hey everyone .. yeah ... this is tennisdesi91 here to say that the conclusion to the fight between Naruto and Sasuke is here ... we have been waiting for this match forever ... and we've since glimpses of the final outcome throughout the story ... but before I get down to the knitty gritty of things ... I would like to thank everyone for sticking with me even though I've become quite bad at updating my stories ... yeah ... so anyways ... here's a current power rating in comparisons of the key ninja in the world of Naruto:

1. Kyubi (Prime)
2. Hachimata (Prime)
3. Bijuus ...
4. Ryo
5. Itachi (Kisame is seven percent weaker)
6. Naruto or Sasuke
7. Kakashi and Sakura

And those are all the characters that have currently been introduced ... note: Gaara not included in this .. yeah ... this is just Konoha and four members of Akatsuki. If you guys noticed ... Claire's not up there ... so ... where is she? ... evil laugh keep thinking ...

anyways ... enough talk ... lets start the fight!

The Conclusion

Last time on The Path to Hokage:

"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 ..."

Naruto and Sasuke were facing each other at the center of the arena. Sasuke, forehead protector somwhere on the ground, was covered in an aura of dark blue chakra and had streaks of red in his black hair, and his minor bruises were healing.

Naruto was covred in his own aura of red chakra; his forehead protector was somewhere in the stands, and his bruises and cuts had already healed.

Naruto slowly shifted his feet so that he could make his move, as Sasuke did the same. They stared at each other for a few seconds, emotions and questions floating between their eyes. Naruto's eyes sparked something, and Sasuke disappeared and reappeared behind Naruto only to receive a knee to his stomach, as Naruto immediately turned around. Sasuke coughed, but not wasting time, Naruto immediately kicked Sasuke up.

Sasuke went flying into the air, and Naruto reappeared behind him. He slowly whispered, "How's this for bringing back old memories. Let's see if you remember ..." Naruto innitiated the move.

Kakashi stood up. "He's ding it! He's doing the ..."

"SHISHI RENDAN! " Naruto yelled, kicking Sasuke once, and then again, harder, straight back into the ground. A cloud of dust rose up as Sasuke and Naruto went crashing back into the arena floor.

Kakashi stared in awe at his former pupil. Naruto had grown so much so quickly. All the same, he had never expected Naruto to use Sasuke's own move against him after seeing it only one time. And that was four or five years ago! )naruto ... You've grown ...( He thought about his sensei. )Arashi - sensei ... your son has become an excellent ninja ... I'm glad that I had the honor of teaching him ...(

Sakura was in just as much awe as Kakashi. Naruto ...

Naruto jumped out as the cloud of dust settled down to reveal Sasuke lying flat on his back. Naruto was breathing hard. Wow ... that move took a lot more then I thought it would ... these jutsu are getting harder ...

"Nice move ... dobe."Sasuke coughed to Naruto's shock.

Coughing loudly, he slowly got up and stared at Naruto with his Mangekyou Sharingan. He beckoned Naruto, "Come on, Naruto. I dare you ... Look at me like a man and face me!" he yelled, his dark blue chakra stretching way up into the sky. The bruises on his arms were glowing, healing.

Naruto took several steps backwards in utter shock. He turned to Kyubi. KYUBI! WHAT THE HELL! HIS WOUNDS ARE HEALING ALMOST AS FAST AS MINE ARE! He should be out of chakra by now!

Calm down, brat! ... I have to admit though ... it is rather shocking ... it appears that Sasuke is now channelling some of Orochimaru's chakra ... and Orochimaru is no longer just one entity ...

What the hell are you talking about! Orochimaru can't have another biju ... can he? Kyubi nodded. Fine ... but all the same .. how would Sasuke be getting that chakra?

The cursed seal ... its power is directly linked to Orochimaru ... So that means that Sasuke can take Orochimaru's chakra? Only to the extent Orochimaru can prevent ... but in theory yes ...

And if Orochimaru has a biju ... we're facing our toughest match ever now ...

Sasuke looked at his body slowly, chuckling slightly. This power ... it's ... incredible ... it looks like I've evened the field against Naruto's Kyubi ... I am ... He smiled widely ... Invincible ...

Naruto stared at Sasuke and said, "Sasuke. It appears that your Cursed Seal has become a blessing ..." At Sasuke's slight nodd, Naruto continued, "Well ... the field is even now ... Now ... its just who's stronger ... no extra help would make a difference .." He got into his ready stance.

He quickly performed a series of seals and yelled, "Suiton: Kaihodan!" He jumped into the air and yelled letting out multiple streams of water from the air, guided by his hands. Sasuke smirked as he saw them coming.

Forming a single shield he yelled, "Katon: Tate! (Shield?" Immediately a dome of swirling fire covered Sasuke absorbing the streams of water heading for him. Naruto landed on the ground when Sasuke sent out his own streams of fire.

Naruto at loss of what to do quickly went through a series of seals, and molded a lot of chakra to form: "Suiton: Suijinheki (Water Release: Water Encampment Wall)!" A wall of water immediately rose up out of nowhere to protect Naruto. The shield vanished as steam slowly rose.

Sasuke quickly followed his fire attack with a series of kicks and punches all while spinning in one direction on his way to hitting Naruto. Naruto just flashed out of existence and kicked Sasuke down to the ground from above. As Sasuke looked up, he cursed. Damn ... his bloodline completely cancels out my Sharingan ... his speed is already regular to me ...

But he isn't moving when he disappears like that ... how is he doing that! Sasuke thought desperately as he took blow after blow from Naruto and his newly created Earth clones.

Trying to evade the attacks heading for him from every side, he began to think hard ... How is he flashing? There has to be a drawback somehow! Then ... it hit him ... THE KUNAI!

Jumping out of the fray as hard as he could, Sasuke turned on his special Sharingan to search for chakra traces. Bingo ... Naruto's kunai's a practically leaking his chakra all over the stadium ... this is bad ...

At this point ... only one sixteenth of the field is safe ... well ... He began to go through a set of seals ... Let's keep it from getting any smaller. Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Mythical Fire Flower Technique)!" He yelled releasing a series of fireballs completely destroying the rest of the kunai on the field, stopping the leakage of chakra.

Naruto stared in shock at Sasuke. He said, "So ... you figured out how my bloodline works have you? Well ... it's not going to do you any good ... at this point ... my chakra covers more then eighty - five percent of the field!" He bent down, slightly. "But still ... this is going to be fun."

All of a sudden, as Naruto jumped towards Sasuke, Kyubi's chakra aura doubled knocking down Sasuke's gaurd completely. As the chakra sank, Naruto flashed towards Sasuke only to meet a kick straight up.

Sasuke appeared right behind him and kicked and punched him in a certain series. "Say hello to my new move ... FIRE DRAGON BARRAGE!" Naruto landed in dirt heavily as Sasuke landed lightly after the final blow.

"What ... the ..." Naruto coughed out in pain. "How did you ... keep up with me? " He bent over in pain. Sasuke smirked.

"Well dobe ..." he began, "As you know .. my Sharingan can detect chakra when I want it to ... nothing like chakra coils ... but chakra ..." He paused, for a second looking at Naruto. "So I detected that in order to flash ... you needed your chakra to be available at the point you were going to flash to."

Naruto took the opening and tried to punch Sasuke only to find his fist caught in Sasuke's hands. "That still ... ugh ... doesn't ... answer my question." He jumped back.

"The spot where I'm standing right now is placed at a point where you can only flash right ahead of me if you want to catch me off gaurd," Sasuke said. "It looks like I've just cancelled your bloodline."

Naruto smiled. "Well ... let's stop playing and use our serious jutsu." He began to gather some a prodigious amount of Kyubi's chakra into his fist ... one handed. Let's see what he does ...

Sasuke smirked and began to go through a series of seals, "Never thought you'd ask." He grabbed his fist as lightning began to crackle in his fist. The lightning slowly turned bright yellow from all of the extra chakra emanating from the seal.

The two ninja jumped at each other.

"ODAMA RASENGAN!"

"RAIKIRI!"

The two attacks collided in full force, releasing a powerful shock wave. The audience shielded their eyes from the blinding light that emerged from the point of collision. Two figures were blasted out of the sphere of light created and they hit the stadium walls hard as the light faded.

The two figures seemed to struggle to get up, but then ... their enormous chakras revealed themselves and began to heal their containers. Kakashi and the two Sannin were in shock. These two were displaying such sheer power and chakra. Kakashi thought, "In fact ... Sasuke's chakra stores are well on their way to exceeding the Yondaime's stores ..."

Jiraiya thought, "Naruto ... on the other hand ... has already surpassed that stepstool quite a while ago ... on top of that ... he has the kyubi's chakra to add to his own stores ..."

Naruto and Sasuke stared at each other panting heavily. The collision of those two attacks had taken a lot of chakra ... but due to the enormous amount of chakra streaming from both shinobi ... neither of them had a scratch on them ... though their bodies were beginning to suffer from the chakra exertion.

Sasuke gasped for breath as he said, "It's not over yet, Naruto." I wish I had as much confidence now as I sounded like I did ... this is unbelievable ... I have ALL this chakra? ... its unbelievable ... but ... this chakra ... it's ... hurting me too ... how?

Naruto, who was in slightly better shape, said, "It is ... we both know that both of us can only use one or two more attacks until our chakra coils knock us out ..." Sasuke's eyes opened. He noticed!

Naruto smiled. "Of course I noticed. Don't think that all this chakra is not hurting me. You're not weak. At one point ... too much chakra is bad ... " His eyes grew serious. "Let's end this ..." He began to go through a series of seals as his right hand began to glow gold. Kyubi's chakra slowly receded.

Sasuke smirked, "Fine. You're about to face the combined power of two Uchiha Bloodline Moves." His four spiked Mangekyou Sharingan began to spin rapidly as his left hand began to glow bright with light blue chakra, sparking with black fire. His dark blue chakra receded.

Sasuke stared at Naruto. --------------------- "Naruto ..."

Naruto stared at Sasuke. --------------------- "Sasuke ..."

"SUZANOO FIRE!" Sasuke charged, his left handed going up into blue chakra flames.

"( Need a good name for it ... yeah ... well ... something involving thunder and/or gold .. yeah ... so please send suggestions"

The two attacks headed towards each other faster then the audience could keep up with. All they saw were streaks of blue and gold. The rookie 9 stood up on their feet as the two attacks collided. Kakashi and the two Sannin gasped.

Where the two fists met a small ball a foot in diameter formed separating the two fists. The ball of chakra was flashing gold and blue.

Lightning crackled, shocking both shinobi.

Fire jumped out, burning both shinobi.

Naruto and Sasuke glared at each other in pain. This pain was almost unbearable, but neither of them were willing to back down. The chakra ball split into two spheres and each of them hit the shinobi sending them packing. A huge cloud of smoke emerged shrouding the two ninja.

Less then a minute later, to everyone's utter shock:

"LIGHTNING RASENGAN!" Two voices yelled from opposite ends of the stadium.

The cloud of dust immediately rose up revealing both shinobi, extremely worn out and bruised, wielding a combination of their signature moves.

Kakashi gasped, "Unbelievable ... The can still move. Their previous moves ..." He asked the Sannin to his left, "How?"

Tsunade and Jiraiya smirked, "So these were their final aces ..."

Jiraiya turned to Kakashi and began to answer, "You see ... Naruto and Sasuke both pulled their blows on that move." Kakashi's look resonated WHY

Tsunade finished, "They apparently had been dying to test this out ... what a waste ... those moves could have been a lot more powerful ..."

Kakashi looked at his former pupils. "Those moves could have been even more powerful ..."

The two ninja faced each other, spheres of swirling electricity contained in their hands. The electricity began to rotate faster and faster as Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other.

"So ... you still had energy for one more move eh dobe ..." Sasuke gasped for air.

Naruto retorted, "So did you. So this is it ... the final clash with Rasengan and Chidori in one ..." He bent down low, ready to charge at Sasuke. He remembered his dream from the forest.

They charged at each other. Time seemed to slow down for the two ninja. Each step was a THUD for them. The energy between their palms crackled and swirled filling their ears with sound. Their eyes locked.

"NARUTO!"

"SASUKE!"

Both ninja jumped towards each other, balls of swirling energy and electricity between their hands. They collided.

Notes: wow ... that was a long chapter ... this is now my longest chapter ever ... yeah ... I really hope that I didn't disappoint you guys with this fight ... yeah ... so ... I need a name for Naruto's jutsu ... yeah ... so you know the drill ... rate and review ... o yeah ... before I forget ... Everybody knows that these two can kill each other right now ... but they respect the rivalry between Sasuke and Naruto .. they want the fight to be all out