The Sharingan Fairy's True Identity

''Sasuke-kun? Are you alright?" Sakura asked shyly.

The Uchiha had been acting off for the past days, doing pranks with that blond idiot out of all things and she was getting worried. She knew, of course, that poor Sasuke had lost his family. Everyone had been talking about it and people had been worried about how that might change the boy.

Sure, he was acting like a dark, brooding loner since then but for someone, who had lost so much, he had taken the loss surprisingly well and Sakura could only marvel at Sasuke-kun's strength, which apparently wasn't only limited to the physical aspect. It only made her fall harder for him.

However, maybe she had been wrong. Maybe, it had affected him more than she had thought and it finally showed now. She felt guilty. If she had known this, she wouldn't have acted the past weeks and well, months, like she had, swooning all over him.

"Has it something to do with everyone having Sharingan?" she softly inquired. Maybe, it had brought up bad memories. "That wasn't very nice of Danzo-sama doing this without your permission."

This, apparently, managed to snap Sasuke out of his daze. "Danzo-sama?" he repeated, confused, his eyebrows furrowing.

Sakura nodded knowingly. Unlike the other kids, she knew that if you paid close attention to what the adults said, you could learn a lot and that didn't only apply to school.

"Yeah, he's the one who gave them the Sharingan. Apparently, he asked the parents first but some villagers were upset so they went to the Hokage, who made Danzo-sama explain everything. It's weird, though. He's supposed to be really powerful but no one has ever heard of him before. At least, my parents don't and they're shinobi!"

Although, they were only normal Chunin but Sasuke-kun didn't need to know that.

"I see," he finally said, his face an expression of intense concentration. "Danzo is the one who gave them the Sharingan, right?"

Sakura nodded and immediately took a step back as she saw a feral grin spread all over Sasuke's face.

"Oh, that's good," he growled happily (and Sakura had no idea how that worked). "I've finally found you, Sharingan fairy."

Before she could ask him what he meant by that, he was already gone, leaving a very confused Sakura behind.

Maybe, just maybe, Sasuke-kun had never taken the loss of his family surprisingly well or, you know, well at all.

o.O.o

"Sakura-chan! Where's dumb Sasuke?" Naruto shouted, making Sakura scowl.

"Gone. Why do you want to know? He lost his family so you shouldn't try to get him into trouble with all of your stupid pranks!"

"They're not stupid, Sakura-chan," the blond whined. "Sasuke was the one who wanted to do them, he just asked me to show him!"

"I don't believe you," Sakura said, crossing her arms. "He'd never do that."

Now, it was Naruto's turn to scowl. "How would you know? I don't even get what's so special about him. Sure, he can do some awesome ninja tricks and sure, that fireball thing is the best thing ever and maybe, he's really strong and fast and sure, maybe, he has that funny hair-"

"Do you like him or not?" Sakura asked, sincerely confused.

"Anyway," Naruto shouted, ignoring Sakura's words, "he's really weird. He keeps muttering about golden stars and Sharingan fairy. He's nuts," he said, repeating the word some people said whenever they saw him do some of his more outrageous pranks.

"He's not insane. He lost his family, idiot!"

"I don't have one too!"

"Maybe, that's why you're always so annoying. Because there never has been someone around to tell you that what you're doing is wrong and dumb," Sakura said. She bit on her lip. Maybe, that had been too harsh.

"Sakura-chan-"

It was in this awkward situation Iruka finally barged, out of breath. "Sakura, where is Sasuke?"

Sakura turned her head away from Naruto, who looked sadder than anything else. "Sasuke-kun just disappeared, Iruka-sensei. I tried to stop him but he just ran away."

"I know that it's not your fault," Iruka reassured her, although, inwardly, he was panicking. "Can you remember if he said something before he left?"

"Yes," Sakura was quick to reply. "He asked me about Danzo-sama and then he said something about Sharingan fairies and then he went off."

"Hah, see! Sasuke so does talk about the Sharingan fairy," Naruto said triumphantly, a big gin stretched all over his face again.

Before Sakura could retort, Iruka smoothly interrupted them before it could turn into something bloody and horrible. "You two go back to your lessons while I'll go search for Sasuke. Do you understand me?" he sternly asked, to which Sakura nodded and Naruto only crossed his arms, harrumphing.

"Naruto," he said sharply.

"Yeah, yeah." It wasn't very convincing but this would have to do. Finding Sasuke before something bad happened to him was more important at the moment.

o.O.o

As soon as Iruka had left, it was silent between the two of them. However, considering the fact that one of the two was Naruto, it was no big surprise that it wouldn't stay that way for long.

Naturally, Naruto didn't disappoint.

"What did Sasuke say about the Sharingan fairy?"

Sakura considered ignoring the blond but in the end, she answered his question, figuring that since it was about Sasuke, he might even know something about what was going on.

"First, he asked me about Danzo-sama." At Naruto's confused expression, she reluctantly elaborated, "The one who is responsible for you and our other classmates getting the Sharingan."

And hadn't that been a surprise? Just to rub it into her face, Ino had pointed out more than once that with the Sharingan, she would become that much closer to Sasuke-kun.

"Oh, so he's the one," Naruto said, slightly surprised. "I thought it was the old man but yeah, Sharingan's pretty awesome so I think I like that Tango guy too."

"His name is Danzo," Sakura corrected. "Anyway, he smiled and said that he has finally found the Sharingan fairy."

"So that means that the Tango guy is the Sharingan fairy and that's he's the one Sasuke is going to," Naruto concluded, rubbing his chin and nodding to himself.

Sakura blinked. That, surprisingly enough, made sense. "So he's going to Danzo? Then we should tell one of the teachers!"

"Why? They can't help and besides, I want to know who Tango is and meet him. I mean, he's the Sharingan fairy. I've never seen a fairy before! And the teachers wouldn't let us go."

Sakura has never seen a fairy before either. A part of her was trying to tell her that that wasn't a convincing reason to get into trouble with Naruto out of all people. And, if she was being honest with herself, it wasn't.

"Okay, let's go." But still, it was a fairy.

o.O.o

"Where's Danzo?" Sasuke demanded to know. The rather startled villager only shook his head. Sasuke didn't wait for any verbal reply and started to run again.

Where could the fairy be? People, apparently, knew of her or rather him.

He wasn't quite sure what he thought about the idea of the Sharingan fairy being male. However, considering the fact that this particular fairy handed out Sharingan, he supposed it wasn't that big of a surprise for the fairy to turn out to be less girly than he had initially thought.

Maybe, he should just go and ask the Hokage. If all the villagers apparently seemed to know that Danzo guy, the leader of the village ought to know about his whereabouts.

As he mulled over this, Sasuke didn't realize that he had went into one of the less inhabited areas of the village. He only came to this realization as a masked man suddenly appeared before him out of thin air.

Seeing him gave Sasuke the weirdest feeling of déjà vu.

"Do I know you?" he inquired.

The mask made it hard for him to see the man's expression but he got the distinct feeling that the masked man gave him a bland look.

"No, you do not," he said rather bluntly, making Sasuke frown. If he hadn't known that there was no reason for the man to lie, he wouldn't have believed him.

"So is there something you want to talk about? I don't have time," Sasuke said equally blunt. "I've got to ask what that Danzo guy is thinking neglecting his work as the Sharingan fairy."

He got the distinct feeling that the bland look the masked man had given him before seemed to try to convey to him that he couldn't actually be serious right now.

He frowned. What about it was so hard to understand? Weren't ANBU supposed to be smart? At least, hi-, that man had been.

"What," the masked man finally decided to say. It wasn't even a question.

Okay, definitely not the sharpest kunai in the pouch.

"I said that I want to go ask Danzo why he is not doing his job as the Sharingan fairy properly," Sasuke slowly said, briefly wondering why he even bothered.

Unbeknownst to him, the ROOT ninja quickly tried to recall whatever he knew about the Uchiha clan and their supposed tendency to go off the deep end. As he did so, he also considered how that could have an impact on Danzo-sama's plans regarding the boy, only to come to the rather obvious conclusion that an insane Uchiha could never be a good scenario.

Initially, he had wanted to put him into a genjutsu again, making him forget about whatever it was that propelled him to seek out Danzo-sama. However, this startling turn of events made him reevaluate his priorities.

"I will take you to the Yamanaka."

"Why?" Sasuke demanded to know, scowling. He regretted not having made a run for it when he still could.

"You appear to be in a fragile mental state. And I can't allow you to meet Danzo-sama in such a state," he replied.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sasuke snapped, getting the feeling that he was being insulted.

"You seem to be quite insane," the ROOT ninja clarified.

"I'm not insane," Sasuke exclaimed, offended.

"Then I conclude that you do not mind letting me accompany you to the Yamanaka."

"I do!"

"Why." Again, not really a question.

"Why shouldn't I?" Sasuke countered. This was getting ridiculous. Huffing, he turned to leave, only to find his way blocked by the masked ninja once again.

Scowling, he ordered, "Get out of my way."

Unfortunately, the man did not seem to comply. Sasuke realized with a sinking feeling in his stomach that this man might prove to be a serious threat.

Oh, crap…

o.O.o

"He's that way," Naruto mumbled, heading for yet another rather shady-looking alley.

Sakura hesitantly followed the blond. "How do you know?" She was getting a little scared now, not like she would ever admit that to Naruto though!

"Dunno," he said vaguely, not easing Sakura's worries at all. Yes, she was beginning to regret that she had ever listened to that idiot.

o.O.o

He couldn't allow himself to be beaten before he got his chance to meet the Sharingan fairy. He bit on his lip. There must be something he could do.

Think. Think. Think.

His eyes widened as the perfect idea hit him with a ferocity equal to that one time Shisui had punched him, when he found out that Sasuke had flushed his mission report down the toilet.

That guy seemed to be the Sharingan fairy's subordinate of some sort, judging by the way he had addressed the fairy. So that meant that he could…

"Can I join you?" he asked excitedly.

He needed to regain his lost golden stars. And what better way was there than to help out the Sharingan fairy himself?

The Sharingan would be his soon enough, he just knew it.

o.O.o

"That's it," Naruto said, pointing at some rather big crack in a wall.

"Danzo-sama is an important man. There's no way you can just enter his home through some crack," Sakura protested but he was already gone.

Sighing, she also slipped through the crack. Her eyes widened at the sight before her.

No way was Naruto right.

"How?"

Naruto, who had already begun to climb down a pipe, shrugged as best as he could in his current position.

"Dunno," he said, repeating what he had already said before. Sakura resisted the urge to smack him.

He broke into a wide grin. "Come on, Sakura-chan. We've gotta find the Sharingan fairy!"

A/N: That one isn't really that funny, I'm afraid :/