A Curses Memory

AU

March 23

Academy Graduation

"Sasuke!!!! Sasuke baby!" A girl with long blond hair in a high ponytail. She waves her arms back and forth, though I ignore it like usual. I stalk towards the road, passing proud parents with their children, new Genin, new ninja.

I touch, lightly, my newly acquired forehead protector it's presence more foreboding then exciting. Yes, I was a step closer to my goal, however, looking at this from another point of view, it was a step closer to being a killer.

BANG!

"Hey you! Idiot boy!"

I try to distinguish the voice, only to look up and realize the chump was standing with his back against the sun, the rays from said sun peaking past his head almost blinding me.

"What is your problem?"

"I'll tell you what my problem is!" The idiot began. "Idiot Pretty Boys who think their better then everyone else!"

The Idiot stalks by me, and after getting up and look in his direction, I realize who it was.

The only one not to graduate.

Naruto Uzumaki.

(Present)

"Hey Girl! Get your ass up!"

Sasuke cracked open his eyes to see blue.

"Naruto?"

He lifted a brow.

"Naruto? Like ramen?"

The lazy boy from earlier pipes up from beside him.

"I told you he was troublesome. Screaming like that…and what the hell is a Orochimaru?"

Sasuke rubbed his eyes.

"How long have I been out? And I'm not a girl."

Kyu rolls his eyes, scratching a whiskered cheek.

"Well, like two days at least. Neji and Yume have been taking care of you."

At the sound of Neji's name, Sasuke's eyes whipped around to see one blind eyes staring at him.

Neji Hyuuga was leaning against a small crib like bed where a small infant whaled.

"Stop staring at my eye, Uchiha." He said lifting his head. He turned to Sasuke, and for the first time since he came, he was truly terrified of the boy. "You're finally awake."

Sasuke nodded. Sitting up, noticing for the first time that the boy's dark coat was draped over him like a blanket.

"Who's baby?"

Neji shrugged.

"Dunno, found it in a dumpster a month ago."

Sasuke breathed deeply, letting all the sounds and smells become familiar.

"Who primarily takes care of it?"

Kyu patted Sasuke shoulder.

"Well we all do but it's mostly Neji's sister, Yume who does."

"Yume?"

Neji chuckled, plucking a toothpick between his pale lips.

"Yeah, Yume's always doting on the whaling monster, that's why we named him Dot."

"Dot?" Sasuke asked.

Neji nodded, but before he could answer a girl with long blue black hair and a brown dress appeared from behind a thick grey curtain. She was holding an ancient looking bottle. Her white eyes, like Neji's good one, was glimmering with worry as she made her way to the makeshift crib and fed the whaling child.

"It's ok Dot!" She picked up the child rocking him. "Neji…brother, Dot's got a fever!"

Neji's good eyes focused on her, a streak of worry passing through his good eye for an instant.

"How bad?"

She bit her lip.

"Bad…just like Josey!"

While they were fussing over the sick child, Sasuke let his eyes roam about the abandoned station. There was flattened cardboard covered with dirty sheets, children no older the seven were lying on similar "beds" fast asleep as the older children were sharpening tools and eating stale bread and drinking coffee from old cans.

"They're homeless."

"Well yeah." Kyu said from beside Sasuke. He leaned his head on Sasuke's shoulder and yawned. "but it's better then living on the surface. Who wants to got to school and be trained to kill people? 'sides, we're only here until the Armada comes back."

Sasuke nodded.

"How are the Armada and AFA different?"

Kyu rolled his eyes.

"The Armada are Konoha's defense while the AFA are hired guns, hired by Mizuki-Corps to do whatever for them."

"Mizuki-Corps?"

"It's a research and bio-engineering facility. That's were they take all the Academy graduates before they officially become AFA members."

Kyo sighed.

"Their just guinea pigs for the man. How troublesome."

"Guinea pigs?"

"Yeah. From what Neji here says. He was taken into the Mizuki-Corps building." Kyo leaned closer. "How do ya think he got blinded in that eye?"

Sasuke nodded, sneaking a glance at the Hyuuga boy.

"See something you like Uchiha?"

"Hn."

Neji walked forward, hands across his chest, staring at the Uchiha.

"You were saying about my blind eye, Kyo Nara?"

Kyo blushed.

"Sorry."

"No, it's no big deal. I'll explain it to the newbie here. They experimented with my Byakugan with some drug. It didn't do anything and I have a blind eye."

Sasuke shuddered at eyes that Neji pointed to.

"Must have been painful."

He nodded.

"Sure way, but that's not the weird part. The weird part is the thing I saw on my escape attempt." Neji smirked. "They had a floating corpse, mummified, completely submerged in this glowing liquid, the thing was twitching."

"But you just said it was a corpse."

Neji nodded.

"It was but it wasn't."

Sasuke lifted a brow.

"What?"

"The second I broke the glass to set the poor bastard free it dissolved then this was left." He pulled a round orb out of his pocket. It was clear, with three marking inside. Familiar markings that made Sasuke's hand touch the nape of his neck, as though searching for something.

"The cursed sea?" He said unsure of himself.

Neji nodded.

"Precisely, Sasuke." Neji crossed his arms. "So you're the sea demon that they have been searching for?"

"Sea Demon?"

He nodded.

"I searched through many documents."

Sasuke couldn't speak. It was all too much. The dreams that felt real, the real that felt like dreams. Which did he truly belong to?

Neji seemed to read his mind and smiled, almost sadly.

"Oh and Naruto is Kyu's ancestor, but I figured that you already guessed that."

Sera: What's going on? HAHAHAHA Review and I'll keep going. That's the only way I will do it!

Sasuke: This makes no sense.

Sera: Oh it will…it will.

Sasuke:...