SasuHina- Of flame and fan 1

SasuHina- Of Flame and Fan
Chapter One
All characters are Kishimoto's
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Straightness Alert (Omg?! Boom-E wrote something with no Slash?!)


I remember seeing her when I was little, when my family was still here, it was the ritualized world of clan life after all. I remember my father leaning over my shoulder and smiling at her, then at me, and I basked in his smile, never realizing the implications of what he whispered into my ear.

"You see that girl Sasuke? That's Hinata-chan. When you get older you're going to marry her, since your brother will be the head of the Uchiha family, you get to marry into the Hyuuga line. Does that make you happy Sasuke?" I realize now he might have been mocking me, and that there was a slight bitterness in his tone, but I nodded none the less. His smile... was so bitter... he had resigned me, his lesser son, to never getting to have any honor, never having the Sharingan, never being his ideal son, a jounin at the most. But at the time, I just smiled, mine pure, and happy, and I walked over to the little girl, my black kimono trailing behind me, and I kissed her on her cheek, watching a blush bloom on her small pale face. I grabbed her sleeve, tugging at the purplish fabric.

These were the happy times. I was six and I have a loving clan that supported me. My brother was still insane, I was still clueless, I was still infatuated with the little girl named Hinata. But I was a fool.

I never realized the my duty trumped my will.

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By the time I was eighteen I was broken.

My will? Broken.

My heart? Broken.

My sanity...? Broken.

I was convinced I was broken beyond repair as I walked back into the gates of Kohona, a traitor, a murderer, an S class nin. I was bathed in the blood of the Uchiha clan, yet I had never managed to wipe that uncaring look off my brother's face.

All I wanted was a clean break, the release of death that I was sure returning to this place would give me.

Within a few hours I was almost positive that I would get just that, relief flooding over my muddled mind... more proof of insanity..

Naruto took it the worst I think, his eyes red when he grabbed the bars of the cell I had placed in, a scream of betrayl ripping out of his throat. It was a feral sound that even I, the insane traitor, cringed to hear. He twisted the bars with the force of his grip, the white jacket only the Hokage wore falling off of his shoulders.

"Congratulations Sasuke!" he screamed, "I attempted to get you back for years!" The betrayal was more evident with each word. "Now they're going to execute you like the pure-breed mutt you are." He was letting his anger talk. I knew it, because when I let the red of Sharingan filter into my eyes I could see he was shaking, the panic only too obvious. "There's really nothing I can do Sasuke. Sakura ran off to the damn Akatsuki, I can't leave Kohona to go after her. I failed you six years ago... can I really save no one?"

He looked at me in absolute desperation, searching my eyes for some hint of the Sasuke he used to know, that Sasuke was emotional, that Sasuke was far more human than this one. He attempted to look resigned as he pulled away from the bars, his palms cut, the blood staining the steel. He bent and in a fluid motion picked up the coat off the floor. His eyes an ice blue when he looked at me.

"I'll be back Sasuke. To execute you."

And that's when reality hit me like a sledge-hammer.

I didn't want to die.