Precious Treasure of the Uchiha
Summary: For centuries, a child Madara took in lived with the Uchiha clan and was loved above all treasures. But in this day and time,the clan is wiped out, only one remaining. Read on as Naruto tries to solve the murder of the clan and the disappearance of Itachi all the while protecting the last living Uchiha. How will Sasuke cope in the world of immortals?
Sasuke wasn't all that surprised when he woke up in a hospital the next morning, bruised, cut and hurting like all hell. He was actually more surprised with just waking up, since he had thought he was done for last night. He hadn't been expecting to be greeted by white ceiling and walls and sheets on an uncomfortable bed with the heart monitor's annoying beeping filling up the room, but rather the sight of his mother, father and brother and the rest of their clan up in heaven or even down in hell, he wouldn't have cared. He only wanted to be with them again.
But no, he just had to end up in the freaking hospital of all places! 'Great. Tsunade-sama won't let me out for a week now that I'm here.' He wondered where his three Immortal companions were and if they were going deaf by now. Tsunade must have been pissed when they arrived, especially since the last Uchiha had been in such a bad state.
Although, he didn't feel so bad. In fact, he felt as if he had never even fought in the first place! He wondered if Tsunade had made some new healing method that made him feel this good when the door opened and said woman entered along with her assistant, Shizune, and his two companions, Jiraiya strangely missing. Usually the old man wouldn't leave his side until Sasuke chased him away with a Chidori, a deadly lightning technique that Kakashi had thought him.
"Ah, Sasuke, you're awake I see." The busty blond, honey eyed Sannin said as she walked over to his bedside. "You look well. You might even get released today." Sasuke stared at her with astonishment written all over his face, mirrored on Sakura's and Sai's, as they all know that Tsunade always makes Sasuke stay at least two days in the hospital if he ends up there. "What? What's with that look?"
"Who are you and what have you done with the real Tsunade-sama?" He asked in a bland but dead serious voice and Tsunade rolled her eyes.
"I have no reason to keep you here, Uchiha, so I am kicking you out. You are completely healed and even woke up sooner than expected. Keeping you here would be a waste of space." She tsked as she started taking off the instruments that had been measuring his blood pressure, his chakra flow and his heartbeat and breathing. When she finished that, she let her hand glow with green chakra before waving it over his body, checking all of his injuries and making sure there was no sings of internal bleeding. With that, she nodded and went right out of the sliding doors, leaving Shizune to scramble after her.
The three teenagers left in the room stared after them, not knowing what to think of this occurrence. Finally, Sasuke turned towards the two Immortals with a bewildered expression on his face. "Is it just me or was she acting weirder than usual?"
Sakura shook her head before sitting on the edge of his bed by his ankle. "It's not just you and it's not just her."
"What do you mean?"
"Everyone is acting really strange this morning. Captain Yamato has been nervous when he waited for me to wake up and Kakashi-sensei barely paused long enough to grumble a greeting." The paler if the two raven haired boys said as he sat in the only chair left for visitors placed by the bed. "Danzo-sama all but threw me out of bed and demanded I get back to my post when I woke up."
"I thought you don't take orders from Danzo anymore," Sasuke asked, narrowing his eyes a bit. Danzo had wanted to get his hands on Itachi since his brother was six but he never dared try and recruit him. He had tried talking with Fugaku when Itachi turned eleven and joined ANBU to transfer him into Root, but their father had put his foot down and threw the man out of their house. A few years later, it was speculated that Danzo killed one of their cousins, Uchiha Shisui, a few months before the massacre but no deviance pointed to the man so they had to let it go. Needless to say, he tried to get custody of the two orphaned Uchihas after the massacre but Itachi managed to fight the Council so that he could be Sasuke's official guardian under strange arguments Sasuke to this day knew nothing about. In the eyes of the normal public, though, Kakashi and Jiraiya shared custody of the two brothers as two extremely close friends to the Uchiha family.
"I don't, but once a Root member, you are always considered a Root member. Never mind that I had Tsunade-sama herself personally remove me from their ranks. Apparently, to Danzo, it's just some plot I came up with to get him closer to you, Sasuke-kun." The teen rolled his eyes and made air quotes in an unusual and rare display of open emotion. Sasuke felt his lips quirk upwards in amusement, much to his companions' obvious delight.
"Sakura, do you know anything about this?" The girl was best friends and rivals with the biggest gossip girl of the Shinobi Alliance, Yamanaka Ino. The pale blond loved gossiping about everything and anything and was the most likely to have heard something, be it true or false.
The pink haired girl shook her head. "No. In fact, she said things are awfully quiet on that front. Whatever is going on has everyone quiet listening instead of talking."
"Listening?" Both boys asked and the girl shrugged.
"I don't know what that means - maybe they're hoping for some good gossip or waiting for something big to happen - but apparently, everyone is walking on egg shells and are curious but for once not aggressive in finding out what it's all about. Although..."
"What?" They both asked again and Sakura frowned.
"The older shinobi, both mortal and Immortal, seem to know what's going on and are tense is the best way I can describe it." She looked utterly confused even as she said this. "The Council gathering tonight has become a must and, quite frankly, everyone's either frantic or confused."
"That's right, I heard the meeting is tonight." Sai nodded as he jumped in and both Immortals looked towards the frowning Uchiha.
"Then I guess I'll be filling you in after tonight." With that, the Uchiha stood up and stretched before exiting his room to head for the bathroom, which was just down the hall. Only he had the bad luck of running right into a hard chest of a long, black haired man with snake like eyes and skin paler than even Sai's when he turned the corner. He grunted at the assault to his aristocratic nose as he looked up at Orochimaru, who was still just a bit taller then him. An inch or two at most but the man loved lording it over anyone shorter than him. But, then again, it was more than fair play when Jiraiya came along, as he was the tallest man in New Konoha and loved to tease Orochimaru about it. In front of everyone that was willing to watch.
But there was no Jiraiya in sight and he was left alone with the greatest creeper in history that had an unhealthy fascination with the Sharingan and all those who possess it. He, too, had fought for custody over the brothers, as well as people from other shinobi villages, as everyone wanted the chance to get their hands on the two, verified, geniuses and prodigies of the Uchiha Clan. He and Danzo were the biggest threat to gaining the custody, especially since Orochimaru had managed to snatch Sasuke out of the little room he and his brother had been sharing until it was all cleared up and tried to use the younger raven as a bargaining chip against Itachi in order to get the custody. Itachi had retaliated by cutting off his hand.
Orochimaru never dared come near them again and he had kept away from Sasuke until the whole plane wreck was checked three times over and no survivors were found. Ever since that day when Itachi's death was declared official, Orochimaru has been harrassing Sasuke with promises of power and what not if Sasuke became his devoted student.
The last Uchiha had been forced to chase him out of his apartment with fire and Chidori. All repair expenses were sent to the snake bastard by the Shinobi Alliance.
That didn't mean Orochimaru had given up, because he obviously hadn't as he was standing right in front of Sasuke, that disturbing smile in place with one of his newer followers, a kid a few years older than Sasuke himself, Kabuto or something. "Good morning, Sasuke-kun. I see you are well."
Sasuke glowered at him before trying to sidestep him, only to have his way blocked by Kabuto. "You shouldn't be up yet, Sasuke-kun. Not with the state you have been in last night." The fake concern only made him angrier and he all but growled out the order.
"Move."
"Now now, Sasuke-kun. Is that any way to treat your superiors?" The Sannin hissed in his ear and Sasuke turned around, Chidori already coming to life, when Orochimaru let out a very undignified 'eeep' sound and was yanked away from the Uchiha, landing on his butt at a blond teen's feet. His reptilian like eyes blazed as he looked up to snarl at whoever dared treat him like that, only for him to freeze up when his murky gold eyes met a pair of unamused, startling blue ones. If it was at all possible, Orochimaru paled further and put on his best smile, a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face. "Naruto-kun, what a surprise!"
"Orochimaru," the blond responded in a bored voice, hand still holding onto the back of Orochimaru's collar and it now looked as though he was restraining an eager or dangerous dog without its leash on. Or, more appropriately, holding a snake by its neck so it couldn't bite, making it helpless. "I thought you learned your lesson about annoying Uchihas the last time."
The tone of voice he used suggested that he was talking with a retard or a really small, difficult kid and it seemed to annoy Orochimaru, yet he didn't retaliate. Kabuto, however, was as new to this blond teen as Sasuke was and he obviously didn't appreciate his master being treated this way.
"How dare you treat Orochimaru-sama like that!" He demanded and "Naruto-kun" looked up at the guy with a raised blond brow. Kabuto was the same hight as Sasuke and he wore big, round glasses over his sharp and cunning dark brown eyes. He had gray hair tied in a low ponytail and was dressed in purple and cream colored clothes with some black 'accessories' here and there. He was a medic, like Tsunade, Shizune and Sakura, just as skilled as them only a lot more devious and far more dangerous. You wouldn't want to have him as an enemy, that was for sure. And he was loyal to the bone to Orochimaru, though it may not seem like it with how shifty he appears.
The blond, however, just blinked his large sky blue eyes at the guy and turned to speak to Orochimaru again. "You got a new lap dog? Figures." There was a look of disgust and pity on his tanned, strangely scarred face. He had three whisker like marks on each cheek, but his skin was flawless other than that. His hair was as yellow as the sun and really spiky, a little longer than Sai's. He was lean and shorter than Sasuke by half an inch, dressed in black and orange clothes covered by a sweeping, sleeveless red trench coat that resembled the one Jiraiya wore. He had a Konoha forehead protector on his forehead, indicating he was indeed a shinobi, and an older one, too, since no one wore forehead protectors anymore - they just weren't made anymore, since they were no longer ninja. Must be an Immortal if he dared treat Orochimaru and his followers like this. "But that's not important. He asked you to leave him alone, so you should respect it."
"And who are you to tell us what to do?"
"Kabuto," Orochimaru growled in warning but Kabut didn't hear it, as his blood was now pounding in his ears as he stared at the suddenly red and fox like eyes of the blond. The gray haired teen quickly bowed once in apology before moving to the side so he was out of the way should this Naruto decide to continue down the hall or to let Sasuke pass. Sasuke really wasn't sure which it was. Orochimaru choked slightly when Naruto tugged him to his feet effortlessly, getting a heated glare from the Sannin, but the older male didn't say anything.
"For Kami's sake, just let the kid be, Orochimaru. If he says no, then that means no." The blond said with a sigh, the red leaving his eyes and some of Kabuto's and Orochimaru's tension left them.
''We meant no harm,'' the snake said as he got to his feet and blue eyes rolled as the blond huffed. ''We just wanted Sasuke-kun to-''
''Shit, Orochimaru, I thought Itachi made it very clear as to not mess with his younger brother.'' Naruto groaned as he made to walk away.
''It means nothing if the man himself is no longer alive to make me stay away.'' The snake all too happily said before paling again when Naruto spun around, an unholy rage in his eyes. That was all the warning Orochimaru got before the blond disappeared right in front of their eyes, only to reappear right underneath the Sannin and kick him from underneath, sending Orochimaru through the hallway's roof, all the other roofs of the other floors and out of the hospital's building.
Sasuke and Kabuta gaped for a moment before rushing to the nearest window when they heard a loud thud. Naruto disappeared behind them again, reappearing outside with a dangerous looking sphere of spiraling chakra in his hand. The Sannin got back to his feet and started scrambling away from the pissed off teen, trying to make hand seals as fast as he could but the blond was far faster.
''RASENGAN!''
''Naruto!''
And something went boom.
