Chapter 5: Rematch

Naruto began to laugh at his former rival as they stood face to face over the large number of dead bodies around them.

"Sasuke… even you cannot defeat me anymore".

Sasuke cringed and began to irritate. "What makes you so confident Naruto"?

Naruto replied to this question with two simple words; "You're weak".

After hearing that comment, without any warning, Sasuke smiled and swiftly disappeared with what appeared to be a taijutsu style even faster than (Rock) Lee's.

Naruto stood quietly with an indescribable confidence in his face and a new taijutsu style as well.

"Bring it…weakling"!

Sasuke then began to through furious flurries of kick and punch combos while Naruto dodged them very gracefully and easily.

"Is that all? I can see your moves as if you were moving in slow motion, grandma", Naruto said with another smirk on his face as he counter-attacked with one of the weirdly shaped kunai he found in his coat pocket.

Sasuke jumped up to dodge it, but as he began to show a faint smirk he turned swiftly to see a terribly large explosion from the kunai Naruto threw. This even more infuriated him, even though he wasn't hurt in the slightest way.

"I would say play time is over Naruto", he said calmly with the smile he had before completely wiped from his face.

"Very well", Naruto said as he disappeared with a loud "poof" noise.

"What, a kage-bushin"!? Sasuke said angrily as he looked around for the genuine article of Naruto.

Sasuke spotted him as he stood from the same pole he himself stood from earlier.

"I can see why you like this thing; you can see the clouds very nicely…I bet Shikamaru would adore this place".

Sasuke began to irritate even more and said, "You bastard, I'll teach you a lesson you drop-out"!

Sakura was surprised, she didn't think Naruto could improve this much while he was gone and her mind began wondering about what kind of training and hard work he went through in the three years.

But after a while none of that "stuff" mattered; as long as she could watch him fight in such a graceful yet silly manner, everything was okay. She began to chuckle again.

Sasuke glared back at her and said, "Sakura…you still are annoying me; after all of these years that have passed", then he smiled a nervously.

"Naruto, you want to destroy Akatsuki right", Sasuke asked with a serious look on his face.

"Yeah".

"Then you're gonna' have to be able to overcome my strongest technique, are you ready", Sasuke asked willingly and smiling diligently at the same time.

"Yeah, I can take anything you can throw at me Sasuke…chan".

"Okay big man…Magenkyou Sharingan!", he shouted as the three other pupils in each of Sasuke's eyes turned into a "spike" like shape.

Naruto was drawn in by the terror that was the Tsukuyomi-jutsu that even Naruto's sensei, Kakashi was paralyzed by its madness.

Naruto paused as everything around him suddenly turned into a dull colored red and black.

Then, Naruto slowly closed his eyes and re-opened them. But that moment, what Sakura saw would never leave her mind that day, in the eyes of the man she had come to love.

The eyes of a demon….