Leaving the Light

Hey everybody, to make up for not updating in a while I am posting up another chapter. Hope you guys enjoy it, some more action and to let you know it will be a while for some NaruSaku to happen. Anyways lets get on with the show.

I don't own Naruto or any of the characters. They are property of their respected creators and I am writing for entertainment purposes.

"hello" speech

'Sup' thoughts

"Greetings' Kyuubi or Inner Sakura

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Chapter 5

Neji deactivated his Byakugan and said, "I attacked the chakra points around your heart. I sealed them so no chakra can get to your heart. I also cut a small hole in your heart that is slowly bleeding out. You will die after an hour of continuous bleeding"

"Well then… that will be plenty of time" Naruto said with a serious face.

Neji looked at Naruto quizzically and asked, "Plenty of time for what?"

Naruto smiles evilly and says, "To kill you" Neji's eyes widen but gets over it as he gets into a fighting stance. Naruto then bursts out laughing and says, "Just kidding, get them" Naruto points at Kiba and Akamaru, "And lets go"

Everyone sweatdrops, then Neji asks, "Go where?"

"You have defeated me, so you all are moving onto the next battle" Naruto said as he looks over all of them.

"Let me patch Kiba up before we leave" reminding everyone of Kiba's condition.

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Everyone was standing around Kiba as Sakura was working on him with concern all over their faces except for Naruto.

Sakura eyed the kunai and said, "I have to take the kunai out now" she placed her left hand on Kiba's stomach next to the kunai and grabbed the handle with her right. "Okay I'm going to pull it out" she gripped the handle tighter and yanked it out. Sakura ended up pulling out more than half the blade of the kunai out of Kiba's stomach.

Kiba yelled in pain from the kunai being pulled out by Sakura. Once it was out of Kiba's stomach, blood began to gush out of the wound. Sakura threw the kunai aside and searched her pack for bandages. She found some cloth and ointment, she pressed the cloth against the wound. Kiba scrunched up his face due to the pain from Sakura pushing on his wound. She continued to add pressure onto the wound until it finally stopped bleeding. She removed the cloth from Kiba and began to rub ointment onto the wound and then wrapped his stomach with medical tape. After she was done, she wiped the sweat from her brow and said, "There, he should be fine for now, but he's lost a lot of blood" she looked over at the kunai on the ground that lay to the right of her. The blade was covered with Kiba's blood. Sakura picked up the kunai and just stared at it.

Naruto was standing away from the group with his back to them at the moment. He had his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes were closed. He was waiting for Sakura to finish up healing Kiba so that he could bring them to their next match. A kunai suddenly landed in the ground a few feet behind him. He slowly opened his eyes and turned towards the group.

"I hope you're happy! You almost killed a comrade of the village!" Sakura yelled at Naruto with tears in her eyes. As Sakura was yelling, Naruto eyed the kunai that was stuck into the ground in front of him, covered in blood.

Naruto bends down to grab the kunai while saying, "Actually, I'm proud of all of you for defeating me" Naruto grabs the handle of the kunai and pulls it out of the ground. Naruto straightens back up while looking at the kunai. His gazes back at the group and says, "Except for…" Naruto grabs another kunai from his holder with the same hand that was holding the bloody kunai and points them at Sakura and Sasuke, "You two"

Sakura's eyes widened in shock as tears streamed down her face. Sasuke put on an angry face and glared at Naruto. Naruto then said, "You two, my very own teammates, have been sitting on the sidelines, watching as your comrades fight your battles. Pathetic"

Sasuke was even more angered and yelled, "Well if we are so pathetic then what Kakashi said is true, those who break the rules are trash, but those who abandon their friends are worse than trash!"

"Hahahahahahahaha! If you still believe in Kakashi then you truly are pathetic. He is just a big pervert who mourns over his fallen friends by staring at the Hero's Monument" Naruto continued to laugh and finally said, "Now if you would be so kind, I need to get you to your next battle"

Shikamaru sighs and says, "Alright lets go" Shikamaru and Neji walked over to the still unconscious Choji and lifted him up. Sasuke walked over to Kiba and lifted him up with his right arm. Sakura went and picked up Akamaru and held him with both arms.

Naruto waited till they were ready then turned around and said, "Follow me" he started to run towards the forest line on the other side of the field. They entered the forest and jumped up to the trees. They all traveled in silence as they jumped from tree to tree. After half an hour they arrived at a clearing covered with grass. Naruto stopped on the last tree and looked at the field with emotionless eyes. Everyone else landed on the same branch and looked out into the field. Naruto broke the silence by saying, "I hope you all are ready for this fight because you're gonna need to be"

Everyone looked at Naruto and as soon as they did, their eyes widened in shock. Naruto had a stream of blood going down his face from his mouth. His orange jacket was covered with his own blood, but he did not show any pain. "Ahhh… there I am" Naruto stated as he saw himself.

Everyone looked at where Naruto was looking and saw another Naruto staring straight at them.

Neji activated his Byakugan and stared at the Naruto in the field. After a minute of examining Naruto, Neji finally said, "This is unreal… Naruto only has 25 percent of his normal chakra, but it is more than double than that of everyone's chakra individually. Even when we are all at full capacity"

Everyone looked at Neji in shock except for the bloodied Naruto, who kept looking at himself in the field. The bloodied Naruto then said, "That's why I said you better be ready for this fight"

They all looked at him in understanding. Naruto then says, "Lets go we have stalled enough as it is" He jumps down and begins running towards himself. Everyone follows Naruto after a second of realization.

They all reach the new Naruto and stop 50 feet away, except for the bloody Naruto. He runs just feet away from the new Naruto and kneels before him with his right fist on the ground, while looking at the ground and says, "Forgive me for not stalling them longer"

"It's fine, we underestimated them, now rise" the standing Naruto says.

The bloodied Naruto rises and looks himself in the eyes and says, "I have brought you a gift" the clean Naruto looked at him quizzically as he was given the bloodied kunai.

"What is this? I didn't look at your memories so I don't know what happened. I wanted to fight them without knowing how they fight" the clean Naruto said.

"That is the kunai I stabbed Kiba with" the bloodied Naruto says while pointing his thumb over his shoulder without looking at the group.

The clean Naruto smiles evilly and says, "Oh!? This is a great gift, thank you" the bloodied Naruto smiles back, then poofed away.

Everyone else was setting down their unconscious comrades on the ground next to each other. After they set them down, they stood next to each other shoulder to shoulder, staring at Naruto.

Naruto looks over all of them and says, "So they send six of you and four are left… very well"

Sasuke all of a sudden charges Naruto with his Sharingan activated. Once he was close enough, he threw a punch at Naruto's face. Naruto just grabbed Sasuke's hand mere inches away from his face. Naruto moved Sasuke's fist to the side to reveal a shock filled Sasuke.

Naruto raised his left hand up and wagged his index finger saying, "Ah ah ah. I haven't told you the rules yet" Naruto let go of Sasuke's hand and Sasuke jumped back to the rest of the group.

"We already know the rules, the clones before you told us" Shikamaru said looking bored as usual.

Naruto turned to Shikamaru and said, "Actually the rules are different than your last battles"

Neji narrowed his eyes at Naruto and asked, "How?"

Naruto turned to Neji and said, "In this battle… I am allowed to use ninjutsu" everyone was worried about what he might do to them now that he was allowed to use ninjutsu against them. "But… I am not allowed to use Rasengan or the summoning jutsu" everyone was a little relieved but were still a little worried about what he would do to them. Naruto let them worry for a few more seconds and then said, "This will be a four on one battle. Come at me with the intent to kill… BEGIN!"

Neji, Sakura and Sasuke got into defensive stances, waiting for Naruto to attack. Shikamaru continued to stand there with his hands in his pockets, staring at Naruto. Both just stood there looking at each other until Shikamaru yelled, "Guys circle formation!"

They looked at Shikamaru quizzically, then surrounded Naruto. Shikamaru stayed in front of Naruto, while Sasuke was on his left, Neji was on his right and Sakura was behind him.

Naruto looked to his left, then to his right and finally behind him. He looked back at Shikamaru and said, "Thank you" he made his favorite hand sign and continued, "I wanted to split you up and fight you all individually"

Shikamaru's eyes widened as he realized what Naruto was going to do, then yelled, "Fall back to group forma-!"

"Too late! Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto yelled, cutting off Shikamaru. Four Naruto's were created and went after the others.

Shikamaru and Neji dodged punches that were thrown at them. Sasuke was hit in the face by a left hook and was sent back 10 feet through the air. Sakura was kicked in the stomach by the clone and was sent flying back 30 feet, hitting the ground hard and rolling to a stop on her side.

Shikamaru and Neji were standing ten feet away from their clones they were facing as the real Naruto watched all this happen from the same spot he was standing with his arms crossed. All of a sudden, the clone that punched Sasuke into the air yelled, "Now!" the other three clones left their battles and ran towards the airborne Sasuke. Once they were close enough, they all slid on their backs and said, "NA-RU-TO" while kicking Sasuke higher into the air. Once Sasuke was 20 feet in the air, the real Naruto appeared above Sasuke and axe kicked him in the chest, saying, "Uzumaki Barrage!" Sasuke was sent flying back towards the ground at amazing speeds. He hit the ground and a large cloud of debris was made, engulfing everyone in the cloud.

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Shikamaru held his arms in front of his face in an 'X' to protect himself from all the debris. Suddenly Naruto's clone from before appeared in front of Shikamaru and said, "Remember me?" Shikamaru's eyes widened and felt a pain in his stomach. He was sent flying back from a punch by Naruto's clone. Shikamaru skidded back 15 feet and fell to a crouch holding his stomach as he looked at the clone.

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As the dust cleared Neji came face to face with Naruto's clone he had faced earlier. "Didn't think I forgot about you, did I?" the clone said. Neji didn't have time to react as the clone kicked him in the chest. Neji skidded back 10 feet and clutched his chest where he had gotten hit. Once Neji pulled himself together, he activated his Byakugan and stared at the clone.

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Sakura opened her eyes. She had a pain in her stomach and clutched it to reduce how much she felt. After a minute she slowly started to get up and look around. She saw Neji and Shikamaru facing two Naruto's as two more Naruto's stood over Sasuke. Sasuke was in a large crater on his back with his eyes closed in pain. "I have to do something" Sakura said to herself.

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Naruto was standing over Sasuke with a clone to his right. "What happened? I thought the great Uchiha was invincible" the real Naruto said. Naruto snickered and then took a step back. His clone looked at him quizzically, then turned back to look at Sasuke.

The clone was suddenly sent flying back as a fist connected with his right cheek. There replacing the clone was Sakura with her right fist extended out. Once the clone was sent flying, Naruto lunged forward and elbowed Sakura in the ribs. She was sent flying to the right of Sasuke and Naruto as she skidded to a stop, she clutched her ribs in pain.

Naruto made another clone to watch over Sasuke as he walked towards Sakura. "Now… you face me" Naruto said as he walked towards Sakura.

"No, I wont fight you" Sakura said with tears in her eyes.

"Oh, but you have to. You wouldn't want the others to get hurt do you?" Naruto asked.

Sakura's eyes widened and said, "You wouldn't"

"Oh, but I would" Naruto replied with an evil grin. He made the cross with his fingers into his favorite hand sign and yelled, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" as soon as he said it, 100 clones poofed into existence. The real Naruto turned around and nodded to all of his clones. His clones mock saluted and turned around and ran towards the others.

They split up into two groups and started attacking Neji and Shikamaru. Neji had used his Eight Trigrams 64 Palms on the clone he was facing, making it poof away. Then the other clones started to attack him. Neji used his Rotation to knock back the first wave of clones, but instead of poofing away they got back up and continued to attack him. Neji used Rotation three more times before he was captured by the clones. Two of the clones were holding Neji's arms as they waited for their orders.

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Shikamaru was looking over his handy work. He had just caught the clone he was facing with his Shadow Possession Jutsu. True, he used 50 percent of his chakra to catch him, but now he could focus on helping the others with their fights. Shikamaru closed his eyes and sighed. When he opened his eyes, he saw the 50 clones charging at him. Shikamaru's eyes widened in shock, but got control of himself soon after. He crouched down and made the rat hand sign. Shikamaru tried to capture all the clones with his shadow, but could only catch 20 of them. The rest of the clones that weren't captured continued to attack Skikamaru.

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The real Naruto stood in the same spot as before as he watched with an evil grin on his face. Sakura was kneeling behind Naruto, horrified by his actions. She was afraid of what he might do to Neji or Shikamaru or… her.

Just then two clones walked through the crowd with Neji and Shikamaru. They both had their hands tied behind their backs. They stopped 20 feet away from the real Naruto. The two clones saluted and then went back with the rest of the clones.

Naruto started to walk forward, his evil grin still plastered on his face. Naruto was stopped suddenly when two arms wrapped around his torso. The arms belonged to none other than Sakura. She was sobbing in the back of Naruto's jacket while saying, "Naruto… you need to stop… please… just come back to us… come back to the village… please"

Naruto was shocked, but got over it and removed her from him and flung her arms away from him. This caused her to fall backwards onto her butt. Naruto turned around as Sakura looked up at him with tears streaming down her face. He looked at her with emotionless eyes and said, "I cannot return to the village. I cannot return to you guys because the old me no longer exists"

"But why!? Why can't you return to the village!?" Sakura screamed at Naruto as she continued to sob.

Naruto continued to look at Sakura with emotionless eyes before saying, "Reasons you could never understand" Sakura didn't know what Naruto meant by his words.

Suddenly, Naruto was thrown to the side by a giant stream of fire. Sakura, Shikamaru and Neji looked where the flame was coming from, to see Sasuke there panting heavily. Sasuke then took a deep breath and shot out another flame, directed at Naruto's clones. All of the clones were caught on fire, but none of them flinched. One by one they began to poof away until none were left except the real one.

Everyone looked over to where Naruto was. Naruto was getting up, he was scorched and had burns along his left arm. As Naruto was getting up, three kunai impaled themselves into his right thigh, left shoulder and one the left side of his abdomen.

Sasuke was about to throw more, when he started to feel pain above his left knee. He looked down to see a kunai in his thigh. He gripped the handle with his left hand and yanked it out. Sasuke looked up to see Naruto standing in front of him.

"Enough! You beat me. This match is over" Sasuke attempted to slash Naruto with the kunai that was just in himself, but was too slow as Naruto punched Sasuke square in the face. Sasuke land on the ground as Naruto stood over him. "You'll never learn" Naruto said as Sasuke laid there on his side as he held his face in pain.

Naruto walked over behind Neji and Shikamaru. He pulled out a kunai and cut the rope that bound both their hands. After the rope was cut off, Neji and Shikamaru rubbed their wrists to ease the rope burns they received.

Naruto then walked over to Sakura and outstretch his left hand saying, "Let me help you up" Sakura was shocked by sudden change of attitude and gesture but took his hand anyway. Naruto lifted her up and asked everyone, "How are you all feeling?"

Everyone looked at him quizzically. Sasuke managed to stand back up and everyone answered with a fine or good.

"Good. We need to get you guys to the final battle" Naruto said.

End of Chapter 5

I know this may seem a little repetitive, but I am a new writer and I am not good at all. I hope you guys and girls stick with it and I will try to get more chapters out.

Til next time

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