Chapter 8: A Final Battle

Beta-d by: IkiIki

"Stop fucking around, Itachi!" Sasuke screamed.

He was in no mood to have his brother play games with him. His… girl was raped, the father of her baby unclear and all Itachi could do was joke around about something like this. Then he had the audacity to bring Orochimaru's name up. Itachi knew what that bastard did and he brought this up now. This caused Sasuke's anger to rise even more.

"No, Sasuke. I'm not messing with you. Don't you remember me, Sasuke?" 'Itachi' said, while taking one of his hands to his face.

The sound of the man's voice and face changed to a very recognizable one. Orochimaru's.

"B-but, Itachi…" Sasuke started but was interrupted by an explanation from Orochimaru.

"Yes. Your foolish brother. He was a problem, I have to admit, but it was easily taken care of," he said with a smirk.

"What did you do to him!" screamed Tamiko, who Sasuke completely forgot about.

"Nothing at all. I just used my new jutsu, Living Corpse Reincarnation, and now I have his body, his speed," in which he demonstrated by arriving in front of Sakura's face, hitting her hard in the stomach, which caused her to collapse and fall unconscious, "strength," in while he said this returned to his original spot, "and bloodline limit." He concluded while activating the Sharingan.

Sasuke and Tamiko were shocked. They saw how Orochimaru had just hurt Sakura, who was with child, so easily. They knew that he would not go easy on them.

Before Sasuke could strike, an earsplitting scream was heard. Sasuke turned to his right to see Tamiko falling to her knees. There were two sinbons embedded into her calves, which were inserted by a gray-haired man. Kabuto.

Tamiko's eyes flared green.

"How didn't I know!" she yelled angrily.

Kabuto smirked at her.

"Well, your case is special. You were quite an obstacle to overcome. From extensive readings, it was said that you can easily see into the future if you were in danger, but after even longer hours of research, an ancient scroll found on the outskirts of Amegakure, where one of your past lives stupidly wrote the reason she can see into the future. You are only able to activate your special powers if you sense that your enemy wants to hurt you." He explained, causing Tamiko to grit her teeth, for she knew he was speaking the truth.

"So all I had to do was sneak up behind you, while you were too focus on Orochimaru-sama, and think that I wasn't going to hurt you, just give you a hug," he finished with a glint of arrogance in his eyes.

Tamiko knew she was stuck. Her legs were paralyzed and her chakra stores were closing, so she couldn't use her strength. For the first time in her life, she felt completely helpless.

"Now be a good girl and enjoy the batt—" but was cut off, when a kunai pierced his thigh.

Kabuto turned to face himself with another gray-haired man. Kakashi.

Orochimaru growled at Kakashi. He thought he got rid of him, but he must have had the antidote to the poisoning paralysis drug in his pouch somewhere.

"How?" said a dark voice, belonging only to Sasuke.

Orochimaru smirked his stupid smirk and chuckled darkly.

"Now, now Sasuke, why would you like to know?" he inquired, which led to a kunai heading towards his head, but he bent his neck out of the way and braced himself for a fight.

"Answer me damn it!" Sasuke yelled as he ran towards the snake-like man.

Sasuke threw two kunai with a paper bomb attached to them both, but Orochimaru dodged them and they set off into the wall behind, causing a huge hole. They had more room to fight, because it blew the wall separating the hall and the dojo.

"Hidden Shadow Snake Hand," cried Orochimaru, as Sasuke ran towards him, but Sasuke seeing this, pulled a katana off the wall, and sliced the snakes right off, yet Orochimaru wasn't phased by this. He just opened his mouth and out came a snake that produced his Kusanagi Sword.

"My my, Sasuke. You can wield a sword, too?" Orochimaru said facetiously.

"Just tell me how you were able to trick my brother into giving you his body, you bastard!" Sasuke yelled as he ran towards the snake man.

Clashes of swords were heard as the two fought. Since neither had any one-handed jutsu in their artillery, ninjutsu were not used. As for genjutsu, since Orochimaru changed back into Itachi's body, both of their Sharingan were canceling the other out. The battle was based on pure strength, speed and strategy.

"You know, I never expected you to be equally as strong as me," Orochimaru gritted out.

"My brother…what did you do to him?" Sasuke asked for what seemed like the hundredth time.

They have been at this for 15 minutes already, and the pressure was starting to set in. Sasuke wanted to check on Sakura and her condition, as well as Tamiko and Kakashi, since he had defeated Kabuto, but knocked out do to chakra exhaustion, yet the man in front of him was not going to let him go.

"Your brother was a fool. Sacrificing himself for your family. He let me take his body, just as long as I did not take yours," Orochimaru said, just as their katanas clashed again.

"He-he wanted my body," Sasuke thought.

"Yes, a fool. I agreed and conditioned his body to fight and kill you to take over the throne, but it's not going as easy as I planned. You've grown, Sasuke. Very much indeed." Orochimaru said, licking his lips.

Sasuke was very uncomfortable by the action. He remembered the rape and realized there was lust in the gay-ass snake bastard's eyes, which really made him uncomfortable.

"I certainly never knew you had a girlfriend though, and quite a good fuck at that, too," he said, smirking at the now very pissed off Uchiha.

Sasuke stumbled over a piece of ceiling and silently cursed himself for his stupidity. Orochimaru took this chance to knock Sasuke's katana out of his loose grip, and then pierced his own sword into Sasuke's stomach.

"Ah!" Sasuke cried as the metal of Orochimaru's sword went into his stomach.

The pain was unbearable, and he knew he didn't have a chance to defeat Orochimaru. He failed. He failed his brother, who tried to protect him. He failed Sakura, and her unborn child. He failed Tamiko, who was still conscious but paralyzed. She had seen his failure. As much as he didn't want to admit it, he even failed Kakashi, who took out one of the opponents making it easier for him.

He failed everyone. He felt pathetic. He… he… he had a plan!

Orochimaru wondered why Sasuke was smirking. Had he not brought down the boy? Had he not just brought down the last Konoha Prince? Yet, the boy kneeling in front of him, with a sword still embedded in his gut, was smirking!

"Why are you happy?" Orochimaru spat out viciously.

Sasuke opened his eyes, which held a hint of mirth; like he knew of something he did not know.

Quickly, Sasuke did his Chidori hand seals and the bluish-white ball of lightning formed in his hands.

"That is useless if you can not even reach me." Orochimaru stated, even though the boy formed such a powerful jutsu in his current state.

Sasuke's smirk grew wider.

"Chidori current," he stated, as the lightning spread throughout his exterior, head to toe, then from Orochimaru's Kusanagi Sword, which was still in his stomach, all the way to Orochimaru's body, before the man could even register what was going on.

Sasuke sighed and just wanted the darkness in his vision to consume him, but he knew he couldn't do so. He had to finish the man off.

So Sasuke got up weakly, and with a pained cry, pulled the sword out and put a hand over his wound, trying to stop the blood flow. But that wasn't working too well.

Sasuke picked up his now heavy katana off the floor and went to stand over Orochimaru's paralyzed body.

"I was foolish to forget you know how to do the current," Orochimaru stated.

"You were also foolish to mess with my precious persons," Sasuke sneered at the man, holding the katana above his head.

"You wouldn't kill your brother, eh Sasuke?" Orochimaru said vilely.

Sasuke glared.

"My brother has already sacrificed himself, and is dead. You, you bastard, are not my brother," Sasuke said, as he quickly beheaded the man, ended his life.

Sasuke weakly dragged himself to where his love was lying unconscious, but when he got half way there, Tamiko spoke.

"Sasuke. Get me an antidote out of Kakashi's pouch. I'll then tend to everyone else's wounds." Tamiko stated.

Sasuke looked at Sakura's body, knowing he wouldn't be able to do anything, and going to Tamiko first would make sense. So he turned and walked towards Kakashi, still leaving a trail of blood from his stomach wound.

Sasuke got to the floor and started searching in the man's pocket.

"Which one is it?" he said sleepily, the affects of blood lost catching up quickly.

"It's purplish," Tamiko cried.

Sasuke found it, and with his last bit of energy, brought it over to Tamiko, opened up the corked bottle, saw Tamiko down it, and finally let the darkness consume him.