Ok, this is set as if Sasuke didn't go with orochimaru, they are the same ages as they are in shuppuden. It takes the point of view of sasuke shortly after the beginning part. Also, this is a revision of the first chapter. I don't own Naruto or any of the characters, just fyi

"_" speech

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/ is a new point of view or the passing of time.

Lets begin :3

I snuck into the village easily, which wasn't surprising since dear old konoha hadn't seen any real opposition since the chunin exams 3 years ago. Regardless, I had a mission, an assassination of one of the "great tailed beasts". This was going to be a piece of cake.

I arrived at the targets house at sunrise and positioned myself a short way away from its door. A sick smile crossed my lips. I loved assassinations. Feeling the slick blood on my kunai, watching their faces contort in pain as the life drained from their eyes. A shiver ran down my spine as my heart pounded faster. My breath grew ragged as my hands shook in anticipation. I wanted it now! To feel that rush, to take that life. I wanted nothing more than to kick the door down and run in slashing, but I was smarter than that. There I was a reason they chose me for this mission. I was the best. So there I stayed, silently waiting in the dark. Suddenly I heard the door unlock and the knob turn…

" I'd put that away if I were you" a voice said next to my ear. I quickly spun around, kunai drawn and ready to attack. When I saw his eyes I froze. He was silhouetted in front of the rising sun but his eyes…. they glowed all on their own. My breath stopped as the blood red eyes pierced right through me. I felt like I couldn't move. He casually took the kunai out of my hand and put it in his weapons pocket then looked around me and waved.

"hey Naruto. Are you ready?" he said to someone behind me.

"oh hey Sasuke! You're early!" an obnoxious voice called back. I heard footsteps running towards me and then an orange blur rushed past me to the other boys side. My eyes widened. It was him. The boy from the picture I received with my mission. My target. My heart beat loudly in my chest. Was my mission compromised? No. I wouldn't allow it to be. I would kill him NOW.

My fingers inched towards my weapons pouch but stopped dead in their tracks when I looked at the other boy again. His eyes had faded from their red state but were no less frightening. They stared me down. I knew if I moved another inch, the boy would not hesitate to kill me on the spot.

The target gave the boy a big smile then turned to me.

"who's this?" the target said with a smile in my direction. This was my chance, I had to think of something fast.

"I'm-"

"she's no one important, come on Naruto, lets go" the boy said as he reached up to grab the targets arm. A glare in my direction said I shouldn't argue with him. Or else. Suddenly the target punched the boy in the shoulder. I flinched.

" Sasuke! Don't be a dick!" the target yelled towards the boy. The target turned to me with a smile and reached out his hand.

" hi! My name's Naruto Uzumaki!"

My heart smiled a twisted grin. I could kill him now. I could grab his hand and pull out the hidden kunai I had on my hip and stab him through the heart before the other boy even noticed. I could feel the intoxicating smile want to rise to my lips but I suppressed it. As one hand reached for the target's the other reached to my side. As my hand embraced the cold steel at my side I felt it. This enormous wave of what I could only describe as pure rage and hatred. My eyes were pulled to the other boy. His red eyes once again glowing and a fear over took me as I could practically hear his words in my head. 'I will kill you'. My hand trembled slightly on my blade as I glanced at the target. He looked confused. Apparently he had been standing there with his hand outstretched for longer than a usual hand shake should take. I gulped and reached out and shook his hand. The other boy stiffened, I suppose preparing for if I decided to go against him.

I played it cool.

" My name is Miyuki…" I said with my best fake smile.

" it's a pleasure to meet you Miyuki!" the target said with a smile.

" the pleasure's all mine" I replied coolly.

We stood silently for a moment, just smiling at each other.

"Naruto… we have to go…" the boy said. He shot a glance in my direction.

" OH! Your right!" the target said, surprised. " It was nice meeting you Miyuki!"

" it was nice meeting you too Naruto" I said with a smile. The target smiled back. The boy nudged the target and they turned around and started walking away. I stood there silently, watching them leave. I clenched my fists at my side as the boy pulled a kunai out of his back pocket and held it against his back where the target couldn't see. An unspoken warning that if I came after them. He would kill me. The festering rage I felt in my chest quickly turned into a smirk. I would play his game.

And I would win.

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I kept the assassin in my sights as we walked away. I was hoping she would be smart and just leave. Give up like many others. Or face death like even more. I glanced over at Naruto. He was busy laughing at his own jokes and lightly pushing me on my arm to see if I got it (the joke that is). I let out a small sigh. How could he be so carefree after everything that had happened? Shinobi after shinobi came after him. They just kept on coming. At one point we couldn't stop them. They captured him while I was down…they did…horrible things to him. I will never forgive myself for that. That day, I promised myself to always be by his side…to protect him. Forever.

Naruto stopped suddenly and it snapped me out of my thoughts.

"helloooo? Earth to Sasuke!" Naruto yelled into my ear. I shot him a glare.

"what?" I replied coldly.

" if your not even gonna pay attention to me when I'm talking to you then I'm just gonna-"

I smacked his arm

" just tell me what you where saying." I said with a growl in annoyance. He glared at me for a minute then continued.

" I was SAYING that we should probably hurry up, or else Sakura-chan will get mad at us." he said. I winced at the name. Sakura. The girl that caused what happened to Naruto. The one Naruto ran to after he had been captured. The one who slammed the door in his face after he told her what had been done to him. The one who even after she turned her back on Naruto, Naruto still forgave her. It made me sick. And what was even worse…

" Sasuke-kun!" a shrill annoying voice came from ahead of us. I looked up to see the pink haired girl running towards us.

" Sasuke! I thought you were never going to get here!" she said with a giant smile. Naruto put a hand behind his head and waved at Sakura.

"hey Sakura-chan!" he said with his blindingly bright smile. Sakura barley even pretended to notice him.

"hey Naruto…" she said under her breath. I wanted to push her off a cliff. Or at least in front of a very long, heavy train. I stayed silent.

" I'm so glad you made it Sasuke-kun! Kakashi-sensei was debating on going on the mission without you!" she said in a whinny voice. I could hear Naruto laugh from beside me.

"whoa! Kakashi-sensei was actually on time for something?" he said with a giant smile. Sakura looked down.

"well…I actually told you guys to come an hour later than the time specified, because I figured Kakashi-sensei was going to be late… but he came sooner than expected…" she said under her breath. She looked up suddenly.

" oh! But I would have never had left without you Sasuke!" she said and grabbed my arm. Sometimes I wonder if I should have gone with Orochimaru. I looked off into the distance

"where is a train when you need one…" I said under my breath.

"huh?" she said. Apparently she heard me. Suddenly a poof of smoke appeared before us and Kakashi-sensei walked out of it, open book in hand.

" there you guys are, I was afraid you weren't going to show up" he said in his low tone voice. Naruto did his typical " let's do this!" arm maneuver.

" there is no way we're gonna miss a mission like this! Right Sasuke?" he said and nudged me in the arm. I mumbled a reply.

" okay then, let's get this show on the road." Kakashi said and started walking towards the village gate. Naruto jogged up beside him.

" so…uh… what is this mission about anyway?" he said. Kakashi let out a sigh and shut the book.

" how can you be so excited about a mission that you don't even know about? Didn't you read the briefing?" he said with a dull expression

" hey, I was busy! And I get excited about any mission!" Naruto said defensively. "… so what's it about?" Kakashi let out another sigh.

" our mission is to repair a bridge that had been recently destroyed in a battle, and then once it's fixed we have to escort some travelers from one side to the other ." he said as he opened up his book again. Naruto stopped in his tracks. He stood silently, staring at the ground. I continued my path till I was next to him and he let out a yell.

" THAT'S SO DULL!" he yelled. He ran up to Kakashi and started shaking him back and forth.

" WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET SOME REAL MISSIONS! THESE ONE'S ARE SO LAME!" he yelled and slumped to the ground.

" so lame…" he said softly. I let out an inner sigh. Overly dramatic as usual.

" oh get a grip Naruto! Nothing big is going on in the village right now so this is the best we can get!" Sakura yelled. I walked silently behind.

" I know but…" Naruto said softly.

" come on you guys, we don't want to be late" Kakashi said, already far ahead of us. I walked up beside Naruto and pulled him up off the ground.

"you know what I mean right Sasuke?" he said, his sad puppy-dog eyes staring right through me. I mumbled out something incoherently. It was neither a yes nor no but Naruto took it as a yes.

"right!" he said and did another " let's do this!" arm maneuver. We all made our way to the gates and set off towards the bridge.

A short while later at the bridge

Kakashi-sensei was the first to get to the ex-bridge. He closed his book and put it in one of his front pockets as he started heading over to one of the tree's

" let's get to work you guys." he said . I could hear Naruto gasp.

" whoa! What happened here!" he yelled out. I guessed he was referring to the disfigured ground and the hundreds of wood splinters scattered on either side of the chasm. He quickly walked over to our edge of the chasm and looked over the side. The chasm was deep and contained a raging river at the bottom. He let out a whistle.

" where do we begin?" he said as he turned to Kakashi. Kakashi made some quick hand-signs and then punched both fists into a tree. The tree stood for a moment then quickly toppled over, crushing several smaller tree's in its wake.

" first we start with wood." he said as he managed to break a chunk out of the tree and toss it over his shoulder. A big grin spread over Naruto's face.

" all right!" he said as he picked a tree of his own to demolish. We gathered wood for a good while and when we gathered enough we began work on the bridge.

" okay now all that is left is to begin the bridge from both sides." Kakashi said as he wiped some sweat from his forehead.

"now…to get to the other side…" Kakashi said as he scratched his head.

" no worries! leave it to me!" Naruto yelled. Before I could figure out what was happening Naruto had made two shadow clones who were now running to catapult him to the other side. Needless to say Kakashi and I nearly had a heart attack. Naruto flew across the chasm and almost didn't make it to the other side. He grabbed the edge of the opposite chasm and pulled himself up thankfully.

" well, that's one way to do it" Kakashi said under his breath as he tried to return his breathing to normal.

" okay Kakashi! Now what!" Naruto yelled from the other side.

" okay! Now we are going to send some logs over! Get ready!" Kakashi yelled. He nodded to Sakura who already had a log on her shoulder, prepared for launch.

" get ready Naruto!" she yelled as she tossed the log clear over the chasm.

" WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! I'M NOT READY YET- OUMPH!" Naruto was pummeled by the flying log but somehow was still able to stand.

" I'm okay!" he yelled from the other side. Sometimes it really scared me how strong Sakura had gotten.

" okay! Here come's another one!" Kakashi yelled back to Naruto. Naruto positioned himself at the edge of the chasm to better catch the logs. Sakura lifted another log onto her shoulder with a groan and then quickly tossed it over to Naruto.

" I GOT I-" suddenly some of the ground fell from beneath Naruto's feet as the log nailed him in the shoulder and he was sent sprawling off of the cliff like a rag doll.

" NARUTO!" Kakashi, Sakura and I yelled in unison. I made a split-second decision and made a dash for the cliff.

" NO SASUKE! THE WATER'S TOO STRONG!" I heard Kakashi yell from behind me, but it was too late, I had already jumped off of the edge and was heading straight for the water and for Naruto. I watched as Naruto's body crashed into the water, I followed it until I too hit the cold hard surface. The water was ice cold and the current was strong enough to drown even the most skilled swimmer. My body was immediately sucked under the surface of the water and was dragged along the bottom, hitting rock after rock. I found a VERY small patch of lighter current and quickly made my way to the surface. My head burst out of the water as a gasped for air. I tried to open my eyes as the water thrashed me back and forth. I could barely open my eyes enough but I saw him. Up ahead Naruto, like me, was struggling to stay above the surface. His back was towards the upcoming rocks and he couldn't see the one that was heading straight for him.

" NARUTO!" I shouted above the roaring current but it was too late. Naruto's body was first to slam into the rock followed quickly by his head . Naruto went limp, his body slid away from the rock as I saw the read patch of blood on the rock where his head was quickly get washed away.

" NARUTO!" I swam as hard as I could with the current and somehow caught up to him. He was about to go under when I caught his hand and pulled him back up.

" NARUTO!" I yelled, but I looked in horror as his body stayed limp. I struggled to keep both of our head's above the water when I looked ahead. A huge rock sat in the dead center of the stream and we were heading right for it. There was no way to avoid it. I squeezed his body against mine and then shut my eyes and spun myself around to where my back was facing the giant rock and prepared for impact. The current slammed my body into the rock and then slammed Naruto into me. The breath was knocked out of me and my first breath back in was a mouthful of water. I coughed out the water and then held Naruto close to me as the current continued to pin us to the rock. I opened my eyes as much as a could without them getting thrashed by the water and looked for a way to get out of the river. The current had brought us far down stream but the cliff's still locked us in. I looked around desperately for a way out when I saw it.

Fairly far to the right of the rock was a very small bank, it was still surrounded by the cliff but it would get us out of the cold violent water and onto dry land where I could help Naruto. I quickly looked around for a way to reach it. The only way I could was if I were to somehow get far enough to the right to reach another rock that laid in the river directly next to the bank. An idea crossed my mind. ' I have to do it' I shut my eyes for a minute, gathering my strength, and then opened them and quickly spun myself around on the rock to where Naruto's back was to the rock and I was facing him' I'm sorry Naruto…this might hurt a little" . I pushed him up against the rock with one hand as I helped position my feet against the rock with the other. 'one…two…three!' I pushed as hard as I could with my legs to the right against the current.

My plan was working, until we were almost to the rock when we stopped moving right. I panicked. I attempted to swim farther right but it didn't look like I was going to make it. ' NO!' I shut my eyes tight as I reached out for the rock. Suddenly I felt the stone touch my fingers. ' YES!' I quickly tightened my grip on the rock as the current sent us behind it. My arm felt like it was going to tear apart when the current tried to yank me from the rock. ' not yet!' I started pulling against the current towards the rock when a sudden gush of water tore Naruto from my grip ' NO!' I quickly reached my arm out and grabbed his orange and black jacket. It took nearly all my strength not to let him slip out of my fingers but somehow I managed to pull him slowly towards me again. I had him in my arms and I slowly tried to make my way to the bank. With both hands full and the bank being an arms length away from me I had to make a decision. I let go of the rock and reached for the bank. My fingers dug into the soil and I quickly brought our bodies to the edge . I pooled my strength together and pulled Naruto up onto the bank before me and then clawed my way onto the shore.

I gasped for breath as I laid face first on the small bank. I turned my head to look at Naruto who was lying on his back. I looked at him for a moment then realized something. He wasn't breathing. 'Dammit!' I lifted myself to my knee's but quickly fell back over. My body felt like it was completely drained. I clenched my teeth and dragged myself off of the ground and over to Naruto. I tilted his head back and listened for breathing. Nothing. I quickly unzipped his jacket and started CPR. I did the chest compressions and now it was time for the mouth to mouth. I hesitated. In the back of my mind I couldn't help but think 'this…this is another guy…this is…Naruto…' I shook my head. ' just do it dammit! You jump into a watery torrent for him and now you won't even give him CPR?' I gulped and moved in closer. His eyes were closed and his lips slightly parted. I shut my eye's tightly and pressed my lips against his. His lips were soft but cold…and that worried me. I breathed into him a couple times and then continued compressions then started the second mouth to mouth. On the second breath in his lips moved. My eyes widened as his lips pressed against mine fiercely. He suddenly lifted his body up and began coughing up water…into my still attached mouth. It sparked my gag reflex and I pretty much puked it out. We both sat there coughing up whatever it was we had in us and then Naruto slumped back to the ground with a groan.

I coughed a little more then wiped my mouth and looked over at him. He was unconscious. A thin trickle of blood started sliding down his forehead as blood from his shoulder started to stain his cloths. I ripped what I had left of sleeves from my cloths and made a makeshift bandage for his head and a sling for his arm. It's only when both my sleeves where gone that I noticed what had happen to me. My arms were covered in deep bloody gashes, most likely from when I was dragged on the bottom. And it seems as though I had dislocated my shoulder from when I had to hang onto the rock. It's funny how I didn't feel the pain until now. I groaned. I knew I had to fix it or it might heal wrong. I grabbed my arm with my other arm and with a sickening push, shoved it back into place. I clenched my teeth until the pain had subsided enough and then I crawled to a wall of the bank and leaned against it. I would have to wait here till kakashi and sakura found us. I leaned my head back and stared at the sky. I noticed it was the same blue as Naruto's eyes. I glanced over at him. ' what a pain in the ass'

there it is, ch 1. I hope u liked and if u did then please review :3