True Self, New Self

Chapter 4

This is for Nyuchan, but I thought others should know too.

Sasuke isn't about to give up in getting his revenge, ohh he'll get it, but not the way he thought he would.
No, he's just not sure about giving his body to Orochimaru. He wants to get his revenge, by his own means
I wanted to e-mail Nyuchan about it, but you don't leave any e-mails So I thought, then lets make the acclamation public

Review Answers

HellzAngel: Ohh... I agree with you

Fourthiv: Yup, I like Naruto not chasing blindly after him too

MissMayumi: *glomps* You're awesome, hey guys read MissMayumi's stories

Devils-Advocate3: Hehehe, please keep giving me ideas I love your reviews

feisu: Hehehe *sweat drops* here's another chapter

Ladybug452000: Okie dokie

Tara: LOL, I love your reviews The answer for your first question is inside this chapter, and for the second one Genjutsu is a special type of jutsu that make your opponent drawn into an illusion, Sasuke thought that the thing he saw was genjutsu, but it wasn't

Darlene: Huhhh... thanks?

Rogue_moonlight: Here's another chappie

Nyuchan: No prob ^^

trulywicked: *joins you at roasting him*

Savin-me: Yup He still has them

Rho: Piccy I'm glad you liked this chapter ^^

MissMayumi: Don't worry I won't


Now I have a special thing to say to feisu and Fourthiv, I recently sat down and read both of your stories, and I must say I love them Hehehe, so any ideas coming from you guys will be really apreciated I usually take some ideas from the reviews, because mainly what I write comes from my dreams, I know I know, I have pretty weird dreams with anime characters non the less

Another thing, I don't know if you have noticed, but I'm completly unable to write angst, that's because I write to cheer my up And writting angst certainly do the exact opposite, so don't expect many sad things in my story

That's all for now, on with the chapter

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True Self, New Self

Chapter four: Run Naruto, run




"Why Why do this have to happen to me?" I screamed while running from an angry crowd of women that was following me like a pack of hungry wolves to a piece of meat.

[Flashback to that morning]

I woke up early, wanting to go and buy the things we needed as quick as possible so we could get the hell out of that village and into the wild again. I took a shower, got dressed, combed my hair and decided to tie it at the nape of my neck. I put a coat on and placed the hood over my head, not wanting to be seen.

I went out to the streets and looked for the market. It wasn't long until I found it, as the reason why Sasuke was in this village yesterday, I can hear people talking about some ninjas hiding in the village were found dead on their beds this morning. Well that would explain the smell of fresh blood and the air death that floated around Sasuke when I saw him yesterday, he must been in a mission for Orochimaru. Well, there's no point in thinking about that now.

Ok first of all I need some new kunais and shuriken, so I better look for a weapons stand first. I let my eyes wander over all the shops that crowded the street, and I spotted the one I was looking for a few meters before me. I walked there, a young woman was behind the counter. They had plenty of weapons, the ones I was looking for included.

"Excuse me miss, how much for the shuriken and the kunai?"

"It's... Kaji-kun, is that you?"

"Huh? No...I'm not that Kaji you're talking about."

"Very funny Kaji-kun! But you can't fool me I would recognize your voice anywhere!" she said reaching up and pulling my hood out of my face.

"Kaji-kuuuuuuun!"

I look around in a matter of seconds I was surrounded by almost every women that was in the street.

'Crap crap crap crap!!!'

"Kaji-kun, yesterday you said you'd go out with us!" one of the woman said.

"Yes Kaji-kun, you said that you were tired, but you'd go out with us today!" another woman said.

"I did?"

"Yes Kaji-kun, right after you went into your room, you came out and told us that, don't you remember?" the woman behind the counter said.

"I don't remember..." then realization downed on me.

'I don't care what you do, but get rid of them ' I said that to Jiraiya yesterday, could it be... that old man henged into me and told them that I could feel my anger start to bubble inside my stomach, he'll listen to me as soon as I go back, but right now... I have to RUN

[End flashback]

I've been running since then, I don't know exactly for how long, but for the position of the sun above me, I can tell it must be around noon now. I need to get rid of them soon... Now you may be wondering that, if I'm a ninja, I could have lost them a while ago, but the matter is, that since I don't want to draw attention to me, I can't use any of my skills So now I'm running at a pace that any normal man would use when they're escaping, but not faster than that. And why all this women are still following me? They should be tired by now

[Change of POV, Sasuke's POV ]

I don't know why I'm in this village again, but when Orochimaru told me that Naruto is dead, I just had to get out of that hole in the ground and get some fresh air. I ran and kept running for a while, and before I noticed I was back in this village. I look up to the skies and wonder.

'What are you trying to tell me?'

I can hear a commotion on the streets under me, and from my spot on the roof of one of the houses, I can see a person with long blond hair escaping from a horde of women, like I used to do many years ago.

When the blond made a sharp turn on a corner, I was able to take a glimpse of his face, I was able to recognize him in an instant. It was the same man I met yesterday, Kaji was his name.

This person intrigues me. I activate the Sharigan in order to get a better look at him. I still can't sense any chakra coming from him, but I also can determine one thing, with the body he has, he would be able to get away from his followers in a matter of seconds, but why he isn't doing it?

I still have the feeling that I should know him, and also deep, very deep inside the darkest corner of my mind, another feeling is starting to grow, the urgent need to rip, into tiny little pieces, those women that are following the blond. I shake my head, there's certainly something wrong with me, maybe I'll tell Kabuto to check me when I go back to Otokagure... but for now, I need to know more about this person, he looks powerful, and power is what I'm looking for, power to destroy my brother with my own hands. I need his power, I need to follow him.

[End of Sasuke's POV, back to Naruto's POV]

'I need to get rid of them '

' 'Need some help kit? ' '

'Kyuubi Please tell me how to get rid of them '

' 'Really kit, it's not that difficult, you've been running around and you never see where you're going, the forest is right in front of you, go in there and then go back to your room from the opposite side.' '

'Kyuubi, you're a genius'

' 'It comes with experience kit, now do what I told you' '

Kyuubi's plan worked to perfection, I can't believe I didn't think about it earlier, well I can, I was too busy cursing my luck. I have many things to learn yet, but I'm sure I will learn them, with time.

After a while, I'm locked inside my room again. I was welcomed by a very happy Yuki, who was bouncing up and down on the bed, again.

"Welcome back Naruto-san! How did the shopping go?"

"Horrible Yuki, I was attacked by those women again and I couldn't get any of the shopping done."

"Maybe I can go in your place!" he said jumping down and swirling in mid air and with a poof of smoke, he turned into a 12 year old looking boy with black clothes, silver hair and eyes, unfortunately, the change of size of his body messed up his balance and he landed on his butt.

"Nice."

"It's the only magic trick I know. But I can buy the things you need for you," he said trying to stand up, but falling on his butt again, "But it's a little hard for me to get used to this body, how you humans can walk on two legs only anyway?"

"Here, let me help you." I said offering my hand to pull him up into his feet,"It's only a matter of balance."

After some minutes of practice, he's finally able to walk without falling, and soon, he's running around in circles around the room.

"Look Naruto-san! Look!"

"Yes I can see it, good work Yuki, you're a fast learner. I praised him, patting his head."

"Now I'm off! I'll come back with the things you need Naruto-san!" he said running to the door, but I stop him before he reach it.

"Not so fast! You'll get lost if you go out on your own, plus you don't know what we need." I tell him, making him blush.

"I'm sorry Naruto-san, I got too excited."

"Don't worry about it, here." , I said making a bunshin of myself and then the bunshin henged into my twelve year old self, "He'll go with you, so you won't get lost, and help you carry the things back, ok?"

"Ok Naruto-san, come Naruto-chan, we have shopping to do!" he said, dragging my bunshin out the room.

'Well at least we'll get the things we need to get out of here...'

My stomach growled loudly, and I remembered, I didn't eat breakfast before going out, and now, it's lunch time. I ordered some food, not trusting the women downstairs to not jump me as soon as I place a foot at the dinner hall. I eat my onigiri in silence, enjoying the peace that surrounded me in my room. When I'm finished, I decided to go relax at the roof of the inn, do some cloud watching, like Shikamaru used to do back in Konoha.

As soon as I reached the roof, I knew there was someone else up there. I had noticed a shadow following me since this morning, and now, I was able to prove that my suspicions were true, the scent that reaches my nose, is impossible to mistake, the person that has been following me is Sasuke.

I keep walking like I didn't notice anything, and lay down on the floor in a careless manner. I just lay there for a couple of minutes, feeling those black eyes fixed in me.

"You know, it's not a polite thing to do young man, to follow a person, or to spy them."

I know I have caught him off guard, he's too confident in his own abilities, and getting caught is certainly a surprise for him, not that he'll ever admit it, he's stubborn and proud like that. He appeared in front of me, his emotionless expression trying to mask the true things that ran inside his mind.

"May I know, young man, the reason of why you were following me?"

"Hn." he's not going to tell me, maybe he isn't sure himself.

"Then may I know the name of my stalker?"

He seems to hesitate for a minute, he's not sure if he should answer me or not. Finally, he comes to a decision.

"Uchiha Sasuke." So he decided that it wouldn't harm him to tell me.

"An Uchiha. It's a pleasure to meet you then. It was you who I saw yesterday at the park, am I right?"

"Hn." he answers, but he nods his head, telling me that indeed it was him.

I just look at him, waiting for him to say something, I won't force a conversation, if he wants to say something he will do it, and if not...

I can see his uneasiness under my look, and with a swirl of leaves, he's gone. He isn't ready yet, and he won't be for a while. I sigh, there's still time, and when the time comes, I'll take action, but until then, I won't do anything. For now, I'll just stay here and watch the clouds, until Yuki and my bunshin come back.

The sun had set, and I can smell the scent of Yuki coming back. I go back to my room to wait for them. It takes them some minutes to arrive, but when they do, they come completely loaded with the things I asked them to buy.

"So how did the shopping go?" I said after releasing the bunshin jutsu after he placed the things on the ground.

"It was awesome Naruto-san! Will you let me do the shopping in the next villages? Please?" I think about it for a minute, if things go in the other villages like they did here, letting Yuki do the shopping sounded like a great idea.

"Ok Yuki, you'll do the shopping from now on." He's happy about it, I can see that. With a poof of smoke he's back to his kit form and starts jumping around.

"Thanks Naruto-san!"

"No problem Yuki, now if you don't mind, I'll go get Jiraiya up, so he can get dinner ok? Stay inside the room, got it?"

"Yup!" he's back on the bed, bouncing up and down, I think that he's starting to like that a bit too much.

"Don't get too fond with the bed, when we go out the only soft thing that we'll have is the bedrolls you bought, and you won't be able to bounce on them." I say before leaving the room.

Jiraiya's room is across the from mine, and for the smell coming from it, he's still there, as well as his company. I prepare myself for the scene I know I'll find when I open the door, I had too do it plenty of times before, in which I completely decided that I don't like women, the only sight of one naked disgusted me so much the first time I saw one, that I just had to admit to myself that I'll never be with one in my life.

Women are too troublesome, like Shikamaru said once. But I have to wake the sannin up one way or another, so I take a deep breath and enter the room. I thank all the kamis that the women are already fully clothed and ready to leave, they take their own sweet time doing do though, they're too busy checking me out to do so quickly. I just glare at them, the message clear, if you don't leave quickly and take your eyes from me, you might lose them. They yelp and hurry out.

When they're finally gone I turn my attention to the man sprawled across the bed, an idea popping in my head. I know from previous experiences, that no matter how much you shake him or yell at him, he won't get up. I merrily walk to the bathroom and fill a glass with water, then I go back to his bedside.

"Oiroke no jutsu.*" I whisper and transform.

"Jiraiya-sama!!! Please come play with me!!!" I said with a practiced lust filled voice and with that he practically jumps out of the bed. I drop the jutsu and splash him with the water.

"Come on ero-sennin, time to wake up and grab some dinner, hurry up." I say leaving the room. I can hear his cursing and I smirk at that. He deserved it anyway.

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*Oroike no jutsu: that's the sexy no jutsu name, but in japanese

So what do you think? Please review

Ohh and I have a question for you guys

Do you want Itachi to get redeemed before he dies or not?

Because the story can go in two completely different ways, that I already thought about, so tell me your answer because I need to know quick The majority will win, so hurry up and tell me your decision

Edited by Zahin.