Full Summary: At the age of three Sasuke was kidnapped by Orochimaru. Through vigorous training she is now an emotionless killer, an assassin, nicknamed the beautiful raven. On one of her missions she runs into team 7, that's where her world turns upside down. Tears are shed, love found, family reunited, respect earned, enemies made, and bonds formed. And all because Along Came a Raven, Along Came Sasuke.

Background information: Okay so in this story everyone is of the ages they were in the original Naruto (when they first became genin for most it's 12). Other than that everything will be explained… or it's too crucial to spill the beans right now…

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The shouts outside Sasuke Uchiha's room were an unwelcome wake up call. Awaking with a groan she placed a pale, elegant, hand on her face, as if to block out the world. As the shouts, amazingly, increased in volume she rolled over causing her waist long raven hair to run over her pillow and slightly off her bed. 'Can't they ever be quiet in the morning?' Sasuke yelled in her mind as she felt her blood heat up. Giving an irritated grunt she snapped her obsidian eyes open and sat up, her legs hanging over her bed.

She grabbed her hair at her neck and ran her fingers down it, taming it slightly. The still tired pre-teen looked at the floor for a few moments before she stood up and went to go get ready. She went into her bathroom and after shedding all of her clothes got into the shower, letting the water simply run down her back for a while before she started to get clean.

After about an hour she looked into a mirror to reveal her hair in a high ponytail with her bangs framing her face. She was wearing a black long sleeve shirt with a low cut that showed off her impressive chest, well for a twelve year old, and short white shorts that showed her long creamy legs. She was a beautiful girl that looked delicate, the only evidence of her being a ninja was the katana strapped to her back.

As she walked back into her room she found a manila envelope sitting on her white sheets. 'Just what I need… another mission,' Ignoring her thoughts she grabbed the envelope and walked into the corridor outside of her room, consisting of stone walls lined with torches. Once she shut, and locked, her door she opened the envelope and started walking while finding out everything about her client.

Name: Zabuza Momochi, "Demon of the Hidden Mist"

Nature Type: Water

Appearance: short black hair and brown eyes, no eyebrows, wears bandages like a mask.

Abilities: Water user and sword user. Vicious battler, prefers more direct attacks rather than deception. Strong taijutsu. Can also be crafty; enough skill to kill opponents through zero visibility. Capable of misdirecting his opponent.

Signature weapon: Decapitation Caring Knife.

Ninjutsu: 4.5

Taijutsu: 4.5

Genjutsu: 2.5

Intelligence: 3

Strength: 4

Speed: 4

Stamina: 4

Hand seals: 4

Total: 30.5

Other: Member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. Is said to have a partner whose abilities are unknown. (1)

"This one," the snake like voice hissed behind her, "should prove to be more entertaining than the last."

"That's not saying much," she told him in a cold tone that would make most cower in fear.

"Now, now," he scolded like she was a small child that stole a cookie, "there's no reason to be rude. After all," he then made her heart almost burst out of her chest in fear by placing his hand on her shoulder and whispering in her ear, "I can control you with that gift." Sasuke felt her blood run cold at the reminder. The curse mark, the very thing that made sure she stayed with him. The thing that allowed him to control her every move (2).

"Kill him," the pale man commanded.

"No," the young, slightly tanner, girl of about eight retorted.

"I wasn't asking. Now, kill him."

"No, I won't kill my friend," she gave a glare his way.

"Then I'll force you," she didn't get a chance to talk back as marks resembling commas spread all over her, and soon she was moving toward something. No, someone in the far corner, their appearance hidden in the shadows.

Suddenly the room was filled with screams. Her heart felt like it was being ripped out, yet she couldn't stop. Screams, more screams, blood curdling screams. He was in pain-lots of pain. So was she. She wanted to stop, she wanted to stop so badly. The screams stopped. So did his breathing. He was dead. She had killed him. The mark retreated but she felt even more pain than before as she let out her own blood curdling scream. (3)

She took a deep breath to rid herself of the memory. Orochimaru gave a knowing smirk while letting go of her which only made the heat building in her stomach increase, something she let him know by sending him her best glare before quickly departing.

She had to squint to shield her eyes against the light of outside the hideout. She was used to the darkness now, but she remembered a time when the mere thought of darkness as heartbeat and breathing erratic. She had dreaded facing the terrors of the dark by herself, the dark held too many mysteries. In the dark everything was shadowed, hidden, and it was hard to tell what something was, or if it was even there at all. It made you question yourself, as if it was playing a mind game with you. Of course the silence was apart of this game too. The silence was like the darkness's friend, and it enjoyed laughing at you, at your fear, like it was encouraging you to be frightened, because it was, after all, silence and darkness's favorite game to make you as frightened as possible.

She was broken out of her thoughts by a rough voice, "All you're doing is copying me, like a monkey! You can't beat me with cheap tricks!" Looking down she saw her target fighting a man with gray hair and mismatched eyes, one red with commas surrounding it which she quickly recognized as the sharringan, something she had as well . She felt herself smirk as she unsheathed her katana, 'he's distracted, this will be much easier'. She watched, waiting for the perfect moment to strike when she saw that the gray haired man was trapped in some sort of water prison. He was yelling something about running away, looking to the right she saw three people. Two who were about the same age as her; one blond boy and one girl with pink hair. They were standing in front of an old man, protecting him ' probably a client.' She thought.

"No way sensei! We aren't leaving you!" the blond yelled, 'looks like the blond has some guts, Zabuza could kill him easily.'

As much as she wanted to see how the blond would fair she knew that she had a job to do. So with this in mind Sasuke quickly threw a shurriken into the water clone that Zabuza had sent towards the genin causing it to disappear. She jumped down in a graceful motion, leaning to catch the shurriken coming back at her, a smirk on her features as she felt small butterflies form in her stomach. Swiftly she jumped towards the brown haired man throwing several punches at him, which he blocked.

"You think you can beat me so easily?" He asked, and even though you couldn't see his mouth you could tell he was smirking.

"Get out of here kid!" The gray haired man shouted at her. Feeling the familiar feeling of her blood warming she sent a glare at him.

"I don't like being called a kid." Next thing anyone knew she landed a punch in Zabuza's stomach, causing him to let go of the trapped man.

"Thanks," the man said, "but I can take it from here," 'Arrogant asshole, just because you're older doesn't mean you're better!' She thought as she felt a small twitch, hardly noticeable, form under her right eye.

"What's your name?"

"Kakashi," he answered while he walked toward her target.

"Well, Kakashi, I'm afraid that it's my job to take him out. So, I'm going to have to ask you to step aside." Instantly after her words left her mouth Kakshi's eyes widened. She ignored this fact as she simply stepped past him, "why don't you go teach them," she pointed towards the two around her age, "something useful while I take care of this guy?"

With those words Sasuke launched into battle. It looked like she was going to jump towards him, but instead she jumped over him, surprising him letting her slash his side. He moved his sword out towards her neck, which she narrowly dodged, leaving a small cut on her cheek. Jumping a little farther away she leaned towards him while throwing multiple chidori senbons (4) striking him in his vitals, causing him to fall to the ground his consciousness slipping soon after. 'He should be dead within ten minutes…'

Once she turned around she found that the other's had been watching the short battle intently. The blond in the obnoxious orange jumpsuit looked like he wasn't sure if he should be amazed or angry, the pink haired green eyed girl looked shocked, and Kakashi, had his headband put back over his red eye. If she hadn't been very good at reading people then she wouldn't be able to see it but his eye was slightly widened. Their client still looked slightly shaken. 'Huh,' she though, ' I guess I overdid it.'

"Hey! How'd you do that?" the blond one shrieked while jumping up and down, "Can you teach me? Can you please please please please please." 'Oh. My. God.' Sasuke thought while using all of her self restraint to not strangle the boy.

She opened her mouth to tell him to 'shut the hell up or I'm going to kill you' but instead a person jumped out from the trees. They had straight black hair, about to the length of their shoulder blades down low tied in a sort of piggy tail style, while the back was in a bun. Their face was hidden with a white mask with red decorations. Their attire consisted of a green-brown long sleeve turtle neck with a loose large short sleeve blue shirt with white trimmings over it tied with a sash, loose pants, the same color as the turtle neck, and sandals.

"Eh? Who are you?" The loud mouth asked while Sasuke came to the conclusion that he was probably half deaf so he wasn't aware of how loud his voice was.

"I," the person spoke in a surprisingly gentle tone, "am a hunter nin from the village hidden in the mist and have come to collect Zabuza's body." As this person, it was impossible to tell if it was male or female due to the mask and loose clothing, said this Sasuke saw a small twitch in their hand, something she doubted anyone else noticed. Whoever this was, was lying.

"I can't let you do that," Sasuke said in her iciest tone, while feeling her jaw clench knowing she had been lied to.

"And why is that?"

"You're lying to me," her voice turned smug as everyone's eyes widened, proving that she was the only one to notice, "Your right hand twitched, something that clearly showed you were nervous. Now why don't you tell me who you really are?"

After a while of no answer Sasuke moved forward to get rid of the mystery person when the blond came running after her.

"I'll help you!" He yelled in a voice that sounded like a mix of determination and excitement. Sasuke's eyes widened after he said this, 'He's going to get himself killed!' As Sasuke landed a punch on the masked one, cracking it slightly, the blond ran up and tried to land a kick. Whoever this was, was fast, they caught the orange clad ninja's leg and twisted him upward until he was practically standing up. Next thing anyone knew they threw him at Sasuke. She quickly caught him before tossing him to the side to go and get her target's body, to prove that her job was done. When she looked, no one was there, she felt her blood boiling instantly, this boy had just stopped her from completing her mission! Because of him the "hunter nin" had escaped!

"You little shit!" she screamed in his face, usually she was a calm person, unfortunately idiots were one of her pet peeves, "Why the hell did you do that? Are you retarded or something?"

"Why don't you just stop being a bitch? I was only trying to help you!" He shouted right back.

"I didn't need help! It would've been fine until your dumbass interfered!" By this point Sasuke was seeing red.

"You're the same age as me! If you could fight him I could too!"

"No you couldn't! I was strong enough to fight a guy your sensei couldn't, what makes you think you're even close to my level?" He didn't say anything more, simply turned his head away in a pout. 'Stupid little shit…After I complete this mission I swear I'm going to kill him!'

"Uh…" the girl asked slowly, nervously, "could I ask you something?"

"What?" Sasuke yelled, not really mad her the girl more at the boy that was still pissing her off.

The pink haired girl flinched, "What's your name?"

The raven sighed, calming herself, "Sasuke."

"Um…Sasuke, could you help us get our sensei back to where we're supposed to go?" Sasuke felt her eyebrows furrow slightly, then stop when she saw that the man, Kakashi, was passed out. Sighing Sasuke simply picked up Kakashi and started walking in the direction that it looked like they were going before.

"Are you coming with me or not?" After the words slipped from her mouth they followed her.

"I'm Sakura," the pink haired girl stated after several moments of silence, Sasuke just raised as an eyebrow as in saying 'so?', "I just thought since we know your name you should know ours." Sasuke just nodded.

"And I'm Naruto!" The obnoxious one said while putting his left hand on his hip and dramatically punching the air with his right, "and one day I'm going to be Hokage! Believe it!"

"Like an idiot who doesn't even know when to stay out of a fight could ever be Hokage."

"Hey! Stop being a bitch and take that back!"

"Nope," Sasuke replied with a smirk.

"You'll have to take it back when I kill that guy for you!"

"Good luck, you'll need all you can get."

"Hey- I will not! I'll kick both of their asses then I'll kick yours!"

"Whatever…" Sasuke sighed.

"I will! By the time this is over you'll be begging for mercy!"

"So," she drawled with a knowing smirk, "I take it you're going to interfere no matter how much I don't want you too?"

"Exactly!" He shouted with a large grin.

"Well then, Naruto, Sakura," she stated while looking at them as she said their names, "looks like we better make you useful."

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.

Sasuke smirked, "you'll see."

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(1) all of this information is from narutopedia (except the partner thing).

(2) I know that the curse mark doesn't let Orochimaru completely control them and it's more like a strong influence….but in my story it does.

(3) crappy flashback I know, and I promised myself I wouldn't do one, but what's a naruto fic without one?

(4) I know that Kakashi never taught her this, so let's just say that she heard about it and thought about making the jutsu up…okay? Okay. And I know I suck at fight scenes but what else what I supposed to do? 'one thing let to another and then he lay there unconscious.'? no that would have been ever worse so deal with the crappy fight scene or make one up in you head… I don't really care. In case you're wondering she's as strong as the Sasuke in shipuuden, I'll give you stats next chapter…I think. And in case you didn't know chidori senbons is basically a bunch of tinny chidori's thrown, it looks like senbons that are lit up.

A/N to all of you who read the original, I know the beginning is VERY different, but I think this will really help with bonding… Plus I realized this is Sasuke master assassin…and I made her WAY too weak the first time around.

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