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When Naruto thought of what she would do if she was given an opportunity to redo the fight, the one thing that stood to her mind was not to use the Kyuubi. The beast might heal her and might be the reason that she was alive, but he brought out the side of her that she didn't want to acknowledge. It made her want to kill someone and the last person she wanted to kill was Sasuke.
She tightened her headband and waited for Sasuke to make the first move. Last time it had been her to make the move and Naruto paid the price for the move with an injury just above her heart.
"You didn't beat me in the Valley of the End nor will you beat me here, Dead Last." Sasuke taunted.
She knew exactly what the bastard planned to do. Rile her up with the reminder that if they had stayed in the Valley of the End that she would have been the one stuck in the hospital. She weaved her hands into the familiar set of hand signs, creating another hundred of clones to distract him.
How do I knock some sense into him? He knows more jutsu than me and it seems like he has been experimenting with Lightening Release. Naruto wished she could cuss at Kakashi for not giving either Sakura or her the same opportunity to figure out their own nature. Now that she was stuck here, she had to learn how to improvise with her Shadow Clone jutsu.
Sasuke generated the lightening chakra to his hand and aimed at her, black eyes showed no emotion as the lightening pierced through five of her shadow clones. Naruto stole a glance to her clones, who charged straight to the older boy. Taking a deep breath, she charged right at her teammate.
Blue eyes flared with determination as Sasuke dodged the series of punches and kicks from her clones. His Sharingan-activated eyes flickered between the clones, sliding left and right as her clones tried to land a solid punch at him. Naruto pressed her lips into a smile, channelled chakra to her hands and smashed it to the ground.
The ground whimpered and cracked, causing Sasuke to stumble. Her clones smirked and tried to slam their fist against his face. Sasuke grabbed hold of the fist and curled his own fist against her stomach, causing her shadow clone to pop out of the existence. He swirled his head around wildly, trying to make sense of where she was.
Naruto leapt and punched the older boy, sending him flying several feet through the air. She loosened her headband and charged at him, ready to smack him again for putting her through so much grief. Blue eyes widened when Sasuke charged at her, his leg swung at her and kicked her to the side.
The trees cracked under the impact of Naruto's back as the girl smashed through several trees. Sasuke didn't look one bit regretful for what happened, not like Naruto expected him to. Blue eyes widened when she saw her friend weaved through a familiar set of signs.
She jumped up in the air as a huge ball of fire was sent her way. Bastard might want to fight me seriously but he is also being cautious about using his jutsu. Naruto knew if Sasuke really wanted to kill her like he claimed in the Valley of the End then he would be trying to use the Chidori. Instead he was hesitating just like she was. Those Villains might have played with his mind, yet not to the point that Sasuke was completely gone.
Naruto almost hated to say this but these Villains were slightly better in their treatment to Sasuke then she expected of Orochimaru.
"Beating you was never my goal in the Valley of the End and you know that," Naruto declared as the boy charged at her. He swung his wild fists at her, black eyes almost completely blank as if he didn't want her to know what he felt. She took a deep breath and grabbed hold of his arm. "My goal was and still is to bring you back to Konoha."
"That was your goal there but here? Why the hell are you going this far?" Sasuke snarled as he leapt away from her. He channelled chakra to his hand again, and the familiar sound of the bird chirping worried her. Blue eyes darkened and the blonde gathered her own chakra to her hand again, swirling and twisting it till the Rasengan was formed. "There is no reason for you to do this. I broke our bond in the Valley…"
Naruto charged at him and smashed her Rasengan at Sasuke's left arm just as he smashed his Chidori at her right arm. A huge sphere of energy enclosed them, annihilating all the trees and even a few of the surrounding buildings. For a brief moment of time, she didn't feel like she was fifteen years old.
At that moment, Naruto saw her smiling six year old self playing with a younger version of Sasuke. Their smiling faces flashed before her eyes, reminding her just how much happy she was to have him by her side. Those lonely days hadn't seemed so bad when he was by her side.
As long as she had him by her side then she could do anything.
The cloud of energy slowly evaporated and Naruto realized that Sasuke and her were on either sides of the dome. Naruto took a deep breath, forced herself to stand up and wobbled her way to her friend. She didn't know whether he would attack her again or even if he was awake, but she needed to make sure he was alive. It would kill her to know she caused him to die.
She dropped to the ground right beside Sasuke and placed her fingers against his throat, letting out a sigh of relief when a heartbeat drummed against her finger tips.
"I will go this far for you because you would do the same if the roles were reverse," she whispered. "I won't let you forget who you really are, because you aren't just the Avenger. You are Uchiha Sasuke, my best friend. The boy that promised to be a member of my ANBU when I become Hokage. The boy that wanted to protect the people around us…this isn't the life for you."
It wouldn't be so bad if I take a nap, will it?
She just felt so emotionally exhausted.
"That's the last of 'em!"
Bakugou panted and stared at the piles of unconscious bodies surrounding them. As soon as he and Spikey realized they had been transported into a different area, they had been attacked by villains. The Villains had been cocky, thinking they had the advantage over them but Bakugou was not going to let himself be defeated by those small-fries. He rubbed the sweat off his forehead and flickered his eyes to Spikey.
It seemed like the red-haired was even more exhausted than him.
"Great," Kirishima panted, rubbing his knuckles. "If we're here then everyone else must still be in USJ. I am worried that her friend is going to try and kill her because he looked very pissed off to see her."
Bastard wouldn't be able to do it. Bakugou felt his ears twitched as he heard something creeping around them. He didn't even give a crap about the girl, not with the way she constantly looked down on him and those fake smiles of hers. Her past didn't even interest him but Bakugou was not stupid. While Uzumaki blushed at that Villain's accusation of her relationship with that boy, her friend flushed a light shade of pink.
Bakugou didn't even miss the fondness in those black pits.
"He won't kill her and Uzumaki can handle herself," Bakugou said flatly. "Bastard isn't capable of doing it."
Kirishima swirled his head at him. "Are you kidding me? He attacked her like a madman. The guy was also really quick, I think he might be even quicker than—"
"Shut up." Bakugou snapped. "That black-haired bastard is fucking in love with Uzumaki and was holding himself back against her. He fucking blushed when that gate bastard accused them of being in a relationship before, I doubt he is so indifferent with her that he is fucking capable of killing her."
Kirishima grinned. "You're jealous that Naruto likes someone else!"
"I don't fucking like her!" He growled and the teen grinned even wider. Who the hell would like a girl like Uzumaki? She was a pain in the ass. The girl constantly pretended like everything was okay when it was obvious that she was in pain. The fact she showed some actual emotions today meant that the bastard was the root cause of her emotions. How the fuck could he like her? She meant nothing to him.
"Really? Then why did you glare at Todoroki when Naruto took…"
Bakugou saw a shadow approaching Kirishima and he smashed his fist against the Villain, effectively shutting up his classmate and getting rid of the final Villain in their area. He flickered his eyes to the window, red eyes almost growing large when he saw a large sphere of energy enclosing one section of the dome.
"You still think that he won't kill her?" Kirishima asked, eyebrows raised.
"Uzumaki can fucking take care of herself," he said flatly. "If you want to be a liability to her then you go by yourself, but I'm gonna kill that wrap gate."
"What?" Kirishima questioned, eyes wide with disbelief. "You're going to act childish at a time like this? Beside, that guy's attack are—"
"Shut up!" Bakugou snapped. "That gate bastard's the enemy's way in and out. I'm gonna cut off their escape route for when the time comes. It's not like we don't have a way to fight that bastard either."
Kirishima frowned and stared at him thoughtfully as the ground around them trembled. Bakugou flickered his eyes to the window, where he could see the sphere of energy slowly disappearing. His eyes grew large when he saw the damage done by the sphere of energy. It seemed like even some of the glass walls of the building had been broken, revealing the whole word to them.
"Was that the result from the sphere?"
Bakugou nodded and stared out at the damaged area. What the hell did Uzumaki do to cause this much damage? From what he knew from the battle exercise, she shouldn't be able to cause this much damage. She would need to have used a lot of energy to cause this much damage.
It seemed like Uzumaki had more secrets.
"Wrap Bastard said it himself that only Uzumaki can deal with that black-haired bastard," Bakugou said flatly. "We go and help her then we would just be a fucking liability to her. If the other villains are like those small fries we fought the they should be fine."
"Were you always so calm and rational?" Kirishima asked, scratching the side of his cheek. "Normally, you're just like…"
Bakugou growled and snapped. "I'm always calm and rational Spikey!"
He didn't give a fuck about Uzumaki and that boy.
'The boy that wanted to protect the people around us…this isn't the life for you.'
Sasuke growled and grabbed Naruto from the ground, gently putting her on his back. Three years ago, he made a vow to destroy the bond between them. He vowed not to let her bother him again but Naruto always had a way of making him questioning himself. Until those Sound Four ninjas defeated him, he planned to stick by her side. He thought that bonds had been stronger but those bastards defeated him so easily.
If those bastards could defeat him then he would never be strong enough to defeat Itachi, to protect Naruto and the other members of Team Seven.
"Bastard, I wanna have ramen," Naruto muttered in his ear. Her ramen-scented breath tickled his ear, almost reminding him of their days in the Wave Mission. He hated how she could still have an effect on him despite the distance between them. There had even been days when Sasuke longed to go back to those fun-filled days with her, but then he would remember he was stuck in this world.
There was no Naruto to argue and tease with and no constant teasing from Sakura, who in the last days before his departure figured out about his feelings for Naruto.
'If you leave Konoha then Naruto is going to be hurt. You love her so much that only she doesn't notice it.'
"Don't lay a single hand on him, you pedophile!" Naruto grumbled, hands hitting his back. Sasuke winced and almost sighed at the beating that his best friend was giving him. He almost forgot about how the girl could constantly mumble in her sleep and how restless she could be. On the nights that Naruto slept in his bed, the girl would hog his blankets and declare that she was going to be Hokage.
He wished things could be different between them, but Sasuke did too many things for him to do what Naruto requested. All For One made him hurt so many innocent people, dangling the chance to help him go back home as a carrot for him to take. He did so many things as a way to go back to his world in order to kill his brother…and maybe apologize to Naruto for being an absolute ass to her.
Now it seemed like he wasn't the only one stuck here.
He mentally frowned when he felt that his feet was stuck to the ground. Sasuke silently cursed when he saw a mismatch boy standing in front of him, mismatch eyes fixated on the sight of a sleeping Naruto. There was only one good thing about this and that was he could give her off to her classmate.
When he made that decision three years ago, he vowed never to bring Naruto into this. Those terrible days after the Massacre, Naruto had filled his days with laughter and joy, giving him more sunshine than he ever deserved. For a period of time, he forgot about his desire to kill Itachi and thought of a potential future with Naruto. It would have been a struggle to get Naruto to like him in that way but Sasuke would have been willing to do it.
Then Itachi happened and Orochimaru too. They reminded him of the fact that a life filled with sunshine and joy was never meant for him. He was an Avenger. His main mission in life was to revenge his clan and then once that was all over, only then he could think of resurrecting his clan. As long as his brother was still alive then his family would never be safe.
Naruto would never be safe.
"What the fuck do you plan to do with her?" Sasuke looked up and blinked at the sight of a furious blond-haired boy standing in front of him, hands balled into fist as his eyes locked on his unconscious friend. Sasuke shifted to the right and strolled to the boy, making his final decision when it came to Naruto.
Perhaps if he hadn't committed so many crimes in the name of the League of Villains then he might have done as Naruto wish. He wasn't worthy of Naruto's desire, not after what he did to her. The moment he came into custody by those officers than they would send him to jail.
Jail was the last place he wanted to go.
"Be careful when you handle her," he instructed, placing Naruto on the ground. The blond-haired boy jerked his head, opening his mouth to argue with him but closed it when he stared at his eyes. The red-eyed boy scowled, scooped Naruto into his arms and placed her in his back. "The idiot likes to mumble in her sleep and she is restless, so whatever you do—don't drop her."
"You were fucking lying when that Wrap Bastard asked if the two of you were in a relationship," the boy grumbled as he balanced Naruto on his back. "I don't fucking understand why you don't plan to take her with you."
"Tell the idiot that I can't do what she wants." He demanded, flickering his eyes in the direction of where the other Villains were. He channelled chakra into his ear, lips pressed into a thin line when he heard All For One's prodigy, complaining about the fact that he wasn't there to help Nomu defeat All Might.
He hesitated just for a minute and stared at the sleeping face of his best friend.
'Because I care for you.'
If he stayed here any longer then he might just hesitate again like in his apartment. Those words meant more than Naruto would ever know because Sasuke also knew the hidden meaning behind her words. He wondered if she would still feel the same way after learning what they planned to do.
Would she still feel the same way once she learnt of the crimes he did? And of the experimentation he helped All For One and his doctor do?
With those words, he jumped into the artificial trees and rushed towards the center of USJ. Not once did he look back to the friend that he chose to abandon again. Not once did he allow himself to think about the days of when the two of them had been happy. He didn't even think of the pain in Naruto's eyes when he declared to her that their bonds meant nothing to him.
(He was a liar)
'I'm not giving you my underwear just so you can get some money from those fangirls!'
'Pretty please, Sasuke! I will give you fourty percent of the profit.'
His throat burned from the memory and he cursed himself again for letting their childhood memories dictate him. Everything he did till now was a way for him to go back to their world and now he would have to do even worse things, just to make sure that he could take Naruto back with him to their world.
Neither of them belonged here.
A/N: Please review and tell me what you think about this chapter. Also please tell me what you think of the relationship between Naruto and Sasuke as well as Sasuke's characterisation.