Fan Fiction Name: Requiem for the Rokudaime

Chapter Name: A Prodigies Conviction: Sasuke

Info: As all in Konoha gather to pay respects to the Rokudaime Hokage as he takes his place on the Memorial Stone, some people take some time to remember his exploits and his quirks. The Rokudaime is not who you think! Rated T for general cursing.

Disclaimers: Well, I do not own any of Naruto, nor do I own the many characters of these fan fictions, save my own creations. It's sad, but all too true. How I wish I owned them….waaaaaahhhhh!

Requiem for the Rokudaime

Chapter 2

As I look around and I see the faces of all around, all of them showing so much regret and remorse for burying the person that my teacher, my mentor, my foolish leader…and in the end my savior. I don't know if, should I have been normal, I would be crying like Sakura or on the verge of like Naruto. I don't know how to react because I hid my emotions in that…mask of stoicism I wore ever since he

I need to stop this. With your help, I was rescued from Orochimaru. I was leading an attack on one of the villages to the north with Kabuto and low and behold there was Naruto. I'm not sure if he even knew that I was there, but when I fought one of the Storm ninjas, I was somehow matched. There was something familiar about her, but I really didn't know at the time. But the fact she had matched me, even with my training but somehow gained an advantage and managed to apply something to my cursed seal, knocking me out. I was furious as I saw the hand, glowing blue with chakra, was applied on my cursed seal and led to an explosion of pain and eventually blackness. When I came to you had bound me down and were about to perform the seal. You said you had come to "rescue me".

At the time, I sure in hell didn't think that you rescued. You were taking away my chance. I saw it as my one and only chance to gain enough power to stop him. You were planning to take away my one chance to kill him! I didn't care that he was just going to use my body! I didn't care if my whole being was destroyed, so long as that bastard that killed my family died too! I cussed, I fought, I screamed, and did combinations of all three as you dragged me away from him. My one source of power.

It all became clearer when you put that seal on me. At first, I thought it was the same one you put on me after my preliminary match. But when it was used…a lot of what I thought started to…well, the best word to describe it is shift. I saw everything clearer, and I became sick with myself.

There I was, having betrayed all of them, and yet they still came. They were a power in and of itself, one that managed to get me away from Orochimaru and bring me back, despite everything Orochimaru and myself could do. It was a power I was blind to, one that was sitting in front of my face and stuck its tongue out at me every chance it got.

Naruto.

Sakura.

You too, Kakashi.

Hell, even the weirdest people in Konoha gave me a power I never thought existed. When I fought Haku on the bridge while defending Naruto….I gave myself a taste of that power by unlocking the Sharingan. When I copied Rock Lees move and came up with the Shishi Rendan, I honestly didn't know that in just copying it I gained a bit of that power. When I learned the Chidori from you, I was looking that power in the face.

The whole time it was in front of my face, but eluded my understanding.

When I unlocked my Sharingan, I thought that it was me unlocking my potential, making it ever-closer to my goals of killing him. When I fought Rock Lee, I found out that the Sharingan had its weaknesses. In my stupidity, I thought that it showed that I still lacked the power to kill him. I didn't see the benefit, even when I copied his abilities in the chunin exam to defeat my opponent in the preliminaries. When I studied under you for the final exam against Gaara, I saw my "dream" in reach, gaining enough power to kill him using this move that you taught me, the pinnacle of ninjitsu.

I became wracked with jealousy when I found out that the bastard from my past came not for me to allow me to finish my work, but for the person I saw as least important in my life. Why had the orange clad moron who I had to work with become the target of him? Why was HE so important!

Now I know why. Naruto was with you when you came to get me. He was the one who fought against my most powerful form and…yet he always matched me.

How?

Why?

Now I know. Even if he is aware of it or not, he had tapped into that power, with the help of the Kyuubi in him, he had that power. If I was really the prodigy I was made out to be, I would have known that those who have fought for someone other than themselves have always been seen as the most power. That's why those who were chosen to be Hokage were often considered the most compassionate of people.

Now that I think about it, I remember my discussion with the kitsune in Naruto. He mentioned an Uchiha. I don't remember his name right now, but when I did some research it turned out that the Uchiha in question was the first in my family line to develop the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Maybe that was my first clue that the Uchihas weren't exactly the best of people to begin with. Hell, to think that a man like that ancestor of mine would be thought of as more vile, more evil than one of the most bloodthirsty things in the worlds history? As my own research continued, I saw that I was a direct descendant of that man.

Strange, I thought.

As my gaze begins to shift, I see Naruto himself, my rival ad…somehow…my beloved brother. His eyes are downcast and his eyes are watering. At his side is the Hyuuga heir. What was her name again? Oh, yes, Hinata. The white eyed girl that was shy. Seeing the two there made me a bit optimistic. To think the fool was able to be involved with a woman like that. She was not just a woman of stature and privilege, but also it seems like she had cared for him, even when Sakura had chastised him and I…betrayed him.

When I was away, I missed everything that had happened between Iruka and the crazy snake woman who had been Orochimarus apprentice while he was still loyal to Konoha. However, judging by the massive bulge, she was heavily pregnant. Also, guessing by how the she and Iruka are standing that close to one another, I'm guessing the two are in a relationship.

I never would have thought Iruka would have had enough gaul to go after her.

And to think, when all this happened I was either away with Orochimaru or away with Yamato. After the seal was put on me, it was imperative to get me as far away from Konoha, to avoid Orochimarus wrath and to keep me safe from anyone who would want the Sharingan for themselves

Yamato volunteered for the mission, and took me away, traveling far and wide, more often then not to the west beyond Suna. I stayed with him for two and a half years while training in the west. As I trained with him, I know that my understanding of this new power that you somehow managed to open my eyes to see. As I trained, I was hearing rumors of the amount of troops the Sound village had amassed. This was when Yamato decided to head back. We were a few miles from Konoha when the new Sound Four attacked Yamato and me. We got separated, but I managed to kill two of them. By the time I was able to get to Yamato, however, he was fatally wounded by the person who replaced me as the leader of the Sound Four. I was furious that Yamato was dead…but when I fought the new leader…I lost my anger.

I seriously did. The things that the kid was saying reminded me of what I had said when I fell for Orochimarus bullshit. I felt pity for him. I crippled him, breaking his legs in so many places only someone as skilled as Tsunade would be able to heal them. When he asked me why I had spared him, I said five little words. They were vague, but in my mind it was perfect.

"You really need to know."

He really needed to know what Orochimaru was going to do to a village that he betrayed so many years ago. He really should have known that the power Orochimaru offered him was a false one, one that I fell for like an idiot. And he still didn't see it. The idiot Sound Four leader was screaming as he tried to crawl to me and finish his mission as I walked away. He was cursing and yelling, hoping that I would die.

I let him be.

As I tried to make my way to Konoha, I was given another shock as the Kazekage himself came and insisted that I stay away from Konoha. The army Orochimaru had gathered was attacking the village and he was planning to send Suna-nin to support Konoha against the massive army.

Hell, I was shocked to find out that when he had come forward, I was looking in the face of the green eyed bastard who crippled Rock Lee and nearly killed Sakura. It's funny how much people can change. But when Naruto is involved, it happens a bit more often than not. Just look at the woman at his side. At Sakura. At you. Hell, even at the current Hokage.

To think he had that much power.

And that is the power I want now. The power to protect others. The power avengers like me are blind to. I want to use that power to protect Naruto as he did me. To protect the people of this village. To protect Sakura.

It's what you taught me.

Isn't that right, Kakashi-sensei?

END

A/N: Well, the response was amazing! I'm glad that I had such a response on what I write, as always. Now that Sasuke has been covered, I'll have Sakura, Iruka, Anko, Hinata, Tsunade, and one surprise chapter, for all of you to guess at. But I doubt you will…

Hee hee! And you'll never get it out of me!