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The Devil's Advocate

Prologue - The Familiar Stranger

It's been 5 years since the brutal war between the tyrant Orochimaru and the 5 major villages of the Continent. As written in the documents, 5 years ago, 100 professional jounin ninjas met Orochimaru and his advocates in a rural area near the Country of the Shadows. It was a fierce battle, but eventually, the Jounins overcame Orochimaru's defence and managed to finish him.

The documents doesn't speak much of what had happened during the battle, but people suspected there was much more to the story than just a simple battle between enemies, but they eventually dropped it. But, even as they go along with their lives, few can't help but think in the back of their minds,

'What really happened in the Country of the Shadows?'

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"ARGH!"

Naruto fell to the ground roughly as the damage done to his body was taking it's toll even with the adreneline pumping in his blood. Struggling to stand, he looked around and saw his friends lying on the ground. Many looked unconscious, while some looked quite...

'NO!' Naruto thought aloud, fighting the urge to fall unconscious. Hearing sadistic chuckling, he gazed upward and looked straight into the eyes of the one person he truly thought as a friend.

"Sasuke." Naruto whispered, still staring deep into Sasuke's Sharingan Eyes, spinning madly, as if taunting him.

"Naruto, how can you still believe that I would come back to that weak and helpless village? Ever since I joined Orochimaru, I have felt even more powerful then I could've ever imagined! Something the village would never grant me even if I were to live to be a thousand." Sasuke replied, clenching his fist to emphasize the power he spoke of.

"But, I promised Sakur-" Naruto tried to say but was interupted,

"FORGET SAKURA, SHE IS DEAD TO ME, AND FOR 5 YEARS YOU WERE TOO!" Sasuke exclaimed at the top of his lungs, blackish chakra rising from his body.

Calming down, he looked up for a moment before staring right back into Naruto's eyes and pointed a finger at him,

"And once I kill you, I will finally have the power to avenge my clan and kill my brother."

Faster than human eyes can perceive, he disappeared into thin air and appeared right in front of Naruto, a fist stretched back preparing to strike him. Reinforcing his hand with chakra, he launched his fist at Naruto's downcast head.

(Boom!)

Sasuke stared in astonishment as Naruto caught his fist with his bare hand. Bloodied from the impact, Naruto squeezed his hand and looked up at Sasuke with blood red eyes. Soon, red chakra started crackling from his body and surrounded Naruto in a sort of red haze. Behind him, Sasuke noticed 4 glowing objects that looked familiarly like tails.

"I'll bring you back, no matter what." Naruto whispered.

Before Sasuke could even react, he was thrown back by a strong pulse of chakra. He didn't impact the floor, but landed right into Naruto's kick, which sent him towards the opposite side, hitting the wall awkwardly.

Sasuke coughed up blood as he fell to the ground. He just couldn't understand it. Even after all this time Naruto still somehow manages to surprise him. He stared at Naruto's convulsing body as his skin slowly starts to disapitate to form a bloodied form of a miniature Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. As of now, Sasuke knew Naruto was no longer the boy he once was as the inhumane red chakra seeping from Naruto's body turned the area around him distorted. He became a monster. But Sasuke knew that he too was no longer human, but a vicious killing machine bent on taking revenge for his clan.

Releasing the cursed seal that increases his power 4x more, Sasuke embraced the change that went through his body, the power coursing through his blood. After the change was over, Sasuke opened his eyes and looked at the crouched form of the Demon Fox. No, not the Demon Fox.

Naruto.

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(Blood being splattered)

"GRAH!" A sound ninja cried out as he fell to the floor, dead.

Wiping his fingers, Kakashi looked around to see his fellow companions finishing the rest of the Sound lackeys.

'Soon,' Kakashi thought, 'We'll find him and kill him once and for all.'

Feeling his danger sense blaring, Kakashi dodged as a rain of kunai knives fell upon the ground he was standing on. Stumbling slightly, Kakashi fell to one knee and stared at the figure approaching from the shadows.

"Kabuto." Kakashi whispered.

Chuckling to himself, Kabuto gazed at Kakashi's body, covered in his enemies blood.

"You've made quite a mess, Kakashi." Kabuto said casually.

Growling to himself, Kakashi was about to form some seals before a hand stopped him. Looking up, he saw Shizune with a determined look on her face.

"Please Kakashi, let me deal with him." Shizune said.

Kakashi knew Shizune felt a sort of repressed hatred for Kabuto after he had killed her husband in a previous invasion into the Leaf by the Sound Country. He nodded and led the ninja past her and into the fortress. Kabuto smiled to himself as he stared into Shizune's cold eyes.

"Still angry at me for killing Iruka?"

"I'll kill you."

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(BOOM!)

A darkened figure casually glanced behind him as the barred gates leading into this room were destroyed. As the smoke cleared, about a dozen ninja jumped into the room surrounding the shadowy figure.

"Ah, Konoha ninja, what a pleasant surprise." The figure said.

"It's time we got rid of you." One of two figures that walked into the room said.

"So nice to see you two again, Jiraiya, Tsunade." The figure said without looking behind him.

Jiraiya and Tsunade both got into stances and faced the figure. Underneath the figure's foot was a dead body, it's head seemingly torn off.

"When you're dead, the world country shall be at peace,Ekashi." Jiraiya exclaimed boldly.

"Oh, I don't about that." said the figure as he turned around to show himself to be the Shadow Country's Kage, in his hand holding the mutilated head of Orochimaru.

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TBC.

Yes, I am back.

This is, if you had read the other Naruto story I have created, you would know this is a sequel to Impossible Dreams : Eternal.

This is just a prologue so comment and tell me if u want me to continue it or not.