Chapter 1
(Sasuke's POV)
I was standing with a sleepy Sakura at 6:30am waiting for Kakashi, the lazy baka. Naruto lay a few feet away on the wet grass snoring like hell. We had been waiting for nearly 2 hours – ugh! Why did he set the time so early if he wasn't going to turn up himself?! We heard footsteps and turned to see Kakashi walking towards us slowly with his stupid book in his stupid hands.
Sakura walked over to Naruto and kicked him awake while I noticed that Kakashi wasn't alone. A girl of our age was accompanying him; she had long black that was tied up with a fringe that came over her dark brown eyes. She was slim and was only smiling slightly until she looked my way. Oh no … wait, huh?
She didn't grin like a dork and come to flirt with me, instead she blanked out for a moment and stopped in her tracks until Naruto went and poked her on the side of the head. "Hey, are you okay?" She blinked and smiled at him. She, Sakura and Naruto began talking and I watched, unable to hear what they were saying until Sensei called me.
I approached her and she held out her hand which I didn't take. She shrugged and Kakashi spoke. "Alright team 7, as you can see we have a guest. She will be under individual training with me under the Hokage's order but might join us from time to time. I'll just let you get to know her then." He walked off reading his special book – Icha Icha. Sakura spoke first, breaking the awkward silence.
"So, um why are you under individual training?" She asked conversationally.
"I'm… well… different, I guess so I have to get trained differently…" I froze at her answer and after a moment asked in a slightly hoarse voice,
"W-Who are you?" She turned towards me and smiled.
"Don't tell me your memory is that bad Sasuke. You seem to have forgotten your best friend rather quickly don't you think?" I gaped at her and she hugged me. That warm feeling… that sweet smell…
"Rhikyo?" I whispered as she let go with a familiar grin. I couldn't help it… I almost cried, almost.
"I-I thought you were dead, I mean they always blamed you and when he… killed… you left! You left me on my own!" Why did she leave? I managed to fight back the tears but I was shaking with anger now. Why did she leave?! I grabbed her by the neck and kneed her in the stomach. She didn't try and stop me but looked at me sadly.
"Sasuke stop!" shouted Sakura while grabbing my arm. As Naruto tried to stop me as well I yanked my arms away from both their reaches. I ran at her and she jumped high, I followed her up and grabbed her, planning on hurting her as much as she hurt me when I was just a boy. Suddenly she was standing on the ground beneath me, but that's not possible… how did she-
"I froze you all. Well I unfroze your head but other than that you're stuck like that for a few minutes. Unless I-" Suddenly I felt cold air whip across my face and noticed only too late I had been unfrozen. I hit the ground hard with a loud thud. I groaned in pain as I stumbled to my feet only to feel more pain as a foot collided with the side of my head. I fell.
The others unfroze and were extremely puzzled as to how we managed to move a few metres from our previous position so quickly. As I saw Rhikyo glance at Kakashi who was about to interfere I quickly ran at her and punched her, causing to go flying into a tree. I followed and grabbed her by her hair when a thought struck me – what the heck am I doing?!
Suddenly she had me pinned to the ground.
"Sasuke I didn't want to leave! You know they would take any reason to try and get rid of me and they did! I couldn't do anything I was just a kid!" There were tears in her eyes now, but she didn't let them fall. "Just a kid like you." She whispered as she got up and turned around trying to wipe her eyes without me noticing but I did. And I knew perfectly well who 'they' were.
When we were little I remember how she told me that crying is a sign of weakness.
Flashback
I was running and laughing so hard it stung. I ran into the garden and laughed harder as Rhikyo ran out and jumped towards me. She was grinning as I fell on my face due to the fact she had grabbed my ankle. She broke out into a fit of giggles as I got up and pushed her yelling "TAG! You're it!" I took of running again as she immediately stopped laughing and scrambled to her feet. I glanced over my shoulder as she screamed for me to stop.
Too late.
Next thing I knew I was opening my eyes to see Rhikyo wearing a worried expression. I grinned like an idiot and she frowned. I realised I was lying on the grass with my head in her lap and then I noticed that MY HEAD HURTS LIKE HELL!
I touched it and winced and as I looked at the tip of my finger I saw a scarlet liquid slowly making its way down to my wrist. I did the one thing any child would. I cried and Rhikyo pulled me closer. She healed me as she had once done Itachi but it still hurt a little. She smiled and wiped away my tears.
"It hurts but crying shows that it hurts. I leant not to show it because when you're in a fight you look weak." I looked at her and she looked up at the sky and spoke more to herself than to me.
"But sometimes it's okay to cry."
End of flashback
"Why did you come back, after so long?" I asked quietly.
"Lady Tsunade came and found, she said that I needed training. She told me that I am a being called The Key and I'm also the fourth one ever, that's why I'm different. She brought me to Konoha a week ago and I began training with Kakashi Sensei. He told me about you guys and I just wanted to see you again, after all you were my best friend, along with Itachi." She turned to me as I spoke in a whisper
"Don't mention his name in front of me, I hate him." She sighed and looked at me sadly.
"I need to speak to him." My eyes widened in shock. Seeing this she explained further.
"I don't know why… I just feel like there's something we have to-." I cut her off before she could finish
"I want to be the one to kill him." She laughed and I forgot my anger immediately.
"Fine but you have to wait at least 5 minutes so I can speak to him first, or else."
It was my turn to laugh, which felt slightly strange as I hadn't in a long time. We began walking back to the others. "We seriously need to catch up…" I muttered and she smiled. Sakura ran up to us squealing about how worried she and Naruto were while Kakashi just stood there with a small smile hidden under his mask.
The little scene was ruined by Sakura's voice- uh… I mean what Sakura said… yeah … what she said… he he… well screamed.
I turned around on the spot and saw a cloud of smoke and a black robe with red clouds visible through the small wisps of grey.
"I have a message for someone, un."
Author note:
Yay! Hahaha cliff-hanger!
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Oh and guess what - I'm so happy because I got a muffin! It. Is. Chocolate. Yum.