Chapter 24 is up :)!
Last chapter right :P so enjoy xD
Not much to say right now o.o

Previous chapter:
While Itachi and Madara fight, Sasuke runs towards the cabin where Naruto was kept, except that it was empty. Coming back to the fighting scene where Tsunade, Konan and also Nagato seemed to be too. The kyuubi in control of Naruto's body shocks them all.

Chapter 24:
Inside the Darkness

Naruto:

Everything was turning, turning around. He looked up. Nothing. Everything was black and still it felt like everything around him was moving. A hurricane…

He looked at his feet, seeing nothing. It didn't matter where he looked he didn't see anything at all.
He closed his eyes, black too. Nothing. I see nothing, I feel nothing. I am nothing…

"And you?"
A voice… asking him something..? And you?
"I am the kyuubi."

The blond turned around, trying to find the source of that voice.
It was something that didn't belong in here. That voice was something, a person. Kyuubi..?

"I don't know…", another voice said. Where did those voices came from, everything was black. He tried to follow the sound of those voices. He needed to find something, anything.

"You seem down…."
Down..? I am nothing. I can't seem or be down.

"I have lost my mind…"
Yeah, I did lose my mind. I lost everything. I don't even know if I was really alive… alive..?

"I can't remember anything." The young male stopped and looked around. The voices were getting clearer. Was he reaching those people.

"What do you remember though. There must be something, even a small detail."
Remember… nothing. The young male crunched down. He remembered nothing. This place it seemed to have no time. He didn't know how long he had been here. He didn't know anything. That person didn't understand him.

"Nothing… like I said I remember nothing."
The young males eyes widened… his reply had been the same. Nothing. They both remembered nothing.

"Shall I show you what's outside."
The young blond stood up. Outside. Not in here.

"Outside?"
The young male looked up at the places from where he heard these voices. He wanted to go outside. Away from this darkness. The young blond started running. But nothing changed. The darkness stayed, surrounding him, leaving him all alone.

"Yeah just watch."
Watch? Watch where… there was nothing to see.

He looked around, nothing. Everything was dark, black.
The blond closed his eyes and sighed. It was too good to be true. He sat down. There was nothing else he could do. He would never escape this place. Even if he did what was outside there. He looked up. Still he wished to be free, this couldn't be life.

It was wrong, something was terribly wrong…
"Time for you to learn who is your master." A voice said. The young male didn't recognize the cold voice that had somehow found its way in. his eyes widened. He felt something. Fear. He was afraid.

Afraid of that voice, of that person. Then he noticed two eyes, looking down upon him. Red eyes, with black…

He felt caught. He grabbed his head and wished he could hide somewhere, anywhere, as he left out a scream.

Outside Naruto's mind:
The kyuubi fell down on his knees. He felt that the genjutsu hadn't been directed towards him.
Towards the young blond, inside his mind. He had heard that scream, it was full of fear. That boy who hadn't showed any emotion had screamed out of fear.

The kyuubi looked up and glared. Madara was taken aback by this. The kyuubi didn't seem to be affected. "You bastard!" The kyuubi snarled, as he attacked the male. Madara put his susano back up, while he tried to find out what had went wrong.

The kyuubi's fist reached the barrier of the susano. The kyuubi glared at the person inside.
Itachi moved forward, crushing Madara's defences, as he broke the susano down, before it was completely created.

The kyuubi noticed this immediately and attacked once again, hitting the elder Uchiha full in the face. Madara felt the fist reaching his face as the impact of it pushed him back, he felt several trees breaking down on his back in the process. When he stood back up the Kyuubi was in front of him again as he was grabbed by his neck. Itachi and the others followed them.

Madara felt this his neck could be crushed under the strength of the kyuubi's grip and he swiftly kicked the other back. The kyuubi grabbed his stomach and looked back up at the raven.

The kyuubi then crouched down as he opened his mouth, a small ball full of chakra was formed.
Madara glared as he put his susano back up, brazing himself for the impact of the tailed beats bomb.

When it hit Madara felt the impact was great on his susano, but it somehow managed to withstand the attack.

When the smoke cleared he did noticed that his susano had taken a big blow as some parts were falling apart. When he felt Itachi's chakra next to him, he wanted to immediately counter what attack the other Uchiha had in store. But there come no attack. When the smoke was gone completely Madara noticed Itachi standing there watching him.

"I had warned you… feelings never change." Was the only thing he said. Then Madara felt the kyuubi's chakra flaring up again. He looked back in front of him and noticed the kyuubi charging at him, a rasengan in his hand. Although it was slightly different and bigger than Naruto's.

Madara's eyes widened slightly. How did this happen. What had he done wrong in this process. Feelings…?

Madara jumped backwards a bit, knowing that his susano wouldn't be able to withstand that attack. The kyuubi's red eyes glared at him as he moved closer, but before Madara could react, he saw the kyuubi disappear from his eyes.

Then he felt the chakra behind him. The kyuubi was quick, nothing to say about that. Madara grinned. But still Naruto was gone. They would never reach him. He never thought he would fail. He closed his eyes, before feeling the impact on his body, as he felt everything turning into dust around him.

This wasn't the end. He wouldn't let it end like this. The grin never disappeared as he felt the attack.
Itachi noticed it and wondered if Madara still had something on his sleeve, but when he saw that the whole body was crumbling under the impact of the attack he doubted Madara would have survived it.

The kyuubi landed and stood up, looking at his surroundings. Itachi moved forwards towards, the kyuubi eyed him, wondering what the other Uchiha wanted.

"Can you bring Naruto-kun back?" Itachi asked.
"You mean that blond boy?" Itachi only nodded. Everyone looked at the kyuubi.

"You don't want him back, Uchiha." The kyuubi stated, as he watched his reactions. Itachi glared a bit.
"I want him back. And if can give him back, you are going to give him back. That body is his, after all." Itachi stated.

The kyuubi noticed those feelings in those eyes. "You can't reach him…" Was the reply the Uchiha got.

Itachi looked a bit taken aback, before asking: "What do you mean?" The kyuubi shrugged.
"His mind is somewhere else it seems. He doesn't know anything. He feels nothing." The kyuubi looked back up at Itachi.

"The only time he felt something was when Madara-sama used his mangekyo sharingan on us." Itachi looked down, thinking. What could Madara have done, to have this kind of effect.

"Let us return to Konoha first." Tsunade said, breaking through Itachi's thinking. Nagato sighed.

The kyuubi looked at them all. It felt like they all had come here to safe them, no. to save that blond boy…

The kyuubi looked away and walked away. "Where are you going?" Itachi asked.
"I'm leaving." The kyuubi replied, while he looked over his shoulder.
Itachi glared. And the kyuubi had a feeling the other didn't want him to leave with this body.

The kyuubi grinned, while he walked back towards the raven. "Something wrong, Uchiha?" He asked, standing just in front of Itachi. Itachi didn't reply.

"Give me access to your mind." Itachi said softly.
The red eyes widened at that statement. "You love that kid don't you?"

"More than you could ever know.." Itachi replied. The kyuubi closed his eyes.
"You will get hurt you know. I bet it was all Madara's plans."

Sasuke looked at both of them. "Itachi..?" He asked softly.
Itachi looked back at Sasuke. "Let me go and check." Sasuke said then.

The kyuubi looked at the other Uchiha.
"If you don't love him, it wouldn't hurt so bad. But let's just say his state is kind of messed up."

Itachi looked at the blond boy in front of him. He wanted Naruto back, right now he didn't care for anything else. Itachi grabbed the blonde's shoulders. The kyuubi looked back up at the Uchiha.

The kyuubi wanted the truth. Maybe he would find out about it this way. If they could reach the blond then maybe there was hope. He knew his memories were changed, and it seemed like the blonde's memories were gone. Madara erased his memories… of course the raven in front of him would get hurt.

His boyfriend had forgotten completely about him.
he saw the raven close his eyes. He heard the other Uchiha screaming Itachi's name, then he saw the mangekyo sharingan.

Itachi looked around, he saw a giant gate. He supposed that is where the kyuubi was once in. walking towards it he noticed a small person sitting there.

"Naruto-kun?" He asked softly. The young male looked up. But what Itachi saw shocked him more than he could ever have known. Never… never had he seen these blue eyes in front of him so empty, so lost…

"Who are you?" the boy asked, not moving at all.
Itachi's eyes widened a bit. "Who I am?" Itachi replied, making sure he had understand the question. He couldn't believe this. Had Naruto forgotten about him.

Itachi walked forwards so he was near the bars, he looked at the boy who looked up at him.
"Yeah, I asked you who you are." The boy said.
The boy then looked down again to his hands and the ground.
Itachi closed his eyes, while he too looked down.

"I warned you…" A voice said behind him. Itachi turned around. The kyuubi, but he was in his demon state now, his 9 tails moving behind him. But he didn't seem to want to attack him.

"You knew..?" Itachi asked.

The kyuubi moved closer as he too looked at the small boy behind the bars. "Well, given that I somehow knew Madara changed my memories. And by talking to him I noticed he didn't know anything at all. I assumed Madara had erased all of his memories."

Itachi let out a soft sigh he didn't knew he was holding. The kyuubi noticed the small distress in the Uchiha. Although Uchiha's rarely showed those signs.
The kyuubi then knew that the blond boy inside here meant a lot to him.

"Your name, Uchiha?" The kyuubi asked, still looking at the blond.
Itachi looked down to the nine-tails next to him. "Uchiha Itachi." He replied before looking back to the blond.

"You think you can reach him?" The kyuubi then asked as it turned around and started walking away. Itachi's eyes followed the kyuubi as it retreated from this place.

When Itachi looked back he noticed the blond was looking up at him.
"What do you want from me?"

Itachi moved down a bit and touched the bars as he looked back into those blue eyes. "I want you back, Uzumaki Naruto.."

The blond didn't reply or move at all. "Uzumaki… Naruto…?" He asked.
"Yeah, that's who you are." Itachi smiled a bit, although it was forced. He really wanted Naruto back. But he did indeed wonder. Could he reach him? Could he reach a person whose memories were erased…

"I don't remember…" the blond replied, while he went back to looking at his hands.
"It's ok. Don't force it." Itachi said softly, while trying to keep his own emotions in check.

"You are nice…" Itachi was taken aback by that statement.
"You have the same eyes… but I don't fear you."

Itachi knew he was talking about Madara. "I would never hurt you in any way, Naruto. I always wanted you to be happy."

The blond didn't react. After some time Itachi moved and walked away.
"You are coming back to visit me…?"
Itachi stopped and looked back, he noticed the blond had moved and was standing near the bars now.

Itachi smiled. "Yes of course. I would always come back for you."

When the raven had left. The blond looked at the empty space where he had been. He touched the bars the raven had touched. Light… light inside this darkness.

Outside:
The kyuubi blinked a few times when he felt that the Uchiha had left his mind. Itachi let him go and turned around. Nagato who was sitting against a tree looked up. Sasuke and the others also noticed that Itachi was back.

Everyone stayed silent. The kyuubi sighed and he grabbed his hair with his hand. "No progress I assume?" He asked.

"Did he ever move when you were there?" Itachi asked. Remembering how Naruto hadn't moved till the last second. The kyuubi looked up at the raven's back.
"No, he always sat in that same spot." The kyuubi replied.

Itachi looked up. "In that case we made progress." The kyuubi looked at him, wondering what the raven meant.
Itachi then turned around. "Would you please come with us to Konoha?" Itachi asked. "I promised him I would be back when he asked me if I would ever return."

The kyuubi crossed his hands over his chest and glared at the raven. "And you don't even think about the fact to ask me about this?" Itachi noticed the kyuubi was looking annoyed, but he had a feeling the kyuubi too wanted to know the truth. The memories that had been erased or replaced.

The kyuubi shook his head. "I got one question though." Itachi and the other looked at him.
The kyuubi looked down. "My past. The past I know now is most likely wrong." He looked back up at the Uchiha. "Could you tell me about my real past?"

Itachi looked at him. Those red eyes that were more demanding an answers than asking.
"The truth hurts, I hope you realize that." Itachi said as he turned around.

"You were sealed inside Naruto. You were behind those bars since Naruto was born, before that Madara used you to try and destroy Konoha. That is your true past."

"I see…" Was the reply Itachi got. "What about his past then? I was sealed inside his body."

Itachi looked down, remembering the first time he laid his eyes upon the younger blond. Those eyes that concealed everything. That smile that hid everything. Those villagers that hated him…
Would Naruto want that past back.

When the raven didn't reply, the kyuubi knew it would have been better if he hadn't asked.
"Forget I asked." The kyuubi said then. He looked at the others.

Tsunade looked at the kyuubi. "I will come with you guys if that is what you want." The kyuubi said.
"Thank you." Tsunade said, smiling a bit.

The kyuubi walked towards them, when he heard the Uchiha's voice.
"His past…" The kyuubi stopped and looked at the raven who seemed deep in thought.

"Itachi.." Nagato said softly.
Itachi looked up at them. He smiled sadly. "I bet he doesn't want those memories to return."
the kyuubi turned around and looked down. "He got judged because I was inside his body?"

"Yes." Itachi replied. The kyuubi looked back up at the raven. "You accepted him, all of him." The kyuubi moved towards the raven, stopping in front of him.

"Yeah, I accepted and loved all of him." The kyuubi closed his eyes for one second. When he opened them again he did something that shocked them all. He moved forward, grabbing Itachi's neck as he pulled the raven towards him, crushing their lips together.

Itachi was shocked as he felt those lips. They felt familiar and yet so different. Because it wasn't Naruto… Itachi grabbed the shoulders and pushed him away, his sharingan flaring to life as he watched the kyuubi in front of him.

Sasuke had also jumped forward but Tsunade had stopped him from almost killing the kyuubi.
"Those lips. This body remembers you." The kyuubi stated as he walked away.

Itachi only glared, although it softened a bit at the words the kyuubi had said.
Sasuke too stopped struggling as he had heard those words.

"Let's go. To Konoha." The kyuubi said. He turned around. "Let's go home." Itachi looked at the blond. Itachi then remembered. None of them had said, that Naruto had lived in Konoha. Itachi glared at the kyuubi and noticed that his eyes looked different, more distant. When the kyuubi looked back at the raven, they stared at each other.

The kyuubi grinned. Uchiha's were so clever.
"You.." Itachi said softly.
The grin on Naruto's face widened. " You gave me my memories back. And I am glad I got to kill that bastard of an Uchiha."

"You have your memories back?" Sasuke asked, moving forward slowly.
The kyuubi closed his eyes. He saw how he had fought with Konoha, and the fourth Hokage, who had sealed him inside a new-born. Uzumaki Naruto, aka the boy who has lost his memories.

"Then there is hope for Naruto's memories." Tsunade said, a small smile on her face as she watched towards Itachi. Itachi's face didn't show any emotion at that moment. Sasuke noticed that too.

"Itachi?" Sasuke asked. The kyuubi watched the elder Uchiha too. Itachi closed his eyes and when he opened them again he seemed to be back to normal.
"Anyway let's go." Itachi said, as he started walking. The others were starting to move too. Konan helped Nagato back up and supported him.
"Konan please escort Nagato back right now. He is too weak to travel." Tsunade stated.

Konan gave small nod. Nagato didn't even reply. He knew he was weak right now.
Papers started flying around them as they disappeared.

Tsunade looked back at the Kyuubi and the two Uchiha's. "Let's move quickly." Tsunade said. Knowing they were all ninja's who could move rather quick anyway.

Tsunade jumped ahead of them. Sasuke followed, but he stopped for one second when he noticed that his brother and the kyuubi hadn't start moving yet. "Sasuke, come" Tsunade said.

Sasuke turned his head away from them, knowing they would follow anyway.

Itachi looked at the blond in front of him. He couldn't get used to these red eyes. Then he too jumped forward, following the other two.
"Uchiha." Itachi stopped and looked back. Then he noticed that those red eyes seemed a bit hurt.

"Hm?" the kyuubi looked back up and walked over to him. Itachi didn't move.
"I want a body too…" The kyuubi said softly. Then the kyuubi walked past him and jumped after the others, leaving Itachi behind to register what just happened.

The kyuubi wanted a body… Itachi's eyes widened. Naruto's body!?

End of this chapter and end of the story xD!

Nah am kidding o.o no worries :P
the chapter became a bit longer than I had thought lol. Next chapter is the last one.
With a good ending and I kept the end kind of open, so I can always write a sequel :)
Let me know if you want one and with time I might write one ;)

Cya in the next chapter ^^