I AM SO SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG FOR ME TO UPDATE
SEE, MY FILES GOT WIPED OFF (ALL ((about)) 5400 KILOBYTES) SO THEN I HAD TO RETYPE EVERYTHING AND SO BUT I ACTUALLY HAD A _LOT_ OF THIS WAITING FOR YOU (meticulously revised) AND MANY OF YOU KNOW I HAVE MANY MORE FANFICS (Thank you all for your support) SO UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS NOT AS GOOD AS WHAT I USED TO HAVE (characters aren't exactly in character) BUT PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE READ THIS~~~!!!!
Megumi sighed and walked up the steps. She had finally checked the last patient, and was going up the steps of the Kamiya dojo, her basket of treats that she had made earlier in her hands. The boys will probably be DIEING by now for acceptable food. She swished back the front paper doors of the dojo, expecting serene peace surrounding Ken-san doing the laundry. Uh uh. That's not going to happen today.
"SASUKE!! YOU BASTARD!! BASTARDBASTARDBASTARD!!" A boy was shouting over and over and over.
"Shut up, dobe." The supposedly named Sasuke said scornfully. The golden haired boy flew in a rage and started fighting Sasuke.
Huh. Quite odd.
"Hey Kenshin, you shouldn't be doing the laundry right now." Sano said to Ken-san drunkedly, pointing his sake bottle at Ken-san, who was indeed, doing the laundry again. Sano went back to watching the two boys. "Huh. Naruto's pretty bad..."
"Pure white!!" Ken-san said happily, holding up a clean blanket. "Oro?" Naruto's foot jammed into Ken-san's face. "Orrroooo....!" Ken-san fell into the washing basket.
"AWGH!! SORRY!" Naruto paled as he bounced off Ken-san and slammed into the paper sliding door. Sasuke sighed.
"Dobe." He turned to Sano, who stared back at him lazily. Sasuke charged. Sano blocked with ease using the sake bottle. Cuffing Sasuke, he then tipped some sake into Sasuke's mouth.
"Loosen up, Sa-chan." Sasuke struggled and coughed out.
"Do not call me Sa-chan." His face turned red after he drained the bottle. A man with grayish hair covering his left eye sat in a tree branch, reading a book and then shouted,
"The boy's drunk, Sanosuke." The man sweatdropped when Sanosuke stuck his finger up and shouted,
"I don't give a damn!"
"..." He stared. Sano proceeded to drink.
"I see you are too." The man went back to his book.
Kaoru didn't seem to be the type who let a man who read 'Come Come Paradise' in her dojo. In fact, here she was now.
"SANO! DID YOU MAKE HIM DRUNK _AGAIN_??!!" She turned her head to the Naruto looking sheepishly at the hole in the paper sliding door. Her veins popped and she pointed to both Naruto, Yahiko, and the guy in the tree. "NARUTO! KAKASHI! YAHIKO! YOU ALL ARE FIXING THAT DOOR!"
"Bu-"
"Don't but me! That's the tenth time you've broken that door, Naruto!" Naruto glanced upwards sheepishly.
"Hag." Yahiko scoffed.
WHAM
"He had that coming..." Kakashi sighed. Naruto waved down at the Yahiko shaped hole.
"...." Kenshin peeked from the washing bin. "Oh! Megumi-san!" He smiled. Everybody noticed her for the first time.
Slow fools.
"Megumi! Finally, you're here! I've been taking care of Sanosuke for WAY TOO LONG!" She threw a dirty glance at him.
"More like poisoning me-" The Zanza was silenced by a fan smacked in his face. Megumi sighed.
"Well then, a couple more minutes couldn't hurt, could it?" She met by a glare. The doctor ignored this and continued. "I have more important things to do, like seeing to it that no one else gets _poisoned_." She smiled with that fox look at Kaoru, who flared.
"GET OUT TRAMP! NOW!"
~*~
"Eh...I heard herbal medicines are best for headaches due to liquor." Sakura inquired hesistantly. She watched as Kaoru swung the paper doors for the medicinal cabinet her family dojo contained and dumped random herbs into the water. Sakura sweatdropped. The kendoka girl handed Sakura a cup of the tea, and she recoiled. Not particularly sure it was quite SAFE, Sakura hesistantly turned to Sasuke.
"Ah, Sasuke-ku-" She was talking to thin air.
"I...saw you destroy the clan. Everyone...their dieing words were-" Sasuke's voice was unnormally painful as he threw six kunais with a perfect swing. Sanosuke grabbed them all and pinned Sasuke's collar to the ground with one grabbed kunai in his hand.
"Sa. Chan." The Zanza emphasized. Veins popped in both of them.
"Don't call me Sa-chan, I'll kill you!" This went on for a while.
WHACK
"OW." They more or less shouted in unison. Kaoru stood menacingly above them.
"Sa...." She fumed. Sanosuke 'oh'ed silently. Sasuke looked away. "WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING?!!" Kaoru slammed the two cups home on the floor. They recoiled, faces twitching.
"..." Was what they were thinking. "Well?" The two brothers picked up a cup. The Zanza, with much more experience with Kaoru's tea, waited for Sasuke to try first. He did. It wasn't pretty.
"This SUCKS!!" Naruto ripped the paper that was supposed to mend the door. "Kakashi-sensei!! Why aren't you helping?!!" Kakashi looked down.
"Oh, I'm supposed to? Alright I'll be there in just a second."
"Wha-HEY! YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!"
Kakashi just whistled.
"I see...so that's what happened." Megumi said thoughtfully. "So today Sanosuke's going to tell the truth?"
"It seems that way." Kenshin nodded.
'The idiot...only he would have made a bet like that...' She thought scornfully, her mind taking in the fact Sano had gambled his life with an active shinobi. She shuddered to think if someone who was trying to murder her lived with her too.
"Sasuke-kun? SASUKE-KUN?! ANSWER ME!!" Sakura shook Sasuke's clothes rapidly, crying. Sanosuke scratched his head.
"It wasn't my fault."
~*~
Sanosuke sighed.
"I really don't want to tell everyone this..." He mumbled. He had almost, ALMOST forgotten his past but oh no, Sa-chan had to come and ruin it all. '...Sa-chan...' He walked in and sat down with the group. Or rather, he fell down with the melee.
"Sanooooo!! You're LATE!!" Kaoru waved around the hishima(paper fan) that she slapped him down with menacingly. Kenshin was chatting with Megumi, who served her food in small platters on purpose. The Team 7 and Yahiko made a neverending cycle.
Team 7 eats ravenously, while Yahiko takes some from the bigger stash found behind Megumi.
Naruto and Sasuke eye the last takoyaki. Naruto makes a grab for it, but trips and falls and watches Sasuke take the takoyaki.
"GIVE THAT TO ME!"
"...no!" They start fighting for the last takoyaki.
Yahiko joins to get his revenge on Sasuke who tried to kill him.
However, Kakashi comes up with a clever solution by eating the takoyaki himself.
"KAKASHI-SENSEI~~!!!" Naruto shouts angrily. Sasuke glares, and refuses the food that Sakura offers.
Megumi brings in more.
This happens all over again.
In the end, they never heard Sanosuke's story.
~*~
"Sure, whap a guy to the ground and don't even hear the story..." Sanosuke grumbled to himself, walking through the courtyard with the usual fishbone stuck in his mouth. "...?" He looked to see Sasuke, sitting on the roof. He went to join Sa-chan with a gentle leap.
"I...want to kill you." Sasuke turned around, his Sharingan showing. "I...need to..." His eyes tensed. Sanosuke sighed. If there was one thing which kept Sanosuke unbruised, it would have been Sa-chan's hidden conscience.
"Why don't you try?" Sanosuke grinned. "You know you couldn't really kill me."
"....!!!" At this, Sasuke charged. Then stopped. "See Sa-chan?" Sanosuke put his index and middle finger together and poked Sasuke sharply on the head. "I've been telling you ALL THE TIME. I. Didn't. KILL THEM~~~~!!!" Sanosuke screamed this, shaking the entire dojo and six blocks around it.
"KEEP IT DOWN YOU BASTARD SANOSUKE~~~!!" Yahiko's voice added the second tremor. Sanosuke put a hand on Sasuke's shoulder and pushed him down into a sitting position.
"Listen, Sa-chan." Sasuke backhanded him.
"Don't be kidding me." He glared. Sanosuke sighed. As Sasuke was walking away, the Zanza stated loudly to him,
"How would you like to know how Mother committed suicide and killed your father?" Sasuke turned around with wide eyes.
"Heh. Thought so." Sanosuke spit out his fishbone. "Just listen this once, would you?"
"..." Sasuke walked closer to his brother, and listened closely, sitting down next to his brother.
"Isn't that sweet..." Sakura whispered happily.
"Bah." Naruto humphed. 'What am I doing anyway? Eavesdropping on Sasuke...' He reddened. "Oh well..."
And so, the story began.
~*~
The end of the chapter!! ...Is what I would have said. But, look! To compensate for the lost time, there is *drumroll* TWICE AS MUCH STORY!!
~*~
"You know, Sasuke, that your mother was part of the Uchiha Clan, and my father was not? Heh, he wasn't even a shinobi! Since the Uchiha Clan was strict about these rules, I could not enter the Hidden Leaf Village without being confined to one small playground for kids." Sanosuke stared up at the sky, recalling these memories.
"A playground?" Naruto whispered to himself with 'cynical' lacing his voice. 'A PLAYGROUND?!'
Sasuke watched as his oniisan gazed mindlessly into the sky, knowing that he must be remembering one certain memory...
And indeed he was.
~*~
"Sano-nichan! Sano-nichan!!" Four year old Sasuke came running up to the half Uchiha member. "I thought you were going to help me with shuriken throwing today?" Sanosuke looked at him, and smiled. Sasuke, on the other hand, pouted confusedly.
"You think they'd let me near one of those things, Sasuke?" He laughed. "You know, they always said you reap what you sow, it's their fault they made it so they thought I have a huge grudge on them." He took one look at Sasuke's crestfallen face. This changed his decision. "Hey, hey, lean in a little closer." Sasuke did as he was told. "How about th-"
"SANOSUKE!!" The nine year old child was hit in the back with a pot.
"Wh-wha-!!" He turned around abruptly. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" He turned to face another Uchiha member.
"Stop brainwashing the poor boy! You filthy, filthy-!!" The villager Namari shrieked.
"What's the commotion?" Mother had come to check it out. She was greeted with a slap.
"It's all your fault!! Not only is your son transferring his horrid traits to everyone else's children-"
"Except you, since you got none." Sanosuke grumbled quietly.
"-he's doing the same thing to your OTHER son! It's all because of you, and your bastard of a love-" She was cut short by Sanosuke, knowing that he couldn't hit her, shouting:
"YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF STODGY UPTIGHT BITCHES YOURSELVES, COMMITTING INCEST INSTEAD!!" This crumbled the the 40 year old woman.
"He-you-Where did he learn this kind of language?!" She shrieked at the poor mother. Sanosuke 'humph'ed, while Sasuke was inquiring was 'incest' was.
"Sano-nichan, Sa-" He was tugging on Sanosuke's shirt when all of a sudden he was dragged away.
~*~
"I...would rather you not recall that, aniki." Sasuke sweatdropped.
"Damned, discriminating crimes..." Sanosuke muttered. "Well, in the end, Mother couldn't stand it, and neither could Namari." He looked to Sasuke. "Don't you understand? Namari was the one who killed half the Uchiha Clan!"
~*~
"Fools!! Letting you in this place was a complete wretched mistake!!" Namari whispered with intensity to Sanosuke, gripping his shoulders tightly as if hoping he would be squeezed to death if she did. "I shall slaughter the entire clan-and you shall be reason!! The reason!!" She let go one of her hands and, laughing maniacally, stabbed the sleeping person next to her, who was never to wake up again.
"No...!" He watched, helpless on the roof, watching Namari with emotion filled eyes, not knowing whether to laugh at those who had tried to lynch him, or be sad for them being killed, or be scared from the dire consequences of these actions once Namari accused him of blame. Under the moon, his shaded face and mind knew only two things. The hate...
"NAMARII~~~!!!" He screamed on top of his lungs, but no one heard him, since they had a festival and she put sleeping pills in the drinks. Oh yes, the hate, but also...
He made a dash to his should have been home.
"SASUKE! SASUKE!!" He desperately tried to wake the boy up. "SA-CHAN!!" Grinding his teeth, he did the only thing he could do. He ran. Sanosuke dropped the boy right outside the village, and hurried back in to find Namari before she was done.
When he found her, she was dead.
"Sa..no..." His mother was staggering towards him. "...my...child..." She half embraced, half collapsed on the boy. "The..prod..ct..." She coughed. "...of my... foolishness. I...am....sorry." She shed tears, and was once again on her move. Sanosuke, shaken, picked up the scroll she dropped. He read it. And dashed to his house.
I am Juliet. The Juliet with two Romeos.
The Juliet without consent for her children to be alive.
Already, his mother returned to her home.
I am the Juliet, but oh, such an uncourageous Juliet!
She staggered, clamoring her way into the bedroom.
For I did not fake death, not even to save my spawn,
Even though I am forgotten! Oh woe!
Be I, the wretched Juliet. Shall I die alone?
She grabbed a kunai.
But I, the wronged, the wanting Juliet, have come
To take away my Romeo. My Romeo must never leave!
For I shall be with him, side by side, until the day we die.
She gazed at her husband, the father of Sasuke. She killed him.
I, Juliet, have come to take away my Romeo!
No matter how wronged I was,
This is the course we must take!
The blood splattered all over. She raised the kunai again.
For he is Romeo, and I his Juliet,
By all thy means, we are
"MOTHER~~~~~!!!" He screamed, agonized.
Inseparable.
I am sorry, my illborn child. My child of my first Romeo
The...Romeo who took away half my heart and left...
"...sano-..nichan?"
I am so sorry.
"Sa-chan!" Sanosuke whirled to see the tear-stained face of Sasuke.
"I...saw...you out there." Sanosuke was bewildered. How..? Wasn't that...?! "...Namari-san, she...told me what happened...right before she died."
It came to Sanosuke in one instant. But...there was no use reasoning with Sasuke. Stubborn. That's what Sasuke was. So stubborn...and weak. Sanosuke watched as Sasuke passed out with his mixed emotions of grief, hatred, and disbelief.
"Namari..." Sanosuke seethed. He ran outside to find the dead Namari. He stabbed the corpse, and it dissapated into leaves. "You...and your genjutsu are going to hell..!! The Sharingan burned, and the leaves crumbled.
And still, in Sasuke's dreams lived Namari's genjutsu.
~*~
"Of course, I had to flee after that." Sanosuke gripped Sasuke's hand tightly. "I tried so hard to find that Namari, but in the end I found out that some Hunter-nins had killed her. After many problems, I wound up here, stuck with a legendary idiotic hitokiri rurouni, a rurouni wannabe, a vixen, and a woman who can't cook. The Meijin government around here doesn't really like shinobis, so I haven't used jutsu for awhile. Basically all you wanted to know right?" The Zanza looked at his otouto, noticing the water-filled eyes he had, but never leaked out to tears. 'Heh, a little stronger than before...' Sanosuke smiled.
"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
"??!!" The two Uchiha brothers swirled around to find two crying ninjas.
"Sa-sasuke-kun~~!! I didn't know~~!!" Sakura wailed.
"~~~~~~" Said Naruto. Sasuke twitched to see them like that, especially Naruto. And the fact they heard that memory.
"Sakura! Dobe! You were listening?!"
"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!" Cried Sakura. Naruto dried his eyes and nodded. After that, his head met a kunai.
"OW?! SASUKE YOU BASTARD, I JUST WANTED TO ASK SANOSUKE A QUESTION!" He pointed a finger accusingly.
"What would that be?" The man asked.
"Um...eh....uh....How'd he learn that special jutsu Haku used?" Naruto, recently thinking of it, asked.
"Yeah, didn't Kakashi-sensei say that even he couldn't copy it, and it ran in Haku's Advanced blood?" Sakura was still wiping her eyes as she said this.
"...I don't wanna answer that question." Sanosuke walked away.
"H-hey?! NO! ANSWER IT!! COME BACK HERE!!" Naruto ran after him. Sanosuke immediately realized it would have been impossible to shake him off.
"Fine then! It took me awhile to learn it. I met Haku while we were both fleeing from one thing and another. Zabuza didn't seem to mind once Haku told him he was sure about... Hmm...about something. He never said." Sanosuke's eyes drifted up. "It was like a telepathy thing they had going on..."
"...You heard all that, Kenshin?" Kakashi asked, leaning against the dojo.
"Yes. I never knew Sano had such a hard life. It makes me wonder Kakashi-dono."
"Heh. Try yourself, Hitokiri Battousai."
"Hehe, maybe." Kenshin laughed, and looked at his feet. Four shurikens were between his toes. "Oro?!" He was stupified as more came to surround him. "Oro!!" He looked up to see Sasuke looking over from the roof.
"...Kenshin?" The rurouni smiled nervously. "Kakashi?!"
"Sorry, got lost, wandered here." He waved. Sanosuke and Team 7's faces went ' =_= ' "Does Sanosuke here still have his mother's scroll?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, I was wondering if you wanted to go back to the Hidden Leaf Village, Uchiha Sanosuke." A mixture of weird faces came up. Sanosuke grinned, and fold his arms.
"I'm not 'Uchiha Sanosuke' anymore. I don't wanna go back anyway! From now on for your reference, I am 'Sagara Sanosuke'!" He looked down to Kenshin, who smiled.
"Well, welcome, Sagara Sanosuke." Kenshin said.
"Yeah! As a welcoming gift, why don't you come with me to the gambling hall? I feel like winning again!" The smile on Kenshin's face froze. The rurouni sweatdropped while Sanosuke dragged him off.
"O, oro, Sano, wait~~~! Oroooo~~~!!"
' =_= ' said Team 7.
"I am ASHAMED that I called him aniki today!!" Sasuke stomped off.
"No, you mean 'Sano-niichan'~~~!!" Naruto grinned, following Sasuke. They started to get smaller, and closer to the horizon.
"Shut up!"
"SANO-NIICHAN~~~! WHAT DOES I-OW!!"
"Dobe!!" The sounds of fighting began.
And Haku watched it all from his place in heaven, smiling.
SEE, MY FILES GOT WIPED OFF (ALL ((about)) 5400 KILOBYTES) SO THEN I HAD TO RETYPE EVERYTHING AND SO BUT I ACTUALLY HAD A _LOT_ OF THIS WAITING FOR YOU (meticulously revised) AND MANY OF YOU KNOW I HAVE MANY MORE FANFICS (Thank you all for your support) SO UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS NOT AS GOOD AS WHAT I USED TO HAVE (characters aren't exactly in character) BUT PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE READ THIS~~~!!!!
Megumi sighed and walked up the steps. She had finally checked the last patient, and was going up the steps of the Kamiya dojo, her basket of treats that she had made earlier in her hands. The boys will probably be DIEING by now for acceptable food. She swished back the front paper doors of the dojo, expecting serene peace surrounding Ken-san doing the laundry. Uh uh. That's not going to happen today.
"SASUKE!! YOU BASTARD!! BASTARDBASTARDBASTARD!!" A boy was shouting over and over and over.
"Shut up, dobe." The supposedly named Sasuke said scornfully. The golden haired boy flew in a rage and started fighting Sasuke.
Huh. Quite odd.
"Hey Kenshin, you shouldn't be doing the laundry right now." Sano said to Ken-san drunkedly, pointing his sake bottle at Ken-san, who was indeed, doing the laundry again. Sano went back to watching the two boys. "Huh. Naruto's pretty bad..."
"Pure white!!" Ken-san said happily, holding up a clean blanket. "Oro?" Naruto's foot jammed into Ken-san's face. "Orrroooo....!" Ken-san fell into the washing basket.
"AWGH!! SORRY!" Naruto paled as he bounced off Ken-san and slammed into the paper sliding door. Sasuke sighed.
"Dobe." He turned to Sano, who stared back at him lazily. Sasuke charged. Sano blocked with ease using the sake bottle. Cuffing Sasuke, he then tipped some sake into Sasuke's mouth.
"Loosen up, Sa-chan." Sasuke struggled and coughed out.
"Do not call me Sa-chan." His face turned red after he drained the bottle. A man with grayish hair covering his left eye sat in a tree branch, reading a book and then shouted,
"The boy's drunk, Sanosuke." The man sweatdropped when Sanosuke stuck his finger up and shouted,
"I don't give a damn!"
"..." He stared. Sano proceeded to drink.
"I see you are too." The man went back to his book.
Kaoru didn't seem to be the type who let a man who read 'Come Come Paradise' in her dojo. In fact, here she was now.
"SANO! DID YOU MAKE HIM DRUNK _AGAIN_??!!" She turned her head to the Naruto looking sheepishly at the hole in the paper sliding door. Her veins popped and she pointed to both Naruto, Yahiko, and the guy in the tree. "NARUTO! KAKASHI! YAHIKO! YOU ALL ARE FIXING THAT DOOR!"
"Bu-"
"Don't but me! That's the tenth time you've broken that door, Naruto!" Naruto glanced upwards sheepishly.
"Hag." Yahiko scoffed.
WHAM
"He had that coming..." Kakashi sighed. Naruto waved down at the Yahiko shaped hole.
"...." Kenshin peeked from the washing bin. "Oh! Megumi-san!" He smiled. Everybody noticed her for the first time.
Slow fools.
"Megumi! Finally, you're here! I've been taking care of Sanosuke for WAY TOO LONG!" She threw a dirty glance at him.
"More like poisoning me-" The Zanza was silenced by a fan smacked in his face. Megumi sighed.
"Well then, a couple more minutes couldn't hurt, could it?" She met by a glare. The doctor ignored this and continued. "I have more important things to do, like seeing to it that no one else gets _poisoned_." She smiled with that fox look at Kaoru, who flared.
"GET OUT TRAMP! NOW!"
~*~
"Eh...I heard herbal medicines are best for headaches due to liquor." Sakura inquired hesistantly. She watched as Kaoru swung the paper doors for the medicinal cabinet her family dojo contained and dumped random herbs into the water. Sakura sweatdropped. The kendoka girl handed Sakura a cup of the tea, and she recoiled. Not particularly sure it was quite SAFE, Sakura hesistantly turned to Sasuke.
"Ah, Sasuke-ku-" She was talking to thin air.
"I...saw you destroy the clan. Everyone...their dieing words were-" Sasuke's voice was unnormally painful as he threw six kunais with a perfect swing. Sanosuke grabbed them all and pinned Sasuke's collar to the ground with one grabbed kunai in his hand.
"Sa. Chan." The Zanza emphasized. Veins popped in both of them.
"Don't call me Sa-chan, I'll kill you!" This went on for a while.
WHACK
"OW." They more or less shouted in unison. Kaoru stood menacingly above them.
"Sa...." She fumed. Sanosuke 'oh'ed silently. Sasuke looked away. "WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING?!!" Kaoru slammed the two cups home on the floor. They recoiled, faces twitching.
"..." Was what they were thinking. "Well?" The two brothers picked up a cup. The Zanza, with much more experience with Kaoru's tea, waited for Sasuke to try first. He did. It wasn't pretty.
"This SUCKS!!" Naruto ripped the paper that was supposed to mend the door. "Kakashi-sensei!! Why aren't you helping?!!" Kakashi looked down.
"Oh, I'm supposed to? Alright I'll be there in just a second."
"Wha-HEY! YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!"
Kakashi just whistled.
"I see...so that's what happened." Megumi said thoughtfully. "So today Sanosuke's going to tell the truth?"
"It seems that way." Kenshin nodded.
'The idiot...only he would have made a bet like that...' She thought scornfully, her mind taking in the fact Sano had gambled his life with an active shinobi. She shuddered to think if someone who was trying to murder her lived with her too.
"Sasuke-kun? SASUKE-KUN?! ANSWER ME!!" Sakura shook Sasuke's clothes rapidly, crying. Sanosuke scratched his head.
"It wasn't my fault."
~*~
Sanosuke sighed.
"I really don't want to tell everyone this..." He mumbled. He had almost, ALMOST forgotten his past but oh no, Sa-chan had to come and ruin it all. '...Sa-chan...' He walked in and sat down with the group. Or rather, he fell down with the melee.
"Sanooooo!! You're LATE!!" Kaoru waved around the hishima(paper fan) that she slapped him down with menacingly. Kenshin was chatting with Megumi, who served her food in small platters on purpose. The Team 7 and Yahiko made a neverending cycle.
Team 7 eats ravenously, while Yahiko takes some from the bigger stash found behind Megumi.
Naruto and Sasuke eye the last takoyaki. Naruto makes a grab for it, but trips and falls and watches Sasuke take the takoyaki.
"GIVE THAT TO ME!"
"...no!" They start fighting for the last takoyaki.
Yahiko joins to get his revenge on Sasuke who tried to kill him.
However, Kakashi comes up with a clever solution by eating the takoyaki himself.
"KAKASHI-SENSEI~~!!!" Naruto shouts angrily. Sasuke glares, and refuses the food that Sakura offers.
Megumi brings in more.
This happens all over again.
In the end, they never heard Sanosuke's story.
~*~
"Sure, whap a guy to the ground and don't even hear the story..." Sanosuke grumbled to himself, walking through the courtyard with the usual fishbone stuck in his mouth. "...?" He looked to see Sasuke, sitting on the roof. He went to join Sa-chan with a gentle leap.
"I...want to kill you." Sasuke turned around, his Sharingan showing. "I...need to..." His eyes tensed. Sanosuke sighed. If there was one thing which kept Sanosuke unbruised, it would have been Sa-chan's hidden conscience.
"Why don't you try?" Sanosuke grinned. "You know you couldn't really kill me."
"....!!!" At this, Sasuke charged. Then stopped. "See Sa-chan?" Sanosuke put his index and middle finger together and poked Sasuke sharply on the head. "I've been telling you ALL THE TIME. I. Didn't. KILL THEM~~~~!!!" Sanosuke screamed this, shaking the entire dojo and six blocks around it.
"KEEP IT DOWN YOU BASTARD SANOSUKE~~~!!" Yahiko's voice added the second tremor. Sanosuke put a hand on Sasuke's shoulder and pushed him down into a sitting position.
"Listen, Sa-chan." Sasuke backhanded him.
"Don't be kidding me." He glared. Sanosuke sighed. As Sasuke was walking away, the Zanza stated loudly to him,
"How would you like to know how Mother committed suicide and killed your father?" Sasuke turned around with wide eyes.
"Heh. Thought so." Sanosuke spit out his fishbone. "Just listen this once, would you?"
"..." Sasuke walked closer to his brother, and listened closely, sitting down next to his brother.
"Isn't that sweet..." Sakura whispered happily.
"Bah." Naruto humphed. 'What am I doing anyway? Eavesdropping on Sasuke...' He reddened. "Oh well..."
And so, the story began.
~*~
The end of the chapter!! ...Is what I would have said. But, look! To compensate for the lost time, there is *drumroll* TWICE AS MUCH STORY!!
~*~
"You know, Sasuke, that your mother was part of the Uchiha Clan, and my father was not? Heh, he wasn't even a shinobi! Since the Uchiha Clan was strict about these rules, I could not enter the Hidden Leaf Village without being confined to one small playground for kids." Sanosuke stared up at the sky, recalling these memories.
"A playground?" Naruto whispered to himself with 'cynical' lacing his voice. 'A PLAYGROUND?!'
Sasuke watched as his oniisan gazed mindlessly into the sky, knowing that he must be remembering one certain memory...
And indeed he was.
~*~
"Sano-nichan! Sano-nichan!!" Four year old Sasuke came running up to the half Uchiha member. "I thought you were going to help me with shuriken throwing today?" Sanosuke looked at him, and smiled. Sasuke, on the other hand, pouted confusedly.
"You think they'd let me near one of those things, Sasuke?" He laughed. "You know, they always said you reap what you sow, it's their fault they made it so they thought I have a huge grudge on them." He took one look at Sasuke's crestfallen face. This changed his decision. "Hey, hey, lean in a little closer." Sasuke did as he was told. "How about th-"
"SANOSUKE!!" The nine year old child was hit in the back with a pot.
"Wh-wha-!!" He turned around abruptly. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" He turned to face another Uchiha member.
"Stop brainwashing the poor boy! You filthy, filthy-!!" The villager Namari shrieked.
"What's the commotion?" Mother had come to check it out. She was greeted with a slap.
"It's all your fault!! Not only is your son transferring his horrid traits to everyone else's children-"
"Except you, since you got none." Sanosuke grumbled quietly.
"-he's doing the same thing to your OTHER son! It's all because of you, and your bastard of a love-" She was cut short by Sanosuke, knowing that he couldn't hit her, shouting:
"YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF STODGY UPTIGHT BITCHES YOURSELVES, COMMITTING INCEST INSTEAD!!" This crumbled the the 40 year old woman.
"He-you-Where did he learn this kind of language?!" She shrieked at the poor mother. Sanosuke 'humph'ed, while Sasuke was inquiring was 'incest' was.
"Sano-nichan, Sa-" He was tugging on Sanosuke's shirt when all of a sudden he was dragged away.
~*~
"I...would rather you not recall that, aniki." Sasuke sweatdropped.
"Damned, discriminating crimes..." Sanosuke muttered. "Well, in the end, Mother couldn't stand it, and neither could Namari." He looked to Sasuke. "Don't you understand? Namari was the one who killed half the Uchiha Clan!"
~*~
"Fools!! Letting you in this place was a complete wretched mistake!!" Namari whispered with intensity to Sanosuke, gripping his shoulders tightly as if hoping he would be squeezed to death if she did. "I shall slaughter the entire clan-and you shall be reason!! The reason!!" She let go one of her hands and, laughing maniacally, stabbed the sleeping person next to her, who was never to wake up again.
"No...!" He watched, helpless on the roof, watching Namari with emotion filled eyes, not knowing whether to laugh at those who had tried to lynch him, or be sad for them being killed, or be scared from the dire consequences of these actions once Namari accused him of blame. Under the moon, his shaded face and mind knew only two things. The hate...
"NAMARII~~~!!!" He screamed on top of his lungs, but no one heard him, since they had a festival and she put sleeping pills in the drinks. Oh yes, the hate, but also...
He made a dash to his should have been home.
"SASUKE! SASUKE!!" He desperately tried to wake the boy up. "SA-CHAN!!" Grinding his teeth, he did the only thing he could do. He ran. Sanosuke dropped the boy right outside the village, and hurried back in to find Namari before she was done.
When he found her, she was dead.
"Sa..no..." His mother was staggering towards him. "...my...child..." She half embraced, half collapsed on the boy. "The..prod..ct..." She coughed. "...of my... foolishness. I...am....sorry." She shed tears, and was once again on her move. Sanosuke, shaken, picked up the scroll she dropped. He read it. And dashed to his house.
I am Juliet. The Juliet with two Romeos.
The Juliet without consent for her children to be alive.
Already, his mother returned to her home.
I am the Juliet, but oh, such an uncourageous Juliet!
She staggered, clamoring her way into the bedroom.
For I did not fake death, not even to save my spawn,
Even though I am forgotten! Oh woe!
Be I, the wretched Juliet. Shall I die alone?
She grabbed a kunai.
But I, the wronged, the wanting Juliet, have come
To take away my Romeo. My Romeo must never leave!
For I shall be with him, side by side, until the day we die.
She gazed at her husband, the father of Sasuke. She killed him.
I, Juliet, have come to take away my Romeo!
No matter how wronged I was,
This is the course we must take!
The blood splattered all over. She raised the kunai again.
For he is Romeo, and I his Juliet,
By all thy means, we are
"MOTHER~~~~~!!!" He screamed, agonized.
Inseparable.
I am sorry, my illborn child. My child of my first Romeo
The...Romeo who took away half my heart and left...
"...sano-..nichan?"
I am so sorry.
"Sa-chan!" Sanosuke whirled to see the tear-stained face of Sasuke.
"I...saw...you out there." Sanosuke was bewildered. How..? Wasn't that...?! "...Namari-san, she...told me what happened...right before she died."
It came to Sanosuke in one instant. But...there was no use reasoning with Sasuke. Stubborn. That's what Sasuke was. So stubborn...and weak. Sanosuke watched as Sasuke passed out with his mixed emotions of grief, hatred, and disbelief.
"Namari..." Sanosuke seethed. He ran outside to find the dead Namari. He stabbed the corpse, and it dissapated into leaves. "You...and your genjutsu are going to hell..!! The Sharingan burned, and the leaves crumbled.
And still, in Sasuke's dreams lived Namari's genjutsu.
~*~
"Of course, I had to flee after that." Sanosuke gripped Sasuke's hand tightly. "I tried so hard to find that Namari, but in the end I found out that some Hunter-nins had killed her. After many problems, I wound up here, stuck with a legendary idiotic hitokiri rurouni, a rurouni wannabe, a vixen, and a woman who can't cook. The Meijin government around here doesn't really like shinobis, so I haven't used jutsu for awhile. Basically all you wanted to know right?" The Zanza looked at his otouto, noticing the water-filled eyes he had, but never leaked out to tears. 'Heh, a little stronger than before...' Sanosuke smiled.
"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
"??!!" The two Uchiha brothers swirled around to find two crying ninjas.
"Sa-sasuke-kun~~!! I didn't know~~!!" Sakura wailed.
"~~~~~~" Said Naruto. Sasuke twitched to see them like that, especially Naruto. And the fact they heard that memory.
"Sakura! Dobe! You were listening?!"
"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!" Cried Sakura. Naruto dried his eyes and nodded. After that, his head met a kunai.
"OW?! SASUKE YOU BASTARD, I JUST WANTED TO ASK SANOSUKE A QUESTION!" He pointed a finger accusingly.
"What would that be?" The man asked.
"Um...eh....uh....How'd he learn that special jutsu Haku used?" Naruto, recently thinking of it, asked.
"Yeah, didn't Kakashi-sensei say that even he couldn't copy it, and it ran in Haku's Advanced blood?" Sakura was still wiping her eyes as she said this.
"...I don't wanna answer that question." Sanosuke walked away.
"H-hey?! NO! ANSWER IT!! COME BACK HERE!!" Naruto ran after him. Sanosuke immediately realized it would have been impossible to shake him off.
"Fine then! It took me awhile to learn it. I met Haku while we were both fleeing from one thing and another. Zabuza didn't seem to mind once Haku told him he was sure about... Hmm...about something. He never said." Sanosuke's eyes drifted up. "It was like a telepathy thing they had going on..."
"...You heard all that, Kenshin?" Kakashi asked, leaning against the dojo.
"Yes. I never knew Sano had such a hard life. It makes me wonder Kakashi-dono."
"Heh. Try yourself, Hitokiri Battousai."
"Hehe, maybe." Kenshin laughed, and looked at his feet. Four shurikens were between his toes. "Oro?!" He was stupified as more came to surround him. "Oro!!" He looked up to see Sasuke looking over from the roof.
"...Kenshin?" The rurouni smiled nervously. "Kakashi?!"
"Sorry, got lost, wandered here." He waved. Sanosuke and Team 7's faces went ' =_= ' "Does Sanosuke here still have his mother's scroll?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, I was wondering if you wanted to go back to the Hidden Leaf Village, Uchiha Sanosuke." A mixture of weird faces came up. Sanosuke grinned, and fold his arms.
"I'm not 'Uchiha Sanosuke' anymore. I don't wanna go back anyway! From now on for your reference, I am 'Sagara Sanosuke'!" He looked down to Kenshin, who smiled.
"Well, welcome, Sagara Sanosuke." Kenshin said.
"Yeah! As a welcoming gift, why don't you come with me to the gambling hall? I feel like winning again!" The smile on Kenshin's face froze. The rurouni sweatdropped while Sanosuke dragged him off.
"O, oro, Sano, wait~~~! Oroooo~~~!!"
' =_= ' said Team 7.
"I am ASHAMED that I called him aniki today!!" Sasuke stomped off.
"No, you mean 'Sano-niichan'~~~!!" Naruto grinned, following Sasuke. They started to get smaller, and closer to the horizon.
"Shut up!"
"SANO-NIICHAN~~~! WHAT DOES I-OW!!"
"Dobe!!" The sounds of fighting began.
And Haku watched it all from his place in heaven, smiling.