Chapter One: Cuff Me (Sometimes We Surrender)

Sasuke wiped the sweat from his brow. 'I must be getting close' he thought to himself. He had been walking for ages. He pondered what his return would be like. The war had since been ended and he had continued living his life outside of the Leaf Village. He had thought his blonde best friend would come for him, like he always did. But the blonde never came. Sasuke even ensured to be spotted near the village… of course he would never openly admit to that but he had knowingly done things to influence the blonde's return to him but Naruto had never come. So he sent Juugo to track all shinobi leaving the village, Karin couldn't be trusted with such a mission what with her obsession over him and all but Juugo he knew he would get it done and Juugo did. The blonde was alive actively going on mission after mission, visiting the red head in the sand village, repairing relations with the Hidden Mist and Cloud as someone who will one day be Hokage should but then Juugo had stopped the reports. He had all but disappeared. Juugo wasn't dumb enough to allow himself to be captured or to run away from Sasuke. But that had been months ago and not knowing what the blonde was up to drove Sasuke crazy. He would ask himself over and over what more did he want from life. The blonde had proved to be the only equal to him he could find, he had killed all the others who thought they could face him. Sasuke didn't know what changed, if it was the realization that he had never truly been more alone than the last few year or if it was because he finally felt the need to have an heir. If he suddenly realized he had only ever seen one person as his equal or if the one night stands had become unbearable. Maybe it was a multitude of things but somewhere in the last few years Sasuke had realized even if the blonde had stopped looking for him he hadn't stopped wanting him too. And the dark path with the realization of such facts had been hell for Sasuke. I'm not gay he would tell himself and force himself to be with whatever girl fancied him that night. He thought about killing the blonde, about destroying the things he loved the most to rid himself of such feelings. But no matter that he planned he just couldn't leave another hole in his chest not like he did that fateful night and so Sasuke had let himself succumb to his feelings, as hard as it had been, as much damage as he had caused between him…Sasuke Uchiha was irrevocably in love with the blonde haired dobe.

'Finally,' Sasuke thought to himself as he approached the gates. 'This is it' he said to himself. After years of contemplating, or coming steps within his home Sasuke Uchiha was ready to come home. He was ready to return to the life inside the village he had left. The life he had sworn he would never return to.

"Halt who goes there!" Sasuke heard the Gate Shinobi call out to him as he approached. He could see traders from other villages exiting the gates, people talking amongst themselves and Hidden sand exchange ninja entering the town.

"Ryo!" a girl called out to the Gatekeeper. "You need more base in your voice. That isn't the least bit intimidating!" Sasuke watched the girl move from her post closer to him. "Try it like this! HALT WHO GOES THERE?" The boy looked at her before taking the deepest breath Sasuke had ever seen and began laughing. "Ryo! That's not funny," she exclaimed.

The boy could barely get words out between laughs "Hahahaha. Intimidating? Hahahaha. That? Hahahaha. Don't kid yourself!" Annoyed at their bickering Sasuke began approaching the gates once again. Ignoring the couple. His movement most have startled them because the one called Ryo had stopped laughing.

"No really mister," he said catching his breath. "You have your papers?"

Sasuke didn't bother stopping and continued walking, he could practically feel the two lose the amusing air about them. They ran to intercept his path and Sasuke stopped putting his hand on his katana. He inspected the boy and girl and mused to himself what kind of protection would they be for the village from someone like him. He wouldn't even have to waste the swing of his sword for those two.

"Sir, if you take another step I'll be forced to kill you." This broke him from his thoughts the people about him had stopped… all inspecting the scene. Then it happened and the whispering began, the damn whispering he had heard all his life when he walked to and from school, on the anniversary of his family's murder. Sasuke thought about cutting all their slithering little tongues out but he knew that was no way to make amends for the things he had done. He would have to be different now if that meant obtaining the life he had planned for himself, he would have to be different if that meant being with Naruto.

"I'm here to surrender." Sasuke Yelled at the Gate ninja. "I wish no quarrel upon Konoha, however if you try to take me by force it will be the last thing you do." Sasuke said activating his Sharingan.

He heard gasp from the crowd and could see the ninja talking amongst themselves whispering to one another. He watched them scramble and send for guards and all the raven haired heir could think of was how excited his blonde haired beauty would be… Oh how he was wrong. Sasuke had to of been waiting for 30 minutes before the Gates finally opened. He thought he'd be greeted harshly but at least by his blonde friend, he was less than amused to be greeted by a brown haired stranger. He once-overed the man. He was bland, and un-special. He could tell by what he donned he had to be Anbu. In actuality he reminded him of the captain he met on one of his many team seven encounters. Yamato was his name. "Oy." He hear the man said breaking him from his thoughts. He made eye contact with the man, his Sharingan had since been deactivated as he had waited anxiously for the gates to open. Sasuke didn't bother responding to the man. It was no one he noticed so no one he needed to converse with. He looked beyond the man again at the gates wondering why he of all people had been selected. "Oy." He heard again but decided not to show recognition to the sound the brown haired man made. Then something changed. Something about his chakra. He didn't know if it was the air but he felt something. His eyes slowly moved back towards the man in front of him. He watched him grabbed a Kunai from his side and swing it around on one finger before grabbing it tightly and in all of a second the man disappeared. Sasuke panicked pulling his katana out to guard him before feeling the pressure of the of the Kunai clashing with the sword. He instantly activated his Sharingan hoping to make eye contact with the man but was unable to. Sasuke pushed back unbothered by the Anbu's show of strength but he didn't budge. Not even a little. It would have been admiral but Sasuke had never been about physical strength. He could smell the man he somehow smelt familiar if that was a thing. Sasuke, growing tired of their current position, moved quickly withdrawing his katana from the clash and jumping back, the brown doing the same after feeling his retreat.

"Now that it seems I have your attention." Sasuke heard the man say as he walked up to him. "What do you want?"

Sasuke sighed, if this was the game Konoha wanted to play he should have just ambushed the blonde on one of his missions. But he hadn't received a report on Naruto from Juugo in so long he was afraid the man was dead.

"I told them. I'm here to surrender but I will surrender to one man and one man only. Uzumaki Naruto." Sasuke watched the Anbu relax at the words he spoke before the stupidest grin donned his face and he busted out laughing. "Well you can't do that." He replied, wiping the tears from his eyes. "Naruto is dead."

"What?" Sasuke asked. "What Games are you getting at?" the grip on his katana tightening at his side.

"You heard me Uchiha. If that what it takes to get you to stay. Naruto is…" but the man was cut off…

"Say it again and I'll cut your fucking throat," he thought he heard the Uchiha whispered.

"What was that? Did you threaten me Uchiha?"

"Say it again and find out"

"Naruto. Is. Dea…" and before he could finish his sentence and the battle of a lifetime began the gates opened again. Sasuke looked passed the man again. He had never been so thankful to see Kakashi before in his life. Sasuke brushed past the man making sure to deactivate his Sharingan. "I see you've met Osaki."

"Hmm." The raven responded. Kakashi smiled at this he hadn't changed a bit.

"The Hokage wishes to see you." Sasuke turned to stare at the man named Osaki. It was a familiar name he had heard before and even though he wasn't quite sure where, this wasn't the proper place to rack his brain for the memory. Sasuke stopped just ahead of the gate. Kakashi hadn't changed not one bit. Hadn't even aged although Sasuke was sure Kakashi had managed to copy the Jutsu from the current Kage of Konoha, he appreciated his looks far too much for a grown man.

"Will you chose to come with me in proxy of Naruto?" Kakashi asked him, a small nod answering back. They walked side by side through the village. It was so familiar but it didn't have the same feeling it did as a child. It no longer felt like home. Sasuke couldn't take his mind off of what the brown haired man had said. 'Naruto is dead' he had felt a fire of anger ignite in his soul at those words but he knew they couldn't be true. They couldn't be right?

Sasuke continued to walk through the village with his former mentor. Even though the Anbu weren't in the open he could see movement on the rooftops, he was being escorted by more than just Kakashi. The only thing that crossed his mind was the wonderment of why Naruto had yet to show. He and Kakashi had begun making the ascent to the Hokage's Office and the Anbu had stopped bothering to hide at this point. Kakashi looked at the boy to the left of him. If he had ever claimed someone to be son other than Naruto, Sasuke would be it for him. He had been observing Sasuke's behavior, un-paranoid and unparalleled had always been the way he thought of him, but if his behavior today was any indication, Sasuke seemed troubled.

"What exactly did Osaki say to you?" Kakashi asked breaking Sasuke from his thoughts.

"Where exactly is the dobe?" but before Kakashi could answer, the Hokage's guard had stopped them.

"Before you can travel forward, he must don the chakra cuffs. That is the first condition of Sasuke Uchiha's return." Kakashi nodded his head in agreement and took the cuffs asking them for a moment before proceeding.

"Listen Sasuke. There's not a lot I can say but the answers you want are beyond me. This is the way things are going to play out." Kakashi sighed. "These cuffs will restrict access to your chakra it won't even fill like it's there. You will keep these on you at all times, you won't even piss without them. I can't say what's going to happen to you but you could be executed. They're going to hold a trial, hold you accountable for every bad thing that's happen in the village since you left. Whether you're directly related to it or not. You'll have council with the Hokage now, and be escorted to a hole in the ground later. If this is not your wish I will fight to over your escape as best I can. So you need to choose to leave now or you may be choosing death."

Kakashi watched as Sasuke pondered what he said and before the minute had passed Sasuke answered… "Cuff Me."

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-Swisz Phantom