A/N-The next in a series of one-shots that are part of the saga that is 'When Reality Becomes Blurred. This one? It's called 'Red Eyes.'
Summary-Sasuke and Michelle bond while he helps her unlock her chakra and unleash the Sharingan.
Disclaimer-I don't own.
Michelle shook with anticipation. The raven haired boy-who she had just found out was her cousin-lead her outside and, once they were far enough away from the school that no one would notice them from the classrooms-on the edge of the woods by the school-he turned to face her.
"I thought…I mean, didn't Itachi kill all of the Uchiha's? I can't…this is almost surreal for me." Michelle said as a sort of an icebreaker. Sasuke's eyes narrowed as he tried to remember the bad memories. "I…he killed everyone at the complex that day. Except me." "The complex?" "The Uchiha family complex. However…I remember that at the time, several of my aunts and uncles were on vacation." His fist tightened at the very memory of that day. "I heard, when I was in Sound," he flushed here slightly at the mention of his betrayal of Konoha before continuing "I heard that, although "Itachi hunted down even those who were on vacation, they managed to get their children to safety. I guess you're the only one who made it…when I found this out we would've both been about 12 I guess…"
Michelle interrupted him softly. "Can we not talk about when you were in Sound? Like, unless it's necessary." She was unable to meet his gaze as she said "If this is true and I am half…maybe more…Uchiha and you're family…" she trailed off and looked back to the school as though calling back to her friends for help in saying this. The wind picked up a piece of her brown-black hair and blew it in front of her face. Brushing it out of the way she continued "When I saw that part of the anime…. and read that part of the manga…I hated you. I hated you for leaving everybody so suddenly and coldly. Mika, Seyann and myself…we all called you things like 'Bastard' and 'Traitor' and thing like that. If you bring it up, I'll remember how I felt about you betraying them like that and I don't want a reason to hate members of my family."
Sasuke looked over at her, surprised. "Ok. If that's how you feel, I'll respect your wishes…you will never hear me talk about Sound or Orochimaru or anything like that again. Now, shall we see about unsealing your chakra? First of all, do you have any sealing marks on your or anything like that?"
Michelle contemplated for a moment before saying "Well I have a weird looking birth mark on my ankle…does that count?" "Show it to me please." Michelle obliged, plopping down into a pile of dried leaves, relishing the crinkling sound they made as she rolled up her pant leg and rolled down her sock. "Birthmarks don't usually appear on ankles…" he muttered as he examined it. "This looks like the Uchiha clan symbol-the shape at least…here let me try something." He put chakra into his finger and pressed it to the birthmark. The brown of the mark came off and low and behold, beneath the brown (which came off like dried dirt) was a tattoo of the Uchiha clan symbol. Albeit, it was colourless…but still…
"Wow…" gasped Michelle. "Did you ever think that it looked like the symbol before?" Asked Sasuke with a smirk. "No…no I didn't but now that you mention it, it does."
"Clever. My aunt disguised it as a birthmark. Well…" Sasuke closed his eyes and formed a series of rapid hand seals. "This is a simple unsealing Jutsu. Hopefully it'll be effective." He stopped doing hand seals and placed a flat palm on his cousin's ankle. As his hand began to glow with chakra, Michelle winced in pain. Until, deep within her, she felt like a kind of gate had been opened. And it was no longer Sasuke's chakra flowing through her…
It was her own. And it felt indescribably wonderful.
Like she had just found something she didn't know she had been missing.
So with this new power, she tried the first Jutsu that came to her mind… "Oiroke no Jutsu!" she said, bringing her hands together and with a 'poof'…
She turned into a sexy…man.
With a 'poof' she turned back, a light flush on her face. "That didn't turn out how I expected…I wanted to be a sexy girl…" Sasuke meanwhile had fallen over and was recovering from that…sight. As he brushed his shirt off he said "Never do that again…please…you need your chakra."
Michelle nodded and said, "So…how do I use the Sharingan?" "Well…first you need to activate it for the first time…" Sasuke was thinking out loud. The next thing was thought in his head 'When mine was unlocked…it was in battle.' This being thought, he whipped out a kunai.
A bird flying by had distracted Michelle, but a kunai flew past her face, thunking into the trunk of a tree startled her out of that distraction. She twirled her head back around and saw Sasuke lining up another one to throw at her. This time when he came at her, she managed to roll out of the way in time. He turned on a dime, however, and was coming after her again. "What's…what are you doing Sasuke? This has to be a Genjutsu…" she said as she started to see red.
He said nothing but merely lunged at her again.
Michelle, however knew this area impeccably and before he could get to her, she was gone, racing amongst the trees of the little forest by her school. Once she had managed to hightail it up a tree she sat down to consider her options. She could scream. That would bring people coming…but Sasuke would hear her too…and he'd get there before anyone else. Another option was to keep attempting to activate the Sharingan…
The latter was the best option.
She focused her chakra to her eyes and tried. She felt something start but before she could fully activate it, a noise behind her broke her concentration. She whirled around on the branch but, not seeing anyone, she turned back around.
Two red eyes were in front of her. "Gotcha…" said a silky voice. Michelle yelped and almost fell from the tree, regaining her balance just in time. She squeezed her eyes shut and waited for the blow of the kunai that Sasuke was preparing to swing down on her…until she felt…almost, something turn on. Behind her eyes. She snapped her eyes open again and this time…she could see through Sasuke.
It was a genjutsu.
She rolled out of the way of the kunai that sliced the air as it slammed into the trunk beside her. Giving the doppelganger a kick, she made it vanish in a poof of smoke after wrenching the kunai away from it. Scanning the surrounding forest with her eyes, she sensed a surge of chakra coming from behind a bush nearby. Hurtling the kunai as best she could, she managed to hit the trunk just above where Sasuke was hidden.
Suddenly he appeared almost out of thin air behind her. "Congratulations are in order cousin. You've unleashed the Sharingan. There's just one thing. You must remember…never pursue the Mangekyou Sharingan. The lust for it destroyed Itachi's life…and that, in turn almost destroyed mine. It's an untouchable…it's.."
Michelle held up a hand. "Dude…I watched the show. Do I look like an idiot to you?" she said, smirk on his face.
He scowled at her and said, his own smirk growing on his face, "No doubt. You are definitely an Uchiha." Michelle laughed at this and spun on her heel to run back inside to show her friends.
A/N-There you go. A nice little bonding between cousins piece. I think Sasuke really likes Michelle…not in that way! REVIEW!
