Disclaimer: I don't own the characters.

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Summary: After Sasuke had a confrontation with his brother, he ended up wounded and bloodied when Sakura saw him and saved his life. In return, Sasuke vowed that he will protect Sakura and willed himself to be stronger to defeat his brother. AU. Sasuke/Sakura pairing.

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"SASUKE UCHIHA"

by: Crazy-Fairy

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Chapter One: Blood Brothers

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Sasuke snapped his eyes open as he heard some noise from the inside and outside of the mansion. Sounds of arguing and fighting could be slightly heard to his room.

He jumped out of his bed when he heard his mother's distant voice, crying and screaming.

Sasuke looked out from the window, from his room at the third floor, he could make silhouettes of fighting ninja's outside into the night.

Are they being invaded?

With as much speed as he could muster, Sasuke dashed out of his room to help. He knew that he's not as strong as his father or brother…yet. But with his current skill, he knew that he could fight and create serious damage.

'Brother, where are you? What's happening?' Sasuke thought.

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Sasuke was shocked at what he saw. Everyone from his clan, the ninja's, and the house helps were all lying on the floor, lifeless; their blood oozing out from their body and spreading to the once immaculate floor.

Coldness ran through his spine as his eyes narrowed with fury.

'Who could have done this?' he thought, bewildered.

Another scream and Sasuke dashed to where his mother's voice came from.

He panted as he stopped in front of their back garden.

When he looked at the person standing in the middle of the garden, surrounded by dead bodies, Sasuke's eyes dilated in shock.

"Nii-san?" Sasuke asked as Itachi let go of his hold to their mother's body and let it fall to the ground next to their father's. The kunai that Itachi used was dripping with blood as he grasped it. "Why?" Sasuke still asked as his eyes stared from his mother's to his father's lifeless form.

Itachi slowly turned his head toward Sasuke. "You wouldn't understand." was Itachi's only reply.

"How could I understand when you killed our parents, you slaughtered our whole clan! What was I to understand!" Sasuke yelled, not noticing several ninja's appeared, almost surrounding him.

Itachi smirked, his blood red eyes staring at Sasuke coldly.

"You're not my Nii-san!" Sasuke growled.

"That's right." Itachi said bored-ly. "Because I have no relations to a weakling like you."

Hurt pierced Sasuke's heart. The brother he idolized so much, he couldn't believe that he's the same person as the one standing not too far away from him.

"Why did you do this?"

"You see, Sasuke, when a man reached the ultimate power, he craves for more." Itachi said matter of factly. "You crave for blood. To prove that you're the strongest of all." Then, his so-called amusement was gone as he turned emotionless. "The weak dies and the strong survives."

And then, ninja's started to attack Sasuke from different directions.

Sasuke moved instinctively as he dodged each attacker. Without a choice and being outnumbered, despite his pride, Sasuke ran.

"Too weak and too scared, little brother?" Itachi taunted. "You're a disgrace to be called my brother."

Sasuke heard Itachi's taunting voice as he ran towards the open field, not caring if some tree branch were scratching him.

He yelped when a kunai hit his right shoulder, then he felt another sharp pain on his left leg caused by a few shuriken.

Sasuke panted and winced as he stopped right next to a raging water fall.

'Is this the end?' he thought bitterly. He didn't even have the chance to prove his skill or to defend himself.

He coughed blood as his eyes dilated then narrowed as he saw Itachi appeared in front of him. He yelped when the kunai that Itachi buried at his chest, almost near his heart, was cruelly being twisted slightly.

"The weak dies…." Itachi murmured right near Sasuke's ears as he pulled the kunai out of Sasuke's body and let him fall to the raging water.

Sasuke's eyes widened then saw darkness as the raging water engulfed him, then nothingness.

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This is my first time writing Naruto so I'm not that good so bear with me. Hope you guys like this and I know this is short but this chapter is just some kind of suspense introduction.

Yorishiku.