(A/N: 'Tis me first fan fiction…ever…so it probably sucks…go easy? Oh yes…Flames will be read, laughed at, printed off, shown to friends, laughed at some more, then used to toast marshmallows. C: Please Read & Review, Rated for future content)

Prologue-- part 1

A love triangle. That was what Sasuke was thinking on an early Saturday morning as he headed to training early. He arrived at his destination before his teammates; this gave him time to sort through his thoughts alone. It was a well-known fact that Naruto was chasing after Sakura's heart. The pink haired Nin, in turn, hated the blonde and was after Sasuke hopelessly and it annoyed him to no end. Sasuke sighed, putting his chin in his hands and slouching slightly. 'Can't she see?' He thought to himself angrily as she was now coming towards him, 'I've no interest in her at all.' This, however, was not the problem in its fullest, as Sasuke had fallen deeply for the loud, annoying dobe. Speaking of Naruto, Sakura was no here and ranting about some thing or another, but the blonde was nowhere in sight.

"Sakura, thank you…I knew you'd understand!" He said happily to his pink-haired friend. "Don't mention it Naruto…you where just the lucky one!" She said cheerfully. The rest of the Uchiha, Sasuke fan club just nodded in response all smiling. Sasuke put one arm around Naruto's waist, the other tilted his head back gently, and he leaned forward and-He groaned and a tanned hand reached out of the pile of blankets to hit the snooze button. Naruto tried to go back to the dream he had been having, it had been a damn good dream too. He only wished something like that could happen, and it kind-of hurt to know he had no chance at all with Sasuke. Not to mention his fan club would never accept it. He wanted to get back to that kiss they had been about- and the infernal alarm clock went off again. He groaned and dragged himself out of bed, turning off the alarm as he went and resisting the urge to throw the damned thing into the wall. He pulled his pants over his boxers and his favourite black shirt on. He ambled out of the bedroom and set the kettle to boil, grabbing some instant ramen from the cupboard. He grabbed his orange jacket from the couch where he had left it the night before and shrugged it over his shoulders, not zipping it up. He meandered back to the kettle -now at a rolling boil- and poured some of the hot water into the styro-foam cup. He sat down and inhaled deeply, enjoying the smell of his breakfast, Which he slurped down quickly. Now full of energy, he bounded out the door after locking it, headed for the training grounds. He got there to see Sakura and Sasuke waiting for either him, or Kakashi-sensei. Sakura was monologuing to a zoned-out Sasuke as usual until he called out to them. "Heeey Sakura-chan! How's it hangin'?"

"Naruto-kun! Ohayo!" Sakura responded cheerfully. She had stopped treating him like garbage a while back. Sasuke looked up, and unbeknownst to his friends, smiled.

Sasuke couldn't help but smile when the tanned blonde bounded over to them greeting Sakura excitedly. He covered it before either Naruto or Sakura saw it, returning to his 'I-don't-give-a-damn-about-you-or-anyone-else' expression. Now…if only Kakashi-sensei would how up, they could begin training. He did show up….two-and-a-half hours later. "Sorry I'm late, you see, I was kidnapped by female kitty-pirates and they-"

"LAIR!" Sakura and Naruto yelled at the same time.

"Well, that aside, mission today team seven!"

"What're we doing?"

"Catching a cat named Pocky," Kakashi rolled his visible eye upon saying this. Sasuke sighed and stood up. It figured they would be stuck with a 'D' ranked mission.

"Oh for the love of- we're practically Chuunin!" Sakura said exactly what Sasuke had been thinking. Kakashi nodded sympathetically, "I know Sakura-chan, but there is nothing I can do."

Sasuke paused and gave Naruto a nod as the go-ahead. His blonde companion pounced from the bushes landing on top of the grey cat named Pocky. "Yeah! Mission complete!" Naruto yelled excitedly holding up the very confused cat above his head. "You caught a cat. Don't over react, dobe." Sasuke said coldly.

"Whatever bastard," Naruto shot back glaring. He was not known for his excellent comebacks; that was for sure. He hurried over to Kakashi-sensei as Sakura gathered up the cat-nip they had used as bait. They brought Pocky to a rather large woman who paid her fee and left cooing to the disgruntled cat as she did so. Kakashi smiled at them, "Take the rest of the day off to do whatever; I have my own mission to do okay?" and with that he poofed off, likely to the Hokage's office. Sakura and Naruto headed in opposite directions but Sasuke managed to catch up to Naruto. He put one hand on the other boy's shoulder and said, "Naruto-kun, lets get some ramen. My treat."

Ramen? With Sasuke? He had to be hearing things. "Y-yeah okay," he said uneasily as he followed Sasuke to the ramen stand and sat down next to him. They placed their orders and waited in silence. 'I'm with Sasuke and he asked me, one a date!' …well, almost. He could pretend it was a date anyways. He sighed and poked his ramen, which had just arrived, unsurely. Normally, Naruto would not hesitate to gulp it down and order another bowl, but he was to nervous to eat really. He blinked when he realized Sasuke was staring at him with a weird look in his eye. "W-what!" He asked defensively.

"Hn, nothing. Not hungry today?"

"Yeah, same to you bastard!" It was true that neither of them had taken so much as a nibble since the orders arrived. Naruto turned back to his bowl and began slurping it down and the raven-haired bastard beside him soon followed suit. They both finished and Naruto didn't want to risk a second bowl when he was so nervous. Sasuke paid and walked beside him and they sat down in an empty park. The silence between them weighed about a thousand pounds. Determined to end said silence, Naruto spoke, "Sasuke,"

"Yes?"

"What do you think of Sakura-chan?"

"What do you mean dobe?"

"As a person, like is she someone you'd date?"

"No. I don't see your point here baka."

"It hurts her."

"…" There was silence for a moment, "What?" Came the curious reply from Sasuke after a moment's deliberation.

"When you ignore her. It hurts her." He said. He knew how she felt when Sasuke ignored her.

"Naruto…don't talk about things you don't understand."

"Things I…I understand better then you do! Then you ever could!"

"No, you don't. I know what it's like Naruto-kun; I know what it's like to want what you can't have!" Naruto fell silent, unable to think of anything to say for a moment,

"What do you mean?" He asked at last.

"What do you mean?" The blonde asked and finding no words to express himself he grabbed the blonde's jacket and pulled him closer, brushing their lips together. He pressed against Naruto's mouth harder, holding the smaller body tightly. He hadn't noticed the lack of resistance, or the fact that Naruto had just melted into their kiss, only the sparks zipping down his spine and the fact that every nerve in his body was on fire. He didn't know how Naruto had been reacting until he felt the blonde's arms creep up and wrap themselves around his neck, until he felt Naruto's body press closer into his own and pressing back into his mouth. Sasuke broke the kiss before anyone spotted them. He had enjoyed the kiss, but he didn't want half the girls in Konoha after Naruto with torches and pitchforks. He stood up and walked away leaving a rather dazed and shocked Naruto sitting there.

A/N: That's it :D Hope you liked it…oh BTW this is part one of the prologue as chapter one takes place further into the future then the prologue.

Naruto: Do you have any idea how weird you are Inu-sensei?

Seliphra: Ear's and tail twitch in annoyance As a matter of fact…I do. Kimiko-chan, or as you call her…Neko-sensei, wrote a fic about us all remember?

Naruto: Oh yeah!

Sephy: Go check hers out sometime for us…I'll tell you what it's called when she posts it up here :D