Prelude to the final battle! I intend to make a long scene of combat, so watch out! This is only a short combat, in the second part of the chapter. But you have some more infos.

Yuki: Stop babbling! I can't wait to see the final battle!

Okay, but you won't be part of it, Yuki. From next chapter on, there will only be two people in the battle until the combat is over. ;3

No disclaimer.

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I come to, hearing a soft humming. It is Yuki's voice. She is humming a song, apparently. She is a really good singer. I open my eyes and examine the room a little. It is obviously a bedroom. I am laying on the bed, alone with Yuki sitting on a chair at my left, her eyes closed and her face serene. I sit up and she stops singing.

"Good evening, sleepy head. Slept well?" she asks without even opening her eyes.

"Guess so. What happened?" I say, rubbing my head a little.

"You just suddenly fell asleep. Then we carried you here and you didn't open your eyes since." she simply reply.

"Where are the others?" I ask, looking properly around.

"They are outside, keeping watch."

"How much time do you have left, Yuki?" I ask, a serious expression on my face.

She is looking to the ground. "If I take the formula, I have up to two days." she answers quietly.

"And if you don't take it?" I ask, frowning.

"It will all be over tonight."

The silence falls on us. It is broken after a minute or so.

"I'm sorry, Sasuke." she says guiltily, her voice just above a whisper.

"I am the one to be sorry. I shouldn't have let you go on alone."

"You can't save me, but you can still save your friends. I will help you until the end."

"Thanks, Yuki. You're a true friend. But I will still do anything I can to save you, too."

"Sasuke… I…" she starts, wanting to say obviously to say something. But she stops. "We should go. We still have some time left before sunset."

I nod and got up. Yuki stands up, too, and walks to the door before opening it. We step out and notice that nobody is around. We frown.

"This isn't normal." says the girl at my side. "I remember that Deidara had gone to burry Itachi's body, but cotton-candy girl and blond boy were supposed to stay here." She suddenly clutched her shirt where was her heart and winced. "We have one hour." she muttered.

"Okay. We should be going, then." I nod.

"Wait. I must tell you something, first." She leans against a wall. "About the wolverine hierarchy."

"I am all ear."

"Werewolves have ranks. Those such as your lover and your brother are the lowest. But those such as cotton-candy girl and I are second in command, sort of. We are more powerful and we have more control over ourselves. The first in commend is Nerezza. He is the strongest and he controls every lower rank. He is the dark wolf."

"So in werewolf form I have no chance of defeating him. And you can't either."

"There are chances that he won't be able to control fully the seconds in command. I had chances. But there is one wolverine that is even stronger than Nerezza. The only problem is that I haven't found it yet. But you haven't found the jutsu for your own transformation yet, so maybe you are the one."

"How can I find the jutsu?"

"You will discover it when you'll be ready to use it. Now let's get moving before another wave of pain assails me."

We resume walking.

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We have been walking for three quarters of hour, more or less. Yuki is panting and gripping her shirt for ten minutes and as we near the door at the end of the corridor, I become more aware of the lack of time we have. We stop just in front of the door.

"You ready, Yuki?" I ask.

"More than ever." she reply, nodding.

I push the door open. We step inside. It is a big room. A cage with a blond teen inside is on the right and another cage with a pink-haired girl is on the left. Neither of them is moving. My heart skips a beat. Yuki walks in the middle of the room.

"Yuki…?" I ask in a tiny voice. I am terrified.

"Now is the time to make a choice, Uchiha." says Yuki with a strange voice, her back facing me. She turns around and my eyes widen in fear as I take a step back. Her face is half-mutated into that of a wolverine. "The door or the window? Hurry, before I loose control. My time is up."

"Neither." I say, calming down.

Her body changes some more and she winces. "Then kill me now, before I kill you."

"Neither will happen. I promised I will do anything to save you and I intend to keep my word."

Her body changes again. She is now almost fully transformed. "Hurry up, dammit! Save your friends and get outa here! Before it's too late!"

"It is never too late."

Her body transforms fully and she cry out in pain. Then the beast start to laugh evilly. The sun have set. The werewolf before me looks at me with slit green eyes.

"Foolish Uchiha! You should have taken the chance to run away while you had it. Now I'm gonna have some fun with you." says the beast, getting in fighting stance.

It charges and I barely get out of the way in time. It chuckle. I take out the silver kunai Yuki had given me. The beast giggles devilishly at the sight of the weapon.

"Try to guess why Yuki gave you that kunai." it muses, obviously playing with my nerves.

"Because I'm her friend?" I reply hesitantly.

"Foolish, foolish, foolish little Uchiha. You're so naïve that it almost pains me to have to kill you. You live in your own little fairy tale and you have no idea of what others are feeling."

Just then, everything clicks. The beast smirks.

"Just found out, now, have ya? Yes… indeed, yer finally catchin' on. But just so ya understood what I meant, Yuki's in love with ya, Uchiha."

It all makes sense. I can't believe I didn't see it earlier. Everyone knew but me. I am so stupid for not having figured it out earlier. But then again, even if I did had figured it out earlier, I don't think it would have made a difference. I take a glance at my two sleeping, captive friends and something else clicks in my mind as I look at Sakura. The pink-haired girl is a werewolf and yet she hasn't transformed. She is unconscious, though. I smirk, remembering a little something I made some years ago and that I have always with me. I take out the small bomb and I clip the collar of my shirt tighter to cover my mouth and nose. The beast looks at me with a puzzled glance.

"A smoke bomb?" it asks.

"Not a simple smoke bomb. I made this one years ago, helped by my big bro. It puts anyone who breathes it to fall asleep immediately. Fortunately for me, my shirt filters the gas, sort of, and like this I can't breathe the smoke."

It smirks. "Clever."

"Sleep tight." I say before throwing the bomb on the ground. It explodes and the smoke fills the room gradually. The beast falls asleep and I move quickly to the back of the room, where I had seen a door. I enter it.

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End of the prelude. Next chapter, the final battle beggins! I guess you already know who will be battling.

Yuki: (shocked) WTF? I got KO'd by a simple sleep gas?

Naruto: I know who will be the winner!

Me: Don't give away the best part, Naru-chan! I had so much difficulties having ideas for a good battle scene that a friend had to help me out a bit. A very small bit, but a bit none the less.

Sasuke: And there'll be a werewolf showdown soon, surely.

Me: Yep! But not the next chapter. In the middle of the battle or something like that.

Itachi: (reading hand-written papers) That guy is a pure maniac!

Me: Stop it Itachi! You're reading my ideas for the battle! (runs after Itachi to try to take my papers back)

Itachi: Ha ha ha! Just come and get your fucking papers! (runs while laughing)

Sasuke, Yuki and Naruto: (sweat drop)

Itachi: (stops running and puts a hand on my forehead to keep me at a safe distance)

Me: Let me go! Fucking sexy bastard!

Itachi: (huge grin) And what do you say to your readers before concluding your note?

Me: (calm down a bit) Review, people! I'll give you a cookie if you review! And I want at least five reviews. I won't put my 20th chapter until I have at least five! You guys are getting lazy, really. In the first chapters, I had more reviews than that. Hmmm... maybe I update too quickly...