Chapter III: In the Middle of the Night
After eating the dusty bread, Sasuke looked outside again, and noticed that it had started to pour.
"Any second now." Thought Sasuke, staring at the ceiling, and in his head counting the time.
"Five seconds..." Sasuke muttered in his head, and said out loud, "Now!"
And when he said 'now', the ceiling started dripping, and made a slight 'plunk...plunk...plunk' against the moldy floor.
"Man I hate this place." Sasuke shook his head, making a mental note that he was going to have to patch the roof again.
His gaze shifted momentarily out the window, and in the flash of lightening, he thought he had seen a human form on the hill.
"Must be hallucinating..." He thought incredulously.
He found the softest bit of floor, and curled up in the fetal position, feeling like a child, and shivered slightly.
"Damn it! It is cold now! What kinda weather is this?" He thought angrily, going to get a blanket from in the second room, taking the least moth eaten, and most whole one he could find, and marched back to the spot he called a bed, and threw himself down, entwining himself with the smelly blanket.
He fell asleep with fitful dreams, and tossed and turned, waking up when the chill air swept across his uncovered body.
That is when he heard it."
"Someone's outside the house!" He thought desperately about what to do, and then he got up, and went into the second room, and went out the window, quietly avoiding landing in the water barrel.
He crept around the back of the house, and saw a hulking form about to smash the door down with a huge hammer.
"This can't be good." He watched the hulk for a moment longer then, forming the seals with almost impossible speed, he bellowed,
"Fire Release: Great Fire Ball Jutsu!"
A huge fireball exploded from his mouth catching the hulking person by surprise, and sent it flying a few yards back.
Sasuke took out a kunai, and waited in the silence.
He heard a slight rustle, and dodged a sword that sliced out at him, grazing his shoulder, drawing a little blood.
"Sharingan!" Shouted Sasuke, his eyes turning a deep red color, with three tomoe surrounding his pupil.
His eyes caught sight of the sword coming at him in what looked like slow motion.
His hand reached out, and he caught the man's wrist, and kicked him in the chest.
The man grunted, and fell back, and Sasuke followed up with a swift series of straight kicks to the stomach.
His hands flashed though the array of seals, and he yelled out, "Fire Release: Phoenix Immortal Fire Technique!" His hand around his mouth, as he shot fireball after fireball at the staggering man.
"Fist of Glory: One Ton Hit!" Came a booming voice from behind Sasuke, and he felt a massive something hit his squarely between the shoulders.
Sasuke flew through the air, and slammed into the ground, the wind knocked out of him, laying face down in the mud.
"Good Gietei! You did well." Senbone said, looking at Sasuke with a look of hatred, his cheek still smoldering from one of the fireballs.
Sasuke jumped up, and flung one of the rusted kunai out of his jacket, at the tall man, striking him in the back, just below his left shoulder.
"Ahhhhh! You little brat!" Senbone swung around, sword raised above his head, poised to slash Sasuke to pieces, when Sasuke just disappeared.
Senbone stood dumbfounded because he never expected Sasuke to be that fast. Then he felt a strong grip on the front of his shirt, and he was slammed head first into the ground, and then kicked in the jaw.
He felt something hard catch him in the small of the back, and then he collapsed, not moving.
The big man, Gietei, swung his huge hammer at Sasuke, and was caught with surprisingly little effort by Sasuke, who then looked Gietei in the eyes, his Sharingan staring straight into the depths of Gietei's soul.
Sasuke smiled.
"Mangekyo Sharingan." He said, his tomoe fusing into a single shuriken like pupil.
Gietei's world went dark, and everything around him was black with white outlines, and the sky shown in the most blood red color, because of the single red moon in the air.
He was standing on the edge of a cliff, and the wind was blowing hard.
His foot was beginning to slip, and his body would not let him move.
He then fell, plunging far, far down, toward the jagged rocks at the bottom.
He screamed, and tried to find a way to the side, but the sides appeared to be miles away from him, as if they had moved to avoid him from catching hold.
He fell for what seemed like forever, never getting closer to the bottom. Then his world changed in a flash, and he was standing alone, in the middle of a desert.
The heat made his flesh feel like it was burning off, and then he saw it, a dark form walking up to him.
"Pathetic little man. You can't beat Sasuke Uchiha. I am too strong for either of you. Don't follow the route your friend took. I could just as easily kill you too."
Gietei looked at Sasuke with a pleading look, but Sasuke laughed, and punched the man in the nose.
Gietei's head snapped back, blood exploding from his broken nose.
Sasuke's fists slammed repeatedly into Gietei's body, making pain flare throughout his body.
Then Sasuke picked Gietei up, and threw him across the shadow land.
He hit the sand, and rolled a few yards, and stopped, face first in the sand.
"Don't mess with the last of the Uchihas. You will get burned if you play with fire."
Gietei's world returned to normal, his body shaking violently from fear and pain.
He got up, and ran, picking up Senbone on his way, and fled as fast as he could.
Sasuke chose not to pursue, knowing that they'd be committing suicide if they tried to attack him again.
"Sad." He said to himself, shaking his head, and returning to the hut, and falling asleep almost as soon as his head hit the floor.