Strawberries and Fish Cakes

Diclaimer: I don't own Naruto of Bleach sadly.

Info: In the Naruto series, this is after chp. 523 so none of this has happened yet, but there may be some spoilers, and in Bleach it takes place in the Bount Assault on Soul Society Arc.

Chapter 1: Naruto and Sasuke

"Naruto!"

"Sasuke!"

The two young men glared at one another as they fired up their jutsu's.

Naruto's blond hair whipped at his face as he and his shadow clones created Wind Style; Rasen Shurikun. Sasuke's raven locks fizzed up as he created Chidori.

Blood let from Sasuke's eyes. He had used his sharingan far too much, and he was on the edge. He knew Naruto was too.

"But Naruto has Kyuubi," Sasuke thought. "And I don't have the curse mark anymore."

Naruto stared at his best friend. How could this happen? How could Sasuke slip so far into the dark? Naruto didn't want to kill Sasuke, but he knew that his wind style would override Sasuke's lightning style, and Rasen Shurikun was powerful enough too kill someone twice.

Meanwhile, a certain pink-headed female was watching with anticipation from afar. When she saw Naruto perform Rasen Shurikun, she had to back up quite a bit away, but then she would jump right back in to heal Naruto if he needed her too.

This girl, Sakura, however had another reason for being there. Her once beloved Sasuke-kun, now an S-ranked criminal, had become a merciless killer, and yet she knew that Naruto would not kill him. So she had decided that the second that Sasuke was weak enough, she would step in and do the job herself.

It was no way to die, but Sasuke didn't deserve any better.

The two boys charged at each other; jutsu in hand, glaring at one another still. The distance between them grew smaller:

10 meters, 5 meters, 3 meters, 1 meter, 1 foot, 1 inch…

It seemed that time slowed down as the jutsus struck.

The amount of pressure that enveloped the air was astounding. All around them things were being blown back as their clothes whipped and they tried to maintain their jutsu's.

Sakura took cover from the massive winds. She wanted to cry, seeing the two boys whom she loved so much fight this way, but she refused to let herself. She couldn't cry, not when Naruto was out there. She had to stay focused- she had to protect Naruto as he had always done for her. She forced herself to stay calm as the winds whirled around her.

"I will be strong," she whispered. "I will…"

Meanwhile, Naruto and Sasuke had held their jutsu's together for 30 seconds now, and Sasuke could feel his chidori's power decreasing.

Could Naruto's rasengan be more powerful than his chidori? Or was this even rasengan at all? It didn't look like the rasengan he remembered. Could Madara have been right? Could Naruto really be more powerful than him? He pushed the doubts out of his mind and their eyes locked for a moment.

Cesspools of blue met dark black bloodied ones. Sasuke saw sorrow in them. He hated it.

He hated the fact that Naruto would never give up on him. He didn't understand why, but it made him feel guilty, so he had come here to kill the cocky idiot, so that those feelings would be gone. However he had never anticipated Naruto would, or could be, this strong.

Their jutsu's had been locked for a minute now, and Naruto could feel Sasuke's power weakening – and his own arm breaking.

"Just a little more…" Naruto thought to himself. Just a little longer and he would break Sasuke's jutsu, however something very unexpected happened;

Another chidori collided with his Rasen Shurikun from Sasuke's other hand. Naruto staggered backward.

"Damn it!" he thought. Even though his wind style beat Sasuke's lightning style, two of them could probably beat his one.

"Heh," Sasuke grinned, "Did you honestly think you could beat me so easily Naruto?"

Naruto gritted his teeth. Now they were evenly matched. There was no way he could make a second Rasen Shurikun; he needed two other clones to do that.

But then, all of a sudden, the roaring winds reversed, and began pulling everything in toward the two rivals. Rocks, trees, and dirt were being sucked into their jutsus. Their jutsus had merged to form a vortex sucking them in!

Realizing this, the two boys separated, their combined jutsus now just one incandescent light, pulling anything and everything into it.

They tried to run, but the pull was getting stronger. "Aaaah!" Naruto yelled. "What the hell's happening?" he thought. He fell to his knees, clinging to the rocky ground for survival.

Then, Sakura came running to him, thinking he'd been injured. "No Sakura-chan! Run!" he shouted desperately. He told her not to come…he warned her…he couldn't let her die…why didn't she listen? "Run!"

But it was too late. The gravitational pull of the vortex caught her too, and now it was sucking all three of them in. All three of them were on the ground fighting the force, all three of them knowing it was futile.

Sakura held onto Naruto, and looked into his eyes. If they were going to die, then there was something she needed him to know before they went. "Naruto, thank you for everything you've done for me. You really are the best friend a girl could ever have, I couldn't ask for more."

She saw relief, happiness, and extreme fatigue in his eyes. "You're welcome Sakura-chan…"

Then she saw that his unbroken arm was loosely clutching the ground.

"It's okay, let go, we'll be fine," she said softly over the loud winds.

He looked into that sure, trusting, soft face and said:

"Okay…"

The two spiraled toward the center of the portal and were sucked into it, followed closely after by Sasuke.

So should I finish it? And any constuctive critiscism would be helpful thanks. :)