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"Whatever is begun with anger ends in shame."
-Benjamin Franklin
Chapter One, Part One: Regret
While on sage mode, Uzumaki Naruto can feel every chakra signature around him. It isn't hard for him to identify two familiar chackra signatures as they clashed. The self-proclaimed Hokage gritted his teeth as he felt the menacing chakra of his so called best friend overpowering a fearful chakra of the woman he liked since childhood. One of his kage bunshin immediately runs towards that location. But as he landed on the cliff, no sign of the pink-haired can be seen nor any of her chakra could be felt around. Which could only lead him to one conclusion, but Naruto still believes that his best friend won't hurt the only rose among the thorns of team seven.
"Sasuke-teme? Where is Sakura-chan?"
The Uchiha didn't answer him. The blond stared at the uchiwa fan on his back then to the kusanagi that the raven-head had been holding on his right. Naruto trailed the blood flowing from it, wondering who the unlucky owner of the blood is. Then it hit him. But his best friend wouldn't do it, right? Sakura is a part of team seven and so is Sasuke, he couldn't kill her. He wouldn't dare.
"Teme?"
Sasuke wiped the blood from his grass cutter and quickly return it to it's sheath. "Dobe. I've been waiting for a chance to kill you. I think now is that time."
"Where is Sakura-chan?" Naruto clenched his fist.
"I would finally cut the bond that you foolishly thought that is still connecting us." the raven haired continued.
The blond shouted with gritted teeth, "WHERE IS SAKURA-CHAN?"
The Uchiha turned to face the shouting blond "She's dead. I killed her."
Naruto's eyes widen in disbelief, "You what?" he clenched his fist tighter, nails digging dangerously on his palm while the kyuubi's crimson chackra glazed his entire physique. "TEME!"
The jinjuriki charged towards the sharingan wielder hitting him with the bijuu's chackra enhanced fist. The Uchiha effortlessly blocked his attacks. Naruto jumped to a tree branch and concentrated bluish chakra on his palm. The raven-head collected chakra as well as a 'pa-chi-chi-chi' sounded the air.
"Rasengan!"
"Chidori!"
Their signature attacks clashed. The impact was so huge that it is too much for a shadow clone to handle. "She has done nothing but love you. She fuckin' love you damn it!"
Tears burst on the now sapphire eyes of the blond. He dared to look straight at the sharingan, but was surprised to see obsidians instead. For a moment, the blond saw a flick of emotion on those obsidian orbs, something akin to regret. However, he wasn't really sure, since the clone totally disappeared on a puff of smoke before he could examine the avenger's reaction more.
After the sudden reunion with his former team seven, Uchiha Sasuke prowled in the forest in search for Kabuto. His brother and he were fighting with the four-eyed when he gracefully escaped. The brothers followed him; Itachi went north while the younger brother took the way to the south, to ensure that the snake sannin won't escape. However, Sasuke was blocked by a group of shinobi who attacked him.
Upon seeing the leaf insignia on one of the shinobi's hitai-ate, his blood boiled within his veins. The sudden feeling of hate towards the village that is responsible for his brother's sacrifice and the untimely death of their entire clan had awakened within him.
