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A/N: Okay, here is the last one for a little bit, but who knows. I might be able to get the chapter out and finish up a short story before they demand another chapter for me and head back to this one.
Dark Blue Princess: Thanks, I hope you all have a great Christmas and a Happy New Years, think of these chapters as all of yours Christmas presents from me.
Irelya: I wouldn't hold my breath on that, like I said I will be keeping it pretty much like the manga except the fact that Sasuke is choosing Naruto and our loveable blond is more girl than boy. Just don't forget though, my plot twist is approaching quickly so I hope you guys don't kick my ass for it.
SoraROCK: I'm glad you don't mind that I'm not going to do Boruto, and sorry I didn't put most of the fight in there. I figured that I would leave out the parts that shouldn't change unless Naruto is in them. I hope you all loved my new additions since I've been walking around with these two foxes in my head and trying to create new ones for the future.
Chapter Thirty-Five
A white haired male drops down on the two possessing Sasuke's coffin, causing Naruto and Shikamaru to turn quickly so that they are facing the man behind them. Kimimaro kicks the coffin making it tip over so that he can grab it better before he jumps to a further away branch. "What the…" Shikamaru shouts out as Naruto cries out from losing Sasuke from her own grasp. The girl practically starts growling as the pink in her eyes darkens to almost red. "Sorry 'bout that Naruto…seems like I miscalculated." The teen tells her making Tayuya look worriedly at the girl, already having a feeling that she's a major threat to anyone if she's pissed enough.
"You're too late, Tayuya," Kimimaro says to the woman. "Also…where are the other three? You, who were once one of the 'five'." He asks as his cold eyes stare down at the woman. The two teens looked at the man, confused.
"Why…why are you…?! You're body…you're body is no longer…?!" Tayuya stutters in fear.
"I'm not moving with my body anymore…this is the power of my will." He answers her.
"Damn…with one foot in the grave…" The woman says with a small smile on her face.
"I can understand a little bit now. This is the perception of an anthology life form that is no longer bound by a person that is our body. It is as if I've touched the border of Orochimaru-sama's dream." Kimimaro tells her.
'Orochimaru!' Naruto thought as she starts growling.
"This is an important 'vessel' for that dream…but…you were a bit too late." Kimimaro says as he glares at the woman, whose eyes suddenly widen.
'Damn we have another crazy one. Well, first we better clean up the situation.' Shikamaru thinks as he observes everything.
"Hey you! Quit babbling senseless things!" Naruto shouts as she jumps up to attack him. "Give back Sasuke!"
"Hey, Naruto…wait!" Shikamaru shouts as he holds out his hand not being able to stop the girl. Before Naruto could reach the man, Tayuya jumps right between the two, balling up her fist and striking the girl on the face. "Damn!" Shikamaru says as he catches the girl.
"Tayuya…" Kimimaro says as he looks down at the two teens. "The reason I've yet to kill you is…you still have a mission to accomplish by staying alive." As he says this the woman is pretty shaken up, "Please take out these two…two trashes over here." Kimimaro says as he rushes off with the coffin.
"Rats," she grits out, and takes her flute out from her bag.
"Calm down, Naruto!" Shikamaru says as the girl is cursing up a storm. 'This mission is to 'return' Sasuke to the Leaf village. I must make decisions based on what is best-suited to accomplishing the objective.' Shikamaru thought as he looked their situation over. "Naruto, listen. From now on, move according to what I tell you." He tells her as the girl finally calms down enough to nod.
"Shit! I'll clean you up in seconds!" Tayuya tells them. 'Hmph…that idiot is a stereo-typical close-range idiot who can only use Shadow-Clones. That other one…a shadow user who can disable an enemy at mid range and a clever team leader.' Tayuya surveys the two and upon her estimation she comes up with a plan.
"Got it?" Shikamaru asks the girl.
"Right on!" She replies.
"Come on, trash." She tells them and the two starts running over to attack her.
"It's 2 on 1! We've got the advantage on our side! It's not something we two can't take care of! Let's go Naruto!" Shikamaru shouts as he takes a Kunai out of his pouch.
"Alright!" The girl says kicking off the ground making her a little faster.
"Hah! You pieces of trash won't make a difference no matter how many there are!" She shouts at the two.
"Don't underestimate our team work!" Shikamaru shouts at her.
"Here we go!" Naruto shouts.
"Come on!" Tayuya shouts at them and her flute clashes with Shikamaru's Kunai.
"Naruto! Now!" Shikamaru shouts to her.
"Eat this Bastard!" Naruto said as she balls up her fist and shoots right by the chick, who doesn't take her eyes off of the girl the whole time. 'Not! Mission accomplished!'
"Shit! You tricked me!" Tayuya shouts at Shikamaru as her face shows a comical outrage. "What kind of teamwork is that, you damn bastards…?"
'Shikamaru, I'm counting on you!' Naruto thought as she rushes through the woods, taking one last look behind her as Shikamaru and Tayuya's shapes are growing smaller by the second. She grabs a hold of Kyuubi's Chakra, boosting her own and changing her physical appearance a little. 'Sasuke, wait for me!'
~3~
"It's all a matter of time, Orochimaru-sama." Kimimaro said as he lands in a bright green field, noticing right off the bat that someone followed him there making him twitch. He grunts as he looks over his shoulder. 'That Tayuya…I'll kill her once I get back.' He thought as the female form makes her appearance.
"Heey…!" Naruto says as she lands on her hands and feet, like a fox. The man stares straight at her showing no emotion at all. He noticed the very vibrant change to her since her eyes are completely red and fox-like, along with her whiskers thickening.
"Now, how should I cook this one?" He wonders out loud as he creates a spike from his bones. As he stares at the girl, she bares her sharpened teeth to him. "You…" He looks her over fully. 'Those eyes…hmph…you seem to have a strange Chakra…'
"What does Orochimaru want!? Why is he after Sasuke!?" The girl shouts out to the man.
"Orochimaru-sama has already completed the Jutsu of immortality. In order to acquire all Jutsu and the entire world, he needs time…" He tells the girl.
"What does that have to do with Sasuke!?" She asks.
"Immortality doesn't necessarily indicate the immortality of his body…he must replace his body with a newer and stronger one before his current one succumbs…" The man says as he looks at the coffin.
"That…that's what Sasuke's for?!" She grits out, furious.
"Yes…" He tells her as he makes another spike coming out of his left hand, "Exactly."
"I won't let you do such a thing!" Naruto says as she creates signs, while boosting up her Chakra. The man looks from left to right grunting out. "I won't let you take Sasuke…" Naruto growls out deeply as her army of clones surround the man.
"Interesting," Kimimaro says. "Come," he says as he sticks the bones out further in his hands.
"I'll crush you," Naruto says as her nails turns more like claws. Staring each other down, Kyuubi feeds more and more of her Chakra into the girl's Chakra pathways covering her and her clones in an almost complete Bijuu cloak. Kimimaro holds both bone spikes out at the ready when Naruto and her clones start running at him. Spinning, Kimimaro hits every one of the clones in vital points, making them disappear.
"Behold! The Dance of the Willows!" He shouts as he speeds up his attacks taking one clone out after another and sometimes two at the same swing. He kicks up when the girl's clones jump onto him, making them fly off until he completes his flip then he kills those that are flying. A whole group of her clones jumped and grabbed onto him, making a blush come to his cheeks as he feels the girls' breasts when she continuously grabs him. Shaking it off he clears his face again and starts quickly to eject sharp bones from his body, stabbing them into the girl, making her cry out as everyone of them disappear.
'Bones…!?' Naruto observes as she looks at the man who now has bones sticking out of his joints on his arms and legs.
"This…is the limit of my Keikei Genkai," Kimimaro says as she grins, showing off her sharp teeth. "And then there was one," the man taunts the girl.
'Damn…he's really good. Even with all of those Shadow Clones, not a single blow landed.' The whole time she thought this a bit of black smoke started emitting from the coffin, making the man look at it.
"It's almost time, the first step of Orochimaru-sama's ambition." The man says making Naruto's eyes widen and then the seals started ripping right off. When the last seal rips it exploded causing Naruto to revert back to her original looks as she loses her grip on the Kyuubi's power. Sasuke popped out of the coffin in the full form of his seal, which ended up fading, making him go back to normal.
"Sasuke…" Naruto calls out to him while he is staring at his hands. "Sasuke, what the hell are you doing with these guys!? Let's head back! Come on!" Some wild laughing stops the girl from speaking anymore. The laughing is coming from Sasuke, which makes her eyes widen. "Hey…Sasuke. Can't you hear me, dammit!?" She shouts at him angrily and the boy starts running out of the field. "Hey! Wait, Sasuke!" Naruto shouts as she raises her hand up, wanting to grab a hold of him.
"Useless, die." Kimimaro says as he appears behind her, swinging his bone sword at her neck.
"Leaf Hurricane!" A green form kicks the man away from the girl, causing her to look at it in shock while the man is sliding across the field. Lee is standing a few feet away from her, crouching down.
"And you are?" Kimimaro asks the boy.
"The Leaf's proud azure beast has reincarnated…I am Rock Lee!" Lee says as he glares at the man.
"Bushy brows…why…what about your body?" Naruto asks him as she shows him worry in her eyes.
"Don't worry! Naruto, you gotta get Sasuke!" He tells the girl who narrows her eyes. "Leave this guy to me."
'This guy…is good.' Kimimaro thought as he stares at the two.
"Bushy brows, be careful! This guy uses his own bones as weapons," Naruto warns him.
"Bones…?" He asks as he looks at the girl, confused at what she means. Kimimaro decides to swing his blade around at that point.
"That guy's insanely strong…" She tells him as she shows her worry on her face, but him being Rock Lee, he just gives her thumbs up.
"What are you doing?! Hurry, go!" He tells her, "Naruto-chan…why didn't you make that promise with Sakura-san? If you are going to get Sasuke-kun for you then you stick with it since it is a promise to yourself." Naruto thought back to what she said to Sakura.
"I didn't make the promise to Sakura because she's trying to come between me and Sasuke. I want to get Sasuke because I love him, even with all of his faults," she tells him.
"Then, I will defeat this person! That's a promise!" He tells her as he continues to hold up his thumb. Naruto then smiles and turns around to leave as Lee stands between her and the man.
~3~
Naruto is hopping through the forest, using the branches so that she could quickly follow Sasuke. She finally stands on top of one of the huge statues that stand before her. "Sasuke!" She shouts out to get him to stop. The boy hesitates a second and takes another step. "What, are you gonna run away!?" She shouts making him halt and turn around. He shows his face that shows the seal is slowly fading off of it.
"Hey…dumbass, is it you this time…?" Sasuke asks making both Naruto and Kyuubi pissed, causing her face to show their power as it changed to show the fox-like markings. "I told Sakura this…so…don't bother me anymore." He tells the girl whose lip starts to quiver making him laugh. "What's with the grim face?" She clenches her fists as memories of her and him together flow through her mind.
"Why…" Her fists start trembling. "Why…Sasuke?" She asks with tears coming to her eyes, causing Sasuke's eyes to widen. "What made you like this!? Why!?"
"What does any of this have to do with you?" The teen lies to the girl. "I have my own path; I won't let anyone lead me any other way…no matter who it is." He tells her as she looks shocked while gritting her teeth. "Let me make this clear to you…my childish games with you Leafs are over, go home." Naruto's face is showing her shock.
"Chouji…Neji…Kiba…Shikamaru…Bushy Brows…they all risked their lives to follow you here." She tells him as her eyes fill even more.
"Good for them," he tells her and turns back around. The girls' movement alerted him and he turned to see her jumping through the air.
"What the hell are you thinking about your Leaf comrades!?" She shouts at him, getting closer to him by the second. She lands directly on top of him, holding her fist up, threatening to punch him when his gentle expression stops her fist for a second until she just out rightly punches him, and drawing blood from his mouth. She huffs out her breath when he spits blood onto her face, making her grab him by his collar and shake him.
"So do I get any stronger staying with those…? 'Comrades'?" He asks her, making her eyes widen. "I'm going to Orochimaru!"
"Orochimaru was the one who killed the Third and tried to crush the Village of the Leaf! You think he's just gonna give you some power for free!?" She shouts at him as she draws her face closer to the boys. "He just wants your body to use as his container! You might not come back! You might get killed! I can't let you go somewhere like that! Where would that leave me? The one who is in love with you?!"
"I don't care," he tells the girl whose eyes narrow in anger at him. "All I care about is that I accomplish my objective. I can't help if you're gonna get in the way." He tells her as he steals a quick kiss from her, "You are my distraction."
"You can't do it! I'll take you back with full force…" As she says this the boy grins at her and laughs.
"If I recall…that fight was interrupted," he tells the girl as he remembers the fight that Kakashi interrupted.
"That…that wasn't the fight I wanted, even now," she said gritting her teeth.
"Why the hell should I care about you?" He asks her as he grips her collar tighter, lifting her up while she is grunting and then drops her, only to punch her directly in her stomach, making blood fly from her mouth. The girl flies off of the statue, crying out before she splashes into the water, skipping across the surface like a pebble. Sasuke looked down at his hand, speechless about his newfound strength. 'What…is this power…the power's coming from within.' He thought, as he suddenly starts getting a stinging pain in his left eye, he winces while groaning out in pain. Suddenly, the rest of the cursed seal vanishes, turning his eye back to normal. "So this is the power that Orochimaru was talking about. The power is synchronizing with my body…" Sasuke observes after laughing, a smirk on his lips. 'It was 'that' much just then, what if I release this seal…how much power would I receive then…?' Naruto chokes on water as she floats lower under its surface.
'Ugh…what power. He's not the same as he was before,' she thought as she opens her eyes. Sasuke noticed the bubbles popping up on the surface of the water and laughs as he watches Naruto using her Chakra to start walking on the water. The girl starts running towards the boy who is still standing on the statue, jumping up as Sasuke jumps off of it. She throws a punch at him, shocked as he dodges it. Sasuke grins as he draws back his right foot and kick her hard on the face. She falls, mulling about the lies Sakura told her, that Sasuke wouldn't go to Orochimaru. She grits her teeth as she creates multiple Shadow Clones to help her. Each clone grabbed the one in front's ankles while the last one stabbed a Kunai into the fingers of the statue, swinging the real body enough so that she could kick Sasuke in the face. Making him fly back and crash into the eye of the other statue. She lands on the fingers, staring where he landed. "Did that wake you up!?" She asked with a little tremble to her voice. Sasuke lays there speechless that the girl actually made a good move on him.
"Yeah…I've been awake all this time…from a dream by my foolish self…who dreamed of a future with comrades drunken with the assurance of peace." Sasuke tells her as he stands up; he quickly moved to stop right in front of her, with his mouth right next to her ear. He sticks his tongue out and licks her earlobe saying, "That's why I left the village. That's why I desire power! This power will help me accomplish my dream of avenging my family and being able to protect you." He tells her as he punches her off of the finger, she cries out as she starts falling. "The future is not where my dream is," He says as she hits the water with a huge splash. 'It's in the past…that's where it'll always be.' The whole entire Uchiha incident flashed through his mind, made him think about when he first met Naruto and made a promise with Itachi to always protect her, when he asked him why and the fact that his brother told her that she is a treasure. His brother killing all of their clan, everything that has made his steps in the future being rough, he thought of all of this until Naruto broke the surface. The girl takes a huge gasp of air and uses her Chakra to get above the water surface.
'Neji…it's just like you said…it seems like he's currently within the darkness.' She thought as she stares up at Sasuke, a smirk playing with her lips and she wipes some of the water off of her face. "You're actually serious about this…damn it…"
"Yeah…I'm serious. I intended to kill you," he tells her and her eyebrows narrow when he says this.
"Do you…no longer consider me as your friend…girlfriend!?" She asks as she frowns and grits her teeth. "Everything we did together as team 7. Was it all just meaningless to you!?"
"No…" The boy said softly thinking, "No matter what happens, I will get that power…it was not meaningless…to me, you have become…" He stops and opens his Sharingan activated eyes to look down at her. "My closest friend…my confidant…the one that I love…" They stared at each other for a few minutes.
"I'm the one that you love? Your friend? Then why?" She asked.
"That is why…" He tells her as he looks down into her eyes. "That is why it is worth killing you…"
"I don't quite get it, but," she tells him as she balls her fist. "You seem serious about killing me, don't you? Sasuke…" They grew quiet and then all of a sudden they take off in a dead run, towards each other, even evading obstacles along the way. As soon as they reach each other they threw punches that both caught, Sasuke grabbed a hold of her fist and pulled her into him. The boys hand slips into her pouch, taking out a Kunai to only throw it at her, making her throw a Shuriken to knock the Kunai away. Sasuke quickly kicked her right in her chin, knocking her out further away, making her quickly use Chakra to stop on the water's surface.
"I said this before, but even you were waiting very anxiously for this, right? Neither Kakashi nor Sakura are here right now." He asks her as he stands upside down on the statue, smiling down at her. "There won't be anyone to stop things like last time." He starts running as he said, "I'll say it once more, I will kill you." He starts sliding down the waterfall, making a splashing sound, creating signs the whole way down as he activates the Chidori.
"Bastard, I'll…beat you back to your old self!" She created a Shadow clone as Sasuke jumps off of the water fall, making her hurry to create the Rasengan. "Let's go!" She shouts as her clone throws her towards the quickly approaching teen. "Eaaat this!" She is propelled enough to make her speed along the water's surface. They reached each other and smashed their Jutsu's into each other. The clash made the waters erupt like a cyclone right where the two were standing, where they held the two balls together, fighting each different element type that they are. 'What Sasuke's talking about…about me…because of that with this Rasengan…I have to make sure…' The power couldn't handle anymore and it blasted them back along the running water, making them fall into the water. They stayed under for a few seconds until Sasuke is the first to break through.
'Dammit…my fully-powered Chidori only went that far…that Jutsu…that loser…' He thought as his Sharingan went to level two.
'Dammit…dammit…' The girl thought as she floated slowly to the surface, just laying there with the teen watching her.
'Naruto…' Sasuke narrowed his eyes, noticing that she isn't even out of breath, just laying there.
'Still…there's no doubt about it…you're serious…' She thought as she turns her head to stare at the one that she's so deeply in love with.
'Damn…I can't use a useless attack…and there is no point to a stalemate like before…!' He thought as he watches the girl slowly get out of the water. 'With quick techniques and execution, I can create an opening. And then the Chidori will definitely hit.'
'Seriously…can you…can you kill me calmly? Sasuke…' The girl wonders as her tear are now rushing down her cheeks. 'In his head now…he seriously plans to kill me…really…really, seriously…' She thought as Sasuke releases the curses seal, making the marks streak across his face.
"Do you know, Naruto…that if both you and your opponent are first-class Ninjas, you can only read inside each other's minds when your fists meet. There is no need for words. You're naïve, aren't you, Naruto? How…? Can you read the true mind? My mind!" He shouts out while doing signs quickly. "Katon! Housenka no Jutsu!"He releases his fire Jutsu at her making her jump up while he quickly approaches her and slams his foot into her face. She looks at him from the corner of her eye, seeing the deranged teen before her, her mind puts a picture of what he looked like when they were kids.
'Sasuke…I always knew you were a loner. I…in the beginning I was relieved because I thought you were the same as me…Besides, I was glad. In fact, I wanted to talk to you straight away…' She splashed down into the water. 'But…you didn't speak. You could do everything. Also, you always had everyone…' As soon as she started to try and stand up Sasuke is flipping in the air to land behind her, running to her automatically, punching her in the stomach. 'Because we were too different…Regrettably, I decided you would be my rival! I didn't want to lose…because I was called a loser, I thought that all the time. Even when we became team 7, I thought the same…When we started dating, things got rough a bunch of the times but I stubbornly continued to lie, but I always wanted to be like you. I aspired to be like you…because of that…' She thought about the time when he said that he wanted to fight her and she felt warm inside. 'That time…I was truly glad. You acknowledged me. Since those were the first words…' The teen lifted her up by her collar and activates the Chidori. 'But, our fists didn't have to meet for me to understand. From that time we haven't spoken. We…how are we friends?!' She thought as she shakes in his grasp. 'It's not meaningless…to me, you have…become my everything…but…if you seriously want to kill me…even if those words from before were serious…I don't understand…' Her entire body starts getting coated in red, making Sasuke realize what is going on. 'Maybe I thought I was your only trusted person…' Her claws lengthen as Sasuke smirks at her.
"It's too late now! Naruto!" He sneers out as her suddenly red fox-like eyes open quickly.
'I cannot let him kill you, kit. You are like one of my own,' Kyuubi tells her.
'After all…maybe I was the only one who thought we were more than friends…' Naruto thought as blood hits the water; her fangs were now bloody red. 'Because of that…I…I will not give up…Sasuke…' Blood is trailing down her right arm now, from the fist that was punched through the right side of her chest. She reaches up to gently stroke the arm that is stuck inside of her chest.
"You prevented me from hitting your heart at the last second…but that was pointless." Sasuke tells her with a sneer. "I've impaled your right lung." He tells her as he yanks his arm from her chest. "You cannot use your right arm now. It is even difficult to breathe. You cannot make seals or use that Jutsu." He taunts her as he glares at her. He reaches up to wrap his bloody hand around Naruto's delicate throat, squeezing it with a now shaky hand, as the marks are fading from his skin. 'It's finished…' Sasuke thought with crazed eyes. Kyuubi decides at this point to take control of Naruto's body and hurriedly grabs his wrist, tightening her grip on the boy. Red Chakra is coming off of her like smoke, as Sasuke cries out from her hand almost crushing his wrist. He grunts out as he yanks his wrist from her and jumps back, watching as the red Chakra gets even bigger now. 'Wha…what the?! This red Chakra…where did she get such power…!? Don't tell me…' He stopped his thought process as he saw her right hand twitch. The Chakra is no longer seeping out of her like steam; it is rushing out like a gale causing Sasuke to gasp. It took a form above the girl in the shape of the Kyuubi, protecting the girl. Naruto shoots her face up to show Sasuke the tears that are pouring down her cheeks from her now fully red eyes. 'Wha…what is this?!' The teen wonders as he stares at her with his still Sharingan activated eyes. Those eyes widened when he saw the wound he created in her chest heal up within seconds. 'What?! Her injury healed this quickly…impossible!' He says as the girl is now in control of her own body with the help of the Kyuubi she blows out more of her Chakra.
"Sasuke! You won't go to Orochimaru! Even if I have to break the bones in your arms and legs, I will stop you!" She growls out at him with a tear-filled growling voice as she crouches down in an animalistic fighting pose. The teen looks her over and noticed that her whiskers are thicker and are now covering her cheeks, even with the tears running down them it hurts to see her so upset.
'Th…this is Naruto!? What is this pressure!?' He wondered as his hair blew in the wind created from the pressure. 'What the hell is that crimson Chakra anyway?! Is she…a monster?' He wonders as he gulps. "What the hell…are you?"
"A friend," she grits out as her voice is now deeper, in almost a growl. "That's why I say I won't give you up to Orochimaru! Even if I have to break your arms and legs, I'm going to stop you!" She said as the teen lifted his stinging hand up, revealing that her Chakra burned him. Suddenly, Naruto rushes to him and brings back her clawed hand to swipe him, making him put his arm up to block her as she growls out. Even though her hit was blocked it caused Sasuke to slam down into the water.
'She's strong…' Sasuke thought as he groans out from the hit, his eyes widen when he notices the girl up in the air after she jumped up. So he quickly formed some signs to throw a giant fireball at the girl, who in turn uses her own Chakra to hit the ball and shoot it right back at him, hitting him enough to make him cry out. 'What!? With Chakra alone…wha…too fa…' He doesn't even get to finish that thought as the girl is now under the water with him rapidly hitting him from all sides, showing agility that would make a mermaid jealous. With her last hit, she shot him out of the water and hard enough for him to smash into the rock wall, making him sag at where he was. Then, Naruto was crushing him into the rock, with her arm pressing against his throat.
"Wake up already! If you're still not sure, I'll break you like a stick and bring you back immobile!" She grits out as her red eyes are staring into his. He starts to laugh.
"Shut the hell up…" He tells her with a small smile on his lips, confusing the girl. "What do you know about me? Someone like you without family or siblings…You had nothing in the first place! What the hell do you understand about me!? Huh!?" Her mouth opens a little in shock and he kicks her off of him. "We suffer because of our bonds! You don't know how it feels to lose them…you…!" He stops himself as he heard her grunt; she slides down the embankment on the river, leaning over as the teen is crouched before her. Her looking off to the side with a sad look on her face, while he is huffing to gain his breath.
"I don't understand about real families and brothers…but…when I'm with Iruka-sensei; I wonder…I wonder…if it feels like being with a father." When the teen looks down she continues, "When I'm with Sakura, I wonder…if it's like being with a sister. You though, are more than just family to me; you are the one that is controlling my heart."
"Why…" He asks making her eyes widen. "Why do you go this far for me…?" Her brows furrowed.
"For me…it's one of the first bonds I've ever had, that's why I must stop you! If I don't, I'd feel like I've failed you and what our hearts are telling us." When she says this to him he stands up and sticks his hand in his pocket, making Naruto stiffen up. He takes out his head band and ties it into place, and stands there staring at Naruto while his Sharingan gains a level.
"Come…Naruto," he says to the shocked teen. "Then…I will break that bond!" Naruto looks at him and closes her eyes.
"Break them…?" She asks the teen, "Then why…now, your headband…?"
"I will acknowledge…that you are strong." Him saying this shocked Naruto. "Because…you are someone who knows the same pain of loneliness as I do, and…that pain makes a person stronger. Because of that, by severing these bonds…I will gain even more strength." He pointed to his headband with his thumb. "From now on, we will fight as equals, but…you will not even be able to scratch my forehead. That much has not changed."
"No matter what you say, it's useless. Sasuke…" She growls out to him as her face explodes in anger.
"The time for talking is over…from now on, we only fight." He stares at her and furrows his brows. "Come…" He saying this caused Naruto to start running towards him. As she kept on running her speed is boosted by the Kyuubi, making it almost impossible to even see with a normal eye. When she swung at him he dodges, causing her to growl out in anger. 'Her movements that I couldn't catch before…I can see them! My body is the same as when it was influenced by the cursed seal. When she moves, with the subtle way the power enters her whole body. The image of her next movement appears clearly before my eyes!' Sasuke thought with widened eyes as he could read each of the girls' movements. The teen keeps on dodging each and every one of the girls' hits as his Sharingan reveals them to her. The teen stares at Sasuke with widened eyes, noticing that he is moving faster altogether. 'If I have these eyes…I can preserve how much Chakra is used. The cursed seal uses too much power…' He thought as he wipes his cheek.
'Sasuke's movements are completely different from before…but…that doesn't matter! At any rate, I still can't lose!' Naruto thought as she starts moving again.
'If I can see you up till here…If I can see the image predicting Naruto's movements, and unite it with offensive timing…' He sets out his plan and puts it into motion as he throws a punch that knocks Naruto off of her feet, causing her to fly off of the wall they were fighting on to land in the water with a huge splash.
'He's able to read my movements perfectly…dammit…!' She grits out as she winces in the water. She shoots her body out of the water using her Chakra to propel her. When she reaches Sasuke again, he shoots his foot up to kick her in the face causing her to rear back. They traded hits back and forth until Sasuke grabs a hold of her ankles to swing her around enough to slam her into the water like she is doing a major but painful belly flop. 'I can't…get back up…Sasuke has…me…' Suddenly, Kyuubi gets fed up with how disheartened the girl is.
'You are weak, aren't you…? Young one…you…should be thanking me…me…the one who sealed me…the Fourth Hokage, you're both alike…' She tells the girl and shoots her full of half of her strength, causing the seal to seep her power, making it bubble out of her skin. Sasuke looks at her in confusion as the girl starts grunting out with each second. The coat of the Kyuubi is taking its first shot inside of a fight, as he covers her body in its protective sheath. She crouches down on the water, looking even more feral as her teeth have elongated even more, protruding her mouth and she even now sported a tail.
'This girl…' Sasuke admired the way that she looks with awe on his face.
A/N: Sorry to be a bearer of bad news, but I just calculated the ending of Naruto and it's going to be in the next installment. That means the next upload will be the last of this book. Fortunately, I will be starting the next one not too much longer after this one is finished. I hope you guys loved my Christmas present to you all and for you to enjoy this until the last chapter.