Chapter 2: Is This The End? Kyuubi in Control!
Haruno Sakura sat there at the gates to Konoha hoping, waiting that they would return, that Sasuke would return. Her eyes were filled with tears as she hugged her legs to her chest, he mined consumed with just the thought of Sasuke and the night he left, the "Thank You" that ran through her head hearing it over and over from him. "I figured you would be here..."
Sakura looked over her shoulder to see Ino standing there with one hand on her hip, "Still waiting for the others to return I see."
Ino walked up and took a seat next to Sakura as she whipped her eyes of the tears, "I just want....Sasuke-kun back..."
The blond kunoichi's eye twitched a bit as she mentioned that and she stood up walked right in front of Sakura. Pulling back her hand she with all the force she could and slapped Sakura right across her face, "How could you say that!? Sasuke turned his back on all of us! Yet you still want him back? My teammates are out there trying to bring him back! But your thoughts are still on Sasuke...god only knows what they are up against to bring him back."
Sakura was speechless, she just looked at Ino with eyes as wide as can be. "Don't forget, Naruto is out there and from what I heard, Lee is as well. All for their village and...for you, I know Lee seems to hold something for you after everything that happened in the Forrest and so on. I don't know about Naruto but Im sure he has his reasons." She then walked around Sakura and headed off back to the flower shop.
Sakura looked down and felt even worse they she already was about the whole situation, that she let Sasuke go so easily and that she was thinking of nothing but herself wanting nothing but Sasuke back so she would feel better in some way.
Back At the Battle...
Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion, Sasuke's Chidori charged, Naruto's Resengan charged. As the two drew nearer and nearer Naruto realized that his Chidori was just about dead on with him and before they seemed to collide head to head Naruto attempted to sway his body towards his right as there would be less of him to hit. Sasuke though still swung his left arm forward and that's when it happened, Naruto's eyes grew wide beyond comparison as his pupils dilated to the size of an atom. His side was then ripped up leaving a whole the size of Sasuke's hand.
Blood quickly sprayed out upon Sasuke and on Naruto as he let out a painful yell. With such a hit the Rasengen lost some of its power and as Naruto passed Sasuke through the air he twisted his body and threw the ball of Chakra into the small of the Uchiha's back, "Aaahhh!" Sasuke yelled as he fell.
Gaara and Lee then arrived seeing the two both fall, but Naruto went over the waterfall, and Sasuke regaining himself landed down to the ground falling to a knee. "NARUTO-KUN!" Lee yelled as he watched the blond haired Leaf fall such a distance.
"Lee...you go get Naruto, I will handle things here."
Rock Lee just looked at Gaara with irritation, "Damnit why can't I take Sasuke?"
"Because you're faster then I am to get him before he falls, now GO!" With that sudden yell from Gaara, Lee couldn't help but nod as he ran to the side and started to leap down after Naruto.
::Inside Naruto's Mind::
Naruto stood there before the cage that held the Kyuubi like an animal in the zoo. Naruto looked on in anger, "Why the hell did you call me here you damn fox?"
Then the red aura of the Kyuubi appeared, "Im here to take your place." Kyuubi growled.
"What the hell do you mean? Screw you, you stupid fox!" Naruto growled right back at him.
"Baka...when you first thought that Uchiha kid was killed and you where fighting that masked kid, I took your place and fought for you. Why do you think you couldn't remember the fight? But unfortunately when I was going to rip that kids throat out you decided to wake up and stop me."
Naruto just glared and then looked down, "Kid, you're strong, but against this you don't have what it takes, you're still weak. More in the sense, you can't fight him because you are friends and you care."
He then looked up to him with curiosity, "Why? Why would you do this for me?
There was a long silence until the Kyuubi's deep voice filled the room, "Because, if you do die and I have to go to, then I would rather help and continue to live."
Naruto clenched his fists so tightly his hands where shaking and finally he took a deep breath and exhaled, "...Fine..."
As Naruto looked down from the fox, Kyuubi then grinned widely, 'Finally I will be out for just a little bit, though as the kid, I will breath fresh air.' Thought the Kyuubi as he began to take Naruto's place in this fight.
::Outside Naruto's Mind::
Naruto's body just continued to fall like a sack of bricks, and Lee did his best to catch up and try to catch him so he would not fall to the water. Sasuke stood up slowly and Gaara just looked over at him with his arms folded. Sasuke raised his left hand looking at it, it was covered in blood, and Naruto's blood at that, "Ive don't it...I have spilled the blood of a teammate...Hmph no turning back now." The Uchiha smirked as he looked at his bloodied hand.
Gaara finally took a step forward as he was a good distance apart from Sasuke, "Uchiha Sasuke..."
Sasuke turned his head looking over at Gaara and still his devious grin graced his face, "Hm, Gaara of the Desert, so you decided to join the party huh? Hope you're ready to meet the same fate as the dumb ass that went over the edge."
Gaara simply narrowed his eyes and in an instant from below Sasuke as a pillar of sand blasted up and slammed into the Sharingan users stomach, "Oofff" was all that Sasuke muttered out as he was sent up into the air and back into the ground of the statue on the other side of the one Gaara stood upon.
Naruto's body then fell down into the mist that the water created, and Lee leaped off to the side on the ground and he began to scan the river side looking for Naruto's floating body. 'Damnit, where did Naruto-kun go?' Wondered a very puzzled Lee having yet to see Naruto float out, but then from the corner of his eye he saw a shadow leap up the mountain side to where Gaara and Sasuke where.
Sasuke slowly gathered himself as the sudden burning sensation was felt on his back from Naruto's attack. "Ahh damnit, that damn shit head...I can't believe he actually hit me...."
Before Gaara proceeded with his attack the shadowing figure landed right in front of him. Naruto was back on his feet, but the Sand Shinobi noticed a change, mainly in his body language, it was clearly more different then before. Sasuke looked across the way and his eyes widened for a moment, "What? You should be fish bait!" Screamed Sasuke pointing across the way to the still wounded Naruto.
"Oh...you mean this? Hmph, a minor issue that can be easily changed." Naruto spoke with a deeper tone it seemed, and his appearance was greatly changed as his hair was spread out more. His whiskery marks seemed to grow out, as his eyes where the deep red as before and when he had spoke it seemed Naruto now had fangs that were quite visible.
"Who the hell are you?" Questioned Gaara from behind as he even had his distance between him and Naruto.
"Ah...the Shukaku brat...yes I remember you from before...you just stay there this fight is done with." Said Kyuubi Naruto as he then put his hands together and slowly a blue chakra formed around the wound, the Kyuubi was now using Naruto's chakra to heal himself fully as he didn't want to waste his own.
"Well...who the hell are you?" Sasuke questioned in a demanding tone.
Kyuubi Naruto kneeled slightly as he put both his arms forward towards the ground and the orange chakra appeared behind him as it gave the appearance of him having nine-tails. "I am the person that is going to beat you into the ground and make you beg for mercy!"
Sasuke calmed himself, "Tsk I would like to see you actually try that baka."
"Alright then, let's get this party started." Kyuubi Naruto leaped into the air and as he was halfway to Sasuke he shocked the Uchiha.
"HUH!?" Sasuke looked on with wide eyes; Naruto seemed to vanish before him as he had moved faster then he ever had before.
Just as Sasuke finally caught him it was too late, Naruto had sent his fist right into Sasuke's gut. When he bent over in pain coughing up spit, he found himself on the other end of another punch to the side of the head knocking him down to the ground. "I have been waiting for this feeling for so long!"
Kyuubi Naruto did not let Sasuke rest one bit as he grabbed him by the ankle and brought him up into the air and slammed him hard down into the ground making a sick thud when he hit the ground again. In a flash Naruto's foot was planted into Sasuke's stomach as he looked down at him with a slightly twisted grin, "THIS IS TO GREAT!"
"I...is that really Naruto?" Asked Lee as he stood next to Gaara after he made his way back up the hill side.
Gaara closed his eyes and then simply said, "Yes."
He knew though that there was something going on with Naruto, but Gaara would let Naruto do the explaining when he felt the time was right. Sasuke let out quick little yelps of pain as he kept having a foot planted into his stomach repeatedly. Finally Naruto stopped and he walked to Sasuke's head, kneeling down he looked at Sasuke for a moment, "w...w...who...are you? T....tell me..." Sasuke spat out as he laid there on the ground.
"I didn't hit you in the head that hard Sasuke." Spoke Naruto as he placed his hand on his neck and clenched firmly enough so he could still breath and begun to drag him.
Naruto slammed Sasuke into the part of the massive statue where the hair parted up into a spike it seemed. "It's a good thing I was able to stop you before unleashing anymore of that power of yours...hm foolish little hu..." Kyuubi cut himself off right there.
'Seems the brat wants back his body...but not until I put this kid through so much pain that he will be at least unconscious.' With that thought in mind Kyuubi began to perform certain hand seals with just his right hand.
Sasuke was shocked even more then before, 'what the hell is this!? Naruto doesn't have that kind of ability? I don't know who the hell this is, but its NOT Naruto...can't...be...can it?'
"Itami kara Makai no Jutsu(Pain from Hell Technique)!!"
Lee and Gaara just watched as they heard the most horrifying scream of pain from Sasuke that they could only imagine. They had no idea what had just happened, just that it caused excruciating pain that sent a chill down Lee's spine. "The fight is over, let's go." Gaara taking a step forward and then jumped over to the next statue walking up behind Naruto and Lee was right behind him.
Naruto dropped Sasuke to the ground and they could see that his whole body was now shaking. Sasuke now unconscious hit the ground in defeat, Naruto dropped to his knee's now his chakra was completely gone it seemed, "I...I...." He could barely form any words from his mouth as he to hit the ground unconscious.
The two just looked at the two, Lee looked at Sasuke with a great amount of hatred and disrespect for what he pulled and the pain he caused. "I will take Naruto, you take Sasuke."
Haruno Sakura sat there at the gates to Konoha hoping, waiting that they would return, that Sasuke would return. Her eyes were filled with tears as she hugged her legs to her chest, he mined consumed with just the thought of Sasuke and the night he left, the "Thank You" that ran through her head hearing it over and over from him. "I figured you would be here..."
Sakura looked over her shoulder to see Ino standing there with one hand on her hip, "Still waiting for the others to return I see."
Ino walked up and took a seat next to Sakura as she whipped her eyes of the tears, "I just want....Sasuke-kun back..."
The blond kunoichi's eye twitched a bit as she mentioned that and she stood up walked right in front of Sakura. Pulling back her hand she with all the force she could and slapped Sakura right across her face, "How could you say that!? Sasuke turned his back on all of us! Yet you still want him back? My teammates are out there trying to bring him back! But your thoughts are still on Sasuke...god only knows what they are up against to bring him back."
Sakura was speechless, she just looked at Ino with eyes as wide as can be. "Don't forget, Naruto is out there and from what I heard, Lee is as well. All for their village and...for you, I know Lee seems to hold something for you after everything that happened in the Forrest and so on. I don't know about Naruto but Im sure he has his reasons." She then walked around Sakura and headed off back to the flower shop.
Sakura looked down and felt even worse they she already was about the whole situation, that she let Sasuke go so easily and that she was thinking of nothing but herself wanting nothing but Sasuke back so she would feel better in some way.
Back At the Battle...
Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion, Sasuke's Chidori charged, Naruto's Resengan charged. As the two drew nearer and nearer Naruto realized that his Chidori was just about dead on with him and before they seemed to collide head to head Naruto attempted to sway his body towards his right as there would be less of him to hit. Sasuke though still swung his left arm forward and that's when it happened, Naruto's eyes grew wide beyond comparison as his pupils dilated to the size of an atom. His side was then ripped up leaving a whole the size of Sasuke's hand.
Blood quickly sprayed out upon Sasuke and on Naruto as he let out a painful yell. With such a hit the Rasengen lost some of its power and as Naruto passed Sasuke through the air he twisted his body and threw the ball of Chakra into the small of the Uchiha's back, "Aaahhh!" Sasuke yelled as he fell.
Gaara and Lee then arrived seeing the two both fall, but Naruto went over the waterfall, and Sasuke regaining himself landed down to the ground falling to a knee. "NARUTO-KUN!" Lee yelled as he watched the blond haired Leaf fall such a distance.
"Lee...you go get Naruto, I will handle things here."
Rock Lee just looked at Gaara with irritation, "Damnit why can't I take Sasuke?"
"Because you're faster then I am to get him before he falls, now GO!" With that sudden yell from Gaara, Lee couldn't help but nod as he ran to the side and started to leap down after Naruto.
::Inside Naruto's Mind::
Naruto stood there before the cage that held the Kyuubi like an animal in the zoo. Naruto looked on in anger, "Why the hell did you call me here you damn fox?"
Then the red aura of the Kyuubi appeared, "Im here to take your place." Kyuubi growled.
"What the hell do you mean? Screw you, you stupid fox!" Naruto growled right back at him.
"Baka...when you first thought that Uchiha kid was killed and you where fighting that masked kid, I took your place and fought for you. Why do you think you couldn't remember the fight? But unfortunately when I was going to rip that kids throat out you decided to wake up and stop me."
Naruto just glared and then looked down, "Kid, you're strong, but against this you don't have what it takes, you're still weak. More in the sense, you can't fight him because you are friends and you care."
He then looked up to him with curiosity, "Why? Why would you do this for me?
There was a long silence until the Kyuubi's deep voice filled the room, "Because, if you do die and I have to go to, then I would rather help and continue to live."
Naruto clenched his fists so tightly his hands where shaking and finally he took a deep breath and exhaled, "...Fine..."
As Naruto looked down from the fox, Kyuubi then grinned widely, 'Finally I will be out for just a little bit, though as the kid, I will breath fresh air.' Thought the Kyuubi as he began to take Naruto's place in this fight.
::Outside Naruto's Mind::
Naruto's body just continued to fall like a sack of bricks, and Lee did his best to catch up and try to catch him so he would not fall to the water. Sasuke stood up slowly and Gaara just looked over at him with his arms folded. Sasuke raised his left hand looking at it, it was covered in blood, and Naruto's blood at that, "Ive don't it...I have spilled the blood of a teammate...Hmph no turning back now." The Uchiha smirked as he looked at his bloodied hand.
Gaara finally took a step forward as he was a good distance apart from Sasuke, "Uchiha Sasuke..."
Sasuke turned his head looking over at Gaara and still his devious grin graced his face, "Hm, Gaara of the Desert, so you decided to join the party huh? Hope you're ready to meet the same fate as the dumb ass that went over the edge."
Gaara simply narrowed his eyes and in an instant from below Sasuke as a pillar of sand blasted up and slammed into the Sharingan users stomach, "Oofff" was all that Sasuke muttered out as he was sent up into the air and back into the ground of the statue on the other side of the one Gaara stood upon.
Naruto's body then fell down into the mist that the water created, and Lee leaped off to the side on the ground and he began to scan the river side looking for Naruto's floating body. 'Damnit, where did Naruto-kun go?' Wondered a very puzzled Lee having yet to see Naruto float out, but then from the corner of his eye he saw a shadow leap up the mountain side to where Gaara and Sasuke where.
Sasuke slowly gathered himself as the sudden burning sensation was felt on his back from Naruto's attack. "Ahh damnit, that damn shit head...I can't believe he actually hit me...."
Before Gaara proceeded with his attack the shadowing figure landed right in front of him. Naruto was back on his feet, but the Sand Shinobi noticed a change, mainly in his body language, it was clearly more different then before. Sasuke looked across the way and his eyes widened for a moment, "What? You should be fish bait!" Screamed Sasuke pointing across the way to the still wounded Naruto.
"Oh...you mean this? Hmph, a minor issue that can be easily changed." Naruto spoke with a deeper tone it seemed, and his appearance was greatly changed as his hair was spread out more. His whiskery marks seemed to grow out, as his eyes where the deep red as before and when he had spoke it seemed Naruto now had fangs that were quite visible.
"Who the hell are you?" Questioned Gaara from behind as he even had his distance between him and Naruto.
"Ah...the Shukaku brat...yes I remember you from before...you just stay there this fight is done with." Said Kyuubi Naruto as he then put his hands together and slowly a blue chakra formed around the wound, the Kyuubi was now using Naruto's chakra to heal himself fully as he didn't want to waste his own.
"Well...who the hell are you?" Sasuke questioned in a demanding tone.
Kyuubi Naruto kneeled slightly as he put both his arms forward towards the ground and the orange chakra appeared behind him as it gave the appearance of him having nine-tails. "I am the person that is going to beat you into the ground and make you beg for mercy!"
Sasuke calmed himself, "Tsk I would like to see you actually try that baka."
"Alright then, let's get this party started." Kyuubi Naruto leaped into the air and as he was halfway to Sasuke he shocked the Uchiha.
"HUH!?" Sasuke looked on with wide eyes; Naruto seemed to vanish before him as he had moved faster then he ever had before.
Just as Sasuke finally caught him it was too late, Naruto had sent his fist right into Sasuke's gut. When he bent over in pain coughing up spit, he found himself on the other end of another punch to the side of the head knocking him down to the ground. "I have been waiting for this feeling for so long!"
Kyuubi Naruto did not let Sasuke rest one bit as he grabbed him by the ankle and brought him up into the air and slammed him hard down into the ground making a sick thud when he hit the ground again. In a flash Naruto's foot was planted into Sasuke's stomach as he looked down at him with a slightly twisted grin, "THIS IS TO GREAT!"
"I...is that really Naruto?" Asked Lee as he stood next to Gaara after he made his way back up the hill side.
Gaara closed his eyes and then simply said, "Yes."
He knew though that there was something going on with Naruto, but Gaara would let Naruto do the explaining when he felt the time was right. Sasuke let out quick little yelps of pain as he kept having a foot planted into his stomach repeatedly. Finally Naruto stopped and he walked to Sasuke's head, kneeling down he looked at Sasuke for a moment, "w...w...who...are you? T....tell me..." Sasuke spat out as he laid there on the ground.
"I didn't hit you in the head that hard Sasuke." Spoke Naruto as he placed his hand on his neck and clenched firmly enough so he could still breath and begun to drag him.
Naruto slammed Sasuke into the part of the massive statue where the hair parted up into a spike it seemed. "It's a good thing I was able to stop you before unleashing anymore of that power of yours...hm foolish little hu..." Kyuubi cut himself off right there.
'Seems the brat wants back his body...but not until I put this kid through so much pain that he will be at least unconscious.' With that thought in mind Kyuubi began to perform certain hand seals with just his right hand.
Sasuke was shocked even more then before, 'what the hell is this!? Naruto doesn't have that kind of ability? I don't know who the hell this is, but its NOT Naruto...can't...be...can it?'
"Itami kara Makai no Jutsu(Pain from Hell Technique)!!"
Lee and Gaara just watched as they heard the most horrifying scream of pain from Sasuke that they could only imagine. They had no idea what had just happened, just that it caused excruciating pain that sent a chill down Lee's spine. "The fight is over, let's go." Gaara taking a step forward and then jumped over to the next statue walking up behind Naruto and Lee was right behind him.
Naruto dropped Sasuke to the ground and they could see that his whole body was now shaking. Sasuke now unconscious hit the ground in defeat, Naruto dropped to his knee's now his chakra was completely gone it seemed, "I...I...." He could barely form any words from his mouth as he to hit the ground unconscious.
The two just looked at the two, Lee looked at Sasuke with a great amount of hatred and disrespect for what he pulled and the pain he caused. "I will take Naruto, you take Sasuke."