What if?

Fuck Bucket

Naruto blasted forward, the ground exploding behind him.

Naruto threw a punch that made Orochimaru explode into chunks of mud and earth. Orochimaru appeared with a shunshine in front of Naruto with blue fiery Chakra at his fingertips.

He slammed the palm of his hand into Naruto gut with such force that dust blew away from them and he yelled. "Five pronged seal!"

Haku picked up Sasuke and the sword and tossed them into a wall of ice, watching silently as the ice wall disappeared. Then he dashed and picked up the unconcious Naruto.

Orochimaru crossed his arms and chuckled. "Tell Sasuke...when he wants power, to seek me out, and bring my sword back to me. It's not my only enchanted sword, but it is my favorite." He turned, then walked away as Haku created another slab of ice and stepped through, into a blank area that was fairly cold and had ice growing on the ground.
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Sasuke landed on his back, pain still shooting through his body. "Sasuke."

Sasuke saw a younger version of himself standing in front of his dead mother and father. Blood coated his floor and Itachi looked at him with tears in his eyes. "Sasuke, why are you here? You weren't supposed to be here..." Then Itachi vanished with the parting words of. "I'm sorry..."

Then he saw Itachi again, only older, with armor, and a blood covered tanto in each hand. He was surrounded by dozens of dead ninja, all supporting Konoha headbands. Itachi was smiling and his sharingan was glowing and in full mangekyo form. He stood in front of an older version of Sasuke holding the kusangi and with a yellow mangekyo sharingan. Sasuke's skin was light grey, his hair was dark blue, and he had large dark blue feathered wings. "Why Itachi?"

Itachi flipped his tanto stood reverse grips and he laughed. "We were never brothers!!!"

The real Sasuke shook his head. "That's wrong. Itachi never does anything without reason, you can't fool me, Snake. Where are you?"

"Kukuku...smart boy. I sense the darkness in you boy, it's faint and hidden inside you...but it's there. You will come to me of your own free will..." Orochimaru spoke around Sasuke.

Sasuke glared, feeling the mark on his neck. "I will beat back the darkness."

Then Sasuke's eyes snapped open and he was on his feet in moments, purple chakra swirling around him and black fiery markings on the left side of his body. Sasuke picked up the Kusangi blade, feeling it absorb his chakra and claim him as its owner. "Alright..."

Then a sheet of ice formed and Naruto and Haku leaped out of it. "Are you alright, Uchiha?" Naruto looked at the malevolent chakra, dark markings, and the sword that Sasuke had been gripping as hard as he could.

Sasuke nodded, pushing back the dark chakra from the mark.

Sasuke fell to one knee. "My body...feels...heavy all....of a sudden."

Naruto grunted. "Get up, Uchiha. No rival of mine would show this much weakness."

The last loyal Uchiha looked up and smiled weakly. "At least I'm not just some 'human' to you now...alright." He pushed myself up with sheer will power, then held his fist out for Naruto.

He cracked the smallest of smirks and bumped it before turning and walking off.

Sasuke looked over to Haku. "Thank you. I don't know what you did to him but he hasn't been this calm in a very long time."

"I figured as much. My name is Haku Yuki, by the way. What happened to him?" Haku asked, slinging Sasukes arm over his shoulder and helping me walk.

Sasuke sighed. "Ignorance and hatred. Naruto is a jinchuriki, a container of a tailed beast. He houses the kyuubi after it attacked our village when he was a baby. The fourth hokage defeated the fox and sealed it into Naruto at the cost of his life."

"So he is a hero, correct?" Haku asked curiously, making the Uchiha chuckle darkly.

"No. The villagers saw him as the Ninetails itself. My mother cried for his sake and often tried to help him or adopt him before she died. The villagers cursed him, ignored him on better days, and hurt him on worse days. He had one friend as a child, Hinata Hyuuga...she was killed for being friends with him. My mother told me of him and I sought him out, trying to be his friend...but he lashed out at me. He chose to hate everyone for the way he was treated. I hope I can save him..."

Haku had tears in his eyes but looked forward at Naruto's back a few dozen yards away. "No one deserves that treatment."

"You're right, but the villagers won't change their minds unless he proves he is more than a demon." He whispered sadly. "Being away from the hate seems to be helping him though. Before today, I'd never thought I'd see him save someone else...let alone take a hit for them."

Haku acknowledged that. "It makes this so much harder..."

"Makes what-?" He chopped at the back of my neck and everything went black as Sasuke fell into unconsciousness.

Haku lifted Sasuke up and set him against a tree. "I'm sorry Sasuke... I'm sorry Naruto... if you see me again we'll likely be enemies. I wish it didn't have to come to that,but I will do anything for Zabuza-sama...even...kill. So please...go back to Konoha, don't continue this mission, I don't want to hurt you." Haku finished his letter with tears in his eyes and folded the paper neatly. Then placed it on Sasuke's lap.

"Good bye, friends..." Haku turned and stepped into an ice mirror and allowed it to melt. Haku appeared in his room and fell to his knees, crying in silent despair. "Please...don't make me hurt them..."