If you attack the Hidden Leaf, I'll have no choice. I will fight you, don't doubt that. Until that day, save your hatred. Then you can throw all of it right at me. I'm the only one who can handle all that hate! Do you understand? I'm the only one who can fulfill that duty, so I'll bear the burden of your hatred, and I'll die with you!
Sasuke
What is it with you huh? Just what in the hell do you want from me?! Why are you so fixated on me?!
Because you didn't know anything. You had no part in the Uchiha Clan's folly. You were just a child. And you think I did it just for you? I wanted you to grow up and judge me. I deserved to be dealt with only by another Uchiha. And so I took advantage of the hatred inside you. That's why I failed. Ultimately I only filled you with hatred and made you go rogue. I turned you into a criminal. Back before I died I tried to lead you down the path to righteousness, down a path without any forks or turns. I changed the signposts on it with lies and my visual prowess.
Sasuke
What, I was supposed to happily walk that one path, ignorant of everything?! I couldn't! I never could have walked that path!
Lord Orochimaru immediately tried to acquire that power. However, he didn't yet possess a body that could tolerate it. That's why Lord Orochimaru was not able to become the perfect Sage, not like the one I have now become!
He put the Tailed Beasts under a genjutsu, and with just a single glance too. Naruto, it's ended up as I feared. I've no choice but to trust you to handle this. I can't stay in this world any longer. I shall soon fade away.
Yeah, and I'll apologize for this too, Six Paths super gramps, but it ain't gonna go like it did with your kids. Because I'm not Ashura. And Sasuke isn't Indra either.
I admit, at one time all that I wanted was to seek vengeance and destruction, but now things are different. I want to destroy but then I want to rebuild. A village without darkness. I'll reform the shinobi world. Do you understand? What I'm talking about is revolution.
I know in my heart that there's nothing I can do even though I love you! Even though I care so much about you Sasuke. I can't get close to you or exchange blows with you. I can only whine, cry, and beg yet again! It's so pitiful isn't it? [flashes back to when Sasuke left the village] But please Sasuke! If there's even a little corner of your heart that still thinks about me, don't leave again, please! If we just stick together, I know that it can be old times again someday.
Sasuke
You really are still incredibly annoying. [Sasuke puts his Genjutsu on Sakura]
But you aren't gonna be able to hit me with the same punch as last time. There's no way I'm gonna let you get away with whatever you want. And trust me Sasuke, you're not gonna be Hokage either. You don't even seem to understand what it means to be Hokage.
I actually do want to fight against you. And I want to win fair and square. Although not against the current you! But you already know that, don't you, Sasuke?!
Sasuke
This fight with you right now will be my last. Indra's Arrow. Currently the most powerful Jutsu in my arsenal. Just die! Just begone already!
Hang in there. It's not much but I've got some chakra. Huh?
Sasuke
This is just one of the many abilities of the Rinnegan. As somebody who possesses the eye of the Uchiha, my victory is inevitable. Now I can finally be alone. Farewell, my one and only friend!
Everything feels strange, so... Yeah, that must be what happened. Well probably.
Sasuke
Pitiful huh? You had the Tailed Beast, and I was an Uchiha. We were ostracized by the villagers and treated like outcasts. We both resented the village and everyone living in it. Right? You can't say that I'm wrong. You said I was like your brother, and in that sense, maybe we were brothers.
No, you're completely wrong! Damn it! You don't get it, do you?! Sorry, Granny Tsunade. I know that I promised I wouldn't die until I became Hokage. OH NO! THE INFINITE TSUKUYOMI! This is bad! We can't release the jutsu if we're dead!
Sasuke
You're dead, and you're worried about what happens to the rest of the world?
No way. Your dying isn't going to settle things. If you're willing to die, then live and help me instead! What I want to do is get all shinobi to cooperate, and that definitely includes you!
Sasuke
Just because you want that doesn't mean the others will.
Look, don't make me repeat myself! Come on, are you seriously not getting it yet? Come to think of it, you were always pretty dense. [realizes Sasuke is crying]
Sasuke
Just knock it off. Shut up, you loser.
[Naruto laughs. The hands of the statues and blood flowing from their wounds depict the unison sign, symbolizing Naruto and Sasuke's reconciliation]
[Everyone is freed from the Divine Tree and mourns the fallen]
Sasuke
Naruto, I've been thinking about what you once said to me. How when you're with me, you wonder if this is what it's like to have a brother. Now finally I think I know what you meant. It's just like how I came to feel my mother's, my father's, and my brother Itachi's pain and emotions. Naruto, I'll now start feeling your pain and feelings. You never cut me off. In fact, you kept trying to get closer to me. You could have justifiably charged at me with hatred, but instead you never stopped calling me your friend even though I tried to break that bond myself.
To be perfectly honest, under normal circumstances someone like you would be imprisoned. That your past actions were pardoned and your wish has now been granted speaks to the enormity of your help in undoing the Infinite Tsukuyomi. But also my becoming the Sixth Hokage and that Naruto, the key figure in ending the war testified on your behalf, helped. Don't forget that. Try not to cause too much trouble from here on out, otherwise I'll be held responsible.
Do you really have to go? The artificial arm Lady Tsunade made from Lord Hashirama's cells is almost done.
Sasuke
I need a little time to work out my feelings. I want to know how the Shinobi World looks to the current me. I feel like I'll be able to see things I've overlooked, things I can only perceive in my current state. Also something's been weighing on me.
[pokes Sakura's forehead in a similar way to his brother] Maybe next time. Thank you Sakura.
[Sasuke leaves the village, only to run into Naruto]
Sasuke
I didn't think you'd be coming to see me off. [Naruto returns his old headband] You still had that thing? You stopped me as a friend even at the cost of your hand, and I was saved thanks to you. We were insignificant things that used to clash, and now we're able to share each other's pain. And after journeying long and seeing the world, I've realized something. This isn't really about you or me. I believe this concept can be applied to even bigger things than just us. But it's not something that can be done as easily as you were able to. I never assumed it would be simple, just like it wasn't with the two of us. Especially with something so big.
Yeah all right sure. I'll hang onto it til we have our real fight. It's kind of like a prayer. To keep enduring until it comes to be, no matter what. And to those upon whom those tasks fall on, perhaps that's what it means... to be a ninja.
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