Chapter 2: A Brighter Tomorrow

===Konohagakure no Sato===

It was a bright day in Konoha. There were sounds of birds all around. And the sounds of Kakashi Hatake getting beaten into the ground had just finished. The ninja that had beaten the legendary copy-nin was none other than his best friend Ichigo Kurosaki-Shiba-Uchiha, Damn, he has way too many clans, so he generally went by Ichigo Kurosaki, but had recently started going by Ichigo Uchiha. After he had utterly destroyed his best friend in the training spar, A blue, spikey haired man appeared out of no where, grinning like a maniac.

"Yo! Uchiha! What's with leaving your big brother behind?!" Said blue haired man yelled at his orange haired friend. The blue haired man was 6'1'' and was really muscular, but still slim, slightly bigger than Ichigo, he was wearing tight fitting jeans and black combat boots, much like Ichigo, but he had a tight plain black vest on with a white jacket that had black lining and rolled up sleeves, under his jacket you could see various amounts of kunai and shuriken, and a long sword at his side with a blue grip. All in all, with the terrifying maniac grin, he looked completely badass.

"I didn't leave you behind, Grimmjow, you were late." Ichigo replied to the now identified Grimmjow, who just rolled his eyes and leapt down from the tree he was stood in and started dancing on his toes with fists raised as though he was going to fight one of the ninja opposite him.

"Well that's your opinion, twinkle toes, but I think you were just trying to get away from your dear Nii-san, I'm almost offended." Grimmjow said, maintaining the insane grin that always adorned his face.

"I'm sorry, but who are you?" Kakashi chimed in, confused as Ichigo had never once said that he had an older brother.

"Oh where are my manners!" Grimmjow apologised, ignoring the comment from Ichigo that went something along the lines of 'Up your ass' "I'm Grimmjow Jaggerjaques-Shiba, Ichi-chan's nii-san. Well, half-brother."

"Well it's nice to meet you, I'm Kakashi-"

"I know who you are, Copy-nin Hatake Kakashi, possesor of the famed sharingan, the man who copied over 1000 jutsu." Grimmjow cut in, well aware of exacly who this man was. See Grimmjow may be impulsive but he isn't stupid, If they had been rejected by the village they would probably have had to fight their way out, so Grimm researched all of the jounin in the village.

"Ah so I'm famous even in Tamashi no Shakai (Soul Society)," Kakashi said, suddenly on guard with this newcomer, no matter how friendly he was with Ichigo.

"Yeah, I'm done now so I'm gonna go see my cousins." Ichigo said while sheathing his sword and motioning for Grimmjow to follow, then he turned to face Kakashi, "I'll be at the Uchiha estate if anyone needs me," and vanished in his burst of shunpo, while Grimmjow just shook his head in an exasperated gesture and shot off after his impulsive little brother.

===Uchiha Estate===

Ichigo and Grimmjow arrived at the Uchiha estate to an eerie silence and abandoned buildings, the only noise being the occaisional grunt of shinobi training. It was coming from behind the main house, definitly in the training yard. Ichigo began moving towards it, using his stealth prowess to move completely silently, and then Grimmjow started to follow.

"What are you doing?!" Ichigo whispered angrily at his brother

"What? Is it wrong for me to want to see my little cousin?" Grimmjow responded in kind, then they both stopped. Ichigo looked at his older brother.

"Go to the hokage's office, get registered as a shinobi and then, and only then, meet me back here and we'll go meet the other one. Got it?" Ichigo was sometimes just saddened at how badly his brother understood these things. Grimmjow just nodded sarcasticly and mumbled something before shooting off. Ichigo shook his head before dissapearing and reapering a ways behind his small, dark haired cousin. "Ahem, you're Sasuke Uchiha, right?"

A startled Sasuke span round, throwing a precise kunai at the intruders head and dropping into his taijutsu stance. What he wasn't expecting was for the intruder to sidestep and thrust one finger back to where he was stood, catching the ring of the kunai and allowing it to continue spinning before flicking his wrist, launching the afore mentioned kunai straight past Sasuke and directly into the centre of the target behind him.

"W-who are you?" Sasuke asked the intruder nervously, this man was clearly not a civilian.

"I'm your cousin. Ichigo Shiba-Uchiha," Ichigo said before flashing his regular sharingan, careful not to let his Chūkū Tsukinome (Hollow Moon Eye) seep in. This served as a verification of what he was saying. Sasuke dropped to his knees in shock, this couldn't be happening! Itachi had killed the entire clan! This wasn't real, it must be a dream or some twisted genjutsu. "Sasuke? Are you okay? I know this is a shock but trust me this is very much real."

"How are you alive? Itachi killed everyone." Sasuke said, his mind beginning to process the shock and recover to the point where he could stand albeit shakily at first, using his bokken as an arm rest.

"I was living in a different country with my tou-san and nii-san, when tou-san died I decided to move here to meet my cousin, only to find I have two here. You and Naruto Uzumaki." Ichigo explained slowly so he didn't cause any more mental trauma to the nine year old in front of him.

"What?! I'm cousins with the dobe, damn. Is your nii-san here too?" Sasuke had decided that this guy wasn't to be belived and that he had used a genjutsu to make it look like he had a sharingan to gain his trust and kill him, but Sasuke was smarter than that, he will take him to the hokage to get this guy arrested. "Can we go to the hokages office quickly?"

"Yeah sure, I guess?" and on that note Sasuke shot off at a sprint to get to the hokages office as quick as possible while avoiding idle chit chat.

===At The Hokage's Office… Again===

Saritobi Hiruzen, Sandaime Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato, had just finished meeting one of his new ANBU, the older half-brother of Ichigo Uchiha, Grimmjow Jaggerjaques-Shiba. It was very interesting to meet another possesor of the famed Chūkū Tsukinome (Hollow Moon Eye), but one that wasn't under dozens of seals to keep the ensuing insanity at bay. Grimmjow was definitly more eccentric than Ichigo, even though he didn't have the Chūkū Mūnmasuku yet.

Suddenly interupted for the third time in a single day, Sarutobi put down his pipe and opened his door to see two of the three remaining Uchiha stood before him.

"Why, hello Sasuke-san, Ichigo-san. What can I do for you?" Hiruzen asked, quite confused as to why they would be back.

"You can arrest this assassin, Hokage-sama!" Sasuke shouted as he ran behind the god of shinobi for protection.

"What are you talking about?! Ichigo-san is not an assassin after you!" the alarmed hokage said, careful not to slip up and say that Ichigo wasn't an assassin, instead specifying that he wasn't after the youngest Uchiha.

"W-what?! You mean he's telling the truth?!" Sasuke was in absolute shock, there was another person from his previously almost extinct clan that was here, and was clearly capable of training him."A-another U-Uchiha?"

"Yeah, I know it's hard to belive but I'm really an Uchiha, I'm not trying to kill you, in fact, I want to train you." Ichigo informed the youngest Uchiha with what looked like a small smile gracing his almost permenantly scowling features.

"So, you're Sasuke, huh. Don't look like much." said Grimmjow with a feral grin, Sasuke looked at the blue haired man with fear in his eyes.

"Yeah, W-who are you?" Sasuke asked, trying to be brave, failing miserably. Grimmjow walked closer, couched down to his level with a blank expression, before ruffling his hair and grinning.

"I'm your new big brother!"

===The End===

===For Now===

AN: Jesus, that is dissapointing. I'm not going to make any excuses, I've left this way too long. I will apologise though, and I will explain why this has taken so long.

First: I lost my interest in anime, writing and pretty much everything else I usually love.

Second: my computer has been dead for a month and I've only just got it back.

Third: I have some exams coming up and so I've been revising my ass off.

Fourth: Even when I start writing, I struggle to come up with basic structure, I can do details and overall outlines but anything in the middle I really struggle with.

So my conclusion to these points is that I am looking for a writing parter(s). what this means is that this will be someone I collaborate with on a general basis, they need to be able to help me write, come up with ideas and help me stay on track getting chapters out. If anyone is interested then please just PM me.