You Always Were The Vengeful Type (Part 1)

Sasuke stood there fuming, no seething, no …UGH! He couldn’t even begin to find a fitting word to even hold a candle light to how outrageously mad he was. He was now standing on the bridge, which was to be made Team 7’s regular meeting spot since their passing of the survival test which transpired only moments ago, he was leaning against the railings with his only other male genin teammate as witness to his destructive rampage going through his eyes and the mass killer intent being exuded from his every pore. 1

Oh yes, the Uchiha was mad. 2

Very. Mad. 3

He had currently lost in a battle of strengths against his relatively new sensei, but that wasn’t what got him mad, no, although he was arrogant, he knew the man was a jounin and he had probably had no hope to win to begin with. No, he was mad at how he had been defeated. 4

He could understand being over powered in taijutsu, he could understand being out done in Ninjutsu, he could even understand being over run in Genjutsu no matter how much of a gifted Uchiha he may be, but what he couldn’t even fathom was being defeated by being pulled down underground till one’s head was the only visible extremity of his body. He, an Uchiha, a proud shinobi of Konohagakuru No Sato, had been defeated by a simple half ground burial. No Taijutsu, no Ninjutsu, no Genjutsu, not even a decent trap, but a simple tug till he was buried up to his neck in soil. This did not settle well with the Uchiha and he’d be damned if he let himself go down like that. Not only had he been defeated so easily, but also his pried as a shinobi, a man, and an Uchiha had all been devastatingly wounded. No, he would not go down like this. Their sensei may have one the battle, but he had not won the war, not by a long shot. 5

Now, looking into the history of Uchihas you will find them to be extremely powerful, cunning, and vengeful. Uchiha Sasuke was no different. He would have his revenge on his sensei. A harsh, devastatingly pride wounding, and ego stabbing demise of a revenge. The only question now being, ’How?’ How was he, a lowly genin however gifted he may be, going to get revenge on his sensei, the world renown Copy-Cat nin, said to have copied over a thousand jutsus, and who was also a master in the art of ‘Underneath the underneath’? 6

Damn.7

Naruto stood there watching his old rival, turned new teammate, warily. The vibes coming of this guy, Were. Not. Good. Sure he’d been on the receiving end of many an Uchiha death glare, it was inevitable with him being the Uchiha’s rival and all, but this? This was a whole new level of anger for the Uchiha. 8

Naruto found him self unconsciously inching away from said source of anger until his unconscious getaway path was interrupted by the railing on the side opposite the vengeful plotting Uchiha. Awakened from his unconscious attempt at a quick escape from what looked to be sure death via courtesy of one Uchiha Sasuke, he looked over to see the Uchiha with an unnerving smirk married to his face. When this marriage had been preformed, Naruto was at a loose, but they seemed to fit in so well with each other, the ceremony must have been a good one. He’d have to get the name of the priest that had preformed it when he finally decided to settle down. He silently gave the couple his congratulations at becoming the creepiest couple he had ever had the misfortune of meeting. Little did he know, he was much more unfortunate than he first thought.9

'That’s it!' The Uchiha thought in glee. Yes, glee, for you see Uchiha’s had a sadistic streak in them and when they thought of a plan that was going to be particularly painful in the near future for the poor unfortunate sole that had irked an Uchiha they became, so to say, gleeful. Sasuke had been running various plans through his head but all had been sorely predictable and that just would not do when going up against an ‘underneath the underneath’ master. So what could he do to be unpredictable enough to fool the jounin? 10

'Hmmm….good question. Unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredicta-…THE DOBE!!!' 11

Yes, the Dobe. That was it! Naruto had always been unpredictable in everything, even when he didn’t mean to be. You could never predict what the Dobe was going do next. And even more unpredictable was Uchiha Sasuke asking the Dobe for his help. Naruto was infamous for his pranks and getaways. Even the Jounins who had tried to catch him after one of his escapades was unable to catch the little imp. Although it would be another blow to his ego, it would eventually heal over unlike his unsightly defeat via “decapitation”. 12

He gave himself a slight push to propel himself from his previous leaning position on the bridge railing and made his way towards the blonde, who at this point was sweating bullets. And then he began to speak.13

“Dobe. I am in need of your assistance.” He just couldn’t bring himself to admit verbally the he needed the Dobe’s help.14

For the last few moments the blond had been ready to make a mad dash into the woods if need be. He had been eyeing his teammate warily for a good while now, unable to let sleeping dogs lay and leave. He was curious as to what poor creature was target to the irate Uchiha’s wrath but also he did not have a death wish so he hadn’t prompted to ask, instead waiting to see what Sasuke’s next move was to be. 15

When the Uchiha had finally opened his eyes, Naruto found that they held a slight and highly unusual sparkle of mischief in them.16

Strike one!17

Then the Uchiha had pushed himself of the railing and promptly started making his way towards the now sweating blond whose eyes had widened out of sheer panic.18

Strike two!19

Then the Uchiha stopped. After he came to a halt in front of the blond, who was now about to die of panicked twitching convulsions, he uttered the words that would forever haunt the poor little kitsune for years to come. With those few simple words the Uzumaki’s world had come to an earth shattering, deafening, and painfully shrieking halt, oddly similar to that of a clausal train wreck. 20

“Dobe. I am in need of your assistance.”21

Naruto was sure that he had just had a spontaneous bout of insanity come crashing down on him very similarly to the rocks that had ended Uchiha Obito’s life at an age all to young. But then the reassuring echo in his mind that proved that the Uchiha had indeed said what Naruto had hoped he hadn’t.22

Strike three! And we’re at ‘a here!23

Oh gods. The Apocalypse was here. Judgment Day had finally come. The world was now going to end. Looking around in a panicked frenzy, Naruto tried to find an escape route. He couldn’t die now; he wouldn’t die now, not when he had so much to live for! He had to live for Jiji-san, for Iruka-sensei, for Kaka-sensei, to become Hokage, and most importantly ramen! He had to live for ramen! Now, with a renewed vigor at the thought of survival, if only for his precious ramen, Naruto attempted to leap over the Uchiha and make a run for it. With a chakra enhanced push from the ground, which isn’t all that great considering he has little to no chakra control, he made a leap of faith to try and escape his cruel and all to early demise that would surely come if he stayed with the Uchiha.24

And apparently faith….and gravity were not on his side today seeing as how he had come crashing back down on the ground only a few dismal seconds after take off. 25

Sasuke gave a sigh of annoyance.
'Leave it to the Dobe to make that pathetic of an escape attempt.' He thought dryly. 26

Picking up the blonde, who had oddly swirling spirals in his eyes, he set the blond down in a sitting position, propping his back against one of the bridge’s wooden poles that supported its railing so the blond could recover. A few moments later, the fox-boy recovered from the fall. Looking down at the blond, Sasuke began to speak as if instructing a small child.27

“I need you to come up with a plan that will both wound sensei’s ego but also scar the man’s reputation.” He said emotionlessly. Oh yes, just like messing with a bull and getting the horns, you mess with an Uchiha. . . you get the sharingan. Figuratively speaking of course, since he had as of yet to activate his bloodline limit.28

Naruto blinked. Then blinked again. Then one more time just for good measure. Ok. This was odd. No, wait. Scratch that. This was down right unheard of. Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke. Was asking him. Him. Uzumaki Naruto. For help. Naruto sat there and let this astounding new revelation sink in. And then. Then, he laughed. He laughed for all he was worth and more. He laughed so hard he thought his ribs would break and his eyes would create a river from how many tears of laughter were escaping. This was funny as hell. Oh gods, this was really bloody funny. He had to get the Hokage, the rookie 9, oh, and maybe a few historians on the way. This was something to be remembered. Really, this was good enough to be added to the history text books in the academy. Uchiha Sasuke, of the highly revered Uchiha Clan, was requesting the assistance of the one and only Uzumaki Naruto, infamous demon vessel for Kyuubi No Kitsune.