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?
"Eh? So he's older than Konohagakure?" Sakura asked the next morning as she, Sasuke and Sai sat in their homeroom class, waiting for the unusually late Umino Iruka-sensei. He had been gone for about as long as Kakashi and the trio now knew why after seeing him arrive with Kakashi two nights ago. Apparently, he was also a shinobi but was going to work in Sasuke's school as extra precaution should anyone try and get to the Uchiha during school hours.
"Yes, but he's not an Immortal at the time Koniha is formed." Sai pointed out. "So in the shinobi world, he isn't older than Konoha. Besides, the Sannin are also older then the village, if you go about it that way."
"Sai does have a point there," Sasuke commented in a tight voice. He was still pissed with Shizune's interruption. He had finally been getting answers to all sorts of his questions, some of them he had yet even dare to ask himself. And Naruto had simply vanished with Kurama in his arms the second he broke out of his trance. 'What a dobe.' He thought with a mental scoff.
"But in the end you didn't even get any answers." Sakura said with a pout and crossed her arms in front of her chest. She immediately frowned and uncrossed her arms before straightening out the white button up shirt that was part of the school uniform. It consisted of a white shirt with a red blazer and a black skirt that reached the knees. The boys uniform was made of a white shirt, black trousers and a blue blazer. Wearing the ties with the leaf symbol of Konoha High School both uniforms went with was optional most of the time. It was only absolutely necessary if inspection was coming to the school or if some important guests were visiting. "Seriously, it sounds more like he told you some fairytale. I mean, seriously, biju? Jinchuuriki? I've never heard of those terms before and I've studied the library inside and out."
"It was no fairytale," Sasuke calmly insisted from where he was leaning on a hand, his elbow resting on the desk. "I saw the Kyuubi with my own two eyes. And I checked out his story with some of my clan's own records and he's definitely not lying. A lot of information was scattered throughout the scrolls and books in the compound so I didn't read through everything quite yet, but he was telling the truth. Most of the Wars were for the biju and Jinchuuriki or they were involved in some other way."
"So he's one of these biju vessels?" Sai asked, writing everything down. "And he's somehow now assigned as your guardian and trainer?" Better write everything down now so he never forgets any possible sore topics for the blond that was about to become a part of Sasuke's every day life. He and Sakura were still assigned to keeping watch over Sasuke, so they'll undoubtedly meet this Naruto fellow.
"Yeah. And he's somehow my clan's advisor. And he's in a distant family relation to Karin." Sakura grimaced at this, as she and the mentioned redhead never did get along. But before she could say anything, the sliding doors of the classroom opened and in walked Iruka-sensei with a gentle smile on his face that he was known wide and far for. The class immediately shut up and got to their seats because, for all that the tanned brunet was a gentle soul, he had a scary temper that was downright terrifying when unleashed. Seriously, you don't want to anger the dude. Most of the class had learned this lesson the hard way in their first year of high school.
"Ohayo, mina. Today, we got a transfer student so please be kind to him." The scarred brunet made beckoning motions towards the door as he continued. "Now, he's not new to out little community but he's been away for quite a few years, so don't scare him away again." The class started to whine when the person walked in and every shinobi's jaw dropped open when they realized it was Naruto that had just walked in. "Everyone, this is Namikaze Naruto." Iruka said when Naruto stopped beside him and faced the class. He was dressed like everyone else, except he had tied the tie around his head like a hitai-ate so that the leaf symbol was visible on his forehead. That, and he seemed to have attached a spiral to his left shoulder on his uniform jacket. The shinobi couldn't help but stare and the normal humans were already assessing the blond.
"He's cute," some girls whispered to each other.
"What's up with the whiskers?" A boy snidely commented to his friends and they snickered cruely.
"I bet he's some weirdo who's into cosplay." Another said with a mean tone to his voice. Neji and Sasuke were by now glaring at the class, white and black eyes sending chills down most of their spines but they never stopped their commentary. Sasuke didn't know why it bothered him so much that Naruto was being treated this way but he knew he didn't like it. Although the blond looked as if he didn't care what they were saying, Sasuke's sharp eyes still caught the thinning of his lips and how tense he suddenly looked. Sasuke then realized that the reason why Naruto showed no reaction was because he must be used to it, remembering everything he had read about how Jinchuuriki were treated. Like the "monsters" they housed.
"I bet he's a fag-" that was the last straw and Sasuke spun around, grabbing the front of the bastard's shirt and yanking him over his table so that Sasuke's eyes wouldn't be seen by anyone else but Kiba as they turned Sharingan red. Kiba gulped as he hadn't been ready for the assault and he was a bit freaked out by the tomoe spinning around in the red irises.
"What were you just about to say, mutt?" He asked in a chilling voice and that seemed to snap Kiba's still smarting pride back into place and the Inuzuka growled like the beasts he lived with.
"Oh? Didn't you hear me, Uchiha? I said-gurgh!" He was cut off when Sasuke sharply twisted his hand so that the shirt bunched up and was choking the brunet. Kiba's hands immediately went to pry the pale wrists away but something was driving Sasuke to hurt Kiba and he wasn't exactly fighting it. Must be all that he's heard and read in the last 48 hours, because he had never stood up for someone in his life. He considered those who couldn't fight their own battles weak - and yes, that had included himself and still does at times - but somehow, that wasn't the case for Naruto. Or maybe he was just returning the favor for two nights ago.
"Sasuke-kun, that's enough!" Iruka snapped from the front, having finally noticed what was going on. Sasuke kept his hold on the dog lover for a moment longer, watching as he turned a lovely shade of blue, before letting go and turning back around to face the front with a nonecommental 'hn'. Sai, who sat in the seat in front of his, and Sakura, who sat in the same desk as him, looked at him worriedly but he didn't pay them much attention. Most of it was devided between Naruto's blue eyes and the many thoughts racing through his head about what he had learned these last couple of days. Iruka sighed and turned back to Naruto, who had stayed silent through all of this. "Sorry about that, Naruto."
For the first time since almost all of the shinobi present had met the blond, Naruto smiled a big, happy grin at the teacher. "It's okay, Iruka-sensei. No need to apologize." At the front row of the classroom, a girls swooned and in the last row, a boy was asking for a tissue. Yeah, it would seem that Sasuke hadn't been going crazy yesterday, Naruto really could look too cute for a boy.
Iruka smiled back at the teen with fondness snd Sasuke suddenly wondered how those two knew each other and just how close they were. "Right, well, why don't you go and take a seat. There's an empty one next to Sakura-san and Sasuke-kun." Naruto nodded and walked towards the two mentioned shinobi. Sakura stared when he grinned, no believing her eyes that this was the same snarling blond from yesterday that had nearly succeeded in breaking Kakashi and Orochimaru limb by limb.
"Nice to meet you, Sakura-chan, teme." The class started at the insult and looked interestedly and anxiously between the two boys. Sakura looked uncomfortable to be in the middle of the clash of black and blue eyes.
"Hn, dobe." Sai spun around when he heard no bite to the words and Iruka looked dumbfounded. If anything, Naruto's grin widened and his eyes seemed to sparkle for a moment before turning back around to face the front. Sasuke stared at him for a moment longer before doing the same and Iruka took this as some sort of sign to continue with whatever he was going to tell them and so he shook his head and cleared his throat.
"Right, as you know, a big fall festival is going to be held here in Konoha in two weeks time. Every class in the school is going to make something for the festival, a stand, a performance, one class even reserved the rights for a haunted house. We must decide today what we're going to do for the fair. So, any suggestions?" A girl immediately lifted a hand. "Yes, Tenten?"
"How about a shooting game?"
"Lame!" A boy from the other side of the classroom called and the kunoichi (yes, she was a shinobi, too. She was one of the twelve who attacked Sasuke, Sakura and Jiraiya two nights ago) glared at him but someone else beat her to saying anything.
"We could make a martial arts competition!" The fired up Lee, also one of their attackers and a shinobi, yelled with flames dancing in his eyes.
"No, a bakery!"
"A cafe!" Two girls yelled at the same time and some boys whistled their approval.
"A concert!" Ino yelled and most of the class groaned. "What? It's been a success the past few years!"
"But Ino, it always turns into a pissing contest with other schools!" Someone complained and Ino glared at them.
"And it's always Ino-Shika-Cho, too!" Another person added and Sasuke found it strange that Naruto was suddenly coughing in order to mask his laughter. He didn't see what was so funny about that.
"And we always get creamed in the end!" Now Ino's eyes were glaring death at the last speaker, but Kiba wasn't afraid of Ino. "If we're going to make a concert, a new group should preform."
"Then I suggest Sasuke-kun. He's pretty good with the guitar." Sai said with a smile that became strained when Sasuke suddenly seemed to be emmiting a dark aura around him while his eyes flashed red. But Sai was unrelenting and continued onwards, obviously lacking selfpreservation instincts. "And I'm sure he'll be happy to preform."
"Kyaaa~! Please, Sasuke-kun~!" The girls immediately squealed with delighted pink hearts for their eyes as they stared at the handsome Uchiha, who growled in disgust.
"No."
"Actually, I think that would be great, Sasuke-kun!" The raven whipped his head around to gawk at Sakura's smiling face. "Come on! It's gonna be fun!"
Sasuke's glare intensified. "No."
"What? Are you afraid?" Kiba mocked and Sasuke threw daggers at him with his glare but Kiba just snickered. Payback was a bitch. "Not so perfect, are you, Sasuke-kun."
"Then you should play the DJ stand, Kiba." A cool voice said and everyone turned around to stare at Neji, whose white eyes were issuing a clear challenge to the dog lover. "I heard you're good at it. Or are people spreading lies?"
"Fuck off, Hyuuga!" The Inuzuka growled and now everyone was observing the shinobi as they snipped at each other. "At least I have some sense for music, unlike you, who would rather spend their life like a deaf person with no noise around."
"Don't talk to Neji like that!" Tenten snapped, jumping from her seat. "No one can play the bass guitar as well as he can!"
"Tenten," Neji hissed at the Chinese girl and she flushed in embarrassment for revealing a secret she had been entrusted with keeping. It would seem not even Hinata knew about this, as she was looking at Neji with surprise on her face. Shino just kept quiet as he watched the drama unfold while Lee was jumping up and down at the possibility of seeing Neji play.
"I'll be the drummer!" The kid with the bowl haircut happily exclaimed, waving his bandaged hands around. He wasn't hurt, he just practiced taijutsu a lot and had blisters all the time. After some time, they became a part of his image and he never took them off.
"Keh, so troublesome." Nara Shikamaru, the base guitar player of Ino's band, commented from where he had been trying to take a nap. "Now Ino's going to want to compete for the concert rights." He played bass while his best friend, Akamichi Chouji, who was currently secretly snacking on some chips, played the drums. Ino could make real art on the lead guitar, although she always licked acoustic better than electric. Chouji made no comment, just continuing to stuff his face.
"Tell you what, girly freak," Kiba said with a finger pointed at the glaring older Hyuuga. "I'll do the DJ set, if you play bass and Shino plays the keyboard."
"Kiba," Shino said in a voice that might have held a warning or a threat, but it was too emotionless for anyone to tell and with the high collar of some shirt he was wearing under his school uniform and the round black glasses on his face, they couldn't even guess if any emotion showed at all.
"Then we have us a band!" Lee cheered, pumping a fist in the air.
"I never agreed to that," both Sasuke and Neji said at the same time with the same glare, but the Hyuuga just had to continue. "And besides, we don't have a lead singer."
Everyone fell silent and Ino was mentally cheering at the fact that no one could match her voice in the entire class. Then Hinata, of all people, had to speak up.
"H-how about N-Naruto-kun?" The entire classroom gawked at the Hyuuga heiress for speaking at all and the white eyed girl flushed as red as a ripe tomato before what she said registered in everyone's brains and they turned around to study Naruto. The blond raised an eyebrow, crossed his arms across his chest and uttered one simple word.
"No."
"Oh, come on Naruto!" Now Sakura turned on her other seatmate. "Don't knock it till you try it and all."
"Sorry, Sakura-chan, but I don't sing." The boy simply stated. Kiba leaned over and grinned nastily at the blond.
"You mean you can't." He mocked but Naruto simply tilted his head back and brought a hand to smack the Inuzuka back on the forehead, so the taller boy would fall back and out of his seat. "Why you little-!"
"I don't sing for others."
Sasuke stared at the blond for a moment before an idea struck him. "I'll play the guitar if Naruto sings." Blue eyes turned to him with a frown and Sasuke smirked at him. "How about it, dobe?"
"Nice try, but I only ever sang for two people in my entire life."
"Then we'll find em and bring em to the concert." Kiba insisted, tapping his nose to show that he'll track them no matter where they hid. Naruto looked away from them and out of the window.
"They're dead." Most of the class flinched at that and Kiba stopped trying to mess with Naruto.
"Oh."
"I think he's just scared because he saw the talent my band has." Ino taunted and Naruto looked at the back of the class with a raised eyebrow at her. "He doesn't want to lose the audition so he's scared of making a fool of himself. Poor, poor little Naru-chan." No sooner than the last word left her mouth, a pencil embedded itself into the wall right next to her cheek. Ino's eyes widened while boys gaped at the awesomeness of the move. Naruto glared at the blond girl with another pencil in hand.
"Don't call me that." The girl nodded quickly before moving away from the pencil. Shikamaru reached up and pulled it out before laying it clamly on the table and going back to his nap. "And I still won't sing."
"Why not at least show us what you got?" Sai asked but Naruto ignored him. Iruka sighed and was about to ask for more ideas when Sasuke surprised them all.
"Write down that we'll be doing a concert and give us two days tops to prepare for the auditions. It's Neji, Kiba, Shino, Lee, the dobe and me." The entire class was gaping at the Uchiha while said raven smirked at the frowning blond. "I'll find a way to make you sing, dobe. Just you watch."
Naruto suddenly had a very bad feeling about joining Konoha High at all. Stupid Baa-chan.
