The Four of Us

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Sasuke POV

We froze when we heard a cold voice chuckle behind us.

"Well, what might we have here?"We slowly turned around, and looked in the direction of the voice. We saw five people, four men and one female, wearing konoha hitai-ates with a slash across them, meaning their rouge ninjas. I'm guessing that the one who spoke was the one in the front of their group. He had forest green hair that went to his chin and had brown-gold eyes. The single female in the lot of them had waist length hair the same color as the leader so I'm assuming they're siblings. She put her hand on the leader's shoulder, "Toza, aren't the blond, the duckbutt and the tiny one from important clans?"

"They sure are. Imagine the fame we'd get from killing a clan heir." He laughed. Naruto slowly moved in front of Sakura, while I did the same for Hinata. Naruto had his black katana on the ground near the tent and he was slowly reaching for it.

One of the people in the back of their group did hand seals quickly and yelled out "Doton: Kiretsu no Jutsu" Suddenly the ground below him and Sakura started to split in two. Sakura was able to jump to Hinata and I, while Naruto grabbed his katana and jumped to the opposite side.

"Raki!" burst out the female. The leader turned to look at the man in the back of the group who did the jutsu. "Y- Yes b-boss" he stuttered out. "What made you think to use that jutsu on these kids. Three of them are from important clans so they will obviously be able to dodge low-ranked jutsu like that." "How about I deal with the brats, while the rest of you go on ahead. I doubt their ability to leave my jutsus." smirked a chestnut haired man in the middle. "Alright then, everyone leave him with the kids. Let's go." The leader named Toza announced.

During the group's small conversation Naruto snuck back to the rest of us and tried to make a plan. "Let's split up and try to buy time for the Root agent to get here" he explained, "that way we can have someone to help us fight this guy." As much as I hate it, he's correct. The four of us are all nine and still in the academy. This guy looks at least mid-chunin level, maybe even low-jonin level. The rouge nins left us with the brown haired guy, who was smirking creepily at us.

"Now lets have some fun shall we?" he called out as he came running at us, kunais in hand. Naruto immediately unsheathed his katana and blocked his slashes. The guy grabbed shuriken from his kunai pouch and threw them at the rest of us. I grabbed my own kunai and threw them, effectively knocking them out of the air. Sakura and Hinata were frozen in fear while we fought.

"Hinata, Sakura. Get away from here and try to find that Root agent." I instructed them. Hinata activated her byakugan, grabbed Sakura and ran the direction of the village. "Oh no you don't." The rouge nin hollered. He jumped back and went through some hand signs and yelled out "String Bean Binding illusion" and the two of them who ran got picked up by a bunch of vines. A giant bean pod opened revealing the nin with a kunai in each hand, about to stab them. I ran, quickly realizing it was a genjutsu, yelling out to them "Bite your tongue to cause pain to disrupt the genjutsu." They did as I said and they continued running away, Naruto came running in to distract the guy. "Hey you old man, stop chasing after them and come after me. I'm the son of the Hokage so you should try killing me."

It seemed like he was saying whatever came to mind and it was working, but in a bad way. The guy turned around and quickly came back throwing loads of shuriken and kunai at him. Naruto, who was expecting the attack, did his best to dodge, occasionally knocking a few out of the air. He suffered a kunai to the leg and multiple scratches and cuts littered his body, making his clothes red with his blood.

"You brats never know when to give up, do you." The nin then threw two shuriken, one me the other for Naruto. It flashed brightly, blinding me for a second, as I dodged. I turned to Naruto and said "Hey dobe, how you-" I couldn't speak once my eyes hit Naruto. The shuriken I dodged had curved in the air and hit him in the neck, along with the one actually thrown at him which hit him in the stomach. "Sas-k-ke" he rasped out as he fell to the ground, his breathing stopped and I felt my heart drop.

If I didn't dodge the shuriken. If I hit it out of the air. If I let it hit me. If I did anything other than what I actually did, he might not have been hit. 'He's dead because of me' I realized. I let my best friend die. The same person I confessed to a few days ago. The person I love is dead because I couldn't save him. My parents were right, I'll never be as good as Itachi. At least he can save his comrades and loved ones.

I felt a burning in the back of my eyes as I looked at his body. I felt an uncontrollable anger course throughout my body as I turned around to face the brown haired rogue ninja. He was smirking. "He was so easy to kill, it's pathetic. It's hard to believe that kid," he gestured at Naruto,"is the son of the Yondaime Hokage, the yellow flash of Konoha." He started laughing at his words.

At that point the anger I felt was blinding me. I started seeing everything in slow motion as I started running at him. I began slashing at him with vigor while he blocked, still laughing at his own stupid words. Something came into my head out of nowhere, and I spoke a single word "Amaterasu."

A pure black flame appeared on his arm, quickly burning through his clothes and burning his skin. He started screaming, trying in vain to get the flame off of him or put it out. The flame only got bigger and burned off his arm, filling the air with the smell of burning flesh. I ran up to him and stabbed him in the chest, killing him instantly. I then willed the flame away, and promptly collapsed.

A/N Yay for me. I managed to write two chapters in a day.