Do Not Own Naruto or Yugioh!
Attack/Defense: 1000/1500
Talking: "Seriously?"
Thoughts/Things read silently: 'WHAT?!'/What?!
Elemental Nations
Fourth Shinobi War
With Sasuke and Naruto
"Chidori!" "Rasengan!"
Two shouts resonate across the Valley of the End, one filled with dark fury contradicting the other bursting with determination and hope as two signature attacks collide precipitating a giant explosion of dust and wild chakra.
The battle had been going on for hours, day's maybe and this was the deciding moment.
Sasuke's enraged sharingan eye swirls before she collapses to the darkness against her will.
She awoke, blinking as the bright light of the room briefly blinded her.
The blur slowly faded.
She looked around finding nothing but pure, white emptiness. Memories of her fight with Naruto suddenly rushed back to her as she jolted up, critically scanning her surroundings.
'Am I dead?' she couldn't help but wonder morbidly, as she tried to work out where she was.
A dark feeling settled inside her despite anxiously trying to push it away.
She couldn't have died; the idiot didn't have the heart to kill her even after the countless betrayals.
With that in mind she began walking in a random direction yet the emptiness remained everlasting. She turned on her sharingan, frustrated with the lack of progress. She spun her body around to get a full view of her whereabouts; her long hair spinning along with her as it was tied in a high pony-tail. A feeling of dread crept into her as she fought to stay calm.
There was nothing.
No living thing or speck of chakra. All she saw was white and she was all alone in this vast emptiness.
"This has to be some sort of joke," she growled frustrated yet a hint of fear she was unable to prevent snuck into her voice. Brushing away a loose strand of black hair she considered her options.
"This is quite real, I assure you"
She jumped, whirling around to face the direction of the voice, placing a hand on her trusted chokuto. Her heterochromic eyes widened in surprise.
In front of her stood the legendary sage of sixth paths observing her with evident amusement. He was standing a step away from her, his distinctive rinnegan eyes sparkled in amusement. The sage looked too much like Kaguya that it scared her a little.
She took a couple of steps back, keeping a reasonable distance between them.
The power radiating of him made her feel puny in comparison.
Sasuke did not know how long he was observing her for but judging by the mirth on his face, he'd been watching for a while. The fact that she did not detect him at all was alarming even with her rinnegan and sharingan activated.
"Where am I?" she demanded coldly her sharingan swirling lazily, ignoring for the moment that he was the sage of six paths, possible the strongest being in the world as far as she knew.
The sage merely smiled deliberately ignoring the question altogether.
"Uchiha Sasuke, Indra's reincarnation," he mused thoughtfully earning himself an unamused glare.
"I had hoped that you would be the one to break the cycle of hatred yet I was wrong… again," he stated sighing tiredly as if talking to a trouble making child.
Sasuke gritted her teeth, her patience wearing thin.
"And?" she questioned coldly. "What of it?"
She did not want to break the stupid cycle of hatred as she couldn't have cared less. He had started the problem in the first place so it was his job to fix it after all she would never let go of her hatred. Not after what Konoha did to the Uchiha. Her brother may have loved the village enough to sacrifice himself for it but she wasn't her brother. She would never forgive them, not when the elders were still alive.
Vengeance and hatred were the only things she knew and they kept whatever sanity she had left because without it she was just like an empty doll. Sasuke abandoned everything else the day she chose to leave Konoha and pursue her revenge.
"So I've decided to take care of the problem myself," he said pausing momentarily gauging her reaction.
Sasuke tensed, unsheathing her chokuto halfway as her body fell into a defensive stance on instinct.
'Is he going to kill me?' was the only thought that sprang into mind. She didn't know if she could hold her own against him considering her already chakra exhausted state.
"I'm sending you away from here," he added seeing her ready to attack him at any given moment.
She raised an eyebrow unsure on what he's implying before turning on her Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, training her eyes closely on the sage as they convey a message which she was sure the Sage had understood.
I-am-not-in-the-mood-for-games.
"You will be sent to another world that is in need of help. A world without chakra and is more advanced than this one. You will have to learn the language and customs of the world yourself. You also have to be careful on how you use the little chakra you have as I will be taking most of yours away," He continued undisturbed by her silent threat.
It took a moment before what he said dawned upon her. She sent him a sceptical look, opening her mouth to respond but a burning sensation stopped as she fell to her knees in agony.
It was as if her insides were being ripped apart and chakra yanked out of her.
"You can start anew there and hopefully you hatred will diminish," was the last thing she heard before losing consciousness.
Again.
Domino City
Random Alleyway
With Sasuke-chan…
Sasuke opened her eyes, setting herself upright before scanning her surroundings. She was in what seemed to be an alleyway near a dark secluded building that no sane person would wonder around in. The first thing she noticed though was that the structure of the building was completely different than anything she'd seen before. The building was long and worn as dark black windows spread across its surface with broken pieces of glass littering the ground –probably by some idiots who had vandalised this place. The building was covered in graffiti, writing she could not decipher.
She reached to grab her chokuto finding it not there. In alarm she turned to look to where it normally is. The result earned a soft gasp; an uncommon occurrence.
Instead of her normal shinobi attire from sound, she wore a black skirt, black knee length boots with an odd looking red shirt and a sleeveless jacket made out of a leather. The clothes were not practical at all making her feel more like a defenceless civilian rather than a feared kunoichi. At least she had her Uchiha symbol necklace around her neck.
"What the hell?" she muttered darkly to herself before a dark green scroll caught her eye.
Sasuke picked it up; inspecting the inscription closely before realising it was a storage scroll. Opening the scroll, the nuke-nin placed it on the ground.
She bit her finger, drawing a bit of blood before swiping it across the surface.
A deck of cards, a note and her chokuto poof out.
She relaxed relieved she had her weapon back. Grabbing the note she read:
Sasuke,
It seems that you've made it. In the world I sent you too there's a game called duel monsters that's played which includes a deck of forty cards. Read the rules and the deck I've sent you will be yours though you might need to add to it a bit. Another thing you should know is that I've taken away your Rinnegan and Mangekyō Sharingan and about three quarters of your chakra. You will not need them. Be happy that I left you your sharingan. One last thing is that your clothes would have attracted attention so I switched them (with chakra of course) to a more suitable attire and weapons like your chokuto will also attract attention –keep them hidden.
Good luck,
Sage of Sixth Paths
By the time she finished reading the note and rereading it with her sharingan to make sure it wasn't some sort of terrible joke, she was fuming.
How dare he take away her chakra let alone send her to a different dimension? She had trained and worked hard for three long years to get to the level she was at and now it's all gone and she'd never agreed to be here in the first place! Why the hell did he have to send her not the dobe? Did she look like a world hero to him or was his eyesight finally catching up to his old age?
Holding the note, she brought her fingers to familiar seals.
"Fire style: Fire ball jutsu," she seethed, breathing out a giant ball of fire turning the note to ashes.
A wave of exhaustion washed over her as she let the fire fade. Her reserves were at least as big as they were when she was a genin.
Impossible.
Taking a deep breathe, she calmed herself.
She was a trained shinobi; she needed to think about this rationally.
Sasuke activated her sharingan again relaxing slightly seeing the familiar clarity it provided. She had her Kekkei Genkai. Deactivating it she considered her options.
There had to be a way to get back but before that she needed a place to stay. There was also the problem of knowing the advances and customs and even the language of this world.
"Looky here, It's a cute little girl all by herself," She turned to a group of teens, all wearing the same colours –black and red while holding a bats and pocket knives.
The last Uchiha raised an eyebrow. At least she had a bit of luck today. They spoke the same language which removed one predicament. She should also be able to sharingan one of them and learn about this world at least and that removes another major problem.
The sudden thought hit her. This was probably why he had let her keep her sharingan in the first place. She silently raged at being played like a fool. The old man had probably planned this all from the very beginning.
"How bout this girly, come here quietly and we won't hurt you much," A black haired teen with slight accent, holding a pocket knife motioned her over with his hand.
'Idiots'
She smirked. She was already pissed by the fact that the stupid sage had sent her here and she really needed to let out all the fury she'd bottled up. These idiots will do nicely.
With a burst of speed, she disappeared, reappearing behind the thug leader's groupie, knocking him out with a quick hit to the pressure point. The three remaining thugs jump back startled by her sudden appearance. One even fell to the ground, stunned.
'Pathetic,' she thought cynically.
Turning to the remaining two, she sent a powerful kick to ones stomach, knocking him out before turning swiftly and sending the other a round house kick to the temple. He too, collapsed unconscious. The Uchiha moved her gaze to the final thug on the floor activating her sharingan. He was sweating and shaking so badly that it amused her to watch.
Her smirk widened radiating dark pleasure.
She was going to enjoy this greatly.
With the thug...
Seeing her red eyes, Takashi knew they had made a mistake of trying to get her.
He did not know if he was going to survive.
'NononononNO!'
Getting ready to scream, he desperately hoped that someone, anyone would save him from this red-eyed demon before him but just before it escaped his mouth the rest of the world around him dissolved into darkness and it was only him and the monster.
Tears slid down his cheeks as he tried to move but his body discarded the demands.
That was when he saw it.
His worst fears materializing right before his eyes.
He couldn't move. Couldn't scream. Couldn't think. Couldn't plead or beg or die.
He watched for what seemed like minutes? Hours? Weeks? Months?
He didn't even know.
But one thing was for certain.
'Just let it stop'
A few minutes later…
Back with Sasu-chan on a random street…
She had gotten most of the information she needed, leaving a traumatized Takashi behind her.
She might have gone a bit too far but most of her rage has dispersed for the time being and the Uchiha wasn't known for her mercy.
She was in a place called Domino City in a country called Japan. A world that held no supernatural entities or power source besides its advanced form of technology.
Shifting the scroll in her pocket, she fought the urge to summon her chokuto and place it around her waist. A weapon of any kind would attract too much attention and she had to remain unknown for the time being.
'I need to buy some gloves and place a storage seal on it with my chokuto inside,' she noted to herself.
It was the only way for her to possibly carry her chokuto without drawing more undesired attention.
A black car passed by her and she fought to keep her face passive.
This place was much more advanced than Konoha.
It might have been that the people there relied more on chakra than technology since staying with Orochimaru gave her insight to how much technology they possessed but did not use.
'Such potential yet is wasted because of chakra,' Orochimaru would say.
She shivered at the thought. Staying with Orochimaru was unpleasant – an understatement – and the only reason she had went to him was for power. The fact that her power was gone left her both angry and defeated.
Clearing her head, Sasuke side-stepped a group of teens that were walking down the street, watching her like animals all while fiddling with the scroll in her pocket trying to ignore the attention she was receiving from the opposite gender, hoping they would stop before she snapped and killed them all.
She did not want to be named a serial killer on her first day in this world.
Honestly, it was like they had never seen a girl before and she did not want to deal with fan-boys again. She'd rather spend a day with Orochimaru instead and that's saying something.
Scowling as her thoughts had somehow led to Orochimaru again, she resumed strolling aimlessly trying to find a home to stay at for the time being.
Few hours later…
The last Uchiha was prepared for many adversities that she did not expect things to go so smoothly. Or it may be because back in her world people feared her and avoided being anywhere near a fifty metre radius around her due to her infamous reputation as 'traitor of Konoha.' It was also an added bonus that these people were easily fooled by genjutsu as well.
Regardless of the reason, Sasuke now has a one month rented apartment with two rooms, a bathroom, a small kitchen and living room.
She casually spun the key around her fingertip as she opened the door and walked inside.
The interior and design of the house was completely different than what she was used to but as a trained shinobi she can adapt. The apartment was small and homey with white coloured walls. The floor was wooden a dark brown in colour but the house was relatively empty.
'I need to change that, they look far too much like the place the sage had left me in,' she shuddered.
She also had to go and buy furniture and basic necessities. She needed clothes and food and a job to actually get a living as she couldn't go around stealing and placing people under a genjutsu without knowing a thing about the world she's in. It might attract even more attention to her because her appearance wasn't helping in discretion at all.
Sasuke sighed.
Her life just had to get even more complicated didn't it?
Two weeks later…
Domino City
Sasuke's apartment
Slamming the book shut, Sasuke deactivated her sharingan. That was the final book she needed to read. A week ago, she had found a library that pretty much contained all she needed to know about this world with a job two times a week for 3 hours and reasonable pay. Her sharingan had come in handy as she finished book after book in mere minutes taking in everything she could.
Moving her hand to the duel monsters deck on the table, she picked up the cards and placed them in her pocket.
The first thing she did after getting this apartment was finding out as much as she could about duel monsters. She had also bought more cards to complete her deck. Sasuke read the rules of the game and learned to play it. It was quite a simple game –to her anyway. The game apparently originated in ancient Egypt and somehow rumoured to involve magic. She did not believe that in the slightest yet the fact that the sage himself had given her cards for the game that he had created meant that there is more to this game than duelling.
Her cards were another problem, Itachi's especially. The fact that there was a card based on him had made her angry. She would make the sage pay for tarnishing her brother's memory and making a child's game card based on him.
Sasuke stood, leaving those thoughts for now and dusted her hideous uniform. She did not want to attend school but she needed to fit in as much as possible so she enrolled in Domino high, a high school that seriously had no taste in fashion what's-so-ever.
If Sakura and Naruto saw her now, they would be laughing their heads off, heck even Madara would be laughing and she did not want to think of Itachi's reaction. Wearing a skirt was one thing -not that she disliked it but it was impractical and hindered her fighting abilities- and she could try and overlook it but the colour pink was too much that she had went as far as threatening the school, which was why she was only wearing a white long-sleeved button up shirt.
Tying her waist length black her into a high pony tail, Sasuke picked up her side bag and existed her apartment locking the door behind her, before calmly striding in the direction of her new school. Memorizing a map of Domino city was quite useful as she now knew each and every place in this town.
Domino high wasn't far, only a minute or so walk from her flat.
A minute or so later…
Arriving at the school gates, the Uchiha ignored the stares of the people around her that instantly latched onto her when she entered. The nuke-nin coolly headed towards the office to get her timetable.
Sasuke found the office quickly. Walking inside an old lady sitting behind a big wooden desk looked up at her.
"Sasuke Uchiha?"
Said girl nodded in confirmation.
"Here's your timetable and a map of the school, you've got English first period," the receptionist handed over two pieces of paper to Sasuke, informing her dryly to where she needed to be.
"Hn," Sasuke replied, unbothered by the lack of help before stalking off to her first class with one quick glance at the map.
She reached her destination in less than a minute, bringing a hand to knock on the door with two swift knocks.
A middle aged man opened the door. His red-brown hair was unruly, wearing a typical shirt and pants with a chain around his wrist. Brown eyes regarded her with confusion.
"Sasuke Uchiha?" he asked her in undisguised surprise.
She nodded.
Most would assume that because of her masculine name she was male and are usually surprised to see a female instead.
"I'm Mr White, your English teacher," he introduced himself before motioning for her to follow him as he stood in front of the class.
"There is a new addition to your class," He looked at her. She turned to the class of teens before her.
"Sasuke Uchiha, A pleasure," Sasuke introduced indifferently letting an air of authority seep around her, secretly taking in their reactions with a calculating eye.
She inspected the class, blinking when she saw a multi-colour haired midget and a Jiraiya looking kid with a prettier face. She had thought that Sakura had the most unusually hair colour but the boy-child just took her place. The fact that his hair was three colours –red, black and yellow– and spiked up in an odd way was absurd. That type of hair should not be natural.
"There's a spare seat next to Kaiba," Mr White motioned to a boy with brown hair and piercing cold blue eyes who didn't bother looking up from the book he was currently reading.
The seat next to him was empty and it was next to a window which was perfect. If by chance she needed to escape, she had an emergency exist.
Sasuke strode towards her assigned seat, seating herself next to him without much of a glance.
Realization of who he is dawned upon her in seconds. The youngest CEO of a multimillion dollar game company and number 1 duellist possessing 3 out of 4 of the legendary blue eyes white dragons.
This just made things more interesting.
She felt his gaze shift towards her before turning back to his book.
It seemed like she was going to get along with her seatmate rather well as they both seemed to prefer the silence that had settled between them.
It was an added bonus that he wasn't a fan boy as well.
Lunch Time...
Time flew by and before she knew it, it was lunch. The only thing preventing the fan boys from attacking her was the CEO himself who was calmly reading his book and she was more than grateful for this small mercy.
A shadow fell on her causing her to move her gaze from outside the window to the offender all while munching on the last piece of the tomato sandwich she had made this morning.
A messy blonde haired teen with hazel eyes looked down at her. From his appearance she could tell that he was an idiot. He strangely remained her of Naruto with the idiotic vibe he gave out. She could clearly see the infatuation in his eyes.
Swallowing, she raised a questioning eyebrow.
"You're a new student right?" he asked.
She tilted her head telling him to continue at the same time sending him a look that said 'obviously'.
Uchiha's were very talented after all.
"And since you're new, you probably don't have any friends?" he continued and she couldn't help but compare him to Naruto again.
They were both dimwits who don't seem to understand when one wants to be left alone. They would have gotten along nicely.
"Hn"
"So how would you like to hang out with us?" he added, his crush on the new girl fading as it was slowly being replaced by irritation.
"Hn,"
He frowned at her.
"Answer properly"
"Hn," she grunted again taking great delight in tormenting him.
He turned red. Sasuke let her lips tip in a small amused smirk.
"Well since you're knew we thought that you might want to make friends. It's okay if you don't want to," Sasuke's eyes flickered to the speaker.
Now that she had a better look at him, she wondered if he really was 15. He was 153cm (about 5'1) tall, – she was at least 15cm taller than him (Sasuke is about 5'6) – with one weird hairstyle and naïve impression that if he was in the elemental countries, he would most-likely fail at subterfuge and infiltration missions never mind assassination. Though what really caught her eye was pyramid shaped puzzle hanging around his neck.
It gave off a feeling of dark power.
She needed to look at it with her sharingan later.
"Who're you?" He blinked surprised by her sudden speech.
"Yugi Muto, a pleasure to meet you," he smiled warmly tilting his head in a childlike way. How someone can be so trusting and naïve baffled her a little.
"That's an interesting artefact you have. Does it do anything?" she inquired eyeing him curiously.
The power it gave off was similar to chakra but much darker and unrestrained. She now held the attention of Yugi's friends' as well as Kaiba's and the white haired teens who seemed to have a similar ring but it gave off an even darker and corrupted feel with two separate influences unlike Yugi's. The feeling it gave off vaguely remained her of Madara and herself after she found out the truth behind Itachi.
"Come on Yug, she's obviously a lost case and you still owe me a match in duel monsters," Joey interrupted impatiently before Yugi can reply.
"You play duel monsters?" She wondered aloud with a hint of disbelief that did not escape the listeners as she purposely changed the topic to hide her interest on the puzzle.
She needed to investigate them later and that can be easily done if she befriended them for now. It was best not to draw unwanted attention in foreign grounds after all.
"You must be a failure at it," she insulted bluntly earning a slight snicker from her seat mate and Yugi's other two friends that were muttering something along the lines of 'that's an understatement of the year'.
"You can play? Well guess what I, Joey Wheeler am the best duellist around–" He ignored her insult, boasting about his non-existent skills with a fist to his chest as he grinned reminding her far too much of a blond dobe.
She inwardly scolded herself. Her thoughts kept on returning to Naruto and it was beginning to irritate her.
"Not. You must be so terrible at it that you've probably lost all your games," she cut him off and inwardly smirked as he visibly faltered.
"Joey might not look it but he's an amazing duellist. He just needs experience," Yugi defended his friend though his uncertain eyes betrayed his words.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow. She did not believe him at all but decided to humour him anyway. She might as well try out her duelling skills and cards against another person to see where she stood.
"I challenge you to a duel," she commanded coolly pulling out her duel deck from her pocket.
"Right here, right now," she added with an entertained smirk remembering the time when Lee challenged her to a spar during the chunin exams knowing he would win. How foolish she had been to think that she had stood a chance in winning.
It took a minute for the idiot to comprehend what she'd said before he grabbed a chair and took out his deck excitedly. Exchanging decks they shuffled each other's cards before beginning the duel.
"Let's duel," They stated together one in monotone and the other with enthusiasm.
2000
2000
"Ladies first," Joey informed her as she drew five cards from her deck. She smirked.
'The idiot just destroyed his chances of winning no matter how small they were,'
"I'll start off by placing three cards face down and summoning Shukaku the one-tailed demon in defence mode," she rested her chin on her gloved hand that had a small, barely noticeable seal containing her chokuto. "With that, I end my turn"
500/2500
Shukaku was a defensive monster type card with high defence points. It never ceased to amuse her that the sage had given her cards based on each of the bijuu. She wondered how it would look like as a hologram.
"What type of card is that?" He looked at Shukaku in admiration.
The others had similar expressions though some hid it better than others like her seat mate but the fact that he had completely abandoned his book showed he was also intrigued.
Understandable since there is no such thing as demon cards and hers were given to her by the sage who had made them up himself. The good thing about the cards was that she was the only person in this world with demon type monster cards making it impossible for anyone else to copy them unless Pegasus decides to make some which was highly unlikely because all the cards he'd made are based on past monsters.
"A demon type monster card," She clarified, hardly giving anything away.
They did not need to know.
Sasuke took the phrase 'knowledge is power' quite seriously after finding the truth behind the massacre. It was her ignorance in the end that had led to her destruction.
"It's your turn"
He snapped out of his daze, drawing a card he summoned two monster types.
"I play Armored Lizard," he called dramatically.
1500/1200
Sasuke blinked at the stupid move; from the corner of her eye she saw Yugi face palm and Kaiba twitch at his horrible playing.
'Did he not have any spell cards in his deck at all?' she pondered sceptically. It would have been common sense to at least place a trap or use a spell card especially considering the fact that his opponent had three cards faced down.
This kid was worse than a rookie. He had probably saw some monster cards and bought them without a second thought. He probably doesn't even know the rules of the game. This was a waste of time and she needed to end it quickly because once Sasuke started something no matter who it was against she ended it with being the victor.
"This is a waste of my time," she muttered coldly drawing a card. "How ridiculous. I'm ending this"
Joey watched her disbelievingly. He did not believe that she could end this duel in a turn. He knew he sucked but not even Yugi was able to defeat him in two turns.
'And that had nothing to do with Yugi being nice,' he inwardly reassured himself.
Rolling her eyes at his scepticism Sasuke started her turn.
"I activate my spell card Massacre," she informed, activating one of her faced down cards. "With this card all monsters on the field return to the player's hand."
Joey removed his Armored Lizard while Sasuke removed her demon.
"I then play The Snake Boss, Manda in attack mode," she paused.
2000/2300
"And since you have no monster to defend yourself with Manda attacks your life points directly," she explained already bored. "Thus ending the duel loser"
2000
0
Joey sat with a dumbfounded expression, not expecting to lose in just two turns. He needed to get better and fast because losing like this was humiliating.
Sasuke picked up her deck, stuffing it back into her pocket before looking up at 5 frozen figures. Kaiba snapped out of it first, returning to his book with a small smirk plastered across his face followed by a short haired girl who radiated an aura screaming friendship.
It didn't bother her though since she had become immune to the 'friendship pull' thanks to Naruto who still wanted to be her friend even after she tried to kill him with Chidori repeatedly. She had honestly lost count the times she'd told him to leave her alone and that she didn't want to be friends, even going as far as trying to kill him just to get the message across yet with no avail.
"I'm Tea Gardner," a peppy voice filled the room as the girl, now known as Tea held out a hand to shake. Out of politeness alone, she grasped the out stretched hand and returned the greeting minus the cheeriness.
"Tristan Taylor," A pointy haired teen waved towards her. She nodded toward him noting how the hair styles in this world were utterly ridiculous. Seriously, who willing had pointy hair?
"Hello, I'm Ryou Bakura," Turning to the speaker, she watched the white haired teen closely.
He looked harmless and friendly, like a male version of Hinata but with white hair and brown eyes yet appearances could be deceiving. He didn't look dangerous at all but the corrupted power remained around him, slowly weaving itself into him.
'I need to be wary of him,' she mused to herself.
Lunch continued normally after that as Joey challenged Yugi to a duel –which he was losing, horribly she might add, while Tea happily chatted to her, glad to have a female friend finally join the group. Sasuke hnned at the right places as she was used to Sakura's blabbering making her an expert in tuning Tea out. She discreetly watched Ryou and Yugi resisting the urge to snap on her sharingan to look at their mysterious artefacts. The power they gave off bothered her greatly and she was itching to see why.
And before she knew it, school had ended.
Giving away her goodbyes she strode out of the school separating from her new group of 'friends' as they headed in their own directions. Arriving home, she dumped her bag on the black kitchen table she had bought from a second hand shop before plopping herself on the couch. The house was now livelier than it was when she first rented it, the walls hanging with antiques and paintings to reduce the hollowness. She had also painted the walls white, red and blue in memory of her clan.
The house itself was clean as Sasuke disliked having things out of place –a habit she formed when training with Orochimaru, yet it did nothing to satisfy her. She missed her world not that she would ever admit it aloud.
Sighing, she lay on her back, closing her eyes as she contemplated her next move. She wondered ideally if staying in this world would be best for her because she was doubtful that her world would welcome her back with open arms besides Naruto that is.
Sasuke was easily the most powerful human (guns and technology did not count) in this dimension but the fact that there was no challenge for her position made it dull which was why she bothered to even learn how to play duel monsters.
It was the only thing that would give her a challenge to overcome; all she needed to do was find the best players and beat them.
Opening her eyes, she looked at the time. 4:00.
Her part-time job at the library started in 30 minutes.
Getting up, she changed into her work outfit picking up the books she borrowed the other day, she silently body flickered to an alleyway right behind the library. Walking out of the alleyway, she returned the books, expecting her boss to try and creep up on her.
"Geez Sasuke, you've finished those books already?! I swear that you've read more books in a week than an average person can manage in a year," rolling her eyes, Sasuke turned to Cain unflinchingly much to his disappointment.
He should have learnt by now that it was impossible to sneak up on her.
"Do you have any more books on the history of duel monsters?" Cain pouted at her cold tone before pointing behind him.
"There's some outback that are rarely read since they're in Hieroglyphics. You shouldn't read so much Sasuke, your brain might overload," he chided patting her head.
Twitching, she refrained from sending him through the wall with a chakra infused kick. On the second day of work which she found two days after landing here her 'boss' had discovered how to irritate her and he continued to do so in hopes of getting a reaction other than her normal poker face. So far he had only succeeded in making her twitch.
The only reason she tolerated him was because her reminded her a little too much of Suigetsu. Team Taka, the team she had assembled. She idly wondered what they were doing now and how they were dealing with her disappearance. She wondered if the sage had told them were he had sent her. She wondered if Team 7 were sad or relived that she was gone. She mentally frowned, this wasn't a time for such thoughts.
Flicking away his hand, she walked off to the direction he had pointed in, hearing a muffled chuckle escape him.
Opening the door she strode into a dark room. Making sure her manager was further away from her, she activated her sharingan looking at the name of books that were written in ancient Egyptian.
Learning how to read Hieroglyphics wasn't hard especially with the sharingan at her disposal. It was the first language she learned after hearing that it was connected to duel monsters, right after learning how to write and read in this dimension and trying to learn English which she was still currently learning out of boredom.
Turning, a small thin book caught her eye. It had a faint touch of power. Pulling it out, she read the title before blinking.
'Shadow games?'
Curious she opened the book.
They are punishable by death. Millennium items the loser will forfeit their soul.
'That was informative,' she thought sarcastically flipping through the rest of the pages.
They were blank.
'There's barely anything in here and what did it mean to forfeit your soul?' she wondered.
Sasuke would have deemed it impossible but the sage had personally sent her to an entirely different world so they idea of losing your soul when defeated sounded plausible if not slightly surprising. Plus she stayed with Orochimaru for three years. Anything was possible. Turning to the final page she blinked again.
"The 7 millennium items," she read aloud, glancing at the pictures of each item memorizing their forms with her sharingan.
The millennium puzzle looked too alike to the puzzle Yugi had around his neck and the thought of that item being able to trap a person's soul was absurd but the eerie feel of power it gave off said otherwise.
Frustrated with the lack of information, she unconsciously channelled chakra into her hand which slowly seeped into the book. The book began to glow a blinding gold causing her to step back and close her eyes to prevent being blinded.
The light finally died down and writing appeared in some of the pages that were previously blank.
Speechless, Sasuke went back to the first page.
The first shadow game was allowed by the ancient Egyptians 5000 years ago. Using sorcery two duellists are sent to an alternate dimension where their duel will not be interrupted. Cheating in a duel is punishable by death. The duellists were tested to see how powerful of monsters they can summon. When entering a duel filled with negative emotion the dueller's soul can be corrupted by the shadow realm. Millennium items were created to harness the power of the monsters and for the soul reason of protecting Egypt. A possessor of a millennium item can challenge another to a duel where the loser will have to forfeit their soul to the shadow realm.
Taking in the information, she moved onto the next page.
The Millennium Items
5000 years ago, the millennium items were forged in Kul Elna by sacrificing 99 souls of the Kul Elna villagers. The items were created to protect Egypt from enemies and together the great pharaoh Aknamkanon and his six priests were able to save Egypt from their attackers. The pharaoh, who then found out how the items were created, died, unable to bear the guilt. His son was then given the millennium puzzle being the next ruler of Egypt. His item was shortly stolen afterwards by the Thief King and soul survivor of Kul Elna who used them to summon Zorc Necrophades, the creator of the shadow realms as he attempted to destroy the world. He was stopped by the pharaoh who sacrificed his soul by sealing himself and the memories of Zorc inside the millennium puzzle and ring at the…
Sasuke clenched her jaw as she saw the rest of the words faded out with time.
She couldn't believe how similar the events of the story was to hers and Konoha's despite the completely different circumstances.
The Yondaime sacrificing his life to seal away the Kyuubi inside himself and newborn son or Danzo ordering the Uchiha massacre just because they were planning a coup d'état to get the freedom that was rightfully theirs but was taken away because there was suspicions that the sharingan could control the bijuu.
She had a feeling that the sage sent her here on purpose already knowing what was happening in this world which infuriated her even more.
There was also the matter of the pharaoh being sealed inside the puzzle along with Zorc who was also sealed inside the ring. But she was sure that she had felt more than one presence from the ring. Who was the other? Was it the thief king? Not that it mattered yet. This also explained the darkness she felt radiating of off them yet she couldn't accept that for some reason.
Maybe because of the fact that it had happened 5000 years ago or because the items were made of dead souls and gold.
The thought made her sick.
She couldn't fathom anything massacre related.
Sasuke believed the Thief king had a right to collect the items as they were made out of his people.
"Oi Sasuke, you alive in there?" snapping the book shut, she deactivated her sharingan and proceeded out of the room.
"I'll be borrowing this book," she held out the book to a bemused Cain. He raised an eyebrow.
"You can keep it and all the other hieroglyphic stuff, no one reads them anyway. I've had them for years," he walked back inside the room before walking out with a box filled with books. He placed it on the table.
"There ya go," he motioned to the books cheerfully. "They're all yours!"
Blinking she looked inside the box. There weren't many books only 5.
"Thank you," she thanked him genuinely grateful. He winked before ruffling her hair much to her chagrin.
The bells on the door ring signalling that someone has entered the store. Turning Sasuke proceeded to do her job. Shifting her gaze, she blinked, surprised to see Kaiba of all people enter the library who in turn looked surprised to see her.
"Kaiba, how can I help you?" she asked looking up at him. He was tall (186cm which would be about 6'1), and was wearing a deep blue, long trench coat with a deep green high collared shirt and black jeans.
"Ne Seto, who's that?" Turning her gaze she saw a short, raven haired boy. Mokuba Kaiba, vice president of KaibaCorp and younger brother of Seto Kaiba she silently identified him as.
"Sasuke Uchiha," she introduced before shifting her gaze to the elder of the two.
Mokuba reminded her too much of herself when she was a child with the way he looked up at his brother adoringly, his gaze trustful and naïve. That's how she always saw Itachi until the night of the massacre. Even though he killed the whole clan she couldn't stop loving him as an elder brother making it hurt twice as hard when she found out the truth behind the Uchiha genocide and that he had sacrificed so much just to keep her safe.
She can see the strong sibling bond between them as Seto's gaze softened whenever he looked at Mokuba, not noticeable to a normal person but she was an S-ranked missing-nin.
Sasuke couldn't help but wonder if they would have turned out like the two siblings before her if Itachi never took the blame for the massacre and had instead stayed in the village.
"Some books for Mokuba," Seto answered watching her calculatingly.
"Fiction?" Seeing Mokuba's animated nod she motioned for them to follow before spinning on her heel and striding towards the fiction section of the library; her steps making no sound on the wooden floor. Sasuke can tell they were following by the loud footsteps behind her.
Stopping she pointed to the section of books with a flick of her hand as Mokuba raced to the shelves looking at the stacks of books excitedly.
"You can read hieroglyphics?" Sasuke turned to the speaker before raising the book that was still in her hand.
"I wouldn't be carrying it around if I couldn't read it would I?" she retorted earning a satisfied grunt.
She watched him closely; a shadow was outlining his body. She was sure that wasn't there this morning.
'Was his soul corrupted by the shadow realm somehow?' She immediately dismissed the thought. The book was getting to her.
"You should read it. It answers one of the many mysteries of the world," at his raised eyebrow she smirked. "The origins of magic and duel monsters"
"There's no such thing as magic," Seto growled annoyed. Her smirk widened.
'A narrow minded fool. He probably doesn't even realize that he has magic as well,' she mused darkly.
"You're in for a big surprise then"
"W–," before he can form a reply Mokuba interrupted holding out three books.
"I want these," he grinned, eyes wide and innocent.
Trying to resist a smile at his innocent expression though she was sure her lips twitched Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Well then, let's borrow them for you," she headed to the borrowing desk as Mokuba rushed behind her, jogging by her side clutching the books in his hands tightly.
"Hey Sasuke, you shifts ends in about 10 minutes," Looking up, Sasuke glanced at clock on the wall. It was already 7:20.
"Hn," Cain rolled his eyes at her signature reply before shifting his gaze to the front door.
"I took out the trash earlier, you should seriously find a way to deal with them because I think that was the 8th guy I had to knock out and drag away. It's getting annoying," Cain whined pitifully.
'Trash' was the code word for fan-boys or in this case stalkers. It seemed that she attracted a lot of them and when Cain had found out, he made it his responsibility to take care of her pest problem which she was secretly grateful for.
"If I found a solution that does not involve killing them I would have gotten rid of them by now," She sent him a deadpan look that clearly conveyed her slight amusement and frustration.
It wasn't like in the elemental nations were could freely beat up any male that stalked her, she honestly had to run and avoid her fans and that damaged her pride a bit. She never liked running from her problems.
Placing Mokuba's book on the library system she handed them over to the curious boy.
"You've got the books for three weeks and if they're overdue you'll get fined a $1 a day," she informed.
"You've got trash following you?" he wondered curiously causing Cain to burst into laughter. She sent her boss a glare shutting him up abruptly.
"It's a pest problem," she explained yet he still looked confused.
"I've got fan boys and stalkers," she admitted shivering faintly as she spoke the words. The elder Kaiba smirked amused by her evident disgust and fear, mostly likely seen her reaction at school today when the boys immediately crowed her as soon as she stepped out of class. It had taken most of her self-control not to snap but she was sure half the school had felt her killing intent.
Mokuba tilted his head. "Is it really that bad?"
"Yes," she hissed venomously mutely wishing the sage had at least thrown her in a place that did not have fan-boys.
At least then she didn't have to worry about people following her as her stalkers somehow avoided her ninja senses which frightened her considerably.
She needed to find out how they did it.
"Let's go Mokuba," Kaiba cut in the conversation strolled out of the library.
"See ya Sasuke," Mokuba waved before trying to catch up to his brother's long strides.
"Bye Mokuba, Kaiba," She replied turning to Cain who had a huge grin painted across his face.
Her ninja senses gave her the feeling of needing to escape immediately.
"Oh would you look at the time, my shift has ended," she pointed dramatically to the clock or as dramatically as she can using an expressionless voice.
Hastily grabbing the box of Hieroglyphic books, she walked out the door with a slightly louder than average 'good-bye' ignoring his calls to wait, she turned into an alleyway and body flickered to her apartment with a smug smirk.
'Thank kami for chakra,' she dumped the box on the table. A second later she frowned.
She didn't know why she had acted that way. It may be that her current situation was far too surreal for her to even comprehend that she couldn't bring herself to care any longer.
Her frown deepened. Was this what the sage wanted? To drain her from anger and hate, replacing it with a feeling a helplessness? She wasn't a fool. All the occurrences ever since she arrived were far too coincidental. She arrived in this world, and is immediately attacked by a group of guys who happen to possess all the information she needed. She was able to acquire a job and knowledge on duel monsters straight after. Then she found two of the Millennium items right after that along with a book that somehow reacted to her chakra and informed her of the dangers of this world. The shadow games.
The anger that had made her blood boil was gone, replaced with a feeling of powerlessness.
She couldn't do anything but play along with what the sage wanted from her. It made her wonder if she was always destined to this fate as ridiculous as it may sound. Being the reincarnation of Indra she was always going to be Naruto's enemy yet closest friend.
She gritted her teeth at the weak thoughts that filled her mind. Nagged her and slowly destroyed her resolve.
Maybe she was over thinking it? That everything that happened so far was in fact a coincidence and not manipulated by the sage himself.
She let the thoughts disperse and picked up the book she was reading before Cain had interrupted her.
Opening the book that was still in her hand, she made herself comfortable on the couch and began to read where she had left off.
The rest of the pages were all covered in layered chakra.
Sasuke snapped on her sharingan.
A message stood out.
You will know when the time is right.
A spark of pure, unadulterated anger ignited through her.