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Kale's POV

"HMHP!" I landed in the snow "Finally found you."

"Kale!" Sensei looked over at me, he was outside with Naruto, Yamato and Sai.

Sai's chakra is off…that must be a clone.

"We came to get you up to speed on the summit." Temari explained "It's a lot so listen up."

I told them what happened, Danzo's attempt at hypnotism, Sasuke's attack and the alliance.

"Talk about an intense meeting." Yamato sighed "I knew we couldn't trust Danzo."

"I was never enthused by the idea of being a Hokage but I suppose this situation is different." Sensei sighed "We can't do anything till we get back to the village, and get some opinions."

"We've got a war starting, there's not time to chit chat." I explained.

"Everyone will likely agree right away." Yamato shrugged "we can talk more once Kakashi is Hokage."

"What about Sasuke?" I asked "He attacked the Summit."

"We just had a discussion about him ourselves." Sensei sighed "Some of the others stopped by."

"Naruto…" Gaara walked up "I want us to be clear, this war is to protect the Seven, Eight and Nine Tails, in other words we will be protecting you, in doing so the World, and I as Kazekage, will be putting our lives on the line for you. I have no problem doing this for you but…If Sasuke, a member of Akatsuki, gets in the way…I will not show him a drop of mercy. Sasuke is no longer seeking you, he seeks darkness of his own will. Naruto you told me that someday you wanted to be Hokage."

Gaara placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder "If you are truly prepared to take up that title, then as Sasuke's friend…you know what you have to do."

"You delivered the message and the messenger, our job is done Gaara." Temari said "We should get home and start preparing. The Sand will act under the knowledge that Kakashi Hatake is the Hokage we'll make sure there's no confusion about what is happening."

"Thanks."

"Naruto…" Gaara stopped "I consider you my friend…it's a word that you helped me understand, you should reflect on what that word means, and what you can do for Sasuke. Good bye."

Gaara and his siblings jumped off, leaving me with the others.

"Naruto…" I sighed "You need to have a long hard look in the mirror like Gaara said. I've made my choice about Sasuke, and I know some of the others have to…you need to make a choice."

"What's our next move?" Yamato asked "I think we should head back to the village, but there's also the problem of Sakura."

"I am with her." Sai spoke up "I can make sure she doesn't go after Sasuke."

"I gotta be the one to talk her out of this." Sensei sighed "Yamato you and Naruto head back to the village, I'll take Kale and Sai's clone to track down Sakura. In terms of the Summit I'll send m hounds ahead with the info. Sai tell me where Sakura is."

I scratched my head, this whole thing…it was falling apart at the seams.

"Hey." I waved my hand "Naruto…you alright."

"Ha…ha…" he was just starting off taking shallow breaths.

Suddenly his eyes rolled back in his head and he fell forward.

"Naruto!"

"He's hyperventilating!" Yamato said "We have to slow his breaths down."

"I think he's having a panic attack." I said dragging Naruto out of the snow and into the inn "I knew all this at once would be too much for him to bear…"

This is it Sasuke…You've pushed me enough already but now you're existence is tearing everyone I love apart…I can't…handle this.

We left Naruto with Yamato and Sensei and I took off after Sakura.

"We should hurry." Sai warned "There might be a problem."

We got a little farther before Sai started melting "She got us…you have to hurry."

"To take out Lee, Kiba and Sai…not bad Sakura." Sensei laughed.

We ran down the path and found the three boys and Akamaru passed out.

"Yo Kiba." I tapped him with one of my new staves.

On the run to meet Sensei I had enchanted the two pieces of metal from the Iron Country, one staff was green and had a strange magnetic fluid floating around the tip, I called that one my Magus Staff. The second was a scythe much smaller than Hidan's and only had one blue sickle on it, but had a skull holding the sickle, I called it the Vyse Staff.

"Where's Sakura?" Sensei asked.

"North…2 o'clock…about a kilometer." Kiba mumbled closing his eye.

"That gas must have been strong to knock them out like this." Sensei said "Let's get them out of the road real quick before moving on."

"Sorry we don't have time to get you a pillow." I laughed hiding them in the bushes "We've gotta hurry."

We moved the four and took off after Sakura, we quickly caught up and found her in a pile of rubble that used to be a bridge…she was talking with Sasuke before suddenly pulling out a Kunai and going to stab some magenta haired girl.

Sakura.

As soon as she stepped forward Sasuke got behind her and charged up a Chidori.

"Sakura!"

He's not bluffing!

Kakashi-Sensei and I moved into position, he swatted Sasuke's hand down and protected Sakura.

"Sasuke…you've fallen." Sensei sighed as my ethereal chains wrapped Sasuke up.

"Five Layer Seal!" I lifted Hidan's Scythe high "Reaper's Scythe!"

I slammed my Scythe down but Sasuke blocked it with his free hand before kicking Sensei back and making flip away.

"They just keep coming." Sasuke grumbled.

I slid back and held my scythe near my back "Are you okay Sakura? If your gonna try and do something like that…don't do it alone."

"I…" she sighed.

"You were trying to kill him." Sensei pointed out.

Sakura looked down.

"You have no reason to shoulder the burden alone." He told her "As your team leader my shortcomings are to blame, I shouldn't have told you those things years ago…my attempt to make you feel better only hurt you more…perhaps I was just trying to convince myself the same thing, I've been a poor teacher."

"Sensei that's not true." Sakura and I said "You-."

"Sasuke, this is the last time I'm gonna say it." Sensei glared at him "Drop your obsession with revenge!"

"Hmm…Ha…HAHA!" Sasuke laughed "Sure, just bring back Itachi, my parents and my whole clan, then I'll drop it!"

"I don't want to kill you…but I will do it." Sensei glared.

"Stop acting like your still my teacher…I want to kill you so bad I can taste it!" Sasuke snapped.

I looked over my shoulder "Sakura can you stabilize the girl so she can talk, I need her info later."

"What about you?"

"I'll help Sensei deal with Sasuke."

"No…" Sensei said "I'm doing this alone, I'm seeing this through to the end, just like you guys."

Sensei stepped up and uncovered his eye "No matter how far he had fallen the Third still cared about Orochimaru, now I understand why."

"Well you and the Third can discuss it in the afterlife." Sasuke smiled.

"Even if you tell me to leave I'm backing you up Sensei." I said crossing my fingers "That's my choice as a fellow ninja. Alacrity!"

"The Sharingan is a symbol of the Uchiha!" Sasuke ran forward "An outsider like you has no right to possess it!"

Sasuke quickly summoned that giant armor and shot off a huge flaming arrow, Sensei and I dashed down to the river and Kakashi warped the bolt somewhere else.

"So that's your eye's ability." Sasuke hissed.

"I don't want to believe that you've sunk that far to hatred. Gaara believes you've sunk into total darkness." I sighed "Don't you have any love for us left? Can't you remember the good times."

"They're laughing…" Sasuke mumbled "They're all laughing it up because Itachi is dead! Ignorant of the price he paid! I'll turn those laughs into screeches of suffering!"

The Susanoo behind Sasuke changed shape and took on a more defined form.

"GAH!" Sasuke grabbed his eyes in pain.

Now's my chance!

I took off and charged up my Scythe for a swing, I looked up and saw Sasuke lining up for her own attack. Before I could get there she jumped down to attack, had her kunai at the back of his neck…and stopped.

She's clamping up!

Sasuke turned around and grabbed Sakura and started choking her out.

"Sakura!" I picked up the pace as I ran to rescue her.

Sasuke grabbed her kunai and prepared to attack.

"Sasuke!"

Just before I got there Sakura was pulled away from Sasuke as Naruto slid passed.

"HRAA!" I slammed my scythe into him and sent Sasuke flying back "Great timing Naruto!"

"Sasuke…Sakura is a member of Team 7, just like us." Naruto said.

"In case you forgot I'm ex-Team 7." Sasuke growled.

"Do you see now Naruto…he's changed." Sensei jumped over to us.

"Sasuke…Tobi told us the truth about Itachi." Naruto said.

Hmm?

"I'm not sure if I believe him…but I understand why you did it."

"I told you before, someone like you with no family…has no right to talk." Sasuke growled.

"Naruto believed in you!" Sakura yelled "even when the world turned its back on you he believed in you and called you a friend, he still…"

"Just before you showed up I got my revenge on one of Itachi's betrayers, the one named Danzo."

"Danzo is dead?" I gasped.

That old man was no pushover…

"I've never felt so great in my whole life!" Sasuke yelled with a disturbing smile "It was like cleansing the Uchiha name of a stain! After rejecting my clan for generations I'm finally going to wipe it from your memories, by killing every single one of you until the leaf is no more. Any remote like to the Uchiha will be severed and our name purified!"

"He's gone mental." I shook my head "These are the incoherent ramblings of a mad buffoon."

Naruto summoned a clone but Sensei stepped in front of him "This is my fight, you three get our of here."

"But-."

"I don't want you to have to see this." He said in a serious tone "Sakura's poison kunai won't work on Sasuke, Orochimaru will have immunized him, besides you can't handle this."

Sasuke charged up his hand and started walking forward.

"Are you going to kill Sasuke?" Naruto asked.

"Leave…" Sensei warned.

Naruto used his clone to restrain Sensei before running at Sasuke with a Rasengan.

"Naruto you idiot!"

"Chidori!"

"Rasengan!"

The two attacks collided with a bang and blew the calm waters of the river into the sky, making it fall like rain. Naruto and Sasuke were blasted in opposite directions, Naruto was flung towards us and caught by Sensei and Sasuke was flung towards a tree and caught by Zetsu.

"Now I'm certain…" Naruto panted.

"Of what?" Kakashi asked.

The air rippled and Madara appeared.

"Oh…Nine Tails, we'll fight some other time, in a more suitable place." Madara explained "We'll retreat for now."

"I'll handle them." Zetsu said making dozens of copies rise out of the water.

There's gonna be too much to handle.

"No Zetsu, you're not a front line fighter, we'll leave the hunt to Sasuke, besides I need you to check on Kisame, meet up with Black Zetsu on the way. Come on Sasuke." Madara said helping the boy up.

Naruto walked passed us and stood at the center of the lake "Sasuke, do you remember what you said at the Valley of the End, about top ninjas. I understand, we've both become top class, so tell me, what was in my heart do you see how I feel? If we fight again…we'll both die."

Naruto…

"If you attack the Leaf our clash is inevitable, so let your hatred grow and hit me at full force, ill be the one to bear the brunt of your hate, not anyone else. I'll take that hatred, and we'll die together!"

"…" Sasuke started growling "What is wrong with you?! Why do you care so much?!"

"Because I'm your friend." Naruto shrugged "We'll never understand each other with words, I've known that since the day I met you, we communicate with our fists. I can barely string a sentence together so I'll stop rambling. If we do take this to the end we won't be Uchiha, Jinchuriki or anything, we'll understand each other on a different level."

"I'm never going to change." Sasuke said "I don't want to understand you, I want you to die."

"I'll handle him right now." I growled.

"No, the only person who will fight Sasuke is me." Naruto glared.

"Come on we're leaving." Madara grabbed Sasuke and warped out.

"Hmm…Ugh." Naruto fell back and passed out.

"He cut his cheek on Sakura's poison kunai." I gasped "Sakura heal him!"

Well Naruto…looks like your fight is just getting started.

AN

Thank you for reading. Feedback is appreciated. Feel free to message me any questions or concerns.

Also Kale's Staves are based on ones from DOTA (Hidan's Scythe is the only exception)

Dreamcatcher- Dazzle's Staff

Voodoo- Witchdoctor

Crystal Staff- Crystal Maiden/Aghanim's Scepter.

Shepard's Staff- Keeper of the Light.

Mystic Staff- Item of the same name.

Dragon Staff- Shadow Shaman.

Magus Staff- Rubik's Staff.

Scythe of Vyse- Item of same name.

Till Next Time!