Rabbit Princess [Gaara] [1]

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"You're asking me that after he tried to kill you?" Usajii replied. Tsukiko rolled her eyes and Usajii rolled his eyes right back at her. "You should've realised how deep he has sunk the moment he attempted to kill one of you two to awaken his Mangekyou Sharingan,"

"By special..." Naruto snarled. "By special, you meant that?!" Sasuke laughed in response and Tsukiko frowned as he felt his long nails.

"I don't feel like I'm going to lose," Sasuke said. Naruto went running at Sasuke and Tsukiko couldn't see in the dust clouds that formed around them until it disappeared.

"That is... disgusting, Usa," Tsukiko commented, wincing, as she stared at the large, webbed-claw-shaped wing from his back and blocked Naruto's attack.

Sasuke threw Naruto away and Tsukiko bit her lower lip as she tried to make sense of Sasuke's stupidity. He had truly fallen into the depths of hatred. Another wing sprouted out from Sasuke's back and Tsukiko knew that there was no turning point. He will attempt to kill Naruto now.

"Sasuke... You..." Tsukiko muttered. Suddenly, Sasuke knelt over in pain and Tsukiko furrowed her eyebrows. "... Idiot," He is currently undergoing some sort of side-effect from the cursed seal?

"That power you have..." Sasuke said to Naruto. "Seems to involve some risks, too, huh?" Tsukiko glanced at Naruto and saw he was struggling to move his left arm. "Did Tsukiko tell you... That this place... is called the Valley of the End.

"I think this is the perfect stage, don't you think, Naruto? Oh yeah... I said there'd be no more talking, didn't I? Well, in that case, how about we bring it to a close...? This battle... All our battles up till now!"

Tsukiko's lips parted in surprise as the two of them swiftly created their Chidori and Rasengan and jumped at each other. There was a huge crash and Tsukiko felt her eyes widen as she stared at the explosion of blue and red Chakra, which swirled around and then swelled up until it turned into a large black sphere of energy.

Usajii seemed to have sense the devastation it would bring and the Chakra engulfing her turned into a solid white form. But Tsukiko was not concentrating on that. Her eyes were on Sasuke, who only got to punch Naruto in the chest rather than kill him with the Chidori and similarly, Naruto only got to scratch Sasuke's forehead protector.

The large black sphered began to solidify as it caused huge waves in the river and produced a purplish glow in the middle until it spread all around it and turned into a strange mixture of Chakra. Tsukiko felt chills run down her spine as she tried to stay afloat and not be swept away by the huge waves.

"Naruto... Sasuke..." Tsukiko whispered as she heaved herself up, ignoring all the pain in her body and rushed toward the shore, tripping and falling several times until she reached the two boys, who had reverted back to normal. "Naruto!"

Naruto was collapsed onto the ground and Sasuke was standing still. Tsukiko threw herself next to Naruto and hurriedly looked at him, trying to see if he was still alive. She pressed her head against his chest and listened to his faint heartbeat. She had barely let out a sigh of relief when she felt something hit her head.

Tsukiko looked down and saw that it had been Sasuke's forehead protector. She reached out to grab it, staring at the scratch running across it when there was a huge jolt in her body and she knew that it had been her heart that was struck by her overuse of Chakra and everything she had to endure in the past two days.

"No..." Tsukiko breathed, clutching her chest as she fell forward. "Sasuke... Please... Let us all go home together... Naruto... He's not the only one who considers you family..." Sasuke stared down at her, staring at her white face as she laid convulsing on the ground as rain suddenly stormed down upon them.