= As Time Passed in The Leaf =
Disclaimer: Naruto is not owned by me. This story is purely fictional Anime fanatics/other aspiring author like me create to fill our (and other anime fanatics) desire. Other unknown characters were just invented by me.
Author's Note: This is my first fanfiction. Please read and review my fiction. If you'd like you can be harsh with the review, I think I can live with it. Thank you everybody!
Notes: (1) "talking" -means the character is speaking. (2) 'thinking' - means the character is thinking. (3) "talking" or 'thinking' - means important conversation/thoughts. (4) (words/phrase) - authors thoughts, notes or ideas.
Pairing: I still don't know but there is definitely gonna be one. You can tell me who you want to be paired up. Just keep away with the yaoi for now. My little bro's gonna read this fic. after i finished this.
CHAPTER 2
PART II
CHUUNIN EXAM
The fourth match was between Gaara, Sasuke and a Genin from the Air. This was another very long awaited match. The audience heard that the match between the Uchiha kid and Gaara of the sand was interrupted due to some incident in Konoha not to mention the still unknown power of the Genin from the Air.
Naruto observed the match again very keenly. He wanted to see how Sasuke has change these last six months. The last time he faced Sasuke was during the time that he fought with him at the boundaries of Konoha. He wondered what had happened to him after he brought him back to Konoha.
The fight has already started. Gaara was still the same as before. The scary aura that covered him before was still there but unlike before, there was no craving for blood that can be sensed in him. Naruto smiled, he now knew that like him Gaara has found someone he wanted to protect. It could be his siblings or maybe the Sand Village itself. However, he was still unstable he easily made the shinobi from the air unconscious using his sand and faced Sasuke. Then Naruto saw that eye...
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-flashback-
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THEY WERE FIGHTING for half an hour above the river and Sasuke is at the upper hand of thing. Naruto is now loosing breath but for some reason, like before, he can't get a hold of the kyuubi's chakra. He did not know what had happened. Since he learned about his red charka he had no trouble extracting it at all except now. 'Damnit! What had just happened? Why can't I extract the red chakra!'
Unfortunetely, it did not even occured to the blonde and the ever-so-obsessed-with-his-new-power-Sasuke that they are being watched all this time by a pair of dark eyes. For some reason, the man was able to sneak around without being discovered by any of the two. He was hiding somewhere in the tall trees looking up to the two fighting genins. When Naruto was sent falling to the river beneath him the man took it as a chance to hit Naruto with the small poisoned metal pick right at the middle of his seal. But it caused no pain at all compared to Sasuke's punch that the blond could not feel it.
Naruto was still wondering as he forced the chakra out of his body while trying to dodge more of Sasuke's attacks. Still unaware that the metal-pick had just blocked the pathway where the red chakra is emitted. Definitely, Naruto had no match to the more powerful Sasuke without the Kyuubi. He was just simply an underdog.
He can use his techniques alright and he have a large amount of stamina to spare. But Sasuke have twice as much stamina and chakra now than before and inevitably stronger. He can't even keep himself on top of the river anymore.
"Dammit!"
"Why Naruto? Can't you even give me one good and hard hit?" Sasuke grinned like a man possesed. He love the power overflowing his being. He was definitely enjoying the new changes in his body. He could feel the power creep all over his body. He was now ready for revenge. The only thing left was to open up the Mangenkyo Sharingan and for that he needed Naruto. "Hahaha! What can you say about the new me, Naruto?"
"I'll definitely kill you!" Then he ran like the wind as he creates chidori in his left hand. Dashing of towards Naruto very fast.
'Did he really think it was that easy to kill him?' and with his last remaining chakra he started forming his own Rasengan. Then ran towards the Uchiha with his last will and power. However, because of Naruto's determination he hit Sasuke directly in the face causing Sasuke to stumble over. 'That was my last chakra, hope it's enough' as he stumbled backwards towards the ground in exhaustion.
The watcher gasped in disbelief 'So, this is why he was termed dangerous by Kabuto' as he say Sasuke fall deep into the river.
Sasuke's eyes was wide with amazement as the air in his lungs escaped in the water. He could not believe what just happened. How in the world could that Uzumaki hit him in his present state? He just could not accept it. He could not have hit him in his current state? Never. It made him desire for more and more power that could kill the blonde with one blow.
This desire made the unthinkable happen. Sasuke had entered the metamorphosis phase. (can't describe it since i still haven't seen it. I'm still at chapter 225 of the manga. Just imagine) As he emerged out of the water. The former Sasuke could not be seen anymore. Gone was the pale white boy with hair and eyes as dark as the night. What stood in there was a monster.
Naruto saw it. Just as the monster emerged from the water "Sasuke? Is that really you?" He got up and stared in disbelief. This was nothing like the Sasuke he had known. He looked so scary that Naruto couldn't describe him. Naruto just sat there dumbfounded for a minute. He couldn't even get up anyway. But still, remembering his promise gave him a little more, just a small drop of will and power to stand up. He faced Sasuke and again ran furiously towards him with a newly created but not so powerful Rasengan. This was all that he could do. He was all so worn out and no more stamina nor chakra could be extracted from his body. Also considering the fact that the metal-pick was not only meant to stop the kyuubi but also to poison him slowly.
Sasuke, seeing Naruto hurled towards him and just smirked. Meeting the blonde half-way. His speed, strength, and chakra had also been multiplied five folds. Naruto was definitely no match for him now.
Naruto with his last remaining will tried punching the Uchiha with the rasengan. But even before he could, he just saw Sasuke in front of him. He did not even see him move. Momentarily, fear engulfed him. His eyes were wide open. He quivered as he saw Sasuke's chidori slowly descending towards him. 'DOOM' it was all he could think of during that moment.
'Darn Sasuke...' as he continuously fell deeper and deeper beneath the river. Still being electrocuted on last time as the electricity from the chidori as it contacted the water.
Then, there was nothing but darkness...
His fleeting consciousness...
His soul tearing away from his body... Going through the unconsciousness that connected his self to everything on the world. (This is my perception of death. Sorry if you don't agree. I believe that if a person dies. His spirit gets connected to everything on earth one last time.)
His body then gave out the remaining air in his body... in the form of bubbles...
Sasuke on the other hands began to revert to his normal self. Even the curse has receded. He had killed Naruto. He knew.
The watcher, for the second time gasped in disbelief. He did not know what was happening to the "next body". He just knew that something was definitely going on.
Sasuke's body then started to shiver as if he had just had a fever. His eyes were in pain. It was just as it was written. The shivering chill. The pain.
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Inside Naruto's mind/body... (This was happening as Sasuke's Mangenkyo Sharingan was forming)
"Darn kid! Dying like this on me!" He was so damn angry, pissed off and all that! Who amongst the mortal fools had the right to block of his power from flowing out to help? Why was he even locked up inside the body of that stupid kid anyway? The boy could not even comprehend why he, the kyuubi, could not give out his power. The boy was really stupid and foolish. Now, he was stuck inside the body of the dead boy. Knowing that as the kid's systems begins to stop functioning so will his life be consumed.
His anger could not be contained anymore. His features has never been as scary as it was now.
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Within Sasuke, the Mangenkyo Sharingan has opened.
The pain started within the center of his being and flowed through his entire body.
Towards it final destination.
The Eyes.
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"Damn kid! Where are you!?" He tried communicating with his container through telepathy. He might be able to reach him. "Hey, Kid! Can you here me?"
At any rate, he himself is a spirit. A spirit created from the abundance of Chakra that surrounds him. A spirit who was now reduced to entrusting the length of his own existence to the life of one boy. Being a spirit, he could communicate with others especially the kid since they shared the bond.
As he was doing this, he tried emitting his chakra once again. Letting it circulate in the boys' entire body slowly... The effect of whatever it was that blocked his powers before was long gone. It could be due to the final attack the kid received before he died.
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"AHHH!!!!!!!" As he fell on his knees holding his eyes. It was in so much pain. That it felt like he could tear it apart from his body. The pain his body just felt was nothing compared to it. After what seemed like an eternity... The pain stopped. The shivering gone.
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'What? W-where am I?' As Naruto's consciousness floated into the white light. He was wearing nothing and just floated out there. Somebody had just called him that made him open his eyes. 'It's so peaceful in here...' as he closed his eyes once again. But the voice was persistent. Every time he called him, something just keeps pulling him back to that dark side...
"I don't want to come back" he said in a daze not even knowing what he was talking about. He could not seem to remember anything.
"Hey Kid! Come back! You have to come back! You can't let me die here... If you want to die badly wait 'til I get out of your body and I'll kill you myself." The kyuubi was very unconvincing.
"What are you talking about?" He asked. Then slowly, he remembered. He was killed by the damn Uchiha. But in his state now, who cares? It was better in here anyway. Peaceful, calm, serene. It was everything he ever wanted. The blinding light was so welcoming and warm. One thing he never felt out there.
The Kyuubi was now getting worried since his chakra couldn't hold on much. He needed the boy's consciousness, his spirit back in his body. He was loosing his chakra. After all no matter how you keep a body functioning it is still useless if the spirit was gone. So the kyuubi tried a new approach. Thank goodness he knew everything there is to know about the kid.
"Oi Kid. Have you forgotten your promise? You have never once broken a promise and you must not do it now. What will happen to Sakura? And to your beloved village and friends?"
Naruto thought about what the voice said. Now, it was clear to him who it was... The kyuubi. The kyuubi was making sense anyway. Though he doesn't want to, he had to go back to fulfill his promise and save Konoha from future trouble and become the Hokage. However, he saw this as a chance to blackmail the kyuubi. "Then? Who cares? I might come back... but you have to promise me..."
"What is it that you want darn Kid?"
"I will be your master from now on! Take it or leave it!"
The Kyuubi had no other choice but to agree. He was at the loosing end anyway. 'Only while I'm still within your mercy. Once I get out, you'll be the first one that I'm gonna kill!'
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Sasuke slowly stood up as that sly smile showed on his face. He opened his eyes slowly... He was savoring the moment. When his eyes had completed. Gone was the sharingan that was not even complete. Having only two of its visible traits that looked like a coma. What replaced it now were the eyes he feared before.
The eyes that defeated the clan and killed his Family.
The eyes that looked like a three-pointed shuriken.
The completed Mangenkyo Sharingan.
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"Alright! You win! It's a promise!" As the Kyuubi said that Naruto's consciousness was suddenly pulled back to the darker side. His consciousness invaded his body once more but he still couldn't move. The Kyuubi was still healing his entire body. The water bubbled because of the heat from the Chakra gushed out of his body.
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With one last look at the river where Naruto's body lied. He turned to his back and prepared to leave The Village of Konoha forever. To betray them all. To kill his brother. To give his soul to the devil.
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The chakra was still enveloping Naruto when he opened his eyes. He was still deep within the river and he has no air in his lungs. He needed air, and he needed it fast. He was aware that his surroundings were boiling up because of the chakra. Too much chakra perhaps.
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But then, he heard something deep in the river. It was boiling non-stop. He tried to observe it more to know what it was... It could be his body... who knows. He did not know that during this time the kyuubi had been keeping Naruto's body functioning with chakra, hence the boiling water.
'It just can't be...' after some more minutes. He saw it with his own Mangenkyo Sharingan as the Kid swam upwards in a very rattling speed. He was covered with chakra and popped out of the water gasping and filling his lungs with air. The Kyuubi still enveloping him.
'How could it be?' Sasuke's eyes was now wide open in disbelief. He could not comprehend what had just happened. He had just killed him. His Mangenkyo Sharingan was the proof. Is it really possible for a person to live again?
"Darm it Uchiha! Don't you ever think that you can kill me that easily." Naruto shouted, anger emanating from his voice. He was so pissed off, as pissed off as the Kyuubi. All his senses have increased ten folds.
"DO YOU THINK IT'S THAT EASY TO KILL ME?" he asked. He was so angry with Sasuke for killing him. If it weren't because of the Kyuubi he'd be regretting this until his next lifetime. "Listen Sasuke, I made a promise and I don't intend to break it! I'll bring you back no matter what!" and with that his fight with Sasuke begun again.
In an instant he jumped from the river going to the hands of the second Hokage monument where Sasuke stood motionless. His speed was unsurpassed as he leaned his body forward with his hands clenched in a fist planning to hit the Uchiha directly. But even before his hands could reach him, the dark-haired boy was already gone sending Naruto's fist hurling to the hands of the monument breaking it into tiny pieces. Then before he fell to the water, he stepped on a protruding rock just near the beltline of the monument. Using it as support for his next move towards Sasuke who have just afixed himself with chakra on the chest of the First Hokage's monument. Naruto hurled after him this time the Uchiha could not escape it as his speed had returned to normal. He was sent directly to the river.
His special sharingan was useless since Naruto did not use any ninjutsus but just plain taijutsu using the red chakra. Of course he can never copy the red chakra. He can only rely on his level two seal in this case. So he metamorphosed again to the scary monster he was just moments ago.
This time however, he was more powerful because of the Mangenkyo Sharingan.
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-end of flash back- (please read note 1 for my reason for ending this here. Sorry.)
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"Huh?" Naruto was instantaneously taken away from his "reliving of the past". He looked around as the audiences jeered and cheered at the contestants. He wondered what had just happened. As he looked down the round stadium he was surprised to see the genin from the wave in the middle of it.
"This ends the first round of the chuunin match! The second match will begin shortly after ten minutes" The host of the match declared.
'What in the world had just happened?' It can be seen in his eyes that he was oblivious of what had happened. He looked around him where the other genins stood before. There were only nine of them left including Sasuke. Now he was really confused.
Sakura watched him as amazement and confusion interchanged in his eyes. She had been looking at him since Sasuke's match. She smiled inside, 'Naruto is still Naruto after all. Getting all confused and worked up over little things.'
Since then she's never seen him move nor flicked. She did not bother to disturb him. He seemed too caught up with his thoughts that she did not have the heart to disturb him.
"Hey Naruto, why are you so worked up?" Sakura asked while patting the boy in the back as she came near the boy.
"Sakura? Why is the match finished already? What happened to Sasuke's match?" Naruto asked in amazement.
"You've been draining in your thoughts too much. You've been out for two hours you know?" If there's one thing she missed about Naruto, it was the endearment that that he always affix in her name that sounded soo annoying yet full of admiration. 'Maybe he have found a new crush. Like Hinata perhaps or somebody?' She felt a small pain in her heart but disregarded it all too soon. There's nothing to think about anyway.
"Really? Are you really telling me that?" Naruto wondered again. From what Sakura had just said, it seems he's been reliving every minute of his fight with Sasuke in the past.
"Why don't you get ready instead? Our match's next you know." Sakura suggested smiling. "you could just observe the next match afterwards."
"Sure thing Sakura."
1 I just though not to include the fight scene here. I'm afraid i'll just ruin it again. I'm no good at fight scenes, hence, the fast paced fight scenes with little movements. I thought it would be best just to let you lovely and handsome people imagine the real fight from the manga chapters 226 maybe?. It'll have more actions in it. I just don't want to ruin it. Again, I'm sorry.
2 Because of my wish to avoid the fight scenes. I just thought it would be best to end the matches here after Naruto's memories...
3 I'm now hiding in the corner of my room waiting for things to be thrown at me because of my foolish excuse for the Mangenkyo Sharingan and for ending the first round. Please be kind! TT-TT
4 I wanna thank you lovely and handsome people again for keeping my hopes up!
To Sirus183 thank you for noticing the fight scenes. I really have a hard time with it that's why I don't dwell in it much. Hopefully, I'll try my best in the next chapter.
To warriorphantom Sorry if I can't live up to your expactations. I'm still new in writing fanfictions I still have a valid excuse. I might still have room for improvement. and I'm still not finished with the story so please don't judge too soon there are some twists in here too. I'm just having a hard time figuring out how to put it through the story.
