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I present to you :

Naruto And Sasuke : The Greatest Bandits That Ever Lived

Chapter 1 - The Prison Break Part 1: The setup

It was fine morning, the sun rose up to nudge the world to begin the mechanisations of the day. Birds sang along the horizon of the tree, adding to the serene image of peace. The world truly looked happy.

But this place was not.

The civilian penitentiary of kusagakure although only housed the local misdoers or bandits, it was just as dark and gritty place as the one for ninjas nonetheless. The prison day began with blaring of the buzzer and the guards commanding the prisoners to show up to the bars and hold their arms up, as the guards slowly allowed them to trickle into the mess, checking them for any foul play, and roughing a few of them up just for kicks.

This was the place for the lowest of the low, the scum of the earth. What the world would see as brutality was mere love taps in the criminal section of kusagakure civilian penitentiary.

As the inmates slowly ushered into the mess hall, one of the guards deliberately bumped into one of the inmates having semi-large raven coloured hair. The raven haired inmate merely stumbled and continued on the way making the guards smile. None of the noticed the bulging veins of the said inmate as he reined in his anger.

Let this be known: Uchiha Sasuke Hated prison with a passion.

'Breathe in, breathe out.. this is nothing for an uchiha' sasuke kept repeating this mantra in his head.

As they stood in line for the food, the thirteen year old sasuke was squished between two humungous fat sweating prisoners, who always took his food as a tax for some reason. The said 'food' was dropped on sasuke's pan, the 'food' was gooey mush that even earth worms seemed to disregard.

"Oi princess, time for tax" said the fat guy in front of sasuke.

'I hate that name' thought the uchiha as he stared dead faced on the fat guy.

"Hn, Go away kawaguchi" grunted back sasuke.

This was the usual routine, the fat kawaguchi always rounded up people and would get purple in anger at refusal and then followed the usual riot.

Growling Kawaguchi lunged at sasuke intent on introducing his face to the ground, but sasuke nimbly dodged at the last second causing kawaguchi to slam onto the fat guy behind sasuke who tumbled and let his plate filled with gooey 'food' fly onto the face of a severe looking person who was surrounded by equally severe looking people.

The plate stuck on his face and slowly slid down and fell on the floor with a clang. Everyone heard the clang, not because it was too loud but because of the pin drop silence that ensued at the sight.

And then followed laughter. Even the most stoic of the guards began chuckling at the sight.

As this severe looking person happened to be leader of gang in the penitentiary named Honda. And naturally was extremely pissed at the sullying of his reputation and wrought a fight to reclaim his respect.

"You fucking pigass" screamed Honda as he charged along with his gooneys towards the second fat guy, immediately bringing out sharp objects from the most myriad of the places. While others took it as an opportunity to fight joined in.

Sasuke slowly pulled out a short knife from his behind, 'oh man this is not what an uchiha does, naruto you will pay for this' he cursed silently on his mind as began dodging bodies that were thrown near and at him, occasionally stabbing at the few caught his ire early on during his incarceration.

This went on for few more minutes, as guards tried to stop them ,but their efforts proved to be futile against the crazed violent people. Sasuke tried his best to not be stabbed, when suddenly he felt a surge of chakra from his body. 'Damn of all the times that stupid chakra suppression seal to go bust' thought sasuke. As he remembered paying quite a nifty sum to the shady seal keeper of the yugakure's black market that naruto introduced him before his imprisonment.

The chakra suppression seal was a must for his task, if he was caught with high level of chakra, more than civilians then he would be transferred to the ninja prison, and that was big no-no, who knows how bad things would get there, not to mention breaking out would be nigh impossible.

The alarms were blaring full force, when tens of guards poured into the hall and began to restrain the inmates. As sasuke was being restrained face flush on the ground he muttered "damn it naruto, hurry up!" to himself.

After twenty minutes, when the riot was controlled, the warden barrelled into the room and declared with an angry face "You low life imbeciles, everyday ! everyday! you do this same shit ! No more lunch for anyone for two days, drag the fat twins and Honda-teme to the solitary!" Needless to say the less than forgiving place did wonders to his manners.

As sasuke was being pushed back into his cell, he looked up to see his crazy cell mate talking to his imaginary friend, and his stomach growled, he didn't eat anything today.

His only thought of the place resonated through his mind once more

'I hate prison'.

Stealth was probably one skill Naruto Uzumaki could proudly boast that he had it in spades. Even when he was a child. So breaking into the civilian penitentiary was a breeze for him. Growing up on the road as a bandit he picked up a lot of skills, and one of them included knowing people.

If there was a thing that needed to be done or someone to be taken care of or getting something illegal or otherwise, Naruto Uzumaki knew a guy.

This was his and sasuke's one of the high roller jobs. Being a high risk, high reward job, they were pulling all stops. The blackmarket of the elemental countries was suddenly very eager for anything that pertained to tailed beasts or sage of six paths. He could care less about some historic shit people wanted to loosen up their wallets for, but the reward was staggering.

After months of shaking up merchants on roads, scouring the local blackmarkets and spying on rival bandits, they finally got a lead. The nephew of advisor of the daimyo of kusagakure had come to know the hidden location of one of the treasured tools of the sage of six paths, the same ones that were stolen by the gold and silver brothers upon their defection of kumo.

This was what brought them to the penitentiary of kusagakure. Sasuke loosing the rock-paper-scissors, had to be the bandit on the inside, besides getting the target to cough up information would be much easier with sharingan.

"Yo! kinsuke, how are the kids ?" asked naruto waving up to one of the guards of the prison.

"Ah the younger brat is sick again, but we got the doctor you sent in the village, he is great didn't even charge a thing!" replied the guard kinsuke, as he opened the prison back gate for naruto to enter. He knew the doctor was there because of naruto. Naruto grinned sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck, the doctor was sent there on getting blackmailed by blond masked man.

"okay, step one: getting into the pris, complete." muttered Naruto. He quickly slipped into one of the many hallways and climbed onto the air conditioner duct. He had looked over the blueprints of the prison which he got using his connections, but he hardly remembered any of it now.

'Time to wing it' he thought as he tried to slip into the kitchen, he knew one of the chefs who owed him a favour, who owed a favour to a mess serving staff. He decided to commence the part two of his plan which was informing sasuke of him being in position, so sasuke can interrogate the target.

It took him thirty-five minutes of crawling in the spider-web filled ducts to get above the kitchen door. 'Stupid spiders ruined my super stealth clothes' he grumbled as he climbed down the the duct and slipped into the kitchen. There were about five chefs in the kitchen at the pre-evening hours. One of them was thin man with a long moustache, he wore the whites of the kitchen uniform, but the white colour of the uniform had by long time ago degraded to yellowish tinge.

Naruto shadowed him until he was alone in the pantry, and then made himself known.

"I don't think i even want to eat the food you made, if you always slip into empty places to read icha-icha, who knows where your hand have been." quietly said naruto with a deadpan expression.

"Ah fuck!" rushed out of the mouth of the moustached chef as he dropped the book in his hand which pulled out from the corner of the fridge.

"Damn it brat. Do you want to get me heart attack ?" the thin chef whispered harshly to naruto, who just shrugged.

"Oi nico, I want you to get this to one of the guy locked up here" said naruto pulling out a small piece of paper.

"Nope, not happening not one of your favour crap again, Last time you pulled that crap on me I lost a job, before that one I was booted out of the village. So nope, I am Not doing your crap again" exclaimed the now named" Nico as he backed away from the piece of paper naruto was holding as if it was poison.

"Mah mah.. You know i make it upto you, besides i got you this job didn't I" said naruto with his trade-mark grin. A grin that nico knew all too well.

"No, no no I know you will get me into trouble, I just got engaged, so I don't need unnecessary risks.." refuted Nico.

This got Naruto to get a sudden glint in his eyes, which squinted a little but the huge smile remained. All in all it made quite the terrifying picture, the kind of which radiated promisee of pain.

"Ah it's alright then, Enjoy your marriage Nico." He said as he made to turn away. But stopped mid way and said slowly "but it would be a shame if your bride to be come to know of your perverted activities of past, you know, the hot springs of star village, but who am I to stand in the way of love." Needless to say Naruto was the master of the art of blackmail.

Nico flinched on hearing the word 'hot springs', and immediately caved. The brat was a dangerous one.

By the night came it was getting very hard for sasuke to not loose control. He had to constantly suppress his chakra, as the seal failed earlier and the muttering of companion of the room didn't help a bit. 'If this goes on one more day, i'll be transferred to the looney bin' thought sasuke as tried to control his breathing. He hadn't eaten anything in the entire day either.

The buzzers for signifying the dinner time for the inmates. Following the usual routines everyone trickled out of their cells but with much less energy than usual, a day's hunger had subdued most of them.

"Next" called the serving staff as sasuke followed the line to get his serving. It was slightly better than the 'shit lump' from the morning. He took his bread and went on to sit on one of the most farther corner of the mess. As he began trying to swallow the paper like bread, he noticed a small note that put in between the ridge of two breads, he swiftly grabbed the paper, and dumped the bread into his mouth and stalked to one of the corners. He looked around to see if anyone was looking at him, and when he was sure no one was, he took a swift look at the paper, smiled and tore the paper to bits before moving to the left side of the cells, his steps more purposeful than before, but not before muttering a quick "finally". Had anyone seen the note before they would not have understood a word it at all, for it had only one word in it

"Dattebayo".

Finally wrote the next chapter, As you must have seen, this chapter featured a time-skip, of Naruto and Sasuke at thirteen years of old.

First let me clear things up a bit:

I will include their initial beginnings as bandits later onto chapters as flashbacks.

And also bandits in my story are not just sit in the road type, they do everything from the said highway men to exquisite con-men and women. The term bandit here refers to the low-lifes of the civilian world. Some of them have useable chakra level, but never more than a genin's. Of course, Naruto and Sasuke being the exceptions.

Parings will be revealed later on.

As neither of them lived the life as we all know from canon, they will be a bit OC, but i will try to stick to the general skeleton of their characters.

I split this chapter in two so that the set-up and escape, have their significant roles and hence the chapter names. Forgive me if prison seems too cliché.

In the Next Chapter: Naruto and Sasuke begin their escape plan. And someone else visits the prison same time as them, for money attracts the wicked!

Thank you to everyone reviewed / liked or followed my story. And I hope the newcomers do too.