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Sasuke ran through the forest jumping from tree to tree. He was finally going home, back to Konoha. Of course, he had been declared a missing nin... but, maybe after they heard what he had did... they would wave it aside.
Orochimaru couldn't wait any longer...he had to do the body transfer right then and there...or he would die. The body that he had been in was...unhealthy. He had been sick for days on end now up until the point where he couldn't stand the pain.
Kabuto had done all he could do to try and to help out Orochimaru, but all of his efforts went to waste. So, the only the only thing left was to have Orochimaru transfer into Sasuke's body.
Sasuke and Kabuto were in a different room then Orochimaru as they discussed the problem. "What? You can't do that! I still have to kill my brother!"
"Sasuke-kun, please," Kabuto was practically begging now. "Orochimaru-sama will make sure to kill your brother for you. Please. Just do as we say Sasuke-kun. Orochimaru-sama can't hold on much longer."
Surprisingly, the next words that came out of Sauske's mouth were, "Alright. I'll do it."
"Thank you so much Sasuke-kun!" Kabuto said happily looking at Sasuke with what he guessed was supposed to be a smile, but looked more like something that would send any person running back home screaming for their mom.
"Don't thank me just yet," Sasuke smirked. Kabuto looked at Sasuke and of course, realized something was wrong right away. "Sofuushasen no Tachi!" Sasuke shouted. Thin strings that were attached to shuriken and kunai suddenly appeared and wrapped themselves around Kabuto and he fell to the ground, trapped. Sasuke smirked again. He had the strings in his mouth and quickly formed hand seals. "Katon! Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" Sasuke sucked in some air and blew some flame. Since the strings were in his mouth made a pathway for the fire to go to. Kabuto.
Kabuto was helpless and could do nothing but lay there twitching with all his might and try as hard as he could to escape, but it wouldn't work. He barely had any chakra left due to all that time spent caring for Orochimaru. He was done for and so was Orochimaru-sama. Kabuto couldn't help but think, 'I knew this was coming.' But, that was the only thing he had time to think about as the flames engulfed him...
Sasuke stared at the flaming figure of Kabuto. 'And now all that's left is Orochimaru,' he thought. Sasuke went into the next room where Orochimaru was on a bed groaning painfully and screaming. Sasuke slammed the door and Orochimaru turned around to look at him. "Sasuke-kun," he said quietly. "Come quickly. I...I am almost...done with..."
"We can't let that happen now, can we?" Sasuke said in an obviously mocking voice, but Orochimaru seemed to be in too much pain to notice it. He got up from the bed and walked slowly towards Sasuke. 'If I'm ever going to do it, I'm going to do it now,' Sasuke thought, kind of panicked. He quickly made some more hand seals. He held his right arm down towards the ground as a crackling ball formed in it and his left hand held his right arm. "Chidori!" he shouted and plunged foward towards Orochimaru.
"Sasuke-kun? What're you..." Orochimaru never got to finish the rest of his sentence as Sasuke's hand plunged into him. He spit out some blood and stopped moving. They stood like that for a few moments...Sasuke's hand in Orochimaru and Orochimaru limp.
Quickly after that, he cleared out the rest of the place. When that was done with, he left...
It was as simple as that. He had killed Orochimaru and left. Now, he was going to the village that where he had been marked as a missing nin and would probably recieve some punishments... or more for betraying Konoha by leaving them for Orochimaru. Yet, Sasuke didn't mind. As soon as any of those thoughts entered his head, he shoved them aside and thought of only one thing. Pink cherry blossoms. Sakura.
He remembered when he left, how she poured her heart out to him, yet he just stood there and listened. And one of the last things she heard from him was...that she was annoying. Like any other day if she would be bugging him (but Sasuke actually loved those moments...not that he was going to tell anybody).
But, what stung most of all...was how Sasuke thought that she wouldn't care anymore. It's not that he would blame her... but none the less, he wanted to her to know how he felt... It was a pity how she didn't hear what his last words were to her.
Sasuke caught her before she hit the ground. He carried her to a nearby bench and put her down there. Instead of leaving right away though, he stood there for a few minutes. He reached out his hand and gently wiped away Sakura's tears. "Sakura," he whispered, "I'll be back...I promise..."
Sasuke was so busy thinking that he didn't notice that he had arrived outside Konoha already. He stood on a tree branch of a tree that was right outside the village. There didn't seem to be anything different, but when he saw the Hokage Monument, he couldn't keep his eyes off it for some reason. Sasuke's eyes trailed from the Shodaime, Nidaime, Sandaime, Yondaime, and surprisingly he saw Tsuande's head on the monument too. I've been gone for a long time, he thought sadly.
Sasuke quickly jumped down from the tree branch and down onto the ground. Just as he was about to go into the village however, he finally noticed that his hands were still bloody from...past activities and luckily for him, there was a big puddle of water right in front of him and he used that to wash his hands off. After that, he hurried into Konoha.
It seemed so different...even peaceful. (Maybe it was because there weren't any crazy fangirls after him.) There was a cool breeze in the air, about six in the morning. Most shinobis would be training right about now, but Sasuke saw no one as he walked about. It wasn't that surprising. They were probably off somewhere else... After a while of aimlessly wandering around, Sasuke found himself right outside of the Hokage's office. He stood outside for ten minutes or so, and then finally pushed the doors open and walked inside.
And there was the Godaime herself...sleeping. Her head was on the desk followed by her arms which she had stuck her head on. Drool slipped down from her mouth onto all the paperwork. There was a huge stack of papers right next to her face and it just so happened that some of those papers got stuck onto her cheek. But that wasn't what Sasuke was shocked at. Oh no. The thing that made him stop in his tracks, mouth open, eyes wide, and eardrums shattering, was the snoring. Oh Kami the snoring. He would've rather faced the Mangekyou Sharingan then listen to that snoring. And they called her Tsunade-hime for Kami's sake! (A/N: BTW, hime means princess.) If that wasn't enough punishment for leaving Konoha, he didn't know what was.
But, his sense finally kicked in and he shouted out, "TSUANDE-SAMA!" loud and very, very clear.
"Uhh wuuh? I'm awake!" Tsuande said sluggishly, her right arm going instinctively towards her head...and then went flying in the other direction (knocking a ton of papers on the way) when she saw Sasuke. The poor Uchiha didn't have time to react as she leaped over her desk and shouted, "Sasuke! Uchiha Sasuke! Is that really you!"
"Yeah. It is me..." Tsunade took a good look at the boy. He seemed a bit...shocked, but who wouldn't? The poor teen had just stumbled onto her sleeping. He didn't seem too much different from the Sasuke two years back. His hair had grown a bit, he'd gotten taller, his clothes were a bit different, and he had some scars that didn't look like they were going to go away, but other than that, same old Sasuke! Except for one tiny thing. The air around him...he didn't seem so...well hell bent on killing anymore. He couldn't have, Tsunade thought. He didn't really kill Itachi, did he?
"What happened? Why are you back? And I need to think of a punishment...or do they already have one for missing nins? Come on. Sit down and tell me everything." So Sasuke did. He started with how Orochimaru had been planning to wait until Sasuke had gotten stronger killed Itachi before transferring into his body...but it seemed that wasn't possible. The body that he had been inhabiting...it started growing weak, he was sick and in pain. While Kabuto wasted his chakra and energy on taking care of Orochimaru Sasuke thought of a plan. (Well not really a plan. More of a kill-everything-in-sight spur of the moment.) He killed the weakened Kabuto first, then Orochimaru who couldn't have done anything against Sasuke in his state and proceeded with the rest of his followers.
"So...what's my punishment?" Sasuke asked, afraid.
"Punishment!" Tsunade hollered. "No punishment!" she laughed. "YOU KILLED OROCHIMARU! OH I COULD SING!"
"Please don't," Sasuke said, rooted to his chair.
She ignored him and went on with her little rant. All of a sudden the door burst open. "Oi! Tsunade obaasan!" a loud voice called out from the door. "You're awake already? Who's that?" Sasuke turned around, and saw Naruto. "SASUKE-TEME!" Naruto wailed happily. "YOU'VE ACTUALLY COME BACK!" Then all of a sudden, he became serious. "I should beat the living hell out of you right now."
"What? What the hell are you talking about dobe?"
"Because of you, Sakura-chan's been refusing every guy that asks her out! She says she's been waiting for you! Which is weird. Bastard."
"Dobe."
"Don't call me a dobe!"
"Will you shut up Naruto?" this came from a voice down the hall. "I can hear you all the way down here! Is she up yet?" Sasuke recognized that voice at once.
"Sakura-chan! You won't believe who came back!" Naruto practically squealed.
"Who?" she entered the room. Sasuke saw her. She looked beautiful. She's really grown up and matured, hasn't she? he thought to himself. "S-Sasuke!"
Sasuke was so happy seeing her again, he didn't register that she had just said something very out of place. He got up from his chair and walked towards her, not caring if Naruto and Tsuande were there. He wrapped his arms around her while she stood, rooted to the spot, arms dangling at her side. When he finally let go, he looked into her eyes. They were the same green eyes that he used to see every day. Except, this time, her eyes were full of shock as she looked into his onyx ones.
Naruto stared in shock at the both of them. Since when did Sasuke change so much?
All of a sudden, Sakura decided to break the tension.