another Chance

#40

" that seal.... it's causing him delusions and his chakra is unstable...knock him out.... if possible keep him engaged for a while longer....just an hour would do...."
Hearing what juggō said made one of the anbu's hair stand due to the feeling of danger as he looked at juggō like looking at a lunatic, the anbu was a sensory type ninja and could clearly feel the sudden violent fluctuations of the chakra inside sasuke, it was so chaotic that he thought it was a miracle that sasuke could still move so agilely, when looking at a crazed sasuke he felt like he was looking at a monster, but as an anbu he still kept his mouth behind the mask shut and his eyes on sasuke waiting for the command to take any necessary action to accomplish his mission he was afterall a very skilled and qualified anbu ninja and Hatake Kakashi was also there, so he had to be especially flawless in front of this superior, who maybe young but was still scary....also the legendary sanin was also....the ninja gritted his teeth and tried to relax, while he was doing so he heard Kakashi ask "would an hour be enough?", he looked at juggō as he asked that, juggō kept his eyes on sasuke and said in a very tired voice "I hope.... that's how it usually is.... he'd loose his mind due to the overwhelming natural chakra running rampant in his body that causes him to hallucinate?... I am not really clear about this too....this is just what the three of us have speculated in those three months when he was looking for the remaining sharingan eyes for Itachi san....that one time he almost gauged his own eyes in one of his episodes....but he passed out due to mental and physical exhaustion and then he was back to normal again, it's like this everytime but the length of his episodes keeps increasing and it takes longer for him to be exhausted with every episode..... we've been at it for three days now according to fluctuations  of his chakra he'll be exhausted anytime now" juggō explained as quickly as he could as he watched this boy Naruto who was keeping sasuke occupied along with his master jiraya, kakashi after hearing what he had to say, lightly  touched his fist into his palm as he said "I got it.... I can do this I guess...." his eyes looked as lazy and easygoing as ever as he used shadow clone jutsu and then performed a transformation jutsu to make his clone look like Itachi, it was a ninjutsu he had copied but never really used "yoshh! let's do this" he said to his shadow clones who resembled Itachi. This was a flawless transformation technique so even if they knew that this was not itachi others were still stunned and almost believed him to be Itachi.
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'itachi' jumped in the battle making sasuke who had just released a powerful chidori at Naruto and jiraya, who was ready to counter it with his rasengan, to freeze, sasuke felt his blood run cold and his breathing  stop as he saw his aniki suddenly throwing himself in the midst of this battle, his mind didn't even process it but even before he realised he had already used his rinnegan to use a spatial Jutsu to flicker  in front of his aniki and sheild him from both the attacks, naruto and  jiraya also stopped when they saw 'itachi' who was supposed to be in hospital to suddenly jump between them like that without any regards to his own safety was, ofcourse  it was just Kakashi's shadow clone  pretending to be Itachi and he knew it was going to hurt but he still threw himself to confirm  his guess that he just confirmed as he looked at his unharmed shadow clone who didn't even have the slightest of scratch as he was protected by sasuke who used his jutsu to  summon white snakes that tightly cover 'itachi' to protect him and took most of the damages from the chidori and rasengan  himself....
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Naruto's  breath was also caught in his throat as he watched the scene taking place in front of him, first Itachi san somehow appered and jumped in front of them out of nowhere and then sasuke got injured by the combined attacks in the blink of an eye, all of this happened so fast he couldn't even tell what was going on anymore, he could only watch as sasuke who was fatally injured clinged to the unscathed Itachi not even caring about his own injuries and an unknown fire lit up in the pit of his stomach consuming and burning him but he couldn't do anything as he was frozen in his spot his body refused to move as he helplessly watched like some bystander....
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Sasuke ignored the injuries on his body as if he couldn't feel the pain, his only concern was to check if his aniki was alright, he stretched a trembling hand and very cautiously touched the pale face of his aniki who looked like he would leave him any second if he so much as blinked, he was so careful as if, if he were to be slightly more brash  then the beautiful dream would shatter. When he finally touched the pale cheek and felt the warm and soft skin under his finger tips he stilled again, then he placed his finger under Itachi's nose and felt the warm humid breath, sasuke then placed his hand on 'itachi's' chest and felt his heart beat, his(sasuke) pale lips trembled and opened and closed as he tried to say something but was unable to say anything, he could only feel a heavy lump in his throat that prevented him from making the slightest of the sound, he could only feel that faint heart beat pulsing under his palm, then all of the sudden warm tears started falling from his dark eyes that looked red from holding those tears back but were still unable to do so. Those watching this happen, were also taken aback by his sudden tears that started falling drop by drop like rain, Kakashi was stunned the most he had expected many outcomes of his actions, he had thought of distracting sasuke using Itachi but he had never expected to things turning out like this, his eyes also caught sight of Naruto who looked somewhat scary at the moment, he had never seen this cheerful boy look like this before and there was not the slightest sign of kyuubi's chakra seeping out....