Hi everyone, This is drunkdragon12888 with another chapter for you guys. It gets a bit angsty in here. I would like to thank everyone who gave reviews, and those who did not but still gave the time to read my fic. Now to answer a few questions from the reviewers.

irukapooka: Sadly, this sound nin probably will not be used in this fic again, unless you want me to work him in. He is currently nameless right now, so if for all those who would want me to use him again, please drop a comment with an interesting name and, if you can, a possible translation.

I do not own Naruto in any way.

Chapter Five: Battle on the Bridge

"There is no way in hell that I would go to that sick excuse of a ninja." Sasuke said.

"It doesn't matter whether you want to or not. I'll just have to take you there unconscious then." The sound nin said. He immediately ran at Sasuke, who did not bother to activate his Sharingan.

"Naruto, Sakura-chan, protect Tazuna-san. I'll deal with this bastard." Sasuke said.

"But I don't want to watch this! I want to help!" Naruto stopped her before she could say anything else.

"Sakura, as much as we both want to be in this fight, Sasuke has a personal vendetta against Orochimaru for putting the cursed seal on him. He wants to get revenge himself. So if you don't want him to be angry at you, I suggest that you do what he says. Plus, we have to protect Tazuna." Sakura obeyed, though it pained her to do so.

The Sound nin began to spin on the balls of his feet, allowing the strings attached to him to fly outwards. Sasuke watched carefully and was suddenly hit by a senbon needle on his right arm. He pulled it out and threw it back. The sound nin dodged it easily.

'What the hell? He didn't even throw it!' He thought.

"Surprised, Sasuke? I thought so. Inside each of the strings are cases, which hold multiple senbon needles. Using my chakra, I can control which ones open and close. I can also control the direction of the needles sent out." The Sound nin said.

"That's a flashy trick. Too bad you'll need more than that to stop me." Sasuke quickly did some hand seals. "Fire Element: Mystic Fire Flower no Jutsu!"

The Sound nin just smirked and did a few hand seals of his own. "Sound Element: Sound wave no Jutsu!" A sound wave was then visibly seen flying through Sasuke's jutsu, taking out the flame and the shurikens that were hidden within it. Sasuke's Sharingan copied it, storing it for later use. The sound wave continued towards Sasuke, who jumped out of the way. He then went in to try and land some punches on his opponent.

The sound nin threw a left hook followed by an uppercut with his other hand. Sasuke dodged them and countered with a quick punch to the gut. With the wind knocked out of him, the sound nin recoiled and spun around, letting loose a few senbon needles at Sasuke. Sasuke grabbed a few and threw them back at him, piercing him at several points in the right shoulder.

Smirking, the sound nin pulled out the bloody needles and let them drop to the ground. He gave out a smirk.

"You have definitely improved over the years, Sasuke. However, you need to become stronger. You've done much better than I thought you would. Well, I must return now, but before I go, I think I'll leave you a little present." He then disappeared in an ANBUish manner.

Sasuke, not knowing what he meant, turned around and began to walk away until he heard a sizzling noise. He saw exploding notes wrapping the floor around him in a semi-circle. The kanji on it was a little different though. They were about to explode. 'Shit!'

Suddenly, Sasuke found himself lying on the ground, about twenty feet away from the explosion. Sakura and Tazuna were running over to him.

"Sasuke-kun! Are you okay?" Sakura cried out.

"That was a super explosion! What the hell was he thinking?" Tazuna said.

'Wait... He?' Sasuke looked around. Where was Naruto? "Sakura-chan! Where's Naruto?"

"He pushed you out of the explosion." Sakura said while looking about for the blonde-haired shinobi. "Let's take a look over there." The three of them ran over to the crater to see Naruto dangling one-handed from a piece of metal.

"Dobe! What the hell do you think you were doing? Why did you push me out?"

"Because you two just found each other. As for me, I have no one. No parents, no family, no one willing to love me. I still want to be Hokage and all, but what's the point if no one is there stand with me? I'll be living my dream, but I won't live it out happily."

"Naruto! There has always been someone who loved you. She was just too timid to admit it and you have been to stupid to realize it!" Sakura screamed. "Now pull yourself out for her!"

Naruto smiled. 'So someone really does love me... I wonder who...' His thought then turned to a certain blue haired shinobi, but he quickly pushed that thought out of his head, seeing as how he wasn't in much of a position to think about it. He tried to summon up some chakra to power up his arm, but he somehow ran out. He couldn't even tap into the Kyuubi's chakra, because it had also been drained. "I can't! I'm out of chakra!"

"How the hell is that possible? You didn't do crap!" Tazuna yelled.

Thinking back to the explosion, Sasuke had an idea. "The exploding tags. They must have been made to suck out your chakra too. Give me your hand, Naruto!" Sasuke yelled. Using his other arm, he reached up to grab his hand. But he was a bit short. Naruto let it drop down to his side again.

"I can't reach that far, Sasuke!"

"Yes you can dobe. Now try again!" Naruto began to try to grab his hand. He was slowly closing the gap. Five inches. Four. Three. Two. One.

Snap

The metal object that Naruto was holding on to broke, causing Naruto to plummet down the one hundred feet into the fast-moving river. "NARUTO!" both genins cried out. He landed in the water with a loud splash.

"DAMNIT! DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT!!!" Sasuke screamed. He stood up, backed away and tripped and fell onto his backside. He was now sitting up, staring at the bridge. He was tired that everyone he knew dying in front of him. First it was his clan. Now, it was his first true friend, Naruto.

But the fact that Naruto died wasn't what pained him the most. Oh no. Naruto didn't die. Naruto was killed in his attempt to save Sasuke. Killed by him, the one of the two remaining holders of the Sharingan of the famous Uchiha Clan. He thought back to all of the times when he put down Naruto, calling him 'dead last' and making fun of his dream. A searing pain in his head brought him out of his trance.

"AAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!" The pain was unbearable. Sasuke was holding onto his head, as if he was going mad. It felt like a white-hot iron was going to slice his head in two. His eyes were clenched shut. The last time he felt pain like this was when Orochimaru gave him the cursed seal, which was still on his neck, though another seal was suppressing it.

"Sasuke-kun, are you okay?" Sasuke could feel his Sharingan eyes activating. He did not activate it himself, and slowly, the pain began to move down to his eye region. Suddenly, the pain was gone. He opened his eyes, Sharingan still activated, to see Sakura. She immediately gasped.

"What's wrong?" Sasuke asked. Sakura, instead of answering the question, pulled out a mirror and let him take a good look at himself. He too gasped at the sight. Staring back at him through the mirror was himself with the Sharingan eyes, both with three swirls in each eye. He had mastered it, along with gaining the Mangekyou Sharingan, the ultimate genjutsu skill for the Uchiha Clan.

'Mangekyou Sharingan...' Sasuke thought. He had heard his father talk about this skill. He remembered hearing that in order to obtain the powerful genjutsu, you had to kill your best friend. It was back then when he made a vow to never gain the Mangekyou Sharingan, for the cost to him was too high. Thinking that far back made him remember his damn brother, Itachi.

'Damn you Uchiha Clan, damn you Itachi, DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!'

I just killed Naruto, though not really. Now what's going to happen? How will Hinata take this, who had never been able to reveal her true feelings to him? Five years can change a lot. Tune in next time for Chapter Six: The Lifting of The Seal!!!