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Unexpected
Chapter 2: Sasuke Returns
Sakura stared far beyond the country's borders where an illuminating flare was seen ascending to the skies yesterday. Such a feat must have been astounishing for it to be seen from so far.
"Sakura-chan!" she heard an enthusiastic voice call her. The pink-haired girl turned around to see her former team 7 team-mate, Naruto.
"Naruto!" Sakura replied with a smile. "Haven't seen ya in a while."
"Well, I've been training with ero-sennin," Naruto responded.
"That's ni..." Sakura stopped when she felt a presence behind her. Turning around, she saw another figure that she had never seen in a long while.
"Ka-Kakashi-sensei!" both Sakura and Naruto exclaimed.
Kakashi merely raised his hand with a sleepy expression and said, "hey."
"Wow, this is great!" Naruto shouted. "It's like a team 7 reunion!"
Sakura's expression quickly fell, having been reminded of Sasuke.
That loud-mouthed idiot, Kakashi thought.
Naruto was as confused as ever and took a long time to register what he had said wrong. "I'm sorry Sakura-chan..."
Sakura forced a smile. "It's OK..."
Naruto then got into the good-guy pose. "Don't worry Sakura, I still remember the promise I made two years ago. And this time, I'll definetly bring him back."
"Thanks," Sakura replied.
"Anyways," Naruto began. "So whatcha been up to these past few years?"
"Well, nothing much. I've been training to be medic-nin," Sakura responded.
Kakashi, who was starting to feel a tiny bit left out of the conversation decided to speak. "Uh... Naruto. You do realize a genin like you wouldn't be able to participate on the mission to retreive Sasuke, right?"
"What?!" Naruto shouted at the top of his lungs as nearby people stared at him. "How come I went last time?!"
"That's because better ninjas weren't affordable then," Kakashi explained.
"Nnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
At the entrance of Konoha, three cloaked figures stood, their expressions hidden amongst the shadow cast over their faces. The leader was of relative size and had no special features above an average person that could be deciphered within the shade. The second was very large and towered over the leader. The last was also large, but nowhere near the size of the second and had a giant sword strapped on his back.
"So, why are we here?" the sword person asked the leader.
"No real reason," said the leader. "I just felt like strolling around."
"That's it?!" the sword person questioned. "You told us this was important! We should be helping the others!"
"Oh it is important... for me that is," the leader said as he revealed his Sharingan eyes.
The other two backed away from their 'leader'.
"Kisame, you weren't part of 'it'," the leader stated, "so I'll spare your life if you help me deal with..." The leader shifted his head towards the largest figure. "Him."
"What are you saying Itachi?" the large figure said in anger.
"So how bout it Kisame?" Itachi questioned. "Yes, or no?"
"Whatever your talking about. No," Kisame replied as he took out his enormous sword.
"Fine, then you shall both die," Itachi said coldly.
After a bloody and fearsome battle between the three Akatsuki members, Itachi stood triumphantly over his 'team members'. He was breathing heavily and had several serious wounds. One down... he thought ...and just a few more to go.
The next day, at the Hokage's office, a jounin barged in.
"Huh?" the Hokage was still gaining conciousness from her sleep.
"Hokage-sama, Uchiha Sasuke has returned!" the jounin reported.
That seemed to wake the Hokage up. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, not only that, but it seems that two Akatsuki members has been found dead near the village entrance," the jounin replied.
"What?!" Tsunade nearly screamed. "This is insane."
"You can go see for yourself Hokage-sama," the jounin responded. "The bodies are with the ANBU and Uchiha Sasuke is currently resting at the hospital.
"Tell the ANBU to bring the bodies here," the Hokage ordered.
After a while, the bodies were brought in along with many ANBU and jounins to make sure no traitorwould dispose of the bodies yet.
When the Hokage saw Kisame's corpse, she expected to see Itachi also but to her surprise, the other corpse was some other big man wearing the Akatsuki cloak. Tsunade examined the bodies and determined for herself that the two were infact Akatsuki members which scared her a lot because even she would be barely match these two. For them to be found so near Konoha meant someone extremely dangerous was nearby.
"Take me to the Uchiha," the Hokage ordered to one of the jounins.
Entering the hospital Tsunade found that Sasuke was badly injured, having serious wounds on his entire body.
"Why have you come back?" the Hokage demanded an answer. "No, even better. Why did you leave in the first place?!"
"I felt like it," the boy replied without much expression.
Tsunade became furious as he picked up Sasuke by his shirt collar. "You felt like it?! Do you have any idea how much you worried your friends?!"
Sasuke shot Tsunade a cold glare as she was holding him but quickly lost the look.
The Hokage was taken back from the killer-intent glare Sasuke gave her and let go. Tsunade recomposed herself and spoke again. "How exactly did you manage to return?"
Sasuke smirked. "You saw that light from two days ago."
He caused that? Tsunade thought with surprise. Is this even Sasuke? I can't detect any illusions but something seems odd about him.
"How is your cursed seal?" the Hokage asked.
"Fine, I guess," the boy shrugged.
"Alright, I'll leave you alone," the Hokage stated. "However, your going to be on probation for a while." With that said she left.
On her way out, she saw Naruto and Sakura head towards Sasuke's room. Word sure does spead fast, Tsunade thought.
At the door of Sasuke's room, Naruto stood with his fists clenched. Sakura was beside him and tears filled her eyes.
Suddenly, Naruto burst forward and punched Sasuke off his bed.
There was dead silence as everybody stopped.
Sasuke slowly stood up and then grinned. "Is that all you got, Naruto?"
"Sasuke you bastard," Naruto muttered. He then jumped and kicked at Sasuke only to be side-stepped.
"Your still pathetic as before," Sasuke taunted. "I can dodge you even though I'm injured."
It's just like last time... Sakura thought.
Naruto proceeded to charge at Sasuke when Sakura interrupted.
"Naruto stop!" Sakura shouted in tears.
Everyone was quite again. Until suddenly, Sasuke coughed out some blood.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura cried and rushed towards him.
"Don't worry I'm fine," Sasuke replied as he got up again. He then looked out the window for a while and spoke again. "You guys mind if I rest for a bit?"
"Sure," Sakura said as she grabbed the unusually quite Naruto and exited the room.
With that, Sasuke stood alone with his eyes closed. Not a single sound was heard except for the wind blowing outside and the birds chirping.
A hooded figure suddenly broke in through the window, causing Sasuke's eyes to open. "You finally showed yourself."
The newly arrived figure held a kunai at Sasuke's throat. "Who are you?" the figure asked.
"Why I'm Uchiha Sasuke of course," Sasuke replied.
"Che, liar," the figure stated.
Sasuke grabbed the figures kunai, threw it onto a side wall and leaped back. He smirked. "Like I said, I'm Uchiha Sasuke. The sole survivor of the Uchiha clan.
"That can't be true..." the figure replied as he removed his hood, "because I am Uchiha Sasuke!"