1 Chapter 1

Dark skies and a corpse covered ground was all the eye could see. The smell of blood and rooting flesh heavy in the air. Three figures stood still in the middle of all this death. One was the person who caused this, Madara Uchiha, and the other two were what remains from those that wanted to stop him, Sasuke Uchiha and the jinchuuriki of the nine tails, Naruto Uzumaki. All three of them were tired, worn out from the constant fights and the lives lost that weighted heavily on the hearts of the young boys. The war had dragged on for month. Battle cries for a new world of peace could not be heard anymore as there was none to shout them out. As the only two survivors of the shinobi alliance, Naruto and Sasuke had promised to each other that they'd bring down Madara, a promise they made to everyone they swore to protect but failed.

The last three shinobi now are at the valley of the end. The once statues of Madara and Hashirama that stood proud at the sides of the waterfall., were reduced to mere crumbles and not a drop of water remains from the waterfall. Everything was dead around them, and maybe soon, even them would follow. Madara spiked his chakra, indicating that he was ready to launch another attack. The teens' forms tensed and got ready to avoid whatever the man would throw at them.

With speed so fast the naked eye can't follow, he rushed at the buys to engage in a taijutsu fight. Every punch and kick was enforced with chakra, making every hit even more powerful but Naruto and Sasuke were not backing down and met every hit with equal force. Sasuke took out his katana and made to swipe at Madara's neck but he dodged. "Is that all you have left? " sneered Madara, taunting the boys with a smirk on his face." Even after taking away everything you held dear, you still can't find the power to defeat me." They didn't response. Instead they once again pushed chakra on their limbs to go faster and hit harder at the older Uchiha.

Naruto, with his biju cloak on, whose light once was the hope of all shinobi, drew more power from Kurama and he looked like he was shining even more than before. Sasuke saw this and grew concerned. So much power would be destructive, not only for the enemy but the wilder too. Naruto saw the concern in his eyes and gave him a small smile. "With this, I won't have much chakra left and will surely die after using it. But if killing Madara means I need to die, then so be it. I went let all the death of our friend be meaningless." Finishing what would be his last word to his brother, Naruto went straight to Madara, an orange and dark purple rasengan in his hand. "This will be your end Madara!" Rushing at each other, they met at the middle of the valley. Madara with his gundai and Naruto with his biju rasengan. After a massive explosion, that had Sasuke shielding his eyes, everything became quiet.

The cloud of dust began to settle down and Sasuke started to make out tow silhouettes. One fell down with a thud and the other staggered, barely managing to stay up. "Naruto?" called Sasuke tentatively, hoping against hope that the one that fell down was not the blonde. Hearing Sasuke, the figure twitches and slowly turns to face him. The dust fell more and Sasuke saw the sunny locks of Naruto. He quickly went to him and caught him before the strength left his legs and collapsed to the ground. "Hehe..he. It's over, Madara is finally dead." Naruto was happy. All the month spent strategizing to kill the damned Uchiha elder and now it was  the end. But there was no one to share their happiness. Naruto knew that he too, would soon join him and his other friend and Sasuke would be left alone in this dead world. "Sorry, Sasuke. I can't keep my promise to stay by you anymore. I can feel the little chakra I have left leaking out, not much time is left." Sasuke had tears in his eyes. He knew that technique meant the end for the blonde, but it was the only way to end Madara. Shaking his head, he looked Naruto straight in the eye and spoke. "You won't die. I still have enough chakra for one last technique." Naruto looked puzzled for a moment, when what Sasuke was talking about clicked, his eyes widened in disbelief. "You can't mean..." Sasuke nodded and started to wave through hand signs. "You can't, Sasuke! If you use this, then you will die!" He tried to stop him but he was to weak to lift even a finger.

"If it means you will live, it's worth my death." Sasuke said, stoping his hand at the last seal. Focusing his chakra, he opened his rinnegan and called out "Forbidden technique: Taimuribāsu no jutsu!" (time reverse jutsu) The rinnegan started to glow a bright purple and everything was turning white. "NO, Stop Sasuke!!" Naruto was desperate, he was about to lose the last person that meant everything to him, a comrade, a friend, a brother and he could do nothing to stop it. Sasuke hugged him for the last time and whispered "I know you can change things for the better. I believe in you, brother." Naruto's eyes filled with tears and a scream of despair ripped from his throat as the arms that were around him slipped from his shoulders and vanished. "Brotheerrr!!!" Left alone in the destroyed valley, Sasuke looked at the sky as the first rays of sun after the forever clouded sky fell on the ash covered ground. "Live, Naruto and always move forward." were his last words as the light dimmed in his eyes and he fell lifeless on the ground.