Sasuke's Stats are as follows: Ninjutsu 5, taijutsu 3.5, Genjutsu 4, intelligence 3.5, strength 2, speed 3, stamina 2 and hand seals 3. that gives him a total stat rating of 26 out of 40. I've given him these stats as they are match the skills [ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu and intelligence] he's learned over time and the physical limitations of his younger body [strength, speed, stamina and hand seals]. The actual figures where taken from either the first or third data books. This means he can use any technique he had at his disposal when he faced Itachi, but a lot of them will most likely result in a severe case of either chakra exhaustion or death. I was tempted to reduce his intelligence rating slightly as a result of him being somewhat insane, but remembered sanity and intelligence aren't mutually exclusive. That means that, going by stat ratings, Sasuke is starting this time around on par with both Naruto and Sakura [from Shippuden].

Another chapter, another attempt to entertain you all. I honestly do not have anything else to add, so on with the show!

Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

XX Konoha Academy XX

"that's nice." Sasuke said, turning to face Kakashi. "And who are you?"

"Kakashi Hatake, your sensei." Kakashi answered as he rubbed the top of his head. That book had hurt. "Now, meet me on the roof."

Sasuke and his teammates followed Kakashi up to the roof. When they arrived and were seated Kakashi spoke again.

""Okay." Kakashi said. "Let's start with you introducing yourselves."

"What do you want to know?" Sakura asked from her seat to Sasuke's right.

"Eh likes, dislikes, dreams for the future." Kakashi shrugged. "That kind of thing."

"You go first!" Sasuke told Kakashi. "We already know each other."

"Me? Alright." Kakashi said as he blew out in an overly dramatic fashion. "My name is Kakashi Hatake! I have no desire to tell you my likes or dislikes... Dreams for the future, hmm... I have lots of hobbies."

"So... All he told us was his name?" Sakura muttered

"Now it's your turn..." Kakashi said before pointing at Naruto. "Lets start on the right."

"Right, my name is Naruto Uzumaki. What I like is cup ramen, what I like even more is when Iruka sensei pays for my ramen. What I dislike is waiting three minutes for the ramen to cook..." Naruto spewed forth, proving that a good sixty percent of his attention was on ramen at any one time. "And my dream... Is to surpass the Hokage and then have the people of this village acknowledge my existence!"

"I acknowledge your existence." Sasuke said. "I mean it's kinda hard to deny you exist seeing as how you seem to spend most of your time running around screaming 'Look at me! Look at me!'. I haven't had to set an alarm clock in over a year! That said, you're always good for a laugh"

"T-Thanks." Naruto said after a minute.

"Okay, next." Kakashi cut in, inwardly smiling at how interesting Naruto was. He was also smiling because it seemed the Academy reports had been wrong about Sasuke, the boy wasn't like he'd been as a child.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. Don't really like much... Dislike a lot, as for a dream..." Sasuke trailed off. What was his dream? He'd killed Itachi, sure Itachi would be alive again but Sasuke had his vengeance. So what was there? Once he'd said he wanted to resurrect his clan but that had eventually vanished as vengeance became all important. "... As for a dream, just live!"

"I see, and lastly the girl." Kakashi said.

"My name is Sakura Hanuro. The thing I like is... Well the person I like is... And uhm, my dream for the future... uhm...? Sakura said, throwing Sasuke quick glances every time she paused before lapsing off into . While he hadn't been paying attention before, he noticed it now and had had to admit it was kind of creepy. Not check your food for sedatives creepy like Karin had been but still kinda creepy. "What I dislike... Is Naruto!"

"So much for the introductions." Kakashi said, breaking the silence that had fallen following Sakura's declaration that she disliked Naruto "Tomorrow we'll start our duties as shinobi"

"Yeah?" Naruto declared. "What kind of duties?"

"First we are gonna do something with just the four of us." Kakashi told them, letting just a hint of mischief into his voice.

"What is it? What is it?" Naruto asked excitedly, bouncing up and down.

"Survival training." Kakashi answered.

"Survival training?" Naruto repeated in confusion.

"Why is this the first thing we're doing? Sakura asked. "We did enough training at the Academy!"

"This is different, isn't it?" Sasuke asked in a dull, uninterested voice. Or at least the kind of dull, uninterested voice everyone ends up using when they are interested but want to act uninterested.

"Nope." Kakashi laughed. "It's anything but normal. For starters I'll be your opponent... Hehe... Hehehe."

"What's so funny sensei?" Sakura asked when Kakashi just continued to laugh.

"Uhm... Well it's just that, hehe, when I tell you this you guys are going to freak out..." Kakashi answered, chuckling softly. "Of the twenty-nine graduates, only nine will be chosen to become genin... The rest will be sent back to the Academy."

"Seems kinda wasteful." Sasuke cut in. "While I can understand the village only wanting the best in it's army, what happens if the best in the class is put on a team that drags him, or her, down? Or if the dead last got put on a team that was good enough to carry him, or her? Wouldn't it make more sense to simply make the Academy harder, to weed out those not able to make it then and get rid of this stupid final test with a sixty-six percent fail rate?"

"Are... Are you talking about this team, Sasuke?" Sakura asked, wondering if he felt they'd have to carry Naruto through the survival training... Or if he thought she and Naruto would hold him back.

"What? No, although now that I think about it..." Sasuke said, turning to face her. " Does this team seem a little stacked to you? I mean you have me, Rookie of the Year and the only loyal Uchiha. There's you, highest scoring in theory and analytical subjects, and then there's Naruto... Which speaks for itself!"

"Why does Naruto being on our team 'speak for itself'?" Sakura asked in confusion.

"Because he's the..." Sasuke began before realising that news about Naruto holding the Kyuubi was still meant to be a secret. "...Hokage's favourite of course. This team is made up of the three students with the most skill, intelligence and political clout!"

"But wouldn't Hinata, Shikamaru or Choji have more clout?" Sakura countered, completely confused as to why she was even considering arguing with Sasuke. "What with being clan heirs?"

"And do you see any of them being able to get a face-to-face with the Hokage at the drop of a hat? Or being able to ask him for almost anything and have a chance, however slim, of getting it?" Sasuke argued back. "Hell do you see Hinata being able to ask anyone, outside of the Branch Families, for something and even hope to get it?"

"Wait! Hinata, Shikamaru and Choji are clan heirs?" Naruto asked, completely lost.

"Yes Naruto, they are clan heirs." Sasuke told him. "In face so am I... I think... I actually need to check if I'm technically heir or Clan Head when we're done here."

"How can you not know if you're one or the other?" Kakashi cut in, trying to work out how someone could not know if they where a clan's head or simply the heir.

"Because Itachi was my father's heir." Sasuke pointed out before taking several pills from the case labelled 'Antidepressants'. "So when Father died Itachi should of become Head with me becoming heir, until Itachi either fathered a child or named someone else his heir. But with Itachi killing everyone else and running away he was never actually named Clan Head... Actually nor has he been stripped of his name, that's another thing I'll have to look up."

"Stripped of his name?" Sakura asked, not being aware of the meaning.

"It means kicked out of the clan." Kakashi told her and Naruto. "If it's done, neither Itachi nor any children of his can ever claim to be Uchiha... I think he'll even to erased from official clan records, right?"

"How do you erase someone?" Naruto asked, like Sakura he didn't come from a clan environment and so had no idea of just how serious it was.

"You take every single clan document made since the person's birth and doctor them to remove the clan's name from the person's one... I'll have to ask the Hokage to have the village's documents altered as well." Sasuke explained to his teammates. "Of course for that to happen you need an unanimous vote from every other adult member of the clan in the presence of an allied non-clan member who is there to ensure there is no coercion or deceit occurring... You know, if I find Kiba within the next half an hour I could get it done and out of the way before Records close!"

"The Uchiha and Inuzuka are allies?" Kakashi asked, having never heard of such an alliance existing.

"Well one clan was so bloodthirsty they made themselves the personal attack dogs of just about anyone that was willing to pay, and could provide them with enemies to fight, and actually refused to allow blood feuds to end as it would limit the amount of people they could attack without any ethical issues while the other clan was just as savage as the hounds they fought along side!" Sasuke answered. "Our clans use to get along like a house on fire... Which they tended to leave a lot of when they worked together actually. After both settled in Konoha it became less important to either clan but I don't think it's ever been officially dissolved."

"That seems like a lot of effort to just stop someone being able to use a name." Naruto commented.

"How important is your name to you? Imagine someone came up to you tomorrow and told you that you could never call yourself an Uzumaki ever again. Imagine being told you no longer belong, that as far as your entire family is concerned you do not exist to them any more." Sasuke said. "In the centuries my clan has kept written records I think it's been done once, That's how serious this is to the Uchiha. We've produced some really messed up warriors in the past but only one was so bad he was disowned before this... He was disowned for trying exactly what Itachi did."

"Well as interesting as this little lesson on clan history is, it has nothing to do with your test tomorrow." Kakashi announced, drawing the subject back to their, hopefully, final test. "Everything you need to know is here on these sheets... Oh, and skip breakfast or you'll just throw up."

XX Naruto's Apartment XX

"Yeah?" Naruto asked as he opened the door.

"Penthouse apartment, nice!" Sasuke complemented from where he was leaning against the railing across from the door.

"Thanks." Naruto said happily before realising it was quite late and he'd been about to go to sleep. "What are you doing here at this time of night?"

"I tracked down a few of Kakashi's old students... Well he actually has no old students unless you count a few of the younger guys in ANBU, but I talked to a few people who took his test and failed it in the past. Thought you might want to know what to expect?" Sasuke answered with a shrug. "We're to try and get a pair of bells from him tomorrow while hungry, frustrated and under the belief that only two can pass... That last one is part of a second, more important, test! To see if we can set aside our differences and work together as a team. Kakashi seems to be real big on teamwork... And on being late to just about everything."

"Really? Th-thanks. Thanks a lot for telling me." Naruto said, wondering just how strong where the pills Sasuke had gotten to make him this nice so quickly.

"It's fine." Sasuke yawned. "Listen, I'm going. I spent a lot of time breaking into Records, finding Kakashi's file and using it to track down people he'd tested. I'm exhausted and I still need to stop and tell Sakura... See you in the morning."

"It's really late, don't you think Sakura will be annoyed if you call?" Naruto asked, hoping Sasuke wouldn't go to her house.

"You kidding? Me, waking her up in the middle of the night to tell her something really important that can't wait until morning... I'll bet money it'll be a dream come true." Sasuke laughed before preforming the Body Flicker and vanishing.

"Yeah, I know." Naruto muttered before going inside and to bed.

XXXXX

The Naruto Wiki only listed the fathers of Hinata, Choji and Shikamaru as being the Head of their respective clan... And since I use that site as my main source of info [saves me having to go looking through entire arcs for information] I'm only listing them as heirs here.

As for the Uchiha and Inuzuka being old allies, it's not even a fan theory. I just remembered that Sasuke and Kiba seemed to be fairly friendly before the start of the Chunin Exams [could of easily used the Aburame since Sasuke and Shino seemed to be on good terms just before Shino fought Kankuro during the Invasion] and thought I'd throw it in. The alliance, nor the Name stripping thing, actually exist in canon. And yes, Sasuke was referring to Madara [at least in the continuity of this story's verse the Uchiha took his attempt to destroy Konoha, and them along with it, as a pretty serious act and decided that simply having stripped him of leadership wasn't enough... Also explains why Sasuke didn't know the name when the Kyuubi mentioned it].

I'm dyslexic, so please point out any mistakes in spelling or grammar [I spell things the way they do in England and Ireland, so some things may look off to Americans]. Please leave your opinion via review or send them via PM, I'd like to know what you think. Well, I think that's everything I've gotta say so, hope you enjoyed the chapter.

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