Hey everyone ... yeah ... so ... well ... lets cut the talk and start this chapter ... yeah .. thanks for the reviews ... but I'm still looking for some suggestions for Naruto's move ... I've recieved a few I liked but I want a few more for comparison .. yeah ...
ps. I completely got rid of the last chapter ... yeah .. i felt like redoing the last chapter ... after rereading it a couple of times ... i felt that it was completely short of what i was going for ... so I combined the two chapters .. yeah , here are the notes from the original chapter:
Hey everyone ... I'm really glad that so many of you reviewed ... thanks for the love .. lol ... yeah ... I'm also rally glad that a lot of you liked the chapter ... and the fight scene ... yeah ... so ... anyways ... this chapter will show you who the winner is ... but I'd bet that a lot of you think I'm gonna make this match a tie? ... lol ... yeah ... well ... while writing this ... i still haven't decided ... talk about planning ahead ... so ... I'm thinking ... when I get to that point ... I'll write what I think will make a better story line .. yeah ...
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Last time on The Path to Hokage:
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, teme. 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.
The two spheres of swirling electricity collided releasing a series of tremendous shockwaves. The sky turned black as the lightning streamed out of the spheres and schocked their opponents. Both ninja couldn't move if they wanted to. The energy between them wasn't going to release them until one of them came out on top.
Naruto and Sasuke stared at each other. Sasuke mumbled, "Looks like you don't want to hold back anymore ..."
The energy between them was reaching its peak and a blinding light began to cover the two shinobi as Naruto muttered back, "Neither did you ..."
Kyubi's chakra suddenly exploded, with five tails. As the light consumed his vision, Naruto could have sworn he saw six blue ones on Sasuke ...
The whole audience was on its feet. This battle was definately going to end now. To their unhappy surprise, the energy being released pushed them down to the ground, preventing them from seeing the shinobi fighting for victory.
Putting as much chakra as they could to their feet, to stay standing, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Kakashi stood shielding themselves from the lightning and wind gusting in the arena.
Kakashi yelled, in an attempt to be heard, "Such power ... I never expected them to be able to pull something like this off." Jiraiya and Tsunade nodded.
The sphere of light exploded sending two figures exploding out, and they landed deep in the ground.
The electricity and wind stopped immediately as the light faded to reveal to stacks of dust risng from two mounds on opposite ends of the stadium.
The audience slowly rose to their feet to for a better view. As far as they could tell ... neither of them would be able to get up. Heck ... nobody but them could have even survived that!
Kakashi jumped down to the stadium surveying the craters for his old pupils.
Meanwhile, a familiar voice yelled out from the crowd, "NARUTO! YOU ROCK!" Who else but Takeshi could yell like that in the middle of all the tension in the air.
As Kakashi arrived in between the two craters, two hands popped out of the rubble and held on to the edges of the crater. He jumped back waiting to see what happened.
Naruto and Sasuke, slowly and painfully climbed out of their respective craters. Kakashi was amazed that these two could still stand.
Sasuke tried really hard to say, "I admit it ... you're just as good as I am ..."
Naruto smiled and breathed hard. He managed to say, "Looks .. huff .. huff ... like ... you ... win." He fell over completely exhausted. "Teme ..." he mumbled.
Sasuke was in shock. Naruto had just lost ... to him. After everything! Sasuke could barely lift a hand as he fel backwards too.
The audience went crazy. While Takeshi cried, (funny) "Narutoooo! Nooo!' (Make it whiny kind of)
That night in the hospital, Naruto and Sasuke were lying in beds opposite each other.
They kept staring at each other. They couldn't really say anything to each other. Things that had been bottled up for since their rivalry had started had been let out. Their rivalry had come to that battle, and they had held back for that one move.
Tsunade asked Jiraiya from outside the room, "How did Naruto lose? I thought the Kyubi's chakra would protect him."
Jiraiya shook his head. "It appears that Orochimaru has captured Hachimata inside of him ..."
Tsunade gasped, "WHAT! THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!"
"It is," Jiraiya answered. "And Sasuke was channelling the chakra from the biju. There was no way that Sasuke could have had that much chakra." He paused. "And further more ... I think Sasuke had acessed more of Hachimata's chakra then Naruto did for Kyubi."
"That's unbelievable," Tsunade could barely say. "Those two are growing so fast. I'ts amazing."
"Yeah ..." Jiraiya said ...
Naruto turned to Sasuke. "Sasuke ..."
Sasuke replied, "Yeah, Naruto." He turned to look at Naruto. At the look on his face, Sasuke knew what Naruto wanted to know. He faced the ceiling as he said, "You want to know why I said what I said today ..."
Naruto simply nodded saying, "What do you mean 'I was always under you." Yeah I know that's been true, but what in the world does that have to do with you leaving? I know Itachi was the person you had to kill, but ..."
Sasuke said, slowly, tears falling from his eyes, "You were my best friend, Naruto. And you still are, but for me ... I had to destroy Itachi. He had ruined my life, and I was going to make him pay."
Naruto's voice began to rise as he said, "Why couldn't you acknowledge me!" He jumped out of bed and pointed at Sasuke. "Your stupid ego just had to stop didn't it?" Sasuke put his face down, as Naruto continued to glare at him. "You were power hungry! Power hungry enough to try and kill me ... power hungry enough to run away from everyone who cared about you!" he was yelling now.
Kakashi noticed this and watched from just outside the door.
"What could you have done?" Sasuke yelled back, jumping out of bed. Enough was enough. "What would you do if someone killed Iruka, Jiraiya, Kakashi, and ... Sakura!" Naruto stopped, in shock. "What would you do?"
At Naruto's silence, Sasuke continued, "You would want to kill them! My whole family was killed by my BROTHER!" Sasuke continued saying, "To add to the previous situation ... what if I killed them!"
Naruto could only look at Sasuke and say, "I'd feel betrayed ..."
They immediately quited down.
"But there was one thing I realized, those three years with Orochimaru ..." Sasuke began to say. "It was that revenge wasn't worth losing the bonds you still had ..."
Naruto could only say, "Sasuke ..." They hugged each other, understanding how the other had felt for all those years. Kakashi could only smile as he signaled Sakura to enter the room.
"Hey you guys," Sakura said, stepping into the room. Naruto and Sasuke immediately jumped apart.
"We've received a new mission. Each of us." Naruto's eyes immediately opened up. "Tsunade - sama is going to give us an A - ranks pay for this." Sasuke's eyes opened. I really do need a new tv ... mine doesn't even have color ...
"We each have to," Sakura began to say, purposely trying to build up the tenstion in the room. Naruto and Sasuke leaned closer to hear her. Their hearts were dying to hear what the mission was.
"Tutor one genin each, for their Chuunin Exams in one month." Naruto and Sasuke fell over, muttering, "Whyy yy yy y!"
Naruto and Sasuke were off their beds muttering stuff like "Why!" or "Little kiiiiids ... sob ..."
Sakura walked up to them, brusquely picked them up saying, "What's so bad about little kids? Besides ... their only four years younger then us ..."
Naruto, dusting himself off, asked, "Can we at least choose who we train? Cuz I really liked Takeshi and I want to train him." Sasuke nodded saying, "I wanted Kai."
"Well ... the thing was," Sakura began. "Whoever their jounin instructor was got to choose."
Kakashi spoke up saying, "And that would be me. So you did get them."
Naruto jumped out of bed yelling, "YEAHH ... OOOOWWWWWW!" He yelled falling onto the bed again. "Why the heck am I still so hurt ..." I don't know brat ... I'm gonna have to search my memories but I have an idea of whats happening ...
Is what's happening good ... Might be ... Kyubi sunk out of contact.
Everyone could only laugh at the worlds most unpredictable ninja.
A week later, the Yamanichis were each in front of their respective teachers at different parts of the village.
Naruto yelled, "Let's get down to business."
Notes: yeah ... i redid most of chapter 46 for this new chapter ... yeah .. so anyways ... from now until the next chapter ... it will be a time skip till the third phase of the Chuunin Exams.