My more or less first try on writing something like an anthology. Generally centered around the recent events in the manga, so spoilers ahead; pairings, characters, genres and ratings may vary.
Please excuse my rocky English. Me no native speaker.
A is for 'Avenger'
Characters: Uchiha Sasuke
Rating: K+
Pairngs: None
Disclaimer: No owning or profit intended
It was in one of these brief moments of clarity that Uchiha Sasuke happened to ask himself what the hell he was doing.
Seriously, after everything that had happened recently, his mind kinda lost track.
He had killed his brother and avenged his clan. And turned out to be wrong about that.
He had pledged allegiance to Uchiha Madara, his now only living relative, although he didn't quite understand how exactly someone older than the village of Konoha could still be alive.
He had sworn to destroy his former home village because it was to blame for his clan's death. Although technically, only a group of old people was to blame, Danzou and the two former teammates of the third Hokage. But trying to get all of those without fighting one's way trough the whole village, fat chance. So he might as well just kill them all.
Then he had try to capture the Hachibi to help Madara with his plan he also didn't quite understand, but oh well.
Turned out the guy had survived and escaped and killed Kisame, his brother's former partner. Or so he heard.
Then he tried to fight Danzou at some Kage Meeting, where he first had to fight the Raikage, then Gaara, the new and probably youngest Kazekage ever, almost died several times but escaped nonetheless to chase Danzou.
And then he had killed Danzou and almost killed Karin in the process, but well, the end justified the means, right?
Right.
Immediately after that, Sakura, Haruno Sakura had appeared right before him and claimed she had deserted Konoha and wanted to join him. Fat chance.
And then, the very same Haruno Sakura who had been all over him years ago and had still frozen and stared at him the last time they'd met, tried to kill him.
She didn't succeed, of course, she still was Haruno Sakura after all and therefore had to be rescued before he could kill her. Purely in self-defense, he might have to add.
And finally, Naruto showed up. But much to Sasuke's surprise, Naruto had held his speech about friendship considerably short. And even said he'd kill him sooner or later and vice versa.
That had been the most understandable conversation he'd had in a while.
So now here he lay, his brother's eyes freshly implanted to keep him from going blind, pondering about what exactly it was he was doing. Why was he helping Madara again? Why had he believed every single word from man who should have died of old age like, three times by now?
Oh, right. Because it was easy.
And plainly, he had nothing better to do, anyway.