Roar of Tears: "Answer Me!"
Last time on The Path to Hokage:
Naruto and Sasuke smiled, before jumping backwards to opposite ends of the arena.
Naruto immediately began to grow through a series of seals faster then anyone in the crowd could catch. He threw one of his kunai out yelling, "MULTIPLE KUNAI JUTSU!" Immediately the kunai split into thousands of kunai, landing everywhere through out the arena.
Sasuke immediately dodged, knowing that Naruto's Bloodline was now open for maximum sucess. Forming a single seal, Sasuke somersaulted through the rain of kunai and yelled, "BODY ATTACK JUTSU!" Immediately, snakes expelled themselves from Sasuke's arms and headed for Naruto.
Naruto's eyes opened in mild shock. Quickly recovering, Naruto began to gather chakra in his hand, and headed towards the snakes yelling, "AAAHGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" Sasuke smirked.
Looks like dobe is even dumber then I thought ... wait ... He looked around ... Shit ...
Sasuke immediately jumped up in the air as he realized that Naruto wasn't anywhere near there. It was a shadow clone that was attacking his snakes.
But before he even got three feet into the air, a hand emerged from the ground, grabbing Sasuke and ramming him back down into the ground. Naruto emerged grinning widely. "I caught you there, teme." Sasuke smirked back.
"Not quite, dobe," a cloud of smoke appeared where Sasuke was. Naruto immediately turned around. Damn ... it was only a shadow clone ... He immediately got kicked in the back into the ground a couple of yards forward.
Turning around he remarked, "You clever teme ... you ..." (well ... try to imagine Naruto joking ... lol)
The audience was awed ... This was all done in the last thirty - two seconds.
Naruto and Sasuke stared at each other with something like hatred ... except ... it was friendship. Neither one of them was going to back down from this fight. This fight had been building up ever since the battle at The Valley of the End.
Sasuke laughed, "After all these years ... you fell for a simple shadow clone? It seems that you're still far behind me in terms of skill." Naruto continued to glare angrily at him. Sasuke smirked. Looks like Naruto's pissed ... this fights really gonna start now ... the warm-ups over ...
Naruto glared and retorted, "Well ... teme! ... I have gotten a lot stronger ..." He continued, and pointed at Sasuke. "Your going down Sasuke. This is the battle that I've been waiting for ever since we were assigned to Team 7."
Naruto smirked, and added, "As Lee once said, a dropout will come to beat a genious with hard - work." He paused. "Konoha will finally see who's the stronger ninja ... Kazama Naruto or Uchiha Sasuke." He beckoned. "Koi!" (Come?>> -thought it was a good taunt - )
Sasuke immediately jumped towards Naruto, having already gone through a series of twenty seals in the matter of one second of a second. (I'm saying Itachi's seal speed is 23 - 25 seals a second) Lifting his hands to his mouth, he yelled, "Katon: Karyu Endan (Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet)!"
Naruto, who had caught the first seal even as he said "Koi!", stood there smiling, gathering chakra into his legs. When the dragon was inches away, he jumped up into the air. To his surprise, the dragon followed his rise; Sasuke smirked. Nice try, dobe.
Naruto went through his series of seals, and yelled, "Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique)!" A jet of water, appeared in the middle of the air and met the dragon head on. A cloud of steam immediately covered the whole arena, leaving everyone in wonder of whether Naruto was ok.
The cloud of steam slowly rose revealing two shadows standing up. Sakura waited anxously hoping to see that Naruto wasn't too tired. She turned around. Where's Claire? ... I thought she'd be here to see the match ...
Looking at the crowd, Sakura realized that Naruto and Sasuke looked just like they did in her vision during her match with Kabuto in the quarterfinals for the Jounin Exams. What does this mean? Sakura gasped . Are they going to use that jutsu!
The smoke rose even further showing Naruto and Sasuke standing perfectly straight ... breathing with their mouths open, but not a scratch on either one. Sasuke smiled. "Smart Naruto ... use the water in the air for your jutsu .. that collision of jutsu took more from me then you ... You have grown."
Naruto smiled back. "I've said this before to someone who I once thought was stronger then you ..." HEY! "I'm not the little kid I used to be, anymore, Sasuke ... I thought you'd realize that by now.'
Sasuke looked down at the ground in something like shame, but more like regret. He slowly said, "You're right, Naruto, and I have realized it before .. but," he looked up at Naruto, his eyes watering, "I just find it kind of hard to accept that you're not the stupid Naruto that I've always known."
Naruto looked at Sasuke, and mumbled, "Sasuke ..."
Sasuke continued, "I'm sorry that I ever left ... You had always been under me ... and then during the Chuunin Exams ... you completely destroyed someone who I couldn't even keep up with ..." He paused, and looked at Naruto again, tears gone. "All things aside ... this battle has barely started."
Naruto couldn't move. He looked down, and began to yell, "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SASUKE?" Sasuke flinched. " YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BETTER THEN ME!" He yelled looking up, tears pouring from his eyes. "I DIDN'T GIVE A DAMN IF EVERYONE ACKNOWLEGED ME!"
Sasuke could barely look at Naruto. This was all his fault. These feelings had been shrugged off for nearly a year now ... It was time to let everything out. The barrier had cracked. Naruto's emoitional wall was cracking. He muttered, "Naruto ..."
"But I didn't care ..." Naruto said. "I wanted the acknowledgement of the one who called me a scaredy - cat that day." Sasuke's eyes opened in shock. He still remembered? (duh)
"Why couldn't you ever acknowledge me?" He stared at Sasuke. "WHY!"
Sasuke couldn't take it anymore. "SHUT UP NARUTO!" The seal on his neck slowly began to pulse the color of red. He charged at Naruto going through a series of seals.
"Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Mythical Fire Flower Technique)!" A series of fireballs began to head toward Naruto. Naruto just stood there, not moving. Kyubi's chakra begant to spark into Naruto's blue chakra aura.
Naruto stared at the fireballs, and glared. "Pathetic ... Sasuke." He disappeared and reappeared behind Sasuke holding a kunai to Sasuke's throat. "Answer me! Why!" Naruto's features were completely changing. His eyes were still blue ... but slitted and his whiskers had deepened.
Sasuke barely mumbled, "I wanted a different kind of recognition from someone outside of this village." The cursed seal fully revealed itself taking spreading.
Naruto gasped in shock, releasing Sasuke. Sasuke's seal continued to pulse then moved up to his hair. His hair was now streaked with red streaks of hair.
Naruto gasped, "What is this, Sasuke? The Cursed Seal is taking over you!"
The purple chakra slowly turned the color blue, and it enveloped Sasuke in a super saiyan style aura. His forehead protector flew away from the strength of the chakra.Sasuke smirked. "Not quite. I'm in control here, and this is the power I need to beat you!"
Kyubi's chakra completely enveloped Naruto sending his forehead protector flying into the stands. Kyubi ... is Sasuke really in control?
Yes kid ... he is ... that's good ...
Naruto faced Sasuke. He slowly spoke up, "Looks like this battle is just starting." Sasuke nodded. Naruto chuckled. "Looks we were still warming up ..."
Sasuke nodded, "yeah ..."
Notes: ok ok ... I know that that chapter took forever ... and it was super short ... but ... the next chapter I will post in two weeks ... well ... I'll put it this way ... I refuse to post it until the fight scene itself is at least 2000 words ... yeah ... so .. I'm really sorry ... yeah ... well ... I hit 200 reviews ... thanks everyone ... yeah