Title: Psychic Ambition
Summary: Uchiha Sasuke is attractive, eloquent, and the type of cool that just makes a girl want to juggle. So...why is it so difficult to get to know him? Maybe the problem is he already knows everything about you and the you he knows is missing way too many screws.

Chapter 1

Neurotic. Yes. He would say he is neurotic. No, he isn't neurotic. His head is. Look at me! It can't possibly be normal. Please just look my way! Not since he was eight and thought everyone was the same, but everyone wasn't the same. Oh no, they're different in many ways. His mother used to tell him that. And when the question of himself arises, she said he was special - deeply emphasizing on the word special. Only of course he thought it meant talented and intelligent because he is talented and intelligent. The meaning was left to be used generally until he started hearing the voices.

He is Uchiha Sasuke.

The problem hadn't started with the past seventeen years of his life. It began three centuries ago when his ancestor, who was a self-absorbed maniac, decided to trick a wizard into granting him powers then after five years of trust and loyalty, he poisoned the wizard. Who knew the fucking wizard was a really powerful demonic force of hell? So the "wizard" cursed every male in the Uchiha line to wonder the worldly plane forever and be torture by the insanity of the non-living, never to rest, if they do not find their true love before midnight on their eighteenth birthday, coincidentally the same age and time his ancestor had died. What made this worse was that his ancestor is gay. There's nothing wrong with him being gay except if you're going to turn gay, at least understand that someone who has the power to give you power, it is reasonable for them to kill you. Luckily, his ancestor had a sister, who happened to be very pretty and fertile.

No, look at me! Sasuke told the voice to shut its' trap, not like he could do anything about it. Now Uchiha Sasuke is seventeen years old and his eighteenth birthday is only eight months away. And you thought your love life was screw upside down, but at the very least, people have a love life. Sasuke, on the other hand, does not have a love life; in fact, he has no life. His days, from Monday to Friday, are consisted of school, homework, and cram school. On weekends, instead of enjoying his rotting youth, he ventures on another four hours of cram school before going home to do extra-homework and studying. Do you know what he does for fun? He reads one of those fat dictionary-like books. Oh my god, he is like so totally cute!

He almost wince when the perkiness of that sentence entered his mind. Oh, you haven't notice? Uchiha Sasuke has the power of telepathy and so hears everything and everyone. In his wee little mind, as if it wasn't crowded enough with trigonometric functions and classical theories of quantum mechanics alone. He is now at a party, an occasion on which people can assemble for social interactions and entertainment. Sasuke hate parties. Not simply hate, but loathe, despise, detest. Because at parties it usually included more than half of the school's female populations. Sasuke sip his drink as he block out yet another annoying voice. The drink wasn't tasty. What could be tasty coming out of the sink? If he drank something else, he might wake up in the middle of nowhere naked with an even stranger taste in his mouth. Water bottles are no longer safe anymore. The females, a.k.a demonic creatures of hell, have manufactured some kind of weapon to poison water bottles without even opening it. Its like a miracle, a really bad miracle. This is why he is keeping all telepathic line open in case one of these freaking hyenas, who are thinking of doing unspeakable things to his body, decides to take action. Sasuke raised his hand and brushed a strand of dark hair away from his eyes; that act alone earned him five mind squeals. His black eyes glared around the room, seeking out a certain brunette. Sadly the brunette is too drunk to notice him. After this party, he is ending any connection with the brunette.

Inuzuka Kiba, the brunette, had bought a condo with his girlfriend, Hinata, and only recently decided to have a self-welcoming party, which he told Sasuke specifically was going to be attended by close friends only. Sasuke miscalculated exactly how friendly and easily manipulated Kiba can be. Should I go talk to him? thought a male freshmen. Sasuke glared until he saw white. He, unfortunately, is the kind of beautiful that attracts both sides of the fucking swing. Sasuke thought how much alcohol everyone in the room has consumed. Most of their thoughts were fuzzy, but he figure it was a good thing after seeing a flash of his noble self straddled on the floor, absent of any clothing or decency; a lot of them contained so much S/M materials he actually felt a tinge of fear.

He sighed inwardly, but kept a sharp mind. Digging deeper into Sasuke's inner thoughts, he wasn't bother by the whole psychic business; the death at the age of eighteen more or so unnerved him. No, it wasn't the death. He handles death way better than his brother. Its the whole I'm-going-to-be-torture-even-though-I'm-dead part. Sasuke hates being bother, so to spend eternity with strangers whose whole purpose is to bother him is at the top of his list. Being cursed twisted Sasuke's fears a bit.

"Still sulking, I see."

Sasuke didn't bother turning to see who it was, knowing the voice all too well as his cousin, Neji. "I thought you didn't want to come," he said. When none reply came, he glance briefly at the boy and saw his eyes train on a person across the room. It was in the glance that he saw Neji's eyes glaze over. Of all the powers in the world, Sasuke had to get stuck with a cousin who can see the future, but in a way, he is glad. Neji's clairvoyance is extremely powerful with a 99.9 percent accuracy. The reason it wasn't a full 100 percent is on account of the actions of a person, or people, which is constantly changing. He keeps an eyes out on things for the family. Literally. "You saw something?" he asked.

He had to ask or otherwise there'll be no answer. It is a line neither he nor Neji crossed. Sasuke doesn't read Neji's mind and Neji doesn't deliberately see Sasuke's future. This is one of those unique situations where Neji can not help, but see what he see. If he wanted to, Neji can automatically use his power with the right amount of concentration. However, it does put a great strain on his body if used for too long. They have suggested using his power to find that "true love", but apparently the curse considers it cheating and so it is useless.

"Strange," Neji said, his eyes growing beyond pale than their bluish pale colors as he tap more into his power. Another 'strange' came from his mouth before Sasuke kick him in the shin. Neji bite his lip and glare at him, but his eyes show gratefulness. Neji can sometimes be a little too into his power. Its an family trait. Remember, their ancestor was an egomaniac. He calm himself down and drain all of the water he had. Sasuke silently held out his own cup. For some strange reason, Neji gets really dehydrated when using his power. "Ugh, you really need to stop drinking from the sink, cousin," he complained, but drank all of it despite. When he was finished, he still didn't tell Sasuke. After a couple of silences, Sasuke contemplated on kicking Neji again.

"Are you gonna tell me or not?" asked Sasuke irritatingly. For Neji to be so amaze, it had to be one hell of a vision.

Neji merely raise an eyebrow at his impatience. It was his way of telling Sasuke to mind his manners. Oh, the guy is really into respect and what not. "A really interesting boy. He's really easy to spot," he said, nodding to the left corner. "Hinata introduced us a while ago."

Sasuke followed his gesture to the group of people, Kiba being among them. He tried to figure out which boy Neji was talking about. It definitely wasn't Kiba. He thought about scanning their mind, but before he could, his eyes fell on a certain blonde boy. The boy seemed normal enough, but Sasuke couldn't help being captivated by the brilliant color of his eyes. His clothes were a bit odd. They were very...orange. "Was this really interesting or was it so creepy it was interesting?"

"Oh. I didn't see his future. I saw your future. You were saying something...Naruto, I think?"

"So?"

"You looked downright piss," Neji said, while simultaneously nodding his head in a mellow beat.

"And this is suppose to be interesting?"

"Well you're not exactly one for the expression 'downright piss' so yes, it is going to be very interesting."

"Ah. This explains everything," said Sasuke sarcastically. Suddenly Naruto laughed and the sound of his voice...? Sound...? The stereo was blasting - well, the walls were vibrating. Need he say more? So where the heck was the sound coming - oh right, his head. Sasuke felt embarrassed that he forgotten. But why is Naruto laughing? He felt curious as people rarely laugh so sincerely in their and his head.

He's looking at me! Sasuke felt a drench of dread at the fangirl-like voice and he read the blond's mind to make sure he read right. He's hot! Sasuke paled and half of his sanity left him. The first person he found attractive in God knows how long - wait a minute, he found a guy attractive? Sasuke harden his face and turn away to something less interesting. Neji must've seen danger. Why else would he be angry?

Eh, he looks disappointed.

He spy a glance and found the blond's attention on his friend, still talking and smiling. Sasuke found curiosity leaking again into his emotions and immediately scan the boy's mind for more "scenes" of him. The boy is called Uzumaki Naruto, in class 3C - an understanding reason why Sasuke has never seen him before - and a friendly, but naive guy. Small and random images of Naruto looking at him, a few desires, but that was about it. Wow, nothing could make Sasuke want to kiss him more. Not. Sasuke, desperate and lonely for someone, would not stoop so low; he has pride, a freaking reputation - one that would inevitable end on his eighteenth birthday, but at least people will know him as a intelligent individual with some few spec of looks, who did not date anyone below his station. Well, he's never had a "date" before.

"Hi."

Sasuke blink in surprise. Either Neji developed shape-shifting power or that really is Naruto in front of him. Where is Neji? He read Hinata and saw an image of Neji snickering at him before having left the building. He growl under his breath, unaware of the easily offended blonde.

"Gee, you could have just told me to go away."

Sasuke realize what he was doing and felt his face growing hot. "Sorry."

This made Naruto smile and shrug off the offense. "So do you always stand by yourself at parties?" Naruto teased then took a swig of beer as he waited for a respond. Is he always so uptight?

Sasuke twitch at the slight. More than anything, he hated being insulted. Beware that in Sasuke's world, that was an insult. "No," he said, taking a pause. "Sometimes I sit."

A blank thought ran through Naruto's head before he laughed out loud. "Y-You seriously just made a joke." Cute.

The psychic is definitely stuck between being insulted again or...blush. Blush? Sasuke frown at his own thoughts. He couldn't completely comprehend this, but he feel the need to defend himself. "I've made jokes before," he said, a little irritated at being thought so seriously by Naruto. And there his own thoughts go again.

Yeah, more like having a stick shove up your ass.

Sasuke force himself to swallow that. He was entirely and annoyingly confused as to how to respond. Naruto, even having thought of such a rude thing, was still smiling up at him, as innocent as can be. Usually a person with bad thoughts show a tinge of it on their faces, but Naruto has utterly cover up everything, leaving Sasuke to comprehend every meaning by sound alone. Oh, thoughts have sounds, like sarcasm or whatever. Suddenly Sasuke blush. Truly blush; deep red lobster style. For apparently no reason at all, his head suddenly filled itself with erotic images, but it wasn't him. It was from Naruto! But the blonde is smiling so innocently and care-free - his attention is even elsewhere. Sasuke seriously had a momentarily doubt that the images were from Naruto.

He force himself to calm down and clear away all connections to Naruto's thoughts. He almost laughed at the ridiculousness of the situation. Sasuke has never need to calm himself from someone's thoughts before. Other things maybe. When he found strength enough to focus, he found Naruto staring at him quietly and at a really close distance too. "What?"

"Nothing," he said, shrugging indifferently and took a step back.

Sasuke silently breath with relief, but he scold himself when he realized what he was doing. He really didn't want to read the blond's mind in case there were some more of those "things" in there, but he gritted his teeth, told himself it was for future purposes, and went ahead. Nothing happened, not a peep. He scan again, leaning against the wall and closing his eyes for a long second as if he was annoyed and has decided to permanently ignored Naruto. It may seem like a second to everyone else, but Sasuke probably spent several minutes in the mind of another and now he was in Naruto. Except there wasn't anything to see, only a complete darkness. A bright light shimmered in the distance and curious, Sasuke went after it, but it became a bad idea when he couldn't "see" anymore. Something warm touched his forehead, startling him into reality and...Naruto was gone. Literally

Quickly, Sasuke searched someone who saw what happened. His eyes whirl and his stomach felt sick as pictures and thoughts flew through his head. There was a pounding in his head and his breathing came a little quicker than usual, signs telling him he was exhausting himself, but he didn't stop. He felt a momentary joy when his thoughts landed on Sakura and he peer through to Naruto.

The last thing he saw before collapsing was the face of a confused Naruto in Sakura's jealous mind. His last thought is a hope that the idea about him waking naked isn't going to come true.


A stern face with blue eyes stare at him through the mist. Sasuke try to get a clear image, but he already knew who it was. Naruto, he whispered in his head, but the name echo outside of his mind. He took a cautious step closer to figure out why Naruto was…here? Where was here? Sasuke wonder this and the thought did not echo. Through the smoke, Sasuke caught a glimpse of Naruto's lips moving. He try to read the words, but it was weird. He thought the language was familiar, however the meanings blurred until he felt doubt that maybe it was made-up. He tensed. Naruto's hand reached out to him, never touched him. They weren't close enough. Sasuke grimace and grip his head. It felt like being pricked by needles and something was swarming around. It was trying to get in. The pain grew and grew. Sasuke screamed. He knew he was screaming and yet, no sound left his mouth.

Then it ended with a loud, "-OW! I DON'T KNOW! OMG, IS HE GONNA DIE?"

Sasuke scrunch up his face in irritation, wondering why he was hearing Kiba's voice. It wasn't in his head, it was coming from outside. He opened his eyes and when he felt himself waking up, he also felt the heavy weight of reality on his body. His head pounded with a heavy migraine and everything felt so sluggish. "What happened?" he asked, or meant to ask except his voice was so parched it came out more like scratchy nails than words.

"THANK THE LORD HE'S ALIV-OW!"

He sat up slowly and lean against the wall for support. Kiba was laid out on the ground, his leg twitching. Neji stood not to far from him, an annoyed look marring his face and his hand in the position of a well-performed karate chop. Noticing Sasuke was attempting to speak again, Neji handed him a glass of water first. Sasuke drained it as if his life depended on every drop, which it technically almost did.

"You fainted."

He almost spat the water out. Never in his life had he collapsed or done anything remotely relating to that devil word, but it happened. "I used too much power," he said - there always was excuses, you see.

Planted on Neji's face is a smirk because for reasons beyond normality, he knows everything. "I wonder - what would possess you to use your power like that?"

"Well, dear cousin, if you had stay a while longer, you would've noticed just how much alcohol every girl in the entire room has consumed."

Neji still smirk, but the confidence slipped. A very good thing about people with Neji's clairvoyance, they can't look into the past to make heads or tails of facts or false information. Unfortunately Sasuke also knows that Neji just so happened to be very intelligent. Fortunately, everyone at the party was pretty much wasted at the time and can no longer recollect any events of the time they came to the party and passed out, rendering Neji's interrogation methods useless. That and Neji's fan girls (unfortunately, they do exist and in very large numbers) were also at the party. They would love to be interrogated by him.

"I need to get ready for school. What time is it?"

"Almost ten."

"It's a Sunday, not to mention you have a massive hangover and you're still going to school?" Kiba said abruptly. It seems he awoke in the mess and felt the need to comment. Kiba, ironically being Sasuke's one and only close friend, had already known about the Uchiha and Hyuuga histories when Sasuke, one day in kindergarten, told him that his goldfish, cat, and dog will die - all on the same day, five days before they died miserably. See, the dog chased the cat, got hit by a car, then the goldfish got eaten by the cat and then the cat chocked on the goldfish. A funny situation to others, but it traumatized little Kiba, who learned a very important lesson that day: Never mix predators and prey in the same room, especially when you're friends with a psychic because they will tell you details by details with color coded pictures. Come to think of it, it wasn't the deaths of his pets that actually did the traumatizing.

"It is not a hangover," Sasuke argued weakly as he tried to get dress. In his defense, his head just ain't right. His body gave up right in the middle and Sasuke collapsed back onto the bed.

"See? You can't even stand."

Neji, who had been thinking over the situation, finally spoke. "I called ani-sama," he said, shrugging nonchalantly when Sasuke opened his mouth to protest, more like yell. "You fainted and the rules said it's a very bad thing. He wants you to come home."

"But -."

"Or he comes here and get you."

The last statement suck all of Sasuke's argument right out of his head. Uchiha Itachi, Sasuke's brother slash patriarch, can see into the past. It was probably one of God's sick joke, or the demon. Either way, it sucks plus you have no privacy. You can't even lie. You definitely can't tease either. There was once a cousin who teased another cousin...who had fire-starting power. The end.


A/N: The school are rank by A, B, C, and D. A is like an elite class with special students, a class which Sasuke belongs to so you can see why Sasuke would think it'll ruin his reputation if he went out with Naruto.

But yeah, a new story! Hope you guys like it.

Narra: I'm back!

And there's it. I prefer to call it a defect of the temporal lope.

Narra: Well, I'm your temporal lope. So you're just insulting yourself by saying that.

This defect has gotten smarter.

Narra: Yeah. (blowing on his nails) I still got it.