Chapter 9: A Storm: A Legion of Truth Unleashed
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As Sasuke opened his eyes… He felt a familiar presence in the room. And as he turned his head from the chakra signature's origin, he was surprised to see Naruto leaning against the wall with his arms crossed around his chest looking at him.
"I see you are awake Uchiha. Wake Haruno up as soon as you can before I throw a bucket of water on her"
Sasuke, not able to control himself any longer, charged at Naruto and grabbed him by the collar and formed a ball of fist. Looking straight at Naruto, "What the hell is your problem dobe? You have been acting strange this past few days, what are you thinking? Is this the right way to treat your teammates?" Sasuke glared at him but to his surprise, Naruto just throw him to a corner with one hand.
"Don't you ever dare to ask that question to me Uchiha! What is the use in treating someone your teammate when you weren't even considered a teammate in the first place? Huh? Tell me, Uchiha. You were supposed to be a fucking genius!" Naruto shouted at him angrily
"Naruto I-" Sasuke tried to answer Naruto but he interrupted him.
"Save your breath Uchiha. I have not intentions in spending my time with people who don't even know what they did and demanding answers why something or someone is acting strange!!!." As Naruto prepared to leave, Sasuke was quick to trapped Naruto in his arms.
"It was at the party isn't it, eh, dobe?" Sasuke smirked at him as he noticed a slight blush on Naruto's cheek, while Naruto was repeating 'I can do this, keep acting cool and emotionless' in his head as he was beginning to get aroused at their distance…
"No… It had nothing to do with that Uchi---" But Naruto was interrupted by a wet, soft and warm lips against his… He blushed a bit redder as he widened his eyes in surprise, shocked and maybe Happiness? When Sasuke pulled away, he smirked as he saw the dobe's reaction.
"Is there something wrong Naruto? Why are you all red and hot? Isn't this what you wanted?" But to Sasuke's surprise, Naruto pushed him away. "You bastard! You might know my feelings for you but you have no right to go kissing people randomly!!!" Naruto glared at him…
But Sasuke just looked at him, with a bit of sadness in his eyes he managed to say, "Well I thought it is what you want? Listen Naruto, at that night, I wasn't thinking clearly when you asked about being my boyfriend or something, the first thing that came to my mind is, what would the people think? They might harm you for having the great Uchiha of the village, they might attack you because they didn't want you to be with me. I am scared for you. Don't you understand? I am worried of you, I just wanted you to be safe!!!"
Sasuke noticed Naruto's face softened but Naruto continued, "Uchiha, I know that you don't love me. Heh! Who would love the dead last of the village? No one would. So don't give me such cheap lies again or you will surely regret it."
"But Naruto, I truly love you. Please don't do this. I don't want you to be with Hinata. Please just give me another chance." Sasuke knelt in front of him desperately.
But Naruto just turned his back on him trying to hold back his tears. He disappeared as he said, "You're annoying" At this, Sasuke clenched his heart, Those were the very same words he said to Sakura when he left the village. Naruto I'm so sorry. I promise I would make it up to you. I promise that you would no longer be alone and I promise I would be here for you. Were Sasuke's last thoughts as he walked and proceed to walk towards Sakura and woke her up.
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Sasuke and Sakura made their way to the room where the exams would be held as they were greeted by Naruto. "Good afternoon Uchiha, Haruno. How are you feeling?"
Sakura just answered, "I'm fine Naruto. We should head to the room now."
Naruto just stared at them with happiness in his eyes but he dare not show them to his companions. He was relieved to see Sakura alright, if not, he would not be able to forgive himself. Then turning to them he said, " Uchiha, Haruno, listen, here's the plan, listen well… This is going to be the data gathering exams like we had last year. I assumed that the tests are all the same, so listen, Uchiha, you will use your Sharingan to copy the move of an enemy's hands, copy it and write it down. Use Mangekyo on me and in a tsukiyomi, you can send me the answers, then I will use a kage bunshin and henge as a fly to transmit the answer to Sakura. Understand?"
But before anyone could make a move Sakura interrupted the silence that envelopes the group. "What? Do you really think that that would work? Even in just seconds within the world of tsukiyomi, you wont survive. Only an idiot wont realize that."
Then Naruto glared at her, a glare that is even dangerous than Sasuke's. Sakura frozed while Sasuke was shocked at the looks Naruto gave them. "If you have to know this Haruno, the tsukiyomi is often used as a therapy by the late Uchiha member. Do you want to know why? In the world of tsukiyomi, the user can control everything, and a calming situation is always the cure for nervousness. It was only today that it was used as a killing jutsu. And, Uchiha is our friend is he not?" He said the friend with disgust as he looked at Sasuke. "I am sure that the avenger meant no harm, if he really wished to pass and become stronger." After Naruto finished his speech, the two could only nod dumbly, scared that Naruto may release another killing intent that's worse than the previous one.
"Now that's settled, let's go in and take the exams shall we?" Naruto said calmly.
As the group went to the room, Ibiki appeared and explained the rules.
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Examination Scene…
Sasuke had caught a ninja with good answers. His Sharingan begins to work and the three orbs spins rapidly. Once he's done, he coughed as Naruto turned his attention on him. Tsukiyomi! Sasuke said as Naruto entered his world.
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Somewhere in Sasuke's world of Tsukiyomi…
"Dobe, I am glad you came here and trust me so easily to let me use it on you." Sasuke smirked. "Now that you are in my world, you cant just walk away when a conversation isn't good for you"
Naruto looked at him, somewhat annoyed and angry at the same time. "Uchiha, let's get this over with and just tell me the answers. There's no need to stall."
"Oh I am not stalling Naruto." As he walked near to Naruto and caressed his cheek. "I just wanted some explanation"
"There's nothing to explain Uchiha now lets get on with the plan."
"That wont work this time Naruto" Sasuke said as Naruto was transferred to a place. As Naruto looked at his surroundings, it became clear to him that he was at Konoha.
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At Konoha behind the tsukiyomi world…
"Well well well. It's the demon brat. Lets give him a punishment. You deserved one. You demon!" Exclaimed one of them as they proceeded to beat him.
Naruto cried as he was being beaten. His body felt weak as he lied on his own pool of blood. Then, Sasuke appeared in front of him and smirked, "Ready to tell me dobe?"
Naruto just stared at him with mixed emotions of anger, hatred, fear, and regret. Naruto no longer had a choice but to do what Sasuke said or else he would go mentally unstable for the rest of the exams.
End of Chapter
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Author's Messages:
1. Sorry everyone if I updated late. Ok, here's some explanation why SASUKE GOT MANGEKYO SHARINGAN: 1. As Sasuke shoved the chidori on Naruto's chest, he realized that Naruto is dying, as he panicked and feared he might lose his best friend, it just activated by itself. Its just like what happened in their fight with haku that Sasuke's Sharingan activated, and that same thing happened with his mangekyo (I haven't placed this reason in the first version but thanks to Angel Girl Julia, who pointed the mistake, I edited this chapter, I am sorry for the inconvenience caused.
2. Well this is all I can come up with, I just want to let you all know that I will no longer be able to update as fast as before since school will resume at January 3, 2008.
3. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Normally, I just intended it to explain and let Naruto and Sasuke face each other. Which means, I meant to write this chapter so they could finally talk and learn the truth to resolve the issue but I think if I would do just that, then it would be too short so I decided to include the chuunin exams
4. Well see you all in the next chapters. I hope you continue to support my story…