SASUKE POV
It's been two days since the fight with Envy and Greed. Reinforcements weren't here yet but they were suppose to be here by noon. Because of his ability to make shadow clones Naruto was forced by Kakashi to help with construction instead of training. He said he would train us when reinforcements came, apparently they were friends from the academy and he thought it would be 'fun' if we trained together.
I had to get stronger. I, an elite Uchiha was defeated by a lowly commoner who was only using tai-justu. That bitch was lucky I didn't have my sharingan or things would have been reversed. The next time we meet I'll pay that bastard back for humiliating me like that.
FLASHBACK
"Finally there's a worthy opponent for me to face", I said cockily as I walked up to the ninja in black.
"I can't say I feel the same way", replied the ninja in a neutral tone. I frowned at him, who did this bitch think he was. Didn't he know I was an Uchiha.
"I'll show you the power of an Uchiha." I rushed at the ninja sending a barrage of punches and kicks at his vital body points. All my attacks were dodge easily showing that this guy was faster than me. I threw a wild kick at his face out of frustration which he ducked under easily.
Seeing an opening he kicked me in the stomach sending me skidding backward. "You bit-", I said before I was punched in the face blood spraying from my mouth, my gum bleeding. An upper cut followed, crashing into my chin lifting me off my feet.
Not letting up, a bone crushing kick was place on my chest sending me flying. I crashed into the ground skidding a cross the floor. How this happen, how could I an Uchiha be so easily defeat how? I could hear Itachi's voice in my head saying it was because I was too weak. That I need to hate him more, resent him more and then I'll stand before him with eyes like his.
I could see the ninja hovering over me. I hated this, I had no control of the situation at all. I struggled to get up before one last kick was planted in my face knocking me out.
FLASHBACK END
I gritted my teeth at the memory of that fight. To make it worse Naruto not only took on both of those ninjas, he defeated them and sent them running away when I was crushed within minutes by just one of them. How was the dobe so strong. Who was giving him this power?
I needed all the power I could get so I can kill him. I want a personal trainer who can give me their undivided attention and that's something Kakashi couldn't do, having to take care of Ino and Naruto along with me.
Not being able to sit still I left the house intending to train ignoring Hikari's cries for me to stay in bed.
NARUTO POV
I sighed resting against a wall drinking a bottle of water, exhausted after working with the construction worker of Xertisque. Why was I here when I could be learning how to use my chakra chains. Instead my ability were being used to help repair the village.
The construction worker were nice and all. They all seemed to be really close and friendly to each other and were quite kind to me but I couldn't help but feel like my time was being wasted. I mean shouldn't you worry about fixing the village after its fully saved? The bandits would just come back and destroy everything we fixed.
"Hey Naruto-san, breaks over", shouted Nishima one of the construction workers who had taken me under his wing for the pass few days. Nishima was young, only 19 years old. He was tall standing at 6'0. He had long red hair that was kept in a pony tail and some muscle because of his line of work. He claims that the only reason he requested me once he heard I was hear to help was because I had red hair now like he did even if blonde was mixed in. A weird reason but hey, who was I to judge.
"Coming", I shouted back quickly finishing the bottle of water before I discarded it in the trash can, before I ran after Nishima so I wasn't left behind. "So what do have for me to today", I asked. Everyday he would give me a tasked to do playing around with my powers. Not that I minded much, it was cool showing off in front of everyone.
"Well you know were a bit short on men", Nishima said smirking, knowing what was coming next.
"You know were never short of men when I'm around", I said smiling at him.
"That's the problem, you might put me and everyone here out of a job", Nishima laughed.
"Don't worry about that, remember I have a village to return to", I said chuckling. "Not that I mind not going back to that hell hole", I thought.
"Today we'll be trying to fix the ground, the whole thing turned into pure quicksand, its crazy what ninja's can do." Nishima said clearly amazed by Greed's work. Taking a turn around a corner me and Nishima continued on our way, still making small talk.
Seeing something blue and white I turned around to see Sasuke limping to an unknown destination. "Sasuke", I said as said person looked up at me, "Aren't you suppose to be in bed? And where are you going?" Sasuke analyzed me taking in my new appearance seeing me for the first time since the attack.
"That's none of your business", Sasuke said as he brushed pass us.
"Your going to train aren't you", I said a smirk forming on my lips as Sasuke froze before turning around giving me a harsh glare. "Well since your strong enough to train then can't you give the village a hand, with the construction and all."
"No I ca-", Sasuke started before he was interrupted by Nishima.
"Ahh that's a great idea Naruto-san", Nishima said as he grabbed on to Sasuke's hand pulling him along. Quickly arriving at the seen of the battle Nishima finally let Sasuke go. Sasuke gave me a harsh glare knowing that Kakashi would have forced him to help if I snitched anyway.
"I hate you", Sasuke said under his breath so only I could hear.
"The feelings mutual", I whispered back smirking at Sasuke knowing I had hit a nerve.
WITH TEAM 10
Asuma sighed as he blew smoke from his mouth. he and his genin team were on their way to Xertisque to help Kakashi. Everyone one my team weren't happy about this except for the only girl member Sakura who was excited to meet her crush, which she voiced constantly by saying 'Were going to see Sasuke-kun' in a sing song voice while skipping.
"Can you be quiet you troublesome woman, we heard you the first fifty times!" Shikamaru said in a slightly raised voice, clearly upset with Sakura's annoying antics. Sakura instantly shut up noticing the pleading face of her teammates.
"Sorry, I guess I got a bit too excited", Sakura said sincerely apologizing to her teammates.
"Its alright", Choji said, his mouth full of chips.
Team 10 was on a delivery mission close by when a massage arrived saying that team 7 needed reinforcement on a B maybe even A-rank mission, a mission that I didn't think my team was ready for. Shikamaru could handle himself against some opponents, with his ability and his smarts. Choji was strong, the strongest on the team in fact. Even though he had a kind heart and didn't want to hurt a soul he could defend himself if need be and with him and Shikamaru's teamwork they could take down chunin level opponents. But even though it was cold Sakura was practically useless only knowing the academies justus. She would definitely need protection from any enemy above civilian level not even being efficient in tai-justu. And by chance if the whole team got split up then they were in trouble.
With this thought in mind I went on to think about what I could teach my genin to make them even a little bit more prepared for the battle that was sure to come. Getting lost in thought I didn't notice how time slowly went by as we arrived at our destination. We slowly approached the gate seeing two guards on high alert by our presence.
"Were konoha reinforcements" , I spoke up before anything happened.
"Oh Great more children", said an Orange haired guard as he quickly went to open the gate. Seeing the gate open we quickly went inside ignoring the guards side remark.
"How are we suppose to find team seven in this troublesome place", Shikamaru said with a sigh looking at the large village that was almost as big as konoha, even if it still had quite more work before it was there.
"I don't know", Choji said with his mouth still full of chips.
"Don't worry guys my Sasuke-kun detector has been going off since I entered this village. I'll find my Sasuke-kun no matter what", Sakura said with determination in her eyes while the rest of her team sweat dropped at her actions. "Follow me guys", Sakura said as she took off in a random direction.
"Why do women have to be so troublesome", Shikamaru said as we followed behind Sakura having nothing else to do.
NARUTO POV
"That sucked", I said falling on the ground exhausted from the day's work. Not knowing any justu to make quick work of the quicksand. None of us knew how to get rid of quicksand using the things construction workers would, if that was even possible, Nishima depending on us to use some justu to make things easy. For hours we tried the craziest things to get rid of the quicksand. None of them worked until we finally decided to dig it out, that being difficult since the quicksand kept trying to suck in the shovels.
"Yeah that's an experience I wouldn't want to go through again", Nishima said as he also collapsed from exhaustion, lying on the ground.
"What kind of idiots decide to dig out fucking 'QUICKSAND' with a freaking shovel!" Sasuke shouted exhausted and angry about everything that happened.
"You went along with it though, and it did work eventually even if it did take hours", I said not having the energy to deal with Sasuke right now.
"The works not over yet, we still have to fix the hole all we did was take out the quicksand and sealed it in these scroll", Nishima said picking up one of the scrolls for emphasis. I let out a groan causing Nishima to chuckle.
"That's work for tomorrow", I said with a yawn fully intending on getting some rest for the night. Nishima chuckled at my statement but agreed none the less. Me, Nishima, and surprisingly Sasuke sat down resting in a comfortable silence until we heard the voice of a familiar banshee, well familiar for me and Sasuke anyway.
"SSSSSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUKKKKKKEEEEE-KKKKKKKKKKKKUUUUUNNN", came the familiar voice of Sakura. Sasuke instantly paled knowing who was coming his way. I laughed out loud at Sasuke's misfortune. Mean while Nishima looked between me and Sasuke, confusion evident on his face.
Appearing out of nowhere, a pink blur attached itself on Sasuke holding his arm in an iron grip. "Oh, Sasuke-kun I've missed you so much", Sakura said as she latched on to Sasuke's arm.
"Let go of me", Sasuke said trying to get Sakura off his arm to no avail.
"Awwww, my Sasuke-kun is so shy but I have to let all the girls no that your mine, especially Ino-pig since you guys are going to be seeing each other often", Sakura said resting her head on Sasuke's shoulder making him very, uncomfortable.
"Are they together", Nishima said pointing towards Sasuke and Sakura.
"Nope", I said with a nod.
"Then she's a", Nishima started.
"Fan girl", I finished for Nishima. Nishima gave Sasuke a sympathetic look feeling sorry for the guy, while I was enjoying every minute of his pain. Shortly after Shikamaru and Choji showed up along with their jonin sensei. He looked a lot like the old man, I wouldn't be surprised if they were related. He wore standard jonin outfit and had a cigarette in his mouth.
"The fact that she actually found him is really creepy", Shikamaru said in his usual lazy tone. Choji agreed munching down a bag of chips. There wasn't any drastic change that happened to Shikamaru, Choji, or Sakura. Sure Shikamaru and maybe Choji too had grown a few inches but they were still the same people they were in the academy.
"Hey kid, your Sasuke Uchiha aren't you", asked the old man's lookalike.
"Yeah, what of it", Sasuke replied.
"Mind helping us meet up with the rest of your team."
"Yeah where's Ino-pig and Naruto-baka", asked Sakura in an unnecessary loud voice.
"If your looking for me I'm right here", I said drawing everyone's attention to me. I wasn't surprised to be greeted with shocked faces of team ten, though why their sensei was shocked confused me. Its not like we've met before, have we?
"N-Naruto i-is that really y-you", said Shikamaru while stuttering.
"The one an only", I said as a smile spread across my lips.
"Honestly, your the only person I've met that's just as troublesome as a woman", Shikamaru said with a sigh.
"I'll take that as a compliment, anyways lets go meet up with Kakashi-sensei", I said as I lead the way to Hikari's house. We all walked in silence, well everyone except Sakura who kept trying to talk to Sasuke who in return ignored her as usual. We reached Hikari's house rather quickly and were now in front of the door. I knocked twice and waited for about one minute before the door opened. The one who opened the door was Hikari, who was rather surprised to have so many people arrive at her house. "Is Kakashi and Ino here", I asked.
"Huh? Oh yeah their inside", Hikari replied, breaking out of her shock. She then stepped aside to let us all in, analyzing each of the new arrivals as they stepped inside, her gaze lingered upon Sakura the longest as she was attached to Sasuke. Team ten greeted Hikari once inside before I led them to the hallway where all the rooms were held.
"Kakashi-sensei team ten and the old man's lookalike are here", I called trying to get Kakashi's attention.
"The name's Asuma Saratubi kid", Asuma said, finally telling us his name.
"So you are related to the old man", I said as my suspicion was confirmed.
"If by old man your talking about the Third Hokage then yes", Asuma said as he scratched the back of his head. Everyone's attention was suddenly drawn by the sound of a room door opening as we all turned to see Kakashi exiting his room, giggling like a girl while reading Icha Icha paradise.
"What's he reading", asked Hikari, while everyone except me and Asuma asked the same question.
"Trust me, you don't want know", I said trying to reduce their curiosity on the book, fearing that they might read to find out.
"Oh Asuma you finally made", Kakashi said never taking his eyes off his book. "Perfect now follow me we have much to discuss." Kakashi started walking while we all followed him. He seemed to be on autopilot taking turn after turn never taking his eyes off the book. He was taking us deeper into Hikari's house I noticed as I passed rooms that I never saw the first time we came. After a minute of walking Kakashi entered what seemed to be a storage room as it had sealed boxes and random equipment like old painting, broken brooms, and stained carpet.
"Where are you taking us and why", I asked not understanding why Kakashi brought all the way back here.
"You'll see where when we get there but if you must know why it's so we can discuss important things away from prying eyes", Kakashi explained as he maneuvered his way through the room avoid all the things around. Copying what Kakashi did we all maneuvered our way around, keeping up with Kakashi. Eventually we made it to a place in the room that was clear, it was like a clearing in a forest but instead we were in a room full of junk.
Kakashi, finally putting his book away walked to the middle of the clearing before opening a door on the floor. We all surrounded Kakashi to see a stair case leading underground.
"Please don't tell me where going down there, its all dark and creepy down there", Sakura said looking down at the stair unconsciously increasing her grip on Sasuke who was acting oblivious to the fact that she was even their. Ignoring her question Kakashi continued down the stair as we all followed. The trip down stairs was quick and eventually we entered a room which I guessed was our final destination.
The room was simple with mostly furniture taking up space just like upstairs there was a picture of Hikari's dead mother with flowers all around it. That was all that was in the room but the most interesting thing about the room was who was in it. There was Kiato and another guy who looked a lot like him along with Gen-san. This would be the second time today I've seen someone's lookalike. Ino was also here surprisingly seated in one of the many chairs placed around the room.
"For-head, what are you doing", Ino said, giving Sakura a harsh glare.
"Where the reinforcements Ino-baka", Sakura said as she glared back at Ino.
"Get off of Sasu-", Ino started before I interrupted her.
"Not now Ino, you can bitch a Sakura all you want later." With one last glare at Sakura, Ino turned around with a 'hmph'. I took a seat knowing we were going to be here for awhile as the others did the same. Hikari sat beside her father's lookalike who was apparently her uncle, enjoying their short reunion. I understood why we all were here except for Hikari. I mean wasn't this stuff a bit too much for her. But I didn't say anything and just went along with it.
"I'm Kazama Kyuseishu the chief of this village. I brought you all hear to discuss our enemy at hand. My brother and I along with Gen-san has discovered that there might be someone working behind the scenes with these bandits", Kazama said as he looked around the room.
"I think the enemy ninja's that showed up in the their last attack is enough proof of that", Kakashi said.
"What there were enemy ninjas!" Kazama said as he jumped out his seat, shocked at this new revelation. With a sigh Kazama calmed himself down before he spoke again. "Before we start" He said before his gaze landed on Hikari," I don't think you should be here Hikari-chan. I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
"But I want to know, I HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!" Hikari shouted, tears threatening to fall from her eyes.
"I know Hikari-chan but your too young", Kazama said giving Hikari a sympathetic look.
"What about them", Hikari said gesturing towards all the genins in the room, tears now freely falling from her eyes.
"Their different", Kazama said. With that Hikari ran upstairs at full speed, tears rapidly flowing from her eyes. Kazama Refocused his attention to us after Hikari's fleeing form faded from our sight. "I'm sorry you had to see that."
"It's no problem, we understand", Asuma said.
"As I was saying before, we figured out that there was someone working behind the scenes and you guys says that's it's ninjas.", Kazama said.
"Envy, Greed and when they were retreating they mentioned someone named lust. These are the names of the ninjas who showed up. The Sins they were talking about are the seven deadly sins if their names are anything to go by", I said giving them all the information I had. We then went on to fill in team ten about the gold under Xertisque along with the scroll.
"We believe that they have the other half of the scroll", Kazama said
"So let me get this straight these guys told bandits to help them get whatever it is that they want in exchange for gold which their stealing from you. And the Ninjas who named themselves after the seven deadly sins want the other half of a scroll", Asuma said summing up what we just went over. "What do you think Shikamaru", Asuma asked.
"I think that their searching for a dragon and the only reason they would look for something so troublesome is because they more or less want to control it.", Shikamaru said with sigh knowing something big was coming up. "The days ahead are going to be very troublesome", Shikamaru thought.
"A-A d-dragon!? Control? What are you talking about", Kiato said looking at Shikamaru like he was crazy.
"You said that the people Xertisque worshiped a dragon an built a temple and yadayadayda. So then this scroll that you have, more than likely leads the owner to the temple but its been cut in half and the only way to find the temple is to have both halves. And the Sins believe that they'll find a dragon in the temple that will help them fulfill there goal, Whatever that is", Shikamaru explained.
"How illogical but logical at the same time", chuckled Gen as he listened to Shikamaru's explanation.
"The next battle will be the last. Their coming at us with everything they have next time", I said.
"I agree with Naruto on this. Since some of their allies got defeated they won't risk sending them out again in fear of them getting killed reducing their strength. It would make sense to just go with an all out attack. My guess is that their waiting on something thing before they do, maybe even someone", Shikamaru said.
"So basically we have to wait on them to attack us and then defeat them, get their scroll and go in that temple and see what's down there. That'll be easy" Sasuke said with a smirk.
"You said that last time but when they actual came you got your ass kicked", I sad bluntly.
"Naruto-baka who do you think you are talking to Sasuke-kun that way!" Sakura said defending her 'Sasuke-kun.
"I'm just stating facts, If we want to win were going to have to start training. I barely survived the last time because you were too weak to fight your opponent who beat you without getting a scratch on himself. I doubt I'll survive that a second time", I said before I got up out my seat heading up stair. Sasuke was glaring at me but said nothing knowing everything I said was true. I met Hikari half way up the stair who was no doubt eavesdropping on our conversation. I walked right pass her and whispered in her ear "You own me one." Before I went up all the way with her following behind me walking in sync with me so her foot steps couldn't be heard.
Once we were in the storage room Hikari gave me a quick thanks before she made her way to her room quickly. "I would like her more if she wasn't into Sasuke. I can feel that this crush she has for him will turn her into a fan girl. Its a shame too, she's so beautiful", I thought
"Aww is my host falling for a civilian girl", Kyuubi said trying to annoy me.
"No I'm not. Romance and shit like that aren't very high on my to do list if their even there at all", I said with finality.
"It's okay you know. Your a health teenaged boy with raging hormones. I can teach you a lot more than just shinobi things. I could help you pick up chicks and teach you about the birds and the bees. I can also teach you how to pleasure a women in bed", The Kyuubi said enjoying how uncomfortable I got with each passing word.
"I'm going to have to pass. Having a fifty foot tall demon fox give me 'The Talk' is not something I want to go through", I said shuddering at the thought of how disturbing that would be.
"Haha, Its your lost", Kyuubi said before going back to whatever he does in his cage.