Argh.. I have so much school work and tests to do, plus I also I have a foreign language midterm... Life is cruel.
Disclaimer: I do not own. Naruto or Team 7 or any of the characters.
Sakura was bored, she had delivered the scrolls to Sasuke a few hours ago, but there's nothing else to do now. 'Plus I can't sleep.' She thought to herself.
Sitting up, she climbed out the window of her newly fixed room and leapt off into the village. It was quiet and shops were ready to close while people were ready to sleep.
Sprinting over to a spot in Konoha's wall, she uncovered a small bush that Kiba and Akamaru covered their hole with it.
Jumping into the hole, she walked the short distance under the wall and leapt out of it, once it stopped.
She sprinted over to the lake Sasuke had showed her and stopped at the sparkling water, dipping her toes in it, she sat down near the edge and took in a deep breath of the fresh dewy air.
She heard some noises coming from the direction where Sasuke's cave was and she stood up and walked over. Since she was coming from another direction, she ended up behind the cave.
Seeing something trail around the cave, Sakura squatted down to peer at the thin lines of string.
Her eyes widened when she saw they were chakra strings, raising hand and creating a chakra scalpel shee sliced through the chakra strings.
When she sliced through all of them, a loud rumble was heard and dust billowed around her. Coughing, she stood up and walked towards the entrance of the cave.
Rubbing her watery eyes and still coughing out from all the dust, she saw that the boulder had shifted open. "What happened?" She heard a feminine voice ask. Wait...feminine voice? Wasn't Sasuke alone?!
Running to the large opening, Sakura saw a mid aged woman peer out. The woman had long raven hair and kind onyx eyes, why was that so familiar? Then she realized that Sasuke had the woman's traits, although she couldn't say anything about him having "kind eyes".
"Sasu-chan, why is there a pink haired girl out here?" The woman asked, Sakura snickered at the nickname and she heard Sasuke walk out.
"What did you do Sakura?" Sasuke asked, as he poked his head out. Sakura shook her head and said "I was bored so I went to the lake you showed me, but I heard sounds coming from your cave and when I went to inspect it, I saw chakra strings so I sliced through them."
"Kuso, why did you do that?" Sasuke asked, cursing under his breath. Sakura blinked and asked "What did I do wrong?"
"I'm going to be punished for this." Sasuke muttered before he replied "That must be the chakra strings to the boulder, it only activates at night and disappears at day. That's why I was never able to cut it."
"Sasu-chan, isn't that Mebuki's daughter?" The black haired woman asked.
"Er, yes?" Sakura said before Sasuke could reply. "Who are you?" She asked tentatively.
The woman laughed and said "I'm Uchiha Mikoto, Sasuke's mother of course, and his father is in the cave at the moment."
"E-eh?! I thought, er.. Itachi-san uhm..." Sakura exclaimed but trailed off. Sasuke sighed and walked back into the cave.
"Of course, Ita-chan was forced to kill us, but Kami-sama gave us a chance to visit Sasuke-chan. But thank you for taking care of him and knocking some sense into him. Uchiha men and their pride always gets the better of them." Mikoto said laughing slightly.
"Oi, oi... You saw me care for him?" Sakura asked, slightly surprised and embarrassed.
"Of course we're always looking over our sons... Both of them really faced enough pain, especially Sasu-chan..." Mikoto said sadly. Sakura smiled awkwardly and said,"Well... Naruto and Sasuke's other friends had accepted him as who he is, so he's fine if he's around his childhood friends." Sakura said thoughtfully.
"What are you talking about, Sakura?" Sasuke asked as he walked towards her. Sakura shook her head and said "Nothing, but I'll give you some time with your family, I'm coming back tomorrow to check your wounds you better be taking care of them." She gave him a stern look, but Sasuke only glared at her.
"Ja ne, Sasuke-kun. Oh and nice to meet you Mikoto-sama, I promise to take care of Sasuke after you leave." She said cheerily, and Sasuke tried to retort something but she was already gone.
"She's such a sweet girl... and she has a short temper just like her mother. She might cause a big change in your life, Sasu-chan." Mikoto said thoughtfully. Sasuke only shook his head and sighed "Even when you're dead you still try to match me up with a girl... Okaa-san I was 7 at the time and you had me hang out with Ami for 3 weeks. She was horrible." He said tiredly.
"Of course, that Ami girl is now nothing but garbage. She tried to expose you, I know and I saw." Mikoto said to her son. The two Uchiha's walked in to see the Uchiha patriarch flipping through the Uchiha storage boxes.
"Oh, I forgot. Sakura moved these in for me, the staff in the palace had stored all the Uchiha material into boxes and set them in the attic." Sasuke said to his father.
"Che, after us Uchiha's lost our power, we have really fallen didn't we?" Fugaku said bitterly.
"Hn, well only me and Itachi are the only living Uchihas, but we're both considered as missing nins." Sasuke said monotonously.
"Sasu-chan don't speak to your otou-san like that!" Mikoto scolded and smacked Sasuke in the snout.
"Ite..." Sasuke muttered quietly, but he shut his mouth. No matter how powerful he is, his mother never ceased to scare him when she was pissed, even if she's dead.
Looking outside, Sasuke noticed that it was beginning to become dawn. Walking outside he said "Okaa-san, otou-san time's almost up..." He flew up to the top of his cave and prepared to change forms.
After he was finished, Sasuke stretched out and hopped off the cave. Entering the cave, he saw his parents gaping at him. Mikoto ran up to him and pinched his cheeks slightly and said "You've become so handsome Sasu-chan, I really hope that Mebuki's daughter will be able to make a change in your life."
Sasuke blinked and asked "Nani? Why Sakura?" He was pulled into surprise when he saw his parents fading away slowly.
"Remember to train and keep yourself strong, Sasuke. I won't allow Minato's son to beat you." Fugaku said as he faded into the sunlight.
"You asked for advice, but I'm so sorry for not giving you much. But I know that one day a girl will be able to change your life. I'm sorry Sasu-chan but goodbye..." Mikoto said tearfully as she ran up to her son and hugged him tightly.
"I'm thankful to see you finally grown up... And I'm proud to be your mother... Sayonara Sasuke..." Her voice echoed away as she fully dissipated.
"Sayonara... Okaa-san... Otou-san..." Sasuke said quietly, as he reached out, as if to be able to touch his parents again.
Sighing sadly, he turned around to walk back, but his sharp eyes caught a glimmer. Looking down to inspect the object he saw, he picked up a simple silver chain, with the Uchiha clan symbol made out of a diamond and ruby infused together and hung onto the chain.
Inspecting the simple necklace, he realized it was his mother's final gift to him. Smiling slightly, he grasped the necklace. 'Arigatou... Okaa-san...' He thought and looked up to the light blue sky, tinted with the fiery orange and pink of the sun.
Walking back inside his cave, he realized he still looked like the monster from yesterday and his small smile faded into a grimace. 'Probably a punishment from Orochimaru." he thought, and he clenched his fist. It was time for him to end this, it was time to kill Orochimaru, the one that ruined his life in the first place.
A/N: I had wanted to end this chapter, but I also wanted to make this my first ever 'The Princess and The Dragon Prince' 3,000+ word chapter, so enjoy it lol XD
Sakura had decided to visit Sasuke in the afternoon, bringing half a large watermelon and a pack of his favorite kind of fizzy soda. She wrapped it up in a large bag along with a sharp knife and headed out. When she reached his cave, she saw that he wasn't there.
Looking around, she was startled when a loud explosion was heard and birds started to fly away from where the explosion was. Stashing the bag into a random scroll, she put on her leather gloves and leapt towards the explosion.
When she edged near it she saw, Sasuke fighting with a silver haired shinobi wearing glasses. Judging from the fighting techniques the shinobi was using he was a medical ninja like her. Then Sakura remembered he was a missing nin working under Orochimaru and was a talented medical nin who's prowess is almost parried to Tsunade-sama's, just like her. His name was Yakushi Kabuto.
Suddenly Kabuto struck a point in Sasuke's arm and Sasuke's arm fell limply at his side, Sakura couldn't stand still and jumped into the battle, smashing to ground to bits. She used chakra to strike points at Kabuto, and he did the same. Both were well parried and blocked each other's hits, until Sakura moved under and swiped at his legs. He dodged, but Sakura sent an uppercut towards him and hit him straight on blasting him into the air.
Taking this as a chance, Sakura ran over and healed Sasuke's paralyzed arm. As soon as she was finished, Kabuto appeared before he and hit her in the shoulder. 'Kuso, he's fast and quick to heal himself.' Sakura thought as she put her hand onto her arm to heal it.
Sasuke charged towards Kabuto with Chidori and changed it to Chidori Eiso, the second he was close enough to Kabuto. The blade sliced into Kabuto's arm and paralyzed him for a few seconds, which was enough time for Sakura to hit him with her chakra punch.
Kabuto flew back once again, but this time he disappeared and ran off somewhere else. "Tch, coward." Sasuke spat out, as he wiped the blood away from his lips.
"What were you doing?!" Sakura exclaimed angrily, "I promised your okaa-san to look after you, yet you get yourself into this."
"I'm not a child." Sasuke snapped "I need to break free of Orochimaru's chains, he's going to use me as his vessel if I don't." He stared at the ground scathingly and clenched his teeth. "I'm tired of being isolated and needing to hide myself, Orochimaru has ruined my life enough." He looked away and walked away from Sakura.
Suddenly his quick ninja instincts caused him to turn around and catch a glass bottle, inspecting it he saw that it contained the blue fizzy soda he would drink if he took a break from training. Sakura was smirking slightly, her hand outstretched in a throwing position, "Good luck with that Sasuke, but first you might need a break." she said cheerily, as she threw a slice of watermelon at him.
Thee two quickly finished the cold slices of watermelon and fizzy drinks, before Sasuke stood up to prepare to leave. "Wait," Sakura said, as she stood up. "Nani?" Sasuke asked monotonously as he prepared to leave.
"Here." Sakura said as she handed something to Sasuke. When Sasuke opened his palm to see what the object gave to him, he saw a pin with the Uchiha fan but a sakura flower in the middle of it.
"Good luck." Sakura said shortly, as she faked a small smile and walked away. Suddenly Sasuke grabbed her hand and said "Before I leave...Keep this for me... it was my mother's..." Sakura took the simple necklace from Sasuke and smiled softly before she said "Promise me that, you'll come back." Raising her pinky she stared at Sasuke shyly.
"Aa...promise..." Sasuke said, in twining his pinky with her's. Then she left silently without a word, but she had a smile on her face.
Sasuke smirked and pinned the small object onto the purple belt he wore. He walked toward to Orochimaru's hideout with the aura of intent to kill. When he reached there, he stopped at Orochimaru's door and created a few handsigns before his Chidori Eiso stabbed through the wooden planks and hit Orochimaru right in the arm.
He walked into the room applying more pressure to his electric spear and he monotonously spoke to Orochimaru about his resentment towards the sannin's merciless acts that killed off many innocents and corrupted others. Orochimaru fought back but suddenly he fell limp and something white flashed out of the sannin's mouth.
(Basically this the reenactment of the Sasu vs Oro Fight, but I'll switch it around a little)
A large snake appeared, looking freakishly like Orochimaru, it hissed at Sasuke and said "Give me your body, Sasuke-kun!" And white snakes then enveloped Sasuke, tightening their flexible body around him.
But suddenly they all exploded to pieces, dead and bloody. Sasuke outstretched his large wings, his tail lazily swinging from side to side, as he quickly sliced Orochimaru to pieces. He thought it was over for a few moments, but the large snake's blood soon sent him into a genjutsu and the sannin swallowed him whole.
Gaining the upper hand after getting tired of Orochimaru's stupid speech about immortality, Sasuke turned the genjutsu around and used it against Orochimaru, absorbing the sannin during the process.
When Sasuke was brought to the real world, he stared at the "dead" body of Orochimaru silently. But with a final burst of strength Orochimaru knocked away Sasuke's chokuto and advanced towards him, slowly hissing out "I...will...have... your...BODY!" He lunged towards Sasuke, but the teen found his hands on the pin Sakura gave him and stabbed the needle into Orochimaru's head.
The head fell limp on the floor, truly dead now, and Sasuke walked out the door, slightly exhausted but he kept his composure and cold mask. He was still in his cursed form, but some of the serum's effects wore off, leaving him without a tail or the bone protrusions.
Deciding that he should release the prisoners of the hideouts, Sasuke managed to travel quickly through all the hideouts in a time span of a few weeks.
On the way he pressured a few of the subordinates and test subjects to become part of a team and he had found a few antidotes for his serum and thus got rid of his "too" (not really) muscular build, the snakes and the pair of small horns on his head.
Rumor(from Orochimaru's prisoners since he was thought to be dead in the public) said that he put the team together to kill Itachi, but he wasn't doing that. He merely put together the team to help him enhance his prowess even more and to help him on the way during the travels.
It was called Team Hebi for awhile because they stayed in the shadows, then he renamed it Team Taka after they stopped traveling secretly and began to get rid of rogues.
He had completely forgotten about the promise until one day, the female member of Team Taka, Karin, asked him what was the pin for. They were extremely close to the cave Sasuke used to live in and had no idea Sakura was near them.
"Sasuke, what is that on your belt?" She asked curiously.
"Hm? You mean this?" He plucked out the little ornament and held it out. "One of my...friends gave this to me." He said quietly.
"Was it a girl?" Karin asked, beginning to feel jealous. Sasuke looked at her strangely, but said "Aa..."
Sakura was sitting down near the lake, it had been 3 months since Sasuke left, but she hadn't given up hope on him yet. He was still alive, he couldn't be dead. Clutching the necklace Sasuke gave her, she looked at the calm waters of the lake and sighed heavily.
Her sharp ears suddenly heard talking and she silently walked over. Quickly hiding her chakra signature and hiding in the trees, her eyes widened when she saw that it was Sasuke.
He was with another girl and two boys resting near another tree. 'So that's why he was gone so long... He ditched us..." Sakura thought bitterly.
Then she returned her attention to the red headed girl, only to see her grab the pin Sasuke was holding and threw it at her direction. Sakura quickly reached out and caught it, sighing in relief.
"Oi, what was that for?" Sasuke said angrily and the girl merely humphed. "You don't need that girl anymore, after all you have me." She smiled seductively and Sakura glared at the girl.
Sasuke ignored the girl and silently went to find the pin she threw Sakura backed up slightly and ran behind another tree, slightly far enough until the redhead couldn't see her.
"Looking for this?" She asked, when Sasuke got close enough. She tossed the pin from her hand, looking bored and she threw it at Sasuke who expertly caught it.
"Three months, Sasuke, three months... We waited for you to come back. Now that I see it, you've only ditched us. Guess I don't need this anymore, give it to that redhead..." Sakura said angrily, as she unclasped the necklace and dropped it on the ground and left before Sasuke could say anything.
She ran as fast as she could, and looked behind to see Sasuke walking back to camp. 'So he's really ditched us..' She thought, tears dripping out of her eyes.
Suddenly she bumped into something and when she looked up she saw that it was Sasuke.
"What do you want?" She snapped and rested her head on her knees, avoiding Sasuke's unreadable stare.
Abruptly Sasuke had embraced her and said "I'm sorry for breaking the promise" he said quietly.
Sakura gasped and tears silently trickled down her face, Sasuke pulled out of the embrace and smirked "Don't tell me you've become weak again."
Sakura snorted indignantly and wiped her tears away, "I am not weak, compared to that redhead I could probably easily kick her ass."
"Yeah...you could..." Sasuke said. Sakura looked surprised and said "You're not kidding are you?"
"Iie, Karin's only a tracker and medic nin." Sasuke said. Sakura looked downcast after Sasuke uttered the word 'medic nin', Sasuke noticed and said "She's not officially a medic nin, you have to bite her and suck out her chakra to heal."
Sakura wrinkled her nose and said "That's a strange way of healing, and that's pretty painful and scarring." Suddenly she heard a loud screech of complaint and she turned around to see Karin stalking over towards them.
"Shimatta." Sakura cursed while Sasuke said nothing and kept his face cold and indifferent.
Well, stupid Karin makes her beautiful appearance, she's probably gonna kill Sakura, not, lol... haha...anyways... R&R ja!
