Chapter 17:
A/N: WARNING: this chapter contains a lot of emotional and dramatic scene. If you're not into it, don't read this chapter and only wait for the next chapter.
Well, after all of that Is clear, here it is Chapter 17 enjoy!
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Naruto and sasuke continued to pushed up their remaining chakra on their final moves.
Then on a split of a second, Naruto's broken shoulder began to break again, causing his rasengan to be pushed back by the Chidori.
"Dammit! Why now!" naruto shouted to himself.
Sasuke noticed that the shoulders of naruto snapped. He capitalized to the situation so he gradually slips his Chidori on the rasengan of naruto to hit the shoulder of naruto.
When the Chidori of sasuke began to slither to his technique, naruto slowly positioned his arm to the chest of sasuke.
The Chidori rammed the left shoulders of naruto while the Rasengan bashed into the chest of sasuke. Their bodies twist and turn as it dragged down into the ground. Neither of the two can move any longer, they've used up all of their chakra's. naruto retuned to his normal self while the Cursed seal of sasuke was deactivated. No one move at the moment, they were so exhausted and cannot even stand up in their feet.
After a minute, sasuke unevenly stand up because of the less damage that he take, while naruto's shoulders bleed rapidly.
He grabbed the neck of naruto and started to choke him to death
"Your still weak as ever…naruto" sasuke commented while holding naruto in the neck.
Naruto replied with a beaten tone of voice. "S-so? How does it feel to kill someone sasuke...ugh.." he cough, blood came out of his mouth.
"haven't kill someone before?" sasuke stood silent for a second thinking what naruto commented. Naruto asked again now looking more serious to sasuke.
"Have you killed someone before sasuke?"
"shut up!" the annoyed sasuke replied.
"how can you kill your brother if you cannot kill me?" naruto asked. Blood continuously flowed to his mouth.
"that's none of your business!" sasuke screamed.
"Now you have the chance sasuke! Make a hole right into my chest! In that way, you can instantly kill me!" naruto grabbed sasuke's hand and draws it near to his chest.
"Quit it! I know what I'm doing!" sasuke replied with a high tone of voice
Silence….
"I thought you were smart sasuke. But I was wrong"
"What do you mean?" sasuke arrogantly asked.
Naruto Beamed. "You want to know?"
"Comeon tell me!"
Naruto's eyes became serious. "You want to know? It's because you're only doing what your brother wants you to do! Stupid sasuke"
Sasuke began to madly laugh "hahaha, what do you mean that i was following what that monster wants me to do, is that it?" sasuke replied tightening his grip on naruto, but he was abruptly interrupted by naruto.
"ugh…Y—yes precisely, now tell me what have you become, Tell me sasuke!"
"Can't you see? I've become a powerful person wi—"sasuke arrogantly replied but he was again interrupted on his speech.
"but at what price?" naruto coldly asked. Sasuke continued to hold him in the air, not even moving an inch.
silence.
Silence..
Silence….
Naruto answered his own question "by sacrificing you own humanity!"
"Stop.." sasuke silently replied
"By sacrificing your own happiness!"
"Stop!" sasuke answered, increasing the tone of his voice.
"And most of all sacrificing the people that you truly care for!. Tell me sasuke, is that all worth it?"
"STOP!" sasuke loudly scream.
"Isn't this what your brother wants you to do sasuke? Destroy your own life!" naruto answered really concerned.
"What do you mean by 'destroyed'?"
"Answer me sasuke. What will you do after you've killed your own brother?"
Sasuke became silent because of what naruto asked him. He could not think of anything
Since he gave up everything in order to gain power. He gave up his own happiness. He leaves his hometown konoha, and most of all he abandon all of the people that truthfully cares for him the most. His friends.
"What will I do after I killed my own brother itachi?" sasuke thought to himself.
"Go back to Konoha?"
He answered his own question. "No way. After all that I did, they probably hated me…"
He asked himself again. "What if I apologize to them?"
"Not a chance!"
"Live in a new country?"
"I don't know…"
"What will do. WHAT!"
Naruto interrupted the argument of sasuke in his thoughts.
"You cannot answer me because you were so devoted on killing you brother that you thrown away all that are left to you…"
"Yes, I've thrown away all that are important to me, I have nothing left."
Sasuke coldly replied.
"You're wrong sasuke…"
Sasuke's eyes widen. "What do you mean?"
"You know two years ago, when you left konoha do you know that sakura cried day and night because you leave?"
Sasuke became silent in the moment.
"And why did we even make a retrieval mission just to take you back to konoha sasuke?"
"…I don't know…."
"It's because you are important to us sasuke! Konoha isn't the same when you're not around…"
Sasuke didn't respond.
Naruto Smirk.
"Since you left konoha Kakashi-sensei (yay I remember!) Arrive more late than ever"
Silent….
"Since you left, Team seven had fewer missions now! Do you even think what damage it would cause to my Budget? Now I only have to eat two bowls of ramen every day"
Sasuke replied "I'm sorry I didn't knoowww"
"Ever since you left, I cannot hear anymore fan girls of yours talk about you in the streets every morning…"
Silent….
"Since you left konoha Ino and sakura have stopped fighting anymore, you know what damage will it make? Ino is starting to like Shikamaru!"
"I don't want that lazy bum to be the first one to have a girlfriend on our batch!" Naruto mumbled.
sasuke's left eye brow rise. "Ino and Shikamaru together?" he thought to himself.
"Since you left, all of the Guys on konoha has now a girlfriend! Even Choji found this really hot girl!"
"what the hell are you taking about naruto?"
"Since you left, the birth rate of konoha has rapidly increase!"
sasuke respond "and what's that have to do with me?"
Naruto mischievously laugh. "hehehe. Sasuke-kun soo naïve"
Naruto began to speak again. "And worst of all, since you left, I always have to deal with my 'I cannot save him' or 'I'm not strong enough' voices running into my head"
Sasuke's vein snapped.
"one more thing, since you left, gaara hasn't been himself for the past two years. He keeps mumbling about 'deaath' or 'kiill' all the time"
'And what's that have to do with me again?"
"Maybe he has a big crush on yo—"
Sasuke quickly interrupted naruto.
He evilly looked at naruto "This isn't the time to joke around Naruto. I WAS ON MY EMTIONAL SIDE FOR PETE'S SAKE!"
Sasuke added "it took me a lot of time to find my emotional side naruto, way to spoil my effort geez…"
Naruto scratches the back of his head. "Sorry…"
A/N: ( Sorry about the comedic scene, but I just have to lighten things up because this chapter involves A LOT of crying and emotional things, anyway back to the serious part )
"ehem.."
Naruto's face became serious again. he lightly smile then slowly closes his eye.
"Do you know that team seven hasn't been the same ever since you've left us?"
Sasuke didn't know what to respond so he just let naruto talk.
"there's no more annoying guy that I can compete to…"
"Do you know that sakura-chan hasn't been the same for the past couple of years since you've left?"
Sasuke just lowered his head.
"She hasn't showed her gracious smile for a long time…"
Sasuke finally loosened up his grip on naruto's neck. Naruto dropped on the floor. He looked at the face of sasuke. he then noticed that tears was slowly flow thru sasuke's eyes
Naruto's eyes became wet as he talk.
"Sasuke, Konoha needs you"
"Sakura needs you"
"………"
"I need you sasuke"
Sasuke became confused of the comment that naruto said to him.
"What are you saying naruto…"
"If you're not around, I wont have a worthy rival that I always want to compete with…"
Silence…
"My life isn't complete if my best friend is not around…" Naruto calmly said.
"N—naruto…" sasuke for the first time feels a warn feeling deep inside his body
"So, this is what it feels to have a true friend…" sasuke thought to himself.
Naruto looked at the eyes of sasuke. "Now sasuke, I will ask you again…" Sasuke looked up at him.
"What have you become…."
"I….i don't know anymore!"
Suddenly itachi's voice echoes the mind of sasuke.
"run my stupid brother! Hate me! Have no regrets, show no mercy! Run if you have to"
"STOPPPPPPPP!" sasuke yelled as he clutches on to his head.
Naruto's face became concerned. "sasuke?"
"Get out of my head!" sasuke grasp his head as he closed his eyes.
"Snap out of it sasuke!" naruto answered. Giving aid in his friend, He hold on sasuke's shoulders.
"N….Naruto? ahhhhhhhh! My head!" Sasuke still hear itachi's voice
The imaginary figure of Itachi suddenly appeared in the mind of sasuke. he whispered in the ear of sasuke.
"you're alone my stupid brother, always alone and will be alone forever! You'll die alone!"
Everything that sasuke sees was in black. He could not see any hope in his life anymore. The fact that he admits that naruto was…right.
Sasuke talk to himself. "What have I become? a person that has been obsessed in power. Just like my brother…..who knows what will I do… kill the most important persons in my life just like my brother...might as well die…im sure he'd laugh at me if he sees me in this condition….itachi."
Then he sees a little pillar of light on the darkness in his head. A imaginary figure of naruto was reaching up his hand.
"sasuke, you can beat it. You can beat the darkness within your mind" sasuke reached up his hand on naruto.
Naruto smirk as he grabbed the hands of sasuke and save him from the darkness that lye's deep within his soul.
"Lets go home, sasuke…"
Sasuke was brought back into reality. He noticed the concerned look on naruto as he shakes his shoulders.
"I'm glad that you're okay sasuke."
Sasuke calmly replied. "I'm okay now naruto"
Naruto smiled. "So, lets go home?"
Sasuke smirk. "But are you sure its still okay?"
Naruto crossed his arm. "of course it is, I'm sure Tsunade baa-chan will punish you but I think its not that harsh…"
Sasuke sneer "huh, you're still optimistic as usual"
Then naruto and sasuke both laugh for no reason.
Then a figure suddenly appeared. He shouted on a top of a cliff.
"So does it mean that you're betraying orochimaru-sama?"
Naruto and sasuke quickly looked on the person. They cannot recognize the person because it's too far away.
Sasuke's eyes widen.
"You're—"
To be continued….