Best friends

Saito was still looking around for the children's playground when he came across a group of kids who were maybe around his age. They were doing some sort of play fighting, so he decided to join up with them.

"Hey, can I play with you guys?"

"Sure, we're playing ninja. You can be an Iwa ninja." Said a brown haired kid.

"Uhm...I don't really know how to play. "

Saito could already hear the doubtful kids start saying multiple variations of "what? He doesn't know how to play ninja. no way"

"It's really easy. All you have to do is fight a Konoha ninja, you, Kazu, and Mado are Iwa ninjas and have to fight one of us." Saito nodded in understanding it was a pretty simple premise. The kids then got into their groups and the brown haired kid yelled start, the kids ran at each other. Saito's opponent a boy around the same height as Saito ran towards him, but from his perspective, it looked unbelievably slow.

'Hmmm, this must be an innate ability of the Sharingan showing itself even though I haven't awakened it yet, probably some mutation which isn't unexpected considering my hair and eye color, but it may also have been caused by my transmigration, I might need to research this in the foreseeable future .'

It really was strange the kid was still a few feet away from him, despite it feeling like a few seconds had passed. It was now that Saito decided to make his move, but it shocked him the moment he moved time passed by normally. the kid's punch missed his face by a few inches, causing the small child to trip off the force of his own attack.

'Woah, the Sharingan definitely is not the cause of this.'

The kids had already defeated their respective opponents

"yayy!! Konoha wins" yelled the other team. Saito was the only winner for Iwa.

"wanna go to the playground?" he suggested to the other kids. They all agreed, and Saito followed them.

While walking, Saito still couldn't stop thinking about the early events that happened 'I still can barely believe it, I practically have a slightly nerfed version of the Sharingan what'll happen once I actually awaken one, will things be completely still to me?, but I'll have to train my body if I hope to keep up with my perception'

He'd already planned on training his body to attain the 8th gates so he'd be killing two birds with one stone. It made him even more sure of his future success.

He and the kids arrived at the playground, which was a medium sized park. Immediately he noticed a small boy with long dark spikey hair making some sand castles. Saito left the group and began walking toward Sasuke.

Sasuke looked up at him

Saito decided to be blunt. "let's be friends"

Sasuke paused for a second before smiling and saying "ok then let's be friends, my name's Sasuke Uchiha what's yours?" He said while holding his hand out. Saito shook his hand. "my name's Saito Uchiha."

'Sasuke's pretty extroverted right now since the massacre hasn't happened yet. I'll have to leave a deep impression so Itachi will see me as a rival for him and hopefully he'll let me live because of that.'

This was a really valid plan. Saito then asked Sasuke a question "would you like to spar with me? All the other kids are too weak to defeat me "

Sasuke, despite being so young, still had a bit of arrogance in him "I'll definitely win so sorry in advance. "

Sasuke got into a stance, Saito didn't know any so he just stood there, he and Sasuke had a stare down for a few seconds before the latter threw a punch, Saito once again experienced the same sensation as before everything around him slowed down, he slightly moved to the right avoiding the punch. Sasuke had a look of surprise on his face, but he continued to attack this time with a kick. Saito grabbed his leg and punched him in the gut.

"see I told you no one can defeat me. " He said, looking down at an injured Sasuke on the floor. The fight lasted less than 25 seconds.

Sasuke stood up with a look of determination on his face. "no let's fight again. I'll win this time ."

***************** A FEW HOURS LATER

it was their 59th fight and Saito hadn't lost once, Sasuke wasn't even able to graze him at all.

During the fight, Sasuke was getting better and was using different attacks, but Saito was getting better at an even faster rate, he even managed to copy Sasuke's technique to the point of him utilizing it better this was all possible because he could see every attack at a slower pace and his brain memorized all the movements used in the fight.

Sasuke was laying flat on the ground out of breath. He asked, "how are you so strong?"

"I don't know. I was just born this way, I guess," Saito said nonchalantly.

"anyway see you here tomorrow. Gotta go home. " Saito said noticed evening was approaching, and he had to be home by five. They both waved goodbye to each other.

*****************SASUKE & ITACHI

Jeez, he really couldn't believe it he was defeated 59 times in a row.' I couldn't even touch this opponent, I'll definitely train way more now.'

As he was in deep thoughts, he saw his brother walking towards him

"your clothes are dirty. Did you have fun today? " Itachi asked as he picked up his little brother

"yeah I did. I made a new friend. He's my age, and we sparred 59 times and had a lot of fun"

"hmm, that's nice Sasuke. How many times did he win?"

"well....he won all the spars," Sasuke said embarrassingly "I never even grazed him"

Itachi paused for a little. His brother was talented for his age, so he wondered who would be able to beat him. "What's your new friend's name?"

"It's Saito Uchiha"

It was an Uchiha. He'd have to find out who he was later. "hmm.. interesting" he muttered to himself

" did you say something, brother?"

"a-ahhh nothing. Would you like some Dango?"

"yes!!" Sasuke said excitedly

Saito had no idea of this conversation happening as he was home eating lunch...

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As promised, this chapter is longer. Like always, leave a comment and tell me certain things that I should work on. I welcome all criticism I've shown a glimpse of his abilities in this chapter, so I hope you enjoyed it.