A/N: Please don't kill me! I know its been forever and a month or two since I've updated! That's plenty of reason to chop my head off and feed it to a bunch of hungry pigs, BUT..there's another chapter..so maybe that will distract you guys long enough for me to start working on another on so I can post it very soon so then you guys can keep on reading and so I can keep on living…if that made any sense :p
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Those Sharingan Eyes
Chapter 11: Realization
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"Itachi.." The name was spoken low, with menace. The holder of the voice was deadly still, his Sharingan eyes burning with a fire as he simply looked on at the owner of the name. Uchiha Itachi.
"You remember my name, touching." He was completely facing Sasuke now, and like him his face was void of emotion, his countenance cold as stone.
Sasuke let his eyes wander to find his two teammates. Naruto was on the ground behind Itachi, flat on his stomach. He was conscious, but all he could do was stare, his body would do nothing for him. He took a glance to Sakura, noting her greatly shaking stare. She looked distressed
"Why..are you here." Sasuke spoke, demanding an answer.
"To break you." Itachi simply answered.. Finally Sasuke looked
"Why do you have her here. She has nothing to do with this." He spoke coldly, agitatedly.
"She has everything to do with you, brother, and that is why she is here." Itachi simply replied. Sasuke turned his head to the side slightly in speculation. His eyebrow threatened to rise as he tried to comprehend what Itachi meant.
Sakura let out a grimace. Of course, Sasuke didn't really care that she was there, it probably just annoyed him. He was most likely just going to leave her there.
Instead of wasting his time and temper with words, Sasuke decided to take action. He went still for a moment, calming himself down, his eyes still trained on Itachi. But it seemed that he was thinking about something. Planning something. His genius brain could not fail him at that. He made a small dash towards the tree with a kunai already at hand, but Itachi was already there, aiming a kick at Sasuke's abdomen.
The younger Uchiha saw this, and would have easily been able to dodge, but he had long decided to do something else. He took out another kunai with amazing speed, though this time it had a seal on it. As soon as he did so he threw the tagged kunai upward, far from where Sakura was bound to the tree. It seemed to disappear high into the sky. Itachi lifted his eyebrow as he still aimed his kick.
As Sasuke took the blow, he quickly executed a back flip, catching himself on all fours. He quickly jumped back even more, taking out more kunai. Itachi just simply stood, waiting for Sasuke to make a move.
"Come." Was all Itachi said. But Sasuke did not obey, he seemed to be waiting for something. He couldn't let his emotions consume him yet, at least not until..
Sasuke's eyes slightly widened as he reinforced his Sharingan. As soon as he did so, he slightly squinted as something caught his eye. It signaled the moment he would take action, and he did.
Sakura was confused. The dread in her heart hadn't seceded, but Sasuke's actions bewildered her a little bit. Why did he throw that kunai up in the air? What was he doing?
"What..?" Sakura whispered as something caught her eye. She could see something dropping down from the sky. Right above the tree she was bound to. She looked up, the object reflecting in her eye. That's when she realized something. She took a deep breath, preparing herself for something.
Itachi still did not move even as Sasuke was in the motion of throwing his kunai, he could easily dodge it, especially from the distance that separated them. He was slight curious at Sasuke actions. Did he really think to hit him from that far a distance?
As the kunai was thrown, Itachi's eyebrow slightly lifted up as the kunai was thrown completely off, without the slightest chance of hitting him. But as soon as he did, a loud clanking could be heard, seemingly from two kunai colliding. Everyone looked up, in the direction where Sasuke had thrown his kunai, the same area where he had thrown that earlier, tagged kunai.
The collision from both kunai's had somehow forced the tagged kunai that was dropping from the sky to come down at an angle towards the middle of the back of the tree Sakura was bound to. Sakura looked at the kunai in awe, more so surprise, it definitely covered the strenuous pain her neck was feeling due to the angle she was twisting it. But the way this happened was amazing. The physical possibility that a kunai could even do that, being hit from the direction it was hit was impossible. How can you throw a kunai at another kunai dropping from the sky, and get it to come in your direction?
As the kunai made contact with the tree, the tag seemed to burn the entire chakra string around Sakura, and it disintegrated. Sakura gracefully landed on the ground. Sasuke wasn't called a genius for nothing. Yet he had one fault in his seemingly faultless plan. He expected, no, wanted her to get away from here. He wanted her to leave so that she wouldn't get in his way, or maybe he just couldn't stand the sight of her. And of course he wasn't going to protect her while he was fighting his brother, so it was either leave now, or defend herself.
But Sakura was not going to leave; there wasn't a chance in hell.
Itachi smirked a bit.
"Good job Sasuke. How many years has it taken you?" His voice has a slight trace of amusement. He was referring to back in the days when Sasuke had tried so hard to hit every single target with the kunai's like he did, but failed each time.
Sasuke flashed back to when his older brother had piggy-backed him all the way to the village due to the injuries he had sustained from practicing that technique all day. All it did was anger him more.
Sasuke said nothing, his body was slightly turned, part of his left side facing Itachi. His Sharingan eyes were focused on Itachi in an icy stare. He was breathing normally, there were no signs of any agitation or anger coursing through him, at least it wasn't noticeable. He was doing a great job of controlling it, so far.
After a few moments, Sasuke slowly lowered into a fighting stance, silently watching Itachi, waiting.
Itachi looked at his younger brother, noting that he was serious, ready to fight. He took a glance to Sakura, letting out a small grin.
Sakura felt intimidated by the look Itachi gave her, she even took a slight step back. What was Itachi planning?
The smirk left Itachi's face as he set his eyes on Sasuke. He continued to stand, not letting a stance take his position. He simply brought forth his hand, his cold eyes never leaving Sasuke's.
"Come." Was all Itachi said. A simple command. And Sasuke obeyed.
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Sakura ran over to where Naruto was, quickly kneeling down net to him.
"Naruto! We have to get out of the way!" She put his arm over her shoulder and gently grabbed his side, doing her best not to cause him a lot of pain. She expected him to answer her back, but she assumed he was in too much pain to do so. All she heard was a slight "Chikuso" as she lifted them onto their feet. They slowly made their way out of the Uchiha's way. The sound of clashing and banging metal filled both their ears.
Sakura quickly leaned Naruto against a tree, he let out a little grunt of pain as she did so.
"Gomen..Sakura-chan.." Naruto muttered. His face was slightly scrunched up in pain, and as his eyes traveled to the two Uchiha's, their battling reflected in his eyes; and his fists clenched together. Seeing this, he tried to get up, but Sakura pushed him back down.
"Naruto I'm going to fix you up ok!" Sakura's voice was quiet, but a little panicky. Naruto was in bad shape.
Naruto held in a gasp and grunt of pain as his ribs were popped back into place; he was surprised Sakura hadn't warned him. His face was still scrunched in pain from the aftereffects. She gave him an apologetic look, before searching his body for wounds. She found a deep but in his side as well. She had seen how ninja's healed this stuff, she just hoped she could imitate them good enough.
Ok, so they placed their hands over the wound..then they somehow made this soft glowing light..chakra right? So focus chakra into your hands?
She felt relief as she saw the chakra develop around her hands, but she let out a small yelp and pulled her hands away as Naruto let out a gasp of pain. The healing chakra was not supposed to hurt.
"Sorry Sorry Naruto!" She contemplated not trying that anymore, but as she saw the blood slowly leaking out, it made her choose otherwise. She couldn't leave him like that.
C'mon Sakura..you can do this!
She slowly put her shaky hands over Naruto's wound, letting out a deep breath before closing her eyes. She tired to shut out the sound of fighting in the background. She had to somehow reverse the flow of chakra, turning it's power into that of healing.
She slowly started developing chakra in her hands again, taking out any negative thought in her head. She was healing..not destroying.
Healing chakra, healing chakra…please..
As the chakra flowed from her hands and onto Naruto, he didn't make a sound. That meant it wasn't causing him pain! That meant Sakura was healing him!
"Yes!" Sakura shoved her hands into the air! When Sakura realized what she was doing, she let out a gasp in the form of the word "o" and quickly replaced her hands over the rest of Naruto's wound.
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Flaming fire erupted from Sasuke's and Itachi's mouth, colliding into the other. A huge explosion threatened to singe the other's body, but both had managed to jump away.
Sasuke was breathing heavily, and it came to his great dismay as he noticed Itachi was perfectly fine, just standing still as a statue. He felt his anger starting to build up. Sasuke charged Itachi again, this time aiming combos of attacks.
Itachi dodged Sasuke's first punch, easily dealing a blow to Sasuke's abdomen. Sasuke retaliated, ducking down and aiming a kick at a diagonal angle towards Itachi's face. Itachi caught his foot and threw Sasuke up in the air. He reappeared n0065t to the younger Uchiha, preparing a kick. But Sasuke recovered and disappeared, reappearing behind Itachi. But Itachi simply elbowed Sasuke in the face and kicked him towards the ground.
As soon as Sasuke hit the earth, he disappeared. In front of Itachi, he aimed another combo of attacks. Fist met fist, and foot met foot. As Itachi aimed a punch, Sasuke bent down, preparing to attack, but Itachi quickly aimed a kick. All Sasuke could do was block. He was sent flying a few feet away, making hard contact with the ground. He immediately bounced up onto all fours, bringing a hand up to wipe the trickle of blood flowing down his chin.
Why?
Sasuke charged for Itachi again, aiming a punch. Itachi caught Sasuke's hand in his, holding it in place as Sasuke struggled to break free. After a moment, he backhanded Sasuke, sending him flying a few feet away.
Why?
Sasuke took out a kunai, charging Itachi yet again. As their kunai's met, both tried to overpower the other. Sasuke seemed to be losing. Mustering all the strength he could in the situation, Sasuke took one hand off the kunai, and with amazing speed, delivered a punch to Itachi's face. His older brother did not falter a step, nor lose his position on the kunai. His head had just slightly turned to the side, his eyes never leaving Sasuke. A small trickle of blood traveled down Itachi's chin. That was it.
Why?
After a few moments, Itachi delivered that same exact punch Sasuke had preformed, his fist connecting with Sasuke's face. Sasuke did more than falter a step and lose his position on the kunai, he was sent flying yet again.
Why was he stronger than him?
Sasuke disappeared, reappearing behind Itachi, aiming a punch. Itachi disspeared with amazing speed, reappearing behind Sasuke. It seemed to go in slow motion as Sasuke turned his head to look at Itachi angrily. Itachi spun around, kicking Sasuke towards the sky.
Why was he faster than him?
Itachi followed the airborne Sasuke, preparing to send him flying towards the ground. All Sasuke was able to do was block. A kick sent him flying at a diagonal angle towards the ground, and into a tree.
Sasuke's body left a huge implant in the tree as he made contact; the force knocked blood out of his mouth. Sasuke slid down the tree, landing on his bottom, his legs bent up. He stayed in that posistion, unmoving, his eyes and face obscured from view by his hair.
Why was it that, everything, everything he did, Itachi did better?
Gracias Para Leyendo!!
Hope it was ok! I'm already working on the next chapter!..Well, techinically, I'm going to start right after I post this one! Again, I'm terribly sorry for the extremely long update!
Lo Siento y Hasta Luego!!