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Sasuke U. & TenTen

Disclaimer: I do not own the title or the story plot... I just own this story! :T

A/N: This fanfic is a request from .D.o.R.k.S, she gave me a summary, a detailed summary of the plot which is awesome. You can get it in her profile; I think it's still there. And all I had to do was write it out! So the genius behind this story is Queen of D.o.R.k.S! Woots!

WARNINGS!: Spoilers included! Well not that biggie... it's the scene after Itachi killed all the Uchiha clan members and his conversation between Sasuke. I'm sure everyone has already read or watched it. I promise, next chapter won't contain spoilers as much!

Chapter 1: Twisted

Sasuke's P.O.V

"Nii-san, do it again! Again, again!" I danced around my brother, begging him to show me his kunai dance again. It wasn't actually a dance per se. My awesome big brother can hit the bulleyes of 8 targets with only 8 kunai in a single swipe! How cool is that?!

"Sorry, Sasuke," he said, his face masked in disappointment. "I have to get back home early today. I have an important mission to pack up for tomorrow."

"Aww," I moaned in disappointment as well. "Too bad then." I pouted.

"Some other time," he always says this. And he never made up for it! But this time it felt strange. Like something bad is going to happen. Big brother seemed... depressed and confused. He was calmer than he was; it was a strange serenity, like a calm before a storm.

"Okay, then Sasuke will keep practicing here and big brother will head home," I beamed at him delightedly so he'd let me stay back this time, hopefully.

"Don't work yourself too much," he said. I blinked at him in surprise. What? "Really? You're letting me practice this time and not leave with you?!" This time my beaming was genuine.

"Yeah..." he approached before me and flicked on my forehead.

"It hurts," I smiled at him instead of forming a new pout like I always do.

Then he disappeared and I practiced some more. But it never hit the target right! Even if I just aimed at a target at a time. It was getting annoyingly frustrating.

After half an hour passed and I was resting, a girl appeared before me. "You know, little boy?" She kneeled and hugged her legs curled up towards her chest in front of me. "You're doing it all wrong!" She sounded like she was trying to suppressed her laughter.

"Oh yeah, like you can do any better!" I spat defiantly.

"Wanna bet?" She eyed me back as if accepting the challenge. She took two kunai beside me and sighed. When she opened her eyes, in one graceful movement, the kunai were stuck on the bulleyes of the target.

"Amazing!" I went to her and hopped continuously. "You are so cool!" I noticed her beautiful cold tea eyes only when I was up close with her. Her eyes complimented her dark chocolate hair perfectly. She looked cute, like a panda the way her two neat buns are tied on her head.

"I know! Hey, are you in the academy?"

I nodded.

"Hmm, I never see you around," her hands rose her chin as if she was thinking hard.

"Seriously? Never heard of Uchiha Sasuke with a pack of fangirls around him?" I asked surprised. She was a girl, yet she has never heard of me.

"Wait... Uchiha Sasuke's the name of that little Uchiha kid that just started academy? Puh-lease, that's you?" She sounded sarcastic.

"Uh-huh," I nodded.

"Sheesh!" She slapped her thighs. "Well, buddy, I'm TenTen! And I'm a year older than you and a grade higher as well!" She raised her eye brows as if to impress me, which she already has with her kunai technique, which I must learn from her!

"Then you're like an o-nee-san?" I teased.

"It's nee-chan to you!" She said, emphasizing the cute honorific.

"So, what do you think I'm doing wrong?" I quickly changed the subject, sounding too eager.

"You're too stiff and you kept staring at the target like you're going to eat it! Your angle's sorta, wrong if you want to hit it directly," she went on and on about my flaws and demonstrated once more, hoping I'd get the idea.

Finally, I got it.

"Yay! Yay! Yippee! I got it! I finally got it! TenTen, you're the best!" We hold hand and danced around in circles until the sky turned golden signalling it's time to go home.

"I have to go now... homework is very strict in my class," she said.

"Hey, TenTen... maybe we could meet at school?" I offered. "Like, at lunch? And have lunch together?" That was a poor word joust!

"Sure! Which room are you in?" She asked. "No, never mind, you come pick me!" She smiled. "You know Hyuuga Neji, right? Yeah, I'm in the same room as him."

Hyuuga Neji, I know him too well. He even has a few fangirls in my class plus a few Byakugan users who kept tattering about their oh so noble cousin. Now, even his name couldn't escape from TenTen's lips!

Then she bid her farewell to me and I quickly hurried home. I can't wait to tell my parents about TenTen and how nice she is! Maybe, I can invite her over and we could play all day and mama would make her specials for TenTen and I'd plead her to sleepover and we can go to the academy together!

The sun already went down and the sky a dusky night. I passed by the thin pillar with various wires and boxes connected to it to provide electricity and phone line and so on. I thought I saw someone sitting on the top in a frog stance, so I looked up but no one was there and when I set my sight back on my course I found dead bodies on the floor all around me.

"Father! Mother!" frightened, I yelled as I ran straight for our house, hoping to be invited into my mother's warm embrace.

Nobody was there. The house was totally deserted so I sped to the room upstairs hoping to find my mom closing the windows as always. Instead, I found both my mom and dad spread across the floor, drenched in blood and their murderer stood, hidden by the shadow.

When he turned to face me, in a sorrowful face, I noticed that was Itachi. Maybe he was there to see what happened. The murderer couldn't be Itachi! "Nii-san! What happened here?! Why?! Who would do such a thing?!"

"Foolish little brother," he shot a senbon which slip passed my shoulder intentionally.

He activated his sharigan but called out something different. "Mangekyou Sharigan!"

And images flashed across my brain, hurting me as much as it hurt people in it. It showed how Itachi had assassinated everyone in my clan. But it couldn't be!!! Nii-san would never do such a thing!

I screamed in agony. "Stop it. Big brother! Why are you showing me all this?!" I held my head in my palm, squeezing it, hoping it would ease my pain.

His eyes regained his normal composure, monotonous. I could do nothing but just lie on the floor and stared at him breathlessly. I couldn't even spite because he's my own flesh and blood. This has to be a dream!

"Why did you do this?" I managed to speak and struggled myself to stand.

"To measure my abilities,"

"That's all? Just for that... you... killed everyone?" He couldn't be my brother! Nii-san isn't someone who has a starvation for power to be blinded by it to kill his own clan!

"It is of great importance," he sighed and simultaneously rested his eyes. I glared at him and tears welled up in my eyes.

Suddenly, we were out in the street. "It's a lie! It's not like you at all! It can't be...!"

"I only acted like the older brother you desired in order to measure your vessel," I gasped. "You will become a rival to measure my vessel against... you have that hidden potential." He continued. "You've been jealous of me and resented me. You've harboured hopes of surpassing me."

"That is why I'm allowing you to live... for my sake." He added. "Like me, you will awake the Mangekyo Sharigan when you killed your closest friend, as I did."

Then he did killed Shisui and lied when other have accused him! "Then... you... killed Shisui."

He replied and instructed me where to find the clan's hidden meeting room where the Uchiha clan members kept records of their visual jutsu. "If you possess the Mangekyo Sharigna, then there will be three who possess its power." He smiled deviously. "Then there will be a meaning in letting you live," I never knew my brother could be this cruel. I always thought he loved me! He took a step towards me but turned back. "There is no value in killing you right now... my foolish little brother," He continued. "If you wish to kill me, resent me, hate me and survive... in obscurity. Run... keep running and cling to life. Then one day, come before me with the same eye I possess."

Everything pitched black.

The next thing I know was I found out I'm still alive. I thought it was all a dream! But it's not... I found myself on the hospital bed. A proof that I was severely injured last night. I stared at the ceiling, contemplating the theory. I hated him!

I went to the Uchiha compound, my home and it has stickers all over it stopping people from entering. Tears formed in my eyes. And the rain started to pour and my tears simultaneously. It was as if the sky understood me...

More days passed and I have decided I will train myself harder than anyone can ever imagine and surpass the one I used to call brother.

I returned to the academy, catching up with all the things I missed while I recovering at the hospital. Then I remembered my lunch date with TenTen. She must've thought I was avoiding her... or have they all heard about my clan...? Maybe she'll... avoid me.

But she did not. As soon as word was out that I have resumed my lessons, she came in my classroom during break. "Sasuke!" She ran across the class and hugged me. "I was so worried about you!"

I was wrong. She didn't avoid me. Even the fangirls were intimidated by me.

"Come, let's go have lunch together," she said holding up her packed bento box.

"But..." I faced somewhere else. I was still kept in the hospital... and they told me I can't live in my house anymore... and no one made lunch for me since mama is gone... but a nice woman in charge of me at the hospital gave me pocket money so I could buy something for lunch at school.

"I brought extra!" She beamed at me and surprisingly, I beamed back. That was the first gesture of happiness and smile brought back to me since that incident with Itachi.

I felt stares and glares from fangirls and the others in our class. We dragged a chair to my table and sat. "Who made these?" I asked, curious.

"A lady who is assigned to take care of me... like my guardian... since my parents died during a mission together..." she stuttered. I thought she was from a rich clan too... who'd thought she'd have a past like this too? She seemed cheerful still.

"TenTen..."

"It's nothing compared to yours... I hope you're getting over it... don't begrudge anything... it will only lead you to your downfall," she lectured and smiled and when her eye lids met the other end of her eye, tear trickled their way under the lashes.

Later this evening, I was given my own apartment unit... it was between TenTen's and Naruto! That was the greatest news I received all week! The woman who took care of TenTen also took care of Naruto and I'm her third!

End of Chapter 1

This chapter has a lot of the Anime/Manga... I tried to shorten it... There will be more SasuTen on the next chapter! I hope you like this .D.o.R.k.S, though it wouldn't quite meet your expectations, I think.

I'd appreciate if y'all review!

Sneak Peak

:TimeSkip:

This is the time of the year where the older class graduates. TenTen is graduating. She can officially be called a Genin now.

She was assigned to Hyuuga Neji's team... Dammit. He better treat her right!!!

~ Ciao
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