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Ep 44 - Consider [Ch. 9]

Unfortunately, there was still a blonde who had called him here.

(Yes, unfortunate his subconscious laughs)

(He ignores it, a wisp of a smile lingering on his face)

So for now, Sasuke will stay.

For now, he will go along with the waterfall known as Naruto.

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Not that long later, Naruto stirs. Sasuke looks up at the slight disturbance, to see Naruto stretch and yawn like he had just woken up from a nap.

"How'd it go?" Sasuke asks.

Naruto's smile is sharp, his eyes glimmering with glee. "Amazingly."

They both pause for a moment, seemingly waiting for the other to speak.

Sasuke huffs out a laugh. "Well?" he prompts.

Naruto then recounts what Kurama told him in the mindscape, taking care to not miss any important details while talking.

"...so Indra and Ashura are the children of the Sage," Sasuke says. "But that doesn't really explain why we have been having their dreams, though."

Naruto had scooted closer to Sasuke's writing table, and his arm was in the range of Sasuke's face, which the blonde took advantage of by poking at his forehead.

"Obviously because you're an Uchiha!" Naruto says, a devious smirk on his face. "Indra's got the eyes and everything."

Sasuke does a double take. "Wait, what do you mean he's got the eyes? Was he an Uchiha??"

Naruto nods, looking a little confused. "What, you didn't notice?"

Sasuke shakes his head numbly.

"Huh. Okay well, in the dreams I've had, I could feel myself fighting as Ashura, you know? And I was fighting against Indra." Naruto explains. "I just remember Indra's eyes being red and black, just like the Uchiha."

Sasuke pauses at that, thinking it over, his mind racing with the possibilities. "Wait no, that doesn't sound right. I don't think that the Uchiha clan would have been a thing when the Sage of Six Paths was still alive. Chakra had just been introduced to the world and wouldn't have time to integrate into ..." Sasuke stops for a second, eyes growing a fraction wider. "...the Sage's son, huh."

Naruto gives Sasuke another poke on the head. "Ya get it now? I would betcha that that Indra guy was your clan's ancestor. Or even the founder. As a descendant, why wouldn't you be able to see his memories?"

Sasuke smacks Naruto's hand away in exasperation, while the other only sticks out a tongue.

"Even you can realize that it isn't normal to dream about history when we hadn't even known what it was."

Naruto sighs, flopping onto the ground. "Okay well, what else do you think it means, then?"

Sasuke frowns, thinking. "I do think you have a point though, there must be a reason why this Indra had the Sharingan. So if he is the ancestor and founder of the Uchiha clan, then" Sasuke looks up and locks eyes with Naruto, who is also staring wide-eyed at Sasuke. "...then by that logic, wouldn't Ashura be your ancestor?"

Naruto seems to give that idea a thought.

"Yeah...you're right." Naruto eventually agrees. "I guess that's a problem then, since I'm from the Uzumaki clan, and I'm pretty sure that my dad isn't a descendant of Ashura."

Sasuke nods absently, still lost in his thoughts. "If it's the Uchiha clan for Indra, would it also make sense for Ashura to have a clan that descended from him?"

"Yeah." Naruto holds up a finger, as if lecturing. "From what Kurama has told me, I think that we're looking at the great Senju clan."

Ah, yes the clan that the Uchiha clan had a vendetta against way back before Konoha had been formed. If Sasuke remembers correctly, they had always just been at odds with each other.

Still, that doesn't explain why Naruto would be getting the same dreams.

"Eh, who cares? What's done is done, I certainly can't just magically make this stop." Naruto shrugs.

Sasuke huffs as he rolls up the finished scroll, which he had finished just a few minutes prior. "Well, even if you don't care anymore, I still think it's important for us to figure it out. What if this becomes important later on?"

In one swift jump, Naruto is standing again. Sasuke watches the blonde stretch his arms.

"I guess we'll just have to screw around and find out!" Naruto grins, the signature devious smirk present on his face.

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Word Count: 1796  words

So guys, ever heard of the fanfic writer's curse? I am unfortunately also an ao3 writer so the curse has stuck! Had not one, not two, but SIX different things happen to me all at once, and I'm not even exaggerating. It was really bad. Like, funeral bad.

Honestly, I hope you can forgive me for such a delay!

See you next episode