Well here we go with the first official past chapter
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
Obito was laying down in the small crater that had fromed from the large battle. He took in shaky, shallow breaths, blood flowed from the open wounds across his body. He couldn't believe it! This boy... this one stupid boy! Had stopped everything... Madara had fallen apart signalling the death of Kabuto as well. Even with the Sharingan, Rinnegan and the Juubi... it wasn't enough!
"... Why...?" his voice was weak.
Naruto was unable to answer him, face down and unconcious. Obito tried to stand up only to cough as pain shot through his body and he crumpled back down.
"My... methods were fla...wed." he coughed. "But the end... would... have more than jus-kghk!-tified the means..."
He looked up to the moon, the prison for the great beast once more. He didn't know how they did it, but they did, the beast was sealed once more. He raised one hand as if to grasp the moon. His hand shook as his body continued to shut down.
"My world... would have been perfect... No sadness, no war... A world where no one would have to lose their loved ones." he whispered.
"A world where everyone was equal." Naruto had finally come to. "A world with no advancements, no challenge. Technology, medicine all would come to a halt."
"... What?" Obito asked.
"Don't you see? All the wars and death that this world has, it is all necessary. Without it some of the greatest advancements would not exist... without it, your plan would not exist." Naruto said.
Obito gasped at Naruto's words. "You are smarter... Than I would have thought."
His vision began blur and fade... his time was short. Fighting through the pain he used the last bit of his strength to prop himself up on his elbows.
"You... are strong Uzumaki Naruto... far stronger than I had imagined." a series of coughs broke his speech. "This alliance of yours... it will crumble and the world will be just the same!"
"You're probably right. But, we've survived worse... and one day true peace will reign." Naruto said.
Obito glared at the boy then fell back, dead. Naruto gave one last look at the Akatsuki mastermind, Uchiha Obito, and then turned away. His body was still sore from the battle, he had felt something... slip... during the fight. It became obvious that it was Kurama's seal. He could tell already, there was no danger but it seemed that his healing factor was diminished greatly. Small wounds that would usually vanish within seconds lingered for a bit longer.
"You were a fool to do what you did Orochimaru." Hashirama said.
He went through several handsigns before clapping his hands together. The four assembled ninja waited, but nothing seemed to happen.
"Kukuku... What's wrong? Forget how to attack?" Orochimaru mocked.
The dead Hokage did not respond. Suddenly large, thick branches sprouted from the ground trapping himself, Orochimaru and the other three Hokage in their deadly grip.
"...Now. Sasuke was it?" he asked.
Sasuke nodded.
"You wish to know, what this village and its shinobi are." Hashirama said. "This village... created for the betterment of both Senju and Uchiha. The shinobi, trained and utilized for that very purpose. As the years progressed the roles changed, more people moved to the village. No longer was it a village of just shinobi... merchants, artisans, blacksmiths all manner of trade. They all came to the village to escape war and death, soon the shinobi were trained and utilized for the protection of the common people."
"You can skip the part about Madara and his attempted coup, I know all about that." Sasuke informed him.
The other three Hokage stood where they were rooted with stoic faces. They knew the outcome of this, regardless of what Sasuke wanted with them, after he got his answer Orochimaru would be crushed and they would vanish. The Sannin in question struggled against the wooden restraints.
"Then I don't need to explain the problem behind it. I would have given the role of Hokage to an Uchiha gladly, but they were too war like. The people that they were trained to protect would have been neglected... So, does that satisfy you?" Hashirama asked.
"This... Village and its shinobi... Created for the protection of the people who dwell within." Sasuke repeated. "I see, and that is why Itachi gave his all for the village."
"Yes, he truly believed in the role of the village and himself as its shinobi." Hashirama said.
"He chose to kill the entire clan over the possibility of the death of the common people..." Sasuke said.
Hashirama closed his hands into the serpent sign causing the wood that he had summoned to crush those it bound. Once again Orochimaru was dead, perhaps for good this time, no other curse seals to regenerate out of. The Hokage began to crumble away with the shared knowledge that Sasuke would still attempt to destroy the village.
"He was ordered to choose..." Sasuke muttered darkly. "... Either the people over the Uchiha... or the Uchiha over the people... And now I choose, the Uchiha."
Suigetsu and Jugo looked at eachother then back to Sasuke. Their leader turned around and began to walk out of the building.
"Come you two." he ordered.
"Where are we goin'?" Suigetsu asked.
"We will take the village down notch by notch. We'll start with removing the beast's head... we go after the Hokage." he informed them.
Naruto limped his way towards the makeshift camp that had been built several miles away from the battle. He collapsed just outside its border, guards and medics instantly swarmed him, one in particular shoved her way through.
"Naruto!" she cried.
"... Hey there Sakura-chan." he smiled.
She flipped him onto his back and rested his head in her lap. "You idiot... You need to be careful!"
"Heh... be careful against a guy with the Sharingan and the Rinnegan?" he chuckled.
"Shut up." she smiled at him.
Her hands glowed in the soothing green chakra as she passed her hands over his chest. She started with the more severe wounds and then moved on to the minor ones.
"Someone clear a tent for Naruto... for the hero." she smiled.
Naruto blushed at the compliment. A random Jounin nodded and took off into the camp. Sakura moved her hands up to his neck, making sure there wasn't anything wrong with him.
"C'mon you, let's get you to a bed." she said and helped him up.
Slinging his arm around her shoulder she helped him towards the tent the Jounin led them to. She helped him into the bed and put the blanket over him.
"Will you tuck me in too?" he asked.
"I will punch you Naruto." she smirked.
"Where is he?!" a familiar voice yelled.
Naruto and Sakura looked at eachother and gulped. Ripping the flap from the tent in walked Tsunade, a few bandages covering her.
"There you are! You little brat!" she growled and stomped over to him.
Sakura tried to stand in the way only to be pushed to the side. Tsunade picked him up by his collar then crushed him in a hug.
"Don't you ever scare me like that again!" she cried.
Naruto yelled out in pain, she was crushing everything that was just healed!
"Tsunade-shisou! You're hurting Naruto! Please! Tsunade-shisou! You're breaking everything!" Sakura begged her master "Tsunade-shisou! Naruto's passed out! Naruto...!"
Tsunade took notice of Sakura's yelling and stopped her hugging. Looking at Naruto, his eyes white and his mouth hung open as his head fell back.
"Naruto!" she cried and hugged him again.
"Tsunade-shisou! Please stop!" Sakura begged.
The gathered Jounin and Chunin looked on in amusement. They had never seen the Hokage so emotional, this was one of those once in a lifetime things. After that rather comical scene and the reattachment of the tent's flap, Sakura had pushed everyone out so that Naruto could get some sleep.
'You better get well soon you knucklehead.' Sakura thought.
Naruto was glad that he was alone now. Finally he could get some proper rest... but he still couldn't this feeling of foreboding.
"I don't get it. If we're going to destroy Konoha why are we walkin' away from it?" Suigetsu asked.
"I can feel it... The war is over, the allied forces are victorious." Sasuke said.
"Uh-huh okay?" Suigetsu said.
"They're weak from battle, they'll be packing up soon. While they're heading back to the village it will be the perfect time to strike." Sasuke explained.
Suigetsu looked towards Jugo, who shrugged in turn. They were already so many miles outside of Konoha and it didn't look like they would find anybody for a long time.
"What exactly is your plan here Sasuke?" he asked again. "I mean, there's no way the Hokage is just gonna be all alone."
"The Amaterasu will clear the way." Sasuke answered.
Suigetsu and Jugo shuddered at that. It wasn't the technique, or that he suggested it, no it was the way he said it. Sasuke was dark, they knew that, but his voice had a sick kind of glee in it.
"What about that other one?" Jugo asked. "Naruto?"
"He will try and stop me... and I will kill two birds with one stone." Sasuke said. "The Hokage and Konoha's pride and joy... We've talked enough, we move faster now."
Sasuke picked up the pace forcing Suigetsu and Jugo to as well. They couldn't help but look forward, past Sasuke's goal of destroying Konoha, then what? Would they continue to travel together? Would they turn on all of the other villages too? Or would they just pack it in go their seperate ways? They supposed those questions would be answered in the next few hours.
Naruto had finally woken up feeling fresh and ready to go. He got dressed back into his usual clothes and exited the tent, it would seem that the allied forces were also ready to go. He spotted Sakura and Kakashi rolling up a few tents before packing them onto other ninja.
"Sakura-chan! Kakashi-sensei!" he shouted towards them.
Both looked up and smiled at him, or at least he thinks Kakashi smiled at him.
"Naruto!" Sakura shouted back.
He smiled and ran up to them, hands behind his head as if nothing had ever happened.
"Are you feeling okay?" she asked.
"Yep!" he gave her a thumbs up. "Never better!"
"That's good to hear, I was afraid I would have to carry you back to Konoha." Kakashi said.
"So that is what's going on!" he smiled. "We're really going back?!"
"Yeah, Tsunade-shisou wouldn't give me all the details. But something about new borders, trade lines and such once all the Kages are back to their respective villages." Sakura said.
"Oh... The camp looks empty already though..." Naruto trailed.
"Tsunade-sama and the bulk of Konoha are already gone." Kakashi explained. "We're only here because, well, we had to wait for you."
"Right... Ehehe. Sorry about that." Naruto grinned. "So, is Baa-chan already home?"
"Maybe, they took an odd route back to Konoha, a much longer route." Sakura said.
"Why? I mean, this is just my opinion, but I'd wanna be home as soon as possible." Naruto said.
His teammates shrugged and continued to help dismantle the camp. Naruto being up and moving again decided to pitch in too, he created a few shadow clones to speed up the process. In a matter of minutes the camp was stripped and the last Jounin sent off towards Tsunade. Kakashi and Sakura picked up their own bags before going over to Naruto.
"C'mon you." Sakura smiled. "It's time to go home."
"Yeah... but can we take to normal way?" he asked. "Surprise Baa-chan?"
"I see no harm in it." Kakashi said.
"Alright!" Naruto cheered and took off.
Sakura yelled at him to slow down and Kakashi shook his head. For some odd reason Naruto chose the ground over the trees for travel, maybe his legs were still sore? It didn't matter, the danger had passed, they could've walked backwards and blindfolded. Kakashi looked over at his student, his usual happy face was replaced with the serious lines of thinking.
"Naruto?" he looked over at the silver haired man. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing! Just, you know, thinkin'... I'm aloud to do that ya know." Kakashi chuckled at his answer.
They continued on in silence, a comfortable silence, keeping watch for any allied stragglers. It wasn't until they spotted three figures in the distance did Naruto come to a stop.
"... I knew it." he said.
They stopped to look at Naruto then looked back towards the three figures. As they came closer their features became clear, the two in the back one with silver hair that fell almost to his shoulders, the other with orange hair that spiked up in a feral look. Finally the one leading the pack... Sasuke, Sharingan activated, looking for a fight.
"So, we find you first." Sasuke said as they came to a stop infront of Naruto. "I had hoped for Tsunade, but you'll do."
"... Sasuke-kun..." Sakura breathed out.
Naruto widened his stance. "Don't do this Sasuke."
"Suigetsu, Jugo. Take care of the other two." he ordered.
Sasuke jumped at Naruto with his sword drawn. The blonde barely had time to take out a kunai before Sasuke clashed with him. Naruto jumped away, he couldn't risk Kakashi and Sakura getting caught up in their fight, besides they had their own problems. Sasuke came at him again, sword in his right hand, Chidori charged in the left. As the blades met Sasuke shot his hand forward but Naruto caught him by the forearm and shot it straight up, he knew all about Sasuke's lightning manipulation. WIth both of their arms locked Naruto did the only thing he could think of, a swift headbutt.
Suigetsu and Jugo did as Sasuke commanded and attacked. Jugo going after Sakura and Suigetsu going after Kakashi, that was the last mistake either would make. Sakura was able to match Jugo's strength with her own and being more flexible she was able to get in his guard. Kakashi wasted no time in uncovering his Sharingan, he needed to at least try and help Naruto. Suigetsu attempted to take off Kakashi's head but the Jounin ducked and drove his fist towards the boy's chest.
"Dammit!" Kakashi growled as his hand became trapped in Suigetsu.
The silver haired youth smirked and brought a kunai up for another attack. Thinking quickly Kakashi charged up a Raikiri and took his hand back. Suigetsu yelled and fell to the ground as the lightning coursed through his body, he tried to run away only to have Kakashi block his path, he tried a different direction and found Kakashi there too. Going through the proper handsigns, Kakashi brought his hand to his mouth then blew out a large fireball. It was over as fast as it began, he looked over to Sakura. She was having trouble, it seemed her opponent was made of tougher stuff than his. No matter how many punches and kicks she gave him he just stood back up, Kakashi saw his chance and charged up another Raikiri. Sakura knew what to do and after another punch to the man's jaw she ducked, confused the man looked behind him and had a hole punched through him.
"Sloppy." Jugo coughed.
Kakashi retrieved his hand and helped Sakura up.
"Let's go." he said.
She nodded and took off with him.
In the short time that it took Kakashi and Sakura to finish off their enemies, Naruto and Sasuke had already torn the land apart. Naruto was breathing heavy and so was Sasuke. The Uchiha was covering his left eye and his whole body shook. Naruto activated his Kyuubi chakra cloak, although it seemed strained. Sasuke gritted his teeth and went through handsigns before lifting his head towards the sky. He shot out several flames shaped like dragons then jumped up to an elevated surface. The sky grew dark as thunder rolled in, Sasuke activated his Chidori and held his hand up.
"You should be grateful." Sasuke said. "You are the second to feel this power."
"It doesn't have to be this way Sasuke!" Naruto yelled at him. "Just stop dammit! I can talk to Baa-chan! She can pull some strings, we can all be Team 7 again!"
'Your words Naruto... They fall on deaf ears.' Kakashi thought.
"After you, there will be no one to stop me." Sasuke stated.
"Don't do it..." Naruto warned.
Sasuke brought his hand down. the area flashed blue causing Sakura and Kakashi to look away. When they looked back there was nothing but a smoldering crater. Naruto was nowhere to be found, no body, no jacket not even a scrap of cloth. Sasuke smirked, the largest obstacle in his way, gone reduced to nothing.
"Naru... to..." Sakura whispered.
Sasuke was about to turn and retreat, he needed to recover. When Naruto appeared infront of him.
"What?!" he growled.
"I warned you." Naruto said.
He grabbed the Sasuke's right arm to hold him in place and began to charge up his new technique. As his left hand held Sasuke's arm, his right hand began to glow with five medium sized Rasengans, one for each finger.
"Rasengan burst!" he shouted.
He threw his hand into Sasuke's gut and let go of his right arm. The force of the attack sent Sasuke flying into an expanse of trees. Taking a quick second to catch his breath, Naruto ran after Sasuke with Kakashi and Sakura following. Naruto found Sasuke crumpled to the ground with blood flowing from various wounds and his left arm bent unnaturally at different angles. Sasuke cracked one eye open before falling back unconcious, Naruto picked him up and started running back towards Konoha.
"Dammit! Where could they have gone?!" Sakura cried.
Her cries were answered when Naruto zipped past them with Sasuke on his back.
"Naruto wait!" she cried.
Kakashi looked at her, various emotions rose to the surface. Her love for Sasuke and her concern for Naruto, the next few hours could break her if the events didn't play out just right. They turned around to go after them and towards Konoha.
Naruto burst through the Hospital's doors yelling. "We need a doctor now!"
"Keep your voice down dammit!" Tsunade growled at him.
"Baa-chan!" he yelled again. "You gotta heal him!"
Tsunade glanced at the unconcious man on Naruto's back, spotting Sakura and Kakashi come in after him. She sighed and looked back into Naruto's eyes.
"I can't Naruto." she said.
"What?! You're the best medic ever! You-
"Let me rephrase that." Tsunade cut him off. "I won't heal him... he's an enemy of Konoha that has killed Danzo, and has tried to kill Sakura, Kakashi and yourself."
"I don't care!" he yelled again.
They looked into eachother's eyes, Tsunade holding the calm expected of the Hokage. Naruto's eyes filled with defiance, demanding her to help. Tsunade sighed again and looked towards Kakashi and Sakura, as usual Kakashi was impossible to read. Sakura, tears began to fill her eyes... in a moment of weakness she took Sasuke off of Naruto's back and onto a stretcher. She put fingers to her mouth and let out a sharp whistle, several ANBU agents came in from nowhere.
"You will escort me to the ER and stay within." Tsunade explained.
The ANBU members nodded and followed Tsunade to the ER. Sakura tried to go inside to help only to have Tsunade stop her.
"Not you Sakura. Look at you! You're too emotional, you're in no condition to help." Tsunade ordered.
Sakura backed off and nodded as she watched to door close. A warm hand on her shoulder brought her attention to Naruto.
"Sorry, I didn't think I would mess him up that bad." he apologized.
Sakura shook her head and leaned against Naruto. "It's fine... Tsunade-shisou will heal him, everything will be fine."
An hour had passed since Naruto demanded that she heal Sasuke. He was stable now, nothing to worry about. Still, Tsunade scowled, something was wrong.
"Tsunade-sama?" Shizune asked.
Tsunade shook Sasuke awake, not bothering to be gentle. He cracked his eyes up at her, surprise nowhere to be found in his gaze.
"Activate your Sharingan." she ordered.
Everyone went on guard as Sasuke pumped chakra toward his eyes. A brief flicker of red and black before he yelled and covered his eyes.
'Just as I thought.' Tsunade thought.
"All of you stay in here, make sure he doesn't go anywhere." she ordered.
They all nodded and watched as she exited the ER. Outside Sakura stood from a chair she was sitting in and ran up to Tsunade with Naruto behind her.
"Is Sasuke-kun okay?!" she asked.
Tsunade sighed and looked at Naruto. "I need to ask, did you use your Rasenshuriken on Sasuke?"
"No! Well, once- but! It was to stop this weird jutsu he used." Naruto explained.
"So you never actually hit him with it?" Tsunade asked.
"No! Of course not!" Naruto shouted.
"Okay calm down." she told him.
"Why?! What's wrong with him?!" he demanded.
"His chakra system." Tsunade said. "It's so destroyed I can't heal it."
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.
She grabbed a blank chart and flipped the paper over to the blank side. Using the pencil connected to it she drew a circle with small arrows in it.
"This is a person's chakra flow undisrupted." she began and the two teenagers nodded.
She drew another one only this time half the arrows faced the other way. "And this is someone who is caught in a Genjutsu or a damaged chakra system. Easy to fix, just takes some time."
Again they nodded. The third figure she drew was a circle with an uncountable amount of arrows inside. "This is Sasuke's system. I have no idea where to start, it's so destroyed no one I know could heal it."
"Wait!" Naruto said. "I didn't use the Rasenshuriken on him but... I used a new Rasengan type I had been tweaking with. I had five of them in one hand, small ones, but I had to use my Kyuubi cloak to do it could that have..."
"Did you use the Kyuubi's actual chakra to form them?" Tsunade asked, this could be the reason.
"No! I just needed the boost to make it work. All the Rasengans were made from my own chakra." Naruto explained.
"That would explain the odd damage on his abdomen... but if it was your chakra... that wasn't it." she said. "He will never be able to mould chakra again... his ninja days are done."
Sakura started to cry, he was okay! But... his ninja days were done? Who knows what that would do to him.
"Does he still have the Sharingan?" Naruto asked.
Both women looked at him. "What?" Sakura asked.
"Sasuke, above everything wanted to kill his brother and restore his clan. Without the Sharingan there is no Uchiha clan, so I ask again, does he still have it?" he asked.
"Yes, he is unable to use it in his condition, but his genes still carry the code for it. He could pass it on to his children, and his children would pass it and so on." Tsunade explained.
Naruto nodded, at least some good news came from this.
"In his condition he is not a threat to us, so I will not have him executed or throw him in prison... for very long. After a year, you better be grateful you brat, I will place him under ANBU watch. Should he attack anyone..." Tsunade said. "You two may go in and see him if you want."
They both nodded at the silent warning and watched as she walked off. Sakura started to shake as she tried to hold back her sobs.
"Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.
"I'm sorry Naruto." she sobbed. "I wanted to be strong, didn't want to cry but-
"It's okay... I'm sorry." he said. "I didn't think that- that he would be damaged so bad."
"... I have to do something for him." she whispered.
She took another step towards the door and stopped.
"I'm so sorry Naruto... I should be hugging you, thanking you! Kissing you! But I-
"I know. You can invest the time Baa-chan can't... and old feelings die hard. You do what you need to Sakura-chan, if you ever need anything don't hesitate to ask." he told her and gave her shoulder a squeeze.
"Thank you, Naruto." she said.
She heard him walk away. She gulped and opened the door to Sasuke's room. Various ANBU stood along the walls watching Sasuke ready to move in if he attacked. She walked towards the bed he was in and looked down, his eyes were open but he was looking away.
"Saskue-kun?" she asked.
"So strong... he's so strong." he said. "... When did he get so strong?"
"... He's always been strong." she smiled. "You just never wanted to admit it."
Sasuke looked up at the cieling and sighed. "I can't even activate my Sharingan..."
She put a hesitant hand on his shoulder and he looked over at her. She smiled as tears ran down her cheeks.
"Don't worry, I'll do everything I can to fix it... I promise." she told him.
The days bled into weeks, the weeks quickly bled into months. Finally a year later, a year of hard labor in Konoha's prison, he was out. Sasuke's orignal mind set of waiting for Sakura to heal him then attack was erased from his mind. In its place was at first anger, then sadness followed by reluctant acceptness and then finally true acceptance. He was here for good, even if Sakura was able to heal him it didn't matter, he hadn't trained once since leaving the Hospital. It had nothing to do with that he couldn't mould chakra or that he was under constant ANBU surveillance. No it was a simple fact, Naruto had beaten him once, and with all of his training he could do it again.
If he was going to be stuck here he would make the most of it. He begged Tsunade for his home back, and surprisingly she agreed. He attempted to reconnect with everyone, that hit a deadend quickly. Only Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi were willing to be around him. Speaking of Sakura, she was running towards him.
"Sasuke-kun!" she smiled at him.
"Sakura." he said.
"C'mon! You'll have dinner at my house tonight!" she beamed.
"Um-
"It's fine I promise! My parents are okay with it!" she said.
He nodded, there was no point in arguing. One way or another she would get him to her house for dinner. Besides, she had been melting her brain with all the research she had been doing, there was really no reason he couldn't enjoy a meal with her. He put an arm around her shoulders and let her lead him to her house. The meal was nice, no awkwardness or angry stares that he became accustomed to.
"Excuse me, Haruno-san. But where is your bathroom?" he asked.
Sakura's mother directed him down the hall. None of them heard anything else so they started cleaning up. Once they were done cleaning they figured Sasuke slipped out, so her parents went to bed while she stayed up to do some research. Of course what they didn't know was that Sasuke had stayed. After he was let out of the Hospital he would have random episodes of nausea and headaches, he was worried at first so he went to Tsunade. She ran a simple test, it was backlash from his Sharingan, other than an annoyance there was no real danger so he took care of it when it came around. He exited the bathroom to find the dining room deserted, he must have been in there longer than he thought. That's when he heard a soft voice coming from upstairs.
"Maybe if I try to- No, no that wouldn't work. Perhaps-
"Sakura." he said.
"Oh! Sasuke-kun! I thought you left already." she said surprised
"Put the book down Sakura." he ordered
"What?! But I'm not even close to helping your problem." she told him
"You've been reading too long." he whispered
He pulled the book from her hands then helped her up.
"Sasuke-kun?" she asked.
"Be quiet for once." he ordered
He kissed her after that, her first kiss, their first kiss. Sakura was surprised to say the least, but that was quickly taken over by bliss. She closed her eyes and leaned into the kiss.
And there you have it, the first chapter about the past, the next one should be soon and that one will focus mainly on Naruto and Hinata with a bit of sweetness thrown in too. The next chapter will be a normal chapter though so don't worry.
The reason I killed off Jugo and Suigetsu so fast was simply because I never really liked them, and trying to come up with a reason of where they are or what they're doing in the current time of this story was starting to get annoying.
-Raidori