Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Or else it will be filled with Sasuke trying to molest Naruto. Heh.
NINJA'S TALE
Chapter One: Prologue
I've liked him for ages. He's the reason I fought with my best friend. To think that I actually fought with my savior, my mentor, for this guy's heart. Funny isn't it? How we girls swear never to leave each other, and then stabbed each other's backs just for the sake of getting an immature boy's attention. Life is really unpredictable.
I was happy when we finally graduated from the academy. I'm one step closer to becoming a full-fledged ninja. Another step, bringing me closer to my goal, my dream. That's not what I thought back then, though. Back then, only one thing, and one person ruled my mind. Yup, you guessed it right, it's Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke. The only one left from the great Uchiha clan, if you do not want to include the traitor, Itachi. The mysterious guy, with Byronic attitude. Troubled mind, sad past, smart, and handsome; no wonder none of the girls could leave him alone. His silence was his main attraction. His lack of smile made him more of a catch. Every girl's dream was making him laughing freely. Not to mention to soften his deadly gaze, jokingly nicknamed the Uchiha Glare© Everyone wanted a piece of him. Everyone, boys and girls, wanted to warm his cold, cold heart.
Then there was this annoying kid. Unruly blond hair, tanned skin, cheesy smile, bright blue eyes, with really annoying childish attitude. Annoying as in A.N.N.O.Y.I.N.G. I used to hate him. I would always try to find faults in anything he said, anything he did. The most irritating part of him was how he always bragged and bragged that one day he'll become the Hokage, not any Hokage, the greatest Hokage of all. What ever he did, he'll say he's the best, the greatest, the coolest. I sneered and jeered at him, saying that it's all empty talk, there's no way he's going to do it. But looking back, I saw, what I did was all out of jealousy. I didn't dare to admit my weaknesses, didn't dare to asses my strength, didn't dare to believe in me. That kid, believe in himself, when no one believed in him. He gave himself a chance; try his best, even though he kept failing. If I'm in his shoes, I'm sure that I'll kill myself after a week. Just kidding.
Don't think life as a ninja was easy. We didn't understand the word easy. It didn't exist in our dictionary. Being a ninja or a shinobi, is not just a job. It's the way of life. It's deadly, all the time. We did not have shift. We did not believe in shifts. What we had was ranking, and urgency. And urgency can and had surpassed ranking, it had happened. Therefore, sometimes, the genins, which means us, were assigned on missions usually saved for more experienced chuunins or jounins. But I will tell you guys about that later.
Back to the story, after the academy students had graduated, they automatically promoted from students to full ninjas, which are the genins. See, us genins are still young, still too fresh, still too green to face the cruel world of ninjas alone. We need guardians; we need teammates, to help us finish our missions, to help us learn how to work together. Rarely a ninja worked alone. Except for very high level ninjas, like the jounins or ANBU. Most of the times, ninjas worked in group. We need groups to ensure that the work can be done effectively and in minimal time. And to make sure none of us betray the village.
The first thing the institution (you can just imagine that the ninja village, i.e. "hidden village" is like some sort of big organization, where they train their employees at a very young age) do after we became genins was to divide us in groups of three. This was the chance I've waited since I had my crush on him. No, not with the annoying guy, the Byronic guy, Sasuke. So when they started to calling out names, stating who in which group, I prayed hard, prayed really hard that I'll be in the same group as him.
"Group 7! Members! Haruno Sakura!"
'Finally! My name had been called! Oh, I hope the next name would be Sasuke-sama!'
"Uzumaki Naruto!"
'WHAT? I'm in the same group with that annoying guy? Man, my youthful days are over!'
"And lastly, Uchiha Sasuke!"
My prayers had been answered. God must have loved me very much. That's what I thought at that time. Little did I know what will happen to our group much, much later.
To be continued…
Heya guys! This is the first time I wrote a fan fiction, and shounen-ai at that! So, yoroshiku onegaishimasu!