Chapter 2
Sasuke woke up groggily, his eyes bleary and filled with discomfort. What had happened to him? He groaned as his body refused to move.
"So you are finally awake, familiar?" A high pitched voice stated.
The young Uchiha's eyes snapped towards the source, which happened to be a smirking pink haired girl.
Then all the memories came back to him, and his eyes became instantly alert. He looked at his surroundings again; he was in the same room as before. But this time... Sasuke lifted his arm, only to feel a spark of pain. He wouldn't be able to move as easily, meaning his chance to escape was much lower.
Sasuke turned his gaze to the pink haired girl, who stared back at him unflinchingly. "Let's get this straight familiar!" The girl demanded, grabbing Sasuke by his shirt, "You are my familiar! My dog! My servant! You must do whatever I ask of you, and protect me with your life!"
Those words made Sasuke growl in annoyance. He had just met the girl! There was no way he was going to do anything for her! He was an Uchiha! He would never bow down to anyone!
"Listen here girl-"
"My name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere, you should feel honored to serve me!" The girl continued on, as Sasuke started growling with anger. This girl...she was extremely spoiled...
That was a fact.
"Now familiar?" Sasuke looked up at the girl, who now had a questioning expression on her face, "What is your name?"
"Let me out of here!" The Uchiha yelled, trying to get up. Louise promptly pointed her wand at him.
"I will have no qualms in disciplining you, familiar."
He was no dog! He was an Uchiha!
The boy struggled some more, before he noticed he just couldn't move! That explosion the girl created must have been extremely powerful to cause such damage to him. The pink haired brat just smirked smugly as Sasuke continued to struggle.
Sasuke growled darkly, before attempting to spit on the girl, trying to ruin her prim and properness. The girl then started to glare back at the Uchiha. As she waved around a stick, the Uchiha looked around for an opening.
"That's it! Familiar, take some time to calm down!"
An explosion then formed at the base of his feet, and Sasuke's eyes widened as he was blown back into a wall. This time, however, he was not knocked unconscious. The Uchiha looked blearily up at the girl, who was now standing menacingly above him, smoke billowing out behind her.
"Now, your name?" The girl asked, causing Sasuke to sneer in disgust.
Sasuke briskly replied, "None of your business."
The girl seemed shocked at that, before smirking confidently, "If that is the attitude you are going to take, no breakfast for you!" Sasuke looked up at the girl in incredulity. She had just tried to explode him! She thought that food could really have much of an impact on his will!
Then his stomach growled hungrily.
Sasuke stared at the girl for a couple moments, before his stomach growled once again.
The Uchiha clenched his fists, his face in an irate expression. If he didn't want to talk to this girl, he wasn't going to talk to this girl. He looked around subtly, before his eyes landed on an open window.
Maybe if he could just get out there...
Unfortunately, the pink haired brat walked into his way, and the two had a staring match for a couple of minutes. She then started waving that wooden stick around again, and Sasuke flinched a bit.
But at the mention of food...
Finally, his stomach grumbled once more.
He sighed in defeat. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha," He said darkly, staring at the ground. He didn't really want to oblige by this girl's commands, and it infuriated him that he was unable to do anything about his current situation, but it was obvious that she was fully intent on starving him or torturing him if he didn't comply.
The girl, Louise, sniffed up haughtily, "That's better, familiar!" Sasuke grunted irritably as she asked for his name, but didn't even bother to use it. Stupid annoying spoiled brats. "Your first order is to get my clothes ready for tomorrow!"
Somehow, the room that they were in seemed undamaged by the explosion, which led him to believe that the room was well protected.
Sasuke paused, ignoring her words, before looking outside at the two moons. He must have not been unconscious for very long, since it was still night time. "I want to ask you," Sasuke replied suspiciously. His eyes then narrowed, "Where am I?"
Louise looked angry at being ignored, before she calmed herself down slightly. "You are in the Magic Academy in Tristain, of course!" Sasuke raised his eye slowly, as he looked at Louise in curiosity.
He had never heard of Tristain before. Maybe he had been transported to some other country? He could ask where the Land of Sound was from here, but that might give away information about where he came from. So the Uchiha asked, "Where is the Land of Fire from here?"
"Land of Fire?" Louise reiterated confusedly. She had never heard of a land with a peculiar name like that. "I've never heard of it."
Sasuke eyes snapped towards Louise.
Never heard of the Land of Fire? That was practically impossible. Practically anybody in the Elemental Nations knew where the Land of Fire was! Unless...Sasuke looked out Louise's window towards the two moons.
He wasn't in the Elemental Nations anymore.
The two moons made that somewhat painstakingly obvious.
"I see.." Sasuke replied cryptically. "What is the name of your world?" He then spoke, trying to keep the curiosity out of his voice.
Louise wrinkled her nose in confusion, before stating sadly, "I must have summoned a dumb familiar, we live in Halkeginia of course!"
Sasuke bristled at the jab against his intelligence, but ignored it. So the name of this world was Halkeginia... That meant he must have been summoned to another world. Which meant he could not kill Itachi...
The young Uchiha's eyes darkened as he thought about the one he wanted to kill.
"Let me out of here," Sasuke demanded, putting as much venom and menace into his words as possible.
Unfortunately, Louise wasn't moved by it one bit. "Sorry, familiar, but you are bonded to me for the rest of your life."
Sasuke's eyes widened at this.
"What do you mean, the rest of my life!"
Louise responded easily, "Until either you or I die, you will remain my familiar."
Sasuke didn't know exactly what all this familiar stuff was about, but he knew one thing. Uchiha did not bow to annoying girls with pink hair. If he had to kill this girl, he wouldn't hesitate in doing so.
In order to get his revenge...
The Uchiha lifted his arm slightly, testing it out to see if it was sore. He could probably take out the girl regardless of his strength. She looked as weak as Sakura, and one would actually have to try to be that weak.
Sasuke smirked, before clenching his fist tightly as Louies turned around to open a drawer. He shifted slightly in his sitting down position. If he used his legs, he could trip the girl before giving her a killing blow.
His leg reared back, and he followed through with his kick.
Except, his leg didn't move.
For some reason...when he tried to move his body, it wouldn't work!
Sasuke squeezed his hands, before touching a sore spot on his chest. He winced in pain, but he did not feel a genjutsu break. However, it seemed that whenever he would try to attack Louise, his body just wouldn't obey his commands!
The Uchiha's eyes widened. Could this be that...familiar bond the girl was talking about? Could it be the thing that was preventing him from killing her? And this thing would last for the rest of his life.
But could an external force kill her? Could he indirectly kill the girl? Every time he tried to think about it, it seemed that all of his thoughts were stopped in their tracks. The familiar bond that he was unfortunately in, was indeed powerful.
The Uchiha put his hands on his knees to think and brood.
After quite some time...
Sasuke sighed in annoyance. The best thing to do in his situation was to remain in this..academy with Louise and try to figure out what had happened to him. If he tried to escape, he would have nowhere to go. In a world where he knew none of the terrain, things could get dangerous quickly. He could also send shadow clones out to investigate even further.
The young Uchiha's thoughts began to wander as he contemplated his next move.
"Anyway I am going to bed now! Make sure my clothes are ready in the morning!"
With that, Louise started undressing right in front of Sasuke.
"What are you doing!" Sasuke grunted as he looked away in embarrassment. This girl had no shame!
Louise only looked at him with a questioning gaze.
"There's a man in the room, don't you feel any embarrassment!" Sasuke barked, as he was now facing away from Louise. He had never been in a situation like this before. Sure, girls had fawned over him, but nothing like this had happened to him.
"You aren't a man, you are just a lowly familiar!" Louise replied, like it was the most logical thing in the world.
Sasuke growled in anger as he forced his anger down. He could not kill the girl, and he could not harm her either. From what he could understand, a familiar was a lifelong partner. And if he summoned a lifelong partner, he surely wouldn't be treating it as poorly as Louise was treating him now. Was this the way of all the people in this world?
Clothes hit the Uchiha from the back, and he turned around to see Louise in a white nightgown. And her clothes were in a mess beneath his feet. She looked at him with an expectant gaze, and Sasuke grimaced in disgust. He wouldn't get her clothes ready! There was no way he was going to degrade himself to something like this!
"No breakfast if you don't do it, remember?" Louise questioned, before getting into her bed. Sasuke grunted in affirmation, before looking down at the clothes. He wasn't in the Elemental Nations anymore, that was for sure.
So nobody knew of the Uchiha clan here. Sasuke swallowed, before looking down.
He would have to swallow his pride.
Wait, but where would he sleep?
A pile of hay next to Louise's bed answered that question.
Not cool.
Louise woke up slowly, yawning slightly, before stretching her arms. Something then fell on her half awake body, making her wake up instantly. She was staring at a boy! In her room!
"What are you doing here!" She whisper-yelled quietly, as the boy proceeded to stare at her passively.
Sasuke replied stoically, "I am the..familiar you summoned yesterday. You asked me to get your clothes ready." He was lucky that he was used to doing his own laundry because he lived alone. Not to mention that he almost tore all her clothes up in rage.
He had tried to kill the girl, but that didn't work too well.
Flashback
As Sasuke stood above the girl's sleeping form, he held a piece of clothing in his right hand, ready to strangle her. He would get out of this place no matter what. As he brought his hand down, his body suddenly locked up, and he couldn't move.
The boy seemed incapable of killing the girl!
Regardless, the Uchiha tried to push through, flaring what little chakra he had in order to try and break the control that was placed over him somehow.
Unfortunately, that did not work very well for the young Uchiha, as his body just protested it even more.
Finally, Sasuke stopped his efforts, dropping his hand down to his side, observing with interest as his body slowly came back under his control.
Maybe if he could attack quickly, the thing wouldn't be able to assert control in time.
Sasuke's arm shot out in an attempt to hurt the girl, but it still was not fast enough, as his body locked up, and the Uchiha fell over from exhaustion. His vision started going black, and he knew one thing was for certain.
He couldn't kill the girl.
When the Uchiha woke up, the pink haired brat was still sleeping there, mocking him.
Louise seemed to wake up fully at Sasuke's words, and she smirked happily at her familiar's compliance. She then started to undress again, ignoring Sasuke's motion to turn away. She gestured to him expectedly.
"Well?" She asked, after a moment of time had passed.
"Well, what?" The Uchiha replied gruffly.
"Aren't you going to help me put on my clothes?"
Sasuke closed his eyes in frustration at the level of incompetence this girl demonstrated. Couldn't even put on her own clothes. "Do it yourself," Sasuke answered, traces of enmity leaking its way into his words. There was no way he would help a brat put on her clothes.
"The way of the noble is to never do something if a servant is present," Louise answered snobbishly. She added on after that, "And no breakfast for bad dogs!"
The young Uchiha sighed. Now he was being called a dog! He really wanted to pummel that girl. But still...his stomach growled, and he cursed. Breakfast did sound quite nice. And if the lifestyle of these idiotic 'nobles' were anything to go by, they would probably have a lot of food.
Sasuke nodded, stifling his hatred for the time being, before helping Louise get dressed, avoiding her as much as possible.
"Now where do we go to get breakfast?" Sasuke asked, following Louise out of the door. He didn't exactly like following her around, but...breakfast.
"This way, dog."
Sasuke stared at the animals which were lined up outside a big hall. So this is where everyone got their food, huh. He followed Louise inside the hall, and watched with interest at all of the food that was prepared.
It looked better than anything that Orochimaru could make. Louise sat down in one of the fancy chairs, and Sasuke took the seat next to her. The Uchiha felt a stare on him, however, and he looked around to see most of the kids in the hall looking at him.
Louise elbowed him in the side, whispering to him sharply, "It is a privilege enough that you are eating with us nobles, but you can't take the seat of a noble!" Sasuke just glanced at Louise, before looking down at the food that was in front of him.
"Then where do I eat," Sasuke replied, hiding his anger under a calm façade.
Louise then pointed to a plate that was under the table, currently holding a piece of bread that looked like it was stale.
Sasuke blanched.
"If you don't want to eat, then go outside!" Louise hushed harshly, as she started to eat her food.
Sasuke smirked, maybe he would do just that. He picked up the plate in front of him, the one with the good food, and walked outside, ignoring the cries of protest from Louise and the rest of the kids in the hall.
The Uchiha ended up sitting next to some animals, eating his food slowly, savoring the taste. If his..partner was Louise, then that meant he wouldn't be getting a lot of food. He could always go hunting, but the food that they served in that hall was better than food he could catch.
Sasuke looked around calmly, taking in his surroundings. Apparently the castle that Louise was currently living in was surrounded by a big forest. Maybe he could make a run for it...
The Uchiha stopped himself there. It was obvious that intelligent life did not live in that forest, and since he had no knowledge of this world, it was a death trap to go into unknown lands.
And besides, he would have a better chance of figuring out how to get back to his world if he could consult more intelligent life forms. The Uchiha closed his eyes briefly, before thinking of his goals.
He wanted to kill Itachi...so badly that just thinking about it made him shake with anticipation. But in this world, there was no way that Sasuke would ever be able to kill his brother, until he figured out a way to get back!
But the situation wasn't completely bleak. There might be some very powerful creatures in this world, in which he could use to train himself to get stronger. Even if Orochimaru wasn't here; he could still get stronger.
But he was stuck in this academy until he could figure out where to go. But one thing was for certain. He would reach his goal, and he would gain the power and strength necessary to kill his older brother and avenge his clan name.
Sasuke was willing to give up everything for that single purpose, and this world he was currently residing in could do nothing to stop him.
A shadow was cast upon Sasuke, and he looked up warily. Only to see a giant eyeball looking at him.
Sasuke's breath hitched, before he started inching away from the eyeball, only for it to follow him at the same pace. Sasuke sighed, before looking at the food, watching the eyeball's gaze as it also traveled down to the food.
The Uchiha eyebrow twitched, and he held out the food to the strange pink eyeball thing. "What, do you want it or something?" The eyeball merely floated away, as Sasuke watched it with an annoyed expression.
Seriously, things just wouldn't leave him alone in this place.
It was about afternoon; Sasuke was still lying down on the wall next to the breakfast hall. He sighed in frustration. Why did that girl have to take so long just to eat breakfast. Most of the other familiars had to left to go out to some plaza area.
If he had all this time to sit around and wait, he had more than enough time to start training.
But unfortunately, his body just didn't want to cooperate with him.
His stomach and torso area was still extremely sore from whatever had caused that explosion yesterday. Also..he had used too much chakra when he was still in the elemental nations.
Itachi was still out there as well.
Just the mention of that name made the Uchiha scion clench his fist in anger, before brutally slamming it against the wall of the breakfast hall. While he was staying in this place wasting away, Itachi was probably getting stronger and stronger.
He had to get awa-
Sasuke stopped as a burst of memories presented themselves in his mind. He then started groaning in exhaustion as he held his head, which had began to throb angrily in pain. The Uchiha's eyes widened as he recalled important information.
He had just received the memories from a dispelled shadow clone...in the elemental nations.
Flashback
Clone was sitting in one of the training grounds provided by the Village Hidden in the Sound, watching the clouds while idly controlling his shakra. The original wasn't around, so he didn't have to exert himself very much.
Besides, what was the original going to do if he found out that his clone wasn't doing any work? All he would have to do was dispel himself, and the original couldn't do a single thing about it.
A twitch in the grass beneath his feet made the clone's head snap towards an area a couple kilometers away, which had just burst into smoke and dust. Clone got up very slowly, stretching his body in the process.
That...probably wasn't good.
Clone immediately started jumping towards that area. The original probably got into a fight with one of the ninja in the Village Hidden in the Sound. But even so, as a clone, he had an obligation to help out the original.
When he arrived at the area, it wasn't a pretty sight.
Smoke was billowing out of a large crater, and by the amount of chakra in the air, it was clear that whatever happened had something to do with the original.
"Sasuke!" A rushed voice yelled out behind him. Clone turned around to see Kabuto and Orochimaru rushing towards him. Clone took a couple seconds to look at them, before looking back at that crater.
He jumped forward into the crater, looking around for any clues of the original.
By the look of the terrain, it was pretty obvious that the crater had been formed by the use of Chidori. And there was a certain quality in the air that was only present after using a high level lighting technique.
A hand touched clone's shoulder. "What happened, Sasuke?" Orochimaru's voice rasped out. Clone blanched. He didn't particularly like Orochimaru too much. He was too slimy and creepy.
"Don't touch me," Clone snapped as he went back to surveying the damage.
After a little while, Clone turned around to face Kabuto and Orochimaru, who's worried expressions were replaced by calculating gazes on the terrain. It was actually somewhat amusing to see how similar the two of them were.
They both put their attention on Clone.
Clone replied, doing his best to act tough and cool, "I'm just a clone, the original seems to have run off somewhere."
At that, both master and student's eyes widened, before Orochimaru used one of his creepy snakes to try and capture Clone. That wasn't very nice. They probably wanted to make sure he couldn't dispel so they could track down the original.
But it was too bad, for he dispelled long before the snake could reach him.
He was still able to hear Orochimaru's scream of anguish.
Sasuke's face was a completely devoid of any emotion, as he took in what was given to him by the clone. His clone's memories were able to travel across dimensions? There was no way!
His clone was too dumb to think that the original might actually want to go back. Sasuke then started to smirk. But that wasn't the main thing that he got from the memories of his clone. What was extremely important was the time frame.
In the elemental nations, the clone was able to make it to the transportation area, the area with the pile of words, in only a couple minutes. It dispelled itself soon after in just a couple of minutes.
But in this world of Halkeginia, the young Uchiha had been here for at least a day! Which meant that there were extreme differences in time; time traveled differently in his world than it did in this world.
Which meant that he could train for years in this world, and when he came back to his original world, only a couple months would have passed. With this knowledge in mind, he could train to fight Itachi! He would become extremely strong in this world, and when he eventually found out how to return to his world, he would be able to take on the strongest of the strongest!
Then he could honor the Uchiha name.
Someone slapped Sasuke in the back of the head, and the Uchiha reflexively grabbed the offending hand. "What?" A voice screeched at him, and Sasuke looked up to see Louise's irate face.
"Don't grab me you lowly familiar!"
Sasuke barely registered the insult, still extremely excited due to the information he had discovered about the differences in time between the two worlds. That meant that he had time to waste in this world.
The Uchiha shook his head, he still needed to train as hard as he could.
Itachi was waiting for him.
"Let's go familiar!" The pink haired mage yelled, before taking off in a random direction.
Sasuke simply stared at her disappearing form, before sighing with satisfaction and following her. He would put up with this for now. He would figure out how to return to his world, and then he would train as hard as he could.
And when he was ready, he would go back to his world.
Sasuke had now caught up to Louise at this point, looking at his surroundings. The place he was residing in really did look like a castle; the walls were made completely out of stone, and there was lush greenery all around.
A gathering of kids caught his interest. He stopped to observe the students who were now congregating in a small courtyard area. They were all wearing black capes, and were talking to strange animals, like the one he had seen while waiting outside the breakfast hall. "Louise," Sasuke stated calmly. As the pink haired girl turned towards him, he simply pointed his finger towards the courtyard where all the others were.
"Hm? Oh, all of the second year students have the day off to bond with their familiar," Louise stated, flicking her hair slightly to glare at the Uchiha.
Sasuke ignored it, giving her a smirk, "Looks like you've been doing a good job with our 'bond'."
"Shut up stupid familiar!"
The Uchiha turned his head to the side, "Hmph." He then proceeded to walk away from Louise to go observe the other students more closely. He wanted to see if all of them were as bratty as the girl he had unfortunately been paired with.
As he walked into the middle of the courtyard, an eyeball stared at him. Sasuke stared right back at the eyeball, not bothering to stop walking. That eyeball really did have some issues.
But then again, it was a floating eyeball.
He didn't even notice himself crash into a maid.
Sasuke paused, and looked at the figure who was now slowly getting up off the ground, apologizing profusely. He also looked at a piece of cake that was now on the grass, and the plate that the maid was carrying.
"Don't worry about it," Sasuke dismissed carelessly. He bent down to pick up the cake, unintentionally crashing his hand with the maid, who once again started apologizing. Sasuke simply ignored her apologies, and put the cake on her plate.
The maid was now looking down to the ground.
Sasuke scratched the back of his head, "It's fine."
Slowly, the maid started to look up at his face, and the one thing that stuck out to Sasuke was...her hair. Everyone else he had seen at this academy had a weird kind of hair color, be it blonde, red, or..pink.
But this girl had completely black hair.
Weird.
"Are you the familiar that Miss Valliere summoned?" The maid asked with a curious expression on her face.
So he already had a reputation in this world. He didn't really want to be affiliated with that pink haired girl. "I won't answer that."
A blonde haired boy interrupted their small conversation from a distance, calling out, "Hey! Is my cake ready for my amazing Verdandi!"
The maid in front of Sasuke bowed her head slightly, before stating hurriedly, "I'm sorry, I have to go serve this."
Sasuke flicked his head towards the direction of the blonde boy, getting a good look at him. It was the boy who was saying all that fluffy stuff to that girl last night. The Uchiha already didn't like him.
"I'll take it," Sasuke said, his voice neutral. The maid looked alarmed, but didn't protest when the Uchiha took the plate from her. She seemed to have a real fear of the nobles around here. Just another reason not to like these people.
Sasuke walked up to the blonde boy, Guiche, and dropped the plate unceremoniously in front of him. He was talking to a blonde girl, giving her the same fluffy stuff as he did to the girl from yesterday.
The Uchiha smirked. Maybe it might liven things up a little if he were to mess with Guiche's mind a little. Guiche didn't even reply when he got the cake, he simply started to feed it to his...brown furry friend. But Sasuke just remained standing there, waiting for Guiche to say something.
After what seemed like an eternity, Guiche turned to him, his face contorted in arrogance, "What does a mere commoner like you want with a noble like me?" Sasuke didn't let the jab affect him.
The young Uchiha replied vaguely, "I'm just wondering, how many girls have you used those lines on?" The girl next to Guiche tapped the boy with confusion, asking him what the commoner was talking about.
Guiche coughed lightly, before saying with as much grace and poise as possible, "Please do elaborate, commoner?"
A flash of brown caught Sasuke's eyes, and he turned his head slightly to see the girl from last night walking through the courtyard. The Uchiha smirked in amusement at the shocked expression displayed on Guiche, who started to frantically lead the blonde girl somewhere else.
"Hold on," Sasuke chided smugly, "Where do you think you're going?"
The young Uchiha started to aggravate the unfortunate blonde boy further, "You couldn't possibly be trying to avoid someone you were with last night?" Truthfully, it was none of his business, but he wanted to mess around with the kids around here.
Guiche froze in horror, "You...saw that?"
The girl to his side started to catch on a bit, "Guiche is this true?!"
Sasuke inclined his head slightly to catch the gaze of the brown cloaked girl, before pointing towards the Guiche, who was now desperately making excuses. The brown cloaked girl then rushed towards Guiche, shouting something about her Lord, and soufflés.
That resulted in the blonde boy getting slapped by both girls, and also a couple jeers and insults from the surrounding kids. And there was Sasuke, smirking arrogantly, looking down on the form of Guiche.
The Uchiha boy had had enough fun for today though. Sasuke turned around, and started to walk away, probably to go look at the scenery, or to go find a training ground. If the place even had a place for training.
"Wait commoner!" Guiche's irate voice yelled, as the blonde haired boy stood up slowly. The boy seemed to be shaking with rage, as he looked up the Uchiha. "You are the familiar of Miss Valliere, and you have shamed me!"
"You shamed yourself," Sasuke replied briskly, not bothering to turn around to face Guiche.
This seemed to infuriate the boy even further, as he started screaming again, "My name is Guiche de Gramont! And I challenge you, familiar of Miss Valliere, to a duel! I will reclaim my honor!"
Some girls were now telling Guiche about how fights were against the rules, but he simply ignored them, telling them that fights between nobles were prohibited, but fights between commoners and nobles were completely fair.
Sasuke scoffed in annoyance. What honor? But either way...he hadn't had a good fight in a while. Maybe he'd be able to get some training in after all. The people here didn't look like much, but he had underestimated that Louise, and ended up getting blown up.
The Uchiha turned around slightly, before speaking darkly, "Name the time and place."
Hope that wasn't too bad for a Chapter 2.
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