Sasuke's Life

Summary: Sasuke is starting to realize his true goal of life with Sakura, Naruto, and all of his friends, TenTen, Neji, Gaara, etc. Will he succeed in his goals?

Character pairings: TenNeji, SasSaku, InoShika, etc.

/text/ - Character's thoughts.

/text/ - Inner Sasuke (yes, he has one, too)

/text/ - Inner Sakura

(text) – Note from author to readers

Chapter 2: A little, small, seriously, strange chat between some friends.

Kakashi was walking along a street with he spotted some kids arguing. "Hey, hey, kids. Don't yell at each other. What's wrong?"

There were 4 boys. A blondie, brunette, black-hair, and a red-haired. Kakashi examined them for about a minute. The blondie was short and athletic-looking. The brunette was a jumpy guy. The red-haired looked like a quiet kind of guy yet he has a smile, unlike Gaara. And the black-haired boy has pearly-white eyes, like all of the Hyuga clan members. /Huh. It seems like a bunch of kids I know. /

The blondie said, "I am Akii. Me and my friends were playing with a ball, see up there." Kakashi looked at the location of the bright, red, dodge ball. It was stuck in between a creak on the wall, which was part of the cliff. "Wow. Had did it get up?" The red-haired spoke up. "I am Yoko from the Village Hidden-in-the-sand. We were kicking the ball around and suddenly a gust of wind blew the ball into that creak right there." Kakashi nodded. "I am going to need to know what game you were playing." The brunette replied with a sure look on his face. "I'm Sano from the Takashite clan. We were trying to keep the ball in the air with our feet and by kicking it up into the air." Kakashi patted the boy.

"It's called soccer. And what's your name?" The black-hair shyly spoke up. "M-my name is N-nanji o-of the H-hyuga clan." Kakashi grinned at him. "I see that you're related to Neji and Hinata." Nanji nodded. "I am part of the M-main branch. B-brother Neji is so n-nice to me all of the time. Sister H-hinata is nice, too, but Brother N-neji dislikes her." Kakashi nodded. "I would suspect so." Nanji looked at Kakashi for a real, long time. "Y-you're the famous c-copy ninja, right? Kakashi-dono?" Kakashi patted him on the head. "Heh. Right."

Akii was getting impatient. "Kakashi-dono, how are you going to get that down?" Kakashi was about to answer when the ball bounced in right of him, all of a sudden. "Huh?" Akii, Yoko, and Sano were amazed. "Wow. How did you do that?" Kakashi shrugged. "Ano…I learned a new jutsu, I guess." "Wow. Thanks, Kakashi-dono."

Kakashi waved at the kids as they ran off but Kakashi was more concerned about who got the ball down. "Gaara, I know you are there." Behind Kakashi, on the left, Gaara was standing under a tree.

He walked out towards Kakashi. He was wearing a red turtleneck with his big gourd on his back. "I see that you noticed." Kakashi nodded thoughtfully. "Well, you are the only person here that uses sand to do pretty much anything."

Gaara smirked. "Yoko is somehow related to me and I need to take him home. When I found him here, I saw that his ball was stuck so I got it out for them." "Very thoughtful of you." Gaara turned away. "I am not thoughtful. I was just doing my duty." Kakashi chuckled. "Right. Are you here to see Naruto? I think he is eating some ramen at the ramen shop. Do you need directions?"

Gaara shook his head. "No, thanks. I know where to go. Bye." Gaara walked away. Kakashi stared at Gaara. /Gaara is so young. Almost like Itachi but a bit different. Ever since that Chunnin Exam, he has been so different. /

Kakashi sighed. /But right now, I am going to have to turn in the result of today's mission. And I can bet that Tsunade-san will give me a lecture about getting to her office early. / Kakashi sighed again and walked very slowly. /She might as well deal with it. Women can be so impatient. /

Me: "Kakashi! So evil! You read dirty books and you end up thinking that women are evil?"

Kakashi: "Ah…no. That is not what I meant! Don't hurt me!"

Me: "I will not hurt you."

Kakashi: "Phew."

Me: "I just might not write include you in this story."

Kakashi: "What?"

Naruto: "Dimwit."

Sakura: "Naruto! That was rude."

Sasuke: "Hey, it was the cold, hard truth."

Naruto: "Yeah."

Sakura: "Hey, get on with the story."

Me: "Fine, fine."

Kakashi: "No, wait. I take that back. Women aren't evil!"

Me: "You better."

Sasuke: "Evil? No. Demanding? Yes."

Sakura: "WHAT WAS THAT?"

Sasuke being timid (…impossible. I cannot imagine that.) : "Nothing."

Naruto: "Cold, hard truth."

WHAM!

Naruto with a lump on his head: "I can't feel my head."

Kakashi with a sweat drop: "Sakura. You should calm down."

Sasuke: "Give up. You can't hide that truth."

BAM!

Sasuke was out cold. Sakura has a very, angry aura around her. And Naruto is trying the wake Sasuke up.

Me: "Erm…on with the show!"

Naruto was slurping on his 5th Ramen bowl. "Naruto-kun." Naruto turned around and laughed happily when he saw that Gaara was there. "Gaara-kun! What brings you here to the Village Konohamaru?" Gaara shrugged. "I don't know. Thought that I can drop by to say hello. My sister and brother are here too." Naruto smiled and laughed. "That still doesn't answer my question."

Gaara decided to change the subject. "What is with all the bandages?" Naruto slurped the last of his noodles. "Oh, this? Just some wounds from the last mission I did." Gaara sat down besides Naruto and ordered a bowl of miso ramen. "I'll have two miso ramen for here." "Okay. Just wait for a few minutes." Gaara took off his gourd of sand and turned towards Naruto.

"So tell me about the mission while we wait for our bowls of ramen. My treat." Naruto grinned. "Sure. And thanks for the bowl of ramen. I sure could use another bowl." "How many have you ate?" "Hmm…about five." Gaara was silent. /Naruto can eat that much? I bet he can eat more just from hearing this. / Gaara sighed. "So how did the mission go?" Naruto exhaled before telling about the difficult mission.

"It was a rank B mission. Tsunade-san knew that I wanted a B mission. I was bored. So my group, Sasuke-kun, Sakura-chan, and I, no wait. Can't forget Kakashi-sensei. We were all assigned to do a B mission. Sakura-chan didn't look so excited and Sasuke-kun looked like he was ready kick some butt. Kakashi-sensei just sighed. Anyway, our mission was to go to Village of the Waves or something and kill a group called the Black Blood."

Gaara realized that group. "Hey! I know a group called that." "Really? How?" Gaara thought for a second. "They were a group of serial killers back when I was 3 years old." Naruto jumping out of his seat, surprised. "What! How can that be? That means we have been either hunting them for 13 years or we have been ignoring them for 13 years." Gaara had several sweat drops.

"Aaa…Naruto. I think you should sit down." Naruto blushed. "Okay. Anyway, we got there and by the 2nd day, we found them. It was me and Sasuke-kun against a guy named Sanoshi-san. And then there was Sakura-chan with Kakashi-sensei against a guy named Kimihiro-san. We thought that Sanoshi-san was the leader, but it was Kimihiro-san who was the leader. Sasuke-kun and I were tired after just 5 minutes. Then we heard Sakura screamed. Just as we turned around, we saw Sakura-chan flying over the cliff and falling down. I screamed her named and tried to catch her, but when I looked over the cliff, she was gone." Naruto stopped when a bowls of miso ramen came over.

"Here you go. Sorry for the wait." Gaara thanked him and ate his bowl. "Ramen isn't so bad." Naruto grinned and slurped his bowl noisily. "So, how is she?" "She's alive. What gets me stumped is how she survived." Gaara shrugged. "I don't really care." Naruto slapped Gaara's back, making him choke on his ramen. "You are so lazy, sometimes!" Gaara smiled and ate the rest of his ramen.

"Kakashi! You are back early! And late as usual." Kakashi laughed. "Iruka, I am late because of Tsunade-san." "Oh! She gave you the talk again, right?" Kakashi laughed again and sat down next from Master Iruka, who was sitting on the desks. "Yeah. Only she was a little nicer." "Surprise, surprise." Both Kakashi and Iruka laughed.

Kakashi and Iruka are at the academy. Kakashi same over to visit after he turned in the mission. "How are the little kids?" Iruka shrugged. "Okay, I guess. I mean, some of them are lazy, just like the old Naruto, Kiba, Shikamaru, and Choji. There is this bright kid from the Hyuga clan." "Let me guess. Nanji Hyuga from the main branch."

Iruka was surprised. "Yeah. Did you use your sharigan eye on me?" Kakashi shook his head. "No, no. I met him before I came here. He seems bright and he even knew me before I introduced myself." Iruka laughed. "Nanji is really timid, like Hinata and strong like Neji. And he has a knack for know people. And he is good at soccer, too." Kakashi chuckled.

"I wouldn't be so surprised. He and his friends were playing soccer and somehow it got stuck in between a creak on the cliff. I tried to get it down but Gaara beat me to it." "Gaara?" "Hai. Gaara's cousin was amongst Nanji's group of friends. Gaara was simply at the right place, at the right time." Iruka laughed. "So, how was your mission at the Village of the Waves?" "It went fine. We killed the Black Blood. Naruto almost killed himself…and Sakura saved Sasuke and Naruto." "What? How?" Kakashi paused. (This is where he has a flashback!)

Flashback: Sanoshi kicking Sasuke and Naruto over the cliff after Sakura fell. As Naruto and Sasuke were falling, Sakura grabbed them and pulled them into a hidden cave located on the side of the cliff. Kakashi used Chidori and kills Sanoshi and Kimihiro before they knew. Sakura flying back over the cliff, carrying Naruto, with Sasuke right behind her. End of Flashback.

Kakashi shrugged. "Long story short. Sakura saved them and now I think Sasuke is disappointed." Iruka laughed. "Our hot-headed one being saved by a new Chunnin. I bet it was a site to see." Kakashi grinned. "I think that he is more than disappointed." Iruka stopped laughing. "More?" Kakashi nodded. "Yeah. I think he loves Sakura now." Iruka slapped Kakashi on the back, making Kakashi slip off the desk and land on his face. "Don't joke me like that! Sorry for the hard slap, though." Kakashi got up and brushed off the dust.

"Yeah, yeah. But I am just guessing." Iruka crossed his arms. "You are going to have to prove it to me." Kakashi shrugged. "Then I will. Here, follow me." Kakashi walked towards the doors and waited for Iruka to hurry up. "Where are you going?" Kakashi pointed towards the practice field. "Over there. Where Sasuke is helping our little cherry blossom." Iruka laughed. "Oh, I get it now. So you want us to spy on them like we spied on our people back then?" Kakashi nodded. "Like old times."