Gaah! this is the first time i'm writing a fanfic and i'm already getting reviews! i lurve all of you who reviewed me!
ouh, it's not a TsunadeSasuke ficcie, k? sowie...
ah, niwae, here's chapter 2. i'm really irritated with the com right now, so yea, watcheva.
do i have to type the disclaimer again? guurgh...
CHAPTER 2
Uchiha Sasuke, unofficial spy and infamous traitor of Konohagakure, youngest heir of the Uchiha clan, and the last survivor of the said clan's massacre,was grumbling under his breath. Why had he agreed to do something so troublesome again?
"Dam, fcuking old female dog (ehk, you noe...i fergot that i was not supposed to put swear words inside, so yea...)," Sasuke cursed under his breath and glared at the ANBU who had woken him up in the morning. The ANBU did not look away or flinch from it - which was rather impressive, considering that it was from an Uchiha - but Sasuke smirked when he saw the man tense in response. Ifthe ANBU-the poor, unfortunate man who who had been chosen to wake Sasuke - had been any slower,he would probably be in the morgue by now.
"Good morning, Sasuke!" a sinfully cheerful voice called as the door to the Hokage's office opened. Sasuke scowled darkly at the blonde woman sitting at the desk. His eye twitched dangerously at the mere glance of the said woman. Sasuke took in a deep shaky breath.
"Do you NEED to wake me up at such an ungodly hour to do this?" Sasuke stated, his voice eerily calm. Tsunade felt a few of her back hairs go on end at the voice but decided not to show it. She forced a smile to her face even as her ANBU chose to betray her by discreetly exiting himself.
"Ah," was all she could say as the man vanished with a dull 'poof!' "Well, it isn't that early Sasuke.Four a.m. is the perfect time for an ANBU to wake up! Besides, no one would be awake to notice you."
Sasuke growled, "Who said I wanted to be ANBU?"
The blonde Godaime shrugged carelessly. "You did, Sasuke," she told him . Before the teen could protest, Tsunade continued, "You wanted to stay, Sasuke, because you couldn't stand Orochimaru molesting you--"
"Wait, who said he mo--"
"and because you couldn't stand being with the snake pervert, you decided to hide behind an ANBU mask."
"Eh? But I didn't--"
"So it was you who decided to be ANBU because you wanted to stay and you didn't want to leave despite your having to hide yourself."
"Uh...huh?" Sasuke stared at the Hokage blankly as he tried to make sense of the short speech. " So...you mean to say that if I become ANBU I can stay?"
Tsunade smiled gleefully at the boy's gullibity1. She nodded, "Yup. Exactly, Sasuke!"
Sasuke looked at her a while in disbelief. He abruptly crossed his arms.
"And what, in your sane mind, makes you think I am evencapable of being an ANBU? I am still halfway through to being a jounin!" Sasuke retorted. He jumped at Tsunade's sudden mad cackle. Had the old woman finally gone senile?
"Being Orochimaru's team mate has its advantages, kid. Knowing him he probably he trained you over the above standards..." she grins.
Sasuke felt an unseen shadow being cast over his heart. "So...?"
"So let's test your skills..." Tsunade said maliciously. Sasuke gulped. He didn't like this feeling in his heart. He didn't like it AT ALL.
"Uh...against whom?'' he asked, his voice barelya whisper. At that point, Sasuke wished he had not asked the accursed question. Tsunade's answer actually chilled him to the bone.
"Well, who better but me?"
Sasuke knew then that he was a dead teen.
Tsunade was panting. Rivulets of sweat trailed down her face and her legs were trembling with the strain. Her ears picked up a soft disturbance and she tensed. At the last minute, though, she heard the boy's silent footsteps behind her and spun around just in time to meet a kunai in her face.
"How could you drop your guard like that, Hokage-sama?" Uchiha Sasuke stated quietly, his sharingan spinning in hypnotic circles. Tsunade forced her eyes from those mesmerizing orbs and let out the breath that she hadn't realized she had been holding. She grinned at the teen. No one - with the exception of her ex-team mates and a certain blonde Hokage - had made her feel so tensed in battle and won. For a mere sixteen-year-old to do it to her, even though she had barely used her chakra, was a great feat. She knew that the Uchihas were talented in speed but Tsunade was still astounded at how fast the boy could go.
"How the hell did you get that fast!" Jiraiya's wondrous question came before her own. Tsunade was curious too. She frowned slightly. Could Orochimaru have made Kabuto operate the boy to make him faster?
"No, Orochimaru didn't make Kabuto even touch me," Sasuke said abrubtly when he saw the Godaime's face. He kept the kunai he was holding and let his sharingan melt away to his black orbs. He dropped onto the ground, unceremoniously sprawling onto the soft grass, letting out a sigh as he closed his eyes. When he got back to Tsunade's - he'll be leaving there, remember? - he would take a nice, warm shower and go back to sleep.
"Oi, Sasuke, you alright?" Tsunade asked him absently as she dropped onto the grass beside him. Sasuke cracked one eye open.
"Um...Sleepy's all..." he replied as absently and closed his eyes again. He felt Jiraiya settle down on his other side and heard disbelief in the sannin's question as he asked, "How did you get that fast, kid? Even Orochimaru wasn't that fast at your age! And you'r almost as fast as him..."
Sasuke had both his eyes open now. He knew he was fast - he could even outrun the snake sannin now - but who was this him Jiraiya was talking about? He glanced at Tsunade and saw her roll her eyes at the man, looking almost like the young woman that her appearance sported.
"Don't you dare get all mushy because of him again! It's annoying!" she warned Jiraiya and huffed. As though just noticing Sasuke between them, she raised an eyebrow at him. "So?"
Sasuke was confused for a moment. Then he remembered Jiraiya's first question. He rolled his eyes and grunted.
"Try lugging around a pair of 100kg weights for two frigging years," was all he said. He lifted his lose black cargos to show the weights strapped onto his legs. "The mad old geezer even upped them to double what it was just late last year."
Tsunade was more than a little surprised. She had thought the teen had been wearing the cargos for fashion's sake - she had to admit that it looked good on him - or perhaps because he felt that it was comfortable. She would never have thought that he was wearing weights; much less having the cargos as covers for the weights.
"They're why I"m so sleepy nowadays. They take up so much energy to move. It's no wonder Lee's so hyper..." Sasuke went on. Jiraiya laughed aloud at the new discovery about Lee and Gai while Tsunade just shook her head in amusement. Another thought came to her.
"If you're so annoyed by them, why don't you take them off? You're not with that snake anymore, you know," she stated blankly. Sasuke shrugged and mumbled something about training. Tsunade rolled her eyes for the second time that day. Boys...It was so typical!
Anyway, Sasuke," she continued, "Congrats...You've made ANBU. Good news for the day, huh?"
Tsunade let out a snicker as Sasuke groaned. Being ANBU was good news? If he had to wake up at four a.m. every morning for the job, he didn't want it. The raven suddenly smirked when he thought of how he sounded like Shikamaru. He was yanked roughly from his thoughts by Tsunade.
"It gets better, Sasuke. I-- I mean, you don't want yourself to be known to the spies so you'll have to be close to me at all times. To do that, you'll be my personal ANBU, Sasuke. You've proven to me for the past three years that I can trust you so you'll be my most trusted ninja," Tsunade's snicker became larger at the teen's horrified face. It was priceless. A hard pat sent him almost face-faulting onto the ground. The raven teen turned to dee the frog sannin grinning at him.
"Congratulations, kid. You've made elite ANBU!"
And despite all the happiness being gushed all around him, Uchiha Sasuke was flabberghasted. How could they do this to him! They had no right to just shove the stupid rank and position up his ass and let himtake to it kindly!
"But I--" Sasuke's protest was cut off by Jiraiya's large arm draping itself across his slim shoulders. The white-haired man was still talking.
"Maybe we could go take a drink later, eh? To celebrate?"
"Wait, you ar--"
Tsunade now butted in. "A drink! Yes, finally you're using your pathetic brain, Jiraiya! I would LOVE to celebrate Sasuke's promotion with you!"
Sasuke sighed as the two sannins continued talking to the other as though he didn't exist. He wondered idly how Naruto and Sakura could stand them(he had known what had happened for the past three years he wasn't in Konoha through Tsunade's letters...). But then, they had never been alone with BOTH.
Speaking of his team...
"Ne, where are the dobe, Sakura and Kakashi, anyway? I haven't seen them at all," he inquired plainly. He was indeed curious. Tsunade had said to tell his team mates of his return first but the said team mates were nowhere to be found.
His inquiry, in turn, seemed to silence the two - now bickering - elders before him beside him. Perhaps it was just in contemplation to the question or the very possible fact that Sasuke Bloody Uchiha had just said 'Ne'. Perhaps it was even due to both.
"They are on a mission right now. (sPoiLeR aLeRt!) Remember Gaara of the Sand? The one you fought with in the chuunin exam; the one with the shukaku?" Tsunade asked the raven. The teen nodded. How could he forget the kid? He'd had nightmares of that day for almost a whole month! What with the discovery of naruto's own kyuubi...
"Well, Gaara was kidnapped by the Akatsuki - for his shukaku," Tsunade went on. Sasuke lifted his eyebrows in a sort of shock. The Akatsuki, where Itachi was, had gotten so close to Konoha?
"How is he now? And Naruto; did he get caught as well?" Sasuke asked almost anxiously. If Naruto, his first real friend, got hurt by the Akatsuki, he was sure his want to kill his brother would be reignited; twice over. Tsunade let out a small smile at the concern that was carelessly shown on Sasuke's features - not that he had known, probably. The boy really cared for Naruto; and she was glad. As the blonde had told her, Sasuke was like the brother he never had. She felt her smile widen. The brat wold be ecstatic that his brother had returned; and hadn't betrayed him, no less.
"Oh, stop fretting, Uchiha! I'm not sure about Gaara but Naruto's fine, alright? He has Kakashi, Sakura and - last I heard from them - one of Sands' Siblings to babysit him!" she assured - or tried to - the Uchiha survivor. To this, she got a horrified cry of, "Who said I was fretting!"
Tsunade nearly melted into horribly unidentified slush when she saw the expression on Sasuke's face. He was looking terrifyingly adorable with his crossed arms and childish pout. Tsunade had to admit; it looked better on him than even her cute blonde brat. It would probably kill her to act all mushy around the young Uchiha, so she settled for a light pat on his back.
"Oof! What was that for!" Sasuke exclaimed in result as he lifted his aching head from the - hard - ground. He rubbed his nose sorely and checked for any bleeding. With such a hit, he would be surprised not to sport at least a huge bruise the next day. Tsunade smiled apologetically at the harrassed-looking boy. Perhaps she still hadn't quite controlled her strength yet...
Off to the side, Jiraiya was guffawing his head off at Tsunade's plight like he didn't value his life. As though wanting to confirm his death sentence, he joked, "That was a good one, Tsunade!The funniest thing I've ever seen in a long time!"
A moment later found the man twitching and bleeding pitifully on the ground. Sasuke watched nervously as the Godaime of Konoha now sat beside him again. He swore seriously then that he would never, ever try the wrath of his Hokage. She was just too frightening! To divert her anger, though, called for a change of subject.
"Um, so when will they be back?" he asked just for the sake of asking. Tsundae glanced at him, a look of confusion crossing her features as though she had not been talking about the subject at all.
"Oh? Oh...you mean Kakashi's team?" she blinked lightly and shrugged. "Almost one week's past since they left so I'm guessing they should be back soon enough."
Noticing the abrupt change in atmosphere, she frowned at Sasuke. "Oi, kid. What's the matter with you now?"
When Sasuke still kept silent and instead began to nervously fuss with his shirt collar instead, Tsunade knew for real that something was up; and she was sure it had nothing to do with Naruto or anyone else for that matter. She decided to approach it as cautiously as possible; meaning total formality and throwing around her Hokage status. Sometimes she just loved her job.
"Elite ANBU Sasuke of the Uciha clan; I demand you tell me what is the matter this instant," she stated quietly. It was neither a demand nor a plea. She meant business with that voice and she rarely used such a voice on anyone. For her to do so meant the matter was quite serious. She wastched in silence as Sasuke took in a deep breath and turned to her with and absolute, shocking calm. The only female Hokage was taken aback for a moment. "Sasuke?"
"I've got the curse, Tsunade. I'm the bearer of those eyes. I'm Suzaku; the new Pheonix."
Tsunade did something then that she hadn't done in a very long while. She fainted.
Done! OMG! I've finally finished the first real chapter!
Next chappie hopefully coming very soon...!
