Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Time of Renewal ❯ Don't Worry I'm Here ( Chapter 2 )

A Time of Renewal Don’t Worry I’m Here              &n bsp;  It felt weird being back in his Konoha.  His training with Naruto had been very intense, but what he did with him wasn’t what he’d have liked.  Naruto hadn’t trained Sasuke in any advanced jitsu or showed him any scrolls that would allow him to gain knowledge that would help him in his quest to kill his brother.  No Naruto had spent his time breaking down the weaknesses in Sasuke and he had done it with a sort of vicious nature that seemed foreign to the normally jolly man.  Sasuke’s senses were honed to the highest point that he could reasonably achieved in the six months that he had trained.  Of course saying that he had trained for six months would be a lie.             “Sasuke-kun, are you ok?” a soft voice asked.             Sasuke looked up at the worried face of the pink haired girl.  She was on her hands and knees just like Sasuke, but she had a basket full of weeds and he had just a handful.  “Aahh, I’m fine.”           &n bsp; “You’ve been staring out into space for ten minutes.  Even Naruto was worried about you, but don’t tell him I said anything.”          &nbs p;  Sasuke frowned at the pink haired girl.  He had been out for that long thinking?  He made a mental note to be a little more careful with his musings while with his team.  It was absolutely critical that not change events too drastically, or that’s what Naruto had told him. “Sorry, I’ll help.”           &n bsp; “We’re done already silly,” she said with a soft smile and explained, “Naruto used his clones to speed things up, but he was worried about you so he wasn’t so enthusiastic about it and I was able to get him to not pull up all the grass.”           & nbsp; Sasuke smirked as the pink haired girl giggled.  She stood up and tried to brush off all the dirt, but the grass stains were not going anywhere.             ;  She sighed looking down on her ruined dress.  “Looks like I’m going to have to buy new outfit.  I think this one has seen its last mission.”            ;  Sasuke stood up and rotated his shoulders and cracked his neck before responding, “You should find something shorter so that it doesn’t get in the way.  Loose cloths and hair are detrimental when in a life and death situation.”          &nb sp;  The boy casually turned walked towards to other two males leaving a stunned female looking down on her cloths.  ‘Shorter skirt and shorter hair,’ she thought to herself, “why would he make such a suggestion to me?  Maybe he likes short hair and short skirts!’ Then Sakura’s inner voice made a sudden unpleasant interjection, ‘Why short skirts?  Is Sasuke really a pervert who wants to look at your unmentionable area? Maybe he wants easy access when he decides to take you.  Maybe it’ll be against a tree or…’ the voice trailed off as Sakura’s face turned red at the thoughts speeding through her mind.  She was a very intelligent and imaginative girl and such she could see thing happen in mind, anatomically correct of course.             The three watched Sakura go through what seemed like the full gamut of emotions before she shot backwards with a spray of blood out of her nose.             “AH!  Sakura is a closet pervert!”  Those were the last words she heard before she passed out.   *          *          *          *          *               Sasuke was at home in front of the shrine for his family.  Naruto had only given him clues as to the real reason for Itachi’s betrayal, but it was enough for Sasuke to question the information he had gathered in the clan’s secret meeting place.  He was an intelligent child, but the massive amounts of information he had gathered overwhelmed him.  He needed a more analytical approach, but who could he trust to hold any secrets that they found here?             His first pick was Naruto, but he only met the last requirement and not the first one.  Kakashi didn’t fit either as he was too attached to the villages’ politics for him to not reveal at least some of the information to the Hokage.  That left Sakura, but the girl was also a future threat.  He would never forget reading her tombstone.           &nbs p; Naruto thought it would be a great idea to immortalize achievements made by individual ninja on their tombstone.  Sakura’s stone had been much larger than most of the tombstones in the grave yard and it were probably the only reason he had gone to check it out while he and his younger name-sake were passing by.  The list of S-Class missing-nin that she had killed was large as where her more helpful accomplishments of creating a secondary school for ninja who wanted to jump directly into the medical field.  One name stood out to Sasuke like a hot knife in the heart, Uchiha Sasuke was listed as one of the missing-nin that Sakura had killed.             Sasuke had never mentioned his newly acquired knowledge of his future self, but at least he didn’t have to continue wondering why he got the dirty looks or why Hinata always talked to him coolly.   The only thing that startled Sasuke as much as finding out about his betrayal and demise was finding a picture of Sakura in Sasuke-chan’s room.  She was incredibly beautiful and Sasuke had found himself thinking about her when he was lying on the training ground unable to move his body.  Even now he found his mind slipping into thoughts about the  photo, wherever his namesake had found the nude photo he was sure that if he had ever found out that his hard earned prize had been swiped by Sasuke he’d have been pissed.             Sasuke chuckled slightly at the picture of the dark haired boy turning red in the face and attacking him wildly.  He missed spending time with the kid that reminded him of how he was at that age.  With a smirk he pulled out the picture from his holster studied the image again.  He felt the blood trickle out of his nose and quickly wiped it away before hiding the picture in the meeting room.  He made up his mind and quickly exited the underground hiding place.