Transcending My Wings

{Dan} Okay! Here we go again with another chapter!

{Itachi} Just get on with it, will ya.

{Dan} Where’d Naruto go? He was just here a few moments ago, right?

{Itachi} He’s still sleeping.

{Dan} Aww… I wanted to play with him…

{Itachi} -gets a twinkle in his eyes- Hn?

{Dan} Not like that you perv! –this time Itachi and Dan banters back and forth-

{Choji} -still eating chips- well, since they’re arguing I think I should just let the you guys read the chapter now. Oh yeah and Dan would have liked to thank the reviewers and the readers if he wasn’t busy!

{Naruto} -yawn- hey guys! Uhhh- you’re busy, okay then… ummm, I was supposed to say something and now I lost it! Oh yeah we forgot to tell you that I don’t have the seal on my stomach yet. It’ll be there later but for now imagine that each kanji is a part of the whole seal and once it’s all there the seal would be formed. Oh yeah, and the whiskers come later on too! That’s about all! Later!

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To Transcend My Wings
: : Chapter 3: : Fire and Lightning
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The group was met with quite a sight as soon as they arrived. Sasuke laid beaten on the ground along with Jiraiya while Orochimaru sat atop his snake summon, Manda, with the Sound four and Kabuto acting as his body guards. The Four of the sound nins made a barrier from four corners, effectively shielding Orochimaru and the others from further attacks from the present shinobi and trapping the other two inside as well.

“It’s been quite a while Tsunade.”

“Not quite long enough, Orochimaru” hissed Tsunade upon laying eyes on her old teammate, “What have you done?!”

“They're alive… for the time being, but I have a proposal to make,” Orochimaru didn’t wait for Tsunade to respond, “I want the newcomer… from what I’ve heard, he would make such a lovely test subject.”

“Why do you think that I would allow such a thing to happen?!”

“Because you wouldn’t want more lives to be lost today.”

“I’m Hokage, and that comes before everything else!”

“In the expense of your fellow shinobi’s lives?” This struck a guilty cord within Tsunade as she recalled the people that she’d lost in the shinobi world… her love, and brother. Tsunade was torn in trying to make her decision, she could save fellow shinobis or rather throw the child of prophecy to a den of lions, metaphorically speaking of course. While the situation came at an impasse, Itachi looked down at the boy he still held. The boy’s eyes glowed white for a moment and Itachi saw the same vision that the boy had just seen.

“Lady Hokage? It’s okay, trade me,” said Naruto as he hopped off Itachi’s arms.

“But-”

“No buts, they need help now and if I could help them then so be it. Don’t worry, I have a feeling something incredible is about to happen.” Tsunade looked at the boy confused but the nod that Itachi gave her a little sense of ease. Tsunade nodded in slight agreement but before she could voice any further distress to the matter, Naruto and Itachi disappeared and reappeared in front of the barrier that the sound-nins have made.

“Wise choice, little boy,” said Orochimaru as a small sly smile appeared on to his face.

Naruto looked through the barrier and saw Sasuke’s writhing form, the mark on the boy’s neck flared darkly just before the boy passed out. Naruto lowered his head and took Itachi by the hand before extending his other hand to touch the barrier. The spectators raised their voice in warning but Naruto knew the consequence of touching the barrier. Itachi’s moon symbol glowed a deep red enveloping Naruto and once Naruto’s hand touched the barrier, it broke down and became completely shattered leaving the four shinobis who activated the jutsu in a state of paralysis. The remnants of the barrier disentangled back into chakra and surrounded the four in a pyramid leaving them no room to move, or risk getting killed.

“What power!” Orochimaru stood sneering at the scene and everyone stood still with their eyes wide and mouths gaping open, “I must have that power!” Orochimaru attacked without warning while the blonde newcomer was still winded. He was met with resistance as Kakashi stood before him kunai drawn against the snake blade protruding from Orochimaru’s mouth. (AN: just so you know… I think Orochimaru is a bit perverted with all the licking and stuff that he does…)

Itachi and Tsunade took action as well. Itachi and Kabuto went head to head while Tsunade, now guarded by the available ANBU, went to aid Sasuke and Jiraiya. Tsunade first healed Jiraiya and started to work on Sasuke but the seal is somehow rejecting the healing chakra thus leaving Sasuke in a vulnerable state.


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Meanwhile, Itachi, activated his newly formed mangekyou and instantly trapped Kabuto in his world. Kabuto felt himself pulled into Itachi’s tsukuyomi where he experienced all the pain that he and his master, Orochimaru, had once delivered to their so-called test subjects.


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Once Kabuto was effectively trapped, Itachi went to aid his brother, but none of his jutsu could have helped at that moment. Tears poured down his eyes as he cradled his brother’s head onto his lap. Itachi knew that he looked up to him, but never before had he tried to show him just how much he truly cared as well.

“Le-Let me help him,” Naruto struggled to get back onto his own feet.

“Your body can’t deal out anymore damage,” intervened Itachi.

“Please let me, even if this is the last thing I do… I know of a way to free him from the curse seal, I will need you to keep Orochimaru preoccupied and I need Kakashi here, QUICKLY!” Tsunade proposed to help keep Orochimaru preoccupied while Itachi and her took over the fight between Kakashi and Orochimaru.

Itachi pulled out his katana and attacked Orochimaru while his guard appeared to be down. Orochimaru sidestepped the swipe of the sword and jumped back.

“He needs you Kakashi sensei.” Kakashi nodded in understanding although he was at a loss for what exactly is it that he can do to help. As soon as he approached Naruto took his hand and they both glowed a deep pink that turned bright blue. This time, Kakashi gained the kanji of Lightning on the back of his hand similar to Itachi. It only took a second more before Naruto regained his breathing, and even without looking, he knew that the kanji for Lightning was now tattooed onto his stomach. Kakashi’s eyes turned deep black and for a second Kakashi thought he lost the sharingan eyes that his once teammate had given him. A few moments later, both his eyes gathered chakra and this time his eyes turned blood red before a modified version of the mangekyou sharingan appeared as well.[AN: this is Kakashi’s mangekyou in the manga and anime.]

“What happened to my eyes?”

“I’m not sure but now that you’re a guardian, I suppose the power accelerated you chakra patterns and carried the bloodline limit to the other eye as well.”

“Thank you.”

“Thank later, help me now.”

“What am I supposed to do?”

“Place two of your fingers on my forehead and direct a steady stream of chakra and don’t waver or I could die and Sasuke wouldn’t be able to survive.”

Without missing a beat, Naruto placed two fingers onto Sasuke’s neck where the heaven seal was placed and does a couple of one handed seal that Kakashi has never seen done. Kakashi also places two of his fingers on Naruto’s forehead before allowing a steady stream of chakra to travel onto Naruto’s system. It looked like nothing was happening but the seal on Sasuke’s neck started flaring again but this time Naruto’s and Kakashi’s chakra flowed onto the spot and started to break it down. Sasuke started screaming from the pain but Naruto told him that everything would be okay later on and he just needed to endure the pain for now. Still unrelenting, Naruto kept going through a series of one-handed signs.

Itachi and Tsunade looked away from Orochimaru for a moment as soon as they heard Sasuke’s blood curdling screams. Even Orochimaru stood stunned as the seal he had placed onto the boy a couple of years back during the chunnin exams started to break. He was now really impressed of the boy and wanted him all the more. After the initial shock subsided, Itachi activated his newly formed mangekyou and he was able to perform Amaterasu without having a hard time from the after effects. Orochimaru, unable to quickly get away, manipulated Manda to coil around him to act as a shield. Manda took the brunt of the hit and the snake's body burned so quickly that he lost his life even before he was able to go back to his own world. In a moment, Manda’s body lay lifeless on the ground. Then another scream took their attention.

“Aaah! This is it! Once I break the seal, call Tsunade to heal Sasuke, but do not touch my body until my own transformation is complete.”

“What transformation?... come on, answer me!”

“I’m sorry, but the only way to take off the heaven seal from Sasuke at this moment is to transfer it. I’m transferring it to me,” Naruto paused for a moment, “so please just do as I say.” All Kakashi could do now is nod and follow exactly what the blonde wanted. Naruto finally broke the seal once he felt the seal transfer to him. His body convulsed from the foreign malicious chakra that flooded his system. Kakashi was starting to panic before he strengthened his resolve and fetched Tsunade to heal Sasuke now. Tsunade, however, was already prepared and she sent her healing chakra onto the raven haired boy the moment she reached him.

“Seems like the boy now has my seal. Very well, me and my companions are now leaving, for soon, that boy will long for me. Until then Ho-ka-ge.” Orochimaru disappeared in an instant with Kabuto in tow. The other nins have been able to free themselves from their ‘prisons’ the moment Naruto took on the seal and disappeared as well, more likely back to their hideout.

“How is my brother, Hokage-sama?” asked Itachi as he neared his brother.

“He will be fine, Itachi-san.” Relief filled Itachi as soon as he heard that his brother would be fine, but it didn’t last long. He stared at the blonde's writhing body. He wanted to touch the blonde in hopes of easing the pain, but Kakashi pulled back his hand just as quickly.

“You mustn’t Itachi-san. It’s too dangerous for now, he wants us to wait.” Itachi forcibly nodded, he would follow but it didn’t mean he had to like it.

“A-ni-ki?” groaned Sasuke as his own strength returned.

“Hn.” Itachi recoiled back into himself as he saw Naruto in pain but couldn’t do a thing about it. It took a while for Naruto to stop whimpering from the pain but by then, Sasuke was fit enough to walk again. He was the first one to walk up to the blonde with Itachi, Tsunade and Kakashi trailing behind. Jiraiya had also woken up during the fight but he couldn’t move his body due to chakra exhaustion and all he could do was stare in awe of everything that the blonde boy had done in a short amount of time.

When the blonde stopped moving, Sasuke scooped up the blonde and cradled his head onto his arms.

“Please wake up! Please wake up!” Sasuke repeated this sort of mantra as he cradled the blonde’s head. Naruto opened his eyes a moment later to reveal dulled blue eyes.

“Seems like my savior needed saving this time,” coughed Naruto. Sasuke couldn’t help the emotions that threatened to burst, but soon he was crying and his tear drops fell hard. Rain clouds gathered and fell hard that day. Sasuke let all inhibitions fall and soon enough, he felt a burning sensation on the back of his hand. This time the mark of fire was embedded onto in skin while they presumed that the blonde had the mark of the fire as well. Sasuke’s sharingan eyes swirled and changed to another modified mangekyou… [AN: this time he had eyes that resembled the ones in the manga… like 4 loops interconnected while Itachi has eyes that looks like Madara’s]

“Guess you’re my guardian too… I really wanted to go on a journey, but I can’t anymore,” whispered Naruto through clenched teeth.

“You still can,” whispered Itachi back. Naruto could only shake his head to say no.

“I saw this in my vision as well, only I didn’t want to show this to you. This is meant to be, by the way I didn't really introduce myself correctly. I'm Naruto, nice to meet you.” The last of Naruto’s breath left him as his body disappeared as well, vanishing into the clouded night. Itachi and Sasuke looked towards each other and a silent agreement was formed between the two. The rest of them were too shocked to even comment at what had happened.


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Minato lay sleeping beside his child who hasn’t woken up yet. Only a couple of hours have passed by since his child crossed over to the other world. He was just slightly worried that he couldn’t have come with his child. Naruto’s lifeless body suddenly twitched and Naruto quickly sat up and pulled the tube that was helping him breathe. Minato shook awake at the movement coming from the bed. He was surprised that Naruto had woken up so quickly, but none the less, he was overwhelmed with joy.

“Dad? Am I back?”

“Yeah, how did it go?”

“I- uh, I think I died.” Minato didn’t know how to take the news. On one hand, he was happy Naruto was back but on the other hand, he was thinking that someone had hurt his child and this sent him to a bloody frenzy. The blonde boy saw the bloodlust behind his father’s eyes, but he didn’t quite understand where it was coming from.

“I’m okay now dad, can we just get outta here now. I’ve been in a hospital for days now, I’m sick of it.”

“It’s only been a couple of hours after they declared you in a coma.”

“That means time moves differently in both worlds, just like the way Kyuubi said it. I have this feeling that I need to go back though! I don’t think I have completed anything yet.” Then the room became engulfed into darkness and the Kyuubi appeared before them once more.

“It seems that you aren’t ready yet.”

“What do you mean?”

“The other world zapped your strength so quickly, much more quickly than I have expected.”


“I need to go back! something tells me that the one’s we have fought aren’t the threat.”

“You are correct, but I cannot take the chance of losing you. I’ll let the restored guardians do the rest and let fate take us where we need be.”

“Please take me back!” Naruto’s request fell onto deaf ears as the nine-tailed fox disappeared and they returned back from oblivion.


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“Dad, we’re back.”

“Yeah, it seems that you can’t return back to wherever you had gone.”

“It’s like I let everybody down.” Naruto couldn’t help but let tears fall down his face. He cried out all of his frustrations until his body came at its limits.

“You didn’t, son.”

“I don’t know. I just hope everyone’s okay.” Minato took his son to an embrace letting the boy fall back to sleep once he had exhausted all his energy.

“Tomorrow will be another day,” muttered Minato as the he took a deep breath and sat back down.

TO BE CONTINUED!!!

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{Dan} There we go! Naruto is still alive, I so wanted to end it at that part before Naruto went back to his world.

{Itachi} I don’t like this chapter. I seem pathetic.

{Dan} What are you talking about! It just makes you look cool!

{Naruto} I gotta agree, I like the stoic Uchiha…

{Sasuke} So what about an avenger Uchiha?

{Naruto} I’ve never really cared for them…

{Sasuke} -lies twitching on the floor- he, doesn’t care for me?

{Naruto} Are you okay Sasuke?

{Dan} He’ll be fine… Let’s let him grieve his loss, right Itachi-san?

{Itachi} Hn.

{Naruto} That’s my Uchiha right there! -grabs Itachi and sprints towards the nearest bedroom-

{Dan} -sweatdrops- Uhh, yeah, I gotta go for now! Be back later! Please Rate and/or review! Let me know if you find any mistakes!