A/N: Sorry for not updating for so long…I've decided to shorten the journey out of Konoha and put it as a series of flashbacks. Don't worry, you'll still see some characters you recognize and some more that you might from other series as time rolls on.

Chapter 3: Homecoming

Bingo Book Entry: Sasuke Uchiha

Rank: SS

Codename: Amaterasu

Mask: Black (Just black with eye slits)

Rank: ANBU (Retired) Jonin instructor

Marital Status: Married

Other nicknames: The Human Taser, Tri-blade Master, Keeper of the Black Flame.

Powers

Full mastery of the mangekyou sharingan

Mastery of lightening and fire ninjutsu

Mastery of several forms of taijutsu

Mastery of genjutsu

Mastery of snake and cat summoning

Full access to any techniques shown to him provided that it's not a kekkai genkai

Notes

Flee on sight

If confronted, avoid combat situations at all cost but at this point you're probably in a genjutsu so you're screwed.

Bounty: 1,000,000,000 ryo

Newly minted chuunins, Izumo and Kotetsu, sat on gate duty. This had been their fifth day on gate duty and frankly they were bored out of their mind. Nobody came through the main gates really so they sat there and sat there. So one can imagine the surprise that the two felt when Sasuke Uchiha limped into the village carrying an orange haired boy with help of another boy whose hair was white, and a young red head finishing up the odd procession. Sasuke turned and looked at the two chuunins and said, "We need immediate medical assistance for this boy here. Tsunade's probably the only one who can help him."

"Who are they?" Izumo asked confused.

"The girl's Karin Uzumaki. These two boys were protecting her when the big one Juugo got bitten by a snake that gave him this weird body transformation. Juugo passed out and Suigetsu over here helped me carry him. Anyways he really needs some medical help."

Ignoring him, Kotetsu continued, "What were you doing outside the village?"

At this point, Sasuke was getting upset, "Look we can discuss this later, Juugo really needs medical attention!"

Kotetsu ignored him, this was the first person who visited through the front gates in five days and he would be damned if he didn't do his job at least somewhat correctly. He repeated himself, "What were you doing outside the village?"

Sasuke sighed to himself, he hated using this excuse but he had no choice, "Uchiha vengeance related angst."

"Ohhh." Izumo and Kotetsu said together.

Izumo took over, "Kotetsu, stay at the gate. I'll take these people to the hospital and then Yondaime can take Sasuke's statement."

The group hurried quickly to the hospital.

After handing Juugo over to Tsunade, the group headed over to the Hokage's office. Izumo, after escorting them into the office, took his leave. Awaiting Sasuke, Suigetsu, and Karin were Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, Kakashi, Itachi, and Minato.

Minato started up the conversation, "So, where were you for the past year?"

"Well…"

(Cue massive flashback scenes)

Approximately, five minutes had passed since Sasuke had entered the compound. The caverns were eerily quiet. The only sound that he had heard was a quiet drip of the water echoing from the inner caverns. Jumping off of one ledge, he quietly landed in front of the cell that held the Kaguya heir. Said Kaguya heir was sitting in the back of his cell huddled in a corner.

"Who are you?" Kimimaro asked, his voice surprisingly hopeful even despite current circumstances.

"I've come to rescue you. In about three minutes," Sasuke's voice caught in his throat because he knew he was going to regret saying this later, "an incredibly strong Kage-level pedophile is going to come after you and in about six years, he'll steal your body. I'm breaking you out of here because that's disgusting and nobody would miss a fugitive."

"Okay." Kimimaro said with a perfect deadpan.

"Wait that's it. No protests, faulty rhetoric, or flashy ninjustsu."

"No, I trust you. You're the first person that has actually cared about me since I've been born."

"Okay…great. I'm breaking you out of here."

Quickly drawing his ninjato, Sasuke channeled fire through it and cut cleanly through the bars. Kimimaro slammed into the bars, knocking them loose and the two quickly hopped out of the cave.

Sasuke and Kimimaro ran through the city in a blind dash for the gate, trying to escape an irate Orochimaru who was scouring the city for them. Sasuke didn't even notice the young boy until he ran right into him. Both of them hit the ground with a solid thud. Picking himself up, Sasuke took a good look at the boy he ran into. He was no older than Sasuke, had fangs sticking out of his mouth, and had stark white hair. There was no doubt. It was Suigetsu.

'That was waaaay too convenient.' Sasuke thought to himself.

Suigetsu groaned to himself as he stood up. Sasuke, already standing, grabbed his shoulders with a wild look in his eyes saying, "Quick! We have to run! We're being chased by a gay pedophile! Run!"

"What's a pedophile?" Suigetsu asked innocently. Sasuke and Kimimaru sweatdropped.

This was going to be a long day.

Sasuke sat in his camp eating quietly with Suigetsu and Kimimaro. Suddenly he heard loud laughing, very loud laughing. Heading to the source, Sasuke had a sight burned into his memory that he would never forget. Zabuza Momochi, member of the seven swordsman's, class-a missing nin, and wielder of the Kubikiri Honcho, laughing on the ground, rolling and convulsing even as a young Haku tried to shake his master to get him to retain his senses but to no avail. Across from him was a squad of Kiri hunter nin who were bound up in different varying awkward positions which Sasuke burned from his memory. Sasuke just watched for another five minutes while Kimimaro and Suigetsu come to check on him. After Zabuza composed himself, he made quick work of the hunter nin and turned to face his three eight year old spectators.

"And who are you?"He asked gruffly.

However nobody listened to him since Haku threw himself around Kimimaro's arm. Kimimaro blushed but didn't move while Suigetsu and Sasuke tried to hold back laughter. Zabuza's demeanor completely changed. This just made it worse for Sasuke who almost completely burst out laughing. He then remembered the giant sword on Zabuza's back and shut up.

Zabuza spoke up again, "I'll make this quick. I'm Zabuza Momochi, that's my adopted daughter Haku and I'm a class A missing nin. The boy comes with me and you don't die."

Kimimaro flinched but Sasuke reaffirmed him, "It's okay. Zabuza will be able to take care of you better than I could. Trust me, you'll see me again."

Sasuke jumped down in front of Karin and turned and kicked the ninja in between the legs. Suigetsu followed up, bisecting the poor ninja shoulder to waist. Karin, despite seeing a man get cut in half right in front of her, grabbed onto Suigetsu's arm, eyes lit up like stars.

"You saved me! Thank you so much! Karin Uzumaki. Nice to meet you."

Suigetsu turned redder than Karin's hair and stammered, "Su-Su-Suigetsu Hozuki."

Karin let go his arm and smiled at him, "Nice to meet you Su-Su-Suigetsu Hozuki."

Sasuke just stood by '…what am I, chopped liver…'

"Tsukuyomi!"

Curse mark Jugo found himself in a world of red and black.

"You will be stabbed for the next 72 hours."

Jugo collapsed into Sasuke's arms as the curse mark receded.

"Guys!" Karin yelled, "You got two minutes before Orochimaru gets here! Make it one minute!"

"Right. Suigetsu help me grab Jugo. We need to run!"

Wordlessly, Suigetsu helped Sasuke lift Jugo up and they quickly ran.

"And after that we headed back into the Leaf."

Minato spoke first, "Okay…interesting. Now I want you to tell me any powers you gained, a current skill estimate, and the powers of your fellow team mates."

"If I do, I want my team member and I to be enrolled into the ninja academy with my class and also that you don't accelerate us any further. I would like to start as a genin the same year as Naruto."

"Deal."

" I'm at least Jonin level. I have the mangekyou sharingan, mastered the Chidori, and am wearing a gravity seal which is set at 4x the normal gravity. The gravity seal increases the weight on your body and can be adjusted like a pair of chakra weights except that it puts weight equally on all muscles allowing for better training. I'm proficient in several styles of taijutsu, have mastered a plethora of ninjutsu, and a decent mastery of genjutsu. Suigetsu Hozuki here has a Kekkei Genkai that makes his body water. He's also quite a good swordsman. Karin is your fellow clan member, Naruto. That's right. She's an Uzumaki. She also has the ability to naturally sense people's chakra as well as transfer chakra to others. Jugo…He's a special case. He can manipulate his flesh and regenerate it due to a medical condition. However, it gives him the side effect of partial insanity because the chakra that's involved. I've just called it the curse mark. Anyways…that's about it. Any questions? "

Minato just sighed, "Bingo Book name."

"Amaterasu."

"Dismissed."

Sasuke and the rest of the not yet formed team 7 gathered on training field 12.

"Okay Sasuke, time to test your combat abilities!" Naruto said somewhat excitedly.

"Wait a minute. What happened when I was gone?"

"Fight first, info later."

Sasuke looked over to Sakura who looked rather embarrassed then looked at Naruto's grinning face and he understood.

"Dobe, you're dead."

"Bring it, teme."

The two squared off as Sakura and Kakashi moved to the edge of the field. Smiling even larger Sasuke thought possible, Naruto pulled out a blindfold, tied it over his eyes, and smirked, dropping into stance made famous by Gai.

"So you trained with Gai…" Sasuke said dubiously

"Yep, I started Lee off early so he'll be stronger and now I am too."

"Figures." With that the two sped at each other. As they approached Sasuke had an idea. A terrible idea. He activated his sharingan and mimicked Naruto's approach. Both of them started by leaping into a series of kicks yelling, "Raising Leaf Whirlwind!"

"You're copying me!"

"Hn"

"Why you!"

Naruto charged with fervor, fist cocked back and Sasuke did the same. Swinging with as much force as was capable in their young nine year old bodies, they swung their fists slamming each other in the face and sending each other flying back as they both slammed into trees.

Both of them got off the ground, wiped their mouth, spit, and glared at each other in the exact same way."You know, teme" the two said in unison, "This is starting to get really annoying!"

The two of them charged again and the fight continued in the same way for a while until Sasuke smirked yelling at Naruto, "You want me to stop copying you? Fine, but it's not my fault if you get hurt!"

Naruto disengaged and leapt back, "You couldn't even hit me if you tried!"

We'll see about that thought Sasuke before he yelled, "Gravity seal, release!"

Again both of them charged forward and this time as they met instead of copying Naruto's punch, he dodged and sent a fist right into Naruto's stomach. Quickly jumping back, Naruto grinned, holding his stomach. "You're fast, teme! At least as fast Lee when we first met him."

"Good."

Sasuke and Naruto ran back into the fray. Sasuke easily dodged Naruto's attacks and countered with a text book uppercut that knocked Naruto up in the air. Jumping, Sasuke followed up with a quick spin kick, slamming Naruto in the chest and sending him flying.

"Shadow clone jutsu!" several caught Naruto and placed him on the ground while hundreds of others appeared around Naruto shielding the original from Sasuke. Infusing chakra into his legs, Sasuke jumped up in the air escaping the mass of clones around him. Pulling out one kunai, Sasuke threw it at the crowd below, quickly ran through the hand signs, and shouting, "Shadow kunai jutsu!"

The kunai multiplied, all whizzing towards the mass below.

"Oh yeah, Dobe!"

"What?"

"Exploding kunai!"

"Oh shi-" Naruto was cut off as all of them exploded in a beautiful cacophony.

Landing quickly, Sasuke stood in the now devastated training group watching the smoke from all of the tags cleared. Naruto stood proud, his wrapping around his eyes gone, and surprisingly unscratched by previous assault, his pupils in horizontal slits. Sage mode…well, nuts...wait a second, how is he in sage mode? That normally takes a few minutes to charge up…unless he didn't move after he made the shadow clones but that means that he somehow withstood the hundreds of exploding tags…

Sasuke's musings were interrupted by Naruto, "Okay teme, bring it."

Grimacing, Sasuke knew he'd have to fight blind (an irony since Naruto was blindfolded) so he waited for Naruto to strike first. Naruto obliged.

"Wind Style! Wind Bullet!"

Sasuke immediately countered, "Fire Style! Fireball jutsu!"

The fire ball quickly overcame the wind bullet and sped towards Naruto until he countered again, "Water style! Water Wave!"

A quick burst of water shot out, cutting the fireball apart and dispelling it. Sasuke quickly raised his arm, yelling "Lightening style! Pale Lightening!"

The lightening quickly dispersed the water and flew towards Naruto but stopped about a foot in front of Naruto. He smirked.

"It's advanced wind manipulation. Basically by leaking chakra into the air, I can use it as a protective barrier. It also allows me to sense chakra signals as well and the best part: I can withdraw my chakra from the air to gather up sage energy while moving. Oh by the way behind you."

Sasuke quickly turned around to see three Narutos smirking at him and a rasenshuriken flying towards him.

"Susano'oh!" Sasuke yelled as a burning ethereal warrior rose up around him. He continued, "Inferno style! Javelin of Amaterasu!"

A spear of black fire flew forward slamming into rasenshuriken causing a massive explosion so large that it slammed both of the two fighters through several trees. Picking himself up, Sasuke limped over to the devastated field where he found Naruto in the same condition as him.

"You want to call this a tie?" Sasuke said amicably. The thoughts going through his head were an entirely different matter.

"Ouch…okay." Naruto said, stumbling over to where Sasuke was and offered a hand. Sasuke eagerly took and then grinned, darkly muttering, "Chidori Stream."

Naruto instantly fell over; his body coursing with electricity. Sasuke quickly tied him up and dragged him over to where Sakura and Kakashi were standing.

"If you think that will stop me teme you're in for a big surprise." Naruto disappeared, substituting himself with a log. He reappeared in the field smirking until a hail of kunai appeared above him. Naruto quickly substituted himself again only for more kunai to appear again. This happened for several substitutions until Naruto stopped, picking up one of the kunai and throwing it up at the multitude raining down at him. He quickly threw his hands together in a flurry of hand signs, yelling, "Shadow Kunai Jutsu!"

Sasuke however was smirking. Putting up one very familiar hand sign, he yelled, "True art is an explosion! Katsu!"

Somewhere in the Hidden Stone…

Deidara and his team walked into a bar after a long mission. He sneezed, blowing up the whole establishment, all the people inside, and his team. After seeing the destruction caused by his sneeze, he loudly proclaimed, "This is art!" and fled the scene. This started Deidara's journey as a class-S missing nin.

Sakura turned to him, "Deidara, really?"

"It's all in good fun." Sasuke said with a twisted grin as he watched Naruto get blasted with explosions and electrical shocks. "I put a small seal on Naruto's clothes. Whenever he uses chakra, it activates summoning a hail of exploding kunai."

Sasuke started laughing darkly while Sakura sighed and Kakashi just shook his head. The three of them watched the destruction for a few moments before Naruto landed in front of him, smoking in a burning lump.

"Now you want to tell me what you did while I was gone."

In response, Naruto disappeared behind Sasuke in a flash and punched him in the kidneys, only for Sasuke's body to explode in lightening. Naruto twitched and fell over.

"Underground decapitation jutsu!" Naruto quickly found his head sticking out of the ground. Leveling himself with Naruto, Sasuke looked at the poor boy and asked, "What did you do to me?"

"Made my clone of you declare his undying love for Sakura. Other than that, nothing really. Don't worry, I did the same thing with Hinata. In a matter of fact, you should be thanking me. Ino's nowhere near as clingy as she used to be."

"Alright…thanks." With that, Sasuke turned to Sakura and Kakashi, "So you guys want to go to Ichiraku's? I'm straving."

The three walked away chatting leaving Naruto trapped in the ground, "Um… guys, guys, I can't get out."

Omake: Nartuo talks with his Clones part 1

(These may be funny but they will have a certain amount of plot to add to the story)

Day turned to night and the young Uzumaki had dug enough that he could move his hands enough to make hand signs. He quickly made a shadow clone and substituted himself with it. After dusting himself off, he turned to the clone that was stuck in the hole who oddly enough looked rather thoughtful.

"Before I dispel you, it seems you have something to say."

"You know, I've been thinking in the relatively short time I have before I get assimilated, today sucked…big time."

"I know. I totally agree."

The two talked for a few minutes and anyone walking by would have been surprised and mostly likely disturbed by the fact that Naruto was talking with a head that was stuck in the ground.

Real Naruto looked at clone Naruto, " So what do you want?"

In a look that would have made Ibiki cry, clone Naruto answered, "We shall have vengeance on-"

He was abruptly cut off as Naruto almost blasted him with an overpowered wind bullet, "Bad clone! No saying vengeance, or revenge, or anything related to it."

The clone Naruto however had other ideas, "No, hear me out." Real Naruto glared at him, "I meant pranking him."

"Oh…well why didn't you just say so?"

"Here's my idea." Real Naruto bent down and listened as Clone Naruto whispered the idea into his ears. Real Naruto's eyes lit up.

"Great idea. It will take some time but…" They both looked into each other's eyes and started laughing, "MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

At Ichiraku's

Sasuke stopped mid-slurp, quickly looking up as if surprised by something. Kakashi looked over to him, "Hm…something up, Sasuke?"

"My vengeance senses are tingling and based on the feeling I'm getting I'll be a large part of it."

Sakura sighed and looked at the two, "Are you sure you're not being paranoid?"

"I can never be too safe with Naruto around."

A/N: part two: And done. I promise to update more frequently. Seriously…I do. Remember, Reviews are the lifeblood of authors and without we dry out and lose focus. Thank and tune in next time to see the Naruto crew fall from great heights, get injured, and revitalize the Konoha Ninja Academy.