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Naruto was lying in his room in Orochimaru's hideout contemplating on what had happened just a day before.

Flashback

As he was running, he sensed some of the sound five were already beaten and that Sasuke Uchiha was chasing after him, no doubt wanting to bring him back. Naruto smirked and kept on running, knowing the perfect place to have their battle.

Naruto stopped at the Vallet Of The End, turning around to look at Sasuke, an emotionless expression on his face. "You know Sasuke, this place is called the Valley Of The End. I read that two shinobi had a great battle here and this is the result of it." Naruto said as he gazed at the large waterfall and the two Hokages that were carved from the rock on each side of the waterfall.

Flashback from Sasuke

Shikamaru, who had attained chuunin status since he showed how smart he was in the chuunin exam against Temari, was getting everyone ready to move out and bring Naruto back. The team consisted of Shikamaru Nara, Kiba Inuzuka, Chouji Akimichi, Neji Hyuuga, and Sasuke Uchiha were assigned to try and bring Naruto back.

As they were ready to leave Sakura, who was crying heavily, came to talk to Sasuke. "Please Sasuke bring Naruto-kun back. I tried to convince him to stay last night but he knocked me out. I never even had a chance to tell him I loved him before he knocked me out." Sakura said through her tears.

"Don't worry Sakura, I will bring Naruto back. I put my clan's honor on the line." Sasuke said as he smiled at Sakura and with that the team was gone.

End Flashback from Sasuke


"Naruto, I am bringing you back to Konoha!" Sasuke yelled to Naruto on the other side of the chasm.

"Sasuke you are one of the many bonds I have to break to finally go to Orochimaru. Whether they be by me killing them or forgetting about them, I promise you I will break them. That is a promise, and Uzumaki Naruto never breaks his promises." Naruto said as he smiled showing his sharp fangs no doubt trying to intimidate Sasuke.

Sasuke was struck with fear as he saw how sharp Naruto's fangs were. Naruto looked almost demon like with showing his fanges like that and also that creepy smile he had on his face as well. It reminded Sasuke too much of what he probably would have looked like if he was in Naruto's position.

'I have to bring Naruto back to Konoha. He saved me from the darkness, I can do the same for him,' Sasuke thought as he jumped and gathered chakra to his feet, running across the waterfall, intent on hitting Naruto. Naruto, seeing Sasuke coming at him, wasted no time and quickly made a shadow clone that popped out from under the waterfall, grabbing Sasuke's feet and dragging him under to drown him. Only thanks to his Sharingan was Sasuke able to counter the clones punches and destroy them.

"That was a dirty trick you pulled Naruto," Sasuke said, both mad and sad that Naruto would actually try to kill him. This wasn't the Naruto he knew. Naruto decided to play around with Sasuke for awhile as he landed a rib cracking punch on his chest, which sent Sasuke flying into a slab of rock. Getting up, Sasuke was starting to get ticked off that Naruto would do all this with out a reason. "Naruto, why are you doing all this?! Sakura loves you! Why leave her?! I thought you loved her!" Sasuke yelled to Naruto in hopes of getting an answer. "You should know Sakura dosen't really love me nor did she love you. She is just using us," Naruto answered Sasuke.

"She isn't using you or me! She told me yesterday she loved you! Did she resist when you kissed her?!" Sasuke shouted to Naruto.

Naruto froze, remembering that. He felt a part of his heart staring to open back up at the words of Sasuke, but both the Kyuubi and the Curse Mark quickly shut it off, making Naruto growl with anger. "Tell me Sasuke, after I beat Gaara, why did Sakura love me? Surely it isn't because I protected her. It's because I am stronger than you. Since you couldn't beat Gaara but I could, she instantly decided me the better person. That means when I get beaten by someone, she will go to him instead," Naruto growled out calmly, fists clencting by his side.

"Your an idiot Naruto. You can't see that the girl you love loves you back, yet you think she is using you. I guess I will have to beat you to make you see it," Sasuke said quietly as he powered up his Chidori to the highest it could go.

Naruto, seeing that, went Curse Meal Level 2, making him look like a gigantic fox and powered up his Rasengan. Fur grew eveywhere on his body, he grew two tails where his spine ended, his fangs grew longer and sharper and so did his nails. Naruto and Sasuke jumped and flew at each other, or at least that was what it would have looked like if people were watching. As their chakra clashed, Naruto grazed Sasuke's arm with his Rasengan, while Sasuke hit Naruto in the right side of his chest with his Chidori.

Sasuke knew it wasn't a killing blow and thanked God that it wasn't. It did incapciate Naruto though. At least that was what Sasuke thought.

Looking down, Sasuke saw the wound on Naruto's chest heal and then, Naruto rose up and slammed Sasuke in the gut with his Rasengan that he powered down to hide inside his hand, but was strong enough to knock Sasuke out. Naruto got up andwalked over to Sasuke, who was knocked out, and took a kunai from his pouch and ran it along hisown headband, making a cutting line into it. "Heh. Sorry Sasuke, but I guess you were too weak to try and defeat me," Naruto said, taking off his headband as he dropped it & the kunai knife beside Sasuke, symbloizing he was a missin-nin now.

And with that Naruto began his journey to Orochimaru's hideout to see where fate would lead him in life