Prologue:
Sasuke lay with his back on the Memorial Stone, sleeping. Then his eyes opened, his gaze lazily fixed on the drifting clouds above him, the playing of shadows and light caused by them, his eyes oddly relaxed.
„Hn, what a nice day..." Was his first thought. Quickly followed by „Why do I feel so tired, and whats the kinda hard thing I am lying on?" He slowly got up and looked around. Weak wind played with the grass, some leaves sailed on higher windstreams...overall a peaceful day.
That is, until Kakashi appeared in a swirl of leaves, his one visible eye taking in the scowl-less face of Sasuke Uchiha, leaning against the Monument where so many of his Clanmembers names where engraved and looking …. relaxed? Dreamy? Something was very wrong with this picture.
"Sasuke, what are you doing here? Why aren`t you at Training Ground 5? Team 7 was supposed to meet there 1 hour ago (which meant that Kakashi himself had been extremely early seeing he already had noticed Sasukes absence, damn, he was early once and already he regretted it)."
"Oh, we were? Hn, seems I somehow forgot..." the blackhaired teenager trailed off, a slight frown on his brow. It wasnt his way to "forget" such things. And now that he thought about it, he couldn`t for his life remember that today there was any team training set up at all!
He looked around more alert, and sighed. "Well, I`m not tied up, or painted orange or somesuch, so I`m not here because of Naruto playing a prank again."
"I see..." answered Kakashi with a slightly wondering tone as there was no venom in the boys voice. „And has Naruto been playing pranks like that lately?"
„No, he mostly threatens "to get me next time", but I never fall for his attempts. Last time though he threatened to get Itachi to help..." Sasuke smiled slightly at that.
Kakashis Eye narrowed, Sasuke noticed. "He would get who to help?" he asked with a voice somewhere betweeen incredelous and alarmed.
"Itachi? My older brother? The jounin? Long black hair, overtly perfect in everything he does, small army of fangirls?"
Kakshi frowned. "Sasuke, how old are you?" Sasuke frowned now as well, What was his Sensei getting at? "12, I`ll be 13 in 2 months, why?"
"Soo..." Kakashi answered in a very calm and precise tone, „You are NOT suffering from amnesia and thinking that you`re 8?" It seemed as if the white haired Jounin would have preferred it that way, which seemed...strange to say the least, to Sasuke. He decided to say so. "Uh, Sensei, I dont really get what you`re getting at, is something wrong?"
"What happened when youw ere 8?" Kakashi asked, again with that overtly patient and very precise tone of voice.
„Naruto fell out of a tree and my Sharingan activated, due to the danger of being squashed by a human orange I assume." He smiled slightly at the memory.
"...What?" Was the rather alarmed sounding reaction of the otherwise lackluster Ninja.
"Come on now, Sensei, you were there about five seconds after that. You know what happened. You weren't running around screaming your head off like I was..." The smile vanished. The headache he had suffered after that had been …. intense to say the least. Especially right behind his eyes.
Kakashi stared at his student, then spoke with a very level voice.
"Sasuke, I mean the massacre. I don't remember any instance of Naruto falling from a tree, at least, not where you were ever involved. I also had no knowledge you had awakened your Sharingan."
Sasuke stared at his Sensei.
"...Sensei, how can you not remember it? Uncle Obito laughed so hard his glass eye fell out."
Kakashi froze. "...Uncle who?" His voice was pained and very quiet now.
Sasuke meanwhile caught up to what Kakashi had said. "Hey, wait, what massacre? And you were training me with your own Sharingan yesterday!"
The pair stared at each other, wide-eyed and silently.
"Sasuke... I think we're going to have to do a lot of explaining here, but first I think we might have to go and see the Hokage."
"Uh, why?"
"I have a question of my own to answer that one, 'Sasuke'. How did you know I had a Sharingan?" Kakashi asked.
He had hoped that the suspected spy disguised as his student would panic at this, if only to allow Kakashi a good reason to knock him out. He had not expected the next words.
"The whole clan knows Obito gave his left eye to you when you had yours cut out and his optic nerves were damaged when you two were tortured... It was given as repayment for saving his life."
Kakashi blinked in surprise.
"Obito was crushed to death. His name is on the stone behind you."
Sasuke blinked, turned around, and saw the name. His eyes widened further.
"...But he told me at lunch yesterday that he would be taking his own team out on a C-Rank tomorrow. That doesn't make any sense. And... That person isn't dead. Neither is he... "
He kept reading, and then turned pale as he must have had reached a certain spot with many identical last names. Sasuke suddenly growled, spinning around with a Kunai in his hands. Kakashi did not draw his own, but remained wary as he spotted that his student indeed did have the Sharingan after all. The teenager mada a Kai sign. And then proceeded to look very, very worried.
"...This isn't a Genjutsu, is it? What's going on?"
"Sasuke, what name did you see there that alarmed you?" Kakashi inquired.
"Everyone! The whole clan except for me and Itachi!"
Kakashi nodded silently.
"That seems right. Itachi did kill the whole clan five years ago..." Sasuke blinked, said one word:"...What?" And then he fainted.
"...Maybe I should have broken that one a little more gently." Kakashi muttered, picking up the suspicious Sasuke and heading for the Hokage's tower.
Still, at least he hadn't had to knock him out by himself, on the off chance that he was Sasuke.
Whatever the truth behind this was, be it an amnesiac Sasuke, a Spy transformed by an unknown Kinjutsu or an even weirder explanation, he was sure that the Sandaime (and his ….. ressources) would be able to get behind it. So he quickly made his way to the Hokage Tower, his uncharacteristically happy (and right now unconcious) pupil over his shoulder.
Authors Note: The Idea and Inspiration to this Story should be credited to a „short" I read on Deviantart.
More precisely most of this prologue is based on LZ0291`s Story there. Thank you for inspiring me.
AN2:
This is supposed to be a story with a happy (though still rather … prodigious) and not in the slightest „Single Minded Avenger on a Power Trip" Sasuke.
It will (sometimes loosely sometimes closely) follow the Canon Events starting with the Wave Arc, but some AU-ness will certainly make an appearance later on.
Why does Sasuke have other memories, you ask? Well, it could be many things, you should probably continue reading if you want to find out...;)
Please review and tell me what you think of the Idea.
