Flesh For Strength

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto... I don't own anything...

A/N: I probably made a lot of spelling errors so i'm sorry if you happen to come across some. Also, some of the info in this fanfic came from the manga, not the anime. Hope you enjoy :)

Warnings: Cursing, Sasuke's POV, maybe some typos and spelling errors. Crude Humor, spoilers & violence. No yaoi.


Chapter Four - Being Pushed Back

Shades of white blended with beautiful floods of blue across the shy... Amazing colors just passing us by... Something this great shouldn't be ignored as clouds roam the land beyond... Nothing could break such a harmonizing scene... Such elegance and beauty...

"You ass-hole!"

"Gotta be one ta know one!"

"Shut up!"

"Bite me!"

"Argh!"

This wasn't going to be a very easy goin' trip. Kabuto just doesn't respect me. I know he's jealous too, as well as over worked, but that still gives him no reason to just attack me. I'm not even sure what I did to offend the moron.


Several Minutes Ago...

Before the attack, I was staring at Kabuto, wondering about why he came to work for Orochimaru. I couldn't see what Orochimaru saw in him besides his healing abilities. So, I decided to ask...

"Hey, Kabuto?" I waited for a response but didn't come so I continued. "How come you work for, Orochimaru?"

Kabuto didn't awnser me right away but merely shrugged it off. I really didn't see why he was important or how he became Orochimaru's right hand man. Kabuto was just to mysterious (1).

"What are you hiding?" During the two-and-a-half years I've been with them both, I never had the nerve to ask them... Either, I didn't care around the time or I was just occupied with other things. But now I was curious...

"I'm not hiding anything," Kabuto told me with a steady tone.

"Sure you are, I'm mean look at you. You work for Orochimaru yet the reason is left unknown---"

"He canceled a hypnosis one of the Akatsuki members held on me."

"Which one?" The first idea that came to my mind was Itachi but then I remembered what the other minions had said to me.

"A puppeteer named Sasori... Why?" Kabuto asked suspiously.

"Just wondering... What, don't trust me?"

"Not in the slightest," Kabuto replied with displeasure. "You might be Orochimaru apprentice, but that doesn't mean that everyone has to trust you. If you've forgotten, you're under the eye of a murderer."

"So are you, but I trust you... At points, then you just become to damn mysterious."

"... I don't see anything mysterious about me..."

"Pssh, don't give me that!" I responded with a voice a little above average pitch.

"Sasuke, I so don't need this right now, just shut up."

"But, we're not even doing anything but walking."

"We're searching, searching for Orochimaru-sama," Kabuto explained to me as though I was too stupid to put all the words together. I groaned, I couldn't believe I had to live with this.

"Yeah, yeah... You don't have to say it as though I'm a child," I mumbled the last sentence quietly but I think Kabuto heard me.

"Well if you didn't act like one then maybe I wouldn't have to."

"Pssh... Hoe," I didn't want to be here... at least not with Kabuto.

"What did you call me?"

"What? Are you deaf, too?" I said with a irritated tone.

"You ass-hole!"

"Gotta be one ta know one!"

"Shut up!"

"Bite me"

"Argh!"


I think this is where we pretty much left off... So, Kabuto becomes a little bitchy because I called him a hoe... Big deal! Not like I never called him that before! And so he begins to attack me as though the idea of me being Orochimaru's vessel completely left his mind.

Kabuto starts off with his hands covered in visiable chakra that only reached five milimeters more than his normal reach. But then again, if I remember correctly, this jutsu could cut through organs and such. "Better be prepared, Sasuke!"

"Damn!" The thing was I wasn't prepared, I wasn't far enough away from him to escape so I was forced to dodge. Unfortunately, I was still sliced by the chakra just above my elbow which just so happened to cut through my muscle which rendered that arm useless. This also meant I could no longer make seals. Even so, there was another move that didn't need two hands to make...

"Chidori!"

I then advanced straight towards Kabuto. I would have liked to use the Chidori Nagashi (2) but I'd feel more comfortable using that technique when two arms are available. Kabuto jumped up into a tree and I missed the chance to attack, then Kabuto started jumping higher into the tree's as I too began jumping atop branches. After chasing a frantic Kabuto up and down through the forest, I finally lost sight of him after he jumped up above the tree tops.

"Where the hell..."

I hesitated before advancing.

'It could be a trap... Maybe I should just continue walking and let Kabuto wander aimlessly...'

"What are you waiting for?" Kabuto's voice came back, coming from above. "Maybe Itachi was right," I shuddered slightly hearing Kabuto taking about Itachi. "You are weak." And that took the bullet as I jetted through the tree tops to punch the shit out of Kabuto... but, that didn't go as planned.

"You lil' bitch!" I said at top speed with a sore arm.

As I finally got up to the top, the last thing I remembered was everything turning from white to black with a hard hit to the head.


I woken up to a very bright light and a horrible dream... I began to breathe heavily...

'A dream...?' I began to get up from a bed I didn't remember getting into but paused for a sharp pain aroused my left shoulder. 'Why does my arm hurt?'

At that moment a scene of my brother suddenly throwing a shuriken at me which sliced through the edge of my shoulder past through my mind... This image displeased me as I got up... I began walking to the room door as more images raced through my mind... horrid scene of my clan slaughtered...

As I walked down the corridors of what I realized was Kohona's Hospital, I overheard two nurses talking...

"Yes, It's true."

"He's the only one who was rescued."

"He had a older brother, didn't he?" I then realized that they were talking about a... me.

"But they don't know where he is."

'My brother? ...All those images are... true?' anger suddenly welled up inside me.

"To think that noble clan..."

I couldn't listen to this anymore, so I silently walked past the intersecting corridor that the nurses where in to the front doors of the hospital. The sky was a deep shade of grey and at once the first place on my mind was the Uchiha estate... So I began to run...

'Please... Nothing's happened... Everything's okay...' I thought to myself, still breathing heavily. As I reached the front entrance of my clan's property, I noticed warning signs wrapped all around it saying...

"Do Not Enter," but I didn't want to leave... not yet. So, I went under the wrappings and paused to look around my home town... Nothing was there... No body was walking on the streets... Everything looked eerie...

'Wait... What's that?' I looked straight ahead and there stood... Aunt Uruchi...

"Hi, Sasuke-chan," Uchiha Uruchi said with a wide smile. "What did you come to buy today?"

At that moment a smile had reached my face and my heart lightened. Such joy suddenly breached through me... and then all of it shattered when the image of a happy aunt and my Uncle Teyaki faded away... back to a bleak image of a empty road with rain starting to come down. And so I began to walk down this empty street, with the memory of a chat I had with Aunt Uruchi fresh in my head...

"Sasuke-chan, are you going to school now?"

"Yeah," I stopped walking and turned towards her.

"I just saw Itachi-chan, he sure has grown," she spoke again with her usual smile. "He's already a first-rate shinobi!"

I stared at her as she continued talking about my brother, the one I was so proud of... and yet jealous.

"He graduated from the academy with high honors at the age of seven, and became a Chuunin at the age of ten."

"He was able to use the Sharingan when he was eight," I responded.

"Yes, that's right," she replied with a soft and calm voice. "He's the pride of the Uchiha clan."

And now... All that pride lost... Rain began pouring down hard and fast as I turned to look at the very spot we had that chat. A little more down the street was my house... Across from it was where Itachi had throw a kunai knife at a Uchiha clan symbol. After taking a good look at this, I slid the front doors of our house open and I placed my shoes on the carpet before entering further. I looked up and there... was the image of my mother standing before me.

"Welcome home, Sasuke," my heart was breaking in two now as that peaceful vision faded as well. Trying to ignore the pain, I continued walking on the side porch to reach the place where my own brother and killed our parents. Rain now coming down harder then ever as I gotten closer to doors to that room...

"Sasuke!" Uchiha Mikoto, my mother, called out. I stopped in my tracks and turned to her. "Wait a minute."

"What?" As she kneeled down to my height, she lightly rubbed some ointment on the cuts I had on my face from training earlier...

I looked at another room that was the supposed to be our living room. Well, it wasn't so living now. Another minute of staring and I heard a loud crash coming from our kitchen, so I sped towards it.

"Mother!" I yelled out once entering, but it was just a stray black cat.

"In that case, why is it always my brother!"

Mother sighed and said, "Your brother is your brother and you are you. Father is always worried about to guys."

I had now entered the last room I neverwanted to come across... The very same one where mother and father were slaughtered... Markings of where they laid were placed and dried blood splattered everywhere.

I... I didn't know what to think, so I fell to the ground on my knees while streams of tears fell from my eyes... I couldn't do anything... Nothing... I was too weak...


The following day was bright and sunny and school was in session...

"Hey Shikamaru, want to go to the candy store after school?"

"I can't," Shikamaru groaned as he continued talking with Chouji. "You can go because your mom is nice, but if my mom finds out that I stopped at the candy store before I came home, it would become troublesome."

I sat at the desk behind them and another two students behind me were whispering behind my back.

"Did you hear? Everyone in the Uchiha Clan was killed."

"Yeah, my dad was saying that."

"He's the only one that survived."

After school, I wanted nothing more then to be alone, so I walked to the river up town and sat at the edge of a dock placed there.

"As expected of my child," the image of father had said. Another image of mother came...

"Father only talks about you."

I stared at the water as thoughts where racing through my head... Too many thoughts that my mind went blank for a while.

"I wonder what kind of conversations Father had with Mother..." I spoke to myself dispirited as I picked up a small pebble and threw it in the water. Specks of water flying everywhere as I watched the ripples. I stared intensely at the water now, my reflection was morphing into another person... A person with black hair, deep black eyes, and wearing an ANBU outfit appeared... Itachi...

"If you want to kill me, despise me and hate me..." At this moment anger exploded inside me as I got up and jump in the water where the vision of Itachi shown.

"Nii-san! In order to kill you, no matter how dark the future is, I will push through it. No matter what happens... I will obtain power... From now on, I am an avenger!"

Water started to engulf my lungs but I didn't care. And I will avenge my clan!


I woken up to a bright light and some yelling from a short distance. 'What happened?' I began to look around... Tree's... Lots and lots of trees... and yelling from what sounded like an old man. I turned my head slightly to find myself lying on the ground and Orochimaru scolding Kabuto, who was also on the ground being smashed by Orochimaru's foot.

"Orochimaru... Kabuto... What happened?" I said rather quietly, they didn't here me.

"You moron! You could have killed my vessel! The Sharingan! What the hell's wrong with you!"

"I'm sorry, Orochimaru-sa---"

"Sorry? Sorry! You think that's gonna help you! If you killed Sasuke, then consider your self dead as well, Kabuto!"

"Orochimaru-sama!"

"Hey, guys!" I tried again to grab their attention but still couldn't be heard. Why was I so shaky and numb? And... and why the hell did my head hurt? "Orochimaru... Kabuto!"

Orochimaru was still beating up Kabuto whileKabuto was trying to run away. "GUYS!" Finally, they looked towards me. "What the hell!"

Orochimaru was the first to responed. "Sasuke! Thank god, you're okay, no help from you!" Orochimaru pointed at Kabuto who was squirming under under his foot.

"I said I was sorr--- Argh! No! Please, Orochimaru-sama. Stop!" Orochimaru was appling more force to squish Kabuto's face in.

"I'm fine, Orochimaru... What the hell happened?" Orochimaru looked back at me then back at Kabuto curiously, and removed his foot. We both looked at Kabuto.

"Well, after insulting you with what your brother said, you became blinded by rage and charged up through the tree tops like wild fire," Kabuto started while he brushed of the dirt and twiggs stuck on him, one hand covering the bruised spot on his face. "Once you reached the top, you accidently ran into me and our heads collided and we both were knocked out. I just gained consciousness faster."

"Oh... Wait, how did Orochimaru find us?" I asked, trying to recap all of the infromation suddenly forgotten. Kabuto, after getting him self clean again, looked back up at me and shrugged.

"When I awoke he was already there, checking your pulse, making sure you were okay and not dead."

"Okay then... Orochi---" I paused as I found no Orochimaru around us, but instead, already walking ahead to our destination.

"Wait, Orochimaru-sama!" Kabuto yelled right next to me which I found to be very annoying. As Kabuto caught up with the Sannin, I stood glued to the spot I was currently in...

"We are unique siblings. I am the barrier you must overcome, so you and I will continue to exist together," I stood there, the nightmare I had just received gave me multiple quotes made by my brother... "You've always wanted to surpass me. That's why I'm going to let you live," do I want to live? I... I'm not sure anymore... All I wantis to avenge my clan..."Mangekyo Sharingan... Once you've gottenthese eyes, then maybe then you will have the chance of fighting me," but I blew that chance by letting Naruto live... "You are weak, Sasuke. Why are you so weak?" I don't know... I just don't know... But I will kill you Itachi... I will avenge my clan... And I don't care if I have to give up my body and soul to do so... You're no longer the brother I once knew, the brother I loved and envied but now... your just a barrier that I must overcome, a wall of hatred. And I will overcome it... I will defeat you...

"Sasuke, Come on! God-dammit!" Kabuto yet again yelled from afar. I looked up to see Orochimaru still walking and Kabuto waiting for me to catch up.

This is the path I've chosen... I will not gain power the way Itachi wants me to... I will gain it my own way... And once I have it, you better be prepared, Itachi... Because I'm coming and I won't be holding back...

TBC...


A/N: Phew, this is probably the longest chapter I'm ever gonna write. basically more then half of this shit is about Sasuke's past from the anime This was boresome to write... Too long... But that's my opinion, hoped you enjoyed it. Please R&R, it helps me see what you guys expect out of this fanfic. Thanx :D

A/N 2: Not sure if i'm gonna start the next chapter with Sasuke & Naruto's past or just go to Kabuto's POV... I donno, I just sorta make things up as I go along but there's a lot of info and spoilers in this Fanfic.

1. I believe Kabuto's the most mysterious character in Naruto because well:

-Kabuto was found at the battle of Kikyo Pass when he was still a little boy. He was the only survivor of the battle and was found lying with the bodies of the enemy all around him.

-After being attacked by Oboro during the Chuunin Exams, his eyes became blood shot and red. It's also said that sudden bloodlust was in his expression but was quickly erased after Naruto appeared and attack Oboro back. What's with that!

-After the Chuunin Exams preliminaries ended and Sasuke was hospitalized, Orochimaru orders Kabuto to kidnap Sasuke. Before Kabuto leaves, Orochimaru reminded Kabuto that the only way he could stop him was to kill Sasuke. Kabuto almost takes this advice and is seen holding a kunai knife to Sasuke's throat.

-He gave information about Orochimaru's lair or attempted to kill Sasuke instead of kidnapping him. manga version - when Sai took Sasuke's place

-Strangely enough, Kabuto - at points - helped the Kohona nins. For example: he healed Hinata at the Chuunin exam & offered to heal Sakura after she was injured by the Kyuubi manga version.

2. For those who haven't read the manga, Chidori Nagashi is Sasuke new technique learned after two and a half years working under Orochimaru. This is when he gathers a great amount of chakra throughout his body instead of just his hand and then able to force it out producing a Chidori-like effect which surrounds his whole body. This technique was first used to stave off Naruto, Sai, and Yamato's combined counterattack. Anybody who comes in contact with this technique gets shocked as well as temporarily paralyzed.