The life of a Saiyan price… Uchiha style.

Summary: Uchiha Sasuke… First desiring his brother's death for the slaughter of his family, then the destruction of his village for given the order and then… Fighting to protect. So how did he end up being reborn as a the heir of the Saiyan throne?

Kingdark: This idea really, seriously won't let me abandon it in a corner. I'm recycling the first few opening sentences, but then it'll jump into the future. I want to stress that these are all one shots and don't necessarily happen in the same universe. This means that where in one universe, Vegeta / Sasuke may still try his hardest to kill the earthlings the first time around, he may as well NOT do that another time.

And I want to say again, that other characters may refer to Sasuke as Vegeta, but Sasuke will still think of himself as Sasuke. It's a way of honouring his 'first' life. Other characters will only refer to Vegeta as Sasuke if it is clearly stated that they know about his previous lives.

01

Chakra. Ki. Chi. Magic. Spiritual energy. Physical energy. Mental energy. All of these are names that describe an 'energy' or a 'power' of a sort that, traditionally has to be unlocked or where one has to grow mature enough in order to access it. Sometimes hard training is sufficient and sometimes one has to just be 'told' about it before it is useable.

This is a fact that Uchiha Sasuke, or Vegeta as he was known in this life had long since come to accept as fact.

When Vegeta had been Sasuke, he had been forced to remember previous lives. It had been needed to defeat a very powerful enemy. Unfortunately, being forced to remember one's past lives can't be done without consequences.

When Sasuke died, it had been as the respected patriarch of the new generation of Uchiha. Through advanced medical techniques, they had managed to use his genetic material and combine it with other people's and then they had gone ahead and cloned them. His wife had nearly beaten him to death when he had approached the subject of having 'multiple wives' in order to prevent his clan from going extinct.

So instead they had compromised and used his and other women's genetic material to create more of his children and then they had tried even more experimental medical techniques to create -technical- clones of himself. In addition they had used the DNA of his dead family to make even more clones and even more diversity.

Final result? By the time that Sasuke died, the Uchiha clan had regained its former strength. But then, so had the Uzumaki and well… Basically every clan that existed and was nearly extinct. Why is this relevant you ask? Sasuke had wanted to know exactly what they were doing. But even the most simplified explanations had well.. He had felt like the dobe and that was a feeling he had never wanted to feel again. So he cheated.

He used the sharingan and read. Oh, god did he read. He read every medical text he could get his hands on. He read texts, wrote down what he didn't understand, figured out where those things that he didn't understand where explained in other texts and then repeated the whole cycle all over again.

No. He did not want to become a medic. You had to have some seriously good chakra control for that and Sasuke didn't have that. But the end result was that he could probably be considered just as much an expert in biology, genetics and pretty every other medical subject you needed to know and understand to be successful in cloning technology.

So when Sasuke died, he very much wanted to be reunited with his brother. Except… He didn't. He wasn't reunited. In fact, one moment he felt himself dying of old age and the next he experienced a feeling no man wanted to experience. The feeling that you were pushed through a narrow space followed by a mild to hard spank on your ass cheeks.

That first life he had experienced had been interesting but very weird. He had thought that perhaps it was a reward, a chance for him to experience a life with no expectations. Why else would he remember his previous life? Except that too didn't happen. He lost his parents AGAIN by some asshole, had the crappiest childhood since Naruto's sob story and then had to kick ass to prevent some old meddlesome bastard from manipulating his life to do what he thought needed to be done.

Sasuke had put that behind him though. He had made another life for him, made new friends, found a new love and learned even more. After all, you could never have enough knowledge right? So in the event that IT happened again then at least he had the advantage of knowledge?

A good thing he did too because he died and then IT happened again. It was in his third life after he had been Sasuke and had been remembered the lives before that one, that Sasuke had a thought. He had experienced chakra. Then he had experienced magic. In his third life, he was taught about KI. All three energies, were to his experience very similar. Sure there were differences in them but… Could he access chakra and magic in his third life?

That had been a question he had asked himself and it was at that time that he found himself a project that would quit literally take him several lifetimes to figure out.

Eventually though he came to a conclusion. Yes it was probably possible to use more than one energy type but there was one hell of a 'but' in there too. It took years and years of effort to access and master even a single type of energy. If he then decided to switch to another to try and master a second type… Then he would steadily lose the control and mastery he had over the first. So in the end, he would lose all of his skill and mastery in say, chakra in exchange for a mastery over ki. As far as Sasuke could tell though… Like all 'rules' though there were exceptions and loopholes to it.

Firstly, he had realized that he had kept his 'talent' for nature manipulation in electricity and fire in his second life. Since he had access to 'magic' at the time, that led to him developing a very tight control over both lightning / electricity and fire. But the boy he had been born as had been a natural in flying. That meant that he had been a wind type back then. It had taken him years and years of hard work and effort but in the end he had the same tight control over wind as well.

In the second life after he had died as Uchiha Sasuke he had another thought. Actually, it had been near the end of his second life but eh, not important right? Anyway, he had learned a skill that allowed him to stuff a LOT of stuff in some sort of dimensional pocket. So he decided to take a risk. When he felt he was dying of old age, he stuffed everything of value in said dimensional pocket and then locked it with a specific password, only he could access.

So when IT happened again, and he was a few months older, he had looked for that dimensional pocket and… He had found it. He had access to a huge amount of memento's and other things. It was in his third life that he realized that his older memories were beginning to fade that he wanted to figure out a way to prevent that from happening.

He dedicated his entirety of his third life after he had been Uchiha Sasuke to perfecting techniques that would prevent him from forgetting his friends of earlier lives.

With every life that passes, Sasuke slowly but surely got more and more angry. Didn't he deserve some peace by now? Hadn't he done his best to make every world he had passed through a better place? Eventually he got sick and tired of it and gave himself a new mission. To figure out how to finally die for real and to stop being reborn every damn time! If that meant figuring out a way to live as long as he possible could to keep himself from being reborn… Then so be it!

X

"Dragon balls huh?" Sasuke remarked after the connection to Raditz had been cut off. "It could be a solution to your problems" One of his underlings remarked.

"Possibly." Sasuke agreed.

"So… What? Raditz gave those people the wrong idea. Are we going to follow through and see how much of a fight they put up or do you think we have…"

"Found our new home?" Sasuke finished for him.

"I think we have. But it depends on how much of a fight they put up. Give the order though. All Saiyans loyal to me should move to Earth but they have to keep a low profile and make sure they aren't followed. I don't want to drag that planet into our problems."

"Sir?" Another underling said hesitantly. Sasuke didn't answer but simply raised his eyebrow.

"Aren't we pulling those people into our problems by going there in the first place?"

"You have a point." Sasuke agreed. "But didn't you say that my people have gotten a lot stronger? Strong enough to put up a fight against Frieza's officers?"

"That's right." Another underling confirmed. "We even managed to take out a few of his officers on the lower edge of power ranks and they took them out effortlessly. Without gloating and without causing too much damage. That being said though… Those officers WERE on the lower edge of the power ranks."

"So what do you think will happen if we finally reunite on one planet? Especially since we have made allies with other race's? We probably have hundreds of ships that we can call on. Since it's only a single planet to defend we can start building defences that it would take a gigantic fleet to break through."

"We do have people closer to earth that we can start doing that now." A third underling offered.

"No." Sasuke decided. "I want to see how much of a fight the Earthlings put up first." Sasuke changed his mind after a moment.

"No, wait, scratch that. I want people loyal to us, to infiltrate the planet and get me some information. That, and I want a few low level tech satellites and defences that the locals could have possibly put up themselves. Organize and make use of what resources you need but make absolutely sure that you don't call attention by yourself by going over the top!"

X
A time skip to when Vegeta and a few of his underlings reach Earth
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Sasuke had changed his mind again and had ordered the Saiyans that were in the area to infiltrate the earth as well. So when they made their Grand Entrance they would have reinforcements to call upon. All by all, a dozen or so Saiyans and twice that number in regular soldiers had managed to get onto the planet without anyone being the wiser.

X
First contact by the earth defenders and Sasuke's crew
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"Wait, I thought there were only supposed to be two of them, so why are there TWELVE of them now?" Baldy exclaimed. Sasuke just kept up his best 'arrogant, I'm better then you' face and ignored him.

"Is this the best you can do?" Sasuke asked with a sneer. Really, he was doing it so over dramatically, they HAD to figure out something was up right?

X
Earth defenders fight against a few of Sasuke's underlings, end result, knock out on both sides
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"Impressive." Sasuke remarked. "While they were pretty low on my on power rankings, to be able to do a double knockout is very impressive indeed. Now, on the other hand, you can go up against my second most important underling.

"Nappa, you're up!"

X
I suck at fighting scenes, Nappa fights, and Goku appears and gets JUST the wrong impression…
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"You big bully, why don't you take on someone of your own size!?" Goku shouted. End result? Nappa seriously injured, Sasuke losing his temper and well… Sometimes things still follow the way it went in the anime. Except that none of the earth defenders died. Neither did any of the invaders.

X
End

As you can see, my muse ran out towards the end. I'm better in writing intro's then I'm writing the rest of a story. Anyway, the way 'this' AU was supposed to go, was along sides of this:

A number of misunderstandings appear where Sasuke's pride as a Saiyan prince / king get the better of him. One of earth's defenders acts suspiciously like the green beast of Konoha but doesn't seem to remember anything except the very basics.

They still go to Namek as a favour to Piccolo or something. So they still end up fighting Frieza, Sasuke ends up going all out, ends up nearly dying only to be snatched away by wish when he witnesses Goku going super Saiyan. Sasuke very reluctantly, settles on earth, calls down every single of his people, and finally explains a number of things including WHY he wanted an immortality of a sorts of at the very least, to stop being reborn every damn time.

The earthlings are very sceptical, but then the earthling of your choice starts remembering more details. The following scenes are cliché but follows what usually happens between Gai and Lee. (the illusion)

Much later after the cell saga when there is a wish left over, Vegeta requests the other's that he be allowed to make his wish. To either stop being reborn or to live as long as he possibly could without it being an eternity. That would be boring.

The end results is something in between as a compromise.

Sasuke can go back to previous incarnations? But why would he do that, since most of the people he knew would be old as well and would probably die of old age shortly after he appears so that would be pointless.

Sasuke will have the 'life energy' of the Uzumaki in combination with that of a wizard and a Ki master so he can live a couple of centuries at least!

The afterlife includes pretty much ever 'world' or 'dimension' that exists so him being allowed to visit will at least allow him to reconnect with his oldest friends. (I like this one)

Sasuke being allowed to be master of death and reviving old friends? (bring 'em back to life?)

Aaaand that's about all I can think of at the moment. AGAIN, if you want to take this idea, feel free BUT the only requirement I have is that you mention me every chapter you publish.

Kingdark