Prologue : Beginning of the End
" Y-you really meant to…." Naruto couldn't even finish nor comprehend the thought of his best friend trying to kill him. A feeling of Dread , Irritation, and Confusion was the few emotions that he felt in the duration of the fight.
After the initial clash of signature jutsu , Naruto and Sasuke blew away from each other. Naruto laying in the ravine lamenting in his thoughts while a few meters away Sasuke was getting up seething "You hopeless loser.. he was able to counter my Chidori at its full power!? Pathetic.. All we'll do is cancel each other out so I need to do some of my faster jutsu to create a opening for my Chidori " thought Sasuke activating his Level 1 Curse Mark Seal while smiling.
Naruto slowly getting up almost in tears, frowning in despair "That's it there's no mistaking it now.. Y-You really meant to kill me" He thought. Sasuke looked at Naruto in amusement "You know what they say do you Naruto , when two opponents are strong enough they can read each others thoughts by a simple exchange of fist.. we'll know each other intent without uttering a single word" He said smiling, "You've always been naive Naruto…" he continued "Do you know my thoughts… Can you feel my INTENT!!" He did quick signs "FIRE STYLE PHOENIX FLOWER JUTSU " Naruto quick on his feet, jumped to the right out the way but Sauske due to his enhanced speed and Two Tomoe Sharingan predicting his movement , sped behind him threw a quick jab at his side hitting his kidney and round house kicked him in the back of the head.
With a loud crack and then splash , Naruto suffering from a fractured skull and concussion stood on wobbly knees and coughed up blood and bile, with no time to think Sasuke rushed in and firmly grabbed Naruto's neck holding him up with his right hand while charging his Chidori in his left, smiling and said manically "Do you see it's too late now Naruto? This… this is the power I craved for.. the power I yearned for.. the power to avenge my clan!! Do you understand me now? Do you feel my INTENT??!" Naruto weakly stared down in defiance while weakly grabbing the offending hand and said "Y-you say we need fist to understand each other? No Sasuke.. I understand your intent and I want to understand your thoughts , you're like a brother to me.. "
Sasuke eyes widen as memories bombarded his mind of Naruto and team 7, slightly breaking his resolve then thoughts of his Auntie, Uncle , Mom, Dad and the entire clan lay lifeless on his feet, corpse stacked up in a pool of blood. That did it , his eyes steeled and resolve back stronger than before , he smiled menacingly "You just don't get it do you.. still naive , brother you say? Well.. LET ME BREAK THAT BOND!!" Even when Naruto, in a last ditch effort deflected Sasuke's fatal blow from his chest to his shoulder, he still stupidly held on to a sliver of hope that he was under the influence of the Curse Mark Seal. As the pain sets in his mind start to trail off to the conversation between him and the Pervy Sage.
Flashback
On a road leading to Tanzaku Town , we see Jiraiya and Naruto heading there on a mission retrieve the new Hokage. Naruto quietly cursing to himself trying to complete the third stage of the rasengan training, due to his lack of chakra control he's having a hard time controlling the shape of the sphere. While walking Jiraiya glanced in the corner of his eye in amusement "You know? For a disrespectful little brat you do impress me , it took years for the Fourth to get where you're at and it took me months yet here you are doing it in weeks, you're really something else Naruto " He said smiling , *BOOM* Naruto caught off guard from the half ass compliment lost focus and it blew up in his face , now laying in a small crater eyebrows twitching "uhhh thanks Pervy Sage but .." He said slowly turning red "CAN YOU SHUT YOUR SUPER PERVERTED ASS UP AND LET ME FOCUS" Imitating Iruka's big head jutsu. Jiraiya smack him in the back of the head and said " Serves you right disrespectful brat here let's rest up for the night seems like you need it " Naruto just scoffed and set up camp , after everything settled down and while the fire started cracking on the wood , he brought up something that was bothering him " He-hey Pervy Sage.." he said awkwardly, "In my fist my C rank mission Sasuke said he will sever his bonds and become stronger.. and that I can never understand his feelings.. hey you was friends with Orochimaru way back right Pervy Sage? Why did he dessert the village and decided to destroy the Hidden Leaf?" Jiraiya stared into searching for the right words to say "Orochimaru went through a profound change after both his parents were killed.. and that's when he became obsessed with forbidden jutsu. I don't know if he was trying to resurrect his parents or reek vengeance on the village that he held responsible for their deaths.. My parents weren't killed so.. like you I was accused of not being able to understand anything about him or his feelings. Perhaps he was right , and I didn't understand a thing about him after all…" he said impassively. Naruto taking everything in , remember something added " a missing nin I fought said we ninjas are tools and we're not supposed have emotions but weird enough after my friend Haku sacrificed himself for his precious person , Zabuza went crazy and killed Gato .. everything is overwhelming" Jiraiya shook his head " tsk.. Even I'm able to see that there's entirely too much hate in this shinobi world of ours." Naruto tilt his head confused and asked "There's too much hate?" Jiraiya closed his eyes and continued " hmph , I've always wanted to do something about all this hatred.. I'm just not quite sure how to go about it as of yet, but I truly believe that eventually the day will come, when all people will understand one another and live in harmony.." Naruto smiled "boy it sounds pretty complicated to me" Jiraiya smiled and chuckled "and if I can't find a solution to this problem , then perhaps I will entrust you to find it instead , aye Naruto?" Naruto with a goofy foxy smile " Yes sir! I can't turn down a request from my master can I Pervy Sage?" Jiraiya let out a hardy laugh , confusing Naruto "what? What the hell is so funny about that?" Jiraiya smiled "Your smile is my salvation Naruto , I'm very glad I made you my student" He pulled out a sealing scroll and poof out a bottle of sake and a saucer and started pouring and gave it to Naruto , Naruto reluctantly took it and nervously said "Don't you think I'm too young to drink ya know" Jiraiya let out another hardy laugh and said " just this once I'll treat you like a man, come Naruto let's use this as a promise to bring this world to peace" holding up his bottle, Naruto smile brightly and puff up his chest " oh yeah I'll bring peace to this world NO MATTER WHAT BELIEVE IT " …
Flashback end
"Truth is.. you and I are friends.." Naruto panted out. Unknowingly channeling the chakra from the Kyuubi , becoming more feral looking, teeth sharping and vile chakra seeping out his body.
"It's not insignificant to me " Sasuke said still piercing Naruto shoulder. "If you meant what you said then you felt the same about us being brothers.. us being fam…" cut off "IT'S TOO LATE NOW NARUTO" slamming him against the wall still piercing his shoulder
"If.. if that's the case then how stupid am I?.." Naruto said through clenched teeth , couldn't believe what he was hearing. Not answering the question Sasuke smile and said "You may have managed to divert the blow to your shoulder but what now Naruto? No more of your pathetic jutsu of yours.." he gripped Naruto's neck harder attempting to squeeze the life out of him, but suddenly Naruto clawed hands grabbed the offending hand with more vigor.
SNAP* He freed himself from Sasuke's grasp, crushing his wrist and dislocating it in the process. " AARGH .." Sasuke quickly jump back pushing it back in place and stood still in shock , eyes widening not understanding the visible red chakra swirling and killing intent doubling his own. Naruto stood there with his head down and clenched fisted,
Sasuke looked in awe as the shoulder wound he made quickly healed. In a low tone he slowly asked " wha.. what are you". Slowly Naruto raised his head showing his blood red eyes with slits , whiskers more pronounced , teeth bigger and sharper and hands clawed . To words came out "Your Friend…" "Sasuke no way I'll sit around and let Orochimaru take your body, this is your last warning come peacefully or I'll force you" He said with narrowed eyes. Before Sasuke can retort , he was suddenly kicked him across the ravine to the wall causing a crater.
Naruto dashed towards him punched him in the gut , causing Sasuke to cough up blood , grabbed him by the head and kneeing him breaking his nose and a quick shout of "MULTI SHADOW CLONE JUTSU " suddenly 2000 clones appeared and started attacking from all sides completely decimating him in speed and strength, finally ending it with a NAR U TO 2k BARRAGE , kicked him across the river. Naruto watched as Sasuke body ragdoll in the air as he crashed on the foot of the Hashirama statue.
With Naruto
Naruto dismisses the clones all at once , realizing the hard way that was a bad idea. A sharp pain came in his head , he dropped to one knee holding his head "what the hell was that ? ARRGH MY HEAD!!" He started to calm his breathing and realize he the memories of all his clones. Putting that in the back of his head for now he stood up but snapped his head back when he heard laughter. A chill went down his back when felt vile dark chakra , he slowly turned around a caught a sight that disgusted him to no end.
With Sasuke
Lying in a crater , Sasuke seething in hatred , hatred of his brother, hatred of his own weakness and finally hatred at Naruto for getting in his way, suddenly he remember words from a man he knew too well. " pathetic .. you're still too weak .. seek me out when you have eyes like mine… here let me give you a reminder .. TSUKUYOMI ….. "KuKuKuKuKu… Yesss you want power don't you boy ? No problem , use it that power boy. Just give me your loyalty. Take it. Give me your body. TAKE IT. Kukukuku Give me your soul… TAKE IT ALLLLLLLL" Dark Chakra envelope his body activating his CURSE MARK 2 FORM .
Naruto stood there in slight fear and shock in the image he was seeing , looking up seeing Sasuke in a dark ash grey state with webbed hand winged appendages on his back allowing him to fly. But what concern him more was his eyes.
Now three tomoe in each eye staring at him with much bloodlust. Sasuke flexed his right hand and a dark version of his Chidori formed and the last thing Naruto heard was "Naruto stay there and let me cut you DOWN" Sasuke said smiling with a craze look in his eyes.
Suddenly to Naruto he disappeared but due to the Kyuubi enhanced senses he side stepped the first upward slice , initially he dodge but it was a feint , Naruto screamed and completely caught off guard stabbed through the chest.
Ending the fight as Sasuke eyes morfed.
Moments later…
Sasuke stared down at the still warm corpse of his once teammate Uzumaki Naruto. The gaping hole in his chest where his heart should have been was bleeding profusely, mixing with the rain and running in rivulets off the stone shore and into the water; staining it a light red. "It's funny," Sasuke began, talking to the dead body. "I hated you. You were loud, brash, thick-headed, and were about as sociable as a chimpanzee… but you were the closest thing to a friend and a brother that I had in that gods-forsaken village." Sasuke stiffened, gripping his eyes as a sudden spring of pain erupted from behind them. "Gah!" Clasping his hands to his eyes he fell to his knees, the pulsating ache of the cursed seal on his shoulder only seeming to exacerbate the sensation of a thousand electric pinpricks shooting out from inside his skull.
Just as suddenly as the pain came however, it went. Sasuke dropped his hands to the ground to keep himself from falling and opened his eyes, only to see the dead, glassed over eyes of Naruto staring back up at him. Naruto's red, slitted eye had returned to their normal blue, but all semblance of the boundless optimism Naruto had exuded from them was gone.
They were empty eyes, looking up at him… judging him.
"SHUT UP!" He shouted down at the corpse, "I had to do it! I had to kill you to get the Mangekyo! I need this power to kill Itachi! You wouldn't understand! He took everything from me! I have to kill him! It's my duty!" The glassy blue eye continued to stare, regardless of Sasuke's justifications. With a loud grunt Sasuke got up took his tattered jacket, neckless and headband off and threw in a bloody pile to the side as a last sign of mercy then kicked Naruto's body with enough force to shove him off the rock where he stood and into the river, where it began to slowly float away, face down.
Ripping his hitai-ate off Sasuke looked down at the distinct scratch crossing out the Konoha symbol. With a slight smirk he dropped it onto the stone ground, where it hit with a loud clang. Maybe Naruto wasn't as useless as he had previously believed, not that it mattered now. Looking back at Naruto as his body slowly drifted away he felt his breath hitch, looking slightly defeated. "I'm sorry." He whispered to himself. "I had to." Sasuke shook his head to clear his thoughts.
This was childish, and no way for an Uchiha to act. He had wasted too much time ruminating, he had to get to Orochimaru as soon as possible, who knows when Naruto's backup would arrive. Turning on his heel, Sasuke used his remaining strength to run as quickly as he could towards the rendezvous point to the north.
Prologue end