"What?" Sasuke let out as his sight came back to him. No longer he stood at the Imp statue but back in the Uchiha's basement. "I'm back?" He muttered and glanced down at the dagger in his left hand.
It's once golden blade left colorless and ethereal. 'Can I not go back with this?' He questions, slicing in front of him, but the blade doesn't leave a trail of golden as it did. 'Was this... a mistake?'
Shaking his head, he decides to put it behind him. Placing the Severer and his Samurai armor in his inventory he goes outside and glances up into the dark sky. "It's still night..." He mutters, he couldn't keep a track of passing time as he was mostly stuck in a cave.
'I need to sleep. Tomorrow's time for the teams to be picked.' He thinks, remembering he had officially graduated today.
Going back to his apartment, he turns on the light and looks around. 'Does the monument in the Uchiha compound have it's own genjutsu?' He thought. 'No it can't be a simple genjutsu.' He glanced at the words lined up in his sight. 'I can still access my inventory and equipment.'
Suddenly, the image of him decapitating the men came to his head. Feeling his stomach churn, he frowns. "Were they really dead?" He asks himself. He had kept telling himself this, pushing the real thought and feelings of killing someone to the back of his head.
"Let's just sleep." Sasuke mutters and get ready for bed before turning off the lights and going to bed.
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"What the hell are you doing here, Naruto?"
Sasuke looked to his left as he sat in the classroom. One of his classmates had bumped into a blonde boy before starting to press him with questions.
"Only those who passed are supposed to be here." The boy says to which Naruto grabs the Leaf headband on his forehead.
"What does this look like to you!" Naruto's irking voice booms. Before he can start his daily rant of wanting to be Hokage, a pink haired girl calmly walks closer to the boy and speaks up.
"Move your ass, Naruto!" She points at him, yelling. "I want to sit on the other side of you!"
This caused Naruto to look to his left, staring at Sasuke, who was deep in thought. a Few seconds go by before Sasuke sighed softly and glanced at Naruto. "What?" He asked simply.
"What do you mean what?!" Naruto yells out. Cringing at the boy's loud voice, Sasuke wanted to tell the boy to quiet down but the pink haired girl pushed Naruto down.
"Sasuke!" She speaks loudly and Sasuke cursed his loud classmates silently. "Can I sit next to you?!" She asks, not seeing the irritating expression on Sasuke's face. Without an answer, she climbs over Naruto and sits down next to Sasuke with a smirk.
'Why?' Sasuke thinks, sighing as he closed his eyes, diving back into thought. 'Do I need to wait for the Finger Severer to work again before I can go back?' As he thought of this, he opened his eyes slowly, only to be met with Naruto's face inches from his.
"Get out of Sasuke's face Naruto!" The pink girl's voice comes from the side, drawing the whole classes attention.
'This fucker.' Sasuke stares into Naruto's eyes, irritation bubbling through his expression.
"Beat his ass, Sasuke!" The voices of his classmates rise as they all chant for a fight. 'Should I..?' Sasuke thought, slowly clenching his fist, but it seemed Naruto had other plans as his face closed the distance within a second.
Sasuke's eyes widen. The feeling of Naruto's lips on his had stopped all his thoughts. 'The fuck? Does he also have a crush on me?' Pulling back, Sasuke wipes his lips with his sleeve. "You bastard! I'll kill you!" He yells out, his clenched fists ready to pounce on Naruto.
'I can't believe even boys have joined my fanclub.' He thought, but before he could punch Naruto, the pink haired girl jumped him.
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Sasuke sat silently at his desk as their teacher, Iruka, walked into the class. "Starting today, you will all be Genin for the Leaf Village." He speaks up, going to the front of the class. "The hard part's yet to come."
As Iruka spoke, he picked up a clipboard from his desk and flipped through the pages. "Soon, you will all be given duties by the Village, so today we will be dividing the class into teams of three. Each under a Jonin..." He glanced at the different students in his class, smiling at the passed time.
"We tried balancing the team as much as possible, so don't expect the two strongest in the class to be together." After Iruka spoke, the class erupted into murmurs. "Let's begin." His words silenced them, for they all wanted to hear the names of who their teammates would be.
"Team 1..." He started, listing off the different teams one by one before he came to team 7. "Let's see... Next is Team 7 with Sakura Haruna, Naruto Uzumaki and..." \
Next to Sasuke, Naruto cheered. "I'm on the same team as Sakura!" As he spoke he looked at the pink haired girl, who seemed devastated.
"No..." Sakura muttered.
"Sasuke Uchiha." Iruka listed the final teammate and both Sakura and Naruto did a 180 with their emotions.
"Yes! I'm on the same team as Sasuke!" Sakura cheered as Naruto deflated.
Glancing at the two, Sasuke sighed. 'Hopefully they won't drag me down.' He thought as Iruka spoke up again.
"Okay!" Iruka said loudly, calming the class down. "This afternoon we will introduce the teams' Jonin. So take a break until then!" After saying that, he calmly walked out and the class dispersed.
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Sasuke stood in front of the Uchiha main residence and calmly went in, grabbing a sandwich from his inventory. 'Pretty convenient.' He noted as he stepped through, and went down the stairs.
Walking towards the monument and put his hand against it. Grazing the surface, he carefully inspected the words. Only to see what had always been engraved. The Uchiha's bloodline. The powers of the Sharingan.
Walking to the side of it, he inspected the back for any golden glow. 'There's nothing...' He thought to himself. 'How am I supposed to return to the place...' Coming up with nothing, he turned to his inventory, where he had seen a picture of one of those floating lights.
[Memory of Grace - Upon use, lose all runes and return to last grace.]
'So those are called Grace?' He mused, taking a bite of the sandwich and glanced at his accumulated runes. 'I almost have 600 gathered... So all of this will be lost?' He asked himself, intending to use the memory of grace, but before he could, a scream was heard behind him.
"Gotcha!" a Voice comes from behind Sasuke before something jumped on top of his back. He had been on edge ever since coming back from wherever he went, so Sasuke's instincts went haywire.
Sasuke retrieved the katana from his inventory while shaking the person off of him. Turning around, he sliced to the ground as he caught a glimpse of the perpetrator. "Naruto?!" He exclaimed, barely stopping his blade from cutting the terrified boy's neck.
"W-What the hell?!" Naruto yelled, his eyes glued to the katana's shining edge. "That's too far, Sasuke!" He said, turning to Sasuke as he scrambled to his feet.
Frowning, Sasuke looked at the rope in Naruto's hand. "What are you doing here?" He asked, placing his katana back into his inventory.
Naruto's eyes shine. "Whoah! How'd you do that?" He asks, looking at Sasuke's empty hand.
"Tsk." Sasuke clicked his tongue causing Naruto to snap back to reality.
"What is this place anyway..?" Naruto asked, looking around the dark room. He had followed Sasuke here to kidnap him so he could talk to Sakura disguised as Sasuke, but it seems his plans had fallen through.
Sasuke picked up the sandwich that had fallen to the ground and placed it in his inventory before turning around and walking towards the stairs. Stopping, he hesitates for a second. 'Naruto... He understands my pain...' He thought and glanced back at the silly boy. "It's the place I used to call home." He said simply and walked up the stairs.