Chapter: One

World: AU & Fantasy

Title: Templars vs. Assassins pt.1

Theme: Inspired by the videogame Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood.

Word count: 1,681

Pairing: Sasusaku

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When the news of the Templar wars against the Assassins broke out, Naruto immediately signed up for the war and with just a month of training under the supervision of the Great Knight Hatake Kakashi, He was promoted weeks later as a Captain of his own battalion in such a young age.

Maybe being the son of a respected Templar Knight helped him to become one and he also inherited his father's strength and wisdom.

He was now a captain and leading his own battalion of templar soldiers into the battlefield.

In a busy town just outside of Konoha, a group of Templars stopped over to get some supplies for their next mission. The battalion was lead by the newest Captain Uzumaki Naruto. Together with his battalion, they were walking down the bustling street when the blonde young man heard a familiar voice.

Naruto slowly looked back and he was surprised that his sister followed them on the nearby town.

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Meanwhile, A dark-haired man was standing on a top of an old ruined clock tower. He looked down and he finally found his target. He smirked while preparing his hidden blade, he wanted to finish this assignment thoroughly.

His target is a man named, Uzumaki Naruto, He was the son of the infamous general and noble man of the famed Konoha Village and one of the famed member of the templar knights.

He sheathed his hidden blade, but when he was about to assassinate the young man, he was distracted when he saw a young girl running towards the young captain templar knight.

The dark-haired man narrowed his eyes when he saw a young pinkette girl with the said target.

She was wearing a viridian dress with fresh lilies on top of her head while walking towards the templar brat.

She was stunningly beautiful, he never saw anyone with that exotic bubble gum colored hair and he can tell that she has the prettiest emerald eyes he has ever seen in his entire life.

Uchiha Sasuke mused, 'Who is she?'

He then remembered the most important rule in the creed is never to kill anyone who's innocent. Especially civilians, but If that young girl is related with the templar brat, he needs to kill her too. That's the creed's rule.

He creased his forehead with his unfathomable predicament.

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The pinkette young girl chased the blonde young man and shouted, "Naruto!"

Naruto gestured his battalion to go ahead and he stopped and looked back to the source of the voice, "I told you Sakura-chan, I'm not going back! What are you doing here? You shouldn't be here!"

She catches her breath while she announced, "I'm not here to take you back. Take me with you."

"What? Are you insane?! How did you followed us?"

She then answered, "I used the tracker lessons from Teacher Kakashi's survival class. It was really helpful. Anyway, Naruto, listen. I-I want to help …Please."

Naruto shooked his head painfully and He moved closer and patted the young girl's shoulder and looked over her pleading eyes and said, "This is not your battle. Leave this battle to the Templar Knights, to us. Just go back, Sakura-chan."

The pinkette's eyebrows furrows and she angrily spatted back, "I'm not weak Naruto! I don't need to be protected! I want to join this battle and I want to fight with you guys."

"No-no, What I was trying to tell is-"

"Are you underestimating me because I'm a girl?"

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Suddenly a faint cry was heard on the bustling street. A fellow Templar soldier shouted, "Assassino!"

Naruto and Sakura heard the faint cry and he instinctively unsheathed his sword, "Merda! Sakura-chan stay close to me."

She nodded swiftly and held the silver knife close to her chest that Shizune, her lady-in-waiting gave to her before she settled to follow Naruto secretly.

Unlike her brother Naruto, she didn't get a proper training with swords and crossbows. Noble heiress like her are supposed to study and learn the proper etiquette of a woman and prepare themselves to marry a noble man from other lands or kingdoms.

But she didn't want anything to do with that. She wants to join the cause of the Holy Empire and help the Templars.

Uchiha Sasuke was not a patient man, especially with missions relating with these scum templars.

He despised the Templars ever since they attacked his village when he was just eight-years old and killed mostly his clan members and fellow assassins just because his father who's the leader of their clan denied succumbing to the power of the Holy Empire; in return they killed all the male elders including his father. He promised to avenge his death and he eventually joined the assassins and he promised to his grave that he will not stop fighting until he eliminate all of them.

The Templars who keep preaching their ideal religion all over the country, but they're hypocrites who just did atrocious acts such as prostitution, slavery, betrayal and assassination. What an irony. They're just crones and cowards hiding behind their Pope and the papal power.

He first encountered this bratty templar when he was just a young assassin in training. Their paths always crossed whatever mission they've been assigned to.

Naruto didn't know his true identity because he's always wearing a cloak hiding his persona.

Although, he knew everything about his eternal rival, Naruto that he came from a rich noble family from the village of Konoha. He was pretty popular too with the assassin's bingo book.

He admits he's a favorable rival and opponent, but there's one thing that Uchiha Sasuke failed to know.

Uzumaki Naruto the dumbass templar has a twin sister.

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Naruto who's standing alone with her sister shouted, "Show yourself, Assassin!"

Then a dark silhouette walks towards the two siblings and an unknown voice answered him, "My blade will end your life here."

When the air has cleared, Naruto eventually saw the source of the unknown voice and he seethed, "Uchiha Sasuke."

"Finally, you've done your own part of research and got my name right. Dumbass." The dark-haired assassin said while smirked darkly.

The confused young pink-haired girl turned to Naruto and asked her twin brother, "Na-naruto, who is this man?"

Naruto answered his twin sister's inquiry and angrily spatted back, "Meet the assassin bastard that keeps stalking me since my first mission as a templar."

The emerald-eyed girl heard what her brother had answered and muttered, "Assassin? You mean…"

But the dark-haired assassin wasn't bothered with the Templar Captain's insult and instead taunted him back, "To carry one's own chair is not a good thing, Don't you think Uzumaki?"

Naruto narrowed his cerulean eyes and seethed at the dark-haired assassin, "Bastard! Guards, kill the assassin!"

The assassin taunted back, "You know your templar guards won't even scratch me."

When Naruto was about to strike the rogue assassin he felt a sudden pang of pain on his left shoulder. 'I almost forgot my injury from the last battle. This is not good.'

Sakura, who was still caught in the middle of the sudden encounter, saw that her brother is having a hard time due to his battle injury on his shoulder.

'He might be in pain. I need to do something.'

She then shouted immediately and intervened, "Wait! Please don't slay my brother, Messier assassin or whatever your name is."

Naruto saw her twin sister managed to go in front of him and trying to block the attack of the assassin, but his battle wound on his left shoulder re-opened itself. The blonde templar just shouted, "Sakura-chan, don't! Get back."

But his pleads was useless with his sister facing the dark-haired assassin. Uzumaki Naruto passed out due to his battle wound and he's currently unconscious.

Uchiha Sasuke saw the young lady interrupted and stood in front of the blonde templar and he narrowed his eyes and announced, "Move lady."

Sakura knew that she has no chance of protecting herself and her brother in front of this killer assassin she just pleaded, "I'm not going to stand here helplessly while you kill my brother!"

She stood in front of the blonde templar and helded the knife that Shizune gave her.

Uchiha Sasuke saw how the young lady defended the blonde templar soldier and he retracted his hidden blade and announced, "Hn. This is your lucky day, Uzumaki."

"Y-You're sparing our lives?"

The obsidian-eyed assassin looked at the pink-haired woman and pointed at the weapon she is holding and announced, "This is the first and last time, I will spare your brother's life. You have no chance of killing me or injuring me with your toy right there. If you really want to protect your brother's life, train and become stronger or I will kill you myself."

The pink-haired noble was still in shock, she then asked again the hooded figure, "But why?"

"I prefer not to fight with an injured man and a weak lady."

Sakura heard his answer and she seems not satisfied with it and shouted, "What?! I'm not weak-Wait up! Where are you going? Do you think you're going away with this? Guards-"

The dark-haired hooded figure teleported quickly at the back of the young girl and whispered into her ear, "Don't think about it." And he hit one of her vital points in the neck and she collapsed in front of him.

He held her fragile body and carried it onto a bench nearby. 'The Innocent ones doesn't need to be entangled with our mess.'

Sasuke took a last look at the young girl who's lying at the bench and took off quickly and vanished completely in the shadows.

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tbc