"We're never going to get out of here, Rei," Jein said simply. Rei ceased her hacking of the door and looked up at the brown haired girl staring down at her kneeling form. In the tiny room, Kouba looked up from his position on the floor at the arguing girls.
"Is this going to turn into some sort of catfight?" he asked. Rei just stared at him. The solemn but shy girl was not one to talk. She turned back to the door and began knocking more pieces of stone out of the wall. She stopped for a slight second, focusing her Sharingan to see if there were any signs of Chalkra outside the confines of the tiny stone room. They'd been provided food and water and everything necessary to live, but they needed out. After four years, Rei was desperate. Rei almost had a heart attack when she sensed four different Chakra shapes outside. One of them was almost identical to hers. Of all people to send to find them, they'd sent him! She'd been fully aware that she had a brother she never met, but didn't know if she could successfully link into his mind. She figured it wouldn't be useful to even try. On the outside, Sasuke used his Sharingan to scan the walls for traces of familiar Chakra. As he scanned the walls he began to lose hope, until he hit the back wall and saw a memorable Chakra—his own. Since he knew he couldn't be seeing his own Chakra, he knew exactly whose it was.
"There!" he said, pointing at the wall. Kakashi pulled the most genius move ever.
"Lightning Blade!" he yelled, charging at the wall. It exploded and when the smoke cleared away, Team 7 saw three clearly freaked out Leaf Shinobi looking at them.
"Oh, my god," Rei said from the ground. "Why, what—why, how—were you aiming for us?" The startled kids stood up. Rei caught sight of Sasuke. "You—you—you're—you look like me!" she stammered.
"Congratulations, you're a genius, Rei," Kouba said. She glared at him. "Oh, hey, you spoke!" he added as an afterthought.
"Congratulations, Kouba, you're an idiot!" she retorted. He glowered. Jein didn't say anything.
"You've been missing for four years and that's all you can say? That's sad," Naruto said. Rei turned and glared at him with a very Sasuke-esque stare. "Yep, you're definitely Sasuke's sister." She raised one eyebrow and pursed her lips.
"Great, I'm surrounded by idiots. Does anyone here have an IQ higher than 2?" she asked.
"Can we just get out of here before our captors come back?" Jein asked.
"Right," Kakashi said. "Oh, and by the way, I'm Kakashi Hatake, and these three are Naruto, Sakura and, of course, Sasuke." Rei nodded not changing her stare. It was a mirror image of Sasuke's stare, only with more make-up—eyeshadow to be exact.
"Rei, Jein and Kouba," she said. "Shall we?" she asked, motioning to the exit. He nodded. As they were leaping through the trees, back to the village, they all had thoughts running through their heads.
Is this really Sasuke's sister? I wonder if he's okay with it? Is he freaking out inside? Sakura thought.
Wow, I thought one Uchiha jerk was enough, now there's two, Naruto thought.
Sasuke's taking this surprisingly well. Maybe I've underestimated his ability to keep his temper, Kakashi thought.
I don't understand why no one told me I had a sister. I mean, with all of the crap I've been through, Itachi, everything, you'd think they'd at least tell me this much, Sasuke thought.
Great, Rei was trouble enough to deal with, but now I'm stuck with Rei and her brother who is obviously worse than her. I'm doomed, Kouba thought.
I know she's my closest friend, but at the rate Rei scared me, her brother scares me twice as much! Jein thought.
I haven't been back to Konoha since I was 8. I have no connections, no one knows me, and my so called clan is dead. All I have is a team of morons—even if I know they care for me… at least Jein does—and a brother who I have a sickening feeling either resents me, or could care less that I exist, Rei thought.
What's going to happen, everyone thought at once. At the gates, Rei paused at the gate while everyone else kept walking. Sasuke stopped about five feet inside the gate and turned to look at her.
"Are you coming?" he asked. She looked up and all sounds faded away. There was a cold, dead silence as the Uchihas looked each other up and down, processing every detail, when in truth, they really only had to look in the mirror to do such. "Did you know?" he asked.
"Did I know? About you, you mean?" she asked. He nodded. "Yes. I knew vague details. I knew our clan was wiped out by Itachi, your… our older brother. I knew nothing more," she said.
"Itachi's a bastard," Sasuke said. "He only spared me because he thought I wasn't even worth killing. Well, I'm going to build up my hatred and my skills and kill him, and it'd do me a great favor if you helped me." She stared at him.
"Sasuke, if Itachi makes any move to hurt you or any other innocent person, I'll jump to the rescue, but revenge only leads to more revenge and the cycle never ends. I'm sorry, but even you should know that I can't do such a thing," she said. He sighed.
"Fine," he said simply. She could tell he was trying not to lose his temper. He walked away and before she could make any move to go anywhere, Naruto popped up in front of her.
"Holy crap!" she exclaimed.
"Hi," he said, cheerfully, smiling cheekily.
"Oh, dear." Rei could sense disaster coming on.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, future Hokage of the Leaf Village!" he said.
"That's redundant. What other Hokage is there?" she asked. He looked at her.
"None, but I'm definitely going to be one! So, anyway, I thought since you're Sasuke's sister and all, I might as well get the chance to talk to you! I also wanted to ask you if you're as annoying as Sasuke!" he said. No, that's not abrasive.
"How would I know? That would only be an observation from the eye of the beholder, and I would automatically, being only human, assume that I'm not," she said. He looked at her confused.
"Sure," he said, awkwardly, backing away slowly. With that, Rei walked off.