Here's the new chapter! I noticed that even though a good amount of people have read chapter 1, no one has reviewed. It'd be great if someone could review (hint hint nudge nudge). I pray the reason no one is reviewing is because they only have flames, and they're not flaming me. But if that's not the case then please review and tell me what I should work on to make my writing better :)
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As Kakashi walked into the room, he was surprised when the Hokage tried to decapitate his "friend." He was even more surprised when the man just appeared behind Sarutobi. Then kakashi said, "Hokage-sama, I have something very important to tell you." Kakashi stared at Sasuke wearily.
"What might that be Kakashi?" Sarutobi asked, leveling a glare at the unknown Uchiha.
"This man claims to know as many village secrets as yourself." As soon as the words left his mouth, Sarutobi lunged at him again, only to reappear beside Kakashi once more.
"You, boy," the old Kage said looking at Sasuke. "I don't believe you're from here. I've been toying with this idea for a very long time. Ever since Minato started studying Jikukan Ninjutsu, in fact."
"Time-Space," Sasuke said, almost questioningly. "When you say I'm not from here, you mean one of two things. I'm not from this world or I'm not from this time period, and based on the fact that you know that I know shinobi jutsu, it's the latter."
"Indeed." Kakashi stared at the both of them, bewildered. He was so bug eyed, the only thing keeping his eye in the socket was the fact that he knew time travel was an impossibility. Until the man with the dark cloak started smirking.
"Maybe, but even I don't know I got here," Sasuke said.
"No idea whatsoever?" Kakashi asked.
"Maybe a little bit," he replied. Sarutobi narrowed his eyes.
"Enlighten us," Sarutobi said gruffly.
"The sage sent me."
"What sage? I only know of 2 sages, and one of them is a myth," Sarutobi mumbled under his breath, but Sasuke heard it and couldn't contain the smirk growing on his face.
"Anyway," Sarutobi continued, "We have more important questions, such as your ability to teleport." Sasuke didn't give a verbal reply, but he used a very weak futon jutsu to sway his hair and reveal his Rinnegan. He was going to be staying here and helping Konoha, it wouldn't hurt to show them what he is capable of.
"So you have the eyes of a myth? That's how you got here?"
"Only in this eye, and no, this single eye isn't what let me jump between timelines. That would be absurd," he mumbled the last part under his breath.
"If the eye didn't send you, then what did?" Sarutobi asked a bit more forcefully.
"I already told you, it was the sage." Realization seemed to dawn on both men in the room.
"You spoke with the Rikudou Sennin himself?" Kakashi asked.
"Both me and my best friend. I was granted the eyes of the sage, while he was given the body of the sage."
"So your friend is a Senju?" Sarutobi asked logically.
"Uzumaki," Sasuke said, giving Kakashi a look. His eye widened.
"No," he gasped out. "Sasuke?"
"Aa. So now that you know who I am, I need to know something of my own. When do the Chunin Exams start?"
"The first round should begin in a few days," Kakashi supplied.
"So the second round will start in about a week?"
"Correct," Sarutobi said. He was still on edge about this character claiming to be the last Uchiha.
"I'll be shadowing Team 7 during that time. It holds an unwelcome surprise," Sasuke said, his eyes getting darker as he spoke.
"Why?" Kakashi was worried about his team, and for good reason now. This man basically said his team was going to get fucked over, and he himself needed to follow personally in order for that not to happen.
"I'll advise you not interfere," Sasuke told him. Kakashi noticed he didn't say anything about not following.
"The hell with that, if my team is in danger I'm going to protect them." He was determined not to lose anymore loved ones.
"If you're caught in the forest helping your team, then you're both in deep shit. I assure you I'll be enough to protect them. You think I wouldn't give it my all considering one of the people on the team is me?"
"He is right Kakashi, you cannot be seen helping your team during the exam," Sarutobi spoke up after a while.
"Fine," Kakashi grumbled.
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A week later and Team 7 finds themselves facing the daunting gates guarding the heavily dangerous Forest of Death. They hadn't seen the prisoner that Kakashi had told them was dangerous and they weren't sure whether to be relieved or disappointed.
Soon the gates opened and they found themselves sitting in a clearing after immediately sprinting in. Some bit of trouble later and Sasuke and Sakura were staring at a female grass-nin.
"Who are you?" Sasuke asked bravely. After all, the both of them were shaking on their knees just about ready to piss their pants from her killing intent.
"Ah, now that is for you to find out later, Sasuke-kun," she said while licking her lips.
"I don't know who you are, but take our scroll and leave us alone, please," Sasuke said desperately.
"Yes, prey should always try to offer something to appease the predator," the strange woman said. Sasuke tossed the scroll at her, but before it could reach her, Naruto jumped in the way and caught it.
"Dammit Naruto! You have no idea what we're dealing with here," Sasuke said, his knees still shaking slightly from before.
"Who are you and what have you done with Sasuke?" he asked.
"Wha-?"
"The Sasuke I know would never surrender. He would fight tooth and nail to survive, and then stand victorious over his opponent." Sasuke took a deep breath. He didn't know Naruto thought so highly of him. Then again, he himself was jealous of how social the kid was.
"How touching," the woman said, bringing them back to reality. "Before I go, I'd like to give Sasuke-kun a… present," she finished, almost hissing the last word out before stretching her neck, giving it a serpentine look. Just before its fangs were sunk into Sasuke's shoulder, that one-armed man, the escaped fugitive Kakashi was lecturing them about, jumped out of a tree and grabbed his neck, then yanking backwards as hard as he could while slamming it into a tree. It melted down into a pile of mud.
"How impressive to be able to take out a mud clone with such ease," came a slightly more masculine voice, but still feminine enough to sound creepy.
"Come on out, Orochimaru," Sasuke said. He whirled around to the younger Sasuke. "You, did he come in contact with you in any way?"
"No, why? What was he about to do?"
"Ruin the whole fucking world is what," he muttered under his breath.
"You talk so highly of me that one think we've met before," the creepy voice echoed through the forest. "Shame I'll have to kill you."
"As if you could kill me you freak." Sasuke quickly located Orochimaru's chakra and darted towards some bushes left of him. A minute later and the kids heard a strangled scream which was slightly recognizable as Orochimaru's. There was a pause for a few moments in which nothing happened, and Team 7 was growing weary.
After what felt like forever, the man the kids had seen the week prior emerged from the bushes, holding a very broken, very burnt looking Orochimaru, dragging him by the throat. On one of the snake's fingers, they could see a small black flame, slowly growing. They could feel its heat all the way over where they were standing. They could only imagine what it felt like to be in direct contact with it.
"Continue on with your exam. I will deal with this," the mysterious man said.
"Ok," Sakura said, if only for the reason to say something and lessen the tension after what just happened.
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Hiruzen Sarutobi was not an easy man to piss off, but standing in his office at that moment, he was livid.
"You almost let some genin die to sate your own desires?!" he yelled at the young man sitting front of him.
"Please, with me around, that snake was nothing." Even after Orochimaru reanimated the 5 Kage, not only to answer his personal questions but also to help in the war, he was still bitter towards him. Sarutobi glanced at the broken Orochimaru in sadness. Sadness that his greatest pupil - before the defection - was reduced to a writhing body in the corner of his office.
"Don't look at him with pity. That man ruined me, ruined the man I wanted to be, and ruined the man I was going to be." Through the whole ordeal Orochimaru was conscious but silent. Until now that is.
"I've never seen you in my life," he said venomously (pun intended I'm sorry).
"You may not think you've seen me, but you definitely have." Sasuke could, at least, tolerate Orochimaru after the war, but the man in front of him was just disgusting. "You should finish what it is you failed to do last time," Sasuke says coldly, holding the handle of a kunai at him.
"We should interrogate him first," Sarutobi replied. "He could have useful information on some of the enemies of Konoha."
"You're stalling old man, but fine." He turned his attention to Orochimaru. "I want you to tell me where every single one your bases is. Right now."
"Go to hell," Orochimaru spat him.
"Good enough," Sasuke said. He activated his Mangekyou Sharingan and looked at Orochimaru's feet. Almost instantly a small black flame sprouted from his toes. "I want you to listen very carefully. If you don't give us any information we want, that flame will travel all the way up your body and eventually consume you. You will die, and you won't even know half of the jutsus known to man. Only someone of the Sharingan has that ability." Sasuke may have been loyal to Konoha, but he still hasn't purged all of the darkness from his heart.
It wasn't difficult to anger Orochimaru. He knew all the buttons to push and exactly how hard to push them. After some more silence, the flame crept halfway up the length of his calf. Orochimaru let out an ear piercing scream. But he still didn't let out any information. Konoha would burn, even if it wasn't by his hand.
"Yes, that's right. You're one of the Sannin and a nuke-nin. You know how to resist torture. Maybe if I show you a jutsu or two, you'll talk." When Sasuke said this, Orochimaru whipped his head up in disbelief. This boy was bargaining for information.
"A jutsu in exchange for information? What kind of jutsu?" Orochimaru asked suspiciously. After all, no one loyal to Konoha would even think of showing Orochimaru a new jutsu.
"Of course you're suspicious. You want to know every jutsu. The smart thing to do is interrogate you further and then kill you. If I showed you a jutsu, it could be used to harm my friends. In fact I should kill you right now. I have all the information Sarutobi could ever need from you and so much more. I lived with you for 3 years after all."
"You lived with him?" Sarutobi asked dangerously. "If you lived with that snake, how can I be sure that you're loyal to my village.
"You can't. You only have my word. But if I was loyal to him instead of you the village would be in shambles right now. You have only seen a fraction of my power."
"Fine. Kill him," Sarutobi conceded.
"No. You kill him. Show me that you're capable of protecting this village and kill one it's biggest threats." He pulled out the same kunai he offered before. "If you can't, I could just let him go like you did all those years ago." Sarutobi's eyes hardened at the mention of his mistake and the possibility of Orochimaru going on the loose again.
"Fine." He took the knife and approached Orochimaru. He was determined not to hesitate when striking the killing blow to his greatest pupil. He was now standing in front of him. He raised to kunai while looking Orochimaru in the eye. He was vulnerable. He couldn't do anything against what Sarutobi was going to do. Orochimaru smirked.
"Go to hell."
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It's been a little while since I've updated. I've been running low on chakra with all the Plot no Jutsus I've been throwing around. The other reason it took so long is because I want all of my chapters to be at least 2000 words long, even though I'm not that good at writing, and probably won't ever be. Compared to the people I like to read anyway. I don't really know what I'm going to do with this story. I need to figure out how to sprout new problems from the previously prevented ones. One thing I do want to do is save Itachi somehow, but I would need to get Tsunade to heal him, and beef her up enough that she can cure his assumingly incurable disease without raping my plot any more than I need to. Once again, please review.