[From the Crimson Edge threads, The Fanfiction Forum]
Random reviewer: Sooo... when's Urahara!Naruto gonna get bankai?
Fosfor: No bankai.
Random reviewer: Sooo... at the Valley of the End?
Fosfor: No, no bankai *period*.
Random reviewer: ... Post Time Skip, then?
Fosfor: What did I just say? No [bleep][bleep][bleep] bankai! This is _Urahara Kisuke_. The man who negated Ulquiorra's cero with just his blade. No special abilities, no kido, just Benihime's blade.
Random reviewer: Oh.
... So when exactly?
Fosfor: ... I *hate you all.*
Which lead to this:
Naruto and Sasuke stood off, facing each other from the top of the statues that stood to the sides of the waterfall.
Both were bleeding, breathing heavily; clothes torn, faces bruised, bodies sore as hell.
Still, they stood tall, refusing to show weakness in front of the other.
"You know," Naruto called out, taking the briefest of moments to wipe the blood away from his eye, "we could do this all day... but I really don't see the point."
Sasuke, on top of the head of the long deceased (hah. so much ha.) Uchiha Madara, smirked. "Afraid at last, dobe? You should be. Now that my sharingan has fully developed, you are screwed."
Naruto snorted. "Hardly. I've been holding back all this time, out of the memory of the semi-friendship we had developed during as our time as teammates. But since it's clear you intend to defect to Oto no matter what, I guess it's time to stop pulling my moves."
Sasuke snarled. The deadlast was claiming to hold back? He would pay for the insult! "Then give it everything you have, Naruto! I'll crush you either way!" And with that, he leapt of the statue, running over the river water towards Naruto.
"Oh, I indend to," Naruto murmured, grasping Benihime in one hand and pushing the tip into his opposite palm. "Watch carefully, now!" he called to the rushing Sasuke. "This is something one only sees once in a lifetime!"
With the edge of the blade facing him, he let out one word: "Bankai."
And with that, he flipped the blade toward Sasuke, catching the sunlight and reflecting it straight into Sasuke's eyes.
"Aaaahhh!" Sasuke yelled, as he went momentarilly blind.
With a quick shunshin, Naruto was behind him, Benihime flashing as she struck.
Three quick strikes, and Sasuke was out, his arms and legs disabled, and a rather large bump forming on the back of his head.
Sighing, Naruto pulled a piece of cloth from his pocket and cleaned his sword. After placing Benihime in her sheath, he bent down and grabbed his idiot of a teammate by the back of his shirt and dragged him towards shore.
The last thing Naruto said as he headed back to Konoha was: "*Idiot.* Like I'd use bankai on a weakling like *you*, you Vasto Lord wannabe."