Sasuke Uchiha dominating the 1st round, almost every headshot has landed so far'' Sasuke stood in front of the man opposite him throwing strike after strike putting his opponent up against the cage, the losing male tries to throw a right hand widely attempting to hit the Raven haired boy with a Haymaker. Sasuke dodges the punch to then carry on breaking the defense of the opponent with own punches.

'' FLYING KNEE! SASUKE. TO THE HEAD THROW THE KNEE!'' The young raven heard his brother shout from one side of the cage. Sasuke saw his opponent's move his head down to the left side as he tries to throw another wild punch at him. Sasuke smirked for a split second as he throws a flying knee to his opponent's head, landing straight on his temple causing his opponent to drop to the ground stringless puppet

''Sasuke throws a beautiful flying knee and the referee stops the fights, it's OVER!'' the Commentator screamed as Sasuke heard the roar of the crowd scream his name, Sasuke raised both arms walking around the octagon cage, Itachi stepped in the cage towards his brother with a towel wiping the sweat off his younger brothers head before scuffing up his hair.

''Sasuke Uchiha will now become the youngest fighter to get a title shot having just only turned 18. He's not just the youngest in this promotion but in the world! He could make history!'' Being praised by the commentator the ref raises Sasuke's hand for the victory, The crowd screamed his name over and over. '' SASUKE! SASUKE! SASUKE!

''….Sasuke'' The teen turned his head towards his brother with minimal expression, Itachi had his hand on the door handle turning his attention towards the tv screen. He took a deep breath as he looked towards his little brother '' watching the fight again uh'' Sasuke just looked down to the floor taking a deep breath. Itachi rolled his eyes walking towards Sasuke sitting next to him on the leather sofa ''some knockout uh….I mean your fights never made it till the end of the final round but that was special.'' he saw Sasuke take another breath

Itachi could feel Sasuke's depressed aura around him and be suddenly getting annoyed.

''Sasuke...it's been 6 months..move on''

Sasuke looked up at his brother nodding his head ''I'm trying''

''Try harder'' Itachi replied'' come on get your ass moving your class starts at 10.'' Itachi stood up and exited the office. Sasuke continued the sit there silently for a few minutes. He moved his right hand to his left shoulder gently rotating it backward whilst heading out of the office. He entered the main part of the gym looking around to see how busy it is today, The gym was very good size, had loads of space. Sasuke took a deep breath feeling the air conditioning over his head, When entering the front doors there is a small reception desk, pass that on the left of the gym is entirely covered by mats and punching bags. Opposite that is the octagon cage with its red cloud symbol in the middle of the cage mat. Next to it was a small boxing ring. In the far back was the rest of the gym with its general equipment. This was 'Akatsuki MMA'.

Sasuke walks towards the mats to teach his Muay Thai beginners class where a dozen people were waiting.

''Ok guys start jogging around the mat let's get warm.''

30 minutes into the was demonstrating to the students a 3 punch combination on the punching bag.

''When in your stance the important thing is you want to keep your hands in front of your face, keep a good distance against your opponent. '' Sasuke kept an arm's length distance against the bag '' first shot if you're going to throw you lead hand (jab)'' ''when throwing your jab your going to take a small step with your front leg'' Sasuke takes a small step slowly throwing a jab at the bag placing his other hand against his temple clenching his fist gently. ''Now you're already in range from that step. Only needs to be small so you don't smother your shot. The next strike is the backhand (cross) to the body and you want to rotate your body to get that power shot ''. He bends his knees slightly whilst using his right hand to strike the lower part of the bag twisting his hips and foot to get that extra range and power in his punch. ''Then from this shot bring it back to the Jab'' he changes his level striking to what would be the head with his lead hand. Noticing a few of his students nodding as if to understanding the simple combination. Sasuke demonstrated a few more time, each time gaining a bit more speed to his combo. ''Ok, one bag each person 3 minute round '' Sasuke shouted go when each pupil went to their a bag against the mats. All started the combination as Sasuke felt a sharp pain running through his shoulder, he ignored the pain for as long as he could before once again rolling his shoulder back and forth.

Halfway through the round, Sasuke spectated everyone hitting the bag with the combo, some were throwing the combo fairly decent however with little technique, others were just way many of them, it was there first time so Sasuke was more willing to help bring them back on track going through the strikes again. But Sasuke's attention was caught by a bag flying back and forth. One of the students who took the bag in the far corner was consistently throwing shot each strike at the bag with no hesitation. Sasuke inspected the striker, He was young, around the same age as skin was a bit tanned as if he was messy hair, thin with the slightest bit of muscle, around the same height, maybe just bit shorter. He was landing consistently with pretty good speed, almost mimicking Sasuke's demonstration, his technique was a bit off and he was leaving his chin open every time he steps in with that jab.

But Sasuke consistently watched until he walked towards the swinging punching bag grabbing it to keep it steady. He held still in front of the blond, Sasuke saw the boys blue eyes look up to his own. Sasuke just nodded, The other boy understood its meaning as he started again with the three strikes. ''More power'' Sasuke ordered the blond who obeyed his command giving more force against his punches. ''Again, that does not enough keep that other hand up against your cheek when you jab'' Sasuke's voice raised reviewing the Blonds movements.

With each strike the blonde landed, Sasuke demanded more, He watched as each time the blond pushed his own pace more and more not wanting to give up. The round finished with Sasuke shouting 'time! Get some water if you need it' He watched the blond posture up breathing heavily. He looked up at Sasuke trying to catch his breath.

''You satisfied or do you want more?''

Sasuke looked at the blond surprise, he never thought he say something like that. But Sasuke smirked at the blond giving a gentle nod. ''Save your breath, we're only 24 minutes in.'' The other boy just shrugged as if he didn't care.

Sasuke watched the action nodding to himself, ''ok'' he said to the blond'' If you want to play it that way''.

For the rest of the lesson, Sasuke continued to show a different set of combos on the bag for the students to learn and practice. in all of the 3-minute rounds, he would on everyone else for 1m30s. The rest was given then the determined Blond. Sasuke suddenly had this urge to push this guy to the edge. He wanted more from him each round. He could see the Blond was exhausted, his hands were dropping from his face, his arms felt as if 10kg weights are pulling them down, And he was gasping for air but each time he hit that bag he gave it 100%. Sasuke noticed he could only just keep up throughout the minutes.

The last 20 seconds Sasuke ordered everyone to throw straight punches at the bag without stopping. He noticed the blond grunt and moan his way through the pain whilst punching the bag, sweat dripping from his face whilst he continues to punch with everything he had. Sasuke looked at him as if he was looking at himself. Sasuke knew that pain he was going through and he'd be the first one to admit it sucked. The alarm beeped to declare it was over, a lot of other were only starting to gas out But the blond collapsed on the floor as if he was just shot in the head, he brought his weak arm up to his head with short quick restless breaths. ''Breath in deeper'' Sasuke walked up to him after thanking the rest of his class. The boy did as he was told for a minute until he was able to breathe at a steady pace. Sasuke sat himself down on the mat crossing his legs.

''Good job today, pushed yourself there .'' Sasuke complemented ''What's your name?''

Those blue eyes turned towards him as he was still panting slightly ''Naruto''

Naruto then sat up in front of Sasuke wiping the sweat off his forehead with his boxing glove.

''You train before ?'' Sasuke asked with a small eyebrow raised as Naruto looked at him.

''My dad taught me a bit when I was younger''

Naruto looked away as if he was a bit saddened. Sasuke saw his expression, he felt there was no need to ask any more question about it.

'' You're lacking a bit of technique and you leave your chin open when you throw that jab.'' Sasuke added pointing to his right hand slightly'' but everything else was ok, Naruto just turned his head to the raven-haired teen and smirked'' heh well I'll start getting better then.'' Sasuke smirked at Naruto response. Both of them stood up and walked off the mats side by side

''There a class tomorrow? '' Naruto asked whilst in the middle of taking off both gloves off. Sasuke turned to look at the boy and gave a small nod back to Sasuke ''heh good. See you then Sasuke'' Naruto walked off with his gloves to the locker room.

Sasuke just watched walk away coming to the realization that he never told the blond his name, but Sasuke wasn't surprised, almost everyone who comes to this gym knows who he .

''I haven't seen you smirked in a while.'' Sasuke could hear Itachi's voice behind him. '' He reminds me of you'' Sasuke turned his head to his brother's comment, ''Maybe, he's good, didn't think he'd push himself like that''

Itachi chuckled taking a few steps towards his little brother with his arms crossed, ''because every time you do wanna push someone like that they end never coming back?''

''And that is why I hate teaching a class, Why can't you let Deidara or Sasori teach? Maybe even Konan.''

Itachi just looked at his complaining sibling putting his hand his head messing his hair up. '' Because all three are currently training for their and your one of the best teachers here even for your age. You always put attention to detail.''

''But I was always a better fighter...I still a-''

''-Sasuke'' Itachi interrupted Sasuke with his tone became more fierce at Sasuke '' We've spoken about this, and you know my answer''

Sasuke just looked away like a troubled kid, Itachi could see both of Sasuke's hand clenching into fists. He took a deep breath trying to keep himself calm from shouting at Sasuke '' Look I...I can understand how hard it is.I know how badly you want to get back in that cage. But that shoulder''

''Is healing'' Sasuke was quick to finish his brother's sentence '' Give me a month I can start to train properly I ca-''

''Sasuke!'' Itachi drew his brothers eyes to his '' Don't be foolish, I can see how much pain you're in, even going on the punching bag or when you try to grapple, hell grabbing something off the top shelf. I always see that shoulder is giving you problems.'' Itachi took another deep breath''

If anything happened to that shoulder again, You won't ever be able to use that arm properly ever again. Even trying to raise your arm slightly would hurt.''

Sasuke just looked away in annoyance, he knew his brother was right.

''Is it true then, I'm never going to fight again..''

Itachi just watched the slight sadness Sasuke's response. '' Go on, go home early.'' Itachi patted him on the back and walked into the office leaving Sasuke there.

The boy looked up to a picture frame against the wall closest to him.

It was a magazine cut out of Sasuke with one arm raised in victory in the middle of the octagon cage just under him was the headline in gold

'Sasuke ''The Rogue Ninja'' Uchiha to lead the new era of MMA? '

Sasuke took a deep breath looking at the picture frame for 5 minutes until coming back to reality

he then walked towards the Locker Room to pack his stuff.