Uchiha Sasuke, Uchiha Itachi. The only remaining members of the Uchiha Clan, one of which being the reason for this. Hatred Had Fueled their relationship sinse that life changing day in Konohagakure. Eleven years of hatred and anger towards one another, the last two Uchiha. Now they were face to face. The very thought of it could send one into cold chills. The Wind Gusted very heavily, as Itachi's deep eyes focused themselves into Sasuke's, Almost as if trying to pull him apart, nothing showing except pure hatred and anger in its purest form. As a child, Itachi was always the most acknowleged in the Uchiha Clan, while Sasuke was forced to just be "The Little brother". Oneday, Sasuke walked in for a drink of water, and found that his brother had killed their parents. Sasuke Balled his fist at his side, so much so that his nails began to shave away the skin in his palm and draw small droplets of blood. He began to speak, taking a stepforwards and quickly placing the side a kunai up against the base of his brothers throat, pushing it inwards into his adams apple. They Pause for a moment, Sasuke's mouth still fixed open. Itachi let out a very short "tch..." waiting for Sasuke to speak.
"Mother and Father-" Sasuke began.
"Needn't have died?" Itachi interrupted. This caused Sasuke to grow even angrier. He hated being mocked, this person infront of him had no right to even speak in such a way, yet here he was, running his mouth with that same confident scowl. Sasuke Turned very heavily on his right foot and shoved the Kunai's side deeper into the cut in his brothers neck. The very moment he moved, he felt a warm liquid running down his neck, slithering down and up under the shirt of the anbu outfit. Sasuke Turned around slowly, looking over his shoulder gasping slightly as he felt breath leaving his body, his eyes becoming very dull, blinking themselves over and over again, the sight of his brother pulling down his akatsuki style straw hat causing the little bell knotted around the rim to jingle softly.
Itachi smiled some, and then spoke. "You've gotten better, Sasuke..." As he said this, the body he had killed just then slowly crumpled to the ground, and exploded into smoke, as did the clone Itachi had created previously. Itachi lifted up his head and looked at a tree branch, where he brother was crouched, staring angrily down apon Itachi's existence.
Itachi Continued, "In any case, our battle will have to wait for now. You and I have a mission to complete before either of us can die."
"What are you here for, its obvious that you're not doing this for Orochimaru. Someone like you would never work for him, what the hell are you up to." Sasuke Demanded.
"You dont miss a thing do you? In truth, Im here for The yondaime's legacy."
"What do you want with Naruto" Sasuke snapped.
"What does it matter? You and He are no longer comrades. I believe your little show at waterfall village made that pretty clear, wouldn't you say so brother?" Itachi Snapped Just as quickly. "and like I said, we dont have time for meaningless little conversations. We can save all of this for after We kill sandaime-sama" Itachi Smiled some, "and Im definately looking forward to killing you, Sasuke" He teased. Sasuke jumped at him, but landed on nothing but grass. Itachi was gone. Sasuke's head was throbbing, holding himself back was something he wasn't good at doing and this conversation with his kin wasn't helping him.
Sasuke Fixed his mask on his face and shot himself into the air, hovering in mid air while driving forwards for just a brief moment. He used this moment to take in the view, looking past all of the carnage he had just caused, Konoha really was a beautiful place. Perfectly structured buildings,Pretty women just dieing to be loved. Happy Children running about the streets with dreams of becoming "hokage", just as everyone before them. Sasuke groaned a little, knowing what he was about to do would affect everyone who he had once shared laughter with in the most negative way possible, and for what, Power? He didn't even have enough time to soak in these thoughts, missing his final chance to regain some bit of sanity he had left, but it was too late, The time had come. Sasuke Landed with a very soft thud next to Tsunade, who was standing ontop of the main building Flipping her hands about frantically , activating jutsu and defending herself from the Sound ninja's constant attacks. Sasuke did his best Anbu voice and began to conversate with his target, attacking the Sound ninja that drew close to her to make it seem as though he were really a Konoha ANBU member.
"Damnit, where have you been!" Tsunade exclaimed. She then turned to him, completing the jutsu she had been working on.
"Fuuton: Renkuudan!" Tsunade blurted as she faced Sasuke. A large gust of wind suddenly short forth from her mouth, the wind from her body quickly spun itself around Sasuke, cutting into his arms and his body like blades. Sasuke, in sheer pain was forced off balance and as a result carried across the building, coming to a very brutal sliding halt on his left side. Sasuke, Stunned from the force of the attack staggered to his feet, shaking some as he whipped blood from the right corner of his mouth with the back of his left arm. He looked at his right arm, that had gone numb and laughed maliciously turning his head back up to face his target,his eyes opened wide as he scrame at her.
"I WILL KILL YOU!"Sasuke roared. jumping from his standing position directly for Tsunade, his clothing flaping in the wind as blood rushed from the wounds cut into the skin of his right arm. As he comes down atop of the kage's body, he twist around just a bit so that his legs are above his head. He brings his right foot down ontop of her head whilst bringing his left fist back towards the side of his chest, cocking it into a ready position. Tsunade quickly reaches upwards with her right forearm, catching his kick at the jointing area between his ankle and his leg and pushes it away from her skull. She opens her eyes wide as Sasuke unleashes the fist he had drawn back at his check and slams it deep into the middle of her forehead, using his shoulder to dig the fist even deeper into the connected area. Tsunade, her body pausing for a split second, then lifts up off of the ground and rolls a few times before rolling on her back to her feet. She quickly Brings her arm up to the right side of her head, catching a kick that sasuke had sent with his left foot and spins around off of it, pulling her right shoulder around and to the left, slamming her left fist into the right side of Sasuke's skull causing his face to turn sideways apon impact.
The Fast pace of the match was like nothing any ninja in Konoha had ever seen before. It wasn't that the match was full of unknown jutsu, as the one with sondaime and Orochimaru had been. It was the fact that the punches being thrown were like trains, every connection echoed through out the Village and caused a little bit more of the building they were ontop of to rattle out of place. The Village had been stunned, every man and woman, even every child standing outside of their houses looking up at Tsunade and Sasuke, fighting as if their lives depended on it. The scene was something of pure depression, the people who had gone to school and trained with Sasuke had to watch as he fought against their beloved leader. They had to watch as the person who had to go through a life of nothing but tragedy, slowly melted away on the inside. Hinata, Neji, Rock Lee, Chouji, Shikamaru, Naruto, Sai, Gaara, Temari, Kankure, Ten Ten, everyone was watching him fight as if nothing else mattered. Each one of them looking as though they were being torn apart just as he was, with the exception of the kaze-kage and the sand shinobi, who felt as though they had no personal ties with him.
Naruto yelled angrily and gripped his head, scratching it until he felt blood dripping from his scalp. Hinata looked over to him, tears running down her cheeks. She didn't know what to do, she could feel Naruto's pain, he was about to lose both of the first to people to acknowlege his existence, a pain like that was something only Naruto and Gaara could feel. Naruto began to scream as he looked up at Sasuke and Tsunade, trying to pull away from Kakashi who had already determined this match was beyond his abilities.
"Kakashi, please let me go. I dont want to lose him, i've lost Sakura because of this. Even though he's gone completely insane, he is STILL my friend!" Naruto protested, Kakashi was caught off gaurd by this, he hadn't known Naruto still considered Sasuke a friend. Naruto quickly pulled out of Kakashi's grip while he was in shock, and rushed up the buildings as fast as he could bringing his fist into themselves, ready to fight Sasuke and bring him back to his senses. Naruto Quickly jumped high into the air, his eyes now catlike and red, the powers of the Kyuubi flowing from his body in the form of a read protective shell, 8 long tails flowing from his backside, the smell of blood now immiting from his body as he prepared to protect his village, and save his friend. Tsunade Quickly Brought her fist up from just under Sasuke's chin, slamming his jaw up into the top of his mouth forcing his front teeth up into his gums causing blood to trickle down his mouth. Sasuke Stumbled backwards a little bit and tried to regain his balance, only to be caught in the side of his face with a swift right hand, then on the other side with a quick left hook causing him to Hover off of the ground for a slight moment, his magenkyou sharingan fading some as he began to lose his power.
Sasuke forced himself back together and Quickly placed one hand on the ground lifting himself quickly back to his feet, his magenkyou looking full power as if nothing had happened. Sasuke's face began to shake, a death ridden smile curling his lips upwards into his ears. Sasuke's long white hair began to shift some in the wind, turning a very deep black, along with the color in his eyes. Sasuke's skin began to darken as well, as a long tattoo like marks began to creep their way up his body and around his left arm, up to his face. Tsunade grunted just a little bit and slid her feet back, tightening her fist preparing herself for what was coming next. Sasuke, had just activated the cursed seal, and forced it into over drive, level 3. She had never seen the cursed seal go this high ever before. Even with Orochimaru, it was increasingly deadly with every second of its being activated. What exactly was Sasuke trying to prove?
Before these questions could be answered, Sasuke was standing just infront of her, His movements were lighting fast, like nothing she had ever seen before. Tsunade felt a very heavy Punch to the side of her head, forcing her backwards, she kept shifting her feet around to keep her balance but would stumble backwards instead. Sasuke, just walking towards her as she kept stumbling backwards. It looked as if he weren't moving at all, just walking. What the hell was this power? Itachi Who had been looking from a good distance away began to laugh to himself calmly, remembering himself taunting Sasuke over and over again years ago. Why are you so weak? He would ask, now he was amazed to see how strong his brother had actually became, living inside that hatred. Itachi quickly turned his view on the fast coming Naruto, who was steadily charging towards Sasuke's primary area in a cat like running motion, on all fours tearing away the tiling of rooftops as he suddenly lunged forwards, bringing himself directly in the Path of Sasuke's final open palmed punch towards the fourths trembling body.
SLAM!Sasuke's face was suddenly stained in blood, their bodies locked together as he could feel the wet insides of another human being around the elbow of his left arm. Everything was paused. The Wind Gusted across the faces of everyone watching, all that could be hear was the pings, and clangs of the Konoha jounin and Other of age ninja, fighting off the Sound nin that were constantly attacking the Konoha in waves. Soon the silence was broken by the sounds of Hinata screaming at the top of her lungs as she witnessed the blood of her lover flow from the open wound in his stomach and down the roof of the building, dripping into the dirt on the ground forming bloodied mud. Naruto slowly lifted his head, focusing his eyes on Sasuke's, the Nine tails powers completly nullifing the effects of the Magenkyou sharingan. Sasuke began to tremble very heavily, gasping in between breaths, but not being able to move enough to pull his arm from naruto's body.
"I didn't want to kill you Naruto...Really I-"He began.
"You only think about yourself, Sasuke. You've always only thought about yourself, yourself and that clan, yourself and your brother. You've never accepted the fact that you've had friends here that have cared about you, even through all the hatred you showed them. Now you do something like this? You dont have the right to say you didn't want to kill me...we're not comrads anymore, we're bitter enemies!" As Naruto said this, Sasuke's eyes widened, he had said that, hadn't he? The words that he had used to describe his relationship with Konoha and Naruto were this devistating? How Could something hurt so much? Sasuke Now understood why Naruto continued to bring Sasuke back. Naruto Growled heavily and put his hand around sasuke's arm, the kyuubi's chakra burning into the skin of his foes limb as Naruto litterally ripped Sasuke's arm from his stomach. Sasuke found himself being lifted up into the air and thrown very quickly to the side off of the building and onto the ground quite a distance away. Sasuke looked up into the air, and quickly covered his face with his forearms as he noticed Naruto, barrleing down ontop of him, his right hand hovering open slightly above his head and to the side, his fingers crunched up into each other as the chakra around Naruto's body formed a claw.
As Naruto came down apon Sasuke, he quickly swung his hand down slamming it into Sasuke's blocked arms sending him flying backwards with brutal force, cutting through the buildings of Konoha as if they were made of water, sending large chuncks of brick flying in every directions. Sasuke Leant backwards into a back flip, landing on his feet and slid to a halt, putting one hand on the ground to keep from falling forwards. The Wind Gusted very heavily just once, causing the green grass on the ground to lean completely sideways, just as Naruto came around once again from Sasuke's right side. Naruto quickly forced one foot into the ground, sliding himself towards Sasuke with his fist drawn backwards, ready to break his enemies jaw with one final punch, everything seemed to slow down, Sasuke breathing heavily as he could see Naruto's fist screaming towards his right temple, the force of the punch driven up to its extremes, the wound in Naruto's stomach now completely healed due to the shell of chakra that the Kyuubi protected Naruto's body with. Sasuke closed his eyes and slumped over, waiting for Naruto to crush his jaw with this final punch and finally end the match.
Then there was nothing. Sasuke Shook, his right arm litterally battered from the fight. Although he had activated the third level of the cursed seal, it was no match for the nine tails power. This drove him insane really, but he was too weak to fight back, the seal put too much strain on his body, but why hadn't Naruto hit him yet? Sasuke opened one of his eyes, and glanced over to where he had last seen Naruto. What he saw next brought the power back to his body, the rage he once held within his chest now flowed again, his determination was back. Naruto's body had been completely forced into a wall, he lie there, completely knocked unconcious. A man stood above Naruto's body, staring down at him angrily, three shiruken draw in between his fingers on his right arm, that hung through the sleeves of his long black cloak that was decorated in red clouds. The man held in his hand, a body of a female, dragging her limp body along the ground as he slowly turned around to face Sasuke. It was Itachi, who had either killed Tsunade, or just beaten her into submission.
As Itachi turned, he closed his eyes half way and hissed at his brother "why are you so weak?"
CHAPTER END
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NEXT CHAPTER: THE FINAL BATTLE.
Itach and Sasuke Finally square off, with the fourth disposed of, and Naruto unconcious both of their missions had been completed. How will this battle turn out? has Konoha really lost another hokage? Find out in the 2 part conclusion!
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