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The Canalized River	By : susanna Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 943 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Chapter List
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Warnings:
I am not a native speaker. I did
my best and I had a friend of mine beta-read the story, which
improved it a lot, but she is no native speaker either. So there will
be a lot of sentences which will be correct English but all the same
a bit awkward.

Also the story is rather long. (36 chapters and 68k words.) It is
finished except for some final polishing, and I will upload it one
chapter a day.

There is some smut in later chapters, but not too much.

A/N:
The story starts in chapter 368
of the original and then departs into a different direction,
and if you are very familiar with the manga or if you like stories
that go medias in res you may skip the rest of the introduction and
go straight to the story itself.

For
the rest of you some words about the situation where my story starts.
(I have considered including the information into the story itself,
but decided against it because most summaries of the original that I
have found in fanfics feel rather awkward to me.)

After the fight against Deidara, Sasuke and his team set
out to check the Akatsuki hideouts Juugo has learnt about from his
birds. Even in the first one Sasuke finds a kagebunshin of Itachi,
and not knowing that it's a kagebunshin, he attacks and defeats him.
Dissolving, the kagebunshin invites him to meet him in the Uchiha
hideout where they would „settle things“.

At
the same time Naruto and his team are pursuing Sasuke.
They
have already picked up his trail, but at one point it splits up
because Juugo's bird have carried pieces of Sasuke's torn-up shirt
into different directions in order to confuse the Leaf ninjas. Naruto
sends his kagebunshin to look everywhere at once and in chapter 371
one of them meets Sasuke.

I
wrote the story during the Pein-versus-Jiraya-arc. Now that this arc
is luckily over, I can return to the original and look forward to the
new events. I am just sad to leave „my“ team Hebi...

Chapter
One: Mutiny

„We're
moving! Follow me!“

Sasuke
rushed out of the cave where he had just fought his brother's
kagebunshin, trusting his crew to follow him. He heard their steps
behind him, so he did not look back; only when he was some hundred
meters from the cave's exit, he realized that he could no longer hear
them. When he turned round, he saw that Juugo and Suigetsu were
standing on the open place in front of the entrance, obviously
waiting for Karin. Why was she lingering behind?

He
waited as well, impatient and angry about their disobedience. He
thought of shouting at them, but while this might have made Juugo and
Suigetsu catch up with him, it would not make Karin go any faster. He
was annoyed. If it had not been for her special chakra-sensing
talent, he would never have put up with her.

Finally
she came, a crow's feather in her hand, looking at it every now and
then. She did not seem to notice Juugo or Suigetsu, but she saw
Sasuke and went towards him, at the same, unnervingly slow pace, and
the other two followed her. Sasuke waited until they had approached
him to a distance of some ten metres and dashed ahead.

They
did not go any faster, so after some time, when he cared to look
back, he realized that he had to wait for them again.

After
having played that game several times more he gave in. It had been a
game for power, and he had lost, though he did not yet want to admit
it.

„What's
up? Did I not tell you to follow me?“

„You
did“, Suigetsu answered.

„So
why don't you do it?“

„We
are following you, aren't we?“

„At
a rate of one millimetre per second. What are you thinking – if
you think at all?“

„We
do think. That's why we go slowly. It's you who does not think but
rather rushes ahead.“

The
insult hurt. Sasuke had always considered himself someone who would
think before acting. It had always been the dobe who would rush into
a fight first and think later.

„There's
not much to think in this case“, he said. „I met Itachi's
kagebunshin, and he told me to meet him Hideout of the Uchiha clan.“

„Ah.
And there is nothing to think about this?“

„Why?
What do you mean?“

„Now
you are at least beginning to think. What do you believe, if we go to
that hiding place, what will happen there?“

„Itachi
will be waiting for me. We will fight, and then we will see who of
the two of us is now stronger than the other one.“

„And
when you have found out you will shake hands and part and look
forward to the next fight. Still a Leaf Ninja, are you, believing in
honorable fights to see who is stronger.“

„No“,
Sasuke answered. „I won't shake his hand. I will kill him.“

The
words felt like a cold stone – the stone upon which he had
built his life.

„And
if you lose?“

„Then
he will take my life. It will be the price I pay for being too weak.“

„A
fair fight, and at the end of it, one of you will die. So this is
what you think will happen.“

„Yes“,
Sasuke answered, though now he strongly doubted it himself. „He
told me to come alone“, he continued.

„And
you will obey him. What makes you so sure that he will be alone as
well?“

„I
don't care. I am strong enough. I am not a coward.“

„But
a fool, obviously.“

Sasuke's
pride was hurt again, as again he was reminded of how Naruto had
always charged in without considering the odds or even the respective
numbers of his side and the opponents'. He, Sasuke, would not do
that.

„It's
not just anyone you want to take out“, Suigetsu went on. „It's
Uchiha Itachi.

Sasuke
was silent. He had been defeated.

„There's
no need to hurry“, Suigetsu said. „We will find a place
for the night, where we can talk some more and come to a wise
decision. Itachi won't mind if you kill him a day later.“

When
they travelled on, he was the slowest of the four of them.
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