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I present to you :

Naruto And Sasuke : The Greatest Bandits That Ever Lived

Prologue - The escape

"You wanna know my story ? Fine. You see before all this war and death stuff, before all this child of prophecy and shit, me and sasuke never thought we would walk this path, we just wanted an escape from the pain, well sasuke did, I was more like wanting to defeat all the kages of the elemental nations so that I could be… you know finally accepted by everyone in konoha and be recognised as the greatest hokage ever, and well sasuke always had a different kind of agenda. Don't get me wrong we weren't all that brotherly super duo that we are now, in fact we hated each other in our time at academy. It's funny really, two of us with suffering and loneliness of different kinds came across the same decision, the one that changed everything. The one that showed us the true meaning of ninja world. I was really naive then, but even then I realised that hate simply doesn't vanish with time and maybe being ninja wasn't as glorious as it seemed. You see it was two week after the uchiha massacre …" -Uzumaki Naruto

Empty black eyes glanced though the solemn crowd of people that were showing sympathy for him. He mentally sneered at their sad faces, what would they know about sadness ? he thought.

The last loyal uchiha of konoha walked though the market district with his hands in his pocket head lowered with an expressionless face. It had been two week since the night 'he' destroyed his world.

He woke up in the hospital last week, after watching his clan dying again and again by the person he held in the highest regard, the world didn't seem the same. It was as if all the colours were drained from around him. The Hokage had looked at him with a solemn face when asked him about that night and said he should take rest before going back to the academy. Sasuke when he woke up had sworn that he would avenge his clan, his father and mother, but now as he walked around with all his dreams shattered and no one to go back to, all he wished for was get away from this ninja world, he was sickened by everyone, Itachi told him to hate to get the revenge, oh how he hated him, but he didn't want to become ninja anymore. why would he, after all the parents he wished to make proud were dead and the one he wanted to surpass was out of his reach.

With these thoughts he crossed a caravan when he saw someone trying to sneak into the covered stall. He didn't really care but looking at the person he recognised him 'dobe ?' he thought. He had never seen the dobe do anything quietly before. Ignoring the dead last of the academy he started to walk again when he noticed something that caught his attention. Across the back of the dobe was backpack with uchiha crest, the same one that neko-obaa used build for his clan. Livid with anger he thought ' How dare that dobe steal Uchiha property, I won't let anyone take anything from me again !' and rushed to the back of the caravan to confront the dobe.

Naruto Uzumaki wasn't having a great day. Not that other days were good, but this one was particularly bad. In some kind of massacre in the village someone killed all of sasuke's family, the old man told him especially to not pick fight with him, when he came to give him his monthly stipend. The mood of the entire village was one the down low and the villagers were being more vicious then usual. It were times like these when he really questioned his dream of being the hokage. 'How would everyone accept me, if I am not even a ninja let alone the hokage' he thought.

No shops were letting him buy stuff today. And hungry as hell due to ichiraku being closed as the old man teuchi had cold. He had to resort to his old ways of stealing food from the visiting caravan. On his way to the market district he saw a bag with the symbol that teme always wore in trash can. When he checked the bag all he saw a bottle filled with some kind of greenish water and and eyeball floating in it. Creeped out, he left the bottle in the trash can and took the bag with him to hold his exploits.

He sneaked to the back of the caravan when he saw the merchants weren't noticing. Years of pulling pranks had secured his senses enough to be a ghost around the stupid civilians. Climbing in the hooded stall, he snickered to himself "heh easy food 'ttaebayo !". He was browsing through various eatables in the van when suddenly he was yanked by the back of the collar and pushed into the nearby alley. Scared that he was caught, he prepared to throw the paint bomb at his assailant

"Take this you stupid merch… eh teme ?"

Turning he looked at the absolutely livid face of one Uchiha sasuke. Sasuke was already ready to pummel the dobe

"Who do you think you are you scum, How dare you steal an Uchiha bag".

Not wanting to get hit, he quickly cried out with his hands crossed in front of his face to protect him from the punch that sasuke was about to throw

"Oi I found this in the trash can, I don't need to steal from a teme like you!"

Hearing this sasuke stopped in his tracks, with one hand still holding naruto by the collar of his jumpsuit, he gritted his teeth while saying "What the hell do you mean dobe? This bag is exclusive to the uchihas no way you'll find this in a trashcan! "

Looking a bit scared, now that he remembered the old man had asked him not to get in a fight with the stupid uchiha, Naruto gulped and tried to placate the black haired boy "No its true. And I really found it in the trash can back at the corner. It even had a creepy eye ball in it. Lemme go teme, i'll show you".

Hearing this the sasuke was thrown into a loop 'An eyeball ? in the bag of uchiha clan, that means only one thing : sharingan'. His grip on naruto went loose and naruto yanked himself off him, while grumbling about not getting to show the stupid uchiha his place due to the old man.

Sasuke composed himself to get to the bottom of this, he had overheard sandaime talking about some of the corpses at the clan had their eyes missing, perhaps he could at least save one of the eyes, as creepy as it sounded he needed to keep that eye so that no else gets their hands on the most prized possession an uchiha could ever have - a sharingan.

"Hn. Dobe take me to the trash can where you threw the eye, If you don't i'll tell the hokage about you stealing uchiha property" said sasuke and satisfied by the grimace on naruto's face he assumed that he won't have to do much pushing around.

'Oh crap, damn you old man! now I guide this stupid teme ? definitely a bad day' thought a sullen naruto.

"argh fine teme, follow me, but I keep the bag, I found it after all" said naruto turning around to walk towards the alley where naruto found the bag.

The top of the trash can opened with a dull creek, and for the first time in his life uchiha sasuke had to fish something from a trashcan. Making a disgusted face he felt around the sea of plastic bags and food leftovers when he felt the touch of cold glass. Pulling it up he looked closely at the floating eye ball in the murky vial of the glass, and looked at the dark pupils that he saw everyday in the mirror, in his mother's eye and even Itachi's. 'Hm definitely an uchiha's eye.. but what is it doing here of all places.' He was pushed back from his thoughts when the blond kid next to him shook him rather vigorously, "Oi teme the hell are you looking at the creepy eye ? See now that you know I didn't steal anything, no need to tell the old man hokage, it'll be easier to sneak out when there is no spotlight"

sasuke bewildered by the blonde asked "what do you mean 'sneak out' ?"

Naruto realised that he slipped up 'crap' "eh hehe what sneak out.. I said speak out" he grated nervously.

"no, i heard you said sneak out, I'm surprised you know that word but you said it" fired back sasuke.

"no i didn't say it"

"you said it"

"no i didn't"

"yes"

"no"

"yes"

..

"no"

"yes i said it !" 'oops damn that bastard !'

sasuke smug that he tricked the blonde said "Hn. where do you think you're sneaking with my bag ? I will not have the uchiha name tarnished with your stupid pranks."

Naruto angry now that he was shown up the uchiha "Shut up teme, my pranks not stupid and I'm gonna sneak out of the village and become strongest human ever, defeat the six kages and return to konoha to become the greatest hokage." Finished naruto with a red face full of anger.

Sasuke looked at naruto as if he had sprout two heads. "Out of the village ? The hell is wrong with you and there are five kages not six."

Naruto slightly miffed at being corrected repeatedly by the uchiha said "Whatever! I heard the stupid merchants yesterday talk about old man being one of the strongest kage in the five elemental nations and even stronger than some scary guy in ame, so I decided if I wanted to be the strongest hokage I have to beat them all so I am leaving the village". Naruto looked as proud as 8 year old could look with himself.

Sasuke got a strange look on his face and said "We live in the village full of ninjas, you will never escape the village gates dobe". Sasuke had thoughts countless times already after the massacre to leave the village and go find itachi or get away from the village so that he can train in isolation with no stupid fangirl or academy to hold him back from getting his revenge. Naturally he always wrote it off as a stupid wish.

Now it was naruto that got a smug look on his face, he said "heh, who do you think i am teme, I am the great naruto uzumaki who has pulled off hundred pranks, I know all about the stupid sleepy ninjas at the village gates and i have already put laxatives in their food, and i know when this cart i was raiding will be leaving, all i have to do is to get into the van and what until i reach the next town 'ttaebayo !"

This got sasuke into thinking, he was right if there was one thing the dobe was good at was fooling chunins and sometimes even ANBU with his pranks. Maybe.. just maybe the dobe might succeed, without thinking the consequences the uchiha hatched a plan in his head. Yes, if he is able to sneak out with the dobe, he can get all that he wanted now, revenge was finally coming back into his sights. He just had to play this right and they were not ninjas yet so they won't be charged with desertion if they were caught.

Smirking the uchiha sated to naruto "You obviously don't have money to survive outside and i'm sure with your monkey brain you won't live more than a week. Whereas I have both." Looking at the smirk of the uchiha naruto got suspicious, a smug uchiha was never a good thing, he had a lot of bruises from the spar at the academy to attest to him."What are you getting at teme?".

Sasuke uchiha looked at the glass bottle with the eye again before making the decision that would change the elemental nations forever. "Naruto, get me out of the village with you, you can sneak us out, I'll help us survive outside the village" he said as serious as he as ever been in his life.

Surprised naruto asked him "why the hell would sneak out of the village ? don't you have a f-" but naruto stopped before he could finish it, he remembered that now sasuke too was an orphan like him now, and he was right too, if he can get money to survive outside the village he wouldn't have to steal food like he had planned. He took a deep breath and tried console himself, he would put up even with sasuke, if it means achieving his dream.

With a devilish grin on his face uzumaki said "Get your things sasuke, and meet me here at six, the van will leave at about 6:30 and the around then the laxatives will begin there work on the gate keepers. They won't check the van if they had to run to take the dump and we will be out of the village just like that 'ttaebayo!"

Sasuke looked at him for one more second before leaving with vial in his hands "Hn get rid of that horrendous jumpsuit, if you wish to even get to the gates." while he was leaving the alley making plans and preparing himself mentally all he could think was of one thing 'I'm coming Itachi'. Although when he heard a faint cry of orange being awesome from the alley, he was pushed into thinking such a steep price he had to pay for revenge, he had to team up with the dobe of all people. 'Tough times'.

Izumo and Kotetsu were playing cards as usual, bored of their jobs. Ever since the uchiha massacre most of the ANBU guards were out of the village looking for Itachi or were occupied by jobs to fill the void left by the absence of uchiha police force. Infant today it was only them who guarded the only entrance of an entire hidden village. Some would think of it as a task of great honour, they thought that too. But two weeks into the job had now them bored out of their minds. There only escape was the lunch time and shift changing time at eleven night. They were pulled out of there gaming spree when they saw a caravan coming towards the gate, it was the same one that they let enter the afternoon day before yesterday.

"Give your documents so we can check you guys out" called out Izumo

"Oi don't put it like that you dumbass, they'll think you're gay" deadpanned Kotetsu. True to his words the guys at the van looked little uncomfortable and were little guarded of there rears.

'Great now the world outside the village will think I am gay too.' He was more than little pissed at the rumours inside the village.

As the van came closer to the gates, Naruto and sasuke in who were hidden in the back of the van were trying to breathe as little as they could, sasuke said some ninjas have great hearing capacity and naruto told him that breathing little makes less noise. Sasuke accepted his theory not having anything else, after all he never had to sneak anywhere, he was an uchiha. Meanwhile suddenly Izumo's and Kotetsu's stomach started giving them problems.

Just as the van reached the gates, the laxative was at its full effect and the guards were trying there best to not shit where they where standing. This of course looked rather strange to the people of caravans, two grown ninjas holding there asses was a slightly unusual sight. "Oi Izumo, check the van I have to go to the bathroom real quick" called out Kotetsu while making a run for the nearby public booth. Izumo was at his edge too, "Oi kotetsu, don't hang up on me, I have to go to the bathroom too." when Izumo turned to the guys at the caravan he saw there expressionless face and one of the horseman of the cart said " You can follow him, don't let us stop you, we don't judge anyone. We have to make it to tanzaku-gai by tomorrow afternoon you see.. so if you could hurry up … "

"Gah, its not what you think !" grr "crap ! I have stamped your documents go quickly" wheezed out Izumo, the caravan quickly got out of the gates. When he saw no one else in sight he made a run for the bathroom too, while mentally crying about his ruined reputation.

Few hours later Sasuke felt someone shaking him. He had fallen asleep while lying in the caravan. He had taken a scroll in which he had stored most of the uchiha heritage he was allowed to have at that age, and also what other money he could salvage of what was still to be searched in his house after massacre, He also carried a sleeping bag and few supplies for his journey. When he came to he came across the shit eating grin of naruto uzumaki "Oi teme, see we made it out, told ya I'm the best 'ttaebayo."

With a bit of childish excitement sasuke looked out of the hood covering the cart of the caravan and saw they were slowing moving through a dark road surrounded by trees on both sides. He looked up and saw at the distance the lights illuminating the village which by now looked like a small speck of light. 'kaa-san tou-san, I'll soon avenge you' he thought.

Naruto too was looking at the diminishing light in the distance in konoha, He was going to miss the old man,and the ichirakus , but this had to be done. When he found out that the teachers were deliberately sabotaging him, that very day he decided to leave the village and gain a name for himself, so that when he returns people will look up to him and accept him. He had finally parted with his favourite jumpsuit and left it in his apartment with a note to the old man and ichirakus, if everything went right they won't notice him until he was gone for at the least two days. That had to be enough, the world was big after all. Who knew, he might even make a name for himself. Then suddenly he got the idea, he turned to sasuke and asked " Oi sasuke, we should think a name for our team, The old man was called the professor, and some other ninjas were called sandnin!"

sasuke pulled out of his thoughts looked a bit disgruntled and said "First of all its sanin not sandnin and don't call us a team, Its demeaning and remember we will never be ninjas now, all we are now is bandits, my money won't last forever and when its gone we are gonna have to steal it like you thought, and it won't be just stealing, we will become bandits."

First naruto was put off that he could't call himself a ninja, but then he thought what old man had taught him, he would never give up, He will become the first bandit to become the hokage.

"Don't worry sasuke, I'll become the greatest bandit that ever lived 'ttaebayo !" naruto whisper screamed.

Sasuke for his part just hoped he would be able to reach itachi before he looses his mind.

And there, just got this idea while reading a fanfic where the whole crew was cutting up bandits left and right. I thought what if they were one, how would the last uchiha and the child of prophecy fare in the world of bandits. I will slowly make this clear in further chapters. Who's eyes are in the vial ? , well we will find out later ;)

In the next chapter- A time-skip ! and why is sasuke in prison!