Hello everyone and sorry for the long wait. I didn't know how to continue the story and then, it hit me and i wrote this little filler right here because if they're one thing i hate is BASHING of good characters, even if they are not well liked. hope you enjoy it

Chapter Cover: Kabuto smirking with his black hood up and the snakes comming out of his sleeves.

CHAPTER SIXTY EIGHT

Return of the Snake

If the events following the meeting with the strange shape shifting man was strange, then Sasuke Uchiha didn't know what to do now. For a long time, he had thought that killing Itachi was the only goal he had in life, and for years he had focused on that single goal and doing anything he can to get power.

Only to learn that his brother was being used by Konoha and the village had used his brother to massacre everyone in the Uchiha clan, and the only thing that Itachi couldn't do was kill him.

Sighing softly, Sasuke looked at the sun which was starting to set. He had accomplished his goal and was now a missing-ninja, set to wonder the world without a purpose.

I want to destroy Konoha, he thought, but with Madara dead. I can't accomplish that goal and I think he was the strongest…

That brought his mind back to the shape shifter again and what he had told him about the end of the world. The blue-haired man was strong, and Sasuke could see it from a mile away and the man was standing in the middle of the Bijuus controlling them like pets, something that Madara couldn't even achieve.

Sasuke had wondered who the person was, and were did he came from…

"Your revenge is futile since this world is going to be covered in darkness,"

Those were the words that the man had told him, and also he was telling him to choose side, making it sounding like a war was coming.

"Sasuke,"

He turned his attention toward his companion. Karin was the only member left from the original team that he had put up together to hunt Itachi, and considering that the woman was annoying as hell, reminding him of a certain pink-haired teammate, but she also had a good head on those shoulders of hers, and since she was a sensor, she was good at tracking and also healing, making her, almost couldn't believe he was even thinking about it, a good team member.

"What is it Karin?"

The redhead looked around them and said, "Is it me or this forest is…too quiet."

Sasuke looked around them and listened for the noise of birds, which to his surprise he couldn't hear anything except for the wind that was blowing through the trees around them. He couldn't believe that he missed that, and since he was so lost in his thoughts he didn't even notice the lack of nature.

"Now that you mention it," he said, his eyes narrowing "are we being followed?"

"No," Karin said shaking her head side to side, "it's just…doesn't this silence gave you a bad feeling?"

A bad feeling…

"One week time, this world will be covered in darkness"

He frowned and said, "How long as this going on?"

"I think three days give or take, half a day," Karin said, looking at him, worry and something akin to fear on her face.

Is this what he was talking about, Sasuke thought as he remembered the words from the man.

"Sasuke…"

"Hn"

"Do you think that man was right?" Karin asked, "About the world covering in darkness thing…"

Sasuke just shrugged his shoulders.

Karin sighed at this and continued to walk with him. She was pretty happy that she was the only one left with Sasuke, something that she had only dreamt of doing, but now it seems like everything is so…null around the dark haired Uchiha.

Sasuke was not someone who's up for small talks and was the most emotionless guy she had ever came across and was now wondering why she even had a crush on the guy in the first place…

Right, he was handsome and what kind of girl can resist mister tall dark and handsome?

She sighed again, her eyes going again toward Sasuke whom was still seemingly lost in his thoughts. She was kinda bored right now and was slightly hoping that the two idiots, Suigetsu and Jugo were okay considering that they had abandoned the two back in the Land of Iron and with any chance they might have escaped…

Suddenly a chakra, a deadly familiar chakra was fast approaching them.

Karin was startled out of her thought as she suddenly turned toward where she felt the chakra and was feeling fear coming over her body.

He can't be still alive…that is impossible, she thought, wildly as the chakra was almost on top of them.

"What is it Karin?" Sasuke asked, noticing her expression.

"O…Orochimaru is coming," she said.

Sasuke's eyes widened slightly at the thought of the Snake Sannin, but he was sure that Itachi had sealed the man away with the Susanoo.

"That's impossible…" Sasuke said, softly.

"He is here," Karin said suddenly looking at a direction.

Just as she said that, a number of snakes came from the trees, hissing at the two which they dodged quite skillfully and Sasuke even severed the head of a few with a quick sword work. His sharingan were spinning as he dodged another snake, slashing it into to and with his hands filled with lightning, he put his hand on the ground…

"Chidori Stream,"

The lightning covered the entire ground and the figure jumped out of the shadow landing in a couple of yards away from the two. It was hooded with some design of snakes on it and a small chuckle was coming from it.

"Well, well, it seems we've finally met again Sasuke-kun," the figure said.

Sasuke's eyes narrowed at the figure. He knew that the person standing in front of him wasn't Orochimaru by miles, but he knew who it was and was amazed that the man was still alive.

"Kabuto," he said slowly.

The hooded figure let out a small chuckle as he tilted his head backward giving them a view of the face hidden in the shadow of the hood. Sasuke narrowed his eyes and Karin inhaled sharply.

Kabuto didn't look like himself anymore. His face was pale almost slanted as he had the two yellowish eyes of Orochimaru. His hair wasn't in a ponytail anymore as a few bangs were now shadowing his forehead in a creepy similar way to Orochimaru still wearing the familiar round glasses he was famous for around the Sound base. Behind him, a large tail like snake was swinging slightly from side to side as the man continued to smirk that creepy looking smile.

"So the prey has finally stopped running," he said with a slight smirk.

"W…what happened to you Kabuto?" Karin asked, still shell shocked at the appearance of the medic ninja.

"I've merged myself with a piece of Orochimaru-sama's power," Kabuto grinned, "He live through me and I can feel him fighting for control, but I'm not as weak-minded as he believe. The power from just a few cells…it's exhilarating."

Sasuke's eyes narrowed at the man, "Then why are you here Kabuto?"

Kabuto let out the Orochimaru-like grin and hissed, "I've come for you Sasuke-kun. I need a new fresh addition to my collection and experiments."

He's lost it, Karin thought, The Orochimaru cells must be affecting him more than he admits. He even had the same hunger as Orochimaru has.

"And what makes you think that I will go willingly?" Sasuke said narrowing his eyes, tempted to use the Amaterasu on the man.

Kabuto put his two palms together and smirked, "I can always call out a few friends to convince you Sasuke-kun…and with your Sharingan, and I will be complete."

Sasuke put a hand out in front of Karin and said, "Karin stay back, I'll take Kabuto on alone."

"But Sasuke…"

Sasuke ignored her as his left eye turned into the Mangkeyou Sharingan that Itachi had planted within him, "This won't take five seconds."

Kabuto grinned, "Confident as usual Sasuke-kun."

"Amaterasu,"

The black appeared into life heading for Kabuto who swerved left making Sasuke turn the flames toward him with his eye. From Kabuto's sleeves, two snakes shoot out faster than a speeding bullet making Sasuke refocuses on them; momentarily taking his eyes off Kabuto. The first snake was heading for his face which he dodged, slamming his sword through the head of the second one and he threw a kunai with a paper bomb at the snake, resulting into blowing it into bits.

Before he could even move, three snakes were already slithered across him, preventing him from moving as Kabuto appeared right in front of him with a wide snakelike grin.

"You're mine,"

"Amaterasu,"

The black flames were summoned again burning right in Kabuto's face whom had no way he could dodge them, but he had raised his arms to protect his face as the flames appeared in his arms, burning it away.

He jumped away landing on the ground with his arm still burning, and Sasuke had put a hand on his eyes as the burning returned into his eyes and he feel the warm blood leaking from it.

"Hehehehe, you've gotten stronger, Sasuke-kun," Kabuto said as he started to get up, "just like Itachi those eyes will kill you."

That's impossible, Sasuke thought looking at Kabuto, The Amaterasu flames should have killed him…

"Snakeskin…," he said scowling slightly.

He knew about it considering he did the same thing to Itachi when he was being burned with the black flames.

Kabuto's grin got wider, "It took you that long to figure it out, you don't know how to use those eyes of yours. Itachi was way stronger than you and I could have been already dead if I was fighting him."

Sasuke growled, his hand still on his eye.

"Endo Tensei," Kabuto said, with his palm join together and four coffins grew out of the ground.

"Let me introduce you, to the new version of the resurrection technique," he continued, "Get ready to face you're my little friends."

The doors of the coffins falls on the ground and Sasuke's eyes widened.

"You…"

Karin was shocked as well, "He…"

Kabuto's grin got even wider now, "Let's end this my puppets."

A figure was traveling faster than light toward where the chakras were coming from and knew that this was her target. With the hood hiding its face, the figure wondered what was happening but hurried up considering her mission was to find the Uchiha alive.

Sasuke feel numb as he watched the four figures that were in the coffins.

"Impossible,"

Deidara, Itachi, Sasori and Kakuzu were standing there with their eyes closed. They didn't look dead or anything, and their skin looked as if they were alive and well.

"Orochimaru-sama couldn't summon anymore than three," Kabuto said smirking, "but with his cell within me, I'm even more powerful than ever and you won't be able to match against me Sasuke-kun"

"Tch," Sasuke said as he took a grip on his sword.

The four undead ninja marched forward and they opened their eyes, which were lifeless, all of them dressed in Akatsuki cloaks. Sasuke recognized the crazy bomber he had defeated but it was strange considering that the man had blown himself up, he wondered how Kabuto had resurrected the man but he wasn't asking.

"How about we start gentlemen," Kabuto said.

Without warning, both Itachi and Kakuzu charged forward with Kakuzu hand's already on the last seals of his jutsu.

"Earth Style: Landslide."

He slammed both of his hand on the ground making the ground did exactly what the jutsu was. Sasuke then jumped backward and a flash of movement make him look up to see Itachi coming at him with a kunai straight at his face.

Reacting quickly, Sasuke pulled out his sword blocking the strike with the flat side of his sword, looking into the eyes of his brother which were raven black and held no sign of recognition within them. Grunting, Sasuke pushed him off, as Itachi did a back flip and landing a little fall away.

At that moment, two white clay birds, with the size of normal ones, came into his attention coming straight for his face and Sasuke threw two shuriken at them resulting into a almighty explosion.

Huffing a little, Sasuke saw that Itachi was doing a set of familiar seals and he quickly started his own, both of them landing on the last Tiger seal one second after the others.

"Fire Style: Grand fireball Jutsu."

The two giants balls of flames met in a clash of fire, and Kakuzu had just completed his own set of seals.

"Water Style: Giant Waterfall."

The wave of water hit the young Uchiha full forces making him slam into the trees, deterring quite a few in his wake and landing awkwardly against one. He could feel that his arm was broken since it was sticking at an odd angle. Grunting slightly, Sasuke knew that he simply can't face such strong opponent all at once, and he was thinking of doing the only thing he never thought he would have being doing.

Flee.

He was seating up when Itachi found him again, looking down at him with those black empty eyes. The man had a kunai in his hand and walked until he was standing in front of the boy.

"Itachi, don't do it," Sasuke said, "This isn't you."

Itachi raised his kunai and at that time Sasuke knew that they was only one way of defeating Kabuto and he had used the thing only once before back at the Summit in the Land of Iron.

Here we go,

The hand started to come down…

Susanoo…

The shapes took place around Sasuke, making Itachi flew backward at the sudden appearance of the ribcage of some strange spiritual being. The pain of summoning him was taking his toll as Sasuke screamed, feeling the stress of the jutsu within his very cells.

Damn, this pain is unbearable…

"So this is the legendary Susanoo," Kabuto said now standing on a branch with Kakuzu, Deidara, Sasori, "Your eyes must be really special to create such an amazing thing."

He was leering at Sasuke now, now looking so much like Orochimaru that it was unnerving.

"Seeing at how hard you're breathing Sasuke-kun," Kabuto continued, "You won't be able to hold this for long."

Sasuke grinned, "Well I'll just have to destroy all of you quickly then."

Susanoo created a chakra arrow from one of his hand and attacked the enemy with such speed that Kabuto was momentarily awe but he was able to dodge it, but the Sasori wasn't so lucky as it got ripped into piece, not getting back up again.

Seeing this Kabuto frowned, This thing once it destroy the Endo Tensei summon its destroyed. Guess because it was a spiritual thing, this might be troublesome.

"Kill him," he ordered the three he had left.

Itachi attacked with another fire attack while Kakuzu did another Earth jutsu both of them blocked by the Susanoo spirit that was surrounding Sasuke and Deidara's clays attack met the same results.

Sasuke knew that they couldn't get through the summon but his chakra was almost through and knew he won't be able to hold it through for another second and seeing the relentless attacks, making every muscles scream in protest and when the last attack, a water technique actually chattered the boy's defense, Sasuke was now completely exhausted and throughout without any chakra left at all.

"Easier to capture than I expected," Kabuto said, "now I can go ways where Lord Orochimaru had only dreamt of."

He landed in front of the half unconscious boy and said, "Sorry Sasuke, this is for science after all."

He grabbed the boy and heaved him on his shoulder, and was about to get on his way when a flash of golden light appeared right in his way blinding him for moment making him jump back.

When the light dissipated, a figure was standing there a black robe floating around them with their hood up and Kabuto can see the silver boots from beneath the cloak, making him raise his eyebrows slightly as Itachi and Kakuzu appeared on his side with Deidara.

"And who are you?"

The figure looked up slightly and answered, "My name is Saki Haruno, and I've come for the boy Uchiha Sasuke."

Mirror was somewhere in the wooden area with the Bijuus around him and they were all growling softly. He was drawing a Youkai seal on the ground with his own silver blood. He was planning something so that this world doesn't suffer anymore from those creatures and sending them to that place is the best idea he could have come up right now.

Still drawing the runes on the flat surface, he felt a familiar wave of Youkai aura that he hadn't felt an in very long time.

"So you finally found me," he said, not looking from his work.

Sheva was still dressed in his Akatsuki outfit and was now looking at the bleu haired comrade and said, "You're a hard person to find sometimes."

Mirror just grunted, "So why are you here anyway?"

"Loredia's dead and the pieces are already moving against us," Sheva continued, "you must have realized it if you're doing that rune."

She had inclined her head toward the silver Rune that was drawn on the flat surface.

"Yes," Mirror said looking at her, "The Bijuus are not taking part of this fight. It will be very hard to control them when fighting against Han's army."

"So what you're going to do then?" Sheva asked him.

"What I've always done when there is a battle Sheva," Mirror said with a slight grin, "I improvise."

Hey everyone, so how was it. i know that the Saki Haruno thing is going to thrown some people off considering that she is supposed to be dead but let's face it. when is something ever simple in the ninja world? I hope you enjoyed the Sasuke chapter and i tried to make him stay in character as possible and if you're wondering, he didn't get Itachi's eyes as he did from the manga.

Jacques0 out.

R&R.