The Log has the Answers
Naruto entered the white room, the pungent odour of cleaning products assaulting his nose. The boy stared at the only occupant of the room, a raven-haired boy, whom made a show of ignoring the blond. "Sasuke? I need to ask you something". The Uchiha simply grunted in annoyance. "Look, what I'm going to ask... I really don't want to ask it and if I was certain of the answer I wouldn't ask but..." Sasuke's curiosity was piqued, though he hid it well.
"Want do you want, Dobe?" Naruto grimaced slightly, an action that confused the raven-haired boy. The blond had never reacted this way to his jabs.
Taking a shuddering breath, Naruto spoke "Sasuke... Do you still love the Log?".
Dark red bled into the Uchiha's wide eyes, before an angry scowl overcame his features. "What kind of idiotic question is that dobe? Of course I do!" The Sharingan was blazing, the tomoe rotating in anger.
The blond raised his hands in surrender "I was just asking! It's just... Your recent actions really caused me to wonder you know?" Naruto lowered his gaze, sheepishly shuffling in place.
"Wonder what? How did my actions bring you to ask me such a stupid question?" The Uchiha was still staring at the blond, but his anger was slowly being replaced by curiosity.
"Well recently, I was getting the impression that you'd abandon the village to gain more power..." Seeing the fury building on Sasuke's face, the blond quickly amended. "I'm not saying you'd surely turn traitor, I'm just saying that maybe you'd start to consider leaving the village in search of teachers or techniques or something you know..." As much as the Uchiha would like to refute, he knew that deep down he couldn't honestly do so.
"What does that have to do with the Holy Log?"
"Well, think about the ninja who ended betraying and leaving the village. Madara had to use some kind of intangibility jutsu, Orochimaru uses either mud clones or snakes, and Itachi uses crows. None of them use the Holy Log" Naruto watched as horrifying realisation showed on Sasuke's face. "Yes. All of them abandoned the village and in turn were abandoned by the Log. They're all Heretic Log-Haters!" The Uchiha gasped. 'Heretic Log-Hater' was (and still is) the worst insult one could call a Konoha ninja.
The raven-haired boy's voice was noticeably shaken as he spoke "You're saying... All of them?" A nod from the blond "How could they? What kind of monsters are they?" Naruto, nodded, happy that his friend/rival had finally seen the light. He left the hospital room, leaving the Uchiha to contemplate his words.
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A few days later, said Uchiha was walking home after a long training session when four figures appeared in front of him. "Uchiha Sasuke? Orochimaru-Sama sends his regards. He wishes for you to join us, so we can grant you the power to finally defeat your brother" The four Oto ninja watched in confusion as Sasuke stared at them in fear.
"Y-You work for Orochimaru?" The four smirked, amazed that their master wanted such a wimp for a body. They nodded, the cruel smirk still on their lips. The smirk was washed away by the boy's next words. "You're Heretic Log-Haters!" The Uchiha's eyes were wide in fear, his outstretched hand shakenly pointing at them.
Before the Oto ninja could answer, the whole area was covered in smoke and leaves as hundreds of Konoha ninja appeared surrounding them, armed with kunai, swords, shuriken and even a rubber ducky from a soap-covered jounin.
"Well... Fuck."