Chapter 2: Face off

Naruto only felt it for a second, not the pain from the chidori, but the the shifting of the wind. And in that moment he knew that his attempt to save Sakura Hurano had failed. "N-Naruto" Cough He turned around quickly only to have his fears confirmed. There was Sasuke kneeled over besides Sakura with his hand plunged deep in Sakura's right side right just below the ribs just barley missing her heart. Sasuke began to chuckle low as he pulled his hand out of her Sakura fell back coughing and gasping while her knowledge in medic nin training made her uninjured hand travel to the wound on her side to put pressure on it. "She won't be able to heal herself in time before she passes out from blood loss" He said with his back turned to Naruto flicking his hand in the air to get rid of some of the blood. "How does it feel Naruto to watch someone precious to you die before your eyes?"

Before Sasuke could even turn around a red hand had made its way to his leg burning the skin it wrapped around. "You are going to pay for everything you've done to Sakura-chan" Naruto growled before pulling the uchiha to him holding him upside down and then kicking him in the face so hard that he flipped before smashing into another tree on his side this time just cracking the bark. He whipped the blood from his mouth, it looked like Naruto had dislocated his left shoulder with him slaming into the tree like that. "Rasengan!" Sasuke looked up hearing the technique being called. He managed to jump away into the trees barely dodging only to have another Naruto kick him back to the ground before he reached the branch. Sasuke flipped in midair so he could land on his feet. The tree where he had once been had been totaled along with twenty others around it. When he saw that Naruto was not there he realized it was the real naruto who had knocked him back down in the first place. 'his speed has greatly increased since before, but not even Naruto can track my movements without the sharingan.' He thought.

"You're not going anywhere Sasuke" The tails behind naruto began to rise and wave around wildly slaming at the ground around him leaving huge imprints and cracks along the surface. The air around Naruto was steadily getting hotter and. As he learned before fire techniques would not work against Naruto in the state he was in now, and although his time with orochimaru had thought him a great many water jutsu he couldn't perform anything too powerful. So that left him with two choices and both of them would involved Sasuke getting close to Naruto whether he wanted too or not.

The curse seal around Sasuke's neck began to travel around his left shoulder and arm. He gripped his sword in his right hand and thrust his newly revived left hand at Naruto. "You're about to see something of my own creation, a lighting technique much like kakashi's chidori only much better." Suddenly a beam of bluish white light shot from

Sasuke's hand into the ground and up at Naruto barely missing Naruto as the fox boy jumped out of the way and charged at Sasuke. A second later the beam retracted becoming wider and shorter until it was the length of his other sword. When naruto came within range Sasuke jumped into the air avoiding his head being ripped off and swept his new sword in a wide arc at Naruto. The effect was a large lightning bolt that Naruto dodged by jumping back leaving a huge crater in the ground where he had once been. If he could hit Naruto with that attack once he might have been able to slow the fox boy down

But Naruto was already on the attack; within seconds of his jump he seemed to be inhaling deeply but Sasuke saw no hand signs for a fire jutsu. Then Naruto roared and suddenly Sauske saw a stream of red chakra burst from the boy's mouth and into him burning him and knocking him back a few feet in the air. He blocked the worst of the stream with his arms, covering up his face as well, but his arms had been severely burned. When he finally brought down his guard two things happened. One Naruto flipped over Sasuke and his tails wrapped around him in a type of tangled knot, and Two there were roughly a thousand Shadow clones above him all infused with the kyuubi's chakra. "Oh Shit." Sasuke muttered. His seal began to consume his whole body as Naruto slammed the boy into the ground making the tails bind tight around Sasuke. His skin began to turn grey as the Naruto clones in the air attached explosive tags to one another. His wings were just coming in when some of the clones where thrown at him by the ones still in the air.

As the shadow clones hit there were several explosions that shook the ground around Sasuke forcing a scream from the Uchiha. Where Sasuke was there was a thick fog of black smoke arose and Naruto could no longer sense the boy's chakra. Still though Naruto looked on into the smoke because he knew the Sasuke would never go down so easily.

Meanwhile Sakura lay not ten yards away from the two combatants lying against a tree she crawled too. A trail of thick blood was the only sign that she had moved at all, and she was very much surprised that she had survived with all that blood gone from her. But she knew she would not last any longer if she didn't heal herself. But summoning the chakra needed was getting harder now, her control was slipping, and her vision was starting to blur. If only she had seen Sasuke coming she might have had a chance to dodge, but it was too late now the damage was done. And as the wound gradually began to heal she watched Naruto and Sasuke fighting. She saw how Naruto had shot the red chakra from his mouth at the boy, and how he managed to summon a thousand shadow clones in mid air. All of them resembling him in the form he was in now. She became dazed for a few seconds but she managed to hear the many explosions that impacted Sasuke when the clones impacted the Uchiha. And now when she looked up still there were more in the air landing around the area Sasuke was in. Each of them sending a signal to the other, nodding and then looking back into the smoke. While the real Naruto stood back making one more shadow clone that stood beside him.

"Naruto..." came the voice from the smoke. The yellow eyes of the transformed Sasuke seemed to pierce through the smoke before a gust of wind blew it away altogether. There Sasuke hovered flapping his bat like wings giving Naruto a piercing look. His wings dripped with blood and were burned in many places, and he was panting, but his lightning sword had gotten longer and wider yet it seemed more unstable as little bolts of electricity splashed to the ground. "Its time to end this... Naruto." Naruto smirked "I was hoping you'd say that." Two shadow clones appeared behind him and the shadow clone next to him and at the same time the shadow clones around Sasuke attacked. Sauske swiped his lightning sword at the shadow clones that came up on the left. The sound of static sizzled through the air before a whole wave of electricity shot at the clones dispatching them in a puff of smoke as soon as it touched them. Then when the wave had become smaller it turned into a bolt that linked itself like a chain to the shadow clones destroying them once it touched them. Sasuke managed to take out all the shadow clones with that attack, but naruto had gotten the time he needed.

"Obame Rasengan!" Naruto came running through the cloud of smoke left by the shadow clones and the electricity. The huge ball of chakra in thier hands giving off a red aura. Sasuke brought his lightning sword and his katana up just as Naruto jumped at him slaming the rasengan into him. The smoke that was around them was immediately blown away as thier powers clashed. "You'll need more than that dobe" Sasuke said grunting as he tried to summon up the strength to push Naruto back. "I'm not done yet!" Naruto growled holding his arm back his shadow clone mimicked his motion. Then Sasuke's eyes widened in realization as the chakra gathered in Naruto's hand for a second... no a double header rasengan attack. And then Naruto and the clone swung thier arms at Sasuke. Naruto felt the lighting sword withdraw, and the obame rasengan easily broke through Sasuke's katana. There was a huge flash of bright light and then nothing.