Painfully Aware with So Much to Learn

Chapter Twelve: The Valley At The End

Previously:

They all paled at a bone-shattering roar.

Now:

Neji saw, Neji had 360 degree sight and he saw. He saw as the blonde he was so fond of hunched over, ears and a tail of bubbly orange chakra formed around his smaller than avaredge form. He watched as with a great roar half the dome was ripped apart and blown away so far out of sight you couldn't see where the earth went. He saw Naruto blink away blood red eyes and animalistic slit puples, watched pitch black scars shrink into those adorable pale whiskers and red chakra return to its source in his body. Neji had seen that red chakra, but not like this. Naruto wasn't just strong, he was terrifying. Everyone turned back around to see the aftermath, and they were met with the cheerful sunshine blonde they always knew, behind a massive hole that no one could fathom how it was brought to be. Except Neji, who saw the beast.

"Well are you coming? We need to catch up with Sasuke!"

That seemed to snap the four out of their daze, they left the wreck to find the sound nin unconscious with terrible burns on his hands and arms. Shikamaru knew it was from trying to absorb kyuubi's chakra, but he said nothing of it for the sake of the jinchuriki he had grown so fond of.

They were off to the other sound nin when Choji's leg was grabbed by badly burned hands.

"Go ahead, I'll hold him off!" And with that, the other four headed forward, leaving the wounded sound nin in Choji's hands.

(A/N: Choji wins the fight and passes out but doesn't almost die thank you.

The next fight is between Neji and the eight armed man, and Neji wins and goes to help Choji.

Next is Kiba and the two headed man, the fight goes about the same as canon.

Shika's fight is also the same as canon.

Lee's fight goes about the same as well.

I'm gonna skip to the Sasuke vs Naruto fight because I'm lazy and the first and last fights are the only ones that stray far from canon. Plus this way u get ur fanfic faster. ~Gracie)

"Why Sasuke?! Why can't we just go home?!" The blonde desperately yelled to the cursed Uchiha.

"We? There is no we anymore! Because you've found someone else!" The raven yelled in return, activating his sharingan subconsciously.

"Just because there are others doesn't make you any less of a precious comrade Sasuke! You have others too! Sakura and Kakashi and Shik--"

"You dobe! I'm a comrade, but that's all I'll ever be to you isn't it?!" Sasuke yelled, trying desperately to hide the lump in his throat.

"What do you--"

"I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU USURATONKACHI!!!" The Uchiha yelled, no longer hiding the tears. "Ever since we were kids, and I'd sulk on that dock, you'd walk by and slow down. That warmth of you watching over me. Whenever you'd challenge me to fights because you thought I was so great, even when I didn't think that of myself." He fell to his knees, ignoring the look of sadness on the blondes face. "You always said we were rivals but you still picked me up when I was down. I got scared after the chunin exams, when you showed that you were so strong. I was worried if you stopped looking up to me, you would stop looking at me at all. And now you love that stupid shadow user and I'm alone again." His voice got progressively smaller.

Naruto walked up to his teammate,crouching and putting his hand on his shoulder. "Sasuke, you're one of my important people, you're my teammate, you're like a brother to me and I'm so so--" he was cut off by a punch to the gut that sent him flying into the Valley at the End. He landed on a rock wall, leaving a dent before falling to the ground.

Sasuke hopped down after him. "Sorry? You're sorry?! I'm going with Orochimaru to get the power I need to kill my brother I don't need your pity." He said in a cold tone to the now minorly concussed boy.

"Did all those things you said mean nothing? Did all our time as comrades mean nothing?!" Naruto yelled after getting to his feet.

"On the contrary, to me you are the love of my life, and that is why I must kill you. Rid myself of silly bonds so that I can accomplish my goal." The raven said harshly.

"I will take you back to konoha." The blonde stated, pulling out a kunai. "Even if I have to break your limbs and drag you."

Sasuke created a chidori and ran at the blonde, Naruto in turn created a rasengan to counter it. The blast was massive, Naruto swam to the surface of the water he was now in, only to be met with an unconscious Sasuke floating in the water away from him.

'Oh no.' Naruto thought to himself while running to the boy. 'I must've made the rasengan too powerful!'

He was about four feet away from Sasuke when something felt off. He barely had time to dodge before a chidori was thrust into his back and out his chest. Violent bloody coughing insued from the impaled boy. Sasuke thought he had won and took his arm out of his crush only to me met with a monstrous KI. He backed up as Naruto slowly turned his head, revealing blood orange eyes with slit puples and canines sharper than Kiba's. It was as if the fox demon himself stood before the young Uchiha. Naruto ran at the boy, hot chakra burning the skin that he punched. Sasuke was flung into a similar rock wall. Naruto hopped after him.

"I'm taking you back to Konoha!" The boy growled at the semi-conscious friend.

"What do you know?" He weakly replied. Naruto's features softened a little.

"What do you know about loss? Huh?! You can't know how I feel because you've never had anyone to lose! You've never had anything!" A third tomeo appeared in his eyes and he punched his blonde ex-teammate in the jaw.

Both boys stood on logs in the water, facing eachother.

"No, I don't know what it's like to have a real family. But, when Iruka-sensei would buy me ramen to congratulate me on my accomplishments, I can almost feel what it's like to have a father. And when I'm doing missions with you and Sakura, even if Sakura hates me any you want nothing to do with me, it's almost like I have siblings. And It's because of that bond, that I need to take you home. Even if I need to break your limbs and drag you. Because it took me too many years to get these bonds and I'm not letting one go for stupid reasons." Naruto said in a somber tone.

Sasuke punched him, Naruto dodged, with Sasuke's new tomeo he could keep up with the blonde's movements. Knocking him out into the water.

Naruto was raised by a bubbly orange chakra and went right back after Sasuke, getting a few good hits in before Sasuke chose to use his curse mark.

Sasuke held a grey chidori.

Naruto held a purple rasengan.

They both ran at eachother, hitting the other with everything they had, leaving a ball of light encasing them.

Sasuke punched Naruto in the gut, right under the ever-present hole in his chest from a chidori.

Naruto tapped Sasuke on the forehead before passing out from the pain of his wounds and his chakra cloak.

Two boys were flung to either side of the valley, but only one got up.

Sasuke cautiously walked up to his blonde love, who was completely unconscious. It began to rain. Sasuke noticed that Naruto was dying, bleeding out from a chidori at the beginning of the fight. A sharp pain from the curse mark sent the Uchiha to his knees, leaning over the blonde, now wet from the rain.

He placed a chaste kiss on the lips of his unconscious rival.

"Sayonara, watashi no ai."

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Hey, sorry this was long, thank you for reading and some clarification:

KI: killing intent, it's basically forced bad vibes.

Usuratonkachi: thin hammer, it's what Sasuke calls Naruto throughout the show other than dobe.

Dobe: dunce

Watashi no ai: my love

Thank you so much!
                                                      ~Gracie