Kurama tore down the gate of the village in one swift movement. Everyone in the village began to run away in panic as the Jounin ninjas shook in fear.

The evil fox laughed uncontrollably at our fear: "This is amazing! Soon I'll destroy your village and everything you hold dear!"

He walked into the village, and the traumatized ninjas slowly began to back off.

Kakashi-Sensei ran up to me and began to push Sakura and me away. "You guys have to go."

"What?! But we--"

"If you want to help, you'll go. We'll handle things right now. You need to figure out how to master the binding chains, the 8 trigram seal, and the 4 elemental seal in a short amount of time. You're our only hope right now. Only you can do this to return fate to the way it was."

I grabbed onto the scroll in my hand tightly as I nodded in agreement. "Okay, we'll go."

Sakura looked at me and nodded back as we began to run away.

***

"I can't seem to get it right!" I yelled as I sat down on the floor in frustration. "It's just some stupid sealing jutsus...Ugh, why is this so complicated?!"

"Calm down Naruto. Maybe you're just rushing it too much. Take it slow--"

"I don't have time to take it slow! Our village is being destroyed, Sasuke is Kurama's puppet, people are dying, and it's all because of me!"

Sakura raised her hand and slapped me angrily. "Naruto, you need to stop being a loser and pull yourself together!"

I held my cheek in pain as I looked at her in shock.

"I get you're feeling pressured, but you need to calm down. Nothing's gonna turn out right if you keep rushing things."

I stayed silent for a moment as I thought about her words. "You're right." I stood up and grabbed the scroll I had thrown on the floor. As I grabbed it, the scroll slipped out of my hand and rolled down the hill opening to another section.

I quickly ran down the hill to look at the unfamiliar section. "What's this?" I asked as I looked at it. "It's only one jutsu, and it does the job better than the other two. Plus, it'll turn everything back to normal..."

"Did you get the scroll back?!" Shouted Sakura from a distance.

"Yeah!" I answered while quickly rolling the scroll back up. I can't let her see that jutsu...

***

Sakura had gone to check up on the war going on near the front of the village. While she was gone, I perfected the forbidden jutsu I had found at the end of the scroll.

I'm ready...I'm going to save you Sasuke, even if it costs me my life, believe it!

I grabbed the scroll and placed it into my back pocket. I then looked into the distance to see Sakura running back. "Naruto, they need help! Sasuke...Sasuke is fighting as well!"

My eyes opened in shock at the news she brought. I clenched my hand into a fist and frowned. "Don't worry, I know how to save everyone."

I quickly ran off to the fighting area alongside Sakura.

I'm coming Sasuke!

***

We arrived at the battlefield to see Sasuke taking out ninjas one by one. I frowned angrily at what I was watching.

"Kurama!" I yelled, getting his attention, "Imma kick your ass, believe it!"

I began to charge towards him as Sakura stayed behind to help the other ninjas. I jumped up into the air as I placed my fingers together to summon my shadow clones. "Shadow clone--ahh!"

Right before I could summon them, I had been hit in the arm with a Kunai knife. I landed on the ground in pain as I tried to take the knife out of my arm. "Shit!"

While pulling out the knife, I saw footsteps approach me quickly. In that instant, I quickly jumped into the air and dodged the attack.

I held the kunai that stabbed me in my hand and looked at my attacker: Sasuke. "Sasuke, why did you join his side?!" I yelled in pain.

He got into a fighting position and began to summon his fireball jutsu.

I quickly jumped away to avoid the attack.

"Sorry Naruto but he's under my control!" Kurama yelled as he used his tails to send the other ninjas flying.

I looked back in fear as some people went flying, and some were dying.

"Naruto, I would pay more attention to your opponent!" Kurama warned.

I was quickly brought back to reality when I was punched in the stomach, sending me flying.

I groaned in pain as I got back up on my feet. "Shadow clone jutsu!" I yelled as my clones appeared one by one to create about 20 clones. As they ran to attack, I looked at my clones in fear.

Why can I only summon 20 at most? Some of them aren't even lasting that long!

"Looks like you really do need my chakra to survive," mocked Kurama as he stopped attacking to watch. "This looks more interesting than my lame fight."

While dodging all of Sasuke's attack, I quickly made my way out to find Sakura, letting my clones do the work.

Once I found her, she was already on the ground wounded. "Sakura-chan!" I yelled as I kneeled down next to her.

"Naruto, you need to seal Kurama up." As soon as she finished her sentence, she blacked out.

In anger, I ran back to Sasuke and began to fight him seriously. "You're an idiot! Letting Kurama control you like a puppet! What happened to the Sasuke I knew? The Sasuke that never took shit from anyone!" I yelled angrily as I was finally able to land a blow.

He hit the ground and raised back up to fight me again. There's no stopping him!

I backed up and bit my thumb to release blood. I hope this works!

"Summoning Jutsu!"

In the cloud of smoke, only a tiny tadpole had grown. Shit, I'm really weak without the extra chakra...

Sasuke threw a Kunai at my tadpole and another at me. I quickly avoided it and jumped back. How can I beat Sasuke?! He's so much stronger than--that's it!

I stopped running away and breathed in. I looked up at him, slowly walking towards him in hopes that something within him would click. However, he threw another Kunai at my leg, causing me to wince in pain as blood oozed out from my wound. He readied another weapon, watching me struggle as I continued to walk forward.

I wasn't going to stop trying to reach him no matter what, and that scared him. Out of fear, he continued to throw knives at me until he realized I wouldn't stop moving closer to him. Confused by my persistence, he stopped attacking and stared at me in fear.

"I'm not gonna hurt you Sasuke." I looked at him sincerely as I got closer. He then began to back up slowly, terrified of what I might do.

He held a Kunai in his hands in terror as I approached him. I finally got close enough to reach out my arm and caress his face. "Sasuke, I lo--"

He quickly stabbed me in the stomach in fear. I coughed up blood as I felt my legs tremble in pain, but I didn't allow to pain to stop me. Instead, I smiled at him as his hand that was still on the kunai shook in fear.

"Sasuke, I love you, and I'm gonna do everything I can to save you, believe it!"

As I looked into his eyes, I leaned forward to kiss him. I love you, Sasuke.

I released him from the kiss to see his eyes begin to turn normal again. "Na...Naruto?" He asked in disbelief as he saw my bloody condition.

"Did I do this?!" He asked while shaking.

"No, you didn't," I said with a smile, "I'm sorry Sasuke, but I need you to stay here."

"Wha-what are--" I quickly summoned two clones to hold him down. I slowly began to walk towards Kurama as I held the wound on my belly in pain: "It's just you and me."

He laughed and began to attack me. "You're too weak! You'll never be able to seal me again!"

I ran as fast as my wound would let me, looking for a chance to use the seal I learned. But Kurama grabbed me by the hair, causing me to yell in pain as he pulled my pigtails. "A little girl like you can't do anything!"

As I cried in pain, I saw a Kunai on the floor. I reached over for it as quickly as I could and used it to cut off my hair. "You're not gonna stop me!" I placed my hands together to summon another jutsu. I took a deep breath, remembering Sakura's words. Please...just this once, let me be able to do this!

"Adamantine Sealing Chains!"

Chains rose up from the ground, wrapping around Kurama as it pulled him down to the ground.

"Not this again!" He yelled in anger.

He roared with fury as he saw my face. "Naruto!" he growled. He then stabbed me with his claw in anger as I sealed him up. "You damn Uzumaki! I'll kill you the same way I killed your parents!"

I closed my eyes and smiled weakly. Now I understand...

"Naruto!" Sasuke cried as he saw the claw go through my body.

I began to cough up blood as I smiled back at him, "Don't worry, everything will be over soon."

Watching Sasuke cry for me made my heart ache in pain, but I would rather be the one dead than him.

My parents loved me, and that's why they died that day...they died to protect me and the ones they loved...Now I must do the same to protect everyone I love!

"Naruto!" I heard the third and Kakashi-sensei yell as they saw my sorry state.

I took a deep breath and prepared myself for what was to come next. I'm sorry, everyone...

I put my hands together again slowly to do one final justu: "Dead Demon Consuming Seal!"

"Wait! Naruto, you can't use that seal!" yelled the Hokage.

"Where did you even learn that?! It's forbidden!" shouted Kakashi-sensei as they began to run towards me.

"This is the only way...with this, everything can turn back to normal." As my soul separated from my body, I could see the Shinigami that held my soul.

The Shinigami wrapped its left arm with prayer beads and began to chant until a seal appeared on its arm. It drove its arm into my soul, letting me call out Kurama's name to take his soul with mine.

"You can't do this to me Naruto!" yelled Kurama as his soul was being taken away.

"Yes I can, and I just did."

And like that, our souls were taken for eternity.