After the nine tails incident, the village is in heavy tension. The Uchiha clan is not an exception. The Hokage and the elders of the village has driven the Uchiha clan to the edge of the village. They suspect the Uchiha clan to be the preparator of this attack.
The members of the Uchiha clan were unhappy with the village authority for a long time. Now they were even more unhappy. So, the Uchiha clan head Fugaku was always tensed for this matter.
One day, Fugaku was taking a stroll around the clan compound with Sasuke. At this time, Sasuke suddenly asked,
"Father. Can you please teach me a jutsu?"
Fugaku looked at Sasuke for some time and decided that he should teach this son of his, some jutsu sometimes. He is always busy and never helps Sasuke help train. He took Sasuke near the lake by the clan compound.
"Look at the hand sign carefully. I am going to show you The Great Fireball jutsu."
Sasuke become very happy and paid attention to the jutsu.
Fugaku performed hand signs and performed the Fire Release: Great fireball jutsu. He created a massive fireball. Then he looked at Sasuke and said,
"I have already showed you the hand signs now build up your chakra on your chest and focus it on your throat and release it through your mouth."
Sasuke went ahead and performed the jutsu but the fireball was very very small. Seeing this Fugaku told Sasuke,
"I thought you will be like Itachi but you are not ready yet."
After saying this Fugaku walked away.
Hearing this Sasuke becomes depressed but he didn't give up and decided to practice. He didn't go to home until evening and kept practicing. He repeated the same routine the next day too. Thus, he burnet his face a little but kept practicing.
Mikoto Uchiha, Sasuke's mother become worried about her son.
At the third day Sasuke came running to his father, Fugaku Uchiha and said,
"Father, can you come watch me one more time?''
"Didn't I tell you that you are not ready yet and I can't teach you every day."
"No, Father. Just watch me."
Fugaku noticed the burnt marks on Sasuke's face and went with Sasuke to watch him.
Sasuke did the hand sign and performed the Great Fireball Jutsu. This time he created a fireball as big as his father did. He looked at his father's face expecting some praise, but his father just started walking away.
Sasuke become sadder and looked down. At this moment Fugaku stopped walking and said,
"Now, that's my boy. Keep working hard and don't follow your brothers' footsteps."
At the recognition of his father Sasuke become very happy and become determined to work harder.
Sasuke became very interested in training and wants recognition from his father. So, whenever Itachi was at home he pesters Itachi to train him.
One day Itachi took Sasuke to his personal training field where he used to practice by sending his shadow Colne to the academy. At this day he wants to teach Sasuke some shuriken techniques.
After going to the training ground Sasuke saw there was many mark boards all over the place. Itachi told Sasuke,
"Shuriken jutsu are one of the specialities of our clan. It is nearly our instincts to be good at shuriken jutsu. However, even if its our speciality because of our eyes. We still have to practice to be flawless."
When it comes to practice Sasuke becomes very serious and pays attention to every single details. Itachi taught Sasuke some simple shuriken techniques so that he can first work on his marksmanship.
Sasuke diligently practiced his jutsus everyday on Itachi's training ground. Sometimes Itachi will come to teach him and sometimes there will be Shisui too.
This is how Sasuke's life was going on.
At last Sasuke turned 7 and it was time for him to enrol in the Academy. On the first day of the academy everyone brought their parents with them. Sasuke also wanted to bring his father with him, but his father was busy, and he didn't even remember Sasuke's enrolment day date. Itachi was also on a mission. So, he had to go alone.
[A/N: In Sasuke's generation they enrolled in the academy at the age of 7]
After going to the ninja academy, Sasuke saw everyone was with their parents or family members. He become sad but with his personality no one can understand how he is feeling.
At that time Sasuke also noticed another blonde boy sitting alone at the swing which was hung with a tree near the academy. Everyone is avoiding him. He thought they were alike.
When Sasuke first saw the boy, he couldn't understand how he was feeling at that moment and how to describe the feelings but it sure wasn't the one that told him to stay away from him.
[A/N: As I said before this Sasuke is different]
It's not something that Sasuke would do but he went in front of the boy, looked at him for some time and asked him,
"Hey. What are you doing here alone?"
The blonde boy was surprised and looked up and saw a black-haired boy looking at him. It was his first time seeing this boy. But he felt very familiar with him.
The blonde boy replied sadly, "I don't have parents and don't know why the others in the village avoid me or sometimes call me 'demon fox'."
Sasuke understands that everyone in the village avoids and bully him. He felt sad for him. But as a tsundere he absolutely can't comfort others. So, he told him,
"Is that so? I have parents but they are so busy that they don't have time for me and that's why I had to come alone. Hmm… It seems you are also enrolling in the academy today. I am going, the ceremony will start shortly."
After two or three steps Sasuke stopped walking and said,
"If you aren't coming now, you will be missing the entrance ceremony."
The blonde boy looked at the back of the boy for some time and shouted with a smile,
"Hey. Wait for me."
Now, at the entrance ceremony every new student was standing in lines and listening to the Hokage giving speech.
[A/N: I am not writing about those boring Will of Fire shit. I guess you all already know].
Sasuke found this speech to be too boring, but he was also getting annoyed by the non-stop talking of the blonde boy. Sasuke is now thinking,
'I might have made a mistake by talking to this annoying kid.'
After the Entrance Ceremony was over every student went to their classrooms. Sasuke also went to his classroom. He took the second seat in the middle row.
But the annoying fact was that that blonde brat was also in his class and talking non-stop. Sasuke just ignored this.
After some time, a shinobi came to the classroom and introduced himself.
"Hello, Class. My name is Umino Iruka. I am a chunin and I will be your homeroom teacher for the time you will be in the Ninja Academy. Now, introduced yourselves one by one."
The blonde-haired boy was the first one who jumped up to introduced himself.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I will be the best ninja there is and will become the Hokage. So that everyone will respect me. Believe that."
After that some other people introduced themselves. Sasuke didn't pay any attention to them.
Now a blue haired timid girl was introducing herself.
"He... hello. My name is Hi…Hinata Hyuga. I want to be a strong Ninja, and I want to be a person who can keep her promises (looking at Sasuke)."
When Sasuke heard the name Hinata, he looked back and remembered the past incident then turned away.
It was now Sasukes turn to introduce himself.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I particularly don't have any goal, but I want to be a ninja just like my big brother."
After everyone completed their introduction, Iruka said, "Good. You will be classmates for quite some time. So, try to become friends. Now we will start our first lesson."
Thus, the first lesson in the ninja academy begun. The things they taught were basics and Sasuke have already completed them at home. But he still boringly listened to the class. As this is the first day, the classes ended pretty early, and they went home.
When it was time to go home, he saw Naruto stopped his nonstop talking. Sasuke heaved a sigh of relief and went for home.
After coming home, he told his mother everything that happened and sadly asked his mother,
"Mother, does father not like me?"
At her son's question, Mikoto Uchiha become astonished and sad at the same time. She told Sasuke,
"When we are alone, all he talks is about you, Sasuke. It's just that your father is the clan head and is very busy."
Hearing this Sasuke timidly smiled a little and went to his room.
This is how Sasuke's days are passing by. At morning he goes to the ninja academy, there he takes the theory classes. There is also taijutsu, ninjutsu, shuriken classes. But they were not that helpful. He excels in everything. And also the girls of the class are too annoying, they keep staring at him all the time. And that girl 'Hinata' is still so timid.
On the other hand, Naruto is at the bottom of the class and is not good at particularly anything. He is now considering Sasuke as his rival. He is also now sitting with Shikamaru and choji in classes.