niteo app round 2
PLAYER
Name/Handle: Hoshi
Contact: on file
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CHARACTER
Name: Uchiha Sasuke
Series: Naruto
Canon: AU
Age: 18
Time line: Canon time line: End of chapter 380
World Information: N/A
History:
At a young age, Sasuke has always come across as second best - a replacement, yet not good enough. He had always been the first of his class, but it just wasn't good enough. He has always been in Itachi's shadow, genius or not. However, the only one member of the family to accept Sasuke for his accomplishments was his brother, Itachi, who would act as the loving older brother up until the Uchiha Massacre.
Sasuke had been coming home that night from training and came across something unusual -- all the lights within the Uchiha district were off, despite it being only mid-evening. When he turned the corner toward his home, he was greeted by a horrific sight - the bodies of his kinsman strewn everywhere. Fearing for his parents and brother, the child rushed home.
Dull thuds within the house alerted Sasuke that someone was there along with him, alone in the empty house. Though he was scared by the events of the night and what he might find beyond the doors where the thuds originated, he pushed on. He was a ninja.
What met him on the other side of those doors was just as, if not more, devastating than what he had witnessed outside in the streets of his clan’s district. His parents lay in the middle of the room, dead, with their killer still standing above him. When the moonlight revealed the killer, Sasuke was faced with his own brother.
Having assumed that Itachi had killed the murderer, he advanced toward Itachi, only to be stopped in his tracks by a shuriken being thrown at him and cutting his arm. This confused Sasuke. Why would Itachi hurt him, his little brother? And all of a sudden, for that matter?
Instead of answering Sasuke’s questions right away, Itachi used his Mangekyou Sharingan on his brother and showed him a replay of him killing, brutally murdering, their entire family. Sasuke retaliated after recomposing himself, though the moment was short lived.
Now frightened by his brother and what he was capable of, Sasuke fled the house and ran. The attempt to get away was futile, however, as Itachi easily caught up to the frightened child. The two held a brief conversation before Sasuke finally passed out, leaving Itachi able to flee the village.
Sasuke was the only one who had been spared during the massacre, being "unworthy to kill" in Itachi's eyes. As he was growing up, Sasuke only had two things in mind: Kill Itachi and revive the Uchiha. He made his goals known when Team 7 had been formed and asked by Kakashi. For this, he held high expectations for himself and trained vigorously when necessary. Yet still, he did not possess the Sharingan.
It wouldn't be until Team 7's first out-of-village mission that he would awaken his clan's bloodline limit. Between protecting Naruto from Haku's attacks and finding a way out of the dome of ice mirrors, Sasuke slowly began to see the mist-nin's movements more clearly. At first, he wasn't sure what was happening to him; the awakened ability made it easier to ward off Haku's attacks and counter with his own while protecting his teammate. Though, it was doing this that he met his untimely demise (though he wasn't *really* dead, it just seemed that way.)
Due to Haku's kind nature, the mission was deemed a success and Team 7 returned to Konoha in time for the Chuunin exams. There, he tested his Sharingan against Rock Lee and lost. However, the most significant events during the exams took place during the second stage, within the Forest of Death. While fighting the disguised Orochimaru, Sasuke gains the heaven seal and passes out soon after.
He doesn't awaken again until Sakura and Team 10 are in dire need of help. Sasuke awakens with the seal already activated, power overflowing within his body. In order to drive off the Sound-nin, Sasuke breaks both of Zaku's arms. Throughout the rest of the second stage and during the third's preliminaries, the seal pulses periodically, reacting strongest when Sasuke's own chakra is used.
During his fight with Yoroi during the preliminaries, the seal reacted more strongly due to his chakra being forcefully absorbed and taken, resulting in the involuntary release of the heaven seal. However, Sasuke had to regain control over himself and the seal or risk being disqualified and unable to advance. Fortunately, he did, and using one of Rock Lee's attacks as base, Sasuke defeated his opponent. Afterward, Kakashi took him in order to place an Evil Suppressor seal on top of Orochimaru's, after which Sasuke promptly passed out once more.
There was an attempt on his life while he was unconscious by Kabuto, who had easily gotten passed the ANBU that had been guarding his room. That would be the only try by the spy. Once he regained consciousness, Sasuke left the hospital before he was released, meeting Kakashi on top of a mountain to train during the one-month span given by Sandaime. It is during this time that Sasuke learns Kakashi's original technique and honed his own abilities.
It wasn't until his match with Gaara during the second part of the third stage that he was to be seen again, arriving just in the nick of time before he was to be disqualified. To this day, Sasuke has been the only one to seriously injure Gaara, as claimed by both Temari and Kankurou.
Gaara fled from the stadium with Sasuke following at his heels. Both Temari an Kankurou had tried to stall him, but it didn't take long for Sasuke to get past Temari. Kankurou would have been his next opponent, if not for Shino's intervention and help, allowing Sasuke to move on and continue to Gaara. Of course, being threatened with Sakura's life, Sasuke tried to defeat Gaara on his own, being reminded of both his brother's last words to him and his encounter with the jinchuuriki during his training with Kakashi.
However, he was not meant to be the one to defeat him, as he attempted to attack with a third chidori - his limit being only two at the time - and as a result, the seal was released forcefully and restricted his movement. He could do nothing but watch as Naruto fought, witnessing just how much he had improved in just one month.
After the exams, Sasuke heard the unwelcome news that his brother, Uchiha Itachi, was back in the village, but not after him. Itachi was after Naruto, which angered Sasuke deeply and prompted him to chase after Naruto. After many attempts, Sasuke finally found his brother trying to kidnap his friend.
Enraged, Sasuke attacked head-on, only to receive a broken wrist and thrown into a wall. Sasuke then fought Itachi on his own with no intervention by Kisame, Jiraiya, or Naruto. Of course, he was no match for his brother, proving that the gap between them was still wide, and not smaller as he had thought. And like when he was eight, Sasuke suffered the torture of his brother's Mangekyou Sharingan and rendered unconscious.
Until Tsunade, a legendary sannin, could be found and brought back to Konoha, Sasuke lay unconscious in the hospital once more. Having seen his brother after five years, he was reminded of his original purpose for his existence: to kill Itachi. Here, Sasuke fought Naruto for the first time, although it had been cut short due to Kakashi's intervention.
Not even a day had past since the fight before Orochimaru sent the youngest Uchiha an invitation to join him. Desperate for more power, he accepted. Within the night, Sasuke fled Konoha and left for Otogakure along with the Sound Four.
Naruto and several other genin had been sent after to retrieve Sasuke from the Sound nin, and it wasn't until Sasuke had awakened from achieving Level Two of his seal that any of them would lie eyes on Sasuke. Naruto chased after him after Lee had stepped in to help, and the two wouldn't stand face-to-face until they reached the Valley of the End.
The fight was a long one, exhausting the two of them and forcing them to use all of their strength. However, in the end, Sasuke was the one left standing, and he left to Orochimaru without further incident, leaving behind an unconscious Naruto.
Two and a half years would pass before Sasuke was to be seen again. Not much, if anything, is known about Sasuke during this time, other than the plain fact that he had sufficiently gotten stronger under Orochimaru's training. His speed, stamina - everything grew. He was no longer the weak twelve-year-old that he had once been. The only people he has been seen with or known to keep contact with during these years is Orochimaru and Kabuto.
But, after an infiltration by Team Kakashi, Sasuke is seen once more. The meeting itself was brief - a quick fight between Sasuke himself and members of Team Kakashi. Though, during that time, Sasuke used his Sharingan to see into Naruto's mind, consequently confronting the Kyuubi. After a brief conversation, Sasuke suppresses the demon, his parting words not to kill Naruto or he'll regret it. Yamato, who had been pinned by Sasuke, used this time to attempt to capture the rogue nin. It was not to be. After escaping a capture attempt, Sasuke tries to use one of the new jutsus that he had learned during his training, but Orochimaru stepped in and stopped him. After a brief conversation, both he and Orochimaru, as well as Kabuto, leave to move onto one of the other hidden hideouts.
After his run-in with his former team, Sasuke would once again not been seen for several months - approximately six more months, as it was around this time that Orochimaru began to grow sicker as his body began to reject him. Though, during the time that he was not heard from or seen by others outside of Sound, it was obvious that his skills further progressed. He was now able to take out an army of shinobi - albeit it a small army - single-handedly, and without dealing a fatal blow to even one ninja. He was saving his first kill for his brother.
Orochimaru was pleased with Sasuke’s progress, but at the same time found him lacking when it came to ruthlessness. Sasuke himself was not happy to hear this. Taking matters into his own hands as well as taking advantage of Orochimaru’s temporary weakness, he attacked the sannin while he was in bed with a variant of chidori - an extended blade that acted much like a sword, yet was able to expand and contrast on his whim.
Sasuke declared, then, that if the snake sannin wanted to see ruthlessness from him, then he would demonstrate it by killing him, since Orochimaru no longer had anything of value to Sasuke. With the sannin pinned to the headboard with chidori, Sasuke moved in to deal the final blow. However, before he had the chance to, Orochimaru had spat something out behind the Uchiha, who in turned to face his real opponent - Orochimaru in his true form. The body that lay on the bed was now dead.
Sasuke seemed unphased that the amount of experiments that Orochimaru performed on himself resulted in losing his own human form. With the same resilience that he possessed before and now the resistance to injury, Sasuke was forced to use his heaven seal at level two, while at the same time taunting the sannin at how worthless he was before an Uchiha. With that, he sliced Orochimaru’s body and presumed him to be bed. However, that was not to be the case. Orochimaru, still alive, told Sasuke that a snake’s poison was vaporous before lunging at the seemingly weakened teen.
Where Sasuke found himself next was inside a different dimension - the one Orochimaru used during his transfer - amongst the lumps of flesh and tissue that had been the previous host bodies. The only indication that implied such were the remaining faces on said lumps of flesh.
Sasuke would not be one to give in that easily, though. As Orochimaru attempted to take over Sasuke’s body as snakes surrounded his body, Sasuke countered with his own genjutsu, paralyzing the sannin and driving stone stakes through his body. “The Sharingan counters every technique used against it, making the attempts a failure” was what Sasuke had told Orochimaru, and then began to turn the jutsu against Orochimaru, consuming him instead.
Kabuto, having run to Orochimaru’s room at the sound of the fight, was shown what had happened. Sasuke denied the conformation of Orochimaru’s death by stating “I’ve taken over.”
With Orochimaru now out of the way, Sasuke leaves to travel to Orochimaru’s other bases to gather those who stood out the most, in Sasuke’s eyes, and had the potential to be useful to him when it came to tracking down and killing his brother. Sasuke first freed Suigetsu from his watery prison, one who was said to be the heir to the Seven Mist Swordsmen and a second coming of Zabuza. Together, the two went at retrieved Zabuza’s sword at Suigetsu’s request before moving on find Karin, who had the ability to locate others by sensing their chakra signature.
The final member of their team, Juugo, proved to be a little more difficult than getting to both Suigetsu and Karin had been. Juugo was mentally unstable, notably the curse seal’s origin, and jumped to kill at an instant, though always regretted his actions afterward. Kimimaro, Orochimaru’s previous to-be host, had been the only one to calm Juugo. But now, with Kimimaro dead, Suigetsu argued that there was no way that it was possible. Sasuke ignored the warnings and advanced anyway, freeing Juugo from his cell. As expected, he jumped and tried to kill Sasuke, who easily blocked the attack by partially transforming to his curse seal level two state.
Suigetsu then prompted a fight from the unstable Juugo, but the two were stopped by Sasuke under the threat of being killed. Afraid, Juugo ran back into his cell and demanded to be locked up and left alone. Sasuke refused, saying that he would free Juugo and be there to keep him from going on a murder spree. Juugo, remembering Kimimaro and his last words, asked who Sasuke was. Upon hearing that the teen before him was the one that Kimimaro sacrificed his life for, Juugo agreed.
Now that Sasuke had gathered his own team of shinobi, he declared the four to be ‘Team Hebi,’ with its only purpose in finding and killing Uchiha Itachi. With Karin’s abilities, they began to track the other Uchiha down and split into groups. It was then that Sasuke had run into Deidara and Tobi from Akatsuki.
After scaring Tobi by delivering a seemingly fatal blow through the abdomen, Sasuke’s attention was forced onto Deidara as the blond toyed with him, first using his lowest level explosives. Sasuke would have none of it, however, and quickly negated the explosives or simply blocked him. Deidara didn’t expect Sasuke could be as fast as he was and upped the level of explosives.
Deidara used a large clay dragon as a distraction while Tobi maneuvered underground, setting land mines in support. Sasuke, once again, went to his curse seal level two state and took to the air with his wings. Deidara wouldn’t have it, though, and finally managed to get rid of one of the wings with his explosives, then when Tobi emerged from underground, boasted how Sasuke no longer had anywhere to go and was unable to retrieve his own weapon, which had been knocked out of his hands.
Sasuke only allowed that to happen, though, and soon used his sword as a launch pad in order to get within rage to use his blade chidori variant in order to tear off one of the dragon’s wings. He also used one of his most favored moves, Kage Shuriken no Jutsu, in order to pin both of Deidara’s arms to the dragon. He also pulled the dragon down toward the minefield, forcing Deidara to suffer his own ‘art.’
Quickly growing annoyed and angry, Deidara emerged, though wounded, and made a gigantic version of himself that soon burst into thin air. He celebrated his victory as Sasuke saw himself being slowly eaten away from the inside. However, the celebration was short, as what Deidara witness was nothing more than genjutsu. The real Sasuke had him pinned with one of chidoris, able to identify the previous attack with his Sharingan due to the chakra within.
He originally planned to interrogate the missing-nin for information on his brother, but the Deidara he was pinning was none other than a fake, as the real Deidara emerged from the bird and turn the tables on the Uchiha. Deidara then explained that, due to a previous encounter with Itachi, he trained his left eye to resist genjutsu before pulling on Sasuke by surrounding him with clay.
By this point, both fighters were quickly growing wary due to exhaustion and limited supplies of arsenal and weapons. Sasuke was still, however, able to free himself from the clay tomb, but not before Deidara made another huge explosion. Sasuke, once again, made Deidara believe that he had won the match by falling hard to the forest floor. Again, another effort thwarted on Deidara’s part, and Sasuke then explained that all of the ex-terrorists hand seals revealed all of his jutsu to be that of the Earth element and that he possessed lightning - he had the elemental advantage and was able to negate all of the bombs that Deidara had tried to use against him by using his chidori and its variants.
Frustrated beyond words, Deidara made one last-ditch effort in order to get rid of Itachi’s little brother. He revealed that, in addition to the miniature mouths on his hands, he had one on his chest as well. He removed the stitches that held it closed and shoved his last chunk of clay into that mouth. The markings around the newly-revealed mouth began to spread across his body, much like the curse seal would spread across its users’ body.
Soon, light erupted violently from Deidara’s body and explosion that seemed inescapable proceeded. Sasuke was barely able to make it out alive by summoning Manda at the last second, forcing him into submission with his Sharingan, and hid inside his body.
Having seen and heard the massive explosion, Suigetsu took out a scroll and summoned Manda. Sasuke emerged from Manda and soon after, collapsed after a brief conversation with Suigetsu. However, prior to Sasuke losing consciousness, Manda cursed Sasuke with its last breath for forcing it against its will.
Sasuke and the rest of Hebi took the time to rest at a nearby inn to allow Sasuke to recuperate. Though, that didn’t stop the other members to Hebi to continue bickering as if nothing had happened.
During the time that was used to rest and allow his injuries to heal, Sasuke began to think. Since he had counter-absorbed Orochimaru, using his own kinjutsu against him, he had gained the ability to recover quickly - the one thing that gave Orochimaru his vitality. It was during this time that Karin had sensed an oncoming threat heading in their direction, cutting Sasuke recovery time short. Though faced with the threat of meeting with a group of ninjas from Konoha, Sasuke chose to ignore them and continue with his pursuit of his brother. Juugo and Karin - two of Sasuke's teammates - meanwhile, planned a diversionary tactic used to force the Konoha nin on detour by scattering some of Sasuke's clothing.
Eventually, the search for his brother proved to be successful. Sasuke found his brother within a cave, and after a brief moment of reminiscing, the two fought. Determined to not be outed so quickly, Sasuke gained the upper hand by using a variant of chidori. However, during the brief fight, Itachi was not even real; merely an illusion. Prior to the illusion dispersing into his signature flock of crows, Itachi told Sasuke that their fight would conclude on an abandoned compound out in the middle of a forest that was once used by the Uchiha.
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At this point, Sasuke was brought into Toshima, where he chose the occupation of a fighter to continue to hone his skills. However, he lost his ability to use any of his more complex jutsu, such as his chidori variants and fire jutsus. His summonings were sporadic at most, and would often fail him when he needed them most, with a success rate of only 25%. But he never let that hinder him, and he never used it as an excuse for anything.
About a week after his arrival, Sasuke met Hallelujah Haptism, and in doing so made an interesting discovery: He couldn't use his Sharingan without feeling migraine-inducing pain. But at the same time, Hallelujah also experienced the same pain. They fought, briefly, before Sasuke eventually withdrew to recover and figure out why his Sharingan was causing him such pain while in proximity to that man. He considered him a threat, being able to cause such pain.
While he was recuperating from both his fight with Deidara and Hallelujah, Sasuke discovered that he was unable to use his favored jutsus, since when he had tried them during his scuffle with Hallelujah, he believed that he was in too much pain to perform them.
As soon as he felt better, Sasuke began to actively participate in Igura, easily dealing with those that got in his way. During this time, Itachi arrived, but not before Sasuke met Matt through an...interesting encounter, having gone through a staring contest that quickly bored him. Since he lost, he agreed to go to the teen's birthday party at the White Magnolia.
A couple of weeks pass before Sasuke is chosen to fight in the still-standing stadium against none other than Hallelujah Haptism. Prior to the official fight, however, Zdenko had come to find him to escort him to the stadium. This fight, just like the last, didn't last very long before Sasuke won. His prize, in addition to his unwanted fame amongst the natives in Toshima, was an apartment in downtown and one of Hallelujah's face tags.
After the fight, Sasuke declared, quite openly, that Itachi was his next target. He designated the site of their fight to be at Nakano Chapel, wanting a sign of irony for Itachi's death to be similar, in name at least, where Itachi had killed their cousin, Shisui. He waited every night at the Chapel for Itachi to show up, and finally, he did.
It wasn't easy to fight his brother without the use of his elemental ninjutsu. They fought hand-to-hand and with weapons. Itachi, naturally, used clones as well as his own Mangekyou whenever Sasuke was pinned to the wall with his own weapon. It took a lot out of him, but Sasuke did manage to break out of the genjutsu. While suffering through the genjutsu, Itachi had made sure to injure Sasuke's legs enough so that he would not be able to use them efficiently.
The fight didn't last much longer after Sasuke had managed to break free from the genjutsu. With his legs injured, he was at a severe disadvantage yet pressed on. Eventually, Itachi managed to knock Sasuke out by a simple punch. Whenever Itachi left, he had made sure to leave behind one of his face dog tags - The King of Hearts. To this day, it is something Sasuke has cherished, although when he regained consciousness after the fight, he was severely disappointed with himself.
Matt helped Sasuke out of the church, carrying him after Sasuke collapsed after trying to walk on injured legs.
During Sasuke's recovery in Matt's room at the White Magnolia, Toshima was attacked. Bombed, actually. The apartment that Sasuke had won from his fight at the stadium was destroyed from the attack, leaving him without a place to live. Since he was already there, and tolerated Matt, Sasuke decided to simply stay at the Magnolia with the redhead.
A couple of weeks later, Sasuke demanded an audience with Itachi to ask him a few questions, namely as to why he had left him the dog tag and why he didn't bother to finish him off, and only knocked him unconscious. Originally, for this meeting, Sasuke had wanted to talk to Itachi at the location of their fight - Nakano Temple - but later changed his mind to do it at Matt's flat after a conversation with him, mostly because he didn't want to deal with any paranoia of a fight that wouldn't happen.
When Itachi arrived, they talked, albeit awkwardly. The brothers hadn't had a conversation that didn't end up with one attacking the other since before the massacre, and it was obvious that, while they remained civil, they were uncomfortable, although Sasuke was more demanding of the two.
He wasn't happy with the answers he was receiving. "The winner can do what he wishes," "I did not intend to have you die." No matter how much he pressed Itachi for answers, he never got one that he was pleased with. Itachi eventually left and left Sasuke unsatisfied, yet at the same time there was a sort of unspoken truce between the two for whatever reason. It was something, deep deep down, that Sasuke didn't mind having.
Over a month later, after Sasuke's injuries had healed, something happened in Toshima. Whatever it was that was limiting the abilities of anything unnatural was lifted. Sasuke took that opportunity to go after Giacomo - and subsequently the twins - after Matt had received Mello's amputated hand after the redhead's friend was killed. With his powers returned, the twins were dealt with within several minutes before Sasuke went after the head of Igura.
He ran into some difficulty, after, with Giacomo sending a monster after him, and the twins soon joining the scuffle as well. Still, Sasuke managed to rid of his problem, at least temporarily, coming away from the encounter with information he didn't think he would have gained going in - how i-jins were brought into this world and how they could be brought back.
Before the unnatural power of the i-jins were sealed again, Sasuke decided it would be best that he accompany Itachi on his reconnaissance mission to one of the other remaining territories of Japan. They didn't stay long, and learned very little - but at least they had done it.
The limiter comes back soon enough, robbing i-jins once again of some of their abilities. Itachi leaves in June, just after his birthday, and a month later Uchiha Madara arrives. His arrival changes Sasuke's life.
They agreed to meet and talk, and Madara took it upon himself to tell Sasuke the truth about the Uchiha Massacre, the truth about Konoha, and his brother. It was a lot to take in, and initially Sasuke didn't handle it very well at all. Sasuke told Madara, at the end of their talk, that he would need time in order to think about things before he could consider taking him up on his offer to join his side.
During this period, Giacomo took it upon himself to kidnap Matt for spying on the Vishio. Sasuke didn't like this at all. He requested for his other self's help, with Kira providing backup, and went to the mansion to save the closest thing that he had to a friend. Once again, Sasuke fought the twins - this time, the ending result was death for them, as something in Sasuke snapped during the fight. Sasuke moved onto Giacomo next, killing him as well. Kyou, who was watching, was also disposed of by Sasuke. Matt was recovered - harmed and covered in injuries, but alive. In doing this, Sasuke is later told, he becomes the Il-Re of Toshima.
Also during Sasuke's contemplation, Itachi arrived back in Toshima. Sasuke got in touch with him rather quickly, requesting a meeting in order to see if what Madara was telling him was indeed the truth. Itachi did confirm it. Sasuke excused himself and left to be alone for a while, later notifying Madara that he would be declining his offer. All he wanted, now, was to regain lost time with Itachi, if it were allowed. He no longer had any reason to go after his brother with nothing but hatred. The one he needed to extract revenge on was Konoha, and since then Sasuke has made this his goal.
Events after this are mundane, with things pretty much dying down to a complete lull. That is, until Toshima was bombed a second time in the dead of winter. The result of this bombing ends up with Sasuke waking up in another world completely.
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When Sasuke came to, he found that indeed he was in a different world, and that the bombing had to be the cause of it. Though he obtained some injuries, he was still able to get around and find both Matt and his brother. There were four other survivors from Toshima, and the small group of six settled in where they could in order to survive the harsh winter.
In February, they were all notified over the network by the ghost/undead child Libitina that they were provided with a place to stay - a single standing apartment building. It was a kind of Valentine's gift, with their names written in blood on the doors.
Though they were now in a new world, in a different time completely, things still remained uneventful. Once a month, however, things - unnatural things for an abandoned city - started happening once a month, lasting a duration of a week. One of the most noticeable of these happenings are hallucinations - probably one of the first - of the previous residents of Nesreca from a hundred years prior. It wasn't traumatic, but it was enough to startle Sasuke before getting used to it. While making a visit, Sasuke witnessed another hallucination, one of himself - or rather, one of the other Sasuke that he had vaguely gotten to know in Toshima. That had definitely rattled him for several days.
During the time that nothing happened, Sasuke took it upon himself to start cleaning up the library. It gave himself something to do, a project, in order to keep himself busy and also gave Itachi some time to himself while Sasuke was taking care of him.
Although it was belated, Sasuke's cursed seal - which was rendered to nothing more than a tattoo in Toshima - began to react. Orochimaru was still inside him, after all, and took it upon himself to try and attack Sasuke from the inside out. Itachi, learning of this, helped Sasuke out by out right fighting him - as they should have - to the point where Sasuke was drained of his chakra and no longer able to suppress the sannin. Itachi, using his Sharingan's Susano'o, was able to rid of Orochimaru. Itachi was left blind, something that Sasuke wanted to avoid but was unable to.
After the fight, while the brothers were still recovering, one of the residents - Joker - takes it upon himself to bomb the single apartment building everyone is living in. It makes no sense to Sasuke, and he never cared to understand - it just leaves for more work to do later in the coming months. The bombing causes Sasuke's room to be restored, and the residents of such rooms were relocated to new rooms and notified of such by Libitina.
Toward the end of the month, another happening....well, happens: Witnessing a person's own nightmare. For Sasuke, it was reliving the Uchiha Massacre, and in doing so, Sasuke was reminded of his goal: Crush Konoha. Though, stuck in Nesreca was he was with his brother - who was alive - there was little that he could do.
Madara arrives not long after this event - though before his own “demise” at the hands of Senju Hashirama. Sasuke took it upon himself to inform Madara of his future, and that the vessel of the Kyuubi is also in Nesreca should the need for the fox ever arrive.
The rest of that month would go by without anything happening. Almost. After Sasuke's birthday, he found himself being followed by and then fighting against one of the residents, Kamui. Suffice to say, that fight was lost and Sasuke required help in order to get back to the apartments.
It was tame in Nesreca for a while, reliving a week as a genin. After that week, however, Sasuke discovered that Itachi, who was also aged down thanks to Libitina, didn't return to his normal age. It wouldn't last long, however, before he left Nesreca completely. That didn't last long before he returned, however.
With the arrival of another one of Sasuke's teammates, Sakura, Sasuke was steadily beginning to not like staying in Nesreca alongside his brother. Sakura, after her arrival, requested to meet Sasuke at the library and he obliged. The meeting didn't stay civil for long. Sasuke tried to kill her there by strangulation, trying to get it through her head that there wasn't anything left of him to save. That when he got out of Nesreca, he would be filling out of his goal of crushing Konoha. Naruto burst in before much could be done, saving Sakura from Sasuke. Sasuke let them go, seeing no point in chasing after them at the moment.
The Uchiha brothers were given a big surprise when, the following month, their mother was brought to Nesreca, however on the brink of death. Itachi stayed away from her, leaving Sasuke to ask the other residents for help in tending to his dying mother. He rarely left her side, and if he needed to then he left behind a clone to watch over her. He wasn't going to lose his mother for a second time, he was determined of that much.
With his mother recovering and the days getting steadily colder, Sasuke took it upon himself to also start repairs on Nesreca's only inhabitable building. For this, Sasuke briefly with the other residents of Nesreca, including Okami Cloud and Sakura. With help from them Sasuke managed to at least temporarily cover the holes in the building with newer brick, using boards on the inside of the damaged rooms to reinforce the brick and further try to keep out the cold. During the winter months, Sasuke would occasionally check on these rooms since they remained empty to make sure the repairs were still holding up.
On Halloween, Sasuke found a rotted corpse in his room, along with everyone else. He requested that everyone bring them out so that he could burn them, since the ground was too hard to give the bodies a proper burial. The following week, Sasuke would find himself protecting his mother from an invasion of zombies while she was still recovering from her injuries. That was the plan, anyway, but the other residents had kept the undead from the building all together. Any that remained, Sasuke burned those too.
The rest of November was thankfully uneventful, and nothing happened in December, even, until people started coming in all at once. Something Sasuke hadn't seen in Nesreca before, but he also noticed that Libitina wasn't giving them any room numbers either. As Sasuke suspected, these visitors eventually went home, leaving the place to be almost deathly quiet once again. Mikoto disappeared prior to this event as well, unfortunately for Sasuke. With Itachi having left two months prior and Madara long gone, it left him to be the only Uchiha remaining once again.
Following the loss of his mother, Sasuke mostly went through the motions of a mundane life, suffering the effects of the events that happened like everyone else - losing his sight temporarily, a false life in Credinta among two noticeable - and continued to clean the library.
What Sasuke mostly kept to himself was that he, while cleaning the library, had started to look into what happened to Nesreca, and why the local residents in Credinta were so afraid of people living in the abandoned city. Sasuke discovered old newspapers from the late 1800s while doing this, after discovering that Nesreca was nothing more than a city that fell victim to a mess genocide. He shared this information with the network, and a month after discovering the newspapers did he find himself murdered by Teutorix.
Personality:
When he was younger, Sasuke was a bubbly child who would follow his beloved brother around at every possible moment. Though, when Itachi was accepted into ANBU and he into the academy, he would often spend all or most of his free time improving his skills as a developing shinobi in order to get a little closer to his idol, Itachi. His determination started young, wanting nothing but the approval and acknowledgment from his brother, as well as his father, for being a strong ninja at such a young age. This would only last until after he turned eight-years-old, when his brother brutally murdered his entire family in a matter of hours.
"Foolish little brother. You’re not worth killing. If you wish to kill me, then hate me, detest me, and live in an unsightly way. Run, run and cling to life."
Sasuke took these words, a glaring reminder of the massacre and his own weakness, to heart and served as a form of motivation for him to continue to grow stronger.
Following the massacre, Sasuke's personality made a 180. He grew quiet and became antisocial, giving off a very cold demeanor. He avoided association with others, concentrating on nothing but his training. He was also the top of his class, as expected from an Uchiha. He often would spend his days after school alone at the Uchiha Lake, and it’s there that Sasuke had decided: He would become and avenger. He would aim to kill Itachi. To make him pay for the crime that he committed.
With the guidance of Kakashi, however, that outlook gradually changed. The Uchiha began to accept his teammates and work together, more-so with Naruto than with Sakura. He used the growing rivalry between himself and Naruto as a form of motivation to get even stronger, while Sakura was a source of information for him. Still, both helped him grow stronger, whether or not he will admit their aid in doing so. As time passed, Sasuke grew softer around his team, and was even willing to sacrifice his life in order to save his fellow teammates, even if that meant that he could no longer pursue his brother.
In the midst of battle, Sasuke is excellent when it comes to thinking fast and on his feet. He always makes sure that he has some sort of plan in mind before going on the offensive, unlike Naruto. The plans might be formed quickly, but they're never executed poorly nor are poor in quality themselves, showing evidence of his intelligence. Evidence of this would be during his preliminary match in the chuunin exams. Sasuke himself was already worn by the time it started, and was unable to use his chakra due to the curse seal on his neck. In the midst of facing defeat, Sasuke used his last ounce of strength to defeat his opponent, basing the finishing blow off of one of Rock Lee's own attacks, despite having only seen it once before.
It was after the Chuunin exams that his personality made another adjustment. He was desperate for power, but he did not rely on the curse mark on his neck for that power. He trained hard with Kakashi, learning new techniques and honing his abilities. Yet still, he did not see it as enough. This was proved through a brief reunion with Itachi, by how easily he had been defeated in mere seconds. Nothing had been changed between the siblings, like Sasuke had first thought. After that encounter, his rival, Naruto, no longer stood way behind him in terms of strength. Naruto was catching up to him quicker than he would have originally thought possible, learning more powerful techniques than he had been taught himself. In the past, it had always been Sasuke that would be the one rescuing Naruto from harm, but the tide was slowly turning to the point where Naruto was the one saving Sasuke from harm.
Often times, Sasuke would use his opponents as measuring sticks for himself; to see where he had improved and which areas that he still needed to strengthen. Still, he felt that he was not growing fast enough. His pride would not allow for him to slack off, nor would the task of having to kill his brother. Watching others grow at a faster rate than he was grated against him; he was not one to be dependent upon others.
Sasuke had had enough and left Konoha for Orochimaru, cutting bonds. He saw them as points of weakness, not strength. Instead of growing stronger as he grew closer to his teammates, he grew weaker. He was heading in the opposite direction that he needed to go, and he saw that the peaceful village of Konoha no longer had anything to offer him in terms of gaining what he needed, of fulfilling his goals. Though met again with Naruto, Sasuke defeats Naruto after a long, tiring battle, walking off and declaring their friendship-rivalry bond severed. Now with Orochimaru, Sasuke is once again cold toward others, only speaking when necessary, whether it be a simple response, demand, or cut down. Sasuke keeps from associating with others, once again becoming a loner in order to grow stronger so that his goals can be fulfilled.
It can be seen in the reunion with his teammates that, fueled by nothing but his hate for Itachi, he had grown stronger. Gaining the power he sought; he didn’t care if staying with Orochimaru would mean the ultimate sacrifice by his part, as long as Itachi was to be killed, it was fine with him. He had no remorse for leaving behind his home. However, with the formation of Hebi, Sasuke unconsciously began to open himself back up, even if only a smidge.
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This would continue as he was brought into Toshima by the Il-Re. While he initially continued to keep himself distant, he eventually became comfortable within his surroundings.
He did not plan to allow himself to open up enough to gain allies, but it happened. He got comfortable enough with Matt that he actually considered him to be the closest thing to a friend that he would allow himself while still maintaining distance. When it came to Itachi, however, it was different.
After his fight with his brother, they held an unspoken truce of some level. They wouldn't talk often, but they did have a single recon mission together. But afterward, his brother left and he was left feeling somewhat left behind.
When Madara arrived and told Sasuke of the truth, he had a hard time believing it at first. He was in complete denial of it. But when Itachi returned and confirmed everything, he finally accepted that Itachi wasn't the bad guy - Madara was.
With knowledge of the truth behind the Uchiha Massacre, Sasuke slowly began to get closer to Itachi. By the time of the second bombing, they had already regained their relationship of siblings.
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While in Nesreca, Sasuke found himself mellowing out. He still held his goal of crushing Konoha - as reminded by reliving the tragedy of the massacre - but with no means of returning home, there wasn't much that he could do. As long as Itachi remained with him, he was placid. Although he isn't aware of the similarities between them, Sasuke does share personality traits with Madara. He's been known to have bouts of instability, as noted back in Toshima when Matt was kidnapped and again when he tried to kill Sakura and while talking with Madara. Though these bouts are very few and far between, Sasuke has always recovered from them and returned to the mellow, yet rude Sasuke everyone has gotten to know.
Speaking of such, Sasuke is still rude to others, those he's more tolerable than he was in the past. He'll share information he deems relevant to everyone else, and still doesn't hesitate to call anyone out on their own stupdity.
Sasuke keeps mostly to himself. If he can help it, he wants as little contact with the other residents of Nesreca as possible. He kept himself busy by taking up projects - such as cleaning up and repairing the library to what it was in its prime (or as close to it as possible) and repairing the damaged apartment building.
Curiosity also got the better of him while in Nesreca, having started to look into the city's history and why it's in ruins as it is now. To do this, though, he's had to learn Russian, which he was steadily doing through traditional means.
Abilities/Additional Notes: All are listed here.
Third-Person Sample:
Was he dead? Was this where people went, in Nesreca, after they died? His body felt numb. Sasuke tried to remember what had happened to get him to this point. Nesreca...newspapers. He had found old newspapers from over a century ago. But that was just last month, wasn't it? In March.
Sasuke's hands twitched involuntarily as he laid on the street. Surprisingly, nothing hurt. It was just wet. Was it raining?
Ugh, what else was there? He remembered... Libitina. Her master. Fighting him. He died, though, right? He couldn't be back.
Slowly, Sasuke chanced opening his eyes, blinking up at the stormy sky above. It was raining. Okay, so this...didn't appear to be any kind of afterlife. Another twitch of his limbs passed through before, slowly, Sasuke sat up, and he just. Stopped and stared.
He was still in Nesreca. The ruins of this city wasn't to be mistaken with those of Toshima. It was water out, more humid despite the rain. The last he remembered, the days were still chilly. It had to have been at least two or three months since...he died, he guessed.
"...Just wonderful."
First-Person Sample Journal Post:
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[The feed shows nothing at first, but the sound of the steady rain is clear. Whoever this PDA belonged to, they were outside and unaware that their device was on.
A couple of minutes of just the rain pass before a wet gasp can be heard, followed by coughing. Apparently whoever it is is just now able to breath, judging by the fit they're having. Wet scraping against the brick ground below suggests that this person's trying to get up, but unfortunately for them it's a failed attempt. A wet thud and splash, and a soft curse and Japanese.
Sasuke's voice.]
Couldn't have been out that long, dammit... [A grunt, and Sasuke's trying again, this time successful. He pauses for a moment just to catch his breath, looking around at his surroundings even though no one can see this. Then, finally, he notices the PDA and picks it up.
The feed ends as he stuffs it in his pocket without even once looking to see if it was on.]
Name/Handle: Hoshi
Contact: on file
Personal LJ: hoshi3
CHARACTER
Name: Uchiha Sasuke
Series: Naruto
Canon: AU
Age: 18
Time line: Canon time line: End of chapter 380
World Information: N/A
History:
At a young age, Sasuke has always come across as second best - a replacement, yet not good enough. He had always been the first of his class, but it just wasn't good enough. He has always been in Itachi's shadow, genius or not. However, the only one member of the family to accept Sasuke for his accomplishments was his brother, Itachi, who would act as the loving older brother up until the Uchiha Massacre.
Sasuke had been coming home that night from training and came across something unusual -- all the lights within the Uchiha district were off, despite it being only mid-evening. When he turned the corner toward his home, he was greeted by a horrific sight - the bodies of his kinsman strewn everywhere. Fearing for his parents and brother, the child rushed home.
Dull thuds within the house alerted Sasuke that someone was there along with him, alone in the empty house. Though he was scared by the events of the night and what he might find beyond the doors where the thuds originated, he pushed on. He was a ninja.
What met him on the other side of those doors was just as, if not more, devastating than what he had witnessed outside in the streets of his clan’s district. His parents lay in the middle of the room, dead, with their killer still standing above him. When the moonlight revealed the killer, Sasuke was faced with his own brother.
Having assumed that Itachi had killed the murderer, he advanced toward Itachi, only to be stopped in his tracks by a shuriken being thrown at him and cutting his arm. This confused Sasuke. Why would Itachi hurt him, his little brother? And all of a sudden, for that matter?
Instead of answering Sasuke’s questions right away, Itachi used his Mangekyou Sharingan on his brother and showed him a replay of him killing, brutally murdering, their entire family. Sasuke retaliated after recomposing himself, though the moment was short lived.
Now frightened by his brother and what he was capable of, Sasuke fled the house and ran. The attempt to get away was futile, however, as Itachi easily caught up to the frightened child. The two held a brief conversation before Sasuke finally passed out, leaving Itachi able to flee the village.
Sasuke was the only one who had been spared during the massacre, being "unworthy to kill" in Itachi's eyes. As he was growing up, Sasuke only had two things in mind: Kill Itachi and revive the Uchiha. He made his goals known when Team 7 had been formed and asked by Kakashi. For this, he held high expectations for himself and trained vigorously when necessary. Yet still, he did not possess the Sharingan.
It wouldn't be until Team 7's first out-of-village mission that he would awaken his clan's bloodline limit. Between protecting Naruto from Haku's attacks and finding a way out of the dome of ice mirrors, Sasuke slowly began to see the mist-nin's movements more clearly. At first, he wasn't sure what was happening to him; the awakened ability made it easier to ward off Haku's attacks and counter with his own while protecting his teammate. Though, it was doing this that he met his untimely demise (though he wasn't *really* dead, it just seemed that way.)
Due to Haku's kind nature, the mission was deemed a success and Team 7 returned to Konoha in time for the Chuunin exams. There, he tested his Sharingan against Rock Lee and lost. However, the most significant events during the exams took place during the second stage, within the Forest of Death. While fighting the disguised Orochimaru, Sasuke gains the heaven seal and passes out soon after.
He doesn't awaken again until Sakura and Team 10 are in dire need of help. Sasuke awakens with the seal already activated, power overflowing within his body. In order to drive off the Sound-nin, Sasuke breaks both of Zaku's arms. Throughout the rest of the second stage and during the third's preliminaries, the seal pulses periodically, reacting strongest when Sasuke's own chakra is used.
During his fight with Yoroi during the preliminaries, the seal reacted more strongly due to his chakra being forcefully absorbed and taken, resulting in the involuntary release of the heaven seal. However, Sasuke had to regain control over himself and the seal or risk being disqualified and unable to advance. Fortunately, he did, and using one of Rock Lee's attacks as base, Sasuke defeated his opponent. Afterward, Kakashi took him in order to place an Evil Suppressor seal on top of Orochimaru's, after which Sasuke promptly passed out once more.
There was an attempt on his life while he was unconscious by Kabuto, who had easily gotten passed the ANBU that had been guarding his room. That would be the only try by the spy. Once he regained consciousness, Sasuke left the hospital before he was released, meeting Kakashi on top of a mountain to train during the one-month span given by Sandaime. It is during this time that Sasuke learns Kakashi's original technique and honed his own abilities.
It wasn't until his match with Gaara during the second part of the third stage that he was to be seen again, arriving just in the nick of time before he was to be disqualified. To this day, Sasuke has been the only one to seriously injure Gaara, as claimed by both Temari and Kankurou.
Gaara fled from the stadium with Sasuke following at his heels. Both Temari an Kankurou had tried to stall him, but it didn't take long for Sasuke to get past Temari. Kankurou would have been his next opponent, if not for Shino's intervention and help, allowing Sasuke to move on and continue to Gaara. Of course, being threatened with Sakura's life, Sasuke tried to defeat Gaara on his own, being reminded of both his brother's last words to him and his encounter with the jinchuuriki during his training with Kakashi.
However, he was not meant to be the one to defeat him, as he attempted to attack with a third chidori - his limit being only two at the time - and as a result, the seal was released forcefully and restricted his movement. He could do nothing but watch as Naruto fought, witnessing just how much he had improved in just one month.
After the exams, Sasuke heard the unwelcome news that his brother, Uchiha Itachi, was back in the village, but not after him. Itachi was after Naruto, which angered Sasuke deeply and prompted him to chase after Naruto. After many attempts, Sasuke finally found his brother trying to kidnap his friend.
Enraged, Sasuke attacked head-on, only to receive a broken wrist and thrown into a wall. Sasuke then fought Itachi on his own with no intervention by Kisame, Jiraiya, or Naruto. Of course, he was no match for his brother, proving that the gap between them was still wide, and not smaller as he had thought. And like when he was eight, Sasuke suffered the torture of his brother's Mangekyou Sharingan and rendered unconscious.
Until Tsunade, a legendary sannin, could be found and brought back to Konoha, Sasuke lay unconscious in the hospital once more. Having seen his brother after five years, he was reminded of his original purpose for his existence: to kill Itachi. Here, Sasuke fought Naruto for the first time, although it had been cut short due to Kakashi's intervention.
Not even a day had past since the fight before Orochimaru sent the youngest Uchiha an invitation to join him. Desperate for more power, he accepted. Within the night, Sasuke fled Konoha and left for Otogakure along with the Sound Four.
Naruto and several other genin had been sent after to retrieve Sasuke from the Sound nin, and it wasn't until Sasuke had awakened from achieving Level Two of his seal that any of them would lie eyes on Sasuke. Naruto chased after him after Lee had stepped in to help, and the two wouldn't stand face-to-face until they reached the Valley of the End.
The fight was a long one, exhausting the two of them and forcing them to use all of their strength. However, in the end, Sasuke was the one left standing, and he left to Orochimaru without further incident, leaving behind an unconscious Naruto.
Two and a half years would pass before Sasuke was to be seen again. Not much, if anything, is known about Sasuke during this time, other than the plain fact that he had sufficiently gotten stronger under Orochimaru's training. His speed, stamina - everything grew. He was no longer the weak twelve-year-old that he had once been. The only people he has been seen with or known to keep contact with during these years is Orochimaru and Kabuto.
But, after an infiltration by Team Kakashi, Sasuke is seen once more. The meeting itself was brief - a quick fight between Sasuke himself and members of Team Kakashi. Though, during that time, Sasuke used his Sharingan to see into Naruto's mind, consequently confronting the Kyuubi. After a brief conversation, Sasuke suppresses the demon, his parting words not to kill Naruto or he'll regret it. Yamato, who had been pinned by Sasuke, used this time to attempt to capture the rogue nin. It was not to be. After escaping a capture attempt, Sasuke tries to use one of the new jutsus that he had learned during his training, but Orochimaru stepped in and stopped him. After a brief conversation, both he and Orochimaru, as well as Kabuto, leave to move onto one of the other hidden hideouts.
After his run-in with his former team, Sasuke would once again not been seen for several months - approximately six more months, as it was around this time that Orochimaru began to grow sicker as his body began to reject him. Though, during the time that he was not heard from or seen by others outside of Sound, it was obvious that his skills further progressed. He was now able to take out an army of shinobi - albeit it a small army - single-handedly, and without dealing a fatal blow to even one ninja. He was saving his first kill for his brother.
Orochimaru was pleased with Sasuke’s progress, but at the same time found him lacking when it came to ruthlessness. Sasuke himself was not happy to hear this. Taking matters into his own hands as well as taking advantage of Orochimaru’s temporary weakness, he attacked the sannin while he was in bed with a variant of chidori - an extended blade that acted much like a sword, yet was able to expand and contrast on his whim.
Sasuke declared, then, that if the snake sannin wanted to see ruthlessness from him, then he would demonstrate it by killing him, since Orochimaru no longer had anything of value to Sasuke. With the sannin pinned to the headboard with chidori, Sasuke moved in to deal the final blow. However, before he had the chance to, Orochimaru had spat something out behind the Uchiha, who in turned to face his real opponent - Orochimaru in his true form. The body that lay on the bed was now dead.
Sasuke seemed unphased that the amount of experiments that Orochimaru performed on himself resulted in losing his own human form. With the same resilience that he possessed before and now the resistance to injury, Sasuke was forced to use his heaven seal at level two, while at the same time taunting the sannin at how worthless he was before an Uchiha. With that, he sliced Orochimaru’s body and presumed him to be bed. However, that was not to be the case. Orochimaru, still alive, told Sasuke that a snake’s poison was vaporous before lunging at the seemingly weakened teen.
Where Sasuke found himself next was inside a different dimension - the one Orochimaru used during his transfer - amongst the lumps of flesh and tissue that had been the previous host bodies. The only indication that implied such were the remaining faces on said lumps of flesh.
Sasuke would not be one to give in that easily, though. As Orochimaru attempted to take over Sasuke’s body as snakes surrounded his body, Sasuke countered with his own genjutsu, paralyzing the sannin and driving stone stakes through his body. “The Sharingan counters every technique used against it, making the attempts a failure” was what Sasuke had told Orochimaru, and then began to turn the jutsu against Orochimaru, consuming him instead.
Kabuto, having run to Orochimaru’s room at the sound of the fight, was shown what had happened. Sasuke denied the conformation of Orochimaru’s death by stating “I’ve taken over.”
With Orochimaru now out of the way, Sasuke leaves to travel to Orochimaru’s other bases to gather those who stood out the most, in Sasuke’s eyes, and had the potential to be useful to him when it came to tracking down and killing his brother. Sasuke first freed Suigetsu from his watery prison, one who was said to be the heir to the Seven Mist Swordsmen and a second coming of Zabuza. Together, the two went at retrieved Zabuza’s sword at Suigetsu’s request before moving on find Karin, who had the ability to locate others by sensing their chakra signature.
The final member of their team, Juugo, proved to be a little more difficult than getting to both Suigetsu and Karin had been. Juugo was mentally unstable, notably the curse seal’s origin, and jumped to kill at an instant, though always regretted his actions afterward. Kimimaro, Orochimaru’s previous to-be host, had been the only one to calm Juugo. But now, with Kimimaro dead, Suigetsu argued that there was no way that it was possible. Sasuke ignored the warnings and advanced anyway, freeing Juugo from his cell. As expected, he jumped and tried to kill Sasuke, who easily blocked the attack by partially transforming to his curse seal level two state.
Suigetsu then prompted a fight from the unstable Juugo, but the two were stopped by Sasuke under the threat of being killed. Afraid, Juugo ran back into his cell and demanded to be locked up and left alone. Sasuke refused, saying that he would free Juugo and be there to keep him from going on a murder spree. Juugo, remembering Kimimaro and his last words, asked who Sasuke was. Upon hearing that the teen before him was the one that Kimimaro sacrificed his life for, Juugo agreed.
Now that Sasuke had gathered his own team of shinobi, he declared the four to be ‘Team Hebi,’ with its only purpose in finding and killing Uchiha Itachi. With Karin’s abilities, they began to track the other Uchiha down and split into groups. It was then that Sasuke had run into Deidara and Tobi from Akatsuki.
After scaring Tobi by delivering a seemingly fatal blow through the abdomen, Sasuke’s attention was forced onto Deidara as the blond toyed with him, first using his lowest level explosives. Sasuke would have none of it, however, and quickly negated the explosives or simply blocked him. Deidara didn’t expect Sasuke could be as fast as he was and upped the level of explosives.
Deidara used a large clay dragon as a distraction while Tobi maneuvered underground, setting land mines in support. Sasuke, once again, went to his curse seal level two state and took to the air with his wings. Deidara wouldn’t have it, though, and finally managed to get rid of one of the wings with his explosives, then when Tobi emerged from underground, boasted how Sasuke no longer had anywhere to go and was unable to retrieve his own weapon, which had been knocked out of his hands.
Sasuke only allowed that to happen, though, and soon used his sword as a launch pad in order to get within rage to use his blade chidori variant in order to tear off one of the dragon’s wings. He also used one of his most favored moves, Kage Shuriken no Jutsu, in order to pin both of Deidara’s arms to the dragon. He also pulled the dragon down toward the minefield, forcing Deidara to suffer his own ‘art.’
Quickly growing annoyed and angry, Deidara emerged, though wounded, and made a gigantic version of himself that soon burst into thin air. He celebrated his victory as Sasuke saw himself being slowly eaten away from the inside. However, the celebration was short, as what Deidara witness was nothing more than genjutsu. The real Sasuke had him pinned with one of chidoris, able to identify the previous attack with his Sharingan due to the chakra within.
He originally planned to interrogate the missing-nin for information on his brother, but the Deidara he was pinning was none other than a fake, as the real Deidara emerged from the bird and turn the tables on the Uchiha. Deidara then explained that, due to a previous encounter with Itachi, he trained his left eye to resist genjutsu before pulling on Sasuke by surrounding him with clay.
By this point, both fighters were quickly growing wary due to exhaustion and limited supplies of arsenal and weapons. Sasuke was still, however, able to free himself from the clay tomb, but not before Deidara made another huge explosion. Sasuke, once again, made Deidara believe that he had won the match by falling hard to the forest floor. Again, another effort thwarted on Deidara’s part, and Sasuke then explained that all of the ex-terrorists hand seals revealed all of his jutsu to be that of the Earth element and that he possessed lightning - he had the elemental advantage and was able to negate all of the bombs that Deidara had tried to use against him by using his chidori and its variants.
Frustrated beyond words, Deidara made one last-ditch effort in order to get rid of Itachi’s little brother. He revealed that, in addition to the miniature mouths on his hands, he had one on his chest as well. He removed the stitches that held it closed and shoved his last chunk of clay into that mouth. The markings around the newly-revealed mouth began to spread across his body, much like the curse seal would spread across its users’ body.
Soon, light erupted violently from Deidara’s body and explosion that seemed inescapable proceeded. Sasuke was barely able to make it out alive by summoning Manda at the last second, forcing him into submission with his Sharingan, and hid inside his body.
Having seen and heard the massive explosion, Suigetsu took out a scroll and summoned Manda. Sasuke emerged from Manda and soon after, collapsed after a brief conversation with Suigetsu. However, prior to Sasuke losing consciousness, Manda cursed Sasuke with its last breath for forcing it against its will.
Sasuke and the rest of Hebi took the time to rest at a nearby inn to allow Sasuke to recuperate. Though, that didn’t stop the other members to Hebi to continue bickering as if nothing had happened.
During the time that was used to rest and allow his injuries to heal, Sasuke began to think. Since he had counter-absorbed Orochimaru, using his own kinjutsu against him, he had gained the ability to recover quickly - the one thing that gave Orochimaru his vitality. It was during this time that Karin had sensed an oncoming threat heading in their direction, cutting Sasuke recovery time short. Though faced with the threat of meeting with a group of ninjas from Konoha, Sasuke chose to ignore them and continue with his pursuit of his brother. Juugo and Karin - two of Sasuke's teammates - meanwhile, planned a diversionary tactic used to force the Konoha nin on detour by scattering some of Sasuke's clothing.
Eventually, the search for his brother proved to be successful. Sasuke found his brother within a cave, and after a brief moment of reminiscing, the two fought. Determined to not be outed so quickly, Sasuke gained the upper hand by using a variant of chidori. However, during the brief fight, Itachi was not even real; merely an illusion. Prior to the illusion dispersing into his signature flock of crows, Itachi told Sasuke that their fight would conclude on an abandoned compound out in the middle of a forest that was once used by the Uchiha.
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At this point, Sasuke was brought into Toshima, where he chose the occupation of a fighter to continue to hone his skills. However, he lost his ability to use any of his more complex jutsu, such as his chidori variants and fire jutsus. His summonings were sporadic at most, and would often fail him when he needed them most, with a success rate of only 25%. But he never let that hinder him, and he never used it as an excuse for anything.
About a week after his arrival, Sasuke met Hallelujah Haptism, and in doing so made an interesting discovery: He couldn't use his Sharingan without feeling migraine-inducing pain. But at the same time, Hallelujah also experienced the same pain. They fought, briefly, before Sasuke eventually withdrew to recover and figure out why his Sharingan was causing him such pain while in proximity to that man. He considered him a threat, being able to cause such pain.
While he was recuperating from both his fight with Deidara and Hallelujah, Sasuke discovered that he was unable to use his favored jutsus, since when he had tried them during his scuffle with Hallelujah, he believed that he was in too much pain to perform them.
As soon as he felt better, Sasuke began to actively participate in Igura, easily dealing with those that got in his way. During this time, Itachi arrived, but not before Sasuke met Matt through an...interesting encounter, having gone through a staring contest that quickly bored him. Since he lost, he agreed to go to the teen's birthday party at the White Magnolia.
A couple of weeks pass before Sasuke is chosen to fight in the still-standing stadium against none other than Hallelujah Haptism. Prior to the official fight, however, Zdenko had come to find him to escort him to the stadium. This fight, just like the last, didn't last very long before Sasuke won. His prize, in addition to his unwanted fame amongst the natives in Toshima, was an apartment in downtown and one of Hallelujah's face tags.
After the fight, Sasuke declared, quite openly, that Itachi was his next target. He designated the site of their fight to be at Nakano Chapel, wanting a sign of irony for Itachi's death to be similar, in name at least, where Itachi had killed their cousin, Shisui. He waited every night at the Chapel for Itachi to show up, and finally, he did.
It wasn't easy to fight his brother without the use of his elemental ninjutsu. They fought hand-to-hand and with weapons. Itachi, naturally, used clones as well as his own Mangekyou whenever Sasuke was pinned to the wall with his own weapon. It took a lot out of him, but Sasuke did manage to break out of the genjutsu. While suffering through the genjutsu, Itachi had made sure to injure Sasuke's legs enough so that he would not be able to use them efficiently.
The fight didn't last much longer after Sasuke had managed to break free from the genjutsu. With his legs injured, he was at a severe disadvantage yet pressed on. Eventually, Itachi managed to knock Sasuke out by a simple punch. Whenever Itachi left, he had made sure to leave behind one of his face dog tags - The King of Hearts. To this day, it is something Sasuke has cherished, although when he regained consciousness after the fight, he was severely disappointed with himself.
Matt helped Sasuke out of the church, carrying him after Sasuke collapsed after trying to walk on injured legs.
During Sasuke's recovery in Matt's room at the White Magnolia, Toshima was attacked. Bombed, actually. The apartment that Sasuke had won from his fight at the stadium was destroyed from the attack, leaving him without a place to live. Since he was already there, and tolerated Matt, Sasuke decided to simply stay at the Magnolia with the redhead.
A couple of weeks later, Sasuke demanded an audience with Itachi to ask him a few questions, namely as to why he had left him the dog tag and why he didn't bother to finish him off, and only knocked him unconscious. Originally, for this meeting, Sasuke had wanted to talk to Itachi at the location of their fight - Nakano Temple - but later changed his mind to do it at Matt's flat after a conversation with him, mostly because he didn't want to deal with any paranoia of a fight that wouldn't happen.
When Itachi arrived, they talked, albeit awkwardly. The brothers hadn't had a conversation that didn't end up with one attacking the other since before the massacre, and it was obvious that, while they remained civil, they were uncomfortable, although Sasuke was more demanding of the two.
He wasn't happy with the answers he was receiving. "The winner can do what he wishes," "I did not intend to have you die." No matter how much he pressed Itachi for answers, he never got one that he was pleased with. Itachi eventually left and left Sasuke unsatisfied, yet at the same time there was a sort of unspoken truce between the two for whatever reason. It was something, deep deep down, that Sasuke didn't mind having.
Over a month later, after Sasuke's injuries had healed, something happened in Toshima. Whatever it was that was limiting the abilities of anything unnatural was lifted. Sasuke took that opportunity to go after Giacomo - and subsequently the twins - after Matt had received Mello's amputated hand after the redhead's friend was killed. With his powers returned, the twins were dealt with within several minutes before Sasuke went after the head of Igura.
He ran into some difficulty, after, with Giacomo sending a monster after him, and the twins soon joining the scuffle as well. Still, Sasuke managed to rid of his problem, at least temporarily, coming away from the encounter with information he didn't think he would have gained going in - how i-jins were brought into this world and how they could be brought back.
Before the unnatural power of the i-jins were sealed again, Sasuke decided it would be best that he accompany Itachi on his reconnaissance mission to one of the other remaining territories of Japan. They didn't stay long, and learned very little - but at least they had done it.
The limiter comes back soon enough, robbing i-jins once again of some of their abilities. Itachi leaves in June, just after his birthday, and a month later Uchiha Madara arrives. His arrival changes Sasuke's life.
They agreed to meet and talk, and Madara took it upon himself to tell Sasuke the truth about the Uchiha Massacre, the truth about Konoha, and his brother. It was a lot to take in, and initially Sasuke didn't handle it very well at all. Sasuke told Madara, at the end of their talk, that he would need time in order to think about things before he could consider taking him up on his offer to join his side.
During this period, Giacomo took it upon himself to kidnap Matt for spying on the Vishio. Sasuke didn't like this at all. He requested for his other self's help, with Kira providing backup, and went to the mansion to save the closest thing that he had to a friend. Once again, Sasuke fought the twins - this time, the ending result was death for them, as something in Sasuke snapped during the fight. Sasuke moved onto Giacomo next, killing him as well. Kyou, who was watching, was also disposed of by Sasuke. Matt was recovered - harmed and covered in injuries, but alive. In doing this, Sasuke is later told, he becomes the Il-Re of Toshima.
Also during Sasuke's contemplation, Itachi arrived back in Toshima. Sasuke got in touch with him rather quickly, requesting a meeting in order to see if what Madara was telling him was indeed the truth. Itachi did confirm it. Sasuke excused himself and left to be alone for a while, later notifying Madara that he would be declining his offer. All he wanted, now, was to regain lost time with Itachi, if it were allowed. He no longer had any reason to go after his brother with nothing but hatred. The one he needed to extract revenge on was Konoha, and since then Sasuke has made this his goal.
Events after this are mundane, with things pretty much dying down to a complete lull. That is, until Toshima was bombed a second time in the dead of winter. The result of this bombing ends up with Sasuke waking up in another world completely.
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When Sasuke came to, he found that indeed he was in a different world, and that the bombing had to be the cause of it. Though he obtained some injuries, he was still able to get around and find both Matt and his brother. There were four other survivors from Toshima, and the small group of six settled in where they could in order to survive the harsh winter.
In February, they were all notified over the network by the ghost/undead child Libitina that they were provided with a place to stay - a single standing apartment building. It was a kind of Valentine's gift, with their names written in blood on the doors.
Though they were now in a new world, in a different time completely, things still remained uneventful. Once a month, however, things - unnatural things for an abandoned city - started happening once a month, lasting a duration of a week. One of the most noticeable of these happenings are hallucinations - probably one of the first - of the previous residents of Nesreca from a hundred years prior. It wasn't traumatic, but it was enough to startle Sasuke before getting used to it. While making a visit, Sasuke witnessed another hallucination, one of himself - or rather, one of the other Sasuke that he had vaguely gotten to know in Toshima. That had definitely rattled him for several days.
During the time that nothing happened, Sasuke took it upon himself to start cleaning up the library. It gave himself something to do, a project, in order to keep himself busy and also gave Itachi some time to himself while Sasuke was taking care of him.
Although it was belated, Sasuke's cursed seal - which was rendered to nothing more than a tattoo in Toshima - began to react. Orochimaru was still inside him, after all, and took it upon himself to try and attack Sasuke from the inside out. Itachi, learning of this, helped Sasuke out by out right fighting him - as they should have - to the point where Sasuke was drained of his chakra and no longer able to suppress the sannin. Itachi, using his Sharingan's Susano'o, was able to rid of Orochimaru. Itachi was left blind, something that Sasuke wanted to avoid but was unable to.
After the fight, while the brothers were still recovering, one of the residents - Joker - takes it upon himself to bomb the single apartment building everyone is living in. It makes no sense to Sasuke, and he never cared to understand - it just leaves for more work to do later in the coming months. The bombing causes Sasuke's room to be restored, and the residents of such rooms were relocated to new rooms and notified of such by Libitina.
Toward the end of the month, another happening....well, happens: Witnessing a person's own nightmare. For Sasuke, it was reliving the Uchiha Massacre, and in doing so, Sasuke was reminded of his goal: Crush Konoha. Though, stuck in Nesreca was he was with his brother - who was alive - there was little that he could do.
Madara arrives not long after this event - though before his own “demise” at the hands of Senju Hashirama. Sasuke took it upon himself to inform Madara of his future, and that the vessel of the Kyuubi is also in Nesreca should the need for the fox ever arrive.
The rest of that month would go by without anything happening. Almost. After Sasuke's birthday, he found himself being followed by and then fighting against one of the residents, Kamui. Suffice to say, that fight was lost and Sasuke required help in order to get back to the apartments.
It was tame in Nesreca for a while, reliving a week as a genin. After that week, however, Sasuke discovered that Itachi, who was also aged down thanks to Libitina, didn't return to his normal age. It wouldn't last long, however, before he left Nesreca completely. That didn't last long before he returned, however.
With the arrival of another one of Sasuke's teammates, Sakura, Sasuke was steadily beginning to not like staying in Nesreca alongside his brother. Sakura, after her arrival, requested to meet Sasuke at the library and he obliged. The meeting didn't stay civil for long. Sasuke tried to kill her there by strangulation, trying to get it through her head that there wasn't anything left of him to save. That when he got out of Nesreca, he would be filling out of his goal of crushing Konoha. Naruto burst in before much could be done, saving Sakura from Sasuke. Sasuke let them go, seeing no point in chasing after them at the moment.
The Uchiha brothers were given a big surprise when, the following month, their mother was brought to Nesreca, however on the brink of death. Itachi stayed away from her, leaving Sasuke to ask the other residents for help in tending to his dying mother. He rarely left her side, and if he needed to then he left behind a clone to watch over her. He wasn't going to lose his mother for a second time, he was determined of that much.
With his mother recovering and the days getting steadily colder, Sasuke took it upon himself to also start repairs on Nesreca's only inhabitable building. For this, Sasuke briefly with the other residents of Nesreca, including Okami Cloud and Sakura. With help from them Sasuke managed to at least temporarily cover the holes in the building with newer brick, using boards on the inside of the damaged rooms to reinforce the brick and further try to keep out the cold. During the winter months, Sasuke would occasionally check on these rooms since they remained empty to make sure the repairs were still holding up.
On Halloween, Sasuke found a rotted corpse in his room, along with everyone else. He requested that everyone bring them out so that he could burn them, since the ground was too hard to give the bodies a proper burial. The following week, Sasuke would find himself protecting his mother from an invasion of zombies while she was still recovering from her injuries. That was the plan, anyway, but the other residents had kept the undead from the building all together. Any that remained, Sasuke burned those too.
The rest of November was thankfully uneventful, and nothing happened in December, even, until people started coming in all at once. Something Sasuke hadn't seen in Nesreca before, but he also noticed that Libitina wasn't giving them any room numbers either. As Sasuke suspected, these visitors eventually went home, leaving the place to be almost deathly quiet once again. Mikoto disappeared prior to this event as well, unfortunately for Sasuke. With Itachi having left two months prior and Madara long gone, it left him to be the only Uchiha remaining once again.
Following the loss of his mother, Sasuke mostly went through the motions of a mundane life, suffering the effects of the events that happened like everyone else - losing his sight temporarily, a false life in Credinta among two noticeable - and continued to clean the library.
What Sasuke mostly kept to himself was that he, while cleaning the library, had started to look into what happened to Nesreca, and why the local residents in Credinta were so afraid of people living in the abandoned city. Sasuke discovered old newspapers from the late 1800s while doing this, after discovering that Nesreca was nothing more than a city that fell victim to a mess genocide. He shared this information with the network, and a month after discovering the newspapers did he find himself murdered by Teutorix.
Personality:
When he was younger, Sasuke was a bubbly child who would follow his beloved brother around at every possible moment. Though, when Itachi was accepted into ANBU and he into the academy, he would often spend all or most of his free time improving his skills as a developing shinobi in order to get a little closer to his idol, Itachi. His determination started young, wanting nothing but the approval and acknowledgment from his brother, as well as his father, for being a strong ninja at such a young age. This would only last until after he turned eight-years-old, when his brother brutally murdered his entire family in a matter of hours.
"Foolish little brother. You’re not worth killing. If you wish to kill me, then hate me, detest me, and live in an unsightly way. Run, run and cling to life."
Sasuke took these words, a glaring reminder of the massacre and his own weakness, to heart and served as a form of motivation for him to continue to grow stronger.
Following the massacre, Sasuke's personality made a 180. He grew quiet and became antisocial, giving off a very cold demeanor. He avoided association with others, concentrating on nothing but his training. He was also the top of his class, as expected from an Uchiha. He often would spend his days after school alone at the Uchiha Lake, and it’s there that Sasuke had decided: He would become and avenger. He would aim to kill Itachi. To make him pay for the crime that he committed.
With the guidance of Kakashi, however, that outlook gradually changed. The Uchiha began to accept his teammates and work together, more-so with Naruto than with Sakura. He used the growing rivalry between himself and Naruto as a form of motivation to get even stronger, while Sakura was a source of information for him. Still, both helped him grow stronger, whether or not he will admit their aid in doing so. As time passed, Sasuke grew softer around his team, and was even willing to sacrifice his life in order to save his fellow teammates, even if that meant that he could no longer pursue his brother.
In the midst of battle, Sasuke is excellent when it comes to thinking fast and on his feet. He always makes sure that he has some sort of plan in mind before going on the offensive, unlike Naruto. The plans might be formed quickly, but they're never executed poorly nor are poor in quality themselves, showing evidence of his intelligence. Evidence of this would be during his preliminary match in the chuunin exams. Sasuke himself was already worn by the time it started, and was unable to use his chakra due to the curse seal on his neck. In the midst of facing defeat, Sasuke used his last ounce of strength to defeat his opponent, basing the finishing blow off of one of Rock Lee's own attacks, despite having only seen it once before.
It was after the Chuunin exams that his personality made another adjustment. He was desperate for power, but he did not rely on the curse mark on his neck for that power. He trained hard with Kakashi, learning new techniques and honing his abilities. Yet still, he did not see it as enough. This was proved through a brief reunion with Itachi, by how easily he had been defeated in mere seconds. Nothing had been changed between the siblings, like Sasuke had first thought. After that encounter, his rival, Naruto, no longer stood way behind him in terms of strength. Naruto was catching up to him quicker than he would have originally thought possible, learning more powerful techniques than he had been taught himself. In the past, it had always been Sasuke that would be the one rescuing Naruto from harm, but the tide was slowly turning to the point where Naruto was the one saving Sasuke from harm.
Often times, Sasuke would use his opponents as measuring sticks for himself; to see where he had improved and which areas that he still needed to strengthen. Still, he felt that he was not growing fast enough. His pride would not allow for him to slack off, nor would the task of having to kill his brother. Watching others grow at a faster rate than he was grated against him; he was not one to be dependent upon others.
Sasuke had had enough and left Konoha for Orochimaru, cutting bonds. He saw them as points of weakness, not strength. Instead of growing stronger as he grew closer to his teammates, he grew weaker. He was heading in the opposite direction that he needed to go, and he saw that the peaceful village of Konoha no longer had anything to offer him in terms of gaining what he needed, of fulfilling his goals. Though met again with Naruto, Sasuke defeats Naruto after a long, tiring battle, walking off and declaring their friendship-rivalry bond severed. Now with Orochimaru, Sasuke is once again cold toward others, only speaking when necessary, whether it be a simple response, demand, or cut down. Sasuke keeps from associating with others, once again becoming a loner in order to grow stronger so that his goals can be fulfilled.
It can be seen in the reunion with his teammates that, fueled by nothing but his hate for Itachi, he had grown stronger. Gaining the power he sought; he didn’t care if staying with Orochimaru would mean the ultimate sacrifice by his part, as long as Itachi was to be killed, it was fine with him. He had no remorse for leaving behind his home. However, with the formation of Hebi, Sasuke unconsciously began to open himself back up, even if only a smidge.
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This would continue as he was brought into Toshima by the Il-Re. While he initially continued to keep himself distant, he eventually became comfortable within his surroundings.
He did not plan to allow himself to open up enough to gain allies, but it happened. He got comfortable enough with Matt that he actually considered him to be the closest thing to a friend that he would allow himself while still maintaining distance. When it came to Itachi, however, it was different.
After his fight with his brother, they held an unspoken truce of some level. They wouldn't talk often, but they did have a single recon mission together. But afterward, his brother left and he was left feeling somewhat left behind.
When Madara arrived and told Sasuke of the truth, he had a hard time believing it at first. He was in complete denial of it. But when Itachi returned and confirmed everything, he finally accepted that Itachi wasn't the bad guy - Madara was.
With knowledge of the truth behind the Uchiha Massacre, Sasuke slowly began to get closer to Itachi. By the time of the second bombing, they had already regained their relationship of siblings.
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While in Nesreca, Sasuke found himself mellowing out. He still held his goal of crushing Konoha - as reminded by reliving the tragedy of the massacre - but with no means of returning home, there wasn't much that he could do. As long as Itachi remained with him, he was placid. Although he isn't aware of the similarities between them, Sasuke does share personality traits with Madara. He's been known to have bouts of instability, as noted back in Toshima when Matt was kidnapped and again when he tried to kill Sakura and while talking with Madara. Though these bouts are very few and far between, Sasuke has always recovered from them and returned to the mellow, yet rude Sasuke everyone has gotten to know.
Speaking of such, Sasuke is still rude to others, those he's more tolerable than he was in the past. He'll share information he deems relevant to everyone else, and still doesn't hesitate to call anyone out on their own stupdity.
Sasuke keeps mostly to himself. If he can help it, he wants as little contact with the other residents of Nesreca as possible. He kept himself busy by taking up projects - such as cleaning up and repairing the library to what it was in its prime (or as close to it as possible) and repairing the damaged apartment building.
Curiosity also got the better of him while in Nesreca, having started to look into the city's history and why it's in ruins as it is now. To do this, though, he's had to learn Russian, which he was steadily doing through traditional means.
Abilities/Additional Notes: All are listed here.
Third-Person Sample:
Was he dead? Was this where people went, in Nesreca, after they died? His body felt numb. Sasuke tried to remember what had happened to get him to this point. Nesreca...newspapers. He had found old newspapers from over a century ago. But that was just last month, wasn't it? In March.
Sasuke's hands twitched involuntarily as he laid on the street. Surprisingly, nothing hurt. It was just wet. Was it raining?
Ugh, what else was there? He remembered... Libitina. Her master. Fighting him. He died, though, right? He couldn't be back.
Slowly, Sasuke chanced opening his eyes, blinking up at the stormy sky above. It was raining. Okay, so this...didn't appear to be any kind of afterlife. Another twitch of his limbs passed through before, slowly, Sasuke sat up, and he just. Stopped and stared.
He was still in Nesreca. The ruins of this city wasn't to be mistaken with those of Toshima. It was water out, more humid despite the rain. The last he remembered, the days were still chilly. It had to have been at least two or three months since...he died, he guessed.
"...Just wonderful."
First-Person Sample Journal Post:
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[The feed shows nothing at first, but the sound of the steady rain is clear. Whoever this PDA belonged to, they were outside and unaware that their device was on.
A couple of minutes of just the rain pass before a wet gasp can be heard, followed by coughing. Apparently whoever it is is just now able to breath, judging by the fit they're having. Wet scraping against the brick ground below suggests that this person's trying to get up, but unfortunately for them it's a failed attempt. A wet thud and splash, and a soft curse and Japanese.
Sasuke's voice.]
Couldn't have been out that long, dammit... [A grunt, and Sasuke's trying again, this time successful. He pauses for a moment just to catch his breath, looking around at his surroundings even though no one can see this. Then, finally, he notices the PDA and picks it up.
The feed ends as he stuffs it in his pocket without even once looking to see if it was on.]