Short and late chapter, sorry. I do not own Sasuke or the events that occurred in the anime, Naruto. Nor do I own the concept of Shinigami and the Bleach universe.

Frozen Wolf13 is now my Beta for this story. Snaps for him.

Note: This part of the story takes place many thousand years before the manga/anime of Bleach starts. I need OC's 1) because I am bad at names and 2) I'm too lazy to try and find Japanese names., so if anyone has suggestions please tell me.


Sasuke followed Obito to what he assumed is the academy building. It was near the wall on the west side of the inner compound, which Obito had explained was called Sereitei. Sasuke signed his name on the paper that made him officially a student of the Shinigami Academy, noting Obito's raised eyebrows at the name Uchiha. It was only once they were walking towards Sasuke's new dorm room, arms laden with new clothes and necessities, that he asked the question that Sasuke knew he had been wanting to ask, only been either too frightened or wanting to be polite.

"I thought that all of the Uchiha's died a long time ago. Who are you?"

"If you don't remember your life, then how do you know that all of them died?"

Sasuke's face was stone. Even after he had died, he found that he disliked the topic of his family just as much as he did when he was alive.

"Well, we just assumed. I was almost done with the academy by then. I graduated earlier than I was supposed to because the others were so overloaded with all of the new souls. None of the new souls remembered what happened. All they knew was that they were related, and, although I didn't see it, the scene in the real world was gruesome enough that no one pushed them to try to remember. What happened to make nearly fifty people die in one night?"

He spoke fast, wanting to get the words out as quickly as possible. As much as it hurt Sasuke to tell the story, he felt that he owed Obito the truth. The others would know in time.

"It was known in Konoha as the Uchiha Massacre. It was the night when, just as you said, the entire Uchiha clan was wiped out. I was about seven years old at the time, but I will always remember that night. The Uchiha's were betrayed, by someone within their own ranks. My brother, Uchiha Itachi, was the one that killed them. You don't have to worry about remembering him as he was only a baby when you died. He was made an ANBU captain when he was thirteen years old. It was later that year that he killed them."

Obito was shocked. That was not surprising, it was a shocking event that made even veteran ANBU empty their stomachs.

"Wow. I knew it was bad, but I never imagined that it would be that bad."

He stilled, recalling and replaying Sasuke's speech in his head. Sasuke already knew what Obito was going to ask next, but let him do it on his own, and wondered how he was going to answer.

"Do you know haw I died, even though it was before you were born?"

Sasuke nodded solemnly.

"Yes, I know how you died. Your team was separated and it was just you and Hatake Kakashi. You were attacked and he was injured, but you saved his life by taking his place. You died a hero."

"But how do you know?"

"I know because Hatake Kakashi is, was, my sensei. He used to be a real hard ass about the rules and regulations, while you were more of a free spirit, choosing to protect your precious people instead of following rules. After you died he changed. The motto that he us was not complete obedience to the law, but this 'Those that break the rules are trash, but those that abandon their friends are worse than trash'. I wish that I had lived by that earlier."

Obito was once again thoughtful. It must be hard for people that don't remember, but meet someone who does. They have to live up expectations that they don't remember; trying to be a person that they aren't.


They arrived at his room. Obito had not said anything else the rest of the way. He stayed to help put Sasuke's stuff away, and then left silently with the glazed look still in his eyes. 'I'll give him some time to process. It must be difficult, getting all of this information at once.'

Sasuke was still tidying up his things when his roommate entered. He was sweating, probably from working out or practicing. Sasuke just stood there, awkwardly waiting for him to introduce himself.

"Yo, you must be new, well obviously since you're here and all. I'm Azazel Daisuke and we are probably going to be spending a lot of time together. The teachers are too lazy to make groups and don't trust us to make our own so they just pair roommate together for projects and the like."

Daisuke smiled, not a lot, but he was friendly enough. It was worthwhile to be nice.

"Hey, I'm Sasuke Uchiha. I really don't care what the teachers do."

Ok starting…now.

Daisuke just shrugged and went to the shower room. Sasuke finished organizing and got out some of his books. He started with the general one, just to skim so that he wouldn't be utterly clueless on his first day of classes. His gaze stopped, his eyes widened as they focused of one picture. It was a picture of a pair of doors with two halves of a skeleton on the front.

'Naruto' He thought 'I will save you'