Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Life for a Life ❯ A lesson on the Snakes...Interlude ( Chapter 36 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

I do not own Naruto

EmeraldFoxTears…Actually I don't know Naruto's mother's name. Yukita was just a name that I liked. And I don't care if you use any of my base ideas for your fic, after all it is not as if I own Naruto. :D

Joker…zigyy553, answered for me on the review list :D, and as to Umiko's daughter. Well she comes in later in the story.

Zigyy553…Nope…this is entirely off the top of my head…

Chapter 36

Time is something that sooner or later tries to reconnect itself. An instant where two points have met can disappear or even reappear with dramatic consequences. Even Fate itself can be vexed from his fellow being's fractured state of mind.

One minute Time can be wise and gentle, the next Time can be crazy and homicidal. Although the Fourth was supposed to die, as he had decreed those years ago, when the Kyuubi came, Time had a slip in its opinion and messed with its decision. But as Fate saw the results of that slip begin to unfold. It groaned with irritation…

In the end the results would be the same and the worlds that they looked after would be fine.

But there would be times when Fate would wish he had killed his fellow immortal for the unnecessary pain their charges are going through…

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Three days later…

Sasuke hit hard against a ninja that had rushed him. Training with other sound ninjas who had foolishly displeased their sensei, was his only release at the moment for the excess anger he had built up over the years.

News that Naruto had inadvertently created a forbidden jutsu, was troubling. He had to know, he had to see what kind of damage the blonde could do.

As the last of the ninja, becomes unconscious, Sasuke looks at Kabuto who nods his head at the subtle order. Medics of all kinds rush forward then, to the broken and bleeding bodies of those who have learned their lesson. Thus as Sasuke heads back to his chambers, the youth once he enters pauses in thought.

He remembers that day on the roof, the one time he has ever been prevented from fighting his friend. He had thought that he was better, that he was the stronger. But the power of Naruto's Rasengan was tremendous.

Was incredibly harmful to his well being…

He knows from reports that Naruto had been trained in that particular skill, by Jiriaya one of the other two Sannin. Naruto… Although he does not show it…nor does he admit it to those in the village. Sasuke's weakness is his former teammates and Sensei. Especially the blonde youth…

Despite everything that has ever happened to him, even when his family was alive. The only person to ever cause him to react, the only person who ever made him want to just have fun. Was always Naruto….

He worshipped his brother and that is true. In the beginning of his young life Sasuke, would have been like Naruto who? But as Itachi drifted away for his own reasons, the blonde was always there. He was always harassing him, driving him crazy…

In a sense, giving him the attention he wasn't getting from his own family, other then his mother. Basically, now that he realizes it, the blonde idiot was becoming his family. The one he had always wanted when he was a child, especially after what had happened.

Making the necessary seals, Sasuke finds a smaller snake with an attitude looking up at him with what could only be deadly intent. It had taken him only one try to summon Manda, and the snake had put him through the fight of his life. In the end, the summoned leader of the snakes had hissed his acceptance and grudging respect of the Uchiha.

For having last longer then both Kabuto and Orichamaru had done…

Manda ssaid we had a new ssummoner. What iss it you will give me to do your bidding.

Grabbing a kunai with his hand, he slices it across the opposite palm. The blood welling from the cut, it drips into the eager mouth of the snake below. Satisfied with what it perceives a proper sacrifice. The snake looks up with eager anticipation.

“Watch Kabuto, unlike my predecessor, I do not trust one who has betrayed a fellow ninja as easily as he did.”

And if he isss a traitor?

“Tell Manda next time, I summon for his aide, he will have a delicious sacrifice.”

The little snake grins with anticipation. After all it was Kabuto who had stolen the contract for Orichamaru years ago, from a family of a summoner whom Manda had taken a shine to. The higher summoned creatures had specifics and challenges of sorts for each of those men and women who have signed their contract.

Some allowed any…like the dogs or the slug summons. Whereas others would favor only one and even then only if they had earned their respect…the frogs were an example of this kind.

Manda and the snakes were very much the latter… Only second in summons to the Foxes and tied with the frogs in power, the former Sannin knew he could not get the Frog contract from his former friend. And the one for the foxes was lost ages ago…it was even rumored there was no such contract save a verbal one from the Kyuubi himself.

Considering one was impossible to obtain considering what had happened back then…he simply went for the other.

That would earn you Manda'sss ressspect sssumoner The little snake replied as it slithered off. For that I ssshall do asss you wisssh.

Sasuke nodded his head, and went back to studying even more of the scrolls. The jutsus listed in them intense and hard training to do, he knew that there was nothing that could compete with him…

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Although it is short, someone had once asked me more about Sasuke's opinion as well as others on certain event's. This is for that person….