I don't own Naruto. I only wrote the fan fiction! If some of the characters seem a little OC-ish then I'm sorry - I haven't been keeping up with the episodes so don't bug me, and I might have changed a couple things - that is another thing NOT to bug me about! (Italic - thoughts, and "..." is speech)

Chapter 10 – Sasuke's Jutsu Chain – Homecoming Ambush

Sasuke quickly followed his teacher's movements and hand signs; each more difficult than the last.

"He's quicker than usual..." Naruto thought as he performed the last link of the jutsu chain.

Instinctively, Sasuke followed his teacher, each hand sign perfectly replicated.

Kakashi and Sakura watched as their team mate quickly followed their teacher's movements and hand signs perfectly.

"Wow...he's so fast!" Sakura thought as she watched the raven-haired teen cop everything Naruto did.

Sasuke finished the last hand sign, following Naruto. A surging pain spread through his eyes and he fell to his knees. The Uchiha groaned and felt as if his eyes were going to come out of his head. He tried to scream in pain, but something stopped him, and not even he knew what it was. "It was probably one of the previous links of the jutsu chain..." He thought as the pain subsided. He stood, his eyes closed. "Was it really this easy?" He thought as his eyes slowly opened in case they had dilated. He winced a little at the sudden light that hit his eyes.

"Your jutsu was very different as you can tell Sasuke. This jutsu, this chain I should say, was a chain of hand signs to unlock what most Uchiha can only unlock through losing something very precious to them, but I found this scroll and knew I had to teach the hand signs to you. It's a technique that is only preformed once, no perfection needed. Take a look..." He said as he stood aside for Sasuke to look into the river behind him.

The raven-haired teen walked by his teacher and over to the water. He looked down and was immediately shocked by what he saw – a mongekyou sharingan had swirled its way into his onyx eyes. It had caused a surging pain due to the sudden change, a change that was supposed to happen gradually instead of so sudden.

Kakashi became curious and walked over to him, looking down at the water he saw Sasuke's eyes. "No way! The mongekyou sharingan?!" He thought as he looked into the red and black eyes that Sasuke had now.

Sasuke looked at his teacher. "So...that's it?"

"You're jutsu with come with your mongekyou sharingan, as soon as you learn how to use it properly without hurting yourself. There are many special types of jutsu that come with those eyes of yours." Naruto said; a serious look about his ocean eyes.

Sasuke looked back down at his reflection and nodded. "This'll take some getting used to...that and a lot of practice learning how to control it without hurting myself...or blinding myself." Sasuke thought as he stared into his reflection. He felt someone staring him down and looked around for the stalking eyes; the wind blowing just enough to have his raven shards move with the breeze. His gaze stopped at a tall tree, seeing something was off about it, the way the leaves moved was enough to make the boy suspicious of it. He glared into a clearing of the leaves; making something move and attempt to escape his angry stare.

Naruto looked from Sasuke to the tree and back to the tree. "What is it Sasuke?"

"There's something or someone in that tree over there..." He said before walking over to the tree and jumping up.

Both Kakashi and Sakura looked confused, but then they saw Sasuke throw someone out of the tree; making them land on their back and knocking the air out of them.

Sasuke jumped out of the tree and landed next to the person who had been watching him. He looked the man in the eyes; his sharingan staring right through him. "You...I thought I killed you a while ago!"

The man below him laughed maniacally. "You only THOUGHT you killed me...I live forever."

Sasuke's eyes widened and he growled at the man. He felt something building up inside him. The Uchiha's eyes closed and one opened; followed by two trails of blood. In an instant the man below him was engulfed in black flames. Sasuke wiped the blood away. "No one lives forever."

"Well that was fast..." Naruto thought as he walked over to Sasuke and put an arm around his shoulders. "That was the first step. Nice job. Learn to control it better though, and you'll do more than just that with your will power."

Sasuke nodded as the mongekyou sharingan disappeared, revealing his onyx orbs that hid underneath.

The flames died after all that was left was a skeleton.

"Wow...the body's already gone..." Kakashi thought as he walked up next to Sasuke. "Just don't let that power go to your head..." He whispered to the raven-haired teen.

Sasuke smirked. "What makes you think I'd let that happen?" He whispered back.

The masked boy returned the smirk and looked at his teacher. "So what now?"

Naruto looked around and shrugged. "If you three wanna go home feel free."

Sasuke went to walk home, but instantly froze in his tracks.

Kakashi looked at him, his eyes filling with concern. "What's wrong?"

"He wasn't alone..." He said as his sharingan swirled into his eyes. He turned around to see a full, think semi-circle of enemy ninja.

Kakashi followed the Uchiha's gaze; only to fine the same sight. "H-holy...shit..."

Sakura turned and screamed a little.

Sasuke got in front of both of them; while Naruto got Sakura out of the way.

"S-sensei?!"

"Let them deal with this. You don't have enough chakra to fight right now."

Sakura sighed and nodded. "Okay..."

Naruto gently smiled at her and looked back at the boys. "Don't get yourselves killed guys." He thought before taking Sakura to her house.

Sasuke stood his ground next to Kakashi, waiting for the enemy to make their move. He felt that same energy build up inside him again, and again, closed his eyes; opening one letting two trails of blood run down the side of his face. The same black flames flew toward most of the enemy ninja, hitting that very same amount of them.

Kakashi froze as soon as he saw the blood run down the side of the Uchiha's face.

Sasuke wiped the blood away like last time and he looked at Kakashi; seeing the slight fear in his eyes. He, instead, ran at his attackers; kunai knives drawn and ready for the fight.

Kakashi snapped out of his shock and helped Sasuke fight off the attackers. He skidded back as Sasuke continued to fight them off. He formed hand signs; making electricity pulse around his fist. He ran at the attackers to help Sasuke and defeated all but one who was very agile and swift.

Both boys skidded backwards and stood next to each other.

The raven-haired teen looked at his team mate.

The masked boy nodded and the two started to form hand signs with him; their symbols almost identical.

Both teens' fists burned with electricity and fire. They each disappeared; confusing the last enemy ninja standing and appeared behind him; sending a critical blow to the side of his head.

~Flashback~

The masked boy sat on a roof; there was nothing but silence. He watched as the clouds in the sky passed over and kept going. The boy sighed and stood; looing over all the other buildings. He heard the roar of the street bellow; merchants bellowing, kids running laughing, carts being pushed along. He decided to move and jumped from rooftop-to-rooftop. He stopped at the edge of one and looked down. "No one...I guess I can get down here..." He thought before jumping down. He walked out onto the street and looked around. "I hope nobody saw me..." He thought before walking down the side of the street. He stopped when he heard a sigh from above him. He looked up and saw Sasuke. "Hey."

Sasuke looked down. "Oh hey. What's up?"

"You mean aside from you?"

Sasuke laughed a little. "Yeah smartass, aside from me."

He jumped up and sat down next to him. "Nothing. I was just..."

"Roof running?"

"Yeah..." He said with a sigh as he looked out over the streets.

"Something on your mind Kakashi?"

"You could say that..."

Sasuke looked a bit confused. "Tell me..."

"They're just random thoughts...it's nothing..."

"You sure?"

The white-haired teen nodded.

"Okay, but if you wanna talk..."

Kakashi looked at Sasuke. "This isn't what I think he's going to say is it?"

"Just come to me...okay?"

Kakashi smiled a little and nodded. "Okay...thanks..."

The Uchiha smiled a little back. "No problem."

Both of the ninjas stood; hearing something that didn't sound friendly. They looked around, but they saw nothing.

"Something feels bad about this..."

Sasuke was still looking around for anything that seemed off. "Yeah. Tell me about it..." He said before a shiver ran through his entire body; making him crouch down.

Kakashi crouched next to him. "You okay?"

"Yeah..." He said before shivering again. "I dunno what came over me...it's like...someone's watching me..."

Kakashi stood; keeping a hand on Sasuke's back and looked around. "Nothing...just like...that street!" He thought before looking back down at Sasuke.

Sasuke slowly stood; shivering less and less as he straightened out his back.

"Follow me." He said as he walked the edge of the building.

"O-okay." He said before following the masked boy.

Kakashi lead Sasuke to the empty street.

"What're we doing here?"

"I knew I felt something was off when I was walking on this street." Kakashi said as he scanned the street for anything. He spotted a lone white snake, just sitting in the middle of the road. "Found you..." He thought as he took out a kunai.

Sasuke watched as Kakashi readied a kunai and followed his gaze. "The white snake..." He thought as he too readied a kunai.

The snake hissed; making other snakes come out from hiding.

Sasuke's eyes widened. "Where did THOSE come from?!" Sasuke thought; he was shaking a little as the snakes started to form a human figure.

"What the hell?" Kakashi thought.

The snakes swirled and twisted; forming a human figure – a man, long hair, thin body, odd clothing though.

Sasuke was shaking, and the shaking was very noticeable.

Kakashi looked over at his friend and saw him shaking. He put a hand on his back.

Sasuke jumped a little and looked at the masked boy.

Kakashi gave him a warm smile. "It'll be okay." He whispered.

Sasuke nodded. He looked back at the man who was now fully complete.

The man chuckled. "What's wrong? Scared...Sasuke?"

Sasuke's eyes widened again. "H-how do you know my name? Who are you?"

The man smirked. "My name is Orochimaru. As to how I know your name, well I have my ways of finding out what I need to know."

Sasuke gulped.

Kakashi saw the fear in his comrade's eyes and glared at Orochimaru. "Why are you here?"

"I'm here for the Uchiha. I have no interest in you Kakashi Hatake."

"So you know my name too? Big deal. Why don't you just slither back into the hole you crawled out of? You're not going to have him."

"Are you challenging me young ninja?"

Kakashi nodded. "I am. Why? Are you afraid you'll lose?"

"Certainly not. I'm actually very confident...I'll win..." He thought before he ran at Kakashi.

Kakashi pushed Sasuke out of the way and ran at Orochimaru. He saw him start forming hand signs and copied them.

"So the rumors are true...he DOES have the ability to quickly copy ones movements, even without a sharingan." The snake man thought as he and Kakashi clashed weapons.

Kakashi held a firm grip on his weapon against the older man.

Sasuke felt helpless; he just sat and watched as his friend fought off the man who was after him. "I feel like I'm just so helpless! Weak pry that has to rely on others to defend me!" He thought with a sigh.

Kakashi knocked the man backwards with a swift kick. He took a quick glance at Sasuke. "Something's wrong...he usually doesn't look like that, but when he does...something is usually wrong..." He thought before returning to reality; seeing that Orochimaru was up and running at him once again. He started to form hand signs to make sure he ended that battle fast. "I hope this works..." He thought as electricity burst from the center of both of his hands.

Orochimaru's eyes widened. "I must've misjudged you...Kakashi Hatake..." He thought before taking a hit to the chest. He was blasted backwards.

Kakashi still had one hand electrified and waited for Orochimaru's next move.

Sasuke was fed up with just standing there watching. He pulled out three kunai knives and held them between his fingers after forming a fist; disappearing soon after.

Kakashi looked back and saw that he was gone. "Oh no. Where'd he go?! I was protecting him and now he's gone!" He thought before he spotted the Uchiha in a tree. "Oh thank goodness..."

Sasuke was perched on a branch waiting for the right time to strike. He finally saw his time to strike and took it. He disappeared from the tree and appeared behind the snake man; giving him a swift kick to the side of the head.

~End of Flashback~

The last man fell defeated before the two ninjas. Both the boys looked exhausted; trying to catch their breath as they stood in front of the last enemy ninja they'd killed. They heard their other two team mates running to them.

"Guys that was awesome!" Sakura squealed.

Great job guys. You're teamwork has really gotten better." Naruto said with a gentle smile.

Kakashi and Sasuke gave the other two a tired smile and used each other to keep themselves standing.

"Do you need some help?" Sakura asked.

The teen shook their heads. "Nah. We're fine..." Kakashi said.

"Thanks for asking though." Sasuke said.

"You two look exhausted. Why don't you two go home and get some rest. Our mission is completed anyway."

Kakashi and Sasuke nodded. "Right." They said before walking home. They stopped at the intersection. "Wait...Kakashi..."

"What's up?"

"D-did you maybe wanna...s-sleep at my place?"

"Sure. Why the stuttering?"

"I don't ask just anyone that question..."

Kakashi smiled and led Sasuke home.

"Wait, what about your dad?"

Kakashi looked down. "He...uh...he really doesn't...care...about what I do anymore...since I'm a ninja now..."

"Oh..."

"It's okay. I don't mind because then he's not bugging me about how I should be practicing more. I don't need any more practice...well alone that is."

Sasuke gave a tired chuckle and continued to walk beside the masked boy.

They got to the entrance of the Uchiha complex.

Sasuke sighed and walked ahead; now walking in front of his whit-haired team mate.

Kakashi ran slightly to catch up to him and walked beside him. "Something wrong?"

"No. This place just makes me feel nostalgic."

"In a good way I hope."

"Not exactly..."

"What do ya mean?"

"Most of my memories here were nice...more or less, but the others on the other hand...well...you can finish the picture..."

"Oh...I see." Kakashi said as he looked down a little.

Sorry it took me so long to upload this one people. I was away on vacation...with limited internet access and that wasn't really good enough to get the chapter to upload. Ho[e you liked it anyways, another chapter is on the way :)