A/N: Okay, now this is getting ridiculous but I don't want to overwhelm you guys. I'm sorry, but I'm cutting the fight to three parts now and I swear to whosever up there that the third part is going to be the last part of the fight! Though with this chapter, I feel like I didn't do it any justice. It's mostly talking but at least you guys will learn a lot about how I portray the term 'vampire' in this story. I don't know if that's a bonus or it's going to be boring. I'm sorry…

I do NOT OWN ANY of the Naruto characters or the story itself. Oh how I wish I did but no. Thank you for those who have reviewed and I am so sorry that I'm taking so long. Fight scenes are not my forte. I dedicate this chapter to my good friend Hitoko-sama. She was a big help in how I should write the fight. Thanks girl! I hope you enjoy this chapter, even though I fear that it might be boring. Oh well. I made you guys wait for far too long as it is. Enjoy and forgive me.

Ch. 22: The Fight Between Brothers Pt 2

Watching the fight continue between the two brothers, some of the servants began to talk amongst themselves. Not that the fight was boring them. It's exciting since it's a fight between the two strongest vampires they have ever known, but it's because this fight is so admirable that they just had to talk.

"Amazing, isn't it? Those two are practically equal."

"It may look like that but it's obvious that Sasuke-sama has the upper hand."

"But it looks like Itachi-sama might be planning something big. He was able to catch his brother off guard with that illusion. Those rumors about him cannot be false. He is truly an incredible warrior."

"Yeah, like twenty years ago. This old dog is going to get whooped."

"But I'm curious. How exactly do you kill a vampire?"

"Why ask me? I don't know."

"Well I was just asking because even though it was an illusion, Itachi-sama got stabbed in the heart. Anyone would have been killed right there and then."

"But that only works with a beating heart. I heard that if you cut off the head, they might die."

"No, no, no. That's only a rumor. I heard it was getting your heart twisted with a wooden stake."

"Don't wooden stakes just paralyze them?"

"Yeah, if you stab somewhere else. Stab the side, they're paralyzed. Stab the heart and twist it, they're dead."

"Holy water and garlic works on them, too right?"

"Holy water does. I don't know about the garlic. I think they're just allergic to them."

"Like get a rash and die?"

"Like sneeze every five seconds and act like they have a cold. But Holy Water burns them like acid but mild compared to sunlight."

Hearing them and sort of getting annoyed by them, Suigetsu turns to the other workers and ask, "Why are you people even talking about that? Are you planning mutiny?" After he asked that, the discussion on how a vampire dies and their weaknesses completely stops. They just stare at him, like loyal animals to a master. "That's what I thought." Then he turns back to the others.

"Didn't have to yell at them like that," Karin scolds him.

"They were getting irritating. If a hunter knows how to kill vampires then these things should be common knowledge and really, none of their business."

"But thank you for standing up for us," Madara tells him, "even though it's really quite alright. We don't mind."

Suigetsu thinks, 'But you're different compared to other vampires, my lord.'

Then Mikoto cuts in saying, "There really is nothing to worry about, Suigetsu-kun. I'm sure you're just worried that our boys might really kill each other."

"With everything that's happened, my lady, I do feel a bit of concern," he answers. Karin looks at him with 'really?' eyes. He saw that. "What?" She just gives him the eye and then looks away.

Naruto cuts in saying, "No need to worry! They can't disobey my orders no matter what!"

Juugo has on a crocked smile and a nervous glint in his face as he adds, "Though it was surprising that Sasuke-sama just stabbed his brother like that."

"I know my protector! He wouldn't kill Itachi-teme even if he wanted to."

That was both a believable and an unbelievable statement.

"However things are starting to get a little boring now isn't it?" Everyone turned to Madara when he said that. Everyone but Mikoto looked at him like he's nuts. As if hearing their unspoken question, he answers to them, "All they're really doing most of the time is clanging their blades around. More action would be nice." His mate nods.

"I wonder when they're going to show them that," Mikoto wonders with her husband. Now they're looking at her like she's crazy but Naruto seems to get it as he lightly pounds his fist against his flat hand in understanding. That's a first.

"Oh, you mean that that right?" Both parents nod before Madara looks back at the fight and Mikoto remains talking to the kids. He'll be on the look out to see if they'll do that.

Sugetsu asks, "Uh, what do you mean by 'that'?" Even Sakura and Hinata are confused as to what Naruto means by that.

Drip

Madara lit up when he finally sees it. "You're about to find out."

Down at the fight, Sasuke hits Itachi's blade one more time and the older Uchiha steps way back to dodge as much as the attack as he can. Sasuke gets ready to charge at him again but because he was going too fast, he didn't see the thing his brother dropped before stepping away. He took one quick step and slipped.

Yes. Slipped.

Sasuke had a second to realize that he slipped on something and to those watching, they gasp when they see this. Itachi watches carefully before charging at his brother, however but this time he extends the blade of his dagger with his flames. By the time Sasuke got some of his ground again, Itachi is already charging his now flaming sword at him. Then slash right at the shoulder. Many surprise gasps are heard as blood comes splashing out of Sasuke's shoulder and then drizzling on the ground. He grimaces for a moment before sending lightning from his feet on the ground he's standing on. Itachi only had a second before he was shocked by it. More gasps are heard, as well as a few whispers.

"How did that happened?"

"How could the lightning travel over nothing before hitting Itachi-sama?"

"How in the world could Sasuke just trip? He has the grace of a cat!"

At the same time, after both attacks, both Sasuke and Itachi jump away from each other and take a moment to feel just what kind of damage was done to their bodies. Sasuke looks at his shoulder, seeing how the gash is slowly starting to heal as well as the burns. Itachi's body feels a little numb and he's a bit paralyzed at the moment. Good thing he has some time or he really won't be able to move fast enough to dodge Sasuke's next attack.

Seeing all of that, Sakura, being extremely worried about her future fiancé, asks, "What in the world just happened?" Besides her, Hinata could not keep her mouth shut from the unexpected event that just happened before her.

Acting like the smart one, Naruto goes up real close to her and asks, "Come on, Sakura-chan. I'm sure you know how electricity could travel."

Sakura slams her hand against the side of his head and pushes him away. "Don't act like you know what happened, Naruto."

"But he does, Sakura."

The attention is turned to the parents once again and both of them are smiling, despite the damages done to their sons. Before they ask, Mikoto tells them, "Both of our boys are definitely what you call 'special' compared to other vampires. It wasn't just their admirable and unusual relationship with one another, but it's also their abilities and powers are what create the fine line between them and any normal vampire you'll ever meet. My one question for you is how do you think Hidden Powers are determined to every vampire?"

Madara answers, "Personality and morals to be learned."

Personality and morals to be learned? For those who should know what he means by that, like Kimimaro, he's a little curious about this topic. But for those who don't know about this at all, like Suigetsu, Karin, Juugo, and Hinata, they are more than just curious.

"Kimimaro," the king calls. "Tell me, why do you think the Hidden Power you possess is what it is? You have the ability to control the skeletal structure in your body, correct? Controlling the growth of your bones and forming them to whatever shape you desire?"

He nods but he politely answers, "But I do not know why I have that ability, my lord."

"Then think of it this way. As a human, you had poor health, correct? Did your disease attack the bones in your body or your internal organs?"

"My internal organs."

Madara pause for a second. "Right. Then you must have your ability, not because of something physical but because of your personality. You're kind and gentle, but when it comes to protecting what's dear to you, you're strong and willing to do whatever it takes to protect it. You can make your bones bend to whatever shape, making them extremely flexible, and you can harden them to make them stronger than steel. Your heart is kind and it's very strong. That might be the reason why your Hidden Power is what it is." Kimimaro became blushing red from the king's praise. Seeing him look like that, Juugo couldn't help but think that his soon mate-to-be looks so adorable. But yet again, he always does to his eyes.

Then Mikoto asks, "Dear, did you just make that up on the spot?"

Huh?

Madara laughs. "Yeah, I did. I always had the impression that Kimimaro has that ability because of his disease. Like the vampire venom merged with the disease cells and caused his bones to not make him sick but to make him stronger. Like making them work in reverse. Guess I was wrong." Then he laughs to himself like it's the funniest joke of the century. Everyone but his smiling mate just looks at him with sweat drops going down.

However, staying on subject and being a little curious, Hinata asks, "Madara-sama, why are you explaining to us about what a Hidden Power is?"

"It's because there's a rumor."

The attention turns to Naruto after he said that. Some have raised brows while others are slightly surprised. Madara and Mikoto are still smiling while Naruto, on the other hand, looks normal. If counting him smiling at his protector's parents as he asks, "Isn't there?" is normal.

Suigetsu had to ask. "Rumor?"

While down at the fight, Sasuke's wound had finally healed enough for him to move as Itachi finally got some feeling in his body again. However during that little break, someone got angry.

"So you pull that trick on me?" Sasuke asks, glaring extra sharp daggers at his brother. Seeing the full extent of his anger from his eyes alone, Itachi takes this as cautious. Sure he's seen his little brother angry, but is mostly because he's screaming at someone, usually him or Naruto. But this time, Sasuke looks more than just angry and ready to scream. He looks extremely infuriated and ready to kill.

Itachi stands his ground as he slowly tries to get up, trying to feel and operate his limbs properly again. "By the Kyuubi's orders, we are to act like we're fighting to the death without killing each other. Making that move is no exception in this fight. I know you're not upset that I used it on you. You're upset that I was able to do it at all."

At this point, Sasuke might be the first and only person to narrow his glare at his opponent without looking like he's squinting his eyes. His anger is practically radiating off of him and even the audience above can feel it along with how suddenly tensed it got in the giant training room. Maybe Itachi shouldn't have said that.

Then Sasuke just suddenly smirks. "Heh. Twenty years. Twenty freakin years of being human and you're able to control your powers like it's second nature to you. You truly are one hell of a genius. You're making my years of training look like one giant waste of time. Thanks a lot, Itachi." At this point, Sasuke's bangs are covering his eyes from view. He still has that smirk on and not at all does he sound like he's feeling sorry for himself. His hand rises to his face and from the looks of it, his fingers are entangled with his bangs and his palm is pressed over his eye. "Oh don't worry. I'm not going to admit defeat just yet. I haven't fully gotten started yet. I just figured I could take you out without any trouble at all but you've left me no choice. Wanna see?" He raises up his sword and for only a second, a spark of lightning appears on the blade before it actually burst into flames. Like Itachi's dagger but without extending its length, Sasuke now has an enflamed sword. This surprises Itachi. But when the older prince gets to see his little brother's face when he looked up at him and revealed his eye, Sasuke doesn't have red eyes anymore. He has a black eye with golden iris and it's wide and almost, a little insane. But that's not all. On half of his face, his neck, and one arm, there are black markings all over his pale moon skin. Those eyes and those markings, that's what shocks the older Uchiha the most to see. "You're not the only one who can control two elements, and you're not the only genius here! I am about to show you exactly what I can do! I hope you're ready!" With lightning speed, Sasuke slashes his sword through thin air and coming right towards Itachi is a fire slash. As quickly as he could, Itachi moves out of the way to avoid it. Which means doing a back flip and then jumping to the side in order to do that. Now Sasuke is proving himself to be too dangerous to even get close to. What in the world suddenly got into him anyway?

Then Itachi is face to face with Sasuke in lightning fast speed, now looking at him right in his black and gold eyes. Now that was fast. Itachi didn't even see him and for him to not see his little brother, that just became a problem. Before the older Uchiha expected it, Sasuke's foot collides with his chin. The younger prince was able to get both hands on the ground in half a millisecond to lift his foot up in order to make that hit. Something that would have taken a second or two to do. Not a millisecond. From it, Itachi ends up flying high up in the air. Only when the guy became ten feet off the ground did he see his baby brother right in front of him again, with a hand that's now covered in lightning.

Now, Itachi might be screwed.

As quickly as he could with his own speed and trying to be able predict his moves, Itachi leans back and just in time too. Otherwise, he would have been sliced in half by Sasuke's lightning covered hand. It missed him by a hair, like literally. Itachi watched as a few of strands of his hair are cut. That was close, or was it? With his speed, Sasuke quickly turns around and then kicks Itachi right in the chest. A mouth's worth of blood escapes from Itachi's mouth from the impact before he came colliding with the ground, creating a rather huge crater and for dirt and dust to surround him and Sasuke. All of the servants were in 'awe' when they see that as for Kakashi, he looks pleased.

Sakura leans over the edge and she asks, "Wh…What just happened?" Not that she's upset that Sasuke was able to land a hit on his brother hard enough to make him gag out blood but it was how he did it that shocked her. She wasn't the only one. Everyone was shocked, all except for the king, the queen, and the god.

"Don't you remember what he said, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asks, leaning over as well like a child watching TV. Sakura got up and glares at the blonde for saying that like she's an idiot. She may not have understood what just happened but that doesn't mean she's stupid. If Naruto wasn't her god, oh Kyuubi would know what horrors she would do to him. "He said 'two elements'. Both teme and Itachi teme can control two elements." And that took Sakura off guard, as well as the others.

"Two elements?" Karin exclaims. "I've never heard of that!"

"Well actually if you really think about it, Itachi is the one with two elements," Madara cuts in. He explains, "Remember what I said about your hidden power is determined by your personality or morals to be learned? Itachi has them both. It's commonly known that Itachi has fire as his hidden power, but that's only because fire is something that must be controlled or it'll go out of control. Now I'm not saying that Itachi doesn't have control, but when it comes to feeding and compared to Sasuke, Itachi has a difficult time dealing with his blood lust. Sasuke is a natural at controlling it and that's why he can control lightning since lightning is the fastest and outrageous form of fire. That's what Itachi needs to learn. That is his moral. However as far as personality goes, Itachi has better control than Sasuke. I'm sure that you've all noticed by now that Itachi can also control water."

"What?" Suigetsu, Karin, and Sakura yell out as soon as they heard that. The calmer ones are silent and their eyes are wide with gasping mouths. Madara sweat drops when he sees this reaction.

"You haven't notice?"

"But that doesn't make sense!" Suigetsu quickly says. "Like Karin said, we've never heard of a vampire having more than one hidden power. It's always one and even if it's about personality or morals to be learned, how can Itachi-sama have a power for a moral he has to learn and another for his personality?"

"Simple," Mikoto answers cheerfully. "It's because there's no one else in the world who's like Itachi." This quiet them down to listen, only because they both became confused and started to realize a few things.

Madara explains again, "Tell me, how many people do you know who can control their emotions at any given time no matter what the situation, is very adaptable and flexible, can be destructive when the situation calls for it, and can still remain sane afterwards? Think about it. Though since you guys actually don't know Itachi all that well, when my son was younger, he was always cool and flexible. Everyone knew that he was not one to let his emotions go out of control in any situation and he could handle it. But since he wasn't able to control his hunger as well as Sasuke could when he started to mature, he had to learn how to control something that is alive and can go out of control if not in check. That's really what fire is and that's why he has a better control over his first element instead of his second. He has control over water but using it is limited. He knows a few things and he has some powerful attacks about it but fire was his first and fire is what he knows best. Shall I explain Sasuke as well or do you know why he could use lightning and fire?"

Naruto doesn't wait for an answer. He just tells them, "Compared to Itachi teme's powers, lightning and fire are not that different. Fire is lightning's mother element. The big difference is lightning is hotter, faster, and more wilder than fire. Since Sasuke has almost perfect control over his vampire blood, it's no surprise really that he has lightning. He can use fire by controlling how much heat he'll use and how slow he can make it. Besides his great inventions, that's what also makes Sasuke his own genius in combat fighting. The plus side of it all is since he's slowing down for his element attacks, he has all this energy and speed to use up. That's why once he starts using fire, he becomes wicked fast. That's what just happened." Once he was done with his explanation, instead of looking at him with dumbstruck expressions about Sasuke's incredible achievement, some of them are looking at Naruto with unbelievable faces. One of them being Suigetsu.

"How is it that all of a sudden, you sound so smart?" he asks. That made the blonde a little angry.

"I'm the Kyuubi's Jinchuriki that he's supposed to protect! I'm with the guy practically twenty-four-seven! I know how his attacks work!"

Crash

That was unexpected.

Hinata suddenly goes, "Everyone, look!" She points down to what she's referring to and when the others lean over to look, they see Sasuke up against the wall after making his own crater and the dust and dirt finally clearing to reveal Itachi…inside what looks like a giant glowing red warrior with a sword and shield.

The heck? Even Sasuke is surprised to see this.

"Oh? So he's resorted to that then?" Madara asks, as one of the only people who are not shocked by the new appearance of his eldest son. Mikoto was the only other. "Sasuke must really be a challenge for him to bring that out."

Naruto would have pushed people to the side to go face to face with the King, if he wasn't already next to him, just to ask, "What the heck is that?"

Only then did Madara look confused. "That's Itachi's Full Vampire Mood. Nothing surprising about him looking like that."

Quickly, the Jinchuriki responds, "But I thought Full Vampire Mood is when the physical appearance of the vampire changes. Not have some kind of flaming warrior giant being transparent all around you!" Why is he freaking out like this? This is one of the many transformations to becoming a stronger level of vampire powers. He should know that there are other appearances of the Full Vampire Mood. But yet again, he's never been to many battles to know that.

Though when he said that, that brought another air of curiosity. And before anyone could ask, Itachi makes his attack.

The older vampire prince just appears to be standing in that little crater of his as he pants in exhaustion and the pain from his little brother's earlier attack while his giant warrior raises his sword across his body. Many of the servants gasp in knowing what that means while Sasuke is still only wide eye at the translucent warrior for even being here. Then a split second later, with just a simple silent command of the mind, the sword comes thrusting down.

"Sasuke-kun!"

And at the last minute the sword changes angle and slices the wall right above the younger prince. Rubble of the wall comes falling down on top of him. Which was better? Getting sliced by a giant sword or getting crushed by rocks? Itachi only moves the direction of his warrior's sword because of Naruto's order. Not because Sakura was screaming her lungs out. However, the last Itachi saw of his little brother, the boy raised his arms up to protect himself as those rocks came falling down and the marks starting to spread throughout his body. That can't be good.

And the fight goes on!

So was it boring? I'll understand if it was. Let me know, okay? I'll take flames since I think I deserve it with this chapter. I promise you that you will like my next chapter! Till next time!