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Remembering what was Forgotten

Chapter 8

Those remaining three months passed by quickly for both Katy and Sasuke. They each had been doing their own things and were so busy that they didn't realize that the genin exam was so close until Anko reminded Sasuke.

"Alright, Uchiha," said Anko after one day of training. "As you know, it has been three months since I've been training you."

It has? Sasuke didn't really pay attention to the time and dates. All he cared about was improving his techniques.

"And you know that I'm supposed to train you until the Genin exams. Now that the exam is tomorrow, today was the final day I can trained you." Anko grinned. "It's been fun training you, Uchiha. I'm glad that I took Katy's favor. After today, I won't be seeing you as much anymore but who knows? Maybe we'll see each other again soon." She winked at him. "I'll be counting the days until I tort-I mean, see you again! Later!"

Then she disappeared.

Sasuke stood up and started to walk home. Although he didn't seem like it, he was cheering inside of his head. It was finally over! His torture training with Anko was finally over with! He didn't have to see that sadist for another few months! Sasuke was so relieved. He hated training with Anko. She always tortured him in some way or another. Once, she made him jump through a row of ring of fires then made him swing over a pond filled with blood thirsty crocodiles. He wondered where she got the crocodiles though. They were in a village surrounded by miles of forests! How could she get crocodiles? To say the least, that woman was evil!

But Sasuke had to admit, her training did help him. Before, he could barely throw a punch or do a jutsu without tiring himself. Now he could actually do taijutsu and have enough chakra to perform more than one jutsu. He surprised himself when he did the fireball jutsu and it shot out of his mouth huge. He nearly roasted Anko once. He thought she would kill him after that but she simply grinned and said good job. Anko might have been sadistic but her methods of training were useful.

Sasuke arrived at home earlier than usual. Katy was still at work and he didn't need to prepare dinner yet so he had nothing to do. He thought about reviewing for the exam tomorrow but decided not to. He already knew the material by heart. He wondered what he could do until he decided to go through his stuff.

In his room, Sasuke scattered the contents of his backpack onto to bed. Ever since they had arrived in this world five months ago, not once had he touched his stuff from the other dimension. He was simply too busy training that he forgot all about it. Now that he had time, he decided to look through it. Not that there was much there in the first place. He had his notebooks and textbooks from school there as well as some writing utensils. He couldn't care less about that stuff. What was he going to use Algebra for in the world of ninjas? (A/N: Seriously. You can't use Algebra in real life!) He should really throw that stuff away. There was only a few things in there that he considered important. Some of them happened to be the Naruto manga books that he had brought with him to school that day. He would have to hide those in case anyone broke into their apartment-which wasn't very likely. If those books fell in the wrong hands, they were in trouble. The other item he considered important was a picture of his foster mother.

Sasuke leafed through the first volume of the manga until he found a photo, used as a bookmark, in the middle. He took it out and smiled at the picture. It was of him and his mom at a street carnival. He was smiling at the camera while his mom hugged him around the waist, her mouth open in laughter. Behind them was the tall and colorful Ferris wheel. Sasuke smiled at the memory of the day. He had practically whined and begged his mom to take him to the carnival. In the end, she agreed. They ended up having so much fun.

Sasuke's smile faded at the thought of his foster mother. He missed her so much. For the past few months, he had been so busy with training that he completely forgot about her! Now that it was the day before the exams, he realized how much he missed her. After all, she was the woman who took him in when he was alone, lost, and had no memory except for his name. When Sasuke first met her in an alley, where he was cowering at everything, he was so afraid of her. He thought she would hurt him! But when she offered him a gentle hand and said kindly, "My name is Mari Hailton. What is yours, little one?" Sasuke told her his name and she giggled. "That's a cute name you have, Sasuke!" she said. "Would you like to come with me so that you're not in this alley anymore?" At that moment, Sasuke grew very close to her.

I wonder how she's doing...he couldn't help but wonder. It has been five months since he and Katy disappeared. Their mothers must have been missing them like crazy. Especially Mari. Mari didn't have children of her own no matter how much she wanted one. She didn't want to get married since she was always shy around most men. Sasuke had to tell the men who came up to her and started flirty with her to back off since Mari was too shy to say so. So when Mari found Sasuke, she adopted him even though she was single. She loved him like he was her own son! She must have been devastated when hearing that he just disappeared. He hated that he was hurting one of his important people.

Sasuke sighed then put the picture back in the book. Then he went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

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The next day, Katy waited outside of the Academy entrance with the rest of the parents. They were all waiting for the students to come out with a hitai-ate tied around their forehead. Katy was there so that she could congratulate her friend. She had begged her dango shop boss, Tsubaki, for the night off so that she and Sasuke could celebrate. Her boss gave in at the end and now she and Sasuke could do whatever that night.

The students finally came out through the Academy doors. Most of them were sporting the village hitai-ate now and the parents started congratulating their children. Katy scanned among the kids, looking for Sasuke until she saw him just exiting through the doors.

"Sasuke-kun!!!" Katy pushed past through the crowd and glomped her friend. He caught her before they both fell to the ground. She looked up at his forehead which was covered by the cloth of his hitai-ate. "Congratulations! I can't believe you passed!"

"You sound like you thought that I would fail," Sasuke said, rolling his eyes.

Katy grinned and let go of him. "I did actually. You've only been in school for five months and yet you passed. I'm so proud of you, Sasuke-kun!" She grabbed his hand and started to walk. "I'll make your favorite tonight. Spaghetti with lots of tomato sauce, right?"

Sasuke nodded like he didn't care but he was cheering on the inside. He hadn't had that dish in months!

The two started to exit the Academy grounds but they heard some of the parents whispering.

"Hey, isn't that the Uchiha kid?" One woman asked.

"Yeah. I heard he came back a few months ago," another replied.

"Really? And he was able to pass in those few months? The Uchiha clan truly is full of prodigies."

"He even made Rookie of the Year too! The boy's practically a genius!"

"Too bad about his clan though. He was the only one left alive."

"I feel so sorry for him."

"Me too."

Sasuke's grip on Katy's hand tightened. Katy frowned at the adults and shook her head.

"Ignore them, Sasuke-kun. It isn't worth is," she whispered to him.

Sasuke couldn't just ignore it. He was smart, sure, but did they need to remind him that he was one of the last of his clan? It was bad enough that he found out he was an Uchiha a few months ago! Now that he was Sasuke Uchiha, he had to kill Orochimaru, and had to do something about the Akatsuki! On top of that, he had to 'resurrect the clan' as his character so mildly put it. He sighed, loosening his grip, and walked home with Katy.

Once at home, Katy started making dinner. Sasuke tried to help but Katy slapped his hand away, saying she would cook. So Sasuke sat in the living room, reading one of the Shippuden books.

"Sasuke, time to eat!" Katy called from the kitchen.

Sasuke put down the book and went into the kitchen. His eyes lit up at the sight of the pasta and sat down. Katy laughed at his eagerness to eat.

"You must have really missed spaghetti, huh?" she said, sitting across from him.

"Hn." He really did miss it. Sasuke finished putting the noodles on his plate when he realized something. "How are we going to eat this with chopsticks?"

Katy frowned, realizing this as well. She tapped her chin with her finger in thought. Then she smiled and stood up to leave the room. Sasuke wondered what she was doing when she came back holding up two plastic forks.

"Ta-da! Problem solved!"

She handed one to Sasuke. He stared at it skeptically. Before Katy dug in, she stared at him.

"What's wrong?"

"...You washed this, right?"

Katy scowled.

"Of course! I just did!

"Just checking."

Sasuke began eating and Katy followed. The two ate in silence as usual. Katy's eyes kept flickering at Sasuke and she put her fork down.

"Sasuke?"

"Yeah?"

"You're still going to kill Orochimaru, right?"

He raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

"Because I just realized something."

"Like?"

"I know that you're going to avoid being bitten to recieve the curse mark, right?" He nodded. "Well, what's going to happen after?"

Sasuke was confused but realized what she meant. She was asking what was going to happen instead of Sakura protecting them in the second exam. Honestly, he had been thinking about that sometimes but he didn't know. What was going to happen?"

"By your expression, you don't know." Katy sighed. "Before we think about that, we should think about how you're going to avoid getting bitten. Any ideas?"

Sasuke thought about this too and like before, he didn't.

Katy gave him an incredulous look.

"Please tell me you have something."

"Hn."

"Sasssuuukkkeee! You're going against an evil, sadistic snake lord who kills the Hokage and you don't have a clue?!" she whined. By the lack of speaking on the Uchiha's part, he didn't. "You're going to be seriously screwed."

"I'll figure something out when the time comes," Sasuke growled. He stood up, taking his plate with him, put it in the sink, and left the room.

Katy stared at the retreating back of the boy. "Damn. All I asked was that he have some back up plan. But I guess it's too early to know what's going to happen." She sighed, stood up and put her plate in the sink.

Though I can't help but wonder how he's going to do against Kakashi in the bell test?

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A few days passed until it finally reached the date where the genins would get put into teams. Katy could hardly wait for this day while Sasuke just wished it would pass already. He didn't want to go through this at all. It was boring and lame since he already knew who was going to be put in which team and which sensei they would have. He already knew he was going to be in a team with the Kyuubi container, a fangirl, and a perverted man who weilded the Sharingan so what else should he know? Nothing, that's what.

On the morning of the meeting day, Sasuke and Katy left the apartment at the usual time. Sasuke left with a sour look on his face because of what Katy did to his clothes. She had basically turned it into what he would normally wear in the series. The Uchiha fan was sewn on the back of his blue shirt and she forced him into wearing those baggy arm warmers with the buckles on the front. He already wore those opened toe ninja sandals since Anko destroyed his converse. Sasuke didn't want to wear all of these things (except for the sandals. He had to admit they were comfortable) but Katy had threatened him to with a knife in her hand.

"Bye, Sasuke! Have fun!" Katy was goodbye as Sasuke headed the other way. He raised his hand up in goodbye and walked off. Katy smiled and started to walk to work. For some reason, she was in a really good mood today. Maybe it was because the Naruto series was finally starting. Yeah, it had to be that.

And I also get to meet Kakashi if I stick with Sasuke! her inner fangirl squealed. And Itachi if I can!

Katy giggled and was about to run when she noticed a familiar girl walking not to far from her. "Hey, Hinata-chan!" She ran over to the Hyuuga girl.

"Hello, Katy-san" Hinata greeted with a smile. Over the few short months that the two girls had known each other for, Katy had been able to get the shy girl out of her shell whenever she was around her. With other people, Hinata was still shy but Katy was working on that. And as it turns out, she and Hinata hung out like regular girls-which shocked Katy- if they ever found the time to do so. Sometimes when Hinata was down about her father calling her weak, Katy would tell her to never give up and even volunteered to help with her training in some way. It was only with the Byagukan though. Katy would run and hide while Hinata used her kekke genkai to locate her. If she found Katy then the girl would congratulate her before doing it again. Katy and Hinata were like best friends.

"Are you going to the Academy now?" Katy asked.

Hinata nodded. "Yes. We're going to be assigned into teams today. I'm a little nervous, though."

"Why?" she asked again, confusion in her voice. Then she grinned like a cheshire cat. "Is it because you want to be on Naruto's team?"

Hinata blushed a deep red. A month after knowing each other, Katy asked if she liked anyone in the village. She told her she had a crush on Naruto Uzumaki. Katy already knew this but acted like she was shocked. Ever since then, Katy had silently been coming up with ways to get the two together but couldn't since the blond didn't know her yet.

"So that's it, huh?" Katy giggled. "Don't worry, Hina-chan. If you get on his team then congrats! But if you don't, try to get stronger so that he'll notice you okay?"

Hinata nodded, feeling better. Looking down at her watch (don't know if she has one), she gasped. "Oh no! I'm going to be late!" Hinata was about to leave when Katy stopped her. "Ano...what's wrong?"

"Hinata-chan?" Katy was suddenly grinning, her eyes practically lit up. "Can you do something for me?"

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Sasuke arrived at the Academy earlier than usual. He wanted to get there before the fangirls arrived to tell him to sit with them. Entering the classroom, he found some people there already but none of them turned when he entered. Taking this chance, he went to sit at the spot he would sit in the manga. He then went into his usual thinking pose, blanking out.

Sasuke didn't really think when he went into his thinking pose. Not today actually. Instead, his mind went blank as he stared into space. He wasn't looking and his mind was clear of thoughts but he was somewhat aware of his surroundings. He knew the room was starting to fill up as time passed and most of the girls were now staring at him but he didn't care. He was so blanked out that when he heard his name, he blinked and dully said, "What?"

"Can I sit there?" Sakura asked, pushing past Naruto. He didn't answer her so she seated herself next to him.

Sasuke mentally rolled his eyes as Sakura giggled and continued to stare at him. He was really hating the fangirl phase Sakura was in and couldn't wait until she got over it. (don't we all?)

A couple minutes later, he heard a growl and saw Naruto now crouching in front of him on his desk. Naruto's blue eyes were slitted, glaring at him. Sasuke replied with a cold glare of his own.

"Naruto, you idiot! Get out of Sasuke-kun's face!" Sakura and a few other girls screeched.

The boys continued to glare at each other with such menace. Sasuke thought all of this was vaguely familiar but he could only think of how Naruto was pissing him off with his glare.

Suddenly, he saw the boy in the desk below him lean back, his elbow hitting Naruto in the back. Sasuke's eyes widened when he realized Naruto lost his balance and was falling towards him. He tried to lean back before the blond fell forward but it was too late. The blond's lips met his own in a closed mouth kiss. Both boys' eyes were wide with shock and most of the girls gasped.

Nearby, Hinata had seen that Naruto was kissing Sasuke accidentally. Her eyes widened, shocked as well. She wanted to be his first kiss, not Sasuke! She felt like crying and wanted to hurt Sasuke when she remembered what Katy asked her to do.

"Can you take a picture of something that might happen to Sasuke today?" Katy asked Hinata, handing her an old fashioned camera that made the photo quickly.

"Ano, why?" Hinata asked.

"I have this feeling that something will happen to Sasuke today." As she said this, she grinned like she knew something Hinata didn't. "Please?"

Hinata looked at the camera in her hands. Katy was her friend and she only wanted to see how Sasuke was faring so it couldn't help to try, right? "O-Okay." (Hinata knows about Sasuke already)

Remembering this, Hinata took the camera out. She guessed that Katy would find this hilarious to see her friend's first kiss was with a boy. Making sure the flash was off, she aimed the camera at the two boys and took the picture quickly before the two pulled apart, gagging and holding their throats. Hinata quickly put away the camera and the picture before anyone saw and sat down.

Sasuke gagged and spit, trying to rid his mouth of any Naruto's germs. "You idiot! I'm going to kill you!"

He continued to gag and spit until he was sure the germs out of the idiot were out of his mouth. Sasuke went back to his usual pose, glaring at Naruto through the corners of his eyes as said blond was being killed by most of his fangirls. He was pissed. How could he forget about that stupid accidental kiss? It happened in the very beginning! And now because of his single mindedness, he lost his first kiss, and to a guy, no less! He had to be careful next time.

Iruka entered the classroom and everyone took their seats. When he saw that everyone was silent, he started to explain that from now on they were fully fledged shinobis and would be startin out at the lowest rank: Genin. Sasuke didn't really pay attention to the speech. After reading Naruto hundreds of times as well as the beginning part of the anime, he knew this speech by heart. He saw no need to pay attention to this man. Zoning out, he warily listened as Iruka stared to list the teams.

"And for Team 7," Iruka annoucned, snapping Sasuke back to attention. "Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Uchiha."

"What!?" Naruto stood to his feet, outraged. "Iruka-sensei, why are you saddling a fine shinobi like me with that loser!?"

Iruka sighed. "Out of the twenty-seven of you, Sasuke has the best grades out of the class even though he has only been here for a few months while you were at the bottom," he explained. "We had to balance it out."

With that said, Sasuke replied to Naruto, "Don't drag me down, Dobe."

"Stop calling me that!"

Sasuke sighed mentally, and ignored the two people next to him. He couldn't stand them even if they were okay at times.

This was going to be a long day.

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A little while later, Sasuke was leaning against the edge of a counter of a room behind him, munchin on a rice ball. They were having a break so he took this time to mentally prepare himself. In a few hours, he was going to meet one of his favorite characters in the series, Kakashi. He was pretty cool for a perverted guy. What wasn't awesome about him? The jonin was known as the Copy cat ninja Kakashi and Sharingan Kakashi. he knew hundreds of jutsus and was basically a genius! Not to mention he would be the one to teach him the Chidori if he played his cards right.

Sasuke couldn't help but smirk. Katy's going to be so jealous that I met Kakashi before she did.

His smirking ended when he suddenly saw a rope catching him around the chest and found himself in the back room.

"What the-"Sasuke saw blond hair and blue eyes and narrowed his eyes, struggling against hasty hands. "Naruto, get off!"

"Shh! Keep it down!" Naruto was holding Sasuke down with one of his hands and used the other to reach for a rope. Sasuke took this chance to free one of his hands, using one to grab the hand that held him and flip Naruto off of him. In shock, Naruto hit the ground lying on his back and Sasuke quickly pinned him down before he got up. Using the rope, he tied Naruto's hands together. Sasuke smirked at his handiwork. It vanished when there was a puff of smoke and a log took Naruto's place.

Damn it! He used that damn evil log! Sasuke mentally growled. (A/N: I remembered the line Sasuke said in Naruto Abridged ep. 2. I couldn't help but put it in!) Before he could turn around, he once again met the floor, the blond pinning him again. This time, though, he quickly tied his hands together and slapped tape onto Sasuke's mouth.

"Gotcha!" Naruto snickered and Sasuke glared up at him. he was caught off guard by that stupid blond. How did that happen? Naruto performed a hand sign and his body was veiled in smoke. The smoke shortly vanished and Sasuke found himself staring at a mirror image of himself. With a smirk, he look-a-like hopped out of the room, leaving him.

God damnit! I can't believe I fell for that! Sasuke struggled against the ropes that tied his hands and held him captive. How could he have been so careless to forget that Naruto jumps him during the break? He was so stupid today. How was he going to kill Orochimaru if he was like this? He frowned. He had to do better in the future.

Sasuke sighed, reaching for the small knife he so easily hid in one of his arm warmers. There was one good thing about the arm warmers. He could hid knifes in them. (Got the idea off of Assassin's Creed) Using the knife, he sawed through the ropes and they easily fell. Sasuke sat up and took off the top off of his mouth while rubbing his wrists. He growled.

"I'm going to kill that idiot when I find him."

Sasuke stood to his feet and exited the small shack place. he had to walk on the pathway with the bench to get back to the Academy so he took it only to find Sakura sitting on the bench. When he came into view, Sakura jumped to her feet eagerly, smiling.

"Oh, Sasuke-kun! Did you summon up your courage? I'm ready and waiting!" she said excitedly. Sasuke only ignored her and started to walk past her. He wondered what Sakura was talking about until he remembered that Naruto made up a plan to kiss Sakura as him.

"Where the hell is that idiot, Naruto?" Sasuke growled to himself. He was so going to kill that blond ninja. Very. Very. Slowly.

"You're changing the subject again!" Sakura said, smiling nervously. "Can't we get away from Naruto for just one second?! He always comes between us! It's because he was raised up badly!"

Sasuke had started to walk away from Sakura but stopped at that last sentence. He slightly turned to her. "You mean because he never had any parents?"

She nodded. "He doesn't have to answer to anyone ever and it's made him completely selfish! If I did the kinds of things he gets away with, my parents would ground me for life! Don't you envy him being alone, not having parents to nag at you? Kids with no families grow up selfish."

Sasuke clenched his fists and glared at Sakura. How could she even say those things about Naruto? Naruto was not selfish. Sure, the blond idiot was annoying and got on his nerves all the time but he was only like that because he wanted to be acknowledged and loved. He lived his life without anyone to support him or say "I love you!" to him. Sasuke felt so much empathy to Naruto.

When he was found by Mari, he always wondered who could possibly be his real parents? Were they lost? Did they lose him? When would they come back for him? Did they miss him like he did to them? He always wondered these kinds of questions when he was seven and hoped he could meet them one day. But as time passed and still no signs of his parents, Sasuke gave up hope when he was ten and only saw Mari as his real parent. At least she loved him and cared for him.

But now that he was away from Mari against his will, he missed her. He didn't care if she always nagged him to smile more around strangers. He loved her! How could Sakura even envy Naruto? He was lonely! Both boys wanted to know love and acceptance and she chose to throw that away so that she could do whatever she wanted?

Sasuke glared at Sakura at his second worst. The girl flinched. "You'd rather be lonely than be scolded by your parents? You make me sick." He then walked away from Sakura and started towards the Academy.

As he did so, Sasuke couldn't help but feel weird again. It was like the last time he had rejected Sakura when they first met but this time it was worst.

What is this feeling? Sasuke asked himself. It happens every time I'm mean to Sakura. What could it be? I'll have to ask Katy about this later.

Sasuke left towards the classroom, the feeling still with him and controlling his thoughts about how mean he was towards a certain pink haired girl.

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A/N: So there's the chapter! I know I haven't updated in like forever but I'm busy trying to raise up my grades. Currently, I'm in danger of failing Algebra 1 and Earth Science. I don't want to repeat these courses when I transfer schools so in these last few weeks before summer, I'm trying really hard to raise them up. Algebra 1 I have no problem with since I have this major project that could save my grade but I have to teach my class. :( I suck at teaching. I always stutter. And Earth Science could be a challenge since that class is so boring! From the beginning of the year, we've been doing the same thing every week. See a preview of the chapter, have a lecture the next day, then do questions the next, then a video the next and finally a test on Friday. It gets a bit boring when you do that for every week in a school year. That's why most of my class is failing.

Bleh. Just thinking about Earth Science made me all upset. I gotta go do homework or something so Review please! With the amount of people alerting this story, you'd think that people would at least review on how I'm doing with the story writing and all!

-twilit angel