A Few Steps Back

The once rich and luscious land known as the fire country was now a horribly ironic reminder of what it use to be, the black eternal flames of Amaterasu burned across the land day and night. The grass no longer grew and the trees couldn't even put up a fight, they long ago gave up. But Sasuke couldn't be the same, he so wished to had been the one to die by Tobi's hand not Naruto. The powerful shinobi was killed along with Killer Bee, Kakashi, and Gai.

Sasuke was the world's only hope after the kages were destroyed by the might of the eternal Madara Uchiha, it was only after learning the secrets of the Uchiha clan did Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyo evolve. With the power of the Rinnegan and the Sharingan Sasuke sealed the immortal in a rift between dimensions, confining the immortal to eternal isolation

Sadly even with the Sage's eyes, Sasuke was no match for the power of Tobi and The Ten-Tails. Luckily Naruto manged to do one last heroic deed before he allowed himself to die, with the remaining of Kurama's chakra, Naruto summoned a Tailed beast bomb strong enough to blow up the moon. Destroying Tobi's entire plan, angering the mastermind to the point of insanity. Beginning a series of earth-shaking destruction, no one but Naruto could stop him.

That left Sasuke the leader of the remaining joint shinobi army, at least those that were willing to trust the missing ninja. Fighting Tobi and the Juubi on multiple accounts, years and years passed and the number dwindled till Sasuke was all that was left to oppose Tobi. This was Sasuke's last chance to destroy the bastard, he would finish the fourth shinobi war for all those who sacrificed their lives for peace.

"Tobi" Sasuke eyes began to lose the Rinnegan, exhaustion looming over him. As the Juubi Jinchuuriki, Tobi was invulnerability to even the most powerful of his justus.

"Sasuke why do you still fight me?" The masked man began to hysterically laugh at the younger Uchiha. Grabbing Sasuke by the collar of his white cloak, quickly Tobi caught the hidden attempt to slice his head. Blocking the weapon with merely the palm of his hand, he then snatched the weapon from Sasuke throwing it away.

"Sasuke tsk tsk.." Sasuke glared daggers at Tobi, his eyes reflecting his Mangekyo Sharingan. The flames of Amaterasu exploded randomly between the two men, burning Sasuke some at the recklessness of the attack. The flames suddenly began to sucked through a vortex, sending the ninjustu to another dimension.

'Damn Kamui' Sasuke frowning at the failed attempt to kill the bastard. "It's sad really.. that you're that desperate Sasuke. This isn't fun anymore, I kept you around hoping you would make things more interesting"

Tobi summoned the Juubi, the earth trembled and shook violently as the ultimate tailed beast released a mighty roar. Its ten tails swayed back and forth creating violent winds, and its giant eye illuminated the moonless world. "I hoped you would be the one to kill me Sasuke, a world without peace is nothing I want to be apart of.."

The Juubi began to gather chakra, the power assembling into a massive tailed beast bomb bigger than anything Sasuke had ever seen. Tobi stood before the dying Sasuke, he reached for his mask and a truffle of black hair popped forth. Sasuke's eye began to be blurred, as he couldn't make out the rest of Tobi's true face.

"So I take the world in my own hands.."

The massive ball of destruction shot forward, burrowing its way into the earth. "And crush it!"

And then everything went white, the existence of the entire world was wiped away by the insane Uchiha. Sasuke began to feel a sensation of floating, being dead was apparently awkward. He was cold and empty, where every he was hell or elsewhere it was truly a drag.

Sasuke found himself chuckling abit as a bitter-sweet smirk came upon his face, he remembered the lazy genius and how often he tried to avoid work. Choji was a different story, Sasuke never realized the value of his skill set into after the guy's death. The chubby man had a big heart without even expanding it, much like Naruto.

With nothing but emptiness and void of life anywhere, it left Sasuke to retrace his path in life. And looking back he realized Naruto really was something special, the same kid who he thought would be a loser forever had surpassed him long ago. But to Naruto that didn't matter he only wanted his 'friend' back, how could Naruto be so naïve and stupid to consider him a friend.

Sasuke now understood that is wasn't hopeless, he was being naïve, Naruto was being hard headed. A quality that Sasuke envied now more than ever, even to his last breath Naruto manged to be the hero he strived to be. Naruto changed people it was evident with the rookie 9, team gai, the villagers, Zabuza, Nagato, and even in the end he changed Sasuke.

"You finally did it Naruto. It took a while but I finally got the message.." Sasuke began to feel his eyes sting some, warmness slide down his cheeks. He shed a tear for the fallen world, the future generations lost, Itachi, Naruto, and even himself.

"You tried to save me Naruto, you tried to save me from myself but I was blinded.."

"I'm so sorry"

Suddenly the unfamiliar touch of soft warm hands touched the Uchiha's cheek, the hands turned Sasuke allowing him to see a beautiful woman. "Sakura" Sasuke delusional and confused, he mistaken the angelic woman for his past teammate. The woman smiled warmly at Sasuke, she wiped away his shed tears. The woman was absolutely heavenly, her hair was brown and extremely long. They complimented her honeysuckle hue eyes, her skin was lightly tanned and she wore robes of pure white.

She grabbed Sasuke's hand leading him somewhere, the darkness seemed to have no direction but she seemed to know what to do. Sasuke began to blink as he saw a glowing light ahead of them, he found it slightly corny to go to the light at the end of the tunnel. But anywhere was better than nothing.

The light became so strong Sasuke shielded his eyes, before they adjusted to the new area. To his surprise he found himself in a temple surrounded by thrones, each throne was gigantic in size. And so was each women that sat in them, every women barley dressed showed off ample chest and long legs. Sasuke had to hide the shock the best he could mange. This was completely blowing his mind, each women seemed to study him.

Some of them frowned at the ninja as if he was a pig, others simply seemed fascinated by his appearance. A burst of light fulled the entire room, so powerful that Sasuke had to shield his eyes once again. In the place of the light formed a woman who seemed like a 60 ft tall version of Tsunade, she sat at the throne that seemed to be the center point of the room.

She looked down upon the Uchiha, a small frown formed upon her face when she saw him. "Ladies, thank you for agreeing to meet me with the issues that concern this human"

The giant blonde women referring to Sasuke, he couldn't help but be uneasy at the mention of himself and an issue. Nowadays with all the crazy stunts he had pulled it didn't surprise him much to be persecuted for his crimes in the afterlife.

"Sasuke Uchiha you will now be judged by the creators of your world and others"

Sasuke nearly choked on his spit, the creators of his world and others was a little hard to imagine being a room full of model like women. "Creators?"

"Yes boy we are the creators of the dimensions, and are the mothers of each world in existence. We are the Amazons and we don't tolerate arrogant humans"

"What am I being charged for?"

"You are charged with crimes against humanity slaughtering the innocent, starting war, and allowing the Earth to be destroyed" Her voiced boomed with power, despite the fact that she was calm.

Sasuke knew the day would come and he would have to face his mistakes, now he wasn't sure what awaited here. But he was willing to accept the consequences.

"But it has come to our attention that you did experience a change of heart, and tried to defeat the fool known as Tobi" Sasuke nodded in confirmation.

"You're a very much a lost cause Uchiha, but we believe very much in second chances. Hints the reason you even have the honor of being here and judged instead of condemned" She held a strong glare upon him, but less in anger and more as she was irritated.

"We shall vote on the fate of this mortal" She stood up from her throne and walked toward Sasuke, she placed her giant hand on the ground allowing Sasuke to climb aboard. She lifted him for all the Amazons to see, an Amazon to the further right raised her right hand. "Aye" she uttered the simple phrase, Sasuke not sure if that was good.

Next to her another Amazon raised her right hand, and she frowned at Sasuke. "Nay"

This continued for the next few minutes as each Amazon either said 'nay' or 'aye', now almost around the entire room the only one left was the women who held him. She looked at him intensely for a bit, before she raised her right hand and slowly spoke the word.

"Aye"

"It is unanimous Sasuke Uchiha shall be granted a second chance to right his wrong and save his world" She placed her other hand around him, encompassing him as a visible energy waves began to surround Sasuke trapping him in a golden sphere.

"Good bye and good luck human, may your journey be successful" Sasuke began to feel nausea wash over him, he lost his consciousness. The last thing he saw was the smiling face of the Amazon.

...

"M..ato!"

"M..nato!"

"Minato!"

A boy immediately leaped forward, sweating profoundly he seemed pretty shook up. "Minato? Who's Minato?" Sasuke looked to the window and noticed a pale boy with dark hair knocking at the window. He had his hair tied in a ponytail that went forward with his hair with bangs framing the sides of his face. The kid was odd looking and possibly gay, he knocked on the window again.

"Minato get your ass up! Or we're going to be late. I'll be at the front door" The kid then jumped from the roof

"Minato? Why did that kid call me-" Sasuke then looked to his right where he caught his image, or someone else. Sasuke found himself looking face to face with the Fourth Hokage as a child. Instead of a mane of raven locks he saw a collection of blonde spikes, blue eyes instead of dark. He tried directing his chakra to his eyes but nothing changed, no Mangekenyo or Rinnegan formed just plain blue eyes.

"Damn Amazons"

There you go first chapter of 'A Few Steps Back', this idea came pretty randomly original I wanted to use the same concept but have Sasuke came back without the Sharingan and no skill in ninjustu like Lee. Which is a huge loss for him, but midway through I had another idea and went with this one. The boy I was referring to is the boy from Minato's genin squad, the boy to his left. Look up Team Jiraiya on Narutopedia to get an idea of what he looks like.

But tell me what you guys think, I may continue this but this was more of a one-shot. Really depends on the popularity. I need at least one review to even consider continuing this fic. So if you like please review, it makes a writer feel like writing more!

Anyway Taijen signing off, Have a blessed day.