Ok, ok. Now that I'm finally starting to work this whole thing out, let's get started, shall we?

First, let's start with me. I started writing a story almost a year ago…I wrote about 6 chapters until I realized I didn't really know where the hell I was going with it, so I stopped. Since then, I have read a few stories here and there. Because of the influence of some online friends, I have also read a few Naruto X Sasuke stories. I could usually skip over the graphic sex parts, and that wasn't a problem, but what always seemed to astound me was some of the clichés that seemed to go with almost every one of those NaruSasu stories (like, every one and their brother being gay, that one annoyed me). So, to see if I could do any better, I decided to write one myself. I've always been fascinated with the way that these two characters are written against each other, so that has definitely helped with the ideas.

Ok, let's also get a few things about the story out of the way:

Sasuke should seem slightly OOC from what you'd expect from watching the series, but I did this on purpose. Remember that Sasuke, although he was a stuck up bastard, wasn't totally emo-depressed until after the family massacre. So, I'm going to save it here as well. (If you complain about me spoiling something, then get over it, what did you expect?)

Every once in a while, I'm going to try and post a song that you should play while reading the chapter in the. It's (obviously) very optional, but it could add to the coolness factor of the situation that the chapter involves. When I want you to start the song, look for a † symbol. If I have more than one song, and want you to change them in the middle of the chapter, look for a (†) symbol. Once again these are completely optional, but it should make the story more interesting. After all, life would be so much better with theme music, neh?

Right now (April 20, 2009), I have 6 chapters of this story completed. I originally planned on not posting this until I was completely done with it, but, in order to force myself to write more, I'm starting now. I'll post a chapter once a week (on Fridays) while I have them, but, if I don't update for a while, don't worry, I'm still working on it, it's just taking a while.

Alright, that should cover everything for this intro. Just try to read these AN's in order to see if there are any songs to play.

P.S.- To those of you who have read this story only to be disappointed by me for not writing anything else, I thank you for at least starting it. Don't worry, I haven't completely stopped writing it, I'm just a very busy person and also very lazy. I have chapter 10 open on Word almost all the time, I just never get around to writing anything there. I swear I'll finish this eventually. How else am I going to do the sequel?!

Naruto Uzumaki, age seventeen, walked into Konoha High school. It was such a standard name for a city's high school, but he didn't really care. Today was finally the day. Today was both the first, and the last. It was the first day of his last year in high school. Finally, after 3 long years, he was here at the top of the food chain.

And boy was he hungry.

He was both happy and sad at the same time, happy because it was his last year, sad because…well, last year or not, it was still school. The only people who were happy to be at school were the girls, who couldn't seem to get enough of gossiping with each other, even though most of them didn't stay out of contact at all over the summer.

There were two things, though, that he definitely was happy about. First, the beginning of school meant that finally, it was football season. And, he didn't enjoy football season because of the football, oh no, he loved it for an entirely different reason.

Drumline.

That's right, Uzumaki Naruto, the self proclaimed coolest, smartest, sexiest, bestest blonde in the world…was a band geek. Sure, he would refer to it as a "Musical Professional", but everyone knew it as another term. Band Geek. But, the last thing Naruto cared about most of the time was other people's opinions, so he usually just let them think what they wanted. He had been in band since before highschool, and he had stopped caring about what people had to say long ago.

This year was different for the blonde though. Being that he was senior this year, Naruto was given the opportunity to try out for the leader of the Drumline, called the Captain. It was a position that he had coveted for the last 3 years of his High School career, and now that it was finally in his grasp, he was determined not to let it slip by.

There was one other thing that Naruto was happy for though, now that school had started. The beginning of school meant that, after long last, he would be able to see his friend who had been out of town the entire summer. He was his best friend, the only real friend that he hung out with after school. Sasuke Uchiha was his name, and as Naruto squeezed through the doors past the excited mass of freshmen and other students, he was there, leaning up against a nearby pillar with his usual, seemingly genetic, smug look on his face.

Naruto approached the bored looking teen from behind, hoping to get in a few good swings before he noticed. When he got about three feet away from Sasuke though, he was greeted by a short "Hn" sound.

"I know you're there, dobe." The boy in front of him said.

Damn teme Naruto thought to himself as he walked into Sasuke's line of sight.

Wow, first day back, and already you start with the insults." Naruto said, literally bouncing on his toes in excitement.

"What's with you?" Sasuke asked, a single eyebrow moving up to hide beneath his bangs.

"What do you mean? Aren't you excited to finally be a senior here?" Naruto said as a look of shock grew on his face at the thought that anyone couldn't be happy to be a senior.

"Hn, why should I be?" Sasuke asked.

"What do you mean, 'Why?' I mean, you get to tell freshmen to do whatever you want to, you get to get away with a lot more things than when you're younger, and not to mention-"

"One, I don't need freshmen to do anything, and two, I already get away with everything." Sasuke said as the smug look on his face grew into more of a smirk. With that, and the sound of the first bell, he turned on his heal, heading in the general direction of the Academic wing of the school. "C'mon dobe, let's get to class." He said. Being that Naruto and Sasuke's last names were the only two in the school that started with a U, they had the same exact classes as the other, except for one thing. Naruto would have his band class during 5th period, while Sasuke would have Football.

Yeah, that's right, Sasuke Uchiha played football. Not only that, but he was the quarterback of Konoha High's team. He went against every stereotype of a football player, much less a quarterback. Where the other players on the team almost always were the loudest, most distracting students in the classroom, Sasuke was the opposite, nothing more than a quiet little angel that aced all of his classes with little or no effort or noise.

Sasuke also defied the common idea of a football player's size. Most people were surprised that someone as slender as Sasuke could actually play football without intense bodily harm, but Sasuke was tougher than he looked. At five-ten and 165 pounds, he was skinny, but also he was limber. No defense seemed to be able to touch him.

Naruto was almost the same size as the Uchiha. He stood a good five-eleven, and clocked in at anywhere from 160-170 lbs, depending on how much Ramen he ate before he was weighed.

Naruto was the anti-thesis to Sasuke. Where Sasuke was quiet and serene, seemingly doing nothing more than acing his classes, Naruto bounced off the walls constantly. No one had any idea where he got the energy, Sasuke himself had often wondered how Naruto could sustain such energy without falling over from exhaustion by the end of the day, and he was the boy's closest friend. He used to teased Naruto when he was bored, saying that the boy started every day off right with a balanced breakfast of pure Nicaraguan Crack Cocaine, but that got boring pretty quickly.

Naruto jumped towards Sasuke, getting next to him, and matched step with him. That was one of the many things that being a drummer had embedded into him. He seemed to match step with random people he watched while he walked.

"So, where do we go first?" Naruto asked Sasuke as he barreled through a few freshmen that tried to stand their ground. Sasuke in the mean time had simply gone around the group, deciding that it would be easier to do that instead of shoving them away.

"Why should I even bother telling you? You'll just forget by time we get to the class after that. Just stick with me, I know where to-" Sasuke said right before he was interrupted.

"Hi there Sasuke-kun!" Screamed a high-pitched voice. At the sound, Sasuke rolled his eyes at the same time Naruto's eyes seemed to glow. They both turned around in time to see the bobbing pink hair plowing through the same group of freshmen as Naruto had. Different from his own experience though was the fact that the boys moved out of her way, blatantly ogling her as she passed, while she blatantly ignored them.

"Hi there Sakura-chan!" Naruto said excitedly as she approached. Ignoring him almost as bad as the freshmen, Sakura stared intensely at Sasuke, determined to make him look at her. Instead, he was looking off to the side as she approached. When she got to the two boys, she stood abnormally close to Sasuke, invading his personal bubble. Sasuke stepped back, making sure to exaggerate the movement, while Naruto moved slightly closer to the pink haired girl, hoping she might not notice.

He was faithfully denied when Sakura's hand reached into his face… to push it away. While she did this, Naruto couldn't help but think to himself that her hand smelt really good, like some sort of flower that he couldn't remember the name of. She must have bought some lotion or something.

"Hi there Sasuke-kun, how was your summer? I hope it was as amazing as mine was. Can you believe that we are finally, actually seniors? I'm so excited!" She exclaimed, and so began the usual process of Sakura blabbering, Sasuke pointedly ignoring her, and Naruto hanging on every word she said. When she finished, she turned to leave, but not before saying one last thing.

"Hey Sasuke-kun, why don't you ever talk to me?" She said, faking a hurt look. Sasuke didn't believe it for a second, and therefore didn't answer her. Naruto on the other hand, soaked up her expression like a sponge, believing that she was about to cry.

"Oh don't worry Sakura-chan, Sasuke's just an ass!" He said, a smile growing on his face at his chance to finally say something to the spunky pink haired girl. She turned to him, disgust showing on her face. With that, she took one last look at Sasuke, hoping that she might get him to at least say something. When he didn't she turned to leave.

"Well, I guess I'll see you later Sasuke-kun." She said, smiling at him as she walked away.

"Hn, thanks for the warning." Sasuke mumbled to himself as he turned back around to head back towards the classroom. Naruto quickly fell back into step with the brunet, rubbing that back of his head as they walked. Right before they entered the classroom, Sasuke turned to Naruto.

"Ok, what's wrong now?" he asked the blonde in front of him.

"I think she thinks I'm ugly." Naruto said hastily, looking away.

"You're not ugly." Sasuke said to him, the look on his face not changing in any way. Now it was Naruto's turn to shoot a single eyebrow up.

"Wow, um…that was really gay." He said, his smile returning to his face.

"Hn." Was all he got in return. Turning to enter the room, Naruto was startled by the hard punch to his arm that almost knocked him off balance.

"Ow, what the fuck man?" he said to Sasuke as the brunet brushed past him into the room. He turned to follow him into the room, rubbing his sore arm. As soon as he entered the room though, he was greeted by the voice of his teacher.

"Wow Naruto, already in trouble on the first day." Said the man behind the desk. The man was tall, and looked to be about 40 years old.

"What? I'm not in any trouble…" Naruto said confusedly to the man.

"You are now for that cussing at the door. Your detention will be here, after school." The teacher said, a small smile growing on his face as Naruto sighed, turning to his desk next to Sasuke.

"Sorry, I don't do detentions." He said under his breath. But of course, the teacher heard him.

"Excuse me, Naruto?" he said, his face going stern at the thought of back talk from a student on his first day.

"Hm? What?" Naruto replied, pretending he didn't know what the man was talking about as he sat down at his desk.

Deciding not to drag the conversation out anymore, especially on the first day, the teacher, Mr. Kanto, got up from his desk, walking towards the front of the room. The final bell rang as the last few students dodged into the room.

"Oh, don't worry you guys, take your time. You all have detention after school." Mr. Kanto said with a small smile on his mask. This statement drew a few groans from the students as they found the final seats that were still open. "Hey hey hey, don't give me that. You shouldn't have been late on the first day of school." He said, his small smile growing slightly wider as the moaning ceased. "Ok, now that everyone is finally here" he said "My name is Mr. Kanto, and let me be first to welcome you to your senior year in your history class. Now, in case you haven't noticed already, I am not going to be lenient on you guys because it is your senior year. You need to be here at school and in your seats by the time that final bell rings. Otherwise, you will be late and therefore owe me detention after school." He said, looking around the room.

"Any questions?" He asked, although he knew the answer already.

Nobody said a word.

So began Naruto's first day of his senior year at Konoha High. Now he was beginning to remember why he didn't like the place.

Lunch lunch lunch lunch three more classes, then lunch He thought to himself as he leaned back into his chair, completely blocking out the sound of the teacher's voice.

Sasuke, sitting to Naruto's left, was staring at the teacher, listening to what he was saying. After about 15 minutes, he looked back at Naruto, seeing that he was completely gone, not paying any attention to anything. With a sigh, Sasuke turned back towards the teacher.

Alright, there we go. Chapter one is finito! So, tell me what you think. Don't worry about me not changing anything because I have some of the story set up, I'll change it if I like your suggestions well enough. So, review, tell me what you think, and have fun waiting a few days!