AN: As you can see I am attempting to add a chapter every day. I do work during the week and this weekend I am attending AUSA in Washington DC so from Friday to Sunday I will not be updating. But if I don't update than it is because either I have got writers block, I'm busy writing my original works, or I'm simply too tired from work.

Chapter 5: Growing Young

[Sasuke POV]

I've got to admit I was scared when we all found out our new fate. I hadn't exactly lived an exciting life and I had wanted it to have more adventure but I never wanted this! I never wanted to become Sasuke Uchiha. I had always been an only child so having an elder brother was new to me. I didn't want to get attached but soon I could not help but get attached. I began to love my elder brother possibly even more than the real Sasuke did. I hated that I was going to be forced to kill her… I mean him for the sake of the Director's "entertainment."

The first year was dedicated to injections to allow us to use Chakra and for our eyes to turn onyx and have the ability to obtain the sharingan, injections of a special Testosterone treatment to turn our bodies naturally into a man if needed, and obviously training. I did enjoy training especially when I was able to train with Itachi. However Itachi seemed sad. I knew he was depressed even though he tried not showing it.

After that year was over and we were officially males, they started giving us more injections. This time they were to make our bodies grow young. Itachi had to grow back to the age of fourteen and I had to grow back to the age of seven. It was strange because I had gone through a sort of puberty when I became male and now I had to regress to before puberty. I was going to have to go through it all over again.

One day when Itachi was training and I didn't really need to I decided to walk around this new Konoha that the Director created. He seemed to have created the entire Shinobe world just for this horrible "program." I walked around and ironically ran into the two people I would be part of Team Seven with.

"S…Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked me.

I smiled. I knew it was out of character to smile but I had always liked the pairing of SasuSaku. "Hello Sakura." I said to her.

"No saying hi to me bastard?" Naruto said to me with a smirk.

I smiled at him. He looked so different now that his sex had changed. I hadn't seen he nor Sakura since that day. I had been too preoccupied with getting to know my new parents as much as I could before the program started. From what they told us the program was going to take place the day before I entered the Academy. Not a year before like they had previously told us. So I fully intended to get to know them before I had to lose them forever.

"Yea yea idiot Naruto…" I said with a smirk. "So… how have you both been? I've stayed inside the Uchiha Compound this whole time… I wanted to get to know my new family before I have to lose them…"

"Yea." Sakura said frowning. "I guess that makes sense…"

I frowned at Sakura and hugged her. "Hey…don't start crying now… There's nothing you can do Sakura…" I whispered gently in her ear.

"Out of character much Sasuke?" Naruto commented.

"Well I can't help it. We're not acting now so there's no use in not showing emotion… Besides… the only Uchiha who I've seen not show emotion right now is Fugaku… I think since he's so stern he's taking the situation as time to not show fear. Even though the rest of the Uchihas are showing fear… Especially my brother…" I said looking down. "I really…don't… want to kill him…"

Naruto smiled sadly at me. "Yea I know… So why did you come out here? I mean I would think you would want to spend as much time as you can with them…"

"Well… I wanted to get to know you two… I mean we're gonna be team seven right?" I said not letting go of Sakura. "I've honestly always been a fan of SasuSaku even before I knew it was cannon…"

I could see Sakura blush at that statement and cling to me. I smiled at her and kissed her forehead.

"Come on Sasuke, let's get some ramen." Naruto smiled.

"Hn… alright…" I agreed.

The three of us went to get ramen and had fun talking and having fun while it lasted. Soon it was getting late and we all had to go home. For a few months this is how I spend all the time I had when everyone was busy. I did not need too much training simply because I would learn and train during the program. As the months went by Naruto, Sakura and I became closer even as we grew younger in age.

We talked about many things including the fact that I had grown up with no siblings and now I have and elder brother, Sakura had been an orphan, and Naruto had been an only child with spoiling yet overbearing parents. It was so strange. Our real family situations were so different from that of our characters yet personality-wise we were very much alike in some ways.

Time flew by and soon it was a month before the program was set to start. Sakura, Naruto, the rest of the rookie nine and I spent a lot of time together before we had to get in to character for most of the rest of our lives. We knew our happy times would not last because soon we would become part of a real life ninja world where we knew who was supposed to die and who was supposed to live. It was Hell going to be Hell on Earth and we all knew it.