another Chance

#29

"Shit" suigetsu cursed as his eyes widened , he looked at the anbu named yamato who was their supervisor "any place that is empty and away from anything that is livin' it's urgent just lead us there, don't ask questions, it'll just be more dangerous"he said his urgency was evident by how fast he spoke, yamato looked at hokage and got a nod from her, then said "follow me" as he said he walked to the window, then looked back at the three who suddenly stopped moving and in the end it was the one named jūgo who was pushed forward by the two, as soon as he approached sasuke, sasuke's eyes followed his movements and then.... jūgo hesitated a bit then punched? Sasuke, who slightly moved his body to dodge the punch and his eyes narrowed at Jūgo who hurriedly tried to back away but sasuke disappeared and then reappeared in front of him blocking his escape "why are you still there lead the way" suigetsu said urgently as his body turned into a puddle of water....a water clone, although their actions baffled yamato but he could sense the urgency and quickly lead the way, looking back from time to time to check if they were following, only to see the three frantically following him while barely dodging attacks from an expressionless sasuke, he wanted to help but a water clone appeared beside him "don't interrupt and lead.... quickly....we can't hold on if this goes on...." The clone panted and suddenly, turned into a puddle of water, then yamato had to use a wood style jutsu to make a sheild as sasuke suddenly appeared in front of him without a warning, his katana in his hand crackling with lightening, but the expected impact never came he only heard jūgo's voice " stop delaying....lead ...the way" the voice seemed to be suppressing pain, yamato didn't delay and led them to the training ground seven where Naruto had been practicing for quite a while now under his and kakashi's supervision. The three ninjas and sasuke also arrived there within a few seconds, the ninjas were covered with shallow and deep wound all over, the red haired ninja sighed "good thing he's still concious....so we didn't die and got away lightly" she said as she saw other's arriving soon after along with sasuke's older brother, suigetsu also panted lightly and said "let's go", the three surrounded sasuke and bit their fingers and the started drawing a seal, but it was unsuccessful as sasuke used spatial jutsu to switch places with suigetsu, looking at them with narrowed eyes, suigetsu felt a chill down his spine as he felt sasuke looking at him "damn why am I a target so suddenly when jūgo was the one who punched him" he mumbled, then looked at the others and said "you.." he wanted to ask for help but he heard a crackling sound near him, sasuke was behind him, his katana still covered in lightening chakra, he thought he was done for but then he heard that blonde ninja's voice "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" and then there was another call "Rasengan" after which he was pushed away and all he could see was dazzling blonde hair in his vision, he realised it was the ninja named Naruto, who seemed to be sasuke's friend who had come to his aid "what's going on dattebayo?"he questioned as he placed suigetsu near sakura who started giving him first aid treatment, "I'll tell you when he's back to his senses.... just 10 minutes more distract him.... he'll be alright", although he(Naruto) was still full of questions he still nodded and said "10 minutes, got it...just leave it to me dattebayo" with that he turned to smoke, it turned out to be shadow clone, suigetsu sighed but still didn't relax just yet....it was not over ....not yet....
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Naruto had been engaging sasuke into a fight of jutsu mainly doing his best to dodge and avoid sasuke at the same time distracting him, others also intervened when necessary but he(Naruto) again distracted sasuke when he(sasuke) tried to attack others, in the end it was only him and jūgo who still busied sasuke as others stood by vigilantly ready to help when needed, naruto panted and he saw sasuke becoming sluggish and coming to a stop in the middle of attacking jūgo who just stood there not trying to dodge, Naruto was almost ready with another rasengan in order to help jūgo but he realised in time and changed his aim, landing just beside sasuke, sasuke blinked at him looking near his feet, Naruto who was also looking at sasuke's feet, just realised that sasuke has been bare feet all this time and now his his feets were littered with deep and shallow scratches, he shook his head and looked at sasuke , who seemed dazed, then his eyes started to change from abyss like black tinted with red to the sharingan that he usually possessed, as soon as his sharingan activated, the marking seemed to recede slightly, the markings seemed alive as they slowly backtracked the way they had appeared, he couldn't help but stare longer at those markings that slowly but surely recede and then stayed in between his eyebrows

(A/n: the tattoo, if anyone is wondering how it looks like.)
The dazed sasuke seemed to regain his senses as his slowly twitched and then he started flexing
them as if slowly regaining his control over them, the marking in between his brows also faded but sasuke was still dull. Seeing him regaining control suigetsu stood up and walked over to jūgo and sasuke while supporting karin, a single glance was all it took for suigetsu to understand what he(sasuke) wanted to know and so he(suigetsu) started to give him a report of what occured when he lost control, it seemed more like reporting the result of an experiment in some kind of lab, the more Tsunade and others heard the report, it made their expressions turn ugly as they realised by their reports, observation and sasuke commenting and instructing the three where to make changes and what was to be done to get better results, they guessed this was something that orochimaru had done to sasuke.... Itachi who seemed to be forgotten by others that he was also there, finally couldn't take it anymore he called out "sasuke" in a rigid voice, his face turning uglier as the realisation that his brother had been experimented on by orochimaru settled in....'so....is this why sasuke had changed so much....' he thought