A/N: Second chapter! As the story progresses you will find out more of their backstory of how they came to be/act the way are. Hope everyone enjoys.
10/12/14 Update: Fixed some minor errors. If you spot anymore please let me know.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Chapter 2 1st Recruit
Black hair.
Black eyes.
Name: Sasuke Uchiha
Nicknames: Prodigy, Uchiha boy, The last Uchiha
Place of Residence: Somewhere in the Uchiha district.
Status: Last (Loyal) Uchiha. Genin Exam participant.
Sasuke Uchiha was the top of his grade year. It was said that if a person can survive The Academy they can survive anything. Sasuke was not only surviving The Academy he was thriving in it.
His grades were high, his exams scores higher. Being the last one standing wasn't necessary for the exam. Sasuke did the above and the beyond though. He was last one standing for all three years. While most would feel proud of that achievement the last Konoha Uchiha was not.
He was angered by his placement.
He downright hated his placement in The Academy.
Itachi, his brother, finished The Academy in two years only. His older brother was not only top of his class but he was also top of the whole school year. How could he, Sasuke, ever hope to beat his brother when he was still stuck in The Academy.
Sasuke tried many of times to Leave The Academy early. Yet every attempt was denied by those in charge.
Flashback
"You wish to leave?"
"Hai! I have learned all that I could here. My grades are the highest. I have been last man standing on all three Grade Exams! This school can teach me nothing anymore that isn't already a review!" frustration could be seen in the young Uchiha eyes.
A man with long black hair tied in a low ponytail eyed Sasuke down with dark green eyes. He rubbed his chin, pulling on invisible chin hair. He looked the boy up and down.
"You say you learned everything there is to learn... "
"Hai!"
Did the man not hear him?
"...Then tell me what you have learned?"
"I learned how to fight..."
"To get revenge on your brother."
Revenge why did they all assumed that's what he wanted?
"...I learned strategy, history, and math. I learned the roles of people in charge and who's at the top. I learned skills needed to complete any and every mission given to me. And yes I have learned things for and about my brother."
The man nodded his head.
"What is the most important part of being a shinobi of Konoha to you?"
"Completing the assigned mission given to me as well as becoming the strongest!"
What else was there?
"Your request is denied."
Sasuke eyes widen. "Why? I am the best of my class!"
"And just like the rest of your class you fail to grasp the major concept in all of this!"
"Well what is it?" The Uchiha yelled, "What is keeping me from leaving this place? "
The man closed his eyes and shook his head. "If I tell you then you would have learned nothing. No, Sasuke this is something that can only be taught by experience."
Sasuke balled his hand into a fist. His shoulder rose and fell from his heavy breathing. He was getting worked up. It was so un-uchiha of him.
"I will give you this however: the genin exam is different from the other Grade Year exam and yet they are one in the same. All four exams look for certain things. So far Sasuke you passed all but one category..."
Sasuke smirked.
"...However that one thing you have not passed yet is the thing keeping you here in The Academy."
Somewhere in Konoha forest a little white fluffy bunny gave birth. Seconds later they were attacked by a pack of foxes.
Mama bunny put up a good fight. She and her kids lived to see another day
Sasuke frowned.
"Figure out what it is and then I'll rethink your request. If not you'll just have to wait till you pass the genin exams."
Flashback End.
Sasuke did not find out what it was. He sent in more and more request with the answers he thought were right. They weren't. So here he was taking the genin exam along with all his other classmates. He should have already graduated. At the age he is now his brother was already a chunin.
The last Konoha Uchiha shot into the forest like gym. He focused solely on getting as many backpacks as he could. He ran as quickly as he could. The moment his feet hit the ground his other one was already up and moving. He ignored everything around him that wasn't of importance. So far he ran into no other students.
If only he could keep it that way.
The Uchiha knew that others would come after him. He was the top in his grade year as well as the last man standing three times in a row. On every previous exam people sought his expertise. They begged him to help them, to become a team. He helped them on the first two exams thinking nothing of it.
That is till he was betrayed.
Sasuke needed no help. The others knew that. Sasuke was the best. Everyone else was weak. It was only natural for them to want to team up with an Uchiha. However, the weaklings always overreach. They think that just because it's more of them they can take an Uchiha. That was sadly not the case. No weakling could take on the mighty Uchiha.
"I won't be teaming up with anyone! I don't need anybody!"
"INCOME..."
His plans of being a lone wolf were ruined.
BAM!
Sasuke felt as if a blunt speeding kunai hit him in the stomach. All the black haired boy could see was a flash of yellow and orange. One eloquent "What the hell," wheezed out the only Uchiha survivor mouth before it was poetically stuffed full of blond hair, dirt, and possibly a worm.
An artificial worm.
Bright blue eyes stared into the black angry orbs of the Uchiha. Sasuke could see no hint of malice. A smile, pure and naive, slowly formed on the blond's face. The blond's smile shined just as brightly as his eyes. He was like the sun coming out after a bad rainy day.
"Hey Sasuke join my team!"
And behind the blond, Sasuke could see a rainbow. The rain that previously clouded his mind was swept away as the rainbow came. Joy, laughter, and all other feel good emotions were being produced. Sasuke could almost see it. It was to be marveled at.
And so Sasuke marvel at the sight before him. For the sheer stupidity has finally passed any and all of his expectations.
"No."
The blond stared in confusion, "No?"
"Yes."
"Yes?" the blond asked excitedly.
"No!" Sasuke raised his voice.
"No?" The blond asked dejectedly.
"Yes no!" The Uchiha shouted.
Water gathered in the blond's eyes. His lips quivered. He took a step back, cowering from the Uchiha anger. "Why?" the blond asked in a small voice.
"Because..."
"Why?" The blond asked slightly louder.
"Because..."
"Why damn it why?" Shouted the blond.
BAM!
Sasuke shook his hand out. Why did the annoying blond have such a hard head?
"Now as I was saying it's because I don't need any teammates especially not the dead last."
Naruto Uzumaki was the dead last out of fourth grade year. As well as he was dead last for all three previous years. How he managed to not get expelled was far beyond anyone's (besides Naruto's) brain power.
"This isn't like going against other students Sasuke. Teaming up with some people is the only chance you'd come out on the top. With the other two people I have in mind we'd be a shoo in for those lollipops...and the last team standing."
"Hn."
Naruto rolled his eyes at the very Uchiha like response. "Come on. I speak nothing but the truth only help of a team can get anyone on top. "
Sasuke glared at the blond. "I don't need help from anyone. I am a Uchiha! And I definitely don't want to team up with anyone who'd just betray me in the end I know the ga..."
Naruto whacked Sasuke on the head.
"One: I sought you out betraying you would defeat my whole purpose of seeking you out. Whoever betrayed you in the past were all idiots."
A few Academy students sneezed along with an older Uchiha.
"B: stop your depressing monologues or whatever I don't have time for that. And thirty-three: just join my team already we're running out of time."
Sasuke glared at the annoying orange thing in front of him. "And why should I join your stupid little team?
Naruto grinned showing his sharp teeth. He took a step closer the Uchiha. "You seek power to find your brother so he can answer for his crimes. Join me and I can give you powers beyond what your puny little brain can comprehend."
Sasuke snorted while letting Naruto's insult slide. "You expect me to believe that you the dead last could give me the top student power?"
Naruto took another step closer. "Uchiha boy! Tell me where we are."
"The Academy."
Somewhere in the forest like gym a tree snapped and fell on an unsuspecting student. The boy being a ninja should have been on guard and noticed his surroundings. Thus he was automatically failed.
"No think farther out."
"Konoha?"
Naruto clapped. "Yes now think more abstract what is in Konoha?"
Sasuke paused. "Ninjas."
Excitement brewed in Naruto's eyes. "Yes! Now since there are ninjas in Konoha that makes Konoha a ninja village..."
Sasuke rolled his eyes, "And you are going where with this?"
Naruto shushed him. Could Sasuke not see his genius-ness at work?
"Konoha is a ninja village and is not the only one. Also there are samurais and fighting monks you have to be weary of. Bingo books tell whoever reading them everything about someone listed. The book gets updated every year. If we were to get added what would they say about us?"
"That I am the last..."
"*Cough* loyal *cough*."
Sasuke glared at him. "...Uchiha and that I am the top of my class for all four years. Depending on when I was added it will include whether or not I have my Sharingan."
Naruto nodded. "Yes. And they'd say that I was the dead last for all four years."
"And what does that have to do with anything?"
Naruto growled in frustration. Why couldn't anyone keep up with his intellect? Was he really that far ahead of everyone? And now he's doing an angry depressing monologue like the filthy Uchiha before him.
"Think Sasuke! Who would an enemy be wearier of going after you or me? You! And because of that weary they'd be more likely to go all out on ya because they don't wanna take any chances that you could pull a fast one on them. On the other hand they wouldn't do the same with me. I'm classified as the dead last; they'd want to play with me draw out my death giving me time to come up with a plan."
Sasuke eyes widen.
"I am only classified as the dead last that doesn't mean I am. You have a big target on your back already for being the only Uchiha to survive. That either A: make them, whoever they are, want you more or B: make them want to kill you more."
The Uchiha boy's brain was going into hyper mode. He could believe what he was hearing.
"Thus I made my grades low to become the dead last. My Exams scores, while never reached last man standing mode, are more than high enough to keep me from getting expelled. Deception is a very important aspect of being a shinobi. With deception as your tool you can easily fool anyone."
Sasuke mind flashed back to something his mother told him when he was younger. She told him he wouldn't get it till he was older. Sasuke eyes almost popped out of his head.
"But...but...you're soooo stuuupid," was all he could say.
He couldn't believe it.
He won't believe it.
Naruto grinned widen. It was time to pull out the big guns.
"Prepare to fire shots hahahahah I lied I will be the one to shoot oh hohohohoh!"
"Also," the blond continued " I know the top secret of the Uchiha clan. "
"Lies!" the Uchiha boy rejected immediately...and loudly.
Naruto shook his head. "The fact that I know there's a top secret is proof enough that I know what it is."
Sasuke's eye twitch. "Th-that doesn't even make sense! All clans have secrets!"
Naruto pointed at him. "Ahah! You admit to there being a top secret and I know what it is!"
Any angry tick mark appeared in the usually calm Uchiha head. "If you know it then tell me!"
Naruto leaned in closer to Sasuke. A smirk formed on his face. His sharp canines because visible. "I know how the male Uchiha likes..." he whispered the rest in Sasuke's ear.
Black eyes widen with each word that left the blond's mouth. Sasuke cleared his throat and closed his eyes.
A window shattered in his mind as his previous plans were destroyed.
"So...teammate…who else is on the team."
Protect our greatest secret at all cost was the Uchiha's first motto. The second happened to be 'steal anything within reach'. The third coincidentally was 'honor thy friends and family'.
Naruto rubbed his hands together. A slow grin made its way across his face. His sharp canines protruded out. He was like a grinning fox that just cornered its prey.
"Oh," he said slowly, "Just me and you right now Uchiha boy but two more will quickly join our fun HAHAHAHA!"
BAM!
"Oh come on let me laugh in peace!"
"If you get to do your loud insane laughter then I get to do my emo dark monologues about life!"
Naruto paused. He rubbed his chin grabbing at invisible chin hair. "I see your proposition however I must comment that your monologues are annoying while my laughter fills people with joy..."
"You make little kids cry!"
"...Those are joyful tears of joy... "
"Do not harm blondie do not harm blondie," Sasuke repeated to himself over and over again.
"Who's are next teammate?"
"My next victim I mean teammate on the list is Sakura Haruno!"
Somewhere in the forest gym a pink haired girl felt a chill go down her spin. Her mind screamed at her to go into hiding. She didn't know why.
Her eyes were set on getting one of those backpacks
"It has to be nothing I mean I would have ran into someone by now if it was," the pink haired girl reasoned with herself.
Thus she continued onwards ignoring the feeling of doom that was coming over her.
A/N: Thus another installment of Before The Beginning. Sasuke is now on the list and next is Sakura. How will the blond get Sakura to join or does the pinkette have something up her sleeve already.