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A/N: The battle between Naruto and Sasuke finishes in this chapter, and Sasuke will tell Itachi his true reason for trying to become Hokage, I hope you all enjoy it!

Chapter 33: My Friend's Dream

"Wow, so far I have seen four single element variations of my jutsu," Minato said as he saw the Rasenmace. "All that is left is water, but I doubt either one of them will use that. But why did Naruto cover that arm in rocks first?"

"Because the Rasenmace is the one single-element Rasengan that cannot be thrown, so he created a little bit of an extra layer of defense, though it is actually the most powerful single-element Rasengan," Felix said, earning looks from everyone present. "I'll show you all the single element forms real quick." He made a Shadow Clone and formed a Rasengan. "First, wind." A Rasenshuriken formed. "This one has the advantage of being the second easiest to hit an enemy with, due to its expansion ability, and has the unique ability to do damage to an enemy through their chakra network via countless needle like attacks, though it can also physically tear into an enemy with the wind blades. Now lightning," he dispelled the Rasenshuriken and a Rasenlance formed. "This one is actually the second hardest to hit an enemy with, due to its lack of area effect, but it literally drills its way through most defenses with ease, even killing someone who survived a two element Rasengan. Then there's water." A blue Rasengan seemingly made of water and spinning in one direction with a little whirlpool in the center spinning in the other. "This is the Rasentide, and it also expands, though not quite as far as the Rasenshuriken. Once an enemy is caught in it, they get drawn into the center. While it does not do very much damage, it is useful for restraining an enemy long enough to hit them with a powerful follow-up, and it takes a lot of force to break free from it, so it is useful against enemies that need restraining rather than being beaten with brute force. Now fire." He made the one Sasuke had called a Rasenbomb. "This one is the easiest to hit an opponent with, because of the blast radius, but it is also the weakest in the damage department against single enemies with the exception of the Rasentide, unless you are directly hit before it explodes, so it is best for dealing with multiple foes that are weaker than you, or flushing enemies out of hiding. Finally there is the Rasenmace, the earth style Rasengan, which cannot be thrown because it loses momentum too fast due to its weight. That means that it needs to be hit directly against your opponent, or dropped from above. This makes it not only the hardest to hit a foe with, but also the most dangerous to use. But it is also the most powerful one, because it literally grinds the opponent to dust and even does more damage than the Solid Rasenshuriken, which is basically a Rasenshuriken, but with a bit of earth chakra added, not enough to make a blend between a Rasenmace and Rasenshuriken, but enough to make all of the countless attacks grind into the opponent with more force, causing a great deal of external damage, as well as internal. But the Rasenmace is really stronger, but is overall much less practical, unless you have a way to keep your arm from being pulverized."

Meanwhile, Sasuke had jumped on top of Codra's head, with his Susanoo still active, and it used its blades to help fend off both of the toads, while Codra weaved away from Naruto to avoid the Rasenmace. Sasuke switched the Susanoo chakra blades out for the bow and fired Amaterasu arrows at Naruto, who dodged all of them before he used chakra chains to catch Codra, who escaped by shedding his skin again, but Naruto countered by throwing a kunai at Sasuke, and using Hiraishin. Sasuke saw the coming and fired an arrow beforehand at the kunai, where he was sure Naruto would flash to. The timing on Sasuke's part was perfect. Trouble was, his placement wasn't.

What he did not know was that Naruto had placed one of the kunai at the end of one of his chakra chains. When Codra escaped from the chains restraining him, the chain with the kunai whipped in Sasuke's direction, flinging the kunai at his back, while Naruto had diverted his attention with the other kunai. "Shit!" Sasuke shouted as his arrow passed through thin air and he realized that Naruto must have flashed to a different location, quickly deducing where. He whipped around in time to watch the Rasenmace blast through his Susanoo without even slowing, though that caused a shock to Naruto's arm, dismantling the layer of protection that he had created with his Rock Fist Jutsu, and cracking the bones in his left arm.

Thinking fast, Sasuke conducted lightning chakra through his blade and formed a Chidori through his left hand and blasted both sources of lightning chakra into the Rasenmace in an attempt to cancel out the earth chakra. It was partially successful, as the Rasenmace weakened before it exploded, the blast launching both Naruto and Sasuke off of Codra's head, blasting Naruto into the side of the cliff while
Sasuke was lucky enough to get a softer landing in the water, and causing the snake's head to slam into the ground with a lot of force. Dazed, Codra rose and his vision focused in time to see Gamabunta and Gamaken rushing him from either side.

Codra acted fast enough to open his mouth and spray Gamaken with his spitting venom, before turning to Gamabunta and he managed to get him a little too, before Gamabunta's knife came down and drove through the top of Codra's head, though the roof of his mouth, and finally his jaw and pinned him to the ground.

"Ow… funny how I used to wish something this humiliating would happen to Manda," Codra thought with irritation. "At least the wound will vanish once I am out of this interesting room, if Sasuke's claims are to be believed."

"Damn, that stings," Gamabunta snarled as he tried to scrub Codra's venom off of him, while Gamaken was trying to roll off his stronger dose of it.

"Better dismiss you guys," Naruto groaned as he rose from the rubble caused by his impact, his left arm almost completely destroyed from using the Rasenmace, though the damage was quickly healing thanks to the Regeneration Seal. Gamabunta and Gamaken disappeared in a burst of smoke, taking Bunta's knife with them. Codra also vanished after Sasuke resurfaced, clearly banged up by the Rasenmace himself.

Sasuke stood on the water and gazed at Naruto and said, "Amazing. The Solid Rasenshuriken would have been slowed by my Susanoo, but that Rasenmace tore through it like it was paper. But since it obviously can't be thrown, it is far less practical, especially after taking into account the damage it did to your arm. If it weren't for the Regeneration Seal, it would be an unusable jutsu, unless you were willing to pay an arm. You sure do know how to use the greatest treasure of your clan to good effect."

"You of all people should know that," Naruto said with a smirk, and Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan activated briefly and he smiled.

"Yeah, thanks to that, neither me nor Itachi will have to worry about going blind. But using the Regeneration Seal takes up a lot of chakra, right?"

"Yeah, I'm just about out, which is why I am going to do this now," Naruto said, and red chakra bubbled up from his body and took up a very dark shade as he went down on all fours. Four tails whipped out as the cloak became a Version Two.

"Let's see," Sasuke thought, assessing his remaining reserves "I probably have enough chakra left for as many as three more elemental Rasengans, with one more Chidori thrown in, maybe a few shots from the Susanoo, as long as I only materialize the needed parts. It's a good thing I have better reserves and control than I did at this point last time, thanks to having a better curse seal, and having trained in control exercises earlier on, otherwise, I would be close to out by now. After that, I won't have much left at all, but what I have now should be enough to win this if I use it carefully…"

"They really are both alarmingly close to kage level by now, aren't they?" Jiraiya asked as he watched Naruto form a Bijuu Bomb. "And that is just at the very least, they probably are already there now."

Naruto fired off the blast at Sasuke, who seemed to have his escape planned. The bomb exploded and sent shock waves throughout the simulated valley. When the smoke cleared, Naruto looked around, but could not find a trace of Sasuke anywhere. "Come on, I know that you would not have let that vaporize you for the fun of it," the four tailed blonde said as he looked around.

"Good, he still has not caught on yet," Sasuke thought from below ground, right under Naruto's location. He formed two Shadow Clones and held out two Rasengans to them. One clone gave him fire chakra, forming the Rasenbomb, and the other gave him water chakra, giving him a Rasentide. "Bet no one thought I was good enough with water manipulation to do that yet," Sasuke thought with a smirk as the arms and bow of his Susanoo formed, and one of the clones dispelled, leaving the other on standby. The Susanoo fired the arrow straight up. Naruto sensed the danger at the last moment and managed to jump out of the way, the arrow blasting a hole through the ground as it came up, allowing Sasuke to throw the Rasenbomb at the sky before he jumped up though the hole, forming a Rasengan in his freshly empty hand, and his clone followed, giving it lightning chakra as they went. Sauke threw the newly formed Rasenlance up at Naruto, who extended one of his chakra arms to grab a tree and pull himself out of the way, only to get caught in the thrown Rasentide, which surprised everyone who had not expected to see it.

Of course, despite the disorientating spinning in the center of the water prison, a transformed jinchuriki could have fairly easily broken free if given a few seconds. Unfortunately, Sasuke did not even give Naruto one second. Before Naruto was even fully out of the way of the Rasenlance, Sasuke had fired a Susanoo arrow at the lightning element Rasengan. While the Rasenlance was much more powerful than a Susanoo arrow, the arrow was a fair bit faster, allowing it to be used to redirect a Rasenlance it is hit at an angle. Itachi raised an eyebrow as he recognized the tactic he used to use to hit hidden targets with kunai. Seemed Sasuke continued to draw inspiration from his brother.

Before Naruto could even fully register that he was trapped in a water type Rasengan, the Rasenlance penetrated the water dome and struck the blonde in the chest. Under normal circumstances, the chakra cloak would have repelled the Rasenlance to an extent that it would have failed to penetrate, though Naruto would have been carried back a good distance before the Rasenlance died out. But since he was held in place by the Rasentide, the Rasenlance was able to drill its way through his chest after being momentarily stalled, and as a bonus, Naruto got a fairly good shock as the watery prison conducted the lightning. The Rasentide then burst apart and Naruto was released, his chest wound already healing.

Sasuke's curse seal regressed into its first state, and he started panting hard. He now had only a little chakra left after using three consecutive elemental Rasengans, the first of which had exploded in the atmosphere, heating it up quite a bit. "So he intends to use that jutsu," Itachi mused as he looked into the sky, confusing his fellow spectators before he clarified. "It's a rather potent one that takes advantage of natural lightning, so it requires an almost nonexistent amount of chakra from the user to guide to a target once it is set up properly. It was powerful enough to completely destroy my Susanoo, though that defense was just enough for me to survive the attack."

Naruto took a step at Sasuke, not knowing why his rival was still so confident when so low on chakra, when there was a boom of thunder and he looked up to see the gathered thunder clouds, and a very intimidating dragon made of lightning poke its head out of said clouds. "This is one of my own original jutsu," Sasuke said as he allowed his curse seal to fully regress. "It's name is Kirin. Be gone, with a clap of thunder." The dragon roared as the lightning flashed. Naruto had tried to form a Bijuu Bomb to hit Sasuke with, but the speed of the lightning reaching him was too fast for him to have a chance to fire it, so it just added to the blast he had to withstand.

"Naruto!" Hinato cried out before Felix reminded her of the room's properties.

Itachi gave a low whistle. "He must have been able to gather more lightning than before, that must have been at least twice as powerful as the one he used against me, and that is not taking into account the ill-advised Bijuu Bomb." He looked at what was left of the two statues, which was little more than the lower part of their waists down. If this was the real Valley of the End, he knew that a lot of the villagers would pitch a fit upon seeing the monument destroyed.

Sasuke meanwhile had managed to jump far enough back to avoid the worst of the shockwave. When all the smoke cleared, Naruto was lying on his back with the chakra cloak having been blown away, and he was covered in burns. Sasuke activated his Sharingan, and confirmed it was the original Naruto before the blonde groaned and rose to his feet.

"Damn, that hurt like hell, you ass," Naruto growled at Sasuke, who actually laughed.

"Well, short of killing, it's kind of meant to," the Uchiha said somewhat defensively.

"Good point. What do you have left in your reserves, anyway?"

"Just this," Sasuke responded as he created a Chidori.

Naruto chuckled and a Rasengan was formed in response. "Another one of those clashes, huh?" They stared at each other before they charged, and their attacks met.

"Chidori!"

"Rasengan!"

The techniques repelled each other for a moment, before they both exploded and Naruto and Sasuke were thrown back again. For a moment, they lay were they fell, before Sasuke, then Naruto rose very unsteadily to their feet. For a moment, they looked intensely at each other, before Sasuke's eyes glazed and he collapsed unconscious.

For a moment, both Naruto and the spectators were silent before the surroundings faded and they were all once again outside of the AOS room, and Sasuke got up, annoyed that he had been the first to keel over during the fight.

"Hah!" Kushina shouted at the grumbling Itachi, Kakashi and Jiraiya as the latter gave a grinning Minato the box of cash. "Looks like that last ramen date before you are gone is all paid for."

"You bet against me, Ero-Sennin!?" Naruto shouted in indignation.

"Actually, I bet on a draw," Jiraiya said, before he and Naruto disappeared in a cloud of smoke. "Ouch, geroff me!"

"A draw huh, so you really didn't bother to figure out which of us is tougher, that makes it sooooo much better," Naruto snarled the last part sarcastically as his fists continued to connect. Once Naruto finished venting, Sasuke cleared his throat.

"Looks like you got me that time," the Uchiha said, still a little miffed. "But you don't want to slack off on your training. I intend to get stronger over the next few years, so if you get cocky, I'll be Hokage before you can even look at the hat eagerly. So make sure you can keep up while you are gone."

"Need you even tell me that teme?" Naruto grinned before he held out his hand to Sasuke, took it to form the reconciliation seal. Everyone but those two, Itachi and Hinata had left the room, and Naruto decided to exit as well. Sasuke started to follow, but he felt a hand grab the back of his shirt.

He turned around to see Hinata looking hard at him. "I just want you to know," she said with more force than one would expect from the normally shy girl. "That I have not forgotten the actions of the past timeline. All that you have done has caused Naruto-kun to suffer a great deal. However," her expression softened a little. "Naruto-kun has forgiven you, and while the emotions you put him through cannot be erased, your crimes have been undone. As much as I once detested you, I respect Naruto-kun's wishes more. So I will keep an open mind about you from here on out." She left the room and Sasuke sighed with relief. Frankly, he felt he deserved worse from his best friend's soul mate, since his best friend himself refused to let him have it.

"Just out of curiosity," Itachi asked Sasuke before the younger brother could follow after Hinata. "Why is it you are determined to become Hokage? That job does not strike me as one you would fancy for any reason. It surely can't be just to mend the rift between the village and our clan, that can be done by Naruto as Hokage, he more than has the ability."

"You're right, he has plenty of what is needed to lead the village down the right road, and if he continues to improve, he really will surpass all that came before him, in any village, not just Konoha. I seriously doubt that I will ever be able to be stronger than him again, but I can at least follow from behind him, pushing him ahead of me. Once, you told Kabuto that the key to understanding who he was was accepting what he could and could not do, and having comrades to help him with the latter. I know that alone, I could not hope to succeed in saving both the our clan and the village from having the end result between them being a similar fate to what happened before.

"That's why… I intend to grow stronger myself, so Naruto will work to stay ahead of me. As long as he can still see me whenever he looks back, he will continue to gain in strength, and when he finally reaches his dream, I will finally be able to stand at his side, ready help him any way I can from there."

"I see," Itachi said before he smiled. "I remember telling you that no matter what you chose to do, I would always give you my unconditional love, even if I was disappointed by whatever choice you made. While love for family should be unconditional, pride in family members has to be earned. You have truly matured Sasuke, for I can at last say that I am proud to have you as my brother."

Sasuke seemed very touched by this.

…..

Drakmus was very concerned for his master. Raizen had just come through a rift with his head bowed and his hand on the eye holes of his armor, blood dripping from them. "My lord…" Drakmus said as Raizen sat down on his seat.

"Using these eyes to convert so many followers at once," Raizen mused. "While I easily have the chakra to do so, the Mangekyo Sharingan's light is slowly fading… I am now almost completely blind. That is almost certainly why Obito gave them to me, he hoped to weaken me over time like this. He is a clever bastard, I'll give him that. Unfortunately for him, I am a step ahead. I already have a plan to get a replacement set, one whose light won't fade…"

"I thought you said it was too risky to try attacking Itachi yet, and you had plans for Sasuke?" Drakmus asked.

"No, as I said, I have a plan to get another set of the Eternal Mangekyo. In the meantime, I will have these regular Mangekyo eyes preserved, until the time comes to use them on Sasuke."

A/N: So by the end of next chapter, Naruto and Hinata will both be in the Elder Dimension. I hope you all enjoyed the battle between Naruto and Sasuke, as well as the descriptions of each elemental Rasengan.

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