"You're gorgeous," the pretty blonde bitches told him mockingly. "But you really aren't very gifted at this whole shinobi thing are you, Uchiha?"
What right did she ha- He could barely-
"Amaterasu! Amaterasu!" Sasuke shouted, spamming the black fire. He could barely see, he could barely stand, but he could easily hear her mocking laughter over his thundering heart. He'd never fought so hard, he'd never used so much chakra, but he could tell his attacks weren't doing a damn thing. And even if they did, he'd just be damaging shadow clones, the original would still be unharmed. He was being stupid. He was wasting his chakra on attacks that were steadily blinding him-
No! Even if the odds were against him, there was still a chance that he could hit the original. Hurt her, and by extension The Yellow Flash she represented. He wasn't frail like his brother. He could use as many Amaterasus as were required. The problem was that every time he used Amaterasu the world grew darker.
But not dark enough that he couldn't see the army of clones ripping apart Susanoo. And in some ways the darkness came with truth. The truth that he had to kill this girl here and now, the truth that the jutsu she had mastered had proven capable of slaughtering Konoha shinobi by the thousands… By the one. The truth that he was losing, and that was simply unacceptable.
He lit Susanoo on fire. Its black flames burnt his skin, and he fucking loved the pain.
The blonde bitch whistled. "Your brother couldn't do that."
"Don't you dare talk about Itachi!" Sasuke's hatred funneled into Susanoo, regrowing its ribs, forming arms, which he slammed into the bitch's shadow clones. He could hear them popping, over the roar of Amaterasu's fire. Blurry orange figures were incinerated on contact, Susanoo neutralizing her unstoppable teleportation jutsu.
Sasuke roared. He could do this. He could fucking do this!
But… But it didn't take long for him to realize… Even with all his strength, all his rage, her clones were clawing against Susanoo like a swarm of killer bees. And before the flames of hatred could tear through her bright chakra, the shadow clones were teleporting away, sacrificing themselves, whittling away his hatred bit by bit. A finger, a forearm, then a rib. Susanoo was being torn apart. He was going to lose.
But at least… At least… He could finally join…Wait…
Where was Kakashi? Shisui? Sakura and Kiba? Beyond the sea of orange and yellow, all he could see were Amaterasu's black flames burning everything: the forest in the cavern, the shale walls all around him, even the droplets of water falling down burning stalactites. Had he… Had he just…
And then he noticed them. Above, at the mouth of the cave, behind a small array of shadow clones. One shadow clone for each of them. The bitch was gonna use them as hostages! But then… Why weren't they chained up? Black fire roared all around him. It was almost as if she was protecting all of them from… From...
"Genjutsu trickery," Sasuke snarled, gnashing his teeth, as the last of Susanoo was ripped apart. Chakra chains wrapped around him, forcing him to the ground. He didn't have the strength left to struggle.
The beautiful girl swaggered towards him, until she was looking down her perfect nose at his pathetic defeated form.
"You are Sasuke Uchiha," the blonde bitch said. And then she bowed. Why the fuck was she bowing? "The younger brother of the strongest shinobi my father ever encountered, the only man he said could surpass him. You are the younger brother of the Fourth Hokage, Itachi Uchiha, the man my father killed." She released him from the chains. "It was my fault. I was too… Too… I'm sorry. If you want to kill me, kill me. I'll never hurt you. I'll never hurt anyone."
"Stand up," Sasuke demanded. "Stand up and fight me!" She followed his orders, but she put a hand on his shoulder in solidarity. He didn't want her fucking pity, he wanted her fucking hatred, he needed her to show just how evil she was! "You think you've beaten me, but this fight hasn't even started!" He was completely out of chakra.
And that meant that he was stronger than ever.
Naruko's eyes widened. "Don't-"
Sasuke was in his mindscape. His sandals drenched in sewer water, he raced through the dungeon, until at last he was staring at the ultimate prize of the Uchiha Clan, the most powerful of the Tailed Beasts, the Nine-Tailed Fox.
"Give me your chakra," Sasuke demanded.
As expected The Fox just laughed. "I will not open my eyes. Kill me if you like, but I will be your puppet no longer!"
He had been prepared for this. The rest of the village did not understand, The Fox was no mere animal, it was intelligent and proud. To expect the sharingan to work indefinitely was foolishness.
"Then take me," Sasuke said proudly. "Take my body. Just kill the girl too."
"But I've been watching the fight carefully, and little old me is nowhere near strong enough for that." The Fox laughed mockingly, as if there was some joke Sasuke didn't understand. "You know what I want. Your clan stole them from my father. I want them back. I want my eyes back."
"Take them," Sasuke said. It was the easiest decision he'd ever made.
He felt pressure, someone had poked his forehead. Just like Itachi used too.
"You can never run from me, Sasuke!" How? How in the world had the blonde bitch followed him here? This was his damn place! "And I can't let you release the Kyuubi on my village." And she threw those three-pronged kunai before Sasuke could stop her. Shadow Clone after Shadow Clone teleported into his mindscape, all wearing that same mischievous smirk. "You've forced me to use my most powerful, most secret, most forbidden jutsu. It is a combination of my three most powerful ninjutsu. Shadow Clones, Hiraiashin, and the most deadly of all, capable of defeating s-rank shinobi at a single glance."
Sasuke could have laughed, there was a jutsu stronger than what she'd shown him? "Take my eyes!" He screamed at the Fox. No matter how powerful the jutsu, it could be beaten if its user was killed before-
"Too late!" The blonde bitch screamed, grinning savagely, disappearing in a yellow flash. "Forbidden Arts, Yellow Flasher Technique!"
A thousand Narukos, even more beautiful than normal, flashed in and out of existence.
What?
Sasuke dodged The Fox's lunge.
"Impressive," The Narukos bellowed, all around him. "This took out my father in a single blow. But I know your secret Sauce-Gay! I will unleash the even secreter, even deadlier, ultra-forbidden ninjutsu, which I spent two years perfecting!"
Why did he think he was about to see something even dumber? No! This was the battle of his life, the fight he'd been preparing for for years! He had to be prepared for anything.
"Kunoichi Forbidden Arts: Reverse Flasher Jutsu!" Hundreds of naked pretty boys, including Sasuke himself, flashed in and out of existence, as her henged shadow clones wasted their teleportation jutsu.
Sasuke readied his kunai, prepared for her attack. It never came. She just kept on trying to use that stupid jutsu. She'd cycled through fat women, androgynous women, and well muscled men. Just how much time had she spent on this?
"How?" Naruko panted, her hands on her knees. "How can you be so strong? How can you shrug off even my most powerful attacks?"
Attacks? Hnn...
"You're not even punching or kicking," Sasuke said, such things were clearly common sense. "You're not attacking at all."
"It is a mental attack," Naruko said condescendingly, dismissing her clones. "Aimed to devastate the hidden perversion concentrated deep within every shinobi's heart. I wouldn't expect an unartistic hack to understand my geniu- Owowow!"
Sasuke had pinched her cheek. "That's an attack idiot." He hopped backwards, and readied his kunai. "Now show me your real final move!"
Naruko scratched her head. "That is my real final move. That is my most powerful attack."
Sasuke wasn't going to be fooled by the vixen's tricks. "Stop playing around, I know you're the daughter of The Yell-"
"I'm a movie star," Naruko said, stamping her foot on the murky water and huffing. "I'm not some savage shinobi. I don't just go around punching people." She glared and rubbed her cheek, where Sasuke had pinched her.
"Look idiot. You know the Hiraishin, you know Shadow Clones, and you-"
"She isn't lying Uchiha," The Fox said, smirking. "You almost gave me your eyes to fight an opponent who hasn't even launched a single attack against you."
No, it wasn't true, she was a monster who'd… The chains, the… But there wasn't anything else. She hadn't so much as scratched a single one of them, and those Shadow Clones, they'd been protecting his comrades from his Amaterasu.
She hadn't done anything to him. And even though she'd said it was her fault Itachi was dead, he didn't really believe her. This was a fool who thought that a trained shinobi would allow himself to be distracted by some naked women flashing him. Sasuke found himself chuckling.
What an idiot.
Her word couldn't be trusted. But he knew she wasn't a monster. He wouldn't kill her. Not for simply being the Yellow Flash's daughter, not if she was innocent from any wrongdoing aside from association.
"Make sure to tune in," Naruko called after them, as they left Uzushiogakure. "Remember to watch the long awaited anime to the literary classic: Makeout Paradise!"
Kiba sulked all the way back home, that Sasuke had gotten the attention of the girl who had been his childhood crush. Kakashi kept on spouting trivia about the new anime, and fretting over whether Naruko could truly understand the heart of the heroine. Shisui seemed content to just look at the clouds, relieved that they hadn't started a war. And Sakura, Sasuke didn't want to think about Sakura.
He himself felt conflicted. He no longer felt any desire to go back to the Academy. Instead he felt an urge, a calling that this mission had awakened within him. The Yellow Flash was still dead, but Sasuke couldn't help but feel uneasy. So when anbu came to greet them, and informed them that Sasuke would be barred from returning to Konoha he reacted with indifference.
It had been a perfectly predictable outcome. He had been marked with The Yellow Flasher's seal, and Sasuke knew that Danzou would never accept that the new Flash was harmless. Shisui protested, but Sasuke shook his head.
"I need to investigate The Yellow Flash anyways," Sasuke said. Meeting the man's daughter had complicated things. He wanted to understand what had led to the attack on Konoha, because perhaps Itachi's death could not be so simply blamed on the evils of one man. "Unless you plan on telling me why he went berserk in Konoha."
Shisui shook his head. "I wish I could."
"Then do it."
Shisui shook his head again. "I can't."
...Aww… So that was it. Shisui had been sealed. If he wanted to get to the bottom of it, why his brother had fought in a battle which had cost him his life, he would have to find the answers himself. And thus, Sasuke began his long journey to Iwagakure, the home of the legendary Minato Namikaze.
"Why aren't you in Konoha?" Naruko asked. She must have flashed behind him. He ignored her, and kept his pace along the dirt road. "Hey Sasuke, hey Sasuke, don't tell me you've been banned from Konoha? But that's one of the largest viewer markets, has my brilliant scheme to promote my new anime failed already? But Sasuke, but Sasuke, I need this to do well, to start my glorious comeback into my rightful superstardom! Because I will be the number one actress in the entire world, that is my dream! Believe it!"
She really wasn't going to leave him alone was she. Very well, he'd play.
"You keep calling it an anime," Sasuke said, sighing. "But isn't the correct term hentai?"
"Semantics," Naruko said, responding quickly, as if she'd heard the critism before. "Hey Sasuke, hey Sasuke, are you on a mission? Can I tag along and promote the great Naruko Uzumaki's spectacular new anime?"
"I suppose," Sasuke said.
"You haven't been banned because of the seal have you?" Naruko asked. "I can get that off if you need me to."
Sasuke sighed… Well, may as well start the investigation at its most obvious point. "Hey Naruko, on your cheeks, how did you get those scars?"
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Author's Note: Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed the story! I might just continue it, but no promises. I wrote the story with every intention of wrapping it up after three chapters, so I don't have a good idea of how to continue it. I'll need an antagonist who can seriously challenge Naruko and Sasuke, along both their ideologies and as a shinobi.
Guest: Shisui has kamui because it was convenient to the plot. I wanted Kakashi to realize that Naruko was harmless first, as he was the biggest fan of her work, and was also Sasuke's best friend. His apparent betrayal would ignite Sasuke's anger, and keep him from thinking about things rationally. So I played around with who had what Mangekyou Sharingan power. A lot of Naruko's eccentricity is because she makes references Sasuke doesn't understand. She's also just an eccentric character in this story. I try to keep the soul of the character the same, with the intention of her being a version of Naruto that may have existed with different circumstances. Hope this cleared some things up, thanks for the review!
Shadow Walker of Fire - Glad to hear it! Glad you liked the first chapter as well!
Eien Dark - Glad you liked Naruko! And Uzushiogakure is definitely like hollywood!
Bernimi - If I don't continue the story, I'll post an additional chapter. I'm glad you've got so many questions!
Jbafakkk - I hope you enjoyed the story!
Berni - Thank you so much!