A/N: Ok. This could be considered one of my "How it Ends" stories, but it is an actual chapter story, not a oneshot. Really I make a lot of stories like this because I'm always thinking up the ending for something I read. Naruto is no different. Please review!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Oh! Also, im warning you. There is going to be A LOT of ooc-idness in the story, but the things that happen change how they look at the world, so just deal with it.

Under His Power

Chapter One

"citizens of Konoha! I am now your leader! The land of fire is now officially under the rule of the Sound!"

You could hear the screams of defiance and fear throughout the crowd. First, he killed their sandaime and now he wants to take over the whole country! They couldn't even fight back. Every ninja was put under surveillance. They couldn't move a muscle or do any jutsu without having some sound or sand nin breathing down their neck and dragging them off to be punished. In fact, the only nin that were left were the genin and academy students. All the chunin were taken to be brain washed to follow Orochimaru and if that didn't work, they were thrown in jail with the jounin and ANBU.

Konoha was defenseless.

The strongest genin in the whole village stood and glared up at Orochimaru and his flunkies. Kabuto, Kimimaru, Tayuya, Kidomaru, Sakon, and Jiroubu. They were defenseless as well. Against a sannin, a medic nin, and cursed sound nin with some of Orochimaru's power, they didn't have a chance. They needed help. But they knew it wasn't coming. The Cloud and Rock were already allied with the sound along with the sand. The mist had stayed away, knowing it would be a whole big mess. Even if they knew they would be dragged in sooner or later.

Though the sand was allied with the sound, they were not as free as they had hoped to be. Orochimaru had guessed that they wouldn't be happy that he killed their Kazekage, so he put them under a careful watch as well. Some of the more faithful sand citizens were lucky enough to stay in the wind, but others were shipped off to konoha and Otogakure.

The sand siblings were some of the unlucky ones. They were sent to konoha. But in their view, it wasn't that unlucky. Temari was enjoying Shikamaru's company (she loved to tease him) and Gaara was calmer when around naruto. This made Temari and Kankuro ecstatic.

The citizens were scared, no, more like terrified. Their only protection was a bunch of genin. It wasn't exactly comforting. Plus all the genin's time was consumed to the repairs of the village. Orochimaru was just playing with them. Pulling their strings like they were puppets.

The sun never seemed to shine anymore. It was always cloudy and raining. It made everyone depressed. The flowers looked forlorn and out of place. The hokages sitting atop the mountain seemed to weep at what had become of their little leaves.

Orochimaru smirked triumphantly at what he had done to make konoha into what it was now. He walked away, into the newly revamped hokage's tower. One more piece and the puzzle will be complete. I'm waiting for you to come to your senses, Sasuke-kun.

"Alright! All you genin get back to the repairs. The rest of you civilians can go home." Kimimaru's voice rang out through the gathered prisoners.

All the genin started to move slowly away from the tower to the center of destruction; which was the north-western wall.

Sakura sighed, "I can't believe what has happened to us."

"Our sensei's have been locked away and we have practically been demoted to slaves," Said Tenten in a sad tone. "We have nothing left."

"Only each other," answered shikamaru.

"The problem is that we will never get out of this hell hole because the other countries are too afraid to fight back."

"Kiba-kun!"

"Don't fight it, Hinata," said Neji, "he is right. We can only depend on the ones closest to us anymore.

"And it's all that damn snake's fault!!"

"Naruto! You can't talk like that anymore. We can't allow any of us to die." said sakura, almost in tears.

Sasuke stopped walking. "I'm sorry, everyone."

All was quiet.

"He didn't just come to conquer konoha, it was for me too. I'm sorry that it's partly my fault he's here."

"Uchiha," everyone looked over to Gaara. "Don't blame yourself for something that you couldn't control. Orochimaru is a mad man, you don't know what it is thinking. He has his own agenda, and every one of us were just chess pieces stuck in the middle of it. Don't put every thing on your shoulders when the rest of us will help you carry the weight."

(A/N: O.o sorry, that was a little ooc. I warned you)

Sasuke just looked to Gaara and nodded. They were on their way again.

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Three days later, the sun was setting and the genin were relieved of their construction duties. They were dead tired. The young shinobi and kunoichi were headed off to the Hyuga compound, where they all just recently moved to. They were unwilling to be apart from each other, but more afraid to go back home and see what had become of it. Just like what had happened to Sakura and Ino.

---Flash back---

­They had just gotten off of work and Sakura and Ino went to check on their families. They had just moved into the Hyuga compound but they were worried about their mothers. Their fathers were both Shinobi and had been taken off to who knows where. But their mothers had been spared. It made little difference, though. No one was safe anymore. That was why they had been sent by their moms to live with the others in the compound. It was more protected. Every three days after their shifts ended, Sakura went with Ino to check on what was left of their families at Ino's flower shop, where they both lived.

The two friends were trailing along the deserted road in silence. They were still exhausted from work, but they wanted to see their mothers so badly.

There was a shrill scream off in the distance. That was not uncommon anymore, but Ino and sakura decided not to ignore it. They dashed off to the direction they heard it come from, but they were not prepared for what was to come.

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The two kunoichi froze. "M-Mom!" they screamed together.

Ino's mother lay dead on the road covered in blood. She ran over to her dying mother.

Sakura's mother was being held by the hair by a bald sound nin. "Sakura!" she gasped out.

"Oh, what do we have here? Your daughter, I suppose. That makes it even more fun," Said the sound shinobi in an icy voice. "Say goodbye to your mother, you pink haired whore."

"Sak-" There was a flash of metal. Sakura's mom never finished what she was saying.

"hooh? Is the little girl crying?"

Sakura stood with her eyes shadowed over and her fists clenched. She was trembling.

All of the sudden there was an enormous burst of killing intent coming from sakura.

She looked up fiercely with eyes full of hate. She started to walk slowly over to the man who killed her mother and the woman who was like an Aunt to her.

She pulled out a kunai. The man was humoring her.

"what? Are you going to kill me?" he laughed inwardly. This was the part where the girl falters and then either runs away or starts crying, or both.

Another wave of killing intent came from sakura.

"Yes."

Shit. This girl was different. She charged.

The man was really a coward. He ran away into the night. Sakura stopped, then turned toward her best friend.

Ino was a mess. She was tired from three days with out sleep and on top of that her mother was dead. She was sobbing. Sakura was in no better condition, but she wasn't crying. She just wanted to find and kill the man that did that to her family. She turned around in order to follow the man but collapsed from exhaustion. She forced herself to get up.

"Come on, Ino. We'll put them in the flower bead where they can rest in peace." said sakura, giving up on the hopeless chase for the moment.

After the deed was done they trudged back to the compound. Sakura was still sending off waves of killing intent but Ino had reduced her sobbing to a steady flow of tears.

Sakura pounded on the door almost knocking it down.

Temari's voice carried over the fence. "Sakura, Ino, that you?"

"Just open the damn door."

'jeez, whats got sakura so pissed?' Thought Temari.

In walked a crying Ino and an angry Sakura, leaning on the other for support.

"what happened to you two?" asked Temari, looking at all the blood and mud they had on them.

She got no answer and the two just carried on into the center of the courtyard where everyone was.

Ino went to a mat on the ground and fell face first onto it. Shikamaru and Chouji hurried over worried.

Naruto and Sasuke walked up to the furious sakura.

"Sakura-chan, what happened?"

She looked to them angrily, then with sorrow. She opened her mouth to say something. Nothing came out. She fell forward into their arms and only then did she start to cry. The killing intent died out. And she just stayed there, in their arms. Where she belonged.

--- End of flashback-----

After their shifts were over every three days they would have three days of rest. This time would usually be used to recover lost sleep and energy. Anyone could guess that Orochimaru was just trying to ware them out; trying to reduce them to nothing but a bunch of scrawny children. But the genin of our story were determined not to become a bunch of worthless kids. They were too headstrong. Most of their free time was consumed by training. They weren't going to give up all hope just because they weren't strong enough at the moment to defeat the sound.

"sasuke, lets finish up here then go to the market, its our turn to cook tonight," said sakura, as they were training in the depths of the forest with naruto and lee.

"hn."

On the way out of the forest sasuke stopped sakura.

"Sakura, I need to talk to you about something."

"What is it, sasuke?"

"You."

"Me? What did I do?"

"Nothing really. I'm just worried…"

"Worried?" Sasuke had been nicer to everyone since Orochimaru's take over, but this was a little extreme, "How am I worrying you?"

"It's just the way you get when you're angry. The killing intent you send out is so much, do you really intend to go out and kill that sound nin who killed your mother?"

Her eyes darkened. "sasuke, out of all people I thought you would understand me right now out of everyone."

"I do. But I also know what Orochimaru is thinking. He is trying to seem harmless to the civilians and gain their trust. But he is really trying to change the ninja. I bet he has told his nins to go out and spread as much hate as possible. You were just another of his victims. Haven't you noticed all the ninjas that go walking around with hate in their eyes these days? I don't want you to turn out being like I have been all these years just for revenge. You are too good for it."

"…Sasuke…you aren't making any sense. You say I am too good for revenge, but you are better than me. And that is what your whole life has been about: revenge for your clan."

"Sakura…"

"Promise me this Sasuke. If I give up on revenge for my mother, you give up revenge on Itachi. Our only enemy right now is Orochimaru. He is the one that is causing everyone to hurt. He must be stopped." Sakura said all this knowing it was a futile effort, nothing would be able to stop sasuke's revenge. But she still had to try, it migh end up saving his life one day.

"sakura…." He looked into her hopeful jade eyes, "…you're right. I promise."

She gave a smile full of relief that held some surprise in it too, "thank you, sasuke."

He looked up to the sky. Did he really just do what he think he did?

Sakura looked up as well, but had a different reaction, "We have to get going! Its almost dusk! The others are going to get pissed if we tell them we didn't get any food because we were making life changing decisions!"

"you're right, lets go." With all their strength they dashed out of the forest and into the nearest store.

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The genin were not inhuman. The last day of their break was used to regain their full strength. This was done by meditating, (in Neji's and Gaara's case) sleeping,( in Shikamaru's, Chouji's, and naruto's case) relaxing in what was left of the gardens, (in Hinata's, kiba's, Shino's, and Ino's cases) or just going anywhere and doing anything, (in, er, everyone else's' cases)

Tenten and Temari (who had become pretty good friends) went off to go and find a relaxing place by a waterfall or something in the woods to be away from everything there. Sakura and sasuke ( who had become closer as well) went out and just stood at the old bridge where team seven used to meet. Lee, if you can believe it, would go to the old post he used to train at when he was in the academy and sulk. Loosing Gai was like loosing his father. Kankuro would usually just go off and scout around. He wanted to know every inch of konoha. Sometimes Naruto would join his teammates on the bridge. Looking around hoping that it was just like any other day, and Kakashi was just late again. Other times he would just go to some place in Konoha with Gaara. Even if Orochimaru was running whether they live or died, they still could find peace, even if it might just be momentary.

Things weren't going as well for our antagonist, though. (who fucking cares?!)

As you might be thinking, Orochimaru's plan isn't working so well for him. All he has gained is power over Konoha. (not much, right?) His arms are useless, and Sasuke hasn't followed that voice in his head that was telling him that he could have so much power, enough to kill Itachi.

Kabuto realized this and kept on mulling how things had turned out in his head. Things aren't right. There is the possibility that his friends are keeping him, but sasuke isn't like that. What could it be? Orochimaru-sama is in pain, even if he just recently changed bodies those arms of his are causing him pain. He needs sasuke's body. (sorry if that sounded gross, it did to me too…)

"Kabuto-sama," said one sound nin, "The Otokage is requesting your presence." Kabuto nodded and disappeared to the old hokage's office, or as they now called it, the Throne Room.

"Kabuto," rasped out the snake sannin, "I have a job for you. Go and gather me my old teammates. And bring me Sasuke as well."

Kabuto seemed to hesitate, "Is that really wise to bring sasuke without him coming as his own will. There is no doubt he will struggle."

"I know that, but maybe I can make him see it my way. Ku ku ku…"

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Sakura and Sasuke sat on team seven's old meeting places rails in a silent peace. They simply watched the water flow beneath them, and twirl around the floating twigs and rush over the smooth pebbles. Not many people went along the bridge. Some were too afraid to even go outside let alone going to a place that was close to where many sound and sand ninja gathered to train in the forest nearby.

Three such travelers, who were brave enough apparently, walked by. The two taller walked in front of the shorter, who was oddly enough, carrying a pig. Sasuke and Sakura glanced up at the three walking before them. Didn't they know it wasn't safe to come here right now? The two in front glanced back. They had a solemn look to their eyes that just told them that they would be fine, like they were untouchable.

Soon the travelers passed and disappeared into the city. All was back to normal. Except for the abrupt appearance of some sound ninja, that is.

"Uchiha, Sasuke. You have been requested by the Otokage immediately."

Sasuke glared back, "tell him too bad. I can't make it."

"This is not an option."

All in a blur the three ninja got on both sides of sasuke and pulled his arms behind his back. The two held his arms out wide while the other knocked him out. Then he reappeared behind sakura and knocked her out as well. The ninja then dragged Sasuke off to the former Hokage Tower, leaving sakura unconscious.

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To be Continued…

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A/N: hmm, 8 pages, pretty good I think for the first chapter. And I already know what I want to write for the second too, so it should be out soon. Hopefully, you all review because that is the motivation I get to keep going. And I know Sasuke gave up his revenge a little fast, but like I said, MAJOR OOC-ID-NESS!! So if you liked it, or not, REVIEW!!!

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