[This is a complete reboot from the story I began writing more than a year ago, I decided to reboot it because I had lost my interest for the last one I was writing, I can be very fickle that way. I've been thinking about it for a good while about now, and I decided to give it another shot and try a different route, perhaps I'll feel better about it this time around.]
"I feel so sleepy, so tired, so fatigued. Where am I? My memories…I remember…blood…screaming…friends killing friends…why were they doing those awful things to one another? The teeth…the eyes…the blank soulless eyes, their laughs of delight as they ripped through the flesh of innocents…why am I still alive? Why am I not like them? Why am I not like Sakura and Naruto?"
A deep inhaling gasp for sweet air, Sasuke never quite appreciated the smaller things in life, such as the air that filled his lungs. He was in a bed, a bed that upon trying to sit up, Sasuke realized he was strapped to. His hair was very long going down his neck, itching Sasuke's skin, a stubble blanketing his face. Sasuke felt weak…very weak…and very hungry and thirsty. Sasuke tried once more to summon the strength to get up from the bed but the bindings holding him down and his exhaustion kept him stationary.
"Where am I?" Sasuke asked himself, he was still so woozy and dizzy, and the room was still spinning. Sasuke could barely summon the strength to speak in any level higher than a whisper, "Is…anyone there…where am I?"
Sasuke heard footsteps and ambient conversation growing closer to the room, Sasuke didn't know what to do, he tried once more to break free from his bonds but he had no physical strength and his chakra was almost nil. Sasuke could only wait and watch, as the door slid open.
2 nurses walked into the room holding clipboards, one of them, upon seeing Sasuke awake and looking right at her dropped her clipboard in surprise, "You're…you're awake…?" Sasuke tried to speak but unintelligible gibberish came from his mouth. The nurse rushed to his side and asked him, "Can you hear me? Can you speak?" Sasuke tried to focus on her but his wooziness was making it difficult, he motioned his finger to tell the nurse to come closer to him. The nurse bent over and gave Sasuke her ear, Sasuke whispered out, "Please…water…" The other nurse took the cue and rushed out and came back with water very quickly, they slowly poured it down Sasuke's throat, Sasuke felt great refreshment, and he'd never been quite so dehydrated. Sasuke was able to summon more strength to his voice and asked, "Where am I?" The nurse replied…"Uh…um…" The nurse then said, "I'll be back with someone that can talk to you, ok? I'll be back soon."
Sasuke tried to protest, he didn't want to be alone in this foreign place but he was intrigued that someone was now coming to see him. Sasuke counted the minutes passing by until finally someone was making noises outside the door. Sasuke looked over to the door and waited. The door opened and in walked a tall gentleman, wearing very nice clothes, a tidy hairstyle, trimmed facial hair. He walked over to Sasuke and looked down on him and asked him, "Do you know where you are? Do you know where you've been?" Sasuke tried to create an intelligible thought and replied, "No…I don't know anything…I feel so exhausted…how long have I been sleeping? Where are my people I was with…those things! Those monsters! What happened to them!" He let out a small smile and sat down next to him and asked him, "Young man, what is your name?" Sasuke was confused…starting to get very impatient…," My name is…Sasuke Uchiha." The man voiced his name first and then repeated it, "That's a very interesting name, we don't have vernacular like that in this world." Sasuke then replied, "In this world? What are you saying? Am I…Am I dead?" The man sat back in his chair and said, "No, you're very much alive." Sasuke quickly responded, "Then where am I?"
The man leaned forward and said, "Sasuke…Uchiha. You're not in the world you used to know anymore. Our universe is vast, wonderful, many worlds inhabit it and yours was just one, this…the one you're sitting in right now, is another one." Sasuke replied, "If that's true, what has happened to mine?" The man replied, "It has been…restricted. You can never go back. It's no longer safe…the zombies have taken it over, like many before it. It's become a casualty." Sasuke replied, "A casualty? My world is not a casualty! There are still people there! There has to be!" The man replied, "I'm sorry Sasuke, we have run very, very thorough tests on your world, there is nobody left. They're all gone. You are the only person of your world left alive."
Sasuke couldn't process this information, in his weakened state it was just…too much for him…he started heaving and soon vomited off the side of the bed. The same nurses then came back and quickly mopped it up and cleaned off Sasuke's face as the well dressed man just watched in the corner, with a very pensive look on his face. After a few more minutes they had finished and the nice dressed asked them politely to leave, he sat back down. "I'm sorry." Sasuke replied between heavy inhalations, "Don't be. You have no reason to." He replied, "I have to, I have seen this happen so many times before, the majority of them, NOBODY survives." Sasuke couldn't speak…after a few minutes he asked, "Why did you save me? Why didn't you just leave me to die?" The man replied, "It's just not in our nature to do something like that, we had to opportunity to rescue you, we have a lot to learn to you." Sasuke replied, "Like what?" The man replied, "Well, we have witness reports from our in-field agents that you destroyed a massive number of infected in your world at once, something about setting them on fire with a black fire, knowledge like that could become very helpful." Sasuke replied, "Sorry I can't help you, only I can use that power." The man replied, "Well isn't that a shame." Sasuke then said, "How long?" The man replied, "How long you've been sleeping?" Sasuke nodded affirmatively. The man replied, "A year, you've been comatose and under life care for a year."
Sasuke then said, "Can I leave?" The man replied, "I'm sorry, not yet. We're still running several tests on your physiology, it's something very interesting, your entire biology is interesting." Sasuke replied, "Who are you?" The man then said, "Well, I am the one that's behind the scenes on a lot of things that go on behind A.R.M.O.R." Sasuke replied, "What's that?" The man replied, "It's an organization that I possess a lot of sway with, of course nobody is aware of my status…in fact nobody knows that I'm here right now." Sasuke replied, "I'll ask you again, who are you?" The man replied, "I certainly hope we get to know each other, Sasuke. You're very special, and I think you'll fit in quite well here. I have some other appointments to maintain, so we'll call this a day for now, I thoroughly enjoyed meeting you." The man turned and walked away towards the door, he stopped short of grabbing the door handle, he turned and said, "We'll get to know each other very well soon, I guess it'll help if you know my name. My name is Norman, Norman Osborne. Please call me Norman." Norman walked out of the hospital room and Sasuke heard a click, he figured it was a lock on the door. Sasuke laid his head back into the pillow and looked up the dimmed lights above him, "I hate this ceiling." Sasuke felt his eyes getting heavy and then blackness took him.