Title: Naruto: I Am Just Sasuke Uchiha
Synopsis:
When Sasuke Uchiha woke up from a dream, after his entire clan had been slaughtered, something else awoke with him: the memories of his past life.
Now, being alone in a world with no one, nothing to tether him, and memories of his past life and knowledge of the future, what will he do? But no matter what, Itachi thinks the higher-ups of the leaf think.
He will be his own person!
He is not Chris from Earth, he is not Sasuke the Avenger, he is definitely not Indra; he is just Sasuke Uchiha and will get his revenge for his clan and parents.
He could find his way by joining the Anbu, joining the Akatsuki, or just becoming a rogue ninja. No matter what he does, he will find himself and companions along the way to help keep him grounded.
Note: this is a harem with MFL(Main Female Lead) and SFL(Sub Female Lead)
M-FL Akane Kurokawa(OC), M-FL fem Orochimaru, S-FL Karin, S-FL fem Haku, and this will be a bit different, but that's to be expected for a fanfiction.
Now on to the chapter
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Chapter 1: Post Massacre
[1974 Word]
—Land of Fire, Konoha, Uchiha Clan Compound, Hours after the Massacre—
The sun had just begun to rise over the Uchiha Clan Compound, and its rays glinted off the pools of blood scattered across the ground, as the bodies of the Uchiha Clan members sprawled everywhere, lifeless; some of them had their eyes gouged out.
In the Clan heads home, the only living member of the Uchiha clan in Konoha was twisting and turning next to the body of his dead parents, the head of the Uchiha clan, Fugaku, and Mikato Uchiha.
—In the mind of Sasuke Uchiha—
Sasuke, in his child form, was looking at the Uchiha Clan Compound from a god's-eye view. He could see Itachi running up to the members of the Uchiha clan, who felt something was off but pushed it to the back of their minds, thinking.
'This is the son of the Clan leader and one of our best and brightest; he wouldn't harm us.' But they were wrong. Itachi went up to them in a blur, using his Anbu-issued katana to slice the throats of his clan's men.
"ARAGRR, Ita-chi, wh?" The man didn't even get to finish his words before Itachi went to the next member and cut them down like flies.
Of course, some tried to fight back, but a blurry figure, Sasuke, could not see and killed the stronger ones, letting Itachi kill those closer to his level while the women and children ran.
Though some braver children stayed and tried to fight him, it was to no avail. He cut them down like the rest, not a change in his eyes. As he went from one member to the next.
He then walked into the homes of the Single and adult Uchiha members. "Itachi, what are you doing? If you stop now, we can...Shhhhk-gurgle." The woman did not get a chance to finish her sentence as her neck was cut, almost decapitating her.
The man who was slowly creeping up from behind could not stop himself from going into a rage after seeing his wife get killed by someone he thought highly of.
He pushed chakra to his legs, increasing his speed, kuni in hand, but when he was only a few inches away from Itachi, seeing the fearful yet resolute look in his eyes, as he felt a bone-deep burning pain as black flames erupted from his body, killing him.
"Huff, huff, that huff-huff. Was close, now on to the rest." Itachi said, wiping the blood that trickled from his right eye as he went on to kill the rest of the Uchiha clan.
Sasuke was forced to watch as Itachi killed all of his clan's men and women, and a blurry figure killed the children, all the way up till they got to his parents, who were just sitting in a formal, kneeling position (seiza) like they were waiting for this.
But before he could see what happened, it looped back to when Itachi went up to them in a blur, using his Anbu-issued katana to slice the throats of his clan's men.
"No, no, no, make this stop!!!" Sasuke screamed after the third loop, frozen in shock at the first, heartbroken, thinking it would end in the second, but it didn't, so he screamed to be free, but it was all for nothing as it kept looping.
After the two hundred seven thousand two hundred loop, he just lay on the hardened sky with a near lifeless expression, but something would not let him sink into despair. Just then, a light pulled him somewhere else and out of the nightmare he was in.
—In the mind of Chris Itomoru, with Sasuke in the back of his head— [= Sasuke]
In a modern apartment, a half-American, half-Japanese man with long blond hair lies in bed, his hair covering his face. After a few minutes, an alarm goes off, waking him and revealing his black eyes.
[What is happening to me, and what is this place?] Sasuke wondered as he looked around the apartment through the man's eyes.
"Argg, Damit, it's time for work in a few. Sigh, let's get started." He said after a breath in and out, as he went to the shower and got ready for work. Though Sasuke did not see him in the shower, he saw everything else, like the modern amenities.
Such as a washer/dryer, dishwasher, air conditioning, balcony/patio, hardwood floors, and upgraded appliances. The man got ready, putting on his work suit and name tag that read "Chris Itomoru".
[Wow, this is all so cool.] Saskue thought to himself, putting the recent memories of his clan and parents' death to the back of his head as he looked at every modern thing in the home of Chris Itomoru.
He saw that Chris went to work. He worked as a salesman for a Japanese-American production office, making sure they could sell their goods to America without Trump's new tariffs getting in the way, but it did make his job harder.
(A/N: I am not expressing my political view, I can't even vote yet, but I am just saying that the more tariffs are hard not only for Americans but also for the makers of the product.)
But he did the best he could with what he had, and Sasuke saw all of this, just as Chris tried to find a loophole for both the Japanese and the Americans.
"Damn it, man, if things like this keep happening, they'll be laying off some of us. I know I'm not that good, but I'm good enough to hopefully find a new job," Chris said on the phone to his friend in the States, who had just tried to reassure him.
And Sasuke saw it all his whole life, a routine of waking up for work, getting a coffee from the cute barista on the way, working until five, then heading home to play games, read, cook, do the dailies, paint, or just take a nap.
He also watched anime on TV, and one of them looked very similar to his life and was named after one of his classmates, but he forgot which one but it started with a N. At night, he would go to a few sites that started with H and P, and that was his routine.
And that was the start of Sasuke's love for big breasts, but that's for another time. As he watched Chris's daily life, he felt calm, as if he were watching a movie from first person, and happy, forgetting all about the pain and sadness of home.
He was still just a child, and putting traumatic events out of his mind was normal for children his age, as long as they were not constantly reliving the traumatic event.
But for this Sasuke, it stopped at two hundred seven thousand two hundred, not the five hundred eighteen thousand four hundred it was supposed to go on to.
But as they say, all good things come to an end. So when Chris was walking to his car to get home, he was in a very bad mood after being fired for being expendable.
Sasuke was also mad and sad for Chris, even though he had been in the back of his mind for only a week; he had seen almost all of his daily life. But it had all come to an end when a car whose driver was not paying attention, on his phone, drove past a stop sign.
Chris, who looked both ways all the time, no matter where he was, saw the car, but it was too late. The driver also looked up, and time seemed to freeze as Chris was inches away from the car. The driver tried to turn, but it was too late. Sasuke, in the back of Chris's mind, was devastated, watching someone he felt a connection to die again.
Even though he did not know every single Uchiha, he did walk past them on the way to and from home, said hi, and they even gave him treats. To see them all die for what he saw was no reason at all was devastating.
Now, someone he was close to for a week was also about to die for someone else's mistake and machinations, and it just made him sad. Time returned to normal, and the events unfolded as usual.
Chris got hit by the car and went flying into a wall and died on the spot, while the driver of the car, who looked like he wanted to get out, changed his mind and drove off.
In a black, reflectionless space, Sasuke was curled up in a ball, bawling his eyes out till he felt a presence, making him lift his head to see... Himself.
"So what are you going to do now?" he asked, but made of a black-and-red liquid, forced into a solid shape.
"I don't know. I just want to be with my mommy and father," Sasuke replied without thinking.
"We are always with you, my beautiful baby boy," a feminine, motherly voice said from behind him as arms wrapped around him in a gentle embrace.
"Wa, mu, mu, Mother, WAAA, WAAA, WAAA!!! I had a horrible dream, you and everyone else died, and then I saw the life of this really cool person, everything he had was so cool, but that nightmare was so bad."
Sasuke knew his mother's voice among a thousand others, so when he felt her arms wrap around him, he turned and buried himself in her loving embrace, telling her about what he thought was a dream.
"It's ok, Sasuke, my father and I are so sorry for leaving you like this, I, I." Mikoto tried to comfort him, but she couldn't, as she also broke down in sobbing, the crimson-eyed demoness broke down in sobbing with her son.
While a male voice, stern yet filled with love, came from behind Sasuke. "Yes, we should have never left you alone, but I trust that you can become the greatest Uchiha, even greater than your brother or Madara Uchiha."
Fugaku spoke up; his voice had always been, but Mikoto, who had been with him since childhood, could hear the sadness and regret in his voice.
Sasuke, noticing something, asked what was on his mind. "What do you two mean by leaving me alone? You two are right here, and you're not going anywhere, right, right!!!"
Sasuke asked, having a bad feeling about how they had been talking, but did not want to think about it because of remembering when the "nightmare ended with his parents in the seiza position, Itachi over them with his blade dripping with blood."
"No, we are not going anywhere, son, but I know you will make us proud," Fugaku said as Sasuke began to turn into fragments of light and began disappearing.
"No, I want to stay with you, no, no, NO!!!" Sasuke screamed as he was disappearing. Mikoto could not look at this anymore and just gave Sasuke a tight hug, without a word.
But he was flailing around till that other him, made of black-and-red liquid and forced into a solid shape, showed up with the face of Chris Itomoru.
"This is your life, kid. Don't let anyone take it over or force their way on your life. Find yourself for both of us, yeah."
Chris, in the form of Sasuke, said something, but Mikoto and Fugaku asked as if they could not see him. With that, Sasuke disappeared into the black space, but not before his eyes turned red and three tomoe appeared in them.
This was the beginning of Sasuke's divergence from the path set for him, and the story of Sasuke Uchiha, the Strongest Shinobi and many other epithets, began in a nightmare and a dream.
[Author's Note: So, what do you think about this concept, and if you like it, leave a comment and tell me, I will do what I can. This one is also a harem, so who would you want in it? I have made changes to some lore, and I will say I want a really 4th Shinobi war, but that's for the future. So, any questions? Ask them, and pick one of the two choices.
I like them both, but I only do it half for me, the other half is for validation, that is why I dropped most of my other FF, with school, and lack of motivation and the needed planning, so yeah, if you want some, mostly None AI, ok, novice yet somewhat thorough work, you have come to the right place, and I will make some changes but I will mostly tell you and these will stay up so if you want to know what changes from chapter 1 come here.
Disclaimer: I have a rough idea of where this is going, but I haven't mapped out every single detail or an overarching idea. So if you have suggestions to make the story better or who you might want to see, please leave a comment and review! I hope you like the story. I did not use any AI other than Grammarly Pro.
Ending Note: Thank you for the support. Have a great (if you're not religious) and/or blessed day, and check out my other account where I publish Og novels. It's called Fiction_Dragon! :)]