Sound Village
Shikamaru and Kakashi were discussing a plan to get in without being noticed. Sakura was sitting there, listening. She put in her opinion once in a while. One of her mini plans actually made it to the real thing.
"You all know the plan. Kakashi will take Orochimaru, Sakura, you will take Sasuke and I will take Kabuto. If there are anymore people, I'll use my shadow possession jutsu and we'll take them out. Understood?" Shikamaru said.
"Yes, now we'll enter the hideout, then look for Sasuke. Whoever finds him, concentrate your chakra and we'll find you. If it ends up being a fight, then play it out." Kakashi said.
"Okay, now lets go get Sasuke!" Sakura said, and they ran to the hideout. At the hideout, the three ninja stood at the entrance. Sakura made sure there were no genjutsu's while Kakashi scanned the area with his Sharingan for any traps. There were none so they slowly entered Orochimaru's lair. They walked the long hallway, watching the candles flicker as they went past. They walked in for a few more minutes until the long hallway ended and they found two passageways. They had no choice, but to split up.
Sakura and Shikamaru took the left and Kakashi took the right. Both hallways had many doors. Kakashi opened one, but no one was there. He open another and another, but each one was empty. In the other hall Sakura took the left side of the hallway and Shikamaru took the right, both opening doors saying, "Not here!" They ran to each door, looking for the traitor of Konaha.
Both groups got to the end of the hallway in 10 minutes. Kakashi's door and Shikamaru's opened to a large room. Sakura saw Kakashi on the other side of the room It had a huge snake statue at the front of the room with two chairs in the middle. They saw two people, sitting in those chairs.
"Looks like we have some guests" Orochimaru said. Kakashi, Sakura and Shikamaru walked to where Orochimaru at. They stood back about 12 feet.
"So it would seem. Would you like me to take them out for you?" Orochimaru's loyal servant, Kabuto said.
"Yes, but take the girl first. She'll be easy to kill." Sakuras face froze, as Kabuto ran towards Sakura with blue hands that look like wide, mini knives. "This is so troublesome!" Shikamaru said, as he captured Kabuto in his shadow possession jutsu.
"What the…!" Kabuto exclaimed.
"I've caught your shadow. Now you can't move, unless I say you can." He moved his left hand up in the air, and as much a Kabuto tried to resist it, his left hand also raised in the air. "See? Your fights with me." Shikamaru said.
Kakashi was now running towards Orochimaru. Orochimaru quickly jumped out of his seat, and landed by Sakura. He face position hadn't changed. He took a kunai out of Sakura's gear pouch and held it to her throat.
"Take one more step, and the girls dies!" Orochimaru hissed. Kakashi quickly stopped. He looked over at Shikamaru, who was now fighting Kabuto.
"No" An unfamiliar voice said. "You take Kakashi, I'll finish off this weak girl." Suddenly a tall figure appeared. You couldn't see his feature's, only the red eyes that held the girls gaze.
"Sasuke" Sakura whispered. Sasuke stood in front of Orochimaru. Orochimaru cut the girls throat a little, to leave a scratch bleeding. Orochimaru let her go and ran after Kakashi. "AHHH!!" Sakura screamed, as she hit the floor.
"Kakashi, your mine!!"
Sakura quickly brought green chakra to her hands and put them to her neck. In less than a minute, her neck was healed, only to leave a scar. She got up, stumbling to stand upright. She told he old childhood crush. "Long time to see, eh…Sasuke?" She put on her gloves. Sasuke didn't say anything, but got into a fighting stance. Sakura followed his example." "This should be quick," Sasuke said and charged at her. Sakura watched as he ran towards her. Sasuke threw many punches and kicks, but all of them were blocked by her arms. She jumped up as Sasuke bent his knees to try to make her trip. While up in the air, Sakura went to kick him in the face. It never connected, because Sasuke grabbed her leg, and threw her to a wall. She never hit it, because she punched the ground lightly, to stop her from continuing. She didn't want to show him her true power yet.
Orochimaru was fighting Kakashi. Nothing was really happening, because Kakashi was only copying his attacks. "That Sharingan is really good for fights. Do you remember who gave it to you? Uchiha……Obito, right?" Orochimaru said. Kakashi's eyes went wide, as he recognized his name.
"Ah, so you do remember him. Could you bring yourself to see him again?" He coaxed. Now, Orochimaru's appearance was changing. The clothes were changing as the Uchiha fan showed on his clothing. Orochimaru turned around, only to show Kakashi his old comrades face….with a missing eye.
'Oh, no' Kakashi thought.
Kabuto was now panting. He couldn't believe Shikamaru was so strong. Kabuto was bleeding from many spots. Mostly because he tricked him and threw Shurikens at him. Not it was time to finish it. Shikamaru used the last of his chakra and used the Shadow possession jutsu again.Then, he used the jutsu to strangle him. After 10 minutes flat…..Kabuto was dead.
Sand Village
Everyone had gone somewhere to eat. Suddenly, Naruto felt a pain in his stomach. He bent over and cried in pain.
Gaara asked, "What's wrong?"
Naruto replied, "I-I don't know. I have a feeling something terrible is happening now."
Orochimars's lair
Sakura had been kicked in the stomach; She wiped the blood coming from her mouth. 'He's gotten much stronger, I don't know if I was-.' She coughed up more blood. Sasuke looked at her, following her movement. He was also bleeding from the mouth.
"Could you do it?" Sakura whispered. Sasuke, with a sneer said, "Do what?"
"Could you kill me, just like you almost killed Naruto?" Sasuke couldn't say anything. It surprised him to hear the name of his best friend from years ago.
"I don't know" was his only reply. Sakura took advantage of his silence, and ran towards him. Sasuke saw this, but only when it was to late. Sakura brought Chakra to her hand and punched him in the chest, which caused him to fly backwards, and hit the wall that was 20 feet behind him. Sakura walked up to the Uchiha in furry.
"How could you?! How could you kill your best friend? Naruto never did anything to you. He saved your life at least three times. He thought of you as a brother!!" Sakura yelled at him. Sasuke looked a little taken back. He replied.
"I could never kill my best friend. I wouldn't let Itachi get what he wanted. I needed power to kill him."
"You still didn't answer my quest-."
"He was powerful!" Sasuke yelled. He tried to get up to hit her, but was only punched in the face. He fell back to the floor. A few seconds of silence,
"I hated how h was always stronger than I was. I hated how every time I tried to save you guys, I would get knocked down, and Naruto would find a way to win the fight." Sakura looked at Sasuke like he was stupid.
"I don't know what to say besides you all wrong. Well, your right about one thing, Naruto did save us, but you helped. Remember that time when we had to help Idate win the race? And that guy we ran into on the way, who had that lightning sword, by the bridge? Well, when you used Chidori, you made a crack in the sword. When you went unconscious, over the edge of the cliff, Naruto found that crack, used Rasengan, and broke it." Sasuke looked at Sakura. 'Did I really crack the sword?' he thought. Sakura continued.
"And what's with all this powerful crap? In his eyes, he was never strong. Naruto looked up to you. He wanted to be just like you! And you know what? When everyone told him he was strong and would become a great Hokage one day, he didn't listen to any of them. He didn't care what they said. Naruto only cared about what you thought. He wanted you to acknowledge him."
Sasukes eyes grew wide. He couldn't believe that Naruto wanted to be like him, Sasuke looked down in shame. He remembered the good times Team 7 had. When they were in Mist, Naruto and him were climbing trees, trying to beat the other getting to the top. Another time was when they were at the Chuunin Exams, when Sasuke appeared with Kakashi and Naruto had just won his fight against Neji.
Sasuke stood up and grabbed his chest in pain. 'That punch really hurt. What have you been up too, Sakura?' He looked at Sakura, who was now crying.
"After your fight with Naruto, everyone came back injuried. Shikamaru, Chouji, Neji and Kiba all came back with many injuries. Chouji and Neji almost died, fighting. Temari, Gaara and Kankuro came to help bring you back too! Even Lee came to help, even after coming right out of surgery, came out to help Naruto fight off Kimminaro."
Sasuke felt like crap now. Everyone risked their lives, just to come and rescue him. He remembered asking Naruto, 'Why do you waste so much effort on…me'
"I didn't know people would go so far…..only to save me" Sasuke said.
"Even though people thought of you differently than Naruto and I, they still thought of you as a comrade, part of the village."Sasuke thought about this. He shouldn't be feeling sorry for what he did. He should be killing Sakura, not listening to her lifetime stories. He got ready to fight, when he heard Sakuras voice again.
"You know about the Kyuubi that attacked the Village, right?"
Sasuke nodded,
"And that it was sealed inside of a baby boy?" he nodded his head once more.
"That baby boy…..was Naruto."
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So that's that chapter. It took me a half hour to finish this, lol.
I hope you liked it. There will be more with Kakashi and 'Obito" in the next chapter. Review!!
Crystal