Naruto came to a stop from his shunshin on the top of a rocky surface right next to a waterfall that ran off a steep cliff. He knew this place. He was at the valley of the end next to the giant rock sculpture of Hashirama.
He'd never been to this historic landmark before and felt it was a shame he wouldn't be able to enjoy the view. He panned his vision over to Madara's mountainside carving. Much like the real shinobi, it was intimidating. He didn't want to look further to the right. He knew the uchiha was there, likely with something Naruto didn't want to see at his feet.
Naruto had reached a level of emotion he wasn't able to cope with until he felt numb. Hardening his resolve, Naruto turned his head to look at Sasuke. The uchiha's back was facing him, displaying a dirtied and disheveled uchiha crest.
He was standing in a pool of blood still trickling across the rocks. At Sasuke's feet, Naruto saw the deceased children. The end of Sasuke's blade was still dripping with blood and Naruto had his confirmation. Naruto's chains started to appear and clattered to the ground, waiting for the command to end sasuke's life.
Sasuke had already known Naruto was there and turned to face him. After Wiping the tears from his face, Sasuke dropped his old forehead protector to the ground. The voice in his head had been praising him for his dedication to achieve his goals and Sasuke used the words to rationalize his actions in an attempt to quell the growing pain in his chest.
"Why?" Naruto asked a single question, just loud enough for the uchiha on the other side of the waterfall to hear it. Sasuke flinched but said nothing. He looked as if he was fighting with himself. His head was tilted down letting his grown out hair cover the top half of his face. When he looked up at Naruto, Naruto noticed a few things. Sasuke was crying yet it didn't match the smile on his face.
His face had bits of dirt, there were heavy bags under his eyes, and his hair was a mess in contrast to its usual pristine fake messy look. Most of all, Sasuke's eyes were different. His sharingan was the shape of a curved black and red star. His eyes looked wild and Naruto could tell something was off about him.
He wondered if it had anything to do with the black markings completely covering Sasuke's body. It was the cursed seal and probably twisting and dementing Sasuke's mind. Much like it did anko in the past even though the kunoichi never activated it. How long had sasuke been using that mark. Would the mark's influence really be enough to push the uchiha so far, or was Sasuke that desprate? Naruto wondered.
He knew first hand the kind of influence Orochimaru's chakra and tiny piece of soul placed in the cursed mark could be. Still, that wasn't an excuse. The cursed mark only played upon the person's own thoughts and ambitions. Sasuke had willingly indulged the cursed mark to this point. He was still responsible.
"I said, Why!" Naruto repeated, this time much louder. Sasuke flinched again, then his face took on a scowl. "I don't have to answer to you." Sasuke retorted, tears freely flowing from his face. His new eyes, still replaying the death of his uchiha clanmates. The way he'd impaled them in the chest to gain new power before the crazy blonde could ruin his plans.
Then for seemingly the millionth time since doing the deed, Sasuke agonized at what he'd done. He wanted power so bad that in that moment nothing else mattered. Even worse, he was excited for the power he felt building in his eyes. Sasuke was heavily torn and the blonde was an annoyance.
He looked up and noticed the blonde was no longer blonde. His hair was red and it wasn't just caked in blood. Every strand was a deep red as if he'd dyed it. His eyes were different too, sasuke noticed.
To Sasuke, it looked like a burning ball of blue flames rolling within his enemy's eye. Much like the depiction of a blue sun. His mangekyou could clearly see the power in those eyes.
Sasuke started to laugh. "Haaha ha, and who'd you kill to get those eyes? I always knew we were the same. Ha haha," Sasuke said laughing recklessly. Naruto jolted across the river striking with furaijin.
If sasuke had blinked, he would've been dead but his sharingan allowed him to react fast enough to block with the white fang, activating it in the process. Naruto used his momentum and a boost from furaijin to force Sasuke off balance, attempting to knock the uchiha away from his victims. .
In response, Sasuke jumped back to reset his feet. Naruto instantly followed with another slash that was parried by Sasuke. Naruto once again pressed against Sasuke's defense pitting his blade against the white fang. "I asked you why you did it. I won't ask again," Naruto said with a deadly serious look on his face.
"Power, the only thing that matters. Now answer me. Where'd you get those eyes!" Sasuke returned Naruto's expression before igniting the flames on the white fang and directing them towards Naruto.
In response Naruto discharged a raiton blast point blank range. Lightning combatted flames and the two shinobi jumped backwards away from each other. Sasuke not far from the edge of the waterfall and Madara's stone stature that was behind him. "I got these eyes because you, your master, your comrades. Your mission took away someone very important to me. That person's final wish was for me to rescue those kids.
She even asked me to promise I would rescue those kids over taking revenge. And you. You, you killed them for power! For a better doujutsu! They were your family! I would rip these eyes out if it meant I'd get Haku back. We're nothing alike!" Naruto's emotions were getting the better of him again and he had tears traveling down his cheeks too.
"I don't need a lecture from the village's basket case. What would you know! My brother killed everyone I loved for eyes like this. How could I get my revenge if I'm unwilling to do whatever it takes!" Sasuke rescinded, tears still flowing from his eyes like rivers of regret.
"Itachi never would've done it for power! You know nothing about the decision he made. The position he was in." Naruto retorted. "And what do you know about my brother? You know nothing."
"I know the truth! I know that it was more complicated for him than you could imagine. I know he hated violence. I know your clan left him no choice! Either stand aside and allow the destruction of the whole village including the Uchiha or remove the Primary issue.
He chose to save lives, that's what I know.. I know that you just destroyed everything he sacrificed for. I know Haku's life didn't deserve to be extinguished for your and the snake's ambition for power. I know Itachi, my former sensei, would never kill his people for power!
I know he left as many young uchiha alive as he could. But It doesn't matter now though, does it? You've made your choice. Now, you, Orochimar, and everyone that had anything to do with this will die." Naruto said with as much venom as he could muster.
Sasuke choked on the words that were coming out of his mouth. What was this idiot talking about. How would he know better that himself when Itachi told him personally that it was for power, Sasuke thought.
It didn't matter the raven haired uchiha said to himself while he gritted his teeth then settled himself, and his resolve. "Ok then, since you know so much, come Namikaze. I'll use these eyes to drag out everything you know before I kill you too." Sasuke's cursed mark gave him more power in response.
Naruto jolted forwards reengaging Sasuke with a flurry of slashes and erratic chain strikes that forced his opponent backwards in an attempt to dodge and parry the clangs of metal and swooshes of chains melding with the melodic crashing of the waterfall.
Sasuke saw an opportunity to counter with his mangekyou and spun between two chains before parrying a slash from furaijin which left an opening for him to stab into Naruto's shoulder. Sasuke struck true but was too slow in his strike which almost led to him losing an arm but he'd seen his mistake as well and adjusted to dodge naruto's quick side-step and counter slash with furaijin.
Naruto noticed the movement left Sasuke off balance and used precise strikes with his chains to sweep Sasuke off his feet from behind. The newly made redhead dropped low under sasuke using a jolt to amplify his movement before landing a high kick that boosted the uchiha into the air.
Sasuke instantly righted himself in the air and had plenty of time to see 3 of Naruto's chakra blade projectiles. He made 5 cuts in the air of his own that left an arc of flame from each spot he cut. The arcs of flame intercepted the furaijin slashes but blew sasuke back as a result of the collision.
Sasuke flipped as he flew and landed on his feet though he was dangerously close to the edge of the cliff, right next to the waterfall. His eyes snapped to Naruto when he saw hand seals in his peripherals. Naruto was then holding two hands facing him with a dark ball of raiton chakra growing in his hands.
He'd seen the jutsu in the exams and flew through the same hand seals for raiton, shokei mono no kyuu, executioner's sphere." Normally his jutsu wouldn't be as strong as Naruto's but with the curse mark and his mangekyou's power flowing through him, Sasuke was sure he'd create a stalemate.
Naruto noticed Sasuke performing the same jutsu and decided to punish his arrogance. He made the jutsu even larger than when he fought Gaara. Something few in the world would have the chakra control to do, let alone Sasuke. The jutsu grew to a size nearly eclipsing Naruto.
Naruto shot the jutsu at Sasuke a moment before the uchiha released his own. Sasuke's was large and impressive but not enough. Sasuke knew he'd lost halfway through the creation of his own executioner's ball, simply by the chakra mass of his opponents. He shot jutsu off as soon as possible to detonate the two closer in the middle.
Sasuke's plan had almost worked but the resulting electrical explosion from the two jutsu was blown all his way. With nowhere else to run Sasuke let himself fall off the edge before he was fried. Naruto was climbing the ladder of people he hated at record pace.
Sasuke wouldn't leave until the maniac was dead. Naruto sensed sasuke jump off the ledge and leaped over the raiton explosion and onto madara's head. He flowed seamlessly through his next set of hand seals for, raiton raimei no furue, thunderclap quiver.
Once again placing both hands together facing the falling sasuke, he shot a raiton arrow at high speed towards the uchiha. Then he shot another, and another until he was shooting dozens of raiton arrows a second. Sasuke prepared himself to combat the lightning arrows with his sword as he fell but they were quick and the number grew rapidly.
As he fell, Sasuke created a moment's time by leaving multiple flame arcs in the air as somewhat of a defense. He sped through just three hand seals and while taking 2 raiton arrows to the gut that shocked him violently on impact but he still gathered the necessary air in his chest before spitting out dozens of small fireballs performing kaiton, Hosenka, Phoenix sage fire jutsu.
The fireballs and raiton arrows came to a collision as Sasuke broke the surface of the water with a kunai before falling under himself. He didn't let himself go too far underwater, just enough to lessen impact and slow him down. When the soaking wet uchiha pulled himself onto the surface of the water, he felt a spike of chakra.
Looking up frantically, he saw Naruto high over the lake having just jumped. Naruto sliced the air and screamed, Rengoku zan geki, Furajin slash, purgatory. He let out a growl at the damn uzumaki who never lets up.
The resulting blade of lighting and wind was so massive, it could've nearly cut the Madara statue in half vertically. Sasuke had nothing to block that, he knew it. He cursed the former blonde while he pulled himself out completely and ran.
As he looked back, he burned the view into his memory with hate and a little bit of awe. Sasuke had avoided the kill zone but when the purgatory slash hit the lake, it split it in half. The force of the attack forced water from both halves of the lake to shoot high into the air with Sasuke in tow.
He was so close to the attack that he could put his hand out into open air from his side of the lake that was still rising in protest of Naruto's jutsu. When Sasuke and the water began to fall Naruto was in the middle of the split falling too. Naruto released chains in every direction, unwilling to relent or let up. With few hand seals performed in nearly an instant, he channeled raiton chakra in his chains and performed, raiton electromagnetic mass murder.
It was an upgraded version of one of his first jutsu's just like thunderclap quiver. He used his chains as a conduit to expand the range of bands of lightning that seemed to electrocute a large area of the lake as the electrified water splashed back to the ground.
Sasuke was caught, unable to escape the water. He screamed, writhed and started to drown while the electricity coursed through his body. Naruto could feel Sasuke in range and wanted to fry him to death but he was pumping an absurd amount of chakra in his chains to electrocute a large area of the lake. Even for him it wasn't sustainable, especially for its level of effectiveness.
He cut off the jutsu due to his chakra coils being overused as the water from the lake returned to its home with him and Sasuke in tow. Even he wasn't able to stay above water at first, though he'd settled himself quickly.
Sasuke struggled to the surface of the water, the uchiha's body spasming. Luckily, Sasuke had kept hold of his sword, unwilling to let go of the weapon protecting him from being cut to ribbons. It took a moment after breaking the surface, but Sasuke finally pulled himself up to a knee.
Naruto, who'd been waiting atop the rocky wavy water, jolted forward to end the fight with a downward slash. Furaijin glowed a blinding white in anticipation while it sliced through the air.
As his death approached, Sasuke looked up with furious and hateful eyes. Who was Naruto to deny him his purpose? Who was he to stand in his way, he thought. He refused to allow his death before he achieved his goal. He couldn't die here. As in response, Sasuke's Makgekyou spun furiously.
Naruto's sword fell with grace yet hit nothing but air. At the very last second, Sasuke had dodged the killing cut by mere centimeters, his sharingan guiding his path to life. Sasuke stabbed his blade at Naruto's midsection when Naruto overextended.
Naruto was surprised that he missed but wouldn't hold anything against the eyes he was facing and reacted promplty. He flipped with the momentum of his swing and barely over the white fang before planting his feet on the water and sending a backwards kick to sasuke's midsection.
Naruto had used his jolt technique to change his speed and catch Sasuke off guard but the Uchiha sidestepped the kick, stepped closer and slashed at Naruto's neck. Naruto brought furaijin up to parry but the maneuver left him off balance and his opponent took advantage. The red head took a solid and crushing kick to the chest that sent him flying.
Sasuke smirked and assumed the Uchiha's interceptor blade stance. The silent tears dripping down his face contradicting his smug expression. Naruto recovered and skid across the lake to a stop. He saw Sasuke's smirk and his twirling Sharingan and assumed his abilities with prediction were still growing.
Naruto enacted a series of jolt-steps that took him in and out of Sasuke's sight before appearing on his back right side with furaijin prepared to impale. Sasuke once again, side-stepped his strike before capturing Naruto's sword arm between his elbow and knee. The force of the strike made Naruto's arm temporarily go limp, subsequently causing him to drop his sword.
Sasuke followed with an elbow to the redhead's midsection. Naruto lashed out at Sasuke with his chains before the Uchiha could further the attack but Sasuke was able to hit furaijin with his own sword knocking it deep into the lake before disengaging.
Sasuke intended to keep up the pressure and threw a dozen shuriken that Naruto dodged or parried with his chains before starting hand seals. Sasuke had begun his seals the moment he threw the shuriken and was quicker.
He loudly proclaimed, "Uchiha secret technique, katon, burning wire whip jutsu." The Shuriken he'd thrown had oily wires attacked which Sasuke lit with his first affinity and manipulated to whips backwards towards Naruto.
The wires didn't initially have chakra in them so Naruto couldn't see it coming and was caught off guard. He abandoned his jutsu and used precise jolt-steps in an attempt to avoid the attack but it was too quick.
Three of the flaming whips impacted his right side leaving charred gashes. Biting back a whelp of pain, Naruto released twice the chains directing them to intercept and restrain the whips which he eventually managed as the flames died down.
Immediately, Naruto sensed Sasuke charging in from behind him at blinding speed, likely with the white fang poised to end him. Fortunately, Naruto also sensed furaijin. The blade popped from the water and into Naruto's hand just in time for Naruto to spin around and parry Sasuke's strike.
Sasuke had seen it coming at the last moment and put all his weight and momentum into his slash. The resulting clash threw Naruto off balance and Sasuke followed up with a kick to the bottom of Naruto's chin, rocketing him up into the air.
The Uchiha saw his moment and flew through hand seals for his strongest fire jutsu. Katon, ryu kaen bakudan, Dragon flame bomb jutsu. He then inhaled a massive amount of air, expanding his chest to unhealthy proportions before condensing it and spitting out a ball of flames the size of a standard fireball jutsu.
The ball of flame instantly took on the form of a massive dragon's head with its maw open wide as it hurled its way towards Naruto. While not massive, the jutsu was a powerful flame that'd hit with the force of a falling boulder. The redhead would admit that he didn't think the Uchiha had something like this in him but he didn't have time to harp over it.
Naruto created a clone that performed futon, gale palm on Naruto. The redhead was rocketed away, falling towards the lake while his clone took the hit. He saw as the ball of flames exploded into a fiery inferno upon impact. Much more devastating than one would think at first look.
Naruto fell to the lake uncomfortably and his head was dazed. It was nice that his injuries were already healing though, thanks to his tennant. Still, Naruto had to find a way past that mangekyou. His close range attacks had become nearly ineffective and he knew it was that sharingan reading his movements.
"You see? This is the power of the Uchiha. The power I need to kill you and Itachi." Saske said with a wicked smile, tears still streaming down his face. "You'll regret it. A doujutsu is only a tool for a shinobi. A tool you killed your own family for. A tool my Haku died for." Naruto responded, enraged.
Sasuke closed the distance before jumping and came down with a powerful downward slash that Naruto parried. They engaged in a flurry of strikes until Naruto disengaged and jolted to the side to avoid a counter from Sasuke that would've taken his arm.
Naruto flipped back to gain distance before parrying a strike from Sasuke who pushed the attack. Naruto caught sasuke overextending in an attempt to keep up with Naruto's speed and capitalized by hitting aside the white fang and attempting to land a solid kick to sasuke's chest that was so quick, the uchiha should've been off his feet before he could react.
Instead, Sasuke had swayed just enough that the kick only clipped his side. The Uchiha had even managed to elbow the top of Naruto's leg, sending the readhead to a knee. Naruto managed a half ram seal with his sword hand then sent a jolt quickened gale palm at Sasuke.
The force of the gale palm sent Sasuke careening across the lake, Naruto thought. He sensed the white fang coming down behind him and he could only materialize a chain shield on his back. He then realized Sasuke had substituted with a piece of driftwood, having predicted his movements again.
His chain shield held firm but was pushed down to Naruto's back where Sasuke released a burst of flames. The resulting pain caused Naruto to scream and shoot dozens of chains, from his back, at Sasuke. He was sure he'd nicked him but nothing serious.
Naruto jumped away to gain distance, landing on a knee with one hand on the water. He found the Uchiha just watching him and laughing yet the tears were still present. Naruto needed to put him out of his misery. Naruto took a moment to analyze the situation and create a plan. He wouldn't let his anger get in the way of retribution.
"Ku ku kuu, Is that it. Hahaa. The big bad crimson blonde, nothing in the face of the Uchiha. You're no better than that ice bitch. Ha ha haaa. We were debating on who'd finish her you know, I guess Kidomaru got there first. Ha ha." Sasuke ranted mantically.
Naruto's eye's widened, and then they settled. The glowing fusion of energy that was now in place of the pupil and iris of Naruto's seigan began to take on a darker shade and more of a purple color. Naruto had resolved to never use Kurama's chakra again but he didn't stop it as it flowed into his coils.
"I'm going to pluck those eyes out when you improve my chances of survival. Just like Itachi did the rest of your clan." Naruto bellowed. In response, Sasuke charged. Naruto flipped backwards and said "release," when Sasuke passed the spot he'd just been in.
An underwater explosion set off under Sasuke as the uchiha passed which rocketed him towards Naruto. Naruto had meant to harm him with the explosive seal laden leaf he'd dropped in the water but had missed the timing.
Naruto jolted forward to meet his opponent who'd been surprised by the explosion. Sasuke recovered to parry Naruto's strike. He felt his blade shudder and looked down to see that the white fang had cracked. He also noticed multiple chips and dents in his sword that weren't there before the fight.
Naruto overpowered sasuke, throwing him off guard. Before Sasuke touched the water, Naruto had grabbed him with his chains, the uchiha unable to avoid it despite seeing it coming the moment it began. In a forceful heave, Naruto catapulted Sasuke like an odd but deadly projectile towards Madara's towering stone statue.
Sasuke was hurled through the air, unable to stop his momentum. Sasuke impacted with a bone crushing 'boom'. The impact knocked all the air out of his body and left his head ringing. He thanked the power of his cursed mark for not taking more damage as he painfully clawed himself out of the crater he made in Madara's armor. His skin had taken on a sickly gray color after he'd pushed his cursed mark even further. He was nearly in the final stage of his cursed mark.
His current level should be enough to finish the job once he gets in close again. The former blonde had gotten lucky with some hidden explosive tag. It wouldn't happen again, not when his sharingan was looking for it.
The Mangekyou wielding uchiha jumped down to the water and darted towards Naruto.
Naruto was screaming something at him with a clone next to him. Sasuke sped forward to interrupt whatever they were doing but couldn't close enough distance before his opponent made his move.
Naruto performed futon, great breakthrough using kurama's chakra and his own, whipping up a force of wind that had the power of a truck over a vast area. Naruto's clone performed katon, great fireball jutsu," Three times.
The chakra cost caused it to dispel but its job was done. Three massive fireballs soared across the lake, side by side, towards a no longer charging Sasuke. The fireballs grew significantly, stoked by the force of wind behind it.
Sasuke's eyes widened, what could he do against that. Nothing but run, and he did. Sasuke hightailed it towards the nearest riverbank and with every step he took, his sharingan told him he wasn't going to make it. The massive balls of fire had each grown in size with the powerful winds that already threatened to knock Sasuke off balance.
Sasuke was mere moments away from being engulfed by the fireball sent furthest to his right. If he had just another second, he'd make it out of the way. Sasuke stared at his incoming fiery death. His sharingan swirled violently and the he felt a painful pressure in his right eye.
When the fireball was only a few feet away, it slowed down. Sasuke's right eye burned as if it was on fire but he didn't dare take his eyes off the fireball while he made then needed distance to avoid the attack.
Sasuke ran past the fireball just as it returned to normal speed and breathed a sigh of relief. He'd noticed that even the wind and the water had slowed down, everything around him had slowed for a few moments. Was that because of his Sharingan, he wondered. A warm liquid began running from his right eye that was heavy and thick.
He wiped it with his hand and it was blood. His right eye was bleeding because of the ability he had just used. Sasuke's relief was short-lived when he heard a boom and turned to see the fireballs impacting the water. They destabilized and quickly spread into a blanket of flames, still stoked by wind pumped by Naruto.
Sasuke jumped away but his back had been caught in the flames. He was sure the uchiha crest on the back of his shirt was gone if the burning pain and cool breeze was any indication. Sasuke grimaced and let out a shout but composed himself as fast as he could.
Naruto appeared in front of Sasuke, slashing downward with furaijin growing a brilliant white. Sasuke raised the white fang to block and it once again shuddered under the impact. Sasuke saw the crack widen but held his ground, his life depended on it.
Naruto pressed down on the blade until it snapped. He hadn't noticed significant damage to the white fang but wasn't surprised. Furaijin was the superior weapon after all. The moment the white fang snapped, Sasuke jumped out of the way but received a nasty cut along his arm to show from the confrontation.
Naruto wondered how Sasuke had gotten past his jutsu but quickly refocused on the fight, he would find out if the uchiha could do it again. Sasuke had made it to the bank of the river and was gathering his energy while pushing his cursed mark to its fullest extent of the third stage.
His skin grew darker, his hair grew longer, and a black star shape mark above his nose, in between his eyes. Sasuke's chakra grew exceedingly more ominous. His Mangekyou spun with fury. As he settled into the third stage, wings grew from his back in the shape of two hands.
Naruto was about to continue his attack when Sasuke literally grew wings. Then, the uchiha jumped, flapped his wings a few times and propelled himself all the way back to Madara's head by the top of the waterfall.
The redhead thought Sasuke was fleeing and he wouldn't allow it so he jolted towards the waterfall at blinding speed. When he reached the base, he heard, "Raiton, Chidori Nagashi." Sasuke had shouted it over the waterfall.
A split second later, the water crashing down was amplified with potent electricity and raiton chakra. Naruto hadn't expected the jutsu, even with a seigan heads up. Still, he was able to launch himself off of the water and use his chains to grab onto the rock on each side of the waterfall.
His chains launched him to the top where he knew Sasuke was waiting for him. Sasuke had indeed been waiting and immediately jumped to intercept Naruto in the air, his arm chirping loudly with a chidori. The chidori was the strongest the raven haired shinobi had ever crated and was tainted to a grayish color due to the chakra from his cursed mark
Naruto had sensed the jutsu and was ready to strike with furaijin and a precise barrage of chains to eliminate space for Sasuke's sharingan to maneuver. They were feet away from contact and Sasuke was poised to meet Naruto's sword with his dark gray chidori.
Naruto began to swing furaijin while discharging a bolt of lighting mixed with wind, intending to destroy Sasuke's whole arm. Sasuke could see a direct collision of their attacks but wanted more. He wanted a complete victory, not a stalemate.
Like before with the fireball, he willed his sharingan to give him more time and it did. This time, his left eye burned like it was on fire. This time, the only thing that slowed was Naruto. Sasuke was sure of it and took advantage.
Sasuke's sharingan ability gave him much more time to maneuver around naruto's chains and sword. It was so perfect that in that second that Naruto was slowed by his mangekyou, he'd twisted his body and angled his arm differently from the elbow which placed his chidori in a much better position.
When they collided, Naruto's strike missed while Sasuke's went straight into Naruto's midsection. Sasuke couldn't push his chidori in deep because he was blown away by the blast Naruto had discharged with his strike.
Naruto fell towards the water in pain and shock, wondering how that'd just happened. He was sure his body had slowed, or Sasuke had sped up. Something along those lines. That strike should've killed or seriously injured the uchiha. His chidori couldn't measure up to the destructive power of furaijin and Naruto was positioned perfectly.
Naruto slowly flipped in the air to right himself before allowing himself to fall all the way to the water, using chakra to cushion his landing. His stomach was spilling out blood but it wasn't as bad as it seemed and Kurama's chakra was already actively flowing through his body.
The wound would be healed enough to continue by the time he was ready to attack again. Sasuke hadn't gotten off easy either. Naruto had discharged a bolt of lightning and wind with his strike, just in case the uchiha pulled some mangekyou prediction tricks.
Sasuke hadn't fallen due to his wings and instead returned to the top of the waterfall, this time on Hashirama's head. His left shoulder was cut and burned from the blast Naruto's sword released. It wasn't exactly life threatening but it was painful, very much so.
Even worse was the headache setting in and chakra exhaustion. His new eyes drained his chakra like nothing else. He was already running on empty but he refused to lose. Bloody tears streamed down his face and he realized he'd given everything for the power he held. He couldn't waste it.
The only uchiha left were him, his brother, shizuka and Ibizu. The youngest uchiha, Ibizu was traded for entry into the village so Sasuke could bring the others to Orochimaru who promised him more power. He was given to masked shinobi before they even left konoha.
Sasuke told himself that it was all for a just goal. It was all to avenge his clan and start it anew. He'd just have to find Ibizu and reestablish a connection with Shizuka but he could do it, he thought. He just had to start by killing the blonde turned redhead.
Naruto saw Sasuke glance to where he knew the little uchiha's bodies would be and a thought occurred to him. While he had only ever seen and sensed two uchiha children, that left one more if Shizuka was with Hinabi at the compound.
Naruto wasn't entirely sure, but he'd thought there were 4 uchiha left in konoha after Sasuke's abduction. Maybe, just maybe, there was a way to fulfill at least part of Haku's wish. He needed to know before he killed Sasuke.
"There was a third kid. Where is he?" Naruto asked from the bottom of the waterfall. He used chakra to make his voice carry. Like before their fight, Sasuke flinched at the words and didn't respond.
"Were you unable to take him? Or did you kill him too?" Naruto asked with venom. Sasuke was enraged by those words. "Shut Up! Shut Up. Shut Up! I didn't kill him." Sasuke screamed in a fury, his eyes still leaking tears. "Then where is he damnit," Naruto responded just as angrily.
"I don't know! Traded for entry into the village. Orochimaru made the deal," Sasuke responded almost pleadingly. Naruto said nothing but looked at the Uchiha with pity, anger, and incredulity.
"Don't look at me like that. Who are you to judge? You've had no one. Just a hyuga bitch and most recently an Ice bitch. No family or friends. You have no idea what it feels to lose everyone. Everyone! Don't you dare look down on me.
I don't need your judgment, your pity, or your ignorance. I need you to die!" Sasuke spat out and prepared another tainted chidori to end Naruto. Naruto prepared himself to end Sasuke with his own signature jutsu, receiving a pulse of acknowledgment from furaijin before the sword started to pool chakra into itself.
Naruto matched furaijin's output and then some until Furaijin was surrounded by a compacted lightning storm. Winds and white lightning violently encapsulated the blade. Naruto reversed his grip on the sword and held it above his shoulder like a spear.
The chakra pooled around furaijin began to expand and grow, extending to twice its length and size. The jutsu shot cutting wisps of wind and powerful bursts of electricity at random that just barely avoided Naruto himself. It began to suck up water from the lake around Naruto and growing in density.
Sasuke saw the building jutsu with his Sharingan and knew his chidori paled in comparison. The anger and hate for the redhead standing before him grew and built to a breaking point. Sasuke felt the power coming from his eyes grow.
A purple chakra aura began to materialize around him, followed by a giant rib cage that covered his whole upper body. It didn't seem to obstruct his movements and he could stick his chidori outside of it so Sasuke smirked, tears still running down his face.
This was Susanoo, the Uchiha's ultimate defense. With this, he could walk right to Naruto and shove his chidori into the Namiuzu's chest. Sasuke flapped his wings and launched himself off of Hashirama's head towards Naruto below.
Naruto saw the purple ribcage and instantly knew what it was. He'd been given the full and real rundown on the sharingan by Danzo. The sly old warhawk who always knew too much. That was a susanoo, defense. A technique of the mangekyou said to be impenetrable.
Naruto and furaijin were about to test that theory. The furaijin spear hoisted by Naruto had continued to grow and was now extremely painful to hold. It'd even begun sucking up water from the lake in the torrent of wind and lightning. When his opponent launched himself at him, he was grateful.
Naruto threw the furaijin spear with all the strength he could muster at Sasuke. The furaijin spear took off like a rocket, showering Naruto with a spray of electrified water as it went. Furaijin locked onto Sasuke fully intent on hitting the target no matter where it went.
The jutsu was a master piece of destruction that ripped its way through that air. The surrounded environment being mostly water turning it into a true maelstrom weaponized by a furious red head. Sasuke could feel the destruction coming his way and focused everything on his susanoo and chidori.
Upon impact, he trusted his ultimate defense and held his chidori inside. The rib cage shuddered and even cracked but didn't otherwize budge and Naruto's jutsu tried to kill him. He barely felt secure and the elements raged around him in a dance of catastrophe. The jutsu was, in fact, devastating, it was only a testament to the strength of the uchiha's ultimate defense.
Sasuke could see that it's intensity was only growing and he flapped his wings to keep his momentum going forward so he could break through and finish the red head. His purple had exteded to his wings but they were being torn up but the pain felt distant. Still, It worked and he started pushing through the churning storm of elements until his susanoo hit furaijin itself.
The sword was spinning at an ungodly speed at the center of the jutsu. It had made his whole susanoo shudder on impact and cracks were appearing while it intensified its power output. He didn't believe what his sharingan was seeing.
Sasuke thrust his chidori at the blade to knock it aside. The chidori striking the blade caused a violent reaction knocking sasuke away and the furaijin spear off course. Sasuke was sent careening into Madara's leg with a heavy boom that left him in a deep crater.
Furaijin was knocked away, spinning as the jutsu ended. Naruto watched as his sword continued to swing like a boomerang until it curved and headed back to its owner. It fell into Naruto's hand in pristine condition though it was really warm, almost hot.
Furaijin began to pull chakra from Naruto, presumably to replace what it used. It was forceful, almost painful until Naruto cut off the flow. Naruto resumed it slowly a moment later while he looked to see how Sasuke was faring. He felt that he shouldn't let his sword have its way, or sense weakness. He'd have to keep an eye on it in the future.
For now he was observing Sasuke's chakra very closely. Sasuke's arrogance had just lost him the fight, he was sure of it. From what Naruto knew the Susanoo was supposed to be, it was much more than a rib cage, which meant Sasuke's was primitive at best.
It was stupid of him to jump straight into the furaijin spear, regardless of how powerful a defense he had. Still, Naruto was surprised at the susanoo's effectiveness. It was even more than he'd imagined.
Sasuke's body was screaming in protest as he dug himself out of the hole he'd just made with his body. It was much harder than he thought because of a few reasons. His susanoo had dispelled after impact with the Madara's leg and he was buried deep into the rock that tugged at his limbs.
The pain he was in from his eyes, to his head, to his body was imense. Worst yet of all, his left arm was gone up to the elbow. His chidori had lost to the blade, just like his sword. How could he lose to Naruto Namiuzu. How, he pondered, enraged.
Sasuke hadn't even looked up when he heard, "Furaijin, Rengoku zan geki!" Naruto sent another massive blade of white chakra, vertically flying towards the struggling uchiha. Sasuke urged himself to move.
He was at the end of his rope in many ways, his susanoo rib cage that he'd just awakened was flickering in and out as he tried to reactivate it. The world was getting dark, which was an indication he was about to pass out.
He fought to move and at the last second he pulled it together to jump out of the way. Unfortunately Sasuke hadn't kept his eyes on the jutsu and underestimated its speed. He'd barely jumped when the jutsu slammed into his flickering susanoo.
Naruto's rengoku zan geki had nearly split madara in half from his leg almost up to his shoulder. It'd carved a path across the lake that closed in a chain reaction of waves. The jutsu had dug deep into the cliff side. Still, Sasuke had wiggled his way free.
Most of Sasuke's body was clear of the jutsu but his leg was caught and the susanoo's protection nearly failed. Sasuke screamed when he fell toward the water, his susanoo gone. His left foot was left a mangled mess. Even his cursed mark fully receded as he fell.
Sasuke was expecting a cold and painful entrance to the water or a final blow from Naruto before he hit the water. Instead someone caught him. Someone who smelled girly and was soft. Glasses and a drape of red hair over her shoulders told him who it was. He'd never actually thought he'd be glad to see the woman.
Naruto's purgatory slash was a beauty to behold although it was a shame it didn't finish the fight. He relished in the sight of Sasuke's mangled foot despite his susanoo,though. A so-called 'impregnable defense' as Danzo called it.
Even more he was proud of the alteration he'd made to the historical landmark. Madara Uchiha's giant stone depiction was almost cut in half vertically from his left foot all the way up to his shoulder and there was a giant gash to prove it. Not to mention the craters.
None of it lessened the emotions he was feeling and Naruto didn't allow himself to enjoy it for more than the tiniest of moments. Especially since someone had come out of nowhere and rescued Sasuke from his painful, possibly deadly fall.
Naruto had wanted to let him drown a bit before fishing him out. Earlier on, he'd sensed the girl hiding a distance away but judging her strength by her chakra, he figured she was negligible. He hadn't expected her to sneak up and help the uchiha.
Naruto jolted a short distance away from sasuke and a red haired girl who'd been brave enough to save him. "Wait!" She screamed in a squeaky, very scared voice. "W-wait, I'm Karen Uzumaki, don't kill us. Please. I'm from the same clan as you." She said quickly well aware of who was before her.
"Move," was Naruto's cold response as he took a step forward. Sasuke was in and out of consciousness but using all his will power to get up. "Wait, please. I saw what he did. That's not him I swear. He's been using the cursed seal for weeks and that seal just twists the mind more and more.
He's been spiraling ever since activating the final stage of it please. It was on Orochimaru's orders. The last part was a lie but Karen hid it well. Sasuke's been against it and threatening to kill himself but that's changed since the seals have been active for so long."
"I said move! I don't care if you're Uzumaki. I'll kill you with him." Naruto said, tears of anger coming to his eyes as he took another step forward. He wouldn't let her ruin his revenge.
Sasuke had regained consciousness hearing Naruto shout. He had a goal, and didn't want to waste the lives he'd taken and fought through the pain to activate his dojutusu and mangekyou. He had to see a way out. "Wait no please, he's already crippled. I'll do anything, just let us live.
Please, you're uzumaki right?" She'd sensed and had partially seen their fight and knew she was no match. Her only realistic chance was to beg, she was a healer and scientist not a fighter.
Naruto hesitated on his next step, knowing just how many Uzumaki were still alive and that he might have to kill her too. Sasuke saw Naruto's hesitation and figured it was his only chance.
He activated his chidori in his right hand before planting on his only good foot and lunging at Naruto. He needed to kill him now and he willed it to happen. As if reacting to his will, Sasuke's right eye burned and began to bleed.
Sasuke thought, "Jikan, time," finally placing a name on his dojutsu's ability. Then the world around him started to slow down. It seemed his right eye slowed everything around him, and his left eye slowed a specific target, Sasuke figured as his eye burned.
Karen's screams were slowed and Naruto's movements werel slowed just like everything else around them. All while he moved at full speed. His doujutsu's ability was even more effective than before. He closed the distance before Naruto could fully lift his sword and thrusted his chidori towards Naruto's chest.
Naruto felt his body and everything around him, the wind, Karen, and even the water slow significantly while sasuke sped to him with a chidori. He couldn't believe it was happening again, not when he'd already defeated the Uchiha.
Naruto wouldn't allow it, he had to do something. He wouldn't lose, not after Haku's sacrifice. The chidori was inches from his chest when he felt a power build in his eyes and thought, 'basho, place.'
His eyes instantly released a pulse of chakra and everything came to a complete halt with his dojutsu's ability. Everything besides himself was rooted in it's current place completely unmoving. Sasuke, Karen, the wind, the water, everthing.
Naruto sensed the surprise and then fear when Sasuke realized the situation he was in just as Naruto got over his own shock. The raven haired shinobi's mangekyou most definitely deducing the situation in fractions of a millisecond. Naruto was still slowed, which meant Sasuke's jutsu was still in effect but the redhead was willing to bet he could keep up his jutsu longer than sasuke.
He raised his left hand as fast as he could, which was very slowly. At the same time he took a step away from the path of sasuke's chidori. Sasuke's emotion's were now in alarm. He could do nothing but watch and had already predicted what Naruto was going to do but could do nothing himself but slow it down while his sharingan burned and bled more.
Naruto's left hand had nearly reached the left side of sasuke's face just as Naruto was beginning to feel the strain of his jutsu. Naruto's jutsu abruptly ended with or without his approval while sasuke's continued.
Sasuke had been hoping the jutsu would end but later regretted that hope. Naruto's fingers were in a horrifying position and when his jutsu ended, Sasuke returned to full speed with all his momentum. Even while Naruto was slowed, Sasuke's momentum led him directly into Naruto's hand.
Naruto's fingers were already positioned to rip out sasuke's eye. Naruto's fingers entering Sasuke's left eye socket forced Sasuke to release his jutsu due to the pain. Naruto immediately used his fingers to grip the eye and yanked it out.
Sasuke released a loud pain filled scream clutching at his missing eye. The uchiha screamed again and fell to the water beginning to sink after realizing he couldn't see from one eye. The pain that accompanied that realization was almost too much to bear because of what it confirmed. His eye had been ripped out.
Naruto looked at the Mangekyou in his hand before sealing it away on his wrist and then, with his chains, dragged the screaming sasuke to the surface of the water after he'd begun to sink. Naruto then lifted Sasuke high above his head while wrapping the wailing Uchiha in his chains.
Karen ran up to Naruto with a kunai but a chain grabbed her wrist before shocking her until she dropped it. Karen fell to her knees in front of Naruto and lowered her head. "Please, I'll do anything. Don't kill him. Please. I heard you were trying to rebuild the uzumaki clan. You need members right.
You can have me. Make me work for you. Use me for pure uzumaki kids. Anything just please. Please don't do it." Karen begged for Sasuke's life as fast as she could, saying anything that could keep him alive.
She'd been briefed with the rest of the group about Naruto and the sand genin's performance in the chunin exams. Naruto and his team possibly the ones to have killed Kabuto. Intel suggested Naruto was looking to rebuild his clan and for Uzumaki's more specifically.
Karen also knew Kabuto had died the exact same way Sasuke was being held. Crushed to bits by chains and juiced alive. Naruto looked at Karen, and then Sasuke. "I don't want your kids, I wanted Haku to be with me and Hinata but yall took that from me.
He's not living through this." Naruto didn't want to do this to an Uzumaki but she'd live even after he got his revenge. "So you're just like him, willing to sell your soul for revenge? Are you really the monster they all say you are?
The demon of the leaf. The crimson blonde?" Karen asked heatedly. The words hit Naruto like a truck because it made him remember Haku pleading not to fall for the path for revenge.
In that moment he saw her face and knew she'd be frowning at him not smiling the smile he loved. He wasn't killing to protect or improve their chances of survival, it was for revenge. Naruto paused.
He looked up at Sasuke and couldn't help but look towards his cursed mark with such tainted chakra. It even had a trace of something darker, something Naruto hadn't found in other cursed marks.
Could whatever it was have contributed. Is Naruto killing a victim? At that moment he hesitated, unsure of what to moment ended as quickly as it came an he raised a hand to give the command to his chains.
Right as the chains began to tighted, Naruto felt a large chakra close and approaching ridiculously fast, so fast that he wasn't able to react before Orochimaru kicked Naruto hard enough to send the redhead flying. Naruto was kicked so hard, it make him release Sasuke. The half dead Uchiha fell to the water and was once again caught by Karen. She was still shaking from the encounter.
