Disclamer: No Naruto or Sleeping Beauty for me those belong to their repective owners.
ItaNaru Sleeping Beauty
Chapter 9: Rescue and final battle
The sorceress' flew through the forest and soon came to the house.
Changing back to normal size they looked around. The place was a mess as though a fight took place.
Amidst the rubble they picked up a piece of dark fabric. On it was a fan design.
The girls gasped as they realised what happened.
"Orochimaru." They whispered.
"He's got Itachi-sama!" Ino cried.
Sakura looked up. "At the forbidden mountain."
Hinata gasped. "But we can't... We can't go there!"
Sakura looked at her sisters. "We can. And we must if we want to help Naru-chan."
Gathering up their bravery and with Naruto in mind, the girls set off to the mountain to rescue Itachi.
They were just outside Orochimaru's castle.
They had to be quiet and not alert the gaurds.
The narrowly doged a on duty gaurd.
They shrunk and flew through a crack in the roof. Inside they had a few close encounters with some gaurds.
They had flown to a small nook in a high wall. They then heard the sounds of celebrating.
Looking out a window they saw a bonfire and gaurds dancing around it. Through the smoke they saw Orochimaru sitting on a seat, siling as he watched. Kabuto sat near him.
"What a pity that Itachi couldn't be here to enjoy the celebration with us." He chuckled.
"Come Kabuto, we must go to the dungeons and cheer him up."
He stood and left the gaurds to their party.
The girls followed him making sure no one saw them.
Orochimaru openend a cell and stepped inside.
Itachi sat head in his hand.
He looked up and glared at Orochimaru.
The girls listened to what he had to say.
"Oh come now Itachi-san, Why so meloncholy?
A wondrous future lies before you, the destined hero of a charming fairy tale come true."
The girls listened intently. Itachi's eyes narrowed.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
Orochimaru waved his hand and a ball of light appeared.
"Behold. Emperor Minato's palace."
The image showed the palace it zoomed into a particular window.
"In the top most room of the palace, dreaming of his true love: The Prince Naruto."
It showed a bed and then it showed the young boy that lay sleeping peacefully.
Itachi's eyes widend as he recognised the boy from the forest.
"Yes, it's the same peasent boy who won your heart but yesterday. He is indeed most wondrously beautiful. Golden sunshine in his hair, eyes that put the sky to shame.
In an ageless sleep he finds repose."
Itachi could only stare at how beautiful Naruto looked in his sleep.
"The years will go by. But I'm sure one hundred years to a steadfast heart will seem like a day."
The image changed to show an old man riding an aged horse riding through the opening gates.
"And on that day the gates to the dungeons part and you will be free to go your way on your noble steed, a valiat figure straight and tall, to wake your love with "love's first kiss" and prove that true love conqure all."
Itachi had enough. He stood up to try and fight Orochimaru but was held back by chains.
"Why you..." Ino shouted. Sakura and Hinata pulled her back as Kabuto looked around.
"Is somthing wrong Kabuto?" Orochimaru asked.
"I thought I heard somthing."
"Perhapes a servant got a little too drunk at the festivities." He shrugged.
Kabuto wasn't so sure. "Perhaps your right Orochimaru-sama."
"Well then, we shall take our leave and let him be alone with these happy thoughts"
Itachi continued to struggle against the chains.
Orochimaru left the dungeons. "For the first time in sixteen years, I shall sleep well." And he left. Kabuto took on last look around.
The sorceress' once they were sure they were gone they flew through the bars and grew top their normal size startling Itachi.
"Who are..." Sakura put a finger to his lips. "Shh, no time to explain."
She put her wand to his chains. Hinata took the chains from his feet. Ino unlocked the door.
Once he was free, Itachi stood up.
"Thank you, but now I must save Naruto."
Sakura nodded. "Yes, but the road to the palace may have many more dangers that you're going to have to face. So take this."
She waved her wand and a beautiful katana appeared in his hand.
"This is the sword, Seigi. With this wepon you can triumph over evil. Now come quickly."
Itachi nodded and he and the girls left the room and ran as quickly but quietly as they could.
However they ran into the gaurds. Itachi fought against them then managed to escape a window onto a narrow ledge.
He jumped the small cliff and found where they were keeping Kisame.
Ino freed him and Itachi was about to get on when the gaurds dropped boulders. Sakura waved her wand and they turned to harmless soap bubbles.
The gaurds released arrows that would've killed Itachi had Ino not turned them to flowers.
Itachi got on Kisame and rode to the gates.
The gaurds dropped hot oil that Hinata turned to a rainbow. Kabuto himself came to see what the racket was about. He saw the Uchiha escaping and ran to tell Orochimaru.
Ino saw him and cast her magic on him turning him to stone.
Orochimaru had been awakend. He was irritated.
"Kabuto, tell those fools to..."
He saw his most faithful servant cast in stone, then saw Itachi escaping.
They tried closing the gates but Itachi was too fast.
Orochimaru went to the highest point to cast his dark spells.
Sakura saw him and urged Itachi forward. "Hurry Itachi!"
Orochimaru sent lightning his way. It missed Itachi by inches.
Orochimaru sent lighning and crumbled a bridge Itachi was about to cross.
He fell but managed to leap across safely.
Itachi was almost to the palace.
Orochimaru raised his hand to the sky.
"Forest of thorns shall be his tomb,
Born through the skys on a fog of doom.
No go with a curse and serve me well,
Around Minato's palace cast my spell!"
A darkend cloud swirled around him then to the palace and lightning fell around it.
Where the lighting struck thorns began to grow , blocking Itachi's path.
Itachi stopped before the thorns.
Orochimaru laughed for he was sure he had stopped the Uchiha this time.
Itachi lifted Seigi and began to hack the throns and work his way through.
The sorceress' help anyway they could.
Itachi soon managed to clear his way through and was nearing the front gates to the palace.
Orochimaru was horrified.
"No! It cannot be!"
He flew to the palace and stood in a burst of flames. This time he was going to personaly take care of Itachi.
Kisamae bucked at the sight of the snakelike man before him.
"Now shall you deal with me annd all the powers of hell!"
With an explosion that shook the earth, Orochimaru changed form. He was now a giant purple snake-like dragon. Fire spit from his mouth.
The sorrceress stared in horror.
Itachi rushed forward, Siegi raised.
The dragon spit fire. Itachi dodged.
It spit fire again. Again Itachi dodged but his arm was burned a bit.
He was forced back into the forest.
He hid and when the dragon poked it's head into the forest to look for him Itachi struck.
The dragon snapped it's jaws at him. Itachi kept it at bay with the sword.
The dragon spit more fire and set the whole thorn forest on fire.
Itachi was trapped by the burning forest.
His kimono caught on fire and he quickly took it off.
He was against a cilff. Sakura led him up it. The dragon followed snapping with his jaws. He spit fire Itachi had no way to dodge. The sorceress made a shield of their magic over Itachi and he escaped unharmed.
Orochimaru prepared to strike Itachi again but the sorceress' enchanted Itachi's blade.
"Now Seigi, fly swift and sure,
That evil die and good endure!" They chanted.
Itachi, with the thought of Naruto in his heart and mind, threw the sword at the dragon. It hit it's mark; The dragon's heart.
A cry of pain issued througout all of Japan The dragon with one last effort tried to take Itachi down with him, but Itachi dodged and the dragon fell oveer the cliff.
Itachi collapsed from exaustion and looked over the cliff.
The fire had gone out and all that remained of Orochimaru was his robe upon the ground.
Seigi was in the chest of it.
And now Japan was free of Orochimaru's evil.
Me: I'm alive 72 hours goes faster than you think. Although my bottom's gonna be sore for a while.
Itachi: Next chapter is the last. I'm gonna *hmph*
Me: Let them read.