Legacy
by Jasmine Starlight
Full Summary: Before the Yondaime met his untimely death, what if his hopes came to pass? Naruto, his legacy, would be treated as a hero. In line to become the next Hokage, but where does that leave Uchiha Sasuke? A look into a future that could have been. Sasu/Hina
A/N: This is my first Naruto fanfiction. Deal with it.
For shikaruTo
EPISODE 2: POPULARITY BLOWS (TEAM 7 IS BROKEN)
After flirting with both Sakura and Ino, justto get them pissed off at each other Naruto swaggered out of the flower shop and wandered around for awhile.
His wandering feet led him to the Hero's Stone, well technically at the bottom of the hill that the Hero's Stone was on.
He began the steep walk up the hill and to his amazement he saw Sasuke praying at a smaller stone nearby, the flowers from Ino's shop laid on the ground.
He quietly snuck around the Hero's Stoneand moved to stand next to Sasuke, "What are you up to now, Dobe?"
Sasuke opened his eyes to spare an annoyed glance toward Naruto, "What do you want?"
"I asked you a question first, Dobe, answer it."
"How about fuck off?" Sasuke suggested.
"You don't have to mean about it, just answer my question." Naruto demanded.
"I told you to fuck off, there's your answer."
"Che! Does being an orphan make you irritable and idiotic?"
"I don't know you tell me."
"Why can't you be happier?" Naruto demanded irritatedly.
"Why can't you leave me alone? I never did anything to you; I never said anything to you, why can't you leave it like that?"
"Why are you so anti-social?"
Sasuke ignored him and went back to praying.
"Hey!"
Sasuke went on praying.
"Don't ignore me!"
Sasuke went on ignoring him.
"Fine, be that way."
Umino Iruka knew what it felt like to be all alone in the world.
That's why he had gravitated toward Sasuke, that's why he was continuously taking care of Sasuke, and looking out for Sasuke.
He knew what it felt like to grow up without help.
He also knew that the people Sasuke was today, he was it because of himself, not because of any of his relatives, and Sasuke had learned everything on his own.
Of course he wasn't completely alone, Iruka had been guiding him all along, he himself having walked down a similar road.
That's why he was mildly interested when Hyuuga Neji stopped him to ask about Sasuke.
"Which Genin team will Uchiha be placed with?" he inquired politely.
"Ah, Neji-kun how nice to see you again, how are Tenten-chan and Lee-kun?" Iruka smiled.
"They're fine, what team?" Neji asked again.
"Neji-kun if this is another attempt by Maito-san to find out which students Kakashi-sensei will be getting, you can forget it." Iruka said, his cheery demeanor vanishing temporarily.
Neji was suddenly stuck with the image of an irate Iruka-sensei teaching with a very large ANBU katana.
Then he was waving the katana in the air and…
It was too weird to finish that thought.
It frightened him immeasurably, so he banished that thought with another, a thought from an odd training session Gai-sensei had given them.
"My dear students, I know you have reached the springtime of youth that I have so gloriously enjoyed for so long, but with it comes great responsibility of an adult."
"What are you saying, Sensei?" Lee asked, his kawaii eyes widening in anticipation.
"I am saying that in the springtime of your youth, well at the start you may start to get urges."
"What kind of urges?" Tenten asked suspiciously.
"The beautiful urges that come with the marathon of youth, my young pupils!" Gai exclaimed joyously.
"You mean puberty?" Neji asked skeptically.
"Ah, Neji-kun, always the modern one! Yes, 'puberty' is what it is called nowadays, with 'puberty' comes hormones, these hormones may cause you to feel odd emotions that you are unused to, my dear students."
"Really?" Lee asked, his hands clasped together in righteous admiration.
"Hai! The hormonal changes occur differently in girls, than in boys."
"How Sensei?" Lee asked earnestly.
"Well for one thing, girls experience what is called a menstrual cycle--" he couldn't finish the rest of his sentence as Tenten's fist collided with his head, mussing up the perfectly coiffed bowl-style.
"That's enough." She ground out, between clenched teeth before turning to leave, "I'm going to go see Kurenai-sensei."
"I see your taijustu has improved Tenten-chan, my glorious thriving sakura blossom of a pupil." Gai exclaimed.
"Hai! Hai!" Lee agreed vigorously.
"Now, that Tenten-chan is gone, I must discuss something very serious with the two of you, my youthful male students." Gai said somberly.
"What is it?" Lee asked anxiously.
"Yeah, what is it?" Neji asked unenthusiastically.
"Your ever raging hormones may cause you to want to do certain things to the object of your affections." Gai said moving his caterpillar like eyebrows to and fro.
"Huh?" Neji said.
"It may cause you to want to 'have sexual intercourse.' This is a very grave matter; for it is not to be taken lightly, when and only when you and the object of your affections are ready shall you attempt this act." Gai said seriously.
Lee's eyes were wide, and were growing wider by the second.
"But my students, I want to instill this mantra in you. SEX CAN WAIT! MASTURBATE!" Gai declared the last part to the world.
Neji: O.o
Lee: Yosh!
Gai: And also, spandex can come in handy in the most peculiar places.
Neji: Double O.o
"Neji-kun?"
"Eh?" Neji was snapped out of his reverie.
"You know I can't discuss things like that, Neji-kun." Iruka said softer.
"Hai, wakari masu. Ja." Neji responded somberly.
"Ja ne." And then Iruka was off.
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When Sasuke finished at the gravesite it was dusk as he was walking down the hill, that's when Naruto blitzed him.
His attack sent Sasuke rolling down the hill, Naruto was kind of stuck under him, when they stopped rolling, Sasuke settled for punching his lights out.
"Hey, what's your deal?"
"My deal? You tackled me and sent me rolling down that hill, you're fucking insane." Sasuke replied angrily.
And so that was how Sasuke and Naruto began their lifetime of showdowns.
To be sure, Naruto wasn't doing so well, and to be fair Sasuke had all that practice from Kiba randomly throwing things at him, and jumping on him for no apparent reason.
Akamaru occasionally joined in.
Shadow clones had been pointless and inefficient and had been dealt with shortly thereafter towards the end it was clear Naruto would triumph, mostly because of sheer stamina and partly because Sasuke had run out of things (kunai, shuriken, exploding tags, smoke bombs, etc) to throw at him.
As Sasuke staggered to his feet, Naruto charged him, shuriken at the ready.
Sasuke didn't even feel the pain anymore, or the warm blood that was slipping out of him and onto the green grass.
He didn't feel the stinging pain as the shuriken sliced into his skin, at least not like he should have.
The only reason he noticed Naruto's pause was the fact that there were no longer projectiles whizzing toward his face.
Naruto was regarding him oddly, "What? Are my brains leaking out or something?" he deadpanned.
"Your eyes." Naruto replied.
"You know, my eyes aren't a good excuse to stop in a middle of a fight." Sasuke pointed out.
"There's something wrong with them." Naruto offered by way of explanation.
"Still doesn't mean we should stop the fight." Sasuke reiterated.
"Look." Naruto replied, dragging him over to a nearby stream to look at his reflection.
What Sasuke saw staring back at him, were crimson eyes, and black comma like tails surrounding them.
It was happening.
The color of blood, the dark red color that refused to let him be as it tauntingly reminded him of the past in his ever recurring nightmares.
His family's blood.
The blood that still stained the walls of the Uchiha complex, the walls that had absorbed the screams of agony of the occupants as they were killed and tortured, their unfinished dreams, their hopes, their closeted phobias and daily idiosyncrasies now rested upon Sasuke's shoulders.
Their suffocating eyes followed him everywhere in that house.
Their expectations for their own lives now rested at his feet, it was his responsibility now, his job to pick up the pieces of his shattered family and prevail over all obstacles that occurred in his path.
He was supposed to become a glorious avenger, an omnipotent hero without flaws or weaknesses, he was supposed to be the hero at the end of the action movie, who spent 120 minutes fighting off the bad guys to receive his due rewards.
There would be no rewards for Uchiha Sasuke.
Just loneliness, emotional frustration, and the monotony of his own suicidal thoughts.
He couldn't walk down the most nondescript of alleyways without inciting several painful memories that did not belong to him.
They were a burden, a burden that no child should have to bear, let alone by himself, there was a reason Sasuke had been a reclusive child.
The eyes were boring a hole into him.
Hypnotizing—no! No! No! NO!
This wasn't him, he didn't deserve this!
He didn't need this.
This, this curse!
Didn't he already have enough to deal with?
Nothing could change the fact that there was a pair of Sharingan eyes glaring stonily back at him.
Sasuke felt the rage build up inside him, like a strong wind battering a tree, eventually the tree will give way and the branches will snap.
Everyone has their breaking points, Sasuke had just reached his.
And the only person around for Sasuke to take out his frustrations on was Naruto.
Suddenly, Naruto wasn't winning anymore.
In fact, Sasuke seemed to be kicking the shit out of him, literally.
Eventually, the neurosis passed but Naruto was still twitching on the ground, his arm was one bloody gash.
Sasuke took this time to take inventory.
He had bruising on most of his body which would turn green in a few days before healing, long serrated gashes that came from shuriken most likely which didn't look too bad but would need to be bandaged and treated immediately.
Sasuke slowly began unwrapping the bandages on his legs and arms, using them instead for his injuries, which now seemed to be growing in size and quantity.
Naruto groaned, Sasuke poked him, "Nani?" he muttered.
"Sit up moron." Sasuke replied.
"I can't Dobe," Naruto admitted angrily, "There were several of your kunai which either landed in my shins or scraped them."
"As if your shuriken didn't embed themselves into my arms." Sasuke sneered.
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Behind her tree, Hinata was slowly counting all the medicinal ointments currently on her person; she would have to carefully divide them for both Uzumaki-kun and Sasuke-kun.
She tensed as she heard them limping by her hiding place, they were arguing, slowly she stepped out from behind the tree.
"Ano…" she began, holding out her ointment.
"—such an asshole!" Naruto finished as he heavily leant on Sasuke.
"What was that? I'm the only reason you're standing Temee."
"You're the reason I need you to be the reason I'm standing!" he exclaimed loudly.
"Disregarding the fact that that sentence didn't make sense, who decided it would be fun to tumble down a hill?"
Naruto had nothing to say to that but instead noticed Hinata standing there, "Hey look, it's Harumi!" he exclaimed loudly.
Hinata flushed and looked down.
"It's Hinata dipshit." Sasuke corrected sneeringly.
"Excuse the Dobe, Hitomi-chan." Naruto said accommodatingly.
"I told you its Hinata!" Sasuke insisted.
"So, Hinoki, how have you been?"
"It's Hinata you fucking deaf bakayaro!" Sasuke bellowed.
Naruto turned to continue his one-sided conversation with 'Hanoi' only to find a small mountain of medical supplies but no 'Haruka'.
Strange.
END
Rat-Ninja- I don't know about Sasu/Naru. I was thinking Naru/Hina/Sasu, Naru/Hina being one-sided of course, this is turning out to be a mainly Sasu/Hina fic, although Chouji seems to have paired himself off with Kankurou in my mind for some odd reason. Temari/Shino too, I dunno why……I think there's something wrong with me…
shikaruTo- I seem to have gotten this out in good time…since you and Rat-Ninja reviewed.
Lost ninja #1- I could do some Naru/Sasu if you really want it…I've never done it before…shouldn't be too hard, my yaoi writing skills are getting better…