Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Matsumoto.
Prologue
Naruto Uzumaki always thought of himself as someone who hated loneliness more than anyone.
And as he sits by himself in a room that was nothing short of luxurious and simple, he couldn't help but affirm to his words and reminisce some more. He looks around the room: With only a few grand paintings decorating the walls, a four-post king sized bed with the soft and silky curtains covering all sides of the bed, a fireplace was in his front where he sits on a grand velvety armchair and a round stand for two documents.
Truly, he could use some company.
He came from a prestigious family, the Uzumaki Family. Their family has been around for many generations and had remained prosperous throughout all the years, as if they had been blessed by the deities. The former main family heads, Uzumaki Kushina and Uzumaki Minato both were outstanding individuals who worked and loved like no other. They were the reason Naruto came into this world. They loved their son greatly. Loved him very much and showered him with unconditional love and numerous gifts whilst trying to teach him how to grow up as a wonderful person his parents had no doubt their son would turn out to be. And as for Naruto, the blonde-haired boy was content with what he had.
Unfortunately, this happiness only lasted for a short while.
On Naruto's tenth birthday, his parents have died in an unfortunate car accident. Uzumaki Kushina and Minato were no longer in the world of the living, and a poor blonde-haired boy was left all alone with his dead parent's riches.
It wasn't long before several good friends of the Uzumaki family came and were more than happy to support the boy in any way no matter how long it would take, free of charge. The deceased couple's closest friends who were all professional business people, doctors, famous entertainers had gone and pitched in to help the boy as much as they could.
Jiraiya, Naruto's godfather, had stepped in to take the boy under his custody. And the old man was expected to have served as a great person to raise the boy.
However, unnoticed by everyone, the innocence of the boy died along with his parents on the very same day. Naruto did as everyone expected him to be, a cheerful boy who should weep. He cried, laughed, threw tantrums and played pranks like any other child his age. No on was able to notice the cracks that gradually grew bigger over the years, forever sending the blonde-haired boy to his descent to madness.
Naruto didn't tell anyone that he felt nothing towards everyone's affections. He felt that being a child was a bother, and most certainly hated grinning. He was seen as an inspiring figure among his peers and was the personification of a modern-day hero according to them.
It was tiring, to say the least for the Uzumaki heir.
He was sick of having to be the brightest kid, the one people can look down on at first but later on admire heavily. He hated his annoying guardian who would spout all this emotional speech about kindness and whatnot.
"Utter bullshit" Was the boy's opinion, something he'd always think of deep in the depths of his rotten heart.
But Naruto grinned and made himself look as awed as possible with his godfather, as if taking the wise man's words to heart-he most certainly didn't and would never in this lifetime.
Naruto contemplated of ending his life if he was just going to spend it by himself and forcing himself to lie 24/7 to the public. Acting as if you had the biggest heart was an absolute pain in the ass after all and Naruto had to be sincere and pure at all times, making him want to commit suicide for all the kind words he had given to countless people.
But he didn't.
A genuine smile graces the boy's, now sixteen, lips as he thinks of two special people.
That's right, two.
They were the exceptions among exceptions and had gone above and beyond the boy's view of people.
He looks at the round stand beside him and picks up the two folders which had the images of a girl and a boy attached to each separately. Both had appearances that were simply breathtaking and they were the only ones to have managed to draw out a genuine smile from the rotten blonde-haired boy without so as much trying.
Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha.
Two special individuals that were certainly much too different when compared to the other. Nonetheless, the two teenagers had a special place in Naruto's dark heart. And said boy had red tainting his cheeks as he thinks of his special people.
He had spent the past five years of planning and preparing for his goal to chase off loneliness once and for all.
Finally, he can begin to take the first steps to claiming his own happiness. He was going to be a happy man and be himself.
"Granted, those two aren't going down without putting up a struggle." Naruto murmurs with a fond chuckle, knowing full well that his precious two were much too stubborn for their own good.
But that's alright, Naruto was more than happy to take them on and make them submit to him. They will learn their place and soon be happy to be together, just like him. And one day, they will love him as much as he loves them.
No matter what and how long it takes. Naruto will achieve his own happy ending. His vow was absolute.
And just like that, Naruto Uzumaki seals the fate of two unfortunate individuals on his sixteenth birthday.
Hi everyone, name's Eve.
Hope you all enjoyed this prologue. I've always shipped narutoxsakuraxsasuke for as long as I can remember and had wanted to share this to fanfiction. It's my first time and I'm no professional in writing...I'll see you guys in the next chapter.
