Hello all, this is my very first fanfiction. I am not a very experienced author so don't flame me too bad if you don't like my work. Sasuke is the main character this time. Sorry to those who hate Sasuke and Sakura.

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, I would not have made Sasuke so cold hearted, Garra would still be a crazy killer, and Lee would look better.

The Uchiha Windmill

Three years after Sasuke left to join Orochimaru, he refused to offer his body to the snake sannin and ran away. Sound nins pursued him wherever he went, and Konoha did not welcome him either because over the past few years he had killed many Leaf ninjas when he went on missions for Orochimaru. It was also necessary to avoid Konoha's allies such as the Hidden Sand village. He could not take refuge in any villages because everybody wanted his body to study the sharingan. As a result, he never stayed in any location for long. He was always on the run for a year and rarely got to sleep.

Sasuke awoke from his sleep. Someone is out there. Although he had heard nothing, the instincts that woke him up rarely deceived him. His eyes scanned the area but found nothing. He waited for a whole minute, but failed to notice anything unusual. They're good to conceive their presence so well.

"I'm getting a bit paranoid he said aloud." He laid back down and returned to sleep. Half an hour passed before an anbu leaped at Sasuke with a kunai from the bushes. The Uchiha's eyes shot open to reveal his sharingan and immediately threw his own kunai at the attacker. He was unable to react in time forcing his other companions to throw their own shurikens to knock the kunai away. Sasuke wasted no time in throwing kunais to all the locations that shurikens appeared from. The remaining Anbus abandoned their hiding spots putting the whole team in Sasuke's view. There were four total. Konoha nins.

Sasuke began performing hand seals, "Katon Goukakyou no jutsu!" the anbus avoided the blast of fire and performed their own hand seals. Such basic genjutsu will not work on my sharingan. The casters of the jutsu found themselves trapped in their own technique. I overestimated them. The Uchiha moved in to finish them off, but quickly found himself trapped in a net. He looked around and noticed not four but eight anbus. There was a second squad hiding the whole time, I was too careless…The captive squirmed and attempted to get loose but with no success.

"It's useless. You can't break free."

"Hn….." The markings on the missing-nin's neck began spreading.

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Kakashi jumped from tree to tree. He had just finished an A rank mission and was heading back to konoha when he noticed markings on the trees. These are markings the anbu leave behind to guide other anbus on missions. If it required more than one anbu squad it must have been important. With that thought in mind the copy ninja followed the markings.

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"Aghh…." Sasuke let out a weak grunt and kept limping away from the scene of the battle, panting the whole way. He clutched his left side and forced himself to go on. At last he could not take it anymore and collapsed by the trunk of a tree. The curse seal wears me out too much. If anyone finds me now…I'm finished…

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Kakashi was shocked to find blood splattered everywhere. Seven anbus were sprawled on the ground not far apart. The eighth one was hanging from a tree branch by the left leg. He had been pinned up there with a kunai. One of the bodies had dozens of shurikens and kunais stuck on its back. Two were badly burned by fire so that they were a black heap and identifying the bodies were almost impossible. The silver hair ninja bent down to examine a wound. Chidori… Sasuke…he could not have gone far, the blood is still warm. Just as he was about to track down his former student, Kakashi noticed one of the defeated men was still alive, but in critical condition. As much as he wanted to pursue the Uchiha prodigy, he knew that treatment for the survivor was more important; he also had to dispose of the corpses.

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"He killed seven anbu!"

"Hai-hai." Kakashi responded, his ears still ringing.

"He has become far too dangerous. I will assign you the mission of bringing him back. You get to pick three people to be on your team. Do it as soon as possible."

"Hai." the jounin accepted his mission and exited the office pulling out an infamous orange book.

"Kakashi-sensei."

"Ohayo," Kakashi said upon seeing bright pink hair out of the corner of his eyes, but he did not bother to look up from his book.

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"Hoy! Hinata-chan!" Naruto called. He was still not very sharp, but surprisingly over the past few years he had realized Hinata's feelings for him and accepted it.

"N..Naruto-kun…" The blonde had accepted her feelings, but she still had the unbreakable habit of stuttering and blushing whenever she was around him.

"You won't believe it! I was eating ramen with Iruka-sensei this morning, I was on my eleventh bowl when they ran out of my favorite flavored ramen!"

"O..oh."

"Can you believe that! How could they run out of that flavor! It was terrible, what kind of-"

"N-Naruto-kun…"

"Huh?"

"I-I came across this store today… and found this… I hope you like-"

"Why would I need this?" Naruto blurted out staring at the brightly decorated flute which was only about six inches long.

"You… don't like it?" The white eyed girl stuttered and focused her eyes on her feet.

"Uh-no! Of course I like it!" Naruto quickly tried to make up for his mistake and immediately pocketed the gift. There was an awkward silence as the Hyuga poked her index fingers together, evidently still somewhat hurt. The boy tried to think of something to distract her and get himself out of the awkward situation when he saw his former teacher approaching him while reading his favorite book.

"Kakashi-sensei!"

"…"

"You're still reading the sixth edition? Perverted Hermit already published the seventh edition three weeks ago. It's a lot better than all the other ones that came before it."

"Is it really?" The jounin gave the foxy boy his full attention.

"Yeah, especially the part where…" The teen's voice trailed off when he noticed a pair of white eyes stare at him in shock.

"D-don't get me wrong Hinata! I don't read those kind of books. Uh…It was…Kiba! Kiba told me about it!" The girl nodded.

"Go on." The dedicated silver-haired reader demanded.

"Uh…I forgot."

"Sigh…" Kakashi decided to move on to more serious matters. " You will be going on an important mission with me Naruto, go pack what you need. I will explain the details later, in the meantime I still have to find a few more people."

"Hai." The enthusiastic boy departed for his apartment leaving a longing Hinata. Naruto turned the curb to his apartment when he stumbled and literally fell on Sakura who was apparently standing by the curb speaking with Tsunade.

"Who the-sumimasen Sakura-chan."

"Get off me, Naruto!"

"Right." He tried to get up, but did not do it fast enough.

"Pervert!" Sakura pushed the boy on her away and hastily ran off.

"Wait! I don't get it. It was an accident, pervert?"

"You have been around Jiraiya too much." Tsunade finally spoke up and shook her head in disappointment before walking away.

"It was an accident! Why won't they believe me?" The confused teen was desperate to clear his name. He looked about and noticed a lump in the front of his pants. "It's not like that!" he screamed, reaching into his pant pocket to pull out a flute.

Okay, it was not so serious in the end, but it will get more serious.