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This is all his fault. He never should of trusted Orochimaru again. He never should of let him back into the village. He never should have forgiven him. He never should of let him live.
Naruto stared at the ruined leaf village. Not a single soul survived. Not a single resident was alive.
Hm and Naruto got into a fight. Orochimaru snapped. He attacked. Ofcourse Naruto fended him off, he dodged his attacks, not ready to counter attack a supposed Allie. Then, a jutsu Naruto had never see before.
He trapped Naruto in a paralysis jutsu. Naruto remained frozen, kunai knife still out in his hand.
Orochimaru approached him, and messed with his body when he couldn't fight back. He fingered the knife in his hand, and lead his fingers around Narutos front body, reaching his face then his head. In a swift movement, he took Naruto's Hokage hat from his head, Naruto only able to move his eyes as Orochimaru placed it on his own head.
He got infinitely close to bim, and with that long tongue he had once been so scared of, Orochimaru licked Naruto across his neck, like a sharp object slashing his throat. Naruto wanted to gag. He wanted to get out of there, disappear from this moment forever.
Orochimaru reached into his pocket, and pulled his cellphone out. He rang a familiar number, it read "Sasuke" on the ID of the phone number.
"Hello?"
Sasuke's standard groggy voice answered. It was late, around 11, there's no doubt be in bed right now.
"Hello? Is anyone there?"
"Mm, Sasuke, who is it?" He heard Sakura voice in the background, also tired, like she was laying in bed and just woke up.
Naruto's eyes widened in fear. What did he plan on doing to them? To their daughter? Naruto could t move his mouth, as Orochimaru held the phone out on speaker, tauntingly, he couldn't find a way to warn them.
"Who is it, Sasuke?"
"The dial's from Naruto, but he's not answering."
He heard Sasuke answer in a small whisper, but because the phone was on speaker, he heard it.
"Naruto? Is he alright??"
"I don't know. Quiet, tell me if you hear anything."
Naruto assumed they had put their own phone on speaker, waiting to hear from Naruto. He could do nothing but look at the phone, then to Orochimaru, then back to the phone. All he could do was breathe, so in and out through his nose till they could hear his ragged breaths.
"Do you hear that?" Sasuke picked up on it. "It sounds like breathing. Naruto, are out there? Are you alright? Can you hear me?"
Orochimaru slapped his hand down on Naruto's face, until his nose was covered and he could no longer breath well. However, the sound wasn't quiet enough to avoid being detected by the mic.
Sakura gasped, quietly. "What was that?" Silence. "Do you think he's in trouble?"
"Stay on the line, I'm gonna go check on him." He heard Sasuke's movements as he got off the bed and most likely, picked up as many weapons as he could in a short amount of time. "Stay here, if anything happened, or if he says he's fine, call me and tell me. Maybe get — phone and call Hinata, see if she's alright."
"Sasuke, what if he isn't at home?" Ever the smart shinobi, Sakura, whispered towards Sasuke, who paused and concisedered her question. Naruto thanked his lucky stars Sakura had such quick thinking, even if he was starting to black out from the lack of oxygen.
Suddenly, footsteps outside his office sounded.
"Where is he?? Is he alright? HOKAGE, are you okay in there? Someone unlock this door!"
In an instant, all four people on the phone heard the commotion.
"He's in his office!" The last thing he heard was Sakuras voice yell, and Sasukes katana unleash before Orochimaru ended the call and opened the door like a gentleman for the shinobi outside.
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Sasuke walked into the Hokage's office, and scanned the room. The whole villages electricity had gone out soon after the phone call, like someone had switched a lever than turned the whole village black. He had sprinted towards the offices, hoping to whoever was listening that Naruto was okay.
He held his katana firmly in his hand, and scanned the room. Furniture and paperwork and cabinets and shadows lined the walls, and in the center sat a figure with the Hokage hat on his head.
Sasuke wasn't an idiot, Naruto knew that, and he also knew Sasuke didn't trust whoever was sitting on the desk right now.
He advanced towards the figure, Naruto could still do nothing but watch from his position. In a flash, the shadow got up and started fighting Sasuke. They spared for a few quick seconds before Sasuke sliced the hat off, and revealed Orochimarus intense glare as Sasuke aimed the katana at him.
"You do have a habit with fighting your sensei's, don't you, Sasuke?" Orochimarus tongue snakes around his head as he spoke, in a way neither had seen in years.
"Where is Naruto, you back-stabbing traitor."
"Now why would I know? I'm not the one he devoted his life to rescuing."
Sasuke attacked, trying to stab, slice, behead, anything he could do. Orochimaru dodged, only intent on toying with Sasuke. Naruto knew what he was trying to do, but even his chakra had been frozen still, not allowing him to make a shadow clone.
Orhow Orochimaru took over Sasukes body and vanished. Sasuke had gone on a rampage, and killed all of the Konoha residents, ninja and civilians alike.
He had killed Kakashi with the chidori, blasting off his legs and arms and crushing through his torso.
He slaughtered Sakura and his daughter in their own home, then went after Naruto's family.
When he arrived, he had already killed Hinata, her byakugan eyes ripped from her skull and crushed next to her. Then he saw Boruto try to defend himself and Himawari, but to no avail.
He ripped Borutos head off, then crushed Himawari's into herself. Naruto had been too slow.
Naruto couldn't save any of them.
That wasn't even the worst part. To stop Sasuke, Naruto had to kill him. Now he laid in his homes ruins, a dead, headless Sasuke next to him.
Sasukes body was loosing its color, but kept twitching when touched by the rain drops. 'His head must be near the entrance.'
Naruto stared up at the clouds, which had started to rain down on them silently. He was bleeding out, and was missing half his torso. His ribs were poking out, and some were torn off of him and were laying near Sasukes hand. He was bleeding out. Quickly.
He'd done nothing to save them. And now he was gonna die a pitiful death.
Orochimaru had won. In the end, no matter how many people he'd defeated, or how many things were left to the past, Orochimaru had bested him in the end.
past
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PAST.
Naruto coughed a bit of blood out of his mouth, but still painfully got up. He saw Borutos head to the left, and quickly looked away. He pretended he never saw that.
But he did. He summoned a scroll from the Hokage's secret library. Apparently, his own father had been the one that built it.
He opened the scroll, and stared at the forbidden jutsu. The jutsu, could only be used once. And it came with a few draw backs.
1. The user could only use it if they had a set goal in mind. Once that goal was complete, the user would revert back to their current state and their heart would stop beating.
2. When used, the past would be deleted. Completely erased to make way for the new future. Anything could change. Anyone could change.
Naruto was willing to pay the price. He said his goal out loud, "To kill Orochimaru before this date comes to pass," and started the many hand signals.
The nine-tailed fox was watching, he new, but said nothing. Maybe Kurama was dying too.
He felt his ribs touching his skin and his lungs. His fingers were burning off. But he kept going. The light that had been building up in his hands grew bigger, until it absorbed him.
Then he felt a zap go through his head, and woke up in a familiar bed.
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Words: 556
Short chapter.
5/22/22