cracked and fell away as long black shaggy hair spilled out. He appeared again in front of Naruto activating his mangeyko and attacking his teammate.
"Sasuke?!" Naruto began to defend himself as Sasuke's attacks became more and more relentless. A loud sqwaucking sound could be heard as an enormous black bird appeared behind Naruto. Sasuke spun out of the bird's sightline, moving behind the masked man and directing the bird's vision towards Itachi.
"You will protect the village at all costs."
Itachi shook his head, seeming to wake up out of the thoughts that Madara had placed into his head. He looked back and forth between Naruto and Sasuke. His eyes locked on Sasuke as full realization of the current situation dawn on Itachi. He breathed, "Little brother... run."
Then his body started to twist and become distorted with the power of the ten tails. He shrieked in agony as the being broke its way out of its millennia long prison.
The ten tails began to take shape as it reached out of Itachi, expanding itself from his body and breaking out of the seal. Two enormous chains flung themselves from his deformed body. One piercing through Sasuke's chest before reaching into Naruto, dragging out Kurama. The other wrapped around Gyuki and Killer Bee, dragging the unconscious eight tails into itself. At the same time Itachi's body began to split in two as the true ten tails climbed up and out of an expanding flower of tree roots that dug into the ground and then sprout upperwards into a trunk of a tree with massive branches. The creature clambered away from the expanding tree as it drug the two remaining tailed beasts into itself.
Minato appeared activating tailed beast mode and encasing his son's body lying unconscious in Hinata's arms in the chakra. He covered Sasuke and Sakura as she appeared on Katsuyu to try and heal her teammates. Outside of the protective chakra, the ground quaked as the god's tree continued to expand, taking over both the land and the sea, and consuming any living soul in its path. The ten tails was even larger than before as it roared and slashed at the sky.
Feeling the presence of this extreme power, Madara emerged from the kamui again.
"Naruto! Wake up!"
As soon as Naruto opened his eyes, he knew he was no longer on the living earth. But somehow he was not dead either. He was somewhere in between. He sat up and looked around him. This plane looked and felt very similar to the place where the tailed beast pulled him to give him their chakra.
"I'm over here!"
He spun around at the sound of the voice and frowned still not seeing any one else in this empty space.
"Over here!"
He stood up and turned again following the voice. "I can't see you."
"Here I am." The sudden image of the old man completely paralyzed Naruto's body as it flashed into his mind again. He dropped straight backwards in to the small pool of water that covered the surface of the ground.
"Relax." The voice advised.
Naruto listened to the voice and let the flood of images take over his mind. And as he relaxed, the old man became clearer and clearer to him until he found himself standing in front of the same tall shinobi with long white hair, purple spiral eyes, and the red marking at the center of his forehead.
Hagoromo sat crosslegged, floating just feet above the actual ground. Several black orbs floated just below him as though holding him up. His eyes pierced through Naruto, reading him from the inside out. And a knowing smile filled his wrinkled face. "It's been so long, Asura... yet here we are once again."
Recognizing the name as the same name that Madara had called him when they were in the Land of Iron, Naruto frowned at the old man. "Who are you? Am I dead?"
"Thou is a sage who has chosen to bind thineself to the natural earth in exchange for access to earth's chakra. For thou, death has a different meaning than for thy ordinary man. As there are many pockets that sit between thine mortal reality and the afterlife, thine find thyself in one." The old man paused, considering the other question. "As for who I am? I have endured many rebirths and gone by many names throughout the centuries, but my original name was Hagoromo Otsutsuki. More recently, thou knowst me as the sage of the six paths."
"Wha?" Naruto asked excitedly. "You mean the guy who created ninjutsu? What the hell are you doing here? And why am I here? And hey, you have the rinnegan! And you seem to know something about this Asura guy, everyone keeps calling me..."
"Wait. Wait. Wait" Interrupting, Hagoromo lifted his hand to Naruto, chuckling a bit. "I should have remembered how exuberant you can be, Asura! Thou must sit a moment. Let me entrust something very important first. Something I've entrusted to thine self several times through history."
"When?" Not sitting down, Naruto demanded, confused. He had never met this man in his life. Was this old geezer going senile or what?
"Thy memory is short." The old man replied. "Now sit."
The old man moved his palm down slightly. And Naruto felt pressure on his shoulder as though a hand was pressing him down. His legs collapsed underneath him and he found himself on his butt.
"Before I was known as the sage of the sixth paths. Before ninjutsu even existed, I was the founder of the ninja creed."
"But that's Ninjutsu? Right?" Naruto prompted.
"NO! The ninja creed is Ninshu! Not to be confused with ninjutsu. Thoust are two separate and opposite entities." Hagoromo became very serious then. His shakujo appeared in his hand. He spun it, dipping the rings at the end of the staff into the water covering the ground. "Thoust lost more memories than I thought. Let me raise your dim light."
"Hey! Did you just call me dim, old man?!" Naruto yelled at the man, ringing a fist. But then he stopped as an image appeared in front of Naruto of a young man, who looked similar but very different than himself. The boy did not look quite human just like the sage, but he felt very familiar to Naruto.
"Forgive me. It's not your fault. I have forgotten that you are just a product of your generation." Hagoromo commented, his voice becoming more familiar and his speech more recognizable. "The old ways become more and more distorted with each cycle. It is my job to understand you better, not the other way around. I can be clearer if I speak to you through your line of reincarnations."
As Hagoromo spoke, his voice sounded distant, but it filled the entire dimension, surrounding Naruto and vitalizing his spirit.
"Since the time when humans set aside ninshu for what is now known as ninjutsu, only those who are able to find a balance in their power… between yin and yang, light and shadow, male and female, sun and moon, positivity and negativity, vitality and stability… are still able to access ninshu in its truest form. Whether the ninja finds this balance within him or herself or through the link with a kindred spirit or soul mate." Hagaromo moved his shakujo and pointed it at Naruto. Naruto felt the connection between them even stronger. He could feel the sincerity and concern in all of the sage's words and not only understand their meaning but the intention behind them too. It was almost as if they were sharing the same emotions. He had only felt like this three times before. The first time, through the binding seal that he shared with Hinata, the second time when he met Itachi in the woods and was placed under his genjutsu, and finally, when he connected with Sasuke not too long ago through their chakra weapons. "Everything humans do is about finding that balance. Whether it is through love or through war. But because the world is so out of balance… this has been a very difficult task, even for the individual. Still... I am pleasantly surprised this time. I can see clearly that you have finally achieved it."
"I haven't." Naruto shook his head, sadly. "The world is still the same."
"I'm not talking about in the rest of the world." Hagoromo replied, bluntly. "I'm talking about within you. Thousands of years ago, when I chose one son over the other, I not only threw them out of balance as brothers but also as individuals. Each son has been attempting to right themselves ever since.
You, the reincarnation of Asura, through love and loyalty, and my older son, Indra, through the acquisition of power. You have finally found a love which has set you back into balance… But this is not complete. Indra must be set in balance as well. This will bring you back together as brothers, because just like with me and my twin, only as brothers can you right the entire world.
The entity that is out there now… is not what the other Indra... the one called Madara thinks it is. He has been tricked by black zetsu, the creature who has become the physical manifestation of my mother's will, and the tablet that Hamura and I left to warn my descendants of the dangerous entity who threatens earth. There was once an old myth about a god who intended to destroy the world. The myth is likely long lost… but that myth was true. The god's name was Kaguya and she was my mother."
Naruto perked up a bit. "Kaguya… as in the Kaguya clan?"
"Yes. She was once loyal, gentle, and kind.. very much like her granddaughter, Airi Otsutsuki, but then a string of events occurred on earth that caused her to become cruel… monstrous even. My brother and I defeated her and hid her husk on the moon with the plan that only both our bloodlines together could summon the statue back to earth in completion. With the use of my rinnegan and Hamura's tenseigan.
Hamura's bloodline was supposed to leave earth to prevent that from ever happening, and to protect the gedo statue on the moon. Unfortunately, after Hamura's death, his descendants on the moon began to kill each other off for the power of tenseigan. Anyone born with the power of the byakugan was a target for their dojutsu. Those who were able to achieve the tenseigan, killed others to keep the power. They all went extinct over a century ago before Madara summoned the first portion of the gedo statue to earth.
The rest of my brother's descendants ended up back on earth through Airi Otsutsuki. By mixing with humans, the pure Otsutsuki bloodline was long ago lost here on earth, but Madara and black zetsu improvised for the loss of the tenseigan by implanting one of his rinnegan in Neji Hyuga. It essentially gave him the power of a false tenseigan… enough to summon the rest of the statue.
But my brother and I were more than thorough. We left another fail safe... in the form of the tablet. The tablet was left in the possession of my descendants, who inherited the sharingan, to warn them against attempting to bring back the rinnegan. If the rinnegan was ever achieved, the entire tablet could be read. It originally told the story of Kaguya and how and why we destroyed her. However, black zetsu tampered with the tablet, so that the sharingan would decipher half of the lie and the rinnegan would decipher the complete lie in order to entice Indra's descendants to want to achieve that power.
The fail safe was that if Hamura's descendants ended up on earth, the byakugan could always see if the tablet were ever tampered with... though they could not decipher it themselves.
Black zetsu attempted to get around this by turning Hamura's descendants on earth against each other. He manipulated the nonbyakugan line into killing off their byakugan relatives, which eventually caused the clan to break. In order to completely separate themselves from the more battle prone bloodline, the Hyuga clan eventually turned away from war and aligned themselves with Indra's descendants' sworn enemies, which would have been the Senju clan.
Once the descendants of both of her sons, myself and my twin brother, call the gedo statue back to earth, there was still the matter of merging Kaguya's three earthly relics with the statue to wake it. The three remnants left of her on earth… wood style, chakra chains, and the ash bone. Of course this was the most difficult part because all three were well hidden in the bloodlines of her descendants. Then her chakra, which I split into the nine tailed beasts, must be bound as one inside of the awakened statue. The ten tails that I harbored was not the pure form. It is a combination of my mother and earth's gods tree. The jinchuuriki who accepts the ten tails must be strong enough to control the beast sealed inside of himself. Then he must be separated from the tree. Once the gods tree is freed, the ten tails will use the power of the moon to reactivate the infinite tsukuyomi. Only then can the gods tree fruit bloom and be consumed, allowing my mother to return.
Madara doesn't realize what he is doing is only to revive my mother. He believes he will achieve the infinite tsukuyomi and through the great genjutsu become an actual god on earth. But that is part of the lie. Because the god brought to earth will not be him, but something much worse whose only intension is to consume everything and leave for another world."
"But the third portion of the legacy that my brother and I left behind, would be the permanent bond between myself and my reincarnated sons. Every time one of you enters this space, I am pulled back to you. Because it is only through you that this immortal being can be stopped.
Still, this time is different in so many ways. And because our connection goes both ways, through you, my young Naruto, I have come to understand my own teachings better. Therefore, this time I will entrust my chakra not only to you, but also to your spiritual brother. The revival of my chakra will grant both of you my powers in equal parts. And together you will have the power to revive every sage who has ever been granted a sage's rebirth. Those chosen to protect the earth should it ever find itself on the brink of death. You and Sasuke will have to seal my mother again."
Hagoromo sighed. "I leave one final word of warning. Even though I am entrusting Sasuke with this power... this does not mean he will not attempt to use it to betray you eventually. The balance between you will be righted but he still has yet to find the balance within himself. So I ask you now... am I right? Should I trust Sasuke?"
"I believe in my friend. You should too." Naruto said with confidence.
