Okay well this is my first fic I've actually taken time to write down…Although I'm not to sure if I am pleased with it, I still have to see what I think of it. I will probably be making constant changes to the story until I'm happy with it, though they won't be anything drastic, so the storyline won't change.

Although I'm not completely sure of where this story is going, I plan to keep the characters mostly in character. I plan on adding a few of the hated characters from this series into my fic just to add something more…

Well for people who have read this before, I revised it so the grammar was a lot better and I added few things so thank you for the tips. I was just being lazy before, so that is why there were so many mistakes but they were fixed so it should make people happy.

This is a Sasuke/Oc pairing

Hints of Itachi/Oc pairing in past tense

Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Naruto, or there would be a lot more yaoi action going on in the series XP

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The Second Survivor

Chapter 1: Finding the Other

Sasuke's body seemed rather heavy as he rolled over to look at Naruto, who was sleeping soundlessly by the dancing flames of the fire. His eyes then wandered downwards to recognize the blossom pink hair of his female companion, her pink tresses flared out around her face and obscuring her features from view. He sighed to himself and rolled over once again before propping his head up on his hand, cheek molding into the palm of his hand perfectly. As he stared into the flames of the fire, they danced on his obsidian coloured eyes, only adding to the intensity of blaze while Sasuke stared off into space.

"Can't sleep either I see…" the voice seemed distant and distorted as it slowly seeped its' way in through Sasuke's ears and finally registered in his mind. Sasuke shook his head lightly, waking himself from his daydream, which to him was more of a thinking period.

His eyes traveled over to the base of a close by tree, only to find his sensei sitting there, Icha Icha Paradise flopped open in his hand. Sasuke looked from his sensei and then back to the book, a Sasuke rolled his eyes, a content grin visible through the mask hiding his sensei's face.

"No, it's not that I can't sleep. I just don't want to." Sasuke trying to come up with a quick reason. "Anyone could approach us, and with you having your nose stuck in that perverted book of yours, I'm worried for my safety and the others." He rolled over, cutting the other man off before he could even retaliate to the teen's comment, even though he knew it wasn't very believable.

Sasuke sighed to himself almost inaudibly, the sound of the soothing wind slowly tiring him out once more. His eyelids became comfortably heavy, his head hanging dangerously on his hand, attempting to find something stable to rest upon. Just before Sasuke was about to lay back down, the older males' voice broke through the still silence.

"You should definitely get back to sleep Sasuke…We have a long day ahead of us tomorrow. And we don't need you tired out."

Sasuke shook his head, snuggling back into his sleeping bag and closing his tired eyes.

"Good night Kakashi-sensei…" His voice was slurred as sleep over took his body and he fell into a comfortable slumber.

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The slight rustling of the leaves was the only noise that was heard as the group of four made their way quickly to their hidden destination. The blurred figures moved through the trees effortlessly, jumping from tree to tree. Eyes scanned the surrounding area thoroughly, making sure there were no 'unwanted' guests. The calming quiet of the forest shattered as a voice spoke and echoed through the woods, birds scattering away at the abrupt, obnoxious noise filling the air.

"So why are we going this village anyways Kakashi-sensei? And why haven't we found it yet? The cheery and happy-go-lucky blonde broke the silence, causing everyone in the small traveling to sharply look back at him. He scratched the back of his head as the others stared at him and gave a little laugh that soon died out.

As Sasuke gazed back at the cheery face, the blond thought that the death glare that was being given might drain the soul from his very body. His eyes widened, looking away from Sasuke and to his sensei. Sasuke just shook his head in annoyance. He had been enjoying the comfortable silence, which he was rarely given with the overly-talkative blond in his presence.

Kakashi looked at the young boy for a moment, sitting quietly and seeming as though he wouldn't answer at all. He then blinked a few times and took in a prolonged breath; a lazy drawl escaping passed his seemingly, barely moving lips, which was mostly caused by the mask that concealed his appearance.

"Haven't I already explained this?" He let out a sigh, his one eye boring into the blond. "There is a reason they are called the Village of Shadows Naruto, and it's because they are almost impossible to find without the guidance of a resident ofsaid village. And the reason we are the lucky ones going there, is due to the fact that the Hokage chose us to represent our village."

"But that still doesn't give reason to why we have to travel in the trees?" Naruto looked at him in a matter-of-fact kind of expression but his voice giving a question to his sentence. He sat down on the branch he was currently standing on and sighed, peering up at his sensei for a response.

Naruto's voice only seemed to irritate Sasuke even further, and more than the usual annoyance that the boy usually brought along any where he went. His idiotic questions caused him to roll his eyes and question whether or not the boy had a single brain cell that worked at all in his head.

"It's because that they are so well hidden that anyone roaming around could see us and follow us to our location." It was the first thing Sasuke had said to any of the others since they had woken up hours ago. His words were somewhat sarcastic but played out in an I-am-more-knowledgeable-than-you tone to Naruto's ears. Naruto then turned around and glared into the eyes that stared at him, although he just received a glare in return.

The faint sound of conversation, other than theirs, caused them to fall silent. The group of three teenagers followed cautiously behind their sensei, as the approached the source of the noise. As Sasuke perched himself on a branch, his ears perked up and noting to himself by the sound of the voices; two guys and a girl. But then another voice entered the conversation suddenly, but it was much deeper and a hell of a lot harsher.

"They haven't arrived yet?" Came the voice, sounding slightly aggravated.

"No. Nothing of them as of yet." The female's voice was monotone and emotionless as it filled the air, her figure just visible through a few leaves.

"Fine…I'll leave you all for now.You all know where to bring our guests." Sasuke watched him turn on his heel and began to walk off. But then stopped abruptly, his head turning to peer over his should and spoke in a cold and sour tone towards the girl.

"Oh…and Uchiha?"

The group of four froze, Sasuke's eyes widened but the other teenagers on the ground looked up at the man. The girl just gave the man a grunt of acknowledgment.

"Don't mess this meeting up will you."

The girl opened her eyes, looking up at the man with daring amusement. A soft chuckle was heard as she leveled herself to her feet.

"No I thought maybe I should attack them…catch them off guard. You know, show them our hospitality." She smirked as she received a glare before the he took off in a hurry. "Or better yet…I thought I should leave that to you."

Sasuke's heart seemed to have completely stopped beating all together. Had he heard correctly? Did that man just say what he thought he said? Sasuke try took shake himself from his shocked state, his eyes turning to the others. When he looked over, he found that three pairs of eyes were examining his reaction. He felt slightly awkward, his cheeks flushing from embarrassment. He turned his face away before anyone could notice, even though he wasn't sure how he was supposed to respond to the on-looking gazes.

"D-did you hear what he said Sasuke-kun?" chirped up Sakura, the first time Sasuke had actually paid even some attention to her voice that day.

"Yeah I did but it doesn't mean anyt--" Sasuke was interrupted when one of the males of the opposite group began to speak.

"I don't understand why he is so hard on you all of the time. It's not like you ever do anything wrong, why try and get you work up, even if he knows it won't work." The young man leaned up against the tree behind him, shaking his head slightly. "Besides…What is taking these people so long? It can't honestly take a full 4 days to cross a bit of land."

The girl started to laugh, the boy looking at her as though she had gone crazy. "Well to tell you the truth…They have been sitting up in the trees, observing us for over ten minutes."

Kakashi cocked his one visible eyebrow in amusement, a smile noticeable through his mask. Group seven looked down at her, but Sasuke smiled, to some extent impressed. Kakashi hopped out of the tree, shortly followed by Sasuke and Naruto. Sakura trailing off behind them. The teens filed swiftly in front of them, their heads bowed down to them.

"Welcome…" The girl stood up from in between the two men, once she turned her head so her face was able to be seen, Sakura let out a clear gasp.

"We will be the ones to accompany you to our village, but you…"

Her words didn't even register into Sasuke's brain. His eyes just stared, amazed, at the sight that stood only a few feet away from him. She looked almost identical to himself. Beside the fact that she had female features. Same dark, black eyes. Same black hair. Though it was longer, but not by much. It stopped at the shoulders and layered out in spiky chunks.

She wore a black top that was cut off at the shoulders. It had the same high collar, covering the lower half of face and her hatai-ai wrapped neatly around the outside of the shirts' neck. Her stomach was fully exposed, the end the shirt hooking under her bust. Her pants were made of the same material, but ended snuggly at the calves of her legs. Though there was to much material and it caused the pants to sag and puff out a little, making them sit dangerously low on her slim hips.

When Sasuke's eyes wandered down at her feet, he noticed that she wasn't wearing the same footwear as everyone else. Instead of the blue sandals, she wore just wooden like blocks, which immediately reminded him a lot of the red ones Gaara wore. Her hands wear done up in black wrappings, which wound up just below her elbow.

Sasuke was awoken from his gaze when he felt a fist come in contact with his arm. He spun around, finding Naruto laughing at him.

"You okay teme? You were staring at that girl the entire time she was talking. Man…If you want a chance with her, don't scare her away first. But now she is probably totally creeped out by you. Really smooth Sasuke-kun." Naruto just walked off, with his hands folded behind his head and his laughter filtering the air.

Sasuke quickly gathered his senses, taking off behind Naruto. They didn't say anything while they followed behind the group but Naruto had a wide grin plastered on his face. When Sasuke caught a glance at it, he stuck out his foot and Naruto toppled over, landing face first into the dirt.

"Bastard! What the hell is wrong with you?" Sasuke just continued to walk, a content grin on his face at the sound of Naruto's frustration.

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They had been traveling for quite some time, though Sasuke's mind was some where else so he hadn't really noticed. Not realizing they had stopped, he kept on walking, bumping right into Sakura. He moved back, giving them some distance, a light blush appearing on his face. Now he felt like a total idiot. How had he not noticed they had stopped? Sasukelooked ahead andpeered over Sakura's shoulder; a little village had finally come into view.

Then the unknown girl turned around, her seemingly dead voice ending the silence once more.

"The three of us will be your guides while you stay here so if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. This is Ryuu…" She pointed to the shorter of the males, "This is Okito and I'm Yumi."

With that said she turned around and walked towards to the village, the males following closely behind her. As they entered the small town, the tension that seemed to be pouring out of Yumi seemed to fade away. She lifted her arms, letting out a soft yawn and turning to Okito.

"Alright, let's go get something to eat. I'm starving. I haven't had something to munch on all day and with that goat breathing down my neck, I couldn't even sneak off to get something." She laughed, jumping onto Okito's back and pointing a finger forwards.

As soon as she had sat comfortably on Okito's back, her eyes narrowed and she flipped off, pushing off of Okito as leverage. Okito stumbled forwards, whirling around to see what was going on.

Through the dusty mist, a few silhouettes were some-what clear. The dust lifted from the air to show Yumi crouched down, her arm blocking a foot that was inches away from her face. There, before her, was the same man from earlier and he look pissed off.

He grabbed her by her shirt, pulling her up and whispering something inaudible into her ear. Her face scrunched up and she pushed him away. The only part of their conversation that was heard was Yumi's last words, she said as she walked away.

"Yeah and beating up on your disciples really shows them what type of people we are, now doesn't it!"

He went to slap her but she caught his hand by the wrist, throwing it off to the side. She stormed off, away from the confused onlookers. She continued, not even looking back once and slowly disappearing into the scenery.

"I wonder what the hell that was all about." An elbow connected to Sasuke's said, jolting him from his slight shock.

Sasuke turned to Naruto and shook his head in just as much confusion. He smirked, looking from Sakura to Naruto.

"One thing is for sure. He definitely makes it obvious that he doesn't like her."

"That's for sure." Piped up Sakura, taking a place beside Sasuke. "It almost seems that he can't wait to cause a problem between her and himself."

They all fell silent, as their eye fix themselves on said man as he walked over to them. A phony smile smeared on to his face.

"Please excuse her. Yumi is a very…complicated girl you could say." He smiled, looking back as though she were still there. "Very ambitious, mind you, and very talented, just little hot tempered. Now to more pressing matters. I will be escorting the lead representative of your village to discuss matters thoroughly with the heads of our community. Will we are doing that, the others are allowed to roam freely throughout the town."

Kakashi eyes peered over his book, sighing silently. He flopped it closed, shoving it back into his pocket and slipping his hand into the ones on his pants as well.

"See you kiddies later then." He smiled half-heartedly and followed behind the man. "Oh we never did catch your name by the way." Kakashi said more as a statement, not a question.

"Oh yes. Please excuse my lack of manners. My name is Kisho and I am the lead representative and negotiator for our nation."

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"Man I am so bored. There is nothing to do here. Everyone only seems to work. The kids aren't even playing around here." Naruto sighed, letting his head fall into the palm of his left hand and his other fingers tracing scribbles into the dirt. "Don't you guys have good places to go to around here? OH! Like a ramen hut?" Naruto face lit up as he bounced up and down in joy, hoping for a good response.

"Yeah, it's just down the path here. Has a giant red and yellow sign, hard to miss. Why? Is that where you all would like to eat."

"Oh man! Would we ever!" came the cheery blondes' voice once again, although mumbling and groans escaped the other members of group sevens' mouths.

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The group of five adolescents made their way down the dirt path as Naruto rambled on about his favourite types of ramen and about the people that work at the hut in Konoha, and whatever else he could come up with about the "out-of-this-world" dish.

Sasuke just ignored him as usual and walked ahead of the others. His mind wandered back and forth, from Yumi to his brother and how it seemed almost to good to be true that there was another Uchiha alive other than himself. His attention was automatically drawn to Ryuu when the boy came running up past him, waving his hand in the air.

"Hey Yumi!"

Ryuu called to her, his arm flailing in the air trying to capture her attention. Her dark eyes slide to the side and he turned her head a little to the side (though her body stayed firmly in place on the stool she was sitting on) to acknowledge his greeting. She smiled lightly, the corner of her mouth just lifting at the corner of where her full, soft, pink lips joined. Giving her hand a slight wiggle as she said hello back and then Sasuke realized that Yumi was presently seated at the outdoor ramen hut. Ryuu was right. The big red and yellow sign really was hard to miss.

"Care if we join you? We were all just about to grab a bite to eat." Ryuu said as he smiled, hovering over her shoulder and an overly joyful grin stamped on his face.

The two guys surrounded Yumi; Okito leaned against the counter and nudged at her arm, forcing her to look up at the offending hand. She slapped it away when he persisted and sighed in annoyance.

"Come sit at a table with us and stop eating by yourself would ya. It's so depressing when you eat all alone all the time." He walked up behind her, peering over her shoulder and then wrapping his arms around her. He then stepped back and pulled at her collar, hinting for her to move with them.

"It's not depressing when I sit alone; I just like to be able to hear my own thoughts and not be disturbed while I eat. And you two insist on talking whenever we have a meal together. Besides…I don't always eat alone." With that she picked herself off of the stool and grabbed her bowl, forcing her way through the two men. She took a seat at the back row of benches placed outside and began to eat again. "Well, aren't you going to sit down? I did move for a reason…"

Everyone began to a take a seat around the picnic bench, Naruto grinning as he moved himself to take a seat beside Yumi but before he could sit down, Sasuke grabbed him by the shoulder and yanked him away rather forcefully and whispered lightly into his ear.

"You'll annoy the hell out of her Naruto." He said an obvious smirk plastered on his face.

Sasuke then took the seat Naruto was going for and then gave a quick glance at him. He almost laughed when Naruto went as red as a cherry and looked like he was about to explode. He stomped off and sat next to Sakura, which was directly in front of himself. Ryuu took a place on the other side of Sakura and Okito next to Yumi.

The rest of them ordered their food, quietly chattering and eating at the same time. Okito gazed at Yumi. He only half way through his dish, along with most of the others, realized she had already finished and sat their quietly as she watched all of them.

"Don't you have class today Yumi? I know we had to go pick these guys up but--" he asked, speaking through the food in his mouth.

She sighed and leaned forward, letting her head rest on her folded fingers. "Yeah I did but I wasn't in the mood to put up with them today. Kisho was acting like an ass earlier and I don't want to take it out on the kids. At not just that but the last mission was a bust. Kai almost got the group killed and I don't want to put up with him at the moment. I almost killed him myself when they told me what happened."

Yumi sigh, shaking her head and rubbing at her eyes. After that there was a short moment of silence before Sakura spoke up.

"You know…It really is uncanny how much you to two look alike." When both pairs of eyes looked up at Sakura, she gave each of them a weak smile before turning back to eat her meal.

"Well it makes sense doesn't it?" Ryuu's head lolled on his fist as he peered at both of them. "They are both from the Uchiha clan…Most people look slightly similar. Seeing as the gene stays the same through out each family. Really…That doesn't leave much room for improvement. Not like any is needed." He chuckled as he looked up at Yumi, her eyes just rolling.

Yumi then stood up suddenly, bowing her head and throwing some money onto the table. "Please excuse me but I have things that must be tended to."

Sasuke stood up moments later, looking at the others and bowing his before making his way.

"Oi, Sasuke bastard! Where the hell are you headed off to in such a hurry?"

"None of your business dobe." He answered his tone rude and harsh. He started to venture quickly away from the group in pursuit of his fellow clan member.

"Yeah right you pervert! You are going to go follow her!" Naruto snickered when Sasuke turned around and glared at him. It looked as if his eyes would burst right out of his head from the angered expression present on his face.

Sasuke glanced down the road, trying to spot Yumi. He saw a blur of black fade into the forest and he dashed off after her, only a bit of dust filtering the air to where he once was.

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Yeah I finally finished the first chapter! I know it was a little slow but bear with me. This chapter was basically to just introduce you to some of the new characters I added in.

Oh and don't forget to review…I will give you a cookie