Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
This is a Pilot.
Meaning I am posting it to see what you guys think of the story.
Just so you know, this is supposed to be if Sasuke came back, killed Itachi and Orochimaru had disappeared….for the most part I will try to stay true to the manga but for what I need to keep the story I will also use my own liberties.
Enjoy!
Chapter 1: It Hurts.
"Naruto!" The mentioned blonde above turned his head with a smile as he saw his favorite teacher approaching him.
"Iruka-ni-chan!" The blond ran up to his former sensei and smiled as he zipped up his chunin vest.
"That vest looks very good on you." Iruka smiled politely as he continued walking. "You want to go out for some ramen?"
"You bet!" Naruto jumped up and down as they made their way to the ramen stand. So what if he was 16, he could still get excited over ramen with Iruka-sensei.
"Oh." Iruka smiled as he stared at the two figures already at the ramen bar. "I didn't know both of you liked ramen."
"I don't." Stated one agitated Sasuke as he glared at the silver haired jounin that had dragged him to this forsaken place.
"Good morning lover." Kakashi curved his one eye as Iruka started to blush uncontrollably and ended up whacking the jounin over the head as Naruto took a seat next to Sasuke.
"Why are you here teme?" Naruto joked as Sasuke just rolled his eyes.
"I told Kakashi I was looking for you so he brought me here even though I still had other stuff to do." Sasuke smirked as Kakashi continued to pester the chunin sensei. "I was supposed to tell you that me, you, and Shikamaru have night shift tonight."
"What?" Naruto questioned loudly. "Why do I always get night shift with boring people?"
"Shut up dobe." Sasuke looked at his watch and stood up to leave since Kakashi was currently distracted.
"Hey Kakashi! Get off of Iruka like that! We're in public you know!" Naruto tried to pry off the jounin in hope to save some of Iruka's innocence before Kakashi finally kissed the dolphin on the cheek and waved a good bye.
Iruka was still blushing a deep red as he sat down in front of Naruto and ordered some ramen.
"Seems like someone's relationship is going well." The chef joked causing Iruka to blush harder as he looked at Naruto.
"Kakashi is just very excited about tomorrow." Iruka tried to explain to his former student.
"What's going on tomorrow?" Naruto asked genuinely curious.
"You forgot?" Iruka asked in disbelief. "But its mine and Kakashi's 4th anniversary! I usually have to beg you not to do something!"
"I know." Naruto smirked as he crinkled his nose. "I just wanted to see your reaction."
Laughter could always be heard from the ramen stand whenever Naruto was there, it didn't matter if he was with or without company, the blond was always able to make people laugh. Konoha had changed quite a bit over the years; the rookie nine finally being able to graduate to chunin level, Tsunade was getting her faced carved into the Hokage mountain, Orochimaru's threat had finally died down.
Sasuke was home.
Iruka and Kakashi were the cutest couple; despite some protest that were received at the beginning of their relationship. Konohamaru and his gang were genin at the young age of ten, Sakura and Lee finally hooked up and the biggest change had to be when Gai stopped wearing his green spandex. To make a long story short the jounin sensei lost a bet with Kakashi and the evil silver haired jounin forced his friend to throw away the suit for a year.
Sadly the year was over tomorrow, Naruto thought as he started heading towards the gate walls where Sasuke and Shikamaru would most likely already be.
As Naruto approached the gate he saw a dark figure leaning over the sides with it's black hair flowing with the breeze giving the dark figure a beautiful essence. Naruto blushed as he stared at Sasuke from the ground, it had been 4 years since the Orochimaru incident, and yet Naruto still found himself chasing after the dark haired boy.
Though it was no longer to get the Uchiha back into his senses.
"Komban-wa……" A lazy voice stated beside the blond.
"Huh?" Naruto turned around to see Shikamaru glaring at him.
"What were you looking at that?" Shikamaru was actually kind of curious since it was obvious the blond hadn't sensed him come up from behind. It must have been something interesting.
But the only thing there was Sasuke.
"What are you two looking at?" Sasuke growled since he hated being stared at. Why were they looking at him anyway?
"Hehehe……" Naruto laughed as he appeared next to Sasuke shortly followed by Shikamaru.
"This is so tiresome." Shikamaru sighed as he looked at the sky. And there weren't any clouds in sky at that, so much for a good evening.
"We got a report about some activity in the forest, Hokage-sama wants us to go take a look." Sasuke stated shortly and to the point as the other two boys nodded.
"I vote that you and Naruto go and check it out while I hold up the fort." Shikamaru stated receiving a growl from the raven-haired boy in front of him.
"No need since she said that Neji was coming here to watch while we investigate." Sasuke sighed at the lazy shinobi in front him. Lazy and anti-confrontational, how did this shadow boy become a chunin before him?
"Okay then let's go!" Naruto grinned. Maybe the night shift wouldn't be as boring as he thought it was going to be.
"Let's split up."
"No." Shikamaru cut off Sasuke with a smirk, "Since we have no idea what is going we should stick together just in case it proves to be someone dangerous such as a S-class criminal."
"I already beat one of those." Sasuke had a smirk on his face even though he felt his stomach tighten as he remembered.
Naruto noticed right away as Sasuke seemed to daze out for a brief moment even thoughtShikamaru didn't show any sign that he had noticed it either, Naruto placed a hand on Sasuke's shoulder and did a smile. "You killed Itachi Sasuke, there's no going back."
"I know." Sasuke spat out ignoring the look of hurt in the blue eyes since Naruto knew that Sasuke was keeping all his feelings inside once again.
"Well then let's go." With a sigh from Shikamaru the three shinobi jumped into the forest at top speed.
There was a moment of brief silenced that surrounded the trio as they ran through the forest looking for any signs of disturbances but found none. Shikamaru was about to ask Sasuke if he knew what kind of activity had been reported when the he collapsed onto his face.
Was it just him or did he pressure in the air suddenly increase? Shikamaru could barely move his body as he looked to the side to see if he could see where Sasuke and Naruto fell since he had heard them fall when he did but he could not spot them to any avail.
Shikamaru tried to move once again but the pressure just seemed to get worse the more he moved until it felt like someone was smashing a giant stone on his body into the ground, He grit his teeth as he closed his eyes.
It hurts!
Naruto gasped for air as he felt his body burning. What was going on? There were no flames but his body still burned and to top that off he wasn't able to move. It seemed as if his body was frozen in place. The blond tried to cry out in pain but nothing came out.
Everything went dead silent.
Not even the usual noises of forest animals and insect could be heard.
Sasuke's body felt as if it being consumed by a cold liquid. Slowly covering him up, filling his lungs, he was finally able to move his body once again from the first two experiences but now as he tried to stand his body wouldn't stop shaking.
"Hey kid! Out of the way!" Sasuke's head jolted up as he felt two arms wrap around him and carry him off away from the spot he was just in.
Before the young Uchiha could protest he was thrown roughly against a tree but he still couldn't see the man who had grabbed him. Only a silhouette of a figure with long hair stood in front of him, didn't that voice sound familiar?
"What are you doing out of the walls? You do know that we are currently at war!" Sasuke's eyes widened as the voice started to click in his mind. But how?
"Why did you run off like that Orochimaru?" Came a voice directly above Sasuke.
Sasuke looked up and saw a figure semi-long spiky hair smile down at him.
"Sorry Jiraiya-koi but this boy was standing in the middle of their attack and I would hate to see Sarutobi-sensei's face when he finds out there was another young casualty." The snakes voice sent shivers down Sasuke's spine as he just stared at Orochimaru in shock.
Orochimaru was supposed to be dead!
"You look like you've seen a ghost kid." Jiraiya joked as he jumped down beside Orochimaru. Sasuke stared at both of them.
Why did they seem so young? And why was Jiraiya standing next to Orochimaru as if they had been best friends for years? Nothing was clicking in Sasuke's head as he did the best thing that came to mind whenever he thought of Orochimaru.
He attacked.
"Hey uh you okay?" Naruto winced as someone poked him with a finger.
Naruto slowly opened his eyes to see it was still night time and then suddenly sat upright scaring the person who was beside him.
"What happened?" Naruto asked aloud before he glanced at the person next to him. "Who are you?"
The teenager beside him blinked a few times. Iruka had been sneaking out into the forest because he heard that there was a battle going on and wanted to check out the action but then he found this guy passed out on the ground.
He had first thought it was an enemy but the blonde had hitai-ate leaf headband and was wearing a chunin vest that belonged to the leaf.
"Are you okay?" Iruka waited for the older boy to nod before he grabbed the blonde's arm. "We need to hide before anyone spots us."
"Why?" Naruto asked as he stared at the boy in front of him. Brown hair tied up in a ponytail, scar across his nose………he looked familiar but Naruto couldn't place who the kid reminded him of.
Iruka stared at the chunin in font of him as if he was an idiot.
"Did you hit your head?" Iruka tried to think of why someone would not know about the war going on around the village maybe the chunin had amnesia.
Naruto suddenly stood up and looked around. "Did you see any of my friends kid?"
"Hey don't call me kid you don't look that much older than me!" Iruka glared before he shook his head. "And you were the only person out here."
Naruto was about to say something when he spotted something behind him; he grabbed Iruka and jumped out of the way as several kunai landed in the place where he used to be.
"He's pretty quick." A young man with the leaf headband around his forehead grinned as he appeared from out of the trees.
"For a spy." Another young man appeared wearing an Anbu uniform with his silver hair spiking out from behind it.
"You're a spy!" Iruka looked wide-eyed at the guy holding him.
"I'm not a spy!" Naruto furrowed his eyebrows at the two attackers.
"He's a spy with a hostage." Asuma ran his hand over his freshly shaved chin. Maybe he should grow a beard.
The Anbu visibly sighed, "What are you doing out here Iruka-kun?"
"I heard there was going to be a battle!" Iruka seemed happy for a moment before he sighed. "I didn't mean to get caught Kakashi-senpai."
"Kakashi-senpai? Iruka-kun?" Naruto asked ridiculously then glared at the Anbu. "Your not Kakashi!"
The young man beside the Anbu seemed very amused by this outburst and looked over at Kakashi. "If you're not Kakashi then who are you?"
"I don't have time for this Asuma." Kakashi gave a quick glare to his friend before he looked at the blond spy holding Iruka. "What makes you think I am not Kakashi?"
"For one! You do no have that perverted book on you, and two! You haven't worn that Anbu outfit since you stopped teaching team 7!" Naruto was about to continue when a figure came out of nowhere ramming him into a tree.
Kakashi appeared beside Asuma again and set Iruka on the ground as the genin mumbled a thank you with a blush on his cheeks. The Anbu waited for the dust to clear to reveal the blond spy and a dark haired boy wearing the Uchiha emblem on his sleeve.
"Sasuke!" Naruto winced before he smiled. That hurt a lot but at least he found Sasuke.
Sasuke gave Naruto a nod before he glared in the direction he came revealing two figures walking out into the opening.
"Why did you attack Orochimaru brat!" Jiraiya growled as he prepared to hit the dark haired boy a few more times when the he heard Orochimaru chuckle behind him.
"Jiraiya!" Kakashi and Asuma stared wide-eyed at the figure in front of him. "What are you doing back and what are you doing with him?"
Jiraiya turned his head to see three figures he didn't recognize at all before he looked at Orochimaru who just shrugged. "Why does it seem that everyone knows who we are?"
"Ero-sennin!" Naruto glared at his mentor………then blinked a few times. "Are you using Tsunade's jutsu too?"
"Huh?" Jiraiya stared down at the blond kid that was behind that dark haired boy that had attacked his Orochimaru.
"Why do you look so young?" Naruto stared at the sennin who just stared back.
"Why wouldn't I look young? I'm only 20." Jiraiya started getting a little annoyed by all of this.
"More spies?" Kakashi turned to see if Asuma agreed with him but the young man just shrugged.
"Who are you calling a spy?" Orochimaru glared at the three people to his left as the young genin began to shake but the Anbu seemed to not notice.
"Kakashi-senpai………Asuma-senpai what's going on?" Iruka asked softly trying not to draw attention to them as the other strange people stared at each other.
The end of this pilot!
I really like the idea of this story and would like to see what everyone else thinks. If you like it and want me to continue it, please leave a review.
And if you hate and wish I had never posted this then please review too!
I posted it to get people's reactions to decide on whether or not I would pick this one up or the other pilot I just posted.
Have a good weekend!
And just so you know this is supposed to be yaoi: SasuNaru, KakaIru, JiraOro, AsuShka.