"What?" She (wait- no, it's he now!) said in horror because of what he saw.
He was looking for books in his house to study with (he's bored!) and…
…in order to perform the Great Fireball Jutsu, you need to do signs: Horse, Tiger, Serpent, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse and Tiger in order while bringing your chakra from your core to your mouth while changing the nature of it to fire.
If you do this correctly, fire should start coming from your mouth and into a ball…
What. The. Hell.
Breathing fire?! That goes against, like, every autonomy book that he's ever read (which granted, isn't a lot, but still!)! Unless, of course, Sasuke isn't even human…
Well, that would be all kinds of messed up.
I have got to try this out.
All you need to know about what happened is that Sasuke might be a pyromaniac, fish can fly if they're hot enough,these trees can burn quite nicely, and he's pretty sure the authorities were called at some point.
He's also fairly certain that the authorities are also partially insane, given that they congratulated him for nearly burning down the whole forest, but who's he to judge?
After 'studying' some more (he didn't actually try to do anything else after the Flying Fish incident), he's come to a few conclusions: Physics are guidelines, not rules, his family is absolutely murdered, everyone is insane (have you looked at their history? Insane), and after looking back on his day he's found that he really needs some friends.
Well, this body might have some, but he repeats: Sasuke needs friends. Badly. Because otherwise (if the books are right, which- eh, debatable) he'll become even more insane than he already is.
He shivers at the idea. People. He has to actively maintain relationships with other humans.
Well, it's better than being insane, I guess.
He studies, he reads, and he wonders. He wonders what he's going to do now, how he's going to continue. How will Sasuke act like 'Sasuke' so that he doesn't end up in the 'T&I'? He asks questions (how will I pass this 'graduation exam' if I don't even know how to throw a punch?), and each answer that he comes to opens up more (muscle memory? But how? How would that even work?).
He reads, he studies, and he has a small crisis when he realizes he's out of freezer meals (he doesn't know how to cook) only to find that it was in the back of the fridge, and he worries. He hasn't worried this much since, well, ever. Sasuke spends his day familiarizing himself with the things that this world calls 'jutsus' (he really hasn't learned anything from earlier), and then he wonders why the 'Kawarimi' is an Academy Jutsu. It is actual freaking teleportation. Hello, people?
The day passes, but before he goes to bed he makes sure he does his 'Katas'.
Tomorrow, he thinks, will probably be the most stressful day of my life.
When he woke up, he woke up to a black cat screeching its head off next to his window. He promptly got a water bottle and threw it at the cat after opening the window, effectively getting it to leave.
Grumbling, he went to brush his teeth and realized that he had no toothpaste left, but that was fine, it's not like he needed it anyways. His throat was bothering him, so he went to get water in the kitchen after he finished brushing his teeth, but Sasuke, like the dumb person that he is, threw his water out the window at a cat!
Getting a bit more upset, he went to the fridge to get eggs for breakfast, possibly the only thing that wouldn't betray him.
Carrying his eggs to the counter to be cooked, his hand… slipped. And. He. Dropped. His. Freaking. Eggs.
This has to be a bad omen or something, right? He thought.
The thought was drowned out by a scream of rage that resonated throughout the whole house and would have probably disturbed the neighbors if he had any.
The morning kept going bad in similar ways, resulting in a very disgruntled Sasuke (partly because his hair just wouldn't cooperate! Plus, these clothes are just… emo).
He feels like he's about to go into a full-blown panic attack, but he ignores it. Because if he ignores it and no one sees it, it's like the urge was never even there in the first place.
Going to school, he tripped approximately 7 times, and he started to get an audience after the fifth time. Because of course, people had to see his embarrassing mishaps.
After hearing a… squeal(?) Sasuke's body went into muscle-memory mode, automatically falling into a stance that reeked of boredom and arrogance. Is it a type of exotic bird that wouldn't bother you if you showed no weakness? Odd, but reasonable compared to everything else.
"Sasuke-kun!" a high-pitched voice called out to him. It probably wasn't a bird, and most likely a blonde girl his age. Probably a Yamanaka (Sasuke's books are very useful). He turned and grunted at the voice, silently panicking because this girl probably used to know him, what will she think of Sasuke now?
The blond beamed at him and started fawning over him while he acted a bit… stiff, would be a nice word for it.
When he was almost at the school and the girl still didn't notice his changes, his anxiety let up a bit and allowed him to fully appreciate how annoying the girl was. It was obvious that she didn't know Sasuke well, or she definitely would have noticed the change.
He picked up his pace, trying to lose the blond, but she only started talking faster and started trying to get his attention. Sasuke was visibly pained from this interaction, and he decided once and for all that this girl can not be his friend. Quickly, he spread out his 'chakra' and found a perfectly nice rock (just big enough to trip the blond; she's right behind Sasuke) to 'Kawarimi' with.
As he heard a scream a few seconds later, he smiled.
Um… ok. This math is- surprisingly easy?
He looked down at the worksheet, surprised to be met with the hardest equation being 7th-grade math (they were 7th-graders, but graduation.) and not the hell that he knew as…
He forgot the name, but it was an unholy mix of algebra and geometry and it can go die in a hole.
But the point is, he finished about 5 minutes after the test (this was the graduation test?!) started, and he spent another 10 minutes triple checking his answers. Middle school, he remembered, should not be this easy! Like, at all! And they're graduating. From school.
Why?!
After that mini breakdown, he spent the rest of the test time (3 hours!) working on his 'chakra control'. And he was trying to see the other's answers just to make sure that he was right; that was too easy for a graduation exam. There was one kid who was right next to him that was absolutely failing the test. Sasuke almost felt bad for him; he seemed really motivated. He was wearing an orange jumpsuit and goggles, and he had blonde hair and blue eyes.
You know, that boy could be my friend; he seems nice. And everyone knows that the best way to make friends was to help them and then pressure them into hanging out with you as payment. It's how he got all of his friends in his past life!
…
You know, maybe that was why they hung out with him once and then avoided him. No matter!
Discreetly, he tipped his answer sheet toward the boy (a part of his mind called him Naruto), but Naruto(?) was too focused that he didn't notice. So Sasuke tapped him on the shoulder. That got his attention, and soon Sasuke was staring face-to-face with him.
"Hey," Sasuke whispered, "Look." and he tapped his paper for emphasis. Naruto looked confused, like he didn't understand what Sasuke was trying to do. Getting a bit more aggravated, he spelled it out nice and clear for him, "I'm trying to help you out here."
Then he seemed to understand. His eyes widened in the picture of perfect innocence and he smiled so brightly it seemed that Sasuke might need sunglasses. But it seemed… almost strained. He'll look into that later; he can't have any friend of his being sad!
As he let Naruto cheat off of his answers, he made sure to cast a small genjustsu to make it seem like they weren't moving from their positions. It was simple, and anyone competent could see through it (they weren't moving at all, not even breathing), but it was one of the few that he was able to master before class.
When Naruto was done, he uncast the genjutsu, and the rest of the test was fairly normal
Iruka-san (the teacher, but he's not Sasuke's teacher anymore. So -san.) called out to the class telling them that the test was over, and the kids immediately went berserk, rushing out the door like a herd of stampeding buffaloes.
Iruka-san was left staring at the nearly empty classroom, the only ones staying being the 'smart ones', consisting of a girl with pink hair and green eyes that looked an odd mix between determined and terrified, a shy-looking girl with purple (or dark blue) hair and pupilless eyes, a boy with a spiky high pony-tail and a perpetually bored expression, the boy's friend with weird markings on his cheek and underwear on his head, and the kid with a collar even higher than his own that sports the darkest sun-glasses that Sasuke's ever seen. Sasuke's new friend also stayed.
"You can have your lunch break now," the sensei said, exasperated.
The only ones that even moved were the pink and purple ones, the rest just pulled out their lunchboxes and started eating.