SASUKE: Rebuilding The Uchiha Clan

After Sasuke performed the reverse summoning jutsu he appeared in the middle of a forest, all that could be seen around him were tall trees, so he did the the most important thing that should be done after arriving at a foreign place; investigate his surroundings.

He climbed to the top of the tallest tree he could find close to him and started looking around, since he couldn't feel anything in the range of his soul force apart from little insects which he ignored, looking for any life form who could possibly be his summon. 'oh I see a tiger there, great! I'll have a cool summon!' He went towards the tiger at a fast speed, excited to sign the contract.

~swish!~ Sasuke landed right in front of the tiger, it was 2 meters tall with orange fur and black stripes, it's ferocious face would have made anyone run at first notice, but Sasuke was standing there looking up to its sharp eyes with a stupid grin plastered on his face.

"Hey, I'm Sasuke, can we sign the contract or is there a test or something?", the tiger looked a bit confused, not because of the human's words but for the mere act of standing there without running away. Normally it's pray would do whatever they can to get as far away from it as possible, and seeing this type of weird looking creature that didn't seem to fear it was puzzling.

The tiger decided to stop thinking and pounced at the free meal that delivered itself to its death. Sasuke lowered his body, successfully evading the tiger that jumped over his head. "So the test is a fight? Just how I like it", he imbued chakra on his legs and made a spinning jump, landing a powerful kick with his heel on the head of the tiger, which exploded just like that, leaving a dumfounded Sasuke.

"Eh! That was everything?! As if such a weak summon was of any use, maybe I should just leave" he said scratching the top of his head and prepared to bit his finger to perform the summoning jutsu again in order to leave. Just as he put his thumb inside his mouth, he heard a deep and slow voice coming from afar, "coooooome... heere...huuuummaaan..." He stopped what he was doing and thought ' if it wasn't for how loud the voice is I could have mistaken it for the voice of someone in his deathbed, well let's go look for the owner of the voice'.

Sasuke was paying attention to his surroundings as he jumped from branch to branch. After about 10 kilometers he finally felt some lifeforms on top of the trees, he was about to check them when he heard the voice again. "Ooooooveeer.... heeeeere...." he looked in the direction of the voice, it was about 300 meters away from him. A massive creature was hugging the trunk of the biggest tree he had ever seen in his life.

It was difficult to recognize what type of animal it was, because all that could be seen was a giant mass of white and brown fur sticking to the trunk of the tree. "Hello? Were you the one who talked?". Then, the creature started to slowwwwwly turn its head to face Sasuke, finally allowing him to identify what it was. A round head, little sad looking black eyes, tiny ears, white and brown colored hair on it's face that made it appear as if it was smiling. 'Shit! That's a sloth, a f.u.c.k.i.n.g giant sloth!'.

"Heeeellooo.... HHuuuummaaan... Friiieennd...I must thaaaaank yooouu foor killing ooour eeeenemiee...", it was going to keep talking but Sasuke stopped him in the middle, afraid he would spend a couple of days just listening to what it had to say. "Stop stop! Please allow me to form a mental connection to speak with our minds, that way you don't have to tire yourself"

The giant sloth looked at Sasuke thankfully and after Sasuke performed the jutsu that he created as a derivation from the Yamanaka signature jutsu, they started to speak again. "Now you can speak with your mind, please continue", " as I said, thank you for killing that tiger, he ate a lot of my race, the strong could have dealt with him if he tried to attack them, but he only attacked the weak, mostly the children, and as we are a race that is characterized for being slow, we cannot hunt him down".

"It wasn't a problem, he tried to eat me after all, so I just did the logic thing". Sasuke didn't give it much importance since for him the tiger was a weakling looking for death. " For us it was a great help, so in exchange... We'll allow you to be our first contractor, after all you arrived here because of your connection to us", Sasuke looked surprised "what do you mean by connection?".

"When people choose a summon by performing the reverse summoning jutsu, they are summoned close to the place where the animal he has a connection with lives. Meaning that their natures are quite similar, so deep inside you, there must be something in common between you and sloths"

Sasuke couldn't hide the shock on his face. 'Does my character in my past life count as well?! F.u.c.k! I know I was lazy to the point of only moving to eat and poop but I've changed completely in this life...' Upon thinking about his past life behavior he could only give up and try to see what are the benefits. "So, what can you do if you can barely even move?".

"Well, as you said it, we almost don't move, but we can do something that you'll surely like. But before seeing what it is, you have to form a contract and go back. Then you can perform the summoning jutsu and the first sloth you summon will stay with you forever until it's death or yours, but don't worry it won't burden you at all, you'll see the reason after summoning him, you can also summon me in emergencies, but don't expect me to move by myself. Take the scroll I'll make appear, sign with your blood and you can take it with you. If you ever find someone you think worthy, you can let him or her form a contract with my race. OK I've talked too much I'm tired, leave so I can go back to sleep"

'But you haven't even physically talked to be so tired...ah whatever.' Sasuke said his goodbyes and left. When he came back to Konoha, about two hours had passed, but he felt like it was an eternity because of that sloth. He became affected by its pace and only now realized he had completely forgotten his initial purpose, which was to learn senjutsu.

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"How did it go?" Asked Orochimaru curiously, and Karin who was bored from the waiting also looked with curiosity, waiting for Sasuke to speak. "Let me summon my partner and see" he bit his thumb and flashed some hand seals, shouting "summoning jutsu!" ~poof!~, Karin looked everywhere, trying to find whatever Sasuke summoned, but she couldn't find anything and was about to laugh at him for failing the jutsu, but closed her mouth as Sasuke looked at his hand.

On Sasuke's hand there was a black and purple little sloth, using his claws to hold tightly to his hand, afraid of falling to the ground. Karin had stars in her eyes as she looked at the little adorable creature "so cute! I also want one!" But Orochimaru was more logical about it and asked what it was and what it could do, so Sasuke had to explain what he knew about sloths.

"So in brief, they are slow creatures that sleep most of their life and only move to go to the bathroom... So the question is, what are its abilities? There must be something useful about it as a summoned creature" said Orochimaru with a pondering expression. "Ey little one, what can you do? And, do you have a name?", the little sloth looked at him lazily and said " nnnno naaaame", "OK, let me think about one, but show me what you can do first", it nodded slowly and ~poof~ it disappeared and on it's place now Sasuke had a black and purple gauntlet.

Karin looked at the gauntlet on Sasuke's right hand and said with a confused tone "it looks good and everything but, what can you do with a useless gauntlet? what use does it have on a fight?" And as if responding to her words, the gauntlet changed into a tanto (it's a short sword in the form of a katana), the handle was black with purple stripes and the scabbard was completely black. Sasuke took it out from it's scabbard and the blade was black with a purple edge, it had a metallic sheen to it that made it look mesmerizing.

"Now that's what we call useful" said Karin completely amazed at the little sloth's ability. "It is quite good, I was lacking a good weapon so this is perfect". " I remember you were going to learn senjutsu, so how did that go?" It was still Orochimaru the most centered. Sasuke looked apologetic, "I was dragged into their leader's slow pace and completely forgot about that, hehe". " I can somewhat understand that, well you can go again tomorrow and if they don't have their own method I can teach you the lizards senjutsu, I'm halfway through mastering it, I just need a little push".

Karin chimed in again "what about the little one's name?", Sasuke thought for a bit and said " Komurasaki", Orochimaru said "dark purple, an appropriate name I would say, it fits quite well. How about you come with us to our house to have lunch Sasuke-kun? I'm sure Karin would love it", Karin looked at Sasuke with hopeful eyes, waiting for his answer. Sasuke could only nod after seeing her face, " Ok, let's go". 'Yes!, another step into our relationship! Good one there tou-san, with my mother's help I'm sure we can pressurize him to a compromise, you can't get away from me this time Sasuke-kun. Ehehehe' as Karin was planning in her mind Sasuke sneezed and trembled a bit, 'how weird, did I catch a cold? but it shouldn't be possible with my current physique...'.

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