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2023-04-08
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You've Created A Monster

Summary:

The Cursed Seal of Heaven has a very specific purpose—to heighten and aggravate emotions and physical strength. After all, a man obsessed is a man easily manipulated.

And there is no one more obsessive than Sasuke Uchiha.

Orochimaru is counting on the seal to amplify Sasuke’s need for vengeance and power until he comes crawling to Orochimaru on his own, thirsting for the knowledge to defeat his brother.

What Orochimaru didn’t count on, was that Sasuke Uchiha had become just as obsessed with mother-henning his own teammates.

Something Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi are finding out the hard way.

Essentially, as soon as Sasuke wakes up after the invasion, he panics, kidnaps his teammates from the hospital, and locks them away in his apartment.

Notes:

I think "the older the ninja clan, the closer to instincts that clan is" is a fun little trope I've seen in some fics. I also like the idea that Orochimaru's seal actually just enhances already present emotions and whatnots. So, like. Yeah, Sasuke wants power, but he wants his team to take a nap together more.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1

Chapter Text

When Kakashi arrived at Sasuke’s apartment, the ANBU were already in place, lurking on the periphery and the rooftops across the street.

When the kid had first gotten that stupid, cursed seal, he’d been labelled as a flight risk—Anko explaining that it would compel him to follow his greatest desire and obsessions. For Sasuke Uchiha, nothing was more all-consuming than the need to become powerful enough to kill Itachi. Which meant that an offer from a sannin was an incredible temptation.

So, everyone was expecting him to make a run for it.

What nobody was expecting was the kidnapping. Multiple counts of it.

Two, to be exact.

Kakashi knocked on the door to Sasuke’s apartment and saw his genin’s cute little, sharingan eyes squint at him through the front window. Kakashi waved cheerfully. Sasuke’s eyes changed back to their normal black and his little head disappeared. A second later, the door opened.

“Yo!” Kakashi said. Sasuke scowled at him.

Over his head, Kakashi could see into the living room where both of Sasuke’s teammates were bundled up in several blankets, tea and snacks laid out in front of them. They had the shell-shocked, resigned looks of people who had been arguing with a brick wall for several days.

“So, team bonding?” Kakashi said nonchalantly.

Sasuke scowled harder.

“Don’t waste my time, Kakashi, what do you want?”

Touchy, touchy.

This, Kakashi knew, was a delicate situation.

“Sasuke, you need to let your teammates go.”

Sasuke scoffed.

“Are you serious,” he snapped, “the invasion was literally three days ago. You don’t know if there are still dangerous combatants out there.”

“I think I would know if there were still any Sound or Sand shinobi left, Sasuke,” he said.

“Yeah? How.”

Because I’m fucking ANBU and I’ve spent the last three days hunting every last one down, he thought and didn’t say. He was exhausted and a call that one of his students had lost their shit (again) and he needed to deal with it or ANBU would—

Really, really didn’t help.

He could already feel his tightly controlled instincts bristling at the presence of so many ANBU near his kids—genin! Near his genin!

“Just—trust your sensei, Sasuke,” he tried to reason with the kid, scrubbing a hand down his face.

Sasuke shook his head aggressively.

“No! Sakura nearly got crushed to death, Naruto ended up entirely chakra depleted! And you disappeared for two days.” He accused. Also, aggressively.

“Yes, and I’m sorry for that, I was sorting some things—” bodies, “—out. But like you said, Sakura almost got crushed to death. The medics have healed her well enough but she still shouldn’t be moving around—”

“I don’t let her move around.”

Oh, Gods.

“Okay, regardless, she and Naruto should both be receiving medical attention,” Kakashi pointed out.

“I’m working on that.” Sasuke said, looking away. The sense of dread that filled Kakashi at that statement was not new. It was a common feeling he seemed to get when one of his ki—genin did something stupid.

“…Working on that how?” Kakashi had a feeling he’d regret asking. He looked up at Naruto and Sakura and Sakura wiggled her hand out of the cocoon she was wrapped in to point off to the side. Kakashi followed her finger to see several medical texts stacked on one of the side tables.

Oh, noooooo. Nonononono. Nope.

Kakashi clapped his hands together, startling all three.

“Okay,” he cheered, “well, that’s great but I would still like to look them over myself, if you wouldn’t mind.”

All three genin squinted at him. Kakashi maintained maximum cheer.

Sasuke looked between Kakashi and the rooftops behind him and back to Kakashi. He narrowed his eyes and Kakashi saw something unreadable flash in them before Sasuke looked down. He nodded, subdued, and stepped to the side so Kakashi could come in. Kakashi let out a relived breath and stepped inside.

Before he could even get past the little genkan to check on Sakura and Naruto, Kakashi heard the door slam shut behind him, the dead bolt get thrown, and the odd sensation of a barrier seal wash over him.

He looked back over his shoulder to see Sasuke standing in front of the door, one hand on the activation seal (of a surprisingly strong barrier) and a victorious smirk on his face. Then he remembered that he was here because Sasuke kidnapped his teammates.

And that, technically, Kakashi was also Sasuke’s teammate.

“Ah,” he said.

Kakashi looked back at Naruto and Sakura to see them both giving him a mildly disgusted look. Like they had hoped for better but didn’t have very high expectations to begin with.

Kakashi sighed, deeply exhausted, and thought, fuck it.

He removed his shoes and flak-vest, wandered over to the couch, did a quick scan of his kids, and then flopped down next to them.

“Alright, well,” he said, also resigned, “wake me up if the ANBU make any weird moves or want to talk to me or whatever.”

He ignored Sasuke’s suspicious stare and pulled his forehead protector down to cover both eyes. After a moment, he felt Sasuke approach and carefully lay a blanket over him. Obito’s eye felt distinctly wet. He ignored it.

“No need to keep watch, Sasuke,” he reassured the boy, “that barrier seal you’ve got is actually pretty intense. I’d ask where you got it but I don’t want to fill out the paperwork, so. Don’t tell me.”

And with that, Kakashi drifted off, dozing to the whispered arguments of his little genin, all safe and snug as a bug nearby. Even if that was entirely against two-thirds of their wills.