The world moved in slow motion...

One second, we were both looking around. Obito had spiraled out of reality, but despite that, his voice was still taunting my sun. Naruto was visibly getting inside his own head, his eyes completely blinded by rage and hate. It was a raw expression of the deepest of hate I had ever seen, one that mirrored how Sasuke used to look at me. The look my brother wore when he had come to kill me a little while ago.

Next second... it just... it happened so fast, yet it took my body so long to react.

I was hit, I was sent flying, and I was still in the air. I had just landed and scrambled back to my feet in time to see his hand ripping Kurama's chakra from Naruto's rigid body. Time froze, and he stood still for two seconds, not breathing.

It was those two seconds of stillness that felt like an eternity. His face was riddled with shock, confusion, and pain. His eyes took forever to realize what had happened. They widened, they looked down to his stomach, and his face didn't even catch up to the look of sheer horror in his eyes. That horror that matched my own before my horror surpassed anything I've ever felt.

His heartbeat grew fainter and fainter, and my ears strained as he fell to the ground, head bouncing off the ground. I gasped, and I was at his side before I even thought about running over. I ignored the giant statue, I ignored what Obito was doing as I cradled Naruto's body against my lap, shakily panicking as I felt his chest.

He's not breathing!

He's not breathing!

No! No! No, no!

"N-Naruto!? H-hey..." I shakily whispered, eyes wide as shock set in, my body going numb as his heart began to skip beats... slowing down so fast... before stopping entirely.

I panted heavily, shakily staring down at his stomach. I couldn't even process what was happening, and for a moment, I didn't dare move or move him. Panic swallowed my mind after two more agonizing seconds. I grabbed his shoulders and gave them a firm shake, my lower jaw quivering as others ran towards us as I cradled his body, growing increasingly cold.

My sun.

My sun.

My sun!

My everything.

My love!

My life!

MY SUN!

MY SUNLIGHT!

MY NARUTO!

NO!

NO!

NONONONONONONONONONO-

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" I wailed, frantically beginning to beat my fist against his chest, trying to restart his heart as my eyes blurred over with tears. "NO NO NO! NO! NARUTO! NARUTO! MY SUUUNNNN!" I screamed before shooting to my feet, holding his limp body in my arms, eyes frantically scanning the area, inhaling, searching, swiveling my head this way and that as I began to blindly panic.

I can't heal!

I can't heal!

WHO CAN-

Sakura!

Sakura, I need to find Sakura!

"SAKURAAAAAA!" I screamed and took off running, ignoring a loud roaring, a huge chakra signature exploding behind me, everything happening so fucking fast. "SAKURA! SAKURA!"

"ITACHI!" Sasuke's voice screamed nearby, but my surroundings blurred as I instinctively began to run at top speed, heading for her scent and presence.

She had just finished pummeling someone before I nearly ran into her. She gasped and nearly swung at me before realizing who I was. She went to speak, but her green eyes immediately found Naruto's limp body. I was cradling him against my chest, refusing to accept this!

I WONT ACCEPT ANY OF THIS!

"WHAT THE FU-" She almost immediately began to scream, but I wasn't having it!

YOUR TAKING TO LONG!

"FIX HIM! HELP HIM!" I snarled, forming a wall of bone around us, frantically worrying as I knelt down and gently set him onto the dirt.

There you go... easy does it. Gently... you're going to be fine, Naruto, you aren't too cold yet.

She panted heavily, her eyes tearing up and her hands flapping around for a second before she quickly knelt down and felt for a pulse, feeling none.

He's dead!
He's dead!
He's dead!
He's dead!
He's dead!
He's dead!
He's dead!
He's dead!

"What happened!? He has no pulse!" Sakura gasped, quickly throwing her hair up and yanking her gloves on. "Itachi!" She then snapped in my face, dragging me back from my panicked thoughts.

"O-Obito extracted Kurama from him! He dropped immediately!" I began, but she was quick to funnel chakra into her hand.

IT'S MY FAULT!

She started by ripping his shirt open, exposing his chest, and started chest compressions. She performed CPR and felt for a pulse before cursing to herself.

"Fuck this! I'm going to manually pump his heart! I refuse to give up on him!" She shakily wiped tears onto her sleeve before cutting into his side with her chakra.

"You Cut -" I began but froze in place.

I watched in horror as she slid her hand into his chest cavity, reaching inside. His chest beginning to rise and fall as she pumped his heart directly, blood coating her sleeve as she worked, while also applying first aid healing to the area to stop the bleeding, breathing into his mouth to keep his lungs working.

He didn't have a pulse. He didn't have any signs of life... and she worked tirelessly. I shakily stared down at his pale skin, feeling everything grow increasingly numb.

It's all my fault.

"HANDLE THAT HASHIRAMA!" Minato's scream echoed across the air faintly.

It's all my fault.

"IM COMING WITH YOU!" Gaara's voice was faint as well.

It's all my fault.

"WILL DO! LOOK AFTER YOUR SON, FOURTH!" Hashirama had responded.

It's all my fault.

Sasuke ran up to the cage of bone that I was keeping up and pounded against it, but I didn't dare to drop it, no, not while Obito was on the battlefield. I wasn't going to let ANYONE get near him again! NEVER! NEVER! I CAN'T!

It's all my fault.

"ITACHI DROP IT!" Sasuke demanded, sounding desperate and afraid.

It's all my fault.

I shakily brought my hands to my ears, eyes not leaving Naruto as Sakura worked on him. My fangs dug into my lower lip, and I could taste my own blood on my tongue. I gripped my fingers through my hair, eyes never leaving him, I couldn't look away, I could barely see through the sheen of blurriness as tears fell quickly from my eyes. I focused on his body, his heart manually beating, the blood pumping weakly through his body, but other than that, nothing, no other organs were functional, at least audibly, no matter how much I strained my ears.

"Itachi! Damnit, open these bones, we'll protect him from anything!" Gaara called beside Sasuke, banging his fist against the bones. "LET US IN!"

"ITACHI PLEASE!" Sasuke begged, his voice cracking in desperation and despair. "I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE HURTING BUT PLEASE!"

"Itachi... I know you love him. I love him too, that's perfectly fine with me. But please, drop the Susanoo. I'm a reanimated corpse, and I have half of Kurama sealed inside me. Let me try and give him my half." Minato's voice spoke softly, gaining my attention.

I didn't move my head, but my eyes darted to him frantically, panting heavily, unable to control my breathing as I stared over at Minato. His gaze was fearful, saddened, but determined. His eyes were soft, and his heart rate was steady, not at all panicking about his son dead on the ground before him. I shakily exhaled, looking down at Naruto's still body as Sakura worked on him, nothing working aside from keeping his blood flowing, to keep his body as alive as possible despite him being dead.

"I put that seal on him. I know how to reseal it, I know what i'm doing, you need to trust me." Minato urged, regaining my attention.

"Listen to him! I'm standing here, aren't I? It's not over yet! There's still a chance!" Gaara urged, shakily looking at me, his eyes flitting constantly to Naruto with dread and longing. "Please... " Gaara begged, the circles under his eyes deepening.

I stared the three down before looking back over at my still lover on the ground. I shakily whimpered and hugged my sides, biting into my lower lip harder as I reluctantly dropped my Susanoo. I flinched when the three momentarily swarmed his body. I growled angrily, but Minato shoved both Gaara and Sasuke back behind him before kneeling down, blocking my view of Naruto's face. I stiffly moved to the side, feet dragging against the ground, them weighing hundreds of pounds it felt like as my eyes found his still face again.

He looked so... at ease.

"Stand back give us some room, please." Minato asked, rolling up his sleeve before wiping dirt and sand from Naruto's abdomen, feeling his hand along his stomach before a black circular seal became visible, though, it was open rather than shut like it used to be before.

"Itachi! Oi! Snap out of it!" Sasuke walked up and smacked the side of my face.

I looked past him and at Naruto, refusing to look away, shakily watching through my sheen of tears. Sasuke sighed heavily deflating before grabbing my face and pulling it to look at him directly, though my eyes remained on Naruto, watching as Minato weaved a couple hand signs, my sharingan activating instinctively.

"I was supposed to watch his back. I was supposed to prevent this. Why do I keep on failing him? I even used my eyes this time. I used my eyes." I shakily spoke in a whisper, barely able to hear my own words over the thrumming of my heart, beating fast and squeezing painfully in my chest.

"It wasn't your fault damnit!" Sasuke hissed, shaking me violently. "You're an Uchiha! You're strong! You're better than this! Pull yourself together!" He yelled. "You're scaring me!"

"It was my fault." I grimaced, my knees beginning to shake. "I could've -"

"HEY! You didn't do anything wrong! Obito was just too slippery! He was too quick!" Sasuke snarled.

"I'm supposed to be faster." I shook my head, falling through his hands and onto the ground, crashing onto my knees. " I CAN BREAK ROCKS WITHOUT TRYING! I CAN OUTRUN THE RIKAGE! I'M THE FASTEST FUCKING PERSON ALIVE AND I COULDN'T FUCKING SAVE HIM!" I screamed and punched my fist clean through the ground, feeling everything crashing down on me.

"Itac -" Sasuke began, but his voice faded away.

Naruto's last wish was to kill Obito Uchiha, and avenge his life, right the wrongs done to him and his family. It's all he's asked for besides saving Sasuke. It's one of the first selfish wishes he's asked for, and life couldn't even grant him this. I couldn't... grant him that wish either, I've failed him horrendously.

Now he's dead... he's gone because of me... because of me.. all because I wasn't fast enough.

If he doesn't wake up... I'll just sit back and wait for the sun to take me... bring us together in the afterlife.

Life was nothing without him...

He was my world... the only world I wanted...

I didn't get any selfish choices in life besides him.

I want to choose him...

I want him...

I don't want anything else-

My reflexes kicked in, and my body lunged in front of Naruto, Sakura, and the fourth Hokage in time for my leg to kick through and shatter a giant pale spike that had nearly just crashed into them. My eyes widened and my head swiveled over to the battlefield to see a gigantic creature, with a piercing sharingan eye, staring down at everyone. It had tons of teeth, a giant mouth, swaying tails behind it and a massive torso with a spiral of spikes jutting out of its back.

"DARKNESS!" I faintly heard Tobirama's voice a ways away, and the Ten Tails roared before thrashing around, its eye looking unfocused and confused before its entire body became consumed with electrical shock, lighting splitting the sky and striking it repeatedly.

A giant wooden figure formed, and a chakra signature belonging to Hashirama exploded in size, dominating the air as huge wooden dragons rose from the ground and clamped onto the ten tails, pinning it's tails to the ground as the hands began to beat the monstrosity. I was panting and shaking, watching as they momentarily took control over the situation before looking back down at the scene before me. I watched with baited breath as Minato gently set his hand on Naruto's abdomen, red chakra swarming his arm before slowly seeping into Naruto's body.

I shakily grabbed my clothed chest, pulling and nearly tearing at my shirt as I watched, tense and unsure, my mind racing with guilt, hope, and agony. I moved over towards his head, and knelt down, giving Sakura the space she needed to preform CPR as she provided his lungs with air, breathing into him to keep his lungs rising and falling, doing her best to keep his body alive... even though he was already...

Tears brimmed my eyes again, and I watched helplessly as the chakra seeped into Naruto slowly, Minato's face tight with concentration, his eyes flooded with panic, worry and pain, but his expression was schooled to hide it very well.

"Damn... they really are gods among men." Sasuke whispered, watching the fight for a little while longer than I had, before turning his attention back to the issue at hand.

Gaara was sitting on a rock nearby, sand swirling around the vicinity as a defense mechanism, his eyes never leaving Naruto with a longing and desperate look of hopeful wishes and terror. Everyone had a desperate look to their faces...

Naruto has made himself some good friends in his life.

"Nearly there... "Minato spoke tenderly just as the red chakra finally stopped pouring into his body.

His hand twisted across Naruto's seal, closing it. Sakura hummed and continued her CPR, her free hand that was holding his head in place swarming with green chakra, which swallowed his entire body, still giving him manual heart beats, still trying to restart his body. I began to bite my nails before looking up at Minato.

"W-Why isn't he waking up?" I shakily asked, blinking rapidly as I stared down at him.

"He should be... the chakra was sealed inside of him, so any second now he should come back to us." Minato spoke, gently taking Naruto's limp hand into his own.

"It should work. Have faith." Gaara spoke up, though, his leg was anxiously bouncing up and down.

I turned my attention back down to Naruto. He lay motionless, the wind ruffled his hair ever so gently, and he was covered in dirt smudges, his bruises healing, his neck healed entirely. His face was so relaxed, all of the weight of hate and anguish he had been carrying was entirely gone from him, making him look eerily at peace. There was a small voice in the back of my mind, telling me he was better off, in a place without pain, without struggle or sickness or agony. He was in a better place... perhaps it was best if he remained this way. That voice was small, though, and I wanted myself and myself alone to be his heaven.

He was mine, Afterall.

Just then, I heard an abrupt twitch from somewhere in his body. My eyes nearly bugged out of my head as I gasped just in time for his eyes to fly open wide, gasping in air just as Sakura pulled away from his face. His teeth chattered together, his hands shooting up to grab at his chest. Sakura teared up and pulled her hand gently from his chest, making him howl with discomfort and shudder. He shot up from the ground into sitting position, panting and greedily dragging in air, shakily holding his chest, staring down at the ground between his legs, his heartbeat returning to normal. Sakura smiled widely as Minato pulled Naruto into a tight hug, his calm demeanor melting into relief and fear as he exhaled loudly.

"Holy shit!" Minato panted out, and I stared at Naruto's back, stunned to see that it actually worked, it had brought him back from the dead.

Minato pulled away and cupped Naruto's distant looking face, studying hin closely, brushing his hair from his face, pampering his son with happy muttering, relieved that he hadn't lost his son. Naruto caught his breathing, and it slowed down a little. His pupils focused on the scene before him.

"I-Is Itachi okay?" Naruto rasped out, pulling away, pushing on his dad to give himself room, looking around everyone's relieved faces, until he twisted to look behind him and at me. "Oh... there you..."

His voice trailed off, taking in my look of shock and panic and worry. My tears kept falling, and I didn't stop panting as we made direct eye contact with each other. My heart squeezed again, at the fact that his first words were asking if I was okay. My wide eyes took in those blue eyes of his. I wanted to lunge forward and hug him so tightly, but my mind was too afraid of his reaction. After what Madara had done to him, Naruto reacted horribly to my touch, and I didn't want to scare him again right after experiencing death.

My hands opened and closed, and my fangs bit into my lip, blood trickling down my chin and into my mouth and across my tongue. He watched me for the longest time, and everyone watched us watch each other.

He moved, and I tensed, breath catching in my throat as he slowly and stiffly crawled over towards me. I watched as his eyes winced, but moved until he was in front of me, on his knees, his hands shakily finding my knees. I flinched at the warm touch, savoring it as he slowly brought his hands up, touching my skin. His hands flinched, and his eyes flashed with fear before calming down, flooding with adoration and worry. Tears filled his eyes, and I watched as they fell, in shock as he touched me, wiping the blood from my chin, making me completely speechless and melt into his touch.

"Y-You were gone." I whispered, still horrified about what had happened, feeling as if my soul had shattered because of that experience. "Y-your heart... it... it h-had stopped beating."

He frowned softly before smiling despite his visible discomfort. I then froze as he leaned forward and wrapped his arms tightly around me. I flinched, hands not going around him, scared to hurt him, scared to react.

I couldn't tell if he was okay... my mind was in shambles... my body felt heavy, and I couldn't control my breathing or my painful heartbeat. My face screwed up, and I stared down at his neck. The bites Madara had left over mine, the dirt smeared across his bare skin. My teeth chattered together, wanting to rip into something, into him, bury myself in his warmth, and never leave.

I feel like I'm drowning in what had just happened. What just mentally destroyed me. And the anxious thoughts that it could happen again. My eyes squeezed shut, and I bit my teeth together, tears still falling, feeling like at any second I could lose him again.

"You're hyperventilating..." Naruto spoke against my neck, warm lips so inviting and inticing... so warm... so heavenly and perfect. "I've got you... I'm okay."

"Y-You d-d-d-died!" I cried out, voice breaking.

My hands dug into the ground, and my teeth caught his tattered remains of a shirt. I bit into the fabric, trying to keep myself quiet despite beginning to sob loudly into his shoulder as everything hit me like a crashing wave. I yelled into his shoulder, and my hands flew around him and held on like a vice. I knew it probably hurt, but I couldn't resist or control myself.

I don't know why I feel like the world is ending... he was safe, yet my mind was in a state of complete terror and panic.

"It's okay, just let it out." Naruto spoke softly, planting a soft kiss against the skin of my neck as I came undone.

"I THOUGHT I LOST YOU! DON'T YOU EVER LEAVE ME ALONE! NEVER LEAVE ME ALONE EVER AGAIN!" I screamed, clinging onto him as my brain shredded itself apart.

Flashes... flashes of my dead parents, dead cousins, dead friends, and frightened traumatized little brother in a pool of blood on the ground. Flashes of his scared face when he fought me. Flashes of those long nights alone under the guise of a rogue Ninja.

Those hundreds of nights... slowly dying of disease, wondering if it would take me before my brother did.

That unending loneliness and pain.

The agony of losing everything I had ever loved for the sake of peace.

Then, finally, the memory of Naruto falling limp onto the ground, dead in my arms. I ripped his shirt apart with my hands, what was left of it, and held the tattered remains, clinging onto them so tightly I felt my own bones threaten to break. I relived every horror I had experienced, every loss and every wound to my heart.

As much as I treasure Sasuke... as much as I adore and admire him despite his understandable and valid sourness towards me, I couldn't and wouldn't live in a world without Naruto Uzumaki, not with how I am now.

He was the only one who made me feel normal. He was the only one to not get scared of me... and accepted me as I am.

I wasn't a monster in his eyes, just Itachi, just his lover.

His everything.

He was my everything, my own personal sun.

The literal light of my life.

"Guh! Huh!" I panted, fighting to calm down, slowly but surely releasing my death grip around him.

His hands were moving across my back, gentle, his own lips quivering against my neck. I inhaled deeply, losing myself in his smell, losing myself in his warmth as it began to soothe me. My panic subsiding now that it left my system. My hands released the tattered remains of his shirt before cradling his head ever so gently against my neck. I turned my head, resting against his shoulder, tired and mentally exhausted. My eyes shifted up to the Ten Tails, watching it attempt to break free from its restraints.

This wasn't going to stop until it ended... there isn't time for rest anymore.

Not until the war was concluded.

I tiredly sighed before taking a moment to take everything in, processing as quickly as I could and pushing it behind me for the sake of my own sanity moving forward. I inhaled again, focusing on his smell, his emotions, his state of being.

Something's changed.

My eyes fluttered open, and I ended our hug in favor of cupping his face. He blinked a few times, keeping my gaze as I studied his. His eyes were oddly brighter, happier, more resolved, and less vengeful. The horrible weight in his expression was lessened a great deal, making me raise my eyebrows.

"Forgive me, especially after what just happened, but... but you look much better." I whispered softly. "Can I ask you what happened?"

Naruto blinked a few times before grinning softly. His eyes flooded with fondness, and his hand moved to his abdomen before looking over to Minato, who hummed curiously at the sudden attention.

"I met mom." Naruto spoke softly, making me and Minato tense in shock.

"K-Kushina?" Minato whispered, his eyes lighting up with longing and surprise.

"You saw your mother?" I asked, curious and intrigued.

"She opened my eyes and knocked the sense back into me, in short." Naruto chuckled softly, scratching the back of his neck. "She gave me an earful, that's for damn sure. She's great, ya know?" Naruto asked Minato, who blinked a couple of times before smiling big.

He and Naruto looked so much alike.

"Yeah, she's quite the woman." Minato snickered before standing and brushing himself off. "How are you feeling?"

"Much better, weirdly enough." Naruto shifted, and we both rose to our feet. "I'm less... upset, I guess would be the word for it." Naruto awkwardly scratched at his arms, shifting his feet before sighing softly. "Though I never want to experience that again." He nervously chuckled, growing visibly uncomfortable as his hand came to rest on his stomach, his eyes fluttering at the fresh memory. 

I inhaled again, smelling the air around him, feeling his chakra, his energy. It was less violent than it had been, despite everything that had happened between dealing with Madara and Obito's relentless words. He looked healthier compared to how he was, more colorful. Over the past several weeks, he had been deteriorating, anger getting the better of him, consuming him like a flame to dry grass. He was morphing into what he was fighting against, and he knew it, too. 

He wasn't himself. 

Now... though, he looked healthier, despite his visible discomfort and obvious crushing stress bearing down on him, as the Ten Tails let out a loud ground shaking roar. He grunted and looked over at the beast thrashing about, roaring out, its eye focusing on us from across the field, before abruptly vanishing, the wooden dragons collapsing to the ground before vanishing without anything to hold. I tensed, and my body dashed forward, only to clash against what felt like stone. I grunted, my world growing blurry, body moving on its own, blocking two more strikes before i was sent backward. I growled and formed my susanoo around me, only for it to shatter like glass as a hand grabbed me by the neck. 

I growled and flooded the area in front of me with black flames. The moment the figure dashed away, I gasped greedily for air, falling to my feet, nearly falling over as I felt bruises forming. I huffed in frustration, taking on a defensive stance as the black flames vanished, swirling out of existence, a long black cane spinning before slamming into the ground, making it shake. The man in front of me was masked, resembling Obito, but his entire body had gone pale, spikes jutting out of his shoulders and back and adorning a cloak. His eyes narrowed at me through the mask, flooding with sick desire and confidence. 

"Ah~" Obito shivered, sliding his hands along his staff, black orbs hovering just behind him, swirling slowly as his eyes beamed me down, before looking past me. "Back from the dead, what fun, looks like I get to play with you a while longer." 

"Fuck you." I hissed, venom burning through my veins it felt as I positioned myself between Obito and Naruto. 

"Obito... how far you've fallen. Why... why have you become this beast?" Minato spoke up, though, my eyes never left Obito, all too ready for him to attack. 

"I am a god, and I am this world's savior from itself." Obito chimed in a sing-song tone, his eyes crinkling as if smiling. "I will bring eternal peace." 

"You will kill everyone." Minato argued back. 

"Everyone is already dead, they just don't know it yet. This world, this life, it is hell. I have come to liberate everyone from it." Obito spoke softly, making me shiver. 

"You would rather destroy this world rather than save it? You used to speak on and on about becoming Hokage, you were always so passionate about the leaf. What happened to make you so cold?" Minato asked softly, his tone heavy with pain and confusion. 

"Hn, this world let me experience it's hell first hand. There is nothing on this planet worth saving. It is all hell. Kakashi is a selfish betrayer, who killed the woman I loved, they all moved on fine without me. I was believed to be dead... and it's true, I nearly died. I was crushed... I should have died then and there... and maybe things would have turned out differently. But Madara opened my eyes, he saved me from death and gave my life purpose. He made me realize this world was only good for breeding hate. It's a cancer that must go away. And it ends with the end of everything. I will give everyone their own personal heaven, and war will be forgotten." Obito explained, his hands twisting along the staff in his hand, his eyes brimmed with pain and rage. 

"You... really believe destroying this world is the only answer. You're giving up on everything you fought to keep? You really think Rin will forgive you for this?" Minato whispered, his heart breaking as sadness and ache emitted off of him like a broken faucet. 

"She'll have to." Obito whispered, looking down at his own hands, before taking the staff out of the ground. His eye traveled over to Naruto, before humming and tilting his head. "Quite the confident stare from someone I just killed."

"Well, guess I've found my second wind." Naruto moved to my side, his body glowing orange, eyes narrowed with conviction. "You'll regret letting my senses get knocked back into me." 

"Cute." Obito chimed sarcastically, as the black orbs suddenly shot at each of us, two going backward, three coming at us. 

I caught it with a red bone hand that appeared around me, gasping as it began pushing towards me, making me growl as it tried to pierce my defense. Naruto dodged the orb that shot at him, growling before charging right at Obito with claws and extra arms at his sides. 

My mind screamed with panic as I made a clone just as I let the orb go, allowing the clone to be impaled and destroyed in favor of charging forward as well, But Minato beat both of us, appearing right behind Obito in a blink of an eye, quicker than that, before ramming a rasengan down at him, to which Obito grabbed his wrist and thrust it into the ground, before phasing through him as Naruto swiped and missed getting a hit in. I charged the moment he went to strike back, and funneled my chakra into my arm as i swung and struck Obito in the side as hard as I was able to, watching as he was sent flying away so fast it was hard to keep up, my sharingan eyes watching him fly through rocks and ground, going miles in the direction I sent him in. 

My wrist throbbed lightly from the impact, and I shook it side to side, eyes scanning the area, keeping alert and sending pulses of chakra around us for well over a mile to track his presence. A barrage of purple arrows went flying in that direction too, as Sasuke's fully formed susanoo began to attack, a hailstorm of lightning bore down over there, but the clouds parted abruptly as a beam of concentrated chakra shot upwards. I bent down and popped my neck before dashing forwards, only to skid to a complete halt as a giant ten tails suddenly formed, shaking the ground and roaring. I panted heavily, watching as it's eye searched around the ground before it's mouth opened, its many rows of teeth shaking loudly, sounding like grinding stones. I winced and grabbed my ear protection, my vision blurring momentarily before the world began to spiral around me. 

I was able to jump away in time for Obito to appear, his face smug, the weird form he took temporarily gone. 

"Can't handle the both of us, can you? Soon, it will take on it's tree form and I'll cast a genjutsu over the moon, and all will cease. Blissful nothingness, blissful heaven." Obito chuckled and held a single kunai in his hand, twirling it around his finger before grabbing it. "Which should you lot face?" 

"Itachi... he's mine." Naruto spoke up suddenly, making my mind shatter to pieces. 

I jumped and twisted to look at him. "Are you insane!? He killed you! I won't leave you! Never again! Never!" I argued, shocked and frankly offended by his request. 

"Then stand there until I need you. This is personal... and my mother left me with some things to tell this fucking bastard." Naruto popped his knuckled before smirking at Obito. "If I struggle, I'll ask for help. Everyone else should probably handle the freakshow." Naruto bobbed his head toward the ten tails as it began to spew small monster like entities, running around and engaging other shinobi. 

"Naruto... you better not die!" Sasuke called out before summoning a giant snake, which charged in the direction of the horde that was forming. 

"Yeah! Or I'll beat the fuck out of you!" Sakura growled and formed a huge slug before following after him. "CHA!" 

"..." Minato stared at Obito longingly for a moment before sighing to himself and wordlessly left after them, trusting in his son. 

I shakily looked over at Obito, panting heavily to myself as I shook, feeling my mind severing into pieces as my instinct to protect Naruto began to override everything else. I wanted to listen, but my mind was refusing his wishes. I wasn't going to sit idle by and watch it happen again. My heart was still broken by what had happened last time, I couldn't handle that horrid insanity again. Those agonizing minutes of pure loneliness. 

"I'm sorry Naruto, but, I can't sick back... not after everything. Forgive me... but i can't obey that request." I shook my head, getting low to the ground, feeling the air grow colder around us. 

"Alright... then lets get this over with." Naruto popped his neck and smirked at Obito.

Obito smiled with his eyes, chuckling to himself before rolling his shoulders, his eyes watching us like a hawk. "Let's dance."