Chapter 1: Inheritance

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Someone once asked me: "Sasuke, do you ever have dreams?" So I lied to them: "Yes, all the time." I would reply. The truth is, I don't think I've ever had a real actual dream, I only have nightmares.

Most of the time I sleep with no "dreams" or anything…but when I do have these so-called "dreams" they are usually horrible. I always seem to have the same ones of that horrible night where my parents were killed by my brother. Sometimes though…its worse…it's really me standing over their dead bodies.

There is however…one person who seems to snap me out of this state of feeling helpless, and that I'll turn out just like my brother, but she likes me…so that makes things…complicated.

But always, these words will echo in the back of my mind: "Foolish little brother. If you want to kill me, then hate, spite, and survive pathetically."

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"Good morning Sasuke." Said a pink-haired girl who came into the classroom and sat in front of him.

Sasuke sat at his seat, with his hands folded in front of his face, with the usual serious look. Normally he would just sit there and not even pay attention to her, but now that the chuunin exams were over, things were…different.

During the second part of the exam when they were in the forest of death, Sakura had defended him and Naruto while they were unconscious. She had done more then that though, once he had woken up, the curse mark took over him and he was about to kill that sound ninja team, but Sakura was there and pulled him back to reality.

She came up behind him, hugged him, and told him to remember who he was. The trance-like state he seemed to be in was completely cut off when he heard her voice…she brought him back. Now, every time he gets mad or to the brink he remembers her and is snapped back, plus she always seems to be there calling him back before he looses control.

His feelings about her had changed a lot, he now not only thought of her as just a friend or a fan girl, but now as somewhat of a drug that he could take when he felt like giving in.

The bell rang symbolizing the beginning of class, but the whole day just went by in a haze for Sasuke, he was much too deep in thought about Sakura to do anything else.

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"I'm a serious threat to myself and anyone else around me, what if I don't have any control and end up hurting her, or worse…myself." Sasuke thought as he walked home that day after school, "Ugh, now I just sound like some stupid concerned boyfriend or something."

He walked the rest of the way home in a daze, not even having a care in the world.

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The next day, Sakura, and Naruto met up at Sasuke's house early in the morning because it was their day to train with Kakashi. The three were still very tired and walked in silence to the place in the forest where they always met.

Not too long after they had gotten there did Kakashi appear with a poof of smoke. He had his usual cheerful look on his face, and held a scroll in his right hand, he held it up saying, "We've got official business from the Hokage." Everyone perked up a bit at this remark.

"Alright, a mission from the Hokage? What does he need up to do? Defend the town from evil, ward off spirits!" Naruto said excitedly.

"Never mind him sensei, just tell us what to do." Sakura said.

"Well actually Sakura, we are defending a town, it's just not ours. You see, there's a village not far from here where there have been massive numbers of killings, they thing it has something to do with an outsider maybe." Kakashi answered.

"Alright let's go!" Naruto jumped at the opportunity.

"Wait, what's the name of this village?" Sasuke said bluntly.

"It's called the village of Sohei." Kakashi replied.

"Hmmm…Sohei…that means it's probably really cold there right? I mean it's already getting to be winter around here but, over there it must be freezing!" Sakura added.

"Yes, I'm sure it will be quite cold, but that's something we're just going to have to live with." Kakashi said.

End Chapter 1

Sohei-The reason Sakura thinks that this village will be cold is because the word Sohei means blue ice, so the village is literally called "Blue Ice Village".

Okay now that I've explained that, I can ask everyone how they liked this story. I'm thinking there will probably be at least four of not more chapters of this story but I've only written three and a half so far. I'll post more as soon as I possibly can!

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