Chapter 18:

—Losing you —

"sasuke-sama" The figure suddenly walks towards both of them.

"What are you doing here? Kabuto" the exhausted sasuke grabbed his kusanagi from his back to defend himself.

Kabuto tap his eyeglasses. " I was ordered by orochimaru-sama to monitor your every movement, In case you did something to betray him"

"Why you—" Naruto angrily burble.

"If I were you, you shouldn't fight me. At your current condition, there's only one percent no, zero percent chance that both of you can defeat me."

Naruto and sasuke angrily grinned.

"Even if there's zero chance or even negative whatever chance there is, there's no way that we will give up that easily!" Naruto stands up. His face was full of determination.

Sasuke glanced at him "Even though you have no chakra left, you can still see the determination in his face, I completely lost at our battle, Naruto" Sasuke thought to himself as he looked into the face of naruto.

"How foolish, okay then…prepare to die!" Kabuto began to run towards them. He uses the Kagebunshin technique to create three duplicate of himself.

The two clones attack naruto while the original and the last bunshin assaulted sasuke.

Naruto could barely keep up; his wound on his shoulder prevented him to use his other arm. He defended the attacks of the clone by using only one arm.

One the other side, sasuke was lacerated by the knife-like chakra of Kabuto. It made his whole body numb and completely motionless. Sasuke's body fall in the ground.

"You traitor! After all that orochimaru-sama did, this is the payment that he'll get?"

Kabuto continuously kicked his stomach. Blood willfully spill form sasuke' mouth.

Lastly, Kabuto delivered a thunderous kick on sasuke, causing him to be dragged to the edge of the cliff.

Kabuto's right hand suddenly emits a violet chakra as he walk towards sasuke.

"Orochimaru-sama personally ordered me to eliminate you if you dared to betrayed us"

Sasuke mockingly grinned "Orochimaru wound never kill me, he wanted this body and there's no chance that he'll gave up that easily"

"Oh that crap…."

Sasuke's eyes narrowed. "What do you mean?"

Kabuto smirk. "Yes, orochimaru needs your body. But its doesn't matter if you're alive or dead as long as we have your body"

"You're saying that he can still use his Forbidden Jutsu even if the person is dead?"

"Precisely, we'll just have to preserve your body until the time is complete. So it doesn't matter if you arrive at sound country dead as long as I recover your body before it decompose"

Kabuto grasp the neck of sasuke again. "You know, for the last couple of years I develop a new technique that can easily killed a person in just one touch"

Sasuke catching his breath "H—how's that supposed to work…"

"Oh its pretty simple, it breaks down all of the cells in your body and converting it into a virus. It will then spread in your body in just a mere millisecond destroying all of the major organs in your body"

"Now sasuke, you will be the first test subject to experience this new Jutsu of mine…"

Kabuto aims for the chest of sasuke. he thrust his right hand to the chest of sasuke when suddenly, naruto pushed sasuke from the way causing him to be the one who suffered the Technique of Kabuto.

Kabuto's right hand pierced straight into the chest of naruto. Blood continuously flowed into it. Naruto felt his whole body was burning. Naruto stepped back but all of a sudden he tripped into the cliff and because kabuto's hand was locked into naruto's chest, they both fall into the bottomless cliff.

"LET GO YOU BRAT!" Kabuto demanded as they both fall

naruto grasp the hand of Kabuto to prevent him from escaping.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING! WE"LL BOTH DIE" Kabuto shouted.

Time suddenly slowed down as he fall. Naruto thought to himself.

"That's it I'm going to die, even if I didn't fall from this cliff I will still die because I was directly hit by Kabuto's technique"

"I feel really cold, I think my heart stopped"

"My body is numb as well"

"And worst of all I have no chakra left to save myself"

Silence….

Silence…

"This brings back memories, I felt this feeling the first time I summoned gamabunta into that cliff that ero-sennin throw me…"

"The only difference is I had plenty of chakra left at that time..."

Silence…

"sakura, I'm sorry…"

"I couldn't keep my promise…"

Then out of the blue, sasuke's left hand caught the right hand of naruto. Time suddenly brought back into normal for naruto.

Naruto's eyes suddenly widened. "sasuke"

"H—hold on!"

"What are you doing?"

"Saving you of course, now don't you ever let go okay?"

Kabuto suddenly interrupts "Yeah, don't let go sasuke or naruto will fall"

"NO, sasuke let go!"

"N—NE-NEVER"

Kabuto respond with a sadistic grin on his face. "Yeees, never let go sasuke!"

Then Naruto looked up to sasuke calmly.

"Sasuke, promise me one thing…"

"Stop looking at me like that!" sasuke's eyes became wet. He noticed that naruto was planning to do a double suicide.

Naruto closed his eyes passionately "I know I still wouldn't survive even if you saved me from falling"

"Don't talk like that naruto, you'll survive this!" Tears suddenly flows down to sasuke's eyes.

Naruto tighten his grip on the hands of sasuke "promise me you'll protect sakura, never let her cry okay?"

(A/N: I repeat. this is a naruXsaku fic I have no plan of revising it)

"You will not die naruto!"

"Don't worry, I wont die, I'll survive this fall" Naruto opened his eye and smiled at sasuke.

"…I'm counting on you sasuke…"

He loosened his grip on the hands of sasuke. He plunged down to the bottomless cliff along with Kabuto.

"NAARUUUUTOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

To be continued…