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"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
-Mohandas Gandhi
Naruto panted heavily. At his right the Hachibi's jinjuuriki looks exhausted as well. He dared to give a quick glance towards his left.
Uchiha Sasuke.
Even though exhaustion is clearly painted across his features, with his spiky hair even more disarrayed over his head, he still stood in that elegant yet strong posture that the ladies obviously liked about him. When they were younger he envied him because of it. In every place they went it was always Sasuke who was being noticed, even though his snobbish and a jerk. Even the first woman he ever loved had chosen Sasuke. The sudden thought of the pink-haired medic caused a tumult on the blond's chest. Yes he wanted to make that teme pay for her death. To kill him after all of this was over. But then again, who was he really? Isn't he Uzumaki Naruto, the optimistic blond who dreamed to become the next Hokage. He had caused even the ruthless of criminals to have a change of heart. Gaara for example, if it wasn't for him the red head would still be the killing machine he once was and not the compassionate Kazekage who is now the leader of the shinobi alliance. Yes, he was Uzumaki Naruto. And the Uzumaki Naruto known by the others won't cling to revenge. That was a thing that only Sasuke would do. He sighed. Sakura wouldn't want them to kill each other anyways. Besides, the mere fact that Sasuke is on their side now was just like saying he is regretting everything he had done. If the rosette hadn't died by the bastard's hands he would gladly accept him with open arms. And after this war is over, he will drag him back to Konoha whether the raven head like it or not. But now, it wasn't really possible. He hated to admit it, just like the case with Nagato, he won't kill Sasuke, but he wouldn't ask him to go back either. He had cut their bonds a long time ago, fine. Like he cared.
He glanced at the other shinobi attacking the juubi, clamoring of metals and the likes echoing around them. Death after death. It makes him sick. He wanted to end it as quickly as possible. And to do that, he needed to make a temporary truce between him and the Uchiha. So he looked at him, anger sealed in the deepest dungeon of his subconscious, and ask "You've worked with them don't you have any idea how to stop that thing?"
The younger Uchiha brother's eye widen in surprise with the blonde's questioning. He wasn't expecting the blond to address him anytime soon. But then his mask of indifference was placed once more over his face as he answered "I didn't really work with them. At the moment I just thought that it is the good thing to use them for... For my revenge so I went to that Tobi guy. I have never learned of his plans because I think it wasn't necessary."
"But you captured me before so you should have known something boy." Killer Bee said with his usual rap.
"Akatsuki's need for the tailed beast is a common knowledge. Besides, during that time I wasn't capturing the eight tailed for them, I am merely capturing it for myself." Sasuke admitted, almost shameful of his past actions. He then looked at his older brother "Perhaps you know something aniki?"
His brother's revelation makes his heart ache. For the first time he would want to thank Kabuto for bringing him back to the world of the living. He really had underestimated the level of his brother's foolishness if he is as easily swayed and gullible as he is right now. He then nodded, "I had learned something during my stay as an Akatsuki member. But Tobi was always wary of me so I wasn't been told with the entire truth about the statue. But I'm not a fool and I got it all figured out. The moon was the prison the sage used for the juubi. Madara took that shell out from the prison and wish to revive it by using the other tailed beast. At of this moment the statue had the entire tailed beast except for the Hachibi and the kyuubi, although there are some of these tailed beast chackra inside of the statue which had caused it to be revived once more." Itachi looked at each of the three men listening to his explanation then continued, "Tobi was right, we cannot defeat the juubi even with the use of the Hachibi and kyuubi's chackra within Naruto-kun's and killer bee's body."
