Naruto Fanfiction

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Author's Note: Be ready for a few surprises!

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Alden-san: Aw man... What a horrible mistake... Thanks for notifying me… Tsunade's the fifth, I know and knew. I didn't know of the Great Naruto bridge, though… Thanks for that! Well, I know there are no Kages in those certain villages… but I just labelled the strongest in that village like that, because, well… SOMEONE has to guard those Scrolls, right?

CurlsofSerenity: Well, the story still has a long way before it ends… Be ready to see some big surprises… Here's the next Chappie!

:D: yeah, isn't it great? Two Uchihas working together… Well, that's what you'd think from looking at the previous chapter…

Perverted-senin: Sorry I made that obvious mistake and thanks for the review!!

Misu no Hikaru: Hehe, well, you don't have to wait any longer, here's the next Chappie!

Neji: Many thanks for loving my story!! Thanks for reviewing!

Loon Luu: Oh, some fights won't even occur. But don't worry, most fights will… Thanks for the review!!

DocDragon: Thank god it's good enough! Sasuke and Itachi together… I've never seen that before… But can you imagine two Uchihas fighting against you, while the two of them van both use Mange Sharingan? *shudder*

SilverKnight7: Many thanks!! Here's a new chapter!

Pyr00tje: Well, read and find out. I hope it entertains you! Prepare yourself for a surprise, though!

Zsych: Sexy seduction no Jutsu? Now that's something Naruto or Jiraiya would do… But Sakura? She's too decent for that. You're right, Ino is the girl for it! But I don't do crossovers… Something about those just don't… add up… Anyway! Thanks for the review!!

EfrainMan: Hehehehe, Well, here's the next Chappie, be ready to be surprised a little…

Nobuyasha: Heh, thanks for the techniques! I might use them, but I will do them in Japanese though.. Because it just sounds better that way… Sorry for the people who prefer the English names…

Anonymous: Many thanks for the review! And thanks for loving my story! Here's a little update!

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There Where When is Now

Chapter 11

This was not going his way at all… Fighting Uchihas wasn't something he would make his hobby. The fact that Sasuke was almost as fast as him and Itachi was faster made it more complicated. More troublesome was that he could not look in both their eyes for fear of getting caught in that Mange Sharingan. So Orochimaru saw only one solution…

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!!"

And there he was, towering above the two of them.

Itachi and Sasuke looked at each other… Sasuke had quite enough of it and just rushed towards Itachi, ignoring Orochimaru and Manda. Itachi parried the physical attacks with his right hand and then kicked Sasuke away, only to see Sasuke quickly pull a Kawarimi. Itachi stepped to the side to avoid the shower of Shurikens Sasuke threw from behind him.

"Orochimaru! What the hell!! I don't see any real problem here!! Besides two Shinobis down there… Don't tell me you were bested by them!!"

Orochimaru, on Manda's head, spoke up. "Uchiha Sasuke has betrayed us… The other is Uchiha Itachi…" Orochimaru narrowed his eyes at Sasuke. 'There's no way I can still get in that body now… I'll have to do it another time… Damn that Itachi…' Orochimaru sighed. "Manda, take me away from here… There's nothing here…"

Manda's eyes widened. "Say what?! You want to run away?!"

"Those two will kill each other…"

On the ground, Itachi was interested in how far Sasuke had become now… "Little brother…" Itachi and Sasuke looked at each other with their Sharingans activated… Itachi closed his eyes and whispered. "Let's see… " Sasuke also closed his eyes…

And then they both yelled. "Mange Sharingan!!"

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How odd… now that he had his Byakugan activated, it should be a lot easier… Sure, Lee had more weights now and now that he had thrown them all off his speed would be a lot higher. But this speed was unbelievable. Usually, no matter what the speed, the Byakugan would always indicate where the attack would come from, since it saw all around. But Lee's speed was so fast, it was even too fast for the Byakugan to see… Neji did not like this one bit, since Lee's strength had also increased greatly…

So it was no surprise when Lee landed a powerful hit straight in Neji's gut, Neji angrily activated the Advanced Byakugan.

"Senshin-Byakugan!!"

Neji stared at Lee with his eerie eyes. "Enough… I will stop this little game now…" Neji glared at Lee. 'He has the ability to open the Gates… But I have read the entire Hidden Scroll of the Leaf… Add to that, I have the Senshin-Byakugan… The only thing Lee can do now is use the Gates… Tricky to counter, since his speed will increase a lot too… But my Senshin-Byakugan will be able to sense all movements… Since it actually slows it all a little down… Only Mokito and Naruto are able to let their speed equal their REAL speed through my Senshin-Byakugan… And even then they need more than just their speed to beat me…'

Lee's eyes widened at the sudden change in Neji's eyes. 'What's with his eyes? An upgrade for the Byakugan? This might be difficult… First I'll test this…'

Lee rushed forward with his great speed and was already planning on landing a fist in Neji's side, only to see Neji disappear and appear behind Lee, while Lee hadn't even made a movement with his fist yet. The pain Lee felt in his back was a pain he hadn't felt for a very long time… The Gentle Fist…

Lee fell on his face, but quickly rolled back up. 'So now he can easily see my speed… And he can counter it easily too… He did hit me good back there…' Lee's eyes narrowed. 'I have to open the gates… Now I will prove to him that a Bloodline Limit really has a limit!'

Neji's eyes narrowed a bit as he watched the Chakra flow in Lee's body. 'So… he's going to do it… I don't want to waste too much time…'

Neji's eyes widened as Lee hit his ankle and then grabbed his face and threw him in a tree. 'Damn… That was fast…' Neji thought as he picked himself off the ground. 'Opening Gates should have taken him longer…' Neji took on his Hyuga Stance and prepared himself for the second round… "Come…"

And Lee rushed forward again, but this time Neji was prepared. Neji moved his body to the left and the right to avoid all blows and kicks Lee was throwing at him. Neji himself could not hit back since Lee was way faster than him. 'Damn… I need more space to perform the Kaiten…' Neji thought as he could only dodge for now…

Lee disappeared and Neji smiled as he immediately performed the "Kaunta-Kaiten!!"

For a bystander it was strange, since you could only see someone spinning like crazy and a few trees getting slammed down… But Lee was moving so fast towards Neji that he couldn't stop moving. All the power Lee had put into the attack he received back and slammed through several trees.

'Heh, I knew that would work. It was not sure if he would attack me immediately, but considering his speed and his lust to prove himself, he would charge right back in… Hot-blooded fool..'

Neji stopped spinning only to find an elbow right in his face. Neji flew back, landed and immediately performed "Tenketsu-Kaiten!!"

And Lee got immobilized… Neji watched the almost unconscious Lee on the ground. "I'm sorry I had to do that, Lee… But you left me no choice… Perhaps if you were more hesitant in your attacks your chances of winning would be higher… Although if you do that, you give me more time to think and locate you…"

Neji's eyes widened as Lee appeared behind him and kicked him in his back. Neji didn't fall on the ground but landed on his feet. Neji quickly turned around to see Lee was perfectly fine… "How?!"

Lee smiled. "Every Gate has more functions that only allowing me to use Renges… Especially the Heal Gate…"

Neji narrowed his eyes… 'He can open those gates much faster than before… The question is… how often can he open them? Lee was never known for his Chakra amount… But until then I need to be careful….'

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Interesting… Very interesting his idea was. He had senses him a while ago and had decided to let him catch up. It was weird that the two of them encountered each other, especially when the both of them had parted their ways a long distance away from here… But now the two of them encountered each other here, only a few days later… It was like fate had wanted this…

"So, you're saying we should try again?" Naruto asked. "Do you think we stand a chance now?"

Gaara nodded. "Yes. Both of us have grown far more powerful than before. If we win the battle, we will become even stronger… Our potential will be more than doubled…"

Naruto nodded. "Yeah, you're right… We'd be incredibly strong… But… last time, they easily kicked our asses with their Chakra alone… Your demon can use Sand against you and of course the basic Jutsus like Clones… My demon can do that too and he can use his tails that can get through the bars… One tail is enough to let an entire mountain crumble…"

Gaara chuckled. "Are you afraid?"

Naruto sighed. "Heh, I knew you'd say that… Well, I guess I am, but just a little… Where should we go?"

Gaara shrugged. "I don't care… I am not ready yet to destroy my old Village, I discovered."

Naruto looked at Gaara and frowned? "Not ready?"

Gaara looked at Naruto from the corner of his eyes and stared ahead again. "It seems I still… care… for my siblings… They were there when I visited the Sand Village…"

Naruto nodded. "I see… Precious people… I visited my old Village too, as you know… But I decided to destroy it after all this Scroll business is over…"

Gaara nodded. "I will join you in that decision… For now, maybe we should go look for Itachi…"

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Neji dodged all attacks Lee was throwing at him. Lee had gained such a high speed it was even difficult to dodge the attacks with the Senshin-Byakugan. But he managed, the only problem was, he could not attack back because Lee was so damn fast. All of Neji's more effective techniques needed a hand seal and with Lee not giving him any time, Neji could do little.

Even as Neji used Kawarimi and jumped to another location, Lee was already attacking him again not even a second later. That was how fast Lee had become. But this was nothing new for Neji. He had fought Naruto and Mokito this way as well… The way to be able to do anything was to simply move underground for now. 'Suna Otori…' And then prepare to perform the Summoning no Jutsu…

Lee hit Neji hard in the face, only to see it was a Kawarimi… Lee looked around, but this time he could not sense Neji anywhere. Then, his eyes caught movement to his left, but the only thing he saw was a hand that came out of the ground and then he saw the hand hit the ground.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!!"

Lee's eyes widened…

Neji jumped out of the ground and gazed at the shocked Lee. "Lee, this one's probably faster than you…"

Lee swallowed nervously as he watched a very big leopard in front of him… 'So he can summon? This is bad… The animal is bigger than me and probably faster too… I… I might be forced to open… ALL of the gates…'

Neji's eyes widened as he saw how the Chakra flow changed in Lee. "You know what will happen if you overexert yourself, right, Lee?" Neji sighed as Lee ignored him. He faced the Leopard, who stood only half a meter taller than Neji. "Hyou… Get rid of him, but don't kill him…"

Lee's eyes widened as the Leopard rushed forward but enough time was given to him. Lee moved in speed unlike any Neji had ever witnessed before and Lee served a kick to Hyou's face. A kick that could not be dodged. Neji was a little surprised at this speed but smirked… 'Heh, now that I have witnessed that kind of speed, my Senshin-Byakugan can calculate how to effectively fight against it… But there's no need to do that. Hyou can not be defeated by a human…' Neji tilted his head. 'Well, that's excluding Naruto and Gaara… but those two aren't really humans…'

Hyou lashed out towards Lee after receiving the kick, but found that Lee had moved behind her. Hyou also had a very high speed and disappeared, so Lee's punch and the following kick never connected. Lee disappeared after Hyou appeared to his left, his jaws wide open, ready to crunch Lee. The fight went on like this, one disappearing after another, Lee was doing pretty good against the huge Leopard.

'It should be over soon… He won't be able to stay too long in that state…' His reasoning was proven as Hyou's claws connected twice with Lee's body. Huge gushes were seen In Lee's side and blood was pouring out…

Nevertheless, Lee jumped up, but Hyou was already on the attack and another slash connected, causing Lee to land on his back again.

"Give it up, Lee… You're too wounded to go on." Neji frowned and analyzed. 'So, he's going for the Heal Gate again…' Neji looked at Hyou. "Hyou, make sure he won't be able to move again."

Hyou quickly rammed a paw on Lee's back, making sure Lee would not get away. Neji slowly walked towards Lee and crouched before him. "Now you can't move at all… You do realize that I could kill you here and now… But…" Neji narrowed his eyes at Lee and then his look softened just a tiny bit… "Time is not given to me…" Neji finished, hopping on Hyou's back. "Hyou, let's go! Leave this Hot-blooded fool here…"

And with awesome speed, Hyou leaped away, leaving Lee to rest and cough up lots of blood… Immediately he activated the Heal Gate so the wounds on his body would no longer be lethal…

After that, he shot one look at the direction Neji went and then returned back to his camp…

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Truly surprising… A conflict between two Mange Sharingans led to a fight within heir minds… A fight of who would gain more control over the other's mind… Both Sasuke and Itachi felt the Chakra being ripped out of their bodies because of the longer than usual use of the Mange Sharingan. But none of them would stop, because if they would… They would suffer even more…

And then, they both dropped to their knees…

Itachi coughed from exhaustion and stared at Sasuke. "You've come a long way… brother… Seems we have to fight each other without the Sharingan…" Itachi said as his Sharingan faded from his eyes. He still was a little less tired than Sasuke and without the Sharingan he could perform techniques much easier. Itachi performed a long set of hand seals and then pointed both his hands at the sky… "Katon Ryuu!!"

Sasuke was still coughing and breathing heavily as he saw a gigantic wave of fire being released from Itachi's person. He watched as a huge fire dragon danced through the skies and then dissipated. Sasuke grinned. 'Heh, he does not have enough Chakra to make sure that attack would land on me. That must have made him lose a lot of Chakra.'

Itachi stared at Sasuke, who was standing up now. "I will kill you, Itachi…"

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Gaara and Naruto looked at each other at the display of power in the skies… "That's Itachi's sign…" Naruto yelled as he watched Gaara. Gaara nodded as the two of them moved as fast they could towards where the huge dragon of fire flew through the skies..

Throughout their training, all of them had created a technique big enough for others to notice from a distance. Naruto's was a huge red head of a fox roaring and moving through the skies. Gaara's was Shukaku's head and it was doing the same thing as Naruto's. Neji and Dareda's sign was huge cloud of Blue Chakra which would make the sky turn the opposite colour of what it currently was at that time. Itachi's was a huge dragon of fire and Kisame's was a huge dragon of water. It was very obvious what Sinobi's would be, but he had opted for a huge bird of electricity to soar through the skies. Mokito did not know a technique big enough, because she was unable to be able perform one.

Right now, Naruto and Gaara could imagine that a lot more people were rushing towards the spot…

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TaiJutsu is what the two of them could only do now… Sasuke could not choose to go Level 1 or 2 of the Curse Seal, because it would simply kill him. He had little to no Chakra in his body now. The same was with Itachi. The two of them were now throwing Kunais and Shurikens at each other while the only attacks were punches, kicks, elbows, knees and even head butts. They both were just so exhausted…

And that was when a stranger came running into the scene…

Itachi and Sasuke looked at the man, who was obviously no Shinobi. The man's eyes widened at the horrifying looks that came from Itachi and Sasuke and he simply ran away again. Sasuke and Itachi looked at each other again as both were panting…

Suddenly, both of their heads whipped up as they sensed persons approaching them. Persons with a lot of Chakra. That was when Sasuke understood…

'That was no attack! That was a sign for help!! I have to get out of here!!'

Itachi was surprised to see Sasuke jump away from him. Itachi sighed. 'So, he wants to kill me, but he's not ready to die? Then he's still not ready yet… Orochimaru has made a coward of him even more…'

Itachi smiled a small smile as he saw Kisame jump out of a tree, followed by Sinobi and then Mokito. Naruto and Gaara arrived together and after a little while he saw Neji sitting on Hyou's back. Dareda arrived last.

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 "Naruto and Sasuke?!" Kakashi uttered unbelieving. "So… Naruto has killed one of our ANBU?" Kakashi asked, not believing it even more…

Tsunade nodded as she looked at Gai, Kakashi, Asuma, Shikamaru, Ten-Ten and a slightly wounded Lee…

"Lee… what has happened to you?" She asked.

Lee smiled embarrassedly and scratched the back of his head. "I… well…"

"He foolishly intercepted someone all alone. He's lucky he survived the encounter. His wounds were lethal, he was fortunate he knew how to control the Gates." Kakashi reported.

Tsunade looked at Lee, her look unreadable. "Who did you fight, Lee?"

Lee looked at Tsunade and sighed. "Hyuga Neji… I am sorry I was not able to bring him back to the Village."

Kakashi was in deep thought as Tsunade began to lecture him about how he should never fight alone and how he should not feel sorry about things he could not have changed.

'So, all of them are still alive… Naruto, Sasuke… Gaara was spotted close to this village, by himself. Neji was also alone… So now they're moving on their own through the lands? What are they up to? Are they part of the Akatsuki as well?'

Suddenly, a Chuunin jumped into the Hokage's office. "Hokage-sama!! We have a situation! A missing-nin is standing in front of the gates!!"

Tsunade looked at the Chuunin surprised. "Who did he say he was?"

"Uchiha Sasuke…"

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The group was reunited again. Everyone nodded towards each other and all them talked about what they had done in the short amount of time…

Everyone was surprised however, as Itachi suddenly told them, that the Scroll was taken from him…

Itachi looked at all of them… "This guy was more powerful than me… He had a certain ability to drain Chakra fast, even faster than a Sharingan and a Curse Seal combined… He used spores all around and his own Chakra alone attracted all forms of Chakra towards him… I was more then exhausted as our fight came to an end… He's not unbeatable… But you'll have to end a battle with him as fast as possible. His attacks are more than intriguing and my Sharingan could not copy any of them…"

"Bloodline Limit?" Dareda asked.

Itachi nodded. "Probably…" He then faced Naruto. "You still have both scrolls?" Naruto nodded. "Good… I think we should head to Leaf Village…"

Naruto's eyes widened. "What?! Why?!"

Itachi calmly regarded Naruto. "Because Leaf Village is the strongest Village. This is no time for another war… The Akatsuki probably has all scrolls except the two you carry… Put your grudges aside…" He said, looking at Naruto, Neji and Dareda. "Only the Leaf Village has the information about how to stop the assembling of the Hidden Scrolls."

Naruto gritted his teeth and was about to unleash some of his anger.

"You think they'll let us in?" Neji asked.

"They'll have to… We are the strongest Shinobis… We will be their last chance of survival… Without us, they don't stand a chance. You saw how easily we could get the Hidden Scroll of the Leaf… And the Akatsuki is probably stronger than us." Itachi said, earning a few unbelieving glares. Especially Naruto and Gaara did not believe that.

"So, we head for Leaf now…"

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Uchiha Sasuke?! Why was he here? Did he hear about the Akatsuki's plans? Was he Akatsuki himself? One thing was for sure… they could not let him enter the Village just like that… Now all of them were leaping over the roofs towards the Gate.

As they came there, Lee looked down on Sasuke as he stood on the one of the towers beside the Gate. Lee frowned.. Sasuke was in no condition to fight. He was too tired and in that condition he simply was no threat to the Village. The fact that he would appear here in that state was unbelievable, considering the fact that this Village was out for his death…

"Hokage-sama… I came to offer my apologies… I no longer serve Orochimaru as I know his real plans… I also know what the Akatsuki is up to and wish to aide you in your battle against them…"

Tsunade regarded him and narrowed her eyes. 'This could easily be one of Orochimaru's traps…' Tsunade narrowed her eyes even more. "Where is Orochimaru now?"

Sasuke looked at Tsunade. "I don't know… Before my encounter with Uchiha Itachi, Orochimaru had revealed his plans. Itachi intervened and Orochimaru ran away. Me and Itachi fought a short battle before more started interrupting. I have nowhere to go… I am from the Leaf… Please… accept me back…"

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Leaf Village… It just doesn't make any sense to me. I hate the Village and Itachi knows that. Why are we headed for that stupid Village anyway? So they can help us fight the Akatsuki? They would only slow us down! They're far too weak to help us! I'm stronger than Itachi, who is stronger than Orochimaru, I believe. And Orochimaru is stronger than Tsunade, the Hokage, the most powerful person, of the Leaf. Hmm, I don't know about that, because I know Jiraiya's stronger than her. Is Jiraiya stronger than Itachi? Hmph, like it matters. Once I call up Kyuubi's Chakra it's all over…

So it is back to Leaf Village now. I can understand Naruto's behaviour. I do not want to return to Sand Village either, without the reason for destroying it, that is. Now Naruto has to enter the Village and NOT destroy it. That would be hard, considering he has been completely betrayed by it. But if they make the first move to attack us, I will help Naruto in destroying the Village.

I wonder how their reactions will be like. I wonder how much of the Hyuga Main Family is left. Maybe me and Dareda should pay the remaining few of the Main Family a visit, to make sure they won't survive again, to make sure this Curse Seal on my head will never be activated ever again... I wonder what Naruto will do once we get there… I think he has it the hardest now… He's not allowed to do anything, for all will not go as planned then. Judging from the look on his face, Naruto is completely frustrated. This will be very interesting…

I can see the confused looks on their faces. I can only hope Naruto will not lose control once we get there. But when he does, I don't think we can stop them. The bond that has begun to form between Naruto and Gaara will be proven, because when Naruto will go berserk, I'm sure Gaara will help him out. Neji will follow the example and so will Dareda then. What will happen once we get to Leaf Village will totally depend on Naruto's actions…

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TBC

Should Sasuke be accepted in the Village?

What will happen when Naruto and the others stand at the Gate of Leaf Village?

What is Orochimaru up to?

Hehehehe, all is going as planned…

Anyway, Here's a list of the new Akatsuki members:

The Akatsuki Leader…

Name Still unknown

Male/Female

Doro Odei: Sand missing-nin

Paired with Aburame Turin

Male

Sukumi Tachi: Stone Missing-nin

He's with Hiraga Matsu and Baeda

Male

Aburame Turin: Leaf Missing-nin

Paired with Doro Odei

Female

From the Aburame Clan

New Recruits:

Okurujin: Sound Missing-nin

Same Clan as Sakon…

Male and Female, five persons in one

- already dead.

Hiraga Matsu: Unknown where he came from

He's with Sukumi Tachi and Baeda

Artificial arm: Arm Cannon

Male

Baeda: Unknown where she came from

Female

She's with Sukumi Tachi and Hiraga Matsu

Takabashi Serra

Female

Takabashi Nakao

Male

The Shinobi with the Spores…: Unknown where he came from

Male

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