Of Fate, Chance and a One more time

Of the Kyuubi, the Hospital and the Renunion

Chapter TWO

Sasuke blinked. Once, twice, three times. He closed his eyes again and counted to ten. He slowly opened them again.

Yup, he was still there.

Uchiha Itachi, currently still six-year-old, was looking down at him.

Sasuke didn't know what to do and just lay there. That must have been a good point in being stuck in a useless, immobile body of a baby. 

No one questioned it when you did noth

 Their game of stare-the-other-to-death lasted for hours.

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Sasuke clearly remembered the day of the Kyuubi attack. Today was the third year mark since it had happened, and Sasuke, even though he had been wrapped up in the warm embrace of his brother, had felt scared. He had lived through countless of harsh missions and had survived the Fourth Shinobi War, and yet, he had cowered under the presence of the Nine Tailed Fox, and he had been further away than most dangers he had ever faced.

Speaking of the Kyuubi, Sasuke wondered if Naruto had come to this world with the Kyuubi, or if it was gone. He then wondered if he still had his Mangekyou Sharingan, and Sakura her seal, as well as her single Byakugan. He couldn't activate it now, as there were a lot of people around, and he didn't have a cover story as to how he had activated them. He knew all his jutsu like the back of his hand, and his chakra reserves were way bigger compared to when he had actually been five. However, it was nowhere near the amount he had in the...future.

He shook his head and looked at the busy street again. Ever since he had been allowed to leave the house with an adult or his brother, he had kept a look out for his teammates. After all, it would be very hard to miss pink hair, or not hear the blonde's loud voice. However, he still hadn't gotten anything.

Itachi, who was currently nine, had just come back from a mission and he was in the hospital. Sasuke and his mother were on their way to see him.

Sasuke had just stepped into the hospital when a flash of pink caught his eye. He whipped around.

There was Sakura, trailing after an old looking nurse. He watched as the nurse said something, which Sakura instantly replied to. The nurse smiled and ruffled her pink hair.

Sasuke was pretty sure that the Sakura he was seeing was the Sakura from before they time traveled. The original Sakura of this timeline would have never come to the hospital. If he had to make a guess, Sasuke thought that she was here, pretending to want to learn, so that if she showed signs of her healing chakra, she would have a cover story.

As if she had felt his gaze, Sakura turned around. Sasuke gave her a quick glance over. Her right eye was the emerald he remembered it to be, but her left eye was a very pale shade of green. It must be the effects of the Byakugan. 

During the war, Sasuke had found out that Sakura's genjutsu abilities were almost as good as his. He doubted he would have been able to see through some of them without his Sharingan. Currently, Sakura had cast a complex genjutsu across her forehead, so Sasuke guessed that she also had her seal. A genjutsu that was complex enough that only a handful of people in the whole world could see through with their naked eye, yet used only a tiny bit of chakra. He frowned.

Then why didn't he have his Sharingan?

Sakura said something to the nurse before shooting Sasuke a hard glare and darting off. She disappeared somewhere.