**Revised Version**

Though many tales start with an unrequited love and end with a returned one, I never believed it would happen to me.

"Flashback"

"Look! I drew this for you!" Screamed Sakura, blushing furiously. It didn't take a genius to find out who she was talking to.

Standing a few feet behind her, I looked to the left of the egotistical bitch I used to love and as expected, saw him. The person I loved with all my heart. Everyone thought I still loved Sakura, but no one knew how wrong they were.

He took the sheet of paper, looked at it for a few seconds, crumpled it and threw it onto the floor. Seeing all of her effort destroyed right in front of her face, Sakura's legs shook and she fell to the ground in shock, tears staining her face. I walked up to her, playing the nice guy, wanting to cheer her up, but as I patted her on the back and was about to say "it's ok, you'll get other chances", she punched me in the face and screamed, " This is all your fault Naruto! I'll never speak to you again!"

She then ran away, leaving me with a bruised face and another hole in my heart, which was gradually growing larger. I shouldn't have tried to cheer her up. She had never changed. Always noticing Sasuke and never caring about other people's feelings. I wonder what I ever liked about her.

I stood up, facial expression turning from pity to an emotionless mask. As I walked on the path back to the classroom, Kiba was there waiting, with an everlasting smile enough to blind the gods. I had no choice but to hide my true feelings behind this cheerful mask, the one I used to get away from reality, to pretend to be a happy idiot, to keep everyone happy. Little did people know, that mask was the complete opposite of how I truly felt.

"Now" (graduating from academy)

"YAY MOM DAD YOU CAME TO SEE ME!" "Congratulations on graduating son, I'm proud of you!" "Good job making it to the world of ninja, do your be-"

I didn't stay to hear the end of that sentence. I couldn't take it anymore. I walked away from the crowd, feeling even more depressed than usual. As I walked past, all the adults turned away from me after the usual treatment of spiteful glares and whispers to their children to not come near me. I sat on my own personal swing and went into a trance. I had just found out 2 days ago the reason why everyone avoided me. I was the kyuubi host. After discovering this from Mizuki, it completely changed my view of the Yondaime. No more was the man whom respected greatly. He was no hero. He had put a curse on me, one which could never be removed. He was the one who gave me this fate. Of all people, why did he choose me? Couldn't he have chosen someone else's life to ruin? With this, the forth became the person I hated the most. Truthfully, it was a pity that he died while cursing me, because if he was alive to this day, I would kill him myself, with my bare hands.

Iruka sensei called out for us to come in, so the crowd disbanded and left me alone in the courtyard. I stood up, slowly dragging my feet, forcing them to go forward, into the room with loud cheerful laughter. One foot away from the door, I concealed my feelings, and put on the perfected poker face i achieved after the last 9 years of abuse. I took a deep breath and walked in.

"Good morning everyone! Hope you all fail and go back to the academy because I, Naruto-sama will kick your ass! " As usual, I was greeted by his oh so lovely fan girls, which were along the lines of, "Shut up Naruto!", "God, you are such an annoyance!" and ahhh my favourite one, "Do you know how much you are disturbing Sasuke-kun right now? His ears might get damaged so shut up you moron!"

I just grinned through it all, claiming it was because it was the truth. Due to this, I received the general beating of the barbaric people who could actually call themselves women, and ended up sprawled on the floor, bruised and unable to move. Of course, that wasn't actually the reason why I did that. It was because I wanted to capture the attention of my him. Sasuke. He gave me a glance, smirked, got up, and walked to me. I held my breath, forcing my blood not to rush to my cheeks and break the mask. "What do you want teme? Huh?" "You are such a weakling. You got beat up by that lousy bunch of girls?" he sighed. "What a loser. Heh. But i guess I have you to thank for shutting them up. Their stupid screaming was getting annoying." I opened my mouth, ready to give a comeback but no words came out. I didnt know what to say. Should i thank him..? But before i could utter another word, he walked back to his seat, and once again was drowned in a sea of screaming fangirls.

Deciding that my reaction was a bit suspicious, I stomped over, stood on his table and crouched down, glaring at his face at a close distance. He instantly returned my gaze while inching a bit nearer, as if looks could kill. I felt a push behind me and a person saying "oops are u oka- woah.". Before I knew what was happening, I was kissing him. I, Uzumaki Naruto was actually kissing him. Sasuke Uchiha. I pulled back immediately. I had to. Or else I would have craved for more. I looked ahead, seeing Sasuke's face turn pale. I forced a disgusted expression, and swore repeatedly, until I was sure everyone was convinced. Sasuke just continued staring blankly at the ceiling. Behind me I could hear people cracking their fingers, and suddenly a murderous intent rose. I spun around, expecting the worst. "NARUTO! HIS FIRST KISS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MINE!" screamed the fan girls in unison. "B-but its not like i wanted to!" I attempted to escape the horde of angry pubescent girls but to no avail. They cornered me and proceeded to beat me. And I let them. With no resistance whatsoever. If I actually bothered trying, I could easily beat all of them, as my own harsh training did have results over time. Truthfully,my reply to the girls was anything but the truth. I actually enjoyed it. After they were done, I got up and brushed the dirt off my pants, smiling and convincing everyone that i was fine. As usual, I hid my feelings behind a mask as the "happy idiot" everyone expected me to be.

"Alright, settle down now. It's time to announce the teams," said Iruka sensei. "Team 10! Kiba, Hinata and Shino! Team-" I stopped listening. I looked out the window, daydreaming about what happened a mere few minutes ago. "Finally the last team. Team 7! Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura! "

I snapped out of my daze. "What…?"

A/N:

Naruto's voiced thoughts are in itallic, and so are some of the actions.

Btw this is a revised version, and I'm sorry for not updating for so long. *hides in a corner begging for mercy*

But you can expect me to update during this summer because i finally finished all my exams. :)

NeonGhost