Alright before I get started with the next part of the story, (episode eight) I just wanted to say that for those of you who do not know that Sasuke's and Sakura's original daughter is not in this story because she didn't work and I hated the fact that she was named after salad. Anyway on with the show!
"So, what does it say?" Naruto asked as he walked behind Sasuke down the path inside the woods. "The shadowlands," Sasuke began as he started reading out of the book. "is located at the ends of the earth and through the eighth gate seal." He said. "You know maybe we shouldn't be doing this." Naruto began. "Besides I thought the earth is round so it's impossible that it actually has an end right?" he questioned. "In this dimension yes, but don't forget we're talking about a whole nother dimension, and in that universe there is." Sasuke answered as he slammed the book tightly shut.
"Well even if we get there, how are we going to find Sakura and my mother and escape before our souls are trapped forever?" Naruto asked him. "Well the book said that once we enter the shadowlands a part of our souls will be torn." He answered. "That's it, I'm out of here." Naruto said quickly but Sasuke quickly grabbed ahold of his arm and pulled him back towards him. "Take it easy Naruto, Sakura's a healer remember? As soon as she's able to mend our souls then all of us will be able to reenter this world." Sasuke explained.
"Yeah but what if she can't? I mean I love my sister and all but I also love my wife, my unborn child, and not to mention myself." Naruto told him as Sasuke rolled his eyes at him. "Give me a break, I wouldn't be putting you through this if I didn't have enough faith in her." He told him. "Alright then if you're so smart how much longer until we get there?" Naruto asked when suddenly he stopped and gave out a rather large shriek.
"Now what is it?" Sasuke asked him with a groan and looked to where his friend had been pointing. Naruto shook and trembled with fright as he pointed at a skinny skeleton looking creature out in front of them that was dressed in a black hooded robe. Sasuke turned to looked at it and blinked a couple of times since it had been going out of focus for him. "What a minute," Sasuke said as he turned on his sharingan and found that the image of the creature had disappeared. "It's an illusion." He realized. "A genjutsu is the only thing that a sharingan can't see or follow." He explained.
"Somebody must have been spying on us to know that we were going to end up here and wanted to scare us away from finding Sakura and Kushina." He said. "Well, it's working." Naruto said anxiously. "Listen Naruto, we have to break the jutsu, it's the only way we can make it through the portal to save your sister and your mother." Sasuke told him. "Oh, well, are you sure about this?" Naruto asked him nervously. "Trust me I'm your friend remember? And I would never lie to you. Except if it was because I was trying to protect you." Sasuke said. "Well, alright if you say so, I trust you buddy." Naruto told him as he held his hands out in front of him. "Release!" he exclaimed as he broke the jutsu.
"Well done, I'm impressed." A familiar voice hissed as Orochimaru stepped out of the darkness. Naruto gave out a loud gasp as his eyes widened with astonishment. "It's you, Orochimaru." He whispered. "You're alive." He realized. "But how?" Sasuke questioned. "Immortality is a strange thing, even when I think it fails me it comes through for me in the end. I'm surprised at you for turning down the chance of the ultimate power Sasuke, I expected better of you." Orochimaru told him when suddenly Naruto threw himself out in front of his friend.
"You stay away from him! You got that!?" he yelled angrily. "Well it just so happens that Sasuke is absolutely no interest to me anymore since he lost his lust for hatred and revenge. However the wife of the fourth hokage, and her son which is now the current hokage means a great deal to me. So how about I go and finish your mother off first shall I?" he questioned. "YOU ROTTEN BASTARD!" Naruto shouted feeling himself start to transform into the Nine-Tailed Fox again. "LEAVE MY MOTHER ALONE!" he hollered before Orochimaru let out an evil laugh and vanished into a thin black portal. "I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!" Naruto shouted on the top of his lungs.
"No Naruto don't! It's no use! Even though he wasn't born an infumi like his daughter he's indestructible now." Sasuke warned. "Then what am I supposed to do, just let him kill my mother!?" he cried. "No, I already promised you that I wouldn't let that happen and I'm not about to break that promise for anything." He said as he started making some hand signs. "Komori, ratto, inu, tora! Seal breaking justsu into the fourth dimension!" Sasuke exclaimed before slamming his hand down hard onto the ground. The next thing Naruto knew was that there was a great rush of wind and the ground began to shake until the portal slowly started evolving in front of them.
"Come on let's go before it closes!" Sasuke cried as he quickly grabbed ahold of Naruto's arm and the two of them quickly rushed inside of it before it swallowed them up and all they could see ahead of them was darkness except for a little light at the end of the long dark tunnel. Sasuke quickly ran down towards the end of it while Naruto ran behind him. Meanwhile Sakura was busy reading her notes that she had written down from the book that her mother had given her. That's when suddenly she gasped and looked up as she heard footsteps behind her. "Sakura." Her mother's voice said as she stepped out of the shadows.
Next Time On Naruto The Next Generation; Kushina and her son meet face to face for the first time.