The Crimson Angel

Hello everyone. Thank you for the reviews so far. Here is chapter 5, I hope you like it.

Warning – There is Sakura bashing in this chapter. Actually there is a lot of Sakura bashing within the story.

Disclaimer – I do not own Naruto.

Chapter Five

The next day, Sasuke woke up and showered and dressed. He went down stairs to see Akai already up and in the kitchen, cooking the fish he had caught yesterday. He stood at the bottom of the stairs and watched the boy. He had an uncanny resemblance to Naruto. Sasuke shook his head, it was just wishful thinking.

He finally moved and entered the kitchen are. Naruto turned to smile at him. “There’s a village near by, I’ll head over there to buy groceries and when I get back, we’ll start your training. Is that okay?”

Sasuke nodded. He was eager to see what this boy could do and what he could teach him. After breakfast Naruto left to go to the small village nearby. Before he left, he cast an illusion around the deserted village. Just in case anyone was looking for Sasuke. All they would see was the forest.

Sasuke remained in the front room, sitting on the couch. He was in deep thought. He was once again thinking of whether he had made the right decision in leaving. He also wondered where his brother was and what he was going to do now, now that Akai had destroyed Akatsuki. He felt a grim satisfaction that Itachi and Kisame were alone.

When the red head returned, carrying many grocery bags, he was surprised to realise he had been sat thinking for the last couple of hours. He stood up and took some of the bags, taking them into the kitchen. He helped pack away the food.

Twenty minutes later, they were sat outside in the middle of the village. Sasuke was a little confused. Akai was just sitting there. As he was about to open his mouth, the red head held up a hand.

“First, I need to take off the cursed seal Orochimaru put out on you.” He said, leaning forwards. Naruto put his hand on Sasuke’s neck, and closed his eyes.

Sasuke watched as Akai closed his eyes. He felt a warm sensation from the hand on his neck. For some unknown reason, he felt his face begin to heat up. The sensation only lasted a few moments, and then it was over.

Naruto pulled his hand away and opened his eyes. He stared into Sasuke’s eyes for a moment, before getting down to business.

“Right, we can do this two ways. First option, I can teach you one jutsu at a time, or the second option, I can transfer a few at a time straight from my head to yours. Then you can practice them, your choice?”

Sasuke but his lip, he liked the latter choice to the former. This way, he could learn as more in a shorter space of time. “The second option.” He answered.

Naruto nodded. Closing his eyes, he placed his hands on either side of Sasuke’s head, thinking of the jutsus he wanted to pass along, he pushed them into the raven haired boys mind. He opened his eyes, it was done.

Sasuke closed his eyes when the red head opened his. Five jutsus ran through his mind. A image and the hand signs were clearly before his closed eyes. “Cool.” He whispered.

“I’ll be inside if you need my help, unless you wish me to stay?” Naruto said.

Sasuke shook his head. “I’ll be fine…thank you.” He had never been good at thanking people. He watched as the red haired stood up and made his way back to the house. He closed his eyes again and went through the jutsus and watching the images of how there were done and what they did.

Kaze no Yaiba no jutsu

An image of a blade of wind, the blade being impossible to block.

Doton: Doryûheki

An image of a person in his mind spits out a stream of mud that quickly grows and solidifies in front of him and used as a protective wall.

Katon: Karyû Endan

The man in his mind spits out an enormous ball of flame in the shape of a dragon from their mouth.

Kage Bunshin

He watched as the imagined man performed the move, already knowing how to do it from watching Naruto perform it many times.

Dokugiri

The person in his mind spits out a stream of toxic poison gas.

Along with the images, he had the knowledge of how much chakra he would need to perfect the move. Standing, he got to work. The sooner if learnt them, the sooner he could learn more. He also wanted to perfect his fighting skills. He hoped he would get a chance to spar with Akai. But he was happy to be finally learning jutsus.

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Sasuke worked all day, only stopping at noon to have lunch. At 4 in the afternoon, he bent over and rested his hands on his knees, breathing hard. He had managed to learn and perfect each of the jutsus Akai had given him.

After catching his breath, he walked back to the house. Akai was sat on the couch, reading.

“I’ve finished. I want more jutsus.” He said.

Naruto looked at him, and shook his head. “You can have more tomorrow. You don’t want to exhaust yourself. Remember you don’t have to learn it all in a week.”

“What are you talking about? I need to get stronger. If you’re not going to give me more, I might as well go back to Orochimaru.”

“Sasuke…listen. If you had stayed with that snake, he would have kept you there for three years. That’s when he has to choose another host for his body, and he was planning on using you. If you stay here with me, I will teach you every jutsu I know and have you ready to face you brother in two years.”

Sasuke stood thinking, it was logical he guessed, but he wanted it sooner. He looked up to try and argue further, but the red head held up a hand.

“If you stay with me, I will teach you the move that made the fourth hokage famous…” Naruto paused. Sasuke was looking interested, now to add the icing on the cake. “Also, I will give you access to your mangekyou sharingan.”

Sasuke gasped. “How?”

“I cannot tell you how, all you need to decide is if you’re staying or leaving, your decision. I’ll make dinner.” Naruto stood up and went to the kitchen area to start dinner.

Sasuke sat on a chair, looking into the fire. If he had the mangekyou sharingan, he would stand a chance against his brother, and he would be able to get it without having to kill his best friend. And two years wasn’t that long. He would be able to get stronger, and he would have enough power by then. He frowned.

“Why are you helping me?” He asked Akai.

Naruto paused. He might as well tell the truth. “I was ordered to, it is your destiny.”

Sasuke rolled his eyes. He hated thinking about destiny, he didn’t even know if he believed in destiny, but he refrained from asking any more questions. When dinner was ready, they sat and ate together.

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A couple of hours later, Sasuke was restless, unable to settle. Naruto sighed. “Why don’t we spar? You can show me the jutsus you learned.”

Sasuke nodded, both eager to see what the red head was capable of and to show the boy he had completed the jutsus he was given.

They made there way outside. It was dark, but with a wave of his hand, Naruto lit the busted light posts. It gave them enough light to see each other.

Naruto nodded and moved his hands in a familiar sign, creating five kage bunshins. Sasuke smirked, and as one of the clones sped towards him, he flashed through a seal: “Katon: Karyû Endan.” Taking a deep breath, he blew out a fire ball in the shape of a dragon, he destroyed the clone, and the fire dragon flew towards Naruto, who waved his hand and it disappeared. Sasuke was shocked at his power, but was please with himself, this was what he loved, sparing and learning new jutsus.

To take the next clone out, he used the jutsu where he breathed out a poisonous gas. The clone paused, before convulsing and poofed out of existence. The next clone, he fought in a taijutsu battle, he realised they were equally matched, or so he thought, Naruto made sure his clone wasn’t using his full strength, he made him so he would equally match Sasuke in speed and strength.

Sasuke managed to get in the killing blow and the clone vanished. He was breathing hard, but not ready to give up. Naruto could tell Sasuke was tired, so he instructed the last two clones to attack together, he needed to put an end to this fight, so Sasuke could rest. As the two remaining clones charged together, Sasuke flashed through a set of seals: “Kaze no Yaiba no jutsu.” A blade of wind cut through the clones like a knife through butter. Sasuke collapsed to the ground, he was exhausted.

Naruto smirked, and walked over to him. He lifted Sasuke in his arm and walked back to the house. His heart was beating rapidly in his chest. Being around him was wreaking havoc with Naruto’s emotions. The last time they had fought, he had promised himself he would kill Sasuke, but now he couldn’t bring himself to even think of hurting him.

He looked at the raven in his arms and saw he was already asleep. Sasuke moved slightly, pressing his face into the warm chest. Naruto blushed, thankful Sasuke was asleep. He walked into the house and went up the stairs. He placed Sasuke on the bed and took off the boys shoes, and then covered him with a blanket and left the room, closing the door behind him.

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24 hours ago

Sakura packed her bag and snuck out of her mother’s house. She was thankful it was dark. She had had enough of the village. She was going to find her Sasuke-kun. She touched the bruise on her chin where Ino had hit her. All she had done was speak her mind. Okay, she might have been a bit harsh, but Naruto was the one to be blamed in all this, it was his fault he hadn’t kept her promise to her.

She didn’t understand why everyone was taking Naruto’s side, she was glad he was dead, served him right for lying to her. She smiled as she made her way out of the village, glad the guards hadn’t seen her. She leapt up to the nearest tree and sped away as fast as she could. She had no idea where to start looking first, but she would stop in every village she passed. She decided she wouldn’t stop. She would keep going until she found a village.

It was by luck that she found a village. She had been travelling for the last 24 hours. She was tired and hungry. After jumping to the ground, she looked around at the village, but to her disappointment, it was deserted. But she didn’t care, she would stay here. She had to sleep for a few hours.

She walked around and frowned, everywhere looked a mess, but one house looked like it was brand new. None of the lights were on, so she opened the door and stepped in. she wasn’t prepared for the trap, she stepped on it, and found herself upside down.

She screamed. Opening her eyes as she heard a noise, she watched as a red haired boy came down the stairs. She gasped as she realised it was the boy with the wings. She gulped, he didn’t look happy.

“What happ-” She looked to the stairs and gaped.

“SASUKE-KUN.” She shrieked.

Sasuke sighed, so not wanting to deal with the annoying pest. “What are you doing here?” He demanded.

Sakura had hearts in her eyes. “I came to look for you, to take you back home. Now Naruto’s where he belongs, you can come back.” She beamed at him.

Sasuke advanced upon her. She failed to notice his pissed expression. “Where he belongs, what do you mean?”

“Well, he’s dead.” She was still smiling, but the smile was gone in a flash when he slapped her across the face.

“Don’t you dare speak of him that way. He is a far better person than you.”

“Sasuke, what are you saying? I love you, we belong together…” She rambled.

“Shut up. We do not belong together. I loved Naruto, I still do. You are nothing to me, just a nuisance. I hate you, always have.”

Sasuke heard Akai’s and Sakura’s gasp. Sasuke turned to see Akai and paused. He walked over to the red head and looked at him. He had tears in his eyes. Sasuke was the one to gasp now, the boy in front of him was Naruto.

Naruto had failed to replace the mind altering illusion upon Sasuke. He now looked like himself, still with red hair and red eyes, but himself all the same. He saw Sasuke’s wide eyes, and cursed. He had let him find out who he was earlier than he planned. Sasuke grabbed Naruto’s arms and pulled him towards him. Naruto started to speak, but was unable to as he suddenly found Sasuke’s tongue in his mouth.

The kiss was short because Sakura, who was still hanging upside down, began to scream. “GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF MY SASUKE-KUN.”

Sasuke turned and advanced upon her once again. “Sasuke, don’t.” Naruto said. He pushed Sasuke out of the way and cut Sakura down. The pink haired girl tried to launch herself at Sasuke, but the raven side-stepped and she fell to the ground, knocking her head and falling unconscious.

Sasuke turned on Naruto and glared. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

Naruto looked away. “I don’t know. I guess I was still mad at you.”

Sasuke looked away. “What happened to you?” He asked. He saw tears fill Naruto’s eyes and the red head turned away. Naruto was shaking his head. “I can’t.” He whispered.

Sasuke caught Naruto’s wrist. “Can you show me?” He asked, knowing that if Naruto could give him access to jutsus, he probably had the power to give him his memories of what happened to him.

Naruto bit his lip. “Yes, but we have to get rid of her first.”

Sasuke grimaced. “Can we just chuck her out?”

Naruto laughed softly. “Did you just make a joke?” He teased, as Sasuke’s face blushed. “When she wakes up, I’ll make her return to Konoha. Do you want me to erase her memory of finding you?”

Sasuke paused to think. “No, she can tell the hokage that I’m not with Orochimaru. If she tells them I’m with you…” He looked away.

“Only Iruka-sensei knows I’m alive.”

Sasuke nodded. “I know, I mean if she tells them I with you, the angel.”

Naruto thought for a moment, before nodding. That way, no one would start looking for Sasuke. They would be left alone. Jiraiya seemed to know about death angels, so hopefully he will keep people away.

“Okay, when she finally wakes up, I’ll send her away.”

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Well, that’s it for this chapter. Hope you enjoyed it. Please review to let me know what you think. Thanks for reading.

Doton: Doryûheki - Earth Release: Earth Style Wall

Kaze no Yaiba no jutsu - Blade Of Wind

Katon: Karyû Endan - Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Missile

Kage Bunshin - Shadow Clone Technique

Dokugiri - Poison Mist