A/N: Sorry everyone! I was just trying to figure out how to end this story with a shocking climax! Okay, so we last left off with Kiyoshi and Sasuke facing each other…and why you ask? Yes well, if you read the last one, I'm sure you would've known by now! So, Sasuke has been controlled…AGAIN! What happens now? Find out on this exciting final chapter! (Before the epilogue of course!)

Chapter 9 – Second Chance

They stood facing each other, waiting for the other to make a move. Kiyoshi had no idea what he was getting into, but he wasn't going to back down and allow Sasuke to take the upper hand.

"Come on, let's go and make sure we don't lose them," Sasuke said. He walked pass Kiyoshi and followed to where Kasumi, Yamato and Sakura disappeared to.

Kiyoshi stared after him. "So you weren't controlled this whole time?" Part of him was relieved that he wasn't going to fight Uchiha Sasuke. From what he has heard from the people around the village years ago, about a boy who challenged his brother to the death and had won, it was nerve wrecking knowing that he was going to fight against that same boy.

Sasuke stopped and looked over his shoulder at the older man with a deadly look in his eyes. "I would never fall for the same stupid trick twice. Now, come on." He quickly went ahead.

The older man followed shortly. "Why did you allow Sakura to go on her own and pretending you were controlled by that woman?"

The dark haired man didn't answer, walking slightly ahead of the older man.

"I see…you wanted to see how courageous Sakura would be. After everything you two have been through, you have finally learned to trust her in the decisions she makes on her own." Kiyoshi nodded to himself.

Suddenly, Sasuke stopped, almost forcing Kiyoshi to bump into him. The older man was able to stop in time and wonder why Sasuke stopped all of a sudden. Sasuke was staring ahead of him, towards a gate. The gate, to what the two believed would be where the water source is. They could hear muffled voices inside and one of them was Sakura.

"Sakura!"

Sakura looked up and noticed her father tied up against a wall, just above the large water pipes leading outside. "Otousan!" She knew she had to be careful, because it was far too easy for her to get inside without being confronted by Kasumi, Yamato or that man she feared she would eventually face. She looked around and surely enough, Yamato appeared from behind the wall where Jounichi was hanging. It appeared to have some kind of entrance on the other side. On the other side of her father, was Kasumi. Sakura readied her kunai, but a hand reached over and squeezed her wrist hard. Wincing, she felt someone's cold cheek leaned against hers.

"Even after tasting you, Sakura-chan, you still smell of strawberries and flowers," Kayo whispered in her ear.

The pink haired girl shivered and tried to get away, but Kayo was far too strong for her. He twisted her arms behind her back, forcing to drop her kunai on the ground.

"I don't think so. Don't even try to get away, or else I'll give you pain."

"Sakura! Get away from her you bastard!" Jounichi struggled from his restraints, but to no avail.

Yamato smirked and walked over to where Sakura and Kayo were. From out of its sheath, he took out his own kunai and pointed the tip against his older sister's neck. Kasumi bounced right beside him and started to mumble to her brother that she wanted to do the 'good' deeds instead. Sakura watched as the two siblings argued, before the brother had the upper hand. He moved back to the pink haired girl and shooed Kayo away so he could take over. Sakura was pushed forward and because she was not warned, she fell on her knees on the ground. Quickly, Yamato grabbed her by the arm and pulled her up, putting his arm around her neck and pointing the kunai against her cheek once again where he would hopefully graze her in case she made any sudden moves. "Look otousan, I am going to harm the only child you have EVER loved!" He said these words with so much disdain.

"DON'T HARM HER!" Jounichi yelled as loud as he could, his voice echoing around the walls of the sewers. He took a deep breath to calm himself down and began to speak quieter. "Please….do not harm her. It's not her fault. If I had known your mother gave birth to you, I would have come for you right away and not leave you to rot in this place."

Yamato glared at him, not believing every single word he said. He completely ignored everything he had said. "Isn't there something you'd like to tell your dear daughter before she dies?"

Sakura looked up at her father. "What is he talking about, otousan?"

Jounichi said nothing.

"TELL HER!" His arm gripped tighter around Sakura, making her choke. Taken aback, she began to cough loudly from the impact.

Jounichi looked up, frightened for his daughter's life. "You have…a brother and a sister, Sakura." He stared straight into her bright green eyes, waiting for her reaction. It took a few moments for the information to sink before turning her eyes away from him with tears falling from her eyes. With this, he continued on to say, "During one of my missions even before your mother was pregnant, I was assigned here. During my stay there, I fell in love with a priestess of this place, which used to be a temple. Don't get me wrong, I also loved your mother very much. I had to at least keep the Haruno family into the noble blood line; I had to keep my marriage with her. I loved both of them equally….I felt guilty afterwards and left. I had no idea that during that time, Sayuri was pregnant with twins."

Sakura looked back at her father in disbelief.

"I tried to go back but when I found out Sayuri had died, I thought the children died with her. I had no idea that they were still alive and taken somewhere safe. When I found out they were still alive after years of not finding out, I decided to seek them out. I tried to find them for so long, but it was impossible to venture all around this area without being caught by some of the shinobis that recognized me from long ago. I was caught twice and on the third time they captured me, kept me in captivity for seven years. I managed to escape and found a place where I could stay. I was unsure for the rest of three years of leaving the place…aware that there were still shinobis out to get me."

"And I guess you were just lucky enough that we decided to find you!" Kasumi exclaimed, spitting on the ground to show hate.

Yamato smirked. "So she has heard the whole story. Now it's time that YOU, otousan feels the REAL pain that you have caused US!" He moves his arm to get ready to stab Sakura in the throat. Sakura closed her eyes, ready to face death.

"NO! KILL ME!" Jounichi yelled. Tears fell fast from his eyes and in a blur, he saw something dark move in between Yamato and Sakura.

Yamato did not have time to react when something painful hit him in the stomach, sending him flying backwards. Kayo was about to attack when a large force hit him as well, sending him to the side. Kasumi was knocked unconscious when Kayo landed on her.

"Sakura…take your father and get out of here."

Sakura opened her eyes. Sasuke was standing closely behind her, one arm straightened out protectively, while the other caught his weapon that bounced off of Kayo and back to his strong hand.

"What about you?" Sakura stared at the back of his head worriedly. She clasped her hands in front of her and looked down. After all this time, he was still protecting her. She was still weak.

As if reading her thoughts, Sasuke looked back at her and slightly smiled. "You are not weak. Let me and Kiyoshi-san distract them while you make a get away with your father. I will be right with you soon after."

The pink haired girl touched his back gently with her small hand and whispered, "Please be safe." She turned quickly and ran to her father.

"That was not very nice, Sasuke-kun." Yamato got up from the ground and slapped his sister's face gently before getting up. He dusted off the dust that accumulated on his clothes and looked up at Sasuke. Kayo was already up, cussing silently to himself about the situation. "But I guess three against one wouldn't be too bad of a challenge now would it?"

"Actually, that's three against TWO." Kiyoshi appeared right beside Sasuke.

"Are you sure about this, Kiyoshi-san?" Sasuke said to him.

"Are you telling me I am too OLD for this kind of stuff?" He grinned at Sasuke. "Come on, just because I am a simple medicine man, does not necessarily mean I am a worthless fighter!"

Sasuke nodded and quickly glanced at Sakura, who, to his relief had somehow managed to release her father from the chains.

"Sakura….please, you can leave me here. I have to speak with them."

"No, you are in no condition to stand up or speak or move around. Sasuke-kun and Kiyoshi-san can take care of them." She wrapped her father's arm around her neck and helped him get up from the ground to where he had fallen after being released from the chains.

"Kiyoshi?" He was still hesitating to lean his whole weight against his daughter.

"Yes. Now, lean against me," Sakura commanded gently.

After a while, he gave up and leaned his whole body against her. Sakura, to his surprise, managed to withstand his whole weight as she helped him out through a secret passageway her father told her that he knew that lead to the outside. "You are not angry with me?"

Sakura said nothing for a moment. It was as if she was still trying to understand her father's story, but as she thought of this, she shook her head quickly and said, "I know you were trying to do the right thing. We all try our best. We're not perfect but I am hoping one day, otousan, that we can sit down for a cup of saki and talk about what really happened ten years ago. I found out from Kiyoshi-san that you and mother were arranged to be married."

Jounichi knew this was coming. But has he told her EVERYTHING yet? Even about Sakura? "Yes, that is true." He pointed to a corner to their right and they began to turn right as she continued to be his anchor. They could see light at the end of the tunnel and they knew they were almost out of there.

"We're almost there." Sakura picked up the pace for them and even when they thought the tunnel was a long pathway, they managed to reach the light and found themselves outside. Relieved, Jounichi released himself from Sakura and sat on a nearby stump. Sakura stood there, unsure of what to do next.

Her father looked up at her. "I think there should be a nearby village if we cut through the woods over here." Jounichi pointed his thumb at a forest behind him.

Sakura took a deep breath. "Otousan, do you trust me?"

Jounichi looked at her, confused.

"Do you trust me to make the right decisions?" she repeated. She turned around and looked back to where they came from. "I want to help them. I don't want to be helpless anymore."

"You're not going back there," Jounichi replied with a stern voice.

"This is my wish, please just trust me. Will you do that for me?" She looked back at him with a determined look.

"Are you doing this for yourself or for that young man in there?"

She smiled. "A little of both." With that said, Sakura walked back inside, ignoring her father's pleas.

The sound of clashing powers exploded within. Grunts and screams could be heard echoing around them. Sasuke did battle with both men while Kiyoshi fought off Kasumi who was trying to distract Sasuke. It seemed like a tied battle, but each side would take out their best offense and defense only to make it seem like one was winning more than the other.

Nevertheless, it was a never ending battle.

"How long do you think we can keep this up?" Kiyoshi bounced off one of Kasumi's kunais and blocked her attack with his arms as she charged towards him.

Sasuke quickly blocked off both Yamato and Kayo's attack with his large weapon, using his feet to kick Kayo hard in the face. Kayo avoided that attack but was surprised to see Sasuke's left leg flying towards him. That kick sent him flying once again, but managed to regain his balance quickly.

"Not too long, because I know I can kill you both with my two hands!" Kayo had appeared behind the two men while Yamato was still trying to regain consciousness from Sasuke's previous punches in the gut.

Sasuke blocked off Kayo's attack with his weapon, but wasn't that much surprised when he rebounded with his spear as his defensive weapon. Hastily, Kiyoshi blew something in Kasumi's eyes, making her scream and fall back. That assault for the woman was just in time for him to block off Kayo's deadly punch. He managed to catch Kayo's flying knuckles with his hands and make a quick kick with his right leg. Kayo stumbled backward, surprised by this assault. Yamato appeared seconds later behind Kiyoshi, hitting him square in the face. Kiyoshi managed to block his enemy's second blow, his nose bleeding from the last attack. Sasuke grabbed Yamato's second hand that was ready to make a large impact on Kiyoshi and kicked him with both his legs. Yamato was sent flying back once again as Sasuke somersaulted back on ground.

"ENOUGH OF THIS!" Sasuke could tell how irritated both men were now. He glanced at Kiyoshi who was now bleeding around his face, especially from his nose where Yamato had punched him. It was odd really how most of their attacks were physical and none whatsoever contained any ninjutsu.

Yamato stood back and formed a seal with his hands. Kasumi followed suit once she regained her health back just a little bit while Kayo stood back and watched, as if he knew what the siblings' next move was. Sasuke and Kiyoshi braced themselves.

"Kiyoshi-san, stand back." Sasuke kneeled down on one knee and as both siblings did their technique, Sasuke was doing his own thing as well, forming his hands with his own seal.

"Why, what are you going to do?" Kiyoshi glanced down at Sasuke curiously.

The dark haired youth did not answer. He closed his eyes and continued to chant.

"SASUKE-KUN WATCH OUT!"

Startled by the voice, Sasuke opened his eyes quickly and was shocked to see a gigantic invisible ball coming right at him. He was about to make his move, when a large force started to shake beneath him. He stood up quickly, trying to figure out what was going on. He looked up and noticed Sakura was kneeling in front of him, facing the opponents and her hands on the ground. Sasuke had forgotten Sakura's moves she learned from the Hokage, but he didn't really forget the fact that despite the moves she learned, she was still immature in fights such as these.

Emotionally anyway…

To his surprise, however, the technique Sakura used was actually driving away the large ball force that the siblings created.

"ENOUGH OF THIS!" Sakura clenched her fists at her sides and stood up.

"Sakura! I thought I told you to leave with your father!" Sasuke spoke, getting irritated with how stubborn she was being.

"This is MY decision Sasuke-kun…when are you going to learn to trust me too?"

Yamato smirked, folding his arms across his chest. "Wow, this is something new! It's a damsel rescuing her prince from distress! It's true love indeed! I guess you lost your chance now, neechan!" He glanced quickly at Kasumi, who seemed to be red in the face from jealousy, then back at Sakura. "You've got guts coming back here, neesan. You could have just left these two to die in our hands while you escaped with your long lost father!"

Sakura shook her head. "I can never do that to Sasuke-kun OR Kiyoshi-san! I care for them very much."

"Both of them? Or just HIM?" Yamato nodded towards Sasuke.

Sakura said nothing.

"Well, you might as well tell him your last words before you die and we all know what you want to tell him!" Kasumi spoke with an icy jealousy. She was getting impatient with her older sister. "And are you serious about going against all three of us by yourself? You are not that strong…who cares if you have that attack, but that's no big deal! You are too weak to fight back anyway!"

"And when she gets weak, I can have my fun!" Kayo replied, eyeing Sakura with lust.

"Sakura…You don't have to do this." Sasuke approached her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Don't listen to what they're saying."

"Sakura-san, please do not be proud of yourself to go against them on your own." Kiyoshi took a step forward beside Sakura and looked at her.

"He's right," Sasuke replied.

"We'll fight alongside you until the end. After all…" Kiyoshi glanced quickly at Sasuke, before turning his eyes back on Sakura. "Three against one isn't really fair!"

Sasuke sighed and removed his hand from her shoulder. He moved to the other side of Sakura and gave her a hesitating look. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Sakura nodded. "I'm very sure."

Once again it was a never ending battle. Sasuke, however was very impressed with how well Sakura fought. She had easily beaten Kasumi to the ground and managed to put her unconscious. Sakura had definitely improved with her fighting skills. Kasumi was no problem, but now Sakura was facing one of the greatest challenges in her life…facing off with her supposedly half brother Yamato and the man who lusts for her every time he sees her. Sasuke winced at that thought and imagined himself ripping Kayo from limb to limb.

"Now that your other sibling is out of the way, are you going to challenge me next?" Yamato winced at the blood in his side. Sasuke could tell Yamato was pretending he could still fight after he managed to wound him with his own attacks. It seemed Sakura noticed this too as she seemed to have tensed a little every time Yamato took a step.

"Enough now, Yamato. You're wounded and you can no longer fight."

Yamato smirked, his arm crossed over his stomach where his gash was. Kayo was still eyeing Sakura lustfully as he helped Yamato up on his two feet. "I won't give up easily! I won't rest until we have our revenge!"

"And what type of revenge would you wish to have, Yamato?" Kiyoshi suddenly said.

"I am not speaking to you old man!" the young man hissed.

Kiyoshi frowned. "You've had your chance, so why had you not killed your father yet?"

Yamato did not answer.

"Enough of this now, Yamato. You are young and you still have lots of things you can do. Stop this nonsense. I can take you home and I will become your father."

"YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER WHO ABANDONED HIS CHILDREN TO ROT IN A PLACE WHERE NO ONE CARED!" Yamato screamed at the top of his lungs. Sasuke could have sworn he saw a small tear escape his eyes. "I WANT HIM TO SUFFER AS MY MOTHER AND MY SISTER AND I HAVE SUFFERED!"

"Then, he has suffered enough," Kiyoshi said as a matter of fact. "You have taken him away from his daughter and threatened her in front of him…What more do you want?"

His blood was flowing down fast. The three of them could see his life draining away and if they don't treat it soon, he could die from loss of blood. They all knew that each of them didn't want anyone to die.

"I WANT HIM DEAD!" With his last breath, Yamato fell on his knees. Kayo stood there, staring at him, unsure of what to do in this situation. He looked around and quickly vanished. It wasn't much fun for him anymore anyways.

"Why do you let yourself suffer now, Yamato?" Sakura said. "There is someone who is offering you and your sister a home…a second chance. Don't you want that second chance?"

Yamato had his head down now, coughing up blood. He was letting out a slight noise and after a while the slight noise became a loud laugh, echoing around them. "I'm sure every day you were hoping for one…You KNOW you won't get a second chance, so why take it?" He slowly stood up and was taking out something from his coat. "Nah…I've given up on second chances a long time ago." He glanced over at his sister. "I'm sure she hasn't given up on it and I'm pretty sure she'd be more than happy to take that offer! Forgive me, neechan. I guess I won't be living with you in a nice house anymore…" He smirked again, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth and before the three could even react, Yamato took out his kunai and stabbed himself on the same wound that Sasuke inflicted.

"NO!" Sakura yelled and ran quickly towards Yamato. She caught him in her arms and turned him over. Blood poured everywhere and she placed her hand over the wound, hoping it would stop, however it was too late. She noticed that Yamato's eyes were closed and he was no longer breathing. Tears fell from her eyes and she embraced him as much as he could. "YOU FOOL! WHY? WHY DID YOU DO SUCH A STUPID THING? WHY DID YOU LEAVE YOUR SISTER BEHIND? WHY DID YOU LEAVE YOUR ONLY FAMILY BEHIND? Fool! Fool…"

And the only sound that could be heard at the moment was Sakura's long sobs of discomfort and pain.

Note: Heheheheheh! Wow, that was a long chapter! AND lots of yelling:P Anyways, sorry about the long wait! Woot! Almost at the end! XD PLEASE REVIEW!